Not just the UK. It's been over 100º a lot of days here in Texas, and people from other places in the U.S. keep asking me how it feels, like it's a brand new an

Not just the UK. It's been over 100º a lot of days here in Texas, and people from other places in the U.S. keep asking me how it feels, like it's a brand new and shocking experience. But from a perceptual perspective, it's normal. My perceiving brain doesn't do sophisticated statistics. It isn't a scientist. My brain's reaction to 100º+ weather is, well, this sucks but it's a familiar, age-old kind of suck. I spent time outdoors in 100+º weather every summer growing up, so I just don't make a gut connection between a string of hot days and my sense of fear and urgency about global warming. > really getting quite tiresome and making it harder to respect the real problems I agree that it trivializes and undermines the real problem of global warming. People have this false implicit assumption that if global warming is real it must be possible to immediately perceive it, and instead of challenging that, we keep trying to inject drama and danger into familiar experiences, and it just rings false. On a subconscious level, I suspect we all know it's silly. Also, what happens if it's not this hot next year? After spending 2022 essentially telling people that they can directly perceive global climate trends by walking outside, what will they think if the summer of 2023 is relatively cool? I'm probably wrong, I'm not an expert in public opinion, it just feels false.