Record-breaking heatwave sparks fires across England: 'a wake-up call' for the climate crisis
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Blazes broke out across England on Tuesday as temperatures surged to a historic high of 40.3C, capping two days of extreme heat that scientists warn is 'a wake-up call' for the climate emergency.
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Fire brigades in London, Leicestershire, Norfolk and South Yorkshire were among those to declare major incidents as flames destroyed buildings and devoured tinder-dry fields in Wennington, east London, and grasslands elsewhere in the capital and in Groby, Leicestershire
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#HeatwaveUK #Heatwave #ClimateCrisis #Fires #UK
I wonder how "Burmingham" is like to live in
😂
I’m surprised they didn’t write Burningham
I died when I saw this
disgusting if its like the other one
@Sophia smithè grow up
Yeah right “wildfires”
Definitely not arson
much respect to the firefighters been out in the heat !
I mean... It's significantly cooler than being in a burning building...
Not that its not a hazard of the job.
Erm… They’re kind of always in the heat bruh. They deal with fire.
It's their job.
Yeah, they finally got off their a33 and did something.
Very suspicious spontaneous fires, which when they happened elsewhere most were found to be arson or carelessness. As a news organisation I hope you are investigating with an open mind.
Yeah. INVESTIGATE.THIS IS SERIOUS !
spain and other countries that have higher temps most days had fires at the same time so man made planned
I can 100% guarantee there will be no investigating done by any Guardian journalists. These fires are very suspicious, and even more suspicious is the instant confirmation they were caused by the heat and nothing else.
I think the point is that these fires don't often get out of control here unless the area is dryer and hotter than usual. Doesn't really matter how they started.
Same as in California and Australia over the last few years ....arson
How can a major newspaper not know how to spell a major city like Birmingham.
burningham ha
What makes you think The Granuad is a "major newspaper".
Perhaps it's phonetic... you know... the local accent there.
typos, its rife these days, i am slao guilty
If you've never heard of Rubery, Burminham is near enough.
This is plainly arson and should be reported and investigated as a threat to life. The idea that multiple fires all break out at the same time in the same region is deeply suspicious as to be unlikely. No fires today I note or the day before when temperatures were almost the same.
In all my life I've never known grass to spontaneously catch fire because the sun is out.
If there is plastic, glass, or a cigarete left over it will be deadly spread to fire under this horrible heat.
@@nomadafe All at the same time mostly in the same area around London, I think that these aren't spontaneous.
Left wing climate change activists more than likely involved
people with barbecues gamekeepers have to deal with it all the time
@@ambivalentonion2620 Yep. It's a BBQ, ciggy or intentional
I find it irresponsible of The Guardian to not mention that the main reason for forest fires in the UK is because of people making campfires/having barbecues/throwing cigarettes on the ground and not really understanding the dangers. It cheapens the message of climate change when the whole truth isn’t delivered.
After all the covid nonsense, you expect the media to suddenly start being responsible?
The word "climate" means change. How ironic
@@Seadog..11 no it doesn’t.
@@Seadog..11 “climate” is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Climate change, however, is different. But, the term “climate” pertains to the singular weather conditions of an area in general.
@@kano4140
Which changes
All the food factories suddenly burned down? What a surprise.
shh, you cannot say that :)
Strange how this spontaneous combustion happened all on the same day. Its been hot and dry for over a week???
People having BBQ's glass bottles in parks magnifying the sun etc. One large one near me was caused by a compost heap.
Extinction rebellion forcibly pushing their narrative again?😐
I think much of it was sparked by overly excited journalists giving off sparks.
Exactly. It's been hot and dry for days. These fires are not all due to BBQ's and litter. It's the mix of dry, heat and breeze. Literally the hottest day here ever recorded.
Yes then it got even hotter, the days of everything getting drier, then the extreme heat to top it off. That's how it started. It all happened on the hottest day on record, I think it's obvious why.
Things don't just burst into flames at 40 degree's. The vast majority of these fires are due to carelessness or vandalism and maybe a deliberate attempt to make a climate point. I lived for 20 years near heathland and every year without fail when kids were off school, weekends or holidays. the heath would be set alight, most times the damage would be minimal but on a the odd occasion half the heath would be ablaze.
Well said!
Absolutely.
The heat has dried the grass and the air is so dry that if a ember touches it, it goes up like this. This IS all related to hot temperatures
Exactly. The way the word these things is deliberate. They know that most people are ignorant and actually think that these fires start themselves.
Lightning didn't cause any of theses fires so they were caused by humans, deliberate or accidental and that includes leaving rubbish lying around.
@@guatomala1851 I'm absolutely no climate-change denier but I can't believe so many people are buying this. So, it's only on days that are 40 degrees that we have these strange fires? Not the day before when it was 39? Wildfires require weeks of intense heat to dry the ground sufficiently, not two days. It's really not especially dry right now. We've had far longer periods of temperatures very nearly as hot, and the ground far dryer.. but no fires. No media drama (London's burning etc). If you're not sceptical then you're not paying attention.
love how both top temperatures were taken right next to gatwick and heathrow
@J A Thompson oh yeah i agree, i was looking at an report done by Professor Ross McKitrick and he found that 50% of the net zero global Warming alarm based temperatures in three separate data sets were measure next to airports and brought a lot higher temperatures and often were used instead of lower average temperatures, it seems that people are using this technique more to try and promote hysteria also the met office did one of these three major data sets so that also gives a lot of doubt to how valid they can actually be
Yea temperatures were taken at these locations but funny thing is they seem to be the hottest coincidentally, other parts of the UK never reached those figures , apparently thermometers that we all use are inaccurate, the temp our masters tell us is gospel.
@J A Thompson Stop acting like this one camparison of temperatures is tye only evidence of human led climate change. Literally every climate scientist apart from those on the payroll of Shell or BP acknowledge human induced climate change. Its a fact mate
How else can they push global warming/climate change or whatever flavour of the month it is.
They're using airport temps around the world. I'm waiting for the arson reports to come out. 10 fires popping up all at once is not heat created. Sounds very sus.
Large amounts of tarmac which becommes a hot surface in the heat and jet-streams from aircraft constantly coming and going. It's as if they want as high a temperature reading as possible. Because then.....IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!
Live close by to one of these. Now we are getting thunder and lightening sometimes in the distance, and showers. Welcome relief
I'm glad for ya
The problem is that these heatwaves will become more common every year, until they’re considered the norm. And I guess wildfires would be too. (Just like they’re now the norm for Australia and California)
@@AArrad Yes we usually get one every year, its called summer
@@hartnell1983 No it's called climate change and global warming. There's a difference between that & seasonal weather.
Yeah when the rain started my whole family was out there dancing
Passed that first fire yesterday around 7pm, was mostly out by that time. Passed again this morning around 7am and there were still firetrucks there.
A spark will reignite the fire. They have to dampen the entire area. If they leave too early and it reignites all their hard work is up in smoke
When this happened acrossCalifornia and Australia a couple of years ago the police made several arrests for arson, and an inexplicably high number of the arsonists turned out to be climate activists by some amazing coincidence.
Its not a 'record-breaking' heatwave that starts fires.
Cigarettes do
@@BowArrowChoke Yep. For clarification the 'record' breaking temperature was recorded at Heathrow Airport where they have jet planes creating lots of heat.
What about all the chicken farms in America and England that randomly set ablaze? That's not climate change - that's climate activists.
Take care, dispose of your cigarettes carefully!
Exactly
This is being done on purpose for a new world order agenda
In Australia 'climate crisis' fires are met with hundreds of convictions and fines each year for arson and for breaching 'no fire' bans.
ARSON....isn't a climate emergency its arson.
The fires themselves mat be arson. But the actual heat wave is a climate crisis
Careful now, prepare for flak!
As a kid from Scotland, I lived in Malta for a couple of years in the '70s. Temperatures reached 42c in summer. We went to school as normal and went swimming later in the afternoon. We drank sugary Fanta and ran about in the sunshine - little did we know, we are all going to die soon........................ffs.
But Malta is properly equipped for this and people have adapted to it. Nowhere near the problems we have here
They had fanta in Malta in tye 70s? Hmm well OK I'll humour your fantasy...but how does that effect record breaking heat in a country not equipped for 40 degrees that has no regulations for hot weather where mamy workplaces like mine are 5-10 degrees hotter than outside?
@@benmccabe6927 he is from Scotland how did he adapt lol.
@@benmccabe6927 How is Malta 'properly equipped'? Please enlighten me.
@@brianmason8059 fanta been around since 1941, please try again.
Never in my life would I have thought the UK would have wild fires, with covid and everything these past few yrs really feels like an apocalypse
it has happened before a few times, as you get older you realize the weather does this sometimes and emissions dont help for sure but it does this regardless.
There are often wild fires in the Staffordshire Mores, almost yearly. Cant remember the name of the plant thay grows rhere but it dries up like a crisp and burns so easily without these heatwaves.
@@x67th IS IT -- BRACKEN ?
That's what global warming does
Hardly "wild fire" when you have tear aways chucking glass, tins, plastic and cigarettes down on dry grass in 40 degree heat.
I hope that a full investigation is given for each fire. I cannot believe that they are all due to the weather, I think careless humans are also possibly the reason
The heat dries the bush, man starts the fire.
What you believe is irrelevant. Accept our children will inherit are poorer world then we did due to people like you trying to deny global warming even when you are experiencing record breaking temps near enough every other year for last 10 years
Bingo !
Unless there was a very discrete lightning storm that happened all over the country; I'd bet not a single fire was caused by "the weather"
So when it gets to 40 Celsius humans get careless with fire??? How does this work at tropical latitudes? Humans are pretty much the same everywhere, so why is this happening there, now? It's much hotter in other places.
These fires would have been started purposely
Countries all over the world have hotter days than we have ever had and had no fires. Definitely needs investigating
@@tedelliott4577 are we supposed to be in 40 degree heat in the uk?
It's the climate change nutters and a box of swan vesta's
I like how so many people just essentially stand in front of a wild fire while filming it. I would run from it as far as I can :)
They're journalists promoting a narrative so no surprises there.
Almost as if they started it just so they could film it and put it online for attention or something. Weird.
@@mydogeatspuke lol?
@@mydogeatspuke You're really grasping now 🤣🤣🤣
I also like how...
Sadly we had the same in Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk. Fire fighters and local worked hard. Firefighters still here at 11pm I think. Properties damaged but thank the Lord nobody lost their lives
The imaginary sky daddy has nothing to do with it.
@@michelledavies2197 and even if he did he be the one causing the fires in the first place ?
@@michelledavies2197 You mean government... Right ?
thank those hard working firefighters for saving lives.
@@michelledavies2197 You must be from reddit, I can smell you from here.
"Record-breaking heatwave sparks stupidity in the locals who cause fires with their actions" There, fixed the headline for you.
Bingo, and climate activists giving it a little encouragement.
well there are too many people not taking this seriously.
I find it hard to believe that these fires are caused by 40 degree weather. In my home country 40 degrees is a normal summer temperature and fires are not a frequent thing at all even though the climate there is a lot dryer and there's more dry foliage too. Much more likely that it's, as another commenter said, people building campfires and tossing cigarettes
Out of interest, is the life there adapted to it?
I know there's a fireproof tree somewhere in the world which can be set on fire and just ignores it.
Wild fires have become more frequent over the last few years, they're due to disposable barbecues and campfires. The reason why they're more common is more people doing said things and the government restrictions on management and controlled burning so these days a whole moor will catch on fire instead of a controllable area
One fire near us that destroyed 20 homes was caused by a compost heap. Then another in a park was caused by a glass bottle magnifying the sun rays. Although one later in the night I'm sure was caused by this group of teenagers that frequently try to start fires in the park.
A lot of these fires are the result of arson.
British infrastructure isn't designed for hot weather. Houses are constructed to trap heat because we generally have a colder climate, and big cities like London have a lot of tall glass buildings which magnify sunlight. So when it's particularly warm and there's a lot of direct sunlight, fires can easily start. If this was just caused by campfires and cigarettes, we'd have been seeing this happen for years.
They need to find who’s responsible for starting all these fires 👍🏻
Climate change. Speak to a firefighter about it.
Exactly. Some must be deliberate by some horrible cretin wanting to cause misery
@@emilydavison2053 grass doesn’t spontaneously combust at 40 degrees, go back to school.
@@JohnDoe-fd6rl well, what's your expertise in this area? If grass is tinder box dry, it's 40 degree heat and strong sun, the tiniest thing will set it off. Do you think the climate isn't changing? How old are you?
@@emilydavison2053 the climate has been changing since the planet came into existence sweetheart. The planet has been warming since…. Wait for it…. The end of the ice age! As I said go back to school.
No, blazes did not 'break out'. You think grass self-combusts just because the air temperature is 40 degrees? Utter nonsense.
Spot on Adrian. All fires need an ignition source ... and heat alone will not do that (unless the flash point is exceeded) which for grass will be a couple hundred degrees C, not 40!
I remember the fires in 1976 when the middle of motorways were on fire but we did not have global warming then, just a fantastic summer followed by 4 inch's of rain overnight.
yes but everthing is about the climate crisis these days, how else are they in charge supposed to keep us in line?
How does a blaze start at such degrees meanwhile its over 50 C here in some countries in the middle east?
lol... and look at the landscape/environment of these middle eastern countries. They are sandy, dry. We have a ton of grass fields everywhere which easily spreads.
@@ryanj6514 Lol, two days of heat above 35 and fires.........hotter climates are dry and hot for months and where bush fires do occur it is often related to human activity/arson.
nobs with barbecues
@@ryanj6514 But the grass does not just burst into flames because it is 40c. There needs to be a catalyst such as carelessness with a BBQ or cigarette or even a case of deliberate arson.
Coordinated arson all at the same time 'to make a point'. It's been hot and dry enough to 'start a fire' for weeks. And then yesterday came along...
My heart goes out to all of you, stay safe people😢🇦🇺
That's Australia 🤦
@@Monkey-Dreal-Luffy I assumed the commenter themselves were from Australia but maybe I’m wrong?
Up yours
The British want their grey skies back
@@belkentens 🥶
IN 1976 we had a massive heat wave that lasted much longer than 2 days that was then followed 2 years later by one of our coldest winters, after that things were relatively the same as before so I think i'll hold off on becoming hysterical like the media wants me to be.
👍
A chap I know in his 30's was worried about the so called heatwave of 2 or 3 days as of course he wasn't born in 1976 and was too young in the early 1990's to remember. He seemed to think it was a new phenomenon, just because he hadn't experienced it before!
It made me realise why all these people are panicking so much and labelling it climate change when it has been happening for hundreds of years.
@@paulmasonsjazz9611 The oldest continuous temperature record is the Central England Temperature Data Series, which began in 1659, and the Hadley Centre has some measurements beginning in 1850, but there are too few data before 1880 for scientists to estimate average temperatures for the entire planet. Since 1880 UK has not been recorded 40.3C until yesterday also 56.7C is the highest ever to be recorded on this planet. The 1911 Eastern North America heat wave was 41C and killed 380 people (confirmed) but possible as high as 2000. History tells us people have a right to be concerned.
buildings do not spontaneously combust at 40°c, house fires are awful but what ever started the fire would have happened anyway. Every park I've been to this summer you see dozens of people with small disposable BBQs or shisha pipes. All these small fires when everything is very dry is always the cause of these fires.
A sensible comment at last. Much of Europe reaches these temperatures every year for a more prolonged period. The houses are not built that differently
@@garydean777 Oh you're not very educated then are you
We need to bring back all the safety adverts and posters and leaflets we had in the 80s and 90s. They used to go to schools and educate kids on the dangers of all kinds of things they just aren't aware of anymore, including the risk of starting a fire in a dry field with a discarded but still lit cigarette. You'd think it would be obvious, and yet here we are.
@@tomalebine2778 tel us how the Spanish houses differ from ours? Are our houses made from wood that sets itself alight at precisely 40°? I still haven’t heard a single news source telling us how these fires started, and no it wasn’t “the heat” yet I rea d a report that 12 fire engines were sent to and I quote…. “a garden fence on fire” 12! This is More mass hysteria, plain and simple. Take 5 minutes actually think about all the information, play it through in your mind like a narrative and then try to equate the response from leaders and media. Makes no sense. It’s 1.5 degree hotter than previous and no houses or fields burst into flames that time…..so it’s nothing to do with the heat. All very suspect, I believe it’s selective reporting, we never hear of a house fire, it isn’t news but on the day when it’s 40° then they will report every fire at every hole in the hedge to drum up fear and paranoia. This is not a guess that’s physically what the media are doing, the reasons behind that is up for debate but the facts aren’t. 40° isn’t some threshold number that causes all this, not at all, and it was 1 day, 1 time.
nO iTs cLiMaTe cHaNgE !!!111
Was it just me or was June unusually cool this year?
summer has been getting pretty delayed, due to non other… climate change!!
Global temp fell by 0.1 C between 1991 and 2021 according to all satellite data.
@@dotdashdotdash source: trust me bro
How dare you say it was a cool June. Evil person. Its climate change so June is now identifying as a different month May which is cooler by far than a June.
@@seven-tq7jr Climate change has caused the jet stream to move meaning we'll be getting shorter but more extreme summers while southern Europe will be getting longer, hotter summers. Climate change doesn't mean everywhere is hotter all the time, some places might even get cooler, it means average global temperatures are higher
Dang so many firefighters are out there risking their lives in the heat fighting fire
pure evil as man made started by the spineless obeying military planned agenda total control rolls on
Who else is going to do it?
I am sorry but this sort of things has ALWAYS happened when we have had a dry period. Mainly along roads where a carelessly discarded ciggy starts a fire.
It used to happen years ago when we had steam trains, whole railway embankments used to go up in smoke.
Yes it's dry but the media will always over egg any story for all that it's worth.
@Johnny Hollis
It "always" happens - except it didn't happen on any of the previous days.
That was me and my mates trying to make camp haha.
@@jackburgess274 I agree, a bit more to this story me thinks! 😏
@@jackburgess274 So no Southern heathlands for example caught fire like they often do during dry spells? I was on holiday in Norfolk three weeks ago, and some of Kelling heath had caught fire and was being put out by the Fire Brigade.
@@jackburgess274 it did there's wild fires on the moors all the time due to disposable barbecues and campfires in combination with the new restrictions on management fires have become more prevalent
It would seem that scientists now found that the flashpoint of dry grass and vegetation is 40.3C, amazingly its lower than petrol!
If that were true there would be no equatorial life.
That day will forever be known as Spontaneous Combustion Tuesday.
2022 - 2 DAYS of heat
1976 - WEEKS on end of very high temperatures, water sources dry up, water bowsers in the street, people cue up to fill a bucket.
TAPS IN HOMES TURNED OFF.
One day the Guardian will hire an editor to proofread 🤣
Never.. spelling and grammar are racist!!
@@rayeasom what?
lol
It's the Grauniad's trademark.
The suns rays don’t start fires, people start fires
Definitely something fishy here, not believing this is all related to hot temperatures.
So if it was cool and wet, you believe that fire would have spread just as fast and large? Have a think about that.
Why has it to do with climate, why not Climate activists trying to prove their point by using a match
what
There is an old saying " Red sky at night , farmers delight, red sky in the morning the barns on fire "
WOW, that's the worst saying i have NEVER heard.
@@halloweenville1 That's because it's a poorly modified mariner's saying.
"Red sky at night is a sailor's delight, a red sky in the morning sailors take warning"
Basically, what it means is if the sky is orange-red at the evening, the seas will be calm. If the same is true at dawn, a storm is on its way.
@@olliegoria Oh, like that makes it soooo much better.
@@halloweenville1 Better than your attitude, that's for certain.
The firs in Wennigton was started by someone creating a fire in a compost heat.
I wonder how many of these fires were caused by people being careless with cigarettes and other stupidity.
🤦 Arsonists and accidents 'spark' wildfires, not 48 hour 'heat waves'
Not a climate crisis. back in 76 we had 10 weeks of this weather.
Where??- in Kuwait??- not here!
Yes, here, in Great Britain.
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@@marthamargaretemaclean593 Yes here in the UK.
1976 we had standpipes in the street for water as all the taps were off. It was a glorious 10 weeks of blasting sunshine. Heck of a summer.
@@michaelharvey75 Thanks- I've already told Steve i can't remember except that the summers were long and lovely. Are yesterday's
never before' temperatures that we were told were first-time ever wrong- did we reach the 40s before?
@@marthamargaretemaclean593 Temperature records show that the previous max was recorded as 38.7, however, one day of a record setting temperature doesn't make a climate crisis. We also have a record high level of Arctic Ice this year too, but that's not in the news.
As I said we had 10 weeks of high 34+ in 1976. Best summer of my life.
I think it’s called arson
It’ll only last another day as temperatures cool and rain 🌧 is in the forecast. Hope ppl are safe there
Safe from what?
ARMAGEDDON.☠️☠️☠️😂😂
Judgement day
also, the climate crisis doesn't exist.
This is not because of weather. This is arson.
@Hawky2k21 😭😭😭😭😭
Actually it’s a combination of the following factors: People lighting cigarettes whilst farting during the heatwave
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO also it could have been a cigarette. Which is still arson
2 days of hot weather do not a climate catastrophe make. I suppose everyone has forgotten about the cold windy June. Furthermore I suspect that, like Australia some of these wildfires are delivberately started to prove a point.
That was the June it snowed in Buxton, Derbyshire at a cricket match!
Its natural for this to happen... It will come back even greener
Lol
Were you the aarsonist
I live in an area that nearly every year gets hit by brush fires lit by arsonists as soon as it's dry enough: so I always make sure the area around my sheds and house is well cleared of long dead grass, brush and combustable rubbish simple really. I've seen all those images before but without the rhetoric.
Are you sure it's arsonists and not broken glass or even rotting vegetation or manure?
Makes perfect sense!!
Exactly. The rhetoric of fear to control.
Extinction rebellion pumping climate crisis nonsense?
Climate crisis what a load of bollox, it’s called summer.
If Jessie Smollett was a climate change activist
These fires are not started by the heat, but by pratts with match's and mobile phones, what fun.
In 2020, the @Met Office - Weather produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections.
Today, the forecast for Tuesday is shockingly almost identical for large parts of the country.
It wasn't that hot today, especially in the south west. Maybe taking temperatures from airports isn't the best place to do it LOL
But it's only for a couple of days..
If these high temperatures persist for weeks/months *then* worry about the climate.
@@stuartd9741 I actually give up
@@hartnell1983 yes.. what a failure... Gatwick and Heathrow are where they took these temperatures 😂
@@stuartd9741 The fact that we have reached these temperatures shows that you should worry about the climate NOW
If they last for weeks/months then it's already too late
Better to prevent further issues than it is to attempt to fix what can no longer be fixed, we can't exactly sew up the ozone layer or reforest the amazon rainforest in a matter of months.
Also saw 4 teens trying to start fires by a Tesco today, so that helps.
Called for the fire department before they burned the whole town down for fun
Ah psychopaths… burning a whole city just to see the pretty smoke rings in the sky.
Yip my town as a major issue with teens starting fires, local fields are constantly torched.moving onto playing fields now,
i dont know why but i bet this was set on fire by activists
Two days of sun isn’t really a climate crisis
I'm in the UK, and I live in the most effected area
I can assure you that it is as bad as it looks.
Yeah me too. It’s awful
lol .. affected
Your a liar
*affected
Coming from Zim you should know better.
PLANT MORE TREES 🌲 🌳 🌳 🌲
40C does not "spark fires".. discarded BBQ's spark fires.
40C dries out all the plant life allowing fires to spread rapidly until they become self sustaining
@@dafyddroff8084 one day of 40C does not "dry out the plant life" lol... especially in this humidity. Plants are dry from weeks of sun and no rain
@@conehed1138 thanks for common sense. The media loves hysteria
@@conehed1138 plants dry out when they die, which can happen because of anything. they were already dead as you would know if you lived in the area of the fires.
it could’ve been caused by the simple stuff of plastic in the ground or even glass, you’re forgetting the heat they contain once put in hot conditions. Even that could’ve caused this or leaking petrol and so forth
In my school they are making us wear blazers and for the boys they can't wear shorts,it's ridiculous
School is prison for children.
That's a bit confusing, I am from Pakistan and a 40 degree Celsius is a pretty normal temperature in many cities there, in the months of May June July August.. even at mid 40s and some places even have more than 50, nothing ever catches fire, . and that's how it has been for decades at least.. .. I don't understand....
Arson and leftist climate narrative
Lunatic left wing climate change activists are more than likely behind the firs.
@@jaytaylor9232 Exactly.
send help. Klaus is running eveything
@@jaytaylor9232 I think it's BBQ, ciggy butts or as you say - people wanting this to be a disaster. This doesn't even compare to Grenfell tower and that was a fridge overheating.
As Aamir said, things don't just spontaneously combust - unless you have a magnifying glass shop that also sells propane tanks. Then maybe?
First time ever 40.3°c recorded in uk.
Whoever thinks this is extreme, my recommendation for him to come spend some days in Delhi, India.
Delhi this summer highest is 49°c .
45/46°c is normal every summer
86 F / 30 C down here in Chicago and people are complaining !! The low today is 18 C though.
When dozens of fires break out on day 2 of the heatwave, but none of note on day 1 in near identical conditions, if you don’t smell a rat you might just have covid.
Or maybe the second day was when the vegetation lost the last of its moisture preventing it from combusting
@@KennethOathward spontaneous combustion is a myth, it needs a to be ignited and it’s almost always humans or human neglect or stupidly .
Its called summer
Somewhere out there will be a meme about this with Shaggy saying *"It wasn't me."*
Cooler today. It's not the apocolypse after all, who would have thought? 😅
Don't confuse whether with climate.
"We have to adapt" 🤡
You aren't going to reduce temperatures by riding a bike instead of a driving your car. We do need to adapt.
@@OuchPleaseNoooo whose we? Klaus Schwab?
I’ll still keep on burning hydrocarbons in the atmosphere with my decatted car… smiles per miles, no amount of climate alarmism is going to stop me because life is way too short to worry about what will happen in the future when we’re long gone 👍🏿
@@TheAudaciousAdventurer could have just said you're a selfish c**t and left it at that
@@TheAudaciousAdventurer that’s an incredibly selfish and self centred point of view. am i surprised.
Funny so many countries across Europe and the world are 40+ for months on end guess what?
Obviously started deliberately. Where were all the fires throughout the 70's when we had much hotter Summers than this (every single Summer) and for a lot longer too?
The summers were not as a hot as they are now, and global warming has deteriorated the layers of the atmosphere which makes it more impactful.
Plymouth rock still has nt submerged since 1620 and the so called elites are still buying beachfront properties.
They were not hotter in the 70s. It's objectively hotter now.
@@Cupit29 I used to love Summer in the old days. Six weeks off school and eight weeks of glorious sunshine.
@@TheVidkid67 Ok? I don't see how that's relevant?
I wonder who made a ton of money on the insurance job for those buildings
Exactly!
When it's cold ppl compalin when there is heat ppl complain
Ah, this charred and unpleasant land…
I felt like last summer was terrible. And now this is too much
lol
this is for those with short memory or the ones born yesterday, as though we never had these temperatures during the 70's
We didn't. It's a record high.
the temperature doesn't spark fires (unless its over 200 degrees), people throwing their cigarettes into dry grass do
Trueee
Or climate protestors are trying to re enforce their madness with sources of ignition!?!?
Smokers and dry fuel, NOT a nice combination.
I think its a combination of things. The heat definitely is a part of it no doubt.
Erm the temperature certainly does start fires lol
Yes I’m sure that these fires were organic and spontaneous…
every fire started by humans.... not one grass fire just instantly combusted.....
Wasn't it 40 degrees in 1970?
Assuming you meant 1976, no.
The peak temperatures were 35.6c from a quick search.
We have just broken 40c for the first time in the UK since records began.
@@MinecraftRocks999 so 5 degrees in almost 50 years... Global warming myth. weren't the dinosaurs susceptible to temperatures of over 60 degrees? so looks the earth has even cooled down?
@@theaveragecube_ I don't understand what point you're trying to make, I was just pointing out that your assumption that it was 40c in the 1970s was wrong.
@@MinecraftRocks999 I’m pointing out the fact that the same temperatures have been recorded over the last 65 million years… this is nothing new.
@@theaveragecube_ So what? How does this have anything to do with what's happening now?
There are clear trends that things are getting worse for us out of our own doing.
When are we clapping at our doors?
This must be the first time the Guardian's ever used the word 'England' in a headline without being abusive towards us English.
you've seen every single guardian video? woah
When the intern can't spell Birmingham
The worst part of this is that Mediterranean countries are somewhat prepared for these types of wildfires because they experience it mostly every summer, but I feel like Nordic firefighters are not prepared for these inconveniences.. I could be wrong but that's just my opinion.
No its the government
OMG there were fires and it was warm…….. the world is ending and the sea levels will rise…….. that’s why all the super rich have moved to coastal properties!
Nothing to do with climate change
Firefighters are heroes
I think UK turned into Australia just without the koalas and kangaroos
‘Climate emergency’
It was just as warm in early 1800s before our carbon output. Science innit.
00:52 - The Guardian.... 'BURMINGHAM'..... Really? Seriously? You got a 4 year old proof reading these?
A fire in the middle of a forest protected from direct sun by the foliage above... I wonder how that happened 😉 The fact that people frequently do ridiculous things to themselves and others so that it can be recorded and uploaded to social media should be the primary concern here. They're the ones starting these fires, not the sun.
You need to take your head out of the sand and educate yourself about the current state of the planet, comments like this are RIDICULOUS
@@tomalebine2778 the state of the planet has nothing to do with provable facts, such as: houses and fields do not spontaneously combust at 40c.
Breaking news:
Extinction rebellion members found at scenes where fires started
All went equipped with petrol and matches
The police say there is no connection
Litter louts have something to do with these fires , all the glass and paper they drop !!
Facts!
young one's like pop concerts
A few hot days and the parks and fields near me are littered with empty bottles, food waste, 'wraps' and even a few lighters. Looks like we've had a music festival in town. No wonder fires start.
Who started all these fires and why all on the same day . It's been hot and dry for a while. Sounds like arson. Glad nobody killed.
The weather forecast was half right because they did not say it was going to rain on the hottest day of the year.
Any British person could have predicted the rain. 😂
They actually did say it was going to rain on the hottest day of the year.
hotter temperatures in other countries"amazing weather lets go holiday"
hot in the uk once in a while.."help help the planet is doomed"
grow the fq up guardian