One of the most dangerous things about the political and media mainstream, defining the current heatwaves as weather related, is the threat from dangerous climate change, is not just heatwaves and drought, but all sorts of extreme weather, damaging heavy rain, hurricanes, and AMOC collapse. This weather related presentation, has resulted in very distorted thinking, like the solution to climate change is to build more reservoirs, more AC, ban disposable BBQs etc. All a total distraction. Of course, we should be building more reservoirs, buildings better able to cope with extreme heat, and disposable BBQs should never have been allowed to be sold. But these are not solutions to climate change, because many of the future impacts on us, won't just be heatwaves and drought. This is the whole fallacy, of the adapt and not mitigate approach. We need to mitigate by rapidly phasing out fossil fuel burning. Let me highlight the fallacy of the adapt and not mitigate approach. Take AMOC collapse. If it happens, it would turn Northern Europe into an Arctic hellhole, where agriculture might be difficult to impossible. But whilst AMOC collapse, could happen relatively soon, or it might not happen until far into the future. Exactly what would we be adapting to. That is why the rapid phasing out of fossil fuel burning, is the only reliable way to protect us from climate change, along with changing our mode of farming. Likewise, only total system change, will prevent further damage to biodiversity and natural ecosystems. It is a conversation, we must have. I am not an unhinged radical, those are the dangerous neoliberals trying to prolong business as usual. I am guided by scientific evidence, and not a partial view of science, but a holistic joined up view. To many would be commentators, trying to control the narrative, have a very partial view, totally ignoring most of the serious challenges we face. theguardian.com/environment/…