It’s the sort of rain that dulls the senses, it feels never ending, paths are all too muddy the drizzle is uninspiring, it is the sort of rain that gets you wet. We just carry on, moaning about it in a typical British fashion.

Last weekend the BBC reported Met Office estimates that ‘at current levels of global warming, wet winters like 2023/24 have gone from being once in 80-year events to once in 20 and with further warming this could become even more frequent.’

What we’ve experienced over the last two winters is as exceptional as the summers we talk about. Yet, despite the green bubble I often sit in, I hear less outrage, less concern and more drip, drip, drip… acceptance.

So I wonder, have we quietly become immune to climate change?

Not so long ago, Covid 19 shrank our worlds to the size of our daily walk, that patch of trees down the road became wildly exciting. We noticed birds, found emerging nature inspiring and valued the fresh air around us. Nature was our therapy, our sanctuary and sanity. Have we lost that reconnection already?

There’s been a louder global narrative recently that makes climate action feel less urgent. More debate, more pushback, more emphasis on economic survival over environmental ambition.

It’s easy to blame politics. And yes, politics matter, but if we’re being brutally honest, climate change has always suffered from the same PR problem: it’s deeply inconvenient. It asks us to rethink how we travel, what we buy, how businesses operate, how governments prioritise growth, and how quickly we expect solutions to arrive.

Are we just getting used to it? Normalising flood warnings, heat records, crop failures, wildfires. Five or ten years ago, these things felt shocking and now they feel part of the general background hum of modern life.

And that might be the real danger. Not denial, nor ignorance, but normalisation.

Because once something feels normal, urgency is dispelled. I would like to think caring hasn’t disappeared, it is just competing with even more depressing social and economic factors.

Climate change doesn’t arrive all at once. It arrives quietly, persistently and begin to normalise itself into our everyday lives, are we starting to tolerate it?

We cannot and should not lose focus, but maybe the best approach is to try not to live in constant climate panic. That’s exhausting and unsustainable in its own way.

We need to notice when the seasons shift, call it out consistently and lean into the emotions of what is being lost with strength not drama. We must question when ‘unusual’ becomes routine. To resist shrugging and accepting that this is just how things are now. Ironically, our national obsession with talking about the weather might still be our most powerful climate conversation starter. Every time we say, “This isn’t normal, is it?” we are pointing out this truth.

Because perhaps the real risk isn’t that we stop caring. It’s that we stop noticing.