We must care about our climate future

IT’S 17 degrees today, and it’s mid-November. In the summer it was over 40 degrees in London; the excess number of deaths here amongst the over-65s due to the heat was c2,800 (figures from the Office for National Statistics).

Floods this year in the UK have been far worse than normal; ask people living along the Severn or next to Yorkshire rivers. Last year, floods in Germany killed 185 people