30th July 2023

 When we moved back to the UK in 2017, the house we bought was necessarily purchased off-plan (whilst we were still in France), so its exact location in the Birmingham area was a fluke. However, in light of this week’s findings by climate scientists, its location is perfect. A new study, published on Tuesday in the Journal Nature, has found that the Atlantic Gulf Stream might collapse by 2025!  The previously-warm waters could not only plunge the UK and the US eastern seaboard into another ice-age, it would cause sea levels to rise alarmingly. There’s no doubt that climate change is happening, just like 2.4 million years ago when the earth’s climate repeatedly changed between very cold periods and very warm periods - just as it’s predicted now.  But man wasn’t around all that time ago,  so it must have been caused by a regular global shift. Back in the ‘50s I remember much colder winters, very heavy pollution and smog. Today the air is noticeably much cleaner here, yet ironically we are told it’s much worse. And me, the innate pessimist? I’m breathing a sigh of relief. Our house is on high ground (away from flood risk) and in the Midlands - far away from sea surges. And the fluctuating temperatures? Central heating and air-con.  Sorted.