Climate chaos-ed my week!

Have been a mild climate chaos victim last week. I was in Euston station, after two days of wall-to-wall business meetings in London, really looking forward to the 1715 First Class Virgin to whoosh me home with a nice meal and several glasses of red. Unusually for me I was quite early and had time to mooch around. I saw somebody taking a digipic with their phone of the departure board. I thought 'how totally sad.' But it caused me to focus on what could possibly be picture worthy in such a frame. Then I saw it in bright LED yellow letters; Cancelled, Cancelled, Cancelled, Cancelled.... I was stuck in Euston, in a moment I couldn't get out of.

There had been a mini-tornado in London! In December! Christmas lights blasted along the street, people had even been killed. This was scary. This wasn't 'freak weather events' anymore, it felt like a real threat, a clear and present danger.

Along with throngs of fellow strandees I sought hapless advice from rail staff about alternatives. The West Coast line was completely out. Suggestions of routes to Birmingham, Manchester then Preston were sketched out to me which stupidly I followed and found myself sharing a cab with a couple of city gents. We took an incredibly congested cab ride to Marylebone and one of the guys made a comment about how 'scary it was that the system was so close to capacity, just a little disaster and were choked.' This led to him talking about 'adaptation industries.' He was forming an investment fund for climate change adaptation. So I told him all about our campaigns being on the 'NGO side of the world.' He raved about the 'Inconvenient Truth' and that he really thought we had to sort it for our children's sake! It was great, so inspiring to meet a corporate type so on-message and up for it. But the other guy was a complete sceptic; 'my son in geography class is learning there were warmings before and its natural!'

Anyway after another detour to Kings X and finally on a GNER to Edinburgh, then a midnight taxi ride back to Glasgow, getting in climate chaos-ed at 130am, I still had a residue of hope and inspiration that maybe we can fix this and turn it around.

By the end of the week I saw the Inconvenient Truth for myself. Steady, plodding, incontrovertible, compelling and unassailably convincing it makes you want to green your life totally. So get on to www.climatecrisis.net and www.stopclimatechaos.org