THE WEATHER IS CHANGING & YOU NEED TO CHANGE TOO!

We all now know and most of the sane world accepts that the world's climate is changing and we must all move to mitigate future temperature rises by limiting fossil fuel usage and other measures.

However, and it's a BIG however; anything we do now and for the next 20-30 years will be too late to stop the weather wreaking havoc and destruction, both in a slow and measured way and also with sudden and unyielding ferocity. WE ARE TOO LATE!

Those are not only my words, they are the words of the UK Meteorological Office and other leading meteorological/climatological agencies. Putting it simply, what we now face is chaos. Rampaging wildfires, catastrophic floods, debilitating droughts, horrendous hurricanes, typhoons and wind storms; excessive heat, extreme cold, and major tornadoes appearing where they weren't previously. All the culmination of a warming, increasingly unstable and unpredictable atmosphere. All due to mankind's self-destructive actions.

So yes, it's all too late - at least for decades to come. Which means SAFETY and SURVIVAL should be paramount in the thoughts of governments, companies, organisations, communities and individuals alike. We have to plan now, organise and become educated in knowing how to best protect ourselves from all elements of extreme weather - both in terms of the short and longer term impacts. It's of little use waiting and fiddling whilst 'super natural forces' gather and suddenly unleash their venom upon us. That will only end in greater pain.

Believe me when I say that this is the immediate agenda and that climate mitigation is the slow burner (a slow cooler more like) that is wholly worthwhile pursuing for a better more stable further in decades and centuries to come, but for now the focus has to change.

For me, I know where my focus and that of British Weather Services will largely be over this coming few years, that is assisting those to best prepare for the cataclysms yet to befall. Yes, we all have to continue to lead our lives much as we are now with some wise changes, but the caveat has to be manoeuvring ourselves as best and intelligently as we possibly can - to be that much safer and more secure, in a fast changing world that will hold no prisoners!

You have been warned!