Last week I was invited to two climate change events, one entitled 'Operation Noah' at Southwark Cathedral with Rowan Williams the Arch Bishop of Canterbury and one in Bristol with OXFAM, Stop the Climate Chaos Coalition and Climate 350.org. The later a campaign to get CO2 down to 350 parts per million in the atmosphere, Currently we are just below 400ppm and rising fast (up from around 280 ppm in 1800)

The implications of Climate change are potentially terrifying if we don't get on and do something soon to reduce our own and global levels of CO2 production. While I was in Zimbabwe I took with me James Lovelock's latest and, by his own admission probably his last book, 'The vanishing face of Gaia, A Final Warning'. In this book Lovelock castigates the IPCC for basing its findings on concensus rather than science. With the scope of opinion ranging from climate change deniers on one side to James Lovelock on the other and the IPPC somewhere in the middle, it is deeply worrying to find the Met Office's own latest predictions are closer to Lovelock's than even the IPCC's.

At the Bristol event, I met Elvis Sukali one of OXFAM's team in Malawi who said “Climate change is having a huge effect on Malawi. Malawians rely on rain to grow food for the family and to earn money to pay for vital goods such as medicines and the foodstuffs they cannot grow. The rain is now so unpredictable that people’s livelihoods and lives are at risk.”

So the next question is what to do about it? There is a lot we can all do at home straight away by switching off lights when we don't need them on, keeping the heat down and generally conserving energy. But there is even more our Government could be doing and that's why OXFAM and the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is organising a big rally called "The Wave" in London on the 5th of December. So come on and join the demo and make your voice heared loud and clear! I'll see you there...

See the flyer below: