Lightly adapted from the Book of Revelation.

This kind of millennial apocalyse porn has been around for a long, long time...and - damn it all anyways! - we're still here, living better than ever, and being joined in prosperity by more and more of humanity every day.

Isn't the UK - far from suffering "heatwaves of unimaginable ferocity" - heading for a deep freeze because the Gulf Stream is shutting down due to all the melting ice?

Love those "tipping points", read: discontinuities that can't be predicted. Hardly the stuff of science, but fodder for religion throughout the ages.