Fiona Harvey
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But it's much more than that.
It goes much deeper.
And now what we're seeing is the climate being seen as a national security issue.
Because if you're in a country that you turn on the taps one day and nothing comes out, then that's a really serious issue for everyone.
It's a business, an economic, a health issue.
It's a political issue, national security issue.
It encompasses everything.
We haven't taken it seriously enough in the past.
We still have this mindset that we are a cold country.
And for a lot of the year, we are.
There's also a danger in this report.
We could actually become a colder country as well as a hotter country.
The system of currents and winds in the Atlantic, usually people call it the Gulf Stream, which isn't quite accurate, but that's how people know it.
And it brings warm weather to Europe generally in the winter and makes our climate milder than it would otherwise be.
That could be faltering and it could stop or reverse.
And that would bring much, much colder winters here.
We would be seeing a lot of the country ice bond for huge swathes of time every winter.
Temperatures could drop to, you know, sort of minus 10 and minus 20 across a lot of the country in those kind of winters.