I've been feeling a little "funny" lately - a bit morose and perhaps I know why. I haven't blogged a lot of these things because they were too depressing, so I'll get them all out now and get it over with. Last night, the Arctic's largest ice shelf broke in half and spilled huge volumes of freshwater into the sea. Meanwhile, as Joe points out, Australia may be facing a permanent drought.

I don't actually doubt that this could simply be, as a Cambridge University researcher pointed out, a natural occurance - the end of the "little" ice age. On the other hand, our continual rape of the planet isn't going to help things any.

I'm feeling a bit sad and not so much for me, but for my daughter who may find her life, when she reaches my age, is in a world fairly devoid of life other than humans and may even face food shortages, violent, unpredictable weather or worse.

I may have to go back to bed now.