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Stormy weatherIt seems that one can’t open a newspaper nowadays without reading something about the impending global climate crisis. Personally speaking, and in the absence of the kind of clear, undeniable evidence I would normally hope to expect to get from the BBC World Service or, failing that, a group of old college chums at my club, I have decided to await catastrophe with the stoical demeanour of a man who believes there may be the fringe benefit of being able to grow a decent Pinot Noir in his back garden in...