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In My Defence

 Why I write what I do

When I started this blog I was intent on casting a critical eye on the political climate in our democratic world. But then a climate of another sort became impossible to ignore. I'm talking about the recent heatwaves. 

The repeated heatwaves this year (2026) did five things for me:

1. Nearly boiled my eyeballs off

2. Almost fried my brain in my skull

3. Forced me to pour ice water on myself on a regular basis during breaks at work (something I've never had to do, believe it or not)

4. Gave me serious ideas of moving to the Arctic before next summer

And 5. Made me turn my attention fully on the weather and climate change 

So much so in fact, that my first post was about the heatwave. 

I know some you enjoy heatwaves. You love laying there very still out in the open, literally baking yourselves for hours and hours in the seering sun, till your skin turns orange or brown, or just burns red-purple and plain peels right off - please stop doing that to your selves, by the way. You know full well about the link between sunbathing and skin cancer. Personally, I use a sun screen - even better if you can get someone beautiful and sexy to put it on for you... 

But I digress. 

I'm here to tell you: heatwaves are bad. Bad for us, bad for wildlife and bad for this good old planet, Earth, our only home. 

As you guys already know, there is no flick-on, flick-off  switch as an instant remedy to global warming. We are in the early stages and already experiencing the effects. But we are not yet in a desperate state. We can still save ourselves and the world from global catastrophe. I hold fast to this hope. And so should everyone. 

In my defence, though, I shall continue to write about global warming 'in situ' as it were - that is, as and whenever it impacts on us. 

In any case, I have a feeling that reading about this stuff will be way more interesting than the stuff about current political players and their  shenanigans. 

Wolf Winship 


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