New Delhi, March 26 -- After all the facts have been laid on the table, and all the arguments have been made; when the best intentions to save the planet from a fiery future crash against a resolute wall of government apathy and corporate greed, sometimes all that's left to do is to take a resigned look at the omens of impending disaster. Sniff the air, as our hunter gatherer ancestors used to do, and try to prepare the best you can for the dark times that are coming.

Because if you were to gather all the different climate signals coming through in the form of seemingly disconnected news stories, then the inescapable picture that emerges is that we are living in a different version of Planet Earth. An Earth that bears very little resembl...