Since reading Susannah Savage’s intriguing article on how climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map (The Big Read, December 31), moving wine production in Europe north and eastward, I am looking forward to trying out some exciting new Scandinavian and Baltic wines.
However, I then read Henry Mance’s equally fascinating, and deeply worrying article (“The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder”, Spectrum, Life & Arts, Ft Weekend, January 11), about the potential shutdown of that part of the Gulf Stream known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which, if it were to happen, would force northern Europe back into the Ice Age.
I am deeply concerned, as I imagine are the great majority of Financial Times readers, about human enhanced climate change, which is clearly already upon us.
However, having read the two above articles I am now a little uncertain whether on future trips to northern Europe I should be packing T-shirts and flip-flops or thick Arctic woolies?
Bart Tompkins
Madrid, Spain
