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Scientist JA Pounds says Central American frog species have disappeared due to deadly infectious diseases spurred by global warming. ‘Disease is the bullet killing frogs, but climate change is pulling the trigger,’ he said.

In the UK long dry periods damage food supplies for migrating birds. Breeding redshanks, lapwings and snipe dropped by up to 80 per cent at five reserves in the south of England following the dry summer in 2005. And warmer seas are leading to fewer plankton off the British coast, with an impact on the sand eel population – resulting in less food for nesting birds like puffins.

As plants, insects, birds and animals migrate so the nature of our landscape will change. Traditional English woodland, populated with oak, beech and bluebells could become a thing of the past, as sycamore becomes the more dominant species and cow parsley could force snowdrops and bluebells out.