Continuing the English tradition of judges making absurd public statements… And following Professor Philip James’s call for a “climate plan” to “tackle obesity”… And following Sir David King’s “climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism“… Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Justice Coleridge:

“Without being in any way over-dramatic or alarmist, my prediction would be that the effects of family breakdown on the life of the nation, and ordinary people, in this country will, within the next 20 years, be as marked and as destructive as the effects of global warming. 

“We are experiencing a period of family meltdown whose effects will be as catastrophic as the meltdown of the ice caps.”