That archetypical British driveway The Mall, has become a wind-farm. Wind turbines tower over flags, as the desperate quest for renewable energy takes precedence over any remaining notions of Britishness. Cars? Now what on earth were they?

Wind farms are usually associated with bleak moors, distant hillsides or faraway patches of sea. But will we see more in our own back yards, even royal ones?

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London’s busiest urban hub becomes a haven of calm as water levels rise ever higher. Water lilies, fish and wind turbines drift quietly in the breeze, amid empty buildings which are only left standing to support the infrastructure of power generation. Civilisation as we know it has gone.

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Where once gargoyles would sit on the walls of venerated buildings, St Paul’s Cathedral is now host to a new breed of tropical immigrants, enjoying the view of the flooded Thames and reminiscing about equatorial days. And, despite the warning, feeding on some of the capital’s newly fashionable staple foods.

Our apes are totally relaxed, perched in what is to us a narrow and precarious environment. They are truly at home.

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Never mind biblical proportions, this epic storm is of filmic proportions, as real life imitates Hollywood’s top tornado and onlookers run for their lives. As the UK climate changes more extreme weather conditions become a regular feature of life in the UK.

Trafalgar Square is a both a symbol and gathering place for Londoners with Nelsons column, the pigeons, New Years Eve celebrations, London’s red buses etc. It’s appeared in hundreds of films, most memorably for us as the view from Harry Palmers boss’s office in the classic ’Ipcress File’.

An early visual reference was Norman Parkinson’s 1949 ‘New Look’ photograph taken from the terrace of the National Gallery. Two models (one his wife) stand silhouetted on the terrace framed between two columns. Behind them, in the London mist, looms Nelson’s column. We took a wider view to capture the scale and energy of the Tornado tearing up Whitehall.

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London’s open spaces resemble tropical plantations. The cost of food production is rising and cultivatable land is becoming scarce. More and more of London’s parks and green spaces are given over to industrial-scale agriculture. Palm oil is harvested in Hyde Park to meet our changing energy needs.

The Hyde Park Hilton was designed as an urban landmark but does not look out of place as a tropical resort hotel.

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The Notting Hill Carnival is still going strong. But being out in the sun is now a death-trap. Every carnival-goer is given standard-issue blue sun-block to protect every inch of exposed skin. Health and safety gone mad, or gone sensible? At last we’re all the same colour.

The ozone layer protects the earth from the sun’s rays but is much thinner than it used to be. Banning the use of CFC gasses has stabilised the layer, for now. But how long will it last?

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As the Arctic warms up, the Gulf Stream starts to slow and temperatures in the UK plummet. Winters become unbearably harsh. Never mind hell freezing over, the Thames does it every winter. When the thaw comes, the city floods – a tediously predictable event for long-suffering Londoners.

The frozen Thames is both romantic and frightening. It happened regularly in the 16th century when painters recorded the delightful scenes. But this time long-term ice is building up.

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