In her usual wry way pilita.clark@ft.com explains that all the data suggests men are less likely to express concern about the impact of climate change than women.

I find myself thinking not just of me but of my friends and family. My son has made it clear that he won’t drive (though he has a licence to) when public transfer will do, by retired finance director Phil Persson will not fly to his family home in Switzerland from Dorking but takes the train for climate reasons.

Both my son and my accountant friend live close to each other, which is why my mind passed to them, I suspect that most of my close friends are dweebs in a “men explaining themselves” way,

I find that giving up cars and investing in everything but fossil fuels has been a good thing for me – I’ve felt a little better but am I just a wimp?

Real men don’t do climate change

This is Pilita, arguing as a woman

This is her argument for her stopping her campaigning as she has

If you are a man who cares about climate change, are you a bit of a wimp? Put another way, if a man says global warming is rubbish, does he seem more manly?

Using data from the US, and a long-running survey of more than 40,000 people across Europe, he showed that men who say they want to save the planet are perceived to be more warm and caring. In keeping with this finding, he also showed that men who are strongly concerned about maintaining their sense of manhood express less concern about the climate problem and say they feel less responsibility for managing it.

Pilita – who I’ve been to see Nick Cave with, is extravagantly female when she concludes.

There is a message here for those of us who rightly worry about warming temperatures. Scientific facts really matter, as does the health of the environment. But there will be times when the best thing you can do for the planet is not talk about it at all.

I don’t know why I dragged Nick Cave in , except that I saw him in the heatwave and thought he’d brought Australia to Brighton! I’d like to think he cares about the climate but my brief research this morning found only this which suggests that Nick keeps his thoughts on climate change to himself.

Nick Cave’s work has always dwelled in the liminal space between despair and redemption, a place where the raw nerve of human vulnerability meets a stubborn, almost holy yearning for connection. His reckoning with mortality, love, and the grotesque beauty of existence offers a lens through which to confront climate anxiety—not as a technical problem, but as a spiritual crisis writ large.

My son and I went down to Brighton and today we will go and see Yeovil Town play Wealdstone in north west London. For the first time since the end of spring we put on our heating last night and today I’m thinking of keeping warm when sat or standing outside.

We don’t talk about the climate in the company of other men but I don’t think that holds when we are in female company.

I suspect Pilita’s right.  Men’s best argument for acting over climate change is the memory of this summer and how heat and everything from sun-burn to forest and heath fires, made life unpleasant and for some disastrous.