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Flooding in the UK - The river Severn in 2000

I grew up in Cumbria, so I've been following the flooding there, described by the Environment Agency as ‘unprecedented', pretty closely. Electricity and gas supplies have cut out in parts of the area affected. Dozens of people have been rescued by the lifeboat service. People have died. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn called it a "one in a thousand year event".

Watch all three videos about the human consequences of climate change

The key thing to understand about the upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen is how massively, vitally, fate-of-the-earth-decidingly important brackets are to the whole process. Yes, [brackets]. If you grasp the brackets thing, then everything else is pretty much irrelevant detail.

Nevertheless, let's do a little run-through before we get onto it.

The Copenhagen summit, also known as the Conference of the Parties 15 or COP15, or 'the best moment we've ever had to actually, you know, sort it out', is the fifteenth big meeting organised by the United Nations to discuss a global response to climate change.

Pretty amazing stuff going on in Indonesia over the weekend.

It started when the police issued an eviction order for the camp, after last week's action which closed down an APRIL logging concession. The action was strongly supported by local communities - the eviction notice was only secured after pressure from the logging companies.

But then, in a surprising move, the chief of police of Pelalawan district revoked the eviction order, after 300 locals from nearby Teluk Meranti village turned up at the camp the next morning to show their support.

Follow the airplot allotment as it unfolds today...