Flood water seeps into every corner of a property, bringing with it filth that clings to every surface long after the deluge subsides.

The smell is the first thing you notice. It hits the back of your throat.

Days after reporting on floods in Tayside, I could still smell the rot.

Extreme weather is a unique threat.

It is not only potentially deadly in the moment, it causes a trail of destruction that can take months or even years to recover from.

But it is a threat that Scotland seems determined not to respond to as the reality of the climate crisis unfolds.

Politicians have been quick to make big promises. Depressingly, some of them have been made and broken within years.

We have rightly spent a lot of time talking about how we tackle the worsening of the climate crisis with decarbonisation and the move to “net zero”.

The generation before mine has, belatedly, recognised the responsibility they have to tackle this crisis and, if the damage cannot be reversed, ensure it does not worsen at the worst rates predicted.

But the........

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