Alongside species mass extinction and biodiversity loss, climate change signifies humanity’s burdened entry into the Anthropocene [1]. During the past two centuries, humanity has burned increasing amounts of fossil fuels, producing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and leading to atmospheric pollution and global warming [1]. Such pollution has resulted in the current climate crisis and in natural disasters including worsening storms, flooding, droughts, fires, heat waves, and crop failures leading to starvation/mass migration. For intensive care physicians climate change will have increasingly recognisable effects upon health across all organ systems, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular