A riot, a die-in, a march with protest placards and thousands of pairs of smelly footwear abandoned in a public square.

That is how vegans and deluded pescatarians around the world are making their views heard on climate change.

In the UK we were treated to Chubster Church - once voice of an angel, now mouth of a sailor - yelling to the crowds that climate change is entirely responsible for ISIS and the war in Syria... No, me neither.

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Fiddling: Francois Hollande (centre), David Cameron, Prince CHarles, Xi Jinping and a gaggle of other world leaders are pictured at the start of a Climate Change Conference. But do we care?

And Emma Thompson, whom we all much preferred in Love Actually, banging on about polar bears.

But as the Climate Change Conference 2015 kicks off in Paris, my big question is: Does the average Brit really care?

Aside from protesters-for-hire, the jobless, the feckless, unemployed actors, and students outraged by their own shadow - do the people who work and pay taxes to fund this whole charade care enough to fork out for it?

One hundred and fifty world leaders and 40,000 delegates are gathering to discuss a new climate-change agreement, watched over by an incredible 120,000 security forces mobilised for the event.

But in this time of terror and global crises, doesn't it feel uncomfortable to be talking about how warm it is - or isn't? A bit like going shopping when you should be at a funeral?

I watch it all and wonder if there aren't more pressing matters at our door.

Chubster: Charlotte Church is pictured performing to a gaggle of the jobless, the feckless and protesters-for-hire at The People's Climate Change March in London this weekend

Cause and effect? Church believes that ISIS are a product of climate change and the war in Syria

Our junior doctors are about to walk out on strike because they don't want their overtime pay cut back.

The jungle camp at Calais feels ready to explode into violence, with a 'nouvelle jungle' planned for a quiet village in Kent.

And a vote on military intervention in Syria looks likely to split the Labour Party and fail in the Commons, calling into question our role in the world.

I know world leaders, particularly Obama, get to the latter stages of their Presidency and feel the need to leave a legacy; COP15 will be part of his.

Luvvies: Dame Vivienne Westwood (left) and Emma Thompson (right) joined the Oscar-winner Emma Thompson (right) joined the protest bridgae at the march in London this weekend

But the Americans and Canadians have been perfectly clear. This Treaty on Climate Change Emissions is not going to be legally binding. And, in fact, it is not going to be a treaty at all.

It is just hot air and paperwork. You'd think hot air is the last thing the climate needs.

With America and Canada already greasing themselves to slide out of any deal, India and China are oiling themselves up to do the same.

Great unwashed: Troops of vegans and deluded pescatarians, along with their climate change allies, are shown parading past the Cenotaph in central London

China still builds at least one coal-fired power station a week and accounts for a third of all global emissions. It is the world's largest emitter of carbon, a position proudly held since 2007. They make big promises. But their population lives blinded by smog.

India has been clear it will spend two decades increasing the burning of fossil fuels, boosting emissions to full capacity, in order to drag 300 million people above the poverty line.

As African nations follow on the coat-tails of India, trying to drag themselves out of abject poverty and feed the millions with nothing to eat, are we seriously asking them to care about emissions?

Indian Prime Minster Nerandra Modi is in Paris to ask: 'Where is the climate justice in that?'

My personal view is there are some inconvenient climate truths we don't get to hear much about, thanks to liberal lefties and Welsh singers trying to be a fat, blonde Russell Brand.

Of the world's best 50 models on climate change, 95 per cent predicted that Antarctic Sea ice would decrease over the past 30 years.

It increased.

Focusing on what matters: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for a photograph with a young fan on the march. Meanwhile, his party is about to tear itself apart over bombing Syria

Global-warming alarmists even went on a jolly expedition to prove their point in the Antarctic and ended up trapped in ice they’d said wasn't there.

Climate-change scientists have been shivering in their short-sleeved shirts to find excuses for why the earth hasn't warmed as predicted.

They hugely exaggerated the impact of climate change. The last IPCC report showed an increase of just 0.05 C per decade, despite CO2 emissions rising.

Scientists are floundering. Having worked at the Met Office, I can tell you their salaries depend on climate change being real.

Now that they don't even bring us the weather on the BBC, and climate change is looking dodgy, do we really want to go on paying for their super-computers?

I don't think the average taxpayer really cares. I certainly don't. Of course we want to make our homes efficient and shout at our kids to turn the lights off. We all fight over the thermostat — him down, her up.

But right now, with terror on our doorstep and ISIS in our midst, should world leaders be chatting about climate change as a top priority?

Whilst sea ice is growing and global temperatures are stalling, and India and China belch out gas like a old woman with IBS, wouldn't you rather have a rebate on the £112 you are charged to make the world a greener place?

I would.