Fresh fish from the spring floods of the Indus had just come onto the market, and he kept remembering that he had wanted to buy some for dinner, perhaps the next night.
On top of the effects of the warming trend come more frequent and extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and storms which directly cause death and injury and open the door to other serious health problems, according to WWF.
Mr Straw said the government was ready to consider further changes, but nobody had come up with workable proposals which would outlaw indirect discrimination without opening the doors to floods of "mendacious" actions.