Yet another Global Warming panic attack by the paranoid BBC journo's with little real copy to transmit. Sunspot activity at its highest, heat output from Sun high, it's hardly surprising some ice is melting. Carbon Dioxide - it's what trees and all plants need to survive, it isn't a poison! More CO2, more leaves! In February 1963 I drove down the middle of the River Thames at Old Windsor in my Mini Cooper 'S' to Runnymeade and back and we held a party by the "Bells of Ouzeley" on the ice and had a barbecue for 350 people. That year the newspapers trumpeted the oncoming 'Ice Age'.
The Sun is not a constant source of heat - Global Warming is a wonderful tool for the Politicians to control their populations. Cold War gone? Bring on Militant Muslims and Global Warming.
What will happen when sea levels don't rise and the weather doesn't burn us to a crisp?
Grapes grew and wine was made in Cumberland in the 1200's. Global Warming? Greenland was green in Leif Ericson's time. Don't be blinded by GreenPeace and Friends of the Earth - they want money to pay their professional staff who do not work for pennies.
Remember King Canute did not sit on his throne daring the tide not to rise, he was proving to his people that despite his apparent Deity he Couldn't stop the tide from wetting him!
Rant over.
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