[Sonia]

Are we being misled by ignorant or lazy climate change scientists working for a global warming industry. Science thrives on disagreement; new observations and hypothesis are always questioned and, if they stand up, are strengthened thereby. Ideas change as new data becomes available. Cimate change was once regarded as a slow process unlikely to be observable over a human lifetime. Then, in the 1990s, ice core studies revealed that dramatic changes, occuring in as a little as a decade, had taken palce many times in the past. Variations in the Earth's orbital characteristics may have forced the major ice ages of the last 2 million years, but the phenomenon of rapid climate change seems to be linked to interactions between our planets oceans and atmosphere. It sounds odd but global warming could mean colder weather for some of us. The climate of present day Europe relies on North Atlantic circulation. Whereby northwards flowing warm surface waters of the gulf stream encounter cold air moving eastwards. The air is warmed before it reaches Europe, while the sea cools, become denser and sinks, forming a deep ocean current. This circulationsystem is vulnerable to any increase in freshwater input, which has often switched it off by reduing the density of the surface waters. It could happen again: more melting icebergs and precipitation are likely consequences of global warming. For Britain this would mean severe winters, just compare our climate with Canada at the same latitude. We know little however about how climate and weather might behave in the few years between on and off.