Brrr! So is that it for global warming?

No sooner do we enter a big chill than the usual suspects emerge from the ice,

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"Ha!" they shout through chattering teeth before throwing another DVD of An Inconvenient Truth on to the bonfire "Where's your global warming now, eh?"

Yes, where indeed? Because despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that ice caps are melting and deserts are spreading, that land masses are drowning and umpteen species are dying out, and that the seasons are behaving very strangely indeed, our naysayers think a couple of cold days ends the argument.

And, what's more, they saw this documentary on the telly once and this scientist bloke said...

Now, I am not a scientist, so I have to go with the majority view, and if science says it walks like a dog, moves like a dog and barks like a dog, then I'm perfectly happy to agree that it is, indeed, a dog.

"Ah," say the naysayers, "but it's all a big conspiracy."

Really? A conspiracy for what, exactly? Scientists all over the world have banded together and come to the same point of view. Independently. If it's all a conspiracy, what's in it for them? Wouldn't they have better things to do? It's like people arguing that the moon landings were faked, or that Phil Collins is a good idea.

The fact is, we're harming out precious little planet, and we have to change our ways.

Now, pass me another hot water bottle, I'm getting cold again.