Good side to global warming

I am afraid I remain unconvinced by scientists who blame human activity for the so-called global warming which they claim we can do nothing to halt.

If this is really the case, then why make everyone's lives a misery by whingeing?

Thirty years ago they told us that, without any doubt, the world faced a new ice age - the computers said so. Perhaps we should ask who stands to gain?

Would it be the 'jobsworths' in the green environmental industries who seek to control our every move on the pretence of saving the planet?

These are the ones who get people to recycle their rubbish and then send it to China, where it is burned as crude fuel to power factories turning out cheap goods that flood the western world and put British workers out of quality manufacturing jobs.

And if anybody suggests that instead of sending rubbish halfway round the world it should instead be converted to clean energy in the UK, where we already have the technology, they are subjected to wild claims that this will devastate the environment.

They forget that we share the world with China, but it's a case of 'out of sight, out of mind'.

The present phase of warmer winters has been a huge bonus for the elderly - lives are not threatened by hypothermia, and fuel bills are halved.

It's not much consolation for coal, log and oil merchants, or electricity companies, whose profits are only half the usual amount.

Hooray for global warming! Make the most of it, and save up your money towards the next mini ice age. Believe me, eventually the worm will turn.

W F Kerswell, Picklescott