A professor of chemistry told me that 97% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere occurs naturally. Even Gormless Gordo could work out how much that leaves for us to do something about. In five years there'll be another fashionable drum to bang.

Bill Harding, York,

When you consider we once had window taxes watchout for lightning, rain and hail taxes. The lightning one will be based on what the energy was worth if the strike could be piped into the grid. It's all our fault of course and nothing whatsoever to do with natural balance :o)

Pete, West Mids,

The global warming nutters told us earlier in the year that this would be the hottest summer on record - what happened what went wrong with this perfect theory of manmade catastophe subscribed to by failed politicians and the gormless?

philip, Ipswich,

If both a positive and negative result are sufficient proof for a hypothesis, the reasoning might be somewhat flawed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of green technology and reduced emissions - I'm an asthmatic, I like my air clean - but Global Warming has become a matter of belief, not science.

John Swaine, Malta, Malta

I blame Gorden Brown as I do for most things these days. I think Gorden was going to bring in a sunshine tax until the poor weather. Maybe he'll opt for a cloud tax instead. I agree our new wine drinking environmental high priests chosen by the chattering classes will blame us and tax us as usual.

Geoff Jarvis, Weymouth,

Is it just coincidence that the weather has been awful ever since Gordon Brown became PM??

Linda, Truro, UK

After this summer I'm taking the car to the end of the garden, leaving the lights on 24/7 (energy unefficient of course) and asking for new carrier bags every time I visit the supermarket.

We could do with a bit of global warming if you ask me.

john moore, windsor, u.k.

How can global warming be attributed to "unnatural" causes yet the current global cooling is apparently due to "natural" causes

How stupid do they think the public actually are? If it smells like a rat and sounds like a rat...there probably IS a rat

Billy, Cardiff , Wales

Its not the government Peter, its science. I know you probably think you know more than NASA, The Royal Society, the American Academy of Science, Harvard, Yale and Oxbridge - but why dont you look up what they say about global warming...

Daniel Ratter, London,

No doubt the government will spin this as a direct consequence of global warming which can only be countered with an immediate 100% increase in "green taxes".

Peter Hastingss, Folkestone, England