Evidently, scientists are now 95% certain that human beings are directly responsible for causing climate change, the melting of polar ice caps and the continuing rise in sea levels. This is the main conclusion of a recent investigation by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Now I’m no scientist but it seems pretty obvious to me that over two hundred years of smoke-belching industrialisation, a hundred years of petrol-burning motor engines, seventy years of nuclear bomb testing, the continued eradication of millions of acres of jungle, the denuding of rain forests and re-routing of rivers will have caused immeasurable if not fatal damage to the planet.

And scientists are only 95% certain? Perhaps the other 5% still believe that the Earth is flat!