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Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, predicts that the ice period will begin in about 10 years.

Predictions of a gradual increase in temperatures called global warming are erroneous, Velasco Herrera told a conference at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development regarding predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to Mexico’s melenio.Com.

The IPCC models and forecasts are wrong because they are based only on “mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity," he said.

The phenomenon of climate change should include other kinds of factors, both internal, such as volcanoes and the very human activity, and external, such as solar activity, he said.

"In this century, glaciers are growing," as seen in the Andes, Perito Moreno; Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and with Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand, Velasco Herrera said.

Satellite data indicate that a period of global cooling may have begun in 2005, he said.

Are cows to blame for global warming? - Daily Post North Wales

Climate change sceptic Alwyn Davies, of Brynford, Holywell, said farmers were right to condemn Mr Pachauri’s claims, especially that 18% of “warming” was due to farm animal emissions.

He said: “How very odd that when 60m buffalo roamed the US in the 1800s, we were in the grip of the Little Ice Age.

“Will Mr Pachauri suggest the culling of millions of ruminants in Africa, also producing methane?”

Environmentalist often cite the claim that cattle require 8kg of grain for every 1kg of beef grown.

The NBA says this is misleading: poultry and pigs require grain but ruminants - other than bull dairy calves - are usually not fed grain.

Instead beef cows usually graze for most of the year, and are fed over the winter on grass silage, waste feeds such as straw, stock-feed potatoes, waste vegetables, brewers grains, by-product molasses, breakfast cereals, bread and cakes past their sell-by-date, and sugar beet pulp.

Mr Davies said the issue highlighted the scaremongering which besets the climate change debate.

He added: “Environmentalists supported bio-fuels and food crops are now poured into fuel tanks, leading to a world shortage.

“The NFU should ignore the nonsense that is man-made warming and concentrate on its core function: helping their members provide the food the world so desperately needs.”