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All this rain . . . obviously global warming

It is exactly one month to the day since the Fire Brigades Union put out a press release saying that Britain’s wildlife was in danger of being wiped out by the “tinder-dry” heathlands turning into raging bushfires, caused by global warming.

I thought now would be a good time to remind you of this, as you pump up the dinghy preparatory to braving your “tinder-dry” high street to buy a pint of milk. If you see any wildlife on the way, be so kind as to warn them of the coming apocalypse.

The floods, of course, are also caused by global warming – just like those hot dry summers at the beginning of the 1990s when we were warned that Essex would soon resemble Chad and we would all get skin cancer or die of thirst. That was global warming too.

I saw on television news on Friday a chap canoeing across part of the Arctic ocean to raise world consciousness about “disappearing” ice sheets. The last time I looked he was trapped in some ice. Meanwhile, the quantity of sea ice at the other pole has actually been increasing, something the global warming monkeys have a bit of trouble explaining.

There’s a handy guide to global warming on Channel 4’s website, written in the usual cretin-speak for kiddies. Summers will never be like they used to be, the site proclaims. “Your grandparents griped about the typical ‘three hot days and a thunderstorm’ which constituted summer when they were young.” Indeed, and continue to constitute them now that they’re old.