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Popular presenter James Whale said on his Talksport radio programme at 0041 am this morning "I have also heard that a few people are already blaming yesterday's Earthquake in Lincolnshire on (alleged) global warming."

Mr. Whale was responding to a claim from a telephone caller to his programme who said that he had heard of some supporters of the anti-climate change campaign saying that the Earthquake was due to "global warming".

"The next ice age may start within months - no one knows for sure" said Mr. Whale who added "the only thing scientists really know is that the planet is alive and the climate changes."

Mr. Whale, who believes that the world is warming up but that humans are not responsible for it, said on his programme this morning at 0043 am "Politicians are using the global warming issue to raise tax."

"The biggest problem the planet faces is too many people" Mr. Whale said. He also said "We - humans - are very privileged to live in this world which is habitable: but it won't always be that way."

Mr. Whale said at 0053 am today "Things change with regard to the climate- everything is going to change and there is nothing we can do about it: we should get used to change." He concluded "The world does not stay the same - don't worry about climate change."

Aaron e-mailed Mr. Whale's programme at 0057 am today to say "the world was warmer than it is now in 800AD and that was the time Viking explorers crossed the open seas in open boats."

mkpdavies

My cat scratched my face last night. I reckon that could be down to Global Warming too.

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P.S. What do vikings in boats have to do with global warming

John Connor

More vikings = more pirates.
Less pirates = more global warming.

Yes, there's actually a graph out there somewhere which shows this correlation between lack of pirates and an increase in global warming.

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Liquid magma deep within the earth under Lincolnshire is very very hot. Could a 0.1 degrees C rise in average air temperature in Lincolnshire really make any difference to what happens 5 miles down?

Hartlepool

Ask clippo,he lives down there in the puss boiling bowels of the earth.

I expect he can pull up another graph or chart for us all to peruse over again.

rjt

i would rather we did not encourage him too much.

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Global warming almost certainly didn't cause the earthquake, unless you're extremely pedantic and choose the warming which caused the glacial sheets covering Britain many millennia ago to melt and thus the current 'glacial rebound' to occur (one of my friends won a bet of a penny on this technicality, claiming that global warming would be blamed).

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rjt

I think living in Aldershot where Global Cooling has taken a hold there is as much chance of being captured by pirates and made to walk the plank as there is of any evidence of Global Warming taking place.

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