The whole greenhouse gases scaremongering is just the latest 'Y2K bug' hoax. More and more IPCC scientists are beginning to state that the historical evidence shows that climate change is a normal process. It's something that's going to happen regardless of what we do or don't do. The most we can do is try to manage the consequences.

Our efforts to stop climate change are simply a manifestation of mankinds belief that we can control everything. Nature will not go extinct. It will simply alter to fit in with the new environment, as it always has. This is called evolution.

Much more pertinent are the tens of thousands of jobs and tax revenue that are generated by the perpetuation of the human impact on global warming myth. A myth which, unlike the Y2K bug, has no end date in the near future!

Although I will concede the problem of increased conflict over resources and displacement is a real problem that must be addressed.

Graham, Leeds, England

Yet more scare stories. Climate change is real, but why do these 'experts' sound so negative? Is it because negative stories are the only ones the media will print? And what about over-population, the driving force behind rising emissions?

michael clarke, london, ul

Global warming is no problem here. My house will just be that much closer to the beach. And currently uninhabitable places like northern Canada will get better weather.

Joe Blow, Arlington, Virginia

This is a moral, spiritual and ethical issue. Science and history have taught us the hard lessons about what excess greenhouse gases can do. Major volcanic eruptions before the last big ice age and the smaller ice age have shown us the effect of too much of these gases. The threat is real and we have to live with the consequences. Actually, our children will have to live with it.

Carla, Cheyenne, WY

We shouldn't be concerned about those problems. All the more we should care about the environment as of now.
If we don't act today, perhaps tomorrow we will recognize the very end of nature's existence!
theoratically, such a situation as the report describes could occur every day!
"Nature doesn't need menkind, but menkind needs nature!"

Maddin, heidelberg, Germany

Judy , when you are done with being glib and parochial, how about telling us where your family will move to once Liverpool is under water. Oh, and where their food will come from after climate change wrecks the agricultural systems on which you currently rely.

aus9+1, London, England

I have no doubt that they will all find their way to Britain.

judy, Liverpool, england

As I am reading this article, the temperature outside my office has already risen by an abnormal 4 degrees. Bombay has been experiencing an extraordinary heat, something like what we experince in the months of May / June...and this has been the case since March. This is only one of the smallest of the many 'changing climate' anecdotes. I wonder why does humanity indulge in destruction of all of mother nature's creations for the benefit of their existence or simply for their convenience. Or is it just that destruction is a byproduct of whatever humanity defines 'development'?

It is high time that common people like most of the readers and myself act cautiously on this phenomenon of self destruction, and find more means to be more responsible and kind towards our planet Earth.

Sriram Krishnan, Mumbai, India

There is a climate change, floods in Rajasthan Thar desert, un expected rains and temperature increase these are signs of climate change

M.Lokeswara Rao, Bangalore, India

"Various eminent scientists" ?

Please:

a. Name them;

b. State how many papers they have published in peer-reviewed scientific journals on climate science, so that we can judge their level of expertise on this important issue.

Why do we not do an investigation on the these "climate change skeptics", and in particular on where their funding comes from ?

Mat Ballard, Melbourne, Australia

Dear Sir, various eminent scientists are now questioning whether there is such a thing as "global warming" with particular reference to periods of warming in the pre-industrial revolution period.
Why do we not have an investigation by the Sunday Times on this very important subject ?

Ian Copestake, Buxton, UK

Cause and effect...It's odd how so often the words 'climate change' are not substituted by 'man made global warming' or 'man made greenhouse gas' or 'man made CO2' whether in headlines or in body text. Consequently we lose sight of cause and effect so that the debate as to what is causing 'climate change' is closed down.

GC, Harrogate, UK