"Bringing back malaria" sounds like a good scare story for the eco-mentalists - unfortunately for them there are a couple of awkward facts to consider.

Malaria was endemic in both the fens and the Isle of Thanet until AFTER the First World War.

My father managed to catch malaria in Campbridge during the Second World War,

Its not really much of a comeback is it - even if it deoes make good a scare headline!

Mike Bibbt, St ALbans, England -not EU

People like Mr Ken Hall, for all their rhetoric, are at the heart of this world's problems. What very few people seem to remember is that global warming takes place when averaged over (surprisingly enough) a GLOBAL scale. This does not preclude the occurrence of very cold winters such as that experienced this year in China and the U.S., nor does it imply that temperatures are unable to drop in some locations for what seem long periods (on the scale of an average human lifetime). This is because the earth's climate system is very complex, as I am sure Mr Hall knows, with feedbacks from the oceans, atmosphere and cryosphere all in operation.

The evidence, Mr Hall, is clear. Global warming is happening, and will continue to happen for the next century at least, no matter what governments or individuals do about it now. I know this not because I have been brainwashed by the IPCC, as I am sure you would to believe, but because I have the common sense to interpret the evidence for myself

James Palmer, Cambridge, U.K.

Malaria has nothing to do with Temperature as one of the scientists who's name is on the IPCC report (and who disagrees with the summary) stated. Malaria was rife in the freezing Siberian wastes. Global warming or cooling has no effect on the malaria carrying mosquitoes.

Anyway, there has been NO global warming for 10 years. Over Bthe past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. the highest temperature was in 1998 and temperatures have been FALLING since.

Ken Hall, Barrow in Furness, UK