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Thu 13 Nov, 21:00 - 21:50 50 mins

The Big Chill

Remember that long hot summer? You might never see its like again. And all
that talk of global warming? Forget it. This season's first Horizon reveals
that a growing number of experts fear that Britain could be heading for a
climate like Alaska. Our ports could be frozen over. Ice storms could ravage
the country, and London would see snow lying on the ground for weeks on end.
It would be the biggest change in the British way of life since the last Ice
Age.

The first signs that such a disaster could happen came from deep within the
ice sheet of Greenland. Scientists discovered that the earth's past was
littered with sudden drastic drops in temperature.

The big question was: could it ever happen again? Clues came from tiny
shells at the bottom of the Atlantic; a huge glacier on the move in Arctic
and some alarming discoveries in the far north of Russia.

In the end there came the terrifying revelation: the Gulf Stream, that vast
current of water that keeps us warm, could be cut off.

According to one scientist, there's a one in two chance it will happen in
the next century. Others say a climate catastrophe could be heading our way
in just twenty years time.

Regards

Shaun Pudwell.


"TudorHgh" wrote in message
...
Lets face it, with
10,000 deaths in France this summer and 4,000 in India earlier,
global warming has more casualties to its name than Iraq already.

Mortality rates are higher in winter. The reduction in these rates
brought about by a warmer climate more than offsets the increase in
mortality
due to a hot summer. And you cannot be serious in suggesting that none of
the
deaths referred to would have occurred in the absence of global warming.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.