There has been a load of articles claiming that Global Warming has been a complete fraud and money-making scheme for the few who sold the ideas to the world leaders. Its cost us tax payers, if we believe what we are told, around £150 per household each year to fund these green deals.

This got me thinking a bit. Yes I know that is a dangerous thing for me to do with often disastrous results but think I did.

When I was at school around four decades ago (40 years) things felt  so different from what they do today.

You no doubt want me to explain this, so I will.

Okay. During the sixties, seventies and eighties winters felt like winters often with the playing fields frozen and unfit for use. It certainly felt very cold and I can remember shivering my way to and from school, between lessons and at times in the poorly heated classrooms.

Summers were warm and barmy affairs and long. There was true definition between the seasons too as I recall.

Over the last couple of years we may have experienced  a few extreme days of cold and heat during the opposite seasons but there has been fuzzy lines of focus on the seasonal changes and its been relatively mild all year round.

Why?

Is it that the older I get the more hardy I have become? I can’t see that really. Is it my selective and poor memory? Could be I suppose. Or could it be that we are experiencing Global Warming? Not in my mind.

I honestly think that it is a natural cycle.

Just take a look at some of the history books and clues are abundant. Roman Britain saw grapes being grown for wine, high yields of wheat and grain crops and fruits being sent around the nation. During the middle ages there were reports of wet and freezing conditions that caused famine and large areas of death and poor crop harvests. The Thames regularly froze over to allow skating and even carts to pass from one side to the other. The coast line of the UK has constantly changed over the years due to the Ice Age causing the land mass to tilt and gradually tilt back when the ice receded as the country warmed up again.

Soil samples, tree rings, fossils and land movements show a constant change in climate around the world from warm to cold, wet to dry and windy to calm.

Our pollution of the world by pumping out noxious gases, filling the oceans with plastic, oil, waste and harmful liquids can’t help destroy plants and animals which ultimately have an influence on climate but is it causing this hysteria of Warming or is it just making some natural climate changes happen a tiny bit quicker?

All I know is this. Nature is powerful, actions have an equal and opposite reaction and if you look closely enough there are cycles and patterns throughout history and we are just going through yet another.