A LAKE at the North Pole, the ozone layer trashed at the South Pole, Switzerland and Italy are swamped by abnormal rainfall and mudslides. The southern hemisphere is experiencing cyclones and monsoons the like of which no-one has ever seen.

Ryedale was swamped in 1999, Kent and Sussex have just been washed.

Tens of thousands have been killed and made homeless worldwide and now the Association of British Insurers is talking about hiking premiums because of increased flooding due to global warming.

Hey, let's lower petrol and car prices and burn loads more fossil fuels.

Graham Horne,

Beech Avenue,

Bishopthorpe,

York.