Writes Toby Baxendale: “Anyone under the age of 40 in the UK was taught at primary and senior school that we were going through a global Ice Age. Temperatures were all falling from the start of the last century to 1975-88 when I was at school. A map used to be shown to us how the glaciers of the last Ice Age of 10,000 years ago used to stop about 75 miles north of London. I was brought up thinking ‘thank God, we may be in for a cold one, but at least I will be living in my own home.’

“So I seek advice: should I wait for the global Ice Age to happen before the impending Global Warming, or is the Global Warming going to happen first?

“Next:

“Once again, anyone aged under the age of 40 in the UK was taught at primary and senior school that all of the world’s oil would run out by 1988! I was 19 in this year and in the run up to it, I thought ‘blimey, I am not even going to be able to drive a car to get around!’

“Discuss.

“Next:

“Would it be fair to conclude that the powers that be have not got a clue as to what they are teaching us?”