If you live in the UK, did the Earth move for you? The second biggest quake in UK recorded history has certainly been a talking point, hasn't it? And perhaps never more so than for all the appreciative young ladies in the backs of cars in those quaking early hours who believed they had found the virile young man of their dreams, not forgetting all the wives at home who at the same time were questioning just where their husbands had learned to do something like that!
But all this was only a taster. The real Earth-moving experiences may yet be to come as the whole premise of global warming is under threat again. Despite all the spin, it seems the scientific world is still not in any overall agreement as to just how much man is actually responsible for influencing the climate - if at all. In fact at the moment many scientists and "experts" are racing to distance themselves from being associated with the whole idea of global warming.
Recent data has shown there have been record snowfalls worldwide - some in places, like Baghdad and parts of central Asia, for the first time in recorded history; North America has had the most snow cover for 50 years; China has suffered the lowest temperatures in over a century; both icecaps have thickened, with Arctic sea ice forming up to 8