Fire and Ice

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."


All the newstalk about Copenhagen brought a half-forgotten snippet back to my mind.

I seem to remember being told in a school geography lesson that the earth is currently in an interglacial period that is overdue for ending - giving us all nightmares about waking up the following week to find ourselves surrounded by woolly mammoths and sabre tooth tigers, about to be pulverised by a huge glacier.

And now the talk is about destroying the climate with the heating effects of CO2.

So surely that's ok then - the CO2 blanket will preserve us from the upcoming glaciation.

Problem solved.