ON the basis of archaeological history, Anthony Weeden – in his recent BFP letter – is quite right to point out the inevitability of another impending ice age.

The highly-variable – but fundamentally cyclical – nature of solar radiation impacting the Earth makes it impossible to predict accurately when this will occur, whether it be a few decades or a century or two.

Nevertheless, the first cold fingers are already clearly making themselves felt! The false ideas inculcated by a little recent global warming, magnified and distorted out of all proportion by scaremongers, should not deter us from considering the much harsher reality the whole world will have to face when the ice sheets creep towards the equator!

Roderick Taylor, Abbotsbrook, Bourne End.