Snow in July. Sun in September. The climate has gone mad. The world has gone mad? Melting ice caps, extreme weather conditions and freezing temperatures in Russia. Send up the white flag. There has been a collective jumping on the bandwagon?phenomenon in relation to global warming over the past two or three decades.

Allow me to paint a brief picture. A scientist?(please note the absence of important pre-fixes such as well-known? respected?and highly regarded?to this word) states that emissions of greenhouse gases from human sources are causing the climate to warm. The target audience (i.e. the general public) make the following rough associations ?a) the scientists say the climate is warming due to human related greenhouse gas emissions, b) yes, it is a bit warmer, we can grow bananas now and c) radical environmentalists are making claims that humans are destroying the future of the earth. And before you can say carbon dioxide, normally reasonably minded people are demonstrating lemming-like qualities of fellowship and are making apocalyptic Nostradamus-esque predictions of doom.

Now call me Einstein, but it just occurred to me that the very nature of our climate is changeable. Havent we always experienced the devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a severe tornado?which can result in) mot

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