A cooler look at global warming

10:38am Friday 9th May 2008

Fifteen years ago, I was being excoriated by some readers for reporting the forecasts of many leading scientists that the world was facing a new Ice Age.

Reader comments (3)

	From the farm at Yockenthwaite
	3:30pm Thu 8 May 08
	The spring is sprung, the grass is ris, says the old country rhyme - and not before time. What a difference we have seen in the space of a week. It is a wonder we haven't been able to see things growing.

	How Barbara Castle saved our canals
	9:30am Fri 2 May 08
	There are probably very few people in Craven who were fans of Barbara "Red Babs" Castle, whose socialist principles burned as hot as her flaming red hair when she was a cabinet minister in Harold Wilson's Labour government .

Time to end the neglect of agriculture

3:32pm Thursday 1st May 2008

After the foot and mouth debacle that caused so much pain here in Craven seven years ago, the Government scrapped the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and replaced it with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

	From the farm at Yockenthwaite
	3:28pm Thu 1 May 08
	As if by magic, the colours of the surrounding countryside have changed virtually overnight - all that was brown and grey is now tinged with fresh spring green.

	From the farm at Yockenthwaite
	1:36pm Mon 28 Apr 08
	The swallows are back! I saw the first one on Sunday. I know that one swallow doesn't make a summer and he was probably just passing through, a forward scout perhaps checking out the weather conditions, because I haven't seen him since, but it is always good to see these agile little birds.

	Clampdown on fly tippers
	9:28am Fri 18 Apr 08
	It was parked crookedly on a grass verge by the side of the A65 a few miles north of Ingleton, a battered old caravan, its tyres flat, its metal parts rusted. Significantly, there was a bare patch on the paintwork where the number plate had once been.

	Battle over the badgers looming
	3:32pm Thu 17 Apr 08
	The Welsh Assembly last week ordered a massive cull of badgers because they are alleged to spread bovine TB to cattle - and I fear that this will soon be the cause of another bitter battle here in England between animal lovers and farmers.

	From the farm at Yockenthwaite
	3:27pm Thu 17 Apr 08
	The weather hasn't been up to much, but it has certainly been a good year for daffodils; everywhere you go across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond these lovely spring flowers are blooming.

A fitting tribute

12:40pm Friday 11th April 2008

Middle-aged Skiptonians can remember when the Leeds-Liverpool canal was little more than a semi-stagnant rubbish tip, particularly the Springs section which connected the main channel with the old quarry workings by Skipton Castle.

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