GLOBAL WARMING?

BRING IT ON!!

So is this an Indian Summer? As summer draws to a close people often talk wistfully of the prospect of an Indian Summer. But what do they really mean? Summer in India can be unbearably hot with temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius.

The origins of an `Indian Summer` are uncertain, but it may relate to the Indians of North America, rather than those of the Asian subcontinent. Alistair Cooke, in one of his renowned ‘Letters from America’ suggests that: "During the autumn period, these summer spells of quiet, anticyclonic weather are associated with mainly clear skies and long nights. This leads to plenty of nocturnal cooling and radiation fog forms extensively. The Indians used these periods of poor visibility in the fog to attack white settlers, and there lay the connection."

Whatever the truth may be, I have no doubt that in the next few days someone with a very low carbon footprint will pop up and claim that our current Indian Summer is yet another example of global warming. If the lovely weather we`re having now is what global warming brings, then that`s fine by me. Bring it on! In the meantime, I`ll watch out for dawn raids from across the border in Sussex.