Ah, pdq, "there's none so blind as them what won't see...". So, George W has "...long ago acceped Global Warming and has made that clear in many public statements for many years", eh? Funny how long it took him to accept the Kyoto agreement then, what with him being so serious about it! And funny how late in the day his concern for the polar bears' habitat has come!

Oh, and cities have been under water - at least one in recent years. How quickly you forget! But it starts like that - with one city. By the time you have charted a graph with the trends it's alredy too late.

I won't lay the blame for global warming or risk of future lack of water on GWB's door (as indeed artbrooks never did). But I do blame him for his country's late and inadequate response to the issues to date.

And I may not live in the US, and I may not be the equivalent of your laughingly called "Democrats"; but my stake in this is just as big as yours or the next Bangladeshi kid to drown in the next monsoons, because you're farting upwind of where I breathe.

Put a bung in it.