Sergei Gotsmanov

That is how life is.

So is it proven? Then it can only be a theory.

You would be very surprised how the law recognises free range. Pheasant shooting is not practiced like this at all. The only thing I may agree with is that corporate shooting is an unpleasant side effect of having to make it pay. You should eat pheasant it is a very enjoyable and you know that they have lived in the wild and that the toffs are subsidising its low price.

I like my chickens to be free range - the yokes are orange and they enjoy life. Foxes are vermin and I am not really fussed how they are dealt with. Hunting them is the most humane way to kill them but the most ineffective. I am not one to judge people; I find it as unsavoury as you do people who hunt. My experience of hunting people is 30% dreadful and 70% good honest folk who I have a pint with and a good chat with when they come into my local.

What is a theory then if it is unproven? It is certainly not fact.

What are your plans for us country folk Thorpy? Imprisonment? Ralf Harris re-education seminars? line us up and throw fair trade oranges at us? I am not sure that with your worldwide experience whether you are Michael Palin or a sort of internet forum version of Pol Pot with plans to 'modernise' the countryside. With over 4000 posts to your name (on this forum alone) you plan to change the world with your keyboard.

I think that even the boldest of scientists would call this a theory. Temperature is fact; the last four years progressively colder winters is fact.

Dare I say it following on from the Boxinday meet thread, generally my experience of over population in wildlife is that nature throws up a disease to bring it under control.

I think that we just do not know.... something that is highlighted by the highly inaccurate forecasts on our weather. Now I do not pretend to be a scientist but we are betrter to be addressing population and the rape and pillage of sea life. As it happens I believe that it will be disease that gets us.

What internet forums? DiMaybe you should have joined in a bit instead of being judgemental and intolerant.

I am probably a little raw because my chickens were wiped out by a fox last sunday but fox control is a complex issue. It is very naive to think that hunting is some sort of jolly conducted once a year on boxing day. It is a way of life for a lot of people.

Then you should respect the people around you. That is their culture; yours is obviously internet forums.

Trap them and move them! How absurd - pass your problem onto somebody else! Foxes are vermin. How do you pen your chickens in? So you are very happy for cattle to be slaughtered (what about their rights?) and people to lose their living. You clearly are more suburban than rural if you have not witnessed the explosion in badgers in the last decade. Ever wondered where the hedgehogs have gone or the bees?

What because yopu watch Emmerdale?

Collapse is the wrong word. The British Empire never collapsed - do read your history.

That report before Copenhagen. The emails from East Anglia

I am not clever enough to read the New Scientist

Dune stop looking out of your window! I trust these experts who tell us we are going to have warm weather at winter and then when we do not tell us that it this weather and not climate.

As I understood it they were making the numbers up. There was quite a fuss made at the time. Melbourne looked cold last night.

“This winter could be unusually mild and dry, with temperatures at least 2C higher than last year’s big freeze.” The Met Office, 28 October. I love these gurus at global warming HQ.

The one on which the Sun never set.

I thought you would drink better wine than that

Well I am not sure I subscribe to this; I have said on this forum a while back that we are having increasingly cold winters (because I see it first hand). I think the met office are so blinded by global warming that they just talk about mild winters and barbecue summers. Now I am indifferent on this, I do not believe that you guys know more than the met office (is it fair to say that they must know more?). I am geen thinking and believe that population is far more important - what are we doing about this. Whta can we do about this?

Then why does the met office do it? Who else can we turn to - Russell Grant?