LAST month further evidence emerged that there are inexorable cycles in the climate of the earth, that rising sea levels are not something new to humanity’s uncertain and sometimes terrifying experience on our planet and that cycles of cooling and warming are inevitable, whatever humans do.

Scientists have added to the long list of the earth’s submerged cities a new example, the remains of Pavlopetri off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, which is estimated to be 5000-6000 years old.

This was part of what an American researcher, James Nienhuis, describes: “The ancients of Egypt, Canaan, and Atlantis were measuring and mapping the globe in the Ice Age, when there was much more rainfall in the Middle Eastern and North African regions, and then the sea level rose by a few hundred feet because of the end of the Ice Age, causing the submergence of coastal megalithic city-states now found off Egypt, Lebanon, Malta, southern Spain (Atlantis), southern Japan, and off northwestern and southern India.”

There were then no cars, planes, tractors, power stations and so on belching noxious gases into the atmosphere but, quite obviously, sea levels rose rapidly.

There were about five million people on the entire earth and few of what we now know of as domesticated cattle.

But the sea levels rose, and our climate crazies tell us that such rising is the result of global warming caused by human-made emissions that melt the ice caps, thus filling up the oceans, which then devour coastal and even inland cities.

Cattle, by the way, are a new target of the climate crazies. Recently Lord Stern, the British economist and high priest of climate change (they now seem to avoid “global warming” – probably because there hasn’t been any) says cattle are a threat to our survival and that we all should all become vegans or vegetarians.

Cattle and other livestock, according to the United Nations, generate more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships in the world combined. So get rid of them, say the climate crazies.

No more meat, eggs or dairy products. This is an order from the global warming fascists. Obey or we shall all perish in burning deserts as the seas retreat, forests turn to deserts, humans engage in desperate battles for food and shelter and we are in climate Armageddon.

This is how his Lordship puts it: “Much of southern Europe would look like the Sahara. Many of the major rivers of the world, serving billions of people, would dry up in the dry seasons or re-route.”

These folks appear not to be aware that humans are carnivores, always have been and always will be even if some do follow the Lord and forswear meat. We are not herbivores. We receive our protein mainly from meat just like Lord Stern (who admits to not being a true vegetarian) and Al Gore, he of An Inconvenient Truth fame, who is an enthusiastic carnivore.

Wonder what Stern uses on his feet if not leather shoes. And does he wear a belt? And does he sleep under woollen blankets? And does his luxury car have leather seats?

And will he fly first class to his first-class suite in Copenhagen for the forthcoming conference of the climate crazies, which itself will result in vast amounts of pollution? It all won’t warm the globe much because nature does most of that, but they will make it a little dirtier.

Worst of all about these folks is that they tell porkies, you know, lies. They say, for example, that the polar bears are dying out. Balls. There are now more than twice as many as there were 20 years ago. They say warmer weather will bring a plague of malaria deaths while, in fact, it was the main killer of people in the Little Ice Age in Britain and northern Russia.