AS a visitor to your lovely part of the country I was interested in your reader's view on the wild boar issue – a problem that seems to be causing some debate.

The contribution from Roger Horsfield, Bream was interesting and I agree with his views on the management of the boars and of the forest in general.

However he went on to discuss global warming suggesting that we 'suffer' from it. I have some good news for Roger – there isn't any nope, none. There was some warming in the 1980s and 1990s but this stopped. The planet's temperature has been level so far this century according to all the land and sea surface temperature measuring organisations.

All accept this levelling off as "statistically significant" – the UK  Met Office included. In the US, Remote Sensing Systems measures temperatures using satellite data and have "celebrated" 18 years of no global warming.

The connection between human-induced CO2 levels and global warming is clearly very weak.

Mother Nature is, I suggest, a bit more powerful than us humans. Moreover, if one looks at the history of human civilisation and climate then a pattern emerges.

Humankind does well when it is warmer and suffers when it is cooler – more crop failures, flooding, diseases, etc.

So be grateful for the little bit of warming we had a few years ago – a decline in temperature like we had during the Little Ice Age would not be beneficial to anyone I suggest.

– G Pearson, London.