Now that the Global Warming Hysteria is starting to subside we really do need another disaster scenario. The GWH did very well considering the prophets of doom promoting it. A combination of a failed and delusional politician such as Al Gore (who also claimed to have invented the Internet), various defunct pop singers, a host of career scientific committee men, and the Great Green Raving Loony Machine would not strike most of us as a terribly convincing consensus. Surely the Religious of the World could unite and think up truly preposterous.

" . . One poor chap has died, another is in a serious condition, after drinking too much water."

I have been saying for years that water is dangerous stuff.

More people have drowned in water than have drowned in wine.

"I WAS sorry to read that the end of the world is not nigh"

You obviously haven't spoken to any greens lately then.