It's YOUR fault the kittens and puppies will drown, Daddy!

When my 11-year-old son confessed the other day that he'd blurted out to his teacher in a typically eco-minded geography class 'My dad says –manmade global warming is rubbish!', I couldn't have been more proud.

In my schooldays, geography used to be about unarguable facts such as the shape of an Oxbow lake or the capital of Australia. Now the subject has been so corrupted by the pious sermons of the green lobby that it ought really to be rechristened...