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It seems that air Pollution from Europe and North America may affect the clouds of Northern hemisphere so much so that the tropical rain bands is tracking away from the more polluted hemisphere towards Southern hemisphere. Polluted clouds stop the heat of the sun getting through, that heat was needed to drive the rain bands northwards.

Could the emission from the power stations of Battersea in London have contributed to global dimming and so be linked to the Sahel drought of the 70s-80s when 50 millions people were affected?

Notably, The UK has signed up to a target under the Kyoto protocol of reducing emissions by 12.5% below 1990 levels by 2008-12, and an additional target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2010.

For many people, this volume of information can be bewildering, since the issues are so wide-ranging, and many do not, at first sight, concern us here in the British Isles and yet in October 2000 ten days of heavy rainfalls caused havoc in Yorkshire.

You may still think that this doesn't affect us here in Britain; after all, it's too wet and cold for a desert to be formed here. That may be true, but that doesn't mean that desertification won't affect us. Think about it: may the landscape of England become a North African climate? Are we preparing an environment much worst to live in for future generations?