In recent weeks, Greta Thunberg has exploded on to the public stage like a modern Joan of Arc.

IN recent decades we have been led to believe mankind faces catastrophe from global warming, and how that persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.

Climate-change critics complain they have been kept out of the international debate by mainstream scientists who dismiss them as oil industry lobbyists or lunatics.

ON October 31, 1992, Pope John Paul II apologised on behalf of the Vatican for the persecution of Galileo Galilei over 350 years earlier. Poor Galileo had the nerve to say that the sun, not the earth, was the centre of our universe.