If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, IT IS THE BELIEF THAT WE FACE A DISASTROUS RISE IN SEA LEVELS. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.

Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.

But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that ALL THIS TALK ABOUT THE SEA RISING IS NOTHING BUT A COLOSSAL SCARE STORY.

DESPITE FLUCTUATIONS DOWN AS WELL AS UP, "THE SEA IS NOT RISING," HE SAYS. "IT HASN'T RISEN IN 50 YEARS." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.

THE REASON WHY DR MÖRNER, FORMERLY A STOCKHOLM PROFESSOR, IS SO CERTAIN THAT THESE CLAIMS ABOUT SEA LEVEL RISE ARE 100 PER CENT WRONG IS THAT THEY ARE ALL BASED ON COMPUTER MODEL PREDICTIONS, WHEREAS HIS FINDINGS ARE BASED ON "GOING INTO THE FIELD TO OBSERVE WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE REAL WORLD".

It is an important test for the new US president. During his campaign, BARACK OBAMA PROMISED FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE, pledged to steer a determined course in combating the global economic crisis and said he would seek greater international cooperation. It was, he said, to be a "New Deal." This week, an important international summit meeting is about to begin, and the time has come for Obama to demonstrate that he can deliver on his promises. At their meeting in London, the representatives of the world's leading industrialized nations will discuss the global recession, a financial industry in disarray and a sharp drop in world trade.

At issue is the steepest economic downturn in decades, and everyone is waiting to see what the new man in Washington will do. WILL HE BE RESPONSIVE TO THE EUROPEANS' INSISTENCE ON A NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ORDER? Or will he focus instead on stimulating growth in his own country? The president who determined the fate of the London Monetary and Economic Conference in 1933, at the height of the world economic crisis, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. HIS EVENTUAL DECISION TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE CONFERENCE AGGRAVATED THE GLOBAL TRADE WARS AND DEEPENED THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

Seventy-six years later, another international crisis conference is now set to begin. Once again, banks have collapsed and millions of people have become unemployed. In the wake of sharp declines in the securities markets and a sell-off in the financial industry, the world faces the prospect of widespread hardship. As the representatives of the leading nations meet in London once again, ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED ON THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

Britain will get its first chance to see Barack Obama this week when a White House cavalcade - complete with armoured limousines, helicopters, 200 US secret service staff and a six-doctor medical team - sweeps into the UK. Obama will fly into London for his first visit to the UK as president of the United States on Tuesday to take part in the G20 summit in the capital's Docklands area. He will not be travelling light.

More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week - along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as The Beast. Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear-gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armoured transport.

In addition, a team from the White House kitchen will travel with the president to prepare his food. As one official put it: "When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats. AMERICA IS STILL THE SOLE SUPERPOWER AND THE PRESIDENT MUST HAVE THE ABILITY TO HANDLE ANY CRISIS, ANYWHERE, ANY TIME."

Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters. According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA KILLED 2,124 PETS LAST YEAR AND PLACED ONLY SEVEN IN ADOPTIVE HOMES. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

DESPITE HAVING A $32 MILLION BUDGET, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. PETA employees make no discernible effort to find homes for the thousands of pets they kill every year. Last year, the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia's State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse. CCF Research Director David Martosko said: "PETA HASN'T SLOWED DOWN ITS HYPOCRITICAL KILLING MACHINE ONE BIT, BUT IT KEEPS BROWBEATING THE REST OF SOCIETY WITH A PHONY 'ANIMAL RIGHTS' MESSAGE. What about the rights of the thousands of dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens that die in PETA's headquarters building?"

Martosko added: "Since killing pets is A-OK with PETA, why should anyone listen to their demands about eating meat, using lab rats for medical research, or taking children to the circus?" CCF obtained PETA's "Animal Record" filings since 1998 from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Members of the public can see these documents at PetaKillsAnimals.com. In addition to exposing PETA's hypocritical record of killing defenseless animals, the Center for Consumer Freedom has publicized THE ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP'S TIES TO VIOLENT ACTIVISTS, AND SHED LIGHT ON ITS AGGRESSIVE MESSAGE-MARKETING TO CHILDREN.

Mr Obama is preparing to outline terms for offering more help to GM and fellow car giant Chrysler. The two firms have already received $17.4bn (£14.4bn) in bail-outs. Chrysler has requested a further $5bn while GM says it needs $16.7bn more. Reports have suggested that a frustrated Mr Obama will reject GM and Chrysler's turnaround plans as unrealistic, raising the risk of the carmakers' bankruptcy.

The auto task force appointed by Mr Obama released two reports on Monday on the financial health of both carmakers, saying that Chrysler was "not viable" in its current form. It demanded a merger with Italy's Fiat or another carmaker if Chrysler was to survive and said the Obama administration would only provide the company working capital for the next 30 days. It also said that it would pledge to fund GM's operations for the next 60 days only, requiring the carmaker to come up with another plan detailing further restructuring.

"While Chrysler and GM are different companies with different paths forward, both have unsustainable liabilities and both need a fresh start," the task force said. "THEIR BEST CHANCE AT SUCCESS MAY WELL REQUIRE UTILISING THE BANKRUPTCY CODE IN A QUICK AND SURGICAL WAY."

According to the Denver Post, when White House officials heard about the program, it was put on overdrive. SO FAR, 45 IVY LEAGUE GRADS, FORTUNE 500 EXECUTIVES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION. J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, sifted through more than 300 names as part of the search.

"It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community." ELLISON IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS FAITH. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca with the sponsorship of the Muslim American Society, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In 1991, Mohamed Akram wrote a memo for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood that explained its work in America as "A KIND OF GRAND JIHAD IN ELIMINATING AND DESTROYING THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM WITHIN and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

The paper said that western diplomats confirmed that Israel attacked the Iranian truck convoys in late January and the first week of February in the remote Sudan desert, just outside the Red Sea town of Port Sudan. The convoys had been tracked by agents from Mossad, Israel's overseas intelligence agency, the report added.

The Sunday Times said that had the rockets been delivered to Hamas, the militant Islamic group that controls Gaza, they would have raised the stakes in the conflict with Israel. It quoted defence sources as saying the convoys were carrying Fajr-3 rockets, which have a range of more than 40 miles (65 kilometres), and were split into sections to be smuggled through tunnels into Gaza from Egypt.

"They built the Fajr-3 in parts so it would be easy to smuggle them into Gaza, then reassemble them with Hamas experts who learnt the job in Syria and Iran," a source told the paper.

BY PROMISING THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ESCAPE FROM PREGNANCY, THE STATE INVITES EVERYONE WHO HAS THE PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT TO PLAY THE SEX GAME AS CASUALLY AS POSSIBLE. The more precautions the authorities provide, the more unwanted pregnancies there are. Here's a free condom. If you
won't use that, then here's a pill for your girl. If she won't use that, here's another pill, originally developed to protect pedigree bitches from becoming pregnant by mongrels. Just to show how matey and relaxed they are, they'll call it the 'morning-after pill' and you can get it at school by sending a text message.

Can't be bothered with all that palaver? Well, in that case they're happy to spend taxpayers' money ripping any unborn babies from your womb, in a non-judgmental way. And they'll do that again and again and again for the same person, rather than utter a whisper of disapproval. IN FACT, THEY'LL TURN WITH SAVAGE RAGE ON ANYONE WHO DOES DARE TO DISAPPROVE. They back all this up with sex education that licenses teachers to groom children for under-age sex, and tells them everything is normal and nothing is wrong. And they'll allow TV advertisements for abortion and contraception.

They'll pretend (without any evidence) that this is to fight against ignorance – though how anyone in this society can be ignorant of sex by now, I cannot imagine. WHAT THEY REALLY WANT IS TO STAMP OUT THE LAST TRACES OF CHRISTIAN SEXUAL MORALITY WHICH REQUIRED US TO RESTRAIN OURSELVES, the one thing the rock-and-roll generation wouldn't dream of doing. That is why a policy dishonestly sold to us as an effort to reduce unwanted pregnancies has delivered a steady increase in unwanted pregnancies.

OUR NEW RULERS, THE SIXTIES RADICALS IN ALL THREE PARTIES, see the resulting misery, squalor and mass murder of innocents as a price well worth paying for their own sexual liberation. Their corruption is not just a matter of fiddled expenses, organised lying, national betrayal and surrender to crime. THEY ARE ROTTEN TO THE VERY BONES, AND IF WE DO NOT GET RID OF THEM SOON, THEN OUR COUNTRY, TOO, WILL ROT AWAY.

A mysterious disease is rampant in Germany's cattle barns. THE AFFLICTED TWO-TO-THREE-WEEK-OLD CALVES BEGIN BLEEDING MASSIVELY AND ARE OFTEN DEAD WITHIN HOURS. More than 100 cases have been documented throughout Germany, most of them in Bavaria, but the number of unreported deaths is believed to be much higher. Cases have also been reported in Belgium, but experts are still puzzled over what causes the condition.

The veterinarian tried everything, he says, including administering vitamins and blood-clotting agents. But nothing worked, and "within two or three days, they were all dead." The experts have discovered massive bleeding of the subcutaneous tissue and intestines. THE BONE MARROW IS ALSO SEVERELY DAMAGED, AND VETERINARIANS DESCRIBE ITS CONSISTENCY AS "GEL-LIKE." Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow, and the sick animals apparently lack platelets, which are indispensible for coagulation. In addition, the calves' white blood cell counts are substantially lower than normal, making the animals more susceptible to infection.

The unexplained illness has farmers deeply worried. Hildegard and Josef Kirmeier, from the Bavarian town of Wurmsham, have already lost five calves. "Perhaps the soy we add to the feed is genetically modified," Kirmeier speculates. Or could a vaccination be causing the problem. Many farmers blame the "blood sweating" on a controversial vaccine against bluetongue disease, which became mandatory for cattle in Germany in April of last year.

At a "farmers' pilgrimage" two weekends ago, 600 FARMERS EVEN PRAYED TO THE BLACK MADONNA OF ALTÖTTING TO HAVE MERCY ON THEIR BLEEDING CALVES. The words "Holy Mary, help us in our hour of need," resounded across the church square. In their invitation to the event, the organizers wrote: "Because there is apparently no help to be expected from any worldly source, we intend, in making this pilgrimage, to beg for protection and help from the Virgin Mary, the patron saint of Bavaria."

THE NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS IS EXPECTED TO RISE TO A STAGGERING 10,000 PEOPLE THIS YEAR (not an impossible figure given that at least 68 crimes - including tax evasion and fraud - are punishable by death in China). Developed by Jinguan Auto, which also makes bullet-proof limousines for the new rich in this vast country of 1.3 billion people, the vans appear unremarkable.

They cost £60,000, can reach top speeds of 80mph and look like a police vehicle on patrol. Inside, however, the 'death vans' look more like operating theatres. Executions are monitored by video to ensure they comply with strict rules, making it possible to describe precisely how the person will die. After being sedated at the local prison, he will be loaded into the van and strapped to an electric-powered stretcher.

The Nazis used adapted vans as mobile gas chambers from 1940 until the end of World War II. In order to make the best use of time spent transporting criminals and Jewish prisoners, Hitler's scientists developed the vehicles with a hermetically sealed cabin that was filled with carbon monoxide carried by a tube from the exhaust pipes. The vans were first tested on child patients in a Polish psychiatric hospital in 1940. The Nazis then developed bigger models to carry up to 50 prisoners. They looked like furniture removal vans. Those to be killed were ordered to hand over their valuables, then stripped and locked inside.

As gas was pumped into the container and the van headed towards graves being dug by other prisoners, the muffled cries of those inside could be heard, along with banging on the side. With the 'cargo' dead, all that remained was for gold fillings to be hacked from the victims' mouths, before the bodies were tipped into the graves. NOW, SIX DECADES LATER, JUST LIKE THE NAZIS, CHINA INSISTS THESE DEATH VANS ARE 'PROGRESS'.

According to undercover investigations by human rights' groups, THE POLICE, JUDICIARY AND DOCTORS ARE ALL INVOLVED IN MAKING MILLIONS FROM CHINA'S HUGE TRADE IN HUMAN BODY PARTS. Inside each 'death van' there is a dedicated team of doctors to 'harvest' the organs of the deceased. The injections leave the body intact and in pristine condition for such lucrative work. After checking that the victim is dead, the medical team first remove the eyes. Then, wearing surgical gowns and masks, they remove the kidney, liver, pancreas and lungs.

For the Beijing regime, it is not a question of whether they should execute offenders, but how to do it most efficiently - and make the most money from it.

Until now ferry passengers on most routes in Britain have not been required to produce ID and internal flight passengers only face random police checks. But under new Government security rules that will come into force next year, personal data, including name, date of birth and home address, will be typed into a computer record for the police by the booking clerk or travel agent. Passengers will also face further ID checks when boarding their flight or ferry.

Under the new powers, police will be able to track the movements of around 60 million domestic passengers a year. The controversial measures were due to be introduced two years ago, but were dropped after protests from Ulster politicians, who said the plan would construct 'internal borders' in the UK. BUT LAST WEEK THE GOVERNMENT USED THE RELEASE OF ITS ANTI-TERRORISM STRATEGY TO QUIETLY REINTRODUCE THEM. Buried on Page 113 of the 174-page 'CONTEST' document was the announcement of 'new police powers to collect advanced passenger data on some domestic air and sea journeys'.

Last night a Home Office spokesman confirmed the measures would 'require passengers to show photo ID, such as a driving licence or the (proposed) Government ID cards, when booking tickets for domestic air and sea journeys'. He added that 'ferry journeys to the Isle of Wight or the Isle of Skye' and 'private jet passengers' would be included in the new measures, due to be formally announced later this year.

The heaviest snow and ice accumulated in south central and southwest Kansas. In Pratt County, 28 inches of snow fell, with snow drifts reported up to 6 feet. At least nine other counties reported 2 feet of snow, the Kansas Adjutant General's office said. About 17,000 customers in Kansas lost electricity, more than half of those in Sedgwick County.

In Oklahoma, where more than a foot of snow fell, Governor Brad Henry declared a state of emergency in 50 counties. More than 3,000 Oklahoma households were without power, state officials said. The State Department of Transportation had several roads blocked in the state and others remained impassible. In Missouri, the Kansas City International Airport was temporarily closed because of winter weather conditions.

Meanwhile, rain along the Gulf Coast battered areas around Mobile, Alabama, and Biloxi, Mississippi. Mobile County Emergency Management Director Walter Dickerson said 4 to 6 inches of rain fell on already saturated ground. Fifteen to 20 roads around Mobile were closed, and several people had to be rescued after flash flooding trapped their cars.

Harrison County, Mississippi, Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy said water entered some homes in his area. Teams were out assessing the damage. Lacy said waters of three rivers were rising, including the Biloxi and Wolf rivers. There were no mandatory evacuations, but Lacy said some residents chose to leave on their own. Roads were also impassable in some parts of the Florida Panhandle. Officials in the Atlanta, Georgia, metro area, which is under flood watches and warnings, were keeping an eye on surging rivers and creeks

The Highway Patrol's announcement followed a news conference in which Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, a Republican, suggested putting the director of public safety on administrative leave and investigating how the report was produced.

The uproar revolves around a report released last month by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a "FUSION CENTER" for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to collaborate on domestic security issues. The report concerned militia movements in Missouri and across the US, and described how they had evolved over the last several years. BUT IT SUGGESTED THAT DOMESTIC MILITIAS OFTEN SUBSCRIBED TO RADICAL IDEOLOGIES ROOTED IN CHRISTIAN VIEWS AND OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION, ABORTION OR FEDERAL TAXES.

The report also stated that it was "not uncommon" for militia members to support third-party political candidates. The Highway Patrol's superintendent, Colonel James F. Keathley, released a memo saying the report did not meet the agency's standard for quality and would not have been released if it had been seen by top officials. "For that reason," Keathley wrote, "I have ordered the MIAC to permanently cease distribution of the militia report."

"I WILL NOT LET ANYONE TELL ME THAT WE MUST SPEND MORE MONEY," she said. The Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, also dismissed new cash being pledged at Thursday's London summit. "In these conditions I and the rest of my colleagues from the eurozone believe there is no room for new fiscal stimulus plans," he said. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has insisted that "radical reform" of capitalism is more important than tax cutting.

The attacks on Brown's ambitions for the G20 to inject more money into the world economy come at the end of a week where the prime minister has travelled to three continents to build support for his proposals. The likely deadlock at this week's meeting will kill any remaining hope that Alistair Darling's April 22 budget will offer significant tax cuts.

The assault by European Union leaders also represents a defeat for President Barack Obama, who is desperate for other big economies to copy his $800 billion stimulus plan. "There will be a very long communiqué, but there won't be much in it," said a Washington economist. Adding to the disarray, a draft of the agreement Brown hopes to secure was leaked to a German news magazine, prompting suggestions of "dirty tricks" by Berlin.

The draft stated that Britain wanted a "$2 trillion" global fiscal stimulus. However, the figure appeared only in brackets, indicating agreement on the package had yet to be reached. The stimulus would boost world growth by 2% and employment by 19m, the draft said. The rest of the document was mainly general pledges.

A group of traditionalist Protestants has objected to the use of the European Union emblem on car registration plates in the Netherlands, on the grounds that the CIRCLE OF 12 GOLDEN STARS ON A BLUE BACKGROUND SYMBOLISES THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VENERATION OF MARY, the mother of Jesus. The National Foundation for the Preservation of the Political Reformed Principles is concerned that the symbol is too close to the 12-star halo surrounding Mary's head in Roman Catholic art.

According to the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, THE DESIGNER OF THE EMBLEM, ARSENE HEITZ, SAID HE GOT THE IDEA FROM 19TH CENTURY REPORTS OF APPARITIONS OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN PARIS. The foundation works to promote Calvinist principles within the Netherlands' oldest party, the Political Reformed Party, which draws much of its support from Christians living in the country's Bible belt.