But is he alone? Just like people all over the world, I am wondering what the future holds for me. I don't have a crystal ball and have no way of knowing. How then, can a politician make a forecast of what the country will be like in five, ten or fifteen years time? Add to this the fact that they are more often wrong than right, I fear for the future of our children and grandchildren.

Does anyone remember the millennium bug? An incorrect assumption that hooked most people on the planet. I was unconvinced, but began to doubt my logic. I got an old computer and told it that it was five minutes to midnight on the last day of 1999 and sat back to watch what happened as the clock struck midnight. Nothing happened. I rechecked and thought through my experiment. I had a really hard time convincing myself that the computer didn't know that I was fooling it. Silly isn't it? I really wondered if the computer knew that it was being fooled into thinking it was New Year's Eve.

Of course, the reason for my doubting my own logic and technical reasoning, was that so many people had been stating that the millennium bug was a fact and that cars would refuse to start and even that aircraft would fall from the sky. Faced with this onslaught of "facts", I was having great difficulty in being a lone voice. Remember, this was the government telling us these "facts". Facts which they had got from their experts. Of course we all know now that it was a huge mistake. No aircraft fell from the sky, kettles and toasters operated as normal on the dawn of the new millennium and it was all forgotten. But why was there no major enquiry into why £billions had been spent on fighting a myth?

I think the answer is a kind of collective embarrassment. As everybody had predicted a great disaster, everyone was guilty of the same mistake. Therefore nobody wanted to criticise others for being stupid. I had spoken out, telling customers not to spend £90 on the "Millennium Bug Toolkit" that was being sold by various outlets in late 1998 and on the run up to 2000. But I wasn't a public figure and therefore my opinion carried no weight. Therefore the entire debacle sank into the back of our collective memory.

Enter Global Warming. Once again we have thousands of experts, backed by the governments of the world, telling us that we are causing global warming. A quick peek at the statistics for global temperature going back millions of years will reveal periods of both hot and cold. The scientists and governments tell us that, although the earth has repeatedly warmed and cooled, this time the change is so rapid, it can only be caused by man. Unfortunately there is no simple "wind the clock forward" experiment that we can do to reveal the truth of the scientific argument.

The scientists don't want to deny global warming because, and let's be perfectly frank about this, there is no public funding for organisations seeking to disprove the theory. The funding comes from government. One body, NERC (National Environmental Research Council) spends £40 Million per year on researching this subject. In the USA, $79Billion has been spent on research in the last 10 years. Why do they not fund those scientists who want to prove climate change is a natural phenomenon? Simple, it is a great way of introducing additional taxation. Who is going to argue without appearing to be a deluded outsider? The majority of us will pay these extra taxes without blinking, because we, like guilty children, accept the punishment for doing wrong.

All of the hot air coming out of numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street will only add to climate change and accelerate the process. Which is a good thing really, because Gordon and Alistair need to raise an awful lot of cash to pay off the huge debt incurred as a result of their monumental incompetence.