SIR - Keith Thomson has excelled himself in this week's column (T&A, January 23).

Many people, including respected scientists, believe global warming is a cycle of nature and that man is too insignificant to have any effect.

However, Mr Thomson continues to blame man and his latest suggestion is that we should avoid divorce and death. The former, he says, results in two households and thus more household equipment producing carbon dioxide.

He forgets some divorcees move in with another person a maybe prior to divorce much more carbon dioxide is produced when the partners are having violent arguments!

Death, he writes, means vast amounts of carbon dioxide produced in the cremation process. But if people don't die the population increase will produce more carbon dioxide.

If we do continue to die, as we surely will, he recommends burial in woodland sites. With his figure of 600,000 deaths each year in the UK the burials will quickly use up valuable land needed to provide food needed for the continuing worldwide increase in population.

Of course we could grow crops on these burial sites but I feel few people would relish the thought of eating food grown in this way.

Peter A Rushforth, Sutton Drive, Cullingworth