I agree with the 2nd hypothesis in the wiki-link Lorr posted. If you research the available data, you would find that global warming IS NOT exclusive to our planet. You would see that every planet is going through some changes right now. I've known about this for a couple years now. I'm sure our massive carbon emissions aren't helping the situation though...
A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understands. Proverbs 14:6
I was taught at school (long time ago) that all Lords had the right to sit in parliament, I remember thinking at the time that that did not seem fair to we common folk. Must check it out.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
Just found this... maybe Lord Monckton's statements at the time he made them might well have been true.
Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers but, following a series of reforms, as of 1 July 2011 (2011 -07-01)[update] only 90, elected by the House from the hereditary peers, members sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain.[7] The number of members is not fixed; as of 6 June 2011 (2011 -06-06)[update] the House of Lords has 789 members (plus 38 who are on leave of absence or otherwise disqualified from sitting),[1] as against the fixed 650-seat membership of the House of Commons.[1][8]