Climate change and thinning hair on top

GLOBAL warming is claimed to be responsible for many of our woes such as rising sea levels, floods and devastating wildfires.

I wonder if we can add male baldness to the list of adverse effects. Perhaps, as the world gets warmer, we have less need for the added insulation to the top of our heads that hair provides. Women who, I have observed, tend to feel cold no matter how warm it is, may retain theirs more to compensate.

This broad theory would not, however, explain why, as I grow older, head hair reduction is accompanied by an increase in hair elsewhere, often in unwanted areas like in my ears, on my eyebrows or in the middle of my forehead. Also, other hair seem to be growing longer as I age but unfortunately not quite long enough for a combover.

Perhaps this theory needs to be added to all the other scientific investigations taking place around the world.

Mike Bowman, Chaddesden