For anyone who watched the recent Channel 4 programme about climate change...

[watervole]

"the programme - and the channel - is facing a serious challenge to its own credibility after one of the most distinguished scientists that it featured said his views had been "grossly distorted" by the film, and made it clear that he believed human pollution did warm the climate."

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2347526.ece

"is the sun responsible now?

Some sceptics say so and probably it played the major role until quite recently. But over the past three decades, solar activity has scarcely risen, while temperatures have shot up - a fact disguised in the film. What has gone up is CO2 and even top sceptic Nigel Lawson admits it is "highly likely" that the gas has "played a significant part" in global warming this century."

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

If he wasn't stated to be a believer in global warming, then many people would assume aotomatically that he was an anti, simply by the fact that he appeared on the programme.

If they didn't mention the models that he was happy with, then people will assume that he believed all climate models to be flawed.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

I doubt that somehow, in fact most people probably wouldn't even remember who the scientists were.

But in fairness to Channel 4 here, they did not suggest in any way that he was against the CO2 causes global warming theory. The scientists who were against the theory were very obvious because they argued against it. He didn't at any point argue against it.

I suspect that this is the pros looking for ways to discredit the programme rather that tackling the real issues that it raised.