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

[aeshna_uk]

My father watched this show - I know this because I've just had a 25 minute rant over Skype about how human-caused Global Warming is all bollocks and how could I fall for such nonsense given that I'm a scientist, and I should look at all sides of the argument because there's no proof that it has anything to do with humans at all (and, reading between the lines, that me suggesting that he might like to switch things on and off rather than leaving them perpetually on standby is completely unnecessary)....

Given that I picked up expecting news, quite possibly bad, about my hospitalised grandfather, I wasn't exactly what one might call receptive. I think I might not be visiting the Norfolk end of the family for a while. :-/