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]

Er, one of the reasons they were 'wrong' was because people took action to prevent the problem.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Sure, many companies spent many thousands of pounds protecting themselves against the so-called millennium bug, and their computers were fine. The problem with that is that many companies also totally ignored the problem, and their computers were fine as well. In other words, the ones who spent the money wasted it.