Controversial climate films

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As an ordinary bloke trying to get a handle on this ...I am going down the Natural cycle route... How much effect, if any, humans are actually having is the problem.

I gather the 'hockey stick' has been dropped?

...Channel 4 misrepresented some of the world's leading climate scientists in a controversial documentary that claimed global warming was a conspiracy and a fraud, the UK's media regulator will rule next week...

...Complaints about privacy and fairness from the government's former chief scientist, Sir David King, and the Nobel peace prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be upheld on almost all counts, the Guardian has learned.

But it is understood that Channel 4 will still claim victory because the ultimate verdict on a separate complaint about accuracy, which contained 131 specific points and ran to 270 pages, will find that it did not breach the regulator's broadcasting code and did not materially mislead viewers...

Bit of a war going down here :-

http://www.climate-resistance.org/2007/12/physician-heal-thyself.html

But I thought this was interesting..

...we downloaded IPCC WGII's latest report on 'Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability'. There were 380 contributors to the report [PDF of contributors]. A thorough and exhaustive analysis of the backgrounds of these experts (or were they?) was too ambitious (it's Christmas, and we have wine to drink, and mince pies to eat, too). So, we focused on the contributors who operate in the UK. Of the 51 UK contributors to the report, there were 5 economists, 3 epidemiologists, 5 who were either zoologists, entomologists, or biologists. 5 worked in civil engineering or risk management / insurance. 7 had specialisms in physical geography (we gave the benefit of the doubt to some academics whose profiles weren't clear about whether they are physical or human geographers). And just 10 have specialisms in geophysics, climate science or modelling, or hydrology. But there were 15 who could only be described as social scientists. If we take the view that economics is a social science, that makes 20 social scientists...
...Was the prevalence of social scientists from the UK representative of the whole group? We decided to repeat the test for the contributors based in the USA.
Of the 70 US contributors, there were 7 economists, 13 social scientists, 3 epidemiologists, 10 biologists/ecologists, 5 engineers, 2 modellers/statisticians, 1 full-time activist (and 1 part time), 5 were in public health and policy, and 4 were unknowns. 17 worked in earth/atmospheric sciences. Again, we gave the benefit of the doubt to geographers where it wasn't clear whether their specialism was physical, or human geography...

The list:-
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-app.pdf

Blimey, should we wonder???
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This was better than the Channel 4 show :- Worth a peek if it rains..

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay...95&q=global+warming&ei=5bmBSJvfNYSSrgLc_oidCw

 

[joe-90]

Does this National Cycle Route take you right round the UK?