Dave.C wrote:

I have a great faith in scientists in general (unlike the politicians' spin
put on scientific results); I have met a large number and have rarely found
one with an agenda other than to try and interpret facts accurately. I have
known them get this wrong, but not intentionally.

The fact they tend to get wrong is to give their name to a BBC
documentary. The one good thing about David Attenborough is that he
will eventually meet his ancestors whether they be fish or fowl.

In the meantime the facts will soldier on no matter who turns up next
to interpret them. When the ridiculous has been spouted even to the
fullness of time, the truth must still come out.

The BBC and the rest of them miss out one amazing opportunity in
exchange for appeasing the directors and producers, the opportunity of
getting their facts right.

But concerning the debate in general:
The fact is very true that there is something dreadfully wrong with the
climate.

Whether it is that the snow is falling in the wrong places or the
glaciers are actually getting warmer, what is in doubt is whether the
cause is carbon dioxide emissions or; more likely, the running of
effluent straight into the sea to destroy the coral that way, hunting
fish and animals to destruction and burning down substantial sections
of forest.

I find it difficult to believe that volcanic activity (which produces
many times more carbon and sulphur dioxide than men ever have) and the
venting of natural gas resevoirs by natural means (which produces and
has always produced more methane and etc., than we have ever
manufactured) should, over the last few decades, suddenly have been
eclipsed by us.