Earth: The Climate Wars (BBC's Fightback)

Global warming, and how to combat it, has provoked intense debate, changed the way we see the planet and created headlines around the world. But when and how did scientists first discover global warming, why has it led to such furious debate and who should we believe? In BBC Two's three-part series, Earth The Climate Wars, geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a definitive guide to the history of climate change.
Fightback: Dr Iain Stewart investigates the counter-attack that was launched by the global warming sceptics in the 1990s. At the start of the '90s it seemed the world was united. At the Rio Earth summit the world signed up to a programme of action to start tackling climate change. Even George Bush was there. But the consensus didn't last. Iain examines the scientific arguments that developed as the global warming sceptics took on the climate change consensus. The sceptics attacked almost everything that scientists held to be true. They argued that the planet wasn't warming up, that even if it was it was nothing unusual, and certainly whatever was happening to the climate was nothing to do with human emissions of greenhouse gases. Iain interviews some of the key global warming sceptics, and discovers how their positions have changed over time.

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