“In 1995, the Global Climate Coalition, an industry-financed group challenging efforts to negotiate a new climate treaty or legislation, sought advice on the latest climate science from its committee of advisers on science and technology. The resulting internal document, “Predicting Future Climate Change: A Primer,” challenged recent research hinting that human-caused global warming was already measurable. But it rejected a variety of what it called “contrarian” arguments against the basic concept that accumulating heat-trapping emissions would substantially warm the planet. The coalition, according to other documents, later requested that the section of the primer endorsing the basics of global warming science be cut.”

“During the series, Dr Iain Stewart, a geologist, interviewed leading climate change sceptics, including Lord Monckton, a former advisor to Lady Thatcher. Lord Monckton has now complained to Ofcom that his views were unfairly represented on the programme.
“I have no doubt Ofcom will act. The BBC very gravely misrepresented me and several others, as well as the science behind our argument. It is a breach of its code of conduct,” he said. “I understand they have to edit these things but I was interviewed for 90 minutes and they omitted all of my scientific evidence, leaving only a few comments which sounded as though I was sceptical for personal reasons. It was rather caddish of them.”

“Japan, for instance, favours shifting the goalposts and indicated on Monday that it could make deep cuts of 14 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels. But under Kyoto’s current rules that would only be about a puny 4 percent cut below 1990.”

“I don’t have a car but I do fly a lot and got into trouble on my blog by acknowledging how many flights I took last year. But they’re work flights. My work takes me to lots of different countries and that’s not necessarily good, but that’s the deal. I’m not trying to pretend I live a paragon’s life. My friend George Monbiot says: “That’s all bollocks Jonathan, if you were serious you’d give it all up.”