Saving The World With Reason

June 28 8:30pm BBC1 We’re told another barbecue summer and droughts are on the way - but do you really trust the predictions any more? Despite governments, scientists and campaigners telling us the world's climate is changing, increasing numbers of us simply don't believe in global warming. After one of the coldest winters on record and a vicious row about the science behind climate change, Panorama goes back to basics and asks what we really know about our climate and how it will affect us.

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The sceptical environmentalist In the Going Green feature Jenny chats to international author and climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg. Time Magazine declared the founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and recently Foreign Policy’s listed him in their Top 100 Global Thinkers. 

Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy, as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions. The current UN climate summit in Egypt offers more breathtaking hypocrisy than usual, because the world’s rich are zealously lecturing poor countries about the dangers of fossil fuels—after devouring massive amounts of new gas, coal, and oil.