Is Our Weather Getting Worse? Tv Prog On Ch4

[Cmitchell]

This title would suggest this prog is going to be a documentary with a balanced view/argument...am I right? It's not. It's just a sensationalist programme with lots of clips of extreme weather. Now I may be a sceptic but the sensationalist narration is just laughable.

What happened to balanced arguments and a variety of viewpoints?

Well so long as the government (whichever one is in power at the time) can make us believe that it's a lot worse than it really is so that we have to pay various "green taxes"!!!!

Right rant over!!!

[Bluestone]

Missed the TV prog, but sounds really, really interesting... not!
It sounds like one of those crap American shows, with the overly-narrated dramatics.

Anyone that believes in global warming is an idiot! (IMO)

[Canary42]

So nice to see such an intellectually sophisticated level of debate on this forum.

[Bluestone]

To be fair, Canary42, it is 1 o'clock in the morning. What do you expect?!

[beso]

BlueStone //Anyone that believes in global warming is an idiot! (IMO) //

Based on what?

The overwhelming evidence supports the near universal scientific view that global warming is real and is being caused by human activity.

A supposedly "balanced" viewpoint that would give equal weight to the scientific evidence and the rubbish put forward by deniers would completely skew the reality.

[pastafreak]

It was not a 'crap' program-but it was over sensationalised in its approach...and did not spend enough time looking at weather patterns over hundreds of years rather than 5 or 10.There have always been periods of extreme weather-the Thames was known to freeze over in Tudor times. But to think that huge population growth,buildings,power stations,and every other indication of Mans presence on earth does not have an effect on nature and the planet is naive at best. I'm ignorant about Science-but common sense tells me that what we do as humans has to eventually change our environment.

[Cmitchell]

Scientists have been sponsored to find the "evidence"/"analyse the statistics" in the favour of the governments - BY THE GOVERNMENTS, that is, any government in the world that can make money out of it (see "Green Taxes" above.
Genuinely unbiased scientists are more sceptical! And quite rightly point out for instance that in the middle ages, for a significant period of time, for instance, the temperatures were significantly higher than they are now in Britain.

[douglas9401]

If the current inhabitants of the planet could lay off breeding like fruit flies for a period of time that might go some way to taking the pressure off.

[gness]

Don't all scientists agree that temperatures have, at times, been higher than now? We have always had climate changes. What we have now that is different and more damaging to the planet is climate change combined with man's contribution to those changes.

[Slapshot]

It was garbage, I watched cos it's work but it was too sensationalist. The big mistake made with this thread was you let Beso in to rant!!!

Is our weather getting worse, I say no. The weather and by it's nature climate is cyclic, chances are we've been through these phases of weather before and particular patterns recreate themselves over time, either increase or decrease in severity of one or other weather phenomenon, ie more rain/less rain. Some of it was interesting enough, breakdown in thermohaline currents / Scandinavian witers etc etc etc...

Beso will be along shortly to contradict what I've said

[beso]

If you bothered to actually read and understand the science you would see that the problem is real.

Unfortunately you would rather maintain your state of ignorance.