BBC News - Panorama - After 'climate-gate': Dissecting the science

Climate change is often presented in religious terms - believers versus deniers disputing the fate of mankind.

In the last year it really felt as though the gods unleashed a plague of events to test the faith.
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Much of the science about climate change and global warming has been taken on trust, a belief that so many senior scientists could not be wrong.

The revelations of "climate-gate" fractured that trust and probably many in the environment movement felt the same way. This story provided a good opportunity to look back at the basics of climate science.
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John Christy reckons our impact is minimal, while Bjorn Lomborg, to my surprise, agrees that man-made climate change would trigger bad weather events of greater severity - especially hurricanes.