The first episode of The Climate Wars, shown on BBC2 on Sunday, proved to be a fascinating story of what appeared to be conflicting science, but in reality turned out to be a change of opinion based on improving knowledge.
The title of the first show is 'The Battle Begins' and showed the early history of climate change science.

In the first episode Iain Stewart covers the early mistaken predictions of a new ice age, the work done by David Keeling accumulating CO2 data from the atmosphere, the report put together by the 'Jason' group of scientists on Global Warming and towards the end of the epsisode James Hansen is seen giving his outspoken speech to the US government. Probably the most amazing part of the episode, were the words spoken by Margret Thatcher about Global Warming in one of her speeches.

All in all the first episode was a good show, the question is, will the final two episodes be as balanced as the first?

If you missed the first episode, then you can still watch it via iPlayer:

Link to online episode (iPlayer)  Available until 14/09/08