On air: Do sceptics deserve to be part of the climate change debate?

Yesterday’s debate on WHYS got many of you emailing, calling and blogging. We invited on the programme Iain Dale, a conservative blogger here in the UK, who is not a climate change denier but does question global warming.

Are you selfish – or are we bad journalists ?

UPDATE: Below is Mark’s original blog post about why we can not seem to interest people in the topic of climate change.

But the reactions to the stolen and leaked e-mails from The University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit shows there’s perhaps another reason:

* They don’t believe that humans are to blame for global warming or are climate change sceptics

Talking Points 1st September

Thanks to Nelsoni in Nigeria, Abdelilah in Morocco and Brett in Virginia for hosting this weekend’s Blank Page.

As I write this post Hurricane Gustav is approaching the Louisana coast in the USA.