Fight Back investigates the global warming "backlash" - the intense debate about the reality of man-made global warming that raged during the 1990s and into this century. At the start of the Nineties, it appeared that everyone was united.
At the Rio Earth Summit, the world signed up to a programme of action to start tackling climate change. Even George Bush was there - the first George Bush, that is. But the consensus didn't last. This TV programme examines the scientific arguments that developed as the global warming sceptics took on the climate change consensus.
The sceptics attacked almost everything that the scientists held to be true. They argued that the planet was not warming up and that, even if it was, it was nothing unusual. Certainly whatever was happening to the climate was nothing to do with human emissions of greenhouse gases. Fight Back looks back in search of the scientific truth, exploring everything from the "medieval warming period" to the "urban heat island effect".
There is also a detailed look at the experiments undertaken to establish the pattern of the Earth's temperature over the last 1,000 years. The development of the political and economic battles is followed as the scientific evidence about global warming grew in strength. The documentary film also reveals, as the science became more settled, the strategies pursued by the sceptics and their political allies, including the George W Bush administration, to remain on the fence in order to delay action to tackle climate change.
Some of the key global-warming sceptics are interviewed, and we reveal how their positions have changed over time.
Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.
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