The 1990s was the hottest decade in a thousand years. This winter Britain was devastated by the worst floods in four centuries. The world’s weather seems to be going crazy. Violent storms and scorching summers. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels. The earth is heating up.
But, what no one could agree on was whether global warming was caused by nature or by us. Now there’s real proof and, significantly, scientific agreement. Our industries, our cars, our wasteful ways are heating up the planet. In 2001, in this special investigation, Tara Brown travels to some of the coldest places on earth — for it is here that science is unravelling the terrible truth about global warming.