BBC treatment of climate change is really appalling. I'm talking about Radio 4's Today Programme here, because that's my main interface with BBC news.

The main cause of complaint is the way the programme makers have always set up a combative for-and-against model, as if it were the school debating society. (I suspect that's cos the programme's producers are probably all ex-public-schoolboys, but that's just my pet theory). It's always one "climate change is real" spokesperson (usually a climate scientist) and one "climate change is a balderdash!" spokesperson (usually not a scientist, and often Nigel Lawson).

It's stupid to begin with: why can't they have two climate scientists if they really must fly in the face of scientific opinion and treat it like an "is it real or not?" question?! They could have one of the 3% of cimate scientists who are sceptical about it duking it out with one of the 97% that acknowledge it's a terrifying problem!

Instead it's always a rather boffinish, reticent, softly spoken scientist, who is often not the best public speaker, debating with someone like Nigel Lawson, well-versed in public speaking, super-confident, arrogant and great at conveying information he has either totally misunderstood or is cynically peddling.

The crazy thing is that now the BBC will, one day, have one of these "impartial" for-and-against debates about whether climate change exists. And the very next day, have one of these "impartial" for-and-against debates about whether it is even possible to mitigate climate change's catastrophic effects!! It's insane.