How can climate change scientists win back the public’s trust after the “Climategate” email row and damaging headlines about the reliability of the U.N.’s report on global warming? Can science ever persuade everyone about mankind’s contribution? Three leading scientists attempt to answer those tricky questions…

With the clock ticking for world leaders to clinch a climate deal in Copenhagen, the last place you want to be is stuck at the back of a long queue, but that’s where thousands of delegates have spent endless hours this week.

The senior British scientist who caused controversy in 2004 by describing climate change as a more serious threat than terrorism has risked ruffling political feathers again by accusing Prime Minister Gordon Brown of talking tough on global warming, but doing little.

Britain’s sportscar-racing Science Minister Paul Drayson is shocked that a “significant minority” of car industry chiefs deny the case for climate change.

Government plans to tackle the country’s growing household waste problem are a bit of a rubbish idea, according to a committee of MPs.
Ministers trying to find ways to encourage people to throw away less and recycle more to help reduce the amount of
household waste thrown away every week. Click here to read the story.
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