Climate change by numbers

[Dave2002]

This recent programme seems reasonably good - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...nge-by-numbers

I only spotted one "mistake" - using the knowledge of the outcome of a Formula 1 race to "prove" that a race strategy was optimal. The analysis of the state of the race predicted a possibly optimum strategy, but the fact that the outcome did occur does not by itself show that the analysis was correct. This was a small glitch, however, and not necessarily due to the major participants.

[DracoM]

Agreed - didn't see the point of the race analogy at all.
BUT
pretty engaging programme that deserves wider circulation. As did the prog that followed about the Olympus financial fraud.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er what the BBC is for those two progs imho for once the maths was up front and not ducked

they could usefully give Nick Stern an hour on global warming as well

i recall stories about abrasive foreigners in the City [Maxwell, Murdoch] and the closing of ranks - not sure that the Olympus programme had enough comparative evidence to claim the 'stupidity' as unique to Japan but nonetheless an intriguing story full of ambiguities [the main protagonists of the fraud were portrayed as serving the company and they claim Woodford was a crude careerist unwilling to make sacrifice to the corporate good albeit at the cost of collusion in a major criminal fraud] ...who can now say but i look forward to the movie!

see also this upcoming film