Attenborough’s “Facts” Seven Years On
May 17, 2026
tags: attenborough, BBC
By Paul Homewood
Attenborough’s “Climate Change- The Facts” was aired in 2019. How do his claims of climate doom look now, seven years on?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00049b1/climate-change-the-factsAt the start of the broadcast, Attenborough states:
“Right now we are facing our greatest threat in thousands of years – climate change”
“What we’re doing right now is we’re so rapidly changing the climate, for the first time in the world’s history people can see the impact of climate change”
“Greater storms, greater floods, greater heatwaves, extreme sea level rise”
“All of this is happening far faster than many of us thought possible”
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Seven years on, how are those claims looking now?
Let’s begin therefore with the IPCC’s AR6, published three years ago.
The IPCC reviews thousands of scientific studies, and naturally there are all sorts of minor climate changes and trends around the world over time.. Many depend on the time scales used and disappear over longer periods, many are merely regional variations, many are beneficial and many are so small as to be inconsequential or statistically significant.
To sort out the chaff, the IPCC attempts to identify and evaluate climatic-impact drivers, defined as physical climate system conditions (e.g., means, events, or extremes) that directly affect elements of society or ecosystems:
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