We in the West don't like to change. Oh we like the idea of it, sure enough. We like leaping on our high horses about climate change and 'Doing Our Bit'. But it would seem we're only happy to Do Our Bit if we can do it within our own comfort zone. Look around you. Look at Smart cars, bio-diesel, carbon off-setting and kerbside recycling. How to save the planet without actually having to lift a finger. How about, and here's a radical thought; how about not owning a car at all. How about not flying. How about using less in the first place; buying goods that are already recycled, so that all the paper and glass and plastic you so dutifully sort actually makes a difference, instead of being stored in a container in Liverpool docks because there's no market for recycled paper, or green glass.

The following letter of complaint to Ofcom was written by our friend Josie Wexler and is published here with her kind permission. It raises a plethora of objections to Channel 4's 8th March 2007 screening of The Great Global Warming Swindle by documentary-maker Martin Durkin.

I found it depressing watching. I hope Ofcom takes action against Channel 4 over this, for the reasons Josie articulates so well. However, I suspect the screening has already done its damage: it is now being cited triumphantly on the blogs of those in climate-change denial.