Lisa Taylor has been in touch to recommend taking a look at a Canadian documentary called The Great Warming which explores the causes and impacts of climate change, and our potential responses to the threats posed by disruptions to our climate patterns.

The film gives examples of how climate change is affecting people in the rich and poor world, and has a less formal tone than Al Gore's excellent Inconvenient Truth lecture/documentary.

A 2 minute promotional video is available on the www.greatwarming.com website. This makes a good point when it says that tackling climate change is a moral issue, not just a technological issue, and helps to make the science more accessible to a public audience.

The documentary is presented by Alanis Morrisette and Keanu Reeves, and was sponsored by Toyoya and re-insurance firm Swiss Re.

If you are interested in climate change, and why it has taken so long for the science to percolate into public discourse, it might be worth your reading the letter from the Royal Society to ExxonMobil. This letter asks Esso UK to stop funding groups which give an inaccurate or misleading impression of the evidence on the causes of climate change...