WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Climate change

That's right, climate change. It's real, but sadly, the BBC won't acknowledge it. They have re-edited the final episode of David Attenborough's nature series, Africa, to remove a piece of commentary about climate change. In the original programme, broadcast in Britain last Wednesday, Attenborough said: "Some parts of the continent have become 3.5 Celsius hotter in the past 20 years." A decision was taken on Saturday to remove it from the repeat programme and the iPlayer version. This is clearly the wrong thing to do. There is widespread acknowledgement within the scientific community that the climate of Africa has been changing, and if we don't do something about it, then we're in for a nasty apocalypse that cannot be blamed on Gangnam Style.