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This episode contains: climate scientists say that we are on the cusp of the point of no return on global warming and urgent action is needed to halt it. George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and Guardian columnist, and Bjorn Lomborg, director of the environmental think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Centre discuss how should we approach the future regarding climate change; in this week's Long Interview, top forensic scientist Prof Dame Sue Black talks about her career, Isabel Fraser looks at the history of Britain's lighthouses with Tom Nancollis, whose new book Seakshaken Houses investigates the stories behind the structures and the people who built them and lived in them; and in the Reporter's Notebook, the 麻豆社's Ken Macdonald looks at scientific research that even if it fails on its terms, succeeds in adding to what we know about the world.