CLIMATE change is not a scientific issue. No, really, I’m serious. It is far more important than that. It forces us to make fundamental choices about our most basic belief systems. If policy-makers and the public could forget about the science, we’d have a much better chance of averting this looming catastrophe before it’s too late.
Here’s the problem. Treating climate change purely as a scientific issue obscures the real points of contention, which are political and economic. I once spent hours debating with a climate sceptic about why the glaciers on Kilimanjaro are retreating, only to discover that his real beef was that he believed…
