The Science of Climate Change Is What Matters

Climate change is inherently open, indeterminate and contested. We're asking science to do the impossible, says former IPCC chair Pachari. Angus Rose's hunger striker demand for a briefing on climate change was an extraordinary show of faith in scientists' work. If we expect science to be the driving engine for our will to change policies and behaviours, our expectations of enlightenment ideals are themselves irrational said Sarrowitz.