"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." That's certainly true in the climate change arena.
After ending US participation in the Paris climate treaty and abolishing many government restrictions on fossil fuel use, the Trump Administration began preparing red team-blue team examinations of the science behind claims of "dangerous manmade climate change." Asian, African and even European countries are building still more coal and gas-fired power plants. A recent poll found that only 28% of Americans think climate scientists understand the causes of global climate change "very well."
