How Matt Ridley changed my mind on climate science

There is no shortage of compelling literature about climate change. Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben are two of the best practitioners. Kolbert’s game-changing Field Notes from a Catastrophe opens with the story of how residents of the tiny Alaskan village of Shishmaref are abandoning their homes because progressively warmer temperatures delay the seasonal freezing of the Chukchi Sea. As a result, those living near the Chukchi are vulnerable to storm surges featuring 12-foot waves capable of carrying their houses into the sea. In Eaarth, McKibben warns that our home planet is already irreversibly altered by climate change: “In 2003, France […]