We do need - again - wider coverage for this kind of debunking. But it's particularly hard in the UK because the scientific culture here is so appallingly backward that it's a monumental effort to get people to consider the realities.

Most people who think about climate change at all are at the 'It's been a cold winter - so that proves there's no global warming' level.

I'd rather be more positive about it, but the reality seems to be that many people don't care, and the minority who might be interested don't get it because 'it's just a plot to make people pay more taxes.' (Sic)

Certainly in the debates I've had it seems to be impossible not to be labelled either a DFH or an old-style fist-waving Trotskyist just for taking climate change seriously at all.

Solution? None that I can see.