Globe and Mail: When 259 authors from 39 countries examine hundreds of scientific papers and arrive at a consensus, perhaps it's worth listening.
But in Canada, at any rate, about 30 per cent of the population remains convinced that climate change isn't happening - or, if it is, that it's caused by natural events, sunspots or just about anything other than human activity, notably burning fossil fuels.
So it was entirely predictable that the critics and skeptics of climate change went into overdrive when the...