ClimateWire: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was in a bind.
The world's premier scientific body on the climate had found, in a 2013 report, that it is extremely likely (95 percent confidence) that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming of global temperatures since 1951. The panel was more certain than it had ever been in the past.
Yet the lay public did not seem to care. Polls have repeatedly shown that climate change is not a priority for most people.
So the...