Irish Times: A few weeks ago, Danny Healy-Rae, the TD for Kerry, told the Dáil that humans have no influence over changes in weather patterns. That the planet is warming and the climate is changing are, he believes, functions of divine intervention.
His hypothesis is informed by a deity rather than the data. The consensus of global scientific opinion, based on decades of research and analysis, is irrelevant.
It would be easy, though mistaken, to dismiss the parliamentarian as an outlier. The world is replete...