ThinkProgress: We`re all familiar with climate deniers - the politicians who proudly declare that 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong, and human carbon emissions aren`t driving up global temperatures to a potentially catastrophic degree. Opposing them are what Grist`s David Roberts termed "climate hawks" - people who think climate change is real, it`s extremely dangerous, and civilization`s use of fossil fuels is behind most of it.
But in between, a strange twilight figure has risen for whom there is...