No, They'll Never Believe in Climate Change: How Science Becomes Political

As the southern United States picks up the pieces after being smashed by two insanely powerful hurricanes in under a fortnight, the political discourse is tenser than ever, which is exactly what nobody wanted going into an already terrifying election. Every year there is a brand new “biggest storm ever recorded” and every year the right gets more and more annoyed that scientists keep stubbornly insisting that extreme weather can be caused by changes in the composition of the atmosphere, that the atmospheric composition can be changed by human activity, and that both of those things are currently happening.

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