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Addressing climate change means re-examining personal behaviour and, yes, state subsidies to airlines as well, writes Ciarán Cuffe

IT'S HARD to know whether Michael O'Leary is in the denial or the anger stage of facing up to climate change. Clearly he took some satisfaction in his recent rants on the letters pages that accused columnist John Gibbons of belonging to the "eco-loonie" camp. Like a latter day Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, he has failed to realise that the world has changed, and he must learn the new rules of the game. He was at it again on Wednesday, addressing an Oireachtas Committee on Transport. Ironically next door the Climate Change Committee listened to submissions on the European Union's proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.