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Thu 12 Dec 2009Some facts not as changeable as the weather
The link between carbon emissions arising from human actions and climate change is scientifically robust, writes JOHN GIBBONS
‘WHEN THE facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” That’s how the great economist John Maynard Keynes put it. Sounds obvious, yet psychologists tell us that altering deeply ingrained patterns of human behaviour, however destructive they may be, is extraordinarily difficult.
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