Climate Change: A Frank Conversation, Part One
The recent global summit on climate change—inevitably described as “historic”—was discussed and analyzed all over the media-sphere, by bloggers read only by their mothers and friends (if they have any) and by the the most swollen talking heads on television. Everyone was interviewed, profiled, and analyzed. One important participant—an observer really—who escaped their attention was an obscure Italian political analyst, whose work has been studied without understanding for many years. I had a chance to sit down with this great skeptic, and interview him on condition of anonymity. Let’s just call him Nick O. Before the conversation was over, we were...
