A NEW point of contention has arisen in the ongoing argument and competition between climate change fanatics and climate skeptics/deniers for ascendancy in the climate debate.The contention concerns the question of whether governments ought to embrace as one of their duties to the nation the protection of their citizens from climate change.
Do they mean any sort of climate change, such as the climate change that occurs around the world every year when temperatures can change from sub-zero to 90 degrees in a matter of months?Or perhaps they mean that the government should protect citizens from things like El Niño, that naturally recurring — but scientifically inexplicable — climate phenomenon that we are currently experiencing, and underwater volcanic eruptions, both of which have driven this summer's heat waves.