The common rhetorical escape - 'I'm not a scientist'

-      Robert McLean.

David Spratt is he co-author
of Climate Code Red.

“I’m not a scientist” is the common rhetorical escape for most with influence, but who deny climate change.

Not many of us, of course, are scientists with the qualifications to make informed comment about climate change, but all of us do have a sense of what is right and wrong, most of us can understand basic graphs and charts and most of us seem to instinctively know when something is going astray.

Climate change is damnably difficult to pin down in detail, but strikingly simple when considered broadly and applied to the human experiment.

David Spratt, the co-author of Climate Code Red, understands the scientific realities of climate change, but takes his readers on an understandable journey and has warned that “Two degrees of warming closer than you may think”.

Yes, I’m not a scientist, but it is clear to me that climate change is happening and bringing with it significant difficulties.