having a more aggressively unrealistic left edge to contradict the irresponsible right edge is not likely to create the kind of consensus that is necessary to have meaningful change. others question whether there is any urgency at all to the climate debate, that the so-called 97% consensus of climate scientists is meaningless. cly matologist, john christie, of the university of alabama, notes that the greatest scientific studies in history have broken with consensus. take a hard look at climate model output and can demonstrate they are too sensitive to carbon-dioxide and that the real world is not spiraling off into some dangerous territory of climate. novelest, michael creigton, once suggested this. he looked back to the last century when people didn t know what a computer, a jet phone, an