DISASTROUS images of climate change are everywhere. An alarming graphic recently appeared in the UK media showing the British Isles reduced to a scattered archipelago by a 60-metre rise in sea level. Evocative scenes of melting glaciers, all-at-sea polar bears and forest fires are routinely attributed to global warming. And of course Al Gore has just won a Nobel prize for .
Such images are increasingly used to portray a global catastrophe that is not just imminent but happening now. The narrative is compelling – the end of the world as…
