WITH their emails all over the internet, we cannot escape the foibles of climate scientists. Their motivations and moral compasses are, for many of us, as important as their climate models.
Heidi Cullen’s beautifully crafted study provides the human detail that has been missing from most reports on climate science. Her seven journeys to explore climatic “Achilles’ heels”, from the African Sahel to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, from New York to Bangladesh, are full of vivid pen portraits of key researchers and stories that reveal their passions, insights and blind spots. Far from detracting from the science, these stories underpin its credibility. Cullen’s sense of place…
