Climate change is a conundrum, a hard or puzzling question. Every day newspapers, blogs, even mainstream TV news editors run stories about our world weather. We are told that we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions or global catastrophe will befall us. Some places on earth will enter crippling drought, only to be inundated when the rains finally return. Global warming is going to leave the earth parched or flooded with effects on agriculture, water and our environment.

Humans really are bizarre creatures. No other animal can be this smart and this blissfully unaware, whilst straining every sinew to be both. If you get the chance, hang out in a CBD coffee shop for an hour or so. It will be easy to tap away at your blog posts whilst eavesdropping unnoticed on the conversations of the business types at adjacent tables. You will hear some wonderful stuff. And just to prove I am not the only practitioner of the eavesdropping art,.