Satellite picture The Sep 7th print edition of ‘The Economist’ put Global Warming on the front page. Starting with climate extrems the opener pinpoints the uncertain and complex nature of the problem.

While Climate Change is happening everywhere on Earth “The real difficulty is political. Climate change is one of the hardest policy problems the world has ever faced”.

However, the corresponding survey concludes “This survey, which generated about 118 tonnes of carbon dioxide from flights, car journeys, paper production, printing and distribution, has been carbon-neutralised through the Carbon Neutral Company. The cost was £590; the money was spent on capturing methane from an American mine.”