Any regular viewer of BBC's Question Time could be forgiven for thinking that old-fashioned climate science denialism is alive and kicking. In a recent edition, panellist Julia Hartley-Brewer called the IPCC's climate models "complete nonsense", and dismissed the 2022 record UK heatwave and the floods in Pakistan by saying: "It's called weather."
But for some time now, researchers have suggested that the balance of arguments propagated by climate sceptics or denialists has shifted from denying or undermining climate science to challenging policy solutions designed to reduce emissions.
