The things that you’re liable to read in the IPCC bible ain’t necessarily so, Chris Uhlmann says. It’s a bold claim

Damage in a Cairns playground last December from Tropical Cyclone Jasper. A 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the shifts in the climate are exacerbating many extreme events in Australia. Photograph: Brian Cassey/AAP

You know you’re in for a bit of grandiose lecturing on climate change when conservative commentators start making comparisons to religion and throwing around quotes from the 20th-century science philosopher Karl Popper.

Now I’ve got nothing against Popper, but you need to be on pretty solid ground to declare, as the Sky News contributor Chris Uhlmann did last weekend, that the idea global warming is causing more extreme weather is “an article of faith” rather than something we can just test and observe.