Guardian: Putting threat to Earth front and centre

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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre

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As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind our major series on the climate crisis

Alan Rusbridger Friday 6 March 2015 12.32 GMT

EXCERPT:

For the purposes of our coming coverage, we will assume that the scientific consensus about man-made climate change and its likely effects is overwhelming. We will leave the skeptics and deniers to waste their time challenging the science. The mainstream argument has moved on to the politics and economics.

The coming debate is about two things: what governments can do to attempt to regulate, or otherwise stave off, the now predictably terrifying consequences of global warming beyond 2C by the end of the century. And how we can prevent the states and corporations which own the planet’s remaining reserves of coal, gas and oil from ever being allowed to dig most of it up. We need to keep them in the ground.