81 months and counting … | Andrew Simms

Like a bad disaster film, the naysayers have been in charge over climate change. It's not too late to rewrite the final scenes

Every disaster movie has a stock character – the person who tells everyone else that there's nothing to worry about. Shark? There's no shark. What could possibly go wrong with that tower block, ship, plane, volcano, dinosaur safari park or paramilitary robot cop with a slightly psychopathic glint in its eye?

Such "don't worry" confidence is always bullish and...