Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind

Climate change deniers are anti-science and anti-reason — and they terrify me

Hugo Rifkind gives a Shared Opinion

issue 28 November 2009

You know what I don’t believe in? Engineering. Shameless pseudo-science. You want to watch out for those so-called ‘engineers’. See that bridge that fell down in Cumbria the other day? Lordy, they’ll be cashing in on that. Up they’ll pop with their ‘stress points’ and ‘foundations’ and other such insider-ish, clubby mumbo-jumbo.

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