You should be celebrating that climate change even made the radar screen of the World Cup.

[George writes: I have thought long and hard about whether I am being petty on this- after all, this does represent some form of progress. But I still maintain that it is dangerous and counter productive form of public communication that concentrates entirely on the minutiae and utterly ignores the big ticket items. It is a form of selective morality that is very common to human behaviour. I am quite open to being told that I am wrong on this particular issue, though, because I recognise that there is a balancing act in this case]