ABSTRACT
Climate change is often seen as one of the most intractable problems that we face today. The complexity of the science, the social, temporal and geographical distances between cause and the effect, the scale and scope of the required response and a range of other features all conspire to make it such an intractable problem. When coupled with the limited time available to develop an effective response that allows us to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, the issue really does demand that modern societies do a lot of learning very quickly.
