ABSTRACT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which comprises hundreds of the world's leading scientists, is the international agency charged with reviewing and evaluating the vast body of accumulating scientific evidence around climate change. The evidence suggests that human beings are the most significant contributor to climate change through energy use, population growth, land use and patterns of consumption. Despite the fact that the role of human activity in its causation is 'clear’, evidence for large-scale behavioural adaptation on the part of the public is absent. Indeed, there appears to be a monumental disconnect between the science of climate change, and the public's perception of climate change and their subsequent actions. Psychology may indeed hold the key to many of the more puzzling aspects of the reaction to climate change, but to understand why and how, we will have to venture into the mind of Donald Trump.
