A global warning

of there have only ever been two issues where one story filled up the entire magazine. Last year August, Nathaniel Rich’s 70-page science story – called – was one of them. Equally enthralling and devastating, it told the tale of how a handful of activists, politicians and scientists tried to save the world from climate change … and failed. Because between 1979 and 1989, there was hope. What’s more is that the science remains fundamentally unchanged since 1979.