Andrew Dessler is an associate professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Atmospheric Sciences. A couple of months ago, I came across his interesting new blog that focuses on the science and politics of climate change. In this Chronicle article, the Chronicle’s science reporter, Eric Berger, interviews Professor Dessler, who makes the following common sense observation about the climate change debate:

[T]here are a lot of really legitimate uncertainties [about global climate change] that people don’t seem to argue about. It’s a little bit disappointing that people are still arguing over whether the Earth is round or not. Whether humans are causing the increase in CO2 is really like arguing whether the Earth is round. We know it is. There’s no question. We’ve got lots of evidence. The debate isn’t really where it should be at this point: We need to view climate change as a risk. It’s a somewhat uncertain risk, but it’s a risk nonetheless. The question really becomes, as a policy, how do we address this risk?

Eric has a podcast of his entire interview with Professor Dessler over at his SciGuy blog.