It's pitched as a
debate, but it ends up as an eloquent slanging match,
in which each
side competes to prove that the other's sources are more corrupt than their own.
On the plus
side, countries like Britain now have something like a «mainstream» politics of climate — mainstream
in the sense that the major political parties
compete in pledging their commitment to green growth, and the issue is extensively
debated in the news media.