Turning the climate crisis into a TV love child of Jerry Springer and Judge Judy | Planet Oz

As a Trump appointee pushes for televised slanging match, a New York magazine cover story sparks a different debate - should we talk about how bad global warming could actually get?

In the United States, people who refuse to accept even some of the basic tenets of climate science are calling for a heated debate.

"Who better to do that than a group of scientists " getting together and having a robust discussion for all the world to see," the boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, told Reuters.