Indeed, Shill-enberger's articles attack a straw man. No-one is reasonably claiming the world will end due to climate change, or even that climate ch

Indeed, Shill-enberger's articles attack a straw man. No-one is reasonably claiming the world will end due to climate change, or even that climate change is directly causing fires etc. But it is helping alter habitats and will over time have quite large impacts on habitat and diversity, and particularly the water cycle, to which humans and agriculture are particularly sensitive. And we are at a point where it could get quite out of control, with positive feedback loops kicking in (permafrost, clathrates, etc), unless we take serious action now. Simply counting the (human) economic impact of climate change seriously ducks our moral responsibility to take care of the planet.