Instead of trying to understand how the climate works, maybe we should study why people don't believe that we understand how the climate works?

Distilling the Human Element in the Climate Challenge - NYTimes.com

Gerry Mahlman, former head of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, used to say that climate science accreted a new discipline every decade. Oceanography, then ecology, then economics, and, now, studies of human cognition and how we are wired.