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John Robson: When It Comes to Science, Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted

John Robson: When It Comes to Science, Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted
Attendees walk past a sign for the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit outside the venue, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 23, 2024. AP Photo/Sergei Grits
John Robson
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As with Poe’s purloined letter, the most obvious things can sometimes be hardest to see. Thus I spent a week in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29 but only on my return home did an emailed question open my eyes to something conspicuously missing there: science. Which evidently the delegates and activists also totally failed to see.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”