Climate News Network: A serving British prime minister seldom delivers a speech to the Royal Society, but then there have not been many prime ministers who have been trained scientists.
Today all of human life is lived not just in the presence of a physically changing planet, but in the new cultural spaces created by the idea of climate change.
But Margaret Thatcher was one, and on Sept. 27, 1988 she delivered a 20-minute speech to the Royal Society about the environment. Her central theme: The greenhouse effect...