There are huge amounts of money involved in anything that can be related to climate change. I guess researchers in various fields are waking up to this fact.
The growing intensity of the debate on climate change, and on the appropriate response from governments and individuals, means there is an ever greater need to engage specialists from as many fields as possible in the debate on environmental policy.
The journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews has just made a special issue on climate change in which the historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie calls for more involvement from researchers in fields not directly related to climate change.
The issue is available here:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2008/00000033/00000001
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