Is There Any Reason For Hope? December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change from the Science section of the New York Times . . . the last of the 12 hard questions being: “Is there any reason for hope?” The subhead to which is, “If you share this with 50 friends, maybe.” So I’m sharing it with thousands of friends — you guys. It’s worth a read. Especially with 150 world leaders meeting on this, as we speak, in Paris.