[swarnie_]

> I'm not quite sure what the point of this sort of rhetoric is. Climate change is a complicated enough topic without tying it to a supposedly necessary re-conceptualization of the American worldview that many Americans will find unpalatable.

My only guess is this is written for the UK and to a lesser extent EU audience and they felt this would echo with the current prescription of the US overseas. Newspapers don't set the discourse, they follow it.