For the first of what we hope will be monthly postings Can Politics Face Up to Climate Change is a paper first published on Joe Ravetz's Eco-War 3 platform (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/synergistics/foresight-3-0-for-ww3-0/) in the spring of 2023, with an extract appearing in the Didsbury Post as part of People Place Planet Didsbury's climate issue that summer. We welcome your comments on this, or if you have a paper, link, book or film review you think we should upload, please email us at contact@manchesterclimatealliance.org. A write up of Professor Bill McGuire's talk in Manchester in June 2024 cover the climate crisis queries the lack of its media coverage. Perhaps if successful in generating comments and interaction we will post fortnightly.