The public debate on the IPCC report in India has not gone beyond what I would call page three social science. It has remained obsessed with the politics of personality and hence it is time it were rescued from this obsession and given some academic sobriety. I have flagged five themes in my attempt to do so. Stating them upfront, they are, (i) the relationship between science and politics, (ii) the relationship between parts and whole, (iii) the perils of a derivative discourse, (iv) the role of champions, and (v) the conflict of interests. For this article I can only discuss them very sketchily. They evidently need more expansive treatment but flagging them here will, I hope, at least, make them available for the larger discourse.