"I KNOW good science fiction when I see it. And that is what I have seen in the climate change debate – a lot of fiction dressed up as science. Most great works of fiction end up on the silver screen so it was inevitable that climate change would become a “major motion picture”.
Jennifer Marohasy and George Christensen in Vegas
But a screenwriter has several angles to work with and which one they choose depends on whereabouts on the climate change timeline they pick up the story.
Early on in the piece, it is a disaster-cum-thriller plot as prophets warn of the impending doom of mankind and the planet. The story then lurches towards a slasher-style horror flick as ever more graphic descriptions are used to scare people into submission. Finally, the plot descends into a farcical comedy as government and environmental terrorists make ridiculous suggestions about how mankind will control the planet. In Australia, we have crossed that point where the horror genre is descending into a comedy…"
So, these were some of the words George Christensen MP used to open his speech to the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change in Las Vegas last week. It was entertaining with snippets of real information about what has been the economic cost of this folly to the Australian nation. You can watch the entire presentation from the link below (it starts at 29:00) or here (Keynote Lunch Tuesday), and read the text here.
It will be interesting to see if the Queensland government tries to rely on climate change as an excuse for the debacle over management of the Wivenhoe Dam in 2011. The class action lawsuit is due to be heard in the New South Wales court later in the year.
It will be very interesting to see if they play the climate change card in their attempts to wriggle out of the billion dollar damages claim. - It wasn't government negligence, it was carbon dioxide! Perhaps they will need to sue individual chemical compounds and send them off to jail.
Hi George,
I'm glad that you brought up the Science Fiction angle. It's high time for Climate Realists to pool our considerable talents, and to make a Sci Fi movie of our own, to rival AIT. The first part could be a brief exposé, but that's probably been done before.
The second, and most important part, would involve futuristic fiction, whose premise is that people in the Western countries eventually get fed up with the incessant lying on the part of climate pseudo-scientists and their political enablers. Cutting to the chase -- I hate that expression, by the way -- Keith Briffa, James "Coal Trains of Death" Hansen, Mikey Mann, Susan Solomon, Kevin Trenberth, and others are put on trial for defrauding taxpayers, because the deliberate misrepresentations in their research articles were done on the public dime.
Unfortunately, His Goreness would probably be immune from legal action, because he never claimed to be a scientist. However he did say that one of his major points could be supported by high school physics. Anthony Watts made a good-faith effort to duplicate the 'high school physics' experiment, but he could not replicate the putative results. Oh well, sometimes the big fish gets away.
I haven't decided on some of the actors. But Congessman Trey Gowdy (spelling?) should definitely be the prosecutor. That's what he did before coming to Washington. I got perverse pleasure in watching the video of Trey making mincemeat of the IRS Commissioner.