Climate change is not science fiction, Jeremy Clarkson | Bill McGuire | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Scientifically illiterate celebrity deniers are hiding behind their pulpits in the national press...This was displayed to perfection at the Hay festival a few weeks ago. I was talking about my new book, Waking the Giant, which addresses the well-established, but not widely known, links between a changing climate and a sometimes violent response from the solid Earth.
...The bottom line is that rapid climate change drives a hazardous response from the Earth's crust – fact! The idea is not new and – in scientific circles – is not even controversial.
---[from Clarkson] Here are a few choice quotes:
"Science fiction is thriving; only today it's all being written by global warming enthusiasts".
[McGuire] says that soon, climate change will bring about an age of geological havoc including tsunamis and something he calls 'volcano storms'.
This is fantastic stuff. Scary. Possible. And we haven't even got to the clincher yet, because McGuire says that as all the snow melts, the sea will become heavier and that will cause fault lines to shift all over the world. Japan. Mexico. Chile. All gone. The man is talking here about an extinction-level event. And the word is that when the film rights are sorted, Denzel is earmarked for the lead.
[McGuire] delivered his cataclysmic view of events to come in much the same way that The War of the Worlds was first played on the radio. Seriously, as though it were fact.
But I think the scariest part is that McGuire is actually employed by the government as an adviser. It actually takes him seriously".
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