Why would a climate skeptic be interested in writing a fictional story?
John M. Cape – Author of Poorly Zeroed
Why would a climate skeptic be interested in writing a fictional story?
The simple answer is that they capture our imagination. There is a real market for dystopian literature. Alarmists have had great success in this arena.
Nature’s End, a 1986 adventure, featured humans destroying the atmosphere through poor environmental decisions. Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior is a poetic work dealing with the Monarch butterfly’s inability to cope with global warming. Solar Ian MacEwan deals with bureaucrats dealing with global warming.
In cinema, the same account blames humans for all environmental disasters. The Mad Max series features a crazy world burning the last fossil fuels. Don’t Seek to ridicule skeptics as unreasonable and unscientific. The Day After Tomorrow describes the catastrophic climate effects that caused the oceanic events that led to the start of the next glaciation.
Virtually all of these stories have a world where humans disturb the balance of nature and then Mother Nature pulls an ax and takes the skin.
In my mind, the skeptic climate drives the plot where nature is speeding up our characters by natural processes – or humans are causing destruction and nature is “dying”. For example, the late Michael Crichton wrote A country of fear, Very commercial offer with more than a million copies printed. It’s about environmentalists who cause damage that can be blamed on human influence. It’s refreshing and well-written but follows a path less traveled.
If you are a writer and looking for topics to explore, the climate skeptic genre has not been mined at this time. Of course, this can be a job that you can’t love and don’t love, but you just have to take the lumps. Also, keep in mind that no movie has been made based on this particular Michael Crichton creation – so your efforts will never see the Silver Screen.
Perhaps a better question is whether you would rather be in the blogosphere or writing nonfiction books. Of course, it depends on the personality.
I imagine that most bloggers are chained to their computers. They have to constantly track whatever issues are hot for the day and work fast to get their two cents on the wire.
Nonfiction reference works are often his. He has several angles of expertise that are actually corners. They tend to stay in their lane. It may be scientists or academics who create course materials. He often seeks publicity through email, YouTube videos, and editorial contributions on social media.
Generalists often try to combine different themes for their readers. This is like writing Climate Science for Dummies. The important thing is to document the sources and try to tell them in an interesting, but scientifically accurate way. Sometimes, both goals are not easy to achieve simultaneously.
That’s where writing a novel gives you more freedom. Your character can say whatever he wants whether it fits the journal his friend wrote or not. You can push the story in any direction you want and make it whatever you want. If you go beyond that, you will be in the fantasy genre. If you get it right, then you can consider it a hard science. The net result is that these choices won’t necessarily limit your narrative, but will resonate better with certain audiences.
One last thing about the fictional approach. Climate Science is a slow process. That’s part of what makes science so difficult. Make predictions and wait decades to see if they come true. Politicians love these types of decisions. In the end, it may come out or not, but it is not necessary to issue results for many years; he had left the office before the test.
Fiction can facilitate visualization of how science will play out in the future. It may show the truth, but more importantly, it illustrates the finer points of why different outcomes might be important. Books take some time to read, but they also allow you to cut through the noise and more fully develop different aspects of the issues at stake.
As Climate Skeptics, we are at a difficult crossroads.
- Our climate blogs and materials have never been better, but at the same time, they are not easy to find for the average citizen.
- The major search engines deliberately steer searches towards .gov and .org sources – which unfortunately are often not objective or biased.
- The reality is that very few people can understand the vast amount of information about climate science that is available in the daily news and on the Internet.
- Many of our brightest climate skeptic beacons are aging or have passed.
- Political parties take very different positions in this country, but few of our leaders can articulate their points better.
- There is a lot of material floating around. Some are gems, but many are red herrings.
- Our media is not shy about reporting that unusual weather events are caused by increasing greenhouse gases. The statistics say otherwise, but they rarely use it.
- Our youth have been so indoctrinated in this arena that they don’t have to do their homework to learn what is going on.
- Activists do stupid things, but they make news.
If you care about the integrity of climate science, now would be a good time to take an interest. You can do it the hard way or you can enjoy yourself while doing it. If too many of us fail to do so, we will pay dearly for our ignorance.
John Cape as an UnZeroed Author? the second offering in the Net Zero Policy Disaster series. Brutal Net Zero policies are rapidly ridding the United States of fossil fuels. Electricity was sporadic, bandits roamed the highways, and major cities were in turmoil. Newly elected President Jenny Almond never expected to win and now faces an even more desperate situation. China remains the only global superpower. Billionaires, the media, and global warmists are joining forces to derail the recent recovery by supporting the previous President in his re-election campaign.
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