Posted on 10/18/2017 8:24:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cli-Fi refers to “climate fiction;” it is a term coined by journalist Dan Bloom. These are fictional books that somehow or someway bring real climate change science to the reader. What is really interesting is that Cli-Fi books often present real science in a credible way. They become fun teaching tools. There are some really well known authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi and Margaret Atwood among others. A list of other candidate Cli-Fi novels was provided by Sarah Holding in the Guardian.
What makes a Cli-Fi novel good? Well in my opinion, it has to have some real science in it. And it has to get the science right. Second, it has to be fun to read. When done correctly, Cli-Fi can connect people to their world; it can help us understand what future climate may be like, or what current climate effects are.
Cli-Fi stories are vehicles that can help us imagine. The authors get us to think about these what ifs – these future Earths. Cli-Fi novels (and movies for that matter) can make experiences far more real than endless graphs or plots of temperature variations. And that, perhaps, is the most important contribution Cli-Fi can make to the discussion of climate change in our everyday lives. These authors get us to imagine what experiences are or would be like.
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Yes, its time for full on propaganda.
Michael Crichton did it already.
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/state-of-fear/
Here is a speech he gave on the climate change fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv_f3LnQNus
Cli-Fi is a very appropriate label for the entire genre of climate change literature.
You beat me to it.
The only novel I’ve ever read that includes peer reviewed studies. This book puts the lie to the whole climate change fearmongering.
Perfect! Now we have a term for what the Enviro-whackos deem consensus science. CliFi? Climate Science Fiction, that’s what they have been peddling for years.
The climate science, AKA - Models, are no different than technology used in Star-Trek over the years. It is no closer to reality than a transporter or Warp Speed capability.
(Remember - Star Trek was pretty diligent about basing the fiction on “scientific theory”.
Not “Cli-Fi,” but CLIBS.
“Climate BS.”
I’ve read Crichton’s book. He nailed it.
Mark Steyn totally eviscerates Mann’s Hockey Stick in his book called Climate Change the Facts
Steyn uses quotes and emails from respected scientists around the world - even global warming adherents who fault Mann for his shoddy research.
http://www.steynstore.com/Climate-Change-The-Facts_moreinfo.html
Kim Stanley Robinson is a master of this. I don’t agree with most of his beliefs but I do read him because he’s such a good writer. It is Science Fiction after all.
“real science”
Translation: witchcraft, arm-waving and name-calling.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a master of this. I don’t agree with most of his beliefs but I do read him because he’s such a good writer. It is Science Fiction after all.
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I get tired of his relentlessly metrosexual, suburban East Coast characters, especially those purporting to be male. Not that they aren’t believable, but because they are.
He routinely utilizes left-wing geoengineering scenarios.
He used to be pretty good, about 20+ years ago.
And - Sci Fi writer Jerry Pournelle did also did it...in a mocking in your face novel “Fallen Angels”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(science_fiction_novel)
They’re assuming their leftist voters read.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/22/prescient-fallen-angels-a1991-satire-of-climate-alarmism
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