SHOCKER: 'The Heretic,' A Play About a Global Warming Skeptic Gets Rave Reviews

Somewhat Reasonable ^ | February 22, 2010 | Jim Lakely

[seamus]

The Heartland Institute knows all about global warming skepticism. Indeed, you could say we wrote the book. So we were surprised that a play about global warming skepticism called "The Heretic" is now running in London — and that the left-wing Guardian newspaper gave it favorable notice. A quick summary of the play:

[It] starts from a promising premise: the isolation of Dr Diane Cassell, a leading light in the earth sciences department of a Yorkshire university. Her speciality is measuring sea levels in the Maldives, and her pragmatism leads her to conclude they have not risen in 20 years.

Inevitably her climate-change scepticism lands her in trouble: She gets death threats from Sacred Earth Militia, is at odds with her anorexic Greenpeace daughter, and is eventually suspended by her faculty boss and former lover. Her consolation is a student, Ben, whom she induces to share her strictly scientific approach to global warming.

The story of being ostracized — and even threatened — for daring to state publicly that the climate data leads to a non-alarmist position is not uncommon to the many scientists who have presented their heterodox findings at Heartland's five International Conferences on Climate Change. (Click the following links for footage of conference one, and two, and three, and four and five.)

Long-time British television presenter Johnny Ball is especially moved by the production of that play. Ball had produced science shows for the BBC for decades, and he wrote a piece in the London Daily Mail today titled "Beware the global warming fascists: Johnny Ball on how he has been vilified for daring to question green orthodoxy."

Of the play, Ball wrote:

[Danae]

I hope he just DIES of boredom! (dramatic brush of hand across forehead)

[ponygirl]

“Sacred Earth Militia.” That alone is brilliant.

[MNDude]

Global Warming is so 90’s

[Objective Scrutator]

I’m very impressed that the liberal Guardian is beginning to recognize the fraud. If they can do it, any media outlet can.

[randog]

If all the hoopla over global warming dies down, which it seems to be doing except among extremists, how is Al Gore going to spend his time?

"...yes, I would certainly like to address your questions on the topic of 'climate change', but first I would be remiss if I didn't bring to your attention a matter of dire importance, that being the recent disturbing and irrefutable findings by top scientists all over the world that we're all going to die from (insert apocalypse of choice here) if we don't act now...."

IOW, SOS-DD (Same Old S***, Different Day)

[MurrietaMadman]

Misdirection, at the least. Green growth is meant to be sustained growth, evidence be damned.

http://www.thedailybell.com/1781/UN-Switch-From-Fear-to-Greed-to-Promote-New-Green-Tax.html

[miss marmelstein]

Interesting. It’s at the Royal Court, one of the most fanatically left-wing theatre companies in the world. When they are not doing crazy agit prop they do truly excellent work. But I noticed it’s playing at the smaller, downstairs theatre, not the main auditorium.