
SHOCKER: 'The Heretic,' A Play About a Global Warming Skeptic Gets Rave Reviews
Somewhat Reasonable ^ | February 22, 2010 | Jim Lakely
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.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.)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.
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:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heartland.org ...
“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?”
Don’t worry. Con men always have some scam working or in the works.
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