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A controlled experiment found that reading climate fiction short stories "had small but significant positive effects on several important beliefs and attitudes about global warming – observed immediately after participants read the stories", though "these effects diminished to statistical nonsignificance after a one-month interval".
A satirical cartoon about sea level rise.. References to climate change in popular culture have existed since the late 20th century and increased in the 21st century.Climate change, its impacts, and related human-environment interactions have been featured in nonfiction books and documentaries, but also literature, film, music, television shows and video games.
The Global Warming Hoax of 1874 was a journalistic/media hoax, which is when a fictitious story is purposefully written to appear as real and factual. [12] In the 19th century these appeared often in newspapers and magazines, but can now be found in any type of media. Some examples of other journalistic/media hoaxes around the same time are:
For example, US Senator Jim Inhofe, who once pronounced global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people", [32] [33] made State of Fear "required reading" [34] for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which he chaired from 2003 to 2007, and before which he called Crichton to testify in September 2005.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science: Global warming: dispute of scientific consensus on climate change: Ian Plimer: 2009: ISBN 0-7043-7166-9: Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do: Global warming: evidence for dire consequences of inaction: Joseph J. Romm: 2006: ISBN ...
Set in the year 2038, Earth is a cautionary tale of the harm humans can cause their planet via disregard for the environment and reckless scientific experiments. The book has a large cast of characters and Brin uses them to address a number of environmental issues, including endangered species, global warming, refugees from ecological disasters, ecoterrorism, and the social effects of ...
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.