Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change Denialism in SF

In article <vj25aj$4nd$1@reader2.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

In article <robertaw-ED1870.21583806122024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

I know of one book, _The Last Centurion_ by John Ringo (published in
2008). There are probably others. What is really odd about _tLC_, is
that there was a pandemic starting, IIRC, in 2019 (a really nasty one -
world fatalities, IMS, exceeded 1 billion). Oh, yes, the US presidential
administration flubbed the response, big time (I believe the president
was a "Hillary Clinton" pastiche). There was significant turmoil over
the 2020 Presidential election as well.

 
Camestros Felapton looked for Contrarian Cli-Fi in 2022 and found
surprisingly few examples, of which the Ringo was one. Another was
Pournelle, Niven, and Flynn's dire Fallen Angels, which judging
by the frequency with which people mentioned it in the comments to
relevant essays of mine on Tor Dot Com/Reactor is by far the
better known of the two. Crichton's State of Fear was a third
(and I have not read it).
 

It was my impression that _Fallen Angels_ was the result of a successful
attempt to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. If that is so, I wouldn't
consider it to be ACC denialism at all.

Otherwise, esp if one leaves off pre-1990 examples, CCF is a weirdly
undersupplied genre, at least from major publishers. Lots of authors
loudly proclaim their skepticism but it does not seem to percolate
into their fiction. 

OTH, there were stories, even back in the 1970s where the sea level had
risen over 100 feet (e.g., "Manhattan Reef" appears in "Starships in
Whose Future?" - Analog, August 1978).

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