Postcards from the future of climate change

Buckingham Palace surrounded by shanty towns full of "climate refugees"

Another post that had to interrupt my short break. The UK Telegraph, which used to be a respectable newspaper, but which has been changing slowly into little more than an upmarket gossip rag, has lost its mind completely and has published a gallery of ridiculous postcards depicting a post-climate change London. There are the hackneyed images of a flooded River Thames and “extreme weather”, but the two “artists” have here gone much further. From the introduction:

A display of photomontages imagining how London could be affected by climate change is on display at the Museum of London from 1 October 2010 to 6 March 2011. The display and events form part of the Mayor’s Story of London festival and the events are funded by Renaissance London. Like postcards from the future, familiar views of the capital have been digitally transformed by illustrators Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones. They bring home the full impact of global warming, food scarcity, rising sea levels and how all Londoners will need to innovate and adapt to survive.

That the Telegraph chose to publish, with serious and weighty captions, and without any rational comment or criticism, these fictitious, alarmist images, whose purpose is solely to advance by fear the agenda of taking urgent action climate change, shows clearly how far journalism has sunk.

You can view the gallery here, but I couldn’t resist posting one more – the Houses of Parliament surrounded by rice paddies (honestly, you couldn’t make this stuff up):

Comments

  1. froggy uk's avatar froggy uk says:

    Now this has got me worried, only i photoshopped my dog & gave it 3 heads, so does this mean i`ll be responsible for savage packs of tri headed hounds which will obviously endanger the world in the future?, perhaps i should have just stuck to the photoshopped picture of my mrs where ive given her an unfeasably large chest measurement!.

  2. Hi This propaganda is another sign of their desperation.
    I got invited onto RussiaTV (Oct 5th)and said SplatGate(10/10) film is malevolent desperation + Cut CarbonCon to save economy – http://bit.ly/cZaSxC

  3. Laurie Williams's avatar Laurie Williams says:

    Simon, thanks for emerging from hibernation early to share this.
    Here’s a little bit more journalistic crap, exposed by the ABC.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RZ7Y0Wteo
    Fine, but I’m still waiting for Media Watch to aim its guns at the ABC’s biased reporting of just about everything lefty scammy.
    You will get lots of hibernation before that happens.
    Cheers, Laurie

  4. The Loaded Dog's avatar The Loaded Dog says:

    “Another post that had to interrupt my short break.”

    Yes, and the alarmists are also coming out of the woodwork after their “short break” as well. Anyone noticed how they have been relatively quiet post climategate, glaciergate, amazongate etc etc?

    I would have thought “splattergate” (hat tip Jim Delingpole for that winner) may have kept them in hiding a little longer.

  5. David Davidovics's avatar David Davidovics says:

    I like how they show water lilies in salt water (or are all the rivers also going to magically rise too?).

    Piers, I just watched your interview and I have to say well done!
    He tried a few times to corner you and you fought back without conceeding any of his assumtions.

    Thank you.

  6. The Loaded Dog's avatar The Loaded Dog says:

    Peirs, brilliant interview. Many thanks for having the guts to stand up for the truth in public like you do. Thanks also to all the tireless and unpaid bloggers (including you Simon, Jo Nova etc etc) that are keeping the public informed. I tremble to think where we would be now as a civilisation if it wasn’t for the ability to seek truth outside the MSM.

    People truly are completely oblivious to the extremely dangerous nature of this movement and it astounds me how gullible, or willfully blind some people are.