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  1. “Nature” Trick: Over the last few decades we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for all of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you’re getting with the plan where you belong.

    Ilsa: But, Rich Scientist, no, I… I…

    Trick: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! You have any idea what you’d have to look forward to if you research this? Nine chances out of ten, we’d both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn’t that true, Loser?

    Captain Gore: I’m afraid major donors would insist.

    Ilsa: You’re saying this only to make me cowed.

    Trick: I’m saying it because it’s a model, so it’s true. Inside of us, we both know your money belongs to socialists. You’re part of their work, the thing that keeps them going. If that hockey stick forecast takes off and you’re not with it, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

    Ilsa: But what about graft?

    Trick: We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you started to believe the media. We got it back last night.

    Ilsa: When I said I would never believe you–

    Trick: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where my models are going, temperature readings can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, they can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m pretty good at winning Nobels, but it doesn’t take much to see that the real climate impacts of we little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. [She begins to cry] Now, now…Here’s looking at CRU, kid.

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