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The Denial: A satirical novel of climate change Kindle Edition

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‘One of the great unsung talents of journalism’ – Boris Johnson

Britain in the near future.

A campaign to cut carbon emissions to zero is beginning to bite.

Power cuts have become a regular feature of life and standards of living have fallen sharply for all but a small elite of climate influencers, who are excused the strict rules on personal carbon budgeting which apply to everyone else.

When a storm and tidal surge unexpectedly strikes London, retired meteorologist Bryan Geavis is the first to notice, and later refuses to accept the official explanation that climate change has caused the disaster or made the weather more unpredictable. Awkward and stubborn, yet with a rigorous scientific mind, he finds himself sucked into a battle against public and political hysteria.

The Denial is a fast-paced, fascinating story that, while entertaining in its own right, explores ideas of democracy, freedom of speech and the pre-eminence of rational thought. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in political and social satire, democracy, modern media and green issues.

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'A must-read for anyone who enjoys witty and thought-provoking writing, you would be mad to miss this book' – Boris Johnson

'When Ross Clark was writing this excellent novel about climate change, he couldn’t have known that by the time we read it the world would be paralyzed by a pandemic. Now that’s happened, it adds a whole new layer to The Denial’s themes of hysteria, self-righteousness and dodgy statistics.' - Mark Mason, The Spectator

'Intelligent and thought-provoking' - Sally Cousins, Sunday Telegraph

'Invigorating, clever and often very funny.... A good satire should be both bitter and funny, and this book is both' - Anthony Daniels, The Spectator

Ross Clark is an award-winning journalist and author. He is a regular columnist for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, and before that wrote the Thunderer column for The Times. He is a winner of the Spectator’s Young Writers Award and of the Bastiat Prize. His books include The Road To Southend Pier: one man’s battle against the surveillance state, The War Against Cash, and the novel The Great Before.

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'One of the great unsung talents of journalism' - Boris Johnson

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BWR1R9C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books (14 Sept. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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E. P. J. Foster

This is a brilliant dystopian novel. Read it now before real events overtake the story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2021

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I found myself mentally ticking off the imagined future political events as they were happening in real life.
Very well written, very funny in places, but ultimately deadly serious. In a proper educational setting this book should be required reading.
The 'newspeak' of the 'climate catastrophists' is wonderfully conceived; thus for example "extreme average" weather events.
Then the subtle disintegration of society; food shortages and the misery of being cold as electricity failures increase, farmers can no longer produce food - no diesel for tractors etc... Politicians inventing new policies on the hoof just to try and keep abreast of the 'popular' social media Mob.
The introduction of "Juries of the future" trying cases of 'climate denial', made up of children who also act as prosecutors.
Having to sign the 'Social Pledge' if you want your bank card to work - not supposedly actually required by law, but as shops scramble to be 'woke', it becomes essential.
Buy it, read it, and pass it on!

14 people found this helpful

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UKLurker

Slight but entertaining and bitter satire on the climate craziness

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2020

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A funny and bitter little satire on the climate nonsense. The ever-tightening spiral of climate disaster and enforcement is well expressed: the more living standards fall due to lunatic carbon restrictions, the more blame is placed on the climate emergency and the more restrictions applied.
Ross hammers the use of emotion to combat reason, and a strength of the book is that there are no "evil" characters: they are trapped in their own fear and fantasy, and children especially are affected by the climate doomsayers.

17 people found this helpful

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Charles Lewis

A warning for our time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2021

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Like 1984, this book is a gripping and convincing forecast of what might come to pass in this country, indeed will come to pass if our social justice warriors gain ground, but instead of being dead serious and upsetting, it is bitterly comical and upsetting – in other words it is a satire.
When 1984 was published no one expected that within a few years we would have police investigating the thoughts of citizens or advising them they need to correct their thinking. We never expected that our Law Commission would promote a law whereby a racist remark over your dinner table to a friend would be a crime. And we never expected that the government could shut down society by diktat. Nor did we expect to witness governments being berated by a near hysterical schoolgirl supported by a mob.
Although climate change activism has only gone part of the way as described in the book, other activisms such as transgender have gone further, promoting scientific absurdities in the cause of political activism and desperately trying to stifle and shut down all argument.
With a deceptively simple and lucid style of writing, it starts from a mild enough premise and builds, by incremental steps which seem to follow innocently enough, to a horrifying lunacy by way of child mob rule.
In short, this book, inventive, imaginative, convincing, and in its own way moving, by its depiction of political lunacy crushing a good man, boxes beyond its weight, and very successfully sounds a warning note that we should all heed.

20 people found this helpful

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A. C. Dickens

His heart's in the right place, but it's not funny enough

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2023

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The problem with a book like this is that it preaches to the converted. Nobody else will read it.

I liked the idea that poor harvests could be blamed on climate that was too average.

I note that all sceptics were male. This reflects my own experience.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2021

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A compulsive read and very chilling / the ‘near future’ has become the present - just look at the real news headlines and we are hurtling in this direction, spending $trillions around the world and trying to change the temperature of the earth, and being admonished by children who make a point of not going to school don’t they Greta. She would be much more worth listening to if she’d got herself some eco qualifications, eg: a degree in Biochemistry.
Rather than wasting the $trillions fixating on changing the earth temp, that money would be better spent on:
- helping people who have been made homeless by disasters
- ensuring clean air and clean water for the ever growing world population (10 billion by 2050)
- no starvation

These things will be very expensive to solve but worth spending targeted money on.
The tragedy is it looks as though vast sums of money will be spent on zero carbon and the temperature of the earth will quite likely still be going up at the same rate as now - so then what?
The poor are going to suffer.
Not happy.

3 people found this helpful

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JGB

Frighteningly likely.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2021

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I bought this book from Amazon a while ago and have just started reading it.
It’s the first fiction book I have read for many years.
The problem is it doesn’t feel like fiction because it’s so close to the truth .
With what has happened over the last 18 months you can see the pattern of lies, bent statics, blatant evasion from the truth that is the theme of this story.
Totally believable.
It’s incredibly easy to forget your supposed to be reading fiction.
By the way, the people who have rated this book badly show themselves to be believers in every dubious statistic as the book itself claims.
Buy it.

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Joseph fitpatrick

Interesting reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2021

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Congratulations to the author, created a good book that should make any reader look around their world and recognize what could possibly happen to society in the future

4 people found this helpful

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Mr. Graham StroutsD

Too close to the bone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2022

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Very cleverly written satire of the climate scam, showing how it is being used to bring in totalitarian groupthink and repression. At time hilarious, also almost too close to the reality unfolding before our eyes.

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MikeM

A simple story well told

Reviewed in the United States on 2 August 2021

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Brilliant, important and a good read. Comparable to my mind in importance as 1984, Animal Farm and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. A huge message well told in a simple story. I read it in an afternoon because what’s described is so unsettling. Mob rule by uneducated do-gooders; passions whipped up by blinded politicians, social media and a self serving press. The destruction of a civilization by a dodgy false science mass hysteria. Written in very simple language.

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Important story

Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2021

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This book is important and needs to be read by everyone. The author may describe it as satirical but i think it is prescient. I hope no one passes up the opportunity to read this book because they fear it will differ from their own worldview. The important message, for me, isn't about arguing for or against climate change but how would our society cope with a too rapid transition away from cheap energy sources. As to be expected, life will not change significantly for the elites who can afford to buy anything and who will also be granted special privileges, it is the common people who will suffer the most. If I had read it a few years ago I would have enjoyed it as a dystopian novel. In September 2021 it read as a portend to our future.

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Satire's ability to insinuate its message

Reviewed in the United States on 7 January 2021

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With society so polarized over the major issues that face it, rational debate seems to have been abandoned. Both sides are deaf to the other and, having no confidence that their views will be heard, let alone accepted, they have mostly given up on civilized conversation. The great advantage of satire is that it can slyly make a point while presenting an outward appearance of irreverence and humor. The downside of satire today is that the reality of much that is believed and promoted on social media and in academia is self-satirizing and is difficult to improve upon if the author's intent is to expose its absurdity. Ross Clark has successfully avoided any authorial hectoring in this novel and allowed his characters to make their points -- the only intervention by the author is that of supplying a plot line that predicts where the characters' behavior can lead, thereby making his own point well. I read it in a day and immediately passed it on to a friend.

2 people found this helpful

Mark Clark

Brilliant Satire

Reviewed in the United States on 14 December 2020

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A wonderful defense of reason and real science against the onslaught of emotion and dogma that we read and see
in the mass media everyday. It's funny, scary and sad. I hope enough people will read this book and realize that the future it imagines is not the future we want.

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