ABC News’ solicitation for people to travel into the future – mentally, of course – and “report back” the horrors they find in that warmer world sounded awfully familiar.

Sure enough, as I detailed in my book (p.178 for those of you playing at home), it was ABC News that just two years ago ran a casting call for “interesting examples of people coping with the differences in their daily lives. Has your life been directly affected by global warming?”

Apparently the submissions for real-time tales of woe – what with the announced warming having not matched the hype — failed to pass even ABC’s rather low threshold of a red-face test, and they had to send recruits into the final frontier of climate fantasy.