News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into 'laughable' science fiction Temperature Check

The energy and climate change minister, Chris Bowen, right, and the assistant minister for climate change, Josh Wilson, discuss the National Climate Risk Assessment. The energy and climate change minister, Chris Bowen, right, and the assistant minister for climate change, Josh Wilson, discuss the National Climate Risk Assessment. News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into'laughable' science fiction On the front page of the Daily Telegraph, Australia's first comprehensive assessment of the risks from climate change became "SCIENCE FICTION". In other leading stories, wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels were a source of mountains of landfill waste. Some might say there's a pattern there that would not be out of character with News Corporation's more than occasional animosity towards climate change science and renewable energy.