2016 was the year the movie Network went from science fiction warning to TV news and the TV show The Man in the High Castle went from science fiction to a TV warning label.
But the science is warning us.
"The science is warning us" he said, and it was time for politicians to stop making promises that really amounted to playing politics with the people whose livelihoods depend on Murray-Darling water, and also with the environment.
At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing convened by Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, top executives from Microsoft and Nasdaq OMX appealed for more flexible visas for immigrants with technology and science skills, warning that the United States is losing the global competition for talented entrepreneurs who can lift the economy.
"In 2002, Cobb County school officials put stickers in science textbooks warning that evolution was a "theory, not a fact".
The mining coalition made no official reply, but in mid-February, as the 90-day waiting period began to wane, Henry Chajet, a Washington D.C.-based lawyer and lobbyist for the Mining Awareness Resource Group MARGG), a party in the court cases, sent a letter to at least four science journals warning them that they risked unspecified consequences if they published the study.
In 2006, for example, 120 Chinese scientists, many working in the United States, wrote to the country's science-policy officials warning of the risks of unfounded allegations and anonymous personal attacks.
Note the crafty juxtaposition, in the newpaper version of the story, of a political science professor warning about the political perils of celebrity fundraising and an interview with techno-pop musician Moby.
But several experts on aerosols published a paper in the journal Science last year warning that such particles were so poorly understood that there was no way to incorporate them into models without adding greatly to uncertainty in the results.
With a government spending review widely expected next year, and academics close to Westminster warning that science cannot expect the cushioning it was given in the 2010 settlement, the rebellion is causing serious waves.
