ROD QUANTOCK

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EFFORTLESS HILARIOUS 'A GENIUS'

Rod Quantock's guide to climate change

"Veteran Australian comedian Rod Quantock wants us to get serious on climate change, in a funny kind of way.

His new show, Bugger the Polar bears this is serious opens  

ON THE PENINSULA soon.

Hear Rod in the Sydney ABC studio to talk about why he felt compelled to tackle climate change."

Go to the ABC web site to listen or download the show.

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Bugger the polar bears, this is serious builds on Rod's Comedy Festival show, Rod Quantock Eats Himself, which scared a lot of people shitless.

Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you shitless, then you just don't get the science."

Fortunately Rod does get the science. And when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology, cosmology and meteorology of climate science you'll get it too. And then... you'll be scared shitless!

Rod, as always, has done his homework. He's talked to leading climate scientists. He's read the reports and watched the documentaries. He has taken the news stories big and small and joined the dots: worst fires, longest droughts, most devastating storms, mass extinctions, ice caps melting, polar bears drowning... But, hey! Bugger the polar bears, this is serious.

"I hate polar bears," Rod said. "Why is climate change always about polar bears? Who's their agent? It's not like they're the only ones who'll be extinct. Chances are we will all be extinct!

"Victoria will be a smouldering, waterless wasteland. No more Boxing Day Test or Spring Racing Carnival. Further north monsoons, disease, storms and sea level rise will devastate coastlines and that AFL team on the Gold Coast will be exposed as the short-sighted folly it always was," Rod said.

If we continue to fiddle at the emissions fringe optimists predict only two billion people will left by the end of the century, down from a peak of nine billion in 2050. That's 7,000,000,000 people gone in 50 years!

If you don't want to be one of them then it's time to take climate sides! And if you don't know what side to be on you owe it to yourself to see Bugger the polar bears, this is serious - arguably the most important show in what's left of human history

"Changing the world is never so much fun as when you do it in the company of Rod Quantock." Susan Provan, Director, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.