You’d never have thought it was ever going to happen, but someone has written a play about the climate change zealots and the way they demonize and ostracize one of their colleagues who finds flaws in their research. The playwright Richard Bean has written “The Heretic” which the left wing Guardian reviewer (Michael Billington) describes as “provocative, funny, contrarian and stimulating”. Which surprises me somewhat. I thought they would have completely condemned it out of hand. I mean, what about the children????

The play is about the

isolation of Dr Diane Cassell, a leading light in the earth sciences department of a Yorkshire university. Her speciality is measuring sea levels in the Maldives, and her pragmatism leads her to conclude they have not risen in 20 years. Inevitably her climate-change scepticism lands her in trouble: she gets death threats from Sacred Earth Militia, is at odds with her anorexic Greenpeace daughter, and is eventually suspended by her faculty boss and former lover.

Sounds pretty much par for the course.

He also writes one bitingly funny scene in which his heroine finds herself grilled by Jeremy Paxman in an exchange that spreads more heat than light.

Of course, who would be easier to milk for a few laughs than the skulking commie propagandist Paxton. Especially on this issue. Of course the Guardian reviewer can’t leave his own prejudices on the issue out of it.

But one question kept nagging me: does Bean admire his heroine because of her courageous independence, or because he believes she is right? Would he extend the same charity, I wondered, to a flat-earth advocate?

Yes yes, climate change non believers are the present day equivalent of flat earthers. We’ve heard all that so many times before Mr. Billington you oily little weasel. I also came across another person writing on this play, and he detailed how sadly close to the truth the circumstances of Dr Cassell’s excoriation really are. Long time British television presenter Johnny Ball has been to see the play and he wrote a column on it yesterday for the Mail Online.

The play is called The Heretic and, though I haven’t seen it yet, I could already sink to my knees in gratitude. Because in my own quiet and reasonable way, I am that global warming heretic.

In the past decade or so I’ve been mocked, vilified, besmirched — I’ve even been booed off a theatre stage — simply for expressing the view that the case for global warming and climate change, and in particular the emphasis on the damage caused by carbon dioxide, the so-called greenhouse gas that is going to do for us all, has been massively over-stated.

That is what these climate change people are though, just horrible shouting screaming accusers determined to personally discredit anyone with an opposing view. They have to be like that, for the bottom line is they do not have an argument that will withstand scrutiny. As has been shown time and time again.

For daring to take this contrarian view, I’ve lost bookings, had talks cancelled and been the subject of a sinister internet campaign against me that only came to an end following the intervention of the police.

There was even a painful moment recently when if you Googled my name, the second site that came up mysteriously redirected you to a site offering explicit pornographic pictures. Nothing to do with me, I hasten to add, and one call was enough to quickly rectify the problem, but I fear more damage had been done.

For taking an intellectual stand, my name and reputation have been comprehensively trashed. And something very similar has happened to Dr David Bellamy, who has never been shy about expressing his belief that climate change is an entirely natural phenomenon. His media career, particularly in television, has suffered as a result.

Just the same old Bolshevik left and their cronies and colleagues and yet another reminder of what utter bastards we are up against. Johnny Ball’s article is here. The Guardian’s review of the play is here.