Like the Passion Play and «A Christmas Carol,» this is the kind of engrained fable that gets told over and over again, even when
almost everyone in the
audience knows every beat of the plot.
Like
almost everyone else I'm incredibly angry that marketing chose to give away the return of Hiccup's mum
in the trailers as it ruins what should have been a powerful moment, one that we the
audience should have felt along with Hiccup.
«Well I'm sitting like a rose between two thorns here and I have to take practical decisions - erm - the climate's always been changing - er - Peter mentioned the Arctic and I think
in the Holocene the Arctic melted completely and you can see there were beaches there - when Greenland was occupied, you know, people growing crops - we then had a little ice age, we had a middle age warming - the climate's been going up and down - but the real question which I think
everyone's trying to address is - is this influenced by manmade activity
in recent years and James is actually correct - the climate has not changed - the temperature has not changed
in the last seventeen years and what I think we've got to be careful of is that there is
almost certainly - bound to be - some influence by manmade activity but I think we've just got to be rational (
audience laughter)- rational people - and make sure the measures that we take to counter it don't actually cause more damage - and I think we're about to get -»
When I talk about referrals,
in conversation or to any
audience,
everyone agrees they are great to receive and that they guarantee
almost 100 - per - cent conversion, normally at full price or commission.