A controversial coupling that could help cool the world

by Jo Romm



Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch -
activist and denier engaged.
 

So I don’t normally cover engagement notices. But on Tuesday, climate activist Jerry Hall and climate super-denier Rupert Murdoch announced their impending nuptials in one of his many newspapers.

This is one of the most unusual couplings since James Carville and Mary Matalin or Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts or James Inhofe and Barbara Boxer. OK, I made up that last one, but still.

I mean, we have the actress and model who had four children with the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger (and who has argued “climate change is the biggest threat the world has ever seen”) getting engaged to the man Rolling Stone magazine labeled “The Disinformer” in a 2010 story naming the “The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.”

Read the ClimateProgress story - “Rupert Murdoch Is Marrying A Climate Hawk.”

Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1000' - Rob Watson

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obert "Rob" Watson coined the phrase “Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1000."

Rob Watson -"Nature
bats last and she
always bats 1000."

The environmentalist, market transformation expert, international leader in the green building movement and CEO and Chief Scientist of The ECON Group, once said, "Mother nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That's all she is. You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell her that the oil companies say climate change is a hoax. No, Mother Nature is going to do whatever chemistry, biology and physics dictate.”

He then added, “Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1000."

“Batting 1000” is baseball parlance for perfection, infallibility and never getting anything wrong.

And now actor Julia Roberts embraces the role of Mother Nature - “Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature” – forcing us to consider just how insignificant we are.