Even though 97 percent of scientists agree that global climate change is happening, the astounding evidence isn't enough to convince a sizable section of people of its existence, including the American president. But, if science isn't persuasive enough, maybe a very popular TV show about dragons and cold, bloody people will change the public opinion.
And the good news for the planet is that Game of Thrones is now on the side of Mother Nature. In a new interview with Time, Kit Harington, who plays a bearded fellow who was killed and brought back to life by a sorceress, publicly provides some compelling evidence of the existence of climate change.
The one irony I found this year, it was a very sad irony: We went to Iceland to find snow, because winter is [there]. We got there and we were lucky to get the snow we did because, in our world, winter is definitely not here. It's this weird parallel, the opposite parallel. We go out there this year, and the glacier that me and [former co-star Rose Leslie] filmed on four years ago, I saw it and it has shrunk. I saw climate change and global warming with my own eyes, and it is terrifying.
There you have it. If the rising sea levels and global temperature weren't enough for you, then please acknowledge that the warming of the earth caused by CO2 emissions has made it mildly difficult for Game of Thrones to film in a cold place that wasn't as cold as they needed it to be. Astounding!
Perhaps Trump, who is more effectively swayed by things he sees on TV than logic or facts, will be persuaded to rejoin The Paris Agreement. Although, it's possible he's sick of being pushed around by those elitist Westeros liberals.
And even if that's the case, Harington also acknowledges Game of Thrones could still do some good for the world.
"Westeros maybe feels like a nice escapism compared to what you're seeing on the news because the world's politics has gotten very, very dark in recent weeks and months," he said.
To be honest, though, when Game of Thrones is a lovely escape from the real world, we're probably not doing a great job IRL.
