Serious people - elected Prime Ministers and Presidents and 'experts' from all over the world, will converge on Paris, this week to talk about how we - man - can control the climate on our planet.
The media will take this seriously and will, mostly, be supportive of what these people are trying to achieve.
They will, to a man and woman, ignore the facts that don't support their contention that climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity.
They will, in short, put forward their view that we can control our climate.
And they will do so based on the belief that CO2 is a pollutant; that it is a gas that is causing catastrophic man-made global warming.
CO2. Without which there would simply be no life on earth. A trace gas - 400 parts per million in our atmosphere - a gas that means plants can grow and thrive and upon which we, therefore, all depend for life.
This is the king Cnut conference. The 'we can control the tides and the waves and the climate' conference.
It is, quite simply, the most ridiculous notion and the most ridiculous conference that humans have ever organised.
Because King Cnut was clearly an idiot. Uninformed by modern science. His belief was guided by religion. He thought that he could control the tides by his will.
The people converging on Paris next week are in exactly the same position.
And they will be judged in decades to come in exactly the same way as we judge King Cnut.
If it wasn't so serious this would be just too funny.
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