Jules Verne has nothing on Michael Mann.
“Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth’s systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — “cli-fi,” for short.”
TURNS out that the word CLI FI was coined by climate activist and polar city promoter DAN BLoom see here
last graf for EARLIEST CITATION below’
http://www.wordspy.com/words/cli-fi.asp
CLI FI makes dictionary here
cli-fi
n. A literary or movie genre featuring dystopian stories of Earth
affected by extreme climate change. [Climate + fiction.]
Example Citations:
Odds is the latest in what seems to be an emerging literary genre.
Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their
novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the
Earth’s systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be
called climate fiction — “cli-fi,” for short.
—Angela Evancie, “So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New
Literary Genre?,” National Public Radio, April 20, 2013
Cli-fi, or ‘climate fiction,’ describes a dystopian present, as
opposed to a dystopian future. And don’t call it ‘science fiction.’
Cli-fi is literary fiction.
—Husna Haq, “Climate change inspires a new literary genre: cli-fi,”
The Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2013
Earliest Citation:
From “Soylent Green” in 1973 to “The Day After Tomorrow” in 2004,
movies also began to venture into a new genre of science fiction that
might be called “cli-fi” .. or climate fiction.
Cli-fi is also a new genre for novels and short stories.
—Dan Bloom, “The Next Big Genre: ‘Cli-Fi’ — Climate Fiction, in Which
‘Mad Max’ Meets ‘The Road’,” The Wrap, November 3, 2011
Notes:
Climate change has been part of science-fiction for at least 50 years.
There’s definitely something off-kilter and it isn’t the climate.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (in the Sun too Long)