With the release last week of the exciting third instalment of the mighty IPCC trilogy ‘Assessment Report 5’, it’s clear that the climate change industry has been closely studying the Hollywood Sci-Fi Blockbuster format.

From George Lucas’s original Stars Wars trilogy to Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Hollywood’s brightest know that to get the biggest bang for your buck, you must release your science fiction saga not as one self-contained epic but as three separate instalments.