The Little Theatre on the University of Adelaide campus was the venue for a Fringe theatre performance that promised to challenge the audience with political gestures raising awareness of climate change. Ironically, the weather had changed to be rather cold and autumnal. The atmosphere was decidedly chilly, with no hint of global warming.   Only 15 of us filed in to a theatre seating 150, and on the way in we were issued with ear plugs together with a warning that the performance would be pretty loud. Loud it was when the two performers – one male and one female –  delivered (one could not say ‘sang’) some extremely loud and distorted punk lyrics. Any political messaging was completely lost, because it was impossible through the microphone distortion to discern any particularly, let alone any meaning from them.