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climate activists are 'completely unhinged' after Manchin decision: Climate publisher
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Climatedepot.com publisher Marc Morano praises Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for rejecting a climate spending bill and slams climate activists for ...
Sarah Palin Doesn't Think Bill Nye the Science Guy Is a Real Scientist - The Wrap
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According to the Huffington Post, her statements came after a screening of “Climate Hustle,” new anti-climate change documentary. Producer Marc Morano ...
Sarah Palin Doesn’t Think Bill Nye the Science Guy Is a Real Scientist
”Bill Nye is as much as scientist as I am,“ says the former Alaska governor
Beatrice Verhoeven, PWSBeatrice Verhoeven | April 15, 2016 @ 8:00 AM
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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin not only doesn’t believe in climate change — she doesn’t believe Bill Nye the Science Guy is a real scientist.
“Bill Nye is as much as scientist as I am,” Palin said at an event in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill. “He’s a kids’ show actor; he’s not a scientist.”
She specifically targeted Nye for his claims that climate change was man-made, stating that scientists who believe that climate change is caused by mankind are trying to shut down human progress and fueling “alarmism.”
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Additionally, Palin asked parents to “not just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.”
According to the Huffington Post, her statements came after a screening of “Climate Hustle,” new anti-climate change documentary. Producer Marc Morano interviews Nye in the film.
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Nye began his career at Boeing and later worked in the aeronautics industry. He began his professional entertainment career on a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington. He famously hosted an education television program called “Bill Nye the Science Guy” from 1993 to 1998, and he also wrote several books on scientific topics.
Among his science-based accomplishments is assisting in the development of the MarsDial, a small sundial that has been used in NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover missions.
Power of one man: Sen. Joe Manchin pulls out of climate & tax talks, hampers Biden's ...
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Marc Morano joined the Ezra Levant Show to discuss Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin single-handedly throwing a wrench in Joe Biden's legislative agenda, ...
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climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy is a hot item. The hard-hitting video documentary exposes the frauds, the hypocrisies, and the tyrannous plans that tie climate alarmism to the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” and government-mandated lockdowns in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. And it does it all with a combination of biting humor, shrewd logic, and hard facts. Tuesday night, December 15, our friend Marc Morano, co-executive producer of Climate Hustle 2, will be on our Facebook Livestream program From the Stacks to discuss the film and responses to it. Marc heads up ClimateDepot.com, one of the best websites debunking the exaggerated claims of catastrophic manmade global warming.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11398042/
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/trump-white-house-recruited-climate-science-critics-work-noaa
Trump White House recruited climate science critics to work at NOAA
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsSep. 28, 2020
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At least three prominent researchers who question the severity of climate change rebuffed the opportunity to take a senior position at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The White House has been quietly working in recent weeks to reshape the leadership of NOAA with a goal of criticizing climate science, according to people who were contacted about the job.
The revelation that administration officials approached multiple researchers with long records of casting doubt on human-caused climate change points to a political campaign to undermine mainstream science at one of the world’s leading climate agencies, experts and observers said.
After the initial candidates declined the position, the White House turned to David Legates, a geography professor at the University of Delaware who rejects the basic principles of climate science. Legates, now the deputy assistant secretly for observation and prediction at NOAA, has claimed that rising carbon dioxide levels would make the earth more hospitable to humans.
John Christy,an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, told E&E News that a White House official promised him he would be given a free hand to change the way NOAA approaches climate research.
“The pitch was I would have new influence on the future direction of the agency,” Christy said, adding that if he had accepted the job, “I would redirect money from the climate modeling project into the weather modeling project.”
Christy, who downplays the severity of rising temperatures, said he was unable to take the job due to his academic commitments. His colleague Roy Spencer, a meteorologist affiliated with the Heartland Institute, also was mentioned as a possibility, but he did not pursue the opportunity.
Christy reached out toJudith Curry, the former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, to see if she would be interested in the NOAA position, Curry told E&E News. She, too, rebuffed the offer.
“I’m totally uninterested in anything having to do with D.C. and government,”Curry said.
In addition to Legates, the White House installed Ryan Maue, a former employee of the Cato Institute, as NOAA’s chief scientist, and Erik Noble, who worked as a data analyst for President Donald Trump’s campaign, as the agency’s acting chief of staff.
The changes symbolize a coordinated effort to reshape NOAA’s senior leadership in the dusk of Trump’s first term. Until now, the agency has remained relatively unscathed by the president’s embrace of conspiracy theories about climate change.
But the moves being taken now by administration officials could outlast Trump’s presidency even if he loses the November election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to Andrew Rosenberg, who served as a deputy director at NOAA in former President Bill Clinton’s administration.
Rosenberg, who now runs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the political appointments could be a strategic way to get climate denialists “burrowed” in at NOAA. If the political appointees are offered career positions, they will be much harder to dismiss after Trump is gone because of protections for federal workers, Rosenberg said.
“They’re packing these positions, and I’m worried they’re going to get burrowed into career positions in NOAA. First of all, getting appointed in the first place is sending a very strong signal that we are not interested in the overall scientific evidence of climate change; we’re going to go with the view of the fringe. That’s very distressing, not only to climate change, but everything NOAA does.”
Two of the new hires—Legates and Maue—have a record of downplaying climate science and have published claims in direct contradiction to NOAA peer-reviewed research.
Outside advisers to the White House have said Legates is expected to attempt to influence the next National Climate Assessment, the congressionally mandated body of research that informs policymakers around the country about how climate change is affecting their regions.
The climate “lie”
Some NOAA employees are nervous about what the moves herald if Trump wins a second term. Climate scientists seem particularly nervous that their work will be affected. In recent months, political appointees at the Commerce Department, which includes NOAA, have been monitoring climate research more closely, according to NOAA employees.
“If your morale is not already sapped, you aren’t paying attention,” said one NOAA staffer who requested anonymity to avoid repercussions.
A NOAA spokesman did not respond to a request seeking comment, and the White House declined to comment on the record.
NOAA has not been entirely immune to politicization. A year ago, the agency was engulfed by a scandal when acting Administrator Neil Jacobs and senior staff criticized agency forecasters at the National Weather Service. The controversy began when Trump incorrectly tweeted that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian in September 2019.
After receiving panicked phone calls, the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service put out a statement that correctly said the storm would not hit Alabama. Jacobs nevertheless criticized the forecasters.
The episode became known as “Sharpiegate” after Trump refused to acknowledge his mistake and later pointed to a map in the Oval Office that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie marker to show the path of the hurricane hitting Alabama.
A recently concluded investigation by the department’s inspector general determined that senior NOAA officials were pressured by the White House to issue the statement that unduly criticized the Birmingham forecasters. The agency’s acting chief scientist, Craig McLean, called for an investigation into the statement and supported the agency’s weather forecast. McLean is now set to be replaced by Maue.
On Thursday, 85 Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a letter to Jacobs and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross protesting the appointment of Legates, saying he would “clearly be in a position to seriously damage the agency’s scientific integrity.”
“While Legates promotes the fossil fuel industry’s agenda and derides taxpayer dollars spent on mitigating the ‘undetectable effects of climate change,’ the staggering cost of failing to address climate change is terrifying to the rest of us working to save a livable future for our children and grandchildren,” they wrote.
Legates will have a senior role at an agency whose scientists he deeply disagrees with. In many cases, they’ve proved Legates’ unfounded claims wrong in peer-reviewed studies. By contrast, Legates has relished his role as a fringe researcher, collaborating with a number of groups that have received funding from the fossil fuel industry, Trump donors and foundations that oppose government regulations.
A documentary that was released last week and features Legates provides a window into the scientific priorities he might bring to NOAA.
The film, “Climate Hustle 2,” isconnected to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which has received energy industry funding. It cycles through a familiar miasma of debunked and cherry-picked scientific claims that paint the relatively small number of researchers who doubt the extent of human-caused climate change as Galileo-like figures, while climate scientists publishing peer-reviewed research are portrayed as compromised elites.
The movie is introduced by “Mini AOC,” a girl dressed to resemble Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
“Like, I hope you learned a lot about climate change in this movie; I know I did. Like, I used to not believe in climate change either. Like, I thought it meant Mother Nature was transgendering into Father Nature,” she says in the online presentation, which charged viewers $15 to watch.
Legates features prominently in the film, which compares those who want more aggressive climate policy to the authoritarian government of George Orwell’s “1984” and claims thatthose who question climate science face persecution and jail under organized crime statutes.
The movie claims that people who are worried about climate change want to place limits on the number of children born in America, that steaks will be made illegal and that environmentalism is a “church” that targets heretics.
It portrays climate contrarians as being up against a multibillion-dollar industry of renewable energy companies and environmental groups while ignoring its own connections to the energy industry.
The film also features Legates’ co-author on a number of published studies, astrophysicist Willie Soon, who claims the sun is fueling global warming. Soon says he cried after The New York Times exposed that his research was secretly funded by energy companies and suggests that climate activists should be jailed. Maue’s research on hurricanes is also cited in the film.
Cutting down on carbon emissions would mean that developed nations “would head toward the undeveloped world, and we would bring everybody down to the lowest common denominator,” Legates says in the film. He says teaching young people about human-caused global warming is indoctrinating them into believing a “lie.”
“The idea behind carbon dioxide rationing is that what it essentially says is that to survive as a planet, what we really need to do is not use any energy, and what that’s going to take us back is to a condition where people have the basic necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter and security,” Legates says in the movie
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11398042/
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Marc Morano ... executive producer
Christopher Rogers ... producer
Craig Rucker ... executive produce
Tony Armer ... special thanks
Lisa Dozois ... special thanks
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Producer (4 credits)
2020 Climate Hustle 2 (Documentary) (producer)
2017 Climate Hustle (Documentary) (producer)
2015 Where the Grass Is Greener (Documentary) (executive producer) / (producer)
2012 For the Glory (executive producer)
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2020Climate Hustle 2 (Documentary)
2017Climate Hustle (Documentary)
2015Where the Grass Is Greener (Documentary)
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- Patrick Moore, Canadian climate science denier
- Freeman **Dyson**, retired physicist
- James Lovelock, independent scientist
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courtesy of climatedepot.com | Sarah Palin joins environmental panelists and filmmaker Marc Morano, far right, in this scene from Morano's documentary "Climate Hustle."
'Climate Hustle' reeks of conspiracy theory
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Hunter Gajewski
Escalating in the last decade, climate change is a familiar, fearful phrase in the global spectrum. Frenzied waves of scientists, activists and politicians present the issue as Scripture. Along this line of thinking, anyone who rejects the theory that climate change is urgent is a heretic.
Stepping up as the right-wing challenger is one Marc Morano, with his new documentary, "Climate Hustle." Morano has made a career out of contradicting environmentalists, and he has worked for right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, according to imdb.com.
I went to the one-night showing of "Climate Hustle" on May 2 in Carmike 10 of Fairgrounds Square, Muhlenberg Township.
The film presumes to divulge the history of climate change, discrediting popular myths and interviewing prominent scientists.:{ Following the film is a panel discussion including Sarah Palin, climatologist Dr. David Legates, Morano and Bill Nye "the Science Guy."
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Despite the fact that it is presented with colorful graphics and zany transitions, the film is about as dry as the Sahara Desert during a drought. Morano struggles to be an enthusiastic, engaging narrator, resorting to monotonous stretches of sluggish dialogue. The backdrops for each scene, whether a barefaced green screen or a random tree, ultimately make you want to doze off.
The technical scale of the film is abhorrent, easily comparable to a high school video production rather than a professional documentary. Poor lighting, awkward editing and cringeworthy sketches all pile onto the laundry basket of things that cripple the film's aesthetic.
"Climate Hustle" ultimately fails its goal of making a well-constructed counter argument to climate change, instead opting to present the situation from a conspiracy theorist's point of view. During the panel discussion, Nye adds some much-needed factual relief, debunking the comments of Morano and providing real scientific insight.
If you plan to see this, prepare to get few bucks hustled out of your wallet and lose a valuable chunk of your time
http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/12/bill-nye**-bet-marc-morano/
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http://www.climatehustler.org/
Climate Hustle, produced by Climate Depot's Marc Morano for CFACT, screens its world premiere inParis, France on December 7, 2015 during the United Nations COP21 climate summit.
While Morano claims that the film contains interviews with scientists, he fails to explain that his chosen subjects lack credibility and are far outside the mainstream climate science community.
In fact, 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree — that's right, there is an overwhelming 97% consensus position that global warming is real and largely driven by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.
Climate Hustle is designed to confuse people, create doubt and further delay climate action — much as Marc Morano has been paid to do for decades. Don't be conned by the Climate Hustler. If you're looking for an entertaining film about climate science denial, check out Merchants of Doubt instead, which happens to feature Marc Morano.
Who Is Marc Morano?
Marc Morano is the executive director and chief correspondent of ClimateDepot.com, a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). Morano is also the Communications Director at CFACT, which has received funding from oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevronamong other fossil fuel interests. According to2011 IRS Forms (PDF), Morano was the highest paid staff member at CFACT with a salary of $150,000 per year. Morano's blog Climate Depot regularly publishes articles questioning man-made global warming. [12], [13], [6], [37]
Although he has no scientific expertise in the area, Morano has become a prominent climate change denier. He has been called “the Matt Drudge of climate denial”, the “King of the skeptics,” and a “central cell of the climate-denial machine.” He was also listed as one of 17 top “climate killers” by Rolling Stone Magazine. He has accused climate scientists of “fear mongering,” and has claimed that proponents of man-made global warming are “funded to the tune of $50 billion.”
For more information about the climate hustler Marc Morano, check out his DeSmogBlog profile.
Watch Marc Morano interviewed by Peter Sinclair:
What is the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)?
The Washington-DC-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a tax-exempt501(c)(3) organization founded in 1985. The conservative think-tank in Washington D.C. has received funding from ExxonMobil, Chevron, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars from foundations associated with Richard Mellon :{Scaife:(style="background-color:#ffff99;"):}::{. CFACT has also received at least $7.8 million in dark money through DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund.
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CFACT's position on climate change is CO2 is “beneficial” to plants and wildlife and therefore,
“Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and governments, but will impose enormous costs on society – while having no effect on our weather and climate.”
CFACT has also suggested that the earth may be “cooling” and therefore CO2 is a “benefit”:
“Many climatologists and astrophysicists believe recent sun spot, Pacific Ocean and global temperature trends suggest that our planet may have entered a cool phase that could last for 25 years. If that is the case, the additional carbon dioxide being emitted by China, India and other developing countries could bring a major additional benefit: helping to protect wildlife habitats, enhance oceanic biota and preserve crop yields under sub-optimal climatic conditions.”
Find out more about CFACT in the DeSmogBlog profile on Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).
Climate Hustle cast members
The names of climate “sceptics” and others interviewed for Climate Hustle have been released in the run-up to the film's 7 December 2015 premiere through interviews and blog posts. These names have included:
- Professor **Judith Curry**,Georgia Institute of Technology
- Professor:{ Richard Tol:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, University of Sussex
- Ivar Giaever, retired physicist
- William Briggs, statistician
- Dr Robert Giegengack, University of Pennsylvania
- Patrick :{Moore:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, Canadian climate science denier
- Freeman **Dyson**, retired physicist
- James Lovelock, independent scientist
- Bob Carter, Australian geologist and associate of Institute of Public Affairs, Heartland Institute and other denialist think tanks
- Tom Harris,executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition
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“Convicted: How Climate Alarmism Harms the World’s Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, May 17, 2017. Archived May 16, 2017.
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https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/19/evangelical-christian-zeal-behind-marc-morano-s-climate-denial-documentary-climate-hustle/
The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Documentary
By Graham Readfearn on Nov 19, 2015
One unambiguous video title states that “Climate Policies kill. People will die”, while others scream how moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions “devalues human life” and “kills thousands” in Britain.
All this extremist language comes from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a US-based Christian evangelical group that rejects climate science and is preparing to release a new documentary in the coming weeks.
Cornwall has been posting preview clips under the banner “Greener on the other Side: Climate Alarmism – Fact, Not Fear”on its YouTube page.
The views in the clips are extreme but represent a grab bag of climate science denialist talking points, ignoring the mountains of evidence gathered from multiple sources over many decades of the impacts of loading the atmosphere and the oceans with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
The clips cut across energy policy and climate science and claim, amongst other things, there is no evidence to support cuts to the use of fossil fuels which are beneficial to the planet.
In one segment, the alliance’s supposed climate experts promote creationism. “There has to be a designer – a creator behind this,” says David Legates.
The Cornwall Alliance is preparing to release the full DVD at the end of November under the title “Where the Grass is Greener”, only days before another climate science denial documentary, Climate Hustle, gets its premiere in Paris.
The two films also share a number of experts, including statistician William Briggs, climate denial activist Tom Harris, Australian “sceptic” Bob Carter, British peer Lord Christopher Monckton and blogger Anthony Watts.
But the similarities between Greener on the Other Side and Climate Hustle do not stop there, because both films share the same director in Chris Rogers and were produced by his company – CDR Communications.
Rogers’ CDR Communications was also behind another Cornwall Alliance extremist video effort in 2010 — Resisting the Green Dragon — that claimed environmentalism was a “false religion” and that it was a cover story for a “global government” power grab.
Rogers is also the chairman of The James Partnership, the umbrella arm that includes the Cornwall Alliance as one of its projects and pays the salary of Calvin Beisner, Cornwall’s founder and spokesperson.
While Cornwall Alliance will be unlikely to gain traction for its DVD outside of evangelical Christian circles, Marc Morano has much greater ambitions for Climate Hustle.
Climate science denialist Morano is the bombastic communications director for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).
As DeSmog reported, after a “red carpet premier” of the film that Morano modestly claims will “rock the climate debate”, CFACT wants a US cinema release for the documentary, followed by DVD sales andthen distribution in schools and colleges.
In the most recent trailer for Climate Hustle, CDR Communications staffer Anna Milograno is credited as the editor, with Rogers as the producer and director.
In two earlier trailers, CDR Communications staffers Ian Jelliffe and Jay Kim were also credited, alongside “director of photography Joseph Rossell”.
Rossell is a research analyst at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) who has been writing stories attacking climate science on his IRD blog Juicy Ecumenism and also on the NewsBusters website. NewsBusters is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), which describes itself as “America’s leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”
Morano has previously credited MRC as helping to produce Climate Hustle by providing access to archive news footage. Morano once worked as a journalist at Cybercast News Service, another MRC project.
Both MRC and CFACT have previously accepted grants from oil company ExxonMobil, which is currently under investigation by the New York attorney general for allegedly lying about the risks of climate change to the public and investors.
In the latest Cornwall Alliance film, Paul Driessen, CFACT‘s senior policy advisor, says: “I’m often accused of taking fossil fuel money – I’m still waiting for the check from ExxonMobil”.
Understanding the links between Morano, Climate Hustle and evangelical religion reveals an irony. Morano and other climate science deniers will frequently attempt to disparage climate science by comparing it to a kind of religion, implying that they are blinded by faith.
Yet the very people Morano employed to produce his new documentary are fundamentalist Christians with a warped view on science. The one being blinded by faith, it seems, is Morano himself.
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one unambiguous video title states that “Climate Policies kill. People will die”, while others scream how moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions “devalues human life” and “kills thousands” in Britain.
All this extremist language comes from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a US-based Christian evangelical group that rejects climate science and is preparing to release a new documentary in the coming weeks.
Cornwall has been posting preview clips under the banner “Greener on the other Side: Climate Alarmism – Fact, Not Fear” on its YouTube page.
The views in the clips are extreme but represent a grab bag of climate science denialist talking points, ignoring the mountains of evidence gathered from multiple sources over many decades of the impacts of loading the atmosphere and the oceans with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
The clips cut across energy policy and climate science and claim, amongst other things, there is no evidence to support cuts to the use of fossil fuels which are beneficial to the planet.
In one segment, the alliance’s supposed climate experts promote creationism. “There has to be a designer – a creator behind this,” says David Legates.
the Cornwall Alliance is preparing to release the full DVD at the end of November under the title “Where the Grass is Greener”, only days before another climate science denial documentary, Climate Hustle, gets its premiere in Paris.
The two films also share a number of experts, including statistician William Briggs, climate denial activist Tom Harris, Australian “sceptic” Bob Carter, British peer Lord Christopher Monckton and blogger Anthony Watts.
But the similarities between Greener on the Other Side and Climate Hustle do not stop there, because both films share the same director in Chris Rogers and were produced by his company – :{CDR:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: Communications.
Rogers’ CDR Communications was also behind another Cornwall Alliance extremist video effort in 2010 — Resisting the Green Dragon — that claimed environmentalism was a “false religion” and that it was a cover story for a “global government” power grab.
rogers is also the chairman of The James Partnership, the umbrella arm that includes the Cornwall Alliance as one of its projects and pays the salary of Calvin Beisner, Cornwall’s founder and spokesperson.
While Cornwall Alliance will be unlikely to gain traction for its DVD outside of evangelical Christian circles, Marc Morano has much greater ambitions for Climate Hustle.
Climate science denialist Morano is the bombastic communications director for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).
As DeSmog reported, after a “red carpet premier” of the film that Morano modestly claims will “rock the climate debate”, CFACT wants a US cinema release for the documentary, followed by DVD sales and then distribution in schools and colleges.
In the most recent trailer for Climate Hustle, CDR Communications staffer Anna Milograno is credited as the editor, with Rogers as the producer and director.
In two earlier trailers, CDR Communications staffers Ian Jelliffe and Jay Kim were also credited, alongside “director of photography Joseph Rossell"
rossell is a research analyst at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) who has been writing stories attacking climate science on his IRD blog Juicy Ecumenism and also on the NewsBusters website. NewsBusters is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), which describes itself as “America’s leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”
Morano has previously credited MRC as helping to produce Climate Hustle by providing access to archive news footage. Morano once worked as a journalist at Cybercast News Service, another MRC project.
Both MRC and CFACT have previously accepted grants from oil company ExxonMobil, which is currently under investigation by the New York attorney general for allegedly lying about the risks of climate change to the public and investors.
In the latest Cornwall Alliance film, Paul Driessen, CFACT‘s senior policy advisor, says: “I’m often accused of taking fossil fuel money – I’m still waiting for the check from ExxonMobil”.
Understanding the links between Morano, Climate Hustle and evangelical religion reveals an irony. Morano and other climate science deniers will frequently attempt to disparage climate science by comparing it to a kind of religion, implying that they are blinded by faith.
Yet the very people Morano employed to produce his new documentary are fundamentalist Christians with a warped view on science. The one being blinded by faith, it seems, is Morano himself.
Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film | DeSmogBlog
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:{One of America’s most outspoken :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:deniers of the link between fossil fuel burning and global warming has refused $20,000 in bets that the planet will keep getting hotter.
Offering the two bets to Marc Morano, of the conservative think tank the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), is popular television science presenter Bill Nye, “the science guy.”
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Nye said he was willing to bet Morano that 2016 would be one of the 10 hottest years on record. He also offered a bet the current decade would be the hottest on record.
Morano turned down both bets, telling DeSmog it was “silly” to take a bet when it was “obvious” the official records would show more global warming.
According to NASA measurements, 14 of the 16 hottest years on record have all happened since the year 2000. Last year, 2015, was also the hottest on record.
Nye offered the bets during a yet-to-be-screened interview requested by Morano, who is busy promoting his new Climate Hustle film.
Here is an excerpt of their exchange, including the bets offered by Nye to Morano:
As DeSmog has reported, Climate Hustle features a roll call of climate science deniers and is set to rehash old myths.
Show business “bible” Variety magazine reported as an “exclusive” today that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was endorsing the movie—an “exclusive” based on a press release from March 31.
Variety failed to note how many of the views expressed in Climate Hustle run counter to the conclusions of major science academies around the world and 97 percent of climate scientists.
Morano is a regular guest on conservative-leaning media outlets, including Fox News, where he constantly challenges the overwhelming science linking fossil fuel burning to dangerous climate change.
Nye told DeSmog that in the interview he confronted Morano over his publishing of the email addresses of scientists, which he said had “enabled harassment.”
He told DeSmog: “I also asked Mr. Morano about his own children and the world he’s working hard to create for them. I asked him about his children growing up watching his tactics; he is a role model for them, after all.”
Morano is planning to show clips from the interview with Nye at an invitation-only event on Capitol Hill on April 14.
At that event, Morano will record a panel discussion featuring former Alaska Gov. Sara Palin and Republican Representative Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and has invited several climate science denialists to give testimony.
Like most high profile Republicans, Palin, who has endorsed Donald Trump as her party’s presidential candidate, also refuses to accept the scientific evidence that fossil fuel emissions cause climate change.
In a 2014 video, Palin described global warming as a “con job,” saying, “climate change is to this century what Eugenics was to the last century.”
Morano’s film will be shown in about 400 theatres across the U.S. on May 2 after a deal with SpectiCast, a company that usually broadcasts concert and theatre events to cinemas.
SpectiCast co-founder Mark Rupp described Climate Hustleas “extremely timely” and said the film was “informative and engaging.”
The April 14 panel discussion with Palin, Smith and featuring the Nye interview will be broadcast as a “bonus” during the Climate Hustle screenings.
Nye told DeSmog he agreed to take part in the hope it would encourage more journalists to ask “U.S. congressional staffers, members of Congress and the presidential candidates themselves about their views on climate change.”
Nye wrote in an email:
“Each candidate has made remarks about climate change from time to time, but it has been quite a while since any professional journalist has directly asked the remaining conservative presidential candidates questions along these lines:
Why do you disagree with the enormous majority of the world’s scientists about the seriousness of human-caused global climate change?
Do you believe your own experience with weather provides a more accurate assessment of global climatic conditions than that of the world’s scientists?
Do you believe there is a conspiracy involved? If so, what evidence do you have of the conspiracy?”
Nye said he had only been shown clips of the film, which will be distributed by Fathom Events.
Nye added:
“From what [Mr. Morano] chose to show us, the film seems to be a series of interviews with traditional climate change deniers. As an on-cameral professional, I found Mr. Morano’s performance stiff and not engaging. For me, the uneven performance added to the disingenuous and unprofessional nature of the film.”
To push his case further, Nye showed Morano a chart (below) of land- and satellite-based temperatures which all showed a warming planet.
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Morano told DeSmog: “I did turn down Nye’s temperature bets. I told him that according to the official surface temperature records of course 2016, with strong El Nino, would be one of the ‘hottest’ or near ‘hottest’ on ‘record.’ I explained to Nye the official surface data always seems to be claiming ‘hottest’ year. So a bet on the obvious was silly. The same goes for ‘hottest’ decade bet.”
This claim comes despite Morano promoting several apparent “global cooling” stories on his CFACT ClimateDepot website in recent weeks.
Morano said he was “proud” to publish email addresses of scientists and activists “who make silly and outlandish claims or who express contempt for anyone who disagrees.”
Morano added: “Nye was getting very silly and basically saying that any skeptic who has kids will have to deal with their kids allegedly being embarrassed by their parent rejecting Al Gore and the UN’s hyped climate views.”
Kymberli Frueh, VP of programming at Fathom Events, said the company was working directly with SpectiCast, not CFACT.
She said the company brought “a variety of events to the cinema” and understood that “each of our programming selections will not always appeal to everyone.”
She added: “The opinions expressed by any of our events do not necessarily reflect the views of Fathom. However, we support the right to freedom of expression and the civil, open exchange of ideas and viewpoints.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2016
(March 21, 2016) CFACT and CDR Communications, in partnership with Event Cinema provider SpectiCast, are pleased to announce the release of “Climate Hustle,” a one-night engagement in theaters nationwide on May 2, 2016 that debunks the myths and hype about man-made global warming in an informative and entertaining style. Additional details, including a very special bonus event featuring a newsworthy name, will be released very soon.
On the heels of Earth Day (April 22nd) and the opening of the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations, the “Climate Hustle” May 2 event examines the question of whether there is a genuine scientific consensus about alleged man-made global warming. With more than 30 scientists and experts featured, the film reveals the history of climate scares, examines the science on both sides of the debate and digs into the politics and media hype surrounding the issue. It has been called “brutal and extremely funny” by National Review and “dynamite” by Breitbart News.
“Climate Hustle” is hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Marc Morano. A former communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Morano is publisher of CFACT’s ClimateDepot.com, one of the world’s top sources for scientific information skeptical of climate alarm.
“‘Climate Hustle’ is an extremely timely film, especially given the relevant political discussion surrounding global warming,” said Mark Rupp, Co-founder and President of SpectiCast Entertainment. “We feel it is important to share all viewpoints on the climate change issue and ‘Climate Hustle’ provides a perspective not generally shared with the public at large in an informative and engaging way.”
David Rothbard, Executive Producer of the film and President of CFACT, said “The issue of global warming is certainly a ‘hot’ topic and what better way to educate the public than through a film that presents a much-needed perspective based on hard science with a humorous tone.” Added Chris Rogers, Director of “Climate Hustle” and President of CDR Communications, “In the midst of this year’s election, it is of the utmost importance that voters hear both sides of this much-hyped issue, in order to make more educated decisions about climate and energy policies that will affect generations to come.”
– See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2016/03/21/press-release-cfact-inks-deal-hustle-in-theaters-may-2/#sthash.x17SOXlh.dpuf
Read more: http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/03/21/skeptical-climate-hustle-film-to-theatersnationwide-may-2-for-a-one-night-event/#ixzz491ms7p7O
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2016
(March 21, 2016) CFACT and CDR Communications, in partnership with Event Cinema provider SpectiCast, are pleased to announce the release of “Climate Hustle,” a one-night engagement in theaters nationwide on May 2, 2016 that debunks the myths and hype about man-made global warming in an informative and entertaining style. Additional details, including a very special bonus event featuring a newsworthy name, will be released very soon.
On the heels of Earth Day (April 22nd) and the opening of the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations, the “Climate Hustle” May 2 event examines the question of whether there is a genuine scientific consensus about alleged man-made global warming. With more than 30 scientists and experts featured, the film reveals the history of climate scares, examines the science on both sides of the debate and digs into the politics and media hype surrounding the issue. It has been called “brutal and extremely funny” by National Review and “dynamite” by Breitbart News.
“Climate Hustle” is hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Marc Morano. A former communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Morano is publisher of CFACT’s ClimateDepot.com, one of the world’s top sources for scientific information skeptical of climate alarm.
“‘Climate Hustle’ is an extremely timely film, especially given the relevant political discussion surrounding global warming,” said Mark Rupp, Co-founder and President of SpectiCast Entertainment. “We feel it is important to share all viewpoints on the climate change issue and ‘Climate Hustle’ provides a perspective not generally shared with the public at large in an informative and engaging way.”
David Rothbard, Executive Producer of the film and President of CFACT, said “The issue of global warming is certainly a ‘hot’ topic and what better way to educate the public than through a film that presents a much-needed perspective based on hard science with a humorous tone.” Added Chris Rogers, Director of “Climate Hustle” and President of CDR Communications, “In the midst of this year’s election, it is of the utmost importance that voters hear both sides of this much-hyped issue, in order to make more educated decisions about climate and energy policies that will affect generations to come.”
– See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2016/03/21/press-release-cfact-inks-deal-hustle-in-theaters-may-2/#sthash.x17SOXlh.dpuf
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grass greener: 2015
documentary that gathers the expertise of over 30 world-class scholars in climate science; to address global warming and climate policy from a Biblical perspective to help protect the world's poor from harmful climate and energy policies.
Directed by
Christopher Rogers Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
E. Calvin Beisner
Rachel Stein Cast
Jock Allison Jock Allison ... Self
Tim Ball Tim Ball ... Self
Calvin Beisner Calvin Beisner ... Self
William Briggs William Briggs ... Self
H. Sterling Burnett H. Sterling Burnett ... Self
Bob Carter Bob Carter ... Self (as Robert M. Carter)
Walter Cunningham Walter Cunningham ... Self
Harold H. Doiron Harold H. Doiron ... Self
Paul Driessen Paul Driessen ... Self
William M. Gray William M. Gray ... Self
Ken Haapala Ken Haapala ... Self
William Happer William Happer ... Self
Tom Harris Tom Harris ... Self
Kathleen Hartnett Kathleen Hartnett ... Self
David Kreutzer David Kreutzer ... Self
David Legates David Legates ... Self
Patrick Michaels Patrick Michaels ... Self
Christopher Monckton Christopher Monckton ... Self
Marc Morano Marc Morano ... Self
Janet Parshall Janet Parshall ... Self
Jay Richards Jay Richards ... Self
James H. Rust James H. Rust ... Self
John G. Searle John G. Searle ... Self
Thomas P. Sheahen Thomas P. Sheahen ... Self
Frederick Singer Frederick Singer ... Self
Roy Spencer Roy Spencer ... Self
Leighton Steward Leighton Steward ... Self
James Taylor James Taylor ... Self
James Tonkowich James Tonkowich ... Self
G. Cornelis van Kooten G. Cornelis van Kooten ... Self
Anthony Watts Anthony Watts ... Self
Tom Wysmuller Tom Wysmuller ... Self
Elizabeth Yore Elizabeth Yore ... Self
Ben Zycher Ben Zycher ... Self
Produced by
Deborah Melvin Beisner ... assistant producer
E. Calvin Beisner ... executive producer
Christopher Rogers ... executive producer / producer
Nancy Rogers ... executive producer
Tova Stein ... assistant producer
Megan Toombs ... assistant producerFilm Editing by
Anna Milograno
Rachel Stein
2012
"Golden boy" Kurt Kuykendall (Jason Burkey) has it all: good looks, a spot on his college basketball team, and hopes for playing in the Olympics. But behind the closed doors of his Bethesda, Maryland home, Kurt's life is far from perfect. An alcoholic mother (Nancy Fondriest), a power hungry father (Michael Landers), and a family tragedy make this suburban dream home a living nightmare. When Kurt gets cut at the end of his freshman basketball season, all that he's worked for crumbles. But this is far from the final word on Kurt's future. Buoyed by friends (Robby Stone, Danny Cornett, Chelsie Casagrande) and his new found faith in God, Kurt discovers courage and his true calling.