While some 40,000 climate advocates are in Paris to try to reach some sort of agreement on wealth redistribution in the name of stopping climate change, there is a small contingent of climate skeptics, including people from the Heartland Institute and CFACT. Marc Morano of Climate depot is about to unveil a film “Climate Hustle” (which I’m also in) that looks to dial back some of the hype by showing the history of the claims and how they keep changing.
CFACT writes via a short email press release:
Watch Sean Hannity feature the first clips of CFACT’s ground-breaking new film “Climate Hustle.” Warm, cold, more snow, less snow, dry, wet, you name it, the global warming crowd attributes it to “climate change.” They’ve gotten away with this double talk long enough. It’s time to take them down.
GERALD RIVERA SPREADS JUNK SCIENCE LIKE A SNAIL SPREADS SLIME.
Geraldo Rivera has always stood ready to “debunk” anyone who appears on Fox News who takes a skeptic position. His mouth being WAY bigger than that of his guests he appears to succeed at this. Rivera’s pompous blather overwhelms his reasonable guests who don’t realize Rivera has no intention of letting them make their points. Rivera spreads junk science like a snail spreads slime.
This time around he got caught in a bind. The stuff on Morano’s film was so obviously true that he couldn’t refute any of it without making himself look like the lying fool he is. (Plus Morano has broadcast presentation skills. He is no fish in a barrel, Rivera’s usual prey.)
Notice what Rivera did. He did everything he could to take the attention away from Morano’s film. Instead of talking about the film — which was what the program was about — Rivera talked about ISIS selling oil to Turkey, etc. — anything to avoid talking about the film.
Fox News really needs to fire Rivera. He is not honest in the way he present the news and discusses issues. That, in the long run, hurts Fox’s reputation.
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Willowbrook put him on the map and kept him there.
I’m sure his good looks helped.
If the film generates enough views on YouTube it will get advertising revenue.
Can’t wait to see it. Good luck from tropical Cairns Australia.
I think if the ice cores had been dug up in the 1960s we would not be having this argument.
The first Earth Day was in 1974.
https://www.aip.org/history/climate/rapid.htm
“By the 20th century, scientists had rejected old tales of world catastrophe, and were convinced that global climate could change only gradually over many tens of thousands of years. But in the 1950s, a few scientists found evidence that some changes in the past had taken only a few thousand years.
During the 1960s and 1970s other data, supported by new theories and new attitudes about human influences, reduced the time a change might require to hundreds of years. Many doubted that such a rapid shift could have befallen the planet as a whole. The 1980s and 1990s brought proof (chiefly from studies of ancient ice) that the global climate could indeed shift, radically and catastrophically, within a century — perhaps even within a decade. “
“SPENCER R. WEART ( ), originally trained as a physicist, is a noted historian specializing in the history of modern physics and geophysics. Until his retirement in 2009 he was Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park,
Maryland, USA, and he continues to be affiliated with the Center. “
It is hard for me to give much credence to Spencer Weart. In a recent Physics Today article he cited the California and recent Texas drouths and “superstorm Sandy” as evidence of climate change without mentioning even more extreme events within recent centuries.
Re the thorium M.O.U., strange with their thousands of workers, vast cash pile and 24/7 coverage of Paris ( whoops can that), there is no mention of this on the BBC.
If you are accusing others of misrepresentation, you really should try not to do the same.
At about 2:50 he says there was actually the theory that burning fossil fuels was going to block out the sun and cool the Earth, but now thay say that never happened.
It is widely understood that sulfate aerosols from burning fossil fuels contributed to the cooling mid century. It looks bad for him here – caught out in the very thing he accuses others of doing. They are not saying that never happened at all.
Are you really that dense? The claim was that it could cause another ice age, not that it contributed to cooling.
Having said that, the “ice age scare” argument is not a compelling one, and I wish they would stop making it.
Why does everyone here open their comments with an insult?
You are wrong. He says “before fossil fuels caused global warming fossil fuels caused global cooling. There was actually the theory that fossil fuel burning was going to block out the sun and cool the Earth. Now they are saying that never happened.”
The theory was right. It did happen. Nobody is saying it did not. He is wrong. He has mis-represented.
Sorry seaice1, but I’ve run into literally dozens of AGW supporters that claim the global cooling scare was one article in one magazine and the consensus was still that of CO2 driven warming. Yes, it is revisionist nonsense but it is repeated constantly by the useful idiots.
Richard M.
I did not mention ice ages. He said they had a theory burning fossil fuels would block out the sun and cool the Earth. He said that they now say that never happened. He is wrong. It did happen and they say it did.
This is important, not nit-picking. If they now say it never happened, it means their theory was wrong. Their theory was not wrong.
Remember acid rain? Cutting back sulfur emissions to reduce acid rain also cut back sulphate aerosols, so the cooling stopped.
If you are making a film that uses media statements to pick holes in other peoples arguments you should not make such simple errors yourself.
You think he could get a piece done by another news agency maybe? Difficult to find one, but maybe next he could get interviewed by Weekly World News? Or at this point why not go to the Onion? All equally credible news sources…