CFACT’s groundbreaking film Climate Hustle will be shown in movie theaters across the United States for a special one-night event, tonight, playing at hundreds of movie theaters across the country. As a service to readers, I’m posting up this reminder today. I’m in the film, but I’m not paid to be in the film nor to post this message.
Here is my review from one week ago (with trailers):
My review: Skeptic Film ‘Climate Hustle’ to appear in theaters Nationwide one week from tonight
Here’s what the Washington Times had to say about it, and the controversy surrounding it.
Even before the skeptical documentary “Climate Hustle” hits U.S. theaters Monday, it already has unsettled the climate change debate.
Weather Channel founder John Coleman rushed to the defense of the film, which challenges the catastrophic climate change narrative, after “science guy” Bill Nye slammed it in a clip released over the weekend as “not in our national interest and the world’s interest.”
“I have always been amazed that anyone would pay attention to Bill Nye, a pretend scientist in a bow tie,” Mr. Coleman said Saturday on the website Climate Depot.
“As a man who has studied the science of meteorology for over 60 years and received the [American Meteorological Society] Meteorologist of the Year award, I am totally offended that Nye gets the press and media attention he does,” Mr. Coleman said. “And I am rooting for the ‘Climate Hustle’ film to become a huge hit — bigger than ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore.”
Indeed, the documentary by Climate Depot’s Marc Morano bills itself as a response to the former vice president’s Academy Award-winning 2006 documentary, which sparked international alarm with its warnings of imminent environmental disaster fueled by rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
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“The film’s most effective moments come when left-of-center experts describe how they abandoned their previous climate change positions,” Mr. Toto says in his review. “Doing so opened them up to scathing critiques from their colleagues.”
More here
So, let’s head to the movies on tonight, ask the questions and learn the fa
cts the “climate hustlers” don’t want us to think about, and laugh them off the world stage together.
If you haven’t already, invite a friend who thinks the world is going to hell in a hand-basket due to climate change to sit back and take in the reality with some popcorn. Get a large bucket, you’ll need it.
http://www.climatehustlemovie.com/
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I saw the film in Fort Collins, CO tonight. The theater was full. A few seats were empty, but based on how full it was I am willing to bet it was sold out and those people didn’t make it for whatever reason.
I drove two hours each way to see it. There were no surprises in the film for me, but global warming is my hobby.
I agree with Aarne. Even though I like Palin, I didn’t feel she had much to offer in this circumstance.
Saw in Tucson, Az, Park Place Cinemas. Maybe 80 folks, about 1/3 full.
The transitions between topics were too long with all the fast visual sliding in and out of newspaper article sets, otherwise well done. Marc needs more work on be more natural with hand gestures and less repetition of hand movements.
Freeman Dyson would also have been a good skeptic to have had in it. Too bad he wasn’t.
More needs to be shown on the climate records manipulations by NOAA, NASA, UKMO, but I get it that that can get into legal problems of accusing fraud without enough evidence, so lawyers don’t like the liability of that tack.
Saw it in Dublin, CA- smallish theater- good turnout maybe 60+ there. Nothing “new” for WUWT regular readers. Seemed short on backup information. If I had watched it to hear the other side, , I’m not sure why I should have believed Marc over any of the warmists on many of the points. .Occasionally he made clear points stick, but in general would have liked more hard numbers. I directed several people after the show to head here at WUWT for more detailed information. Thought Curry was excellent (although she too was a bit more general than I know she is), would have liked to see more of Anthony. Loved seeing Bob Carter- I think one of his Youtube lectures would have been more effective swaying people.. I appreciate what Marc was trying to do,but it took him a long time to make his points.. AND The panel at the end was pointless- the moderator phrased his questions in the way he wanted them answered, and Palin, really??? Listening to her is like nails on a chalkboard for me- so I had to leave early. Would have liked time for networking afterwards as well. , Even in the beginning talking to neighbors would have been more interesting than the “making of the film” piece done before the show started. Not disappointed I went, but then I knew in advance, that it was going to be hard to beat the information,dialogue and interest of WUWT. Thank you Anthony!
Saw it in Fairfax, VA. The theater was almost sold out, but many of the “sold” seats were empty. For me, the music was too loud, it was distracting and made it hard to follow the dialog. I was hoping to see more science. My friend (who enjoyed it) agreed that, without more facts, it was mainly just propaganda. People started leaving during the panel part – most of that should have been left out.
The ad for the next film should have also been omitted.
I got the impression that many of the attendees there were already skeptics. As a result, if no one changed their opinion, the film has little value.
The movie seemed to be Skeptic 101 — designed for those who know little about the climate wars. Probably a lot of the audience who went to see it were quite knowledgeable and might have thought the movie somewhat lightweight — but it will introduce newcomers to many of the issues. On the whole a very worthwhile production. Considering the budget I give it 41/2 stars out of 5.
In the panel discussion I think Sarah Palin had the worst day of her life. I like her and respect her intelligence but during that shoot she didn’t have it. Had they a slightly larger budget they would have re-shot the whole thing. I think. I have had days like that and I feel for her.
Eugene WR Gallun
Should add that about 25 people watched it — but this theater was in Portland, Oregon. I was surprised that there were no pickets. The movie was also shown in a theater outside Portland where the smart people live and I am sure the numbers there were better.
Eugene WR Gallun
Jimmy Kimmel had a rant tonight about how nearly all scientists know that AGW is real and that it’s utterly ridiculous that Sarah Palin was out hyping a skeptic’s movie. Then he followed that with a video blurb written and performed by real scientists (I didn’t recognize any names) that was content free and was more for shock value to get people’s attention.
I imagine it will all be on YouTube tomorrow. Nope, it’s up now!
They really could have left Sarah Palin out of it….
Scientists in the blurb – who are they and what do they do?
Aradhna Tripati – Paleoclimatologist & Isotope Geochemist
Alex Hall – Climate Scientist
Jeremy Pal – Hydroclimatologist
Nina Karnovsky – Polar Ecologist
Chuck Taylor – Environmental Analytical Chemist
John Dorsey – Marine Environmental Scientist
“For more information go to: http://www.globalchange.gov “
Funny.
Devastating logic.
And I suspect that will reach any more people than Mr Morano’s epic.
Hmmmm, getting a little child to swear for shock entertainment is your is your idea of ” devastating logic ” ?? You are a very sad P.O.S. !
+1 Jimmy
Jimmy sucks.
I agree Sarah Palin should have been left out…but, the very fact that they avoid any of the issue from the movie and only address the after movie discussion with Sarah proves they don’t have the argument. The movie did a great job highlighting the major issues. Jimmy repeats the 97% claim many times in this video, and that claim was debunked in the movie. So were the claims about the data.
Richard M:
“they measured the total IR at the same location (actually longer 1997-2011) and what did they find? A reduction in clear sky IR. Got it? A real experiment that demonstrates as the CO2 frequency IR increases, the total downwelling IR is reduced.”
They were measuring CO2 DWIR (via spectroscopic analysis).
You do know that H2O is strong GHG?
And even clear-sky has it present?
“at the same location”???
The experiment was conducted at 2 locations. the Southern Great Plains and the North Slope of Alaska
Actually you may have confused it with this….
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2011JCLI4210.1
And I’m guessing you went no further than….
“The AERI data record demonstrates that the downwelling infrared radiance is decreasing over this 14-yr period in the winter, summer, and autumn seasons but it is increasing in the spring; these trends are statistically significant …”
Whereas it further adds…
“…and are primarily due to long-term change in the cloudiness above the site. The AERI data also show many statistically significant trends on annual, seasonal, and diurnal time scales, with different trend signatures identified in the separate scene classifications. ”
It also adds…
“Given the decadal time span of the dataset, effects from natural variability should be considered in drawing broader conclusions. Nevertheless, this dataset has high value owing to the ability to infer possible mechanisms for any trends from the observations themselves and to test the performance of climate models.”
Radiative theory says that total downwelling IR is due to the combined effect of the various GHGs. H2O is the most prevalent. In this case, its reduction exceeded the effect of CO2 increase.
See Fig 11.12 in AR4 ….
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch11s11-5-3-2.html
Less precipitation for OK. Which probably means less clouds and humidity, as the paper observes.
“Yup, that is the experiment that demonstrates 1) the greenhouse effect is real and 2) the feedback is negative. You knew that right? ”
Yup that experiment demonstrates that.
1) Correct.
2) Feed-back cannot be inferred. There is a trend in LWIR reduction that the authors attribute to drier air.
You knew that right?
Toneb, cherry picking quotes shows you know you are being dishonest. Here is the money quote:
“The most distinct result from these plots is that clear-sky scenes are getting colder (i.e., less downwelling radiance) for all seasons and spectral regions (Fig. 7). ”
Now, don’t you feel foolish?
What will be a 100% certainty of a catastrophie will be the redistribution of wealth and world government that will result from all this nonsense. NASA, the media, education and Science will have their credibility destroyed.
Science is done through experimentation, not polling, and there are no valid experiments done to support the AGW theory. ToneB provided all the evidence one needs to prove this is a fraud. He produced the most ridiculous experiment I’ve ever seen as evidence CO2 is causing warming. Note the date on the article he provided. The settled science did their first experiment in 2015. Any two year old could find the problems in this “experiment.” NASA is no longer flying a shuttle, they are spending their budget readjusting data and running nonsensical experiments to promote a political agenda of the left.
First direct observation of carbon dioxide’s increasing greenhouse effect
February 25, 2015
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-effect.html
Co2islife:
“Note the date on the article he provided. The settled science did their first experiment in 2015. Any two year old could find the problems in this “experiment.” NASA is no longer flying a shuttle, they are spending their budget readjusting data and running nonsensical experiments to promote a political agenda of the left.
First direct observation of carbon dioxide’s increasing greenhouse effect
February 25, 2015
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-effect.html”
Actually they started the experiment 15 years prior……
“The scientists measured atmospheric carbon dioxide’s contribution to radiative forcing at two sites, one in Oklahoma and one on the North Slope of Alaska, from 2000 to the end of 2010.
And no doubt the instrumentation/funding was not availabale any earlier.
So even though they published last year it’s not valid because they should have done it earlier.
Now that is desperate even for you.
And what did it do – it validated the science that has been built on for ~150 years.
That part is settled my friend.
The bit that isn’t, is the climate’s sensitivity to CO2.
Oh, and to state “Any two year old could find the problems in this “experiment.””,
says far more of you than the science or even of 2 year old’s.
Rabid and desperate hand-waving anti-science.
Because of my “tax-dollars” no doubt (read ideological leaning).
Ah diddums.
Yup, that is the experiment that demonstrates 1) the greenhouse effect is real and 2) the feedback is negative. You knew that right? At the same time as they checked the CO2 IR changes, they measured the total IR at the same location (actually longer 1997-2011) and what did they find? A reduction in clear sky IR. Got it? A real experiment that demonstrates as the CO2 frequency IR increases, the total downwelling IR is reduced.
I saw the domumentary in Kennesaw, Georgia at the AMC 24. Monday nights are not a good night for the movie business, and the theater for Climate Hustle had less that a hundred viewers. Kennesaw is in an historically conservative part of town, and I was expecting more attendees. In the Atlanta area there were a couple of other venues showing the movie.
It seemed that grey heads like me dominated the audience. I was surprised that I saw a few of what seemed like millennials in attendance.
The documentary was well done, and Marc Morano is an excellent host. It does not take a technical person to watch it, and that is a great strength of the movie. It would be better if Morano could secure some television showings.
I left the movie during the middle of Sarah Palin’s panel. The panel was not a good idea.
I agree. Sarah Palin a bad idea. Talked to people as they were leaving that part along with me. All left because of Sarah Palin, and I live in a red state. Theatre almost full.
If Mark Marano is reading this: it’s a rule that you never end a speech or a presentation with a Q&A. Doing so leaves people with questions and becomes the thing your audience remembers. Either step in at the end to bring it around to the point you make at the beginning–recap the speech or presentation point–or eliminate it.
If you put this out for general distribution, ditch the panel. It waters it down.
I agree. At the theater I attended last night, there was clapping at the end of the movie. Then the panel came on, and Brent Bozell spoke…then Palin started to speak, and she rambled, as if she was searching for something coherent to say about the topic. People began to leave, because it was clear she had nothing useful to say.
I left too.
Palin was definitely the weakest part of the whole movie; inarticulate and unfocused. The discussion panel was a poor choice for an ending. The movie was OK overall, but won’t be changing anyone’s beliefs about the issue. Morano does better in one on one debates on TV.
Yeah, I’d have stayed except for Sarah Palin. She seemed tired, unfocused, flat, hemming and hawing. We should already know by now she can’t think on her feet when she’s tired. Judith Curry, on the other hand, was great.
I drove 15 minutes from home, mostly to see how many showed up. The theatre was nearly full, except for the front rows and the last row.
I’d give it ★★★★★★★☆☆☆. If they trimmed the interminable sequence introductions, went a little deeper on the 97%, and made it clearer when the Lysenkoists were speaking, maybe one more star. I’m assuming the panel discussion is already on the cutting room floor. The sound needed help, too.
We watched it tonight in Redmond, WA. Home to Mircosoft. Our theater was almost full, ~200, mostly older folks. We laughed inthe right places and clapped at the end.
Expected outside protests but none showed up.
..Anthony, I bet it will help DVD sales if you were to do a critics review at IMBD !! The lies there have already started..lol
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm56826624/tt5354362?ref_=tt_ov_i
Hmmm, no comments there, or at the main site for the movie. Do try to provide useful links that don’t send me on a wild goose chase.
OOPS, sorry Anthony…it’s the EDIT PAGE button on the bottom to enter a synopsis at this link.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5354362/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Or the edit button at the top right !!
When will it be showing the UK please
Sold out! It was originally scheduled for a smaller theater, and it was moved to accommodate the demand. It will be interesting to see how thoroughly the news media ignores the event.
But I was disappointed, probably because I’d already seen most of the clips used. Where was Dr. John Holdren talking about waviness and Global Warming causing more of this pattern of extreme cold? Speaking of patterns, the pattern of altering the Argo float data, the sea level data, the RSS data, the GISS data, the sea surface data and the “Hide the Decline” You Tube featuring Dr. Michael Mann was missing. They did show the “Ten Ten No Pressure” exploding school children You Tube, but really didn’t explain what it was.
About half the audience walked out of the panel discussion at the end. I stuck it out, but Sarah Palin was definitely out of her comfort zone.
Like many, I left a couple minutes into the panel discussion, and I agree with most of the constructive criticisms above. And, yes, the audience was mostly us old guys (and a few old gals); no doubt the movie was largely preaching to the converted.
But there was one particularly strong element, which I think would have been compelling even to non-skeptics: first-person accounts from scientists–including several left-of-center ones–who started out as alarmists but converted when they actually looked at the data. And the ostracism that resulted from their speaking out.
Among other things, those accounts highlight an important point, which few who don’t have experience with scientists find it easy to believe: even among scientists, most are just regurgitating what they’ve heard rather than stating what they’ve verified for themselves; on many scientific topics their opinions are little better than those of whoever’s sitting on the next bar stool.
Those points need to be hammered home endlessly.
I, too, noticed at least two references to the Doran/Zimmerman ~75/77. These figures were good for showing that the results are based on a small sample. But I’m puzzled that they didn’t mention the 10,256 originally polled. That would have have shown, not only that the final sample was small, but that it had been dramatically cherry-picked.
At times I felt like I was watching an episode of Mythbusters. It seemed to take 20 minutes to cover what could be done more thoroughly in 2 minutes. By the time Mark got around to making a point the audience had lost interest.
Will there be a DVD release for this documentary ? I’m in Ireland and would loved to have seen this.
Andrew’s Climate Hustle Review:
The theater was full. I bought my and my nephew’s tickets at $14.00 a piece. The seats were those reclining luxury chairs where you have room to stretch out your legs. I like that. 😉
I’ll give the movie itself 3 out of 5 stars. There were a couple of dumb moments in it, but that was not unexpected. I would have made the movie differently, the problem there is so much climate related BS to sift through, it’s hard to know where to begin. It tried to do some humor that just missed. No biggie.
The strength of the movie is that it simply catches prominent Warmers (scientists, politicians, enviros, tv anchors) saying really stupid stuff. There’s plenty of that to go around as we all know, and the movie did a good job highlighting some of it.
The weakness of the movie (IMO) was that it didn’t get into the deeper scientific issues at all, but of course not many people would sit through stuff like that. That’s the climate nerd in me wanting someone to explore all the holes in climate science and expose them.
I was surprised at how much Dr. Curry was in it. Anthony Watts only appeared for a few seconds. Richard Tol had a couple of nice bits, except for the hair.
I would recommend the movie to anyone who is interested the Global Warming discussion, simply because it presents relevant information about what’s being/been presented about climate you don’t get from typical media.
(I left during the panel discussion too)
Andrew
I bought tickets and the theater was packed but the cinimark could not sync the movie to the projector.
We did not get to see the film.
It was a good movie with a good sized attendance. Someone had to get the movie to project on the screen correctly when the audio was already playing but it did work out. It had a lot of old news footage I had not seen before and I always enjoy Judith Curry and Lord Monkton. There was no Sarah Palin in it except for a separate panel segment after the movie that I skipped. I was encouraged to see more installments are coming after this one. I would suggest stepping up the content to WUWT caliber. There were at least two good charts in the movie but the lag time in movie production versus online is significant. Basically the movie made me appreciate WUWT even more.
Couldn’t get my girlfriend to see it with me (and it was only five minutes from her house!).
Overall it was a bit of a disappointment, rehash of things I already knew and I was hoping for more. Such as just how much money has Al Gore made from this con?
Why is the point that the CO2 concentrations closer to ‘plant death from CO2 starvation’ than any historic high not made?
The CO2 being close to starvation levels was made at least twice.
Flyby as I remember, numbers give them the numbers.
I missed the one day showing.
The above comments indicate to me that the strategy of the movie’s makers was to stimulate some dialog in the general culture. Seems to have had some success.
John
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this is the first time I made a comment and got a screen name….nice delete moderator, will be the last time I try and contribute here
Maybe 50 in attendance, 250(?) seat auditorium.
My personal rule is I never recommend anything I don’t have control over. Unfortunately I broke this rule and told friends and family about the movie thinking to generate support (No One I talked to had even heard of it) . But after watching the movie… I hope nobody actually went on my suggestion. That is, besides my college age (English major) daughter who I unfortunately brought with me. Her take-away was the pointlessly silly production and bad writing in a laugh-out-loud sort of way. For folks who have only the cultural sense on climate this was a missed teaching opportunity. Even worse this movie has poisoned the water for any future move on the “hustle” that might actually be decent.
I know I’m too far down in the comments for anyone to read this but it is cathartic.
Agree. I am stunned at how counter productive this was and nobody told Mark it was not ready for prime time. It was bad!
The best laugh in the theater was from the quote from Michigan Senator Stabenow saying air turbulence on her flight was caused by climate change. That statement also best exemplifies the staged party line on climate change and Debbie was just doing her little contribution to the party. Pathetic but instructive.
I forgot, the sad-silliest part of the movie was of Prince Charles. No wonder the nation is focused on the grandchildren at this point.
When Prince Charlie spoke, I felt a strong urge to cry out, “Long live the Queen!” Pathetic.
When I went in San Rafael, in the middle of liberal land of Marin County, I was not sure what to expect. I looked back during the show and saw about 60 to 70 people. The small theatre room looked about 50% full.
Mario,
Not bad for San Rafael. I have a friend in Fairfax who reported about the same attendance.
Hey DB… It’s good to hear from you. My synopsis is in this post. I hope it reaches some people. I was really disapointed that WUWT was not more mentioned… and it gave a small clip of our fearless leader, Mr. W A T T S.
For those who don’t know, Mario is a winning GT race car driver:
https://youtu.be/se1SRTEzfwA
In addition to many other accomplishments.
*blush*
Forgot about that race. I had to short shift because if a loose crank angle sensor wire that would sputter at peak RPMs. Still took first but without being able to use peak power… Thank you for the memory DB…
Hi, Mario, I read your synopsis above. It was one of the most helpful and insightful. Thank you for taking the time…
Thank you, everyone, for sharing your impressions of the movie. Going to a movie is just not possible for me, these days, so I’m really glad to know that it would be a good one to rent (someday) to show to climate-ignorant friends/acquaintances. From the comments above, it sounds kinda cheesy, but, at least it would be a way to start a conversation… hopefully.
Public education is the to freedom!
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