Craig Rucker of CFACT writes:
Thank you to everyone who went to the movies Monday night and saw Climate Hustle.
Together, we had a huge success. We have only anecdotal evidence of the movie’s strength so far, but what anecdotes!
Friends from across the nation report strong attendance. There were sellouts or near sellouts in Albuquerque, Indianapolis, Dallas, Minneapolis, Seattle, Toronto, Long Island and many more. A Boy Scout Troop made a movie night of it in St. Augustine, Florida. Another group got together before the film in Minnesota for dinner and discussion.
I saw it in Virginia and we sold out there with around 180 people in attendance. The crowd’s eyes were glued to the screen. The audience reaction was very positive. Folks laughed out loud and applauded at all the places we hoped they would. We had loud applause at the end.
People engaged more than any movie I’ve recently seen. They hung around and chatted in the lobby. People were not anxious to head home, they wanted to discuss the film and process what they had learned. They were loaded with the right questions and eager to learn more.
Last night thousands of people left the theater Informed, open-minded, engaged questioners. That’s going to give the warming crowd hives. 
Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel launched a lengthy diatribe against the film on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel recited the same tired global warming talking points the film so effectively debunks and did a fine job of illustrating our point.
Marc Morano, the host of Climate Hustle, shot back:
“It is obvious Mr. Kimmel has not seen ‘Climate Hustle’ or he would have known better than to recite the same propaganda litany of climate ‘facts’ which the movie deals with head-on. Using a video of cursing scientists warning of a tired litany of doom, using terms like ‘apocalyptic’; ‘catastrophic’; and ‘extremely dire’ was bland and 
predictable and the very reason that ‘Climate Hustle’ was made. Apparently, Kimmel thinks failure to believe in man-made global warming fears is akin to not believing in gravity or yogurt. Odd.”
“Mr. Kimmel, I challenge you to watch ‘Climate Hustle’ and issue an apology for your climate pablum that you spewed to viewers. ‘Climate Hustle’ was made to counter the very boilerplate rants that you, Mr. Kimmel, engaged in. The public needs to view ‘Climate Hustle’ if, for no other reason, than to hear Mr. Kimmel’s climate talking points dismantled. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.”
Jimmy Kimmel is either hustling us, or he has been hustled himself. Either way, thousands of people left the theater last night armed with the facts they need to see through the kind of nonsense Kimmel was spouting.
That’s a good night’s work all around.
Thank you to everyone who made Monday night such a success. Great things lie ahead. Stay tuned.
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I’ll be interested to see the actual numbers.
Here’s hoping CFACT’s estimate is correct.
CFACT and Marc Morano are to congratulated on Climate Hustle. The documentary was informative and entertaining at the same time. It’s a great job.
However, the panel after the movie, I thought, was not a winner at all. Sara Palin headlined the panel and I tired of her performance and left the theater before she finished.
I absolutely loved the Climate Hustle Debut! Problem is, I bragged about it, and now my twitter followers, facebook friends, relatives, and acquaintances, all want to know when they will be able to see it. Sure hope it is available soon! 🙂
True, Jimmy Kimmel basically repeated every talking point debunked in the movie. The 97%, Polar Bears, hottest year ever, melting ice. Every “scientist” in that video should be ashamed and having the kid swear at the end is horrible.
I’m not sure about gravity, but yoghurt is definitely overhyped!
As Trump has proven, there is no such thing as bad publicity. Kimmel is the Streisand Effect in action. People that would never have heard of the film will be curious to see it.
Maybe we all missed the sarcasm. Maybe Kimmel intentionally repeated all the points the movie had addressed as a sort of humor, intending to make fun of the alarmists…
He’s not that smart.
I’m glad to see it did well, and congrats and thanks to Marc Morano for lots of hard work, good results, and a job well done!
So what happens now?
How can those of us in the outbacks,thats every where except Toronto here in Canada, get to see this movie?
That’s funny. I like it. The Canadian Outback….
If CFACT wants to get this out there, Bit Torrent may be the quickest easiest way to do it.
Will the Turnbull “Liberal” government in Australia , i.e. Conservative, tell the left wing government owned broadcaster, the ABC, to screen it ?
Michael.Elliott.
Well, we can count on the counterpart of the ABC in Canada, the government financed CBC ($1.1 billion a year of taxpayers’ money), will never run such “Denialist” programming. They prefer the nonsense spouted by his highness Dr. David Suzuki, Canada’s leading expert (Sarc) on climate science. He is the geneticist by trade who appointed himself to the rank of “Expert” on climate science. He flies to Australia, by his own admission, once or twice a year, “just for fun”. So much for HIS “Carbon Footprint”. Suzuki was made a fool of by Australian scientists, on camera, when he travelled there a few years ago. I was embarrassed to be a Canadian that day, but then realized Australians were smart enough to realize that not all Canadians were so foolish.
Stunned old CBC won’t even mention that such a movie exists. It becomes easier to understand how mass mind control like the Spanish Inquisition can happen.
Don’t forget the CBC other science guy, Bob McDonald, mc of Quirks and Quarks who is always pushing “climate change” then has the gall to say politicians need science awareness. I used to tune in his program until he fell of the tracks with CAGW.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/politicians-science-bob-mcdonald-1.3547425
@nc Bob McDonald is a journalist, not a scientist. In a recent interview he said he appears to know a lot of stuff about science because of all the years he spent interviewing real scientists. Though somehow he hasn’t been able to interview a real climate scientist yet.
Expert: An old drip under pressure …
It wouldn’t matter. I gave up watching the ABC years ago because of their blatant political and pseudo-scientific bias.
I saw “Climate Hustle” in Tulsa, OK. I got there 30 minutes before show time and was shocked to find there were only five seats left to be sold out of the whole theater. I would call that a sell-out, or near as dammit.
Marc did what had to be done. Unfortunately, the very audience that should be exposed to this film are precisely the people who will refuse to watch it…. or go, “Yeah, well…. Sarah Palin. What can I say? Anyone up for pizza?”
Yeah, the panel discussion created a mass exodus. Future releases of “Climate Hustle” might benefit from removal of that coda. However panel member David Russell Legates did have some cogent remarks.
Palin was a mistake – I left after 10 min of the bonus.
Compare the treatment of Sarah Palin with the treatment of Geraldine Ferraro who ran as V.P. in the 1984 election with Walter Mondale. She was from Queens, NYC and a Congresswoman.
Also reported to be a small “c” conservative.
When is the DVD going to be available or some sort of streaming purchase online ?
I’d like to buy a DVD copy when and if it becomes available. It would make a great Christmas present to give to certain people!
The Ridge Cinema in the Milwaukee area originally scheduled “Climate Hustle” to play in one of their smaller theaters. They moved it to a larger venue and it was still sold out.
i’d like to see it! Release date in europe?
I’m just SHOCKED I tell you SHOCKED…that our JohnMacdonell hasn’t been in here all day discussing the horrible reviews (that don’t exist anywhere online) from the open minded, fair, AGW supporters who had the integrity to watch the film and take careful notes about its contents to review with others. It’s almost like there was so much fear, and loathing, and shame connected to actually viewing the movie, that if ANY of the AGW supporters DID see it, they are terrified to mention it to anyone at all. Or maybe there actually wasn’t even ONE AGW supporter with an audience to report to, that actually WENT to see it!
How odd. When Al Gore released HIS version of the climate issue, LOTS of skeptics openly and eagerly went to see it. And openly and eagerly tore it to pieces with logical, factual evidence to support their arguments. You know…skeptics….who want to see everything for themselves, form their own opinions, and refuse to rely on other people’s words or opinions when seeking the truth. But where oh where are all of the AGWer’s with open minds and unbiased stances who should have been viewing this movie for themselves, so they would then be able to address it’s contents with other people in an unbiased and factual manner?
Not one word today, other than Jimmy Kimmel’s ignorant, offensive, and completely brainwashed rant last night??? The silence is golden me thinks.
I note that the few CAGW fans who have commented on it (Kimmel, Christian Science Monitor) haven’t actually seen the movie. It makes it hard to take their ‘shredding’ seriously, but the confirmation bias seems to be in deep play here and only proper scientists will actually note these people have not seen the documentary…
Interesting observations. Which also add up to a very good argument for making such a film and screening it in this way.
I attended in Greenville SC. There were only about twenty people in the audience.
I attended in Charlotte, NC. South Charlotte. Around 90 to 100 in the audience.
A lot of retired folks. Was disappointed in the movie. Wasn’t that great. Just ok.
Walked out as soon as Sara Palin opened her mouth.
HA, typical lefty liberal response, ……. citing Sarah Palin as their excuse for “walking out” …… thus intentionally averting their eyes, ears and mind to the literal facts and evidence that are directly contrary to their funded intere$t$ ….. and/or ….. their brainwashed “greeny anti-carbon” religious beliefs.
I expected to be turned off by Sarah Palin, but was surprised that she actually made some relevant comments. However, I think it was a tactical mistake to include her if the intended audience was independents and center left people like myself who remember some of her ignorant comments in past years.
The vast majority of the so called ignorant statements were never made by Palin in the first place.
Samuel C Cogar: “HA, typical lefty liberal response”…. why bring politics into it? 1) I’m not a Democrat, but find listening to Palin is “painful”. (Worse than nails on a chalkboard for me) in general, she speaks in such a flighty, disorganized manner that even if I have followed her logic by the end of the sentence (Difficult!), I leave with so what? . I rarely find she adds anything substantive to the conversation. What did she say that you found enlightening? Please give me specifics! I was disappointed, because I’m trying to convince my liberal friends to pay attention- if the typical liberal response is walk out when she comes on, why did Marc include her if the goal was to get people to listen? I hung on as long to the panel as I possibly could, but without knowing whether I had another 5, 10 or 30 minutes I left too. I listened long enough to realize the panel was pointless, Marc is well spoken, but this moderator asked questions framed in a very misleading way, and nothing that I heard added anything to the movie…. it was just repetitive and boring.
Not a lefty or a liberal.
Big fan of Climate Depot and Marc Morano. Not a big fan of Sarah Palin. I would have liked to have seen Tony Heller on the panel.
Louise Nicholas asks of me:
Louise, I don’t have a clue as to what Sarah Palin said or stated as a contributor of the content/context of the Climate Hustle movie simply because I have never seen or viewed any part of it, …… and far worse yet, ….. not one of the “posters” guilty of “badmouthing” Sarah Palin herein, … including yourself Louise N, …. has bothered to tell anyone what exactly it was that they themselves found un-enlightening, false or junk sciencey with the content/context of Palin’s commentary.
And Louise Nicholas, please don’t be blaming Sarah Palin for your self-admitted ADD.
First, I’m not offended by Palin’s politics or what she wrote in her books.
But Palin’s speaking skills on TV, with no Teleprompter — oye vey —- her odd cadence — poor modulation — sort of a ‘sing song’ voice — and the needlessly wordy answers always sound to me like a lot of “filler” words keep flowing from her mouth while she is thinking of what she really wants to say … I wish she would stop and think about what she wants to say for five seconds, and then answer concisely.
She acts as if she thinks that if she ever stopped talking for more than two seconds, someone would grab her microphone and send her home.
I think the “ultimate debate” would be between Blabbering Palin, Shrill Hillary and Loudmouth Donald T.
My wife can tolerate Palin for less than a minute.
I can last a few minutes — way longer than listening to Shrillary.
We are NOT liberals — we just want Palin to stick to writing books.
The remote control “MUTE” button was invented for talkers like Palin.
Any hope of getting this out on youtube? I think that’s the only venue likely to make a difference. I imagine you’d get millions of views.
Great idea to go you tube.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
And why does he believe in yogurt?
Because if he puts in enough M&Ms he can find a smileyface someone smarter than him on climate issues.
I don’t even have a TV so I can’t help, last late night show I stayed up to watch was Johnny Carson.
James Delingpole’s take-down of Mr. Kimmel here:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/03/jimmy-kimmel-totally-ing-wrong-on-climate-change/
Thank you, PaulH. 🙂
Used to work with Adam Carrola on a stupid program called The Man Show
Good crowd in Napa last night. Applause at the end not characteristic of your basic movie.
Everyone who survives in business for any time develops a sense of when they are being hustled. Everyone who has lived through “Jesus freaks”, communes, Moonies, and missionaries at your front door develops a sense of when they are being proselytized.
For me, the climate agenda has always felt far more the latter.
Historians have often described the period before WWI with a sense that human civilization was pregnant with war. It was somewhat different in that the driving emotion seemed the emergence of nationalism. The result was a human Cuisinart of mechanized war.
This slight deviation from the usual MO of religious war may or not be significant.
The frightening concern is that humans are not inherently rational. We are not inherently scientific. These luxuries only emerge in privileged classes when good times permit.
Went to the Digiplex 12 in Lisbon CT. (rural area, but in a Mall that houses Home Depot with another Mall on opposite side of road that houses Lowes). My showing had 253 available seats with 14 people in attendance.
For the 12 movie showings, the parking lot was lucky to have 50 vehicles.
Well, lets see…12 theaters… 50 cars…some of the cars must belong to the people that work there, say 10 cars for work force so 40 cars for 80 people…that is an average of about 7 people per theater, if you had 14 people, your movie boasted twice the attendance of the average viewing for all the other theaters.
Well, so much for the alleged skeptical demographic of old white middle class men…
Boy Scouts,
Quite a few women,
Multiple nationalities,
Young and old.
Well done Climate Hustle!
Well pointed out. Another myth broken.
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I hope Climate Hustle will be a start to the unravelling of decades of disinformation spread by the MSM media, politicians. eco-fascists and ludicrous “documentaries” like Al Gore’s inconvenient truth. Climate Hustle must be made available to a wider audience.
No, it won’t… But global cooling will
And our good friend Lord Monckton was on one of the other alternate news sites saying he has a pre-release paper from professor Ray Bates where the CO2 multiplier is destructed totally. This is going to be a very bad month for the warmunists.
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-top-climate-change-scientist-admits-he-was-wrong/
http://www.inm.ras.ru/library/Marchuk-Conference/09.06…/R.%20Bates.pptx
A Powerpoint lecture containing Bates’ findings.
When will it be released world wide?
I want to see it screened in my city and I will buy the first ticket!
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
Just a know-nothing, big-mouthed, late-night “comedian” blab-show host.
In short, nobody.
Kimmel used to be Ben Stein’s sidekick when he give away money on Comedy Central. Ben Stein is the respectable economist best known as the teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, who droned the attendance roll call with ‘Bueller, Bueller…’
When can we see it in Oz?
When the Wizard allows.
Oh very funny :). I’ve been clicking my ruby slippers together awfully hard!