Essay by Eric Worrall
But it is OK for important people to use private jets?
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
Oliver Milman in Chicago Fri 31 Oct 2025 21.00 AEDT
Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.
In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”
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Climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, Trump said during a speech to the United Nations last month. “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again.”
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“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” Ford said of these climate-fueled disasters. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis
Harrison Ford you have it all wrong – we climate skeptics are inspired by your example.
I think I can safely speak for everyone on WUWT, that thanks to Harrison Ford’s climate leadership, we hereby all agree to only fly in private jets when we have to, when we can afford it, when it is convenient, when we feel like it, or when we can’t be bothered to wait in the airport queue.
“one of history’s greatest criminals”
Perspective. Humans have been drawn and quartered, hung upside down, had toe and finger nails ripped out, buried neck deep on a beach at low tide…
Pretty sure Hitler, Stalin, Zedong, Pol Pot and a whole host of other dictators will be turning in their graves at that remark from the Ford.
As a Brit, could I, please, add Ed Milliband to that role of the truly great?
Add Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., etc., etc.
Trump was actually the biggest disappointment in that regard.
I was promised in 2016 that he’s gonna kill all the gay and trans people and start WW3 and end us all – they told me he was the human version of co2.
And what happened?
He not only failed to reach the genocidal top( LBJ,Bush) on a national level,
but he couldn’t even come close to the level of Nobel Peace Prize massmurderers like Kissinger and Obama.
Even if we take everything into account (boatpeople,syria bombing,iran rocket)
he can barely surpass Clintons very private bodycount.
So he actually is the human version of co2 – so many apocalyptic promises,yet nothing happened.
He is also said to be every -ist, -ism, -phobic, -&etc ever thought up.
So, given all this, he definitely is the human version of CO2, given CO2 is not a threat.
That’s what I wrote in the last line.
You did. I missed it. Apologies.
“Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true”.
Nothing that climate alarmists have said has come true. Harrison Ford is either a moron or a liar.
The guy (Harrison “I landed on Charlie?” Ford) has been involved in multiple aircraft incidents and crashes. He’s been pretty lucky in terms of loss of life, but he’s broken many bones. Hopefully he gives up flying before he hurts others.
Harrison Ford does seem to be accident prone when flying.
https://simpleflying.com/harrison-ford-plane-crashes-history/
He owns six aircraft. Perhaps that is the reason for the incidents. Maybe he forgets which aircraft he is currently flying.
https://simpleflying.com/harrison-ford-aircraft-collection-list/
They must be electric, right? 🙂
He is crashing all over the place but did not give up flying.
Co2 did absolutely nothing to him but he is afraid of it.
That’s my hero.
Someone who has his own chef but flies up the coast to buy a cheeseburger.
Didn’t he land on a taxiway once?
If you are lined up and a heavy is behind you, they have you land on a taxiway.
My recollection is that he was told to land on the runway.
I remember his crash of the Ryan Pt22 on the Penmar golf course which is off the end of the Santa Monica airport. I flew out of that airport for a number of years. My daughter was a CFII and saw a twin take off; the couple had been drinking and the pilot forgot to remove the gust lock. It did not end well. A Dr I took a flight exam from took off in fog and disappeared into the ocean. There have been other accidents as well. I remember awaiting takeoff when a Cessna Skymaster couldn’t get the retractable gear down and bellied in. No one hurt. Had to turn the Bonanza around and taxi back to parking.
Haven’t you heard? All of his aircraft crashes were the result of . . . you guessed it . . . climate change.
Can someone ask Harrison Ford if the things that have come true are in the room with us now?
“Harrison Ford is either a moron or a liar.”
As a ‘Hollywood elite’, he can be both.
And still get an ear!
It’s the college of arts version of duality.
Remember….Hollywood celebrity types get paid for their skill at faking it….sometimes they are good enough at it to become politicians…
C. All of the above?
A moronic liar perhaps?
I remember last winter while shoveling snow that I was told it would be a thing of the past.
I was assigned to guide him around at SciFi conference, and while he was not a moron, he definitely wasn’t particularly well informed on many things. But what do you expect…he is an actor.
Change our lifestyles? Ok, you first!
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
How about leading by example, Mr. Ford.
If anyone is looking for something that qualifies as being as phony as a $3 bill, all he has to do is examine the lifestyles of the rich and famous and then examine the stands they take on the environment and climate change. Then he’ll see a prime example of hypocrisy. And if he wants to see it on a much larger scale, all he needs to do is get the number of attendees that attend climate conferences like the COPs because these guys are not only adding to the emissions they want everyone else to cut but also using tax dollars to get to their destinations. The real irony of their efforts is that these conferences, meetings and treaties have achieved next to nothing in some three decades since global carbon emissions and fossil fuel consumption have continued to rise during the whole time. As well, most governments are just as much to blame since the futility of these climate control efforts has become increasingly obvious every year; yet they continue to be funded by elected representatives who should by now be aware that they’re just wasting money fighting a losing battle.
I would pay money to hear Robin Leach talk about the Carbon Footprint of the Rich and Famous, using the voice Robin Williams once said, is so loud, even Go Goes, Who the f* are you?
“In a losing battle.”
In a battle that should never have been fought.
This Harrison Ford?
That video is hilarious. Harrison Ford says that he is so passionate about flying that he often flies up the coast to get a cheeseburger. The lack of self awareness is at astronomical levels.
Even gastronomical levels.
I don’t think he’s a moron, more like he takes positions that his main squeeze feels are important. And regards the proverbial $500 cheeseburger (an aviation joke, where you fly your airplane costing $500 an hour to get a $5 cheeseburger) – flying is a perishable skill and to remain current and proficient you need to fly regularly, so you invent excursions to do your regular proficiency practice, such as going to another airport for lunch.
So it not hubris, but part of maintaining your flying skills at a proficient level – to fly somewhere to get a cheeseburger. (and obviously he hasn’t done enough cheeseburger runs based on the number of aviation accidents were at his hands)
Still on the face, his commentary is false – every prediction of the climate cult has been wrong. But if your romantic partner is a fervent believer or member of that cult, and you wanna keep her happy, you might parrot such falsehoods….
Harry seems to fly often enough, he just isn’t very good at it. Like the person who graduates from medical school with the lowest grades, they earn the title of “doctor”. He’s not flying to get or maintain competence, he’s flying be cause he can afford to. He aspires to pull that ladder up behind himself, but lacks the ability.
I object.
To crash so many times you have to be a frequent flier.
That’s one sorry-ass excuse. Flying either pollutes or it doesn’t. Most people’s excuse for flying is they need to get somewhere. Harrison’s excuse is he has to keep flying.
“Pooping on the sidewalk is bad, but I have to keep practicing because it’s my hobby.”
You are obviously not a pilot. Everything pollutes, including humans breathing. We exhale a potent toxic cocktail of methyl ethyl bad stuff in our breath – look it up! That is not the issue here. Yes Ford is a hypocrite for being on the climate cult bandwagon and living the lifestyle he enjoys. But the example of flying to get a cheeseburger is precisely explained by the very real and often used practice of private pilots who own their own aircraft. Which is you MUST stay current with your flying skills, which either means practicing “circuits” meaning laps around an airport runway, taking off, flying the pattern and landing, often as a touch and go and going around again, and again to keep your flying skills current. That gets really boring so you plan small adventures to satisfy the very real need to keep the perishable skills of flying a plane, current. And going to another airport for lunch is one such adventure pilots use to stay proficient and current with their flying skills. Even airline pilots must have performed so many takeoffs and landings within the past 60 or 90 days, else they must do remedial training in the simulator… There it is mandated for their Airline Transport License to remain valid, but in the case of a private pilot, it is on the honor system, but everyone with half a brain knows if you do not keep your skills current, you risk dying.
That video is hilarious. Harrison Ford says that he is so passionate about flying that he often flies up the coast to get a cheeseburger. The lack of self awareness is at astronomical levels….. someone beat me to it ….. gastronomical 😅
Harrison Ford has absolutely ZERO scientific education.
He knows basically nothing about science, except what he has been indoctrinated with.
He attempted a philosophy major at a low-end college in Wisconsin, but was expelled from college for plagiarism four days before graduation.
Stick to acting dude.. its just “pretending”, as your whole life has been.
He knows basically nothing about science, except what he has been indoctrinated “with.”
Indoctrination is brainwashing or propaganda, not science.
Just a nit.
He’s the (Not So) Great Pretender.
Lol 🙂
Umm,by important people, are you talking about who got off the aircraft after him?
Well, as another great actor Bugs Bunny once said “What a maroon! What an ignoranimus!”
“Everything has come true”? Like damn
near nothing has come true. Yeah, after “the ice age is coming back” model blew up in the late 1970’s, the Earth is probably a bit
warmer than 1850, the end of the Little Ice
Age.
Other than that, bupkis. All the claims
have failed to appear. The Green Blob
has a worse track record than some Millenarian preachers.
Funny thig is : Harrison Fard was already a grownass man BEFORE the ice age scare even started.
He survived in his Jet the ice age,the end of arctic ice, the extinction of polar bears,
the end of snow and all of his acting friends lost all of their front beach properties to rising sea levels.
Seems experiencing all these apocalyptic events made him a bit climate sensitive and turned him into a wise man..
There is no such phenomena as climate change or crisis because most of the earth surface climate is water, rocks, sand, snow, and ice. Activities of humans will have no effect on the climates of vast Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Andes, Alpes and Rocky mountains, or the Sahara and Gobi deserts. Activities of humans in cities can cause changes in local climate due to UHI effect. In some countries the stripping of the plants from the land for food and for animal feed has led to desertification.
After EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin rescinds the 2009 Endangerment Finding, he will put and end to the greatest scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man, and to no one here or elsewhere will be taking about global warming and climate change.
“In some countries the stripping of the plants from the land for food and for animal feed has led to desertification.”
Add to that WTG and WV farms both of which cause micro climate changes, environmental damage, etc.
Regarding Harry….
Typical “hollier than thou” attitude that speaks without facts.
Harrison Ford is a perfect example of why Hollywood is dying.
You’ll note he isn’t above “mailing in” a role, as long as it pays enough. Film making is an especially wasteful business, l’d love to know how many gigawatts are expended to make a movie, it would likely shut some people up.
Damn noob.
The quantity of energy used to make a movie is always
1.21 gigawatts.
Per flux capacitor.
Add in the gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other hydrocarbons expended for the days/weeks/months/years of production time.
More like Harrison Fraud.
I would pay money to hear Robin Leach talk about the Carbon Footprint of the Rich and Famous, in the voice Robin Williams once said, is so loud, even God goes, Who the f* are you?
Trump is methodically tearing down the globalist authoritarian power grab to eliminate nation states and is creating a new world order with America once again being a beacon of liberty and opportunity. Idiots like Ford are shilling for a losing cause. The preposterous climate crisis propaganda slogan is being destroyed by empirical reality.
Name one.
Mega drought in US Southwest is worst in the last 1,200 years and could last to the end of the century.
Have you tried standup comedy, Harold? I think you have a future….
Do this search: Status of drought in the southwest US. Then post the result of your search here. In particular, do search on drought in California.
I live in British Columbia and there is drought in northeast part of the province, which is a potential threat to hydro electric power generation.
Your humble pie is baking in the oven.
I post the truth and I don’t deserve 3 down votes.
There is number 5, moron.
And number 6, jerk.wad. As for the forever drought in the southwest, it’s a freaking desert for Pete’s sake, with lots of mountains, rain shadows in the way.. As for BC, I don’t know…gee…maybe its called weather?
You post what you want to believe. It has no relation to the truth.
I’m not gonna do your homework for you, neither is anybody else.
It is you who haven’t done any research. Such droughts are the norm for that region. Just because you want to believe something, doesn’t make it true.
You need to consume that humble pie yourself, and several others as well.
Hmmmm. Really! Wow! I’d just loooooooooove to see the data for, say, July 1423.
Do you have it handy?
Drought globally shows no “climate” effect whatsoever. Even the IPCC can’t hide it. And California’s “mega drought” will end abruptly when the next “Pineapple Express” comes to visit.
Weather, not climate.
We had a serious drought going here in Oklahoma over the last few months. Then we got seven inches of rain (my particular rain guage) over the last week. Bye, bye, drought. We are happy about that.
Unfortunately, the weather front that brought the rain, also brought an end to our gardening season with freezing temperatures.
I believe there is rain in the forecast for the northwest U.S., and maybe Canada, too.
The fact that there were worse droughts 1200 years ago disproves your belief system.
The US Southwest is prone to century plus long droughts and always has been. CO2 makes no difference.
So, 1200 years ago human CO2 emissions caused that one?
I read the Google AI account.
It is the same propaganda with not backup as usual.
I am not saying the drought is not bad.
Nor am I saying it’s as bad as 1200 years ago.
Not everything that happens in weather is due to “climate change.”
In point of fact, “climate change” does not cause weather.
Ever hear of a 100 year storm, 500 year storm, 1000 year storm?
Do you know the definitions?
Do you set your clocks by those?
Ever hear of the Milankovitch cycles?
Did human CO2 emissions cause the ice age 112,000 years ago?
Yesterday, November 3, temperatures in The Netherlands were the most average ever recorded.
The sky is falling!
How old is “The Netherlands“?
And here in the UK, so the Met Office tell us, it’s been the dullest October on record.
I have to wonder how the BBC will spin that.
“Name one.”
That was going to be my reply.
Harrison Ford says all the Climate Alarmist claims have come true, but the truth is NONE of the claims of Climate Alarmists have come true. That is the problem Climate Alarmists have.
That is the reason people are starting to realize that the Human-caused Climate Change narrative is a hoax, just like Trump says.
Maybe we shouldn’t be too harsh on Harrison as he is an actor who has lived in many false realities, so he may be confused (well, obviously) about what is real and what is not real.
It is amazing what the human mind can dream up for itself. Humans must guard themselves against seeing what they want/expect to see. This can lead them astray. Unfortunately, a lot of human beings are not very good at doing so.
I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmm
And then this very CAGW appropriate part of the song:
Lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie
Thank you. 🙂
He should change his name to Harrison Tesla.
He actually made a TV spot for Lancia.
And only after watching the commercial several times I realised what the confusing thing was.
Why does communist oppression, ragged grey peasants standing in line for a spoonful of gruel in a slave labor camp, always look so wonderful to billionaire jet setter elite snobs? Huddle in the cold and dark you masses while I dip caviar in my limo on the way to my palace. It’s so slimy.
Ford does not know the truth about climate change. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any efect on our global climate system. There is plenty of scientific rationale to conclude that the climate sensivity of CO2 is effectively zero. The AGW hypothesis has been falsified by science. The so called “climate science” behind the global warming conjecture has been found to be all wrong. Mankind does not even know what the optimal global climate actually is let alone how to achieive it. World wide trillions of dollars have been spent trying to fight climate change yet no one is saying that there has been any improvement. It should be clear that spending money to fight climate change is a big waste of funds. Those who really want to reduce CO2 emissions should stay home in strict climate lock down and only attend climate related meetings via the Internet.
“There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on our global climate system.
There is plenty of scientific rationale to conclude that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is effectively zero. “
That needs repeating 🙂 Over and over again. !!!
Shown in the chart (See below) is a plot of average annual temperature in Adelaide from 1857 to 1999. In 1857 the concentration of CO2 was ca. 280 ppmv (0.55 g CO/cu. m.)and by 1999, it had increased to 368 pmmv
(0.72 g CO2/cu. m.), but there was no corresponding increase in air temperature. Instead there was a slight cooling. This empirical data shows that CO2 has no influence on air temperature. From the chart the average annual temperature in 1999 was 16.7° C.
To obtain more recent temperature data from Adelaide, I went to:
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/adelaide/average-tempera-by-year. The Tmax and Tmin data are displayed from 1887 to 2024 are
displayed in long table. From data I computed Tavg from 1999-2024 and the results are shown in following table:
Year—-Tavg °C
2024—17.4
2023—16.7
2022—16.9
2021—16.6
2020—16.7
1999—16.9
These data show that there has been only very slight increase in temperature since 1999 and is most likely due to the UHI effect.
At the Mauna Loa Obs. in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 is currently 425 ppmv. One cubic meter of this air has a mass of 1,290 g and contains a mere 0.83 g of CO2, a 14% increase since 1999 at STP. CO2 does not have enough molecular muscle to heat up such a large mass of air.
PS: The chart was obtained from the late John L. Daly’s website:
“Still Waiting For Greenhouse” available at: http://www.john-daly.com.
From the home page, page down to the end and click on:
“Station Temperature Data”. On the “World Map”, click on “Australia”. There is displayed a list of weather stations Click on a station obtain the temperature data. Use the back arrow to return to the list stations. Clicking on the back arrow again will display the “World Map.”
John Daly found over 200 weather stations that showed no warming up to 2002.
NB: If you click on the chart, it will expand and become clear. Click on the
“X” to return to comment text.
BTW: Be sure to go https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com. This allows access to temperature data from many sites from all over the world.
When you get stuck on stupid you like to share.
I would have preferred the median temperatures.
Other negative votes may not have been for similar reasons, but mine was for “This empirical data shows that CO2 has no influence on air temperature.” Specifically, I mean “shows ” and “no influence”. The charted data shows a temperature series for one city in Australia for 142/4,000,000,000ths of supposed Earth history. Having not been here, I can’t vouch for what was going on 4 billion years ago, but people tell me the world was bigger than Adelaide. What if CO2 did have some effect and it took 143 years to happen? What if Adelaide were in some special wind zone that acted differently than Sydney? No single bit of data proves anything. IF the 4 billion year number is not nonsense, and IF the fossils aren’t weirdly assembled modern chicken bones THEN there seems to be good reason to say Harrison Ford is a ninny. It would be a shame because 10 year old me thought he was really good in the original Star Wars.
“Mankind does not even know what the optimal global climate actually is let alone how to achieve it.”
For all we know we are approaching the optimum, not deviating from it.
We have been told by the UN that this is not about the environment but rather about changing the world order/economy. 1.5 C was an arbitrary limit set to demonize western capitalistic economies fueled by hydrocarbons and coal.
From the archaeological record, we know that epoch’s that were warmer than today, life flourished.
But that does not tell us what is the global climate that is optimal for current mankind.
Bob Falfa is famous because he stomped on the pedal of a 55 Chevy 427 gasser, spun out and rolled it into a ditch.
He’s been excessively using fossil fuel ever since.
Back in high school, a friend of mine had a 55 Chevy 327 gasser. One day we opened the dumps (no mufflers) and rumbled through the middle of town. No police interfered in our fun! 🙂
That was a nice car. Would love to have it now. There’s something about those early 1950’s cars that I really like. I guess that is because it was the era when I was growing up.
My parents had a 1951 Chevy and in that car you had to turn the key on, and then you had to press the starter button to get the starter to turn the motor over. When I was about five years old, I got in the car with my brother and sister and I took them for a ride. I didn’t intend for that to happen, we were just playing in the car, but I accidentally pushed the starter button and the car moved forward a foot or two. Instead of turning the motor over and starting the engine, since the key was not turned on, the motor would not start, so the starter just made the car lurch forward a foot or two, because the car was in first gear.
So, I realized I could make the car move, and I pushed that starter and ended up at the end of the alley that bisected my block, which was about 100 yards from my house. But then I ran into a problem: I didn’t know how to back up, or turn around, so I was stuck. So, I went home and got the babysitter (my older cousin), who just about had a heart attack after learning what I had done, and she got the key and drove the car back home.
I never did hear anything about it from my parents. Perhaps my cousin didn’t tell them what happened. 🙂
I did something real similar with a ’48 Plymouth…kid sister ratted me out…didn’t end badly, but I was informed the Death penalty would happen the next time.
Ironic Impairment: He literally owns enough private aircraft to qualify as a decent 3rd-world air force. (I think he’s crashed more planes than types I’ve actually flown) And if I had his kind of money, I’d probably own a small air force too. But the one thing I wouldn’t do is lecture soccer moms in minivans or guys in their pickup trucks that I’m scared to death that they’re destroying the planet.
This is John Kerry level arrogance, which is no small feat.
Harrison Ford is an okay actor, there are better and worse actors but I never look to Ford for science or climate guidance.
Why would anyone look to actors or politicians for guidance on anything ??
Both groups –
use acting to enrich themselves,
are narcissistic & need the applause from their fan base,
like to think they are important,
need prompting to stick to the script,
when the action gets tough, they need a stuntman or fall guy,
Oh, and never look to Ford for flying lessons !!!
https://simpleflying.com/harrison-ford-plane-crashes-history/
Some more situational awareness training required by the looks of the header pic.
“when the action gets tough, they need a stuntman or fall guy”
Except Tom Cruise.
Yes, and his climate diatribes make me not want to watch his acting.
DItto.
Acting..???
His two main rolls, Indiana Jones and Hans Solo, are essentially the same person, a dopey larrikin… his natural state.
Roles, and Han. No they’re not the same character. They’re pretty different.
Well when you’re on the outer with the neo-Disney set for those patriarchy hero films some hypocritical climate changer stuff could blend you quietly back in with the Bollockswood crowd.
Every scary prediction about what “climate change” that has reached its expiration date has been WRONG, not right. And not wrong in some incremental way, but WILDLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY wrong.
Any examination of human history shows that warm climates were GOOD, not bad. It is COLD that brings misery and suffering, not warmth.
LMAO! What a perfect description of the people pushing the “climate crisis” scam!
Just remember, Han Solo, that it took a droid to fix your Hyper Drive.
Now we honor your better self as an actor by recognizing you are still reading from a script.
There is no climate crisis. There never was a climate crisis. It was always just a movie.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
this ^
Dear Mr Solo, the climate does not follow the script. That is not surprising because the script is crap. Stay well away from it.
Those actors who rely on the residuals from these movies to help make ends meet, would appreciate it if Mr. Ford would just STFU and stop driving the fans away from his movies.
I had a neighbor growing up who was doing crew work on one of the early Bond movies. During shooting, the call went out for somebody, anybody, who could speak Portuguese. Since my neighbor could, the quickly got him registered with SAG and when the time came he spoke one line, in Portuguese. For the rest of his life, every time that movie played, he got a check from SAG for about $1.25.
Hollywood publicists will never govern me.