Jimmy Kimmel, the popular late-night TV host on ABC, featured an F-bombed-filled video on his show Monday night that ridicules skeptics of the "scientific consensus" that mankind is causing catastrophic climate change.
The occasion was the one-night, nationwide theatrical engagement on Monday of the new documentary "Climate Hustle", which as WND reported, exposes the fallacies of global-warming beliefs.
Introducing the video, Kimmel said people "either believe in science" or they don't.
"Decide for yourself," he said, "the people you're about to see are scientists, they're Americans, they're not part of some imaginary conspiracy, they're just a smarter version of us. Watch this, and if at the end you disagree, while we're all underwater I hope you'll be that last one that gets a snorkel."
The video begins with various scientists introducing themselves and insisting that climate change is real.
Each one then, to laughs from the audience, declares, "We're not f***ing with you."
The video ends with a child repeating the profanity.
"Climate Hustle" is hosted by Marc Morano, a former Republican political aide who founded and runs the climate-skeptic website ClimateDepot.com. The movie exposes "the history of climate scares including global cooling; debunks outrageous claims about temperatures, extreme weather, and the so-called 'consensus;' exposes the increasingly shrill calls to 'act immediately before it's too late,' and in perhaps the film's most important section, profiles key scientists who used to believe in climate alarm but have since converted to skepticism."
Reacting to Kimmel's show Monday night, Morano suggested it might help if Kimmel actually saw the movie.
"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," he said.
"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."
Morano said Kimmel apparently "thinks failure to believe in man-made global warming fears is akin to not believing in gravity or yogurt."
"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."
Craig Bannister at the Media Research Center said Kimmel's "rant against 'Climate Hustle' displays a complete ignorance of the content of the film – and deploys the same shopworn deceitful and mean-spirited tactics the film exposes and addresses."
He pointed out that the "97 percent scientific consensus" claim Kimmel cites is "revealed to be the product of slanted methodology – one of which didn't even poll 97 scientists."
In an interview with WND, Morano affirmed the end goal of "climate change" activists is money and control.
Their intent now is not to discuss, investigate or research, but to send "a chilling message to doubters and skeptics" to be silent.
Morano said on his website the movie shows "the climate establishment comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers."
"It's all an attempt to silence the debate, to silence any science and go right to centralized planning," he said. "That's what this is all about. The U.N. has admitted their goal is wealth redistribution and it doesn't have anything to do with environmental policy."
The solution offered by the climate establishment, he said, is always the same: "more centralized government."
He said the result will be tragic for large populations who are being denied access to pumped water, power and heat because of antagonism to carbon-based fuels.
"The reason we know there's a hustle is their predictions have failed to come true, on a whole host of issues," Morano said. "That's why they now want to stop the debate, suppress debate."
Famous predictions
One of the more famous predictions came from former vice president and current carbon-credit entrepreneur Al Gore, who told an audience in a 2009 speech that "the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years."
His 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," famously predicted increasing temperatures would cause earth's oceans to rise by 20 feet, a claim many scientists say is utterly without rational basis.
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Another came from a 2013 column by Mark Hertsgaard, which was headlined "The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015."
He wrote: "Say goodbye to polar bears and a whole lot of ice. New research suggests the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by 2015, with devastating consequences for the world. Can it be stopped?"
Taking one more step back in time, the BBC said Arctic summers would be ice-free by 2013.
Sierra Club Canada also said in 2013 that the Arctic sea ice would vanish that year.
Tim Ball, a former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, said global temperatures have been dropping since the turn of the century, prompting the change in terminology from "global warming" to "climate change."
Activists are also spending less time discussing temperatures and more time pointing to more extreme events such as tornadoes, droughts, cold snaps and heat waves. Ball said there's a shred of truth there, but it's being badly distorted.
"Yes, there's been slightly more extremes," he said in an interview with WND and Radio America. "That's because the jet stream patterns are changing, because the earth is cooling down. All the arguments about sea-level rise, about Arctic ice disappearing, if you recall it's not that long ago that our friend Al Gore was saying that there would be no summer ice in the Arctic. I think the year he set for it was 2014. That proved to be completely wrong."
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At the Ron Paul Liberty Report, Chris Rossini said the "alarmism" about "climate change" is reaching "levels of desperation."
"The arguments go from ridiculous to hysterical. We're told by many politicians that 'climate change' is the #1 threat to Americans. This is of course a favorite of the swindling class. Others tell us that the #1 threat is ISIS, and some are now saying that it's Donald Trump. Some say it's North Korea, Russia, or Iran. The carousel of #1 threats is always in motion."
Rossini continued: "In the media you'll find stories that free birth control is needed in order to battle climate change, and that climate change will turn women into prostitutes. Non-believers of this ridiculous propaganda are branded as 'deniers'.
"Even appeals to religion and the afterlife have been showered on Americans. Whether it be comments from the pope, or from Nobel Prize winning 'economist' Paul Krugman, who says: 'You can deny global warming (and may you be punished in the afterlife for doing so – this kind of denial for petty personal or political reasons is an almost inconceivable sin).'"
Rossini wrote, "Boy, do these characters really want Americans to believe the climate change religion."
Scientist Art Robinson has spearheaded The Petition Project, which has gathered the signatures of at least 31,487 scientists who agree that there is "no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
They say, "Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plan and animal environments of the Earth."
Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California-San Diego, where he served on the faculty, co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute with Nobel-recipient Linus Pauling, where he was president and research professor. He later founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. His son, Noah Robinson, was a key figure in the petition work and has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech.
Heresy hunters
Many advocates have declared that it's heresy not to agree that man is the cause of cataclysmic climate change. Some attorneys general, for example, have banded together to target any companies that challenge the climate "consensus."
When the Daily Caller reported the story it cited the Spanish Inquisition, which "systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king's."
WND also reported when some two dozen scientists with major U.S. universities urged President Obama to use racketeering laws to prosecute opponents who deny mankind is causing catastrophic changes in the climate.
In a letter addressed to Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren, the scientists said they "appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress."
"One additional tool – recently proposed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change," they wrote, according to Politico.
Two years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said legal punishment was the appropriate response to global-warming dissenters.
"I wish there were a law you could punish them with," he said, launching into a diatribe against philanthropists Charles and David Koch, known for their support of conservative causes.
"I think it's treason. Do I think the Koch brothers are treasonous – yes, I do. They are enjoying making themselves billionare[s] by impoverishing the rest of us. Do I think they should be in jail – I think they should be [enduring] three hots and a cot at the Hague with all the other war criminals. Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely, that is [a] criminal offense and they ought to be serving time for it."
President Obama has demanded action on climate change, even though the top climate scientist for the U.N. at that time, Rajendra Pachauri, admitted: "The protection of planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma."
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