Climate Hustle
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| Directed by | Christopher Rogers |
| Produced by | Christopher Rogers |
| Written by |
Marc Morano Mick Curran |
| Narrated by | Marc Morano |
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CFACT Presents
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| Distributed by | Fathom Events |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Climate Hustle is a 2016 film rejecting the existence and cause of climate change, narrated by climate change denialistMarc Morano, produced and directed by Christopher Rogers, co-written by Morano and Mick Curran, and funded by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free market pressure group funded by the fossil fuel lobby.
According to Ars Technica, the film offers "a fast-paced, uninterrupted delivery of superficial and false claims about climate science".
Climate Hustle challenges the scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that the consensus is overstated and part of an "environmental con job being used to push for increased government regulations and a new 'Green' energy agenda". It offers a series of segments which present arguments that function to cast doubt on aspects of the consensus, pointing to perceived inconsistencies, errors, and political hypotheses. Sections include interviews and commentary by Morano.
It begins with an explanation of three-card Monte, a confidence game scam offered as a metaphor for climate change arguments.
Climate Hustle was directed and produced by Christopher Rogers, president of Washington, D.C.-based media production company CDR Communications.
The conservative group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) provided funding. The film is billed as a "CFACT Presents" production, and the organization's president and executive director, David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, are credited as executive producers. CFACT also sponsors Morano's blog, Climate Depot.
Climate Hustle premiered in Paris, France on 7 December 2015, coinciding with the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Its U.S. premiere was held on 14 April 2016 at the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and was followed by a discussion panel that included former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and David Legates, a climatologist and geology professor at the University of Delaware whose work is funded by Koch Industries and other fossil-fuel sponsors. It was moderated by conservative writer Brent Bozell. U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith, Republican of Texas, was set to attend but instead prepared opening remarks which included an accusation that U.S. government agencies had tampered with climate data.
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