I feel sorry for the global-warming alarmists: Their latest documentary is called “Greedy Lying Bastards.” What’s next, “Big Oil Is Full of Meanies?”
With a droning mix of interviews with talking heads (some scientists, many left-wing lobbyists and the like) and images of the kinds of horrific weather events that have occurred forever, the documentary is a small, sad piece of evidence that the alarmist movement is still stuck on step one of a long line of argument: convincing the public that global warming is happening.
Interviewees and the film’s dull narrator-director, Craig Scott Rosebraugh, mouth absurdities: “We have to do something to stop emitting,” says one talking head, as if that were an option. There’s a segment blaming George W. Bush (an oldie but a goodie) and another claiming that Republican congressmen somehow were able to “dismantle environmental regulations.” No. You don’t get to govern from the House. Unable to reach an ideological foe on the phone, the director says, “I guess he was too busy with world domination.”
There was a time when the climate-change alarmist movement was like a guy with a megaphone at your ear, but now it’s more like a squirrel at your shoelaces.