To close-out The Heartland Institute’s 14th International Conference of Climate Change, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which, with The Heartland Institute co-publishes Environment & Climate News, is showed its documentary, Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy (2020).
“This movie, which stars Kevin Sorbo and Marc Morano, dispels a lot of the corruption of the climate change movement and shows how the leftist elites are getting rich from this while creating a climate monarchy,” says Adam Houser, who coordinates student leaders as the National Director of CFACT’s collegians program and also writes on climate and energy.
Difficult to Promote
Morano, who is the executive editor and chief correspondent for CFACT’s ClimateDepot.com, produced and wrote of Climate Hustle (2016) and Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy (2020). He was also named the 2021 recipient of the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award during ICCC-14’s Saturday evening dinner. Morano says bringing the movie from concept to shooting in Florida, and finally to promoting it at in Las Vegas has been a challenge.
“First, we had Climate Hustle 2 scheduled to run at the film festival in St. Petersburg, FL, then the organizers realized it was a ‘climate denial’ movie,” Morano said. “Then we were supposed to have it on Amazon but they said it violated their content policy, and as a bonus they pulled our first movie because we reminded them that it was still on their site.”
“We were also supposed to have Facebook ads, and they ended up restricting that, then COVID happened and we could not find a movie theater in the United States,” said Morano. “In the meantime, we streamed it and have it available on our website available in DVD, and I’m doing a big showing in Detroit next month.”
Two Movies Necessary
Morano says the reason CFACT did two movies was because there was so much information that it would have been a four-hour movie, so that necessitated breaking it into two films.
The first film discussed the science of climate change and the second examined on the “noble lie” that the scientific community has come up with to guilt us into giving up our civilization in order to save the world from being destroyed.
This film, like its predecessor, will give hope to the people who believe that the lies being promulgated in the name of fixing global climate change just don’t add up, says Craig Rucker, co-founder and current president of CFACT.
“We’re excited about being able to show Climate Hustle 2 at ICCC-14,” said Rucker. “After this conference I think it would be absolutely amazing to see if it lights a fire under the activists who are present here and the people who have been under siege from the media and other grass roots groups that are attacking them.
“I would like to see them be able to carry the message detailed with evidence in the movies that climate alarmists are engaged in a scam out among the people, to their spheres of influence and whatever organizations and institutions they work for,” Rucker said. “I love the fact that they’re rebroadcasting this conference through the internet to countless people around the world because I think it’s important for us to be able to bypass the social media censors that we have now who attempt to block our message.”
Social Media Censorship
Social media censorship is a topic Rucker knows well. In Sept. 2019, his colleague, Morano, was scheduled to speak to a group of Georgetown University students before a mob created such a disturbance that the event had to be canceled.
John Stossel interviewed Morano about what happened there and could hardly believe it; he would later find himself targeted by Facebook censors for daring to post two videos of his own relating to climate change. Facebook added fact-checking labels to his videos and Stossel protested the action claiming it damaged his reputation and caused his site’s traffic to bottom out. In Sept. 2021 Stossel sued Facebook for defamation, seeking at least $2 million in damages.
“John Stossel’s lawsuit is a separate issue, but back then, when we did Climate Hustle, they (Big Tech) weren’t quite ratcheting it down, but they have since become even more obnoxious, such that I think YouTube announced just last week that they’re going to prevent climate realists from earning ad revenue,” Rucker said. “Amazon also hammered us in a bunch of different phases because they do stuff with their algorithms to make sure our message doesn’t get out there too far,”
“Basically, they won’t allow you to post content if what you’re saying goes against their message,” said Rucker. “Right now online social media companies can basically pull you down and they don’t answer your call for an explanation, so Stossel’s lawsuit, if successful, should affect what happened to us and everybody else who is in the climate realist community because I think these companies are going to have to move toward some sort of transparency about how they’re making their decisions.”
Kenneth Artz (KApublishing@gmx.com) writes from Dallas, Texas.
