Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down

A new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes aim at the supposed hypocrisy of the green movement is “dangerous, misleading and destructive” and should be removed from public viewing, according to an assortment of climate scientists and environmental campaigners.

The film, Planet of the Humans, was released on the eve of Earth Day last week by its producer, Michael Moore, the baseball cap-wearing documentarian known for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Describing itself as a “full-frontal assault on our sacred cows”, the film argues that electric cars and solar energy are unreliable and rely upon fossil fuels to function. It also attacks figures including Al Gore for bolstering corporations that push flawed technologies over real solutions to the climate crisis.

Planet of the Humans has provoked a furious reaction from scientists and campaigners, however, who have called for it be taken down. One distributor, Films for Action, temporarily took down the film after describing it as “full of misinformation”, though they later reinstated it, saying they did not want accusations of censorship to give the film “more power and mystique than it deserves.” A free version on YouTube has been viewed more than 3m times.

A letter written by Josh Fox, who made the documentary Gasland, and signed by various scientists and activists, has urged the removal of “shockingly misleading and absurd” film for making false claims about renewable energy. Planet of the Humans “trades in debunked fossil fuel industry talking points” that question the affordability and reliability of solar and wind energy, the letter states, pointing out that these alternatives are now cheaper to run than fossil fuels such as coal.

It’s a great expose. Even though he remains a sort of Malthusian with respect to over-population as the essential problem. Still, delivers a series of richly deserved bloody noses to the self righteous twits of the green side.

Excellent summation. It is part hit-piece on the hypocrites, part we need to kill off much of the human race, and parts of it were thought provoking. It amazes me that the billionaires continue to fund these twits who would like to lynch them, but then again, the billionaires are making lots of money on green energy!

The film did not go far enough into how much each Kw hour costs for green energy and how much was subsidized. Green energy is neither cost effective in its current form nor is it really “clean.” I did think the film did a good job of showing how dirty “green energy” really is.

In the end, the only solution offered appeared to be to kill off much of the human race because there “are too many people.”

Lots of propaganda (expected) and I did not really learn anything other than it reinforced how “in bed” the radical left is with the billionaires they despise.

It is a shame that the film did not discuss nuclear power as an option. Many thoughtful environmentalist are giving it another serious look and consideration. Based on data, nuclear is the best option for electricity with the least climate impact, but my overall takeaway was that the radical left sees the hypocrisy of Al Gore and crew as much as we do and their dream is for most of the population on our planet to just die.

What was with the ending and what is the story behind the orangutans? I had a polar bear flashback there.

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