Greedy Lying Bastards: New Film on Climate Denial Industry Tells It Like It Is

A new film exposing the climate denial machine has hit the circuit with force, connecting the dots between extreme weather events, climate change and those making it all happen. Greedy Lying Bastards, as the title suggests, doesn't hold back while chronicling the web of deceit, corruption and personal greed underlying society's perpetual failure to meaningfully address global warming.

Just like the troupe of tobacco executives who made a mockery of the justice system when they systematically lied to Congress in 1994 about the addictiveness of nicotine and the negative effects of cigarette smoke, an organized network of climate change contrarians, conservative think tanks, politicians and oil and gas industry insiders are leading a coordinated campaign to deny the reality of climate disruption and its relation to the production and consumption of fossil fuels.

Produced by actress Daryl Hannah and directed by Craig Rosebraugh, Greedy Lying Bastards sets the misinformation of prominent climate deniers like Christopher Monckton and Marc Morano against the incisive commentary of climate scientists and debunkers – including DeSmog founder Jim Hoggan – to show just how misleading these spindoctors really are.

If you'd like to weigh in on the issue, you can sign your name to a call for a Congressional investigation into the network of deniers and their industry funders at ExposeTheBastards.com. But be sure to watch the trailer before you do:

The film makes its Canadian debut this Friday in Toronto, and is expected to hit theatres in Vancouver, Ottawa and beyond in the coming weeks. Check back on the film's website to see the theatre listings as they are updated.