Documentary 'Greedy Lying Bastards' Targets Climate-Change Deniers Patrick Gavin - POLITICO
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Greedy Lying Bastards trailer (www.exposethebastards.com)

The new documentary “Greedy Lying Bastards” takes on contributors to and deniers of climate change and accuses many in the energy industry of lying and putting profits before people.

And although director Craig Rosebraugh says it’s an unfortunate coincidence, he says that recent events could have helped the marketing of the film.

“I don’t think we could have asked for a better time to release the film,” Rosebraugh told POLITICO, noting that “thankfully — if you can call it thankfully — the climate has responded with the severe weather patterns in 2011 and 2012.”

“We had the severe droughts, we had the wildfires and, of course, Hurricane Sandy this year. And that really turned the tide on public opinion.”

And good thing, too, according to Rosebraugh who says that climate science deniers had made major gains on public opinion in recent years. Rosebraugh says he grew frustrated at seeing climate change deniers on television” who really went to town in trying to confuse the public and politicians but just bringing doubt about whether climate change is real and, to some degree, they’ve succeeded.”

Rosebraugh says he was glad to hear the president mention climate change during both his second inaugural address and the State of the Union address and says “I hope he means it.”

“I hope that he really intends to do something about it and not just pay it lip service. … It seems to be, for all intents and purposes, considered some kind of luxury item, where if there’s nothing more pressing going on, it may be considered or may be addressed and i think that’s a shame.”

“Greedy Lying Bastards” opened in theaters on March 8th.

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