Climate skeptics with Gore

Phelim McAleer (left) and Ann McElhinney (right).

At last week’s tiny “Celebrate Coal!” rally at the Capitol Power Plant — held in the shadow of the big anti-coal rally — I met Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, two Irish filmmakers and climate skeptics working on a documentary about Al Gore. Title: Not Evil Just Wrong.

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They’re now getting 15 minutes of fame thanks to a photo accompanying today’s New York Times article on the climate skeptics summit in New York this week.

Here’s my video interview with the duo, in which they proclaim that “CO2 is the new DDT” and “CO2 is life”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQv66XWxr4k&feature=player_embedded