Climate Denial, the Catchy Version

By Reed McManus

December 11, 2015

From "We Are the World" to "The Earth's Not Getting Warmer"? Comedy website Funny or Die presents a celebrity-laden musical spoof of climate-change skeptics, ostensibly hosted by conservative activists, industrialists, and philanthropists Charles and David Koch (both played by actor Beau Bridges), with GOP presidential candidates and snowball-fondling Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chair of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works,  as primary targets. "We're fine, just a little toasty weather/To bring us all together, in sunny harmony," the singers assure us, joined by The Silver Lake Chorus of Los Angeles.

The song was produced by a bunch of Hollyweird libruls working with the librul climate advocacy group ClimateTruth.org, so it may not impress in certain quarters. But in a handy bit of related news, recent surveys conducted by the University of Texas at Austin found that three-quarters of Americans now accept the scientific consensus on climate change, the highest level in four years of surveys. "The biggest shocker is what's happening inside the GOP," Bloomberg writes. "In a remarkable turnabout, 59 percent of Republicans now say climate change is happening, up from 47 percent just six months ago." (Among Democrats, the number climbed from 86 to 90 percent.)