Greedy Lying Bastards - film review

A documentary about climate change deniers and the US billionaires (most notably the Koch brothers) that back them. The goal of such people is to turn global warming into a “non-issue”; they don't need to prove their case, they just need to make the whole thing sound so complicated that punters switch off. We meet the scientists and environmentalists who've been smeared as panicky cranks and money-grabbing crooks. They're a mousey-looking bunch yet, amazingly, seem unfazed by the slurs and insults (they're so worried about melting ice-caps, perhaps, that everything else is water off a duck's back). As our liberal-on-a-mission, narrator/director Craig Scott Rosebraugh lacks the comedy-gold timing of a Michael Moore or Nick Broomfield, but the hair-raising facts are so timely that you're just grateful his film exists.