'Scientists Aren’t Just ‘F*cking With You’: Jimmy Kimmel takes on Sarah Palin

Jimmy Kimmel takes on Sarah Palin, backed
 by science and climate scientists.

On Monday evening’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the ABC late-night host tackled something that isn’t in your average topical monologue: the scientific consensus on climate change. And he made a video featuring real climate scientists responding to climate denial in a fashion one doesn’t see in the National Academy of Sciences.

The catalyst involved a climate denier-produced movie, “Climate Hustle,” which has been called “amateurish” and “not very watchable.” Specifically what Kimmel seized on were comments former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave last month while promoting the movie.

Before going into how Donald Trump is “so reasonable and so full of common sense” to believe that the “climate change agenda is really just a political agenda to stymie development,” Palin last month said in an interview promoting the movie that it’s important to question the scientific consensus on climate change.

“It’s perpetuated and repeated so often that too many people believe that, ‘Oh, well, if 97 percent of all scientists believe that man’s activities are creating changes in the weather, who am I to question that?'” she said.

“Exactly. Who are you to question that?” Kimmel replied. He joked that his theory was that Palin wants global warming to happen because it’s cold in Alaska (though with regular headlines reporting record-high temperatures, it’s less so recently).

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