Film Night in Heart & Soul: #ClimateScam (with Q&A by Claire Wallerstein)

Within the cosy, welcoming space of our Heart and Soul café, this film night is more than just a screening—it’s an opportunity to engage, reflect, and connect with like-minded individuals who care about the planet. In addition to the film, your ticket includes a cinema-style snack selection, with additional hot and cold drinks available for purchase.

All proceeds from the event help support Newquay Orchard’s community programs, fostering sustainability, education, and social impact.

Our February film is ‘#ClimateScam?

Despite all the evidence of rising global temperatures and climate-related disasters – and almost 100% consensus among the world’s climate scientists about what is causing this – there are still a surprising number of people who do not believe we are facing a climate emergency.

Others go further and think the climate is being artificially altered by scientists as part of an evil plan to make tech billionaires richer, enable a ‘globalist’ government to take control of our lives and kill off large swathes of the population.

Climate conspiracies, whipped up by social media algorithms that push the most extreme viewpoints to the fore, have resulted in death threats being made against people like city councillors trying to introduce traffic reduction schemes and weather forecasters trying to keep people safe from hurricanes.

Why are these conspiracy theories so popular? Who or what is behind them? And do any of them actually hold a grain of truth?