Good for James Cameron. Calls anti-earthers 'swine'.

Don't care much for his movies but I do recognize the willingness of James Cameron to embrace science and use it to explore our world. He has been using scientific means to investigate the earth, especially the oceans, for some time and has a first hand view of the threat of global warming to us all. He's not alone. In the scientific community, 99% of professionals recognize the effects that humans have had on global warming.

Whether the remaining 1% have valid points arguing that global warming does not exist, I'll leave that up to debate among the scientists. But when a bunch of righty non-scientific bloggers latch on to the 1 percenters, it gets a little silly. Blinded by the devotion to end days and the reluctance to accept science because it will impede the coming of Armageddon, coupled with a slavish devotion to corporations and polluters, the anti-earthers are adamant that superstition trumps science. They are pests who have the attention of the media but little else.

Perhaps that is what ticked off director James Cameron at the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen.

ASPEN — James Cameron doesn't mince words when talking about people who are skeptical that humans are causing global warming.

“I think they're swine,” the renowned filmmaker told an audience member Sunday on the final day of the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen.

Just before saying that, Cameron received a standing ovation for a short documentary he screened about a coalition of people he joined who are opposed to a massive hydropower project in Brazil that would displace a large tribal community there.

It was during a series of talks Sunday about the strong effect the right-wing punditry — Cameron named the regulars: Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, who are known for their sharp attacks on environmentalists — has on Americans.

“Effing demigods,” as green communications strategist Richard Greene called them.

“A lot of really good American people are being lied to,” added Peter Byck, the director of an upcoming climate change documentary called “Carbon Nation.”

Byck stressed that Americans' hearts are in the right places, but that skeptics of climate change have such a vast infrastructure in getting what he called their false message out, many don't know whom to believe.

Greene, Cameron and a host of other climate-change activists said there needs to be a broad educational campaign, one aimed at convincing voters and politicians that not being able to prove that fossil fuel-produced carbon is changing the temperature of Earth is not a license for inaction.

They also criticized the media for giving half of its attention to a very small — less than 1 percent, they said — portion of scientists who say global warming is not caused by humans.

With campaigns like the production of his blockbuster hit “Avatar,” Cameron said people are starting to realize the gravity of the problem.

“I think we did move the needle a little bit,” he said.

But that effort alone is not enough to fix it, panelists said.

Harvey Wasserman, a senior adviser to Greenpeace and author of the book “Solartopia!”, told audience members that if the government would stop its military operations in Afghanistan, it would be able to refocus those dollars on finding substantive solutions to climate change.

“We have to stop this god damn war in Afghanistan,” Wasserman said. 

Predictably, wingnut heads are exploding this morning. One journalist blogger that she calls Cameron "King of the Hyprocrites" and writes that Cameron was talking about her, although he didn't name any names. Talk about a corrupt self image.