Indie Darling Jim Jarmusch Blames LA Fires on Climate Change
'Paterson' director uses awards stage to push agenda, ignores Newsom, Bass
Celebrities transformed awards show close-ups into political spaces in recent years.
The most infamous example? Leonardo DiCaprio used his Best Actor speech to promote Climate Change alarmism.
Lately, the stars have dialed back on political posturing during awards season. Even the recent Golden Globes telecast featured few overtly political messages. A certain real estate mogul’s name didn’t even come up.
Indie director Jim Jarmusch didn’t get the memo.
The man behind “Broken Flowers,” “Stranger than Paradise” and “Paterson” used his time at Wednesday’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards gala to speak out on the raging L.A.-area fires.
“We are all worried about our friends in LA,” said Jarmusch at the gala. “Climate crisis is brought to you by climate deniers … They are telling us that woke is a negative thing, and I would just like to say it’s time we wake the f*** up!”
There’s no evidence at this point to pin the blame on Climate Change. We do know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass slashed the L.A. Fire Department’s budget by a whopping $17.6 million and that state officials did little to prepare for such an emergency.
Instead, firefighting officials praised internal DEI efforts.
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Jarmusch made the comments while presenting NYFCC’s Best Screenplay award to Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a favorite to snag more than a few Oscar nominations later this month. Other stars at the gala struck more conciliatory notes, wishing those in harm’s way well and sharing hopeful messages.
Not Jarmusch.
His comments came after Bass stood by silently as a European journalist pelted her with tough but fair questions about her role in the crisis. It’s the most uncomfortable exchange in recent memory.
WOW! You can actually see the exact moment Karen Bass realizes her political career is over…
Watch her stunned silence when she’s asked if she regrets cutting the LA fire department’s budget.
pic.twitter.com/wMxZ5iUNVf— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) January 8, 2025
Jarmusch isn’t alone in blaming Climate Change for the fires.
Director Adam McKay, who has funneled millions into radical eco-activist coffers, is doing just that with a series of posts on X like this:
A lot of feelings coming up today after watching the professional class for yrs ignore the alarming, clear, climate data scientists have been screaming about.
Anger, sadness, resolve…
Let’s PLEASE not let these hacks, careerists, & creeps off the hook. https://t.co/9qpdkeJPNu
— Adam McKay (@ZombiePanther2) January 8, 2025
Right-leaning stars have taken a different approach.
“Shazam!” alum Zachary Levi called Gov. Newsom “criminally negligent” for his state leadership.
Dean Cain prayed for Bass’ resignation over her ineffective leadership.
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) January 9, 2025
Patricia Heaton excoriated Democratic leaders for making this catastrophe possible.
The primary role of government is to secure infrastructure, make sure disaster preparedness is up to date, and protect citizens from harm both criminally and otherwise. Newsome & Co have done the exact opposite. Infuriating. pic.twitter.com/sdYWR2oE3g
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) January 8, 2025
“Fire is the biggest hazard in Los Angeles. Why would you cut that budget? There was no water in the fire hydrants in the Palisades. [Bass] wasn’t even in town during fire season,” Heaton said in the two-plus minute video.
The Emmy winner shared her affection for having spent decades in California. She said the state’s current leadership – overwhelmingly Democrats – have turned the Golden State into a nightmare.
“The people running the show just decimated the place,” she said.
How To Talk To Climate Skeptics Parts 1 & 2
I’ve had this conversation so many times I just cut and paste…
Questions to ask a skeptic…
1. Do you believe that scientists have fundamentally misunderstood greenhouse gasses and their impacts to the atmosphere? Meaning is the science behind greenhouse gasses wrong?
2. Do you believe that scientists have wildly miscalculated the amount of greenhouse gasses we’re putting into the atmosphere each year? Meaning that we’ve underestimated or overestimated the amount of this type of pollution?
3. Do you believe that ecological systems have limits? Meaning is it possible to damage an ecosystem beyond repair?
The challenge has always been modeling the impacts… it’s an incredibly complex system and computer models are best guesses and then you’ve got the problem of solutions.
Part Two: How to speak to a skeptic
Can you drink salt water? Have you ever tired? Just guzzle a whole glass of salt water? I mean unless you’ve tried maybe scientists have been lying to us and the ocean is drinkable; okay so if you accept that there is such a thing as salt water and fresh water what’s the difference? Salt isn’t evil exactly, our bodies do need salt right? It’s the amount of it… too much salt = non drinkable water. So for ALL of human history the earth’s atmosphere has been made up of roughly 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen.
Sure it has been different in the far far past but for ALL of human history that’s been the make up of our atmosphere. That 1% is made up other gases like argon and trace amounts of gases like carbon dioxide.
It’s best to think of our atmosphere like an upside down river. (with layers like a surface of a river, to depths below) and since the industrial revolution we’ve been polluting that river; the US alone dumps about 5,277 MMT (million metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere each year.
So those trace amounts have been steadily rising and that change is having an increasingly greater impact. It’d be like if you had a glass of water with a trace amount of salt (that’d be okay) and then you dumped a whole shaker of salt into it… yuck. Not drinkable and eventually deadly. So past temperature is kinda a moot point.
But maybe you’re pro pollution?
Sorry, I read comments, not walls of text
Yes, only Americans can save the climate.
You kid, but this part of the Climate Change argument drives me bonkers. Even if we went super green – there’s still China and India. And activists never directly address that part of the debate. Seems important.
When ignorance goes to seed…. Film at 11:00.
If your still voting for democrats then please check into mental health clinic.
“There is no evidence at this point to pin the blame on climate change.”
Nor will there ever be. Because climate change is a religion. And like all other religions, it’s a matter of faith. Believing in what cannot be proven.