Report: Director James Cameron calls climate change skeptics ‘swine’

James Cameron, director of the eco-tinged smash film Avatar, on Sunday called global warming skeptics “swine” at a renewable energy conference in Aspen, Colo., according to a news report.

“I think they're swine,” he said at the American Renewable Energy Day Summit, the Aspen Times reported.

Here’s more from their story about Cameron's appearance at the conference:

[...] 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.

Cameron’s 2009 film tells the tale of a close-to-nature alien race fighting a mining company from Earth that's ravaging their planet in pursuit of mineral wealth.

Environmentalists have drawn comparisons to mountaintop-removal coal mining and development of Canada's oil sands, and Cameron has talked up the movie's eco-themes.