Is concern over global warming really hysteria?
Surnow: No, not concern, but absolute hysteria is. We point out that 30 years ago, the big concern was global cooling, and the population explosion. If you read books and magazines published back in the ’70s and ’80s, we’re not supposed to be here right now. The Earth Day manifesto in 1976 said we weren’t going to make it to 2000. TVGuide.com: But one reason global cooling stopped was because the Clean Air Act was passed. We did something about it. Surnow: We’re not pro-pollution. I grew up in L.A. Coto: If the global warming hysteria is about stopping pollution, then make it about stopping pollution. TVGuide.com: Why did you end up doing this for Fox News Channel? It seems like it could have worked on an entertainment channel like FX or the Fox network. Surnow: We went in and pitched a version of this show [to Fox]. Fox entertainment president Peter Liguori gave us the money to make a 10-minute presentation. We made it. They turned it down. We looked at it and said, “You know, there i
