God hates climate scientists: Ars meets the Westboro Baptist Church

We went to interview the Westboro Baptist Church, who was visiting New York to protest NASA's climate research. Video shot and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)

NEW YORK—On Friday, the infamous Westboro Baptist Church could be found—offensive signs in hand—on the Upper West Side, protesting the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. According to members of the church, they wanted to inform the scientists within (who study the effect of climate change) that "when God starts pouring out his wrath—and one of the ways he does that is by using the weather—there's not one thing they're going to be able to do to stop it."

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