An Irish journalist has been thrown out of the star-studded New York première of a film about global warming for accusing the documentary makers and their celebrity guests of hypocrisy.

The drama-documentary The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the world in 2055 after global warming has wiped out the rest of humanity.

The film says flying is a major contributor to global warming. Irish journalist Phelim McAleer tried to ask celebrities on the 'green carpet' if they'd flown to the première.

Gillian Anderson, of X Files fame, replied: "I got here on an airplane because it's a bit far to swim."

She added that flying was bad "but sometimes some people have to fly in order to make a stand to get people's attention". McAleer was ejected before he could approach former Irish president Mary Robinson, ex-UN secretary general Kofi Annan, actress Heather Graham, or musicians Moby and Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

"When I asked the film's director, Franny Armstrong, how she'd travelled to New York, she wouldn't answer and then had her security guards remove me. I was there as a journalist asking legitimate questions and some people didn't like it.

"They won't allow anyone to question the credentials of their celebrity supporters for using the very carbon-spewing planes the documentary condemns. This film should be renamed 'The Age of Hypocrisy'."

The YouTube video clip of McAleer's ejection has had almost 30,000 views. McAleer's own film, Not Evil Just Wrong, which challenges "the global warming hysteria", premières across the US next month.

McAleer is by-passing Hollywood to launch the film and is organising a 'cinematic tea party' in independent venues across the US on 18 October.

McAleer, who previously worked for the Sunday Times in Dublin, runs the Greener Horizon film company with his Donegal wife Ann McElhinney.