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People are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing.

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We are in the beginning of a mass extinction,

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and all you can talk about is money

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and fairytales of eternal economic growth.

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How dare you?

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This is the story of

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how an eccentric environmental scare grew into a

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powerful global industry.

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It's a wonderful business opportunity. Okay?

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You want climate, we'll give you climate.

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There's a huge amount of money involved,

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and this is a huge, big money scam.

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There are not just now billions,

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but there are trillions of dollars at stake.

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It's a story of self-interest and big government funding.

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People like me, our careers depend on funding

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of climate research.

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This is what I've been doing just about my whole career.

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This is what the other climate researchers are

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doing with their whole career.

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They don't want this to end.

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If CO2 isn't having the huge negative impacts

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that we claimed it was having originally,

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how are we going to stay in business?

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A lot of people's livelihoods depend on it.

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They're not gonna give that up.

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This is a story of the corruption of science.

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There's no such thing

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as a climate emergency happening on this planet now.

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It's, there's no, no evidence of one.

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The climate alarm is, is nonsense.

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You know, it's, it's a hoax. I've never liked hoax.

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I, I think scam is a better word,

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but I'm willing to live with hoax.

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It's a story about the bullying

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and intimidation of anyone who daress

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to challenge the climate alarm.

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To speak up against

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or about climate change in any sort

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of skeptical way was essentially career suicide.

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Activists are even calling for any skepticism

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to be criminalized.

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It's the story of an assault on individual freedom.

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It's a wonderful way to, uh,

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increase government power if there's an existential threat

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out there that's worldwide.

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Well, you need a powerful worldwide government,

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you know, to cope with it.

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We see all these kind of, uh,

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authoritarian measures being adopted in the name

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of saving the planet.

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You've suddenly got the population under

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control all over the world.

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We called it industrial progress.

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Since the Industrial Revolution, the development

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of free market capitalist,

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mass production has made evermore goods evermore affordable

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to ever larger numbers of people.

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Mass production marched hand in hand with mass consumption.

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In the modern age, ordinary people enjoy a level

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of prosperity, never before achieved in human history.

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But all the while we are told we were destroying the planet.

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Computers have calculated what is in store for us

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as we produce and consume evermore.

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The weather will get worse, the planet will boil. We greedy.

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Humans must accept limits on our lifestyle,

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consume less, travel less.

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Those who deny the climate crisis are not just

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wrong, they're dangerous.

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Spreading the poison of doubt among a gullible population.

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These deniers should be shunned and shamed and censored.

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For these climate deniers are flat earthers.

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They are anti-Science

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teaching at New York University is one

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of these climate deniers.

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Professor Stephen Coonan is one

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of America's leading physicists.

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He was a science advisor to President Obama

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and both vice president

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and provost of Caltech, one

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of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world.

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I teach climate science to my students at NYU

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and I always tell them, check the data

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or the papers yourself,

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and they all come outta that course

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with their eyes wide open.

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Professor Coonan's bestselling book unsettled argues

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that mainstream scientific studies accepted

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by official agencies do not support the notion

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that there is any kind of climate crisis at all.

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Of course, I've been called a denier, uh,

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and my response is, tell me what I'm denying

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because I'm quoting from you directly from the

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official un scientific reports.

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Dick Linson also dismisses the claims

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of climate alarmists.

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He's one of the world's leading meteorologists,

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who's professor of meteorology at both Harvard University

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and MIT, and has served on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel

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on Climate Change or IPCC,

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Even the intergovernmental panel on climate Change.

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which is the science, they don't support any

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of these claims, and I assure you, having served on it,

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it's biased, but you couldn't get any real scientists

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to agree some of the nonsense that's being promoted.

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Will Happa is also a denier

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and is another of America's leading physicists.

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He has been science advisor to three presidents

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and professor of physics at both Columbia

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and Princeton University.

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There's this mischievous, uh, idea that's promoted that

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scientific truth is determined by consensus in real science.

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You know, there are always arguments.

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No science has ever settled.

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You know, it just, uh, is absurd when people say the science

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of climate has settled.

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It's not, there's no such thing

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as settled science, especially climate.

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Dr. John Klauser is one

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of the most respected scientists in the world.

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The science is being done, is appallingly bad?

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In my opinion, there are a large number of scientists

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who are in violent disagreement.

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They refer to themselves as skeptics.

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Since I am no longer worried about, uh, losing funding

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or a job, whatever I call myself a climate change denier.

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These very eminent and respected scientists

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and others like them are not flat earthers.

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They do not deny science.

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So what's the evidence that has caused them

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to dismiss the climate's alarm as nonsense?

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We are told that current temperatures are unprecedented

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and dangerously high.

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It's possible to check if this is true,

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because we have evidence

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of earth's climate history dating back hundreds, thousands,

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even millions of years.

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The desert of Judea by the Dead Sea.

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Professor Nia Shave from the Racker Institute

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of Physics has come here looking for clues.

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Thousands of years ago, this place was underwater

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and etched into the rocks are lines, which if you know how

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to read them, tell the story of earth's climate history.

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And here's the climate. We are at the, uh, lake beds of,

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uh, what used to be lake, uh, lyan.

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of the last ice age.

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above where we were located.

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to, uh, look for evidence, uh, for clues.

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reconstruct how the climate has changed.

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and other changes that are reflected in the ancient

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layers of the lake bed.

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and this is just one way geologists can

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reconstruct past climate.

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the ocean and then, uh, look at layers there,

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uh, or many other places.

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the climate has, uh, changed.

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For 200 million years, dinosaurs roamed the earth,

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an earth marked by fertile,

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dense forests, teeming with life.

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temperatures as cold as they are today.

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it was maybe 13 degrees warmer than it is now.

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this is not at all unprecedented.

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temperatures have varied greatly,

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but for almost all that time, the earth was much,

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much warmer than today compared

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to the last half billion years.

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to thrive when it's warm, warmer than it is now.

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from hypothermia.

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of there eventually was fire, shelter, and clothing.

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temperatures steadily declined, plunging the earth into

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what geologists call the late Zoic Ice Age.

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We are still in that ice age.

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because we're in an ice age.

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who knows anything about the history of the earth.

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and they're saying it's too hot.

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there's just ice at the poles.

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we've been in a slightly less cold, glacial minimum known

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with milder weather.

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of the first great civilizations in a blissful period,

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was considerably warmer than today.

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This is known as the Holocene Climate Optimum.

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because people thought that warmer was better.

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by a brutal cold period in the dark ages.

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of temperature in the world comes from Central England,

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and this is what it shows.

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Since the worst of the little ice age from 1650,

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the temperature has risen gently

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by little more than one degree Celsius.

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The Central England record

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of temperature is a world treasure.

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You know, it's the longest continuous record that we have,

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and it's certainly not a very alarming record.

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It began in the depths of the little ice age.

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And so you can see the slight warming

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that followed the little ice age,

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and there's certainly nothing very alarming

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that's happening today.

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Uh, at the very end of the record, most of the warming

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that we're observing today

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is the recovery from the little ice

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age. Whatever calls that.

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Well, you know, we're talking over the entire industrial

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period of about one degree centigrade.

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To put this one degree in perspective,

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let's look at New York Central Park Records show

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that there has been no overall change in temperature here

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since 1940,

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but from one year to the next,

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the average temperature can vary

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by three degrees Celsius without many New

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Yorkers even noticing.

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In fact, between the warmest year in the 1960s

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and the coolest in 2000, there's a difference

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of five degrees Celsius.

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The average temperature on this day in this year

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might be five degrees different from the average temperature

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a year ago or two years.

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You know, when I hear people pontificating about one

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and a half degrees leading to the end of civilization,

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I think what have them been smoking?

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You know, are you crazy? Right? So

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According to thermometer readings since 1880,

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there's been a very mild increase in temperature.

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Only by stretching the Y axis on this graph is

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the increase noticeable.

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This is the rising line used by official agencies as proof

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of global warming.

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But is it accurate?

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Professor Ross McKitrick is an expert in statistical

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analysis at Guelph University.

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He noticed something odd about modern thermometer records.

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Thermometers even in the same region,

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give out very different readings depending

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on where they're located.

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I was interested in the question of

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how do you explain the spatial pattern of warming?

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So some places warm a lot, some places don't warm much,

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and it turns out entirely correlated with

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the spatial pattern of economic activity

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Where there are more people

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and there is more human activity, there's more heat.

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This is known as the urban heat island effect.

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Urban heat island effect is essentially London, right?

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You pick London with building with a, a lot

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of activities tends to be a a few degree.

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I mean, we're talking now Celsius, right?

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Even four or five degrees Celsius warmer than outskirt.

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This is a phenomenon of urbanization.

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This day is the obvious effect is actually concrete

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rotating, retaining heat.

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This can be illustrated

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with a satellite heat map of Paris.

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The center of Paris can be as much

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as five degrees Celsius warmer than

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the surrounding countryside.

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Paris, London, Beijing, Shanghai,

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you name it, new Delhi.

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All of them absolutely demonstrated that effects.

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So how has this affected the official temperature record?

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In the early part of the 20th century, it was normal

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to erect weather thermometers just

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outside towns close enough to check every day,

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but away from the heat of urban life.

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But over the 20th century, those towns have expanded,

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suburbs have spread.

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There are more roads, more cars, thermometers,

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which were once outside towns are now surrounded

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by shopping malls, offices, factories, and houses.

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These Towns and all the locations

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where thermometers are located, on average,

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they've all grown in population, let's say since 1880.

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You've got buildings, uh, growing up

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around the thermometers, you've got parking lots.

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So you've got all of these non climate influences,

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which are affecting the temperatures,

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which raises questions about the quality of thermometer data

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for monitoring global warming

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To correct. For this corruption

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of the data, an obvious solution is

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to use only records from rural weather stations,

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which have been less affected by urban development.

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This has now been done by a team led by Dr. Willie. Soon

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We combine all the best rural station, any anything

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that we can correct for, we correct for, and we show.

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If you just don't use this dataset

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and use only rural you,

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you get a very different kind of picture.

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According To rural temperature,

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records temperatures rose from the 1880s,

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but peaked in the 1940s.

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Then there was a marked cooling until the 1970s.

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After that, temperatures recover,

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but are still today barely higher than

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they were in the 1940s.

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What we see is that basically you have a warming from the

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1,918, you know, fifties or so to 1930s and forties,

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and started to warm and then cool in a substantial way

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to the seventies, about 76 or so.

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Instead of a long-term systematic warming trend.

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It has a variability multi decade, like every 50, 60 years

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or so, kind of a variation.

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It's not just rural thermometers that show little warming

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merchant ships and other naval vessels have been measuring

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the temperature of the sea since the 19th century.

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In red, we see the land temperature record since the 1860s,

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which has been inflated by urban thermometers.

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But in blue is the ocean temperature record

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from around 1900.

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The two begin to diverge.

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Ocean records show far less warming in the 20th century,

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and the pattern more closely resembles the

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rural temperature record.

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Sea is not supposed to be quote unquote contaminated

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by urban heat island effect.

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Am I right? Yes. So when we compare the two record within

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the range of uncertainty, this behavior actually fits.

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Scientists have also studied temperature change

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by looking at tree rings,

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which again shows very little warming.

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There's a gentle rise till the mid 20th century, a cooling

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to the 1970s, followed by a mild recovery.

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Once again, it shows temperatures today are barely different

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to those of the 1930s and forties,

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and the pattern closely resembles rural temperatures.

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Satellites too seem to be telling a different story.

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Our ability to measure global temperature accurately took a

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leap forward when satellites began to war the earth.

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One of the scientists who pioneered the use of satellites

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to measure temperature is Dr. Roy Spencer,

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who in the 1980s was senior scientist

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for climate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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We were discussing over lunch,

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isn't there some way we can use satellites

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to monitor global temperatures?

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Because as you know, the temperature network of thermometers

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is pretty skimpy around the world, so it's kind of hard

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to get a global temperature.

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Dr. Spencer's development

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of weather satellites was revolutionary.

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He and his colleague, professor John Christie,

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have been awarded NASA's Medal

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for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.

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Our satellite data begins in January of 1979.

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That's when we have complete global coverage, uh,

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and we have it right up to the present.

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There was one critical question about temperature

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that satellites were singularly well equipped to answer.

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Has there been a spurious warming

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that has crept into the global temperature record over land?

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Uh, that's a, just a result of an increase in population,

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and that's something that we've been analyzing

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and working a lot on lately,

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and we're finding that especially in urban areas,

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uh, it's large.

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I mean, since 1880, most of the warming it looks like is due

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to the urban heat island effect.

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We're lucky to have a few independent scientists like

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John Christie and Roy Spencer

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with their satellite measurements of temperature, you know,

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before they, uh,

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started releasing this ground-based temperature

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records were going wild.

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They, they were going up, you know, like crazy

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with no, no bounds.

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But now they have to contend with the fact

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that there's this independent

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and probably better way

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of measuring the whole globe's temperature,

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which is not alarming at all.

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Evidence from multiple sources now agree

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that the official global temperature record, as used

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by world governments

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and reported in the world's media,

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is showing far too much warming over the last 120 years,

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artificially inflated by urbanization.

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You look at the weather balloon record,

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the satellite record, the rural record,

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the ocean record doesn't warm nearly as much as land.

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All of these indications show that the,

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like the big warming pulse in the record is the Northern

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Hemisphere land record,

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and that's also where most

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of this data contamination is happening.

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But of the mild warming

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that has taken place in the last three to 400 years, can any

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of it be attributed to human emissions of CO2?

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Professor Henriks Wesmark is visiting the Hebrew University

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of Jerusalem and taking a stroll in the Evolution Garden

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dedicated to preserving the oldest surviving

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plant species on earth.

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These plants aren't just pleasing on the eye.

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They can also tell us about levels

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of CO2 in the atmosphere in earth's geological past.

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What we have here is a, a ginkgo tree,

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and it's actually a living, uh, fossil in the sense

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that this type of tree, uh,

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first appeared about 270 million years ago.

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On the underside of the leaf, there are

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what we call stormer the cells where they can uptake CO2.

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So they're actually measuring how much CO2 is in the air,

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and then they adjust the number of the stormer to

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how much CO2 there is.

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And by looking at fossils

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and measuring how many there are, uh, at a different time,

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it says something about what was the level

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of CO2 back in time.

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So when we look back in time, what do we find

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over overall, almost all of the last 500 million years,

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the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has been far,

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far higher than it is now.

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Even with modern industry's contribution to CO2 levels

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by geological standards, the level

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of atmospheric CO2 today is close to being as low

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as it has ever been.

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At present, we have about, uh, 400 parts per million.

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50 million years ago,

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it might have been 2000 parts per million.

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So a much, much higher concentration of CO2.

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I think current estimates of global CO2 is 423

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or so parts per million.

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Today, if we look

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through the fan zoic the last 550 million years,

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we would see a CO2 on the order of 7,000 parts per million.

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CO2 is plant food

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and the result of much higher levels

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of atmospheric CO2 in the past was a much,

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much greener world.

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Periods of elevated CO2 tend to be time periods of, of,

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of a huge biodiversity on, on the planet.

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In fact, we're in a CO2 famine.

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If we look over the last 550 million years

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Of the depths of the most recent glacial maximum,

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the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere sank so low.

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All life on earth came close to extinction.

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They say CO2 is higher than it's been

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for a hundred thousand years.

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But what they don't tell you in

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that period they're talking about is that CO2 sank so low

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that all life on earth nearly died

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20,000 years ago.

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CO2 is at the lowest level it has ever been

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in the history of the earth.

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180 parts per million.

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If it had gone down another 30 parts per

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million, we'd all be dead.

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There is a low point of CO2 where photosynthesis becomes

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00:25:23,545 --> 00:25:26,525
so inefficient that plant life would die,

526
00:25:27,315 --> 00:25:29,485
then everything else starts to perish after that.

527
00:25:30,545 --> 00:25:32,685
During the last, uh, glacial maximum.

528
00:25:32,715 --> 00:25:35,365
There's good evidence that in many parts

529
00:25:35,385 --> 00:25:39,765
of the world there was plant starvation from not enough CO2.

530
00:25:40,265 --> 00:25:42,765
So, uh, we should be very grateful

531
00:25:42,795 --> 00:25:45,365
that CO2 levels are beginning to go back up.

532
00:25:45,495 --> 00:25:47,965
We're still far from the historical norms,

533
00:25:47,965 --> 00:25:49,885
which would be several thousand parts per a million.

534
00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:52,525
There's not enough fossil fuel to get there,

535
00:25:53,065 --> 00:25:54,805
but at least we're making a start.

536
00:25:57,105 --> 00:25:59,085
But has the small recent increase in

537
00:25:59,165 --> 00:26:01,085
CO2 affected the temperature?

538
00:26:02,305 --> 00:26:05,165
We would now show you a picture of CO2, but we can't

539
00:26:05,165 --> 00:26:06,165
because it's invisible.

540
00:26:07,245 --> 00:26:10,085
CO2 makes up a tiny fraction of the gases in the atmosphere,

541
00:26:10,555 --> 00:26:13,205
just 0.04 of a percent.

542
00:26:14,065 --> 00:26:17,725
It is just one of 25 different greenhouse gases, which taken

543
00:26:17,745 --> 00:26:19,685
as a whole form only one part

544
00:26:19,705 --> 00:26:21,605
of earth's complex climate system.

545
00:26:22,345 --> 00:26:23,525
So what evidence is there

546
00:26:23,525 --> 00:26:25,605
that this trace gas is having any

547
00:26:25,605 --> 00:26:27,005
noticeable impact on the climate?

548
00:26:29,065 --> 00:26:30,445
If it were true that higher levels

549
00:26:30,445 --> 00:26:33,765
of CO2 caused higher temperatures, we should be able to see

550
00:26:33,765 --> 00:26:35,365
that in earth's climate history.

551
00:26:37,395 --> 00:26:39,965
Here, scientists are drilling into ancient ice cores.

552
00:26:40,495 --> 00:26:42,605
These cores tell us both about past

553
00:26:42,605 --> 00:26:44,365
temperatures and CO2 levels.

554
00:26:46,085 --> 00:26:47,525
Scientists have indeed found a link

555
00:26:47,525 --> 00:26:49,125
between temperature and CO2.

556
00:26:49,625 --> 00:26:51,765
The trouble is it's the wrong way round.

557
00:26:53,425 --> 00:26:55,885
So it's true over the last few million years

558
00:26:56,305 --> 00:26:59,485
of the ice age that we're in now, that CO2

559
00:26:59,485 --> 00:27:01,365
and temperature are correlated.

560
00:27:01,465 --> 00:27:04,285
But if CO2 is the driver, it has to change first

561
00:27:04,865 --> 00:27:07,285
and the temperature has to change second. And

562
00:27:07,285 --> 00:27:09,485
In fact, when you start to look at the data very

563
00:27:09,725 --> 00:27:11,845
specifically, you see the exact reverse temperature

564
00:27:11,845 --> 00:27:13,045
starts to rise first.

565
00:27:13,585 --> 00:27:16,845
And then on the order of a century to a few centuries later,

566
00:27:17,145 --> 00:27:19,565
we start to see a, a rise. In CO2,

567
00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:21,925
It's long been known that, uh,

568
00:27:21,985 --> 00:27:23,525
the temperature actually moves first.

569
00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:27,205
So temperature goes up, CO2 goes up

570
00:27:27,205 --> 00:27:29,725
after that temperature goes down. CO2 goes down.

571
00:27:30,225 --> 00:27:34,005
Ice ages start when carbon dioxide is at its maximum.

572
00:27:34,745 --> 00:27:38,245
And ice age is, and when carbon dioxide is at its minimum,

573
00:27:38,935 --> 00:27:41,085
which is the exact opposite of

574
00:27:41,085 --> 00:27:43,125
what would occur if carbon dioxide was

575
00:27:43,125 --> 00:27:44,285
controlling the temperature,

576
00:27:44,465 --> 00:27:46,405
The question of whether CO2 drives the climate

577
00:27:46,585 --> 00:27:47,645
is easily resolved.

578
00:27:47,745 --> 00:27:49,805
You can look back in time over hundreds of millions

579
00:27:49,805 --> 00:27:52,645
of years, CO2 levels have changed radically many times.

580
00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:56,005
Did this cause temperature change? No, absolutely not.

581
00:27:56,485 --> 00:27:59,605
CO2 has never driven temperature changes in the past. Never

582
00:28:01,465 --> 00:28:03,165
Nor is it clear in recent times

583
00:28:03,315 --> 00:28:05,685
that CO2 is having any effect on temperature.

584
00:28:06,195 --> 00:28:09,365
Here we see industrial output of CO2 since 1750,

585
00:28:10,115 --> 00:28:12,405
from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century,

586
00:28:12,455 --> 00:28:14,045
there was only a slight increase.

587
00:28:14,435 --> 00:28:17,365
It's not until the 1940s that industrial production

588
00:28:17,365 --> 00:28:18,885
of CO2 begins to take off,

589
00:28:19,945 --> 00:28:21,965
but this doesn't match the temperature record.

590
00:28:22,275 --> 00:28:24,445
According to rural thermometers, most

591
00:28:24,445 --> 00:28:26,845
of the warming in the past 200 years occurred

592
00:28:26,845 --> 00:28:30,525
before the 1940s and have barely changed since then.

593
00:28:32,425 --> 00:28:35,845
One of the embarrassments that IPCC doesn't like

594
00:28:35,845 --> 00:28:37,165
to talk about was

595
00:28:37,165 --> 00:28:40,805
that the 1930s when human influences were much smaller

596
00:28:41,315 --> 00:28:42,485
were particularly warm.

597
00:28:42,825 --> 00:28:45,125
That's the puzzle that the first early pipe

598
00:28:45,125 --> 00:28:48,085
where we have such a sharp, uh, warming from the 1900

599
00:28:48,085 --> 00:28:51,525
to 1930s and, uh, 1940s, CO2 could never cause

600
00:28:51,525 --> 00:28:52,605
that temperature rise.

601
00:28:54,825 --> 00:28:58,165
But the 1930s and early forties was so hot, is puzzling,

602
00:28:58,635 --> 00:29:01,085
more puzzling still is what happened next.

603
00:29:02,905 --> 00:29:06,045
By the end of World War ii, CO2 was really going up,

604
00:29:06,425 --> 00:29:08,565
and yet the temperature was going down

605
00:29:09,555 --> 00:29:12,645
From 40 to 70, while the CO2 continued to rise,

606
00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:15,205
this thing started to cool. What happened?

607
00:29:15,475 --> 00:29:18,445
Journalists were writing about the coming Ice Age.

608
00:29:19,065 --> 00:29:21,525
It was on the cover of Time Magazine,

609
00:29:22,405 --> 00:29:23,405
1970s. The new ice

610
00:29:23,405 --> 00:29:24,565
age was the big story.

611
00:29:25,385 --> 00:29:27,365
And how about since the 1970s?

612
00:29:28,235 --> 00:29:31,645
According to computer climate models over the past half

613
00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:34,325
century, rising, CO2 should have led

614
00:29:34,465 --> 00:29:36,005
to this increase in temperature.

615
00:29:36,905 --> 00:29:38,525
But according to multiple satellite

616
00:29:38,525 --> 00:29:41,605
and balloon measurements, what actually happened was this.

617
00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:46,005
Well, what we found from the satellite data is

618
00:29:46,035 --> 00:29:49,965
that the global atmosphere is not warming up as fast

619
00:29:50,065 --> 00:29:53,325
as the climate models say it should be.

620
00:29:53,785 --> 00:29:57,045
Uh, there's a couple dozen climate models now that have been

621
00:29:57,705 --> 00:29:59,365
worked on for decades.

622
00:30:00,185 --> 00:30:02,645
You know, billions of dollars, tens of billions

623
00:30:02,645 --> 00:30:03,765
of dollars have been invested in

624
00:30:03,765 --> 00:30:04,925
these climate modeling efforts.

625
00:30:05,225 --> 00:30:08,165
And we find that, generally speaking, virtually all

626
00:30:08,165 --> 00:30:11,405
of the climate models produce too much warming over this

627
00:30:11,405 --> 00:30:13,445
period since 1979 up to the present.

628
00:30:14,105 --> 00:30:19,085
Now, even if we say the surface thermometers are

629
00:30:19,085 --> 00:30:23,245
correct, they still don't produce as much warming as most

630
00:30:23,245 --> 00:30:24,685
of the climate models say.

631
00:30:24,685 --> 00:30:28,005
There should have been, let's say, in the last 50 years, the

632
00:30:28,005 --> 00:30:29,405
Models individually

633
00:30:29,585 --> 00:30:32,325
and even collectively, when you average over all

634
00:30:32,325 --> 00:30:35,565
of them in so-called ensembles, they don't get it right.

635
00:30:36,145 --> 00:30:39,845
You can already see that the main, uh, supports

636
00:30:39,945 --> 00:30:42,085
of the climate alarm movement,

637
00:30:42,175 --> 00:30:44,245
which are these enormous computer models,

638
00:30:44,435 --> 00:30:45,485
they're clearly wrong.

639
00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:47,765
They, they don't agree with what we observe,

640
00:30:48,425 --> 00:30:50,845
and they, uh, they're all running much too hot.

641
00:30:51,315 --> 00:30:55,285
They don't get the geographical distribution

642
00:30:55,405 --> 00:30:57,005
of temperatures anywhere close.

643
00:30:57,035 --> 00:31:00,205
They don't get El Nino, la Nina cycles.

644
00:31:00,345 --> 00:31:02,565
Uh, they, they're just nonsense.

645
00:31:03,465 --> 00:31:05,365
All climate models are based on the assumption

646
00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:07,685
that CO2 drives temperature change.

647
00:31:08,425 --> 00:31:09,565
But actual observations

648
00:31:09,625 --> 00:31:12,325
and historical evidence clearly suggest that it doesn't.

649
00:31:13,755 --> 00:31:17,055
Yes, I assert that there is no connection whatsoever

650
00:31:17,525 --> 00:31:20,295
between CO2 and climate change.

651
00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:23,015
Uh, that's all a across of crap in my opinion.

652
00:31:23,505 --> 00:31:25,855
There is no truth to the idea

653
00:31:26,085 --> 00:31:29,095
that the Earth is warmer now than it has been in the past.

654
00:31:29,565 --> 00:31:31,735
It's a lie. There is no truth

655
00:31:31,845 --> 00:31:33,935
that CO2 is higher than it should be.

656
00:31:34,245 --> 00:31:35,245
That is a lie.

657
00:31:36,765 --> 00:31:39,775
Earth's climate has changed many times over the course

658
00:31:39,775 --> 00:31:40,815
of its long history

659
00:31:41,075 --> 00:31:43,855
and will continue to change without any help from us.

660
00:31:44,165 --> 00:31:45,895
Climate always changes.

661
00:31:46,115 --> 00:31:48,855
You know, who denies climate change? It's always changing.

662
00:31:50,795 --> 00:31:53,895
But if CO2 doesn't drive climate change, what does

663
00:32:01,595 --> 00:32:02,815
in Earth's atmosphere?

664
00:32:02,865 --> 00:32:04,575
There are powerful forces at work,

665
00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:07,695
and perhaps the most powerful of all are clouds.

666
00:32:09,355 --> 00:32:12,075
CO2 is quite unimportant in

667
00:32:12,075 --> 00:32:13,635
controlling the Earth's climate.

668
00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:16,035
What is important is clouds.

669
00:32:16,735 --> 00:32:19,355
Clouds don't absorb any energy at all.

670
00:32:19,545 --> 00:32:23,755
They simply reflect all of the sunlight back out into space.

671
00:32:23,935 --> 00:32:25,315
Big, bright white clouds.

672
00:32:25,535 --> 00:32:29,115
If you look at the earth, you see lots and lots of 'em,

673
00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,315
and they vary dramatically from one day to the next.

674
00:32:33,225 --> 00:32:35,315
That is hundreds of times

675
00:32:35,865 --> 00:32:38,675
more powerful than the trivial effects

676
00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:40,125
Effects of CO2.

677
00:32:42,025 --> 00:32:43,445
But what controls the number

678
00:32:43,625 --> 00:32:45,525
and density of clouds on earth?

679
00:32:47,035 --> 00:32:49,885
Professor Hendricks Smar from the Danish National Space

680
00:32:49,885 --> 00:32:51,445
Institute is in Jerusalem

681
00:32:51,515 --> 00:32:53,725
with the astrophysicist near Sha Viv.

682
00:32:55,225 --> 00:32:57,425
Together, they've been exploring cloud variation

683
00:32:57,485 --> 00:32:58,745
and its effect on climate,

684
00:32:59,525 --> 00:33:02,265
and strangely, they found a link between clouds

685
00:33:02,445 --> 00:33:05,625
and exploding supernova far off in our galaxy.

686
00:33:06,895 --> 00:33:10,385
When you have big stars, they don't live very long, uh,

687
00:33:10,945 --> 00:33:14,745
I mean relatively only maybe, uh, a few million years, uh,

688
00:33:14,805 --> 00:33:16,105
up to 40 million years.

689
00:33:16,565 --> 00:33:18,985
But they end their life in a huge explosion,

690
00:33:18,985 --> 00:33:20,425
which we call the supernova.

691
00:33:25,285 --> 00:33:28,265
An exploding supernova sends out vast quantities

692
00:33:28,265 --> 00:33:31,945
of debris, tiny charged subatomic particles known

693
00:33:31,945 --> 00:33:35,465
as cosmic rays, traveling almost at the speed of light.

694
00:33:36,285 --> 00:33:37,305
And as they hit earth,

695
00:33:37,655 --> 00:33:40,505
they develop into seeds which attract water vapor

696
00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:41,825
and form clouds.

697
00:33:45,015 --> 00:33:47,425
Professor Shave noticed that the amount

698
00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:49,265
of cloud cover on Earth is related

699
00:33:49,265 --> 00:33:51,145
to our journey round the Milky Way.

700
00:33:52,245 --> 00:33:55,305
As our solar system orbits the galaxy over millions

701
00:33:55,305 --> 00:33:56,745
of years, it passes

702
00:33:56,745 --> 00:34:00,665
through the galaxy's spiral arms dense clusters of stars.

703
00:34:01,805 --> 00:34:04,025
As it does, we are exposed to more

704
00:34:04,045 --> 00:34:06,185
or less cloud forming cosmic rays.

705
00:34:06,565 --> 00:34:07,625
And this corresponds

706
00:34:07,805 --> 00:34:09,865
to historic temperature changes on Earth.

707
00:34:11,605 --> 00:34:16,025
The really mind boggling thing is that using geology,

708
00:34:16,445 --> 00:34:19,585
you can reconstruct the climates on earth over the past

709
00:34:19,585 --> 00:34:22,745
billion years, and you can reconstruct our galactic journey

710
00:34:23,205 --> 00:34:24,825
and both tell the same story.

711
00:34:26,605 --> 00:34:29,265
But what about temperature change on shorter timescales?

712
00:34:32,245 --> 00:34:34,265
The sun, our source of heat

713
00:34:34,265 --> 00:34:38,025
and light, a seething mass of gigantic magnetic storms,

714
00:34:38,915 --> 00:34:41,185
which vary in strengthen number over time

715
00:34:41,605 --> 00:34:44,305
and which affect earth directly and indirectly.

716
00:34:45,295 --> 00:34:48,585
When it is very active, the sun sends giant gusts

717
00:34:48,585 --> 00:34:50,705
of solar wind through the solar system.

718
00:34:54,605 --> 00:34:58,425
The solar wind warms us indirectly by acting as a barrier,

719
00:34:59,185 --> 00:35:00,985
limiting the number of cloud forming cosmic

720
00:35:01,055 --> 00:35:02,105
rays reaching earth.

721
00:35:03,725 --> 00:35:06,025
So from the sun, uh, we have the solar wind.

722
00:35:06,125 --> 00:35:09,585
It carries the science magnetic field, uh, out to a large,

723
00:35:09,685 --> 00:35:12,305
uh, distance, and it works like a shield, uh,

724
00:35:12,335 --> 00:35:13,985
against the cosmic rays.

725
00:35:14,215 --> 00:35:17,625
When the sun is more active, you have a stronger solar wind.

726
00:35:18,005 --> 00:35:20,385
You have less cosmic rays reaching, uh,

727
00:35:20,805 --> 00:35:22,945
the inner solar system and reaching the atmosphere.

728
00:35:23,165 --> 00:35:26,865
And the clouds, which are then formed are less white.

729
00:35:26,895 --> 00:35:30,025
They reflect less of the sunlight, uh, which means

730
00:35:30,025 --> 00:35:31,705
that it's going to be warmer here on earth.

731
00:35:34,135 --> 00:35:35,905
Here is a proxy reconstruction

732
00:35:35,905 --> 00:35:38,285
of ocean temperatures over thousands of years,

733
00:35:38,945 --> 00:35:41,645
and here is one of solar activity over the same period.

734
00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,205
What is causing the ocean temperature

735
00:35:44,225 --> 00:35:47,205
to change is clearly variations in solar activity.

736
00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:54,165
Because IPCC is determined to go on a narrative

737
00:35:54,165 --> 00:35:56,485
that only CO2 can drive the climate system,

738
00:35:57,035 --> 00:35:58,925
they turn off the sun, essentially, right?

739
00:35:59,035 --> 00:36:01,205
Because the sun is just a background thing for them

740
00:36:01,275 --> 00:36:02,605
that it doesn't do anything.

741
00:36:04,585 --> 00:36:06,845
Astrophysicist. Willie soon decided

742
00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:09,005
to look again at the rural temperature record

743
00:36:09,065 --> 00:36:10,365
for the past 150 years.

744
00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:13,125
Then he looked at a record

745
00:36:13,185 --> 00:36:17,085
of changes in solar activity over the same period to Dr.

746
00:36:17,155 --> 00:36:20,365
Soon it was obvious that it was the sun, not CO2

747
00:36:20,515 --> 00:36:21,925
that was driving temperature

748
00:36:23,425 --> 00:36:24,765
As of 2023.

749
00:36:25,605 --> 00:36:29,125
IPCC says, is that the sun have absolutely zero chance

750
00:36:29,345 --> 00:36:33,645
to explain the changes of the climate system on broad scale,

751
00:36:33,655 --> 00:36:37,045
let's say global warming on northern hemisphere, we say, no,

752
00:36:37,705 --> 00:36:41,085
we can easily dam the sun can explain all of it.

753
00:36:41,085 --> 00:36:44,165
There's zero for the CO2, a hundred percent for the sun.

754
00:36:44,175 --> 00:36:45,175
How's that?

755
00:36:46,785 --> 00:36:49,005
Why are these and other studies never reported

756
00:36:49,065 --> 00:36:50,165
in the mainstream media?

757
00:36:51,225 --> 00:36:53,805
And if climate change is natural, what are we to make

758
00:36:53,805 --> 00:36:56,725
of the alleged terrifying increase in extreme weather?

759
00:36:56,725 --> 00:36:58,685
Events of the heat waves

760
00:36:58,685 --> 00:37:01,805
and hurricanes of forest fires droughts under rest.

761
00:37:08,015 --> 00:37:09,955
My first instinct as a scientist,

762
00:37:10,415 --> 00:37:12,995
and what I teach my students is, well,

763
00:37:13,085 --> 00:37:14,435
let's look at the data.

764
00:37:14,895 --> 00:37:16,875
And when you do that, you discover,

765
00:37:17,415 --> 00:37:20,635
as you can read in the IPCC reports themselves,

766
00:37:21,065 --> 00:37:25,035
that it's pretty hard to find trends in extreme events,

767
00:37:25,265 --> 00:37:28,955
much less attribute them to human influences.

768
00:37:29,175 --> 00:37:30,395
You've now had decades

769
00:37:30,695 --> 00:37:32,715
of putting the idea in people's heads

770
00:37:33,185 --> 00:37:36,595
that anytime the weather's bad, it's climate change

771
00:37:36,615 --> 00:37:37,795
and greenhouse gases.

772
00:37:37,935 --> 00:37:40,355
So I think people at this point can't help themselves.

773
00:37:40,415 --> 00:37:43,555
If you have a heat wave, immediately everybody's thinking,

774
00:37:43,615 --> 00:37:44,955
oh, what have we done to the weather?

775
00:37:45,975 --> 00:37:47,755
If somebody says in the news,

776
00:37:47,825 --> 00:37:51,435
this is the warmest day since 1980

777
00:37:51,615 --> 00:37:54,395
or something, well, you can look up the temperature records

778
00:37:54,895 --> 00:37:57,555
and see for yourself whether it was in fact,

779
00:37:57,555 --> 00:37:58,995
warmer in the 1930s.

780
00:37:59,335 --> 00:38:00,335
As it often is,

781
00:38:01,735 --> 00:38:03,995
US temperature records are the best in the world,

782
00:38:04,615 --> 00:38:07,155
and here is the official US government record

783
00:38:07,415 --> 00:38:09,915
of heat waves in the US over the past century.

784
00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:14,875
It shows very clearly that the 1930s were far more prone

785
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:16,395
to heat waves than we are today.

786
00:38:17,655 --> 00:38:19,795
Not only were there more heat waves than the 1930s,

787
00:38:20,295 --> 00:38:22,715
the heat waves then were much hotter than those

788
00:38:22,715 --> 00:38:24,795
of today light.

789
00:38:24,795 --> 00:38:27,275
Likewise, official figures show that the number

790
00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:30,275
of hot days in the US has markedly declined.

791
00:38:33,695 --> 00:38:36,765
The United States was Much hotter in the 1930s.

792
00:38:37,455 --> 00:38:40,325
North Dakota reached 121 degrees.

793
00:38:40,665 --> 00:38:45,565
Um, South Dakota was 120 degrees. Wisconsin was 114 degrees.

794
00:38:46,135 --> 00:38:49,485
These sort of temperatures are just completely out of range

795
00:38:49,505 --> 00:38:51,445
of anything people experience.

796
00:38:51,705 --> 00:38:52,705
Now,

797
00:38:53,445 --> 00:38:55,285
A common mistake is to suppose

798
00:38:55,285 --> 00:38:58,245
that higher average temperature will mean more hot

799
00:38:58,245 --> 00:38:59,765
weather, but this isn't true.

800
00:39:00,755 --> 00:39:02,925
Here again, is the Central England temperature record,

801
00:39:03,145 --> 00:39:05,565
the longest instrumental temperature record in the world.

802
00:39:06,305 --> 00:39:08,245
Summer temperatures over the past three

803
00:39:08,245 --> 00:39:09,725
to 400 years since the end

804
00:39:09,725 --> 00:39:12,525
of the little ice age have barely changed at all.

805
00:39:13,025 --> 00:39:15,845
It is winter temperatures that have been slightly rising.

806
00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:18,405
The earth's climate has not been getting hotter.

807
00:39:18,555 --> 00:39:19,805
It's been getting milder.

808
00:39:21,305 --> 00:39:23,565
That's certainly being observed all over the world.

809
00:39:23,625 --> 00:39:25,285
If you look at temperature records,

810
00:39:25,635 --> 00:39:27,765
high temperatures are almost unchanged,

811
00:39:28,585 --> 00:39:30,525
but cold temperatures at night

812
00:39:30,745 --> 00:39:33,725
or during the winter are are going up a little bit,

813
00:39:34,265 --> 00:39:36,285
not very much, but you can measure it

814
00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:38,085
When the average goes up.

815
00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:40,285
It's really more due

816
00:39:40,825 --> 00:39:43,365
to the coldest temperatures getting warmer.

817
00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:47,235
So the temperatures getting milder rather than

818
00:39:47,235 --> 00:39:48,435
getting hotter.

819
00:39:51,025 --> 00:39:52,275
What about the increasing number

820
00:39:52,275 --> 00:39:54,235
of wildfires we're often told about,

821
00:39:55,215 --> 00:39:56,595
If you look at the actual number

822
00:39:56,595 --> 00:39:59,355
of forest fires from satellite observations,

823
00:39:59,575 --> 00:40:01,035
the actual number's going down

824
00:40:02,745 --> 00:40:05,435
Here is an estimate of global wildfires since 1900.

825
00:40:05,895 --> 00:40:07,435
It shows a clear decline.

826
00:40:08,695 --> 00:40:10,475
And here is a record of areas affected

827
00:40:10,535 --> 00:40:11,995
by wildfires in the us.

828
00:40:12,855 --> 00:40:16,315
It shows that wildfires were far, far worse in the 1930s,

829
00:40:17,065 --> 00:40:18,075
From 1930s

830
00:40:18,135 --> 00:40:22,275
and 1920s, when you have data, it was huge, five

831
00:40:22,375 --> 00:40:24,475
to 10 times bigger than the current level.

832
00:40:25,855 --> 00:40:27,035
How about hurricanes?

833
00:40:28,895 --> 00:40:30,595
The US has by far the best record

834
00:40:30,655 --> 00:40:34,355
of hurricane activity in the world over the past 120 years.

835
00:40:34,605 --> 00:40:36,355
There is no overall change.

836
00:40:36,855 --> 00:40:38,315
In fact, the trend is slightly down.

837
00:40:41,585 --> 00:40:44,235
When you'd look at the data for hurricanes,

838
00:40:44,305 --> 00:40:46,995
technically tropical cyclones, you see

839
00:40:47,025 --> 00:40:49,235
that there is no long term trend.

840
00:40:50,535 --> 00:40:51,715
How about the rest of the world?

841
00:40:52,265 --> 00:40:54,355
Here is a chart of global hurricane activity.

842
00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:55,595
Over the past 40 years,

843
00:40:57,365 --> 00:40:58,875
Hurricanes have been around forever.

844
00:40:59,135 --> 00:41:02,755
You know, we've got good proxy records of hurricanes

845
00:41:02,895 --> 00:41:05,595
and, uh, there's been no change in their frequency.

846
00:41:05,595 --> 00:41:08,075
Even the IPCC admits that,

847
00:41:09,095 --> 00:41:11,115
How about melting ice caps and drought?

848
00:41:11,855 --> 00:41:13,075
Here's a satellite record

849
00:41:13,215 --> 00:41:16,675
of temperature in Antarctica since the late 1970s.

850
00:41:17,015 --> 00:41:18,435
It shows no increase whatsoever,

851
00:41:19,855 --> 00:41:22,875
and here is a record of global drought since 1950.

852
00:41:23,285 --> 00:41:25,195
There is no observable increase at all.

853
00:41:27,845 --> 00:41:29,795
Polar bears are meant to be going extinct,

854
00:41:30,095 --> 00:41:31,995
but studies suggest their numbers are growing.

855
00:41:33,705 --> 00:41:36,045
The Great Barrier Reef two has recently

856
00:41:36,045 --> 00:41:37,125
reached record levels.

857
00:41:38,915 --> 00:41:39,965
There's No such thing

858
00:41:39,965 --> 00:41:42,045
as a climate emergency happening on this planet.

859
00:41:42,225 --> 00:41:44,885
Now. It's, there's no, no evidence of one.

860
00:41:45,235 --> 00:41:48,125
Yeah, the extreme weather event story is, is just absurd.

861
00:41:48,125 --> 00:41:50,445
There, there's no basis to it at all.

862
00:41:50,915 --> 00:41:52,725
It's just based on propaganda.

863
00:41:53,185 --> 00:41:54,925
The actual data shows the opposite.

864
00:41:55,395 --> 00:41:58,885
I've shown you the official data, the official science.

865
00:41:59,475 --> 00:42:01,405
Tell me what I'm denying

866
00:42:02,185 --> 00:42:04,045
The climate alarm is, is nonsense.

867
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:05,205
You know, it's, it's a hoax.

868
00:42:05,585 --> 00:42:07,725
As, as I I I don't, I've never liked hoax.

869
00:42:07,845 --> 00:42:09,685
I, I think scam is a better word,

870
00:42:09,745 --> 00:42:11,325
but I'm willing to live with hoax.

871
00:42:14,385 --> 00:42:15,965
But why are we told again

872
00:42:15,965 --> 00:42:19,245
and again, that manmade climate chaos is an

873
00:42:19,335 --> 00:42:20,925
undisputed scientific fact.

874
00:42:21,505 --> 00:42:24,085
Beyond question beyond doubt.

875
00:42:25,145 --> 00:42:27,445
To answer this, we must examine the so-called

876
00:42:27,885 --> 00:42:29,525
consensus on climate change.

877
00:42:31,305 --> 00:42:34,135
Thank you very much. Until the 1980s,

878
00:42:34,135 --> 00:42:37,375
global warming was little more than an eccentric scare story

879
00:42:37,515 --> 00:42:39,375
put about by radical environmentalists.

880
00:42:40,435 --> 00:42:41,615
But then the course was picked up

881
00:42:41,615 --> 00:42:43,895
by an ambitious young senator Al Gore,

882
00:42:44,035 --> 00:42:45,935
who had soon become vice president.

883
00:42:46,695 --> 00:42:49,495
A billion dollars a year of public money was made available

884
00:42:49,595 --> 00:42:51,335
for research into climate change.

885
00:42:51,845 --> 00:42:54,615
This quickly rose to 2 billion up to that level.

886
00:42:55,455 --> 00:42:58,375
Academic researchers in various disciplines began to apply

887
00:42:58,395 --> 00:42:59,575
for this climate funding.

888
00:43:02,235 --> 00:43:05,455
If you want to qualify for money that's labeled climate,

889
00:43:06,065 --> 00:43:07,575
while you take whatever you're doing

890
00:43:08,075 --> 00:43:12,055
and you add a little bit, uh, of climate, speak to it,

891
00:43:12,395 --> 00:43:13,535
and away you go,

892
00:43:14,355 --> 00:43:18,935
You're dealing with the sexual habits of cockroaches

893
00:43:19,475 --> 00:43:22,695
you'll add and the impact of climate. So

894
00:43:22,695 --> 00:43:26,015
All I have to do is add a little wrinkle

895
00:43:26,015 --> 00:43:29,055
to my grant application to explain how well I'm worried

896
00:43:29,055 --> 00:43:30,655
that climate change will mean the death

897
00:43:30,655 --> 00:43:31,655
of all the maple trees.

898
00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:34,295
And so right away you qualify for funding

899
00:43:35,935 --> 00:43:38,615
Academics of every kind lined up for climate funding.

900
00:43:39,525 --> 00:43:42,015
Climate became an exciting new area of interest

901
00:43:42,275 --> 00:43:45,575
for sociologists, biologists, professors

902
00:43:45,575 --> 00:43:47,575
of English literature, lecturers

903
00:43:47,575 --> 00:43:49,415
and gender studies, and many more.

904
00:43:50,075 --> 00:43:54,095
And it also served to create a community.

905
00:43:54,535 --> 00:43:57,695
I mean, you know, you've become a climate scientist now,

906
00:43:58,525 --> 00:44:01,535
even though you know nothing about the physics of climate.

907
00:44:02,865 --> 00:44:05,185
Thousands of papers were published on climate change

908
00:44:05,185 --> 00:44:08,105
and prostitution, climate change and beer, climate change,

909
00:44:08,105 --> 00:44:09,625
and the black death, climate change

910
00:44:09,625 --> 00:44:11,905
and disability, climate change, and video games

911
00:44:11,965 --> 00:44:13,425
and everything else imaginable.

912
00:44:13,575 --> 00:44:16,385
There's an almost comical list of studies out there.

913
00:44:16,695 --> 00:44:20,065
Just do a Google search on climate change.

914
00:44:20,365 --> 00:44:22,265
And, and, and everything comes up.

915
00:44:23,365 --> 00:44:26,065
Few of these papers ever questioned whether climate

916
00:44:26,065 --> 00:44:27,745
change was actually true.

917
00:44:28,835 --> 00:44:30,145
After you've done the research

918
00:44:30,405 --> 00:44:31,805
and you write the paper up,

919
00:44:32,075 --> 00:44:34,885
sometimes you'll find there's no effect at all from climate.

920
00:44:35,225 --> 00:44:37,805
But you still have to say in your papers, oh yes,

921
00:44:37,805 --> 00:44:38,965
climate change is real.

922
00:44:39,305 --> 00:44:41,325
And, uh, we just need to study this some more

923
00:44:42,295 --> 00:44:43,525
Since so few of these.

924
00:44:43,525 --> 00:44:45,405
So-called Climate Studies challenged

925
00:44:45,425 --> 00:44:46,645
the idea of climate change.

926
00:44:47,145 --> 00:44:50,005
It was declared that there was a scientific consensus.

927
00:44:50,275 --> 00:44:51,845
Climate change must be true.

928
00:44:54,315 --> 00:44:56,325
Climate also became a new focus

929
00:44:56,665 --> 00:44:58,485
for government funded research bodies.

930
00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:02,565
Scientific research in the United States tends

931
00:45:02,565 --> 00:45:05,445
to be dominantly funded by, uh, government grants.

932
00:45:06,385 --> 00:45:11,165
Uh, and so whatever government grants are offered, uh, sort

933
00:45:11,165 --> 00:45:13,685
of determine much of the science being done.

934
00:45:14,665 --> 00:45:16,205
It was during the Cold War

935
00:45:16,315 --> 00:45:18,525
that many government research bodies were set up,

936
00:45:20,225 --> 00:45:21,605
but the end of the Cold War

937
00:45:21,785 --> 00:45:24,205
and pressure on government spending has left many

938
00:45:24,205 --> 00:45:27,245
of them struggling to justify their continued funding.

939
00:45:29,185 --> 00:45:33,405
United States Congress only funds problems, okay?

940
00:45:33,805 --> 00:45:34,885
Research into problems.

941
00:45:34,885 --> 00:45:38,125
Whether it's money that goes to NASA or noaa

942
00:45:38,145 --> 00:45:40,685
or National Science Foundation, or Department of Energy,

943
00:45:40,785 --> 00:45:44,045
or any other alphabet soup, you know, organization. Uh,

944
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:47,885
It's always been a problem to support, uh, your research

945
00:45:48,025 --> 00:45:50,405
or your existence raise on death.

946
00:45:51,585 --> 00:45:53,445
And so climate was a godsend.

947
00:45:53,865 --> 00:45:57,085
If Congress is willing to pay you to find evidence

948
00:45:57,505 --> 00:45:59,885
of global warming, by golly, as a scientist,

949
00:45:59,885 --> 00:46:01,245
we're gonna go find evidence of it

950
00:46:01,755 --> 00:46:04,125
because that's what we're, what we're being paid to do.

951
00:46:04,545 --> 00:46:06,485
And guess what, if you don't find evidence

952
00:46:06,505 --> 00:46:08,925
or say the evidence suggests it's not a problem,

953
00:46:09,675 --> 00:46:10,885
your funding ends.

954
00:46:11,595 --> 00:46:15,285
This totally corrupts the way we look at the science.

955
00:46:16,065 --> 00:46:19,405
Who was the famous gangster asked, why do you rob banks?

956
00:46:20,345 --> 00:46:22,645
Uh, and he said, well, 'cause that's where the money is.

957
00:46:25,545 --> 00:46:27,245
The climate alarm brought funds

958
00:46:27,705 --> 00:46:29,325
and the bigger the supposed threat,

959
00:46:29,665 --> 00:46:31,165
the more funds seem to flow.

960
00:46:31,945 --> 00:46:34,845
The publicly funded science establishment now had a direct

961
00:46:34,845 --> 00:46:37,205
financial interest in playing up the alarm.

962
00:46:38,425 --> 00:46:41,645
So there's a huge incentive to over exaggerate

963
00:46:41,665 --> 00:46:43,205
or to speak in hyperbole,

964
00:46:43,635 --> 00:46:47,125
even if the data doesn't support exactly what you're saying,

965
00:46:47,235 --> 00:46:49,205
because that's what brings the funds.

966
00:46:50,885 --> 00:46:52,445
I was in that boat. I was someone

967
00:46:52,445 --> 00:46:53,965
that was defending climate change

968
00:46:53,985 --> 00:46:55,605
as a grad student quite a bit,

969
00:46:55,605 --> 00:46:58,885
because the truth is, I didn't give it too much thought,

970
00:46:58,905 --> 00:47:01,925
but I, I thought, well, it's getting a ton of attention.

971
00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:04,405
It brings a ton of money into the earth sciences,

972
00:47:04,875 --> 00:47:07,045
even if I don't buy all the hyperbole.

973
00:47:07,265 --> 00:47:08,265
What's the problem?

974
00:47:10,025 --> 00:47:12,365
By the late 1990s, what had started

975
00:47:12,465 --> 00:47:15,205
as an environmental scare story was gaining momentum.

976
00:47:21,995 --> 00:47:23,165
Western governments

977
00:47:23,165 --> 00:47:25,525
and their senior civil servants were more than willing

978
00:47:25,665 --> 00:47:27,045
to address the climate problem.

979
00:47:28,815 --> 00:47:31,845
Green taxes were levied, green regulation expanded,

980
00:47:32,105 --> 00:47:34,325
and this in turn, generated more climate

981
00:47:34,325 --> 00:47:35,965
related jobs and activity.

982
00:47:37,715 --> 00:47:40,645
Take the banking sector, for instance, say to a banker,

983
00:47:41,145 --> 00:47:43,045
we want you to file reports with the,

984
00:47:43,265 --> 00:47:44,685
the regulatory commission on

985
00:47:44,685 --> 00:47:46,885
how climate change is gonna affect your bank.

986
00:47:47,395 --> 00:47:49,605
Well, a banker doesn't know anything about this subject.

987
00:47:49,705 --> 00:47:52,405
So then they have to commission studies from academics.

988
00:47:53,185 --> 00:47:55,365
And of course, the academics are happy to come

989
00:47:55,545 --> 00:47:58,245
and tell them, well, it's gonna be terrible for your bank.

990
00:47:58,245 --> 00:47:59,925
It's gonna cause all kinds of problems,

991
00:47:59,985 --> 00:48:02,285
and you get, you need to give us money to research this.

992
00:48:03,295 --> 00:48:06,245
Green subsidies and regulation meant there was now money

993
00:48:06,305 --> 00:48:07,325
to be made in climate.

994
00:48:07,895 --> 00:48:11,365
Renewables. Firms sprouted consultancy firms offered advice

995
00:48:11,545 --> 00:48:14,565
on what they called sustainability and climate compliance.

996
00:48:15,515 --> 00:48:18,405
It's a wonderful business opportunity. Okay?

997
00:48:18,865 --> 00:48:20,645
You want climate, we'll give you climate.

998
00:48:21,385 --> 00:48:24,685
The renewables industry alone now turns over a trillion

999
00:48:24,685 --> 00:48:26,685
dollars a year, and that's expected

1000
00:48:26,705 --> 00:48:28,245
to double in the next few years.

1001
00:48:30,195 --> 00:48:34,565
What used to be a cottage industry has, is now blossomed

1002
00:48:34,565 --> 00:48:36,845
to become a major part of the world economy.

1003
00:48:38,385 --> 00:48:41,005
The growth of this climate industry has seen an explosion

1004
00:48:41,005 --> 00:48:42,845
of highly paid green jobs.

1005
00:48:43,615 --> 00:48:46,805
Chief sustainability officers, carbon offset advisors,

1006
00:48:47,165 --> 00:48:48,325
ESG consultants,

1007
00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:50,925
climate compliance lawyers, and countless others.

1008
00:48:53,445 --> 00:48:56,365
Students started to come into our departments

1009
00:48:56,365 --> 00:48:58,765
as earth science departments with a focus on climate

1010
00:48:59,235 --> 00:49:00,485
that never happened before,

1011
00:49:01,305 --> 00:49:05,045
but they started to look at their career prospects

1012
00:49:05,185 --> 00:49:07,765
and they were smart, and they were looking at who's hiring.

1013
00:49:08,385 --> 00:49:10,125
And the fact of the matter was, is

1014
00:49:10,125 --> 00:49:12,485
that everything in the hiring pool had climate

1015
00:49:12,515 --> 00:49:14,045
somewhere attached to the name.

1016
00:49:14,285 --> 00:49:17,005
I started a few years ago seeing programs like, uh,

1017
00:49:17,565 --> 00:49:19,565
a master's degree in Climate Finance.

1018
00:49:20,985 --> 00:49:24,285
And I just went, what on earth is, is climate?

1019
00:49:24,485 --> 00:49:26,685
I understand what a master's degree in finance is.

1020
00:49:26,795 --> 00:49:28,285
Well, now you need a university

1021
00:49:28,385 --> 00:49:29,565
that's gonna teach this program.

1022
00:49:29,705 --> 00:49:31,765
You need professors of climate finance.

1023
00:49:32,495 --> 00:49:35,125
Every single school or university

1024
00:49:35,625 --> 00:49:39,765
or business will have a climate officer or climate officers

1025
00:49:40,065 --> 00:49:41,205
and a climate program.

1026
00:49:41,985 --> 00:49:45,165
And you look at any of these institutions

1027
00:49:45,265 --> 00:49:48,805
or businesses you will find they all are signed up to it.

1028
00:49:48,825 --> 00:49:51,565
And anyone who hasn't signed up will come under pressure.

1029
00:49:53,785 --> 00:49:56,405
At the last gathering of the publicly funded UN's,

1030
00:49:56,485 --> 00:50:01,045
IPCC 70,000 delegates flew in from around the world.

1031
00:50:01,255 --> 00:50:03,725
Government bureaucrats, green NGOs,

1032
00:50:03,905 --> 00:50:07,205
carbon sequestration consultants, environmental journalists,

1033
00:50:07,415 --> 00:50:09,005
heads of renewables companies.

1034
00:50:09,545 --> 00:50:11,125
But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

1035
00:50:11,475 --> 00:50:12,925
Many hundreds of thousands

1036
00:50:12,925 --> 00:50:16,605
of jobs worldwide now depend on the climate crisis.

1037
00:50:17,625 --> 00:50:20,405
And you start building this enormous

1038
00:50:20,935 --> 00:50:25,205
population whose job is to manage the crisis.

1039
00:50:26,225 --> 00:50:30,645
And, um, and also, uh, explicitly

1040
00:50:31,025 --> 00:50:34,365
to make sure that people are alarmed about the crisis,

1041
00:50:34,395 --> 00:50:36,725
because this whole industry depends on

1042
00:50:36,825 --> 00:50:38,005
the existence of the crisis.

1043
00:50:39,305 --> 00:50:41,205
But therein lies the one great threat

1044
00:50:41,305 --> 00:50:43,085
to this multi-trillion dollar industry.

1045
00:50:44,105 --> 00:50:45,405
All the jobs, all

1046
00:50:45,485 --> 00:50:47,885
of the funding are totally dependent on there

1047
00:50:47,885 --> 00:50:49,285
being a climate crisis.

1048
00:50:50,545 --> 00:50:54,005
If CO2 isn't having the huge negative impacts

1049
00:50:54,005 --> 00:50:57,405
that we claimed it was having originally, how are we going

1050
00:50:57,405 --> 00:50:58,405
to stay in business?

1051
00:50:58,705 --> 00:51:02,085
How do we justify our existence if climate change isn't this

1052
00:51:02,235 --> 00:51:05,165
existential threat that we claimed it was over the last four

1053
00:51:05,165 --> 00:51:10,085
decades or so, people like me, our careers depend on funding

1054
00:51:10,585 --> 00:51:11,725
of climate research.

1055
00:51:12,035 --> 00:51:14,325
This is what I've been doing just about my whole career.

1056
00:51:14,715 --> 00:51:16,565
This is what the other climate researchers

1057
00:51:16,565 --> 00:51:17,725
are doing with their whole career.

1058
00:51:17,995 --> 00:51:19,205
They don't want this to end.

1059
00:51:19,865 --> 00:51:22,765
If NASA said, global warming's not a problem,

1060
00:51:23,775 --> 00:51:25,565
where does their funding disappears?

1061
00:51:25,565 --> 00:51:28,125
Right? Um, so they can't say that.

1062
00:51:28,605 --> 00:51:31,565
I mean, you've got the United Nations intergovernmental

1063
00:51:31,615 --> 00:51:33,285
Panel for climate change.

1064
00:51:33,705 --> 00:51:35,565
If they said the climate isn't changing,

1065
00:51:36,345 --> 00:51:38,405
they'd have no reason to exist. The

1066
00:51:38,485 --> 00:51:41,925
IPCC has a self-preservation instinct to show

1067
00:51:41,925 --> 00:51:43,925
that climate change is an existential threat,

1068
00:51:43,995 --> 00:51:45,645
otherwise there's no reason for them

1069
00:51:45,665 --> 00:51:46,765
to be collecting the money

1070
00:51:46,765 --> 00:51:48,165
and doing the work in the first place.

1071
00:51:49,855 --> 00:51:52,085
There are not just now billions,

1072
00:51:52,465 --> 00:51:55,725
but there are trillions of dollars at stake. There's

1073
00:51:55,725 --> 00:51:57,165
A huge amount of money involved.

1074
00:51:57,355 --> 00:52:00,045
This is a huge, big money scam.

1075
00:52:00,405 --> 00:52:02,845
A lot of people's livelihoods depend on it.

1076
00:52:02,995 --> 00:52:04,365
They're not gonna give that up.

1077
00:52:04,705 --> 00:52:08,245
If suddenly the notion becomes apparent

1078
00:52:08,555 --> 00:52:12,965
that this is not such a problem, um, you're gonna see that

1079
00:52:13,025 --> 00:52:14,365
as an existential threat.

1080
00:52:16,205 --> 00:52:18,125
Scientists who studied the natural causes

1081
00:52:18,325 --> 00:52:20,725
of climate change began to be viewed with suspicion

1082
00:52:21,265 --> 00:52:23,685
as two Harvard astrophysicists discovered.

1083
00:52:24,785 --> 00:52:27,885
How much does the sun change and how does it change

1084
00:52:28,225 --> 00:52:29,285
and why does it change?

1085
00:52:30,095 --> 00:52:32,835
And then we didn't even wanna get into the temperature

1086
00:52:32,835 --> 00:52:35,155
record the climate thing immediately.

1087
00:52:35,155 --> 00:52:37,955
They will come after. Because when we started to estimate

1088
00:52:37,955 --> 00:52:40,715
that the sun changed by quite, you know,

1089
00:52:40,715 --> 00:52:42,955
significantly in terms of climatic sense,

1090
00:52:43,265 --> 00:52:44,755
immediately the attack is there

1091
00:52:44,905 --> 00:52:46,955
because it's not following the narrative.

1092
00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:49,275
Because they need the CO2 to be the only one,

1093
00:52:49,575 --> 00:52:50,875
the only dominant player.

1094
00:52:51,385 --> 00:52:54,355
When you tried to say, well, see, we're just looking

1095
00:52:54,415 --> 00:52:58,575
for the background of natural variability, we,

1096
00:52:58,875 --> 00:53:00,015
the response would be,

1097
00:53:00,035 --> 00:53:03,295
we can't have natural changes as an effect.

1098
00:53:03,435 --> 00:53:05,135
It has to be human caused.

1099
00:53:06,355 --> 00:53:09,215
And some of that was directly stated,

1100
00:53:09,555 --> 00:53:11,015
but most of it was indirect.

1101
00:53:11,485 --> 00:53:15,015
Your funding for this kind of project will be dropped.

1102
00:53:15,165 --> 00:53:17,415
This kind of project doesn't go anywhere

1103
00:53:18,465 --> 00:53:23,285
By that time, anything that contradicted the narrative

1104
00:53:24,225 --> 00:53:27,245
of global warming as a serious problem,

1105
00:53:28,505 --> 00:53:29,885
it was not going to get funded.

1106
00:53:31,675 --> 00:53:34,565
Editors of academic journals came under pressure not

1107
00:53:34,565 --> 00:53:37,125
to accept papers, which were deemed to be skeptical

1108
00:53:37,225 --> 00:53:38,245
of the climate crisis.

1109
00:53:39,225 --> 00:53:42,045
We will not publish anything that questions this.

1110
00:53:44,005 --> 00:53:46,365
I mean, it's not something surreptitious

1111
00:53:48,055 --> 00:53:49,775
Scientists who dared to point out in public

1112
00:53:49,925 --> 00:53:51,095
that there was no climate.

1113
00:53:51,145 --> 00:53:53,775
Chaos began to be sidelined and shunned.

1114
00:53:54,475 --> 00:53:57,295
If a scientifically qualified person stands up

1115
00:53:57,295 --> 00:53:58,575
and says, uh,

1116
00:53:58,575 --> 00:54:01,815
we don't see an upward trend in the data on Pacific

1117
00:54:02,175 --> 00:54:05,415
typhoons, um, well, suddenly they lose standing

1118
00:54:05,795 --> 00:54:07,855
to address the topic of Pacific typhoons.

1119
00:54:07,855 --> 00:54:09,215
Not 'cause what they said is wrong, but

1120
00:54:09,215 --> 00:54:10,255
because it's off message.

1121
00:54:11,205 --> 00:54:15,535
They can marginalize any kind of criticism

1122
00:54:15,555 --> 00:54:18,175
of the narrative by saying, you are not qualified

1123
00:54:18,175 --> 00:54:22,055
to talk about this because you don't support the narrative.

1124
00:54:22,475 --> 00:54:25,495
And that is then. And then having marginalized everyone

1125
00:54:25,495 --> 00:54:27,215
who doesn't support the narrative, they can turn around

1126
00:54:27,215 --> 00:54:29,615
and say, well, everybody who counts supports the narrative.

1127
00:54:29,635 --> 00:54:30,635
So we must be right.

1128
00:54:31,645 --> 00:54:34,295
Environmental journalists ignored skeptics

1129
00:54:34,555 --> 00:54:36,655
and instead offered headlines to anyone prepared

1130
00:54:36,655 --> 00:54:38,415
to make the most outrageous claims

1131
00:54:38,555 --> 00:54:41,215
and predictions about a climate apocalypse.

1132
00:54:43,045 --> 00:54:44,455
It's gotten to where it's has nothing

1133
00:54:44,455 --> 00:54:45,655
to do with the science anymore.

1134
00:54:46,275 --> 00:54:49,855
It doesn't matter if your alarmist prediction doesn't come

1135
00:54:49,855 --> 00:54:54,055
true, you're still gonna retain your status as an expert,

1136
00:54:54,315 --> 00:54:55,575
and the media's still gonna come

1137
00:54:55,675 --> 00:54:58,775
and ask you for your opinion, even though you were

1138
00:54:59,385 --> 00:55:01,375
crazy wrong about your predictions.

1139
00:55:05,355 --> 00:55:08,055
But the consensus on climate is not only enforced

1140
00:55:08,055 --> 00:55:09,615
by those in the climate industry.

1141
00:55:10,715 --> 00:55:13,175
To explain the broader appeal of the climate alarm,

1142
00:55:13,475 --> 00:55:16,095
we must look at the politics behind climate

1143
00:55:25,965 --> 00:55:26,695
from the start.

1144
00:55:27,115 --> 00:55:28,815
The climate scare was political.

1145
00:55:29,475 --> 00:55:32,415
It came from the environmental movement, the sworn enemy

1146
00:55:32,415 --> 00:55:34,775
of free market, industrial capitalism.

1147
00:55:37,645 --> 00:55:39,495
Finally, we've got them.

1148
00:55:40,115 --> 00:55:42,895
We can claim that it is the free markets

1149
00:55:43,075 --> 00:55:44,335
who are destroying the planet,

1150
00:55:44,755 --> 00:55:47,375
and we need big government to save us

1151
00:55:48,675 --> 00:55:49,675
The climate problem. It

1152
00:55:49,675 --> 00:55:52,015
has said stems from the irresponsible actions

1153
00:55:52,235 --> 00:55:55,775
of greedy feckless individuals who have too many babies

1154
00:55:56,075 --> 00:55:58,935
and drive too much and consume too many products,

1155
00:55:59,915 --> 00:56:01,575
and of the capitalist corporations

1156
00:56:01,595 --> 00:56:02,855
who pander to their whims.

1157
00:56:03,355 --> 00:56:05,695
The solution is for government to have greater power

1158
00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:08,535
to regulate private companies, but also to guide

1159
00:56:08,535 --> 00:56:11,055
and reshape the lives and habits of individuals.

1160
00:56:12,315 --> 00:56:15,335
Policy agenda has sprawled into

1161
00:56:16,005 --> 00:56:19,695
micromanaging everybody's lives on the most minute detail,

1162
00:56:19,805 --> 00:56:21,895
what kind of stove you can use, what kind

1163
00:56:21,895 --> 00:56:24,565
of heater you can have, how much you can set the thermostat

1164
00:56:24,565 --> 00:56:27,045
out, where you can drive, what kind of car you can't.

1165
00:56:27,475 --> 00:56:29,405
According to the, the planners,

1166
00:56:29,405 --> 00:56:31,605
we're not gonna have internal combustion engines,

1167
00:56:31,785 --> 00:56:32,885
uh, an hour from now.

1168
00:56:33,225 --> 00:56:34,485
All of these things require the

1169
00:56:34,485 --> 00:56:35,605
government to get involved, right?

1170
00:56:35,605 --> 00:56:37,565
Because the government has to sort

1171
00:56:37,565 --> 00:56:39,445
of force changes upon the public.

1172
00:56:39,465 --> 00:56:40,565
If it was up to the public,

1173
00:56:41,225 --> 00:56:43,405
we wouldn't be buying electric vehicles

1174
00:56:43,405 --> 00:56:45,365
because, you know, they're impractical.

1175
00:56:46,275 --> 00:56:49,125
Support for the climate alarm is now virtually synonymous

1176
00:56:49,475 --> 00:56:51,525
with disdain for free market capitalism

1177
00:56:51,705 --> 00:56:53,365
and a yearning for bigger government.

1178
00:56:54,395 --> 00:56:56,445
It's liberals versus conservatives in the United States.

1179
00:56:57,105 --> 00:57:00,485
And generally speaking, liberals are worried

1180
00:57:00,485 --> 00:57:02,005
that we're destroying the planet.

1181
00:57:02,585 --> 00:57:04,685
And they're also, of course, for big government.

1182
00:57:04,705 --> 00:57:07,205
And then conservatives are, are at the other end

1183
00:57:07,205 --> 00:57:09,845
of the spectrum where they, a lot of 'em don't believe

1184
00:57:09,845 --> 00:57:10,885
that we're destroying the planet

1185
00:57:11,145 --> 00:57:12,645
and they don't want

1186
00:57:12,645 --> 00:57:14,205
government involved in their personal lives.

1187
00:57:15,745 --> 00:57:18,925
Paying lip service to the climate alarm has become almost

1188
00:57:18,955 --> 00:57:20,205
universal among those

1189
00:57:20,345 --> 00:57:22,405
who depend on government for their livelihoods.

1190
00:57:23,075 --> 00:57:26,165
This includes those in the publicly funded education, arts

1191
00:57:26,225 --> 00:57:27,605
and science establishments.

1192
00:57:28,355 --> 00:57:31,005
Tony Heller recalls his time at Los Alamos Labs.

1193
00:57:32,905 --> 00:57:37,205
The entire county of Los Alamos was kept going by buy

1194
00:57:37,775 --> 00:57:39,285
government money that we,

1195
00:57:39,425 --> 00:57:41,205
we had the highest incomes in the state.

1196
00:57:41,945 --> 00:57:43,125
So naturally, people

1197
00:57:43,125 --> 00:57:46,085
who lived in Los Alamos supported big government

1198
00:57:46,155 --> 00:57:49,325
because that was where their livelihood came from.

1199
00:57:49,325 --> 00:57:51,205
That was where their good schools came from.

1200
00:57:51,705 --> 00:57:53,205
You know, everything good in Los

1201
00:57:53,565 --> 00:57:54,765
Almos came from the government.

1202
00:57:54,865 --> 00:57:57,725
So of course, they were all believers in big governments

1203
00:58:00,095 --> 00:58:02,965
Among the largely publicly funded Western intelligentsia

1204
00:58:03,315 --> 00:58:04,965
support for more government spending.

1205
00:58:04,965 --> 00:58:07,565
And regulation is almost a defining moral

1206
00:58:07,735 --> 00:58:10,685
badge in these circles.

1207
00:58:10,945 --> 00:58:13,685
To question the climate alarm is socially unacceptable.

1208
00:58:14,265 --> 00:58:16,365
To be a climate skeptic is taboo.

1209
00:58:20,005 --> 00:58:23,565
Somebody that goes against it really does get met

1210
00:58:23,595 --> 00:58:26,085
with a lot of anger and vitriol

1211
00:58:26,145 --> 00:58:27,845
and, you know, you're called a denier.

1212
00:58:28,275 --> 00:58:31,005
Science denni and a heretic. Your

1213
00:58:31,005 --> 00:58:33,925
Colleagues won't engage with you anymore.

1214
00:58:34,505 --> 00:58:36,645
Uh, you don't get invited to conferences.

1215
00:58:37,515 --> 00:58:40,885
Your students, uh, may desert you, uh,

1216
00:58:41,075 --> 00:58:42,685
this is all really terrible.

1217
00:58:44,235 --> 00:58:45,825
Professors Hendricks Wesmark

1218
00:58:45,825 --> 00:58:47,265
and Nia Sha Viv describe

1219
00:58:47,265 --> 00:58:49,585
what happened when they published their results on the

1220
00:58:49,585 --> 00:58:51,505
climatic effects of solar activity.

1221
00:58:52,965 --> 00:58:55,185
It was like all hill had broken rules

1222
00:58:55,295 --> 00:58:56,585
because of this work.

1223
00:58:57,385 --> 00:59:00,465
I had no idea that the things would,

1224
00:59:00,525 --> 00:59:02,225
uh, escalate as they did.

1225
00:59:02,725 --> 00:59:07,425
And it completely changed my life once we said that, uh,

1226
00:59:07,965 --> 00:59:09,505
people didn't like hearing it.

1227
00:59:10,125 --> 00:59:12,385
And we became a persona. Non gata.

1228
00:59:13,745 --> 00:59:17,225
I mean, I have so many instances of people doing really,

1229
00:59:17,365 --> 00:59:18,625
uh, nasty things.

1230
00:59:18,925 --> 00:59:23,165
Uh, when I applied for, for a job, uh,

1231
00:59:24,205 --> 00:59:26,965
a group of scientists writes to the, uh, university,

1232
00:59:27,105 --> 00:59:28,365
say they shouldn't hire me.

1233
00:59:30,425 --> 00:59:31,805
And that's a typical story.

1234
00:59:32,105 --> 00:59:35,565
Uh, unfortunately,

1235
00:59:36,465 --> 00:59:39,525
if you don't agree with a standard, uh, polemic,

1236
00:59:39,945 --> 00:59:41,005
you become an outcast.

1237
00:59:41,305 --> 00:59:45,245
You are shunt as if you have leprosy.

1238
00:59:47,805 --> 00:59:49,425
For Professor Sally Balles,

1239
00:59:49,765 --> 00:59:51,585
the personal attacks became too much.

1240
00:59:54,825 --> 00:59:55,825
I retired early

1241
01:00:00,165 --> 01:00:02,865
and my family said I should have retired even

1242
01:00:02,925 --> 01:00:05,185
sooner, years sooner.

1243
01:00:05,605 --> 01:00:10,065
So they noticed the toll. I took a toll on them and me.

1244
01:00:13,045 --> 01:00:15,545
Dr. Matthew Wiki was an assistant professor

1245
01:00:15,545 --> 01:00:18,785
of geology at the University of Alabama when he decided

1246
01:00:18,805 --> 01:00:20,465
to speak out about the climate scare.

1247
01:00:21,445 --> 01:00:22,625
As a result of the backlash,

1248
01:00:22,925 --> 01:00:24,665
he has decided to leave teaching

1249
01:00:25,875 --> 01:00:28,215
To speak up about climate change in any sort

1250
01:00:28,215 --> 01:00:30,215
of skeptical way, was essentially career suicide.

1251
01:00:30,575 --> 01:00:33,535
Absolutely. There was no possible way that I would

1252
01:00:34,645 --> 01:00:37,935
publish in quite a few of the mainstream journals

1253
01:00:37,935 --> 01:00:39,255
that I was required to publish in.

1254
01:00:40,055 --> 01:00:42,175
I essentially isolated myself from many

1255
01:00:42,175 --> 01:00:43,455
of the funding institutions.

1256
01:00:44,045 --> 01:00:46,975
This is one of the reasons you can build a consensus

1257
01:00:47,555 --> 01:00:49,055
in a community, is

1258
01:00:49,055 --> 01:00:50,855
because anybody who is skeptical of

1259
01:00:50,855 --> 01:00:53,495
that consensus essentially gets kicked out of the community,

1260
01:00:54,135 --> 01:00:57,135
Speaking out, um, in

1261
01:00:58,225 --> 01:01:01,975
scientific ways that go contrary to the consensus,

1262
01:01:02,815 --> 01:01:04,295
I would say, as a career killer

1263
01:01:04,835 --> 01:01:07,575
for people at the early stage of their careers.

1264
01:01:08,155 --> 01:01:11,855
If I were 30 years old in a university trying

1265
01:01:11,855 --> 01:01:14,855
to make a career, I, I would certainly keep my mouth shut.

1266
01:01:15,675 --> 01:01:18,575
And in fact, I, I went to some effort

1267
01:01:18,575 --> 01:01:20,335
to keep my mouth shut when I was younger.

1268
01:01:20,615 --> 01:01:22,455
I, I knew climate was nonsense then,

1269
01:01:22,555 --> 01:01:23,975
but I was a little bit careful.

1270
01:01:25,075 --> 01:01:29,255
If a young person is questioning this, they can't put

1271
01:01:29,255 --> 01:01:30,375
that in a proposal.

1272
01:01:31,395 --> 01:01:33,775
The proposal will be denied,

1273
01:01:34,675 --> 01:01:36,855
and they can't effectively publish

1274
01:01:37,855 --> 01:01:39,575
'cause the gatekeeper will keep them out.

1275
01:01:39,995 --> 01:01:42,255
And so it, it would end their career.

1276
01:01:43,275 --> 01:01:46,895
You have to go along with, with the global warming story,

1277
01:01:46,895 --> 01:01:48,535
if you know, and you're gonna get cut off,

1278
01:01:48,835 --> 01:01:50,615
you're gonna lose funding, you're going

1279
01:01:50,615 --> 01:01:52,095
to get your career ruined.

1280
01:01:52,095 --> 01:01:54,255
You're gonna be trashed by the community.

1281
01:01:54,875 --> 01:01:58,175
You'll be despised by your coworkers.

1282
01:01:59,435 --> 01:02:02,655
The so-called Consensus on climate has itself become a

1283
01:02:02,655 --> 01:02:05,255
weapon, a form of bullying, intimidation,

1284
01:02:05,255 --> 01:02:08,815
and censorship used against those who refuse to conform.

1285
01:02:09,485 --> 01:02:11,615
It's a, it's a tool that people use

1286
01:02:11,635 --> 01:02:14,415
to bludge in their opponents and the skeptics,

1287
01:02:14,755 --> 01:02:16,215
and to attack their character

1288
01:02:17,605 --> 01:02:18,975
According to its critics.

1289
01:02:19,345 --> 01:02:20,525
Far from being scientific,

1290
01:02:21,025 --> 01:02:23,285
the militant intolerant climate consensus

1291
01:02:23,925 --> 01:02:26,925
represents a devastating assault on free scientific inquiry.

1292
01:02:28,325 --> 01:02:32,525
I see my job as a scientist, as just laying out the facts

1293
01:02:32,785 --> 01:02:35,085
and letting people decide what they want to do.

1294
01:02:35,475 --> 01:02:38,925
When you can't talk about the facts, uh,

1295
01:02:39,065 --> 01:02:40,645
things become corrupt.

1296
01:02:41,065 --> 01:02:43,325
If you shut the door on ideas,

1297
01:02:43,905 --> 01:02:46,485
if you say you're not allowed to test it,

1298
01:02:46,985 --> 01:02:48,725
you're not allowed to have that idea.

1299
01:02:49,865 --> 01:02:51,405
You've left the realm of science.

1300
01:02:53,585 --> 01:02:57,745
I don't think climate researchers will ever back down from

1301
01:02:58,675 --> 01:03:03,065
their claim that increasing CO2 is the control knob

1302
01:03:03,885 --> 01:03:05,305
on today's climate system.

1303
01:03:05,545 --> 01:03:08,225
I, I don't think they will ever back down from that.

1304
01:03:08,285 --> 01:03:09,585
No matter what the evidence is,

1305
01:03:09,855 --> 01:03:12,105
It's clear it's now a cult.

1306
01:03:13,525 --> 01:03:16,305
Uh, the completely divorced from science.

1307
01:03:18,635 --> 01:03:22,135
But the apparently unstoppable climate scare does not just

1308
01:03:22,415 --> 01:03:23,495
represent an attack on science.

1309
01:03:24,555 --> 01:03:27,655
It is starting to shape for us a new kind of society.

1310
01:03:35,045 --> 01:03:38,265
Environmentalists like to pose as anti-establishment,

1311
01:03:39,005 --> 01:03:40,585
but their demands are well received

1312
01:03:40,645 --> 01:03:42,985
and pious, echoed by King Charles

1313
01:03:43,085 --> 01:03:47,145
and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the BBC, the un, the eu,

1314
01:03:47,405 --> 01:03:49,345
by heads of government, the World Bank

1315
01:03:49,345 --> 01:03:51,745
and World Economic Forum, in fact,

1316
01:03:51,965 --> 01:03:54,865
by the entire state funded ruling establishment,

1317
01:03:56,535 --> 01:04:00,515
Global warming is like the perfect problem

1318
01:04:00,865 --> 01:04:02,955
that government can get involved in

1319
01:04:03,535 --> 01:04:06,075
to grow the influence of government.

1320
01:04:06,545 --> 01:04:09,715
It's a wonderful way to, uh, increase government power.

1321
01:04:10,375 --> 01:04:14,075
And, uh, if there's an existential threat out there

1322
01:04:14,175 --> 01:04:15,795
that's worldwide, well,

1323
01:04:15,815 --> 01:04:18,235
you need a powerful worldwide government,

1324
01:04:18,775 --> 01:04:19,955
you know, to cope with it.

1325
01:04:20,255 --> 01:04:21,635
If you are a climate activist,

1326
01:04:21,895 --> 01:04:26,355
you are actually facilitating a huge, uh, uh,

1327
01:04:26,605 --> 01:04:29,435
validation of the government running our lives.

1328
01:04:29,865 --> 01:04:31,635
Many environmentalists, most environmentalists,

1329
01:04:31,635 --> 01:04:34,195
all environmentalists who consider themselves to be radical,

1330
01:04:34,635 --> 01:04:38,395
progressive alternatives are in fact simply reinforcing the

1331
01:04:38,465 --> 01:04:40,195
mantras and the mainstream arguments

1332
01:04:40,335 --> 01:04:41,955
of the entire establishment. The

1333
01:04:41,985 --> 01:04:43,755
Demands on the government mean

1334
01:04:43,755 --> 01:04:45,675
that the government suddenly gains the authority

1335
01:04:45,775 --> 01:04:48,115
to interfere into every nook

1336
01:04:48,115 --> 01:04:49,995
and cranny of our lives and how we live.

1337
01:04:50,245 --> 01:04:53,235
Everything has a climate narrative attached to it.

1338
01:04:53,255 --> 01:04:55,675
How much you consume, where you spend your money,

1339
01:04:55,895 --> 01:04:59,115
how much you travel, who you interact with, what types

1340
01:04:59,115 --> 01:05:00,955
of food you eat, whether you eat meat,

1341
01:05:01,525 --> 01:05:05,395
everything has some sort of aspect that can be controlled

1342
01:05:05,625 --> 01:05:07,555
with a climate lens.

1343
01:05:08,065 --> 01:05:11,195
Suppose 20 years ago, somebody had hatched the idea

1344
01:05:11,225 --> 01:05:14,075
that I would really like to ban

1345
01:05:15,085 --> 01:05:16,595
cheap energy.

1346
01:05:17,265 --> 01:05:20,525
I'd really like to control everybody's appliance purchases.

1347
01:05:20,625 --> 01:05:22,805
I'd really like to tell everybody where they can go.

1348
01:05:22,905 --> 01:05:24,525
And basically, I'd like

1349
01:05:24,545 --> 01:05:26,805
to have dictatorial control over everything.

1350
01:05:27,395 --> 01:05:28,685
Well, it's not gonna fly. No.

1351
01:05:28,685 --> 01:05:30,765
Everybody would think you're a nut and would ignore you,

1352
01:05:30,825 --> 01:05:34,045
but fast forward 20 years, that's what's happening.

1353
01:05:36,425 --> 01:05:39,525
The publicly funded establishment in the West is so large

1354
01:05:39,585 --> 01:05:42,245
and powerful, it is able to impose

1355
01:05:42,265 --> 01:05:44,845
and enforce the official consensus on climate

1356
01:05:45,035 --> 01:05:48,365
through its control of schools, universities, government,

1357
01:05:48,505 --> 01:05:53,365
and much of the media state

1358
01:05:53,365 --> 01:05:56,885
broadcasters like the BBC, exclude climate skeptics,

1359
01:05:57,325 --> 01:05:59,045
broadcasting regulatory bodies,

1360
01:05:59,265 --> 01:06:02,525
forbid private stations from disseminating skeptical views,

1361
01:06:03,405 --> 01:06:05,285
threatening them with having their broadcasting

1362
01:06:05,325 --> 01:06:06,445
licenses revoked.

1363
01:06:08,475 --> 01:06:10,605
What normally happens in an emergency is

1364
01:06:10,605 --> 01:06:13,125
that all normal forms of openness

1365
01:06:13,145 --> 01:06:15,645
and democracy have to be suppressed

1366
01:06:15,835 --> 01:06:19,325
because how else to deal with an emergency?

1367
01:06:19,545 --> 01:06:23,205
So we are facing a situation not unlike lockdown,

1368
01:06:23,455 --> 01:06:27,845
where basically all normal forms of behavior, normal forms

1369
01:06:27,905 --> 01:06:29,645
of social communication.

1370
01:06:30,145 --> 01:06:34,885
And so normal forms of democracy are essentially ruled out.

1371
01:06:37,035 --> 01:06:41,405
Activists are even calling for any skepticism

1372
01:06:41,545 --> 01:06:42,605
to be criminalized

1373
01:06:44,625 --> 01:06:46,125
In certain jobs and professions.

1374
01:06:46,385 --> 01:06:49,005
It is now dangerous to express dissent on climate.

1375
01:06:49,675 --> 01:06:53,725
It's no surprise that people, uh, who are more skeptical

1376
01:06:54,475 --> 01:06:58,445
will think twice before, uh, voicing their concerns

1377
01:06:58,445 --> 01:07:01,485
because they might risk their careers, they might risk their

1378
01:07:02,005 --> 01:07:03,805
business, they might risk being sacked.

1379
01:07:03,945 --> 01:07:07,005
If you're a professional of any kind in science or law

1380
01:07:07,105 --> 01:07:10,965
or medicine, if you belong to a professional association

1381
01:07:11,025 --> 01:07:15,165
or you are in a university, uh, you can be fired

1382
01:07:15,785 --> 01:07:17,125
for saying what you believe.

1383
01:07:17,745 --> 01:07:22,045
The consequence is a censorious authoritarian

1384
01:07:22,705 --> 01:07:27,245
regime that has to control every move, every word,

1385
01:07:27,575 --> 01:07:29,365
everything you want to do,

1386
01:07:29,635 --> 01:07:33,645
because everything you do is a potential risk

1387
01:07:34,105 --> 01:07:35,765
to the survival of mankind.

1388
01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,965
Climate protestors condemn capitalism,

1389
01:07:45,345 --> 01:07:48,245
but at their anti-capitalist rallies, it's hard

1390
01:07:48,245 --> 01:07:51,205
to spot anyone who looks like a worker, like a docker

1391
01:07:51,305 --> 01:07:53,325
or crane driver or steel worker,

1392
01:07:53,705 --> 01:07:55,445
or a beautician, or a trucker.

1393
01:07:56,225 --> 01:07:57,245
The workers it appears,

1394
01:07:57,305 --> 01:07:59,085
are totally absent from these rallies

1395
01:07:59,225 --> 01:08:00,245
and for very good reason.

1396
01:08:01,475 --> 01:08:03,925
Today's climate, alarmists complain not

1397
01:08:04,005 --> 01:08:05,925
that capitalism isn't producing enough,

1398
01:08:06,385 --> 01:08:07,925
but that it's producing too much.

1399
01:08:10,345 --> 01:08:14,005
The modern capitalist system has led to prosperity.

1400
01:08:14,235 --> 01:08:16,685
More and more people have more and more things.

1401
01:08:17,465 --> 01:08:21,085
The modern anti-capitalism of the present time is a critique

1402
01:08:21,085 --> 01:08:22,885
of capitalism that it gives us too much.

1403
01:08:23,595 --> 01:08:25,965
They think that the problem with capitalism now,

1404
01:08:26,595 --> 01:08:29,805
it's actually that it's giving out too many reward on mass,

1405
01:08:30,465 --> 01:08:33,365
too ordinary workers and what they want instead,

1406
01:08:33,445 --> 01:08:34,845
and this is often very explicit,

1407
01:08:35,285 --> 01:08:38,565
actually is a much more austere, simple kind

1408
01:08:38,565 --> 01:08:40,565
of lifestyle in which the mass consumption,

1409
01:08:40,665 --> 01:08:43,885
the consumption choices of the great bulk of the population

1410
01:08:44,585 --> 01:08:47,405
are controlled or even prohibited. You

1411
01:08:47,405 --> 01:08:48,565
Have to consume less.

1412
01:08:48,585 --> 01:08:52,205
You have to, uh, holiday less, you have to drive less,

1413
01:08:52,225 --> 01:08:53,765
you have to eat less, and so on.

1414
01:08:55,625 --> 01:08:58,725
It seems that what upsets many environmentalists is not

1415
01:08:58,725 --> 01:09:00,565
the failure, but rather the success

1416
01:09:00,565 --> 01:09:02,605
of capitalism in producing an abundance

1417
01:09:02,705 --> 01:09:04,605
of affordable goods for the masses.

1418
01:09:07,925 --> 01:09:10,605
Ordinary working people for once

1419
01:09:11,455 --> 01:09:15,085
we've arrived at a point in history in the western world at

1420
01:09:15,085 --> 01:09:19,405
least, where mass manufacturers allowed them cheap clothes,

1421
01:09:19,575 --> 01:09:21,605
cheap food, cheap furniture.

1422
01:09:21,605 --> 01:09:25,245
Therefore, you get a clash When affluent environmentalists

1423
01:09:25,715 --> 01:09:28,285
express their disdain from mass consumption,

1424
01:09:28,665 --> 01:09:31,805
people going on those big huge cruise ships,

1425
01:09:32,995 --> 01:09:34,525
it's like thousands of them.

1426
01:09:34,675 --> 01:09:35,845
It's like, what are they doing?

1427
01:09:35,985 --> 01:09:38,725
Oh my God, there's all those cruise ships like ruining

1428
01:09:38,745 --> 01:09:40,725
Venice, you know, ruining all our beautiful,

1429
01:09:40,945 --> 01:09:42,045
we own them, don't we?

1430
01:09:42,045 --> 01:09:44,445
They're not. What, what are they going there for? What

1431
01:09:44,445 --> 01:09:45,445
Do you have? Here is

1432
01:09:45,445 --> 01:09:48,165
a classic example of class hypocrisy

1433
01:09:48,385 --> 01:09:52,285
and self-interest masquerading as public spirited concern.

1434
01:09:53,065 --> 01:09:54,525
You could take these kind

1435
01:09:54,525 --> 01:09:56,845
of green socialists much more seriously if

1436
01:09:56,995 --> 01:09:58,085
they lived off grid.

1437
01:09:58,355 --> 01:09:59,885
They cut their own consumption down

1438
01:09:59,905 --> 01:10:01,245
to the minimum they never flew.

1439
01:10:01,715 --> 01:10:03,645
Instead, you get constant talk about

1440
01:10:03,645 --> 01:10:05,565
how human consumption is destroying the planet.

1441
01:10:05,865 --> 01:10:09,365
But the people making all this talk show absolutely no signs

1442
01:10:09,465 --> 01:10:10,725
of reducing their own.

1443
01:10:12,355 --> 01:10:15,645
What environmentalists call degrowth is being achieved

1444
01:10:15,705 --> 01:10:17,885
by the trashing of our conventional energy

1445
01:10:17,885 --> 01:10:20,725
and transport systems and the forced introduction

1446
01:10:20,785 --> 01:10:23,125
of expensive and unreliable alternatives.

1447
01:10:24,355 --> 01:10:26,965
Already, this is having the desired effect on industrial

1448
01:10:26,965 --> 01:10:29,805
manufacturing, which is straining under the burden

1449
01:10:29,805 --> 01:10:31,885
of punitive green taxes and regulation

1450
01:10:32,025 --> 01:10:33,325
and higher energy prices.

1451
01:10:35,515 --> 01:10:37,815
The people behind the climate alarm couldn't give a

1452
01:10:37,815 --> 01:10:38,855
damn about manufacturing.

1453
01:10:39,165 --> 01:10:40,935
They have nothing to do with it. They don't know.

1454
01:10:40,935 --> 01:10:43,335
People who work in manufacturing whose jobs

1455
01:10:43,435 --> 01:10:44,775
and lives depend on it.

1456
01:10:44,775 --> 01:10:47,455
They're not excited by industry or industrial progress.

1457
01:10:47,685 --> 01:10:49,455
They explicitly wanna shut it down.

1458
01:10:56,515 --> 01:10:58,215
Kii, Kenya, east Africa.

1459
01:10:59,485 --> 01:11:01,535
According to many leading environmentalists,

1460
01:11:01,835 --> 01:11:04,495
the world's poorest people should not aspire

1461
01:11:04,515 --> 01:11:06,575
to the lifestyle of people in the first world.

1462
01:11:07,635 --> 01:11:09,175
The planet will not cope.

1463
01:11:11,465 --> 01:11:14,125
Grace Nando is one of the many Africans

1464
01:11:14,185 --> 01:11:15,525
who do not have electricity

1465
01:11:15,525 --> 01:11:17,965
or gas to cook with or heat their homes.

1466
01:11:20,065 --> 01:11:22,245
The resulting indoor smoke from burning wood

1467
01:11:22,245 --> 01:11:24,485
and dried dung is the deadliest form

1468
01:11:24,485 --> 01:11:25,565
of pollution in the world.

1469
01:11:26,065 --> 01:11:28,845
For millions, the cause of lung disease, blindness,

1470
01:11:28,985 --> 01:11:29,885
and early death,

1471
01:11:49,875 --> 01:11:53,045
it's not just cheap, reliable electricity that Africa needs.

1472
01:11:53,685 --> 01:11:57,125
Agricultural productivity here is incredibly low increasing.

1473
01:11:57,185 --> 01:12:01,205
It takes fossil fuels to make fertilizer and drive tractors

1474
01:12:01,305 --> 01:12:02,485
and other farm machinery.

1475
01:12:03,665 --> 01:12:04,965
Jasper Masho is a farmer.

1476
01:12:06,555 --> 01:12:09,045
Each And every African wants to develop

1477
01:12:09,505 --> 01:12:11,965
and increasing, improving agriculture is one

1478
01:12:11,965 --> 01:12:13,725
of the easiest ways to do that.

1479
01:12:14,515 --> 01:12:18,005
Agriculture is tightly tied to fossil fuels.

1480
01:12:18,865 --> 01:12:22,645
Fossil fuels that the Western nations are saying

1481
01:12:23,305 --> 01:12:24,365
we should not have access to.

1482
01:12:26,145 --> 01:12:29,245
Around a third of the food produced in Africa rots

1483
01:12:29,305 --> 01:12:31,565
before it ever reaches the mouths of consumers

1484
01:12:32,425 --> 01:12:33,845
to prevent this terrible waste.

1485
01:12:34,105 --> 01:12:37,365
Africa needs plastic packaging, refrigerated lorries

1486
01:12:37,385 --> 01:12:39,965
and good roads all are re opposed

1487
01:12:40,065 --> 01:12:41,525
by Western environmentalists.

1488
01:12:41,945 --> 01:12:43,485
All come with industrial development,

1489
01:12:43,945 --> 01:12:46,445
all rely on affordable fossil fuel.

1490
01:12:46,465 --> 01:12:51,165
Energy, diarrhea from drinking dirty water still

1491
01:12:51,255 --> 01:12:53,605
kills hundreds of thousands of African children.

1492
01:12:54,545 --> 01:12:58,085
But clean water requires large industrial water purification

1493
01:12:58,085 --> 01:13:00,205
plants and a modern water supply network.

1494
01:13:00,985 --> 01:13:03,565
And this will come only with cheap energy.

1495
01:13:04,445 --> 01:13:08,605
I think it's pretty obvious that the west has got

1496
01:13:08,605 --> 01:13:10,365
what it has because of fossil fuels.

1497
01:13:11,155 --> 01:13:14,565
When people say Africa doesn't need fossil fuels, I wonder,

1498
01:13:15,325 --> 01:13:16,925
I don't think they want what's best for us.

1499
01:13:17,595 --> 01:13:19,045
They don't want us to develop,

1500
01:13:19,185 --> 01:13:21,765
and that means we continue being starving.

1501
01:13:22,545 --> 01:13:24,805
We continue being, uh, poor.

1502
01:13:26,475 --> 01:13:28,245
Most people don't know what climate change is.

1503
01:13:28,245 --> 01:13:31,765
They don't care. They just, they want food on their table.

1504
01:13:32,075 --> 01:13:34,645
They want to beat poverty. They want to beat hunger.

1505
01:13:34,875 --> 01:13:36,925
They need money to better their lives.

1506
01:13:36,955 --> 01:13:39,165
They want to flourish. That's just it.

1507
01:13:41,395 --> 01:13:43,205
When they use the word sustainable development,

1508
01:13:43,205 --> 01:13:44,805
they're talking about no development.

1509
01:13:45,155 --> 01:13:47,405
Exactly. I mean, it, the point is, is that, you know,

1510
01:13:47,425 --> 01:13:50,205
to develop sustainably means not to use too much energy,

1511
01:13:50,265 --> 01:13:51,285
not to use too much carbon.

1512
01:13:51,785 --> 01:13:53,405
You know, net zero the idea

1513
01:13:53,405 --> 01:13:54,845
that you mustn't use too many resources.

1514
01:13:54,845 --> 01:13:57,005
The fact you mustn't produce enough consumer goods

1515
01:13:57,005 --> 01:13:58,245
because consumption is bad.

1516
01:13:58,705 --> 01:14:00,605
So ultimately, you know, the idea

1517
01:14:00,625 --> 01:14:03,245
of development is out the window.

1518
01:14:04,705 --> 01:14:07,845
The greens think the Africans should never

1519
01:14:09,145 --> 01:14:12,125
use their resources the way the Europeans are.

1520
01:14:12,125 --> 01:14:13,445
The Americans or the Canadians

1521
01:14:13,445 --> 01:14:15,205
or the Australians have used theirs.

1522
01:14:16,175 --> 01:14:19,905
They are also in favor of punitive Texas,

1523
01:14:20,205 --> 01:14:24,225
border Texas on any African country that wants

1524
01:14:24,245 --> 01:14:25,425
to export their goods

1525
01:14:25,425 --> 01:14:27,865
to Europe if they do use their resource.

1526
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:31,545
So that sums up the ethical

1527
01:14:33,065 --> 01:14:37,705
ruthlessness and, and depravity of the green agenda.

1528
01:14:39,965 --> 01:14:41,905
But climate alarmists have a problem.

1529
01:14:42,735 --> 01:14:43,905
Many countries in Africa

1530
01:14:43,965 --> 01:14:47,025
and across Asia are simply ignoring the environmentalist

1531
01:14:47,025 --> 01:14:49,905
demands of western governments and international agencies.

1532
01:14:50,735 --> 01:14:53,425
Communist China is estimated to be building an average

1533
01:14:53,485 --> 01:14:55,665
of two new coal power plants a week.

1534
01:14:56,435 --> 01:14:58,905
China now uses more coal than the rest

1535
01:14:58,905 --> 01:15:00,185
of the world combined,

1536
01:15:01,995 --> 01:15:04,985
Which is one of the reasons why this whole climate agenda

1537
01:15:05,365 --> 01:15:06,545
is falling apart

1538
01:15:06,545 --> 01:15:09,905
because the rest of the world is not cutting emissions is

1539
01:15:10,005 --> 01:15:11,985
not moving to renewables

1540
01:15:12,645 --> 01:15:13,645
In the west too.

1541
01:15:14,045 --> 01:15:17,065
For many people, climate alarmism is wearing thin.

1542
01:15:20,905 --> 01:15:22,145
Ordinary people are not stupid.

1543
01:15:22,495 --> 01:15:23,985
They have seen one ridiculous claim

1544
01:15:23,985 --> 01:15:26,265
after another fail over and over.

1545
01:15:26,655 --> 01:15:29,345
What this does is leave people with a profound

1546
01:15:29,365 --> 01:15:31,265
and justified cynicism about

1547
01:15:31,265 --> 01:15:32,985
what the scientific establishment says

1548
01:15:33,165 --> 01:15:34,545
and about what the government says.

1549
01:15:37,005 --> 01:15:38,265
To fix the climate crisis,

1550
01:15:38,315 --> 01:15:40,185
we're told we must give up our cars.

1551
01:15:43,525 --> 01:15:46,785
We must pay more for fuel, heating, clothes, food,

1552
01:15:47,485 --> 01:15:51,665
fly less limit where we go this attack on mass travel,

1553
01:15:51,975 --> 01:15:53,945
mass tourism, mass consumption

1554
01:15:54,475 --> 01:15:56,265
holds little appeal to the masses.

1555
01:15:58,845 --> 01:16:00,505
People have started to realize it's going

1556
01:16:00,505 --> 01:16:03,785
to cost them a lot of money to simply live the lives

1557
01:16:03,785 --> 01:16:05,945
that they were leading, that they want to lead.

1558
01:16:06,325 --> 01:16:08,065
And as soon as that started to happen,

1559
01:16:08,745 --> 01:16:10,625
I could see people in the United Kingdom

1560
01:16:11,245 --> 01:16:14,225
who had previously been indifferent to environmentalism

1561
01:16:14,745 --> 01:16:16,585
suddenly think, how dare they do that?

1562
01:16:16,585 --> 01:16:18,065
Right? How dare they try

1563
01:16:18,065 --> 01:16:20,345
and take away what we consider

1564
01:16:20,365 --> 01:16:23,105
to be not luxuries, but necessities.

1565
01:16:23,365 --> 01:16:26,265
The whole policy of sustainability is about restraint.

1566
01:16:26,695 --> 01:16:27,985
It's about restrictions.

1567
01:16:27,985 --> 01:16:29,705
It's about doing less, um,

1568
01:16:30,045 --> 01:16:32,745
and that obviously for most people is anathema

1569
01:16:32,745 --> 01:16:34,545
to their everyday needs. The

1570
01:16:34,545 --> 01:16:37,385
Fact that there is actually an ideological movement

1571
01:16:37,405 --> 01:16:41,465
of people who think that sheep mass production

1572
01:16:41,925 --> 01:16:45,505
of whether it's houses or anything else, is a problem.

1573
01:16:46,425 --> 01:16:50,705
I mean, for god's sake, no wonder people become, uh,

1574
01:16:50,995 --> 01:16:52,145
disdainful of the kind

1575
01:16:52,145 --> 01:16:54,065
of middle class outlook of environmentalism.

1576
01:16:54,065 --> 01:16:55,505
But that is literally what people say.

1577
01:16:56,085 --> 01:16:59,865
How can we stop people buying cheap

1578
01:17:00,085 --> 01:17:01,265
things in shops?

1579
01:17:03,735 --> 01:17:06,545
When climate protestors climbed onto an underground train

1580
01:17:06,725 --> 01:17:09,325
in London's East end, they were not cheered on

1581
01:17:09,465 --> 01:17:10,525
by working commuters.

1582
01:17:11,275 --> 01:17:14,965
They were held abuse, pelted angrily dragged off the train

1583
01:17:15,385 --> 01:17:17,485
and received rough treatment on the platform.

1584
01:17:18,945 --> 01:17:23,485
If you were to go into a pub, uh, frequented mainly by

1585
01:17:23,795 --> 01:17:27,285
what the Americans called blue collar workers, you will find

1586
01:17:27,285 --> 01:17:30,885
that, uh, being skeptical about climate change policy is not

1587
01:17:30,885 --> 01:17:32,525
going to get you thrown out.

1588
01:17:32,615 --> 01:17:33,725
Quite the contrary, some

1589
01:17:33,725 --> 01:17:34,845
people will probably buy you a drink.

1590
01:17:35,395 --> 01:17:38,165
They can tell that behind all the talk about climate,

1591
01:17:38,395 --> 01:17:41,685
emergency climate crisis, what there actually is,

1592
01:17:42,145 --> 01:17:43,445
is an animus

1593
01:17:43,445 --> 01:17:46,805
and a hostility towards them, their lifestyle,

1594
01:17:46,975 --> 01:17:50,365
their beliefs, and a desire to change it by force.

1595
01:17:50,385 --> 01:17:51,385
If necessary,

1596
01:17:55,325 --> 01:17:58,605
Punitive and restrictive policies carried out both in the

1597
01:17:58,605 --> 01:18:00,285
name of climate change and covid

1598
01:18:00,835 --> 01:18:03,325
have sparked protests in Britain, Canada,

1599
01:18:03,505 --> 01:18:05,005
and other western countries.

1600
01:18:06,505 --> 01:18:08,005
Anti-establishment, politicians

1601
01:18:08,025 --> 01:18:10,085
and movements are gaining support.

1602
01:18:12,635 --> 01:18:15,645
What they, what they underestimated was the fury

1603
01:18:15,645 --> 01:18:17,285
that this would meet, uh,

1604
01:18:17,285 --> 01:18:19,125
with ordinary people who just say, you can't do this.

1605
01:18:19,125 --> 01:18:20,605
So you suddenly get this new movement.

1606
01:18:23,555 --> 01:18:25,765
Many working people are not really skeptical,

1607
01:18:26,145 --> 01:18:28,685
but positively angry about the climate alarm

1608
01:18:28,785 --> 01:18:30,125
and all that flows from it.

1609
01:18:31,255 --> 01:18:32,365
There is a suspicion

1610
01:18:32,625 --> 01:18:36,405
or perhaps realization that climate change isn't invented.

1611
01:18:36,495 --> 01:18:38,965
Scare driven by self-interest

1612
01:18:39,025 --> 01:18:43,085
and snobbery, cynically promoted by a parasitic,

1613
01:18:43,445 --> 01:18:46,845
publicly funded establishment, hungry forevermore, money

1614
01:18:46,945 --> 01:18:50,205
and power, an assault on the freedom

1615
01:18:50,265 --> 01:18:52,045
and prosperity of the rest of us.