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The Paris Olympics are underway, and it pledged to be the “greenest” games ever. No air-conditioned dorms. Bed frames made of recycled cardboard. An emphasis on plant-based protein instead of meats and eggs. Well, those moves are going over with the athletes about as well as its opening ceremonies did with normal people. This is yet another case of climate virtue signaling crashing into reality. South Korean swimming stars decided to ditch the Olympic Village and check into the nice, air-conditioned hotels that the organizers enjoy.
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H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., hosts The Heartland Institute’s Environment and Climate News podcast. Burnett also is the director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, is the editor of Heartland's Climate Change Weekly email, and oversees the production of the monthly newspaper Environment & Climate News. Prior to joining The Heartland Institute in 2014, Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, ending his tenure there as senior fellow in charge of environmental policy. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations within the field. Burnett is a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission, served as chairman of the board for the Dallas Woods and Water Conservation Club, is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, works as an academic advisor for Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, is an advisory board member to the Cornwall Alliance, and is an advisor for the Energy, Natural Resources and Agricultural Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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And that's what climate change is about. It is literally not figuratively a clear and present danger.
Speaker 2:We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
Speaker 3:The ability of c 02 to do the heavy work of creating a climate catastrophe is almost nil at this point.
Speaker 4:The price of oil has been artificially elevated to the point of insanity.
Speaker 1:That's not how you power a modern industrial system.
Speaker 3:The ultimate goal of this renewable energy, you know, plan is to reach the exact same point that we're at now.
Speaker 1:You know who's trying that? Germany. 7 straight days of no wind for Germany. Their factories are shutting down.
Speaker 2:They really do act like weather didn't happen prior to, like, 1910. Today is Friday.
Speaker 3:That's right, Greta. It is Friday. It's the best day of the week because it's the day the Heartland Institute broadcast the Climate Realism Show. I'm Jim Lakeley, vice president of the Heartland Institute. And as usual, we have a fantastic show for you today.
Speaker 3:There is no other show like the Climate Realism Show streaming anywhere in the world, so I hope you will like, share, and subscribe, and also personally tell folks about it. Word-of-mouth still works as, as to let people know what's going on. And so the more the merrier that we have in our livestream, in our live chats on YouTube and Rumble, the better. And before we get started, with our show today, because big tech and the legacy media do not like the way we cover climate and energy news and policy on this very program. Heartland's YouTube channel has been demonetized.
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Speaker 3:These are some of the Heartland Institute's best friends in the climate realism space. They do fantastic work with us, have worked with us for years, and do a lot of work on their own to fight climate alarmism as well. So visit and bookmark their websites. Follow them on x, where we're streaming right now through their accounts. And along with this show, it's those sites and those places are gonna be everything you need to get the truth about the climate that breaks through all of the hype and all of the lies.
Speaker 3:So thank you to Junk Science and CFACT and Climate Depot. And, of course, thank you, what's up with that dot com, who is also, every week, livestreaming this on their website, what's up with that dot com. So let's get it started. Today, we have with us, as usual, doctor h Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur b Robinson Center on Climate Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute. We have Anthony Watts, the senior fellow at in the at the Heartland Institute and publisher of aforementioned what's up with that dotcom.
Speaker 3:And, of course, Lenny Alukin, research fellow for energy and environment policy and the star of our Climate at a Glance video series here on the Heartland Institute YouTube channel and on Rumble. Be sure to check those out, for 1 or 2 videos every single week. Happy Friday, everybody.
Speaker 4:Happy Friday to you. I prefer to think of us as the gang of 3 for climate, you know? Gang
Speaker 1:of 3.
Speaker 4:We need we need a kind of a nefarious name, you know, for the group.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, yeah, the the 3 Climate Amigos, maybe people in the chat can start to
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I think I think usually how that works is your enemies have to come up with with something like that. I think climate oop. There goes my lights freaking out from the power fluctuations. I think that the
Speaker 4:affecting linear.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Climate change is coming after me too.
Speaker 1:No. It's the alarmist. They're trying to shut her down. She's too affected.
Speaker 2:I live on an island, so, every time the wind blows or, like, it rains a little bit, my power has these big fluctuations and sometimes goes out entirely. So if I drop out, that's what happened to me.
Speaker 4:Wait. Don't you have windmills off the coast there?
Speaker 2:Not here yet. Thank goodness. But it's probably coming any day now.
Speaker 1:I would I would call us to climb at curmudgeons, but Lanae doesn't qualify. So
Speaker 4:That's the gang of 1.
Speaker 2:Yes. We I think our enemies get to pick our name, though. Although I yeah.
Speaker 3:They already
Speaker 1:have climate criminals. Right?
Speaker 3:Yeah. That's right. Well, yeah, that was last week.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Last week, we were all, in the in the sights of being, criminals. Of course, they've been thinking about us that way since the beginning anyway.
Speaker 1:But we are we are yet to be climate convicts. We have we may be criminals, but we haven't been caught and convicted.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, Leah Li, one of our, commenters here on YouTube said, aren't there 4 of you? Come on. Everybody knows I don't count. So Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Moving forward. Alright. And, actually, speaking of our enemies, we're going to start off with, one of our favorite segments. Anthony is certainly his favorite segment, the crazy climate news of the week. And so, the first item here is that, Google this is from our friends at Media Matters.
Speaker 3:Hello, Media Matters. However, many of you are still employed there. Thanks for watching. They posted a story recently, that said Google demonetized the Heartland Institute in June. Here are 4 more channels that appear to violate its misinformation policy.
Speaker 3:Now Media Matters was thrilled when Google announced in 2021 that YouTube would prohibit, quote, ads for and monetization of content that contradicts well established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change. But researchers at Media Matters have found that large channels violate this policy. So, you know, I guess the 3 or 4 people they still have employed there are still noticing the Heartland Institute's channel.
Speaker 1:And they concern themselves researchers as opposed to just people who have nothing better to do than search Google all day.
Speaker 3:Right. Exactly right. And so they recently found, quote, one video criticizing Michael Mann, my word, on our channel, and it still had an ad running on it. And it was from an episode of a show about 6 months ago when we were covering the climate trial of the century, man versus Stein, and, that episode of this program, currently has more than 20,000 views. And it apparently so, that was as of July 3rd.
Speaker 3:At least one video, it was still monetizing. Apparently, an outfit called Pacific Rim Athletics, a company that provides strength training programs. Still had an ad running on our, climate climate trial of the century video. So, hello, Pacific Rim Athletics. If you wanna be a sponsor of this show, just reach out.
Speaker 3:We'd be happy to, to to have your support. But meeting matters continues, and they they're just determined to be censors and to be anti Americans. So that's what they're gonna do. They said even after demonetizing the YouTube channel of climate denial think tank, the Heartland Institute, in June, Other large channels still contain climate denial content that seemingly violates the platform's policies, and Media Matters found 4 examples. One was Tony Heller, which somebody in the comments had just mentioned that maybe he's not feeling too well lately.
Speaker 3:Good health to you, Tony. But he's been on this program. So congrats, Tony, if you're listening, for not yet being demonetized and shadow banned. We hope we didn't screw that up for you, but, you may join us soon. Prager University, another very large channel.
Speaker 3:He's had people on his program, people in his videos that we've had on this program, including doctor Judith Curry and, Chris Martz. That that was considered bad by media matters. Jordan Peterson, who has not been on this program, we'd love to have him, but he interviewed also doctor Curry on his channel and doctor Patrick Moore, who we have out on this channel. So you can see how, some of the leading lights in climate realism just keep getting targeted by these leftist nutjobs. And then, of course, there's, the 4th one, as an example, was John Stossel.
Speaker 3:Hartland's worked with John Stossel a lot over the years. We did a, a climate debate. We attempted, I should say. A climate debate in New York City. We invited Michael Mann and some others.
Speaker 3:None of them showed up. So, we had really soon, David LeGates, and the late great Pat Michaels debate empty chairs. It was quite a lot of fun in Times Square. So, you know, maybe this is a little self serving, but I just wanted to point out that, you know, that that this kind of programming, big tech, very powerful, and all of their little flying monkeys, that pretend to be fact checkers are out there trying to shut us down and shut us up. So, you know, I guess it's good news, Anthony, that some of our best friends in this movement who also communicate these issues are not yet being crushed by Google and YouTube like we are.
Speaker 3:Right?
Speaker 4:Right. You know, it reminds me that when there is a threat to a religion, you know, it's not the the religions like you know, some of the religions out there, you cannot criticize them. They will not tolerate criticism of their one true belief, whatever it might be. And so that's the situation that we're in. Climate change has become essentially a religion.
Speaker 4:It cannot be criticized no matter how bad it gets, no matter how outrageous the demands or the the expectations are. And so, you know, even when we criticize the most, incorrigible climate proponent, Michael Mann, that's not tolerable. And so, basically, I think what this proves, media matters, is that you're involved in a religious crusade.
Speaker 1:You know, I I've long argued it was more akin to a religion. I mean, they make predictions that contradict each other. It's gonna be hotter a 100 years from now. It's gonna be colder a 100 years from now. It's gonna the the the hurricanes will be worse.
Speaker 1:Hurricanes will be declining. Bigger monsoons, lesser monsoons. You you that's kind of anti physics. You can't have 2 diametrically opposed occurrences at the same time in the same place. You know, they so it's long been a religion.
Speaker 1:They don't even tolerate, refutation of claim with evidence and facts. In other words, data doesn't count. It's it's the one science that I'm aware of where data is superfluous. When data and theory collide, we're supposed to believe the theory. And, I just gotta ask a question.
Speaker 1:When is there a scientific consensus that no one can criticize Michael Mann? What what's that have to do with climate science? He's a personality. He's a scientist who's made certain claims. And, but I've never heard of, you know, if I if I criticize Sigmund Freud or Albert Einstein, should I be demonetized?
Speaker 1:Because that is, violates the consensus of science? No. That that that violates the the dogmatic teachings of this climate religion is what it is what it violates.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, Anthony, if you if you don't think it's, permissible to criticize religion, you must not have seen the Olympics opening ceremonies this year. You know?
Speaker 4:Well, no. I didn't I didn't wanna I I knew ahead of time that there was gonna be some shenanigans, you know, because I read a lot of different feeds and so forth, and I'll just I tuned out before it even started. And, you know, that's really the only way we can tune out some of this nonsense. Just don't look at it. Don't give them the eyeballs.
Speaker 4:Don't give them the advertiser revenue, you know, from the eyeballs. You know, 2 can play at this game. But, my viewpoint is is that,
Speaker 3:you know, the kind
Speaker 4:of stuff that's gone on in the Olympics doesn't belong in the Olympics. I mean, the Olympics is about sportsmanship. It's about ex excellence. It's about competition. It's not about climate.
Speaker 4:It's not about LGBQT, whatever. It not about any of that stuff. It's about those three things, and they seem to have lost sight of that.
Speaker 3:Yep. A 100%. I wanna I wanna apologize ahead of time to any listeners if if you hear some noise in the background. My my neighbor is using his huge industrial backpack leaf blower that has a jet engine on it. So I when I get a moment, I will close the door behind me in case that is distracting anyone.
Speaker 3:Okay. Let's get on to, to item number 2, and this is, from Fox News. Schumer silence on Biden oil purchase after blasting Trump for bailout of big oil. So, just a little news item that you guys might have missed this week. The Department of Energy announced a purchase of 4,650,000 barrels of oil, Monday, to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which has been tapped by the Biden administration to assist with high gas prices.
Speaker 3:The oil department I'm sorry. The department bought the oil for an average price of $77 per barrel. One barrel of oil is 42 gallons, in case you didn't know. During the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, Trump's administration sought to include $3,000,000,000 for purchasing oil to replenish the SBR at the low price, in the $2,000,000,000,000 pandemic stimulus package. Oil was roughly $30 a barrel in March 2020 as prices trended sharply downward as demand, declined because everybody was on lockdown.
Speaker 3:Right? So the Trump administration's proposal was ultimately excluded from the final draft of legislation following significant pushback from Democrats. Schumer referred, nonetheless, to the Trump administration's request as, quote, a $3,000,000,000 bailout for big oil. So so if trying to top off our strategic petroleum reserve at less than half the price we have now was a bailout for big oil, then, you know, what is Biden trying to do now? Now before I'm gonna go to you, Linnea, and, Keely, our producer, if you could show a couple, slides that, Anthony was kind enough to provide this week.
Speaker 3:This is a slide of the US United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve level. That little white box in there, if you're watching on on YouTube and Rumble, that is the span of time during the Trump administration. You can see how well stocked the SPR was back then. And then if you, and now it has been depleted big time by, Joe Biden. And then if you go to slide 5, Kaylee, this is the commercial crude oil stockpile.
Speaker 3:Again, you can see that, what it was like in the Trump administration and what's it like now. So, you know, Linea, you're a you're a, you're, you know, you're trained as a petroleum engineer. You do keep a good eye on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Is is this a huge debacle, or are we making too much of it?
Speaker 2:In terms of I mean, well, one, what's the point of having a strategic reserve if you don't, keep it filled up and you're not using it for, like, emergencies. Right? You're just drawing it down basically so that you can get gas prices down, but it didn't even really work.
Speaker 1:Get votes. That's
Speaker 2:good. Yeah. Exactly. Didn't even really work. I think we're required by law or some kind of an international agreement to have 90 days at least of crude store stored in the SPR.
Speaker 2:I I think we've been below that for a while now. I'm not entirely sure. I know that when Biden was first drawing down, we were pretty narrowly above that limit. We had, like, a 120 days. I'm pretty sure we're below that now.
Speaker 2:And what is it? He's he's buying, like, 4,000,000 barrels to put back in there. And if you bring up that red chart again where the, major y axis marks are in the the tens of millions or 100 of millions, it looks like. So, yeah, I'm I'm not too impressed with any kind of additions that the Biden administration is looking to make. I mean, good.
Speaker 2:We have we have you know, our congress agrees to sales and and draw downs pretty well in advance. Some of what we saw, the declines during the Trump administration and some of the declines during the Biden administration as well were agreed to back in, like, 14 or something. Obviously, the major drawdowns that Biden, pushed were, you know, him wanting to try to bring prices down. But, yeah, it's it's not good. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2:Is it the end of the world? It could be a serious problem if we get into a major conflict with, I don't know, Iran, of course, or Russia or China or something. That could be a pretty major problem. We we import a pretty good amount of crude oil. Our our exports are usually, like refined petroleum products, and our refinery capacity is pretty well tapped out at this point.
Speaker 2:So we're just we're in we're in a pretty big bind from all directions on this. I mean yeah. What what what is it? A really good economic advice to, to buy high and sell low
Speaker 1:is that Yeah. That's the that that's the old saying. You know, the the idea that Trump was, a payoff for big oil. You gotta realize that, some oil companies, they're producing oil at $30 a barrel. Prices were low back then, and production was low, relatively low accordingly because, well, they weren't producing as much when prices are low.
Speaker 1:It's not economic for them to do so. And he was gonna pay off big oil by buying oil almost at a loss from them. And instead, Biden buys it at a huge profit. They're producing, more oil than ever. He sold off our strategic reserve that was supposed to be there for times of war, not to buy votes, just before the 2022 election.
Speaker 1:And, now he's stocking it back at at double the price, and we don't have the reserves that we need if we have a conflict. Like you said, Lynette, it's it's and and Schumer, the, you know, the the hypocrisy is rife. Schumer is silent on this. Schumer as we as far as Schumer is concerned, president Biden will
Speaker 3:go down as one of
Speaker 1:the greatest presidents in history. So every move he makes is brilliant, and any move Trump made was a disaster. That's that's Schumer's take on things.
Speaker 3:When when you look at that, Anthony, when you look at that at that chart which you shared with us, and you see where I put the white box and where the Biden administration started right to the right of that white box. That is by far the steepest drop in the strategic petroleum reserve in its entire history. I mean, that was and it was all for politics. It wasn't for an actual emergency, and it was because gas prices were going up and people were getting mad about it, because of the overall inflation, which was, which was created by the this administration's policies. And now we're gonna have to claw our way back to the top, at twice the price from when from whence, we emptied it.
Speaker 3:It's just it's just insane.
Speaker 4:It is. And, you know, the United States consumes an average of about 20 to 21000000 barrels per day of petroleum. And so, you know, them releasing this isn't gonna make a big permanent dent on gas prices. It may be made a little bit. Maybe speculators, you know, saw this as a positive thing and so forth for petroleum futures and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4:But, you know, it really didn't do anything except provide a photo op, for Biden and his crew. That's really all it was. And the Petri dish Petroleum Reserve is exactly that. It's a reserve for emergencies. You know?
Speaker 4:What if we had a major terrorist event of some kind, and they blew up all the oil wells in Texas or something like that or Louisiana. And all of a sudden, the United States government in mobilizing its forces is finding itself short of petroleum. That's what this is for. Don't sell it off. It's just stupid.
Speaker 1:Look at I think it's important it's instructive to look at when that sell down occurred. Look at where that white box ends just before the 2022 elections. That's when it happened. It was purely political. It's it's no coincidence that it happened then.
Speaker 1:And did it have an effect? For about 2 weeks, it lowered the gas prices about $0.05 a gallon after they had, gone up a 100 percent almost doubled, in Biden's first two years of office. So, you tell me what what benefit it was. Now we're very low. He's adding a little bit back at double the price, and we're supposed to applaud him.
Speaker 1:Oh, an energy genius. By the way, a lot of that oil that we sold, we sold to our good friends in China and elsewhere, people people who really have our best interest in mind. So, it it it's just one more it's just one more bit of evidence that Biden is one of the he'll go down as, you know, future historians, not present liberal historians. Future historians will look back at his administration and call it one of the worst in history from the point of view of America's standing, in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I guess we're able to see, but it it would just be nice if we could have sound policy instead of politics driving policy, especially with something as important as strategic petroleum reserve. But Yeah. Anyway, moving on. I think that a lot of people aren't really covering that, so I thought it was important for us to do it. Our our third item here in the crazy climate news, it's, it's one of our favorite things to monitor, and that is, from our climate realism site, climaterealism.com.
Speaker 3:You should definitely check that out. The I 15 battery fire is symbolic of green energy pipe dream going up in smoke. Now this is from Charles Rotter, who, also writes for the what's up with that website. And he notes that on Friday, July 26th, a long haul truck carrying lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and for electric power battery backup facilities overturned on I 15 between Los Angeles and and Las Vegas. I used to live in Southern California.
Speaker 3:That highway is very busy, and it's pretty much the only link between Los Angeles and and Las Vegas, and and many, many, many cars go across it, for pleasure and for commercial reasons. The truck caught fire and, forced the closure first of one lane and then eventually the entirety of I 15. As described by various media outlets, such as KBBU in Las Vegas and the Los Angeles, Las Vegas Review Journal, the accident caused a massive track traffic jam closing the highway from Friday through Monday. So, gosh, I don't know why anyone wouldn't even wanna get back and forth from Vegas to Los Angeles over a weekend. No big deal.
Speaker 3:Benjamin Leffel, associate professor of public policy at UNLV, said, I mean, I've never seen anything quite like it. Many have called it the worst traffic jam of their lifetime, and I have to agree. The the thing that was happening, and we're gonna refer this to you, Sterling, because you're the biggest fan of electric vehicles on this program, so you need to feel this way. Yep. Is that when it when it was happening at the time, I remember seeing stories like, dude, this is out in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 3:It's a 115 degrees. I've been in my car for 4 hours. The cell service is not very good. I'm gonna run out of gas and then start baking out here in the sun. Now, happily, nothing serious happened.
Speaker 3:There was no loss of life in that regard. But the the other thing about this, one of our friends in the climate realism community shared with me a story that showed that 4 days later 4 days later, that car battery fire was still going. 4 days. Now say what you want about the internal combustion engine, which with combustion in the term sounds dangerous. Ain't gonna burn for 4 straight days, Sterling.
Speaker 3:Yet, here's our new electric future coming to us in which a single accident with a single truck holding some batteries closes one of the most important, highways in the west for days on end.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's it's even worse than than you described, Jim. First off, I'm not sure we can say that no one has died. It hasn't been covered if they had, but you had people camping, literally having to camp overnight in their cars in that heat. And the solution that was finally come up with by the, the hazmat team that was called in because the firefighters, first, it took them a long time to get to it because, well, you had all that traffic.
Speaker 1:Right? That right there that right there shows why a good, SUV or truck with big tires and 4 wheel drive is is ideal. You screw gas mileage and you, go you get off the highway, and you go around that thing. Anyway, they're stuck out there in the heat overnight. Some of them lacking, you know, they didn't travel, carrying a lot of water.
Speaker 1:It's not like, oh, we're gonna it's a camping trip, so we packed the, old cooler. With they're heading to Vegas. They're gonna live in luxury for a weekend. So, it it was disaster, and so the hazmat team gets there, and what happens? They don't put out the fire.
Speaker 1:They said we can't put out the fire. They bulldoze the vehicle, the the trailer of the vehicle. They push it a 100 feet into the desert away from the highway, and they build a berm around it. And they decided, we're just gonna have to let it burn out. Well, in a regular truck fire, it burns out largely when the fuel is burned.
Speaker 1:The kind of lithium ion battery, they just keep you know, lithium ion batteries are the energizer bunny of fire, fuel. They just keep going and going and going, spewing toxic gases all the while that no one wants to get around unless they've got a hazmat suit with extreme heat. And these batteries for are for cars that people wanna you you want that in your driveway? You want that in your garage? Not me.
Speaker 1:They're also the batteries for backup power system energy. Right? The wind's not blowing, you turn on those battery packs in the big building built for battery packs, and you get what happened in South Korea or Australia or San Diego when those buildings catch fire. And once again, you don't have battery backup for days, and no one's putting out the fire. Right.
Speaker 1:It's it's it's the Keystone cops couldn't design a worse energy system than
Speaker 4:our politicians are doing right now. Well, you know, the Keystone cops, at least, were consistent in their incompetence The politicians are all over the road.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, I mean, I think I I'm glad we added it to our, to our rundown today because it does kind of, Lynae, it does kind of dovetail into kind of the theme of today's podcast, and that is basically when green energy dreams smash head on into the reality of the world. And, you know, a lithium battery fire that burns for days days days on end, you know, seems to be one of those examples.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine if congress, by the way, had been having a junket going from Los a Los Angeles to Las Vegas when this happened? There would be bills flying in congress to, to get rid of batteries and things because we can't have the stuff. It had been congress that that was inconvenienced.
Speaker 2:Right. Yeah. Well, I don't know what you want me to add. I I I think we got a lot covered there. It's yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm probably less harsh in general on EVs than most of the people on this panel, but you can't go mandating this stuff. It's clearly you know, there's there's major problems that need to be worked out, on the technology side. Most companies outside of Tesla don't seem to even be trying all that hard. They're just blasting these things onto the line, and it's, yeah, it's just you can't you can't plan infrastructure around hopes and dreams.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right? And that's what we're doing right now.
Speaker 3:That is what we're doing. Yeah. And I've said on this podcast several times. If if electric vehicles weren't mandated, they'd probably be banned because of the dangers they they pose. I can't think of another product that was that's allowed to be this dangerous and to be encouraged by government is just crazy.
Speaker 3:Alright. They're the lawn they're
Speaker 1:the lawn darts of vehicles.
Speaker 3:Hey. I played with lawn darts. I was a kid. I'm fine. I didn't you need
Speaker 2:the lawn darts.
Speaker 1:I didn't that's fair enough. That's fair enough.
Speaker 3:Alright.
Speaker 1:When I could buy a bomb I mean, an electric vehicle, I can no longer buy a lawn dart.
Speaker 3:Yep. Alright. Well, let's get to 2 quick, quick memes that we found this week. We we thought you guys might find amusing. This first one, found this one on on Twitter.
Speaker 3:It's a it's Noah's Ark, and it says, God saves steak, not lettuce, which is a darn good point. I never thought of it that way. And, this is from our friend Chris Martz on Twitter. He says that they say a picture paints a 1,000 words, saving the planet one forest logged at a time. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Another topic we cover on this on this podcast quite often is the environmental destruction of so called green energy. You have to clear cut forests, especially, on mountain tops in order to, to install these bird and bat choppers. So, yeah. Good point, Chris Marks. Alright.
Speaker 3:Let's get into our, main topic, which, you know, we like to be topical around here. And, the Olympics are going on. So, these are the green Olympics that has, many athletes seeing red. The first one, this was actually pretty hilarious. Even some of my friends, you know, hanging out had noticed this and talked about it, and were pretty amazed by it.
Speaker 3:But, from our friends at The Guardian, The alarmist newspaper, climate crisis to blame for delay to triathlon, say Paris Olympic organizers, organizers have blamed the climate crisis for the postponement of the men's triathlon on Tuesday this week. Paris 20 24 said the equivalent of the annual rainfall for July had fallen on the city Friday Saturday, leading to a higher than permitted levels of e coli entering the Seine and forcing it to delay the race for safety reasons. After a 2:30 AM inspection, the men's triathlon has been rescheduled. The women's race was also rescheduled. Organizers faced a barrage of questions whether their ambition to stage a made for TV triathlon had put spectacular image of Paris above athlete safety.
Speaker 3:Quote, we are living in the 21st century where, unfortunately, there are far more meteorological events that happen which are beyond the control of organizers, said Arlay Meurle, the Paris 20 24 director of sports. Quote, we've gone from heavy rain to extreme heat in very few days, so it's actually hard to control how it can affect the quality of the river. Now, guys, I read that far into the story because I think this is pretty darn funny. You know, first of all, it's poop jokes galore. Right?
Speaker 3:So you can go for that for for ages. But, it's also the idea that in the 21st century, that we are seeing more events, more weather events that are beyond the control of humans, which assumes that humans had control over the weather events of the 20th century and maybe the 19th century too. So, you know, again, Anthony, this isn't a cult, but, I guess if we didn't have the industrial revolution and we all listened to Greta, the river sand would not be teeming with E. Coli and would be safe to swim.
Speaker 4:Well, since you mentioned poop jokes, I wanna point out, this is France. So this is poop de grace. That's the. Anyway, so, yeah, this is something I coined a phrase this week in an article that, got published on red state and other media outlets, about the California wildfires. What this is is something called causational shoehorning.
Speaker 4:They try to shoehorn in some kind of climate connection to virtually any event out there that seems even slightly abnormal or surprising, completely forgetting the fact that weather by its nature is random and chaotic. They just see this as climate change climate change. So they try to shoehorn in some explanation, and they fail miserably at it.
Speaker 1:But it's it's it's not it is climate shoehorning, just like Anthony says, but the story is incomplete. It's actually worse than that. The the the storms happened recently. The same has had high E. Coli levels for decades.
Speaker 1:France knew this going in, and they spent weeks weeks in advance. No storms coming. No sudden wash of Ekoa. You know, I guess a lot of people were pooping upstream before the storms came or something. No.
Speaker 1:They were trying to clean this thing for weeks and saying they didn't know if they'd be able to hold it in there. The athletes were worried that they wouldn't be able to hold it in there, and that's before the storms came. So it's not like it was a pristine, waterway before these storms came.
Speaker 4:That's for sure.
Speaker 1:It it look. People, you know, throw things into the scene. There's boat traffic constantly, you know, tourism, and I know I was one of them last year. So you got oil slick spills, gasoline. You got all sorts of things.
Speaker 1:It was an idiotic idea for them to say, we're gonna do a trap triathlon, and part of it's gonna be in the same. No. You you you do those things in pristine waters, not, commercial, streams. And this was, this was a flawed idea from the start, and now that they have had to delay it, and there's a possibility they may have to cancel the triathlon because of this, they're trying to blame it on climate change when they were having problems before there was any heat dome, any hot, any rain. The saying already had high levels of e coli in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:As one of our commenters said, it's been a it's been an open sewer for 300 years. The idea that they were gonna that they should have scheduled the triathlon in there. Yeah. I I think because they I think they had it almost clean almost clean enough, I guess. They had treated it.
Speaker 3:They they've done all this work, and then, yeah, it rained heavily for 2 days. Yeah. That happens. You know? It's summertime.
Speaker 3:It's weather, and it's not unique to the 21st century that you might have a couple days of heavier rain than normal. Right? I mean, it's it's just this idea that everything as you said, Anthony, everything is blamed, on humans changing the weather because of the way we live our lives when that is absolutely not true.
Speaker 1:But I'm not convinced they had it almost clean. I think that they just didn't care whether the athletes got sick. I don't do you trust what the French government said about it being almost clean? Or do you think, by god, this is where we've said it, they're gonna swim? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'd I'd have to wonder how you would even clean a water system like that. Yeah. As one of our commenters, Vince Wilson, pointed out, this was also a problem in Rio because the water in Rio was so gross. Just stop trying to have it natural bodies of water.
Speaker 2:What are you doing? Just you have an Olympic swimming pool. Just go there. Stop it.
Speaker 4:Yep. Yeah. Alright. You know what? I'm reminded of what went on during the Dust Bowl days in the United States where we had traveling snake oil sales salesmen set up these these portable wagons that would, exude fumes into the atmosphere, and they would say, we're going to make it rain.
Speaker 4:You know? We're gonna charge these poor farmers that are losing their their crops and their livelihood, you know, each one a certain amount of money, and then we're gonna make it rain. But, you know, the rain's gonna come 3 or 4 days down the road. And by that time, they've packed up the wagon and moved on. It's just the same kind of thing in climate science and and the way that they look at the weather.
Speaker 4:It's almost like, you know, they're they're willing to buy the snake oil for the belief that man can change the climate if we just do this.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Anthony, you're given a bad name to snake oil salesman. I think that's very that's very unfair. Remember the according to the French, during the days of snake oil salesmen, that's when we had control over the weather. So, you know, sacrifices of virgins and volcanoes and rain dances and snake oil salesman evidently worked before because they said we can no longer control this stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah. But you know, when you're asked to give money when you're asked to give money to a climate cause, it's essentially the same thing going back to these these shysters and these wagons in the Midwest in the the dustbowl days. You're giving money to change the weather, and it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3:I think it's 100%. Yeah. But, you know, it that that's getting into, into more of our, items about the Olympics coming up is that the Olympics were changed this year, how they operate the entire Olympic Village and everything else, with the idea that this will help us control the weather for the rest of this century. So we have here a story. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I know. Roll your eyes, Anthony. It's gonna get worse. Strap in. Alright.
Speaker 3:There's a story from Essential Sports. Paris Olympics, issues continue to pile on as South Korean swimming stars ditch village in frustration. Something has to be done. Now, French authorities have emphasized their efforts to make the games more sustainable, saying, quote, we have looked to reduce everything that could be reduced for games that emit less carbon and consume fewer resources. And while this eco friendly approach is admirable, it seems the athletes are paying the price for it at the behest of their comfort.
Speaker 3:According to Reuters, 6 South Korean swimmers were forced to vacate the Olympic Village. Swimmers Kim Woo min and Hwang Sun woo are among those who have complained about the stuffy conditions on the buses, electric buses, with taped windows and a lack of air conditioning. Wong Sun Woo described the bus as a sauna. Quote, it's cooler outside than it is in the bus. And to make matters worse, the journey to the arena took more than an hour despite the distance being only 12 kilometers.
Speaker 3:And now the team has moved to a hotel just 5 minutes from the where the swimming events will be held. And, the the head of the Korean Swimming Federation said, we just wanna make sure that there will be that there will be at least a bit more comfortable. So, you know, there's your green doctrine being imposed on these games, and we're gonna get into a little bit more of it, including the food. But, again, Sterling, this is your favorite, you know, electric buses.
Speaker 1:Electric unairconditioned, sealed, the the the windows are taped up, sealed electric buses that are taking an hour or more to go from the Olympic Village to where the swimming event takes place. You know, it focused on the South Koreans because they were the smartest ones. They were the ones that got on it first. But after they moved to the nearby hotels, those that still had, open rooms, other swim teams started making the migration to get nearer the event. It was look, this whole Olympics has been madness.
Speaker 1:This is the problem with politicians. It's the problem with politicians designing an electric grid. It's the problem with politicians trying to manage a sporting event. This is supposed to be a celebration of, athletic prowess, an international celebration, not a showcase for green technologies, for sustainability. If if you want sustainability, compete everyone competes in their home, and we'll just do the timing.
Speaker 1:And the guy that's swimming in Los Angeles, if his time is quicker on the 100 than the guy that's swimming, in Beijing, well, then we awarded to them because at least they didn't travel. You know, if if that's what the, you know, the green thing is the most important thing, whichever the French think it is. So they built an awful village. They they run off of buses. We're gonna get into the food.
Speaker 1:Look, I've seen a lot of French cuisine, those little bitty, oh, it looks good on a plate. People take their pictures and put it on Facebook. I don't do that. But you know what? None of that food like that looks like to me.
Speaker 1:It's very filling. You know, I get a bite of pate and a green leaf. I don't think I'm gonna go run no. I'm not gonna go run a 100 yards anyway. But, I don't think many people are gonna go run a 100 yards on that stuff.
Speaker 4:Well So,
Speaker 1:this story isn't surprising. It it what's only surprising is that the media is finally actually covering it. What is what surprises me really is that they weren't blasting the whole idea from the start. The idea that they would live in an un air conditioned hut, And then you see all the western world bringing in their air conditioners for their athletes. Right?
Speaker 1:So so so the poor Africans and the people from South America and the people from Southeast Asia who can't afford to bring their own air conditioning units, they are disadvantaged relative to the western world. Now that's green colonialism right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I real quick. I just wanna say, guys, this this wasn't about climate change. Right? Like, this is we we all know that this was just France being cheap and that they're just greenwashing it.
Speaker 2:Right? Like, that's that's what this was. Paris is trying not to bankrupt themselves
Speaker 3:on the The the the Olympic village cost $1,600,000,000, which is in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Cost $1,700,000,000 you say. It's not.
Speaker 3:Look. You know, to help with team Korea and team USA, you guys you guys need to pull for team Earth. And, if sitting in a sealed electric bus is what it takes to be on team Earth, you're just gonna have to suck it up. And, you know, that's not too much to ask. Well, except for the organizers of the Olympics.
Speaker 3:They get to stay in hotels with air conditioning. But you know?
Speaker 1:Or or palaces. Right? You know, the presidential palace has guest rooms. I suppose a lot of people are staying there. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And and I guarantee you, they're not eating, wheat grass and, some
Speaker 4:of them might be.
Speaker 3:Some of them might
Speaker 4:lose it.
Speaker 1:But my suspicion is they have larger meals than they're trying to foist up on their athletes and call it, but they call it gourmet. So that's okay. We're bringing in the finest French chef to, to feed you a meal that doesn't fill a a quarter of a plate. Right.
Speaker 3:Well, let me let me, let me let me move on here. And and the reason we're bringing this up is not just to point it out and to laugh and have fun with it, but it's to point out actually that this is the future that the green globalists want for all of us. It's just in a micro, in a controlled microenvironment, and it's a disaster. So what do you think it's gonna be when they try to impose it on the whole world? So, the Paris Olympics, this is from The Washington Post.
Speaker 3:Paris Olympics touted climate friendly food, which we hear a ton about, and athletes demanded more meat. Now the Paris Olympic Committee actually put together a 42 page document, it's a PowerPoint, really, outlining their sustainable food plan. They pledged at least a 50% reduction, and if possible, if they could pull it off, 60% reduction of animal products, meaning meat, fish, dairy, and eggs, in all the food provided, and not just to the athletes, but officials and attendees as well. And that's going over about as well, at these games as a mail boxer beating the crap out of a female boxer.
Speaker 4:So I'm gonna I'm gonna have a Marie Antoinette moment here and say, let them eat bugs.
Speaker 3:Let let that's you know what? It it's not included in this. I I'd searched for the word bugs. I didn't see it, but, maybe that'll be, in Los Angeles in 2028. So, but chefs with Michelin Stars helped design the menus.
Speaker 3:They emphasized all the plant based and locally sourced offerings to minimize their carbon footprint. You know, the Paris 2024 food vision included commitments to provide locally sourced seasonal food with less animal protein and more plant based ingredients. However, because of the complaints, there has been, quote, a reinforcement in their animal proteins. They trucked in, surely trucked in. This didn't come in on an ox cart or on somebody's back.
Speaker 3:700 kilos of eggs, a ton of meat to to meet the demands of athletes who we place at the heart of the 2024 experience. And on top of that, as just like the US, you know, the u team USA brought in their own air conditioners when Paris announced months ago that we will not have any air conditioning in the in the Olympic Village, and they started bringing in their own food. The Australians I know we have a lot of Australians watching this show. Hearty folk they are. They brought in 3 tons of tuna by themselves, 3 tons of tuna, 10,000 muesli bars, 2,400 meat pies.
Speaker 3:Oh, that sounds great. And they also brought along 3 baristas who were expected to make about 20,000 shots of coffee during the game. So attaboy Australia. I love it.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, I mean, this is just
Speaker 3:another failure. And and as I yeah. And this is just another failure. And and, again, you know, this is this mirrors what the global green, agenda is for the rest of us. And if they can't make it happen, they can't make it work in a controlled, small environment with all the money in the world and all the social pressure in the world, how is it ever gonna work on a large scale?
Speaker 4:Now it it's just a perfect example of what the left wants us to be in the future. It doesn't not about it making sense or being, appropriate for the venue or, tasteful, any of those things. It's all about what we think you should be and be doing and eating and consuming. They wanna control your lives. It's just that simple, and it's very obvious that's being done here in the the Paris Olympics.
Speaker 4:They wanted to control the lives of the people that went there. They gave no consideration whatsoever to the sports and the competitions and those needs of those things whatsoever. It was all about the agenda. You know, it's one we have one comment on here a little bit ago that, basically, the Olympics used to be about world unity through spirit of competition. Now it's just one big propaganda machine, and that's the truth.
Speaker 1:You know, if the left really has their way, they'll do in the future what I suggested, which was everyone will keep competing their home country against each other and we'll just compare times or even better for the left because they don't even want us traveling to the athletic, stadiums in our own communities. What we'll be doing is just competing electronically with little handheld, you know, it it'd be like one of those, Madden football games. It's it'll be it'll it'll be the Madden Olympics. People will be there with their thumbs moving there. Oh, I'm running faster than the other person.
Speaker 1:Click click click click, you know, because your finger can tap faster. So you're you're moving in the false, you know, the virtual track field event, the hurdles. Oh, I jumped. It's not the existential the only existential threat in the world or even an existential threat. By the way, the people that use that, that phrase, Biden and his ilk, they don't understand what existential means.
Speaker 1:They should check a philosophy textbook, but, it does not it should not dictate everything we do. We should be able to have athletic events without worrying about our carbon footprint.
Speaker 4:You know, I just love this comment by Chris Shattuck here that was just up, where he says they're gonna use models, you know, to simulate the Olympics in the future. I mean, we should get them get them on to RCP 8.5 for competition. That'll really boost their competition up in those in those Olympic models.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You don't even have to you don't have to do the Olympic event. You just put in the data for everyone's training and just run a model on
Speaker 1:it. Yeah. It does.
Speaker 2:See who would win.
Speaker 1:Right. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well Terrible. Okay.
Speaker 3:Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. So okay. Just just You know, this whole
Speaker 1:this whole this whole show Yeah. Could have been one big crazy climate news of the week.
Speaker 3:It is. It is. It's a it is all crazy climate news. You're right. So, yeah, just one last thing, and then we're gonna get to questions.
Speaker 3:If you have questions about any of this or, any just general climate science questions, we get a lot of those each week, Go ahead and pop them into the, into the chat. Linnea will, curate those, and we'll get them and we'll get them up and get them answered. But just one more, if you indulge, there's one more, one more story I wanted to check out, and this is from Newsweek. This is pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 3:You see a picture. And so, you know, like I mentioned, the the Olympic Village, $1,600,000,000 to build it. The athletes, at least those what means, are abandoning it abandoning it in droves. US tennis star, Coco Gauff, posted a TikTok video complaining that there's 10 girls sharing 2 bathrooms, and so she bugged out. Track athlete Sherry, Sherry Hawkins complained of no privacy for changing, and her room had no curtains.
Speaker 3:You know? And just the quote here is that the beds are very hard. Terrible. Very, very hard. We arrive so tired.
Speaker 3:In the end, you just lie down and fall asleep immediately, said Spanish gymnast, Ana Perez. And she also mentioned she was afraid to spill coffee on her bed, fearing that it would disintegrate because the beds are made of recycled cardboard and not wood. And so, you know, just, again, this is I just think it's really a microcosm of of where this agenda is will ultimately end up or at least where it's it's aspirationally wanting to end up. And that is the ruling class. And you would think Olympic athletes would be kind of the ruling class.
Speaker 3:No. They are the, you are also serfs. You will live their entertainment, blissful lives while they get to enjoy all of the, all all of the stuff of modern life while you don't. And they are deadly serious about these things. And, it's refreshing, actually, to see, you know, celebrity athletes like Coco Gauff and others, you know, basically giving the, you know, the old fashioned Olympic experience about 20 minutes time, and then they bug out.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I will say I I kinda I don't know if they tried to use the green excuse for the cardboard beds, but I'm pretty sure the cardboard bed is, to try and keep them behaving in the at night in the Olympic Village. I think that's the reason why the beds are cardboard. But it's They
Speaker 3:want to deny them the full Olympic Village experience. Yeah. What can you say?
Speaker 1:I I saw I saw news articles saying they had a big boom in condom sales, so I don't think that's working. It is Paris after all. And talking about sharing showers, first off, would you wanna fall into bed a little bit wet on one of those beds and and have it collapse onto you? Secondly, let's, you know, in my experience, The smells of France, they may not be bothered by athletes not getting, regular showers, as much as some other countries. So
Speaker 3:You know, if Sterling, if somebody just could have served you a proper chicken fried steak in Paris, you would be you would have a much better opinion of France.
Speaker 1:And I'm not sure
Speaker 3:you can't get a good chicken fried steak.
Speaker 1:I had a wonderful time in France, and I ate good food. What I did not eat is small little baby portions that wouldn't, that wouldn't serve the nutritional requirements of an infant. Right.
Speaker 2:Keely is in the background seething right now. She wants to
Speaker 3:jump in. The player producers of quintal file.
Speaker 1:I was there. Look. I stayed I stayed in a building. Beautiful location. Beautiful location.
Speaker 1:Looking out onto some wonderful architecture, and it was on air conditioned. And we had to sleep with the windows open. So you had all the noise, you had the heat, and I was there in July. So even, you know, even when I was there in 2023 oh, by the way, the hottest year on record according to the Climate Alarmist. We're sleeping with the windows open and the curtains open, so the neighbors across the street can look right into where I was sleeping.
Speaker 1:That was not the most comfortable thing for me.
Speaker 3:Well You know? Next time you we'll get we're gonna get to questions here in a sec. So yeah. But next time you go to to France, Sterling, that's a bidet, not a water
Speaker 1:fountain. No. No. No. There there was no bidet where I was at.
Speaker 2:They don't they don't have pretty
Speaker 1:old plumbing. In your Pretty old plumbing. I suspect it was built in the 19 thirties.
Speaker 3:Alright. Alright.
Speaker 1:Though the building was 100 of years older, I suspect the newest plumbing there was from the thirties.
Speaker 3:Excellent. Okay. Alright. We're gonna get questions here, but I just wanted to say, take this opportunity to let people know, that the Heartland Institute, we're having our benefit dinner on September 13th. The one, the only, the amazing Nigel Farage is going to be our keynote speaker.
Speaker 3:He is fantastic. He is probably the leading freedom fighter in Europe. He led the effort, to for Brexit, which nobody thought could happen. He led the, UK the UKIP party for freedom in UK, which people thought would get crushed, and now he has the new UK reform party under his banner. So you will not wanna miss this night.
Speaker 3:It is fantastic. It's gonna be in Chicago down at the Hilton Chicago in downtown Chicago in the most in the grand ballroom. Absolutely historic place. So go to heartland.org, and you can click on a feature there, and you can get your tickets, today. Or a whole table for you and your friends.
Speaker 3:So definitely check that out. And we're giving the, Hartland Liberty Prize to the great Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, the one probably the one most important institution protecting liberty, in this country. So, we will see you there, we hope. Alright. It is time for q and a.
Speaker 3:It is time for Linnea to let us know what the questions and answers are.
Speaker 2:Yes. Thank you. We don't have very many questions today. We had kind of a this is kind of a casual, broadcast today. Not not nothing too crazy.
Speaker 2:This is my favorite one, though, I think of of today. Can we look forward to the strategic wind and solar reserve?
Speaker 1:They're building it all over. They're called battery farms, and they they catch fire. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know how you
Speaker 4:would store wind, but, some people do.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine can you imagine 90 days of battery backup for the country? What that would take that?
Speaker 1:Well, I'm I'm unconvinced that it's it's it's physically possible. They would have to charge some time, and if it has to be run for 90 days, madness. And I would hate to remember, look, these battery farms, they have to keep those things air conditioned. Part of the power part of the power they generate is used just to keep them cool. And if that fails, you've got a mushroom cloud wherever your, your battery farm is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right? And that's why for a lot of those, server centers and stuff, they like to try to put them in places like Wyoming and, you know, dry places that don't get too hot, so they don't have to spend as much money on air conditioning. We've got from Mad in Craft. Wondering lately what is the net benefit or loss of so many southwest lawns being turned into gravel and boulders, no water use properties. I have noticed extreme heat differences between the 2.
Speaker 2:Anthony, this is in your court, I think.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah. It's pretty simple, really. If you have, I think it's called Xeriscaping. If you have Xeriscaped your your property, you're putting down stones, gravel, rocks, that kind of stuff. It's just like concrete.
Speaker 4:You know? It absorbs solar energy during the day and releases it at night. And so it makes your premises warmer, especially at night, which means your air conditioning has to work harder. So, you know, from far as I'm concerned, it doesn't solve anything.
Speaker 1:It reduces water use and increases ambient heat. Well
Speaker 4:yeah. So what's what's the better of the 2? You know?
Speaker 1:I want grass under my feet, not stones.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's,
Speaker 1:And shade trees, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Okay. Are the French nuclear powered generators not green enough to power the AC? Well, they don't really have AC in a lot of France anyway. Most of it's pretty cool until you get down into the south, but it's yeah.
Speaker 2:I I've I I answered a question similar to this, with, some of my friends that I was discussing the French AC problem and the nuclear. Nuclear is really good for baseload. But for stuff like if you get a sudden heat wave and or, you know, or something, some other power source goes down or something, nuclear isn't terrific for reacting super fast to changes in demand, which is why one of the best, you know, power systems is a combined nuclear with coal or gas or something like
Speaker 1:that? Gas is the peak of
Speaker 3:the day
Speaker 4:at the next Olympics when one of the one of the countries brings, a modular nuclear reactor with them to power their own air conditioner. You know, the
Speaker 1:there is, you know, in France, like I said, I stayed in this wonderful old building in a very historic area, and these the architecture there is not new. Much of it, large I mean, not not a not a few buildings, Entire regions and neighborhoods in Paris are 200, 300, and older years old. They weren't built for air conditioning. I I I can't imagine the kind of physical transformation that would have to take place, not only to cite the air conditioners on the leaky roofs, some of the leaky roofs that I saw, because there's no no place on the ground to put them. But then really putting vents and, and the ductwork that you have to do to air conditioning.
Speaker 1:I just think it's it's not feasible. And to some extent, it would sort of mar the the historic ambiance of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think that's probably a good portion of the resistance to putting AC in. And, plus, they really, same thing with England, they really don't need it as much. I mean, when you look at the United States on a map compared to, you know, our latitude compared to, the UK or something. They're they're they're quite a bit chillier than we are, and they don't have as much air conditioning up in, like, the northeast and stuff either in the United States.
Speaker 2:Right. Alright. Oh, yeah. That's the one we just did. Here we have while Alabama State climatologist John John Christie, doesn't include volcanoes in his study for climate sensitivity, do you know of any studies that attribute volcanoes to being man made?
Speaker 2:Anybody?
Speaker 1:The short answer for me is no. Not manmade. Not that they don't. There are studies by a guy named Arthur Vritarito, a geologist, who looks at subsea volcanic activity and how that has coincided with with warming. And, of course, we've talked before about the Hunga Tonga volcano and its injection of c o water vapor into the atmosphere and its warming effects, but, don't know if anyone who's ever said it was man made.
Speaker 2:This is from our friend Stan. He says, Jim, will the banquet serve plant based proteins?
Speaker 3:I suppose. I don't care. I won't be eating them. But, yes, we will have a I think we have a vegan plate, of course, and then, you know, I think steak might be one of them or, or short rib or something like that. But yeah.
Speaker 3:And and, actually, Keely, our producer today, visited the hotel last week, 10 days ago, to sample the food, and she thought it was she thought it was fantastic. So you'll have a great meal if you come to our benefit dinner on September 13th.
Speaker 4:But my question is is you could say You could say that, at the last minute that we're going to go with a plant based menu along with a bug based menu and then offer everyone an upgrade, you know, to buy steak. Right? You know? And then you get to get more donations that way.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:I like the way you think, Anthony. That's good.
Speaker 1:I suspect I suspect that regardless of what plate is before you, there will be no near meat. There will be no amazing protein.
Speaker 3:No. That's right.
Speaker 2:Can't believe this isn't chicken.
Speaker 1:But yeah. I can't believe it's not chicken. Yeah. Or or the or or the old Wendy's laying lady saying, where's the beef when it looks like jello on her bun?
Speaker 3:I can't believe this isn't chicken. That's the best.
Speaker 2:Okay. This is from Kwan, who says, I live in Virginia. How can they possibly build these wind farms glued together turbine blades? Well, I mean, I'm sure they're not just glued together. I I'm sure the construction on them is, you know, pretty good.
Speaker 2:It's just not good enough, unfortunately, for them. Maybe fiberglass for you guys for long term.
Speaker 4:Yeah. All the fiberglass boats out there, you know, are basically glued together. Fiberglass, by its nature, is glued together. It's it's it's a composite of fibers and epoxy, basically. And so, you know, it's it is not it's not that strong.
Speaker 4:It's lightweight, you know, but it doesn't handle collisions well. I mean, anybody who's ever owned a Corvette, you know, that had a fiberglass body understands this. So I'm not the least bit surprised that these turbine blades are shattering. It's just the nature of fiberglass.
Speaker 1:But but not just shattering. Everyone's talking about this one one blade, which was a really bad event and a warning because if it can happen to 1, it can happen to the others. But they're constantly shedding. They're constantly shedding microplastics in the wind. High winds cause microplastic shedding, and and if you're worried about microplastics, if you don't want them in the food chain, if you don't want them in your oceans, the idea you know, in Scotland, there's entire fields that we know they're no longer farm, not because there are wind turbines there, but because there are wind turbines near there, and it shreds so much microplastics that they don't wanna get any other food chains.
Speaker 1:So they stopped farming those fields. Well, we talk about microplastics in the oceans. That's happening, folks. That that happens every day. Tons and tons of microplastics on the edge.
Speaker 1:And, of course, they don't ever figure in in the cost of these things. They don't ever figure in the cost of replacing those blades before their time.
Speaker 2:Alright. Our next question from Vince Wilson. Are we even close to making nuclear safe yet? My answer would be we've nuclear has been safe for decades, decades decades decades.
Speaker 4:Right. Unless you're Russian.
Speaker 1:There there look. There are sailors that have been sleeping next to nuclear bulkheads, in subs for, since the fifties. You look at all the nuclear plants in the world, how many of them have had accidents, and how many of those have resulted in deaths, and what were the designs, and was it due to the the the nuclear, or was it due to the failure of, human human error? It's just, nuclear is just about the safest energy there is. Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is from Steve Young. He says, question. The strategic oil reserve is for lubricants and chemicals for the defense industry, not electricity. Isn't it for making explosives? Well, the strategic reserve is for crude oil.
Speaker 2:They don't put anything else in it. It's just crude oil, and crude oil can be refined and made into other products. So I guess yes to all of the above. You can make whatever you want with it pretty much. I would
Speaker 1:you know what the breakdown is for every oil of, every barrel of oil. It's not all plastics or chemicals or lubricants. You know, some of the oil, is turned into gasoline, and that's because the nature of the refineries we have. It was never set up just for, producing chemicals for the defense industry. It was to provide it was to make sure we had enough energy.
Speaker 1:We could we could move our tanks and planes and, the nation. We could keep the nation powered in times of an emergency if if we went to war. So no one could you know, so so, it was formed after the Arab oil embargo, which was a war, and we were cut off from imports. And the government said no more. Never again.
Speaker 1:We'll be beholden.
Speaker 2:Yep. Thank you. Here's from Mary Anne. How much, US money is funding the green new scam? Literally 1,000,000,000,000 of dollars, probably.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 4:No. No. It I I prefer, 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000.
Speaker 2:1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000.
Speaker 1:It's a
Speaker 3:lot more than $1,000,000.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I, I I don't think there's a good accounting for it. Right? No one knows. And it depends on what you throw in under the green new scam and how the money is spent.
Speaker 1:If you include tax credits, if you include, expenses, if you include the actual subsidies for the buildings and the land and tax, property tax, waivers. You know, I just don't and indirect government spending. I don't think there's a good accounting for all of it, but I'm gonna go 1,000,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000, not 1,000,000,000,000. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's it's definitely a multitrillion dollar industry. So it's, you know, when people say that, you know, we're in the pocket of big oil and big oil is, is bankrolling climate denial or whatever, And you look on the other side of the issue and the, the funding and potential funding that they have, it's it's not even a competition. It's pathetic, actually.
Speaker 1:At least if oil were funding denial, it would be their own money. This the alarmism is funded by taxpayer money whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2:Right. Okay. And this is our last question, and it is a big one. This is probably one that everyone is gonna have to pitch in on, and that is from Jeff, Sheldon art forms. Give me an idea or tactic how we can save our nation.
Speaker 2:And I'm gonna say from the energy perspective, yeah, we need as one of our as Vince Wilson says, here, drill, baby, drill. That's definitely we need to unleash oil production in this country again. Production is doing alright. But long term this this is the kind of thing that you need to plan long term for. Stuff like refinery capacity doesn't go up in a single presidential, administration's, you know, term.
Speaker 2:This is the kind of thing that you need to plan decades in advance for, and we're not doing that right now. So that would be that would be one major tack that I would take.
Speaker 4:Nuclear in the mix is where I would go. We gotta have nuclear. Even James Hansen said this. When I was at the American Geophysical Union Convention in San Francisco in 2015, I believe it was, I asked him a question about thorium, and its use in nuclear reactors, and some other countries are looking into this already and and doing experiments on that. And he said, yeah.
Speaker 4:We need to have nuclear in the mix going forward in our, energy, plans. And so, you know, even the father of global warming thinks we need nuclear in the mix. So that's where we should be.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I wanted to add to, you know, this, viewer of ours, Itsy Toe says, just prepare for minor climate change. And I would say, yeah. I mean, if you do have sea level rise in your area, whether it's due to overall sea level rise or, you know, land sinking or anything like that, resilience to extreme weather is going to be good, whether or not it's getting worse, which it's not. Even so, infrastructure and you need fossil fuels to do that, by the way.
Speaker 2:But but good infrastructure is going to key.
Speaker 1:You need energy you need some energy, I mean, you need some regulatory standardization. You can't have the whiplash where one one administration approves a pipeline and before it can get built, the next one can can cancel it. We're gonna go full forward with LNG terminals. And then, with this signing of a pen, that's canceled and then you have to go to court. Big businesses don't plan on that basis.
Speaker 3:Yep. Alright. Well, I I'm trying to play our outro music that I, you know, just signal to everybody that we're gonna wrap up the show, and I won't sing it. But we are going to wrap up the show. I wanna thank everybody, for, watching and listening to this podcast today on, YouTube, on Rumble, and on x.
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Speaker 1:bye.