WEBVTT 00:06.732 --> 00:08.813 And that's what climate change is about. 00:09.434 --> 00:12.876 It is literally not figuratively a clear and present danger. 00:12.896 --> 00:16.219 We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. 00:16.259 --> 00:22.584 The ability of CO2 to do the heavy work of creating a climate catastrophe is almost nil at this point. 00:22.864 --> 00:27.205 The price of oil has been artificially elevated to the point of insanity. 00:27.245 --> 00:30.486 That's not how you power a modern industrial system. 00:30.526 --> 00:38.528 The ultimate goal of this renewable energy plan is to reach the exact same point that we're at now. 00:39.168 --> 00:40.168 You know who's tried that? 00:40.649 --> 00:41.149 Germany. 00:41.669 --> 00:44.289 Seven straight days of no wind for Germany. 00:44.990 --> 00:46.270 Their factories are shutting down. 00:46.590 --> 00:52.017 They really do act like weather didn't happen prior to, like, 1910. 00:52.057 --> 00:52.698 Today is Friday. 00:57.554 --> 00:58.434 That's right, Greta. 00:58.594 --> 01:02.175 It is Friday, and this is our own personal Friday protest. 01:02.495 --> 01:04.455 Climate Change Roundtable episode number 92. 01:05.535 --> 01:10.396 A year of climate alarmism sliced, diced, and factually impaled. 01:10.996 --> 01:14.017 By the way, Greta turned 21 years old this week. 01:14.077 --> 01:24.859 Now, we're going to refrain from singing happy birthday here, but I'm going to remind you that now that you're an adult, some of the stunts you like to pull now come with adult consequences. 01:25.439 --> 01:32.004 This seems to be lost on the Orlando TV station WFLA, who tweeted out this image on January 3rd. 01:33.660 --> 01:38.004 So anyway, we'll see how that goes now that she's no longer a kid. 01:38.805 --> 01:42.869 So I'm your host, Anthony Watts, Senior Fellow for Environment and Climate at the Heartland Institute. 01:42.889 --> 01:53.979 Joining us today, we have a regular panelist, Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate, and Linnea Lucan, our Research Fellow, also with the Robinson Center. 01:54.019 --> 01:55.761 Welcome, guys, and Happy New Year. 01:56.361 --> 01:57.062 Happy New Year. 01:57.563 --> 01:58.884 Happy New Year to everyone out there. 02:00.094 --> 02:06.841 So let's hope that 2024 is climatically less difficult than 2023. 02:07.602 --> 02:14.510 Let's say climatically less difficult reporting-wise because the climate hasn't changed. 02:14.750 --> 02:17.833 It's just the reporting that gets ever more drastic. 02:19.195 --> 02:19.475 Right. 02:20.036 --> 02:20.256 Right. 02:21.035 --> 02:26.899 You know, we've already gotten 2024 off to kind of a wild start with some of the stories we're going to talk about. 02:28.479 --> 02:32.202 But, you know, it just they can't seem to help themselves. 02:34.934 --> 02:37.035 Anyway, let's kick off the show with the first one. 02:37.195 --> 02:43.799 Biden administration launched an aggressive campaign targeting home appliances with eco regulations in 2023. 02:44.179 --> 02:44.699 That's right. 02:44.759 --> 02:47.881 Not only are they coming after your stove, which was last year's story. 02:48.181 --> 02:54.424 Now they're after your refrigerator, your washer and dryer, probably your blender and maybe even your hair curler. 02:54.845 --> 02:59.407 I mean, nothing is safe from climate change these days. 03:00.427 --> 03:01.507 You know, it's room fans. 03:01.968 --> 03:05.629 It's your furnace. 03:06.849 --> 03:11.931 It's anything that uses gas, anything that uses electricity. 03:12.091 --> 03:22.255 You know, they're constantly ratcheting up stringency standards for the energy use or the water use. 03:22.275 --> 03:27.637 And as a result, only the highest, most expensive energy 03:29.296 --> 03:37.824 appliances on the market will still be on the market, which means if you want a gas stove, you have to buy the ones that the celebrity chefs can afford. 03:39.686 --> 03:47.233 If you want an affordable vehicle, well, you're just going to have to keep buying used is what you're going to have to do if you want an internal combustion engine. 03:48.835 --> 03:51.077 If you want, you better watch out. 03:51.117 --> 03:52.398 They're coming for your air conditioner. 03:52.458 --> 03:53.139 So if you want 03:53.803 --> 04:02.326 a good air conditioner that has all the features you want, because when they ratchet up these standards, typically to meet them, they have to, they have to take out features. 04:04.787 --> 04:06.848 So they don't do the things you want it. 04:06.888 --> 04:10.350 You bought them to do your washing machine. 04:10.390 --> 04:15.312 Now it takes three hours to, I mean, your, your dishwasher takes three hours when it used to take one. 04:16.912 --> 04:19.793 You have to add extra water into your washing machines. 04:19.874 --> 04:23.215 You have to, you have to cut it off, add extra water to get the water filled. 04:24.604 --> 04:48.104 These are the things that these standards do, leaving the poor worse off because they either have to keep older models running, which means constantly calling the Maytag repairman who will no longer be lonely, or you have to shell out for more expensive products, often that don't do the job as well. 04:48.405 --> 04:49.245 Come on, man. 04:49.365 --> 04:49.506 Yeah. 04:53.756 --> 05:03.329 People going after some of those old washers and dryers and refrigerators from the 70s, you know, and the avocado green color, because those things never break. 05:04.082 --> 05:04.262 Yeah. 05:04.442 --> 05:09.508 Well, look, I had I had an air conditioner until five years ago that was in my home. 05:10.269 --> 05:11.410 So five years ago is what? 05:11.510 --> 05:13.432 Twenty twenty seventeen. 05:14.413 --> 05:15.254 Twenty eighteen now. 05:15.875 --> 05:17.236 I mean, well, twenty seventeen is when I did it. 05:17.517 --> 05:18.538 I replaced my air conditioner. 05:18.858 --> 05:21.321 That air conditioner had been in the home since the original. 05:21.561 --> 05:22.642 It was the original air conditioner. 05:23.203 --> 05:24.064 It had been in the home since 1984. 05:26.687 --> 05:35.411 The guy told me I could expect about a quarter of that time out of this brand new great air conditioner that was going to save me so much money. 05:38.673 --> 05:41.014 They don't last as long. 05:41.494 --> 05:44.115 They break more often, newer appliances. 05:44.655 --> 05:46.056 They don't do what you want them to do. 05:46.256 --> 05:47.777 They don't have all the features you want. 05:48.797 --> 05:50.458 But all you're supposed to care about 05:51.933 --> 05:53.475 Is energy and water. 05:53.795 --> 05:58.199 And of course, often they don't even save you that much energy or water. 05:58.219 --> 06:02.062 I mean, if you have a toilet, you have to flush three times rather than the old one. 06:02.703 --> 06:17.797 Or if your lights break often, your new LED lights break, and you have to replace them at a higher cost than the old incandescents, then you're not saving money over the long term with all those great energy savings. 06:18.482 --> 06:18.642 Yep. 06:18.682 --> 06:18.842 Right. 06:18.862 --> 06:20.123 What do you got to say? 06:20.324 --> 06:20.544 Yeah. 06:20.564 --> 06:35.636 And I want to point as someone who is currently looking at getting some new appliances, it's getting increasingly difficult to find appliances that don't have a wifi built into them, which, you know, it sounds convenient, you know, to be able to turn your oven up or down from your phone. 06:36.391 --> 06:46.119 Although I think that might encourage some people to leave the house with their oven on more often because they think that they can monitor it safely, which I wouldn't do that. 06:46.699 --> 06:52.944 And it sounds convenient, but the fact of the matter is this is giving access to... 06:53.925 --> 07:00.474 potentially external individuals to your home devices, which gives me the heebie-jeebies. 07:00.855 --> 07:10.349 Gives me the heebie-jeebies in Colorado when you sign up for that thermostat monitoring program where the government can turn and the utilities can turn your thermostat off. 07:10.929 --> 07:11.470 remotely. 07:11.490 --> 07:19.919 I think the same kind of thing is part of the reason why the smart tech is being pushed so hard in home appliances that really have no business having it. 07:20.359 --> 07:22.221 I mean, why would a microwave connect to your phone? 07:22.261 --> 07:23.142 That makes no sense. 07:23.583 --> 07:27.987 The point of the microwave is you stand right in front of it and you turn it on for a minute to nuke something. 07:28.308 --> 07:32.092 You don't need it to connect to your phone so you can remote monitor the microwave. 07:32.412 --> 07:38.998 Well, the simple solution is if you get one of those appliances, because there's no better choice for you, you simply don't enable the Wi-Fi. 07:39.158 --> 07:39.599 Just don't. 07:39.619 --> 07:42.061 Yeah, that's what I have ended up having to do. 07:42.161 --> 07:44.963 But it's, you know, most people aren't going to do it. 07:45.024 --> 07:47.626 Most people love, you know, they're going to have fun with the technology. 07:47.646 --> 07:48.787 They're not going to be worried about it. 07:48.867 --> 07:52.610 And then what ends up happening is you get that metering control. 07:53.431 --> 08:00.432 And instead of shutting down your whole house, they can shut down select appliances that are taking up too much energy, like your washing machine. 08:00.753 --> 08:02.373 That's what I think this is going towards. 08:03.573 --> 08:08.314 That they think, mind you, that they think is taking too much energy. 08:08.414 --> 08:14.195 That somebody else has decided in their infinite wisdom, sorry, your microwave's using too much. 08:14.855 --> 08:15.395 Yep. 08:16.336 --> 08:20.356 And, well, look, I can't speak for you, but last week I had two algaes. 08:22.037 --> 08:22.397 Really? 08:22.477 --> 08:23.117 I wasn't working. 08:24.908 --> 08:25.849 I didn't get television. 08:25.909 --> 08:26.949 I didn't get computers. 08:27.989 --> 08:29.410 I had to have text come out twice. 08:29.550 --> 08:41.593 So how is that going to, you know, sorry, you can't turn on your microwave now because you hooked it up to the Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi, some hacker has taken over or the service itself has just failed. 08:42.173 --> 08:44.594 It's, it's dangerous. 08:44.934 --> 08:49.035 You know, it's, it's big, big brother's big back door. 08:50.478 --> 08:53.340 Yeah, there's another solution you can do. 08:53.360 --> 09:00.986 And that is if it demands a connection to Wi-Fi, put a separate router in your house, like buy an old junk one on eBay and make a Wi-Fi for that. 09:01.446 --> 09:06.910 And then hook that up to the system so that it's got Wi-Fi and then pull the plug on it to the Internet. 09:07.330 --> 09:13.975 Keep it separate from the rest of your Wi-Fi and let the thing be stupidly happy thinking it's connected to Wi-Fi when it really isn't connected to anything. 09:15.430 --> 09:18.934 Anyway, let's go on to the next one. 09:19.174 --> 09:23.960 Yeah, it sounds like a lot more work than just plugging in an appliance and starting to use it. 09:24.421 --> 09:29.667 Yeah, so the next climate crazy thing, big oil, fully on the villain role in 2023. 09:31.309 --> 09:54.964 the hottest year ever recorded of course this is the ever reliable ever alarmed guardian who comes up with some of the most inane climate stories on the planet on a regular basis and so they're a personal favorite to be able to just slice and dice but you know they haven't even paid attention to the fact that we had a el nino year they haven't paid attention to the fact that we had a massive eruption of a volcano that pushed 09:55.794 --> 10:00.317 You know, millions of tons of water vapor into the atmosphere and water vapor into greenhouse gas. 10:00.637 --> 10:02.899 No, it's all about big oil. 10:03.920 --> 10:06.081 Just goes to show how deep these folks are. 10:06.101 --> 10:13.146 Yeah, Hunga Tonga volcano pushed more than 10% increase in water vapor. 10:13.946 --> 10:15.067 We have an El Nino. 10:17.089 --> 10:18.309 We have, of course... 10:19.454 --> 10:23.197 all the readings are compromised from the urban heat island effect. 10:23.257 --> 10:29.522 If you, if you go to different places like Phoenix that we've highlighted before, none of those are factors. 10:29.562 --> 10:31.163 There's only one factor, big oil. 10:32.224 --> 10:33.625 Yeah. 10:33.705 --> 10:36.467 And that volcano too. 10:36.547 --> 10:37.128 I mean, it's, 10:38.246 --> 10:41.669 It blasted the water vapor up into the upper stratosphere, I think. 10:41.709 --> 11:00.623 I mean, it's not like it just put it into the lower atmosphere, the parts of the atmosphere that we normally, you know, they say that the reason why hydropower or hydro cars aren't going to cause global warming, despite the fact that they emit water vapor, is because it has such a low residence time in the atmosphere. 11:02.124 --> 11:05.427 But that's not the case when it gets blasted up into the stratosphere. 11:05.507 --> 11:06.868 That's a totally different animal. 11:07.639 --> 11:16.024 Well, and, you know, they'll point to, we often cite satellites for temperature data. 11:16.144 --> 11:18.846 And the satellites show this is the hottest year since satellites. 11:18.946 --> 11:19.867 There's no question about that. 11:20.327 --> 11:21.948 But how do satellites measure temperature? 11:22.008 --> 11:28.853 Well, they measure, in part, how they calculate temperature is the reflectivity of clouds. 11:30.113 --> 11:34.776 And you know what causes clouds to be reflective and creates more clouds? 11:35.517 --> 11:36.858 Water vapor, because that's all they are. 11:37.751 --> 11:40.573 And so this year you had more reflectivity than ever. 11:40.713 --> 11:45.816 So is it surprising that the satellite temperature readings are hotter than ever? 11:46.736 --> 11:47.397 Probably not. 11:48.077 --> 11:48.357 Yeah. 11:48.918 --> 11:51.379 It just goes to show how complex the climate is. 11:51.819 --> 11:52.420 It really is. 11:53.140 --> 11:53.460 Okay. 11:53.480 --> 11:59.003 So the next one, climate change has forced millions to flee their home and Asia is not prepared. 11:59.083 --> 11:59.864 Well, really? 11:59.884 --> 12:05.367 Well, you know, we had a story a number of years ago, ran on WWT, 12:07.802 --> 12:14.386 about the UN said there will be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. 12:15.487 --> 12:16.968 And they put that up on their website. 12:17.188 --> 12:20.611 And it was if they thought it was real, if it's going to be fact. 12:20.831 --> 12:25.294 2010 comes around, there wasn't a single one, not one, zero, nada. 12:26.515 --> 12:27.155 And guess what? 12:28.096 --> 12:29.677 They disappeared it from their website. 12:32.142 --> 12:40.684 They just got rid of it because their prediction was so totally bogus and wrong, they had to hide it to prevent themselves from looking like the idiots that they actually are. 12:42.285 --> 12:43.065 Here we go again. 12:43.705 --> 12:47.226 They're saying there's going to be more climate refugees, and there still isn't any. 12:47.666 --> 12:51.707 Well, I think that story, I could be wrong, but I think it's about internal migration. 12:53.027 --> 12:59.709 And the problem there is it's still tied to particular weather events in a particular year. 13:02.268 --> 13:09.572 Have people had to move from the coast in some small countries that were affected by hurricanes when their houses were wiped out? 13:09.912 --> 13:10.933 Yeah, guess what? 13:11.273 --> 13:12.213 They had to move inland. 13:13.374 --> 13:20.717 And as soon as the storm passes and they start getting the infrastructure there, my suspicion is they'll move right back to the coast. 13:21.137 --> 13:28.361 Internal migration for a year because of bad weather in that year is not proof of climate change. 13:29.192 --> 13:33.735 We have lots of people that are climate refugees in the United States that go coastal every year. 13:33.755 --> 13:35.656 All right. 13:35.716 --> 13:37.977 So, get this. 13:38.557 --> 13:40.618 Climate change is a bigger concern. 13:40.638 --> 13:41.259 Oh, wait. 13:41.299 --> 13:41.879 No, no, no. 13:42.479 --> 13:43.580 I thought we're dead already. 13:44.040 --> 13:46.201 Most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. 13:46.341 --> 13:47.022 I was wrong. 13:47.042 --> 13:48.282 Now, this is also from The Guardian. 13:48.402 --> 13:52.825 And on occasion, The Guardian does have moments of clarity and sanity. 13:53.565 --> 13:55.186 But, you know, it's still... 13:56.325 --> 14:01.848 This whole doom is just around the corner thing seems to be a regular feature of climate alarmism. 14:01.908 --> 14:14.014 I mean, every week, if not every day, we see a news story that something's going to disappear by 2050, or something's going to die by 2050, or we're going to lose the ability to do something or whatever. 14:14.414 --> 14:21.338 It's always about climate change in the context of the mass media is always about loss. 14:22.078 --> 14:23.819 It's never about something positive. 14:24.099 --> 14:25.420 And that's the real problem here. 14:28.759 --> 14:33.364 I saw this story earlier in the week, and I thought – I want to be fair to The Guardian. 14:33.725 --> 14:36.948 The Guardian has some of the most absurd – 14:37.708 --> 14:42.529 climate claims of any mainstream media, but they also give sometimes the best climate coverage. 14:43.149 --> 14:45.510 Every so often, as you say, it's not just a nugget. 14:45.550 --> 14:47.610 They'll have a whole story that's sort of honest. 14:49.131 --> 14:54.932 And I don't know, I don't see that kind of coverage in the New York Times or the Washington Post. 14:55.012 --> 14:56.512 I never see one that's really honest. 14:56.853 --> 14:58.433 Sometimes the Guardian has that. 14:59.073 --> 15:11.370 I was going to say the Guardian, I think, actually does a little bit of a more balanced job by far compared to what, in my opinion, the worst mainstream outlet is The Washington Post by far. 15:11.850 --> 15:14.674 I think they are probably the most odious outlet. 15:15.615 --> 15:18.076 terrible propagandists I've ever seen. 15:18.096 --> 15:22.778 It's unbelievable the kind of stuff that they get away with publishing. 15:22.838 --> 15:24.678 Aren't they the ones owned by Bezos? 15:24.998 --> 15:25.278 Yeah. 15:25.438 --> 15:27.159 Yeah, well, there you go. 15:27.219 --> 15:29.080 He's got products to sell. 15:29.780 --> 15:32.461 And he sells them through hype and scare. 15:32.841 --> 15:39.563 But anyway, that story, you know, it's refreshing when someone admits, as she did, I was wrong. 15:40.344 --> 15:41.764 I thought the end was near. 15:42.964 --> 15:44.265 I'd listened to Chicken Little. 15:45.268 --> 15:48.749 And Chicken Little was wrong, and I'm going to admit it. 15:49.090 --> 15:56.993 So she still goes on and gives you a lot of, oh, this is bad, and we still need to stop the temperature rise, and we need to do these things. 15:57.113 --> 16:03.255 But she's admitting that the world is not coming to an end, and that's refreshing for an alarmist. 16:03.275 --> 16:04.196 Right, right. 16:04.556 --> 16:11.379 So, you know, we talked about climate refugees, and typically war or famine or something else causes them to move. 16:11.419 --> 16:12.779 They're not really climate refugees. 16:12.799 --> 16:13.799 They're political refugees. 16:13.820 --> 16:14.360 But get this. 16:15.336 --> 16:20.041 Climate change should be a bigger concern than Hamas, according to this article. 16:20.561 --> 16:24.966 The Times of Israel says climate change is being neglected because we've got a war going on. 16:25.146 --> 16:27.308 Oh, no, we need attention right now. 16:27.648 --> 16:29.050 Stop paying attention to the war. 16:29.070 --> 16:30.651 I mean, really? 16:31.332 --> 16:31.912 Yeah, stop. 16:32.792 --> 16:35.013 Ignore the bombs dropping about your head. 16:36.373 --> 16:37.694 Worry about climate change. 16:38.194 --> 16:39.154 Right, it's a bigger threat. 16:39.794 --> 16:54.998 This is John Kerry two years ago when the outbreak of the Ukraine war, and he says, I'm afraid this war might take attention away from the need to reduce emissions to fight climate change in Russia and elsewhere. 16:55.159 --> 16:59.220 It's like, get some real perspective here. 17:00.200 --> 17:00.420 Right. 17:00.882 --> 17:04.064 People are dying on the ground today, not 100 years from now. 17:04.725 --> 17:09.308 Well, you know, John Kerry has his role, and he sticks to it. 17:11.269 --> 17:11.589 Right. 17:11.670 --> 17:14.411 Okay, so finally, the most tone-deaf story so far. 17:14.832 --> 17:17.774 Climate change is hurting kids' mental health, reports find. 17:17.794 --> 17:19.555 This is from Yale Climate Connections. 17:20.035 --> 17:29.442 And Yale Climate Connections, much like the Washington Post, regularly runs climate alarmism stories, such as, you know, hurricanes are getting worse, tornadoes are going to come down more frequently, 17:29.702 --> 17:36.145 They were going to see, you know, more hail, more fire and brimstone coming from the sky. 17:36.726 --> 17:38.527 Literally, that's the kind of stuff they write. 17:38.967 --> 17:44.570 And yet they are now saying, well, gosh, climate change itself is affecting kids' mental health. 17:45.010 --> 17:51.193 But in fact, isn't it the stories that you as the mass media are writing are the cause of these concerns? 17:51.433 --> 17:51.994 I mean, kids... 17:52.814 --> 18:00.965 are being told they have no future because the world's going to end because of climate change or we're all going to roast or we're not going to have enough water or whatever. 18:01.546 --> 18:04.790 That's the kind of thing that makes them need treatment. 18:05.471 --> 18:07.294 This particular story 18:08.931 --> 18:20.995 frame that we've seen several times now and we've talked about on Climate Realism and on this show before is my number one biggest problem with this, whatever, this propaganda. 18:21.455 --> 18:32.458 It infuriates me that they would actively and on purpose knowingly try to generate alarm about it or a sense of urgency is what they like to call it. 18:33.098 --> 18:39.680 And then they turn around and then they say, oh, all this stuff that we're telling people that the world is going to come to an end, it's actually scaring kids. 18:40.380 --> 18:41.921 And we're going to keep doing it. 18:42.241 --> 18:48.542 But we're concerned about the kids and climate change itself is what's actually damaging them. 18:48.622 --> 18:57.365 No, you know full well, these journalists know full well that it's their coverage and the way that they cover climate issues that's scaring kids. 18:58.104 --> 19:00.986 And they're making people actually mentally insane. 19:01.306 --> 19:03.307 It's like the COVID stuff. 19:03.327 --> 19:05.449 They're actually making people crazy. 19:06.869 --> 19:19.497 It's like, to Anthony's point about Washington Post and Yale, look, the reason there's so much bad reporting and alarm is because they have centers devoted just to climate change, right? 19:19.697 --> 19:20.478 They got to do something. 19:20.978 --> 19:22.479 They got to justify those salaries. 19:24.440 --> 19:25.901 Washington Post has a climate desk. 19:28.786 --> 19:29.446 Yes, they do. 19:30.107 --> 19:30.467 They do. 19:31.347 --> 19:34.969 And, you know, but fortunately, some of the climate desks have closed. 19:35.009 --> 19:38.890 For example, the New York Times climate desk closed, I believe it was last year. 19:39.771 --> 19:44.873 But we still have a climate, not just a desk, but we have a climate regiment at the AP. 19:45.113 --> 19:46.074 But that's another story. 19:46.274 --> 19:48.235 And then, boy, I'm going to finish. 19:48.695 --> 19:52.196 And then Yale, this is a climate project at Yale. 19:52.236 --> 19:53.957 So they're going to keep doing these stories. 19:54.417 --> 19:55.518 And Linnea is right. 19:56.538 --> 19:57.859 It is exactly... 19:58.638 --> 20:04.149 The reporting, if the reporting went away tomorrow, if they ceased, they don't have to say the climate is getting better. 20:04.169 --> 20:05.090 They don't have to do that. 20:05.271 --> 20:06.373 If they just stopped reporting it, 20:07.509 --> 20:33.456 every day that's the drip drip drip of of climate alarm stories pretty soon kids would go back to paying attention to well to the extent that they pay attention to real news anyway real news they might still be alarmed about something but they wouldn't be thinking i can't have children because the world's coming to an end or it'll kill the world how do i know that well because of the reporting not because i see any evidence of it because they don't see evidence of it because they're 20:33.536 --> 20:33.736 Right. 20:33.776 --> 20:48.984 When I was when I was in middle school and the climate change stuff was really ramping up for us, it was the kind of positioning that they tended to have on it towards kids was this is an environmental issue. 20:50.447 --> 20:54.049 it's gonna hurt different animals or it's gonna hurt whatever. 20:54.230 --> 20:59.433 So we need to recycle more or whatever so that we can stop climate change. 20:59.853 --> 21:03.576 We need to be more energy efficient so we can stop climate change. 21:03.676 --> 21:05.677 And there's small ways that you can help. 21:06.258 --> 21:17.945 Now the rhetoric is we need fundamental society-wide global change to happen immediately or else we are all going to die in the next couple of decades. 21:18.926 --> 21:26.813 That's what they're telling kids now in order to make them scared enough so that they will, you know, push for more action or whatever. 21:26.853 --> 21:44.909 But what's actually happening and what some of these news organizations are realizing is that instead of driving people to be inspired to do more protesting or, you know, have climate change as their number one voting priority, which it's not anyone's number one priority voting priority for voting, you 21:46.047 --> 22:13.592 what it actually has done is it's made people totally check out kids are like well i'm gonna die anyway there's no way that these massive sweeping changes are going to happen in the time frame that we're being given so why should i do any of this stuff why should i care at all right why should i get out of my mom's basement and stop playing video games right all right so let's go on to our 22:14.414 --> 22:14.814 Topics. 22:15.835 --> 22:19.697 First of all, this was a really bad year for electric vehicles. 22:20.217 --> 22:34.364 I mean, it seemed like every week we had a new story where some automobile was bursting into flames spontaneously, whether it was, you know, on a boat or in a parking garage or just on the road or whatever. 22:34.964 --> 22:36.885 So Sterling's going to take this topic. 22:37.185 --> 22:38.946 He's got the he's got the the 22:39.875 --> 22:42.216 The scoop on EV disasters this year. 22:42.256 --> 22:42.937 Go ahead, Sterling. 22:43.057 --> 22:44.638 Well, I mean, it's just one after the other. 22:45.178 --> 22:46.479 You talk about a drip, drip, drip. 22:46.539 --> 22:47.720 This is more like a torrent. 22:48.300 --> 22:57.826 It's almost every day there's a new story telling you that Biden's EV goals are fantasy. 22:58.526 --> 23:04.690 I mean, it's... So Biden gets $6 billion to build... 23:05.635 --> 23:11.883 Electric chargers, which they say are necessary, despite the fact there's already 30,000 more chargers in the U.S. 23:11.903 --> 23:13.004 than there are gas stations. 23:13.785 --> 23:17.830 There's already 30,000 more chargers in the U.S., but we need 1.2 million more. 23:18.491 --> 23:20.013 And he got $6 billion for it. 23:20.413 --> 23:21.474 How many chargers have been built? 23:21.835 --> 23:22.496 Not one. 23:23.382 --> 23:27.026 Isn't that model, the very popular model called the Iceplode? 23:27.046 --> 23:30.110 Yeah, there you go. 23:32.472 --> 23:38.619 Electric vehicle fires, scooters and cars have become the biggest fire hazard in New York, according to their fire department. 23:38.939 --> 23:39.861 It caused more fires. 23:39.921 --> 23:40.481 They caused deaths. 23:42.243 --> 23:42.824 When I was in the 60s, 23:44.759 --> 23:50.307 when I was very young, Ralph Nader wrote a book, Unsafe at Any Speed, about the Corvair. 23:51.068 --> 23:53.070 And it had caused a couple of deaths. 23:53.130 --> 23:55.093 It was a dangerous car, they said. 23:56.115 --> 23:59.720 These vehicles, electric vehicles, have caused more deaths than the Corvair ever did. 24:00.842 --> 24:17.729 Any other product that was as dangerous, inherently dangerous, to just catch fire for no good reason in an airplane, in your garage, sitting in the parking lot, to just catch fire would have been pulled for the market within the first 10 times that happened. 24:18.029 --> 24:20.370 But it's happened hundreds of times. 24:21.430 --> 24:25.412 He's probably promoting electric vehicles because he doesn't care about people's safety or health anymore. 24:25.832 --> 24:28.393 He cares about pushing an alarmist narrative. 24:29.096 --> 24:29.797 And progressives. 24:30.257 --> 24:34.100 So the point is, no other product gets the pass that electric vehicles do. 24:34.661 --> 24:35.841 But people are waking up. 24:36.122 --> 24:38.544 Insurers are stopping insuring them in Europe. 24:41.206 --> 24:46.170 Companies that ship these things, another ship caught fire this week, this time just carrying electric batteries. 24:47.171 --> 24:48.752 This time just carrying batteries from overseas. 24:48.932 --> 24:53.195 They've now got it anchored off the coast of Alaska because they don't want to bring it in because they can't put the fire out. 24:53.696 --> 24:54.777 It's probably another ship that will sink. 24:56.085 --> 24:59.767 Um, so the insurers won't insure the ships if they carry these things. 24:59.847 --> 25:02.648 So how are they going to get over from, from China to here? 25:03.548 --> 25:10.911 Um, the, the automakers here in the U S domestically, uh, Ford was going to put 15 billion. 25:11.031 --> 25:20.715 They pulled back 12 billion of their investment GM, which sold a total of 18 electric trucks last year, not last quarter last year. 25:20.735 --> 25:23.736 Uh, they are cutting back on their production. 25:25.441 --> 25:32.124 they are having to buy out half their Buick dealers who say, we're not installing these electric chargers for these cars that won't sell. 25:32.184 --> 25:32.804 It's too much. 25:33.024 --> 25:33.844 It's too expensive. 25:35.345 --> 25:36.886 They're sitting on the lots longer. 25:37.306 --> 25:38.326 They still have to be charged. 25:38.386 --> 25:43.388 What's going to happen if it sits on the lot for six months and someone comes, oh, I want that electric vehicle and you can't drive off with it. 25:43.908 --> 25:45.769 Well, give us a couple of days while it charges. 25:49.770 --> 25:52.611 The news is not getting better for electric vehicles. 25:52.671 --> 25:53.252 It's getting worse. 25:53.512 --> 25:53.632 And 25:54.605 --> 25:58.210 Biden's the Biden administration is oblivious to this. 25:58.871 --> 25:59.933 This just this week, 26:01.243 --> 26:13.071 Kathleen, you know, KJP, Kathleen or Catherine Jean-Pierre, his media mogul, his media spokesperson, she's out there saying, oh, no, electric vehicles are taking off. 26:13.251 --> 26:14.652 Sales are going down. 26:14.972 --> 26:18.154 They're taking off because they have rocket-powered flames coming out of them. 26:18.174 --> 26:18.634 That's why. 26:19.435 --> 26:27.320 So she's sitting there doubting the successes of electric vehicles while every... I mean, even the mainstream media can't hide this. 26:28.140 --> 26:29.681 Even they are reporting this. 26:29.982 --> 26:30.362 And so... 26:31.806 --> 26:33.567 they're completely oblivious in the white house. 26:34.007 --> 26:38.889 They don't, they either don't know what's going on or they're, they're like whistling past the graveyard. 26:39.890 --> 26:40.110 Yeah. 26:40.130 --> 26:52.135 Hoping if they keep saying good things, hoping if they say things well enough, you know, positive things enough, long enough, it will be some, some kind of self fulfilling prophecy. 26:52.755 --> 26:53.116 Sterling. 26:53.476 --> 26:54.836 It reminds me a lot of people. 26:54.896 --> 26:56.057 So I have the, 26:56.578 --> 26:57.679 Gulag Archipelago. 26:57.699 --> 27:00.642 And I've read the first section of it. 27:01.182 --> 27:05.126 And a lot of people like to focus on the Soviet purges and stuff. 27:05.487 --> 27:07.589 And it's talked about in there. 27:07.849 --> 27:08.630 And that's interesting. 27:08.710 --> 27:15.496 But what I found just haunting, and I read this while I was offshore, sitting in the, you know, 27:16.377 --> 27:17.577 on the offshore oil rig. 27:17.957 --> 27:23.518 And I was thinking, what would this be like if the Soviets were in charge of this industry? 27:24.418 --> 27:40.601 And what you said about the Biden administration being oblivious to the problems of the electric vehicles not working the way that they want them to reminds me a lot of what would happen when the Soviet Union would send someone in to some kind of a factory or something. 27:41.001 --> 27:44.962 They would get rid of the engineers that knew how to run the factory. 27:45.382 --> 27:51.367 And the Soviets would come in and say, OK, we're going to do it this way instead, because this is the way that the government wants it done. 27:52.047 --> 27:56.470 And when it couldn't produce the product anymore, they would blame the workers. 27:56.791 --> 27:59.012 They would blame the product itself. 27:59.133 --> 28:00.454 They would blame everyone. 28:00.614 --> 28:01.935 And they never considered 28:02.535 --> 28:10.319 out loud that it was their process or they're trying to force their ideals onto that industry that was causing it to fail. 28:10.699 --> 28:11.980 It was everyone else's fault. 28:12.020 --> 28:20.484 It was these secret records and they were always finding new records to throw in jail for not making this magic technology happen. 28:21.384 --> 28:23.885 And it just, the electric vehicle thing reminds me of that. 28:24.366 --> 28:27.227 The renewable energy thing reminds me of that. 28:27.807 --> 28:30.569 It's just commie nonsense. 28:31.769 --> 28:33.510 Well, it's Big Brother. 28:33.610 --> 28:38.474 I mean, Jean-Pierre's up there saying, sales are going up. 28:39.395 --> 28:39.875 And they're not. 28:40.135 --> 28:40.916 They're going down. 28:40.976 --> 28:42.937 It's up is down, down is up. 28:43.558 --> 28:47.641 You know, we have control of the border. 28:50.703 --> 28:56.868 As film crews are filming hundreds of thousands of people coming over the border, they just... 29:00.128 --> 29:09.432 The story this week about the border, the crazy story this week, was about the Interior Secretary saying that climate change is causing people to stream across the border. 29:10.452 --> 29:15.475 And Blinken this week says, you know, basically, oh, Biden has brought peace around the world. 29:16.095 --> 29:17.176 What world is he looking at? 29:17.276 --> 29:20.277 It's literally 1984. 1984. 29:24.620 --> 29:25.321 War is peace. 29:25.801 --> 29:27.302 Let's move on to our next topic. 29:28.323 --> 29:30.124 Deadly battery fires in New York. 29:30.504 --> 29:31.225 Yeah. 29:32.726 --> 29:33.706 That's what I was saying earlier. 29:33.766 --> 29:38.289 It's like, uh, it's the biggest, it's the largest source of fires in New York now that they're having to put out. 29:38.589 --> 29:44.673 And of course they had a story just this week about one, a single fire took 36,000 gallons of water. 29:45.434 --> 29:50.217 Well, you'd want to talk about water shortages when everyone's got these vehicles and they're catching on fire everywhere. 29:50.277 --> 29:51.478 Pretty soon we'll drain, uh, 29:52.401 --> 29:55.731 municipal water supplies, just putting out EV fires. 29:56.855 --> 29:57.356 Exactly. 29:57.617 --> 29:58.098 Exactly. 29:58.817 --> 30:01.619 All righty, so our next major topic is food production. 30:01.679 --> 30:04.261 Now, Linnea is our resident expert on this. 30:05.342 --> 30:15.028 Food production has been under attack all year, whether it's don't eat beef or, you know, you're growing too much because you're using fertilizer or whatever it is. 30:15.428 --> 30:21.893 It seems to be unrelenting attack on agriculture, which goes towards the whole depopulation thing that they like. 30:22.313 --> 30:23.634 Anyway, Linnea, take it away. 30:23.694 --> 30:26.316 What do we got this year for food production issues? 30:27.082 --> 30:27.342 Right. 30:27.442 --> 30:29.023 So first we have this. 30:29.363 --> 30:48.032 So this year, Epoch Times came out with a really good documentary about what's been happening with these green activists pushing to end agriculture, particularly meat related agriculture like ranching and pig farming and chicken farming and such. 30:49.068 --> 30:56.734 They say that they contribute too much methane in particular and nitrogen and also carbon dioxide emissions. 30:56.874 --> 30:59.997 But so they're pushing to end that stuff. 31:00.137 --> 31:01.398 And it's happening really. 31:01.578 --> 31:03.800 It's really getting pushed pretty hard in Europe right now. 31:05.061 --> 31:08.364 A little bit less so in Canada, but Canada is very close behind them. 31:08.404 --> 31:11.066 They have come out with some just awful emissions. 31:11.446 --> 31:25.872 awful, stupid, or evil, probably evil though, policies in Canada about not letting farmers and growers in general heat their greenhouses in the winter with natural gas or propane. 31:27.153 --> 31:35.456 So basically in northern Canada, if you don't have a heated greenhouse, it's pretty hard to grow anything besides, you know, like deep, real deep winter crops. 31:37.418 --> 31:44.507 The Europe is completely lost their mind. 31:45.128 --> 31:46.530 Europe has completely lost their minds. 31:46.890 --> 31:50.595 I was trying to think of how I wanted to start on this. 31:53.320 --> 32:06.870 The main thing that I want to say is that despite global warming, despite what the news says, the last decades have seen unprecedented, just unbelievable increases in crop production across the world. 32:07.330 --> 32:12.474 Every country, almost every crop in every country has seen increasing yields in production. 32:13.234 --> 32:19.659 I am going to predict that if they stay the course in Europe, they are going to reverse that trend. 32:20.159 --> 32:22.021 And then they're going to blame it on climate change. 32:22.939 --> 32:24.620 So they are shutting down, huh? 32:25.260 --> 32:28.581 That's a lot of crop. 32:28.601 --> 32:38.463 Yeah, they are shutting down major farms in the Netherlands, which is Europe's largest meat producing region. 32:38.883 --> 32:48.466 They are shutting down even regular like crop farms in the UK and they are paying farmers to convert their land to wild crops. 32:49.212 --> 32:50.474 You know, like rewilding it. 32:50.914 --> 32:59.364 There is a huge rewilding movement across Europe, which, you know, if the land isn't particularly productive, then why not? 32:59.444 --> 32:59.985 But if you're... 33:02.213 --> 33:09.095 populace is increasing and you want to feed them, you have to produce more food, not less. 33:09.555 --> 33:11.696 And they are actively choosing to produce less. 33:11.736 --> 33:24.100 They are pushing for organic farming, which has about a third of a yield of regular high production farming that uses synthetic fossil fuel related pesticides and fertilizers. 33:25.780 --> 33:38.802 Worse, because they're also pushing at the same time for the end of livestock farming, they're not going to be able to get the organic fertilizer either, because that comes as a byproduct of cattle farming and chicken farming. 33:39.907 --> 33:42.628 So they're just not going to have it. 33:43.669 --> 33:46.010 So I guess they're just trying to not grow any crops at all. 33:46.871 --> 33:48.972 It's bad in the Netherlands, it's bad in the UK. 33:49.332 --> 34:08.022 We saw an example of how bad this was in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago, they banned synthetic fertilizers, they banned everything except for organic farming and their crop production declined by massive, massive, unbelievable margins to the point where they actually had riots in the streets, people were starving to death 34:08.482 --> 34:10.023 They burned the president's house down. 34:10.404 --> 34:12.466 He wasn't in it. 34:12.486 --> 34:14.728 I mean, it was absolute chaos. 34:15.168 --> 34:22.695 And at that same time that that was going on, the WEF, the United Nations, all of them were applauding them for how green they were. 34:23.612 --> 34:28.895 And they were probably shoveling money into their government bank accounts because of how green they were. 34:28.915 --> 34:31.337 This is coming for everyone unless we can stop it. 34:32.197 --> 34:40.162 These folks never learned anything from Marie Antoinette back in the French days when there was no food, let them eat cake. 34:40.202 --> 34:42.024 They haven't learned anything, these politicians. 34:44.465 --> 34:47.387 Well, they just think or know they can get away with it now. 34:47.527 --> 34:50.029 Now, of course, the Sri Lankan president certainly didn't get away with it. 34:50.169 --> 34:51.610 His government fell and his house was burned. 34:52.589 --> 34:53.210 It wasn't his house. 34:53.270 --> 34:54.331 It's the presidential house. 34:55.972 --> 34:56.813 Like burning the White House. 34:58.674 --> 35:05.179 And their crops in a single year, in a single year, crop production dropped by half. 35:06.640 --> 35:09.382 Rice prices and tea prices went up. 35:09.422 --> 35:10.143 I think they tripled. 35:11.244 --> 35:11.344 And 35:14.031 --> 35:16.192 Unfortunately, the U.S. 35:16.232 --> 35:20.474 is not immune to these kinds of stupidity. 35:20.974 --> 35:22.555 California is leading on this, right? 35:23.376 --> 35:25.837 Their farmers have to start capturing methane. 35:26.077 --> 35:29.899 Well, that's going to add to the price of food. 35:30.459 --> 35:34.341 Also, at the same time, they have to get out of factory farming. 35:34.361 --> 35:36.502 So you've got to give more room to your animals. 35:36.882 --> 35:40.804 At the same time as they're pushing policies to force people to live on top of each other, 35:42.000 --> 35:43.560 No, you can't have big houses. 35:43.660 --> 35:45.321 No, you can't have big lawns. 35:45.621 --> 35:46.521 We got to compact. 35:46.581 --> 35:49.742 Everyone needs to be in close quarters. 35:50.022 --> 35:52.163 They want more room for chickens and pigs. 35:54.003 --> 35:54.963 Less room for humans. 35:55.564 --> 36:01.265 And they won't allow pork to come in from places that don't meet their standards. 36:02.025 --> 36:04.646 So they're having an outsized impact. 36:06.266 --> 36:09.589 Now, maybe they say, well, we don't have as many people to feed anymore because they're leaving. 36:10.050 --> 36:13.313 So maybe maybe that they've got a point there. 36:14.694 --> 36:19.979 But and it's happening not just in California, but of course, under the Biden administration, it's about to happen in the Pacific Northwest. 36:20.359 --> 36:29.228 So they're going to take out four hydroelectric dams that produce, I think, a thousand or three thousand megawatts of electricity. 36:30.435 --> 36:32.876 Because we're going to build new renewables. 36:32.916 --> 36:40.359 They're going to tear down the most reliable renewable, get rid of it, and replace them with unreliable renewables. 36:41.359 --> 36:44.700 But it's not as if those dams only provide one service. 36:45.521 --> 36:48.862 They also are used, the water there is used for agriculture. 36:49.442 --> 36:56.065 So what's going to happen to agriculture that uses that water? 36:56.125 --> 36:57.165 Well, it's going to disappear. 36:57.605 --> 36:59.606 So food production is going to fall there, too. 37:01.381 --> 37:08.608 In the end, we all suffer when we allow climate alarmists run things. 37:09.348 --> 37:09.829 Exactly. 37:10.369 --> 37:13.412 Thank you so much, Walter, for the super chat. 37:13.593 --> 37:14.714 We really appreciate it. 37:15.635 --> 37:19.058 It's going to help us to advertise this show and other stuff. 37:19.098 --> 37:20.019 So thank you very much. 37:20.509 --> 37:24.633 Yeah, by the way, Walter, I did see your note on WUWT a couple of weeks ago. 37:24.853 --> 37:26.435 I will respond to that at some point. 37:27.676 --> 37:38.207 I do want to say it seems to me, having been in California myself, it seems to me that in addition to exporting people on a regular basis, their biggest export is stupidity. 37:38.687 --> 37:41.250 And it seems to spread all around the world, unfortunately. 37:41.766 --> 37:47.011 All right, so we're going to go to the next topic, and that is the hottest July 4th ever. 37:47.451 --> 37:49.273 That was a big thing this past year. 37:49.813 --> 37:55.899 The 4th of July was just unprecedented and terrifying temperature. 37:56.783 --> 37:59.525 The problem is it wasn't a real temperature. 38:00.185 --> 38:02.006 It was based on a model output. 38:02.286 --> 38:09.090 And if you look further down here, you see this graph, this bogus labeled graph, all that because it is bogus. 38:09.210 --> 38:11.591 This was coming from climate reanalyzer. 38:12.312 --> 38:14.113 And the spike that it got 38:15.345 --> 38:21.772 happened because there was a section in the southern hemisphere in Antarctica that became abnormally warm. 38:22.313 --> 38:28.360 So these temperatures that they were recording and modeling didn't actually occur in any place anyone lived. 38:29.001 --> 38:30.482 It occurred down in Antarctica. 38:30.502 --> 38:33.866 And we can't even be sure it's real because 38:34.747 --> 38:42.089 What happens in Antarctica is oftentimes misunderstood or not understood at all because there's ocean currents involved. 38:43.229 --> 38:47.350 We've only got about 60 years or so of any good data for Antarctica. 38:48.011 --> 38:51.151 And so we don't have a good handle on the patterns or whatever. 38:51.191 --> 39:00.214 But the bottom line is because parts of Antarctica got abnormally warm, the entire world, when they average it out and present the number, 39:01.294 --> 39:02.734 became abnormally warm. 39:02.774 --> 39:04.355 And therefore, that's a crisis. 39:05.255 --> 39:07.436 And the media went nuts over it. 39:07.736 --> 39:17.859 They took one station, one part of station data across all of Antarctica as representative of an entire region, which skewed the data. 39:18.159 --> 39:22.800 And of course, even there, when the temperature went up, it was well below freezing. 39:23.741 --> 39:24.241 Exactly. 39:24.541 --> 39:24.861 It went up. 39:25.181 --> 39:26.362 It did go up considerably. 39:26.842 --> 39:30.603 So it went up from, what, I don't know, 50 below zero to 10 below zero? 39:31.519 --> 39:32.820 But that's a huge spike. 39:33.721 --> 39:40.326 And it represented the entirety of Antarctica, despite the fact that you've got like 50 to 70 stations there on Antarctica. 39:40.967 --> 39:44.289 Not that those stations produce any artificial warming themselves. 39:46.371 --> 39:53.036 So not only, you know, that was bogus, but then they, you know, they take it to the hundred and twenty five thousand years. 39:54.039 --> 39:54.599 for the year. 39:54.659 --> 39:56.600 It's just one thing after the other. 39:56.620 --> 39:58.861 And we just don't have data for a lot of that stuff. 39:59.241 --> 40:02.102 And the data that we have is badly compromised. 40:02.122 --> 40:02.282 Right. 40:02.742 --> 40:04.843 And I want to point out something about Antarctica. 40:05.443 --> 40:11.525 All of the temperatures measured in Antarctica used in this are coming from research stations. 40:12.375 --> 40:15.596 such as a bird station or so forth and so on. 40:16.016 --> 40:20.558 Now, where these research stations are, people live and people have to stay warm. 40:21.178 --> 40:23.158 Otherwise, well, they're dead, right? 40:23.178 --> 40:26.580 In Antarctica, when it gets down to minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit or whatever. 40:27.300 --> 40:30.421 So you have to have all of this energy generating capacity. 40:31.061 --> 40:38.643 And so one of the things is, and you can see this like in Barrow, Alaska, one of the coldest cities in the United States, it has its own urban heat island. 40:39.063 --> 40:46.225 You can drive through Barrow with a thermometer on your car and watch the temperature go up and then go down as you go out of town. 40:46.645 --> 40:49.606 And it's the same thing with these research stations down in Antarctica. 40:49.886 --> 40:57.228 The waste heat from just simply staying alive is influencing the thermometers because the thermometers have to be near where people can measure them. 40:57.688 --> 41:04.118 There are some remote thermometers that are out in the middle of absolute nowhere in Antarctica, but these are not recording a warming. 41:04.639 --> 41:09.807 And most of the warming that we've seen in Antarctica has happened on the periphery and on the peninsula. 41:09.907 --> 41:11.930 But the center of Antarctica is not warming at all. 41:12.538 --> 41:15.601 And they're not powering those stations in Antarctica. 41:15.621 --> 41:22.446 They don't have huge wind turbines surrounding them because, well, they'd freeze up and get ice, you know, cover with ice. 41:22.766 --> 41:35.436 My suspicion is they have a few places that actually have solar panels running small appliances or small temperature, you know, the isolated temperature stations are probably run with some solar. 41:35.977 --> 41:38.719 But most of them around there, they don't have power plants either. 41:38.739 --> 41:39.680 So they run on diesel. 41:41.357 --> 42:03.233 diesel generators constantly operating right that produces no heat whatsoever i've never stood next to a diesel generator and felt any heat exactly exactly if it wasn't for fossil fuels we wouldn't have research stations in an article and we wouldn't know what the temperature is down there all right so sterling this is your bailiwick here wind farm impacts on whale habitat go 42:04.164 --> 42:06.746 Well, it's almost as bad as the EV story. 42:06.846 --> 42:12.710 So a few weeks ago, I was interviewed by the AP, by a reporter of the AP, and their story came out. 42:12.930 --> 42:13.851 And I was quoted in it. 42:13.891 --> 42:15.111 The quote was accurate. 42:16.532 --> 42:19.955 But the story itself was ill-researched. 42:20.755 --> 42:27.240 What they said is, here it says wind farm impact on whale habitat is still a mystery, scientists say. 42:28.400 --> 42:30.282 The more recent story says no proof. 42:31.127 --> 42:57.953 that wind farms are harming whales and they and who they ask well they ask the people who uh work for the government who are approving these wind farms willy-nilly and the problem is they're granting all these wind farms waivers to uh take whales well why do they have to apply for a waiver to take whales if they don't affect whales why are whales washing up now when they never washed up in the numbers that they're washing up now now 42:58.835 --> 43:06.642 It is true that the two necropsies they did on the North Atlantic rag whale did not show that their eardrums had ruptured, and that's what killed them. 43:09.684 --> 43:25.518 But you don't have to kill whales directly with the sound to say, whales communicate by sound, they hunt by sound, they navigate by sound, and suddenly you're introducing this huge sound there where 43:26.434 --> 43:33.577 year round, not seasonally, not when they're not around because they're not waiting for the whales to migrate through. 43:33.617 --> 43:34.837 And there's some whales that are permanent. 43:36.198 --> 43:38.578 They are this ear shattering. 43:38.799 --> 43:43.780 And so what's happening is the whales prey is leaving the area and the whales are leaving the area. 43:43.880 --> 43:45.381 And where are they going there? 43:45.501 --> 43:48.822 Well, they're going into shipping lanes where they get hit by ships. 43:50.603 --> 43:53.704 Ships collisions are the number one cause of death. 43:54.044 --> 43:55.805 Well, why have ship collisions increased? 43:56.442 --> 44:01.086 Well, why did they suddenly get into the shipping lanes as much as they have? 44:02.887 --> 44:06.210 You know, look, can we prove causation? 44:06.290 --> 44:08.752 No, but it's not my job to prove this. 44:08.892 --> 44:14.076 Who it is, is the government's job to say, until we know enough, we can't allow these things to go forward. 44:14.156 --> 44:14.476 Why? 44:14.496 --> 44:21.161 The North Atlantic right whale has been a listed species on the endangered species list since the 1970s. 44:24.195 --> 44:28.590 Right, but save the whales is not as important as save the wind turbines, apparently. 44:30.285 --> 44:53.881 It seems to be something of a trend with the green at any cost type of people is that you can show them physical evidence or you can kind of drag them along down the logic trail and say, listen, I don't need to have a PhD in earth science to understand what's going on here. 44:54.001 --> 44:59.605 It's like with the doomsday drought stones in Europe. 45:00.265 --> 45:24.885 they're like oh these drought stones are revealed that means that this is unprecedented drought no it means that that drought happened before because it's revealed the stones that's a really obvious like immediate duh moment but they just do not it does not compute at all and i think it's it's a willing non-compution nobody how dare you 45:26.423 --> 45:31.450 Look, they are being willfully ignorant about the damage and dangers to the North Atlantic right whale. 45:32.010 --> 45:41.203 And they are waiving environmental laws and regulations that they wouldn't waive for any other industry to get these things built in a rapid fashion. 45:41.243 --> 45:41.964 And even then. 45:43.576 --> 45:48.560 So many of them are being canceled because not because it's killing whales, which should be the full stop. 45:49.000 --> 45:58.687 If you really believe the Endangered Species Act should be enforced until they can prove, until they can show that they're not harming whales, until they stop applying for whale take permits. 46:01.769 --> 46:10.896 It's the economics that's killing it because, you know, Bidenomics has worked so well, even in the offshore wind industry, their costs are just ballooning. 46:11.832 --> 46:14.915 And so they keep canceling projects and saying, oh, we're going to rebid. 46:15.176 --> 46:18.339 But of course, they're going to rebuild at 50% higher cost. 46:18.439 --> 46:20.281 So that's just going to stick it more to the consumers. 46:21.422 --> 46:27.289 And of course, Al Gore and his friends can afford that increase, but it's the average folks that can't. 46:29.505 --> 46:29.705 Right. 46:30.466 --> 46:34.389 So it's just unfortunate, the whole thing. 46:35.010 --> 46:39.333 Now the other topic this year that's been a big, big thing is net zero. 46:39.353 --> 46:45.859 Of course, there's this idea that we're going to be able to achieve net zero in 20 years or 30 years or 40 years or whatever. 46:46.480 --> 46:47.600 And it's a pipe dream. 46:48.962 --> 46:50.843 Even Exxon says it's not going to happen. 46:51.484 --> 46:53.866 Well, that's highly unlikely, which is essentially the same. 46:54.326 --> 46:54.787 But you know, 46:56.205 --> 47:00.348 As Linnea pointed out, the logic trail doesn't compute with a lot of these folks. 47:01.008 --> 47:03.589 What do you think about this net zero goal, Linnea? 47:04.950 --> 47:06.831 Well, it's the same as everything else. 47:07.392 --> 47:15.596 It's pretty unbelievable that we have engineers and professionals who are pushing this as if it can actually happen. 47:17.037 --> 47:20.319 It's very much pie in the sky, in part because... 47:22.080 --> 47:35.591 They have proposed no sort of plan as to how the energy grid is going to go net zero, other than just adding more and more wind and solar to it with absolutely no currently available backup. 47:36.111 --> 47:47.140 The battery technology for long-term industrial scale storage that will react and is adaptive to consumer demand does not exist. 47:47.921 --> 47:49.802 Just it does not exist. 47:50.562 --> 47:55.264 And even if it did exist, it would probably be way more expensive than the types of batteries that they use now. 47:56.084 --> 48:11.349 There was an analysis done by someone at the Manhattan Contrarian where they talked about how you can substitute in just as a rough estimate, a Tesla battery, one of the more expensive, you know, higher capacity ones, which is about $100 per kilowatt hour. 48:13.997 --> 48:31.809 And a study came out that said that in order to change just the Northeast up to a net zero or all renewables grid, they would need about 25% of the annual storage or of the annual energy use required. 48:33.287 --> 48:34.368 in battery storage. 48:34.808 --> 48:36.689 I probably just butchered how I explained that, but oh well. 48:37.389 --> 48:40.831 I'm thinking about two different things at once. 48:41.471 --> 48:52.797 And what it ends up coming out to is it would cost something like $100 trillion just to do storage for a segment of the country, or maybe it was extrapolated to the whole country. 48:53.237 --> 48:57.800 But the United States' entire gross national product is only like 48:59.120 --> 49:01.262 I want to say, what is it? 49:03.003 --> 49:07.126 The 25 trillion, 24, 25 trillion, 24, 25 trillion. 49:07.366 --> 49:12.850 So that's literally four times the worth of the entire country's economy is what it would cost. 49:13.171 --> 49:19.656 That's never going to happen to do to do one small part of one country, not not net zero for everybody. 49:21.297 --> 49:27.620 But I want to say I think you're unfair to the engineers and professionals because it's not clear to me that the engineers are the ones pushing this. 49:28.020 --> 49:28.801 It's academics. 49:28.861 --> 49:30.101 It's woolly-headed academics. 49:30.582 --> 49:31.442 To me, it is clear. 49:31.882 --> 49:37.466 On engineering blogs, what they are continuously talking about is that we are going to do this anyway. 49:37.506 --> 49:39.186 We are going to do the transition anyway. 49:39.547 --> 49:43.729 And what needs to happen is that people need to get used to not having electricity anymore. 49:44.191 --> 49:46.032 Ah, well, that's what the engineers are saying. 49:46.252 --> 49:46.992 There's the thing. 49:47.892 --> 49:51.673 I see these academics who put out these like, oh, we can do all this in wedges. 49:51.893 --> 49:52.913 Oh, 18 wedges. 49:53.614 --> 49:54.514 And none of them are engineers. 49:55.294 --> 49:57.354 They're all climate folks. 49:58.175 --> 50:00.215 Oh, we know how the technology works. 50:00.275 --> 50:00.715 No, you don't. 50:01.456 --> 50:06.897 And so that at least the engineers are now admitting, no, it's not as if we're going to have as much energy as we had before. 50:07.037 --> 50:09.218 And it's not as if it's going to be as steady as we had before. 50:09.498 --> 50:10.678 We're just going to have to live with less. 50:11.936 --> 50:17.240 If engineers are saying that, at least they're being honest about what it will take. 50:17.640 --> 50:19.581 But that should get publicized more. 50:19.681 --> 50:20.902 That's what should get publicized more. 50:21.262 --> 50:27.226 The engineers, when they look at it, say, you're going to be worse off. 50:28.026 --> 50:30.728 Your children and grandchildren will be worse off. 50:30.868 --> 50:31.128 Why? 50:31.148 --> 50:33.510 Because they will have to live with less. 50:33.750 --> 50:38.193 Less power, less reliable power, because that's what it takes to get net zero. 50:38.905 --> 50:39.065 Right. 50:39.085 --> 50:40.366 But they're still on board with it. 50:40.826 --> 50:43.067 They're still saying this is something that we want to happen. 50:43.867 --> 50:54.772 They're just saying that, you know, what we want is for people to use less energy because we want to have this all renewable grid, regardless of the cost, regardless of what it does to people's standard of living. 50:55.052 --> 50:56.173 They don't care. 50:56.473 --> 50:58.314 But I don't care what they care about. 50:58.334 --> 51:00.915 I care about whether they tell the truth about what it implies. 51:01.615 --> 51:03.876 Then we can make our decisions about what we care about. 51:05.026 --> 51:08.288 Well, what we care about apparently doesn't matter to these folks, right? 51:08.308 --> 51:09.329 That's true enough. 51:09.669 --> 51:10.369 Not at all. 51:11.090 --> 51:11.310 Right. 51:11.650 --> 51:11.890 All right. 51:11.910 --> 51:16.894 So one of the big things that's going around in the news right now, hottest year ever. 51:17.514 --> 51:20.176 It's the hottest year in 125,000 years. 51:20.976 --> 51:21.677 Oh, no. 51:22.137 --> 51:29.782 Well, I did have an op-ed yesterday on climate realism where CNN says the hottest year on record caused more extreme weather. 51:30.771 --> 51:34.812 And I tell you, it's like shooting fish in a barrel with these journalists. 51:35.132 --> 51:38.393 They just simply don't pay any attention to any facts whatsoever. 51:38.453 --> 51:50.076 I urge you to go to Climate Realism and read this article, because every point we look at where they're talking about severe weather, no matter what it is, whether it's wildfires or anything else, doesn't hold up when you look at the data. 51:50.636 --> 51:53.957 This story cited nothing but other news stories. 51:54.397 --> 51:57.338 No data, no peer-reviewed publications, nothing. 51:58.098 --> 52:00.399 And so it's just nothing but hype. 52:00.839 --> 52:06.642 And it's this kind of reporting that scares kids and makes people think that they have no future. 52:07.002 --> 52:07.743 But here's the thing. 52:08.323 --> 52:12.305 When you look at the data, it doesn't show up in the US data as the hottest year ever. 52:12.645 --> 52:19.208 Look at this graph that shows the last 30 years of data going all the way back to about 1998 or so. 52:19.948 --> 52:25.531 This is a combination of the US CRN and the existing climate division data from NOAA. 52:26.783 --> 52:28.203 Look at the very far right. 52:28.683 --> 52:29.904 Where's the hottest year ever? 52:29.964 --> 52:34.324 We had hotter years in the past, according to this data. 52:34.344 --> 52:37.925 So in terms of the hottest year ever, it certainly didn't happen in the United States. 52:38.525 --> 52:39.465 And the data shows it. 52:39.945 --> 52:44.286 But that doesn't stop the media from telling you it's the hottest year ever and things are terrible. 52:44.866 --> 52:54.068 And when you look at it globally with other sources, other than something like NASA GIST, which is the worst, alarmist thing on the planet, you see that we've only had just a little bit above normal. 52:55.409 --> 52:56.650 0.58 degrees centigrade. 52:56.710 --> 52:57.691 Where's the crisis? 52:57.991 --> 52:59.272 Where's the hottest year ever? 52:59.793 --> 53:05.699 This is also data from NOAA, but this data never sees the light of day in the media ever. 53:06.059 --> 53:17.330 They won't report this because it doesn't support the narrative that things are getting worse and we must act now because they're all being driven by these NGOs and the money that they're throwing at them, especially the Associated Press. 53:18.090 --> 53:18.210 So 53:19.076 --> 53:23.880 You know, the hottest year in 125,000 years doesn't hold up either when you look at data. 53:23.920 --> 53:25.882 And this is all peer-reviewed science right here. 53:25.922 --> 53:37.032 These graphs show that the Holocene climate optimum from about 10,000 to 5,000 years ago when the Sahara was green was warmer than the modern warm period we live in today. 53:37.773 --> 53:39.434 That never gets reported in the media. 53:39.735 --> 53:42.317 They would rather say it's the hottest in 125,000 years and just believe it. 53:45.333 --> 53:46.474 That's what they want you to do. 53:46.954 --> 53:47.835 Don't check facts. 53:47.955 --> 53:48.636 Just believe it. 53:49.457 --> 53:52.620 That's their whole mission in the world these days. 53:53.020 --> 53:58.385 Anthony, what you said brings to mind two things. 53:59.166 --> 54:02.028 I mean, probably a lot of things, but two things primarily to me. 54:02.889 --> 54:05.091 First off, let's say they're right. 54:06.032 --> 54:07.053 It's the hottest in 125,000 years. 54:07.073 --> 54:07.874 I mean, let's say they're right. 54:11.482 --> 54:19.885 Well, that means 125,000 years ago, when there wasn't a single power plant or a single internal combustion engine, was as hot or hotter than today. 54:20.665 --> 54:22.046 What caused the warming then? 54:22.706 --> 54:29.588 And why can't that be a factor in the warming today during the now interglacial, like there was an interglacial then, right? 54:30.389 --> 54:36.591 So where's the proof that it's human caused as opposed to natural cycles, which happens in interglacials? 54:37.111 --> 54:37.731 Secondly, the... 54:40.612 --> 54:50.617 The fact that, let's say, once again, granting them it's the hottest year in 125,000 years, I was told these hottest years are supposed to bring all sorts of climate catastrophes in their train. 54:51.117 --> 54:53.818 And yet we don't see more extreme weather. 54:53.838 --> 54:57.180 We didn't see a worse hurricane season than we've ever seen before. 54:57.380 --> 54:58.361 We didn't see worse droughts. 54:58.781 --> 55:01.042 Wildfires are down this year, the hottest year ever. 55:02.342 --> 55:03.603 It's one thing after the other. 55:05.124 --> 55:07.305 Warming is supposed to cause bad things. 55:08.655 --> 55:10.497 If they're right, it's warmed. 55:11.037 --> 55:12.238 Bad things aren't happening. 55:13.640 --> 55:13.860 Right. 55:13.980 --> 55:18.084 So we have a news story here that says someone finally reported this. 55:18.124 --> 55:20.546 So this was national news, U.S. 55:21.126 --> 55:21.527 news. 55:21.747 --> 55:24.649 2023 wildfire season is the quietest in decades. 55:24.850 --> 55:25.010 Yeah. 55:25.820 --> 55:29.681 And they put that up there and said, hey, look, it's not so bad. 55:29.761 --> 55:31.061 So what happens here? 55:31.361 --> 55:37.682 We keep being told that global warming, climate change, whatever, is driving wildfires. 55:38.022 --> 55:43.183 And yet in the hottest year ever, we had the least amount of wildfires since 1998. 55:43.703 --> 55:51.625 I've got a graph here that shows the data from the International or rather the Interagency Fire Center, the IFC, NIFC. 55:53.385 --> 55:56.267 Look, 1998, look at the level there in yellow. 55:56.287 --> 55:57.288 And then look at 2023. 55:57.988 --> 56:04.733 We've had the lowest fire season in the United States since 1998, 25 years. 56:05.954 --> 56:06.734 Where's the crisis? 56:07.134 --> 56:07.855 Where's the crisis? 56:07.935 --> 56:12.978 And it just goes to show that the media will tell you anything if it supports the narrative. 56:13.018 --> 56:14.399 They're not interested in facts. 56:14.419 --> 56:15.560 They're not interested in data. 56:15.580 --> 56:16.861 They're not interested in trends. 56:17.161 --> 56:19.803 They're only talking about the here and now and how it feels. 56:20.526 --> 56:22.527 All right, that's enough for all of our topics. 56:22.587 --> 56:25.629 Now let's go to some of our questions and hopefully some answers. 56:26.210 --> 56:29.452 We've had a number of people pose some questions, so let's see the first one. 56:33.194 --> 56:44.481 Tim Lakely, oh, well, is it possible for Americans to vote their way out of this climate policy madness, or is that option completely gone because it's global movement with too much momentum? 56:45.062 --> 56:46.022 That's what Kerry says. 56:46.082 --> 56:49.885 Well, I think it's probably... 56:51.297 --> 56:52.758 It's got momentum for sure. 56:53.478 --> 57:08.028 But whether or not that momentum can be sustained, Sterling points out, I think it was earlier in the broadcast, that it's a lot like some of these causes that were popular in the 70s and then disappeared, aren't there anymore. 57:08.929 --> 57:10.410 It may be the same with this, let's hope. 57:11.326 --> 57:20.733 I, you know, I'd say I'm unconvinced that it has that much momentum based on real world on the ground data. 57:21.434 --> 57:23.756 What we know is coal use went up last year. 57:23.776 --> 57:27.118 Oil and gas use went up last year. 57:27.579 --> 57:29.800 That doesn't sound like a lot of momentum to get to net zero. 57:29.820 --> 57:31.982 I hear a lot of governments talking. 57:32.002 --> 57:38.247 I see people go to COP 28 conferences and say, we're doing the, you know, we're saving the world. 57:39.739 --> 57:46.911 But the data indicates that we're going merrily along our way using fossil fuels and producing CO2. 57:47.812 --> 57:51.839 So I'm not clear that there's that much momentum that we need to vote ourselves out of. 57:52.398 --> 57:54.559 Now, can we vote ourselves out? 57:54.599 --> 57:55.540 Well, of course we can. 57:55.660 --> 57:57.521 Look, we voted Trump in in 2016. 57:57.982 --> 57:59.322 He took us out of the Paris Climate Agreement. 57:59.903 --> 58:11.650 I don't know who the next president is going to be, but if they take Trump's line and once again take us out of the Paris Climate Agreement, at least if we're out, the momentum ends here. 58:12.951 --> 58:20.295 And if we're out, how many other groups are going to say, oh, well, we're still going to cut our throats, even though the U.S. 58:20.335 --> 58:21.436 has decided not to cut his throat. 58:23.103 --> 58:24.643 We know China's not doing it already. 58:24.763 --> 58:26.344 We know India's not doing it already. 58:30.645 --> 58:31.725 Thank you, Winchester. 58:33.445 --> 58:34.926 You have a dog named Winchester? 58:35.346 --> 58:35.846 I do. 58:36.146 --> 58:38.786 Do you also have a dog named Remington? 58:39.327 --> 58:41.187 No, but I used to have a dog named Magnum. 58:42.007 --> 58:42.747 Exactly. 58:46.201 --> 58:50.482 So we can vote ourselves out of it if we get the right people in office. 58:50.762 --> 58:52.543 Now, of course, that's got to get through a Congress. 58:53.583 --> 58:57.825 Withdrawing from from Paris doesn't have to get through Congress because it was never submitted to Congress as a treaty. 58:59.385 --> 59:03.746 But I keep hearing about this momentum. 59:03.786 --> 59:08.568 I keep seeing people talk about it and I keep looking at the data saying, well, gosh, cult use was up. 59:10.029 --> 59:13.512 Yeah, Europe's cutting its throat, but India's not and China's not. 59:13.872 --> 59:15.994 And Australia is producing more coal than ever. 59:16.014 --> 59:19.397 And I say, it's not clear to me that there's that much momentum. 59:20.819 --> 59:21.940 All right. 59:22.120 --> 59:24.282 So let's go on to our next question if we have one. 59:25.403 --> 59:31.308 Walter Hogle asks, Anthony and team, what are your thoughts on possible Hanga Tonga influence on record warmth in 2023? 59:32.944 --> 59:34.085 Well, I'll take that question. 59:35.347 --> 59:41.195 We did in fact get a lot of water vapor injected into the troposphere and end up into the stratosphere as well. 59:42.096 --> 59:45.600 And that event, as far as modern measurements go, was unprecedented. 59:45.620 --> 59:46.782 We've never seen it before. 59:47.443 --> 59:50.386 And then a couple of months later, we started seeing a spike in temperature. 59:51.067 --> 59:55.930 And the spike, like if you look at the satellite record, UAH, was also unprecedented. 59:55.950 --> 01:00:02.854 We didn't have a spike like that going all the way back to 1979, although that's not a very long record in terms of climate. 01:00:03.275 --> 01:00:07.497 But there was that spike in that record and also a spike in the surface temperature record. 01:00:07.898 --> 01:00:08.758 So what caused it? 01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:11.059 I think there's a correlation there. 01:00:11.200 --> 01:00:14.502 I believe that because water vapor is, in fact, the most... 01:00:16.123 --> 01:00:22.546 potent greenhouse gas that we have regularly in our atmosphere, that that extra water vapor did in fact have an effect. 01:00:23.046 --> 01:00:28.910 Interestingly enough, we have some anecdotal information like from some of my friends like Charles Rotter who lives in Florida. 01:00:29.450 --> 01:00:32.412 He's saying that the humidity down there was 01:00:33.715 --> 01:00:38.556 just thicker than he'd ever felt it, even when we had clear skies in Florida. 01:00:39.036 --> 01:00:44.238 And so it seems to be that we've had more water vapor in the atmosphere and it spiked up. 01:00:44.298 --> 01:00:46.118 And now, interestingly, it's starting to come down. 01:00:46.158 --> 01:00:47.578 That spike is starting to drop. 01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:59.301 And so I suspect that we will see these temperatures come back to levels that they were before 2023, within about six months to eight months ahead of now. 01:00:59.741 --> 01:01:01.842 And then what are they gonna use for an excuse, right? 01:01:05.370 --> 01:01:05.830 There it is. 01:01:06.130 --> 01:01:06.910 Honga Tonga. 01:01:07.250 --> 01:01:07.751 Boom. 01:01:08.751 --> 01:01:09.491 Honga Tonga. 01:01:10.091 --> 01:01:16.292 And like we said earlier, El Nino, increased urban heat island. 01:01:16.793 --> 01:01:21.113 All of these things have been contributing to the measured temperature. 01:01:22.074 --> 01:01:32.236 And if you ignore those and focus solely on CO2, you miss the point because you can't explain current temperatures just with CO2. 01:01:34.568 --> 01:01:35.528 All right, next question. 01:01:38.090 --> 01:01:41.771 JJ asks, why do most people believe the claim is hottest? 01:01:42.652 --> 01:01:45.173 Believe the claim of hottest year in history year after year. 01:01:45.633 --> 01:01:48.615 It has been extremely cold in China and now Nordic. 01:01:49.813 --> 01:01:52.954 I think maybe Nordic is what he was trying to say. 01:01:53.874 --> 01:01:55.614 And next week we'll be in the North America. 01:01:55.654 --> 01:01:59.835 Yeah, we're going to get a tremendous cold wave come throughout the United States and Canada. 01:02:00.516 --> 01:02:01.856 And of course, you know what's going to happen? 01:02:02.176 --> 01:02:05.577 As soon as that cold wave hits, they will blame it on climate change. 01:02:05.617 --> 01:02:06.077 That's right. 01:02:06.117 --> 01:02:12.999 The polar vortex is swooping down because climate change caused by man has altered the jet stream and so forth and so on. 01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:18.040 You're going to see those stories happen because everything is caused by climate change, right? 01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:18.580 Right. 01:02:18.761 --> 01:02:20.683 It's utterly unfalsifiable. 01:02:20.743 --> 01:02:35.318 They can generate a model with an attribution model for any scenario that they want, and the media will pick it up and report on it as if it is proven observations-based science, which it's not. 01:02:35.834 --> 01:02:40.156 Well, I mean, look, the New York Times just got egg on its face this week, as far as I'm concerned. 01:02:40.276 --> 01:02:46.880 You know, unless something radically changes, they're about to get hit with a whopper of a winter storm in the Northeast. 01:02:47.380 --> 01:02:51.062 And the New York Times just ran its second story, the end of snow story, right? 01:02:51.462 --> 01:02:56.704 They did it, I think in 2008, they ran the original story, but it may have been 2012. 01:02:56.945 --> 01:02:56.704 2001. 01:02:57.425 --> 01:02:58.265 Yeah. 01:02:58.325 --> 01:03:01.787 Children won't know what snow is. 01:03:01.827 --> 01:03:03.468 You see, it's weather whiplash. 01:03:03.971 --> 01:03:04.992 There you go. 01:03:05.032 --> 01:03:13.416 I mean, well, that's why that is that this is a paradigm example of why the climate change narrative is not science. 01:03:15.167 --> 01:03:15.807 it's a religion. 01:03:16.288 --> 01:03:16.748 And why? 01:03:16.768 --> 01:03:27.197 Because it doesn't matter what the weather event is, whether it's more warming or less warming, more hurricanes or fewer hurricanes, more snow or less snow. 01:03:27.917 --> 01:03:29.338 The answer is always climate change. 01:03:29.999 --> 01:03:37.265 But a single thing can't cause two diametrically opposed types of weather at the same place at the same time. 01:03:38.165 --> 01:03:39.206 It's impossible. 01:03:39.467 --> 01:03:41.889 You know, God may have stopped the world from turning. 01:03:42.728 --> 01:03:47.512 He may have opened the oceans, but climate change can't open the oceans and close them at the same time. 01:03:48.033 --> 01:03:48.593 Impossible. 01:03:49.334 --> 01:03:50.014 That's physics. 01:03:50.254 --> 01:03:55.639 And so that's why they started talking climate change rather than global warming, right? 01:03:56.640 --> 01:03:57.981 Well, everything's climate change. 01:04:00.003 --> 01:04:00.363 Everything. 01:04:01.244 --> 01:04:04.727 In the future, journalists just won't know what facts are. 01:04:04.747 --> 01:04:06.148 That's what's coming. 01:04:08.950 --> 01:04:10.852 I'm not convinced that future is that far off. 01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:13.301 All right, next question. 01:04:16.625 --> 01:04:17.506 We have another question. 01:04:20.649 --> 01:04:21.050 There it is. 01:04:21.310 --> 01:04:24.213 What prediction did the climatist alarmist ever get right? 01:04:28.405 --> 01:04:29.125 Well, it's warmer. 01:04:30.406 --> 01:04:34.688 Not by as much as they said, but it is warmer. 01:04:34.888 --> 01:04:43.791 Of all the different myriad predictions that they've made, the one they've come closest to getting right, besides just it's warmer, is in the Arctic. 01:04:44.191 --> 01:04:45.212 So the sea ice. 01:04:45.352 --> 01:04:48.313 They predicted the sea ice would decline radically. 01:04:49.193 --> 01:04:50.534 And then in about 2012... 01:04:54.983 --> 01:04:59.766 it did drop off radically to levels that they were predicting wouldn't happen until 2050. 01:04:59.887 --> 01:05:01.348 And then they pointed to that as proof. 01:05:01.788 --> 01:05:04.270 The problem is they've gone back up since then. 01:05:05.331 --> 01:05:06.812 They said it would be a permanent state of affairs. 01:05:07.532 --> 01:05:11.616 But that was the thing, as far as I can tell, the closest they've come to being right about anything. 01:05:12.381 --> 01:05:21.163 Right, and sea level rise, I mean, but it's not anywhere near as extreme as they say that it is, but sea levels will rise, just inevitably. 01:05:21.203 --> 01:05:24.044 As you come out of a glacial period, it's going to happen. 01:05:24.124 --> 01:05:25.305 There's no way around it. 01:05:25.345 --> 01:05:28.265 You have to do your city planning and stuff based on that. 01:05:28.825 --> 01:05:30.386 It's going to happen. 01:05:30.666 --> 01:05:31.826 Until the next last age comes. 01:05:32.587 --> 01:05:40.209 Yeah, every civilization in history has had to deal with if they were perched on a cliff edge or a beach or something. 01:05:41.889 --> 01:05:43.850 It's just something that you have to be aware of. 01:05:46.051 --> 01:05:49.712 Joe Hunter asks, what is the carbon footprint of an erupting volcano? 01:05:49.732 --> 01:05:50.773 Oh, my. 01:05:51.613 --> 01:05:53.134 I don't know that I can quantify that. 01:05:54.875 --> 01:05:57.016 Let me just paraphrase President Trump. 01:05:57.096 --> 01:05:58.296 It's huge. 01:06:00.097 --> 01:06:01.317 That's all I can say. 01:06:02.418 --> 01:06:03.538 Let's go on to the next one. 01:06:03.558 --> 01:06:07.300 Let's see the next question here. 01:06:09.773 --> 01:06:14.878 Dan Goldberg, Anthony G, why do you bother confusing the wacko green leftist with the facts? 01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:18.141 Some days I ask myself that question. 01:06:18.161 --> 01:06:20.744 You know, I just, there are days when, 01:06:21.562 --> 01:06:26.165 I try to argue logically, rationally, sensibly, and calmly. 01:06:26.585 --> 01:06:28.207 And it all gets thrown back in my face. 01:06:28.267 --> 01:06:32.990 It gets thrown back in my face as, well, you're not a degreed climatologist, so therefore you're an idiot. 01:06:33.230 --> 01:06:35.071 Or you're in the pay of big oil. 01:06:35.111 --> 01:06:38.293 You're being paid to have an opinion. 01:06:38.754 --> 01:06:42.916 All these things that come back at me, they don't really have any retorts to any of this. 01:06:43.076 --> 01:06:46.279 All they have is raw emotions and denigration to spew back. 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:51.002 And that makes me work harder because I'm not going to put up with that crap. 01:06:51.662 --> 01:06:52.223 Simply that. 01:06:56.106 --> 01:06:56.546 Hippie. 01:06:57.366 --> 01:06:59.668 Yes, we've all been waiting for a question from a hippie. 01:07:00.329 --> 01:07:08.995 Explain how the ocean water temperature from winter to summer, which is about 10 degrees difference, I'm guessing, causes more condensation into the air. 01:07:09.095 --> 01:07:11.517 It can't be from steam and heat. 01:07:11.597 --> 01:07:16.121 No, it's not from steam and heat, but there's a couple of things going on with the ocean. 01:07:16.781 --> 01:07:17.601 There's more sunlight. 01:07:18.242 --> 01:07:22.364 Of course, sunlight creates evaporation because it warms the very top layer of the ocean. 01:07:22.844 --> 01:07:24.985 And so warmer water evaporates quicker. 01:07:25.245 --> 01:07:29.428 But there's also albedo changes, which also is a positive feedback cycle. 01:07:29.468 --> 01:07:32.889 For example, more sunlight causes more algae. 01:07:33.310 --> 01:07:35.671 Algae is darker, a lower albedo. 01:07:36.051 --> 01:07:39.373 And so with a lower albedo, more heating happens from sunlight. 01:07:39.793 --> 01:07:43.415 And so it's a vicious cycle that goes on until sunlight starts depleting. 01:07:43.895 --> 01:07:49.278 So it's a combination of things that causes more water vapor to happen when we have summer. 01:07:53.059 --> 01:07:53.740 Next question. 01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:56.141 And pressure plays into that too, air pressure. 01:07:56.721 --> 01:07:58.082 Well, do we have time for another question? 01:07:58.102 --> 01:07:59.342 We're already 10 minutes over here. 01:08:01.323 --> 01:08:02.364 Five gorawatts. 01:08:02.504 --> 01:08:03.284 It's good to keep going. 01:08:05.523 --> 01:08:07.264 All right, I'm going to use that metric someday. 01:08:07.284 --> 01:08:12.486 Ezoro asks, but don't you understand the cold weather is all due to climate change according to climate alarmists? 01:08:12.506 --> 01:08:14.267 Well, yeah, we talk about that all the time. 01:08:14.287 --> 01:08:23.551 I mean, literally anything that's abnormal, anything that's even slightly abnormal, immediately they rush to blame it on climate change because what else could it be? 01:08:24.554 --> 01:08:39.764 That's another thing that kind of drives me nuts when, you know, non-scientist journalists are, frankly, a lot of the scientists that are feeding this information to them know that the journalist is not going to understand what they're saying and be a little bit critical about it. 01:08:40.185 --> 01:08:48.871 But when people say, like, it was hotter than average today, it was colder than average today, what do you think an average is made up of? 01:08:50.054 --> 01:08:52.115 It's never the average. 01:08:52.815 --> 01:08:55.796 The average temperature is not the temperature that it's going to be. 01:08:57.177 --> 01:09:14.904 That drives me nuts when they over exaggerate the amount of influence that anomalies have versus understanding that it takes a trend of them to show that there is any kind of a change happening. 01:09:15.064 --> 01:09:15.804 That drives me nuts. 01:09:17.586 --> 01:09:19.548 Anthony, you should explain albedo. 01:09:20.449 --> 01:09:20.809 All right. 01:09:21.050 --> 01:09:21.550 Let's see. 01:09:21.610 --> 01:09:22.351 I need a prop. 01:09:24.513 --> 01:09:24.713 Yes. 01:09:25.074 --> 01:09:25.374 Okay. 01:09:26.235 --> 01:09:27.216 I have two props here. 01:09:27.977 --> 01:09:32.001 We have a piece of white paper and a piece of black paper. 01:09:32.682 --> 01:09:33.002 All right. 01:09:33.102 --> 01:09:34.644 Thank goodness I have props handy. 01:09:35.144 --> 01:09:37.527 I'm the only guy with albedo props on the planet, right? 01:09:38.737 --> 01:09:45.800 So black paper, when sunlight hits it, absorbs more solar radiation. 01:09:45.860 --> 01:09:47.001 It warms up quicker. 01:09:47.561 --> 01:09:50.303 Asphalt, for example, is black, and it warms up quicker. 01:09:50.843 --> 01:09:53.044 And so this has a low albedo. 01:09:55.421 --> 01:10:00.444 This white piece of paper, like snow or clouds, has a high albedo. 01:10:00.624 --> 01:10:03.145 It reflects most of the light that hits it. 01:10:03.665 --> 01:10:05.807 It pushes the light back, it reflects. 01:10:05.927 --> 01:10:15.232 And so when we have more clouds and the albedo of the Earth is higher, more sunlight is reflected into space and it doesn't reach the ground. 01:10:15.732 --> 01:10:17.813 And so that's the whole thing behind albedo. 01:10:18.033 --> 01:10:19.314 I hope I explained that well enough. 01:10:20.953 --> 01:10:23.415 Yeah, and it's the same thing with snow on the ground and all that. 01:10:23.495 --> 01:10:36.845 Sterling and I covered a story a couple of years ago, I think, maybe last year, from there was an organization that was complaining, I think, that their parks or that the forest is warmer than prairie. 01:10:36.885 --> 01:10:37.985 So we need more prairie. 01:10:38.886 --> 01:10:46.450 And it turns out that the way that they figured this out was they measured like during the winter, they took IR reflectance readings or something. 01:10:47.030 --> 01:10:53.854 And in the winter, the prairie has all this snow on it, or the prairie is just lighter in color in general. 01:10:54.274 --> 01:10:59.097 And so it's not as warm at ground level out in the open like that. 01:11:00.229 --> 01:11:08.518 In areas that have a little bit of a more absorption, like in a pine forest or something in the winter, you're going to have a little bit higher temperatures. 01:11:09.559 --> 01:11:15.565 And when the ground is bare because the trees are keeping the snow from hitting the ground, you'll also have a little bit of a warmer temperature. 01:11:15.585 --> 01:11:19.489 And they were blaming that on global warming, of course. 01:11:20.630 --> 01:11:21.651 So that was kind of fun. 01:11:22.830 --> 01:11:24.692 And on that note, I think it's time to go. 01:11:25.112 --> 01:11:36.703 We've talked about a lot of different topics, and I want to remind everyone to visit our different websites, climaterealism.com, climateataglance.com, and energyataglance.com. 01:11:36.743 --> 01:11:38.845 And of course, my website, what's up with that? 01:11:39.185 --> 01:11:43.590 Thanks for joining us here on this first broadcast of the year. 01:11:43.750 --> 01:11:45.011 We'll have another one next week. 01:11:45.511 --> 01:11:46.112 I want to have... 01:11:47.333 --> 01:11:48.234 Have a good time then, too. 01:11:48.354 --> 01:11:49.355 We had a great time today. 01:11:49.456 --> 01:11:50.517 Thanks, guys, for joining us. 01:11:51.077 --> 01:11:55.642 And just another reminder, stay strong in that fight against climate. 01:11:56.543 --> 01:11:59.367 You all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend. 01:12:00.187 --> 01:12:00.528 Bye-bye. 01:12:20.414 --> 01:12:22.693 He's a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.