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people are dying entire ecosystems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and

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all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth how dare you

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this is the story of how an eccentric environmental scare grew into a powerful global industry

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it's a wonderful business opportunity okay you want climate we'll give you climate there's a huge

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amount of money involved and this is a huge big money scam there are not just now billions but

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there are trillions of dollars at stake it's a story of self-interest and big government funding

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people like me our careers depend on funding of climate research this is what I've been doing

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just about my whole career this is what the other climate researchers are doing with their whole

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career they don't want this to end if co2 isn't having the huge negative impacts that we claimed

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it was having originally how are we going to stay in business a lot of people's livelihoods depend on

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it they're not going to give that up this is a story of the corruption of science there's no such

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thing as a climate emergency happening on this planet now it's there's no evidence of one the

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climate alarm is nonsense you know it's a hoax I've never liked hoax I think scam is a better word but

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I'm willing to live with hoax it's a story about the bullying and intimidation of anyone who dares to

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challenge the climate alarm to speak up against or about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was

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essentially career suicide activists are even calling for any skepticism to be criminalized it's the story of an

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assault on individual freedom it's a wonderful way to increase government power if there's an existential

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threat out there that's worldwide well you need a powerful worldwide government you know to cope with

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it we see all these kind of authoritarian measures being adopted in the name of saving the planet you've

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suddenly got the population under control all over the world we called it industrial progress since the

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Industrial Revolution the development of free market capitalist mass production has made ever more

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goods ever more affordable to ever larger numbers of people mass production marched hand in hand with mass

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consumption in the modern age ordinary people enjoy a level of prosperity never before achieved in human

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history but all the while we are told we were destroying the planet computers have calculated what is in

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store for us as we produce and consume evermore the weather will get worse the planet will boil we greedy

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humans must accept limits on our lifestyle consume less travel less those who deny the climate crisis are not

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just wrong they're dangerous spreading the poison of doubt among a gullible population these deniers should be

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shunned and shamed and censored for these climate deniers are flat earthers they are anti-science

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scientists teaching at new york university is one of these climate deniers professor stephen kunin is one of

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america's leading physicists he was a science advisor to president obama and both vice president and

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provost of caltech one of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world i teach climate science to my

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students at nyu and i always tell them check the data or the papers yourself and they all come out of that

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course with their eyes wide open professor kunin's best-selling book unsettled argues that mainstream scientific

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studies accepted by official agencies do not support the notion that there is any kind of climate crisis at all

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of course i've been called a denier uh and my response is tell me what i'm denying because i'm quoting

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from you directly from the official u.n scientific reports dick lindsen also dismisses the claims of

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climate alarmists he's one of the world's leading meteorologists was professor of meteorology at both

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harvard university and mit and has served on the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change or ipcc

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even the intergovernmental panel on climate change if you go to their section of working one group one

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which is the science they don't support any of these claims and i assure you having served on it's biased

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but you couldn't get any real scientists to agree some of the nonsense that's being promoted

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will happer is also a denier and is another of america's leading physicists

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he has been science advisor to three presidents and professor of physics at both columbia and princeton

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university there's this mischievous uh idea that's promoted that scientific truth is determined by

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consensus in real science you know there are always arguments no science has ever settled you know it

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just uh it's absurd when people say the science of climate is settled it's not there's no such thing

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as settled science especially climate dr john clauser is one of the most respected scientists in the world

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in 2022 he was awarded the nobel prize for physics the science that's being done is appallingly bad in

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my opinion there are a large number of scientists who are in violent disagreement they refer to

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themselves as skeptics since i am no longer worried about losing funding or a job whatever i call myself

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a climate change denier these very eminent and respected scientists and others like them are not

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flat earthers they do not deny science so what's the evidence that has caused them to dismiss the climate

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alarm as nonsense we are told that current temperatures are unprecedented and dangerously high

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it's possible to check if this is true because we have evidence of earth's climate history dating

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back hundreds thousands even millions of years

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the desert of judea by the dead sea professor near chevy from the raqqa institute of physics has come

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here looking for clues thousands of years ago this place was underwater and etched into the rocks are

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lines which if you know how to read them tell the story of earth's climate history and here's the climate

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we're at the lake bed of what used to be lake lisan it's a lake that existed until the end of the last

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ice age back then the lake level was maybe 100 meters above where we're located when we want to reconstruct

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climates of the past we have to look for evidence for clues and when the lake existed it had the deposits

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and by looking at these layers here we can actually reconstruct how the climate has changed warmer

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water means more life the accumulation of more shells and bones from sea creatures

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and other changes that are reflected in the ancient layers of the lake bed the lines act as a kind of

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thermometer and this is just one way geologists can reconstruct past climate in other places we can go to

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uh stalagmite caves and see the annual rings that you have in the stalagmite or we can drill coals from

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the bottom of the ocean and then look at layers there or many other places but here i think this is one of

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the nicest places because you can actually see you can actually see how the climate has changed

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so when we look back in time what do we find

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for 200 million years dinosaurs roamed the earth an earth marked by fertile dense forests teeming with

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life and at no time during those 200 million years were temperatures as cold as they are today

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if you go back let's say 200 million years it was maybe 13 degrees warmer than it is now so on the

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geological perspective this is not at all unprecedented for the last 500 million years temperatures have

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varied greatly but for almost all that time the earth was much much warmer than today

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compared to the last half billion years the earth right now is exceptionally cold in fact

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there are very few times when it's been this cold we're relatively cold maybe not quite the coldest it's

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been in 500 million years but pretty close to it we are in a remarkably cool period if we look over the

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last 550 million years in fact only one other time period in that last 550 million years was the

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temperature as cool as it is now the mammals who now inhabit the earth began to evolve around 60

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million years ago when the world was much warmer than today we just look at the last 65 million years

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so this is after the dinosaurs go extinct mammals really start to take over and our evolutionary ancestors

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start to live on the land any time period within the last 65 million years was warmer than it is

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essentially today the earth's mammals humans included appear to thrive when it's warm warmer than it is now

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there's no doubt that warm is better than cold in geological history we are a tropical species

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a human being in the shade naked dies at 20c from hypothermia we evolved on the equator in Africa and the only

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reason we were able to get out of there eventually was fire shelter and clothing

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over the last 50 million years temperatures steadily declined plunging the earth into what geologists call

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the late cenozoic ice age we are still in that ice age the reason there's all that ice on the poles

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is because we're in an ice age everybody knows that who knows anything about the history of the earth

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this is an ice age we're at the tail end of a 50 million year cooling period and they're saying it's

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too hot if we zoom in on the past few million years we see temperatures sinking and as they do

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fluctuating between extremely cold periods and slightly milder periods the extremely cold periods

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are called glacial maxima when the planet is mostly covered in ice and the slightly less cold

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glacial minimum known as the holocene with milder weather humans began to emerge from their caves

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and several thousand years ago we see the rise of the first great civilizations in a blissful period

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which according to many studies was considerably warmer than today this is known as the holocene

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climate optimum it was called an optimum because people thought that warmer was better since then

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temperatures have declined and begun to fluctuate in roman times there was a blissfully warm period

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followed by a brutal cold period in the dark ages then came the balmy medieval warm period according to many

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studies as warm or warmer than today followed by an especially cold period known as the little ice age

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possibly the coldest in the last 10 000 years and here it is the roman warm period the cold dark age

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the medieval warm period and then the very cold little ice age from which for the past 300 years or so

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we've been recovering

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the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world comes from central england

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and this is what it shows since the worst of the little ice age from 1650 the temperature has risen

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gently by little more than one degree celsius the central england record of temperature is a world

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treasure you know it's the longest continuous record that we have and it's certainly not a very alarming

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record it began in the depths of the little ice age and so you can see the slight warming that followed the

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little ice age and there's certainly nothing very alarming that's happening today at the very end of

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the record most of the warming that we're observing today is the recovery from the little ice age whatever

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caused that well you know we're talking over the entire industrial period of about one degree centigrade

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to put this one degree in perspective let's look at new york central park records show that there has been

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no overall change in temperature here since 1940 but from one year to the next the average

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temperature can vary by three degrees celsius without many new yorkers even noticing in fact

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between the warmest year in the 1960s and the coolest in 2000 there's a difference of five degrees celsius

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the average temperature on this day in this year might be five degrees different from the average temperature

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a year ago or two years you know when i hear people pontificating about one and a half degrees

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leading to the end of civilization i think what have they been smoking you know are you crazy all right

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according to thermometer readings since 1880 there's been a very mild increase in temperature

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only by stretching the y-axis on this graph is the increase noticeable this is the rising line used by

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official agencies as proof of global warming but is it accurate

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professor ross mckittrick is an expert in statistical analysis at guelph university

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he noticed something odd about modern thermometer records

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thermometers even in the same region give out very different readings depending on where they're located

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i was interested in the question of how do you explain the spatial pattern of warming so

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some places warm a lot some places don't warm much and it turns out it's highly correlated with

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the spatial pattern of economic activity where there are more people and there is more human activity

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there's more heat this is known as the urban heat island effect urban heat island effect is

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essentially london right you pick london with buildings with a lot of activities tends to be of a few

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degree i mean we're talking now celsius right even four or five degrees celsius warmer than our skirt

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this is a phenomenon of urbanization this day is the obvious effect is actually concrete retaining retaining heat

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this can be illustrated with a satellite heat map of paris the center of paris can be as much as

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five degrees celsius warmer than the surrounding countryside paris london beijing shanghai you name

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it new delhi all of them absolutely demonstrated the defects so how has this affected the official

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temperature record in the early part of the 20th century it was normal to erect weather thermometers

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just outside towns close enough to check every day but away from the heat of urban life

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but over the 20th century those towns have expanded suburbs have spread there are more roads more

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cars thermometers which were once outside towns are now surrounded by shopping malls offices factories

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and houses these towns and all the locations where thermometers are located on average they've all grown

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in population let's say since 1880 you've got buildings growing up around the thermometers you've

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got parking lots so you've got all of these non-climate influences which are affecting the temperatures

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which raises questions about the quality of thermometer data for monitoring global warming

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to correct for this corruption of the data an obvious solution is to use only records from rural

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weather stations which have been less affected by urban development this has now been done by a team

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led by dr willie soon we combine all the best rural station any anything that we can correct what we

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correct for and we show if you just don't use this and use only rural you you get a very different kind

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of picture according to rural temperature records temperatures rose from the 1880s but peaked in the

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1940s then there was a marked cooling until the 1970s after that temperatures recover but are still

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today barely higher than they were in the 1940s what we see is that basically you have a warming from

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the 1900 1850s or so to 1930s and 40s and started to warm and then cool in a substantial way to the 70s about

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76 or so instead of a long-term systematic warming trend it has a variability multi-decade or like every

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50 60 years or so kind of a variation

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it's not just rural thermometers that show little warming merchant ships and other naval vessels have

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been measuring the temperature of the sea since the 19th century

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in red we see the land temperature record since the 1860s which has been inflated by urban thermometers

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but in blue is the ocean temperature record from around 1900 the two begin to diverge ocean records show

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far less warming in the 20th century and the pattern more closely resembles the rural temperature record

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sea is not supposed to be quote unquote contaminated by urban heat island effect am i right

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yes so when we compare the two record within the range of uncertainty this behavior actually fits

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scientists have also studied temperature change by looking at tree rings which again shows very little

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warming there's a gentle rise till the mid-20th century a cooling to the 1970s followed by a mild

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recovery once again it shows temperatures today are barely different to those of the 1930s and 40s

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and the pattern closely resembles rural temperatures

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satellites too seem to be telling a different story

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our ability to measure global temperature accurately took a leap forward when satellites began to orbit the

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earth one of the scientists who pioneered the use of satellites to measure temperature

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is dr roy spencer who in the 1980s was senior scientist for climate at nasa's marshall spaceflight

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center we were discussing over lunch isn't there some way we can use satellites to monitor global

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temperatures because as you know the temperature network of thermometers is pretty skimpy around the

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world so it's kind of hard to get a global temperature dr spencer's development of weather satellites

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was revolutionary he and his colleague professor john christie have been awarded nasa's medal for

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exceptional scientific achievement our satellite data begins in january of 1979 that's when we have

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complete global coverage uh and we have it right up to the present there was one critical question

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about temperature that satellites were singularly well equipped to answer has there been a spurious warming

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that has crept into the global temperature record over land uh that's just a result of an increase in population

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and that's something that we've been analyzing and working a lot on lately and we're finding that

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especially in urban areas uh it's large i mean since 1880 most of the warming

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it looks like is due to the urban heat island effect we're lucky to have a few independent scientists like

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john christie and roy spencer with their satellite measurements of temperature you know before they

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started releasing this ground-based temperature records were going wild they were going up you know

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like crazy with no no bounds but now they have to contend with the fact that there's this independent

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and probably better way of measuring the whole globe's temperature which is not alarming at all

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evidence from multiple sources now agree that the official global temperature record as used by world

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governments and reported in the world's media is showing far too much warming over the last 120 years

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artificially inflated by urbanization you look at the weather balloon record the satellite record the rural

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record the ocean record doesn't warm nearly as much as land all of these indications show that the like

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the big warming pulse in the record is the northern hemisphere land record and that's also where most of

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this data contamination is happening but of the mild warming that has taken place in the last three to

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four hundred years can any of it be attributed to human emissions of co2

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professor henrik slensmark is visiting the hebrew university of jerusalem and taking a stroll in the

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evolution garden dedicated to preserving the oldest surviving plant species on earth

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earth these plants aren't just pleasing on the eye they can also tell us about levels of co2

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in the atmosphere in earth's geological past what we have here is a ginkgo tree and it's actually a

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living fossil in the sense that this type of tree first appeared about 270 million years ago

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on the underside of the leaf there are what we call stomata the cells where they can uptake co2

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so they're actually measuring how much co2 is in the air and then they adjust the number of this stormata

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to how much co2 there is and by looking at fossils and measuring how many there are at a different

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time it says something about what was the level of co2 back in time

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so when we look back in time what do we find over almost all of the last 500 million years the level of

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co2 in the atmosphere has been far far higher than it is now even with modern industry's contribution to

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co2 levels by geological standards the level of atmospheric co2 today is close to being as low as

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as it has ever been at present we have about a 400 parts per million 50 million years ago it might have

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been 2 000 parts per million so a much much higher concentration of co2 i think current estimates of

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global co2 is 423 or so parts per million today if we look through the phanerozoic the last 550 million

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years we would see co2 on the order of 7 000 parts per million co2 is plant food and the result of much

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higher levels of atmospheric co2 in the past was a much much greener world periods of elevated co2 tend to

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be time periods of of of a huge biodiversity on on the planet in fact we're in a co2 famine if we look

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over the last 550 million years at the depths of the most recent glacial maximum the amount of co2 in

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the atmosphere sank so low all life on earth came close to extinction they say co2 is higher than it's

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been for a hundred thousand years but what they don't tell you in that period they're talking about

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is that co2 sank so low that all life on earth nearly died 20 000 years ago co2 is at the lowest

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level it has ever been in the history of the earth 180 parts per million if it had gone down another 30

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parts per million we'd all be dead there is a low point of co2 where photosynthesis becomes so

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inefficient that plant life would die then everything else starts to perish after that during the last

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glacial maximum there's good evidence that in many parts of the world there was plant starvation from

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not enough co2 so we should be very grateful that co2 levels are beginning to go back up we're still far

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from the historical norms which would be several thousand parts per million there's not enough fossil

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fuel to get there but at least we're making a start but has the small recent increase in co2 affected the

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temperature we would now show you a picture of co2 but we can't because it's invisible co2 makes up a

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tiny fraction of the gases in the atmosphere just 0.04 of a percent it is just one of 25 different

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greenhouse gases which taken as a whole form only one part of earth's complex climate system so what

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evidence is there that this trace gas is having any noticeable impact on the climate

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climate is based on the climate is it if it were true that higher levels of co2 caused higher temperatures we

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should be able to see that in earth's climate history here scientists are drilling in to ancient ice cores

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these cores tell us both about past temperatures and co2 levels scientists have indeed found a link between

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temperature and co2 the trouble is it's the wrong way round so it's true over the last few million

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years of the ice age that we're in now that co2 and temperature are correlated but if co2 is the

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driver it has to change first and the temperature has to change second in fact when you start to

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look at the data very specifically you see the exact reverse temperature starts to rise first

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and then on the order of a century to a few centuries later we start to see a rise in co2

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it's long been known that the temperature actually moves first so temperature goes up co2 goes up

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after that temperature goes down co2 goes down ice ages start when carbon dioxide is at its maximum

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and ice ages and when carbon dioxide is at its minimum which is the exact opposite of what would

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occur if carbon dioxide was controlling the temperature the question of whether co2 drives

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the climate is easily resolved you can look back in time over hundreds of millions of years co2 levels

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have changed radically many times did this cause temperature change no absolutely not co2 has never

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driven temperature changes in the past never nor is it clear in recent times that co2 is having any

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effect on temperature here we see industrial output of co2 since 1750 from the mid-19th century to the

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mid-20th century there was only a slight increase it's not until the 1940s that industrial production of co2

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begins to take off but this doesn't match the temperature record according to rural thermometers

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most of the warming in the past 200 years occurred before the 1940s and have barely changed since then

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one of the embarrassments that ipcc doesn't like to talk about was that the 1930s when human influences

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were much smaller were particularly warm that's the puzzle that the first early part where we have

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such a sharp uh warming from the 1900 to 1930s and 1940s co2 could never cause that temperature rise

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but the 1930s and early 40s was so hot is puzzling more puzzling still is what happened next by the

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end of world war ii co2 was really going up and yet the temperature was going down from 40 to 70 while the

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co2 continued to rise these things started to cool what happened journalists were writing about the coming

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ice age it was on the cover of time magazine 1970s the new ice age was the big story and how about

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since the 1970s according to computer climate models over the past half century rising co2 should have

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led to this increase in temperature but according to multiple satellite and balloon measurements what

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actually happened was this well what we found from the satellite data is that the global atmosphere

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is not warming up as fast as the climate models say it should be there's a couple dozen climate models

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now that have been worked on for decades you know billions of dollars tens of billions of dollars have

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been invested in these climate modeling efforts and we find that generally speaking virtually all of the

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climate models produce too much warming over this period since 1979 up to the present now even if

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we say the surface thermometers are correct they still don't produce as much warming as most of the

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climate models say there should have been let's say in the last 50 years the models individually and even

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collectively when you average over all of them in so-called ensembles they don't get it right you can

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already see that the main uh support of the climate alarm movement which are these enormous computer

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models they're clearly wrong they they don't agree with what we observe you know they uh they're all

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running much too hot they don't get the geographical distribution of temperatures anywhere close they

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don't get el nino la nina cycles they're just nonsense all climate models are based on the assumption

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that co2 drives temperature change but actual observations and historical evidence clearly suggest

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that it doesn't yes i assert that there is no connection whatsoever between co2 and climate change

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that's all a crock of crap in my opinion there is no truth to the idea that the earth is warmer

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now than it has been in the past it's a lie there is no truth that co2 is higher than it should be

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that is a lie earth's climate has changed many times over the course of its long history and will

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continue to change without any help from us climate always changes you know who denies climate change

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it's always changing but if co2 doesn't drive climate change what does

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in earth's atmosphere there are powerful forces at work and perhaps the most powerful of all are clouds

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co2 is quite unimportant in controlling the earth's climate what is important is clouds clouds don't

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absorb any energy at all they simply reflect all the sunlight back out into space big bright white clouds

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if you look at the earth you see lots and lots of them and they vary dramatically from one day to the next

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that is hundreds of times more powerful than the trivial effects of co2

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but what controls the number and density of clouds on earth professor henrik svensmark from the danish

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national space institute is in jerusalem with the astrophysicist neer shaviv together they've been

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exploring cloud variation and its effect on climate and strangely they've found a link between clouds and

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exploding supernovae far off in our galaxy when you have big stars they don't live very long

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uh i mean relatively only maybe a few million years up to 40 million years but they end their life

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in a huge explosion which we call the supernova

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an exploding supernova sends out vast quantities of debris tiny charged subatomic particles known as

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cosmic rays traveling almost at the speed of light and as they hit earth they develop into seeds which

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attract water vapor and form clouds professor shaviv noticed that the amount of cloud cover on earth

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is related to our journey around the milky way as our solar system orbits the galaxy over millions of

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years it passes through the galaxy's spiral arms dense clusters of stars as it does we are exposed to more or

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less cloud forming cosmic rays and this corresponds to historic temperature changes on earth the really

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mind-boggling thing is that using geology you can reconstruct the climate on earth over the past billion years

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and you can reconstruct our galactic journey and both tell the same story

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the sun our source of heat and light a seething mass of gigantic magnetic storms

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which vary in strength and number over time and which affect earth directly and indirectly

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when it is very active the sun sends giant gusts of solar wind through the solar system

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the solar wind warms us indirectly by acting as a barrier limiting the number of cloud forming

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cosmic rays reaching earth so from the sun we have the solar wind it carries the sun's magnetic field

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out to a large distance and it works like a shield against cosmic rays when the sun is more active

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you have a stronger solar wind you have less cosmic rays reaching the inner solar system and reaching

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the atmosphere and the clouds which are then formed are less white they reflect less of the sunlight

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which means that it's going to be warmer here on earth

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here is a proxy reconstruction of ocean temperatures over thousands of years and here is one of solar activity

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over the same period what is causing the ocean temperature to change is clearly variations in solar activity

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because ipcc is determined to go on a narrative that only co2 can drive the climate system

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they turn off the sun essentially right because the sun is just a background thing for them that it

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doesn't do anything astrophysicist willie soon decided to look again at the rural temperature record for

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the past 150 years then he looked at a record of changes in solar activity over the same period

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to dr soon it was obvious that it was the sun not co2 that was driving temperature as of 2023

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ipcc says is that the sun have absolutely zero chance to explain the changes of the climate system

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on broad scale let's say global warming on northern helmsfield

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we say no we can easily demonstrate the sun can explain all of it there's zero for the co2

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100 for the sun how's that why are these and other studies never reported in the mainstream media

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and if climate change is natural what are we to make of the alleged terrifying increase in extreme weather events

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of the heat waves and hurricanes of forest fires droughts and the rest

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my first instinct as a scientist and what i teach my students is well let's look at the data and when

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you do that you discover as you can read in the ipcc reports themselves that it's pretty hard to find

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trends in extreme events much less attribute them to human influences you've now had decades of putting

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the idea in people's heads that any time the weather is bad it's climate change and greenhouse gases so i

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think people at this point can't help themselves if you have a heat wave immediately everybody's thinking

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oh what have we done to the weather if somebody says in the news this is the warmest day since

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1980 or something well you can look up the temperature records and see for yourself

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whether it was in fact warmer in the 1930s as it often is

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it shows very clearly that the 1930s were far more prone to heat waves than we are today not only were

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there more heat waves in the 1930s the heat waves then were much hotter than those of today likewise

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official figures show that the number of hot days in the u.s has markedly declined

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the united states was much hotter in the 1930s north dakota reached 121 degrees south dakota was 120

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degrees wisconsin was 114 degrees these sort of temperatures are just completely out of range of

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of anything people experience now a common mistake is to suppose that higher average temperature will

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mean more hot weather but this isn't true here again is the central england temperature record the

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longest instrumental temperature record in the world summer temperatures over the past three to four

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hundred years since the end of the little ice age have barely changed at all it is winter temperatures

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that have been slightly rising the earth's climate has not been getting hotter it's been getting milder

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that's certainly being observed all over the world if you look at temperature records high temperatures are

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almost unchanged but cold temperatures at night or during the winter are going up a little bit

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not very much but you can measure it when the average goes up it's really more due to the coldest

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temperatures getting warmer so the temperatures getting milder rather than getting hotter

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what about the increasing number of wildfires we're often told about if you look at the actual number

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of forest fires from satellite observations the actual number is going down

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here is an estimate of global wildfires since 1900 it shows a clear decline and here is a record of

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areas affected by wildfires in the u.s it shows that wildfires were far far worse in the 1930s

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from 1930s and 1920s when you have data it was huge five to ten times bigger than the current level

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how about hurricanes the u.s has by far the best record of hurricane activity in the world of the past

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120 years there is no overall change in fact the trend is slightly down

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when you look at the data for hurricanes technically tropical cyclones you see that there is no long-term

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trend how about the rest of the world here is a chart of global hurricane activity over the past 40 years

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hurricanes have been around forever you know we've got good proxy records of hurricanes and uh there's

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been no change in their frequency even the ipcc admits that how about melting ice caps and drought

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here's a satellite record of temperature in antarctica since the late 1970s it shows no increase whatsoever

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and here is a record of global drought since 1950 there is no observable increase at all

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polar bears are meant to be going extinct but studies suggest their numbers are growing

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the great barrier reef too has recently reached record levels

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there's no such thing as a climate emergency happening on this planet now it's there's no evidence

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of one yeah the extreme weather event story is is just absurd there there's no basis to it at all

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it's just based on propaganda the actual data shows the opposite i've shown you the official data

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the official science tell me what i'm denying the climate alarm is nonsense you know it's a hoax

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as i i don't i've never liked hoax i i think scam is a better word but i'm willing to live with hoax

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but why are we told again and again that man-made climate chaos is an undisputed scientific fact

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beyond question beyond doubt to answer this we must examine the so-called consensus on climate change

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climate change until the 1980s global warming was little more than an eccentric scare story put

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about by radical environmentalists but then the cause was picked up by an ambitious young senator

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al gore who would soon become vice president a billion dollars a year of public money was made available

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for research into climate change this quickly rose to two billion up to that level academic researchers in

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various disciplines began to apply for this climate funding if you want to qualify for money that's

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labeled climate well you take whatever you're doing and you add a little bit uh of climate

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speak to it and away you go you're dealing with the sexual habits of cockroaches

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you'll add and the impact of climate so all i have to do is add a little wrinkle to my grant

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application to explain how well i'm worried that climate change will mean the death of all the maple

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trees and so right away you qualify for funding academics of every kind lined up for climate funding

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climate became an exciting new area of interest for sociologists biologists professors of english

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literature lecturers in gender studies and many more and it also served to create a community i mean

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you know you've become a climate scientist now even though you know nothing about the physics of climate

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thousands of papers were published on climate change and prostitution climate change in beer

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climate change in the black death climate change in disability climate change in video games and

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everything else imaginable there's an almost comical list of studies out there just do a google search

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on climate change and and everything comes up few of these papers ever questioned whether climate change

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was actually true after you've done the research and you write the paper up sometimes you find there's

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no effect at all from climate but you still have to say in your papers oh yes climate change is real

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and uh we just need to study this symbol since so few of these so-called climate studies challenged

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the idea of climate change it was declared that there was a scientific consensus climate change must be true

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climate also became a new focus for government-funded research bodies scientific research in the united

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states tends to be dominantly funded by government grants uh and so whatever government grants are

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offered uh sort of determine much of the science being done it was during the cold war that many

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government research bodies were set up but the end of the cold war and pressure on government spending

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has left many of them struggling to justify their continued funding

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the united states congress only funds problems okay research into problems whether it's money that

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goes to nasa or noaa or national science foundation or department of energy or any other alphabet soup

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you know organization it's always been a problem to support uh your research or your existence

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or raison d'etre and so climate was a godsend if congress is willing to pay you to find evidence

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of global warming by golly as a scientist we're going to go find evidence of it

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because that's what we're being paid to do and guess what if you don't find evidence or say

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the evidence suggests it's not a problem your funding ends this totally corrupts the way we look at the

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science with the famous gangster asked why do you rob banks and he said well because that's where the money is

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the climate alarm brought funds and the bigger the supposed threat the more funds seem to flow

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the publicly funded science establishment now had a direct financial interest in playing up the alarm

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so there's a huge incentive to over exaggerate or to speak in hyperbole even if the data doesn't

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support exactly what you're saying because that's what brings the funds i was in that boat i was

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someone that was defending climate change as a grad student quite a bit because the truth is i didn't

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give it too much thought but i i thought well it's getting a ton of attention it brings a ton of money

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into the earth sciences even if i don't buy all the hyperbole what's the problem

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by the late 1990s what had started as an environmental scare story was gaining momentum

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western governments and their senior civil servants were more than willing to address the

398
00:47:26,340 --> 00:47:33,940
climate problem green taxes were levied green regulation expanded and this in turn generated more

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climate related jobs and activity take the banking sector for instance you say to a banker we want

400
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:47,380
you to file reports with the regulatory commission on how climate change is going to affect your bank

401
00:47:47,380 --> 00:47:51,540
well a banker doesn't know anything about this subject so then they have to commission studies from

402
00:47:51,540 --> 00:47:57,540
academics and of course the academics are happy to come and tell them well it's going to be terrible

403
00:47:57,540 --> 00:48:02,420
for your bank it's going to cause all kinds of problems and you could you need to give us money to research this

404
00:48:02,420 --> 00:48:09,620
green subsidies and regulation meant there was now money to be made in climate renewables firms sprouted

405
00:48:09,620 --> 00:48:15,860
consultancy firms offered advice on what they called sustainability and climate compliance it's a

406
00:48:15,860 --> 00:48:22,740
wonderful business opportunity okay you want climate we'll give you climate the renewables industry

407
00:48:22,740 --> 00:48:28,260
alone now turns over a trillion dollars a year and that's expected to double in the next few years

408
00:48:28,260 --> 00:48:36,980
what used to be a cottage industry has is now blossomed to become a major part of the world economy

409
00:48:38,340 --> 00:48:42,820
the growth of this climate industry has seen an explosion of highly paid green jobs

410
00:48:43,620 --> 00:48:50,900
chief sustainability officers carbon offset advisors esg consultants climate compliance lawyers and countless others

411
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:59,540
students started to come into our departments as earth science departments with a focus on climate that

412
00:48:59,540 --> 00:49:06,340
never happened before but they started to look at their career prospects and they were smart and they

413
00:49:06,340 --> 00:49:12,100
were looking at who's hiring and the fact of the matter was is that everything in the hiring pool had

414
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:18,740
climate somewhere attached to the name i started a few years ago seeing programs like a master's degree in

415
00:49:18,740 --> 00:49:25,940
climate finance and i just went what on earth is is climate i understand what a master's degree in

416
00:49:25,940 --> 00:49:30,980
finance is well now you need a university that's going to teach this program you need professors of

417
00:49:30,980 --> 00:49:39,140
climate finance every single school or university or business will have a climate officer or climate

418
00:49:39,140 --> 00:49:47,380
officers and a climate program and you look at any of these institutions or businesses you will find they

419
00:49:47,380 --> 00:49:51,460
all are signed up to it and anyone who hasn't signed up will come under pressure

420
00:49:53,780 --> 00:50:01,380
at the last gathering of the publicly funded un's ipcc 70 000 delegates flew in from around the world

421
00:50:01,380 --> 00:50:07,780
government bureaucrats green ngos carbon sequestration consultants environmental journalists heads of

422
00:50:07,780 --> 00:50:14,500
renewables companies but this is just the tip of the iceberg many hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide

423
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:24,820
now depend on the climate crisis you start building this enormous population whose job is to manage the

424
00:50:24,820 --> 00:50:35,140
crisis and um and also uh explicitly to make sure that people are alarmed about the crisis because this

425
00:50:35,140 --> 00:50:41,780
whole industry depends on the existence of the crisis but therein lies the one great threat to this

426
00:50:41,780 --> 00:50:48,420
multi-trillion dollar industry all the jobs all of the funding are totally dependent on there being a

427
00:50:48,420 --> 00:50:55,780
climate crisis if co2 isn't having the huge negative impacts that we claimed it was having originally

428
00:50:56,420 --> 00:51:02,260
how are we going to stay in business how do we justify our existence if climate change isn't this

429
00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:08,180
existential threat that we claimed it was over the last four decades or so people like me our careers

430
00:51:08,180 --> 00:51:15,060
depend on funding of climate research this is what i've been doing just about my whole career this is

431
00:51:15,060 --> 00:51:20,580
what the other climate researchers are doing with their whole career they don't want this to end if nasa

432
00:51:20,580 --> 00:51:28,580
said global warming is not a problem where does their funding disappears right um so they can't say that i

433
00:51:28,580 --> 00:51:35,140
mean you've got the united nations intergovernmental panel for climate change if they said the climate isn't

434
00:51:35,140 --> 00:51:42,420
changing they'd have no reason to exist the ipcc has a self-preservation instinct to show that climate

435
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:46,820
change is an existential threat otherwise there's no reason for them to be collecting the money and

436
00:51:46,820 --> 00:51:54,820
doing the work in the first place there are not just now billions but there are trillions of dollars

437
00:51:54,820 --> 00:52:01,060
at stake there's a huge amount of money involved this is a huge big money scam a lot of people's

438
00:52:01,060 --> 00:52:08,820
livelihoods depend on it they're not going to give that up if suddenly the notion becomes apparent that

439
00:52:08,820 --> 00:52:16,980
this is not such a problem um you're going to see that as an existential threat scientists who studied

440
00:52:16,980 --> 00:52:22,980
the natural causes of climate change began to be viewed with suspicion as two harvard astrophysicists

441
00:52:22,980 --> 00:52:30,900
discovered how much does the sun change and how does it change and why does it change and then we

442
00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:36,020
didn't even want to get into the temperature record the climate thing immediately they will come after

443
00:52:36,020 --> 00:52:42,020
because when we started to estimate that the sun changed by quite you know significantly in terms of

444
00:52:42,020 --> 00:52:47,300
climatic sense immediately the attack is there because it's not following the narrative because they

445
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:54,180
need the co2 to be the only one the only dominant player when you tried to say well you were just

446
00:52:54,180 --> 00:53:01,780
looking for the background of natural variability we the response would be we can't have natural changes

447
00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:11,300
as an effect it has to be human caused and some of that was directly stated but most of it was indirect

448
00:53:11,940 --> 00:53:16,980
your funding for this kind of project will be dropped this kind of project doesn't go

449
00:53:16,980 --> 00:53:27,300
anywhere by that time anything that contradicted the narrative of global warming as a serious problem

450
00:53:28,500 --> 00:53:35,940
was not going to get funded editors of academic journals came under pressure not to accept papers which

451
00:53:35,940 --> 00:53:42,180
were deemed to be skeptical of the climate crisis we will not publish anything that questions this

452
00:53:42,180 --> 00:53:50,740
i mean it's not something surreptitious scientists who dared to point out in public that there was no

453
00:53:50,740 --> 00:53:57,620
climate chaos began to be sidelined and shunned if a scientifically qualified person stands up and says

454
00:53:58,660 --> 00:54:06,420
we don't see an upward trend in the data on pacific typhoons well suddenly they lose standing to address the

455
00:54:06,420 --> 00:54:10,260
topic of pacific typhoons not because what they said is wrong but because it's off message

456
00:54:11,140 --> 00:54:18,820
they can marginalize any kind of criticism of the narrative by saying you're not qualified to talk

457
00:54:18,820 --> 00:54:25,380
about this because you don't support the narrative that is then and then having marginalized everyone

458
00:54:25,380 --> 00:54:29,060
who doesn't support the narrative they can turn around and say well everybody who counts supports

459
00:54:29,060 --> 00:54:35,380
the narrative so we must be right environmental journalists ignored skeptics and instead offered

460
00:54:35,380 --> 00:54:41,060
headlines to anyone prepared to make the most outrageous claims and predictions about a climate apocalypse

461
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:48,020
it's gotten to where it has nothing to do with the science anymore it doesn't matter if your alarmist

462
00:54:48,020 --> 00:54:55,220
prediction doesn't come true you're still going to retain your status as an expert and the media is still

463
00:54:55,220 --> 00:55:01,300
going to come and ask you for your opinion even though you were crazy wrong about your predictions

464
00:55:05,220 --> 00:55:09,540
but the consensus on climate is not only enforced by those in the climate industry

465
00:55:09,540 --> 00:55:16,260
to explain the broader appeal of the climate alarm we must look at the politics behind climate

466
00:55:16,260 --> 00:55:34,820
from the start the climate scare was political it came from the environmental movement the sworn enemy of free market industrial capitalism

467
00:55:34,820 --> 00:55:47,700
finally we've got them we can claim that it is the free markets who are destroying the planet and we need big government to save us

468
00:55:48,580 --> 00:55:54,580
the climate problem it is said stems from the irresponsible actions of greedy feckless individuals

469
00:55:54,580 --> 00:56:01,460
who have too many babies and drive too much and consume too many products and of the capitalist corporations

470
00:56:01,460 --> 00:56:07,460
who pander to their whims the solution is for government to have greater power to regulate private companies

471
00:56:07,460 --> 00:56:11,220
but also to guide and reshape the lives and habits of individuals

472
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:19,940
policy agenda has sprawled into micromanaging everybody's lives on the most minute detail what

473
00:56:19,940 --> 00:56:24,740
kind of stove you can use what kind of heater you can have how much you can set the thermostat out where

474
00:56:24,740 --> 00:56:30,420
you can drive what kind of car you can't according to the the planners we're not going to have internal

475
00:56:30,420 --> 00:56:35,620
combustion engines an hour from now all of these things require the government to get involved right

476
00:56:35,620 --> 00:56:40,740
because the government has to sort of force changes upon the public if it was up to the public

477
00:56:41,220 --> 00:56:47,220
we wouldn't be buying electric vehicles because you know they're impractical support for the climate

478
00:56:47,220 --> 00:56:52,820
alarm is now virtually synonymous with disdain for free market capitalism and a yearning for bigger

479
00:56:52,820 --> 00:57:00,100
government it's liberals versus conservatives in the united states and generally speaking liberals are

480
00:57:00,100 --> 00:57:05,060
worried that we're destroying the planet and they're also of course for big government and then

481
00:57:05,060 --> 00:57:09,860
conservatives are are at the other end of the spectrum where they a lot of them don't believe that

482
00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:14,340
we're destroying the planet and they don't want government involved in their personal lives

483
00:57:15,860 --> 00:57:20,820
paying lip service to the climate alarm has become almost universal among those who depend

484
00:57:20,820 --> 00:57:26,340
on government for their livelihoods this includes those in the publicly funded education arts and

485
00:57:26,340 --> 00:57:31,060
science establishments tony heller recalls his time at los alamos labs

486
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:40,660
the entire county of los alamos was kept going by government money that we we had the highest incomes

487
00:57:40,660 --> 00:57:47,860
in the state so naturally people lived in los alamos supported big government because that was where

488
00:57:47,860 --> 00:57:53,140
their livelihood came from that was where their good schools came from you know everything good in

489
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:57,620
los alamos came from the government so of course they were all believers in big governments

490
00:57:57,620 --> 00:58:05,060
among the largely publicly funded western intelligentsia support for more government spending and

491
00:58:05,060 --> 00:58:13,060
regulation is almost a defining moral badge in these circles to question the climate alarm is socially

492
00:58:13,060 --> 00:58:22,500
unacceptable to be a climate skeptic is taboo somebody that goes against it it really does get

493
00:58:23,220 --> 00:58:30,260
met with a lot of anger and vitriol and you know you're called a denier a science denier and a heretic

494
00:58:30,820 --> 00:58:38,180
your colleagues won't engage with you anymore you don't get invited to conferences your students

495
00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:47,540
may desert you this is all really terrible professors henrik svensk mark and near shaviv describe what

496
00:58:47,540 --> 00:58:53,940
happened when they published their results on the climatic effects of solar activity it was like all

497
00:58:53,940 --> 00:59:03,060
hell had broken loose because of this work i had no idea that the things would escalate as they did and it

498
00:59:03,060 --> 00:59:12,260
completely changed my life once we said that people didn't like hearing it and we became a persona non grata

499
00:59:12,260 --> 00:59:22,420
i mean i have so many instances of people doing really nasty things when i applied for for a job

500
00:59:24,020 --> 00:59:28,180
a group of scientists writes to the university say they shouldn't hire me

501
00:59:30,340 --> 00:59:31,780
and that's a typical story

502
00:59:31,780 --> 00:59:41,860
uh unfortunately if you don't agree with a standard polemic you become an outcast you're shunned

503
00:59:43,940 --> 00:59:45,140
as if you have leprosy

504
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:51,540
for professor sally baliunas the personal attacks became too much

505
00:59:51,540 --> 00:59:56,100
i retired early

506
01:00:00,020 --> 01:00:03,380
and my family said i should have retired even sooner

507
01:00:04,420 --> 01:00:09,940
years sooner so they noticed the toll it took a toll on them and me

508
01:00:12,980 --> 01:00:18,340
dr matthew wailicki was an assistant professor of geology at the university of alabama when he

509
01:00:18,340 --> 01:00:24,100
decided to speak out about the climate scare as a result of the backlash he has decided to leave

510
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:30,260
teaching to speak up about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was essentially career suicide

511
01:00:30,260 --> 01:00:37,860
absolutely there was no possible way that i would publish in quite a few of the mainstream journals

512
01:00:37,860 --> 01:00:43,380
that i was required to publish in i essentially isolated myself from many of the funding institutions

513
01:00:43,380 --> 01:00:50,900
this is one of the reasons you can build a consensus in a community is because anybody who is skeptical of

514
01:00:50,900 --> 01:00:59,780
that consensus essentially gets kicked out of the community speaking out um in scientific ways that go

515
01:00:59,780 --> 01:01:07,460
contrary to the consensus i would say is a career killer for people at the early stage of their careers

516
01:01:08,020 --> 01:01:14,820
if i were 30 years old in a university trying to make a career i would certainly keep my mouth shut

517
01:01:15,540 --> 01:01:22,180
and in fact i went to some effort to keep my mouth shut when i was younger i knew climate was nonsense

518
01:01:22,180 --> 01:01:29,940
then but i was a little bit careful if a young person is questioning this they can't put that in a

519
01:01:29,940 --> 01:01:39,060
proposal the proposal will be denied and they can't effectively publish because the gatekeeper will keep

520
01:01:39,060 --> 01:01:47,140
them out and so it would end their career you have to go along with with the global warming story if

521
01:01:47,140 --> 01:01:51,700
you know and you're going to get cut off you're going to lose funding you're going to get your career

522
01:01:51,700 --> 01:01:58,100
ruined you're going to be trashed by the community you'll be despised by your co-workers

523
01:01:58,100 --> 01:02:05,300
the so-called consensus on climate has itself become a weapon a form of bullying intimidation

524
01:02:05,300 --> 01:02:12,260
and censorship used against those who refuse to conform it's a tool that people use to bludgeon

525
01:02:12,260 --> 01:02:19,860
their opponents and the skeptics and to attack their character according to its critics far from being

526
01:02:19,860 --> 01:02:26,420
scientific the militant intolerant climate consensus represents a devastating assault on free scientific

527
01:02:26,420 --> 01:02:34,740
inquiry i see my job as a scientist as just laying out the facts and letting people decide what they

528
01:02:34,740 --> 01:02:43,700
want to do when you can't talk about the facts uh things become corrupt if you shut the door on ideas

529
01:02:43,700 --> 01:02:51,060
if you say you're not allowed to test it you're not allowed to have that idea you've left the realm of

530
01:02:51,060 --> 01:03:01,780
science i don't think climate researchers will ever back down from their claim that increasing co2

531
01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:08,340
is the control knob on today's climate system i don't think they will ever back down from that no

532
01:03:08,340 --> 01:03:16,420
matter what the evidence is it's clear it's now a cult completely divorced from science

533
01:03:16,420 --> 01:03:23,540
but the apparently unstoppable climate scare does not just represent an attack on science

534
01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:27,780
it is starting to shape for us a new kind of society

535
01:03:34,980 --> 01:03:41,380
environmentalists like to pose as anti-establishment but their demands are well received and piously

536
01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:48,740
echoed by king charles and the archbishop of canterbury the bbc the un the eu by heads of government

537
01:03:48,740 --> 01:03:54,740
the world bank and world economic forum in fact by the entire state-funded ruling establishment

538
01:03:56,500 --> 01:04:05,300
global warming is like the perfect problem that government can get involved in to grow the influence

539
01:04:05,300 --> 01:04:13,220
of government it's a wonderful way to increase government power and uh if there's an existential

540
01:04:13,220 --> 01:04:19,700
threat out there that's worldwide well you need a powerful worldwide government you know to cope with

541
01:04:19,700 --> 01:04:28,580
it if you're a climate activist you're actually facilitating a huge uh validation of the government

542
01:04:28,580 --> 01:04:32,820
running our lives many environmentalists most environmentalists all environmentalists who

543
01:04:32,820 --> 01:04:38,340
consider themselves to be radical progressive alternatives are in fact simply reinforcing the

544
01:04:38,340 --> 01:04:43,060
mantras and the mainstream arguments of the entire establishment the demands on the government

545
01:04:43,620 --> 01:04:49,220
mean that the government suddenly gains the authority to interfere into every nook and cranny of our lives

546
01:04:49,220 --> 01:04:55,220
and how we live everything has a climate narrative attached to it how much you consume where you spend

547
01:04:55,220 --> 01:05:00,900
your money how much you travel who you interact with what types of food you eat whether you eat meat

548
01:05:00,900 --> 01:05:10,020
everything has some sort of aspect that can be controlled with a climate lens suppose 20 years ago somebody

549
01:05:10,020 --> 01:05:19,300
had hatched the idea that i would really like to ban cheap energy i'd really like to control everybody's

550
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:24,900
appliance purchases i'd really like to tell everybody where they can go and basically i'd like to have

551
01:05:24,900 --> 01:05:29,780
dictatorial control over everything well it's not going to fly i know everybody would think you're a

552
01:05:29,780 --> 01:05:34,100
not and would ignore you but fast forward 20 years that's what's happening

553
01:05:36,340 --> 01:05:40,180
the publicly funded establishment in the west is so large and powerful

554
01:05:40,900 --> 01:05:46,900
it is able to impose and enforce the official consensus on climate through its control of schools

555
01:05:46,900 --> 01:05:49,540
universities government and much of the media

556
01:05:49,540 --> 01:06:00,020
state broadcasters like the bbc exclude climate skeptics broadcasting regulatory bodies forbid private

557
01:06:00,020 --> 01:06:06,340
stations from disseminating skeptical views threatening them with having their broadcasting licenses revoked

558
01:06:08,500 --> 01:06:14,980
what normally happens in an emergency is that all normal forms of openness and democracy have to be

559
01:06:14,980 --> 01:06:23,540
suppressed because how else to deal with an emergency so we are facing a situation not unlike lockdown

560
01:06:23,540 --> 01:06:31,780
where basically all normal forms of behavior normal forms of social communication and so normal forms of

561
01:06:31,780 --> 01:06:42,580
democracy are essentially ruled out activists are even calling for any skepticism to be criminalized

562
01:06:42,580 --> 01:06:49,140
in certain jobs and professions it is now dangerous to express dissent on climate

563
01:06:49,700 --> 01:06:58,580
it's no surprise that people who are more skeptical will think twice before voicing their concerns because

564
01:06:58,580 --> 01:07:05,140
they might risk their careers they might risk their business they might risk being sacked if you're a professional

565
01:07:05,140 --> 01:07:12,660
of any kind in science or law or medicine if you belong to a professional association or you are in a university

566
01:07:14,100 --> 01:07:25,140
you can be fired for saying what you believe the consequence is a censorious authoritarian regime that has to control

567
01:07:25,140 --> 01:07:34,020
every move every word everything you want to do because everything you do is a potential risk

568
01:07:34,020 --> 01:07:36,020
to the survival of mankind

569
01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:49,780
climate protesters condemn capitalism but at their anti-capitalist rallies it's hard to spot anyone who looks like a worker

570
01:07:50,340 --> 01:07:55,300
like a docker or crane driver or steel worker or a beautician or a trucker

571
01:07:56,180 --> 01:08:02,980
the workers it appears are totally absent from these rallies and for very good reason today's climate alarmists

572
01:08:02,980 --> 01:08:07,860
complain not that capitalism isn't producing enough but that it's producing too much

573
01:08:10,180 --> 01:08:17,540
the modern capitalist system has led to prosperity more and more people have more and more things the

574
01:08:17,540 --> 01:08:22,820
modern anti-capitalism of the present time is a critique of capitalism that it gives us too much

575
01:08:23,540 --> 01:08:25,860
they think that the problem with capitalism now

576
01:08:26,500 --> 01:08:32,980
it's actually that it's giving out too many rewards on mass to ordinary workers and what they want

577
01:08:32,980 --> 01:08:39,540
instead and this is often very explicit actually is a much more austere simple kind of lifestyle in which

578
01:08:39,540 --> 01:08:46,420
the mass consumption the consumption choices of the great bulk of the population are controlled or even

579
01:08:46,420 --> 01:08:53,460
prohibited you have to consume less you have to holiday less you have to drive less you have to eat less and so

580
01:08:53,460 --> 01:09:00,660
on it seems that what upsets many environmentalists is not the failure but rather the success of

581
01:09:00,660 --> 01:09:04,500
capitalism in producing an abundance of affordable goods for the masses

582
01:09:07,780 --> 01:09:15,780
ordinary working people for once we've arrived at a point in history in the western world at least

583
01:09:15,780 --> 01:09:22,500
where mass manufacturers allowed them cheap clothes cheap food cheap furniture therefore you get a

584
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:30,100
clash when affluent environmentalists express their disdain for mass consumption people going on

585
01:09:30,100 --> 01:09:36,820
those big huge cruise ships it's like thousands of it's like what are they doing oh my god there's

586
01:09:36,820 --> 01:09:42,020
all those cruise ships like ruining venice you know ruining all our beautiful we own them don't we

587
01:09:42,020 --> 01:09:48,660
they're not what are they going there for what you have here is a classic example of class hypocrisy and

588
01:09:48,660 --> 01:09:54,980
self-interest masquerading as public spirited concern you could take these kind of green

589
01:09:54,980 --> 01:10:00,660
socialists much more seriously if they lived off-grid they cut their own consumption down to the minimum they

590
01:10:00,660 --> 01:10:06,100
never flew instead you get constant talk about how human consumption is destroying the planet but the

591
01:10:06,100 --> 01:10:13,780
people making all this talk show absolutely no signs of reducing their own what environmentalists call

592
01:10:13,780 --> 01:10:18,820
degrowth is being achieved by the trashing of our conventional energy and transport systems

593
01:10:19,540 --> 01:10:23,300
and the forced introduction of expensive and unreliable alternatives

594
01:10:24,420 --> 01:10:28,020
already this is having the desired effect on industrial manufacturing

595
01:10:28,020 --> 01:10:33,380
which is straining under the burden of punitive green taxes and regulation and higher energy prices

596
01:10:35,380 --> 01:10:39,140
the people behind the climate alarm couldn't give a damn about manufacturing

597
01:10:39,140 --> 01:10:44,020
they have nothing to do with it they don't know people who work in manufacturing whose jobs and lives

598
01:10:44,020 --> 01:10:49,380
depend on it they're not excited by industry or industrial progress they explicitly want to shut it down

599
01:10:56,100 --> 01:11:03,540
kisi kenya east africa according to many leading environmentalists the world's poorest people

600
01:11:03,540 --> 01:11:09,060
should not aspire to the lifestyle of people in the first world the planet will not cope

601
01:11:11,460 --> 01:11:17,940
grace nekenander is one of the many africans who do not have electricity or gas to cook with or heat their homes

602
01:11:19,940 --> 01:11:26,020
the resulting indoor smoke from burning wood and dried dung is the deadliest form of pollution in the world

603
01:11:26,020 --> 01:11:30,020
for millions the cause of lung disease blindness and early death

604
01:11:33,540 --> 01:11:56,100
it's not just cheap reliable electricity that africa needs agricultural productivity here is incredibly low

605
01:11:56,660 --> 01:12:02,420
increasing it takes fossil fuels to make fertilizer and drive tractors and other farm machinery

606
01:12:03,620 --> 01:12:11,540
jasper mashogu is a farmer each and every african wants to develop and increasing improving agriculture

607
01:12:11,540 --> 01:12:20,740
is one of the easiest ways to do that agriculture is tightly tied to fossil fuels fossil fuels that the

608
01:12:20,740 --> 01:12:29,300
western nations are saying we should not have access to around a third of the food produced in africa rots

609
01:12:29,300 --> 01:12:35,300
before it ever reaches the mouths of consumers to prevent this terrible waste africa needs plastic

610
01:12:35,300 --> 01:12:42,420
packaging refrigerated lorries and good roads all are reposed by western environmentalists all come

611
01:12:42,420 --> 01:12:50,740
with industrial development all rely on affordable fossil fuel energy diarrhea from drinking dirty water

612
01:12:50,740 --> 01:12:56,980
still kills hundreds of thousands of african children but clean water requires large industrial

613
01:12:56,980 --> 01:13:03,700
water purification plants and a modern water supply network and this will come only with cheap energy

614
01:13:03,700 --> 01:13:12,340
i think it's pretty obvious that the west has got what it has because of fossil fuels when people say

615
01:13:12,340 --> 01:13:18,580
africa doesn't need fossil fuels i wonder i don't think they want what's best for us they don't want us

616
01:13:18,580 --> 01:13:27,300
to develop and that means we continue being starving we continue being uh poor most people don't know

617
01:13:27,300 --> 01:13:33,540
what climate change is they don't care they just they want food on their table they want to beat poverty

618
01:13:33,540 --> 01:13:39,300
they want to beat hunger they need money to better their lives they want to flourish that's just it

619
01:13:41,380 --> 01:13:44,660
when they use the word sustainable development they're talking about no development

620
01:13:45,220 --> 01:13:49,780
exactly i mean it's the point is is that you know to develop sustainably means not to use too much

621
01:13:49,780 --> 01:13:54,740
energy not to use too much carbon you know net zero the idea that you mustn't use too many resources

622
01:13:54,740 --> 01:14:00,020
the fact you mustn't produce enough consumer goods because consumption is bad so ultimately you know

623
01:14:00,020 --> 01:14:07,780
the idea of development is out the window the greens think the africans should never

624
01:14:08,980 --> 01:14:14,740
use their resources the way the europeans or the americans or the canadians or the australians have used

625
01:14:14,740 --> 01:14:24,420
theirs they are also in favor of punitive taxes border taxes on any african country that wants to

626
01:14:24,420 --> 01:14:31,460
export their goods to europe if they do use their resources so that sums up the ethical

627
01:14:32,980 --> 01:14:43,460
ruthlessness and and depravity of the green agenda the climate alarmists have a problem many countries

628
01:14:43,460 --> 01:14:48,660
in africa and across asia are simply ignoring the environmentalist demands of western governments

629
01:14:48,660 --> 01:14:53,940
and international agencies communist china is estimated to be building an average of two

630
01:14:53,940 --> 01:15:00,180
new coal power plants a week china now uses more coal than the rest of the world combined

631
01:15:02,020 --> 01:15:07,620
which is one of the reasons why this whole climate agenda is falling apart because the rest of the

632
01:15:07,620 --> 01:15:15,220
world is not cutting emissions is not moving to renewables in the west too for many people climate

633
01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:24,340
alarmism is wearing thin ordinary people are not stupid they have seen one ridiculous claim after

634
01:15:24,340 --> 01:15:31,140
another fail over and over what this does is leave people with a profound and justified cynicism about

635
01:15:31,140 --> 01:15:34,500
what the scientific establishment says and about what the government says

636
01:15:36,900 --> 01:15:40,420
to fix the climate crisis we're told we must give up our cars

637
01:15:40,420 --> 01:15:51,940
we must pay more for fuel heating clothes food fly less limit where we go this attack on mass travel

638
01:15:51,940 --> 01:15:56,180
mass tourism mass consumption holds little appeal to the masses

639
01:15:59,060 --> 01:16:03,860
people have started to realize it's going to cost them a lot of money to simply live the lives that

640
01:16:03,860 --> 01:16:09,540
they weren't leading that they want to lead and as soon as that started to happen i could see people

641
01:16:09,540 --> 01:16:15,060
in the united kingdom who had previously been indifferent to environmentalism suddenly think

642
01:16:15,060 --> 01:16:22,260
how dare they do that right how dare they try and take away what we consider to be not luxuries but

643
01:16:22,260 --> 01:16:28,260
necessities the whole policy of sustainability is about restraint it's about restriction it's about

644
01:16:28,260 --> 01:16:35,380
doing less um and that obviously for most people is anathema to their everyday needs the fact that there is

645
01:16:35,380 --> 01:16:42,980
actually an ideological movement of people who think that cheap mass production of whether it's

646
01:16:42,980 --> 01:16:51,780
houses or anything else is a problem i mean for god's sake no wonder people become uh disdainful of the

647
01:16:51,780 --> 01:16:57,860
kind of middle-class outlook of environmentalism but that is literally what people say how can we stop

648
01:16:57,860 --> 01:17:06,820
people buying cheap things in shops when climate protesters climbed onto an underground train in

649
01:17:06,820 --> 01:17:13,860
london's east end they were not cheered on by working commuters they were held abuse pelted angrily

650
01:17:13,860 --> 01:17:21,460
dragged off the train and received rough treatment on the platform if you were to go into a pub

651
01:17:21,460 --> 01:17:28,420
uh frequented mainly by what the americans call blue-collar workers you will find that uh being

652
01:17:28,420 --> 01:17:33,780
skeptical about climate change policy is not going to get you thrown out quite the contrary some people

653
01:17:33,780 --> 01:17:39,380
will probably buy you a drink they can tell that behind all the talk about climate emergency climate

654
01:17:39,380 --> 01:17:48,100
crisis what there actually is is an animus and a hostility towards them their lifestyle their beliefs

655
01:17:48,100 --> 01:17:50,980
and a desire to change it by force if necessary

656
01:17:55,220 --> 01:18:01,540
punitive and restrictive policies carried out both in the name of climate change and covid have sparked

657
01:18:01,540 --> 01:18:09,060
protests in britain canada and other western countries anti-establishment politicians and movements

658
01:18:09,060 --> 01:18:10,020
are gaining support

659
01:18:10,020 --> 01:18:18,420
what they what they underestimated was the fury that this would meet with ordinary people who just

660
01:18:18,420 --> 01:18:20,820
say you can't do this so you suddenly get this new movement

661
01:18:23,460 --> 01:18:29,220
many working people are not merely skeptical but positively angry about the climate alarm and all that

662
01:18:29,220 --> 01:18:36,820
flows from it there is a suspicion or perhaps realization that climate change is an invented scare

663
01:18:37,540 --> 01:18:44,500
driven by self-interest and snobbery cynically promoted by a parasitic publicly funded establishment

664
01:18:45,060 --> 01:19:01,940
hungry for ever more money and power an assault on the freedom and prosperity of the rest of us

665
01:19:06,820 --> 01:19:09,460
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666
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667
01:19:17,140 --> 01:19:19,540
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669
01:19:22,260 --> 01:19:25,700
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670
01:19:31,780 --> 01:19:34,000
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671
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Thank you.