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Popcorn time guys i've been given special and express permission to be able to share this fantastic new movie will all you guys and it is superb i watched it then i watch it again my wife,
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mainstream full of professors fantastic clarification of the big c issue the kind of catastrophe that's coming our way,
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what is this well this movie makes everything clear and it is highly enjoyable i think it was superbly produced so enjoy.
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People are dying entire ecosystems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the 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 will give you climate there's a huge amount of money involved in this is a huge big money scam.
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There are not just now billions but 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 just about my whole career this is what the other climate researchers are doing with their whole career they don't want this to end.
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If co2 isn't having the huge negative impacts that we claimed it was having originally how are we going to stay in business a lot of people's livelihoods depend on it they're not going to give that up.
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This is a story of the corruption of science there's no such thing as a climate emergency happening on this planet now it's there's no no evidence of one.
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The climate alarm is nonsense you know it's a hoax i've never liked hoax i think scam is a better word but i'm willing to live with hoax.
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It's a story about the bullying and intimidation of anyone who dares to challenge the climate alarm.
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To speak up against or about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was essentially career suicide.
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Activists are even calling for any skepticism to be criminalized it's the story of an assault on individual freedom.
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It's a wonderful way to increase government power if there's an existential threat out there is worldwide well you need a powerful worldwide government you know to cope with it.
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We see all these kind of authoritarian measures being adopted in the name of saving the planet.
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You've suddenly got the population under control all over the world.
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We called it industrial progress since the industrial revolution the development of free market capitalist mass production.
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Has made evermore goods evermore affordable to ever larger numbers of people mass production marched hand in hand with mass consumption.
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In the modern age ordinary people enjoy a level of prosperity never before achieved in human history.
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But all the while we are told we were destroying the planet.
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Computers have calculated what is in store for us as we produce and consume evermore the weather will get worse the planet will boil.
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We greedy humans must accept limits on our lifestyle consume this travel less those who deny the climate crisis are not just wrong they're dangerous spreading the poison of doubt among a gullible population.
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These deniers should be shunned and shamed and censored for these climate deniers are flat earthers they are anti science.
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Teaching at New York University is one of these climate deniers professor Stephen Kuhn is one of America's leading physicists.
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He was a science advisor to President Obama and both vice president and provost of Caltech one of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world.
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I teach climate science to my students at NYU and I always tell them check the data or the papers yourself and they all come out of that course with their eyes wide open.
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Professor Kuhn in his bestselling book unsettled argues that mainstream scientific studies accepted by official agencies do not support the notion that there is any kind of climate crisis at all.
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Because I've been called a denier and my response is tell me what I'm denying because I'm quoting from you directly from the official UN scientific reports.
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Dick Lindzen also dismisses the claims of climate alarmists.
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He's one of the world's leading meteorologists was professor of meteorology at both 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 which is the science they don't support any of these claims.
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And I assure you having served on its biased but you couldn't get any real scientists to agree some of the nonsense that's being promoted.
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Will Hapa is also a denier and is another of America's leading physicists he has been science advisor to three presidents and professor of physics at both Columbia and Princeton University.
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There's this mischievous idea that's promoted that scientific truth is determined by consensus in real science.
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You know there are always arguments no science has ever settled.
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You know it just is absurd when people say the science of climate is settled.
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It's not there's no such thing as settled science especially climate.
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Dr. John Klauser is one of the most respected scientists in the world.
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In 2022 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.
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The science that's being done is appallingly bad in my opinion.
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There are a large number of scientists who are in violent disagreement.
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They refer to themselves as skeptics.
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Since I am no longer worried about losing funding or a job whatever I call myself a climate change denier.
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These very eminent and respected scientists and others like them are not flat earthers.
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They do not deny science.
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So what's the evidence that has caused them to dismiss the climate alarm as nonsense.
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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 back hundreds thousands even millions of years.
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The desert of Judea by the Dead Sea.
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Professor Neer Shaviv from the Racker Institute of Physics has come here looking for clues.
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Thousands of years ago this place was underwater and etched into the rocks are lines which if you know how to read them tell the story of Earth's climate history.
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And here's the climate.
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We are at the lake bed of what used to be Lake Lisan.
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It's a lake that existed until the end of the last ice age.
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Back then the lake level was maybe 100 meters above where we're located.
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When we want to reconstruct climates of the past we have to look for evidence for clues.
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And when the lake existed it had the deposits and by looking at these layers here we can actually reconstruct how the climate has changed.
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Warmer water means more life the accumulation of more shells and bones from sea creatures and other changes that are reflected in the ancient layers of the lake bed.
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The lines act as a kind of thermometer and this is just one way geologists can reconstruct past climate.
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In other places we can go to stalagmite caves and see the annual rings that you have in the stalagmites or we can drill a course from the bottom of the ocean and then look at layers there.
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Or many other places but here I think this is one of the nicest places because 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.
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An earth marked by fertile dense forests teeming with life.
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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.
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So on the geological perspective this is not at all unprecedented.
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For the last 500 million years temperatures have varied greatly.
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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.
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In fact there are very few times when it's been this cold.
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We're relatively cold maybe not quite the coldest it's been in 500 million years but pretty close to it.
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We are in a remarkably cool period if we look over the last 550 million years.
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In fact only one other time period in that last 550 million years was the temperature as cool as it is now.
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The mammals who now inhabit the earth began to evolve around 60 million years ago when the world was much warmer than today.
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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 start to live on the land.
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Any time period within the last 65 million years was warmer than it is essentially today.
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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.
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We are a tropical species.
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A human being in the shade naked dies at 20 C from hypothermia.
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We evolved on the equator in Africa and the only 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 the late Cenozoic Ice Age.
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We are still in that Ice Age.
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The reason there's all that ice on the poles is because we're in an Ice Age.
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Everybody knows that who knows anything about the history of the earth.
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This is an Ice Age.
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We're at the tail end of a 50 million year cooling period and they're saying it's too hot.
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If we zoom in on the past few million years we see temperatures sinking and as they do fluctuating between extremely cold periods and slightly milder periods.
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The extremely cold periods are called glacial maxima when the planet is mostly covered in ice.
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And the slightly less cold are called glacial minima when there's just ice at the poles.
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For the past 10,000 years fortunately we've been in a slightly less cold glacial minimum known as the Holocene.
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With milder weather humans began to emerge from their caves and several thousand years ago we see the rise of the first great civilizations in a blissful period which according to many studies was considerably warmer than today.
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This is known as the Holocene climate optimum.
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It was called an optimum because people thought that warmer was better.
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Since then temperatures have declined and begun to fluctuate.
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In Roman times there was a blissfully warm period followed by a brutal cold period in the Dark Ages.
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Then came the balmy medieval warm period according to many studies as warm or warmer than today.
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Followed by an especially cold period known as the Little Ice Age possibly the coldest in the last 10,000 years.
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And here it is the Roman warm period, the cold dark age, the medieval warm period and then the very cold Little Ice Age from which for the past 300 years or so we've been recovering.
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The longest instrumental record of temperature in the world comes from central England and this is what it shows.
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Since the worst of the Little Ice Age from 1650 the temperature has risen gently by little more than one degree Celsius.
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The central England record of temperature is a world treasure you know it's the longest continuous record that we have and it's certainly not a very alarming record.
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It began in the depths of the Little Ice Age and so you can see the slight warming that followed the Little Ice Age and there's certainly nothing very alarming that's happening today at the very end of the record.
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Most of the warming that we're observing today is the recovery from the Little Ice Age whatever calls that.
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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.
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Records show that there has been no overall change in temperature here since 1940.
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But from one year to the next the average temperature can vary by three degrees Celsius without many New Yorkers even noticing.
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In fact 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 a year ago or two years.
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You know when I hear people pontificating about one and a half degrees leading to the end of civilization I think what have they been smoking you know are you crazy.
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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.
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This is the rising line used by official agencies as proof of global warming.
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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.
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So some places warm a lot some places don't warm much and it turns out highly correlated with the spatial pattern of economic activity.
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Where there are more people and there is more human activity there's more heat.
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This is known as the urban heat island effect.
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Urban heat island effect is essentially London right you pick London with buildings with a lot of activities tends to be a few degree.
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I mean we're talking now Celsius right even four or five degrees Celsius warmer than Oscar.
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This is a phenomenon of urbanization.
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This day is the obvious effect is actually concrete retaining retaining heat.
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This can be illustrated with the satellite heat map of Paris.
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The center of Paris can be as much as five degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding countryside.
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Paris London Beijing Shanghai you name it New Delhi all of them absolutely demonstrated the defects.
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So how is this affected the official temperature record in the early part of the 20th century.
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It was normal to erect weather thermometers just outside towns close enough to check every day.
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But away from the heat of urban life but over the 20th century those towns have expanded suburbs have spread.
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There are more roads more cars thermometers which were once outside towns and are surrounded by shopping malls offices factories and houses.
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These towns and all the locations where thermometers are located on average they've all grown in population.
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Let's say since 1880 you've got buildings growing up around the thermometers you've got parking lots.
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So you've got all of these non climate influences which are affecting the temperatures 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 weather stations which have been less affected by urban development.
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This has now been done by a team led by Dr. Willie Soon.
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We combine all the best rural station any anything that we can correct for we correct for and we show if you just don't use this and use only rural you get a very different kind of picture.
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According to rural temperature records temperatures rose from the 1880s but peaked in the 1940s.
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Then there was a marked cooling until the 1970s after that temperatures recover but are still today barely higher than they were in the 1940s.
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What we see is that basically you have a warming from the 19 hundred eighteen fifties or so to 1930s and 40s and started to warm and cool in a substantial way to the seventies about 76 or so.
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Instead of a long term systematic warming trend it has a variability multi-decade or like every 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 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 but in blue is the ocean temperature record from around 1900 the two begin to diverge.
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Ocean records show far less warming in the 20th century and the pattern more closely resembles the rural temperature record.
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See is not supposed to be good and good contaminated by urban heat island effect. Am I right. Yes. So when we compare the two records within the range of uncertainty these behavior actually fits.
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Scientists have also studied temperature change by looking at tree rings which again shows very little warming.
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There's a gentle rise to the mid 20th century the cooling to the 1970s followed by a mild recovery.
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Once again it shows temperatures today are barely different to those of the 1930s and 40s and the pattern closely resembles rural temperatures.
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Satellites to 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 earth.
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One of the scientists who pioneered the use of satellites to measure temperature is Dr. Roy Spencer who in the 1980s was senior scientist for climate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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We were discussing over lunch isn't there some way we can use satellites to monitor global temperatures because as you know the temperature network of thermometers is pretty skimpy around the world so it's kind of hard to get a global temperature.
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Dr. Spencer's development of weather satellites was revolutionary.
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He and his colleague Professor John Christie have been awarded NASA's medal for exceptional scientific achievement.
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Our satellite data begins in January of 1979.
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That's when we have complete global coverage and we have it right up to the present.
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There was one critical question about temperature that satellites were singularly well equipped to answer.
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Has there been a spurious warming that has crept into the global temperature record over land 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 especially in urban areas it's large.
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I mean since 1880 most of the warming it looks like is due to the urban heat island effect.
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We're lucky to have a few independent scientists like John Christie and Roy Spencer with their satellite measurements of temperature.
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You know before they started releasing this ground-based temperature records were going wild.
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They were going up you know like crazy with no bounds.
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But now they have to contend with the fact that there's this independent 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 eased by world 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.
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You look at the weather balloon record, the satellite record, the rural record, the ocean record doesn't warm nearly as much as land.
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All of these indications show that the big warming pulse in the record is the northern hemisphere land record.
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And that's also where most of this data contamination is happening.
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But of the mild warming that has taken place in the last three to four hundred years can any of it be attributed to human emissions of CO2?
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Professor Henrik Svensmark is visiting the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taking a stroll in the evolution garden dedicated to preserving the oldest surviving plant species on earth.
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These plants aren't just pleasing on the eye.
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They can also tell us about levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in Earth's geological past.
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What we have here is a Ginkgo tree and it's actually a 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 these stomata to how much CO2 there is.
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And by looking at fossils and measuring how many there are at a different 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?
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Over almost all of the last 500 million years, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has been far, far higher than it is now.
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Even with modern industry's contribution to CO2 levels, by geological standards the level of atmospheric CO2 today is close to being as low as it has ever been.
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At present we have about 400 parts per million. 50 million years ago it might have been 2,000 parts per million.
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So a much, much higher concentration of CO2.
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I think current estimates of global CO2 is 423 or so parts per million today.
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If we look through the Phanerozoic, the last 550 million years, we would see CO2 on the order of 7,000 parts per million.
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CO2 is plant food and the result of much higher levels of atmospheric CO2 in the past was a much, much greener world.
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Most periods of elevated CO2 tend to be time periods of a huge biodiversity on the planet.
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In fact, we're in a CO2 famine if we look over the last 550 million years.
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At the depths of the most recent glacial maximum, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere sank so low, all life on Earth came close to extinction.
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CO2 is higher than it's been for 100,000 years, but what they don't tell you in that period they're talking about is that CO2 sank so low that all life on Earth nearly died.
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20,000 years ago CO2 is at the lowest level it has ever been in the history of the Earth, 180 parts per million.
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If it had gone down another 30 parts per million, we'd all be dead.
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There is a low point of CO2 where photosynthesis becomes so inefficient that plant life would die. Then everything else starts to perish after that.
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During the last glacial maximum, there's good evidence that in many parts of the world there was plant starvation from not enough CO2.
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So we should be very grateful that CO2 levels are beginning to go back up.
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We're still far from the historical norms, which would be several thousand parts per million.
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There's not enough fossil fuel to get there, but at least we're making a start.
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But has the small recent increase in CO2 affected the temperature?
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We would now show you a picture of CO2, but we can't because it's invisible.
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CO2 makes up a tiny fraction of the gases in the atmosphere, just 0.04 of a percent.
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It is just one of 25 different greenhouse gases, which, taken as a whole, form only one part of Earth's complex climate system.
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So what evidence is there that this trace gas is having any noticeable impact on the climate?
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If it were true that higher levels of CO2 caused higher temperatures, we should be able to see that in Earth's climate history.
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Here, scientists are drilling into ancient ice cores.
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These cores tell us both about past temperatures and CO2 levels.
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Scientists have indeed found a link between temperature and CO2.
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The trouble is it's the wrong way round.
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So it's true over the last few million years of the ice age that we're in now that CO2 and temperature are correlated.
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But if CO2 is the driver, it has to change first and the temperature has to change second.
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In fact, when you start to look at the data very specifically, you see the exact reverse.
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Temperature starts to rise first, 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.
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So temperature goes up, CO2 goes up after that. Temperature goes down, CO2 goes down.
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Ice ages start when carbon dioxide is at its maximum and ice ages end when carbon dioxide is at its minimum,
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which is the exact opposite of what would occur if carbon dioxide was controlling the temperature.
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The question of whether CO2 drives the climate is easily resolved.
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You can look back in time, over hundreds of millions of years, CO2 levels have changed radically many times.
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Did this cause temperature change? No, absolutely not.
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CO2 has never driven temperature changes in the past, never.
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Nor is it clear in recent times that CO2 is having any effect on temperature.
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Here we see industrial output of CO2 since 1750.
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From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, there was only a slight increase.
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It's not until the 1940s that industrial production of CO2 begins to take off.
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But this doesn't match the temperature record.
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According to rural thermometers, 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,
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when human influences were much smaller, were particularly warm.
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That's the puzzle, that the first early part where we have such a sharp warming from the 1900s to the 1930s and 1940s,
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CO2 could never cause that temperature rise.
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But the 1930s and early 40s were so hot, it's puzzling. More puzzling still is what happened next.
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By the end of World War II, CO2 was really going up, and yet the temperature was going down.
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From 1940 to 1970, while the CO2 continued to rise, this thing started to cool. What happened?
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Journalists were writing about the coming ice age. It was on the cover of Time magazine.
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The 1970s knew ice age was the big story.
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And how about since the 1970s?
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According to computer climate models, over the past half century, rising CO2 should have led to this increase in temperature.
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But according to multiple satellite and balloon measurements, what actually happened was this.
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Well, what we found from the satellite data is that the global atmosphere is not warming up as fast as the climate models say it should be.
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There's a couple dozen climate models now that have been worked on for decades.
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Billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars have been invested in these climate modeling efforts.
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And then we find that generally speaking, virtually all of the climate models produce too much warming over this period since 1979 up to the present.
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Now, even if we say the surface thermometers are correct, they still don't produce as much warming as most of the climate models say there should have been, let's say, in the last 50 years.
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The models, individually and even collectively when you average over all of them in so-called ensembles, they don't get it right.
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You can already see that the main supports of the climate alarm movement, which are these enormous computer models, they're clearly wrong.
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They don't agree with what we observe.
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They're all running much too hot.
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They don't get the geographical distribution of temperatures anywhere close.
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They don't get El Nino, La Nina cycles.
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They're just nonsense.
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All climate models are based on the assumption that CO2 drives temperature change.
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But actual observations and historical evidence clearly suggest that it doesn't.
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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.
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There is no truth to the idea that the Earth is warmer now than it has been in the past.
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It's a lie.
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There is no truth that CO2 is higher than it should be.
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That is a lie.
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Earth's climate has changed many times over the course of its long history and will continue to change without any help from us.
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Climate always changes, you know.
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Who denies climate change? It's always changing.
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But if CO2 doesn't drive climate change, what does?
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In Earth's atmosphere, there are powerful forces at work.
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And perhaps the most powerful of all are clouds.
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CO2 is quite unimportant in controlling the Earth's climate.
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What is important is clouds.
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Clouds don't absorb any energy at all.
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They simply reflect all of the sunlight back out into space.
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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?
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Professor Henrik Svensmark from the Danish National Space Institute is in Jerusalem with the astrophysicist Nér Chaviv.
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Together they've been exploring cloud variation and its effect on climate.
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And strangely, they've found a link between clouds and exploding supernovae far off in our galaxy.
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When you have big stars, they don't live very long.
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I mean, relatively only maybe a few million years, up to 40 million years.
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But they end their life 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 cosmic rays,
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traveling almost at the speed of light.
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And as they hit Earth, they develop into seeds which attract water vapor and form clouds.
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Professor Chaviv noticed that the amount of cloud cover on Earth is related to our journey around the Milky Way.
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As our solar system orbits the galaxy over millions of years,
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it passes through the galaxy's spiral arms, dense clusters of stars.
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As it does, we are exposed to more or less cloud-forming cosmic rays.
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And this corresponds to historic temperature changes on Earth.
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The really 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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But what about temperature change on shorter time scales?
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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,
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limiting the number of cloud-forming cosmic rays reaching Earth.
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So from the Sun, we have the solar wind. It carries the Sun's magnetic field out to a large distance,
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and it works like a shield against cosmic rays.
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you have less cosmic rays reaching the inner solar system and reaching the atmosphere,
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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,
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and here is one of solar activity over the same period.
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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?
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Because the Sun is just a background thing for them, that it doesn't do anything.
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Astrophysicist Willie Soon decided to look again at the rural temperature record for the past 150 years.
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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.
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As of 2023, IPCC says that the Sun has absolutely zero chance to explain the changes of the climate system.
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On a broad scale, let's say global warming or Northern Hemisphere, we say no.
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We can easily demonstrate the Sun can explain all of it.
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There's zero for the CO2, 100% for the Sun. How's that?
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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.
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And when you do that, you discover, as you can read in the IPCC reports themselves,
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that it's pretty hard to find trends in extreme events, much less attribute them to human influences.
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You've now had decades of putting the idea in people's heads that anytime the weather is bad, it's climate change and greenhouse gases.
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So I think people at this point can't help themselves.
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If you have a heat wave, immediately everybody's thinking, oh, what have we done to the weather?
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If somebody says in the news this is the warmest day since 1980 or something,
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well, you can look up the temperature records and see for yourself whether it was in fact warmer in the 1930s, as it often is.
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US temperature records are the best in the world.
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And here is the official US government record of heat waves in the US over the past century.
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It shows very clearly that the 1930s were far more prone to heat waves than we are today.
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Not only were there more heat waves in the 1930s, the heat waves then were much hotter than those of today.
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Likewise, official figures show that the number of hot days in the US has markedly declined.
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The United States was much hotter in the 1930s.
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North Dakota reached 121 degrees. South Dakota was 120 degrees. Wisconsin was 114 degrees.
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These sort of temperatures are just completely out of range of anything people experience now.
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A common mistake is to suppose that higher average temperature will mean more hot weather.
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But this isn't true.
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Here again is the Central England temperature record, the longest instrumental temperature record in the world.
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Summer temperatures over the past three to four hundred years since the end of the Little Ice Age have barely changed at all.
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It is winter temperatures that have been slightly rising.
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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 almost unchanged.
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But cold temperatures at night or during the winter are going up a little bit. Not very much, but you can measure it.
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When the average goes up, it's really more due to the coldest temperatures getting warmer,
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so the temperature is getting milder rather than getting hotter.
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What about the increasing number of wildfires we're often told about?
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If you look at the actual number 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.
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And here is a record of areas affected by wildfires in the U.S.
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It shows that wildfires were far, far worse in the 1930s.
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From the 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.
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Over the past 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 trend.
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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. We've got good proxy records of hurricanes, and there's been no change in their frequency.
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Even the IPCC admits that.
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How about melting ice caps and drought? Here's a satellite record of temperature in Antarctica since the late 1970s.
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It shows no increase whatsoever. 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. There's no evidence of one.
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Yeah, the extreme weather event story is just absurd. There's no basis to it at all. It's just based on propaganda.
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The actual data shows the opposite.
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I've shown you the official data, the official science. Tell me what I'm denying.
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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 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, beyond question, beyond doubt?
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To answer this, we must examine the so-called consensus on climate change.
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Thank you very much.
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Until the 1980s, global warming was little more than an eccentric scare story put about by radical environmentalists.
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But then the cause was picked up by an ambitious young senator, Al Gore, who would soon become vice president.
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A billion dollars a year of public money was made available for research into climate change. This quickly rose to two billion.
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Up to that level.
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Academic researchers in various disciplines began to apply for this climate funding.
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If you want to qualify for money that's labeled climate, well, you take whatever you're doing and you add a little bit of climate, speak to it, and away you go.
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You're dealing with the sexual habits of cockroaches. You'll add, and the impact of climate.
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So all I have to do is add a little wrinkle to my grant application to explain how, well, I'm worried that climate change will mean the death of all the maple trees.
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And so right away you qualify for funding.
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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 literature, lecturers in gender studies, and many more.
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And it also served to create a community.
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I mean, 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 and beer, climate change and the Black Death, climate change and disability, climate change and video games, and everything else imaginable.
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There's an almost comical list of studies out there. Just do a Google search on climate change and everything comes up.
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Few of these papers ever questioned whether climate change was actually true.
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After you've done the research and you write the paper up, sometimes you find there's no effect at all from climate.
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00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:15,120
But you still have to say in your papers, oh, yes, climate change is real and we just need to study this some more.
388
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Since so few of these so-called climate studies challenged the idea of climate change, it was declared that there was a scientific consensus.
389
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Climate change must be true.
390
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:33,120
Climate also became a new focus for government funded research bodies.
391
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:40,120
Scientific research in the United States tends to be dominantly funded by government grants.
392
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:48,120
And so whatever government grants are offered sort of determine much of the science being done.
393
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:54,120
It was during the Cold War that many government research bodies were set up.
394
00:45:54,120 --> 00:46:03,120
But the end of the Cold War and pressure on government spending has left many of them struggling to justify their continued funding.
395
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:18,120
United States Congress only funds problems, OK, research into problems, whether it's money that goes to NASA or NOAA or National Science Foundation or Department of Energy or any other alphabet soup organization.
396
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:27,120
It's always been a problem to support your research or your existence or raison d'etre. And so climate was a godsend.
397
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:38,120
If Congress is willing to pay you to find evidence of global warming, by golly, as a scientist, we're going to go find evidence of it because that's what we're being paid to do.
398
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:45,120
And guess what? If you don't find evidence or say the evidence suggests it's not a problem, your funding ends.
399
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,120
This totally corrupts the way we look at the science.
400
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:59,120
The famous gangster asked, why do you rob banks? And he said, well, because that's where the money is.
401
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:05,120
The climate alarm brought funds. And the bigger the supposed threat, the more funds seemed to flow.
402
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:12,120
The publicly funded science establishment now had a direct financial interest in playing up the alarm.
403
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:24,120
So there's a huge incentive to over exaggerate or to speak in hyperbole, even if the data doesn't support exactly what you're saying, because that's what brings the funds.
404
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:32,120
I was in that boat. I was someone that was defending climate change as a grad student quite a bit because the truth is I didn't give it too much thought.
405
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:43,120
But I thought, well, it's getting a ton of attention. It brings a ton of money into the earth sciences. Even if I don't buy all the hyperbole, what's the problem?
406
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:55,120
By the late 1990s, what had started as an environmental scare story was gaining momentum.
407
00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:02,120
Western governments and their senior civil servants were more than willing to address the climate problem.
408
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:11,120
Green taxes were levied, green regulation expanded, and this in turn generated more climate related jobs and activity.
409
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:21,120
Take the banking sector, for instance, say to a banker, we want you to file reports with the regulatory commission on how climate change is going to affect your bank.
410
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:26,120
Well, a banker doesn't know anything about this subject, so then they have to commission studies from academics.
411
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:33,120
And of course, the academics are happy to come and tell them, well, it's going to be terrible for your bank. It's going to cause all kinds of problems.
412
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,120
And you need to give us money to research this.
413
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:41,120
Green subsidies and regulation meant there was now money to be made in climate.
414
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Renewables firms sprouted. Consultancy firms offered advice on what they called sustainability and climate compliance.
415
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:54,120
It's a wonderful business opportunity. OK, you want climate. We'll give you climate.
416
00:48:54,120 --> 00:49:03,120
The renewables industry alone now turns over a trillion dollars a year, and that's expected to double in the next few years.
417
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:11,120
What used to be a cottage industry has now blossomed to become a major part of the world economy.
418
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:16,120
The growth of this climate industry has seen an explosion of highly paid green jobs.
419
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:26,120
Chief sustainability officers, carbon offset advisors, ESG consultants, climate compliance lawyers and countless others.
420
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:34,120
Students started to come into our departments as Earth science departments with a focus on climate that never happened before.
421
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:41,120
But they started to look at their career prospects and they were smart and they were looking at who's hiring.
422
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:47,120
And the fact of the matter was, is that everything in the hiring pool had climate somewhere attached to the name.
423
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:53,120
I started a few years ago seeing programs like a master's degree in climate finance.
424
00:49:53,120 --> 00:50:00,120
And I just thought, what on earth is climate? I understand what a master's degree in finance is.
425
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:05,120
Well, now you need a university that's going to teach this program. You need professors of climate finance.
426
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:15,120
Every single school or university or business will have a climate officer or climate officers and a climate program.
427
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:22,120
And you look at any of these institutions or businesses, you will find they all are signed up to it.
428
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,120
And anyone who hasn't signed up will come under pressure.
429
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:34,120
At the last gathering of the publicly funded UN's IPCC, 70,000 delegates flew in from around the world.
430
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:42,120
Government bureaucrats, green NGOs, carbon sequestration consultants, environmental journalists, heads of renewables companies.
431
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:50,120
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide now depend on the climate crisis.
432
00:50:50,120 --> 00:51:08,120
You start building this enormous population whose job is to manage the crisis and also explicitly to make sure that people are alarmed about the crisis.
433
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,120
Because this whole industry depends on the existence of the crisis.
434
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:23,120
But therein lies the one great threat to this multi-trillion dollar industry. All the jobs, all of the funding are totally dependent on there being a climate crisis.
435
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:32,120
If CO2 isn't having the huge negative impacts that we claimed it was having originally, how are we going to stay in business?
436
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:39,120
How do we justify our existence if climate change isn't this existential threat that we claimed it was over the last four decades or so?
437
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:48,120
People like me, our careers depend on funding of climate research. This is what I've been doing just about my whole career.
438
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,120
This is what the other climate researchers are doing with their whole career. They don't want this to end.
439
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:59,120
If NASA said global warming is not a problem, where does their funding disappear?
440
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:07,120
So they can't say that. I mean, you've got the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change.
441
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:12,120
If they said the climate isn't changing, they'd have no reason to exist.
442
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:18,120
The IPCC has a self-preservation instinct to show that climate change is an existential threat.
443
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:23,120
Otherwise, there's no reason for them to be collecting the money and doing the work in the first place.
444
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:29,120
There are not just now billions, but there are trillions of dollars at stake.
445
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:36,120
There's a huge amount of money involved. This is a huge big money scam. A lot of people's livelihoods depend on it.
446
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,120
They're not going to give that up.
447
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:49,120
If suddenly the notion becomes apparent that this is not such a problem, you're going to see that as an existential threat.
448
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:58,120
Scientists who studied the natural causes of climate change began to be viewed with suspicion, as two Harvard astrophysicists discovered.
449
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:03,120
How much does the sun change? And how does it change? And why does it change?
450
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:07,120
And then we didn't even want to get into the temperature record.
451
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:16,120
I think immediately they will come after us, because when we started to estimate that the sun changed by quite significantly in terms of climatic sense,
452
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:25,120
immediately the attack is there, because it's not following the narrative, because they need the CO2 to be the only one, the only dominant player.
453
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:37,120
When you tried to say, well, if you were just looking for the background of natural variability, the response would be, we can't have natural changes as an effect.
454
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:45,120
It has to be human caused. And some of that was directly stated, but most of it was indirect.
455
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:52,120
Your funding for this kind of project will be dropped. This kind of project doesn't go anywhere.
456
00:53:52,120 --> 00:54:05,120
By that time, anything that contradicted the narrative of global warming as a serious problem was not going to get funded.
457
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:13,120
Editors of academic journals came under pressure not to accept papers which were deemed to be sceptical of the climate crisis.
458
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:21,120
We will not publish anything that questions this. I mean, it's not something surreptitious.
459
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:28,120
Scientists who dared to point out in public that there was no climate chaos began to be sidelined and shunned.
460
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:37,120
If a scientifically qualified person stands up and says, we don't see an upward trend in the data on Pacific typhoons,
461
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:44,120
well, suddenly they lose standing to address the topic of Pacific typhoons, not because what they said is wrong, but because it's off message.
462
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:56,120
They can marginalize any kind of criticism of the narrative by saying you're not qualified to talk about this because you don't support the narrative.
463
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:01,120
And then having marginalized everyone who doesn't support the narrative, they can turn around and say,
464
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:05,120
well, everybody who counts supports the narrative, so we must be right.
465
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:16,120
Environmental journalists ignored skeptics and instead offered headlines to anyone prepared to make the most outrageous claims and predictions about a climate apocalypse.
466
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:24,120
It's gotten to where it has nothing to do with the science anymore. It doesn't matter if your alarmist prediction doesn't come true.
467
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:39,120
You're still going to retain your status as an expert and the media is still going to come and ask you for your opinion, even though you were crazy wrong about your predictions.
468
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:44,120
But the consensus on climate is not only enforced by those in the climate industry.
469
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:59,120
To explain the broader appeal of the climate alarm, we must look at the politics behind climate.
470
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:03,120
From the start, the climate scare was political.
471
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:11,120
It came from the environmental movement, the sworn enemy of free market industrial capitalism.
472
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:22,120
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.
473
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:33,120
The climate problem, it is said, stems from the irresponsible actions of greedy, feckless individuals who have too many babies and drive too much and consume too many products.
474
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:46,120
And of the capitalist corporations who pander to their whims. The solution is for government to have greater power to regulate private companies, but also to guide and reshape the lives and habits of individuals.
475
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:53,120
Policy agenda has sprawled into micromanaging everybody's lives on the most minute detail.
476
00:56:53,120 --> 00:57:01,120
What kind of stove you can use, what kind of heater you can have, how much you can set the thermostat out where you can drive, what kind of car you can't.
477
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:07,120
According to the planners, we're not going to have internal combustion engines an hour from now.
478
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:13,120
All of these things require the government to get involved, right, because the government has to sort of force changes upon the public.
479
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:20,120
If it was up to the public, we wouldn't be buying electric vehicles because, you know, they're impractical.
480
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:28,120
Support for the climate alarm is now virtually synonymous with disdain for free market capitalism and a yearning for bigger government.
481
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,120
It's liberals versus conservatives in the United States.
482
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:36,120
And generally speaking, liberals are worried that we're destroying the planet.
483
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,120
And they're also, of course, for big government.
484
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:49,120
And then conservatives are at the other end of the spectrum where a lot of them don't believe that we're destroying the planet and they don't want government involved in their personal lives.
485
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:56,120
Paying lip service to the climate alarm has become almost universal among those who depend on government for their livelihoods.
486
00:57:56,120 --> 00:58:01,120
This includes those in the publicly funded education, arts and science establishments.
487
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:06,120
Tony Heller recalls his time at Los Alamos labs.
488
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:15,120
The entire county of Los Alamos was kept going by government money that we had the highest incomes in the state.
489
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:23,120
So naturally people who lived in Los Alamos supported big government because that was where their livelihood came from.
490
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,120
That was where their good schools came from.
491
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,120
Everything good in Los Alamos came from the government.
492
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:33,120
So, of course, they were all believers in big governments.
493
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:43,120
Among the largely publicly funded Western intelligentsia, support for more government spending and regulation is almost a defining moral badge.
494
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:47,120
In these circles, to question the climate alarm is socially unacceptable.
495
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:53,120
To be a climate skeptic is taboo.
496
00:58:53,120 --> 00:59:00,120
Somebody that goes against it, it really does get met with a lot of anger and vitriol.
497
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:04,120
You know, you're called a denier, a science denier and a heretic.
498
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,120
Your colleagues won't engage with you anymore.
499
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,120
You don't get invited to conferences.
500
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,120
Your students may desert you.
501
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:18,120
This is all really terrible.
502
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:26,120
Professors Henrik Svensmark and Nia Chaviv describe what happened when they published their results on the climatic effects of solar activity.
503
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:31,120
It was like all hell had broken loose because of this work.
504
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:36,120
I had no idea that things would escalate as they did.
505
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,120
And it completely changed my life.
506
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:47,120
Once we said that people didn't like hearing it and we became persona non grata.
507
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:54,120
I mean, I have so many instances of people doing really nasty things.
508
00:59:54,120 --> 01:00:04,120
When I applied for a job, a group of scientists write to the university, say they shouldn't hire me.
509
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,120
And that's a typical story.
510
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,120
Unfortunately.
511
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:21,120
If you don't agree with a standard polemic, you become an outcast, you're shunned as if you have leprosy.
512
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:28,120
For Professor Sally Balieunas, the personal attacks became too much.
513
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:33,120
I retired early.
514
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:39,120
And my family said I should have retired even sooner, years sooner.
515
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:46,120
So they noticed the toll, took a toll on them and me.
516
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:55,120
Dr. Matthew Wielicki was an assistant professor of geology at the University of Alabama when he decided to speak out about the climate scare.
517
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:59,120
As a result of the backlash, he has decided to leave teaching.
518
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:05,120
To speak up about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was essentially career suicide. Absolutely.
519
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:13,120
There was no possible way that I would publish in quite a few of the mainstream journals that I was required to publish in.
520
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:17,120
I essentially isolated myself from many of the funding institutions.
521
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:27,120
This is one of the reasons you can build a consensus in a community is because anybody who is skeptical of that consensus essentially gets kicked out of the community.
522
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaking out in scientific ways that go contrary to the consensus, I would say is a career killer for people at the early stage of their careers.
523
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:49,120
If I were 30 years old in a university trying to make a career, I would certainly keep my mouth shut.
524
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:54,120
And in fact, I went to some effort to keep my mouth shut when I was younger.
525
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:58,120
I knew climate was nonsense then, but I was a little bit careful.
526
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:05,120
If a young person is questioning this, they can't put that in a proposal.
527
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:13,120
The proposal will be denied and they can't effectively publish because the gatekeeper will keep them out.
528
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,120
And so it would end their career.
529
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:20,120
You have to go along with the global warming story.
530
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:28,120
If you don't, you're going to get cut off, you're going to lose funding, you're going to get your career ruined, you're going to be trashed by the community.
531
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:32,120
You'll be despised by your coworkers.
532
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:43,120
The so-called consensus on climate has itself become a weapon, a form of bullying, intimidation and censorship used against those who refuse to conform.
533
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:51,120
It's a tool that people use to bludgeon their opponents and the skeptics and to attack their character.
534
01:02:51,120 --> 01:03:02,120
According to its critics, far from being scientific, the militant intolerant climate consensus represents a devastating assault on free scientific inquiry.
535
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:09,120
I see my job as a scientist as just laying out the facts and letting people decide what they want to do.
536
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:14,120
When you can't talk about the facts, things become corrupt.
537
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:26,120
If you shut the door on ideas, if you say you're not allowed to test it, you're not allowed to have that idea, you've left the realm of science.
538
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:39,120
I don't think climate researchers will ever back down from their claim that increasing CO2 is the control knob on today's climate system.
539
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:43,120
I don't think they will ever back down from that, no matter what the evidence is.
540
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:52,120
It's clear it's now a cult that's completely divorced from science.
541
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:58,120
But the apparently unstoppable climate scare does not just represent an attack on science.
542
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:08,120
It is starting to shape for us a new kind of society.
543
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:12,120
Environmentalists like to pose as anti-establishment.
544
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:25,120
But their demands are well received and piously echoed by King Charles and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the BBC, the UN, the EU, by heads of government, the World Bank and World Economic Forum.
545
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:30,120
In fact, by the entire state-funded ruling establishment.
546
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:40,120
Global warming is like the perfect problem that government can get involved in to grow the influence of government.
547
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:44,120
It's a wonderful way to increase government power.
548
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:54,120
And if there's an existential threat out there that's worldwide, well, you need a powerful worldwide government, you know, to cope with it.
549
01:04:54,120 --> 01:05:03,120
If you're a climate activist, you're actually facilitating a huge validation of the government running our lives.
550
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:15,120
Many environmentalists, most environmentalists, all environmentalists who consider themselves to be radical progressive alternatives are in fact simply reinforcing the mantras and the mainstream arguments of the entire establishment.
551
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:24,120
The demands on the government mean that the government suddenly gains the authority to interfere into every nook and cranny of our lives and how we live.
552
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,120
Everything has a climate narrative attached to it.
553
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:32,120
How much you consume, where you spend your money, how much you travel, who you interact with,
554
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,120
what types of food you eat, whether you eat meat.
555
01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:41,120
Everything has some sort of aspect that can be controlled with a climate lens.
556
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:50,120
Suppose 20 years ago somebody had hatched the idea that I would really like to ban cheap energy.
557
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:54,120
I'd really like to control everybody's appliance purchases.
558
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,120
I'd really like to tell everybody where they can go.
559
01:05:56,120 --> 01:06:01,120
And basically, I'd like to have dictatorial control over everything.
560
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:02,120
Well, it's not going to fly.
561
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,120
I know everybody would think you're a nut and would ignore you.
562
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:10,120
But fast forward 20 years, that's what's happening.
563
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:27,120
The publicly funded establishment in the West is so large and powerful, it is able to impose and enforce the official consensus on climate through its control of schools, universities, government and much of the media.
564
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:31,120
State broadcasters like the BBC exclude climate skeptics.
565
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:42,120
Broadcasting regulatory bodies forbid private stations from disseminating sceptical views, threatening them with having their broadcasting licenses revoked.
566
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:53,120
What normally happens in an emergency is that all normal forms of openness and democracy have to be suppressed because how else to deal with an emergency?
567
01:06:53,120 --> 01:07:10,120
So we are facing a situation not unlike lockdown, where basically all normal forms of behaviour, normal forms of social communication and normal forms of democracy are essentially ruled out.
568
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:18,120
Activists are even calling for any scepticism to be criminalised.
569
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:23,120
In certain jobs and professions, it is now dangerous to express dissent on climate.
570
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:37,120
It's no surprise that people who are more sceptical will think twice before voicing their concerns because they might risk their careers, they might risk their business, they might risk being sacked.
571
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:51,120
If you're a professional of any kind in science or law or medicine, if you belong to a professional association or you are in a university, you can be fired for saying what you believe.
572
01:07:51,120 --> 01:08:16,120
The consequence is a censorious authoritarian regime that has to control every move, every word, everything you want to do, because everything you do is a potential risk to the survival of mankind.
573
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:29,120
Climate protesters condemn capitalism, but at their anti-capitalist rallies it's hard to spot anyone who looks like a worker, like a docker or crane driver or steel worker or a beautician or a trucker.
574
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:35,120
The workers, it appears, are totally absent from these rallies and for very good reason.
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Today's climate alarmists complain not that capitalism isn't producing enough, but that it's producing too much.
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The modern capitalist system has led to prosperity. More and more people have more and more things.
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The modern anti-capitalism of the present time is a critique of capitalism that it gives us too much.
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They think that the problem with capitalism now is actually that it's giving out too many rewards en masse to ordinary workers.
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And what they want instead, and this is often very explicit actually, is a much more austere, simple kind of lifestyle in which the mass consumption, the consumption choices of the great bulk of the population are controlled or even prohibited.
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You have to consume less, you have to holiday less, you have to drive less, you have to eat less and so on.
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It seems that what upsets many environmentalists is not the failure, but rather the success of capitalism in producing an abundance of affordable goods for the masses.
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Ordinary working people, for once we've arrived at a point in history, in the Western world at least, where mass manufacturers allowed them cheap clothes, cheap food, cheap furniture.
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Therefore you get a clash when affluent environmentalists express their disdain for mass consumption.
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People going on those big huge cruise ships, it's like thousands of them, it's like what are they doing? Oh my god, all those cruise ships are ruining Venice, ruining all our beauty.
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We own them, don't we? They're not, what are they going there for?
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What you have here is a classic example of class hypocrisy and self-interest masquerading as public spirited concern.
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You could take these kinds of green socialists much more seriously if they lived off grid, they cut their own consumption down to the minimum, they never flew.
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Instead you get constant talk about how human consumption is destroying the planet.
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But the people making all this talk show absolutely no signs of reducing their own.
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What environmentalists call degrowth is being achieved by the trashing of our conventional energy and transport systems, and the forced introduction of expensive and unreliable alternatives.
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Already this is having the desired effect on industrial manufacturing, which is straining under the burden of punitive green taxes and regulation and higher energy prices.
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The people behind the climate alarm couldn't give a damn about manufacturing. They have nothing to do with it, they don't know people who work in manufacturing whose jobs and lives depend on it.
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They're not excited by industry or industrial progress, they explicitly want to shut it down.
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Kisi, Kenya, East Africa. According to many leading environmentalists, the world's poorest people should not aspire to the lifestyle of people in the first world.
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The planet will not cope. Grace Nyekonando is one of the many Africans who do not have electricity or gas to cook with or heat their homes.
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The resulting indoor smoke from burning wood and dried dung is the deadliest form of pollution in the world, for millions the cause of lung disease, blindness and early death.
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It's not just cheap, reliable electricity that Africa needs. Agricultural productivity here is incredibly low.
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Increasing it takes fossil fuels to make fertilizer and drive tractors and other farm machinery. Jasper Moshogu is a farmer.
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Each and every African wants to develop and increasing, improving agriculture is one of the easiest ways to do that. Agriculture is tightly tied to fossil fuels, fossil fuels that the Western nations are saying we should not have access to.
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Around a third of the food produced in Africa rots before it ever reaches the mouths of consumers. To prevent this terrible waste, Africa needs plastic packaging, refrigerated lorries and good roads.
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All are opposed by Western environmentalists. All come with industrial development. All rely on affordable fossil fuel energy.
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Diarrhea from drinking dirty water still kills hundreds of thousands of African children. But clean water requires large industrial water purification plants and a modern water supply network.
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And this will come only with cheap energy.
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I think it's pretty obvious that the West has got what it has because of fossil fuels. When people say Africa doesn't need fossil fuels, I wonder. I don't think they want what's best for us.
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They don't want us to develop and that means we continue being starving. We continue being poor.
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Most people don't know what climate change is. They don't care. They just want food on their table. They want to beat poverty. They want to beat hunger. They need money to better their lives. They want to flourish. That's just it.
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When they use the word sustainable development, they're talking about no development. Exactly. The point is that to develop sustainably means not to use too much energy, not to use too much carbon.
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You know, net zero, the idea that you must use too many resources, the fact you mustn't produce enough consumer goods because consumption is bad. So ultimately, the idea of development is out the window.
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The Greens think the Africans should never use their resources the way the Europeans or the Americans or the Canadians or the Australians have used theirs.
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They are also in favor of punitive taxes, border taxes on any African country that wants to export their goods to Europe if they do use their resources.
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So that sums up the ethical ruthlessness and depravity of the Green agenda.
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The climate alarmists have a problem. Many countries in Africa and across Asia are simply ignoring the environmentalist demands of Western governments and international agencies.
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Communist China is estimated to be building an average of two new coal power plants a week. China now uses more coal than the rest of the world combined, which is one of the reasons why this whole climate agenda is falling apart, because the rest of the world is not cutting emissions.
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It's not moving to renewables.
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In the West too, for many people, climate alarmism is wearing thin.
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Ordinary people are not stupid. They have seen one ridiculous claim after another fail over and over. What this does is leave people with a profound and justified cynicism about what the scientific establishment says and about what the government says.
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To fix the climate crisis, we're told we must give up our cars.
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We must pay more for fuel, heating, clothes, food, fly less, limit where we go.
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This attack on mass travel, mass tourism, mass consumption holds little appeal to the masses.
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People have started to realise it's going to cost them a lot of money to simply live the lives that they weren't leading, that they want to lead.
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And as soon as that started to happen, I could see people in the United Kingdom who had previously been indifferent to environmentalism suddenly think, how dare they do that? How dare they try and take away what we consider to be not luxuries, but necessities.
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The whole policy of sustainability is about restraint. It's about restrictions, it's about doing less. And that, obviously for most people, is anathema to their everyday needs.
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The fact that there is actually an ideological movement of people who think that cheap mass production of whether it's houses or anything else is a problem.
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I mean, for God's sake, no wonder people become disdainful of the kind of middle class outlook of environmentalism. But that is literally what people say.
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How can we stop people buying cheap things in shops?
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When climate protesters climbed onto an underground train in London's East End, they were not cheered on by working commuters.
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They were held abuse, pelted, angrily dragged off the train and received rough treatment on the platform.
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If you were to go into a pub frequented mainly by what the Americans call blue collar workers, you will find that being skeptical about climate change policy is not going to get you thrown out.
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Quite the contrary, somebody will probably buy you a drink. They can tell that behind all the talk about climate emergency, climate crisis, what there actually is, is an animus and hostility towards them, their lifestyle, their beliefs and a desire to change it by force if necessary.
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Unitive and restrictive policies carried out both in the name of climate change and covid have sparked protests in Britain, Canada and other Western countries.
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Anti-establishment politicians and movements are gaining support.
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What they what they underestimated was the fury that this would meet with ordinary people who just say you can't do this. So you suddenly get this new movement.
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Many working people are not merely skeptical, but positively angry about the climate alarm and all that flows from it.
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There is a suspicion or perhaps realization that climate change is an invented scare, driven by self-interest and snobbery, cynically promoted by a parasitic publicly funded establishment hungry for ever more money and power.
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An assault on the freedom and prosperity of the rest of us.
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And.
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Well there you go guys, super stuff, I think you'll agree.
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And I'll put the links down below in the description box to the people who produced this, great
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team.
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And also of course just thank all of my supporters to date because like this movie, I've been
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striving for many years now to get out the facts, the truth, counter misinformation
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and disinformation or whatever they call it and get the accuracy in data and interpret
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it integrated so that laypeople can understand what's actually going on geopolitically and
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what's actually transpiring in our world.
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So thanks so much to my Patreon and PayPal supporters and hugely appreciate if anyone
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else can support a little help keep the train on the track.
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