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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,200 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, 2 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:24,740 mainstream full of professors fantastic clarification of the big c issue the kind of catastrophe that's coming our way, 3 00:00:24,740 --> 00:00:34,160 what is this well this movie makes everything clear and it is highly enjoyable i think it was superbly produced so enjoy. 4 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:53,980 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. 5 00:00:53,980 --> 00:01:05,899 This is the story of how an eccentric environmental scare grew into a powerful global industry. 6 00:01:05,899 --> 00:01:17,300 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. 7 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:27,420 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. 8 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:41,220 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. 9 00:01:41,220 --> 00:01:53,820 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. 10 00:01:53,820 --> 00:02:03,320 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. 11 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:12,420 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. 12 00:02:12,420 --> 00:02:18,920 It's a story about the bullying and intimidation of anyone who dares to challenge the climate alarm. 13 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:25,620 To speak up against or about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was essentially career suicide. 14 00:02:25,620 --> 00:02:36,420 Activists are even calling for any skepticism to be criminalized it's the story of an assault on individual freedom. 15 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:48,620 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. 16 00:02:48,620 --> 00:02:56,420 We see all these kind of authoritarian measures being adopted in the name of saving the planet. 17 00:02:56,420 --> 00:03:00,420 You've suddenly got the population under control all over the world. 18 00:03:00,420 --> 00:03:15,420 We called it industrial progress since the industrial revolution the development of free market capitalist mass production. 19 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:25,019 Has made evermore goods evermore affordable to ever larger numbers of people mass production marched hand in hand with mass consumption. 20 00:03:25,019 --> 00:03:31,920 In the modern age ordinary people enjoy a level of prosperity never before achieved in human history. 21 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:39,619 But all the while we are told we were destroying the planet. 22 00:03:39,620 --> 00:03:48,420 Computers have calculated what is in store for us as we produce and consume evermore the weather will get worse the planet will boil. 23 00:03:48,420 --> 00:04:03,620 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. 24 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:17,220 These deniers should be shunned and shamed and censored for these climate deniers are flat earthers they are anti science. 25 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:25,120 Teaching at New York University is one of these climate deniers professor Stephen Kuhn is one of America's leading physicists. 26 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:38,620 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. 27 00:04:38,620 --> 00:04:54,820 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. 28 00:04:54,820 --> 00:05:08,120 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. 29 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:22,020 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. 30 00:05:22,020 --> 00:05:26,020 Dick Lindzen also dismisses the claims of climate alarmists. 31 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:39,919 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. 32 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:53,220 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. 33 00:05:53,220 --> 00:06:03,520 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. 34 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:14,820 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. 35 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:24,020 There's this mischievous idea that's promoted that scientific truth is determined by consensus in real science. 36 00:06:24,020 --> 00:06:27,320 You know there are always arguments no science has ever settled. 37 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,520 You know it just is absurd when people say the science of climate is settled. 38 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:37,020 It's not there's no such thing as settled science especially climate. 39 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:40,820 Dr. John Klauser is one of the most respected scientists in the world. 40 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:44,719 In 2022 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. 41 00:06:44,719 --> 00:06:48,419 The science that's being done is appallingly bad in my opinion. 42 00:06:48,419 --> 00:06:52,120 There are a large number of scientists who are in violent disagreement. 43 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,419 They refer to themselves as skeptics. 44 00:06:54,420 --> 00:07:03,720 Since I am no longer worried about losing funding or a job whatever I call myself a climate change denier. 45 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:09,720 These very eminent and respected scientists and others like them are not flat earthers. 46 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,620 They do not deny science. 47 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:24,020 So what's the evidence that has caused them to dismiss the climate alarm as nonsense. 48 00:07:24,020 --> 00:07:29,419 We are told that current temperatures are unprecedented and dangerously high. 49 00:07:29,419 --> 00:07:39,719 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. 50 00:07:39,719 --> 00:07:42,620 The desert of Judea by the Dead Sea. 51 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:48,520 Professor Neer Shaviv from the Racker Institute of Physics has come here looking for clues. 52 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:59,020 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. 53 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:01,320 And here's the climate. 54 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,020 We are at the lake bed of what used to be Lake Lisan. 55 00:08:06,020 --> 00:08:10,419 It's a lake that existed until the end of the last ice age. 56 00:08:10,419 --> 00:08:16,419 Back then the lake level was maybe 100 meters above where we're located. 57 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:23,220 When we want to reconstruct climates of the past we have to look for evidence for clues. 58 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:34,420 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. 59 00:08:34,420 --> 00:08:45,820 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. 60 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:52,320 The lines act as a kind of thermometer and this is just one way geologists can reconstruct past climate. 61 00:08:52,320 --> 00:09:06,220 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. 62 00:09:06,220 --> 00:09:17,020 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. 63 00:09:17,020 --> 00:09:25,420 So when we look back in time what do we find? 64 00:09:25,420 --> 00:09:29,920 For 200 million years dinosaurs roamed the earth. 65 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:35,020 An earth marked by fertile dense forests teeming with life. 66 00:09:35,020 --> 00:09:42,420 And at no time during those 200 million years were temperatures as cold as they are today. 67 00:09:42,420 --> 00:09:50,020 If you go back let's say 200 million years it was maybe 13 degrees warmer than it is now. 68 00:09:50,020 --> 00:09:57,020 So on the geological perspective this is not at all unprecedented. 69 00:09:57,020 --> 00:10:01,520 For the last 500 million years temperatures have varied greatly. 70 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,819 But for almost all that time the earth was much much warmer than today. 71 00:10:06,819 --> 00:10:12,020 Compared to the last half billion years the earth right now is exceptionally cold. 72 00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:16,220 In fact there are very few times when it's been this cold. 73 00:10:16,220 --> 00:10:24,319 We're relatively cold maybe not quite the coldest it's been in 500 million years but pretty close to it. 74 00:10:24,319 --> 00:10:29,819 We are in a remarkably cool period if we look over the last 550 million years. 75 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:37,420 In fact only one other time period in that last 550 million years was the temperature as cool as it is now. 76 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:44,820 The mammals who now inhabit the earth began to evolve around 60 million years ago when the world was much warmer than today. 77 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:47,520 We just look at the last 65 million years. 78 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:55,820 So this is after the dinosaurs go extinct mammals really start to take over and our evolutionary ancestors start to live on the land. 79 00:10:55,820 --> 00:11:01,820 Any time period within the last 65 million years was warmer than it is essentially today. 80 00:11:01,820 --> 00:11:08,520 The earth's mammals humans included appear to thrive when it's warm, warmer than it is now. 81 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,520 There's no doubt that warm is better than cold in geological history. 82 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,820 We are a tropical species. 83 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:21,520 A human being in the shade naked dies at 20 C from hypothermia. 84 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:33,319 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. 85 00:11:33,319 --> 00:11:42,020 Over the last 50 million years temperatures steadily declined plunging the earth into what geologists call the late Cenozoic Ice Age. 86 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:44,620 We are still in that Ice Age. 87 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:48,819 The reason there's all that ice on the poles is because we're in an Ice Age. 88 00:11:48,820 --> 00:11:52,520 Everybody knows that who knows anything about the history of the earth. 89 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,220 This is an Ice Age. 90 00:11:54,220 --> 00:12:00,020 We're at the tail end of a 50 million year cooling period and they're saying it's too hot. 91 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:10,920 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. 92 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:16,820 The extremely cold periods are called glacial maxima when the planet is mostly covered in ice. 93 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:22,920 And the slightly less cold are called glacial minima when there's just ice at the poles. 94 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:32,520 For the past 10,000 years fortunately we've been in a slightly less cold glacial minimum known as the Holocene. 95 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:46,220 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. 96 00:12:46,220 --> 00:12:50,220 This is known as the Holocene climate optimum. 97 00:12:50,220 --> 00:12:54,220 It was called an optimum because people thought that warmer was better. 98 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:58,320 Since then temperatures have declined and begun to fluctuate. 99 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:05,920 In Roman times there was a blissfully warm period followed by a brutal cold period in the Dark Ages. 100 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:13,120 Then came the balmy medieval warm period according to many studies as warm or warmer than today. 101 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:20,220 Followed by an especially cold period known as the Little Ice Age possibly the coldest in the last 10,000 years. 102 00:13:20,220 --> 00:13:34,120 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. 103 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:40,020 The longest instrumental record of temperature in the world comes from central England and this is what it shows. 104 00:13:40,020 --> 00:13:48,620 Since the worst of the Little Ice Age from 1650 the temperature has risen gently by little more than one degree Celsius. 105 00:13:48,620 --> 00:14:00,220 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. 106 00:14:00,220 --> 00:14:13,720 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. 107 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:20,720 Most of the warming that we're observing today is the recovery from the Little Ice Age whatever calls that. 108 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:29,420 Well you know we're talking over the entire industrial period of about one degree centigrade. 109 00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:33,920 To put this one degree in perspective let's look at New York Central Park. 110 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:39,319 Records show that there has been no overall change in temperature here since 1940. 111 00:14:39,319 --> 00:14:47,020 But from one year to the next the average temperature can vary by three degrees Celsius without many New Yorkers even noticing. 112 00:14:47,020 --> 00:14:53,620 In fact between the warmest year in the 1960s and the coolest in 2000 there's a difference of five degrees Celsius. 113 00:14:53,620 --> 00:15:04,220 The average temperature on this day in this year might be five degrees different from the average temperature a year ago or two years. 114 00:15:04,220 --> 00:15:16,420 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. 115 00:15:16,420 --> 00:15:22,420 According to thermometer readings since 1880 there's been a very mild increase in temperature. 116 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:27,319 Only by stretching the y-axis on this graph is the increase noticeable. 117 00:15:27,319 --> 00:15:32,420 This is the rising line used by official agencies as proof of global warming. 118 00:15:32,420 --> 00:15:37,319 But is it accurate? 119 00:15:37,319 --> 00:15:42,719 Professor Ross McKittrick is an expert in statistical analysis at Guelph University. 120 00:15:42,719 --> 00:15:46,420 He noticed something odd about modern thermometer records. 121 00:15:46,420 --> 00:15:53,020 Thermometers even in the same region give out very different readings depending on where they're located. 122 00:15:53,020 --> 00:15:56,620 I was interested in the question of how do you explain the spatial pattern of warming. 123 00:15:56,620 --> 00:16:04,920 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. 124 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,520 Where there are more people and there is more human activity there's more heat. 125 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,620 This is known as the urban heat island effect. 126 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:21,820 Urban heat island effect is essentially London right you pick London with buildings with a lot of activities tends to be a few degree. 127 00:16:21,820 --> 00:16:26,620 I mean we're talking now Celsius right even four or five degrees Celsius warmer than Oscar. 128 00:16:26,620 --> 00:16:28,820 This is a phenomenon of urbanization. 129 00:16:28,820 --> 00:16:34,320 This day is the obvious effect is actually concrete retaining retaining heat. 130 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,420 This can be illustrated with the satellite heat map of Paris. 131 00:16:38,420 --> 00:16:46,120 The center of Paris can be as much as five degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding countryside. 132 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:56,020 Paris London Beijing Shanghai you name it New Delhi all of them absolutely demonstrated the defects. 133 00:16:56,020 --> 00:17:01,120 So how is this affected the official temperature record in the early part of the 20th century. 134 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:06,819 It was normal to erect weather thermometers just outside towns close enough to check every day. 135 00:17:06,819 --> 00:17:14,319 But away from the heat of urban life but over the 20th century those towns have expanded suburbs have spread. 136 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:25,919 There are more roads more cars thermometers which were once outside towns and are surrounded by shopping malls offices factories and houses. 137 00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:32,520 These towns and all the locations where thermometers are located on average they've all grown in population. 138 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:39,920 Let's say since 1880 you've got buildings growing up around the thermometers you've got parking lots. 139 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:50,620 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. 140 00:17:50,620 --> 00:18:00,020 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. 141 00:18:00,020 --> 00:18:03,520 This has now been done by a team led by Dr. Willie Soon. 142 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:17,520 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. 143 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:24,320 According to rural temperature records temperatures rose from the 1880s but peaked in the 1940s. 144 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:34,220 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. 145 00:18:34,220 --> 00:18:47,419 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. 146 00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:58,620 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. 147 00:18:58,620 --> 00:19:09,220 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. 148 00:19:09,220 --> 00:19:22,620 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. 149 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:31,820 Ocean records show far less warming in the 20th century and the pattern more closely resembles the rural temperature record. 150 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:42,820 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. 151 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:49,220 Scientists have also studied temperature change by looking at tree rings which again shows very little warming. 152 00:19:49,220 --> 00:19:55,320 There's a gentle rise to the mid 20th century the cooling to the 1970s followed by a mild recovery. 153 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:08,520 Once again it shows temperatures today are barely different to those of the 1930s and 40s and the pattern closely resembles rural temperatures. 154 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,820 Satellites to seem to be telling a different story. 155 00:20:12,820 --> 00:20:20,120 Our ability to measure global temperature accurately took a leap forward when satellites began to orbit the earth. 156 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:32,620 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. 157 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:48,719 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. 158 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,420 Dr. Spencer's development of weather satellites was revolutionary. 159 00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:59,220 He and his colleague Professor John Christie have been awarded NASA's medal for exceptional scientific achievement. 160 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:02,620 Our satellite data begins in January of 1979. 161 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:09,020 That's when we have complete global coverage and we have it right up to the present. 162 00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:15,620 There was one critical question about temperature that satellites were singularly well equipped to answer. 163 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:25,419 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? 164 00:21:25,419 --> 00:21:33,919 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. 165 00:21:33,919 --> 00:21:39,919 I mean since 1880 most of the warming it looks like is due to the urban heat island effect. 166 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:49,320 We're lucky to have a few independent scientists like John Christie and Roy Spencer with their satellite measurements of temperature. 167 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:56,120 You know before they started releasing this ground-based temperature records were going wild. 168 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:01,120 They were going up you know like crazy with no bounds. 169 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:12,120 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. 170 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:26,120 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. 171 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,120 Artificially inflated by urbanization. 172 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:36,120 You look at the weather balloon record, the satellite record, the rural record, the ocean record doesn't warm nearly as much as land. 173 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:44,120 All of these indications show that the big warming pulse in the record is the northern hemisphere land record. 174 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:49,120 And that's also where most of this data contamination is happening. 175 00:22:49,120 --> 00:23:05,120 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? 176 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:17,120 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. 177 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:19,120 These plants aren't just pleasing on the eye. 178 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:26,120 They can also tell us about levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in Earth's geological past. 179 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:38,120 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. 180 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:45,120 On the underside of the leaf there are what we call stomata, the cells where they can uptake CO2. 181 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:55,120 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. 182 00:23:55,120 --> 00:24:06,120 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. 183 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:09,120 So when we look back in time, what do we find? 184 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:17,120 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. 185 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:29,120 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. 186 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:38,120 At present we have about 400 parts per million. 50 million years ago it might have been 2,000 parts per million. 187 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:43,120 So a much, much higher concentration of CO2. 188 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:49,120 I think current estimates of global CO2 is 423 or so parts per million today. 189 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:59,120 If we look through the Phanerozoic, the last 550 million years, we would see CO2 on the order of 7,000 parts per million. 190 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:07,120 CO2 is plant food and the result of much higher levels of atmospheric CO2 in the past was a much, much greener world. 191 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:15,120 Most periods of elevated CO2 tend to be time periods of a huge biodiversity on the planet. 192 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:21,120 In fact, we're in a CO2 famine if we look over the last 550 million years. 193 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:31,120 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. 194 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:40,120 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. 195 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:48,120 20,000 years ago CO2 is at the lowest level it has ever been in the history of the Earth, 180 parts per million. 196 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:53,120 If it had gone down another 30 parts per million, we'd all be dead. 197 00:25:53,120 --> 00:26:04,120 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. 198 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:14,120 During the last glacial maximum, there's good evidence that in many parts of the world there was plant starvation from not enough CO2. 199 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:19,120 So we should be very grateful that CO2 levels are beginning to go back up. 200 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:24,120 We're still far from the historical norms, which would be several thousand parts per million. 201 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:30,120 There's not enough fossil fuel to get there, but at least we're making a start. 202 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:36,120 But has the small recent increase in CO2 affected the temperature? 203 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,120 We would now show you a picture of CO2, but we can't because it's invisible. 204 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:47,120 CO2 makes up a tiny fraction of the gases in the atmosphere, just 0.04 of a percent. 205 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:56,120 It is just one of 25 different greenhouse gases, which, taken as a whole, form only one part of Earth's complex climate system. 206 00:26:56,120 --> 00:27:02,120 So what evidence is there that this trace gas is having any noticeable impact on the climate? 207 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:11,120 If it were true that higher levels of CO2 caused higher temperatures, we should be able to see that in Earth's climate history. 208 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,120 Here, scientists are drilling into ancient ice cores. 209 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:19,120 These cores tell us both about past temperatures and CO2 levels. 210 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:23,120 Scientists have indeed found a link between temperature and CO2. 211 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:27,120 The trouble is it's the wrong way round. 212 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:35,120 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. 213 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:40,120 But if CO2 is the driver, it has to change first and the temperature has to change second. 214 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:45,120 In fact, when you start to look at the data very specifically, you see the exact reverse. 215 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:53,120 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. 216 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:57,120 It's long been known that the temperature actually moves first. 217 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:03,120 So temperature goes up, CO2 goes up after that. Temperature goes down, CO2 goes down. 218 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:12,120 Ice ages start when carbon dioxide is at its maximum and ice ages end when carbon dioxide is at its minimum, 219 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:18,120 which is the exact opposite of what would occur if carbon dioxide was controlling the temperature. 220 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,120 The question of whether CO2 drives the climate is easily resolved. 221 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:26,120 You can look back in time, over hundreds of millions of years, CO2 levels have changed radically many times. 222 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:30,120 Did this cause temperature change? No, absolutely not. 223 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:34,120 CO2 has never driven temperature changes in the past, never. 224 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:40,120 Nor is it clear in recent times that CO2 is having any effect on temperature. 225 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,120 Here we see industrial output of CO2 since 1750. 226 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,120 From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, there was only a slight increase. 227 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,120 It's not until the 1940s that industrial production of CO2 begins to take off. 228 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,120 But this doesn't match the temperature record. 229 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:06,120 According to rural thermometers, most of the warming in the past 200 years occurred before the 1940s and have barely changed since then. 230 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:12,120 One of the embarrassments that IPCC doesn't like to talk about was that the 1930s, 231 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,120 when human influences were much smaller, were particularly warm. 232 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:24,120 That's the puzzle, that the first early part where we have such a sharp warming from the 1900s to the 1930s and 1940s, 233 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,120 CO2 could never cause that temperature rise. 234 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:36,120 But the 1930s and early 40s were so hot, it's puzzling. More puzzling still is what happened next. 235 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:43,120 By the end of World War II, CO2 was really going up, and yet the temperature was going down. 236 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:49,120 From 1940 to 1970, while the CO2 continued to rise, this thing started to cool. What happened? 237 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:55,120 Journalists were writing about the coming ice age. It was on the cover of Time magazine. 238 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,120 The 1970s knew ice age was the big story. 239 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,120 And how about since the 1970s? 240 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:10,120 According to computer climate models, over the past half century, rising CO2 should have led to this increase in temperature. 241 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:16,120 But according to multiple satellite and balloon measurements, what actually happened was this. 242 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:27,120 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. 243 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:34,120 There's a couple dozen climate models now that have been worked on for decades. 244 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:39,120 Billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars have been invested in these climate modeling efforts. 245 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:48,120 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. 246 00:30:48,120 --> 00:31:01,120 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. 247 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:09,120 The models, individually and even collectively when you average over all of them in so-called ensembles, they don't get it right. 248 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:19,120 You can already see that the main supports of the climate alarm movement, which are these enormous computer models, they're clearly wrong. 249 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,120 They don't agree with what we observe. 250 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,120 They're all running much too hot. 251 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:30,120 They don't get the geographical distribution of temperatures anywhere close. 252 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,120 They don't get El Nino, La Nina cycles. 253 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,120 They're just nonsense. 254 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:41,120 All climate models are based on the assumption that CO2 drives temperature change. 255 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:47,120 But actual observations and historical evidence clearly suggest that it doesn't. 256 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:54,120 Yes, I assert that there is no connection whatsoever between CO2 and climate change. 257 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,120 That's all a crock of crap, in my opinion. 258 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:03,120 There is no truth to the idea that the Earth is warmer now than it has been in the past. 259 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,120 It's a lie. 260 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,120 There is no truth that CO2 is higher than it should be. 261 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,120 That is a lie. 262 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:17,120 Earth's climate has changed many times over the course of its long history and will continue to change without any help from us. 263 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,120 Climate always changes, you know. 264 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,120 Who denies climate change? It's always changing. 265 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,120 But if CO2 doesn't drive climate change, what does? 266 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,120 In Earth's atmosphere, there are powerful forces at work. 267 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,120 And perhaps the most powerful of all are clouds. 268 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,120 CO2 is quite unimportant in controlling the Earth's climate. 269 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,120 What is important is clouds. 270 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,120 Clouds don't absorb any energy at all. 271 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,120 They simply reflect all of the sunlight back out into space. 272 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,120 Big, bright, white clouds. 273 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:06,120 If you look at the Earth, you see lots and lots of them, and they vary dramatically from one day to the next. 274 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:14,120 That is hundreds of times more powerful than the trivial effects of CO2. 275 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:20,120 But what controls the number and density of clouds on Earth? 276 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:28,120 Professor Henrik Svensmark from the Danish National Space Institute is in Jerusalem with the astrophysicist Nér Chaviv. 277 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:33,120 Together they've been exploring cloud variation and its effect on climate. 278 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:40,120 And strangely, they've found a link between clouds and exploding supernovae far off in our galaxy. 279 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,120 When you have big stars, they don't live very long. 280 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:50,120 I mean, relatively only maybe a few million years, up to 40 million years. 281 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,120 But they end their life in a huge explosion which we call the supernova. 282 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:07,120 An exploding supernova sends out vast quantities of debris, tiny charged subatomic particles known as cosmic rays, 283 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,120 traveling almost at the speed of light. 284 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:17,120 And as they hit Earth, they develop into seeds which attract water vapor and form clouds. 285 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:26,120 Professor Chaviv noticed that the amount of cloud cover on Earth is related to our journey around the Milky Way. 286 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,120 As our solar system orbits the galaxy over millions of years, 287 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:35,120 it passes through the galaxy's spiral arms, dense clusters of stars. 288 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:40,120 As it does, we are exposed to more or less cloud-forming cosmic rays. 289 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,120 And this corresponds to historic temperature changes on Earth. 290 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:54,120 The really mind-boggling thing is that using geology, you can reconstruct the climate on Earth over the past billion years, 291 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:59,120 and you can reconstruct our galactic journey and both tell the same story. 292 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:04,120 But what about temperature change on shorter time scales? 293 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:12,120 The Sun, our source of heat and light, a seething mass of gigantic magnetic storms, 294 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:18,120 which vary in strength and number over time and which affect Earth directly and indirectly. 295 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:25,120 When it is very active, the Sun sends giant gusts of solar wind through the solar system. 296 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:30,120 The solar wind warms us indirectly by acting as a barrier, 297 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,120 limiting the number of cloud-forming cosmic rays reaching Earth. 298 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:42,120 So from the Sun, we have the solar wind. It carries the Sun's magnetic field out to a large distance, 299 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,120 and it works like a shield against cosmic rays. 300 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,120 When the Sun is more active, you have a stronger solar wind, 301 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:56,120 you have less cosmic rays reaching the inner solar system and reaching the atmosphere, 302 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:02,120 and the clouds which are then formed are less white, they reflect less of the sunlight, 303 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,120 which means that it's going to be warmer here on Earth. 304 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:12,120 Here is a proxy reconstruction of ocean temperatures over thousands of years, 305 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,120 and here is one of solar activity over the same period. 306 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:21,120 What is causing the ocean temperature to change is clearly variations in solar activity. 307 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:30,120 Because IPCC is determined to go on a narrative that only CO2 can drive the climate system, 308 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,120 they turn off the Sun essentially, right? 309 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,120 Because the Sun is just a background thing for them, that it doesn't do anything. 310 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:44,120 Astrophysicist Willie Soon decided to look again at the rural temperature record for the past 150 years. 311 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:49,120 Then he looked at a record of changes in solar activity over the same period. 312 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:55,120 To Dr. Soon, it was obvious that it was the Sun, not CO2, that was driving temperature. 313 00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:06,120 As of 2023, IPCC says that the Sun has absolutely zero chance to explain the changes of the climate system. 314 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:11,120 On a broad scale, let's say global warming or Northern Hemisphere, we say no. 315 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,120 We can easily demonstrate the Sun can explain all of it. 316 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,120 There's zero for the CO2, 100% for the Sun. How's that? 317 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,120 Why are these and other studies never reported in the mainstream media? 318 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:31,120 And if climate change is natural, what are we to make of the alleged terrifying increase in extreme weather events? 319 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:41,120 Of the heat waves and hurricanes, of forest fires, droughts and the rest? 320 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:48,120 My first instinct as a scientist and what I teach my students is, well, let's look at the data. 321 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:54,120 And when you do that, you discover, as you can read in the IPCC reports themselves, 322 00:37:54,120 --> 00:38:02,120 that it's pretty hard to find trends in extreme events, much less attribute them to human influences. 323 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:11,120 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. 324 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,120 So I think people at this point can't help themselves. 325 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:19,120 If you have a heat wave, immediately everybody's thinking, oh, what have we done to the weather? 326 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:26,120 If somebody says in the news this is the warmest day since 1980 or something, 327 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:34,120 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. 328 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,120 US temperature records are the best in the world. 329 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:44,120 And here is the official US government record of heat waves in the US over the past century. 330 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:51,120 It shows very clearly that the 1930s were far more prone to heat waves than we are today. 331 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:58,120 Not only were there more heat waves in the 1930s, the heat waves then were much hotter than those of today. 332 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:07,120 Likewise, official figures show that the number of hot days in the US has markedly declined. 333 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,120 The United States was much hotter in the 1930s. 334 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:20,120 North Dakota reached 121 degrees. South Dakota was 120 degrees. Wisconsin was 114 degrees. 335 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:27,120 These sort of temperatures are just completely out of range of anything people experience now. 336 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:32,120 A common mistake is to suppose that higher average temperature will mean more hot weather. 337 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,120 But this isn't true. 338 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:40,120 Here again is the Central England temperature record, the longest instrumental temperature record in the world. 339 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:47,120 Summer temperatures over the past three to four hundred years since the end of the Little Ice Age have barely changed at all. 340 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,120 It is winter temperatures that have been slightly rising. 341 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,120 The Earth's climate has not been getting hotter, it's been getting milder. 342 00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:02,120 That's certainly being observed all over the world. If you look at temperature records, high temperatures are almost unchanged. 343 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:10,120 But cold temperatures at night or during the winter are going up a little bit. Not very much, but you can measure it. 344 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:17,120 When the average goes up, it's really more due to the coldest temperatures getting warmer, 345 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:22,120 so the temperature is getting milder rather than getting hotter. 346 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:28,120 What about the increasing number of wildfires we're often told about? 347 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:36,120 If you look at the actual number of forest fires from satellite observations, the actual number is going down. 348 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:42,120 Here is an estimate of global wildfires since 1900. It shows a clear decline. 349 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,120 And here is a record of areas affected by wildfires in the U.S. 350 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,120 It shows that wildfires were far, far worse in the 1930s. 351 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:58,120 From the 1930s and 1920s when you have data, it was huge, five to ten times bigger than the current level. 352 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:06,120 How about hurricanes? The U.S. has by far the best record of hurricane activity in the world. 353 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:12,120 Over the past 120 years, there is no overall change. In fact, the trend is slightly down. 354 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:23,120 When you look at the data for hurricanes, technically tropical cyclones, you see that there is no long-term trend. 355 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:29,120 How about the rest of the world? Here is a chart of global hurricane activity over the past 40 years. 356 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:39,120 Hurricanes have been around forever. We've got good proxy records of hurricanes, and there's been no change in their frequency. 357 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,120 Even the IPCC admits that. 358 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:50,120 How about melting ice caps and drought? Here's a satellite record of temperature in Antarctica since the late 1970s. 359 00:41:50,120 --> 00:42:01,120 It shows no increase whatsoever. And here is a record of global drought since 1950. There is no observable increase at all. 360 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:07,120 Polar bears are meant to be going extinct, but studies suggest their numbers are growing. 361 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:12,120 The Great Barrier Reef, too, has recently reached record levels. 362 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:19,120 There's no such thing as a climate emergency happening on this planet now. There's no evidence of one. 363 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:27,120 Yeah, the extreme weather event story is just absurd. There's no basis to it at all. It's just based on propaganda. 364 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,120 The actual data shows the opposite. 365 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:36,120 I've shown you the official data, the official science. Tell me what I'm denying. 366 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:48,120 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. 367 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:59,120 But why are we told again and again that man-made climate chaos is an undisputed scientific fact, beyond question, beyond doubt? 368 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:05,120 To answer this, we must examine the so-called consensus on climate change. 369 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,120 Thank you very much. 370 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:14,120 Until the 1980s, global warming was little more than an eccentric scare story put about by radical environmentalists. 371 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:20,120 But then the cause was picked up by an ambitious young senator, Al Gore, who would soon become vice president. 372 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:27,120 A billion dollars a year of public money was made available for research into climate change. This quickly rose to two billion. 373 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,120 Up to that level. 374 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:36,120 Academic researchers in various disciplines began to apply for this climate funding. 375 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:48,120 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. 376 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:56,120 You're dealing with the sexual habits of cockroaches. You'll add, and the impact of climate. 377 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:05,120 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. 378 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,120 And so right away you qualify for funding. 379 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:13,120 Academics of every kind lined up for climate funding. 380 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:23,120 Climate became an exciting new area of interest for sociologists, biologists, professors of English literature, lecturers in gender studies, and many more. 381 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,120 And it also served to create a community. 382 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:35,120 I mean, you know, you've become a climate scientist now, even though you know nothing about the physics of climate. 383 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:47,120 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. 384 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:56,120 There's an almost comical list of studies out there. Just do a Google search on climate change and everything comes up. 385 00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:02,120 Few of these papers ever questioned whether climate change was actually true. 386 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:08,120 After you've done the research and you write the paper up, sometimes you find there's no effect at all from climate. 387 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 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:24,120 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 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,120 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. 575 01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:44,120 Today's climate alarmists complain not that capitalism isn't producing enough, but that it's producing too much. 576 01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:51,120 The modern capitalist system has led to prosperity. More and more people have more and more things. 577 01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:57,120 The modern anti-capitalism of the present time is a critique of capitalism that it gives us too much. 578 01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:06,120 They think that the problem with capitalism now is actually that it's giving out too many rewards en masse to ordinary workers. 579 01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:21,120 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. 580 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:29,120 You have to consume less, you have to holiday less, you have to drive less, you have to eat less and so on. 581 01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:41,120 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. 582 01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:55,120 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. 583 01:09:55,120 --> 01:10:02,120 Therefore you get a clash when affluent environmentalists express their disdain for mass consumption. 584 01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:14,120 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. 585 01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:18,120 We own them, don't we? They're not, what are they going there for? 586 01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:26,120 What you have here is a classic example of class hypocrisy and self-interest masquerading as public spirited concern. 587 01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:35,120 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. 588 01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:39,120 Instead you get constant talk about how human consumption is destroying the planet. 589 01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:45,120 But the people making all this talk show absolutely no signs of reducing their own. 590 01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:57,120 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. 591 01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:08,120 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. 592 01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:18,120 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. 593 01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:23,120 They're not excited by industry or industrial progress, they explicitly want to shut it down. 594 01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:40,120 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. 595 01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:51,120 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. 596 01:11:51,120 --> 01:12:03,120 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. 597 01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:29,120 It's not just cheap, reliable electricity that Africa needs. Agricultural productivity here is incredibly low. 598 01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:39,120 Increasing it takes fossil fuels to make fertilizer and drive tractors and other farm machinery. Jasper Moshogu is a farmer. 599 01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:58,120 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. 600 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:12,120 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. 601 01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:21,120 All are opposed by Western environmentalists. All come with industrial development. All rely on affordable fossil fuel energy. 602 01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:34,120 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. 603 01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:37,120 And this will come only with cheap energy. 604 01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:51,120 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. 605 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:59,120 They don't want us to develop and that means we continue being starving. We continue being poor. 606 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:13,120 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. 607 01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:25,120 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. 608 01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:38,120 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. 609 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:49,120 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. 610 01:14:49,120 --> 01:15:01,120 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. 611 01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:13,120 So that sums up the ethical ruthlessness and depravity of the Green agenda. 612 01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:24,120 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. 613 01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:42,120 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. 614 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:45,120 It's not moving to renewables. 615 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:53,120 In the West too, for many people, climate alarmism is wearing thin. 616 01:15:53,120 --> 01:16:09,120 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. 617 01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:16,120 To fix the climate crisis, we're told we must give up our cars. 618 01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:23,120 We must pay more for fuel, heating, clothes, food, fly less, limit where we go. 619 01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:32,120 This attack on mass travel, mass tourism, mass consumption holds little appeal to the masses. 620 01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:40,120 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. 621 01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:57,120 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. 622 01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:08,120 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. 623 01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:20,120 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. 624 01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:30,120 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. 625 01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:37,120 How can we stop people buying cheap things in shops? 626 01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:45,120 When climate protesters climbed onto an underground train in London's East End, they were not cheered on by working commuters. 627 01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:52,120 They were held abuse, pelted, angrily dragged off the train and received rough treatment on the platform. 628 01:17:52,120 --> 01:18:06,120 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. 629 01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:29,120 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. 630 01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:40,120 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. 631 01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:46,120 Anti-establishment politicians and movements are gaining support. 632 01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:57,120 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. 633 01:18:57,120 --> 01:19:05,120 Many working people are not merely skeptical, but positively angry about the climate alarm and all that flows from it. 634 01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:22,120 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. 635 01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:27,120 An assault on the freedom and prosperity of the rest of us. 636 01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:59,120 And. 637 01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,120 And. 638 01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:05,120 And. 639 01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:09,120 And. 640 01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:13,120 And. 641 01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:16,120 And. 642 01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:19,120 And. 643 01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:29,120 Well there you go guys, super stuff, I think you'll agree. 644 01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:34,260 And I'll put the links down below in the description box to the people who produced this, great 645 01:20:34,260 --> 01:20:35,760 team. 646 01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:41,800 And also of course just thank all of my supporters to date because like this movie, I've been 647 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:48,740 striving for many years now to get out the facts, the truth, counter misinformation 648 01:20:48,740 --> 01:20:55,340 and disinformation or whatever they call it and get the accuracy in data and interpret 649 01:20:55,340 --> 01:21:01,519 it integrated so that laypeople can understand what's actually going on geopolitically and 650 01:21:01,519 --> 01:21:04,740 what's actually transpiring in our world. 651 01:21:04,740 --> 01:21:10,240 So thanks so much to my Patreon and PayPal supporters and hugely appreciate if anyone 652 01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:14,920 else can support a little help keep the train on the track. 653 01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:21,920 Thank you. 92845

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