It's Friday, the boss is gone, so let's not be too academic tonight, let's debunk my own bias about the CBC, and see if I'm right about this whole climate crisis thing. It's a non-scientific experiment.
00:00:00.400You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:00:03.880CBC seems more ridiculously CBC than CBC normally does these days, if that is even possible.
00:00:11.540And so I've conducted a tiny non-scientific experiment to see if I'm right about this.
00:00:16.980It's June 21st, 2019, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:24.720Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:28.360There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:32.700The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:43.600So my news feed, probably like yours, has been absolutely polluted with the term climate emergency over the last few days.
00:00:51.140Thanks in no small part to Canada's Environment Minister Catherine McKenna's meaningless declaration in the House of Commons
00:00:57.360that Canada is in some sort of climate catastrophe.
00:01:00.600And it would appear that CBC is one of the very worst pushers of all this climate emergency hysteria.
00:01:08.140Now normally in my daily work and in my daily videos here at The Rebel,
00:01:11.980I do a lot of hard journalism with a bit of commentary at the end.
00:01:16.240I read and go through a lot of government documents, access to information and freedom of information packages as well as order paper questions.
00:01:25.000It's fine, it's fun and I like it enough because I like to know what the government is doing when they think nobody's watching them.
00:01:33.040And I especially like for you at home to know what the government is doing when they think nobody's watching them
00:01:39.060because you're the one paying for it all.
00:01:42.560But sometimes it's fun to turn the same investigative lens on the competition.
00:01:48.280And no, I don't mean going through the CBC's expenses, although you know what, wouldn't that be fun and revealing?
00:01:55.540No, today I'm sort of trying to confirm or debunk my own bias about the CBC and fact check myself a little bit.
00:02:03.660What I mean is, the CBC really is bad as I think it is?
00:02:07.260Or am I just blinded by my own disgust of having to fund it all?
00:02:11.560Let's have a little fun and check it out together.
00:02:14.920It's Friday, the boss is gone, let's not be too academic tonight.
00:02:20.520So yesterday I was at my computer waiting on things to upload to the internet.
00:02:26.180Honestly, to be frank, I spend a lot of time doing that because I live in the middle of nowhere where upload speeds are absolutely molasses in January.
00:02:35.580So to pass the time, I just pulled up the CBC search bar and I got to work.
00:02:41.380CBC absolutely loves to talk about climate change.
00:02:47.440On their website, right now there are nearly 20,000 stories referencing climate change, specifically from the pro-climate change, we're all going to die in 12 years angle.
00:02:58.200And there are dozens and dozens and dozens of these fear-mongering stories that were just posted since June 18th, including how we now need to be a haven for climate refugees, whatever those things are.
00:03:13.140This now is versus some 3,721 stories about the oil sands, and approximately 50% of those in my brief leafing through and in my estimation are presenting the oil sands as a net negative in society.
00:03:28.120Actually, the only thing CBC loves to talk about more than climate change is Trump, with nearly 44,000 hits on the word Trump in the CBC story database.
00:03:38.700Now, let's flip this a bit and compare it.
00:03:42.820The CBC, they are absolutely obsessed with Trump.
00:03:45.780Fine, me too a little bit, but in a different way.
00:03:49.060If we plug Trump emails into the CBC news search bar, we get almost 12,500 hits under the news tab.
00:03:57.860If we plug Clinton emails into the news tab, we get just 736 hits in the CBC archive.
00:04:06.280How's that for misplaced emphasis, right?
00:04:09.400Let's do a few more of these just for fun.
00:04:12.420Okay, let's compare missteps by politicians on the right and then on the left.
00:04:17.020There are some 49 stories in the CBC archives alleging some sort of ties between Alberta Premier Jason Kenney or his nominated candidates and the white supremacist movement.
00:04:30.720But there are just 41 stories if you search the keywords Trudeau and water bottle, and not one of those stories references the phrase paper-like juice box water bottle sort of things.
00:04:45.820Okay, one last one, because I've been noticing an uptick in anti-meat, anti-farming rhetoric, specifically coming from the left, and I bet CBC is jumping on the bandwagon because, really, there's not a left-wing bandwagon these people at the CBC won't jump on.
00:05:04.160When you search the keyword meatless on the CBC website, I get 228 stories, most of which are trying to sell me on a carbohydrate-laden abomination that masquerades as beef, and then they want me to eat it to save the planet.
00:05:20.420One story even tells us to dream of a vegan Christmas with tofu ham.
00:05:25.020Another story tries to show us all the ways to convince our aging parents to deny themselves delicious proteins.
00:05:31.220So then I searched vegan Ramadan and got just 30 results, but I'm sort of happy Christians aren't alone in this religious holiday vegan torment from the CBC.
00:05:44.300Personally, I'd rather die on whatever fiery climate change doomsday they keep promising me than eat a meatless burger, and I'm especially not going to do it under the advice of the people at the CBC.
00:08:02.500And, you know, adult Americans pretty much understand that.
00:08:04.940But when they're getting them in kindergarten, that's a problem.
00:08:07.900At the moment, I'm sitting in John Stormer's library.
00:08:10.740John Stormer just passed away pretty recently, but he was a very well-known activist in the education field.
00:08:18.660He wrote one of the premier books on this subject called None Dare Call It Education, which is, you know, a fascinating read.
00:08:24.740And it actually exposed what was going on in the education system many years ago.
00:08:28.400Unfortunately, the problem has only gotten worse.
00:08:30.280But it's a real honor to be sitting here in his library.
00:08:32.520I'm at the Pillar Foundation outside St. Louis, Missouri.
00:08:35.200Alex, I wanted to have you on because you follow a lot of the same things that I do with regard to the climate change agenda.
00:08:45.580And I've seen lately, I would say over 2019 in particular, there's this movement for both municipalities and in Canada's embarrassing case countries to declare climate emergencies.
00:09:00.400Now, I have my own theory about why this is happening.
00:09:07.340Well, I think there's this sense among people in government and people in the United Nations that an emergency, so-called, will give them more latitude to implement some of these draconian policies that they don't think they'd be able to pursue otherwise.
00:09:22.480You know, Rahm Emanuel, who served as Barack Hussein Obama's chief of staff for a time and went on to go be the mayor of Chicago, where I just left.
00:09:29.860But he put it very succinctly, where he said, you know, when you have a crisis, it allows you to do things that you otherwise don't think you could have done.
00:09:37.500And so I think that's their thinking here, that if they claim this is an emergency, they can usurp all of these new powers under the guise of saving us from the emergency.
00:09:45.220When, you know, the real emergency is the fact that there's a bunch of crazy people running the government who think the gas we exhale is a pollution that we need to pay tax on and have regulate.
00:09:54.680I mean, that's the real emergency. But, you know, I think what's very clear is that they just want to assume all these new powers within the government and at the international level through the United Nations that they could have never gotten before.
00:10:06.540You know, great, because you and I are on the same playing field when it comes to that.
00:10:11.240That's really what I think. Now, right now, Canada isn't really doing anything with their declaration of a climate emergency.
00:10:18.940But I think changing the language that we use and how we describe the weather, I mean, really, as something of an emergency, it's subliminal fear mongering, isn't it?
00:10:34.220So when you hear that it's an emergency enough times, pretty soon it's not that big of a deal when the government, like you say, enacts more powers and gives themselves more power and takes away your rights to deal with this so-called emergency.
00:10:54.320You know, I noticed this first one, the UK Guardian, you know, about as far to the left as one could possibly be.
00:11:00.380They've taken to attacking me recently. They've attacked me probably three or four times in the last year.
00:11:04.740And that's fine. You know, if they want to attack little old me, that's fine.
00:11:07.640But, you know, I noticed when they started changing the terminology, you know, that they use as standard in their news articles, I thought, oh, it's only going to be a matter of time before other members of the man-made global warming bandwagon get on this.
00:11:20.240And I saw, you know, the CBC in Canada was one of the first to jump on.
00:11:24.040And they said, oh, we're going to start referring to it as a climate crisis, you know, and all these kinds of outlandish, all this crazy rhetoric to make us think that we really are in an unprecedented and terrible situation.
00:11:36.760Whereas if you actually listen to the scientists, quite the opposite is true.
00:11:40.060You know, Dr. William Happer, who's Trump's advisor on climate change, he and I spoke at a climate conference a few years ago, and his talk was wonderful.
00:11:48.180And then I went on to interview, and people can see the interview, he explains that, you know, the only emergency is that there's not enough CO2 in the atmosphere.
00:11:54.540You know, he said plants are designed to live in an atmosphere with four to five times as much CO2.
00:11:58.880Of course, the CO2 does not control the temperature of the planet.
00:12:02.000But what he explained is that we really need more CO2.
00:12:05.500The CO2 would be very good for the planet because plants need more of it.
00:12:08.580And, of course, plants produce our food, our crops, you know, they feed our animals.
00:12:12.040And so right now we are at historically very, very low levels of CO2.
00:12:16.040And, you know, that is the real danger.
00:12:18.120If these people succeeded and managed to get CO2 levels down even further than where they are now, we could find ourselves in a real predicament.
00:12:24.080Because as anybody who went to school prior to, you know, the late 1990s knows, CO2 is an essential gas.
00:12:30.240It's kind of like the building block of life on this planet.
00:12:33.020So to declare it a pollution and to declare that we have an emergency around this is just absolutely asinine.
00:12:39.380Yeah, and it's even becoming controversial amongst those in the mainstream media and left-wing politicians for someone to simply state the scientific fact that it's plant food.
00:12:51.660I know in Canada we had, you know, we had left-wing politicians attacking right-wing politicians for stating simply that, that CO2 is plant food.
00:13:02.080And anybody who knows how photosynthesis works, which I think in Canada is grade four science, yeah, it's plant food.
00:13:09.940And so, I mean, to say, yeah, you're taxing plant food, that's the truth.
00:13:14.700But it's just these constant language games, like you say, when they're, it started off with global warming.
00:13:20.760And then when the earth didn't warm up, then it was climate change.
00:13:24.720And then it was what they, for a time, they tried to say global weirding so that they could attribute any sort of extreme or erratic weather, since that's just weather.
00:13:35.280That that was somehow evidentiary of some sort of climate catastrophe.
00:13:43.580So, I mean, it seems to me that everything keeps getting more and more vague so that anything that happens outside of indoors can be attributed to climate change.
00:13:54.780In fact, before global warming, there was actually global cooling back in the 1970s and 80s.
00:13:59.980If you pick up any American magazine, they would tell you, oh, we have a global cooling emergency.
00:14:04.100The quacks actually, I mean, you can read this, in Time magazine, they suggested we cover the Arctic with black soot to melt the Arctic ice cap
00:14:12.780because otherwise we were all going to die from global cooling.
00:14:15.220And surprise, the solution back then was exactly the same as the solution today, right?
00:14:28.900And, you know, the extremist rhetoric that's now coming out, I think, to me, it's just a sign of desperation.
00:14:35.720These people realize that, you know, the majority of Americans, especially, I don't know the situation in Canada, but in the polling data here,
00:14:42.220the majority of Americans recognize that the man-made global warming hypothesis is just not correct.
00:14:47.540You know, you don't even have to be a scientist to do that.
00:14:49.280One of the things we've done in the New American magazine is we took all the falsifiable predictions that we could find.
00:14:55.440So we looked, you know, Al Gore said that the Arctic ice cap might be completely gone by the year 2013.
00:15:01.880Well, and I watched him make that prediction.
00:15:03.580I was in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Summit.
00:15:07.700And lo and behold, not only was the Arctic ice cap still there, it was far bigger than it was when he was making his silly predictions.
00:15:14.160So if you take all, you know, and there's tons of these.
00:15:17.120I hope people will go read the articles.
00:15:18.480They said, you know, the UN said that there was going to be huge numbers of climate refugees.
00:15:22.840And they've highlighted the parts of the globe where they thought those refugees were going to come from.
00:15:26.700Well, if you actually look at those areas, all of them, without exception, have experienced massive population growth,
00:15:33.000far beyond the average for the rest of the world.
00:15:35.300So the UN could not have been more wrong.
00:15:38.120And, you know, this is a consistent track record.
00:15:40.720Anytime they make a prediction that can be falsified, what we find is not only is it falsified,
00:15:46.380it is completely debunked, oftentimes exactly the opposite of what they said was going to happen.
00:15:50.980You know, and they make these predictions about places where people don't live or where you don't hear a lot from the people on the ground.
00:15:58.720So then a vast majority or not even a vast majority, but a lot of people end up believing these lies.
00:16:04.260And the people who live there, like the people in Churchill, Manitoba, Northern Canada, they're like, hey, you know what?
00:16:10.840It's the middle of June and the harbor is blocked.
00:16:13.760But those stories don't get out because there's, you know, a couple hundred people living there and a couple million people listening to Al Gore or billion for that matter.
00:16:22.780I wanted to talk to you about a story that you did a little while back, but not too long ago.
00:16:27.960And you were talking about the Green New Deal and you actually interviewed someone that I'm a huge fan of, Patrick Moore, who's been under attack by the left wing media trying to debunk his own history and sort of gaslight him and the rest of us into thinking that he wasn't a part of Greenpeace.
00:16:49.660When, I mean, you can just have to follow the Internet record to find that out.
00:16:53.840But you did an interview with him where he said that, you know, if the United States imposed the Green New Deal as the left wing kooks would love it to be imposed, people would die.
00:17:41.480You know, he said, basically, if this Green New Deal were to be implemented as described in the policy documents that they put up on the Internet, that Alexandra, they call her occasional cortex now, the communists from New York.
00:17:54.180If it were to be implemented as prescribed by these people, you would end up killing the vast majority of humans.
00:17:59.900In fact, he said almost all humans would die because we wouldn't have trucks anymore.
00:18:10.840You know, he said his biggest concern was that if such an idea were to come about, all the trees in the world would be chopped down as well because, hey, we wouldn't have fossil fuels anymore.
00:18:19.740So to heat our homes, to cook our food, we'd have to all go out and chop down all the forests.
00:18:23.820And, hey, the world would would lose all its trees.
00:18:26.200So, you know, the green agenda is really the epitome of stupidity if you believe that these people really believe this.
00:18:35.420And I'm sure at the lower levels, you know, the activists out in the street holding the signs, they really do believe this.
00:18:40.120But the reality is once you get, you know, behind the curtain and you find the puppet masters, our Congress, to their credit, has actually done some investigations on this.
00:18:48.680They found out, first of all, that the Kremlin was funding a lot of this.
00:18:51.840In fact, this came out in a House of Representatives report a couple of years ago.
00:18:55.100They found out that the Kremlin was funding all these pseudo environmental groups in the United States to try to keep all of our energy in the ground so that, of course, they could make a bunch of money.
00:19:03.420And then in addition to that, a couple of years before that, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee did an investigation.
00:19:09.900And they identified what they described as a billionaire's club.
00:19:13.360That was their term, not mine, of, you know, fanatical billionaires who had been bankrolling the green movement.
00:19:20.120I mean, the wealthiest of the wealthy for the purpose of enriching themselves.
00:19:24.140And, you know, there's a lot of evidence out there showing that this is the case.
00:19:27.400And, of course, they don't really believe this stuff that they're peddling.
00:19:29.860They just know that it's going to empower them and enrich them.
00:19:32.540And, of course, it will all be at our expense.
00:19:36.180And then you have governors like Jay Inslee saying that Canada should not approve any more pipelines.
00:19:43.900You know, for a guy who really dislikes Trump, everything I've seen about Jay Inslee, he's usually bashing Trump or he's spouting off about Russian collusion.
00:19:53.480Well, let me tell you, there's some foreign meddling and foreign collusion right there because every time that a Canadian pipeline gets blocked, it helps the Saudis, it helps the Venezuelans, it helps the Iranians, it helps, you know, it helps Putin if we can't get our oil and gas to market.
00:20:15.560And, you know what, frankly, you know, I love the Americans, I love President Trump, but it also protects the American market share.
00:20:22.120And for a guy that doesn't like Trump, Jay Inslee is sure being one of his best people making his business case these days when he's blocking Canadian oil and gas from getting to market.
00:20:33.240That's right. Jay Inslee is really out on the fringe, unfortunately.
00:20:37.320He really is. And I actually had the mispleasure of meeting one of his minions actually at the last UN climate conference that you and I both went to in Poland, in Katowice.
00:20:46.460And he was running around giving interviews to everybody who would listen, oh, the governor, he's going to save the climate and all this kind of stuff.
00:20:53.280Totally, totally ridiculous. But, you know, even in Washington state, people don't buy this stuff.
00:20:57.940In fact, I work closely with a lot of legislators there and there's a lot of public unhappiness about this.
00:21:03.780You know, the whole green agenda, you know, people don't want to pay taxes out the nose to be able to drive their car, to be able to heat their homes, to be able to fertilize their crops.
00:21:11.680And, you know, I think the American people have now seen through it.
00:21:15.860I know Jay Inslee's got some big ambitions. He thinks he's going to be president someday.
00:21:19.600I'm quite confident that's not going to happen. The American people are not that dumb.
00:21:23.780Yeah, I think he's too far left for even most Democrats. And that's, you know, that's really saying something.
00:21:29.140I wanted to ask you, with the rise of this Greta Thunberg girl, there's a whole portion of the green movement that relies on the exploitation of children.
00:21:42.980It puts children up front as though they're experts. And then it's we're supposed to believe children because they're apparently more sincere than people who know something about how, you know, photosynthesis happens and weather happens.
00:21:58.840And who have a little bit of historical knowledge about how things happen and how things change.
00:22:06.000And with Greta, she's not a well young girl, which makes the exploitation of her a lot worse.
00:22:14.400But she seems to be, you know, a means to an end. So everybody is just happy to push her in the spotlight all the time.
00:22:23.200That's exactly what's happening. In fact, I've lived most of the last decade in Sweden and in Sweden.
00:22:27.820She's like a superhero. Every you know, most of the media is either owned or subsidized by the government.
00:22:32.020And she's plastered on the front page as a superhero who's going to save the climate, who's speaking truth to power and all this.
00:22:38.440It's so nonsensical. And, you know, I will add a caveat there. I fully support the idea of getting out of the school.
00:22:44.020So, you know, she's going to skip school. Good. That's less brainwashing. You'll be better off.
00:22:47.900But, you know, the adults, supposed adults who are exploiting these, you know, Greta's autistic, you know, to exploit a child with with that kind of situation
00:22:57.480and put her on TV as if she were some kind of climate expert. It's just beyond grotesque.
00:23:02.440You know, children should not be used as political props, especially to advocate for totalitarianism,
00:23:09.580especially to advocate for policies that would end up killing millions of people.
00:23:14.680You know, it's disgusting. But when you see the policies that they're trying to implement,
00:23:18.200these are really policies that would have a tremendous adverse impact on people, especially the poorest people in the world.
00:23:23.580We're talking about denying these people access to the energy they need to industrialize their economies,
00:23:29.240to cook their food, to power their homes, to move their goods to market.
00:23:33.620And these are people who are going to remain in dire poverty as a direct result of these policies.
00:23:39.120One of my favorite climate scientists from the University of Alabama, Dr. Spencer,
00:23:44.740he calls these people climate Nazis because these policies that they're pursuing will have the effect of killing millions of people.
00:23:51.180And to use children as a political prop for an ideology for policies that would kill people is just so far beyond the pale
00:23:59.180that you really wonder, what are these U.N. leaders thinking?
00:24:01.840You know, it's bad enough for you guys to make fools of yourselves and tell us we're going to die from the gas of life.
00:24:06.580But to bring children into this mix who don't know any better, who really, you know,
00:24:10.100as Dr. Nils Akson-Morner, a very prominent Swedish scientist who served on the UNIPCC explained,
00:24:15.700to bring children in this who should be out playing soccer, to get them to serve as political props,
00:24:20.480it's just, it's disgusting, Sheila, and it needs to stop.
00:24:23.000Well, and, you know, I mean, does this girl need more anxiety because she's being told every single day
00:24:33.860that the world is going to end in, I think it's 11 and a half years now that you and I have left?
00:24:39.040But speaking of children being used as political props, we're changing lanes quite a bit,
00:24:44.380but I did see this story on the New American, a recent story by you about California's horrifying sex ed curriculum.
00:24:55.420The first line of your story is chilling right to the bone.
00:25:00.480It reads, over one in four California children aged 12 through 17 now identifies as gender non-conforming,
00:25:09.660according to a recent study by the University of California, Los Angeles.
00:25:13.160That is horrific. How did we get here?
00:25:17.800You know, the simple answer is this is happening as a direct result of the indoctrination in the public school system.
00:25:23.180You know, I was in elementary school, what, 20 years ago, less than 20 years ago,
00:25:27.560and I never, on four continents, in eight countries, I never once met a boy who thought he was a girl
00:25:32.960or a girl who thought she was a boy. It was just inconceivable.
00:25:35.820In fact, the word transgender wasn't even in the dictionary for the first 10 years of my life.
00:25:40.100And now suddenly, according to this survey at the University of California,
00:25:44.860more than one in four, 27 percent of our young people in California call themselves gender non-conforming,
00:25:50.900boys who don't accept that they're boys, girls who don't accept that they're girls.
00:25:53.920And the reality is this number is going to continue skyrocketing,
00:25:57.000and it's a direct result of what they're being taught in the classroom.
00:26:00.440So the new health education framework is, you know, their Orwellian doublespeak term for their sex ed curriculum.
00:26:06.720They start encouraging this madness in kindergarten.
00:26:09.720They tell the little boys that they could be little girls.
00:26:12.120And, in fact, they have one of the recommended books.
00:26:14.360This really caused an outrage and uproar in California.
00:30:03.500Now, normally, normally when I fill in for the boss, I don't read the hate mail in the questions, comments, hate mail last segment of his show.
00:30:12.680But today, yeah, I'm reading a little bit of hate mail because that hate mail came from somebody relatively important and slightly high profile.
00:30:22.080Now, if you haven't seen Kean Bextie's bizarre encounter with MP Selena Cesar Chavanez, here's a little bit of it.