Rebel News Podcast - PROOF： The green energy revolution is over

00:00:00.000 Hey Rebels, I got a show for you today. I wish you could see it on video because I show you

00:00:05.120 charts and stats and pictures, but I hope the podcast will work for you. It's proof

00:00:12.580 that the whole green scheme thing is coming to an end. I'll just give you a sneak preview. You know,

00:00:17.560 in the next two years, Germany, the green capital of the world, we're told, will actually remove

00:00:23.660 more wind turbines than they put in. I know that's hard to believe, but I'll prove it to you in a

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00:01:04.820 save some money. All right, here's today's show. Tonight, I've got some news for you. The green

00:01:14.500 energy revolution is over. I'll show you the proof. It's August 23rd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:20.280 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500

00:01:27.100 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the government,

00:01:32.700 the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:36.100 Green jobs, green energy, the green new deal. It's all we hear about fighting climate change. It's

00:01:46.460 like a kaleidoscope of buzzwords, a word salad. If you try to understand the actual meaning of these

00:01:53.200 buzzwords, the left is saying, help us transition to a green economy. Shut down the economy that we

00:02:00.100 know works, that has been working for a century of the automobile, for a half a century of mass air

00:02:07.560 travel, for two centuries of train travel. So shut down anything fossil fuel-ish, and let's just transition

00:02:14.340 to a new fantasy fuel of the future that's perfect in every way, except it doesn't exist. Here's Gerald

00:02:20.660 Butts, Trudeau's guru, the architect of Ontario's disastrous Green Energy Act that built hundreds of wind

00:02:26.760 turbines that maybe spin, maybe they don't, but are so unreliable that in order to meet power demand,

00:02:33.140 the province had to also buy new natural gas-powered firepower plants. So one power system for the price

00:02:40.300 of two, really. Just insane, which is why Ontario has the highest power prices in continental North

00:02:46.380 America. Just another reason why factories move from Ontario to the United States. But Butts, like his

00:02:52.520 buddy Catherine McKenna, the federal environment minister, has never actually done

00:02:56.500 anything. He's a master of the TED Talk circuit. You know what that is? Feel-good speeches, buzzwords,

00:03:04.300 fashionable ideas, a bit of futurism, a bit of flim-flam, lots of feel-good self-congratulations.

00:03:09.920 Perfect for Justin Trudeau here. That's how he made money before he got into politics. He gave

00:03:14.300 speeches of 30 grand a pop at TED Talk-like places. It's perfect for experts who aren't really expert

00:03:20.740 at anything. I haven't been sounding like experts, people who use words like deliverology and think-fluencer.

00:03:27.880 That's who I'm talking about. So yeah, Trudeau, Butts, McKenna. Here's The Onion, a satirical website

00:03:34.620 doing a spoof of one of these eco TED Talks. My idea, to create a car that runs on compost.

00:03:44.500 So how does it work? Well, it's quite simple. Instead of using gas, he uses compost.

00:03:57.260 Compostization. That's my idea for what we'll call the process of converting compost into fuel.

00:04:03.020 The idea is there. It just needs implementation.

00:04:07.780 Step one. Devise an idea to create a car that runs on compost.

00:04:16.300 Step two. Create the car.

00:04:21.080 We've already completed step one.

00:04:24.340 We're halfway there.

00:04:26.800 I'm an idea man. I link up with implementers, and then we share the money.

00:04:31.560 Once the car is produced, we will sell its designs to a major automaker.

00:04:36.940 That's another idea.

00:04:38.560 We just need people to do those things.

00:04:42.480 Yeah, I swear, if I didn't tell you that was a satire, you wouldn't know that was a joke, right?

00:04:48.300 But just how different was that kookiness from Gerald Butts himself talking about a new economy?

00:04:53.800 We think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place.

00:05:02.960 So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route for a pipeline.

00:05:08.940 Because the real alternative is not an alternative route.

00:05:13.540 It's an alternative economy.

00:05:15.260 Yeah, there's no difference between Gerald Butts and that Onion video other than one knows he's a joke.

00:05:22.040 Green jobs. Show me one.

00:05:24.960 You know, when I travel, and I'm lucky enough to travel, I keep an eye peeled for wind turbines,

00:05:29.320 and I always note if they're spinning or not.

00:05:33.180 Just the other day here in Toronto, there's a big symbolic wind turbine right downtown Toronto,

00:05:39.000 near the lake at the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds.

00:05:41.200 I was down there. I saw it.

00:05:43.140 It's there for PR reasons, obviously.

00:05:45.640 It wasn't spinning when I saw it a couple weeks ago, a week ago.

00:05:48.840 Even when it does spin, I don't even think it's connected to the power grid.

00:05:52.600 It's just, they're a massive, multi-million dollar virtue signal.

00:05:56.940 And it's perfect in that it rarely even spins, so it just, it demonstrates the folly.

00:06:02.400 At least it's not rusting and falling, I guess.

00:06:05.880 I've seen wind turbines from China to Germany to California to Texas to Alberta.

00:06:12.080 And they all have one thing in common, from my observation at least.

00:06:16.560 Once they're built, and the guy who actually erected them gets his massive subsidy for building them,

00:06:22.420 and he walks away, that's about it.

00:06:24.260 Unless there's some continuing subsidy, there's no commercial incentive to keep them running,

00:06:30.140 to repair them, to certainly not to take them down and recycle them afterwards.

00:06:33.980 In Ontario, because wind turbines get such a massive subsidy if they produce any energy,

00:06:38.260 there might be an economic reason for people to maintain them,

00:06:41.440 but not in most of the world, if my own personal observations are anything to go by.

00:06:45.660 I've driven by the wind farms in California.

00:06:48.300 Maybe one in five turbines are even spinning.

00:06:51.360 I've driven by the wind turbines in Xinjiang, China.

00:06:55.100 They broke down almost immediately after they were built.

00:06:57.460 Do you think Xinjiang actually gets their power from wind?

00:07:00.980 No.

00:07:01.400 They got a subsidy, probably from some fool who bought a carbon offset to feel good,

00:07:06.180 in London or Seattle, so they were built, you know, coal-fired steel and concrete,

00:07:12.360 put these turbines up, took a picture, and then let them ride,

00:07:15.840 because they're not worth operating.

00:07:17.660 That's the truth about wind turbines, but don't take it from me and my anecdotes.

00:07:23.860 And don't take it from the ridiculous, never-had-a-real-job-in-their-lives pundits

00:07:27.080 like McKenna and Butts and that joker from The Onion.

00:07:30.400 Here's Mike Schellenberger, a journalist and a pro-nuclear activist.

00:07:33.860 Now, let's disclose that right here.

00:07:35.580 He loves nuclear power, and he says that's the real answer to energy and the environment.

00:07:40.720 It's reliable 100% of the time, not just when it's windy, not just when it's sunny.

00:07:45.060 There are no carbon emissions if you care about that sort of thing, and I don't.

00:07:48.800 And, of course, we have enough uranium both here in Canada and the United States, too,

00:07:52.920 at least what Hillary Clinton didn't sell to the Russians.

00:07:55.360 So Schellenberger said this the other day, and I saw it, and I thought,

00:07:58.200 that can't be true. Is that true?

00:07:59.880 He said, renewables bubble popping.

00:08:03.940 Germany installs fewest wind turbines since 2000.

00:08:07.960 Tesla lost $2.6 billion in bailout of SolarCity.

00:08:12.580 SoftBank has built or has deals for just 1.6% of SolarFarm's promise.

00:08:17.520 Subsidies ending in US, UK, Germany, local and eco-opposition to renewables growing.

00:08:22.660 I thought, whoa, is that true?

00:08:24.780 I mean, I think it's true.

00:08:26.800 It rings true to me.

00:08:27.860 I can understand why an advocate for nuclear energy would say it, but is it true?

00:08:34.500 Because every day, nonstop, I get propaganda from Trudeau and McKenna,

00:08:37.620 and that 16-year-old autistic girl, Greta, and the CBC, that green energy is a future.

00:08:44.260 Could it be that that future is already over?

00:08:47.840 Well, Schellenberger brought the proof, and I'd like to share that with you now.

00:08:52.160 He brought evidence.

00:08:54.100 He says that the industrial wind turbine installations have fallen by 82% in the past year alone in Germany.

00:09:02.860 Really?

00:09:03.480 Just off a cliff like that?

00:09:04.820 Well, yes.

00:09:05.500 He says local opposition on the ground is one reason.

00:09:07.740 No one wants to live under a towering skyscraper height, vibrating, humming, scenery-destroying monster.

00:09:15.320 Those wind turbines aren't little.

00:09:17.420 They're as high as a skyscraper, 500, 600 feet, some of them.

00:09:21.300 They'll also kill birds and bats all the time.

00:09:24.380 Wind power, the energy of the future.

00:09:28.900 But there's a catch.

00:09:32.480 Wind power kills birds.

00:09:35.100 Millions of birds could die every year when wind power is fully operational.

00:09:39.000 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:09:40.540 All the time.

00:09:41.840 So often, in fact, that Gerald Butz exempted wind turbines from endangered species laws

00:09:46.200 because he knew they'd kill so many birds they couldn't survive legally

00:09:49.440 if the same standards were applied to them as were applied to, say, the oil and gas industry.

00:09:53.700 In fact, Schellenberger says in two years more wind turbines will be scrapped than added in Germany.

00:10:01.440 At least in Germany.

00:10:03.100 I guess they actually tear them down in Germany when they're done,

00:10:05.820 unlike China and California where they just leave them to rust.

00:10:09.120 Here's his source for that.

00:10:10.840 It's a major outlet in Germany called Die Welt.

00:10:17.900 I don't know if you can see it in Germany.

00:10:19.480 In English, it's called The Collapse of Wind Power.

00:10:23.160 That's the headline.

00:10:25.500 Here's a translation of that into English.

00:10:27.700 It's incredible.

00:10:30.280 So that's wind, but what about solar?

00:10:32.280 An even crazier, costlier scheme.

00:10:36.980 Here's a story from the LA Times.

00:10:38.480 They love eco stuff out there.

00:10:40.080 They're talking about Elon Musk's scheme to sell you solar panels for your house.

00:10:44.500 Boy, was that a sexy story three years ago.

00:10:46.580 Here's the LA Times back then.

00:10:49.140 Now I'll hand it to Musk.

00:10:50.140 The lad knows how to get grants and subsidies and PR.

00:10:53.380 Building stuff, not quite so much.

00:10:55.160 But here we are today.

00:10:56.420 And well, let me quote the Times.

00:10:58.100 Just last month, they said,

00:10:59.060 Elon Musk once called Tesla Inc.'s $2.6 billion acquisition of debt-burdened SolarCity Corp blindingly obvious.

00:11:06.880 Three years later, it's anything but.

00:11:08.940 Tesla, which gets most of its revenue from automobiles, installed just 29 megawatts of solar generating capacity in the second quarter.

00:11:16.280 It's fewest megawatts yet in a single period.

00:11:19.560 That's down from its previous low of 47 megawatts in the first quarter.

00:11:23.280 At its height, SolarCity installed more than 200 megawatts over three months.

00:11:28.560 They're just barely in the solar game, said Joe Osha, an analyst at JMP Securities.

00:11:33.340 Yeah, so that's an 86% decline.

00:11:37.580 Tesla blew $2.6 billion, bailing out failing SolarCity.

00:11:44.300 You know, down 86%, abandons much-hyped roof tiles.

00:11:51.220 Tesla would be better off shutting the solar business down.

00:11:55.180 It's always the hucksterism, though.

00:11:57.060 I mean, I sort of like Elon Musk, I'll be honest.

00:11:59.420 He's a bit of a rogue.

00:12:00.200 He's a bit zany.

00:12:02.000 I like his life story.

00:12:03.640 I like his mum.

00:12:05.140 He cultivates his quirkiness.

00:12:06.840 How can he not like that?

00:12:07.720 But I actually sort of think it's an act.

00:12:11.760 He's a master, not so much in industry.

00:12:14.720 Maybe he is, I don't know.

00:12:15.700 But at masking his grant-seeking behavior, his subsidy-hunting behavior under a layer of wow.

00:12:22.800 He's like Willy Wonka.

00:12:24.200 He's a nutty professor.

00:12:25.500 Yeah, he is, but he's also a bit of a flim-flam man.

00:12:28.440 I mean, his Saudi, sorry, another company, Saudi and Indian schemes are just that scheme.

00:12:35.600 Sorry, this isn't Elon Musk now.

00:12:37.360 It's SoftBank now.

00:12:38.360 Let me talk about that company.

00:12:40.560 SoftBank promised to build 220 gigawatts.

00:12:45.780 So that's 1,000 times a megawatt.

00:12:48.840 So they're promising to build 1,000 times more energy than Elon Musk.

00:12:54.520 Holy moly.

00:12:55.860 In India and Saudi Arabia, well, India could use the power, right?

00:12:59.020 Saudi Arabia has oil, but they've got a lot of sun.

00:13:01.120 Well, they just haven't done anything.

00:13:03.360 They've signed a few deals.

00:13:05.660 Just three gigawatts.

00:13:06.940 But they're just deals.

00:13:07.560 They haven't built it yet.

00:13:11.480 But it's about the flim-flam.

00:13:13.920 Look, no one wants to see these massive solar or wind things in their neighborhoods.

00:13:18.720 There's a reason why they're built in rural places, because urban hipsters wouldn't actually

00:13:24.320 want to live under a forest of wind turbines or surrounded by massive solar farms.

00:13:29.080 That's for the little people to put up with, or really rural people, poor people who can't

00:13:32.780 complain, whatever.

00:13:33.460 For those of you in Toronto, in Ontario, you remember that a huge election issue a few

00:13:38.500 years back was those natural gas power plants that were built because the wind wasn't making

00:13:43.980 enough energy.

00:13:44.780 No one in the cities wanted them in the cities.

00:13:48.140 I don't blame them, really.

00:13:49.660 Who wants to look at a natural gas power plant to see them, to be near them?

00:13:54.020 So they had to cancel them with a huge penalty.

00:13:57.880 I mean, it's true.

00:13:58.680 Gas, coal, nuclear plants are unsightly.

00:14:00.780 But you know what?

00:14:01.200 They're what?

00:14:01.560 One percent, the physical size of a solar or wind farm that produces the same energy.

00:14:06.620 And there's the transmission lines, too.

00:14:08.440 What a disaster the whole thing is.

00:14:10.340 You know, in Germany, only eight percent of transmission lines have been built in recent

00:14:14.720 years because of opposition, including from real environmentalists who actually want to

00:14:18.420 protect real wildlife, by the way.

00:14:19.880 Eight percent of proposed transmission lines.

00:14:21.940 Ninety-two percent have been blocked.

00:14:23.240 Here's some statistics from Der Spiegel, another German newspaper that's looking into these scams

00:14:27.420 and schemes.

00:14:27.860 You know, it's been about 20 years and about $3 trillion since Germany started its whole

00:14:33.500 green schemes.

00:14:35.260 Twenty years.

00:14:36.680 Trillions.

00:14:37.840 And Germany barely gets a third of its energy from green sources.

00:14:41.620 The rest is still coal, gas, and nuclear.

00:14:44.280 Trillions they spend.

00:14:45.680 They still burn more fossil fuels.

00:14:47.320 If you're worried about fossil fuels, I'm not, but Germany says they are, well, why not

00:14:53.120 do what France did?

00:14:54.000 Build a bunch of nukes instead of wind turbines?

00:14:56.420 Nukes that work all the time.

00:14:58.740 And Der Spiegel points out many of those wind turbines in Germany, 20 years now, they're

00:15:02.760 going to be decommissioned.

00:15:04.300 Plus, their 20-year subsidies, which kicked in in about 2000, they're wrapping up now.

00:15:10.180 Trillions of dollars.

00:15:11.200 Energy is more expensive now than before.

00:15:13.100 They didn't actually do what they said they do, get off carbon.

00:15:16.180 I'm pro-carbon.

00:15:16.840 I don't believe in the theory of man-made global warming.

00:15:19.340 But let's be honest, this was not about global warming.

00:15:21.660 This was about getting subsidies and gaming the system and padding the pockets of green

00:15:25.660 scheme lobbyists.

00:15:27.940 And it's over, at least in Germany.

00:15:29.960 Schellenberger has a horse in this race.

00:15:31.360 He's pro-nuke.

00:15:32.180 I am too.

00:15:32.760 Absolutely.

00:15:33.320 I'm pro any energy that actually works and makes some sense economically, as in it doesn't

00:15:37.660 need a fake subsidy.

00:15:38.680 Here's an interesting comment from Schellenberg.

00:15:40.740 He said, had California and Germany invested $680 billion into new nuclear power plants

00:15:48.720 instead of renewables like solar and wind farms, the two would already be generating 100% or

00:15:54.860 more of their electricity from clean, low-emissions energy sources.

00:15:59.680 He's right.

00:16:00.600 I mean, it's just true that nuclear plants, you could buy all of them for a trillion dollars.

00:16:07.560 But then where do all the Earth Hour con men, all the recyclers, all the scolds, all the

00:16:14.980 carbon taxes, where do they go to grift?

00:16:19.020 You don't need a carbon tax if you have new.

00:16:21.400 You don't need Greta Thunberg and the children of the corn.

00:16:25.640 That's the thing.

00:16:26.140 Like so many problems, the left actually doesn't want to solve them because they want the perpetual

00:16:29.820 fight.

00:16:31.460 Democrat politicians don't actually want to clean up inner cities like Baltimore, where I

00:16:34.840 was a few weeks ago, or Detroit.

00:16:35.960 Because they're not, well, I mean, if they solve a problem, then the politicians aren't

00:16:40.460 important anymore.

00:16:41.620 I believe a lot of these terrible politicians on the left prefer welfare over work because

00:16:46.620 then they're important and needed if people are desperate.

00:16:50.540 Give someone a job, they don't have to rely on a politician anymore.

00:16:53.060 Same with these green scares.

00:16:54.980 Nuclear energy, natural gas, whatever you're into, you could actually power the world with

00:16:58.580 low-carbon energy if you're worried about that.

00:17:00.420 But that would then solve the crisis, take the blame off us.

00:17:05.260 You need a crisis to perpetuate big governments.

00:17:07.720 So let me give the last word to Schellenberger.

00:17:10.060 He says,

00:17:10.420 Exactly, or put another way, the day I see David Suzuki and Al Gore and Greta Thunberg and Catherine

00:17:31.140 McKenna living like they actually believe we have an environmental catastrophe, until that

00:17:36.820 moment I'm not going to believe we have an environmental catastrophe.

00:17:40.520 It's just a con.

00:17:43.520 But it looks like, at least in some parts, that con, that con, it's coming to a decrepit

00:17:48.100 end, just like so many useless, rusting wind turbines.

00:17:53.240 Stay with us for more.

00:17:54.200 So when school started in August this year, I decided that this was enough.

00:18:14.400 I sat myself down on the ground outside the Swedish parliament.

00:18:19.400 I school striked for the climate.

00:18:20.760 Some people say that I should be in school instead.

00:18:26.820 Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist, so that I can solve the

00:18:32.120 climate crisis.

00:18:35.240 But the climate crisis has already been solved.

00:18:38.940 We already have all the facts and solutions.

00:18:42.360 All we have to do is to wake up and change.

00:18:44.720 And why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more?

00:18:51.580 That's Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old girl who, by her own testimony and that of her parents,

00:18:58.240 is deeply mentally disturbed.

00:18:59.900 She has various mental illnesses and conditions.

00:19:03.440 She's been depressed.

00:19:04.740 And rather than taking her into a happy place and removing these apocalyptic fears from a

00:19:11.960 woman of tender years, her family has done the opposite.

00:19:14.820 They've retailed her.

00:19:16.620 They've promoted her.

00:19:17.640 They've made her a sort of rock star.

00:19:19.760 But instead of singing pop tunes, she sings the talking points of the apocalyptic left.

00:19:25.540 No wonder she's so depressed.

00:19:27.380 She's a global warming extremist who thinks we have years or is it months left to live.

00:19:34.440 I'm not sure what the latest is.

00:19:37.200 She has taken European parliaments by storm, but didn't find a way to get over to North America

00:19:44.800 that wouldn't be ripped apart as hypocritical until the owners of a multi-million dollar

00:19:51.640 yacht, a sailboat, said, we can sail you across the sea.

00:19:57.900 And you can say that is a carbon neutral jaunt.

00:20:01.400 And I suppose it is if you ignore the multi-million dollar cost of the high-tech sailboat and the

00:20:07.960 fact that the entire crew that's with her will jet back to Europe.

00:20:13.320 So there'll be six flights, not just one.

00:20:16.280 But she is coming to America where she'll be met, of course, with rapt applause by the left.

00:20:22.480 And do you doubt she'll come to Canada, too, to be embraced by Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna?

00:20:29.540 But I saw a rare dissenting report on Greta Thunberg in the Sunday Times of London,

00:20:36.440 perhaps the most prestigious newspaper in the United Kingdom.

00:20:40.440 And it goes through with meticulous detail the reality of Greta Thunberg.

00:20:45.440 No, she's not a multinational mastermind at the age of 16.

00:20:50.860 She's a puppet working for multinational masterminds, most of whom are investors in technology that

00:20:59.260 competes with oil and gas.

00:21:01.520 Green lobbyists pouring millions of dollars into Greta Thunberg for the hope of billion dollars in return.

00:21:09.640 Joining us now via Skype to talk about this is our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:21:15.840 Mark, great to see you.

00:21:17.940 Thank you, Ezra.

00:21:18.720 Happy to be here.

00:21:19.820 You know, it's difficult to take on a young girl, especially she's 16, but she looks younger.

00:21:25.380 She wears ponytails and dresses.

00:21:27.840 I'd say she dresses like she's 12 or 13.

00:21:30.120 She has an unusual look to her that makes her look even younger.

00:21:34.800 I think she has some, I'm not going to call them disabilities, but let's just say conditions.

00:21:39.920 But all of that serves to blunt any criticism of her, because if you dare criticize the fact

00:21:46.800 that this is a young, unschooled girl.

00:21:50.200 I mean, literally, she went on a school strike to protest the climate, who's regurgitating

00:21:55.300 talking points.

00:21:56.140 If you point that out, well, you're obviously sexist and ageist and ableist.

00:22:02.820 I think it's a brilliant scam to shut critics up.

00:22:07.920 Yes.

00:22:08.460 In fact, here's what's happening here.

00:22:10.240 She came on the scene pretty much last year with all these school strikes, and she attended

00:22:15.200 the UN Climate Summit, which I attended in Poland last year.

00:22:18.080 And that she inspired in the United States back in March, I believe it was April, a whole

00:22:23.860 day school strike here with the climate activists.

00:22:27.020 But what's happened here with Greta, she has become, the media is using her as bait.

00:22:32.320 Climate activists are using her as bait.

00:22:34.200 Scientific American publication came after me personally, not for anything I said or did,

00:22:39.700 but because I retweeted, you know, some, what they considered unkind comments about Greta.

00:22:45.640 So now we're, you know, because I retweet everyone, you know, on the extreme ends of

00:22:49.560 all sides of the climate debate.

00:22:50.900 I have a lot of fun on my debate.

00:22:52.580 But what's happened is the media has set her up.

00:22:55.700 And if anyone dare go after her, and we saw one, Andrew Bolt in Australia, who they had,

00:23:01.260 I think his newspaper pulled a tweet about his article because they got such pressure from

00:23:06.060 the establishment.

00:23:07.200 How dare you criticize a girl with a disability?

00:23:10.440 Yeah, you have the audacity to criticize her.

00:23:12.560 Yet on the other hand, Ezra, she's going to be the keynote speaker this year.

00:23:16.780 She's going to be the only face that matters at the United Nations Summit here in New York

00:23:21.840 City coming in the United States in the third week of September.

00:23:24.440 She'll also be the keynote speaker out at the UN Summit in Santiago, Chile.

00:23:29.400 And yet she's out there spouting all this nonsense.

00:23:31.940 She wants governments to act to save kids like her from climate devastation as though governments

00:23:37.860 can regulate it.

00:23:38.680 And if you dare criticize her, not only are you a child bully, but you are someone who's

00:23:44.840 mean to people with disabilities.

00:23:46.560 And this is how they have it set up.

00:23:48.080 She's the perfect, from beginning to end, puppet slash spokesman for this movement because

00:23:54.400 she embodies everything that they want to do.

00:23:56.900 Doctrinate kids, intimidate their opponents, and come up with platitudes of utter nonsense

00:24:02.560 on a minute-by-minute basis if you follow her on Twitter.

00:24:05.840 Yeah.

00:24:06.180 Well, I mean, we've talked about her before on the show.

00:24:08.960 You and I have, in fact.

00:24:10.340 And it's one thing to use a child to stop an adult from engaging in a vigorous debate.

00:24:17.440 And that's obviously a tactic here.

00:24:18.900 And it's what the left does.

00:24:19.920 It's for the children.

00:24:20.720 I mean, oh, you're not against children, are you?

00:24:22.580 But what I find gross here is that Thunberg is targeting other children.

00:24:29.520 And she has this suicidal depression.

00:24:32.220 You know, the old saying, smiles are contagious.

00:24:34.800 Well, it's obviously not contagious like a virus, but it is true.

00:24:38.440 You see someone smile, your human reaction is to smile.

00:24:41.600 Depression and suicide are contagious in the same way.

00:24:45.700 As in, if you hear someone extremely depressed making the case for depression, I mean, suicide

00:24:52.020 often happens in clusters because someone sees a suicide and they say, oh, he took the

00:24:56.600 way out.

00:24:57.080 I'll do it, too.

00:24:58.040 So obviously, it's not contagious in the way that actual bacteria is contagious.

00:25:02.200 But it is true, socially, that mental illness is contagious.

00:25:08.680 And that's what I find so deeply disturbing here.

00:25:11.040 Take a look at this clip.

00:25:12.040 You can find a dozen of these online of other children of tender years being told that we

00:25:19.440 have only a few years to die.

00:25:21.400 We're all going to die.

00:25:22.700 The world is evil and people are forcing us to die.

00:25:25.940 Take a quick look at this.

00:25:28.240 A lot of people are like, oh, what about the people in the oil industries and the electronic

00:25:35.240 industries and the paper industries?

00:25:38.020 Well, it doesn't really matter what job you have if you're dead.

00:25:41.500 And we're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.

00:25:46.900 That's my chief objection to Greta Thunberg.

00:25:50.360 It's not that she's a propagandist that adults can't refute.

00:25:54.860 It's that she is literally, I think she's abused herself.

00:25:59.000 Her parents are abusing her, in my mind.

00:26:01.140 Her mother's autobiography, talking about how they manipulate their daughter, is abusive.

00:26:06.340 But they're using her to abuse other children.

00:26:08.300 And that's my view.

00:26:09.120 And I don't care who criticizes me for having him.

00:26:12.260 And they will criticize you for saying anything remotely critical of her.

00:26:16.420 But you're absolutely right.

00:26:17.220 One of the most disturbing elements of the Greta phenomena is her impact on other kids.

00:26:22.660 We have now kids all over Twitter, social media, in elementary school, junior high and high school,

00:26:28.320 being inspired by her.

00:26:30.700 They want to be like her.

00:26:32.940 Now, when you say that, you have to understand what being like her is like.

00:26:36.060 This is a girl who is deeply, deeply depressed because she thinks the world's going to end

00:26:40.960 unless the EU Parliament or the United States government starts passing laws to save future generations.

00:26:47.560 And she's coming to New York.

00:26:49.460 They're calling it the Youth Climate Action Day.

00:26:52.200 She's going to be speaking to them.

00:26:53.420 She's going to be meeting these kids.

00:26:55.060 Everyone, you know, I think it was Mark Stein, the humorist and author, who said,

00:26:58.580 this is the only, you know, the climate religion is the only religion where you have to feel good about feeling bad.

00:27:04.880 And that's what they're going to do here.

00:27:06.280 So Greta's going to come and make all these kids feel like they have no future and put the burden on all these kids.

00:27:11.940 It's up to these kids to miss more school.

00:27:14.860 In the case of Greta, she's taken not a day off, not once a week like she used to.

00:27:19.140 She's taken the whole next year off, Ezra, to travel around the world.

00:27:23.600 And we'll see how she gets to Chile.

00:27:25.240 I think that's not yet been determined.

00:27:27.000 Maybe it would be by animal cart, you know, crossing over the Panama Canal.

00:27:31.740 I'm not sure yet.

00:27:32.740 Well, I should tell you that animals, of course, have a higher carbon footprint than efficient fossil fuel travel.

00:27:39.580 Of course, animals eat grass and emit emissions.

00:27:46.460 Just like the myth that on, what's that, turn off the lights hour, earth hour, people who think that lighting candles is more environmental than electric light.

00:27:57.800 Of course, candles emit more emissions if you're worried about that.

00:28:00.540 And I'm not.

00:28:00.860 Let me quote a little bit from this Sunday Times article because it's quite something that a prestigious newspaper like the Times would take on a sacred cow like Greta Thunberg.

00:28:10.100 They talk about the professional PR man behind Thunberg.

00:28:15.760 There's, of course, her celebrity mother, her activist father.

00:28:21.120 But the key man is Ingmar Renzog, the founder of a social media platform called We Don't Have Time, who studied under Al Gore.

00:28:30.800 Let me read just one paragraph from this Times of London.

00:28:34.180 So when Greta met Renzog, he was the salaried chairman of a private think tank owned by a former Social Democrat minister with a background in the energy sector.

00:28:44.440 His board was stacked with powerful sectoral interests, including career social Democrat politicians, union leaders and lobbyists with links to Brussels.

00:28:54.640 And his board's vice chairwoman, Ringborg, was a member of one of Sweden's most powerful green energy investment groups.

00:29:02.340 So I have no doubt that Greta believes what she's saying.

00:29:08.340 You know, if your parents and every grown up around you says it, if that's the only point of view you hear, you believe it.

00:29:14.840 If you're mentally disturbed to begin with, if you've been suicidal, depressed, I have no doubt she believes it.

00:29:20.940 But the people behind the scenes, they're not depressed.

00:29:24.840 They're not suicidal.

00:29:26.160 They're ambitious.

00:29:27.380 They're powerful.

00:29:28.200 They're optimistic because they found a marketing tool and they're all about getting green grants to build, I don't know, wind turbines, solar panels.

00:29:37.280 They're not depressed at all.

00:29:38.620 They're thrilled.

00:29:41.160 Yes.

00:29:41.800 And when the story continues to come out and kudos to the Times of London for writing this, there have been other exposés in Breitbart and other European publications detailing this financial system behind her.

00:29:54.140 The media and the activists want you to think she just appeared out of nowhere, but she is a manufactured spokesman for the climate movement.

00:30:04.360 And this is designed so no one can criticize.

00:30:07.500 And she is a puppet of this group behind it, which, as you mentioned, even goes back to Al Gore training groups and the structural funding behind her.

00:30:17.880 And as she comes to the United States, as she heads off to South America for the U.N. summit, she only promises to get bigger and bigger in her movement.

00:30:26.100 I mean, we're now she's taking a whole year off of school.

00:30:28.400 She's inspiring, in quotes, all of these kids.

00:30:31.420 And the more you dig into this, the more the whole story stinks.

00:30:35.940 And the Times of London goes through just I don't want to call them lies, but just what her parents say, oh, you know, we never met so and so before.

00:30:42.220 And then later they find accounts where they had known him at least months before.

00:30:45.900 So it was all kinds of collusion planning behind the scenes.

00:30:50.140 And then after the fact, when she's a big celebrity, all kinds of whitewashing of the history to make it look like it was just this spontaneous teenage girl who rose up.

00:30:58.520 And by the way, I think she dresses more like a 10-year-old or a 9-year-old.

00:31:02.540 And she has the pigtails and she tries to look a simple little dress.

00:31:06.040 They want people to think she's in elementary school, not 16 going on 17 in high school.

00:31:12.380 Yeah.

00:31:12.740 Yeah, they're deliberately infantilizing her.

00:31:15.260 And it's shocking the contrast between she looks quite young.

00:31:19.260 She's got a semi-autistic style.

00:31:23.580 She has an unnatural gaze.

00:31:26.300 I think, I mean, I say again for the third time, her own family and she herself says she's mentally ill or has been in the past.

00:31:33.760 I don't think that people like that ought to be abused or for those eccentricities to be what's retailed.

00:31:41.180 I should say, though, in answer to your question, the kind of rebuttal that we see in the Sunday Times will be digested and chewed over by people like you and me.

00:31:50.520 But 99% of people who receive Greta Thunberg's propaganda won't know, won't care, won't hear about it.

00:31:58.940 And if they hear about it, they'll just brush it off.

00:32:00.800 David Suzuki in our country has been on the take of foreign foundations forever.

00:32:06.400 He takes money from companies that have an interest, whether it's salmon farming.

00:32:12.780 He was against salmon farming.

00:32:14.820 And he took huge grants from the wild fishing industry of Alaska.

00:32:19.460 Just for example, Al Gore took a multi-hundred million dollar payout from Qatar.

00:32:26.380 When you find the dirty facts about these climate activists, the left doesn't care.

00:32:33.620 They don't really care.

00:32:34.660 In fact, they say, good, one of our side is finally getting paid.

00:32:37.440 I don't think that this will disillusion anyone who's already not a skeptic.

00:32:43.900 I think the primary target, fellow kids, don't care, won't even hear it, won't even understand it.

00:32:50.140 And the media, which should be skeptical, they don't because they are embedded activists themselves.

00:32:55.860 And they'll just brush this off.

00:32:58.060 And if anything, they'll nitpick journalists who criticize, as you mentioned, has happened in Australia.

00:33:03.140 Last word to you, Mark.

00:33:04.960 Well, I mean, not in Australia, but you mentioned the Times of a Sunday Times story.

00:33:11.360 The author of that piece will be under fire.

00:33:14.400 And I assume they're an establishment member of the media.

00:33:17.640 The New York Times actually ran an op-ed basically going after Greta, talking about the movement.

00:33:22.920 And there were calls on Twitter from mainstream climate activists.

00:33:25.940 I've had it.

00:33:26.600 I'm canceling my subscription to the New York Times just for even having an article mildly critical of Greta.

00:33:33.420 They take this is St. Greta to the to the left.

00:33:37.420 And you're right.

00:33:38.180 They could care one bit of how she was created.

00:33:40.320 All they know is she has spontaneously appeared in the media and they are going to go gaga over her.

00:33:46.320 She's coming to the United States.

00:33:47.540 She's going to South America.

00:33:49.160 This is the age of Greta.

00:33:50.760 She's not going anywhere.

00:33:52.660 She is going.

00:33:53.160 She has now replaced Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, the United Nations.

00:33:57.360 She is the face of global warming today.

00:33:59.100 There is no one even close that could eclipse her in the near future.

00:34:03.460 She is the number one global warming spokesman.

00:34:05.800 Yeah, you know what?

00:34:06.340 I should say she was even on the cover of GQ magazine.

00:34:09.620 It's not exactly a magazine for men anymore.

00:34:12.140 Certainly not a magazine of the right.

00:34:13.680 It's a magazine for social justice warriors on the left.

00:34:16.480 Just just you're right.

00:34:17.660 She's ubiquitous and she's coming to America hard.

00:34:19.560 Mark, great to see you again.

00:34:20.740 Thanks for your time today.

00:34:22.280 Thank you, Ezra.

00:34:23.000 I appreciate it.

00:34:23.140 All right.

00:34:23.480 There you have it.

00:34:23.920 Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:34:26.400 Stay with us.

00:34:27.280 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:34:28.020 Hey, welcome back.

00:34:39.240 What do you think of the show today?

00:34:40.440 You know, I couldn't believe it when I saw that tweet by this fellow Schellenberger,

00:34:44.040 and I'd frankly never heard of him before.

00:34:47.180 Germany's actually taking out more wind turbines than they're putting in.

00:34:50.860 82% decline in putting him.

00:34:53.880 I couldn't believe it, but he proved it.

00:34:55.740 He had the stats.

00:34:57.420 You know, there's not a lot of countries anymore Canada can point to and say they're doing it.

00:35:01.300 They're doing it.

00:35:01.920 They used to point to Spain.

00:35:03.320 They used to point to Germany.

00:35:04.920 Both those countries are saying we can't afford it anymore.

00:35:07.180 UK, too.

00:35:08.360 We're the last fools left.

00:35:10.840 Oh, well.

00:35:11.920 That's our show for today.

00:35:12.860 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:35:16.620 good night.

00:35:17.580 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:18.480 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - August 24, 2019

PROOF： The green energy revolution is over

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