After the UN climate change conference, Michelle Stirling of Friends of Science joins me to talk all things climate change and climate change denial. She also talks about the World Economic Forum, and why we should all be worried about climate change.
00:18:08.860And yet, Calgary is calling a climate emergency.
00:18:12.300We had Adam Sos in Calgary driving around in the no climate emergency billboard truck, just talking about how ridiculous this is.
00:18:21.320But Friends of Science being early adopters of good ideas, you guys have been telling us there's no climate emergency for, well, I guess two decades now, right?
00:18:31.820Yeah, we did a report rebutting the claim of a climate emergency.
00:18:35.320And of course, we work quite closely with Klintel out of the Netherlands.
00:18:38.780And that's a group of 960 signatory scientists and scholars from around the world who state quite clearly that there is no climate emergency.
00:18:50.460There's no reason to be alarmed and that natural forces are more influential than human influences on climate.
00:19:00.880And the first thing we did was we asked the mayor to make sure that Calgary children, and in fact, all children should be told this, that Greta actually said there's no science behind her comment that I want you to panic.
00:19:20.840She did this in a testimony to the U.S. Congress, and Congressman Norman asked her, you know, please tell me what's the science behind your comment, I want you to panic.
00:19:32.420And she said, well, you know, it's really just a metaphor, there's no science behind it, and I don't literally want anyone to panic.
00:19:39.500Well, you know, why isn't that front page news everywhere?
00:19:43.220And certainly the city of Calgary should be making sure that all children have Christmas relief by being told that there's no need to panic, but instead, you know, they're proclaiming a climate emergency and piling on.
00:19:56.620And I want to mention that in a HuffPost article that was listing all the cities that had declared a climate emergency, there was a little note there that to declare this climate emergency, you had to pay $250,000 to some fund, which was promoting renewables.
00:20:18.360They didn't follow up on that, and I've never seen any other report on it, but it'd be interesting to know where cash-strapped Calgarians are being squeezed for another quarter of a million dollars for this facetious declaration by Mayor Gondek.
00:20:35.580I'm going to get my friend Adam to follow up on that because, you know, we say all the time that this is just empty virtue signaling, but it's not all that empty.
00:20:43.580When you're giving a quarter of a million dollars of taxpayer money to an organization for, I guess, the courtesy of being able to say that it's a climate emergency, I mean, this is just greenwashing of the worst sort.
00:21:00.440I had no idea that there was money attached to this, and so if there was, I'm going to find out because this is crazy because taxes are going up.
00:21:09.980Right, exactly, and I mean, one thing that, you know, as I said, that HuffPost never followed up on it, so I don't know where that little thread leads, but that was alarming to me.
00:21:19.680And furthermore, it's interesting to note that the McConnell Foundation is one of the tax-reduced charitable foundations that's been funding all these environmental groups who are promoting the climate catastrophe narrative.
00:21:34.640Well, it turns out they also gave $10 million to BlackRock for a renewables investment.
00:21:42.920Like, what is this? I mean, this is a tax-subsidized foundation that funds tax-subsidized ENGOs to clamor for a climate catastrophe and a climate emergency, and at the same time is giving tax-subsidized $10 million to BlackRock, which is one of the world's largest corporate entities, and certainly doesn't need $10 million from Canadians.
00:22:09.820And Michelle, I think this perpetual motion machine of green, I would call it money laundering, but not in the criminal sense, it has a real-world impact on Canada's economy.
00:22:24.240You have a new report from Robert Lyman that's coming out that said that Canada was sitting on $21 trillion in U.S. dollars, not Canadian pesos, in resource riches, and so many of these green energy conglomerates, they want us to leave $21 trillion U.S. in the ground.
00:23:19.180Oil, gas, and coal, it's just skyrocketed as half the prices, you know, and we're pretending like, oh, we're going to make wind and solar farms from fairy dust, you know, because even to implement any of the proposed net zero policies, you need masses of oil, gas, and coal.
00:23:44.400Because that's how society is built, and that's how it runs.
00:23:46.540I mean, the whole idea that we can electrify the world and replace fossil fuels is ludicrous because electricity is a secondary source of energy.
00:23:55.680It's made by hydro, fossil fuels, nuclear, perhaps a little geothermal, but, you know, I think fossil fuels provide something like 84% of the world's energy right now, and that's not going to change dramatically in the next 5, 10, or 29 years.
00:24:15.080Especially since everything is made from oil, gas, and coal.
00:24:45.060Where, you know, wealthy hedge funds could pick up shares in Canadian and especially Albertan oil, gas, and oil sands company and coal companies for peanuts, you know, and then probably somewhere down the road go, oh, by the way, we need this resource.
00:24:59.640Well, by that time, it's already captive in the hands of somebody else where it will be less beneficial to us economically.
00:25:07.560You know, my father and I were talking, father-in-law and I were talking about that this morning, that, you know, the green true believers, the environmentalists, they're the useful idiots in all of this.
00:25:21.680Because the people who are orchestrating this green trade war, they love oil and gas, but they don't think there's anything wrong with it.
00:25:30.400It's just a demarketing campaign against Alberta oil and gas.
00:25:35.300And, you know, you'll have celebrities from California, and, you know, I don't know how they avoid tripping over Bakersfield to bash Alberta oil and gas, but somehow they do because they're true believers.
00:25:50.180And they have tunnel vision, but that tunnel vision is perfect for the people who are manipulating them because they're all just part of a marketing campaign.
00:26:00.640Right. And, you know, I think that a lot of the people on the activist side, the climate and environment activist side, they really do have a good heart.
00:26:09.620They really have good intentions, but they don't have this broader view and they haven't looked to see where it leads.
00:26:16.920I mean, Ian Plimmer just issued a book called Green Murder, and that's exactly where these net zero policies are leading.
00:26:27.220We see it in the UK and in Germany, where in Germany, hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from their electricity because they can't pay the bill.
00:26:36.480And if you look at net zero watch, you can see that prices are skyrocketing in Britain and a whole bunch of industries have actually shut down,
00:26:45.900like fertilizer industries that used to use natural gas.
00:26:51.740It's too expensive now, so they've shut down.
00:26:54.300And a byproduct of their processing used to be carbon dioxide, ironically, which was used for food processing.
00:27:03.340And so a lot of different kinds of foods cannot be processed without that carbon dioxide byproduct.
00:27:09.100So there will be food shortages because of that.
00:27:13.020And come spring, when fertilizer prices are through the roof, there will be additional food shortages because many farmers will just say,
00:28:01.160You know, we're just fortunate that we're in Alberta, where we have these fantastic resources,
00:28:07.300and we already have the existing infrastructure to deliver gas and power to people's homes.
00:28:15.280But, you know, it's literally a killing field when you apply net zero policies.
00:28:22.860Now, speaking of putting people's lives at risk because of green energy policies,
00:28:31.060you contributed an article to the Western Standard, which I think is great.
00:28:36.660But your article asks, is being green more important than patient outcomes in health care?
00:28:44.000And I thought this was a fantastic article because single-use plastic really has been one of the big saviors during the pandemic through hospital implications,
00:28:56.740but also through real-world implications where, you know, restaurants have pivoted to single-use plastic because they can't have dine-in,
00:29:04.560so they had to have takeout, and so, you know, plastic saves the day there.
00:29:08.460And then when considering in retail stores or grocery stores where the cashiers didn't want to touch your gross reusable plastic bags anymore that are full of E. coli,
00:29:21.200a lot of the bag bans ended, and those came back, plastic bags came back with a vengeance, which I think is great.
00:29:30.420I think plastic is the perfect garbage.
00:29:32.520But for you, you really looked at how green policies have bad outcomes in health care.
00:29:43.340Yes, I watched a webinar called Climate Conversations Decarbonizing Health Care,
00:29:49.900and I've been concerned for a long time about this shift in health care from caring for the patient to caring for the planet.
00:29:59.220And we saw that in Alberta when Dr. Joe Vipond was a leading voice on Alberta coal phase-out.
00:30:06.580He claimed that we would save $3 billion in health care costs,
00:30:11.800and that many people who suffer from asthma would not suffer from it to the same extent.
00:30:18.080And, in fact, it cost us $22 billion and more to phase out coal.
00:30:25.220Sorry to interrupt you here, but also, I'm not sure if Dr. Joe Vipond knows,
00:30:29.480but you can actually go online and check the air quality at Genesee or in Fort McMurray,
00:30:34.640right beside where there are these major industrial plants.
00:30:38.040And you can see that's often much better than outside of a hospital where Joe Vipond works in an urban centre.
00:30:45.200You know what I mean? Like, you can check this. It's there for all of us to look at.