Juno News - December 22, 2019


A Decade in Review： Climate Change

Topics
climate alarmism
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Greta Thunberg Catherine McKenna Stephen Harper James Carville Thomas Malthus Jean Chrétien Miss Thunberg Elizabeth May Kyoto Accord Donald Trump
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In this episode, I talk about how climate change has changed in the past decade, and why we need to talk about it more. I talk to Greta Thunberg and Catherine McKenna about their climate change alarmism, and how it's a symptom of climate change itself.

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00:00:00.000 When it comes to decade in review conversations, one issue that I think has radically changed in
00:00:11.880 the past 10 years is climate change. More aptly, climate alarmism, because that is what we are
00:00:18.600 dealing with right now. You know, when I think about these commitments, Kyoto Accord and Paris
00:00:23.040 Agreement, it kind of reminds me of, or at least used to remind me of, when you'd see a mayor and
00:00:28.200 city councillors get together and they'd announce a plan to end homelessness in our city in five
00:00:33.520 years. And then they'd announce funding for this and that and some initiative they're doing. And
00:00:37.540 we all understood that they weren't actually planning to end homelessness. I mean, that would
00:00:43.280 be great if they could. It's, you know, an awful thing for someone to live out in the streets. But
00:00:47.200 we know it's not going to happen. We know that, unfortunately, some degree of that is probably
00:00:50.740 always going to be around or will be for quite some time. But it's an aspirational goal and
00:00:55.400 Lord love them for saying it. Fair enough. And hopefully that initiative they announce will help
00:00:59.520 a number of people get off the streets and into homes and so forth. And I thought these climate
00:01:04.920 change promises, at least when Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper made them, were kind of the same.
00:01:09.140 These feel-good aspirational goals. Oh, you know, we got the environment and the climate and let's do
00:01:13.880 goodbye and let's promise to cut these emissions. And okay, fine. You know, you'll do something.
00:01:18.640 Who knows? It's not a big deal, but we like to feel good about ourselves. Things really changed the past
00:01:24.060 decade. And that's not exactly what happens anymore. Now, we have children in Canadian schools
00:01:31.000 who are coming home telling their parents that they are fearful, that they have anxiety,
00:01:36.720 that they are scared and they are depressed. One child, it was reported by Post Media, screaming out,
00:01:41.320 I don't want to die! In school back in October, a seven-year-old, no less, after a classroom played
00:01:48.200 the thunderous videos of Miss Greta Thunberg saying, well, pretty much that we're all going to die,
00:01:52.780 that people are dying. There's these extreme weather events, that entire species are going
00:01:57.360 extinct and the water levels are rising. We have 12 years left or eight years or, I don't know, the
00:02:01.900 number changes like every few months. So I'm not up on how many years the doomsday clock is taking
00:02:06.740 by and yet, but there you go, this heightened alarmism. And not just from young Miss Thunberg
00:02:11.720 either. Catherine McKenna, I remember doing a video where she talked about fires and people dying and
00:02:16.520 waters raising right here in Canada. I don't know what water she was talking about. At some point,
00:02:20.980 she referenced the Don Valley River, which is near where I live, and it's just, I don't know, like that
00:02:26.280 does go up and down, but there's no isolated variable that tells you it's to do with climate
00:02:32.180 change. And we are so seized by this issue. When Elizabeth May stepped down as Green Party of Canada
00:02:37.180 leader, her big wish out there to media and politicians and the public was that we would talk
00:02:42.680 about climate change more. Excuse me? Talk about it more? It's all we actually talk about. I was
00:02:50.240 interested to see a poll around the time of the federal election that said, all right, Canadians,
00:02:54.360 what's your number one concern? Now, almost always, for 10, 15, 20 years since these polls have been
00:03:00.360 done, people say the economy. You know that old James Carville line, it's the economy, stupid. That's 1.00
00:03:05.800 what people primarily care about. Interestingly, the other year, I saw that debt and deficit in government
00:03:11.420 spending had sort of met the economy there, so people were concerned about these budgetary
00:03:15.880 shenanigans that are going on in Canada. Okay, fair enough. I get that. That makes sense. This year,
00:03:20.680 this year, folks, climate change, in some polls, depending on how they did it in the metrics and
00:03:26.020 so forth, climate change tied as number one or became the top concern for Canadians. And I humbly
00:03:34.800 submit that that's not a good thing and that I don't think this is from people sort of, you know,
00:03:40.900 sitting down and assessing the facts and reading those intergovernmental panel climate change
00:03:45.760 reports that the UN puts out, which actually refute a lot of the things that Greta Thunberg and
00:03:50.640 Catherine McKenna are saying. The actual things that the climate scientists are writing, they actually
00:03:55.260 don't overlap with the things Ms. Thunberg is saying. They're taking them and they're blowing it
00:03:58.940 out of proportion. Those scientists more and more now are stepping forward and saying, excuse me,
00:04:02.740 I don't think this over theatrics is helping. And I think those people in Canada who are responding to
00:04:08.160 these polls and saying, yes, it's my number one concern. They're not leaders in the opinion cycle
00:04:12.640 here. They're following what they're hearing and all this breathless, desperate coverage,
00:04:17.620 this extreme alarmist coverage. Oh, well, you know, it must be true. So I will raise my hand and count
00:04:22.880 myself among the people who are very alarmed by this. And I don't think that's healthy. You know,
00:04:28.500 there's a lot of interesting stuff happening. I saw a story, University of Ottawa researchers
00:04:32.660 coming up with a new and better improved version of carbon capture. So basically stopping emissions
00:04:39.080 from, from coming out of their source in the first place that never been done before. And here's the
00:04:43.380 rub that they did not anticipate they would find in previous years. It's kind of funny. Thomas
00:04:50.420 Malthus, he said back centuries ago, we're going to have a major problem. We can't feed people. There's
00:04:55.280 going to be people who are mass dying, or we're going to have to mass kill off a whole part of the
00:04:59.480 species. Lots of crazy thinking back then. He did not know that there would be innovations in
00:05:04.220 agriculture that make all of, you know, human society possible now. And a lot of this climate
00:05:09.880 alarmism does not actually factor in that, well, we're going to be building new mousetraps, better
00:05:15.520 mousetraps, and all this stuff is just going to change and stuff's going to improve. So the fact,
00:05:20.340 oh, we need to triplicate the carbon tax. We need to quadruple it right now. Punish those bad humans. 0.99
00:05:26.260 We need a meat tax. Canada needs a one-child policy that's already destroyed a lot of Chinese 1.00
00:05:32.640 society. But we need to do it here in Canada, all in the name of climate change. Whoa, guys, relax.
00:05:39.080 There's a lot of things happening in the free market, academic stuff, government, corporate R&D
00:05:45.360 that's happening, heralding some sort of green revolution that, quite frankly, will do way more
00:05:51.120 to change the future than this piddling carbon tax ever could do, even though it's going to harm
00:05:56.320 low-income people along the way. So everybody needs to chill out on the climate alarmism. As Donald
00:06:00.880 Trump said to Ms. Thunberg, just chill out, go see a movie with a friend. I hope that the decade that
00:06:07.380 comes will be a reversal and we'll see a cooling down of all this climate alarmism.
00:06:13.200 is different.
00:06:15.140 Is it true now?
00:06:18.400 Is it true now?
00:06:20.000 It's true now.
00:06:20.960 We need to ease through not knowing and lose about, anybody, who needs to handle it?
00:06:24.900 Is it true now?
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00:06:27.900 It will definitely be a spin here.
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00:06:30.240 The level of the game is no longer uncertainty.
00:06:31.580 Not knowing what conditions could there be.
00:06:32.460 It ends in theothy's story.
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00:06:35.260 before night in the middle of the day.
00:06:37.300 Here's the privilege to help you.
00:06:38.440 Not knowing what conditions are also OK.
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