Juno News - December 22, 2019A Decade in Review： Climate Change
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Summary
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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When it comes to decade in review conversations, one issue that I think has radically changed in
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the past 10 years is climate change. More aptly, climate alarmism, because that is what we are
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dealing with right now. You know, when I think about these commitments, Kyoto Accord and Paris
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Agreement, it kind of reminds me of, or at least used to remind me of, when you'd see a mayor and
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city councillors get together and they'd announce a plan to end homelessness in our city in five
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years. And then they'd announce funding for this and that and some initiative they're doing. And
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we all understood that they weren't actually planning to end homelessness. I mean, that would
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be great if they could. It's, you know, an awful thing for someone to live out in the streets. But
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we know it's not going to happen. We know that, unfortunately, some degree of that is probably
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always going to be around or will be for quite some time. But it's an aspirational goal and
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Lord love them for saying it. Fair enough. And hopefully that initiative they announce will help
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a number of people get off the streets and into homes and so forth. And I thought these climate
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change promises, at least when Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper made them, were kind of the same.
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These feel-good aspirational goals. Oh, you know, we got the environment and the climate and let's do
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goodbye and let's promise to cut these emissions. And okay, fine. You know, you'll do something.
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Who knows? It's not a big deal, but we like to feel good about ourselves. Things really changed the past
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decade. And that's not exactly what happens anymore. Now, we have children in Canadian schools
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who are coming home telling their parents that they are fearful, that they have anxiety,
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that they are scared and they are depressed. One child, it was reported by Post Media, screaming out,
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I don't want to die! In school back in October, a seven-year-old, no less, after a classroom played
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the thunderous videos of Miss Greta Thunberg saying, well, pretty much that we're all going to die,
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that people are dying. There's these extreme weather events, that entire species are going
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extinct and the water levels are rising. We have 12 years left or eight years or, I don't know, the
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number changes like every few months. So I'm not up on how many years the doomsday clock is taking
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by and yet, but there you go, this heightened alarmism. And not just from young Miss Thunberg
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either. Catherine McKenna, I remember doing a video where she talked about fires and people dying and
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waters raising right here in Canada. I don't know what water she was talking about. At some point,
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she referenced the Don Valley River, which is near where I live, and it's just, I don't know, like that
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does go up and down, but there's no isolated variable that tells you it's to do with climate
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change. And we are so seized by this issue. When Elizabeth May stepped down as Green Party of Canada
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leader, her big wish out there to media and politicians and the public was that we would talk
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about climate change more. Excuse me? Talk about it more? It's all we actually talk about. I was
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interested to see a poll around the time of the federal election that said, all right, Canadians,
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what's your number one concern? Now, almost always, for 10, 15, 20 years since these polls have been
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done, people say the economy. You know that old James Carville line, it's the economy, stupid. That's
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what people primarily care about. Interestingly, the other year, I saw that debt and deficit in government
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spending had sort of met the economy there, so people were concerned about these budgetary
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shenanigans that are going on in Canada. Okay, fair enough. I get that. That makes sense. This year,
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this year, folks, climate change, in some polls, depending on how they did it in the metrics and
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so forth, climate change tied as number one or became the top concern for Canadians. And I humbly
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submit that that's not a good thing and that I don't think this is from people sort of, you know,
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sitting down and assessing the facts and reading those intergovernmental panel climate change
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reports that the UN puts out, which actually refute a lot of the things that Greta Thunberg and
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Catherine McKenna are saying. The actual things that the climate scientists are writing, they actually
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don't overlap with the things Ms. Thunberg is saying. They're taking them and they're blowing it
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out of proportion. Those scientists more and more now are stepping forward and saying, excuse me,
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I don't think this over theatrics is helping. And I think those people in Canada who are responding to
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these polls and saying, yes, it's my number one concern. They're not leaders in the opinion cycle
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here. They're following what they're hearing and all this breathless, desperate coverage,
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this extreme alarmist coverage. Oh, well, you know, it must be true. So I will raise my hand and count
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myself among the people who are very alarmed by this. And I don't think that's healthy. You know,
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there's a lot of interesting stuff happening. I saw a story, University of Ottawa researchers
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coming up with a new and better improved version of carbon capture. So basically stopping emissions
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from, from coming out of their source in the first place that never been done before. And here's the
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rub that they did not anticipate they would find in previous years. It's kind of funny. Thomas
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Malthus, he said back centuries ago, we're going to have a major problem. We can't feed people. There's
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going to be people who are mass dying, or we're going to have to mass kill off a whole part of the
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species. Lots of crazy thinking back then. He did not know that there would be innovations in
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agriculture that make all of, you know, human society possible now. And a lot of this climate
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alarmism does not actually factor in that, well, we're going to be building new mousetraps, better
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mousetraps, and all this stuff is just going to change and stuff's going to improve. So the fact,
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oh, we need to triplicate the carbon tax. We need to quadruple it right now. Punish those bad humans.
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We need a meat tax. Canada needs a one-child policy that's already destroyed a lot of Chinese
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society. But we need to do it here in Canada, all in the name of climate change. Whoa, guys, relax.
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There's a lot of things happening in the free market, academic stuff, government, corporate R&D
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that's happening, heralding some sort of green revolution that, quite frankly, will do way more
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to change the future than this piddling carbon tax ever could do, even though it's going to harm
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low-income people along the way. So everybody needs to chill out on the climate alarmism. As Donald
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Trump said to Ms. Thunberg, just chill out, go see a movie with a friend. I hope that the decade that
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comes will be a reversal and we'll see a cooling down of all this climate alarmism.
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