Juno News - Ep. 2 ｜ Climate Alarmism

00:00:00.000 I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people

00:00:11.180 for hope. How dare you? Yes, how dare you indeed. I mean, how could you not listen to her after the

00:00:19.360 last two decades of climate alarmism and fearmongering? For the better part of the last

00:00:24.260 20 years, there has been an endless barrage of public awareness campaigns, political efforts,

00:00:29.700 and media representations of climate change. The narrative? The climate is changing. Humans are to

00:00:36.360 blame, and we need to listen to the activists in order to fix it. The conversation expanded from

00:00:42.120 the academic realm to public consciousness with the 2006 release of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth,

00:00:49.120 a documentary attempting to raise public awareness about global warming. It was a commercial success,

00:00:54.240 it won two Academy Awards, and was quickly put into many educational curricula in Canada,

00:01:00.420 the United States, and the UK. Gore even won the Nobel Prize, not for science, but for peace.

00:01:06.940 There was so much momentum behind the convenient narrative of the Inconvenient Truth, that few

00:01:11.980 in the media actually stopped to question whether the situation was as dire as Gore made it out to be.

00:01:18.220 In 2007, a high court in the UK ruled that the film lacked balance and contained at least nine

00:01:25.080 scientific errors. Nonetheless, the movement took off and set the stage for a massive growth period

00:01:31.480 in the global environmental movement, meaning a massive growth period for environmental politics.

00:01:37.840 In Canada, we saw environmental activists like David Suzuki actively get involved in commenting on

00:01:43.560 politics, predominantly to criticize Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his colleagues

00:01:48.260 for supporting Canada's oil and gas industry, ignoring the fact that this industry fueled the

00:01:53.320 national economy and has brought significant jobs and wealth to the country.

00:01:57.320 I believe what's going on now is criminal, our activity, because it's a crime against future

00:02:04.020 generations, and there ought to be a legal position of intergenerational crime.

00:02:10.000 And then there's Greta. The 17-year-old Swedish teen started her climate crusade by purportedly

00:02:16.660 skipping school on Fridays to protest climate inaction. Now she's become a spiritual leader

00:02:23.180 to the left, with world leaders like Justin Trudeau prostrating before her as she tells them

00:02:28.340 they're destroying her future. Dr. Patrick Moore knows this dynamic very well, having been once

00:02:33.900 part of the very environmental movement he now finds so troubling.

00:02:37.800 Moren is one of the loudest voices calling out the tactics of climate alarmists, like those

00:02:42.920 championing and promoting Greta Thunberg.

00:02:45.460 Greta is being used as a child. It's a bit like the Hitler Youth, as far as I'm concerned. 0.99

00:02:49.960 Dictators like Stalin and Hitler have always used young children waving little flags, and girls 0.73

00:02:58.360 have been a prominent part of that. So I believe it is similar to that in its use of youth and girls

00:03:06.460 to promote apocalypse. Children and teenagers are pledging to forgo having children themselves until

00:03:14.120 elected officials take more action on climate change. These children are afflicted by eco-anxiety,

00:03:19.840 a new phenomenon of stress and depression caused by fretting over changing weather patterns and the

00:03:26.120 propaganda they're being fed through their schools and the media.

00:03:29.120 It's a shame that they're being used to scare children into thinking the world is coming

00:03:33.420 to an end and their life is no use anymore.

00:03:36.780 The same thing happened when there was the threat of all-out nuclear war and the early environmental

00:03:41.620 movement and pollution and all that. I have friends who are my age who decided not to have

00:03:46.460 children for that very reason. And I think they regret it because look how things have turned out.

00:03:52.780 This is not a bad world to be in, especially in Canada, in the United States, in Europe and Australia,

00:03:58.720 New Zealand, Japan.

00:04:00.440 One survey of young people in Canada found that they see climate change as an extremely

00:04:04.440 serious threat to their lives, even more of a threat than gun violence or the opioid crisis.

00:04:09.840 When asked to rate the threat climate change causes to their safety, 57% of young Canadians

00:04:15.840 aged 16 to 25 said it was an extremely serious threat to the safety of children.

00:04:22.440 I think the most important thing, especially for young people, is to teach them critical thinking.

00:04:27.580 To teach them to understand what the assumptions are behind things they're being told.

00:04:33.100 There has been an explosion of political organizations attempting to influence Canadians to vote for

00:04:38.240 Liberal or New Democratic politicians who oppose Canada's natural resource development.

00:04:43.580 In digging deeper into these groups, however, it's clear they're rarely what they seem.

00:04:48.280 Let's take a look at Lead Now, which has been extremely active in the last two federal elections.

00:04:54.420 In the 2019 general election, Lead Now claims to have made 150,000 phone calls and in Greater Toronto,

00:05:03.320 ran radio ads against Andrew Scheer's Conservatives.

00:05:06.840 In 2015, the same group actively ran a cross-country campaign featuring none other than David Suzuki,

00:05:13.980 mobilizing people to change their vote in key ridings to vote for the candidate with the greatest chance of defeating the Conservatives.

00:05:21.880 They frame themselves as a progressive, not-for-profit organization that advocates for the best interests of Canadians.

00:05:29.480 But in reality, this group is hell-bent on eradicating one of Canada's largest industries and the largest driver in our economy.

00:05:37.620 Lead Now is a vocal opponent of the development of the Canadian oil and gas industry,

00:05:42.620 including building pipelines to transport Canadian oil across the country,

00:05:47.240 reducing the need for Canada to rely on the importation of foreign oil.

00:05:51.620 Independent researchers have discovered, however, that they may have ulterior motives to their efforts.

00:05:57.340 Far from being a grassroots movement, Lead Now is one of the lead organizations in the Rockefeller's international effort called the Tar Sands Campaign,

00:06:06.340 which aims to landlock oil and natural resources from Western Canadian provinces,

00:06:11.480 and in doing so, keep Canadian oil out of the global market.

00:06:15.700 Another prominent environmental organization, and perhaps one of the most famous, is Greenpeace.

00:06:21.480 Dr. Moore spent years building up this organization, which he now opposes.

00:06:26.080 I heard about this little group that was beginning to meet in the basement of the Unitarian Church in Vancouver,

00:06:32.080 called the Don't Make a Wave Committee.

00:06:34.340 And I joined that group because they were planning an ocean voyage to Alaska, to Amchitka Island,

00:06:40.920 to protest U.S. hydrogen bomb testing.

00:06:43.420 And of course, this was the height of the Cold War, the height of the Vietnam War, and the all-out threat of nuclear war,

00:06:49.640 and the emerging consciousness of the environment.

00:06:52.640 And those two things came together in what became, eventually, Greenpeace.

00:06:56.640 And I stayed with Greenpeace for the next 15 years.

00:06:59.640 With the stated goal of ensuring the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity,

00:07:05.640 Greenpeace has been known for using various tactics, some of which are illegal, to promote its environmental agenda.

00:07:11.640 We saw ourselves as that little band of revolutionaries and set out in a haywire old halibut boat 0.99

00:07:18.640 with Captain John Cormack for the Aleutian Islands.

00:07:21.640 We never made it there, but we made Walter Cronkite's evening news in the United States

00:07:25.640 when the Coast Guard crew said they agreed with what we were doing there in the U.S. military.

00:07:31.640 And so it was a big story that we were doing this protest, and that was the beginning of Greenpeace.

00:07:39.640 From then on, we went on to stop the French atmospheric nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

00:07:45.640 Of course, we did help stop the hydrogen bomb tests in Alaska.

00:07:49.640 President Nixon cancelled them just a few months after our protest.

00:07:53.640 But it's fair to be skeptical about whether Greenpeace and its wider environmental movement is grounded in science.

00:08:00.640 The reason I left Greenpeace, and I'd been thinking about it for quite a while, is it was kind of changing into an organization

00:08:06.640 that was no longer basing its positions on good science.

00:08:09.640 And it turned out that I was the only person on the international board that had any formal education in science.

00:08:16.640 The rest were what I would call more or less political and social activists.

00:08:20.640 A lot of organizations start out with a noble cause with volunteers and just a lot of enthusiasm,

00:08:27.640 and then become successful and suddenly have a payroll to meet because people need to live and pay their rent.

00:08:33.640 So fundraising becomes fairly high on the agenda.

00:08:38.640 And every once in a while an organization like that degenerates into a racket pushing fake science and misinformation.

00:08:46.640 And that's what happened with Greenpeace.

00:08:48.640 Even if they don't have science on their side, there's no denying Greenpeace and the broader environmental movement has been successful.

00:08:55.640 The emotion behind the climate change debate shows this.

00:08:58.640 I really do believe that we are being fleeced here.

00:09:03.640 It is using fear and guilt, like you're driving down the road in your SUV, you're afraid you're killing your grandchildren,

00:09:10.640 and that makes you feel guilty and makes you open your wallet and send it,

00:09:15.640 check to Greenpeace or some of the other hundreds of so-called charities that are all benefiting from this as a result of scaring the public.

00:09:23.640 The climate change debate is almost entirely now in the political realm, not in the academic realm.

00:09:29.640 The climate debates have now devolved into hyper-partisan and ideological politics,

00:09:34.640 with politicians, people who often don't know anything about science and they probably don't even care about it.

00:09:39.640 They're the ones putting forth radical policies to appease the well-funded climate alarmist activists who have grown so powerful.

00:09:47.640 The Trudeau government has benefited heavily from the activism of organizations like Lead Now and Greenpeace,

00:09:54.640 who have delivered votes and resources to Trudeau and his liberals.

00:09:58.640 It's no surprise that the national carbon tax was one of Justin Trudeau's premier priorities.

00:10:04.640 And the Trudeau government has simultaneously helped promote the climate alarmism narrative.

00:10:10.640 For example, the Trudeau government created a whole new media bailout fund just to prop up news stories on climate activism.

00:10:17.640 News outlets that wrote stories with an environmentalist bend were given access to a $50 million slush fund called the Local Journalism Initiative,

00:10:27.640 funded through the Department of Canadian Heritage.

00:10:30.640 At the same time as propping up torqued climate reporting in the mainstream media,

00:10:35.640 the Trudeau government was busy manipulating the data on climate patterns.

00:10:39.640 Environment Canada purposefully erased 100 years of historical weather readings

00:10:44.640 and replaced it with modeled historic data to produce dramatic weather diagrams and maps for their climate change website.

00:10:52.640 Climatedata.ca was launched in August 2019 by then Environment Minister Catherine McKenna as a means to illustrate the threat of climate change.

00:11:02.640 But according to an Environment Canada spokesperson, all of the data before 1949 was omitted in the graphs,

00:11:08.640 despite the government having access to weather measurements, which go all the way back to 1850.

00:11:14.640 The deleted data was then replaced with fabricated models which simulated past climate data, despite the existence of the historical readings.

00:11:22.640 The historical data is not observed historical data, it's modeled historic data, said an Environment Canada spokesperson.

00:11:30.640 This means that several important readings were omitted from the models, including the fact that Toronto was hotter in 1852 than it was in 2017,

00:11:38.640 and Vancouver experienced warmer weather in 1910 than it did in 2017.

00:11:43.640 It also excluded the fact that the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada took place on September 15th, 1935.

00:11:52.640 That is the inconvenient truth.

00:11:54.640 The work of the federal government and environmental groups in Canada have not limited their advocacy to within our country's borders.

00:12:01.640 Just take a look at the numerous multilateral agreements and global governance initiatives that have put climate change forward as Canada's top national priority.

00:12:10.640 In 2015, Canada and 194 other countries signed on to the Global Paris Climate Agreement,

00:12:17.640 which aims to bring all nations together to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change.

00:12:23.640 This agreement has been the rationale for the Liberals to pursue their aggressive environmental policies, including implementing the National Carbon Tax.

00:12:32.640 While the Trudeau government deflects criticism by saying it's non-binding, the fact remains that they have chosen to use this as a launching pad for their domestic political agenda.

00:12:42.640 Paris Accord critics, including former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, have brought attention to the failure of these agreements to measurably protect the environment, believing they've only hurt the Canadian economy.

00:12:52.640 This is due in part to the failure of some of the world's largest emitters to actually follow the agreement.

00:12:58.640 For example, China, with nearly one fifth of the world's population, is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, thanks in large part to its production of coal.

00:13:07.640 Their efforts to reduce emissions have been dubbed highly insufficient from climate action groups.

00:13:12.640 However, the alarmists in the global community like Justin Trudeau focus only on the West and countries like Canada, whose emissions are minuscule in comparison.

00:13:22.640 Despite this, the Trudeau government continues to promote and hold strongly their commitments to the Paris Accord, including supporting far-reaching environmental policies domestically.

00:13:32.640 We know that the global elites like to take their private jets to Davos just to complain about oil patch workers. 0.99

00:13:38.640 Similarly, the Trudeau government doesn't even practice what they preach.

00:13:42.640 For instance, in 2019, the Trudeau government sent a delegation of 144 people to a UN climate conference in Spain.

00:13:51.640 While the mainstream media dutifully reported that the conference was somehow a success in addressing climate change, an independent reporter showed a different side of the story.

00:14:00.640 Rebel news journalist Sheila Gunn-Reed covered this conference and exposed the significant hypocrisy she observed.

00:14:07.640 If you needed to be cured of the idea that the world is going to end in 12 years or two years or whatever the doomsday clock is right now.

00:14:22.640 If you needed to be cured of that idea, there is no better place to do that than a United Nations climate change conference.

00:14:28.640 The first year in Morocco, my team and I witnessed some of the most outrageous hypocrisy that first year.

00:14:37.640 The entire climate change conference itself is really a single use plastic.

00:14:44.640 On the way in every morning, you would think that it had rained, but it's Morocco, it was the desert. 0.93

00:14:51.640 They were bringing in water trucks in the morning to water the ground to keep the dust down on their shoes.

00:14:59.640 In Bonn, Germany, there was a hum throughout the UN facility.

00:15:04.640 And I'm from Alberta.

00:15:06.640 I'm from a place where we're familiar with diesel generators because of the oil patch here.

00:15:12.640 And there was a distinctive hum.

00:15:13.640 I recognized it instantly.

00:15:15.640 The whole place was running on diesel generators in the riverbank from the lighting to the electricity to the heat.

00:15:24.640 It was all powered by diesel at a conference designed to get people off fossil fuel energy.

00:15:31.640 And at a conference that insists that these sorts of things can be held without fossil fuels.

00:15:38.640 And yet they couldn't even do it for themselves.

00:15:41.640 And then last year was Madrid, Spain.

00:15:44.640 As a personal anecdote, I couldn't fly out the day that the conference was over.

00:15:49.640 I had to stay an extra day because there are so many people advocating a low carbon lifestyle that were trying to fly out of Madrid on the day after the conference.

00:16:03.640 So, I mean, if you needed to be convinced that even the people who say the world is going to end don't truly believe it,

00:16:13.640 there's no better place than a UN climate change conference.

00:16:16.640 Now, this might all be a bit more forgivable if they were at least interested in hearing all sides.

00:16:21.640 But no.

00:16:22.640 In fact, governments actively block people from offering challenging perspectives to their climate alarmist narrative.

00:16:29.640 Patrick Moore was invited to deliver the keynote speech of the 2020 reimagined conference in Saskatchewan.

00:16:35.640 Well, I was invited through my speakers bureau.

00:16:38.640 Actually, they got me the gig to be the keynote speaker to kick it off in Regina.

00:16:43.640 I think it would have caused a fair amount of conversation.

00:16:46.640 What happened was the mayor went to the committee that he had put in charge of the conference and said,

00:16:51.640 perhaps you should revisit this invitation, reconsider whether Patrick Moore should be coming here to speak.

00:16:59.640 And they came back to him and said, we fired him.

00:17:02.640 And how about in the realm of academia and scientific research?

00:17:05.640 In 2019, Susan Crockford was removed from her associate professorship at the University of Victoria.

00:17:12.640 She claims that this is because of her findings that contrary to the alarmist narrative,

00:17:17.640 the polar bear population is actually thriving.

00:17:20.640 It isn't in decline at all.

00:17:22.640 Apparently that's forbidden knowledge in our day and age.

00:17:25.640 We need to be able to talk honestly about science and public policy.

00:17:28.640 And we need to distinguish scientific research from climate activism without shouting down voices that express skepticism

00:17:36.640 or censoring research that goes against the climate alarmism narrative promoted by politicians,

00:17:43.640 activists, journalists, and the climate lobby.

Juno News - November 26, 2020

Ep. 2 ｜ Climate Alarmism

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