Juno News - January 20, 2023


Global warming alarmism on full display


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4 minutes

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185.873

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764

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37


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Day four of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
00:00:04.560 It's by far the coldest of all the days so far this week,
00:00:08.000 which makes it all the more curious how the global elite speaking here
00:00:11.740 at the Davos Congress Center are leaning into a true, unfettered global warming alarmism.
00:00:18.520 Take a look at Al Gore doing what I can only describe as slam poetry about the climate.
00:00:23.220 Creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level
00:00:26.680 and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one billion in this century.
00:00:32.260 Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees.
00:00:38.960 What about a billion?
00:00:39.980 We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world.
00:00:44.220 We have to act.
00:00:46.080 So in answer to your question, I would say we have to have a sense of urgency much greater than we have yet had.
00:00:52.960 And we need to make some changes.
00:00:56.680 Yes, that was a very vivid portrayal ending with a call to action.
00:01:00.540 And Al Gore also lauded Greta Thunberg for protesting coal in Germany,
00:01:05.080 which got her fake arrested for the cameras.
00:01:08.400 But one day later, Greta Thunberg was walking the streets of Davos.
00:01:12.400 But the reason I focus on the comments of people like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg
00:01:15.880 is because it doesn't take long for them to end up being uttered by people
00:01:19.320 who do have influence on the world stage when it comes to politics.
00:01:22.440 Take Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres,
00:01:26.000 who actually said that oil and gas companies need to be held accountable.
00:01:29.780 He likened the oil and gas sector to big tobacco
00:01:32.340 and said that the fundamental business model is at odds with the survival of humanity.
00:01:37.400 Some in big oil peddled the big lie.
00:01:43.180 And like the tobacco industry, those responsible must be held to account.
00:01:49.720 Today, fossil fuel producers and their enablers are still racing to expand production,
00:01:56.440 knowing full well that this business model is inconsistent with human survival.
00:02:02.800 There have been, by my count, about a dozen sessions this week
00:02:06.640 dealing with the so-called just transition.
00:02:08.980 This is the fancy, glitzy, WEF and UN-approved way
00:02:12.700 of talking about transitioning away from oil and gas.
00:02:15.940 And they put the word just in there
00:02:17.540 so they can pretend that they're going to make it fair and equitable for people,
00:02:20.540 so that they can give people that have been just transitioned out of their jobs
00:02:24.480 access to some new green job,
00:02:26.880 or maybe they can learn to code, to use that old joke.
00:02:29.220 But the reality is the people here at Davos are talking about a future
00:02:33.160 that doesn't have hydrocarbons, a future that doesn't have oil and gas.
00:02:37.060 As we discussed yesterday, or attempted to discuss with John Kerry,
00:02:40.700 emissions reductions in places like Canada are rather inconsequential
00:02:44.540 when countries like China are unwilling and unprepared to do the same thing.
00:02:48.740 Yet that still becomes the element in the room that they don't want to discuss in Davos.
00:02:52.780 But in the end, we have people calling for larger carbon prices,
00:02:56.020 more carbon tax, more money that consumers have to pay
00:02:59.100 just to heat their homes to drive around.
00:03:01.620 The CEO of a Spanish energy company actually thought this was a feature
00:03:05.360 and not a bug of high energy prices.
00:03:08.280 On that last one, I think I will combine it with your question,
00:03:12.380 what would be your wish, is to get much higher carbon prices
00:03:15.900 and to use that money to subsidize clean energies.
00:03:19.060 It's very, very simple.
00:03:19.840 But in Europe, we've seen an enormous response this year,
00:03:24.180 20% less natural gas usage.
00:03:26.680 Why? It was very expensive.
00:03:28.720 It's very simple.
00:03:30.140 It's a very capitalist intervention,
00:03:31.840 but just make what you try to avoid expensive
00:03:34.360 and subsidize the thing that you try to build.
00:03:37.820 It's not difficult, but we're not doing it, certainly not globally.
00:03:40.700 The argument there is that if people can't afford to heat their homes,
00:03:43.720 they won't heat their homes, and this is somehow better for the climate.
00:03:46.560 So we should all celebrate.
00:03:47.540 This is just one of many ways where the discussions that take place in Davos
00:03:51.220 are disconnected in every way from the lives of people around the world
00:03:54.740 who are influenced by the discussions that take place here,
00:03:57.760 by government leaders and corporate leaders that get together
00:04:00.340 and are all on the same page when it comes to the vision they have
00:04:03.400 for the energy industry.
00:04:04.720 For True North from Davos, I'm Andrew Lutton.