Juno News - January 20, 2023


Global warming alarmism on full display

Topics
global warming alarmism
Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Greta Thunberg Al Gore Antonio Guterres John Kerry
This is BAD NEWS for Justin Trudeau Why the WEF should matter to Canadians

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Length

4 minutes

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185.87

Word count

764

Sentence count

39

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Day four of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland is by far the coldest of all the days so far this week, which makes it all the more curious how the global elite speaking here at the Davos Congress Center are leaning into a true, unfettered global warming alarmism.

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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. 0.99
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.