Louder with Crowder - April 14, 2015


Fracking Is a Miracle || Louder With Crowder


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Anne McElhenney joins me on the show to talk about her new film, Frack Nation, and why she thinks fracking is a miracle. She's also the creator of GosnellMovie, the most successful Indiegogo campaign to date about the crazy abortion doctor.

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00:00:00.000 I used to have all those default positions that people have.
00:00:03.000 Big oil companies are evil.
00:00:06.000 McDonald's is evil. 0.94
00:00:07.000 Starbucks is somehow something bad.
00:00:12.000 It's kind of a lazy position to have if you're concentrating a lot on drinking beer and partying.
00:00:19.000 It's kind of like, fine, I'll go along with all that and save the whale and whatever.
00:00:22.000 I don't want to wear the sandals or get facial hair.
00:00:27.000 So glad to have this next guest here on Ladder with Crowder.
00:00:30.000 When I've sub-hosted other shows, I've always had this lady on. 0.99
00:00:35.000 One of the creators of the GoFundMe campaign, actually creators for the film, GosnellMovie.com, the most successful Indiegogo, independently funded film ever, of course, about the crazy abortion doctor, has done so much good work on the side of climate change.
00:00:49.000 Frack Nation is a film I highly recommend you watch.
00:00:52.000 Thrilled to have Anne McElhenney.
00:00:55.000 Did I get that right on the program?
00:00:57.000 Brilliant.
00:00:57.000 Yes, and it's great to be here.
00:00:58.000 Thanks a million, Stephen.
00:01:00.000 We're so glad to have you on.
00:01:02.000 And so what's funny is what started this was I got an email.
00:01:05.000 So let's start with this.
00:01:07.000 You did Frack Nation, of course, which is a rebuttal to Gasland. 0.60
00:01:10.000 For those who are listening terrestrially, go to loudearthcrowder.com.
00:01:13.000 We'll have the links watching on YouTube.
00:01:15.000 We'll have an annotation, a propaganda film.
00:01:17.000 You did Frack Nation. 1.00
00:01:18.000 And I sent you this link that someone sent me of a guy in front of a city or state legislature daring them to drink...
00:01:27.000 Fracking solution water, but it's a gimmick that caught a bunch of traction with the left.
00:01:31.000 And I knew it was BS, so I figured you could give me a clear answer.
00:01:34.000 Let's start off with that.
00:01:36.000 You know, one of the things, I talk to groups about fracking all the time, and I go around the country, and one of my kind of schticks is, who are these people?
00:01:45.000 Who are these anti-frackers, you know?
00:01:48.000 I'll tell you who they are, Stephen.
00:01:49.000 These are people who lied about breast cancer.
00:01:53.000 So this is the kind of person we're dealing with here.
00:02:12.000 You know something?
00:02:13.000 When people start mentioning breast cancer or cancer in general, we're all kind of, all the laughs are done.
00:02:18.000 We're all very serious.
00:02:19.000 None of us have escaped it.
00:02:20.000 None of us haven't got a family member who has died because of cancer.
00:02:23.000 And guess who these people are?
00:02:25.000 That guy, you know who he's part of?
00:02:27.000 He's part of people who lied about that.
00:02:29.000 And it's not an opinion.
00:02:30.000 This is the Texas Cancer Registry said it's nonsense.
00:02:33.000 There is no evidence of that.
00:02:35.000 There is no spike in breast cancer in the Fort Worth area.
00:02:39.000 And this is who these people are.
00:02:40.000 This is what they do.
00:02:41.000 And I mean, we make a bit of a laugh about it because every day they accuse fracking of doing something else.
00:02:47.000 You know, I've got eczema.
00:02:48.000 My husband doesn't fancy me.
00:02:50.000 The donkey died.
00:02:51.000 The donkey didn't die. 0.97
00:02:52.000 I wish the donkey would die. 0.89
00:02:54.000 You know, I've got a funny itch. 0.98
00:02:56.000 I've got a funny this.
00:02:57.000 But then they're kind of funny, serious about it.
00:02:59.000 And they say things like cancer. 0.99
00:03:00.000 These are liars. 1.00
00:03:01.000 These are bad people. 1.00
00:03:03.000 Here's the truth.
00:03:04.000 Fracking is a miracle.
00:03:06.000 You know, isn't it just extraordinary?
00:03:08.000 You know, like, you know, what do we need?
00:03:09.000 We really need energy and the absence of it is death.
00:03:12.000 And guess what?
00:03:13.000 We're not doing death, Stephen.
00:03:14.000 We're not wanting death.
00:03:15.000 Who wants that? 1.00
00:03:16.000 You know, in places where they live an organic lifestyle and have no energy, people live to be 40 if they're lucky.
00:03:22.000 So, you know, my father died at 95.
00:03:24.000 I think energy is a great thing and we want more of it and reliable energy.
00:03:28.000 Solar panels are great.
00:03:29.000 Wind, great.
00:03:30.000 I'm all in favor of all of it.
00:03:32.000 It just doesn't work right now.
00:03:34.000 So in the meantime, when we've got our children in hospitals, we want reliable energy.
00:03:39.000 And, you know, we're going to get that from oil and gas.
00:03:42.000 And coal, by the way.
00:03:42.000 It's as simple as that.
00:03:43.000 So I'm all for that.
00:03:45.000 But I wish the people who are against fracking would just be honest, just tell the truth.
00:03:49.000 And it's really disturbing to find that they would lie on something like breast cancer.
00:03:54.000 Real quick.
00:03:55.000 You have been paid by Big Oil, correct?
00:03:58.000 Yeah.
00:03:58.000 Yes.
00:03:59.000 All the people who paid me, you can find them.
00:04:01.000 You can look at them and find their names.
00:04:04.000 We did a crowdfunding campaign for Frack Nation.
00:04:07.000 We got over almost a quarter, more than a quarter of a million dollars, I think, from about 3,000 people and all their names are there.
00:04:14.000 So you can look them all up.
00:04:16.000 Ordinary people from around the country and around the world, 26 countries, I think it is, that contributed.
00:04:21.000 Regular folk, that's who made the film and we're so grateful to them.
00:04:24.000 For doing that.
00:04:25.000 And it's an incredible film, by the way.
00:04:26.000 I mean, it's one of those films where...
00:04:28.000 I mean, you know, with shows and promos and your husband is such a sweet guy.
00:04:31.000 I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:33.000 And I had seen it at all the CPACs, but not the full thing.
00:04:36.000 And then when I finally sat down and watched the whole film, I called him right away.
00:04:41.000 I said, Philip, you have to tell me how I can help with it.
00:04:43.000 This is unreal.
00:04:44.000 My wife watched it all the way through and she usually gets bored to tears with these things. 0.99
00:04:49.000 It's one of those deals where you guys don't just do the sting.
00:04:52.000 You know, the, oh, we got you.
00:04:54.000 You actually educate the audience and really get to the bottom of the issue with fracking, which is jobs, saving lives, basically a death sentence for people in third world countries. 1.00
00:04:54.000 You look stupid. 1.00
00:05:05.000 Now, your transition was interesting. 1.00
00:05:07.000 A lot of people don't know this.
00:05:08.000 You weren't always this way.
00:05:10.000 Tell our listeners who might not know how you came to be on this path.
00:05:14.000 I like to say to people, you know, I used to be a liberal, but I'm okay now.
00:05:18.000 um So I used to, I mean, I used to have all those default positions that people have, you know, big oil companies are evil, you know, McDonald's is evil, Starbucks are somehow something bad, you know.
00:05:31.000 And, you know, it's kind of a lazy situation.
00:05:34.000 It's kind of a lazy position to have if you're concentrating a lot on drinking beer and partying, you know, and it's kind of like, fine, I'll go along with all that and save the whale and whatever.
00:05:43.000 I don't want to wear the sandals or get facial hair.
00:05:46.000 But, you know, I kind of was that kind of person.
00:05:48.000 And then, you know, I was living in Romania.
00:05:51.000 My husband was a correspondent for the Financial Times, and I was a freelance journalist just doing whatever stories would come up.
00:05:57.000 And a story came up about a gold mine in Transylvania, you know, which actually exists.
00:06:02.000 And yes, Dracula did live there for a time.
00:06:05.000 And, you know, we went up to cover the story.
00:06:07.000 And we had the story written before we went there.
00:06:10.000 We had it written in our heads, you know.
00:06:11.000 Obviously, evil gold mining company, Canadian evil gold mining company, innocent locals, innocent natives being taken advantage of.
00:06:21.000 And it was just one of those really weird things where we just started asking people questions.
00:06:24.000 And we spoke to the people from Greenpeace.
00:06:26.000 We spoke to the locals. 0.98
00:06:27.000 We spoke to the evil Canadians. 1.00
00:06:29.000 And found out that the story that was being reported by the BBC, by the New York Times, by CNN, it was nonsense. 0.84
00:06:37.000 First of all, the locals loved the mine.
00:06:40.000 The mine had surpassed all standards for environmental rules.
00:06:46.000 Everyone was in favour of it, except for two foreigners, foreign environmentalists. 0.98
00:06:50.000 And the locals, basically, the village was dying without the mine.
00:06:53.000 And I went up a mountain one way and I came down another.
00:06:57.000 And the moment that really galvanised me was I met an 86-year-old woman Who was living, who had come to visit a model house that the Canadians had built and said, look, if you give us your house, you can live in a house like this.
00:07:08.000 And she was crying and she said, and I thought, oh, here's our story.
00:07:11.000 Here's the woman who's being abused by the Canadians. 1.00
00:07:13.000 We've got to go break real quick, so go ahead.
00:07:14.000 What's your problem?
00:07:15.000 I said, why are you crying?
00:07:16.000 And she said, I hope I live long enough to live in a house like this.
00:07:19.000 She didn't, because of two foreign environmentalists. 0.80
00:07:22.000 Heartbreaking, but we'll bring you back and then we'll have a laugh on something else.
00:07:26.000 Ann McElhinney, a louder with Crowder.
00:07:28.000 So glad to have Miss Ann McElhinney back.
00:07:30.000 Gosnellmovie.com.
00:07:31.000 Please go donate.
00:07:32.000 They do great work.
00:07:33.000 We were talking during the break.
00:07:34.000 My wife was calling.
00:07:35.000 My phone was blowing up.
00:07:36.000 If you heard it on air, our dog is a little bit sick.
00:07:39.000 And it's actually a dog who's banned, a breed that is banned over there in the UK. I'm not a big fan of those breed bans.
00:07:47.000 I'm terrible.
00:07:48.000 I don't know much about dogs.
00:07:50.000 I'd like to have one when I grow up.
00:07:53.000 Well, he's a doggo Argentino, and so they look at him and they think he's, you know, like a pit bull had a baby with a nightmare.
00:07:59.000 He's just huge. 0.90
00:08:00.000 But they actually send them out.
00:08:01.000 They hunt in packs with dogs.
00:08:03.000 So they're not bred for fighting at all.
00:08:04.000 They're actually very, very dog-friendly, very people-obedient, but very animal-aggressive, like cats or squirrels.
00:08:10.000 He just cannot stand.
00:08:12.000 But otherwise, he's the gentlest dog going and can't have one of them in the UK. Again, because government doesn't get the full story, they decide we're going to breed bans, ban breeds.
00:08:21.000 So before you left, okay, we were talking about Frack Nation. 0.96
00:08:24.000 You gave us some information that's important, but I wanted to talk about this one specific video that's circulating, where this guy goes in front of some municipal legislature and says, hey, do you guys want to drink this fracking water?
00:08:34.000 So I thought, oh, okay, here's some proof that fracking contaminates water.
00:08:37.000 He's just going to pour some water from his faucet and tell them to drink it.
00:08:40.000 Because everyone was sending this like wildfire.
00:08:42.000 That's the title.
00:08:43.000 People, you know, city officials or state officials won't drink fracking water.
00:08:47.000 But what he does is he takes a cup of perfectly good water and then adds a bunch of chemicals into the water, mixes it up and goes, huh?
00:08:53.000 Huh?
00:08:54.000 Will you drink that?
00:08:54.000 Will you drink that?
00:08:55.000 I don't exactly know why that's BS. I'm pretty sure that's not how fracking works.
00:09:00.000 And correct me.
00:09:02.000 I mean, the fracking fluid is 99% water.
00:09:02.000 Yeah.
00:09:06.000 Then there's a percentage of sand, basically a corrosive, so that they can, you know, so when they're doing this fracking, which is putting this liquid at a very high pressure down into the earth, that it can actually, you know, corrode and make, you know, release the hydrocarbons.
00:09:20.000 And there are chemicals.
00:09:21.000 There are chemicals, by the way, in the fracking fluid.
00:09:24.000 You know, water itself, of course, is a chemical that not a lot of people know about.
00:09:27.000 And And there are chemicals.
00:09:29.000 A lot of the chemicals that are in fracking fluid are the kind of things that you'd find under your kitchen sink and you're not that alarmed about.
00:09:36.000 You know, there's things like this guar, which is an element that's used in ice cream making, actually.
00:09:42.000 Yeah, protein powders and stuff like that, too.
00:09:45.000 It's like a filler.
00:09:46.000 And, you know, if you were to eat any of those elements, you know, a massive, massive quantity of them and eat nothing else over time, yeah, you probably would get cancer.
00:09:46.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:09:56.000 So they call them carcinogenic.
00:09:58.000 But they're a tiny, tiny, the amount of them is so tiny that it couldn't do any damage.
00:10:03.000 I mean, there are carcinogens in cabbage.
00:10:05.000 But those kind of stunts, by the way, those stunts of having this liquid and saying, oh my God, would you drink this?
00:10:11.000 It's just very cheap and it's theatrical.
00:10:14.000 It makes good press, but it's not honest.
00:10:16.000 This is not honest.
00:10:17.000 And I don't understand why people don't have an honest conversation about this when we do need energy.
00:10:21.000 Right, we do need energy.
00:10:22.000 Well, let me ask you this.
00:10:24.000 I want the environment to be clean.
00:10:26.000 I don't think we should be tossing all of our McDonald's cups out the window.
00:10:31.000 How would the cleanliness of energy from, say, fracking compare to the cleanliness of energy extracted in oil fields, let's say, in Saudi Arabia, then transported to the United States?
00:10:44.000 Yeah, well, I mean, obviously, there's a pretty big carbon footprint in that, actually, if you're going to be transporting that all the way from Saudi Arabia.
00:10:50.000 You know, the standards here, the environmental laws that exist here in the United States far surpass any other country in the world and certainly would surpass Saudi Arabia's environmental standards.
00:11:00.000 So I don't understand why we're not going for our own energy source, which is local, organic.
00:11:06.000 It's right here under the ground.
00:11:08.000 Why aren't we using our own energy?
00:11:10.000 I can't understand it yet.
00:11:11.000 And we have used it successfully.
00:11:12.000 And it's even funny here in California.
00:11:14.000 You walk on a beach in Santa Barbara and your feet go black and it's not pollution.
00:11:18.000 That's how much oil is just seeping up through the sand.
00:11:21.000 We're meant to be using this.
00:11:23.000 Really?
00:11:24.000 Now, is that true?
00:11:25.000 Am I going to go?
00:11:26.000 I'll tell you one thing.
00:11:27.000 I'll tell you how weird it is, Stephen.
00:11:28.000 I thought this was the funniest.
00:11:30.000 I was asked to make a speech in Santa Barbara, and they put me in a very nice hotel.
00:11:34.000 Thank you very much.
00:11:35.000 Well, there are no bad hotels in Santa Barbara.
00:11:37.000 No, no, actually, you're right.
00:11:38.000 In the bathroom, I found a thing that I've never seen in any bathroom anywhere in the world.
00:11:42.000 They have a little thing in a packet, and you open it, and it's for tar removal.
00:11:48.000 To help you remove the tar from your feet when you've walked on the sand because your feet will be black and it's really hard to get it off.
00:11:55.000 You know, it's funny that you mention that because I remember when I was a kid, it might have been the 5th or 6th grade, I had to do some project.
00:12:01.000 This was in Canada, of course, on saving the tar sands.
00:12:05.000 And I didn't think anything of it and so I wrote about the reason to save the tar sands.
00:12:08.000 And then I remember thinking when I was in high school, I was about 15 or 16 thinking, Why the hell do I care about the tar sands?
00:12:16.000 I mean, I get, you know, save the weeping willows, save the, you know, the endangered German short-haired sparrow.
00:12:16.000 They're tar sands.
00:12:23.000 I don't know.
00:12:23.000 I'm making up terms.
00:12:24.000 I was going, the tar sands, it would seem to me that a tar sand would exist for no other purpose if not to extract tar.
00:12:32.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:12:33.000 But also, by the way, it's not the tar sands.
00:12:35.000 They're called the oil sands.
00:12:36.000 But environmentalists like to misname things as well, just to try and make people get very alarmed.
00:12:41.000 Well, we did say tar sands, though.
00:12:43.000 I don't think I'm...
00:12:44.000 So are you saying that's...
00:12:45.000 That's what the environmentalists say.
00:12:45.000 No, they all say...
00:12:47.000 The environmental movement calls them tar sands.
00:12:49.000 Okay.
00:12:50.000 But people in the oil and gas business call them oil sands.
00:12:52.000 And it's marvellous.
00:12:53.000 God, Canada, how great that our nearest neighbour, who don't behead women funny enough, who don't stone women funny enough, that those people would have this incredible supply of oil.
00:13:05.000 Yay! 0.99
00:13:06.000 Isn't that great?
00:13:07.000 And they allow women to drive cars and everything in Canada. 0.99
00:13:11.000 That's how weird those Canadians are. 1.00
00:13:12.000 So I think getting oil from them is a great idea, you know.
00:13:15.000 Yeah, no, I think you're right.
00:13:17.000 I mean, I don't – here's the truth and I've always talked about this.
00:13:20.000 When people say the United States is an evil English empire, I say, OK, I'm from Canada.
00:13:24.000 The fact that a country like Canada, one of the biggest countries geographically – I think it is the biggest next to China – in the world, one of the most rich in natural resources – I think?
00:13:51.000 By two o'clock, Canada's America. 0.89
00:13:54.000 I never heard anyone say that.
00:13:54.000 That's very good.
00:13:55.000 That really makes sense.
00:13:57.000 God, the Canadians are lucky.
00:13:58.000 The other place that's very lucky is Australia.
00:14:01.000 Australia and Canada have a lot in common.
00:14:01.000 It's true.
00:14:03.000 Very, very rich countries with very tiny populations. 0.94
00:14:05.000 Yes, except Australia has all the rapists, so they've got to...
00:14:08.000 I mean, when you're starting off with the civilization of...
00:14:12.000 I'm sorry.
00:14:13.000 I'm sorry to the Australian listeners.
00:14:15.000 We get so many Australians.
00:14:16.000 I will say this.
00:14:16.000 It's the one place where you don't get this rampant anti-American sentiment that you get with a lot of places either in Europe or...
00:14:23.000 They're my people.
00:14:26.000 Are they your people?
00:14:27.000 Have they been really accepting?
00:14:28.000 Have you noticed of your message and things like recognition?
00:14:30.000 They just love us.
00:14:31.000 They so love us in Ireland.
00:14:32.000 It's frightening.
00:14:33.000 Not.
00:14:34.000 Not at all.
00:14:35.000 It's quite weird.
00:14:37.000 I've had some very super aggressive correspondence with people from Ireland, I have to say. 1.00
00:14:41.000 Thank you.
00:14:42.000 What is it about the Irish that they don't like you?
00:14:45.000 I mean, they seem to really embrace their own.
00:14:49.000 If an Irish person makes it in the States, they tend to reclaim them as their own, yet they seem to not be doing that with you, no offense.
00:14:55.000 Well, I think it's a liberal issue rather than anything else.
00:14:59.000 I think if I was singing their tune, they'd like me a lot, but I'm not singing their tune.
00:15:05.000 So it's a bit aggressive.
00:15:07.000 Well, let me ask you this with the Irish.
00:15:09.000 Are there any actual conservatives...
00:15:12.000 Yes, there are.
00:15:14.000 But it's a small minority.
00:15:14.000 Yes, there are.
00:15:15.000 Well, certainly, sorry, that's not right.
00:15:17.000 There obviously are lots of conservatives in Ireland, but they're not represented at all in the media.
00:15:21.000 And the media is predominantly, like more than predominantly liberal.
00:15:24.000 So people don't even get to hear another story.
00:15:27.000 They just get a very biased version of the news.
00:15:31.000 Right.
00:15:31.000 And it's very restricted.
00:15:33.000 It's very restricted what they get access to.
00:15:35.000 It makes me realize how incredible talk radio is here, how amazing that is, that people have these options and the fact that Fox News exists here.
00:15:43.000 It's quite amazing because otherwise people are stuck with this version of the world of ABC, NBC, CBS and whatever they say just goes and that's the only thing that anyone ever hears about.
00:15:56.000 But the internet has done something very wonderful about that.
00:15:58.000 That's absolutely true.
00:16:00.000 Well, hey, if we were still back in those days, people would believe that Brian Williams was shot down in a helicopter.
00:16:04.000 Oh, I just love Brian Williams.
00:16:06.000 I'm so happy about Brian Williams.
00:16:07.000 I just love, and I love the idea that somebody called Super Mexican, that Super Mexican, who I gave a shout out to the other day, like Super Mexican really brought down Brian Williams. 0.82
00:16:16.000 And Brian Williams, the beautiful irony of this is that Brian Williams was very disparaging of people like Super Mexican, who he described as Vinny, Vinny in a bathrobe, in a sad bathrobe, in an apartment in the Bronx.
00:16:33.000 And he had this whole thing about people, these awful people on Twitter and on social media.
00:16:38.000 Yeah, guess what, Brian Williams?
00:16:40.000 Those people in their bathrobes took away your $10 million a year job because they did a better job of investigating journalism than you could do or than anyone else could do.
00:16:50.000 That's a really good point.
00:16:51.000 And do you feel like it's the same thing, I guess, sort of in reverse with the environmentalism, where if someone comes out and says what you say, it's as opposed to Vinny in the bathrobe.
00:16:59.000 It's, well, this person is someone who clearly works for Big Pharma, Big Oil, or they're part of the Monsanto crew.
00:17:07.000 Oh, yeah.
00:17:07.000 Do you ever get a little – I mean I've never – the guy from Fract Nation still never actually acknowledged you guys.
00:17:12.000 Not Fract Nation.
00:17:13.000 From Gasland.
00:17:14.000 Right.
00:17:15.000 He still just really wants to avoid it.
00:17:17.000 And I get that sometimes I have certain people who I'm like, I'm not going to debate with them because you can't change minds.
00:17:22.000 But you're both very sensible.
00:17:25.000 Has he tried to do that with you and say that you're paid off by somebody?
00:17:28.000 What's the dynamic there?
00:17:29.000 Well, I think, yeah, I mean, I think that's, you know, if you've got nothing else to say, then that's a, you know, that's a good one.
00:17:34.000 Throw that one at people and see if it'll stick, you know.
00:17:37.000 I mean, yeah, he certainly has tried.
00:17:38.000 I think he has said that.
00:17:40.000 But at this stage, I'm weary with it, you know.
00:17:42.000 I'm weary with these people who live these lives fueled by oil and gas and then denounce oil and gas.
00:17:49.000 He flies around the world, this guy.
00:17:51.000 He makes a big deal about how many countries he travels to.
00:17:54.000 Doesn't he wear big plastic hipster glasses?
00:17:57.000 Totally.
00:17:57.000 Totally.
00:17:58.000 100%.
00:17:58.000 I know.
00:17:59.000 You take away petroleum, that guy, and he'd be left naked with a little leaf on his front, which, yeah, we're not even going there, Stephen.
00:18:05.000 No, I think you'd be looking at more of an acorn.
00:18:07.000 I think at that point, when you've ceased to act like a man for so long that your nether regions just shrivel up and die.
00:18:13.000 I want to get to something here before we go to the break, and we have to have you on for a third segment, but you said something that stuck with me, and I've tweeted it out.
00:18:20.000 I'm not an Oprah soundbite person, but you crystallized something perfectly, and you may not even have remembered it.
00:18:25.000 It was at some college.
00:18:27.000 It wasn't even like a giant crowd.
00:18:28.000 It was something that most people would miss, and some girl was critiquing you. 1.00
00:18:32.000 Temple.
00:18:32.000 Temple in Philadelphia.
00:18:34.000 Okay, there you go.
00:18:35.000 And she mentioned the scientific consensus, and you said something that was brilliant, that science is not governed by consensus.
00:18:43.000 How about you say it?
00:18:44.000 We've got one and a half minutes for you to say this.
00:18:47.000 Yeah, I mean, a lot of the people on the climate alarmist side say things like, it's all settled, it's all done, it's all done.
00:18:54.000 The science is settled, everyone agrees.
00:18:55.000 97% of scientists agree.
00:18:58.000 I said, science has never worked like that.
00:19:02.000 It's never worked by committee.
00:19:04.000 The boiling point of water is not a committee decision.
00:19:06.000 You and I can't get 12 guys together in a room and make an agreement and say things.
00:19:12.000 That's going to be how gravity works from now on.
00:19:14.000 It doesn't work like that.
00:19:16.000 So this idea that a great number of people agreeing on something will affect what the truth is in science, it's utter nonsense.
00:19:22.000 It's not a democracy.
00:19:23.000 Science is not a democracy.
00:19:24.000 Truth is not a democracy.
00:19:26.000 One person saying that the earth is not flat...
00:19:30.000 Was the right guy.
00:19:31.000 The consensus was that the earth was flat.
00:19:34.000 These global warming people are actually aligning themselves with flat earthers by saying that a crowd agrees.
00:19:41.000 I think it's an extraordinary thing.
00:19:42.000 It's not how science advances.
00:19:44.000 And any scientist who speaks about a crowd, he's not a scientist at all.
00:19:49.000 Jeez.
00:19:50.000 Mic drop.
00:19:51.000 You don't even have a microphone.
00:19:52.000 You can't drop your headphones because then you couldn't hear me.
00:19:54.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:55.000 But it's true.
00:19:57.000 I mean, it's just an incredible thing to do.
00:19:59.000 And I remember, oh, you know that amazing writer, the guy who wrote for ER, that beautiful doctor who died of cancer, whose name I won't remember.
00:20:06.000 He said...
00:20:07.000 And then the Gasland guy lied about it.
00:20:09.000 Consensus is the last refuge of scoundrels.
00:20:16.000 On a side note before we go to break, because I realize we don't have enough time to really get into that, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Michael Caine, from your neck of the woods, one of my favorite actors, one of my favorite films, Ladderworth Crowder.