Coronavirus turns from a worry to a panic, and Canada's stock market crashes more than it has in more than 30 years. Meanwhile, a cruise ship carrying 237 Canadian passengers finally docks in San Francisco, and the government tells all Canadians not to go on a cruise.
00:05:16.360I've been tipped off by the two gentlemen behind me, Nasser Pouli and Sean Zada, that many of the people on this flight are from the number two hotspot in the world for the coronavirus.
00:10:12.760The prime minister will participate in an after-school STEM, that's science, technology, engineering, math workshop, for girls, hosted by Actua.
00:10:29.280All to prove how feminist our male feminist, super feminist is, because I guess that's the most important thing going on in the country right now, isn't it?
00:10:38.700I'm sure it's important to have girls in math, but maybe that's not actually the constitutional responsibility of the prime minister in the midst of one, two, three crises.
00:10:47.620Look, I don't know what the whole answer is to coronavirus.
00:10:51.940Here's something Trump tweeted this morning.
00:10:54.660He said, so last year, 37,000 Americans died from the common flu.
00:10:58.420It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year.
00:14:27.080We don't quite know and we might not know till it's over.
00:14:29.960But one thing we do know right now is that coronavirus, a virus that kills people, is being hailed as an ally of the environmental movement and a punishment for evil mankind that's not doing our bit to fight global warming as if this virus was in any way linked to it.
00:14:53.640I see that former United Nations UN climate chief, Christina Figueres, says that not only will the virus cull people, but it'll mean less trade, less travel, less commerce, less emissions.
00:15:07.220And in the prestigious Times of London newspaper, there's a headline written by Ed Conway, coronavirus can trigger a new industrial revolution.
00:15:18.240The disease could be the shock we need to harness new technology and new ways of working.
00:15:24.440The environmentalist left loves this virus.
00:15:29.700And joining us now via Skype from his home studio is our friend Mark Moreno, the CEO of Climate Depot, where I first saw the story about the UN climate chief.
00:15:55.940If you're part of the environmental left and the activist that started in the 1960s with Paul Ehrlich's overpopulation bomb, he wanted to put in sterilization agents in the water to affect the masses so that they couldn't reproduce.
00:16:10.640You have people like Hans Schulenhuber, by the way, who appears in my sequel, Climate Hustle 2, coming out, an exclusive interview.
00:16:17.620He wanted a CO2 footprint for every man, woman and child on the planet.
00:16:21.100And he also said the carrying capacity of the Earth is roughly 1 billion people.
00:16:26.320Now, this is a top UN advisor, the EU advisor, German climate advisor, saying that basically we should eliminate 6 to 7 billion people that they're hurting the Earth.
00:16:36.060So it's no surprise now that when the coronavirus is hitting, you have, again, like you said, respectable, and I use quotes because they're respectable by the mainstream media.
00:16:47.040We have Christina Figueres, as you mentioned.
00:16:49.420We have an astrophysicist writing on his blog that essentially he's celebrating the benefits of coronavirus, and he calls it, quote, fantastic to the environment.
00:17:00.660We have The Week magazine, which is a mainstream media publication, openly talking about the coronavirus is positive for the environment and that this is going to be a significant reduction in our carbon footprint.
00:17:16.000So these are people that are looking at the coronavirus as a wonderful thing that's an opportunity.
00:17:21.660And they're actually, in many cases, jealous, Ezra.
00:17:24.920They're jealous that climate activists couldn't mobilize this kind of reaction.
00:17:31.560You know, you and I have discussed in the past how it's simply junk science when climate extremists say there's more tornadoes, there's more hurricanes because of global warming.
00:18:47.080No, and what it shows is that the climate activists, the UN and others, are willing to just say, hey, if it's bad, global warming is going to cause more of it.
00:18:56.740You know, they're not going to mention, first of all, any potential benefits, even if you buy the science of CO2 driving climate, which you shouldn't.
00:19:02.960But even if you accept it, they're not going to ever highlight the greening of the earth, the desert shrinking, great for plants, animals, food production.
00:19:11.500They're just never going to mention that.
00:19:13.400But what they are is if it's bad, it's climate.
00:19:23.320The climate science community – again, I'm using a lot of quotes here today – the climate science community has predicted more malaria, less malaria, more dengue fever, less dengue fever, and a whole host of issues.
00:19:35.140So, by the way, no matter what happens, they're right.
00:19:37.860But number two is they don't even know themselves.
00:19:40.200Because especially with something like corona, if the world were to actually warm up right now, they're saying in warmer tropics, there's not even any outbreak.
00:19:48.100We don't even know – like the southern hemisphere doesn't have any outbreak.
00:19:51.420Warm weather is not friendly to these types of viruses.
00:20:53.320He is – these are all the things that – I mean, you say, oh, I'm not saying this, but let me just say it and pretend someone else is saying it.
00:21:01.160That's his lead sentence in the Times.
00:22:41.380Living under a quarantined viral virus hysteria is how the climate activists envision the future living under a climate emergency hysteria.
00:22:54.200If you like life under coronavirus fears and government action, then you'll love life under the climate agenda.
00:23:01.000Yeah, you know, on the one hand, I recall the Y2K panic that didn't come through and various other panics along the way.
00:23:10.900On the other hand, I see what's happening in China, I think, but I actually don't know what's happening in China.
00:23:17.300I see videotapes mainly of government brutality, not actually of the health situation.
00:23:24.060I think part of the problem is we don't know what the real facts are.
00:23:28.060I find it odd that Italy has put more than 10 million people under quarantine because Italy has a pretty free press and a fairly liberal democracy.
00:23:43.280I mean, on the one hand, I don't want to be foolish.
00:23:47.420I remember when we interviewed a climate, a statistical hydrologist about the likelihood of once-in-a-century floods and how it makes sense to have insurance and how, you know, it makes sense to spend some money on an unlikely outcome.
00:24:09.800You know, his advice was just have an M-16 and a bucket full of bullets in your attic.
00:24:53.660And I think they're still sorting all that out.
00:24:55.340It's hard when a virus started in China and, you know, they have a poor health care system to begin with, poor statistical reporting.
00:25:02.660So I think what's happened here is as this virus unfolds the next few weeks, we will get a very clear picture.
00:25:09.300And I think it's always sensible to do the normal things like washing your hands and, you know, avoiding contact with someone who has it.
00:25:16.360But I think ultimately government cannot stop the virus.
00:25:19.500They might be able to slow it a little, but I think coronavirus is here, same way SARS is here and the swine flu, all the previous viral scares that we've had.
00:25:28.120The question remains you have to let it play out and see how bad it's going to be.
00:25:31.980But I think the larger issue again here, and at one point I wanted to make, Ezra, is them talking about the economic slowdown and how good that's going to be for the climate from coronavirus, the economic slowdown and the emissions.
00:25:44.960It goes back to the climate activists, and these are all the U.N. conferences.
00:25:49.020These are the climate activists like Kevin Anderson and other degrowth activists in the climate community.
00:25:56.180And they actually call for planned recessions to fight global warming.
00:26:01.060They've been calling for this for years, and it's in my movie, Climate Hustle 2.
00:26:04.760They actually go through and we talk about the whole degrowth movement.
00:26:07.600Well, what is the coronavirus reaction but a planned recession and a degrowth movement?
00:26:12.940What is the Green New Deal but a planned recession?
00:26:15.500So this is one of the greatest things to fall into the laps of the climate activists in a long time because they're getting people used to the idea of government essentially shutting down the economy when faced with an emergency.
00:26:29.540And in this case, it's viral, but in the case of the activists, they want us to believe in the climate emergency, and they are just lusting for the powers, the strings that can manipulate the government powers to enforce this climate emergency reaction upon the public.
00:26:48.720We don't have all the facts about the virus yet, but one thing we do know with perfect certainty is that the global warming activists are using it as an opportunity.
00:26:56.140I can – it's only a matter of time before St. Greta starts blessing us to rid us of this evil.