Rebel News Podcast - Mayor of Regina de-platformed Dr. Patrick Moore, so we're hosting our own event to re-platform him

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I have some great news for you today.

00:00:02.720 You know, we have bad news from time to time, so let us celebrate the good news.

00:00:06.300 The good news is, after Dr. Patrick Moore was canceled, deplatformed, fired, and disrespected

00:00:15.000 by the city of Regina by being canceled from the conference,

00:00:19.960 well, I called him up and I said, let's have a speech from you that we sponsor.

00:00:24.200 Well, let me tell you how amazingly that has gone in the few hours that it's been public.

00:00:31.200 I can't believe it. I'm so encouraged by it.

00:00:34.460 I got good news for you today. And we talked to Dr. Moore also.

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00:01:07.520 You're listening to our latest podcast.

00:01:09.740 Tonight, the mayor of Regina deplatformed Dr. Patrick Moore, banning him from speaking at a conference.

00:01:24.720 Well, today we're replatforming him.

00:01:27.460 It's February 12th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:30.000 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:35.840 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:39.920 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:45.760 We did a show on this the other day.

00:01:52.900 The city of Regina, Saskatchewan, was holding some talk shop, blah, blah, blah, conference, government conference.

00:01:59.160 And they had 45 speakers.

00:02:01.520 And some of the speakers are excellent, by the way.

00:02:03.800 And our friend, Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, was one of the keynote speakers.

00:02:11.460 He's famous because he has such amazing bona fides as a true environmentalist,

00:02:16.460 but he's a skeptic about the left-wing politics and some of the crazy anti-science BS of the modern eco-movement.

00:02:24.400 So he's more nuanced.

00:02:25.880 He doesn't believe carbon dioxide is bad, for example.

00:02:28.420 He makes his case, scientifically.

00:02:30.960 But apparently having one voice out of 45 that's skeptical of the theory of man-made global warming was just too much.

00:02:38.440 The people who were supposed to defend freedom of speech in society did not.

00:02:43.020 The media was the worst.

00:02:44.520 Here's the local paper, the Regina Leader Post.

00:02:47.200 They called Moore a climate denier.

00:02:50.780 Obviously, the CBC ginned up fake opposition to Dr. Moore.

00:02:55.520 CBC's the worst.

00:02:56.300 They don't allow anyone on their network who is skeptical of the theory of man-made global warming.

00:03:01.840 They just ban them, total ban, total censorship.

00:03:05.740 And, of course, they were outraged that one out of 45 speakers at the conference would be a dissident voice

00:03:11.140 because they don't even allow one out of 45 voices on their own CBC to be a dissident.

00:03:16.580 So they whipped up a mob.

00:03:18.560 So the media believed in censorship, and so did professors. 0.89

00:03:22.900 Super gross.

00:03:23.800 Professors were outraged that Dr. Moore, a PhD in ecology, is being allowed to speak.

00:03:32.540 How unscientific, unscholarly, anti-intellectual is that?

00:03:37.100 Imagine being a student at the university in Regina and having that woman as your professor. 0.97

00:03:42.340 And no one is more cowardly than a politician, of course. 0.91

00:03:45.800 That's sort of a tautology. 0.72

00:03:48.580 And Regina's mayor was the worst, caving in and firing Dr. Moore.

00:03:54.660 And as cowardly politicians usually do, he waited until Friday afternoon to announce his embarrassing news that he de-platformed a scientist.

00:04:07.880 Knowing that most reporters had gone home for Friday night and wouldn't be working on the weekend so the story would die. 0.98

00:04:13.720 What a coward the mayor of Regina is. 1.00

00:04:17.080 What a bully. 1.00

00:04:18.220 Censoring and silencing scientists. 0.97

00:04:21.100 But the whole lot of them.

00:04:21.980 The media party.

00:04:23.200 Academia.

00:04:23.820 The politicians.

00:04:25.540 And that was that.

00:04:27.100 Huge victory for the censors.

00:04:29.320 Aha! 0.94

00:04:30.140 Dr. Moore is no longer polite company.

00:04:32.900 He's no longer acceptable on the spectrum of ideas.

00:04:36.200 He's no longer part of the debate.

00:04:38.020 He's fringe now.

00:04:39.460 He should be quiet.

00:04:40.500 He should hide.

00:04:41.100 He should accept his marginalization.

00:04:44.780 After all, everyone who's anyone accepted that, demanded that.

00:04:50.400 Everyone except the people of Regina were actually curious about what Dr. Moore has to say.

00:04:58.980 And if so many odious people want him censored, well that made them all the more curious.

00:05:04.300 Curious and furious.

00:05:06.500 Who the hell's the mayor? 0.98

00:05:07.360 Who the hell's some loser journalist, some nameless, faceless professor, to say Dr. Moore, a PhD in ecology, can't speak about the environment? 0.96

00:05:15.860 I mean, you tell me that I'm not allowed to hear someone speak, all of a sudden I'm really interested in hearing them speak. 0.94

00:05:21.380 It's like when Justin Trudeau's Election Cops came after my book, The Libranos.

00:05:25.520 I should tell you that I've actually sold more copies of that book in the last two weeks than I did during the election campaign itself.

00:05:34.340 My book finally hit number one on the Amazon.ca bestseller list.

00:05:38.500 It had never gone higher than number two before.

00:05:41.680 And this happened because people don't want to let Justin Trudeau decide what they can or can't read about Justin Trudeau.

00:05:47.240 And in fact, if Justin Trudeau orders them not to read a book, there must be some really good reading in there.

00:05:51.860 Same thing with Dr. Moore.

00:05:54.260 If all these left-wing whiners really don't want you to hear what Dr. Moore has to say,

00:06:01.200 sounds like he has some powerful truths to tell.

00:06:05.460 Aren't you more curious now?

00:06:08.340 So it was Friday night when I heard the news and I phoned Dr. Moore, talked to him about it for a bit,

00:06:15.660 and I offered to replatform him.

00:06:18.580 First of all, I told him that we would pay him, and I don't think it's a secret, his full $10,000 fee.

00:06:27.300 Absolutely.

00:06:28.520 Because he's worth it. 0.96

00:06:30.300 Just because the losers in Regina want to diminish him and disrespect him, and they want to shrink him. 0.96

00:06:38.180 No, no, no. 0.97

00:06:38.780 I don't accept that.

00:06:39.580 I don't accept that he's worth less.

00:06:40.960 In fact, I think he's worth more.

00:06:42.540 All the buzz, people want to hear him.

00:06:44.120 I didn't want to imply that I was offering him a replatformed speaking gig because he was damaged goods,

00:06:50.920 and I was seeking a bargain.

00:06:53.060 No, no, no.

00:06:54.200 The first thing I said was, let me pay you your full fee.

00:06:57.500 And then I said, let's have it at a big forum where the most people can attend.

00:07:06.180 And instead of charging $300 a ticket like the city's boring conference, let's make this one affordable.

00:07:13.680 $25 a ticket if we can keep it that low and afford the venue.

00:07:17.340 But it was Friday night when I was talking to him, and I told him we should not announce that we were replatforming

00:07:23.900 until we had found a hotel or convention center that would be resistant to continued deplatforming from the mob

00:07:31.080 because they'd be furious if they knew we were replatforming and they'd try and get the new venue to break them.

00:07:37.700 So, on Monday morning, when the hotels and convention centers in Regina, when the sales staff came back to work,

00:07:44.380 we started making phone calls.

00:07:46.120 I've got to tell you, the Delta Hotel refused.

00:07:49.880 The Ramada Hotel refused.

00:07:52.220 Another convention center said they needed to check with senior management, and that would take days.

00:07:57.600 But the Conexus Arts Center said, you bet.

00:08:03.840 That was good.

00:08:04.720 Dr. Jordan Peterson had spoken there a year or two ago, and he was controversial,

00:08:11.020 at least in the eyes of deplatforming leftists and the CBC and other kooks.

00:08:16.280 And the Conexus Arts Center stood firm.

00:08:19.960 So I knew we'd be a good fit if they were cool with Dr. Peterson.

00:08:23.380 But just to be sure, I asked the lovely saleswoman I was dealing with 0.96

00:08:26.700 to confirm with their CEO that they would stand firm against the deplatformers.

00:08:32.940 She checked with them, and she got back to me and said, you bet.

00:08:36.900 They would.

00:08:38.060 They just wanted us to hire some extra security that night.

00:08:40.960 I said, no problem.

00:08:42.180 We probably would have done so anyways.

00:08:44.900 So yesterday, we signed the contract, and I actually paid the entire fee, the rental fee,

00:08:51.840 in full, in advance.

00:08:53.560 Just to make sure that deal was sealed.

00:08:57.980 And we set up a website.

00:09:02.420 ReginaSpeech.com.

00:09:03.880 Really easy to remember.

00:09:04.820 ReginaSpeech.com.

00:09:06.260 $25 for a regular ticket.

00:09:09.640 $100 if you want to come to a fancy wine and cheese reception before the main event.

00:09:15.940 And for people who are really, really enthusiastic or really want to spend some private time

00:09:21.780 with Dr. Moore, we're selling some tickets on that same website to a private dinner right

00:09:26.520 after the speech.

00:09:27.900 So the reception's from 6 to 6.30.

00:09:30.280 The speech is from 6.30 to 8.30, and there's question and answers.

00:09:34.160 And then 8.30 to 10, we're going to have a nice dinner, private dinner with Dr. Moore,

00:09:40.000 and we're selling tickets for those.

00:09:40.980 Those tickets are $500, which is obviously extremely expensive, but we will use that

00:09:47.120 money to help cover the costs of the event, including the security, including flying in

00:09:53.460 Dr. Moore, et cetera.

00:09:55.420 We actually have a few sponsorship opportunities, too, at a higher price point, but my main goal,

00:10:00.340 and this is what I told Dr. Moore, is to have the basic ticket for the two-hour session,

00:10:05.900 the speech and the Q&A session, as cheap as possible, 25 bucks a pop, so maximum people

00:10:12.800 can come in, 25 bucks a pop, compared to the 300 at the government conference.

00:10:16.880 Anyways, we signed our contract last night, and we set up the website, and I tweeted about

00:10:22.860 it, and so did Dr. Moore.

00:10:26.040 I hadn't done an email to our Rebel viewers yet.

00:10:29.580 I hadn't even done a little video about it yet, but I checked, and by early afternoon,

00:10:35.020 we had already sold 450 tickets, 450 in a few hours.

00:10:47.240 In Regina, Saskatchewan, that's a city of about a quarter million people.

00:10:50.660 I couldn't believe it.

00:10:51.500 I can't believe it.

00:10:53.020 By the time you're watching this, we'll probably have 600 tickets sold.

00:10:57.740 I called the venue and asked how big they could go.

00:11:00.400 I was only aiming for 500.

00:11:02.700 They said we could take up their whole theater and the balcony and the balcony above, get

00:11:07.360 a maximum of 2,000 people.

00:11:09.640 Now, I don't want to set that as a goal, because I don't want to, that's almost impossible.

00:11:15.660 Imagine 2,000 people out of a city of, I think Regina's official population is like 240,000 or

00:11:21.580 something.

00:11:22.620 So 2,000 adults, that would be more than 1% of the entire population of adults in the

00:11:27.760 city.

00:11:27.960 It would be like if 25,000 people showed up in Toronto proper, Toronto proper, having

00:11:34.380 about two and a half million souls.

00:11:35.920 The GTA is about 6 million.

00:11:38.780 But I think we might be able to do it.

00:11:41.020 Now, look, I've heard Dr. Moore speak.

00:11:43.300 He's very interesting.

00:11:45.380 His speech will be great.

00:11:46.300 I've seen him speak before, once at Sun News Network, when I was there, we had a cruise

00:11:51.340 and he would say he's great.

00:11:53.520 But I think these people who are buying tickets like crazy, it's partly because Dr. Moore's

00:11:58.820 great.

00:11:59.260 I've seen it.

00:12:00.880 But I think it's more than that. 0.74

00:12:03.460 I think this is a repudiation of all the scolds and bullies and censors and cowards.

00:12:09.940 I think this is a giant middle finger to the entire we-know-better-than-you establishment

00:12:15.640 who want to tell us what to think and what to say and what to watch and who calls, you

00:12:21.800 know, what we can do.

00:12:24.080 And people who call us insulting names if we dare to disagree with them. 0.89

00:12:27.500 Oh, you're a bigot.

00:12:29.740 I think the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people are buying the tickets.

00:12:33.020 We didn't even advertise this.

00:12:34.580 I think it's a repudiation of the entire establishment.

00:12:37.280 Not just the establishment, though, the ideas establishment.

00:12:41.960 You know what I mean by that?

00:12:43.180 Think about it.

00:12:44.000 Media, professors, politicians, they all deal in ideas, right?

00:12:48.820 And debate in their own way.

00:12:50.020 Media, professors, politicians.

00:12:51.700 And all of those elites said, we're closed to ideas and debates except our own narrow point

00:12:58.820 of view. 0.98

00:12:59.420 And the rest of society is saying, to hell with you. 0.91

00:13:03.740 I'd like you to come to this event.

00:13:05.560 It's not till May 19th.

00:13:07.940 So you can make a plan.

00:13:09.100 If you live anywhere near Regina, we're deliberately doing it on May 19th because that's the night

00:13:14.060 before the mayor's official conference from which Dr. Moore was canceled.

00:13:19.220 So we'll have a vastly larger crowd.

00:13:22.300 And all the excitement, right?

00:13:24.080 And the newspapers the next day, when they're starting that boring government conference,

00:13:30.860 the newspapers will all be full of the interesting things that Dr. Moore said.

00:13:35.220 Too bad the mayor's boring conference won't be able to hear Dr. Moore directly, but they

00:13:39.900 banned him.

00:13:40.680 So come to Regina if you can on May 19th.

00:13:44.820 If you're coming in from Calgary or Edmonton or Saskatoon or Winnipeg, or even from further

00:13:50.160 away, consider making an overnight trip out of it.

00:13:54.440 And if you can afford it, come to the reception in advance, or even if you can afford it, the

00:14:01.940 sit down dinner after the speech.

00:14:03.960 I think that's going to be great.

00:14:05.180 I'd love to talk to Dr. Moore after the event.

00:14:07.620 How do you think it went?

00:14:08.460 What do you think of the questions?

00:14:09.780 I think that's going to be amazing.

00:14:12.080 And I'd like to meet the other people there.

00:14:13.660 We have a lot of supporters in Saskatchewan.

00:14:15.840 I think it's going to be like a rebel reunion, really.

00:14:19.480 I believe this is the perfect thing for rebel news to do.

00:14:23.200 Journalistically, it's great.

00:14:24.700 Dr. Moore is one of our favorite thinkers.

00:14:27.020 Politically, it's our way of showing that the censors can't push us around.

00:14:31.580 There's a chance we might even make a little bit of profit off this event.

00:14:35.720 I mean, I never dreamed we would sell this many tickets as quickly.

00:14:39.100 If we actually sold 2,000 tickets, we could actually make a little bit of money off this,

00:14:43.260 which is good, because unlike all the other groups I listed who tried to ban Dr. Moore,

00:14:50.160 the media party, university professors, the mayor, we're the only people who don't live

00:14:56.600 off taxpayers' dollars.

00:14:57.720 So I hope we can make a small profit and maybe do more events like this.

00:15:02.200 But this is a sign that if you show courage just for a moment and have a plan, maybe,

00:15:09.100 other people will come to your aid, maybe even in massive numbers.

00:15:16.200 You know, this is what I tried to say to someone else from Regina named Andrew Scheer.

00:15:22.000 In the last election, I said, if you actually take a risk, actually stand up to the bullies

00:15:26.460 and be yourself and say, to hell with the CBC and the professors and speak plainly and not bend the knee

00:15:33.100 to every bully and censor, people will cheer you and they'll come out in droves.

00:15:39.720 This applies to the theory of man-made global warming.

00:15:42.780 But I think it also applies to things like letting transgender men into girls' sports or girls' locker rooms.

00:15:49.620 How about you speak out again?

00:15:51.700 It applies to mass, unlimited, unvetted immigration.

00:15:55.600 It applies to free speech.

00:15:57.160 Just show some courage and say, to hell with the media party and the opinion elites,

00:16:01.300 and I think the world will join you, at least the grassroots.

00:16:05.680 This is the biggest and most pleasant news I have for you today.

00:16:10.320 Before we even tried to sell a ticket, more than 450 people said that they were with us.

00:16:18.740 I find that very, very hopeful, don't you? 0.99

00:16:22.960 And by the way, I hope that foolish mayor attends. 0.98

00:16:28.500 Maybe he'll learn something. 0.99

00:16:30.800 But he'll have to pay for his own ticket.

00:16:33.980 25 bucks for him. 0.99

00:16:35.780 No freebies from us for cowardly politicians. 0.74

00:16:39.580 50 bucks for the media. 0.60

00:16:41.580 I don't know if you can see that pricing.

00:16:44.620 And $250.

00:16:47.880 Can you see that there?

00:16:49.740 For Al Jazeera, CBC, The Huffington Post, and Vice.

00:16:55.220 All the fake news.

00:16:58.040 250 bucks for them.

00:16:59.560 They can afford it, though.

00:17:01.100 So see you there.

00:17:02.340 If you can, go to reginaspeech.com.

00:17:05.480 Up next, a conversation I had earlier this morning with the man of the hour himself.

00:17:11.180 Well, I was excited when I heard that my friend, Dr. Patrick Moore, was scheduled to speak at a conference in Regina on sustainability.

00:17:31.820 Now, when I hear that word sustainability, it makes me a little bit nervous because that's code for a lot of things I don't like.

00:17:36.960 But in the case of Dr. Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, he thoughtfully works through, well, what does sustainable energy mean?

00:17:45.580 And often that means atomic energy.

00:17:48.440 And that's perfect for Saskatchewan with their uranium reserves.

00:17:51.440 You know, atomic energy is so safe, that whole Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, only one death was attributed to that event.

00:18:01.920 And the reason I mention that is that the scaremongering around nuclear energy is false and disproportionate to the facts.

00:18:10.520 In any event, let the man speak.

00:18:13.720 Dr. Moore was one of 45 speakers scheduled for this Regina conference.

00:18:18.320 But then the media party heard about it, and they can't stand the idea of one dissenting voice, even in a room of 45.

00:18:27.620 So the media and some censorious professors got a bit of an online mob going.

00:18:34.780 And in the end, the mayor of Regina fired Dr. Moore from the conference, deplatforming him, canceling a contract for him to speak.

00:18:47.540 Well, I called up Dr. Moore, and I said, let's have that speech anyways.

00:18:55.160 And yesterday, I'm pleased to say we signed a contract with the Conexus Arts Center, which is a large convention facility in Regina.

00:19:03.960 And they have agreed to host an event on May 19th, on the eve of the city's conference.

00:19:10.780 We've signed the contract.

00:19:12.860 We're going to keep ticket prices very low, 25 bucks ahead.

00:19:16.740 And everyone's invited.

00:19:18.740 We are replatforming Dr. Moore after the deplatforming.

00:19:23.960 And I'm pleased to say that Dr. Moore joins us now via Skype.

00:19:28.560 Great to see you, Dr. Moore.

00:19:29.940 I'm so excited.

00:19:31.020 And thank you for agreeing to speak after all in Regina.

00:19:35.340 I guess you never disagreed.

00:19:36.460 It was the city that disagreed.

00:19:37.960 That's wonderful, Ezra, and I really appreciate your involvement in this and coming in to save the day.

00:19:47.840 I felt a bit bad about being deplatformed.

00:19:50.760 When I really looked into what the subject of the conference was, though, I was sort of happy I didn't have to go to it.

00:19:57.240 Because the objective of this conference is how to make the city of Regina 100% renewable by 2050.

00:20:06.800 So it's just a bunch of virtue signaling as far as I'm concerned.

00:20:10.540 First off, even if you were trying to do it by 2100, it's impossible to make a whole city renewable.

00:20:17.180 Like, what are they going to do?

00:20:19.540 Say that you can't have steel and concrete, which is non-renewable, in buildings, like city buildings?

00:20:25.520 Are they going to have solar-powered fire trucks?

00:20:28.480 Are they going to ban fossil fuels inside the city limits?

00:20:31.980 What are they going to talk about, 100% renewable city by 2050?

00:20:36.680 And most of them will be in nursing homes by that time anyway.

00:20:39.580 So, like, what is the point of talking about 2050?

00:20:43.220 Maybe they should have some goals for the next 10 years.

00:20:46.420 That would be a reasonable thing to do.

00:20:48.380 And not 100%, but maybe finding some cost-effective renewable solutions.

00:20:53.300 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:20:54.920 But the agenda that they have chosen for themselves is just a bunch of grandstanding.

00:21:00.520 And then they decide that they don't even want me to come and talk to them about some of the opinions I have on this subject.

00:21:06.480 And I speak in conferences all around the world, and yet they felt that they should listen to a bunch of whining activists about why I shouldn't be allowed to talk.

00:21:18.000 Yeah.

00:21:18.320 Well, I've had the pleasure of hearing you speak.

00:21:20.780 A few years ago, you spoke on one of the cruises we did.

00:21:24.440 I learned so much from you because you come across as someone who deeply, deeply cares, and a lot of environmentalists have that part down pat.

00:21:33.120 But you also put your brain in gear, so you say, well, if we deeply care, let's be thoughtful about this, and here's how to do it.

00:21:40.720 I was riveted by your presentations on the cruise that we did, and I really think that that conference is going to miss out by not having you.

00:21:50.900 But it's just so infuriating to me.

00:21:53.660 Even if you're wrong, and I think you're right, and even if you're really wrong, so what?

00:22:02.180 You know, have a debate.

00:22:03.760 Let people ask you questions.

00:22:05.060 I don't understand this new thinking that if people say you're wrong, well, then you can't even have a platform, especially at a conference where there's 45 speakers.

00:22:13.980 That's the part I don't get.

00:22:15.180 Dr. Moore, what bugged me the most was professors in Regina were calling for you to be silenced.

00:22:22.900 Shouldn't a professor have said, well, I don't like what he's saying, and I'm going to go and ask him my toughest question?

00:22:28.240 Like, what's with this new cancel culture?

00:22:30.620 Well, I think it's a very simple definition of totalitarianism, unwilling to entertain any view that is even slightly different than your own, and basically wanting to banish anyone who has a different opinion or different facts or different points of view.

00:22:51.980 And that's exactly what non-learning is about.

00:22:55.580 My mom taught me when I was a kid that I should not stop learning just because I've become an adult, that lifelong learning is the best way to go through life, and I have followed that all my life.

00:23:08.540 I think I learn five or six new things every day because I read extensively.

00:23:14.260 I use the internet for my research mostly, and I keep up with everything in my topic, which is basically ecology, of which climate change is a piece.

00:23:26.820 And people are making out as if climate change is the biggest issue in the whole universe, when in fact there are other subjects that are interesting too.

00:23:34.900 But climate change is a very interesting subject, it's probably one of the most complex systems on the planet because it involves all of the earth and all of the air and all of the water and all of the life.

00:23:47.460 And when you think of how many relationships and complex interrelationships there are among all those different components of our earth system, people who have simple answers like, oh, CO2 is the main driver of global climate change, is just too simple.

00:24:04.240 It's not that simple.

00:24:05.200 It couldn't possibly be.

00:24:06.460 There's so many other factors involved.

00:24:08.700 And so I like to have a conversation about these things, and I don't appreciate it when people just tell me to buzz off.

00:24:16.860 Yeah, well, one of the most irritating parts of the mob that came for you is this story in Regina's newspaper of record called the Regina Leader Post.

00:24:28.100 And this headline really bugs me.

00:24:29.860 They called you a climate denier.

00:24:33.520 I hate that because that's tapping into the emotional power of Holocaust denier. 0.98

00:24:39.540 When someone's a denier, it's like you're a liar, you're immoral.

00:24:43.920 So not only is that inappropriate language because it implies that you're evil, but it's false.

00:24:52.160 I've seen your presentation.

00:24:54.340 Half of what you talk about is climate change and how the climate always changes, and you try and explain it.

00:25:00.260 You're not a climate denier. 1.00

00:25:01.940 This was the stupidest thing. 1.00

00:25:03.420 And that reporter, instead of smearing you, should come and listen to you, learn what you actually stand for, maybe learn a little bit of science. 1.00

00:25:12.320 And if he has a real question, he should put it to you. 0.99

00:25:14.280 So the fact that idiots like that would silence you shows all the more how you need to be given a platform to speak, to teach him. 0.99

00:25:22.680 Yes, it's really quite sad state of affairs that it's come to when people really believe that they have a right to stop you from your free speech, 1.00

00:25:36.080 especially after you've been invited by the city with a formal contract, and you've made your plans to have that day at that conference.

00:25:46.680 And then just because a bunch of, I guess, I don't know what you'd call them. 0.51

00:25:52.020 Bullies. 0.97

00:25:52.480 I'd call them bullies.

00:25:54.020 Doctor, I mean, we talk about don't give in to bullies.

00:25:56.780 Bullying isn't right.

00:25:57.960 We're trying to teach kids not to bully.

00:25:59.720 What was this other than some mean girls saying he's not part of our cool club, we have to ban him, don't sit with him at lunch. 0.53

00:26:08.840 Oh, you want, like, it was exactly what the whole anti-bullying thing was supposed to be against.

00:26:15.060 And here we have the civic leaders, the city elders of Regina, shutting you up because they didn't even know what you stand for.

00:26:24.380 It was pure bullying and cowardice.

00:26:26.880 I'm so mad at them, but I'm thrilled that you're coming.

00:26:29.220 Let's talk about the event itself.

00:26:30.840 It's on May 19th, which is the night before the Regina Conference banned you.

00:26:37.360 I think that's great because that way, hopefully, in that morning's newspapers, they'll have the real story of what you actually said.

00:26:44.460 And the people going to the other conference can learn what they missed out on.

00:26:51.640 What do you think?

00:26:52.260 Well, you know, like, well, I think it's wonderful.

00:26:55.620 I think it's a preemptive strike, and I think it's strategically a very good outcome from what was a disappointing situation.

00:27:03.780 So being re-platformed in Regina makes me feel real good, and I'm going to do my very best to put on a really good show there.

00:27:12.980 You know, to call me a climate denier, I mean, climate change denier, what on earth are they talking about?

00:27:21.300 I don't deny that there's a climate.

00:27:23.480 I don't deny that the climate changes, and virtually always has, sometimes slower and sometimes faster, through the history of the earth.

00:27:31.820 It was a pretty big climate change when that asteroid hit the planet 65 million years ago and wiped out nearly half the species on earth.

00:27:39.900 That's a big change.

00:27:41.560 Nothing like that is happening right now.

00:27:43.240 But they act as though it is, and, you know, and I don't deny that humans have an impact on the environment.

00:27:50.020 Of course I don't.

00:27:51.440 The urban heat island effect, for example, there's 500 cities over a million people in the world,

00:27:57.540 and because those cities are made of concrete and steel, they are warmer than the surrounding countryside, even though they're in the same location.

00:28:05.500 So there's sometimes a two degree or three degree Celsius difference between the center of a city and the surrounding farmlands and forests.

00:28:15.420 So that changes the earth's climate at regional levels, not necessarily at a global level, but obviously at a global level, humans have had a big impact.

00:28:25.280 Our agriculture is the biggest impact that we have had on the earth.

00:28:29.680 When you put in a field of crops, you basically eliminate the biodiversity of the ecosystem that was there previously.

00:28:39.000 We have to eat.

00:28:40.620 So that's why I'm in favor of intensive agricultural practices and using modern genetics and science to increase the productivity of the land.

00:28:50.080 One of the, just, it's not off topic because it's about climate change.

00:28:54.040 Our putting of CO2 into the atmosphere has resulted in a 30% increase in the growth of wild plants and farm plants in many parts of the world, especially the drier parts.

00:29:07.460 Because when you increase CO2, you not only provide more food for the plants, CO2 being the main food for all life on earth, and where the carbon comes from for all life on earth is through carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the seas and the lakes.

00:29:23.980 Everywhere there's CO2, there's going to be life.

00:29:27.240 And so CO2 not only is the food for life, it also makes plants more efficient with water.

00:29:34.180 It's a totally second aspect.

00:29:36.260 It's not anything to do with the food aspect.

00:29:39.200 It's got to do with that when CO2 is more concentrated in the atmosphere, the plants don't have to work so hard to get the CO2, and they don't have to open up their little holes under their leaves called stomata as much.

00:29:52.500 So they don't lose as much water because those little holes are for the air to come in and for them to extract the CO2 from the air, but they're also allowing water to go out.

00:30:03.780 It's called transpiration.

00:30:05.520 When you have higher CO2, the plants don't lose as much water in their process and therefore are more efficient with it.

00:30:15.300 And now trees are spreading into dry grasslands in the dry areas of the U.S. west, like Nevada, where the trees were on higher ground where it's cooler and a little wetter and down in the valleys is just grass.

00:30:29.460 Now trees are spreading there, and this has been documented thoroughly by aerial photography over the last 50 years.

00:30:36.440 The trees of the Earth are happier with this level of CO2, and so are all the other plants, and therefore so should we be.

00:30:44.400 And the fact of the matter, the temperature of the Earth on a global basis has only increased by 1 or 1.1 degree Celsius.

00:30:55.560 I mean, it's not accurate enough to do it in tenths of a degree, but it's something along those lines.

00:31:01.900 One degree in 300 years because it started warming around 1700.

00:31:08.000 One degree.

00:31:08.880 If we didn't have accurate thermometers, we would not know that the Earth had warmed.

00:31:13.100 Like, you just moved from New York to Florida, that's a lot more than 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature.

00:31:21.540 I've got to tell you, I'm having fond memories right now of how much I learned from you when you came on our cruise last time,

00:31:28.080 and I can hardly wait to have you with your PowerPoint slides for two full hours in Regina.

00:31:34.740 I'm learning from you even right now.

00:31:37.440 You're explaining it in layman's terms, but I'm getting real knowledge, and I'm so excited, and I'm so proud to be associated with you, and thank you for this.

00:31:48.420 Let's just talk for a minute about the event, because I know not all of our viewers can make it to Regina,

00:31:53.640 but if anyone's in Saskatchewan, and frankly, Alberta and Manitoba, I'd encourage people to make the journey.

00:32:01.160 Let me just tell our viewers what's going to happen, and you correct me if I'm wrong on this, Doctor,

00:32:05.760 because I know we just figured this out yesterday, so maybe I don't have it right.

00:32:09.940 We'll have a reception at 6 o'clock at the Conexus Arts Center in Regina, which is a nice facility,

00:32:17.280 and they've got a little bit of courage because they had Dr. Jordan Peterson, and they didn't cave in.

00:32:21.840 They didn't de-platform him, so if they're strong enough for Dr. Peterson, I think they'll be strong enough for us.

00:32:27.360 And by the way, I had the salesman, the sales lady of Conexus Arts Center confirm with their CEO that they won't cancel.

00:32:34.420 I insisted that they check.

00:32:36.720 So at 6 o'clock, we'll have a reception.

00:32:39.660 At 6.30, we'll have your big speech in the hall and big projectors for your PowerPoint slides.

00:32:47.240 We'll have a Q&A session, so from 6.30 to 8.30, two full hours of learning.

00:32:54.320 And then afterwards, for those who are super fans, you've agreed to have dinner and a glass of wine.

00:33:00.220 For those who are interested in details on the different ticket prices on the website.

00:33:05.840 The website, by the way, is simply called reginaspeech.com.

00:33:09.960 But for those who just want to come to the two-hour lecture and Q&A, that's $25,

00:33:14.780 which, by the way, the conference you were kicked out of, that's $300 to attend.

00:33:19.620 So we are hoping to have maximum turnout here, Doctor.

00:33:22.560 I sure hope so, Ezra, and I'm pretty hopeful about it.

00:33:29.120 Let me just give you a brief synopsis of the overall subject that I'll be talking about.

00:33:34.920 My talk is called Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.

00:33:41.480 And it's not tongue-in-cheek.

00:33:43.300 It is a bit sensationalist, I will agree.

00:33:45.900 But when people see what I have to say, they will be amazed.

00:33:51.060 Because here's my thesis.

00:33:53.100 It dawned on me a while back, and it's funny how things come to you after so many years when you should have noticed them before.

00:33:59.700 It's come to my notice that almost all the scare stories that are bandied about today by these activists and climate justice people,

00:34:07.740 almost all of them are about something that is either invisible or so remote that no one can go and check for themselves, or both.

00:34:18.800 Take, for example, polar bears.

00:34:21.060 They're quite visible.

00:34:23.020 But they're saying they're going extinct because of carbon dioxide, which is invisible.

00:34:29.360 So you can't point in the corner and say, look what that CO2 is doing over there as a cause-effect relationship.

00:34:35.620 So that means, and take, for example, GMOs.

00:34:40.780 What is it in the GMO that is harmful?

00:34:43.080 Has anyone shown it to you?

00:34:44.940 No.

00:34:45.840 It must be invisible.

00:34:47.600 How about radiation from nuclear power plants?

00:34:51.580 It's invisible.

00:34:52.940 Therefore, they can make up all kinds of scary stories about how it's going to mutate you and your children.

00:34:57.240 And on and on and on, coral reefs are underwater and very far away, so they can make all kinds of stories about them.

00:35:07.960 And so if you're not able to observe something for yourself, which is the first principle of science, observation.

00:35:14.100 Because unlike religion, science is about things that you have to be able to show, that you have to be able to see, not only with your eyes, but perhaps with a microscope or a telescope or a Geiger counter or an instrument that can measure the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are not in very many homes these days.

00:35:33.900 And so if you can't observe and verify, verification is the second stage in science, and then after that comes replication, where other people besides yourself do what you did and find the same answer.

00:35:49.140 That is how you go from a hypothesis to a theory in science.

00:35:53.060 Now, if you can't do that for yourself, if you can't look out the window and count the polar bears in the Arctic, then you depend on activists, politicians, and the media to tell you what's happening.

00:36:07.080 And these days, there is so much fake news and so much fake science that people who come and hear this talk are just going to be amazed.

00:36:15.060 Well, I'm sold. I mean, what you've just said in the last two minutes there is exactly what the people of Regina and all of us need to hear.

00:36:25.160 I'm truly upset that the people who spent $300 to go to the official government conference won't be able to hear you.

00:36:33.160 And I bet a number of people bought that $300 ticket just to hear you.

00:36:37.260 But I'm delighted that from, you know, they say, like if you get lemons, make lemonade, instead of you just having one hour to talk, now you'll have two hours.

00:36:48.880 Instead of just having a smallish room to speak in, we're going to a very large venue.

00:36:54.680 So from a bad thing, maybe a very good thing can come.

00:36:58.300 And all the publicity of you being fired and deplatformed and cancelled, maybe that publicity can attract people to say,

00:37:06.640 hey, what is it that they don't want me to see? Let me see for myself.

00:37:10.800 I might have a question for Dr. Moore. I'm going to put it to him. I'm going to put my toughest.

00:37:15.420 Like, I think that out of this terrible deplatforming, which is anti-scientific and anti-freedom,

00:37:21.980 maybe a great thing can come.

00:37:23.680 And I just want to invite all our viewers from across the country, frankly, if you can make your way to Regina,

00:37:30.460 even from Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, even Toronto, Vancouver, I recommend it.

00:37:36.780 Go to reginaspeech.com.

00:37:40.220 Tickets start at $25 for the general admission.

00:37:43.020 And there's other fancier things like a VIP reception and dinner afterwards.

00:37:47.120 Dr. Moore, let's check in again between now and the event,

00:37:51.860 and we'll give you an update on how ticket sales are going.

00:37:54.740 I really want our people to come to learn from you,

00:37:58.160 but I also want them to come as a signal to censors and bullies and cowards

00:38:05.540 that they can't stop your ideas by deplatforming.

00:38:12.120 And we are replatforming you, and I want this place packed as a signal and a symbol.

00:38:19.580 So I'm very proud to be associated with you, and thank you for slumming it with us here at Rebel News.

00:38:25.160 I think this is going to be a great event. Thank you for doing it.

00:38:27.320 Ezra, I think there are a lot of people out there who are sick and tired of the cancel culture

00:38:35.240 and the bigotry of these people who are basically anti-free speech.

00:38:40.280 And I think this story is a very good story.

00:38:44.060 I want to thank you a great deal for jumping right in there as soon as you saw what happened to me

00:38:49.580 and making this thing a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 1.00

00:38:54.360 And this is going to be a good event. I just know it. I feel it in my bones.

00:38:58.440 We've got lots of time to prepare for it.

00:39:01.000 It's not until May the 19th, and we're going to build a big audience,

00:39:05.600 and we're going to put on a big show, and it's going to show them something that they've never seen before.

00:39:10.960 Well, thank you, my friend. You've put me in a great mood.

00:39:14.080 I was very upset on Friday night when I heard the news.

00:39:17.000 And by the way, canceling you on a Friday afternoon shows cowardice also to try and get it lost in the news cycle.

00:39:24.860 So I remember I called you right up. I was very down in the dumps that day.

00:39:28.640 And today I feel on top of the world, and I hope you do too.

00:39:31.820 Lots of love from us here at Rebel News to you, and we'll see you in May, my friend.

00:39:38.240 See you then, Ezra. Thanks a lot.

00:39:40.540 All right. Well, this is going to be great.

00:39:42.500 There's our friend, Dr. Patrick Moore.

00:39:44.900 I feel smarter just from this short interview we've had.

00:39:48.560 Imagine two hours of his full PowerPoint presentation and a question and answer session.

00:39:53.700 You really should go to reginaspeech.com,

00:39:57.980 and if you can adjust your schedule to make your way to Regina on May 19th,

00:40:05.240 I know because I've seen his larger presentation, an earlier topic before, and I was riveted.

00:40:10.500 I know this is going to be a very special night, so I hope to see you there, reginaspeech.com.

00:40:16.520 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:40:27.060 Well, I meant to talk about other things today,

00:40:29.980 but the explosive success of our reginaspeech.com project blew me away,

00:40:37.600 and it was all I was thinking about, so I had to tell you about it.

00:40:40.640 I feel like our Rebel events are great.

00:40:42.580 It's a chance for like-minded people to meet each other.

00:40:44.640 We haven't done one in Saskatchewan before, so this will be great,

00:40:47.580 but it's not just that.

00:40:49.280 And it's not just that Dr. Moore is great.

00:40:51.120 I mean, I really like him.

00:40:52.080 I've been friends with him for probably 10 years when I think about it.

00:40:54.920 But it's that we undid a wrong, it was wrong of the city and the media

00:41:03.620 and the professors to de-platform a man.

00:41:05.640 That's wrong.

00:41:06.900 And it was a fait accompli because all the fancy people agreed.

00:41:09.680 Oh, he's too extreme.

00:41:11.680 He's too controversial.

00:41:12.920 He's gone.

00:41:13.480 He's marginalized.

00:41:15.200 And we took a risk.

00:41:16.380 I called up Dr. Moore, and we put the venue on my credit card,

00:41:19.840 paid it in full because I wanted to lock him in.

00:41:21.820 And look at that.

00:41:23.620 Look at that.

00:41:24.620 All the noisy people wanted him banned,

00:41:27.240 but all the quiet people in the background said,

00:41:30.940 no, no, no, no, no.

00:41:32.420 We want to hear what Dr. Moore has to say.

00:41:35.160 I feel so good re-platforming.

00:41:38.080 I've never heard that word before because it's never happened before.

00:41:42.580 Well, we did it today, and we'll see on May 9th.

00:41:44.960 I hope you can make it.

00:41:45.940 I know our viewers are all around the world, all around the country.

00:41:48.960 I'm going to be there.

00:41:49.760 If you can get yourself to Regina, I think that's going to be the place to be.

00:41:54.620 All right, folks, that's it for today.

00:41:56.140 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:41:59.440 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:42:01.260 good night.

00:42:14.400 We'll see you soon.

00:42:15.360 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - February 13, 2020

Mayor of Regina de-platformed Dr. Patrick Moore, so we're hosting our own event to re-platform him

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