After being banned from speaking at a government conference, environmentalist Dr. Patrick Moore decided to take matters into his own hands. The city of Regina, Saskatchewan deplatformed him, fired him, and disrespected him. Well, I called him up and asked him to give us a speech. And guess what? He agreed.
00:03:48.580And Regina's mayor was the worst, caving in and firing Dr. Moore.
00:03:54.660And as cowardly politicians usually do, he waited until Friday afternoon to announce his embarrassing news that he de-platformed a scientist.
00:04:07.880Knowing that most reporters had gone home for Friday night and wouldn't be working on the weekend so the story would die.
00:05:07.360Who the hell's some loser journalist, some nameless, faceless professor, to say Dr. Moore, a PhD in ecology, can't speak about the environment?
00:05:15.860I 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.
00:05:21.380It's like when Justin Trudeau's Election Cops came after my book, The Libranos.
00:05:25.520I 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.
00:05:34.340My book finally hit number one on the Amazon.ca bestseller list.
00:05:38.500It had never gone higher than number two before.
00:05:41.680And this happened because people don't want to let Justin Trudeau decide what they can or can't read about Justin Trudeau.
00:05:47.240And in fact, if Justin Trudeau orders them not to read a book, there must be some really good reading in there.
00:20:54.920But the agenda that they have chosen for themselves is just a bunch of grandstanding.
00:21:00.520And 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.
00:21:06.480And 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.
00:21:18.320Well, I've had the pleasure of hearing you speak.
00:21:20.780A few years ago, you spoke on one of the cruises we did.
00:21:24.440I 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.
00:21:33.120But 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.
00:21:40.720I 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.
00:22:05.060I 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.
00:22:15.180Dr. Moore, what bugged me the most was professors in Regina were calling for you to be silenced.
00:22:22.900Shouldn'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?
00:22:28.240Like, what's with this new cancel culture?
00:22:30.620Well, 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.
00:22:51.980And that's exactly what non-learning is about.
00:22:55.580My 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.
00:23:08.540I think I learn five or six new things every day because I read extensively.
00:23:14.260I 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.
00:23:26.820And 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.
00:23:34.900But 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.
00:23:47.460And 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.
00:24:06.460There's so many other factors involved.
00:24:08.700And so I like to have a conversation about these things, and I don't appreciate it when people just tell me to buzz off.
00:24:16.860Yeah, 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.
00:25:03.420And 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.
00:25:12.320And if he has a real question, he should put it to you.
00:25:14.280So 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.
00:25:22.680Yes, 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,
00:25:36.080especially 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.
00:25:46.680And then just because a bunch of, I guess, I don't know what you'd call them.
00:27:51.440The urban heat island effect, for example, there's 500 cities over a million people in the world,
00:27:57.540and because those cities are made of concrete and steel, they are warmer than the surrounding countryside, even though they're in the same location.
00:28:05.500So there's sometimes a two degree or three degree Celsius difference between the center of a city and the surrounding farmlands and forests.
00:28:15.420So 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.
00:28:25.280Our agriculture is the biggest impact that we have had on the earth.
00:28:29.680When you put in a field of crops, you basically eliminate the biodiversity of the ecosystem that was there previously.
00:28:40.620So that's why I'm in favor of intensive agricultural practices and using modern genetics and science to increase the productivity of the land.
00:28:50.080One of the, just, it's not off topic because it's about climate change.
00:28:54.040Our 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.
00:29:07.460Because 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.
00:29:23.980Everywhere there's CO2, there's going to be life.
00:29:27.240And so CO2 not only is the food for life, it also makes plants more efficient with water.
00:29:36.260It's not anything to do with the food aspect.
00:29:39.200It'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.
00:29:52.500So 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.
00:30:05.520When you have higher CO2, the plants don't lose as much water in their process and therefore are more efficient with it.
00:30:15.300And 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.
00:30:29.460Now trees are spreading there, and this has been documented thoroughly by aerial photography over the last 50 years.
00:30:36.440The trees of the Earth are happier with this level of CO2, and so are all the other plants, and therefore so should we be.
00:30:44.400And the fact of the matter, the temperature of the Earth on a global basis has only increased by 1 or 1.1 degree Celsius.
00:30:55.560I mean, it's not accurate enough to do it in tenths of a degree, but it's something along those lines.
00:31:01.900One degree in 300 years because it started warming around 1700.
00:31:37.440You'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.
00:31:48.420Let's just talk for a minute about the event, because I know not all of our viewers can make it to Regina,
00:31:53.640but if anyone's in Saskatchewan, and frankly, Alberta and Manitoba, I'd encourage people to make the journey.
00:32:01.160Let me just tell our viewers what's going to happen, and you correct me if I'm wrong on this, Doctor,
00:32:05.760because I know we just figured this out yesterday, so maybe I don't have it right.
00:32:09.940We'll have a reception at 6 o'clock at the Conexus Arts Center in Regina, which is a nice facility,
00:32:17.280and they've got a little bit of courage because they had Dr. Jordan Peterson, and they didn't cave in.
00:32:21.840They didn't de-platform him, so if they're strong enough for Dr. Peterson, I think they'll be strong enough for us.
00:32:27.360And by the way, I had the salesman, the sales lady of Conexus Arts Center confirm with their CEO that they won't cancel.
00:34:52.940Therefore, they can make up all kinds of scary stories about how it's going to mutate you and your children.
00:34:57.240And on and on and on, coral reefs are underwater and very far away, so they can make all kinds of stories about them.
00:35:07.960And so if you're not able to observe something for yourself, which is the first principle of science, observation.
00:35:14.100Because 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.
00:35:33.900And 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.
00:35:49.140That is how you go from a hypothesis to a theory in science.
00:35:53.060Now, 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.
00:36:07.080And 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.
00:36:15.060Well, 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.
00:36:25.160I'm truly upset that the people who spent $300 to go to the official government conference won't be able to hear you.
00:36:33.160And I bet a number of people bought that $300 ticket just to hear you.
00:36:37.260But 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.
00:36:48.880Instead of just having a smallish room to speak in, we're going to a very large venue.
00:36:54.680So from a bad thing, maybe a very good thing can come.
00:36:58.300And all the publicity of you being fired and deplatformed and cancelled, maybe that publicity can attract people to say,
00:37:06.640hey, what is it that they don't want me to see? Let me see for myself.
00:37:10.800I might have a question for Dr. Moore. I'm going to put it to him. I'm going to put my toughest.
00:37:15.420Like, I think that out of this terrible deplatforming, which is anti-scientific and anti-freedom,