Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Is climate change causing wildfire seasons to be worse？

00:00:00.000 Thousands of Canadians have been displaced this spring due to wildfires and as per the usual the

00:00:07.920 left is using other people's tragedies to push their own progressive agenda. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:00:14.480 and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 I came to Ottawa this morning from my home province of Nova Scotia where our

00:00:37.800 communities are literally on fire. Thousands upon thousands of families have

00:00:42.900 been displaced from their homes. Hundreds are watching as our homes may be

00:00:46.380 turned into ashes. Eight months ago Hurricane Fiona damaged our communities

00:00:51.160 beyond measure displacing not just homes but sweeping people out to sea in some

00:00:55.360 instances. Mr. Speaker the Conservatives are peddling policies that they know will

00:00:59.460 increase the level of pollution that is causing these severe weather events. We

00:01:03.240 have one planet Mr. Speaker it is my home it is yours I will not stand idly by and

00:01:08.220 watch it burn. That clip you saw right there is Sean Fraser the Minister of

00:01:14.400 Immigration and Citizenship in Canada for some reason pinning attributing the

00:01:22.080 forest fires in his home province of Nova Scotia to climate change. Now I

00:01:29.440 don't think he realizes the irony of his statement there that while he was leaving on his weekly

00:01:36.440 commute from Nova Scotia to Ottawa on a plane he saw some fires and he thought that's it it's climate

00:01:50.320 change. Now if Sean Fraser really thought that the fires were caused by climate change he himself would

00:01:57.040 probably reduce his carbon footprint and find I don't know a less carbon intensive job one where

00:02:02.900 he doesn't have to commute via airplane from the east coast to the central part of the country in

00:02:11.220 Ottawa. He doesn't believe that his carbon emissions are causing climate change he just believes that your

00:02:18.200 carbon emissions are causing climate change it's not his commute it's your commute don't you see that's

00:02:24.340 causing the fires and therefore you must pay more for everything. Now that's obvious madness right and

00:02:31.740 it's unscientific. I think we all realize that fire is part of the natural regenerative state of the

00:02:39.520 forest and then there are other factors involved like cyclical weather patterns. Now I had to call in a bit

00:02:48.360 of an expert here at least someone who has really drilled down on the data here to offer a more

00:02:53.660 common sense explanation than your SUV caused the forest fires and so I called Michelle Sterling from 0.96

00:03:03.080 Friends of Science. We are living through wildfire season here in Alberta. We did have tens of thousands

00:03:08.840 of Albertans displaced. And Michelle is so great at calming people's fears by introducing some facts into an

00:03:18.480 overheated conversation. So joining me now in an interview we recorded last week before the Alberta election is my

00:03:25.340 friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.

00:03:27.520 So joining me now is good friend of the show and good friend of reality Michelle Sterling from Friends of

00:03:40.880 Science and one of the things that has really been affecting not just Alberta but because of the smoke plume

00:03:46.460 most of the western part of the country the wildfires here in Alberta and as I said to Michelle before we

00:03:54.580 started recording it's an evergreen accusation that the wildfires that happen every year during what's

00:04:01.060 known as wildfire season are somehow induced by climate change but historically that just isn't the

00:04:07.560 case and that's why I wanted to have Michelle on the show well for a bunch of different reasons but 1.00

00:04:12.180 Michelle has done some wonderful work this year but every year that spring weather catastrophes happen 0.77

00:04:19.680 there's Michelle with your daily dose of reality. Michelle thanks for coming on the show

00:04:24.140 why don't you explain to us a little bit about wildfire season because it happens in May but even

00:04:32.440 sooner right? Well you see anyway first thanks for having me on the show but you see people don't

00:04:39.560 realize that between snow melt and spring rain there's a gap that varies every year in April May and

00:04:47.600 that gap depends on how dry it is and we've had three years of La Nina so the the prairies are very very dry

00:04:55.440 we had a big gap this year with almost no rain in April almost no rain so you know and they used to say

00:05:04.260 April showers bring May flowers well they brought a big wildfire and we also have in western Canada about

00:05:11.520 18 million hectares of standing deadwood from the mountain pine beetle infestation so there's a map

00:05:19.820 from Natural Resources Canada showing the scope of that and a lot of it is in Alberta exactly where

00:05:26.000 those wildfires were that map is from 2012 so I imagine those trees have been standing there dead

00:05:31.980 for a decade right they're just tender so you just throw a little spark in there and that spark can come

00:05:39.860 from anything you know there are some accusations and charges related to arson but you know a farmer out

00:05:46.580 welding in you know trying to fix a piece of equipment and that spark can go haywire somebody

00:05:54.800 inadvertently you know negligently tosses a cigarette butt somebody with a campfire if they're not

00:06:01.520 experienced campers you know negligent at that point those sparks can fly and away we go you know

00:06:07.480 an ATV spark from an ATV so you know it's not climate change every big fire in Alberta going back

00:06:19.020 100 years has been in May these are all the biggest fires Fort Mac Slave Lake the Chichanga firestorm which

00:06:28.340 was so big that the smoke ball actually was seen around the world and that smoke ball went up so high

00:06:35.360 in the atmosphere that people didn't smell the smoke they just saw that the sun turned blue at midday it

00:06:41.560 became dark in Toronto people were driving with their headlights on power consumption went up that's

00:06:47.080 how dark it was people thought nuclear war had happened or the apocalypse had come but that's not the

00:06:53.360 case 1919 Lac La Biche burned down completely wiped out the logging industry it took out so many trees

00:06:59.460 1910 huge wildfires all along the the Rocky Mountain corridor there down by Calgary when we only had

00:07:08.720 150,000 people in Alberta we'd only been a province for five years so you know this attribution of climate

00:07:17.360 climate change the big problem with it is that people will go and do stupid things like build a

00:07:22.200 wind farm to stop wildfires when wind farms actually raise the regional temperature and it doesn't stop a

00:07:30.500 wildfire we need people in the woods clearing out that fuel load and we need to pay for that we need

00:07:36.800 to pay for fire breaks around some of these cities and communities you know actually cutting down trees

00:07:43.200 gasp you know to create a fire break in advance of these known things wildfires are like snowstorms they

00:07:52.760 happen every year but we act surprised every year like oh my god it's a wildfire yes this is mother nature

00:08:00.580 renewing the forest so wake up use fire smart tips and take care of your community and your property

00:08:08.120 and we've seen accusations from the other side of you know like the climate change fear mongers

00:08:18.620 that the wildfire season is happening earlier and earlier every single year but that's not the case

00:08:25.900 at all it has always been may and as you said in one of your videos um in response to the slave lake

00:08:32.600 fire they they actually said look we should be generally ready for wildfire season by the end

00:08:38.980 of april we should have everybody on the ground and and that should and they decided that based on

00:08:44.040 historical data right april 15th actually was what they concluded and uh slave lake fire by the way was

00:08:50.940 arson but it was a massive destruction of that community um but um you know until they did that study

00:08:57.980 i think that a lot of politicians and the public in general had thought well you know wildfire season

00:09:03.240 starts in august so we've got until june to be ready and that study showed that no it starts very early

00:09:11.500 be ready by at least april 15th um and then you know you're good to go um because and you can see in the

00:09:19.960 fire risk maps from the canadian interagency fire service you can see the um the fire risk

00:09:28.240 um you know there's almost nothing toward the end of april and suddenly there's a huge red patch all

00:09:35.160 across the prairies and then now if you look at it today you'll see there's just a few blotches of

00:09:40.720 red patches a couple of blotches of yellow and everything else is blue and green like it's just

00:09:45.800 completely calmed down after the rain now that's another thing i i went back on the friends of

00:09:51.260 science uh youtube page and it is either michelle explaining why uh fires are not climate change

00:09:59.400 in may or michelle explaining why floods are also not climate change in may uh why don't you touch a

00:10:05.940 little bit on that because parts of the province did get hammered by rain i didn't get any rain

00:10:11.580 unfortunately but um what a blessing for these northern communities particularly in the grand

00:10:16.980 prairie area where they've just been plagued by fire to get this rain but then people were saying

00:10:22.240 oh they're going to get flash floods and that's also climate change so explain to us why flooding is

00:10:29.420 a regular occurrence in alberta in may well flooding well a lot of flooding also happens in in june

00:10:37.060 as the snowpack melts but um you know these are caused by different kinds of atmospheric um patterns

00:10:46.320 that uh really have nothing to do with human caused climate change they are related to natural climate

00:10:53.980 factors they're related to el nino and la nina cycles they're related to things like uh you know when

00:11:00.140 there's a lot of aerosols in the air like we've had a number of big volcanic eruptions

00:11:04.620 in um russia i think it's the shufalich and a few others big ones in the world you know so when

00:11:12.780 you get all that aerosol in the air then that is something that um water droplets water vapor can

00:11:19.580 form onto creating rain uh same with wildfires they also create um climate change right so uh you know

00:11:29.560 there's lots of images of the pyrocumulonibus clouds caused by the wildfires that go up

00:11:36.720 tremendously high and they have an enormous enormous energy release far far more than hiroshima

00:11:43.100 so uh these are factors that people you know are generally not aware of if you look at our burning

00:11:49.980 questions report that was about coal versus wildfire emissions you can see more of that information there

00:11:57.360 yeah and that's another thing so you know the province moves away from coal because of particulate

00:12:06.620 but every year there's wildfire particulate and there are um pollen particulate that's far worse than

00:12:15.680 anything the coal has ever done i think that's something that people don't realize pollen particulate

00:12:20.440 farming particulate although i shouldn't give these people any ideas about you know dust and pollen um

00:12:27.320 because they would you know further attack agriculture but far worse than anything coal has ever done in

00:12:33.860 this province yeah that's right i i think in the year that we did that report we used the 2011 stats and

00:12:41.700 wildfires put out a thousand times the pm 2.5 of coal so um you know and unfortunately speaking of

00:12:51.160 coal now that we have pretty much phased out coal you know we are actually very reliant on saskatchewan

00:12:57.600 our neighbor and their coal plants and um minister gilbeau simply threatened uh premier scott moe with

00:13:05.040 criminal charges if they don't shut down their coal plants if they do shut down their coal plants

00:13:10.460 alberta will be in blackout and it's really putting us at an energy security risk here because

00:13:16.460 we used to have about 40 percent coal 40 percent natural gas and you have to understand like coal is

00:13:25.260 a static substance you can actually store a year's supply of coal at your power plant but you can't do

00:13:33.120 that with natural gas because it's a pressurized system so if some idiot decides to take out the

00:13:39.540 natural gas pipelines or if market prices skyrocket as they have been doing especially in europe over

00:13:47.600 the past uh year and a half um you know that's catastrophic and we don't have that backup of

00:13:55.300 coal that we used to have so it's entirely stupid the uh pool price has tripled since the um the phase

00:14:04.380 out coal policy came in and of course the people who are most advocating for coal phase out were the

00:14:09.800 medical unions and dr vipon in particular of the cape organization and what does medicine run on it runs

00:14:18.440 on affordable reliable electricity of all the people who should have been demanding that we maintain a

00:14:25.920 reliable and affordable supply of power it should have been the health unions and instead they were

00:14:31.480 shooting themselves and all of alberta's coal workers in the foot 0.98

00:14:35.940 and you know if saskatchern is forced to shut down their coal plants what's alberta going to do are we

00:14:48.200 just going to go into blackout are we going to buy from wyoming where they create electricity with coal

00:14:54.420 so i mean there is only one completely reliable source of electricity on the grid um that i think

00:15:02.880 is even more reliable than natural gas because as you say you cannot store natural gas on site

00:15:07.600 it's coal if we can't get it from saskatchewan even though we have 800 years of it under our feet here

00:15:12.880 in alberta we're going to get it from wyoming we're going to get it from montana heck we might

00:15:16.760 even get it from bc well we hope we might get it from montana but you know if you look at recent

00:15:23.800 reports about grid reliability in the states um they're getting near the breaking point as well so

00:15:30.060 they may not be able to supply us you know because these interconnection arrangements are for excess power

00:15:35.920 that's available from various provinces and you'll see sometimes in winter um you know there's there's no

00:15:42.660 spare power from saskatchewan and even even quebec runs into that in winter parker galant has followed

00:15:49.200 that case very closely and many times in winter despite the huge hydro output in quebec from the

00:15:56.880 james bay dam they're propping up their system with natural gas power from ontario in the middle of

00:16:03.460 winter they don't have the capacity anymore and yet we're supposed to believe that we can go all ev

00:16:08.740 that we can decarbonize the entire country and flip entirely to electricity instead of fossil fuels

00:16:16.200 i mean we've got a report called clean electricity um reality versus delusion i think it's called

00:16:25.160 and it shows people the charts like wind and solar are presently like not even visible on the graph of

00:16:32.940 our uh total energy consumption and we're supposed to believe that we can wipe out everything

00:16:38.600 else on that and suddenly flip overnight to wind and solar no it's impossible

00:16:43.480 not only do we not have the grid capacity but we don't have the access to the rare earth minerals

00:16:53.220 we would require to go completely green even though i can't think of anything further from green than

00:17:00.620 cobalt mining um by child slaves um however i mean most of this um rare earth minerals required for

00:17:11.320 batteries and green energy it's either in china or controlled by china on the african continent

00:17:18.000 that's right yeah it's um actually the g7 were just yapping about um you know china bullying them and 0.99

00:17:26.560 there were going to be repercussions and actually they're just sleepwalking into disaster because

00:17:31.820 china has a stated public policy that there will be a made in china policy 2025 so in two years

00:17:39.200 everything of high tech and clean tech in the world high tech aerospace everything they want to have

00:17:45.440 produced in china and they mean it so you know they're uh i believe that the de-industrialization 0.89

00:17:52.760 that we see going on in europe and in canada and the u.s i think that that's a strategic plan part of

00:17:58.820 the plan of china and our useful idiots in government are completely sleepwalking into it and going oh 0.57

00:18:05.520 yes we're going green we're going net zero you know just a reminder net zero 2050 is one year after

00:18:11.200 china's plan to dominate the world in 2049 and i'm not telling you conspiracy theories this is published

00:18:18.040 in bloomberg so um this is their plan you know and they're telling the world this is our plan

00:18:24.440 and everyone goes oh but you don't mean it and that's bullying and we're not going to stand for it

00:18:29.840 and yet we comply on the climate side in fact robert lyman just issued a report uh called the climate

00:18:37.880 pond canada the climate pond we just posted it on the blog yesterday and you know we keep being told

00:18:44.780 by people like minister o'reagan that you know canada people look to canada for an example oh no they

00:18:51.360 don't you know we're leading a parade with no followers we're destroying our own economy and every

00:18:58.000 uh climate policy benefits only one country china so we better wake up you know because we're actually

00:19:06.040 just um laying down on the altar and saying please sacrifice our country our ourselves and our children

00:19:13.800 and our future so that we can pretend to do some virtue signaling while you guys take over the 0.99

00:19:20.040 world and you know what china's very smart i mean they're smart they're open about it and we're just

00:19:28.920 letting it happen it's uh it's phenomenal it's unbelievable

00:19:33.040 well and like china is telling us they do this sort of stuff i mean it is um china routinely describes

00:19:47.120 what they're doing as a hundred year plan i think they're pretty well on target aren't they

00:19:52.440 they are yeah that's 2049 that'll be their hundred year anniversary of the of the communist party and

00:20:00.600 you know also historically china has always had the view that they are the middle kingdom you know

00:20:05.180 that there's heaven the middle kingdom and then all of the rest of the infidels so you know it's a 1.00

00:20:10.560 real world view that's very different than ours um um and the other thing you have to recognize too

00:20:16.940 is uh china was under uh was going to be under investigation by the un canada and a few other

00:20:26.240 partner countries like the uk and such like uh were asking the un to investigate china for the crime 0.66

00:20:34.280 of genocide against the uyghur people now coincident to that came out the reports from the kamloops

00:20:41.360 indian residential school that 215 alleged graves had been found there and which caused a huge furrow

00:20:49.820 across the country and of course dozens of other uh first nations groups also said oh look we found

00:20:56.680 some too so china flipped that at the un and has accused canada of genocide and we're being

00:21:03.940 investigated for genocide now that happened in the spring of 2022 in the fall of 2022 october 27th the

00:21:13.340 entire house of commons voted to declare residential schools to describe them as a genocide now the un

00:21:22.800 special rapporteur on indigenous people was just here in march for 10 days and when he left his

00:21:29.520 interim report said this is an appalling legacy so what do you think his um report is going to say in the fall

00:21:37.040 now you have to realize also that the un in terms of climate change they just issued a summary for

00:21:44.480 policy makers in march um they kind of rushed through this summary for policy makers they didn't

00:21:51.420 even issue the final synthesis report but it's all catastrophic um and there was a very graphic image

00:21:58.440 that was in almost all the newspapers of you know fairly nice weather up to here or fairly nice climate up

00:22:04.660 to here and then boom we're going to have red horrible burning climate and our children will fry 1.00

00:22:09.800 anyway this report was subsequently submitted to um the un's um international court of justice

00:22:17.820 for an opinion on climate compliance so they're trying to criminalize climate dissent and just imagine what

00:22:27.620 that means because you see in 2015 um the uh wealthy nations bribed the developing nations to come on to

00:22:38.480 the paris agreement promising them a hundred billion dollars a year green climate fund and excuse me this

00:22:47.460 was to come from uh only from western nations and there were not to be any requirements for performance

00:22:54.380 or accountability the money was just going to be doled out well they never ever put that fund together

00:22:59.180 in 2019 both china and india went to the un um climate fest in the uh fall of september 2019th

00:23:08.920 with basically a demand note saying pay up we want this money and now at cop 27 of last fall

00:23:16.700 um there was a motion to provide loss and damages to countries for climate damage allegedly

00:23:24.060 caused by the west so just imagine if at the un international court of justice that there's a

00:23:31.640 ruling that climate compliance should be mandatory and that there are certain kinds of i don't know

00:23:38.000 punishments to countries or repercussions to countries that have not paid think about how much

00:23:44.980 money that is and think about what that could mean for our economy and our world uh we're talking about

00:23:51.860 now climate gulags right people like you and i who dissent on climate change you know may have to

00:23:58.720 face trials actual trials for ecocide right canada may have to face a trial for actual genocide not

00:24:08.620 cultural genocide actual genocide and people say oh you know you're just making things up you're you

00:24:14.240 know getting carried away well look at the world who's in charge right now it's the bricks nation 0.99

00:24:18.860 the u.s is not the dominant power anymore we are not under the protection of their wing and um you

00:24:26.540 know based on a lot of material coming out of the u.s actually we are deeply in in um infiltrated

00:24:35.440 by china so they're working our country to their own ends and we're blind to it or willfully blind as 1.00

00:24:44.140 sam cooper wrote in his book i was just as you were talking there i thought you know what

00:24:49.120 has the u.n ever used the phrase climate genocide and they have as recently as 2018 is sort of when

00:24:56.220 it came into the parlance i did a quick google search it came from those um i don't want to call

00:25:02.380 them useful idiots but they just might be the marshall islands every time the u.n needs uh some

00:25:08.300 excuse to impose some sort of major wealth transfer they love to point to the marshall islands and say

00:25:14.360 these guys are going to be underwater and it's your fault sheila your your jeep did this um and

00:25:19.700 you know you mentioned the climate gulags david suzuki has openly mused about locking up climate

00:25:28.060 critics like stephen harper um they they should face time in jail for the crime of disagreeing with

00:25:34.460 his worldview on climate change so it's it's not outlandish this is how they think in polite

00:25:41.800 left-wing environmentalist society this is how they talk about us over there right and you know

00:25:49.080 you should have a look at this book by uh colonel newsham um when china attacks a warning to america

00:25:57.360 because he's talking in here about the critical importance of those little tiny islands uh because

00:26:03.080 you know the u.s strength is actually in its navy uh so uh the naval strength in in the asian

00:26:11.140 theater is really all those tiny islands where the u.s has a lot of bases but according to even

00:26:19.920 wikipedia china has been making incursions into places like vanuatu they've been you know building all

00:26:26.340 kinds of um um these are the sinking islands they're building them all kinds of airfields

00:26:33.980 right and airports but but airfields and airports have dual use don't they you know and it's

00:26:40.380 interesting that west coast environmental law from vancouver has been working closely with the vanuatu

00:26:46.580 equivalent for many years uh we have that in our report manufacturing and climate crisis

00:26:52.080 so um and another item on uh of interest on wikipedia related to um the canadian steamship line

00:27:01.580 running out of vanuatu on their flag of convenience now that's you know that's just from wikipedia so it may

00:27:09.560 not be verified but uh most of these little islands that claim they're sinking they're drowning and sea

00:27:15.200 level rise and climate change from the west is causing it most of them have um second and third

00:27:21.620 tier marine registries where all these huge boats from around the world fly with flags of convenience

00:27:29.800 registered in these tiny islands and marine emissions are like the most polluting ever you just

00:27:38.140 don't see them because they're out of sea but they're using you know the dregs of the diesel that's

00:27:43.320 what bunker oil is so i mean in one sense it's a good use for the bunker oil but they could probably

00:27:48.820 put filters on those ships but how hypocrite how hypocritical to claim oh we're drowning and dying

00:27:55.260 because of you guys and oh by the way here's your flag of convenience you can fly that that uh smelly old

00:28:02.160 cargo ship anywhere you want now i just wanted to ask you uh before i let you go about the attacks on

00:28:11.020 free speech uh related to climate change for people who uh regularly poke around on your youtube channel

00:28:17.200 like i do um you you get slapped with a climate change warning as though you were a cigarette package

00:28:24.940 over there but you know you get the little youtube un warning you're demonetized you cannot ever be

00:28:31.920 monetized on youtube because you're a climate skeptic organization i wouldn't even call you climate

00:28:37.700 skeptics i just think that uh really from the outside looking in the the view of friends of

00:28:43.600 science is that maybe it has something to do with that big burning ball of gas in the sky

00:28:48.220 more than your car um and um you know what going back to david suzuki that wants to lock up climate

00:28:56.160 skeptics um but just tell us we've talked about it on the show before but just so people understand

00:29:03.780 what can happen to you if you simply have a dissenting view from the government narrative

00:29:10.180 on climate change um well you know in 2015 ecojustice went after us via the competition

00:29:18.940 bureau they wanted us fined and thrown in jail for our billboards um you know and our billboards

00:29:25.320 had scientific messages on it uh more recently fault lines has come out which is a report that cbc

00:29:31.640 covered quite extensively and we did a deconstruction of their coverage um where of course they're

00:29:39.020 trying to uh set the stage to say well any anything that uh you know is holds a dissenting view or

00:29:47.660 anyone holding a dissenting view should be labeled disinformation misinformation and should be blocked

00:29:53.640 from the airways that's what a lot of all these censorship things are about um you know and in that

00:29:59.520 fault lines report friends of science was the only party singled out in the climate skeptic world and

00:30:07.560 john robson over at climate nexus was really disappointed that they weren't mentioned but uh

00:30:13.380 you know and one of their criticisms was that they they um uh couldn't find clear evidence of our

00:30:20.700 sources of funding and so they assumed based on previous works that we were funded by fossil fuels you

00:30:26.660 know we operate on 150 000 a year this organization that published that report has gotten something

00:30:33.020 like 55 million dollars in government funding um and uh and they can't google our account our our online

00:30:41.260 website and blog and find our agm listings which show our funding and the sources so you know it's

00:30:49.240 really a joke it's a travesty and yet this is funded by government um and intended to intimidate and

00:30:57.480 threaten ordinary people who stand for freedom of speech and scientific inquiry

00:31:03.160 and it's also nearly impossible for you to get your message out on social media although twitter is much

00:31:13.240 better now uh but i think it was at one point that you were blocked from buying ads on facebook

00:31:19.320 um for yeah we still are because well you take a skeptical viewpoint yeah you still are go ahead

00:31:25.300 yeah we still can't uh buy ads on facebook or i don't know if we can buy ads on twitter we haven't

00:31:32.220 tried in a while but we were blocked from that as well and um facebook regularly blocks my video

00:31:39.200 where all i did was read the press release from clintel of 2019 wherein 500 scientists

00:31:46.160 uh said there's no climate emergency well facebook book will not let anybody post that video on facebook

00:31:53.780 anymore uh and now fortunately clintel has grown to more than 1500 scientists and scholars and they all

00:32:01.260 continue to say there's no climate emergency so that information should be front and center for everyone

00:32:07.220 and not blocked and we should have open public debate about it

00:32:10.720 yeah i i guess that would be great unfortunately the social media giants won't let us have that

00:32:19.580 michelle you are up against the deep pockets of foreign funded um environmentalist organizations but

00:32:26.320 not only are they foreign funded they're domestically funded so often by the government

00:32:30.340 um and they are doing their best to shut you up so tell us how people can support the work that

00:32:36.020 friends of science does um to just bring a little bit of balance to this conversation that is

00:32:44.380 dominated by a bunch of people who just want you to shut up

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00:33:53.400 mean i know a lot of people are afraid of climate change and they're stricken with fear and concern

00:34:00.000 we offer people what i call climate hope because once you see the context of climate over the

00:34:06.780 historical period you realize that yes humans probably are having some impact but it's not

00:34:14.400 catastrophic and that we should adapt we should learn how to do things like address the fuel load

00:34:21.360 before the wildfire rather than putting up wind and solar farms and claiming oh we saved the planet

00:34:28.160 so when we actually finance china to dominate the world anyway 0.88

00:34:34.740 well michelle i want to thank you so much for coming on the show and i want to thank you for your um

00:34:45.460 rational facts um when the other side of this debate is so hyperbolic um and so

00:34:53.220 driven with their agenda and their fear-mongering and and this bizarre desire to control the actions

00:35:00.840 of other people um and to bend other people towards their will i i'm just so happy that friends of science

00:35:07.220 supports free open civil debate free speech and letting people live their lives without this

00:35:13.440 impending doom of a an apocalypse just around the corner it's uh it's a real relief i think for a lot

00:35:21.100 of people thank you sheila and thanks for all the work you guys do at rebel

00:35:25.740 well we've come to the portion of the show where i invite your viewer feedback every single week

00:35:38.960 i take questions comments story ideas sometimes even criticisms from the public right now it's the

00:35:48.220 reason i give out my email address it's sheila at rebelnews.com put gun show letters in the subject

00:35:54.060 line so i know that you're sending me this email in direct relation to the show that you've watched and

00:36:01.920 who knows i might just read it on air but i also go poking around on some of the platforms where we post

00:36:08.240 the free version of the show on youtube or rumble to see what people are talking about and that's

00:36:15.580 where i get this week's question comment story idea viewer feedback from it's actually from the

00:36:22.280 youtube comment section last week first one from jeff nagy who says to me i think you underestimate

00:36:30.100 how much eastern canada despises alberta now this is i should have clarified this before i started

00:36:35.600 talking this is on my show with josh andrus from project confederation and we were talking about

00:36:42.040 affordability and how a vote for the ndp in alberta would be a vote for increased costs on literally

00:36:49.080 everything because of the ndp coalition with trudeau and rachel notley's past history of doing

00:36:56.060 absolutely nothing every time trudeau did terrible terrible things to alberta like blocking our energy

00:37:01.920 um increasing carbon taxes all those fun things so we were discussing that last week and um it sort

00:37:11.780 of came up that you know our premier daniel smith one of her first things that she did upon uh being

00:37:19.800 elected to lead the united conservative party was uh pick an open fight with justin trudeau

00:37:25.300 on matters of well basically everything any time that justin trudeau is going to put his grubby hands

00:37:34.740 into provincial jurisdiction our government here in alberta is legally obligated to fight back

00:37:40.760 through the sovereignty act and uh jeff says as as i read earlier i think you underestimate just how

00:37:47.980 much eastern canada despises alberta i actually don't think eastern canada despises us

00:37:53.260 i actually think they don't care about us i don't think they think about us as much as we think

00:38:00.240 about them seems kind of pathetic when you say it that way but it's because we have this unfair

00:38:08.920 treatment within confederation that we look at the other provinces and say don't you understand how

00:38:15.360 bad we're getting screwed here don't you understand how much we contribute and how little we get back and

00:38:22.640 don't you understand how much we want to contribute if you would just get out of our way and let us do

00:38:28.660 what we do best i don't think they worry about us at all i i really think that they don't care and

00:38:35.600 i've heard this from a lot of people because there are so many people moving to alberta now um for

00:38:42.800 you know economic opportunity issues of housing affordability jobs freedom

00:38:48.940 um there are a lot of people from other places in alberta and i speak to them

00:38:54.500 and they say you know we we know that you're different in alberta and we know you're kind

00:39:01.040 of squawky sometimes but i didn't realize how bad it was for you till i got here and became one of you

00:39:09.660 my friend kian simoni our chief documentary filmmaker he had this exact experience

00:39:15.380 and it's one of the inspirations for his documentary ungovernable

00:39:20.420 about the history of western separation and western autonomy

00:39:26.220 and where that started and how it's going here in alberta and if you are a subscriber to our paywall

00:39:34.160 content if you're watching this early and ad free behind the paywall then you are you can go

00:39:39.440 catch that documentary on the paywall and if you're not might i invite you to because it's

00:39:45.800 really great kian looked at this through a baby alberta lens it was kind of fascinating for me to

00:39:52.760 watch him sort of grow as an alberta as he made the documentary um freedom barbie says i haven't

00:40:00.620 talked to one person that was voting in ndp and i've talked to a lot of people lately not one

00:40:06.220 that may be true um perhaps you don't live in an ndp stronghold like edmonton um because if you

00:40:16.060 live outside of edmonton we're pretty deep blue out here and so it would be difficult to find an ndp

00:40:23.800 voter in your circle of friends probably freedom barbie it sounds like you're pretty conservative as

00:40:29.620 it is and outside of the cities i think people are kind of ashamed to admit that they would vote

00:40:37.220 for rachel notley i mean they should be um overlord says the ndp youtube channel has the comment section

00:40:45.440 disabled they obviously had more negative comments than positive well that makes perfect sense 1.00

00:40:50.900 and uh that's one of the reasons we leave our comment section open and i give you my email

00:40:56.280 is because uh i i want to know what you think and the ndp obviously doesn't and i think

00:41:01.520 thankfully they did not form government which means that alberta remains freer than anywhere else

00:41:10.280 and uh rachel notley is going to have to figure out other ways to block journalists from doing their 1.00

00:41:15.900 jobs because she can't use the hammer of government to do it and lar m says the ndp already has a 0.99

00:41:26.220 proven disaster record in alberta years earlier yes also true uh i documented uh the radicals within

00:41:35.800 the ndp in my book the destroyers it's available on amazon and then i documented how the destroyers

00:41:43.440 went about destroying things um in my book stop notley also available on amazon and you know on our

00:41:52.360 election night coverage i think it was lauren gunter sun columnist who joined us who did say

00:41:58.820 the ndp should have had a harder go of it from the ucp as in the ucp should have been hammering

00:42:08.760 the ndp on their track record of credit downgrades capital flight uh corporate head offices leaving

00:42:17.360 outward migration from alberta which is completely unheard of in my lifetime outward migration from

00:42:25.300 the province um rachel notley's failure to improve health care wait times her failure to uh actually

00:42:36.180 get any major energy projects done without the feds getting involved and buying a pipeline that was

00:42:44.120 ready to be built in the private sector like give me a break um they they really should have been

00:42:48.560 hammering her on those issues her attacks on agriculture small businesses her tax hikes the 1.00

00:42:55.220 carbon tax she never campaigned on there's a whole host of things as i said i wrote a book about it um

00:43:02.200 but they really didn't and they could have and they probably should have they should have said

00:43:08.580 we are just recovering now four years after unelecting the ndp that's how long it has taken for us to even

00:43:18.520 get back to boom country and uh if the ndp were given another four years in power i don't think we would

00:43:28.120 ever recover well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody

00:43:33.860 back here in the same time in the same place next week and as always remember don't let the government

00:43:39.100 tell you that you've had too much to think

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Rebel News Podcast - June 01, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Is climate change causing wildfire seasons to be worse？

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