Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ New year, same old climate change weather conflation

00:00:00.000 Everything the climate activists got wrong in 2022.

00:00:03.180 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:22.680 You know, it would frankly be impossible for me to predict

00:00:25.300 what the environmentalists are going to try to do to us next.

00:00:28.280 I mean, they can't predict the weather

00:00:30.460 and I can't predict their radical irrational behavior

00:00:35.400 and their radical irrational reactions to things we used to call weather

00:00:39.780 that they now call extreme weather events caused by climate change

00:00:43.640 which is apparently caused by the comforts of modern existence.

00:00:48.900 Now, someone who has carefully documented the failings of the environmentalist movement

00:00:53.500 and how they continue to get everything wrong

00:00:57.300 while also simultaneously stating that they have crystal ball access

00:01:03.360 to what weather is going to be like in the future

00:01:05.400 is Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition Canada

00:01:09.200 and he has even been covered by Fox News for his roundup

00:01:14.340 of all the inaccuracies of the climate movement in 2022.

00:01:20.060 So joining me now is good friend of the show, Tom Harris.

00:01:31.020 So joining me now is good friend of the show, Tom Harris

00:01:34.520 from the International Climate Science Coalition Canada

00:01:37.340 and Tom has done an incredible roundup of, I guess,

00:01:42.180 the things that the other side got wrong about climate change

00:01:45.760 which for me is normally everything in 2022.

00:01:52.420 So I wanted to ask you about that

00:01:54.020 and hopefully we can go through that together

00:01:55.400 because, you know, these are also the same people

00:01:58.480 who are telling us to trust the experts,

00:02:01.460 trust the science, follow the science

00:02:03.060 and when we do, they get everything wrong.

00:02:04.800 But I wanted to talk to you about, you know,

00:02:09.040 where is this going?

00:02:10.220 What does the future of climate science bring?

00:02:13.300 Well, you know, it's interesting

00:02:14.560 because we don't really know the future of climate change

00:02:17.900 and, you know, interestingly enough, Chris Essex, for example,

00:02:21.300 who's a applied mathematician,

00:02:23.400 he just retired from Western University,

00:02:25.920 University of Western Ontario.

00:02:27.360 He says that not only do we not understand the climate,

00:02:31.320 but we will probably never be able to forecast climate.

00:02:34.800 The reason is that it's such an incredibly complex system.

00:02:38.700 You know, the biggest computers in the world,

00:02:40.780 if you use them to try to forecast climate change

00:02:43.680 and you included all the parameters that matter,

00:02:46.020 it would take longer for the computer programs to run

00:02:49.220 than it would for nature to actually unfold.

00:02:52.260 In other words, let's say the computer program

00:02:54.580 was forecasting climate for 10 years from now.

00:02:57.500 It would take more than 10 years for today's best computers

00:03:00.700 to even model that and to even give us an answer.

00:03:03.760 So the fact is, we cannot forecast future climate.

00:03:08.320 And I think the appropriate attitude for most people

00:03:10.660 is to be skeptical.

00:03:12.560 And, you know, Dr. Ball, and we'll talk about him in a second

00:03:15.120 because he was my hero.

00:03:17.000 Unfortunately, Dr. Tim Ball passed away

00:03:19.060 just a few months ago.

00:03:21.620 But when Dr. Ball was criticized as being a skeptic,

00:03:24.640 he would say, thank you,

00:03:26.740 because you're supposed to be a skeptic.

00:03:28.940 I mean, that's what science is all about.

00:03:31.080 People propose hypotheses

00:03:32.880 and your job is to try to prove them wrong, okay?

00:03:37.040 And of course, that's what he did.

00:03:38.500 And he wrote a lot of articles with me.

00:03:40.100 Here's one, for example, Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris

00:03:43.500 about Kyoto.

00:03:45.080 And we did that for years and years

00:03:46.620 and hundreds and hundreds of articles

00:03:48.160 that Tim wrote either by himself

00:03:50.740 or that I co-authored with him.

00:03:53.380 And, you know, he was the Lifetime Achievement Award winner

00:03:56.180 from the Heartland Institute just a few years ago.

00:03:59.060 So, I mean, Tim Ball, I mean,

00:04:00.500 if anybody deserves an order of Canada,

00:04:03.220 it's Dr. Tim Ball.

00:04:04.580 I mean, he was really, really a hero, you know?

00:04:07.740 So I'm going to miss him a great deal.

00:04:10.080 In fact, I already am missing him a great deal.

00:04:12.520 But where is climate going in the future?

00:04:14.860 That's a good question.

00:04:16.600 As I say, we're never going to be able

00:04:18.480 to forecast climate change properly

00:04:20.640 because it's simply too complicated.

00:04:22.440 But it now appears that the human influence

00:04:26.320 is less than the noise and the signal, okay?

00:04:29.900 In other words, it's like you're trying to tune in

00:04:31.900 an AM radio station

00:04:33.240 and the station is weaker than the static, okay?

00:04:36.920 You know, I'm just going to interrupt you here

00:04:38.380 for a second because,

00:04:39.640 and I refer to this little experiment

00:04:41.400 that Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science

00:04:43.600 did one time

00:04:44.440 because it was so common sense.

00:04:47.680 And I just thought, you know,

00:04:49.680 we could, if we all just thought about testing

00:04:52.460 the theories of the climate activists

00:04:54.740 just once in your own backyard,

00:04:56.600 you would rethink everything.

00:04:58.860 Her theory was,

00:05:00.140 you literally cannot tell the temperature

00:05:02.040 in your own backyard.

00:05:03.240 You can't.

00:05:04.340 You can only tell the temperature

00:05:05.500 at one location

00:05:07.000 where exactly that thermometer is

00:05:09.040 because five feet away,

00:05:10.680 a different set of conditions

00:05:11.880 is going to change all of it

00:05:13.680 by, you know, sometimes 10 degrees.

00:05:16.220 She said, you can't tell it in your backyard.

00:05:20.040 How can you tell it across the face of the earth?

00:05:22.280 How can they say

00:05:23.080 you have to stay under 2.5 degrees Celsius

00:05:26.120 of global temperature rays

00:05:28.240 across the surface of the earth?

00:05:30.400 How do you even measure that number?

00:05:32.200 And if you can't measure that number,

00:05:33.440 how do you predict the future?

00:05:34.700 And all she did was go in her backyard,

00:05:36.460 put a bunch of thermometers around

00:05:38.220 and then just come back in an hour

00:05:40.100 and measure them.

00:05:40.820 And she was like, see,

00:05:42.660 how would they ever be able to measure

00:05:45.280 the temperature of the surface of the earth

00:05:46.820 to even get a mean temperature

00:05:50.280 from which to start?

00:05:51.680 They can't.

00:05:52.380 Well, that's right.

00:05:53.480 And Michelle was brilliant to do that, actually,

00:05:55.640 because it showed in just a small area

00:05:57.640 that it doesn't make any sense

00:05:59.080 to talk about average temperature.

00:06:00.640 But, you know,

00:06:01.140 one of the things that people have got to realize

00:06:02.980 is that average temperature of the earth,

00:06:05.680 first of all, doesn't exist.

00:06:07.180 It's not a temperature.

00:06:08.300 Right.

00:06:08.580 It's just a statistic,

00:06:10.280 but it doesn't matter in the least.

00:06:12.520 OK, and I'll show you why it doesn't matter.

00:06:14.880 Let's say half of the earth got five degrees warmer

00:06:17.780 and half of the earth got five degrees colder.

00:06:20.740 That temperature difference would drive extreme weather

00:06:23.560 like you would never believe.

00:06:24.960 And yet the average temperature would stay the same.

00:06:29.280 OK, so, you know,

00:06:30.720 and I just want to give one quick analogy about science

00:06:33.500 that people have got to understand here.

00:06:35.740 You know, in high school,

00:06:36.860 our chemistry teacher gave us all a box

00:06:39.560 and he said, shake the box

00:06:41.460 and try to figure out what's in it.

00:06:45.060 Don't open it.

00:06:46.280 OK, this is like science.

00:06:47.960 Science, you have to look at the evidence.

00:06:50.000 You have to, in this case, weigh it.

00:06:51.720 You have to shake it.

00:06:52.560 Hear what it sounds like.

00:06:53.720 It seems solid.

00:06:54.920 He said, never open this in your entire life.

00:06:57.600 And when you start to get too confident

00:06:59.480 about what science is,

00:07:01.340 the truth, you know, that sort of thing,

00:07:03.240 shake your little box and realize,

00:07:04.820 no, we don't know what the truth is

00:07:07.560 with respect to science.

00:07:08.740 We know what the truth is with respect to chess.

00:07:11.500 OK, we know that the queen moves in a certain way

00:07:13.760 and the rook moves in a certain way.

00:07:15.760 But science is like this box.

00:07:17.700 All we have is the evidence

00:07:19.200 and the way we shake it

00:07:20.460 and the way we listen to it

00:07:21.640 and the way we weigh it.

00:07:23.520 OK, and all of that is subject

00:07:25.120 to your interpretation.

00:07:27.700 And that's one of the things

00:07:28.700 that people just don't seem to get.

00:07:30.260 You know, I took a course a few years ago

00:07:32.300 in the philosophy of science.

00:07:34.620 And the professor was Professor Stephen Goldman

00:07:36.840 from Lehigh University in Chicago.

00:07:39.100 And he's a brilliant man.

00:07:40.700 He had a degree in physics

00:07:41.740 and then he went in to do a PhD in philosophy.

00:07:44.520 But the point he made is that

00:07:45.960 while he thought that we did have

00:07:48.120 a climate emergency,

00:07:49.700 he said that Al Gore's claims to truth

00:07:52.400 are impossible in science

00:07:55.020 because truth,

00:07:56.340 if you actually look at the definition,

00:07:57.960 you go back to the Greeks 1.00

00:07:59.020 and you talk about Plato and all that,

00:08:01.120 truth is universal, necessary and certain.

00:08:04.700 OK, and there's nothing in science

00:08:07.080 that universal, necessary and certain.

00:08:09.100 It just isn't the case.

00:08:10.340 It's always a function

00:08:11.620 of what experiments you look at.

00:08:13.700 You know, did you shake the box?

00:08:15.500 Did you wave the box?

00:08:16.980 You know, did you listen to it?

00:08:18.740 It's dependent on the experiments you do.

00:08:20.980 And here's the really important factor,

00:08:23.740 your interpretation of the experiment.

00:08:26.220 OK, you may know about metal sounding hard,

00:08:28.840 but maybe somebody who's in a primitive society

00:08:31.240 would never have heard of metal.

00:08:32.560 So they wouldn't necessarily think

00:08:34.080 it was made of metal.

00:08:35.220 So the whole point is that all we can do,

00:08:37.580 and this is where Dr. Ball's statement

00:08:39.380 is so brilliant.

00:08:40.760 All we can do is be skeptical

00:08:42.980 of people's claims to truth about science,

00:08:46.620 because based on this so-called truth,

00:08:49.360 what we're seeing is a destruction

00:08:51.560 of our economy,

00:08:53.480 a destruction of our most valuable energy sources,

00:08:56.040 all of it based on a supposed truth

00:08:58.520 that's actually impossible.

00:09:01.240 Well, and it's a destruction

00:09:03.620 of the idea of science in general.

00:09:06.860 Oh, yeah.

00:09:07.220 That you're just supposed to take

00:09:08.280 some guy's word for it.

00:09:10.140 That's why, again,

00:09:11.140 why Michelle's little experiment

00:09:12.460 was so brilliant.

00:09:13.440 She said they keep talking

00:09:14.500 about this global temperature,

00:09:16.580 but here you can do this at home.

00:09:20.100 Surely you have a thermometer at home.

00:09:22.340 Yeah.

00:09:22.640 Just try.

00:09:23.340 Yeah, and I haven't seen a super being

00:09:26.180 that straddles the planet

00:09:28.160 that experiences global temperature.

00:09:30.660 I mean, who cares what global temperature is?

00:09:33.020 I mean, all that matters

00:09:34.240 is what happens in your region, okay?

00:09:36.680 And in most regions of Canada,

00:09:38.520 there's nothing unusual going on.

00:09:40.340 So this article,

00:09:41.940 or this is a fact checks

00:09:43.160 that we put out.

00:09:44.120 I love it.

00:09:44.920 What we did is we went through

00:09:46.420 the various statements by the media.

00:09:49.000 And of course, Pakistan floods.

00:09:50.660 Oh, my God, 1,700 people died.

00:09:52.840 That's serious.

00:09:53.680 There's no question about it

00:09:54.820 between June and October.

00:09:56.340 And this is caused by climate change,

00:09:58.420 they said.

00:09:59.300 Oh, but they didn't tell you

00:10:01.040 that the last time it was this wet

00:10:02.960 was in 1961.

00:10:04.820 Oh, so did climate change cause that?

00:10:06.740 No, no.

00:10:07.080 It's only the more recent one.

00:10:08.700 So what you find is a couple of factors.

00:10:11.060 First of all,

00:10:12.260 the kind of monsoon rain they've had

00:10:14.820 is not out of the natural variability.

00:10:17.080 In fact, overall,

00:10:18.580 since the 1950s,

00:10:19.920 we're finding that

00:10:21.040 the monsoon rainfall

00:10:22.480 has actually dropped, okay?

00:10:24.100 It was an unusually wet year

00:10:25.700 during the summer.

00:10:26.780 But the other factor is this.

00:10:28.320 The Pakistanis have actually 1.00

00:10:29.740 deforested a lot of their country.

00:10:32.560 I bet they wish

00:10:34.280 they had fossil fuels.

00:10:35.700 Yeah.

00:10:35.900 They're just deforesting

00:10:37.040 and burning trees

00:10:37.880 for fuel and heat.

00:10:39.660 That's right.

00:10:40.820 But you see,

00:10:41.700 if you have a forest,

00:10:42.920 most of the rain that falls

00:10:44.460 actually gets absorbed

00:10:45.820 by the roots

00:10:46.600 and then re-emitted

00:10:47.880 back into the atmosphere

00:10:49.080 through the pores

00:10:50.000 and leaves called stomata.

00:10:52.060 And that actually

00:10:53.160 is called transpiration.

00:10:54.760 So you don't get

00:10:55.720 the buildup of water

00:10:56.840 when there's a forest.

00:10:58.040 The other thing is

00:10:58.900 that the forest roots

00:11:00.080 hold the ground in place.

00:11:02.160 So when you do have,

00:11:03.560 you know,

00:11:03.880 a flash flood,

00:11:04.940 it doesn't take away,

00:11:06.420 you know,

00:11:06.940 landslides and stuff.

00:11:08.700 So yeah,

00:11:09.220 that is more of a factor,

00:11:10.660 much more of a factor

00:11:11.500 than any climatic effects.

00:11:13.540 It's the destruction

00:11:14.580 of their forests.

00:11:16.080 And, you know,

00:11:16.320 the forests are great

00:11:17.080 because, of course,

00:11:17.700 they give shade.

00:11:18.760 But they also,

00:11:19.560 when they're releasing

00:11:20.260 the water vapor

00:11:21.140 into the air,

00:11:22.240 there's another cooling effect.

00:11:23.640 And that is that

00:11:24.300 the water vapor itself

00:11:25.460 is like a mist

00:11:26.400 and eventually forms clouds

00:11:28.140 and it cools the planet.

00:11:29.680 So yeah,

00:11:30.020 the Pakistani floods,

00:11:31.400 yeah,

00:11:31.540 if they want to have less floods,

00:11:33.560 don't cut down

00:11:34.200 all their forests.

00:11:35.140 I mean,

00:11:35.360 that's a real environmental issue.

00:11:37.560 Yeah.

00:11:37.820 Maybe have some natural gas

00:11:39.420 to heat your homes

00:11:41.240 and cook your food.

00:11:42.360 And people have to realize,

00:11:43.160 you know,

00:11:43.840 coal saved Britain's trees.

00:11:46.280 Sure.

00:11:46.580 People talk about coal

00:11:47.760 as if it's this great

00:11:48.680 environmentally destructive thing.

00:11:50.220 I think I have a piece of coal here.

00:11:51.740 Just let me reach over.

00:11:53.080 Yeah,

00:11:53.360 here's a piece of coal.

00:11:54.480 This is from Kentucky.

00:11:56.320 Okay.

00:11:56.740 It's from eastern Kentucky

00:11:57.700 and it's a very solid piece

00:11:59.800 of very nice bituminous coal.

00:12:01.880 And the bottom line

00:12:03.640 is that

00:12:04.100 before they were using coal,

00:12:06.400 they were cutting down

00:12:07.100 all their trees,

00:12:08.080 not just for the ships

00:12:09.520 and everything,

00:12:10.140 but also for fuel.

00:12:12.180 So at coal actually

00:12:14.400 was a very good development.

00:12:15.800 Now that we've designed

00:12:16.760 much more clean

00:12:17.880 burning methods of coal,

00:12:19.400 there's no way Alberta

00:12:20.520 should be going off coal.

00:12:22.020 I mean,

00:12:22.260 the impact of Ontario

00:12:23.600 going from about

00:12:24.460 a quarter of our electricity

00:12:25.700 by coal

00:12:27.200 in around 2000,

00:12:28.940 2002,

00:12:30.240 because Dalton McGinty,

00:12:31.240 our previous prime minister

00:12:32.420 or premier,

00:12:33.200 he said he put a big pile

00:12:34.700 of coal on a table

00:12:35.800 in a press conference

00:12:36.660 and said,

00:12:37.560 this is all technology.

00:12:39.040 We're going to get rid of it.

00:12:40.640 Okay.

00:12:41.140 And he did.

00:12:41.980 He got rid of it.

00:12:42.680 It's like virtually zero.

00:12:44.020 It is 0% electricity now.

00:12:46.020 And they had virtually

00:12:47.220 a doubling of electricity prices

00:12:49.380 as a consequence

00:12:50.300 because coal is very cheap.

00:12:52.280 And China knows that.

00:12:53.720 India know that.

00:12:54.840 And so they're progressing.

00:12:56.240 No matter what we do,

00:12:57.260 they're pushing coal

00:12:58.600 to the limit.

00:13:00.040 I mean,

00:13:00.160 we're going to see coal stations

00:13:01.300 literally for decades

00:13:02.780 being built by China.

00:13:04.080 So what we do

00:13:05.500 has no impact anyway.

00:13:07.400 Right.

00:13:07.740 And that pursuit

00:13:08.660 of green energy

00:13:09.500 and phasing out coal

00:13:10.340 caused the manufacturing industry

00:13:11.960 to collapse in Ontario

00:13:13.340 because it just became

00:13:14.200 too expensive.

00:13:15.320 Yeah.

00:13:15.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:13:16.500 And of course,

00:13:17.000 a poor society

00:13:17.860 can't protect

00:13:18.520 the environment anyways.

00:13:19.820 Right.

00:13:20.020 So, I mean,

00:13:20.360 if you're really concerned

00:13:21.700 about protecting

00:13:22.740 the environment,

00:13:23.220 you want to have prosperity

00:13:24.640 and you want to have it

00:13:26.380 for another reason.

00:13:27.700 You know,

00:13:27.920 one of the issues

00:13:28.540 we looked at

00:13:29.060 was Hurricane Ian.

00:13:30.740 You know,

00:13:30.920 they said,

00:13:31.260 oh, it's caused

00:13:31.860 by climate change.

00:13:32.840 Well, again,

00:13:33.520 that's ridiculous.

00:13:34.760 I mean,

00:13:35.200 it was one of the most

00:13:36.860 damaging storms

00:13:37.700 in American history.

00:13:39.180 But why is that?

00:13:40.600 It's because there was

00:13:41.300 more stuff to knock down.

00:13:43.460 Right.

00:13:44.240 Yeah.

00:13:44.880 A hundred years ago.

00:13:46.520 In the last hundred years,

00:13:48.300 there's been a 13-fold

00:13:50.120 increase in infrastructure.

00:13:51.800 So that if you go

00:13:52.640 to a beach in Florida

00:13:53.700 where there was one hotel

00:13:55.560 a hundred years ago,

00:13:57.040 you know,

00:13:57.360 statistically,

00:13:58.120 there's 13 now.

00:13:59.780 So while they're built better,

00:14:01.680 there's just a lot more

00:14:02.720 to knock down.

00:14:04.260 And so,

00:14:04.660 of course,

00:14:04.900 you're going to have

00:14:05.340 more damage.

00:14:06.420 But, you know,

00:14:06.800 you have to remember

00:14:07.480 that the past hurricane season

00:14:09.180 was actually a fairly quiet season

00:14:11.420 until Hurricane Ian came along.

00:14:13.640 And then the NOAA,

00:14:15.320 National Oceanic

00:14:16.320 and Atmospheric Administration,

00:14:17.720 American government,

00:14:19.140 here's what they said.

00:14:20.580 There is no strong evidence

00:14:22.220 of century-scale

00:14:23.580 increasing trends

00:14:24.940 in U.S. landfalling hurricanes

00:14:27.100 or major hurricanes.

00:14:28.280 Similarly,

00:14:29.400 for Atlantic-wide,

00:14:31.080 Atlantic-basin-wide

00:14:32.700 hurricane frequency,

00:14:33.740 and again,

00:14:34.180 this is the American government,

00:14:35.720 okay?

00:14:35.980 Media don't like to report on it.

00:14:37.480 Right.

00:14:38.120 There is not strong evidence

00:14:39.840 for an increase

00:14:40.680 since the late 1800s

00:14:43.040 in hurricanes,

00:14:44.300 major hurricanes,

00:14:45.060 or the proportion of hurricanes

00:14:46.300 that reach

00:14:46.940 major hurricane intensity.

00:14:49.000 So to say that

00:14:50.140 we are causing it

00:14:51.220 from our greenhouse gas emissions

00:14:53.420 is doubly wrong.

00:14:55.040 First of all,

00:14:55.640 that doesn't contribute

00:14:56.440 to hurricanes,

00:14:57.000 but there hasn't been

00:14:58.240 an increase anyway.

00:14:59.540 Right.

00:14:59.660 So what are they talking about?

00:15:02.900 And I think that brings us

00:15:04.140 to the European drought

00:15:05.060 because,

00:15:05.940 once again,

00:15:07.440 as with every weather condition,

00:15:09.320 literally every weather condition,

00:15:11.360 somehow caused by climate change,

00:15:13.380 as you rightly point out,

00:15:15.840 Europe experienced

00:15:16.680 its most severe drought

00:15:17.660 in 500 years.

00:15:20.180 But I don't know

00:15:21.200 how my comfortable SUV

00:15:22.420 went back in time

00:15:23.560 and caused the last mega drought.

00:15:25.740 So there's nothing

00:15:26.420 that Jeep can't do,

00:15:27.560 apparently.

00:15:28.420 Yeah, 1540

00:15:29.640 was the last mega drought.

00:15:31.340 But, you know,

00:15:32.040 it's interesting, Sheila,

00:15:32.840 I'm going to send you a link

00:15:33.940 that you might want to share

00:15:34.880 with people later.

00:15:36.340 And it is the actual

00:15:37.620 extreme weather record

00:15:39.060 for all U.S. states,

00:15:41.080 OK,

00:15:41.360 put out by the National Oceanic

00:15:42.980 and Atmospheric Administration.

00:15:44.360 It's the best of its kind

00:15:45.840 in the world.

00:15:46.420 And, you know,

00:15:46.660 it's a pretty big area,

00:15:47.740 the whole U.S.

00:15:48.640 And what you find

00:15:50.000 is if you look at it,

00:15:51.080 you see 50 states

00:15:52.340 with at least five records

00:15:54.200 per state,

00:15:54.820 maximum temperature,

00:15:55.760 minimum temperature,

00:15:56.640 most snow,

00:15:57.200 most rain,

00:15:57.800 highest wind,

00:15:58.660 that sort of thing.

00:15:59.240 Sometimes there's other ones

00:16:00.260 like snow depth

00:16:01.500 or hail

00:16:02.020 or things like that.

00:16:02.780 So at least 250 records.

00:16:05.640 And what you find

00:16:06.620 is that,

00:16:07.740 you know how many records

00:16:08.660 were set in 2022?

00:16:11.600 None.

00:16:12.760 Zero.

00:16:13.680 OK?

00:16:14.200 Now, statistically,

00:16:15.260 with that many records

00:16:16.320 being kept,

00:16:16.840 you'd expect at least

00:16:17.840 to have a few every year.

00:16:19.680 If you go back to 1936,

00:16:22.620 you find that there were

00:16:23.700 27 extreme weather records

00:16:26.020 set for states.

00:16:27.280 27 in one year.

00:16:28.880 And those records

00:16:29.920 still stand.

00:16:31.400 OK?

00:16:31.800 So that is the best database

00:16:33.880 in the world of its kind.

00:16:35.240 And it just doesn't

00:16:36.360 support the narrative.

00:16:37.780 So obviously,

00:16:38.680 Biden's ignoring it.

00:16:39.700 But concerning

00:16:40.780 the European drought,

00:16:42.220 we got to look at

00:16:43.060 what did the IPCC say

00:16:45.020 itself?

00:16:46.020 OK?

00:16:46.140 Because often

00:16:46.920 what you have

00:16:48.020 is the summary

00:16:48.940 for policymakers

00:16:50.040 distorts it.

00:16:51.480 Coming out

00:16:51.900 in the next few weeks

00:16:52.820 will be the synthesis report,

00:16:54.940 the IPCC AR5

00:16:56.800 assessment report

00:16:58.020 6, I mean.

00:16:59.540 It's going to be

00:17:00.200 the synthesis report

00:17:01.280 which summarizes

00:17:02.200 all the most recent reports.

00:17:04.180 And this is written

00:17:05.040 for lay people

00:17:05.880 and politicians.

00:17:06.640 So you can be sure

00:17:07.780 that they're going to

00:17:08.640 bring up things

00:17:09.240 like the drought

00:17:09.980 and say how terrible it is.

00:17:11.320 But if you actually

00:17:12.360 look into the science

00:17:13.780 of the AR6 reports,

00:17:16.400 you find that

00:17:17.220 they actually say this.

00:17:19.000 They say,

00:17:19.680 with respect to

00:17:21.740 hydrological drought,

00:17:23.160 OK, that's when

00:17:23.620 you don't have enough rain,

00:17:25.020 prolonged periods

00:17:25.760 of normal,

00:17:26.540 below normal precipitation

00:17:29.160 in Western

00:17:30.260 and Central Europe,

00:17:31.820 the IPCC said this,

00:17:33.720 in areas of Western

00:17:35.180 and Central Europe

00:17:36.040 and Northern Europe,

00:17:37.180 there is no evidence

00:17:38.360 of changes

00:17:39.040 in the severity

00:17:39.880 of hydrological droughts

00:17:41.560 since 1950.

00:17:43.340 And if you actually

00:17:44.160 look at the literature,

00:17:45.080 of course,

00:17:45.540 the IPCC is supposedly

00:17:46.680 based on the literature.

00:17:48.180 You see, for example,

00:17:49.100 this study here,

00:17:50.440 Vincent Serrano et al.

00:17:52.420 Et al.

00:17:52.940 It's quite a few of them,

00:17:54.060 I guess.

00:17:54.820 2020.

00:17:55.780 They looked at

00:17:56.380 long-term trends

00:17:57.380 in the drought

00:17:58.240 in Western Europe

00:17:59.120 from 1851 to 2018.

00:18:02.340 So pretty long-term.

00:18:03.720 And they said this,

00:18:05.680 our study stresses

00:18:06.900 that from the long-term

00:18:08.760 perspective,

00:18:09.720 that's 1851 to 2018,

00:18:12.040 there is no generally

00:18:13.560 consistent trends

00:18:14.620 in droughts

00:18:15.180 across Western Europe.

00:18:16.560 And, you know,

00:18:16.980 I have other papers here

00:18:17.960 that say a similar thing.

00:18:19.280 And if you actually

00:18:19.900 have a look at

00:18:20.720 the severity of drought

00:18:22.940 across Europe

00:18:23.780 as a graph

00:18:24.660 from 1870 to now,

00:18:27.420 like, there is no trend.

00:18:29.300 And again,

00:18:29.600 I'll send you that graph too

00:18:30.660 because it's very,

00:18:31.940 very revealing

00:18:32.520 and it shows that

00:18:33.520 once again,

00:18:34.680 the media are out

00:18:36.160 to lunch.

00:18:38.840 Likewise,

00:18:39.440 with the China drought,

00:18:40.420 same thing.

00:18:41.560 Any weather

00:18:42.660 is climate change.

00:18:44.560 In Alberta here,

00:18:45.840 by the way,

00:18:46.520 we,

00:18:47.640 the rest of the world

00:18:48.700 is worried about

00:18:49.300 extreme heat

00:18:50.440 and droughts.

00:18:51.440 I think it was

00:18:51.960 in the first two weeks

00:18:53.000 of December,

00:18:53.960 we broke over 40

00:18:55.980 low temperature records

00:18:57.700 here in Alberta.

00:18:58.800 Alberta and they tell me

00:19:00.400 that Alberta

00:19:00.900 is going to spell

00:19:01.620 the end of the earth

00:19:03.420 because of our oil

00:19:04.440 and gas development.

00:19:06.080 But there were points

00:19:06.860 at which we were,

00:19:07.720 I think,

00:19:08.640 the coldest place

00:19:09.880 on the face of the earth.

00:19:11.120 I routinely woke up

00:19:12.200 to minus 47.

00:19:14.140 Oh,

00:19:14.460 wow.

00:19:15.060 Yeah.

00:19:15.740 Yeah.

00:19:16.140 I used to live

00:19:16.820 in Cold Lake

00:19:17.520 just before the

00:19:18.360 oil sands

00:19:18.800 really took off.

00:19:20.060 I worked in the airport.

00:19:21.040 So,

00:19:21.140 you know,

00:19:21.620 you know.

00:19:23.240 I can remember

00:19:24.300 wearing a balaclava

00:19:25.780 and walking

00:19:26.640 from building

00:19:27.200 to building

00:19:27.720 because I didn't

00:19:28.080 want to stay outside

00:19:28.980 for the 10 minutes

00:19:29.840 it took to get to work.

00:19:31.200 You know,

00:19:31.580 I just wanted to read

00:19:32.680 you one thing

00:19:33.160 really quick.

00:19:33.580 This is

00:19:34.100 Climate Change

00:19:34.920 Reconsidered

00:19:35.780 and they say

00:19:37.280 this is at

00:19:38.240 climatechangereconsidered.org

00:19:40.460 Here's what they say

00:19:41.900 about flooding.

00:19:44.560 It says

00:19:44.920 the historical record

00:19:45.960 suggests no global trend

00:19:47.700 towards increasing flooding

00:19:49.340 in the modern era.

00:19:51.340 While proxy data,

00:19:52.680 that's data

00:19:53.300 from things like

00:19:54.340 seashells

00:19:55.180 and,

00:19:55.460 you know,

00:19:55.900 trees,

00:19:56.480 tree rings,

00:19:56.980 things like that.

00:19:57.860 Proxy data

00:19:58.520 give a contradictory

00:19:59.520 picture of major floods

00:20:01.880 due to natural causes

00:20:03.760 more flooding

00:20:04.880 during cold periods

00:20:06.340 than warm times.

00:20:07.480 So,

00:20:07.800 you know,

00:20:08.020 this is one thing

00:20:08.800 they get completely backwards.

00:20:10.700 They're constantly saying,

00:20:11.900 you know,

00:20:12.200 with global warming

00:20:12.940 we'll have more extreme weather.

00:20:14.380 But then they say

00:20:15.640 in the next breath,

00:20:16.860 they say,

00:20:17.820 and the warming

00:20:18.520 will occur most

00:20:19.660 in the Arctic.

00:20:20.700 And you think,

00:20:21.320 oh,

00:20:21.960 well,

00:20:22.140 what is it that drives weather?

00:20:23.880 It's the temperature difference

00:20:25.320 and pressure difference

00:20:26.180 between high and mid latitudes

00:20:28.100 on Earth.

00:20:29.540 So,

00:20:29.800 if temperatures

00:20:30.280 rising in the Arctic

00:20:31.680 more than the rest

00:20:32.500 of the world,

00:20:33.380 that means

00:20:34.060 the temperature difference

00:20:35.220 between the Arctic

00:20:36.020 and lower latitudes

00:20:37.060 would be less.

00:20:38.320 So,

00:20:38.660 the driver

00:20:39.280 of extreme weather

00:20:40.280 is weaker.

00:20:41.740 It's in a warmer world

00:20:43.180 where we have

00:20:43.740 more tranquil weather.

00:20:45.240 And,

00:20:45.360 you know,

00:20:45.580 Sally Ballunas,

00:20:46.340 who was from

00:20:46.820 Harvard University,

00:20:48.460 she pointed out

00:20:49.280 that on the shore

00:20:51.640 of England

00:20:52.500 during the Little Ice Age,

00:20:54.180 you know,

00:20:54.420 16,

00:20:54.880 1700s,

00:20:55.920 we saw total towns

00:20:57.460 washed away

00:20:58.300 by floods.

00:20:59.220 It was storms

00:21:00.060 in the cold period.

00:21:01.040 The Chinese 0.89

00:21:01.760 found the same thing.

00:21:03.020 In fact,

00:21:03.380 here,

00:21:03.680 you know,

00:21:04.140 concerning the China drought,

00:21:05.700 it's really important

00:21:06.520 to look at

00:21:07.040 when did China

00:21:08.100 set its record

00:21:09.080 for the worst drought

00:21:10.760 in the last

00:21:11.600 thousand years.

00:21:13.220 It was in the,

00:21:14.720 it was called

00:21:15.200 the Ming Dynasty

00:21:16.340 mega drought,

00:21:17.580 1637 to 1643,

00:21:19.920 and actually led

00:21:21.000 to the change

00:21:21.880 of dynasties.

00:21:23.000 And that was

00:21:23.920 such a significant event

00:21:25.260 for two reasons.

00:21:26.260 One,

00:21:26.620 there was a natural

00:21:27.600 drought going on,

00:21:28.680 but there was

00:21:29.500 also a strong

00:21:30.940 volcano,

00:21:31.760 a volcanic eruption

00:21:32.460 in 1641.

00:21:36.120 And for various

00:21:37.120 complicated

00:21:37.680 meteorological reasons,

00:21:39.100 when you have

00:21:39.760 a volcano

00:21:40.380 at the same time

00:21:41.200 as a drought,

00:21:42.320 it emphasizes

00:21:43.280 and worsens

00:21:44.240 the drought.

00:21:45.320 Okay,

00:21:45.480 so once again,

00:21:46.660 the record

00:21:47.480 was set

00:21:48.220 for China

00:21:48.940 in 1637.

00:21:51.740 Like,

00:21:52.080 what's going on?

00:21:52.980 Come on.

00:21:53.560 my SUV

00:21:55.280 strikes again.

00:21:56.720 Yeah,

00:21:57.160 again,

00:21:57.480 nothing they can't do.

00:21:58.260 They were pretty advanced.

00:21:59.440 They must have

00:21:59.900 coal-fired power stations.

00:22:01.720 And, you know,

00:22:02.220 it goes on and on.

00:22:03.060 I mean,

00:22:03.280 the famine

00:22:03.700 and the horn of Africa.

00:22:05.080 Okay,

00:22:05.240 the nearby countries

00:22:06.260 to Somalia

00:22:07.080 didn't have the famine

00:22:09.020 because even though

00:22:10.200 they also had drought,

00:22:11.960 they didn't have

00:22:12.800 a collapsed

00:22:13.560 farming system

00:22:14.460 the way Somalia

00:22:15.240 is just broken down.

00:22:16.780 And, you know,

00:22:17.060 Somalia is a great example 1.00

00:22:18.400 of what happens

00:22:19.500 if your country

00:22:20.160 gets too poor

00:22:21.260 and falls into

00:22:22.600 complete chaos

00:22:23.720 like it is

00:22:24.300 in much of Somalia

00:22:25.680 over the past few decades.

00:22:27.280 What happens

00:22:28.140 is environmental concerns

00:22:29.340 just go out the window.

00:22:30.780 I mean,

00:22:31.140 when people are struggling

00:22:32.240 to survive,

00:22:33.320 when, you know,

00:22:33.940 they're more worried

00:22:34.780 about their personal security

00:22:36.180 and water clear,

00:22:38.240 you know,

00:22:38.580 having good water,

00:22:39.960 then they're not worried

00:22:41.120 about the environment.

00:22:42.020 So,

00:22:42.380 the long-term impact

00:22:43.820 of the climate movement

00:22:45.580 will be to make us poor

00:22:48.020 and unable

00:22:49.160 to protect the environment.

00:22:50.220 And we just looked

00:22:51.120 to Somalia

00:22:51.800 and we can see

00:22:52.580 exactly that.

00:22:53.700 But Somalia's famine

00:22:55.120 was mainly caused

00:22:56.160 by political instability,

00:22:58.760 you know,

00:22:59.040 the fact that

00:22:59.780 how can you have

00:23:01.000 a well-functioning farm

00:23:02.760 if you're,

00:23:03.300 you know,

00:23:03.500 have bombs going off

00:23:04.360 all over the place.

00:23:05.320 Yeah, the place

00:23:05.860 is run by warlords.

00:23:07.700 Yeah.

00:23:08.000 I'm not sure

00:23:08.860 climate change

00:23:09.540 is a big concern

00:23:10.420 for that.

00:23:11.780 Well,

00:23:12.280 I don't think

00:23:12.860 they even have

00:23:13.420 a central government,

00:23:14.320 do they?

00:23:14.860 No.

00:23:15.680 No,

00:23:15.920 it's a failed state

00:23:16.940 completely.

00:23:18.040 Yeah.

00:23:18.500 And sadly,

00:23:19.460 if we actually

00:23:20.640 follow the direction

00:23:21.760 the climate activists

00:23:22.720 are going,

00:23:23.260 it's moving us

00:23:23.940 in that direction.

00:23:25.000 The other point,

00:23:25.720 of course,

00:23:26.020 is that if we get rid

00:23:27.420 of our solid,

00:23:28.780 dependable fossil fuels,

00:23:30.360 what we saw in Texas

00:23:31.620 in 2021,

00:23:33.040 February 2021,

00:23:34.320 where they had

00:23:35.680 more than 58,

00:23:36.880 about 58%

00:23:37.900 of their electricity

00:23:38.780 was coming

00:23:39.420 from wind power,

00:23:40.760 okay,

00:23:40.980 because they wanted

00:23:41.520 to be green,

00:23:42.260 you know,

00:23:42.540 they were leading

00:23:43.280 the nation

00:23:43.840 in wind power.

00:23:45.620 And what happened

00:23:46.720 is just before

00:23:47.440 that storm hit

00:23:48.340 in February

00:23:48.980 of last year,

00:23:49.980 two years ago now,

00:23:50.940 we saw the wind

00:23:52.620 totally fail.

00:23:54.000 And so the wind

00:23:54.800 turbines,

00:23:55.320 partly because

00:23:55.760 they were frozen,

00:23:56.700 but also because

00:23:57.500 there wasn't much wind,

00:23:58.720 they stopped

00:23:59.400 generating power.

00:24:00.560 And so suddenly,

00:24:01.360 the state lost

00:24:02.740 half of its electricity

00:24:04.080 almost overnight,

00:24:05.500 and then it also

00:24:07.060 got really cold.

00:24:08.200 So natural gas

00:24:09.000 couldn't keep up.

00:24:10.040 To make issues

00:24:10.700 even worse,

00:24:11.760 you won't believe this,

00:24:12.520 it sounds like

00:24:13.020 something out of

00:24:13.560 Dr. Seuss,

00:24:14.260 it's so silly.

00:24:15.800 They were trying

00:24:16.920 to please

00:24:17.440 environmental activists,

00:24:18.360 so they decided

00:24:19.120 to run the pumps

00:24:20.260 and the valves

00:24:21.420 and things

00:24:21.860 on some of the

00:24:22.500 natural gas pipelines

00:24:23.940 with wind power.

00:24:26.760 So when the wind

00:24:28.220 failed,

00:24:28.780 some of the pipelines

00:24:29.600 couldn't even pump gas

00:24:31.060 because they were

00:24:31.800 powered by wind power.

00:24:33.620 Now,

00:24:33.820 it's funny in a way,

00:24:34.880 but it's also tragic

00:24:35.900 because the Wall Street

00:24:37.620 Journal pointed out

00:24:38.980 that 700 people died.

00:24:41.940 Yep.

00:24:42.160 700 people,

00:24:43.240 one little boy

00:24:44.020 died in his sleep.

00:24:45.500 Okay,

00:24:45.900 he just didn't wake up.

00:24:47.660 And that apparently

00:24:48.960 is going to have to happen

00:24:50.300 again and again

00:24:51.880 and again

00:24:52.340 all across the Western world

00:24:54.040 before people wake up

00:24:55.280 because wind power,

00:24:56.600 besides being super destructive

00:24:57.860 to the environment,

00:24:59.360 it's going to leave us

00:25:00.460 freezing in the dark

00:25:01.520 just like it did Texas.

00:25:03.600 Yeah,

00:25:03.800 and you know,

00:25:04.420 I remember at the time

00:25:05.380 a lot of people were saying,

00:25:06.500 what on earth

00:25:07.480 is a conservative

00:25:08.400 fossil fuel economy

00:25:10.060 like Texas

00:25:11.400 doing with so much

00:25:13.140 green energy on the grid

00:25:14.480 and it wasn't entirely

00:25:16.120 Texas's fault

00:25:17.340 because the federal government,

00:25:19.040 from what I understand,

00:25:19.820 the U.S. federal government

00:25:20.860 was incentivizing

00:25:22.380 these energy companies,

00:25:24.080 these green energy companies

00:25:25.400 to get involved

00:25:26.700 in the grid

00:25:27.560 in Texas

00:25:28.740 and some other states.

00:25:30.140 And so,

00:25:30.740 they were sort of

00:25:31.740 being federally pushed

00:25:34.020 in that direction too

00:25:35.560 so that no matter

00:25:37.500 what the state wanted,

00:25:38.820 they sort of ended up

00:25:39.640 with this green mess anyway.

00:25:41.580 Yeah,

00:25:42.060 and you know,

00:25:42.760 one of the things

00:25:43.240 people don't realize

00:25:44.160 is that if your power

00:25:45.560 becomes inconsistent

00:25:47.020 and unstable,

00:25:48.240 you also will see

00:25:49.640 more pollution

00:25:50.440 and here's the reason why.

00:25:52.160 You can see the stocks

00:25:53.420 of the major U.S. company

00:25:55.360 that makes

00:25:56.060 home generators.

00:25:58.280 It's gone through the roof.

00:25:59.640 I mean,

00:25:59.840 it's something like

00:26:00.320 five times higher

00:26:01.220 than it was

00:26:01.640 just a few years ago

00:26:02.640 because people

00:26:03.620 don't feel confident

00:26:04.880 in the energy infrastructure

00:26:06.340 and that's certainly

00:26:07.380 the case here in Ottawa,

00:26:08.980 you know,

00:26:09.500 where we're still above ground

00:26:10.820 with virtually

00:26:11.320 all of our cables.

00:26:12.480 Oh,

00:26:12.660 it's too expensive,

00:26:13.520 they say,

00:26:14.220 you know,

00:26:14.400 five to seven,

00:26:15.700 two to five million dollars

00:26:17.040 per kilometer.

00:26:18.060 Well,

00:26:18.200 you know,

00:26:18.360 I calculated that

00:26:19.260 with their ludicrous

00:26:20.120 climate plan,

00:26:20.940 they could put in

00:26:21.620 thousands of miles

00:26:22.620 of underground cable,

00:26:23.940 which actually

00:26:24.580 would have been useful.

00:26:26.400 Yeah.

00:26:26.720 But instead,

00:26:27.860 they're going to have

00:26:28.500 it all above ground

00:26:29.540 and they say

00:26:30.840 they can't afford,

00:26:31.720 you know,

00:26:32.060 sensible approaches.

00:26:33.280 But yeah,

00:26:33.580 we're going to see

00:26:34.360 home generators

00:26:35.460 burning gasoline

00:26:36.500 or diesel fuel

00:26:37.540 or propane

00:26:38.140 or whatever,

00:26:39.240 you know,

00:26:39.840 operating in everybody's

00:26:40.840 backyard.

00:26:41.560 And those produce

00:26:42.820 hugely more pollution

00:26:44.360 than just a clean

00:26:45.840 natural gas line

00:26:46.920 that comes into your

00:26:47.860 furnace.

00:26:49.500 So in the long run,

00:26:50.760 you destroy the environment,

00:26:51.920 you destroy the economy,

00:26:53.140 you destroy people's lives. 0.54

00:26:54.920 I mean,

00:26:55.260 the whole point

00:26:56.180 of the climate scare,

00:26:57.140 you start to wonder,

00:26:58.440 I mean,

00:26:59.160 there must be people

00:27:00.400 in charge

00:27:00.940 who know this.

00:27:01.900 Are they purposely

00:27:03.260 trying to make us,

00:27:04.380 you know,

00:27:05.020 weak and dependent

00:27:06.420 on the government?

00:27:07.380 I think some of them

00:27:08.280 are actually.

00:27:09.360 You know,

00:27:09.520 David Anderson said,

00:27:10.640 apparently,

00:27:11.220 I recall this

00:27:12.100 from some time ago,

00:27:13.620 he said that

00:27:14.600 when he was

00:27:15.340 environment minister

00:27:16.040 that Kyoto

00:27:17.020 was the flagship

00:27:18.340 of world governance.

00:27:20.040 And that,

00:27:20.680 of course,

00:27:20.840 is another one

00:27:21.640 of the objectives

00:27:22.380 is to have world governance

00:27:23.860 because a lot

00:27:25.040 of the left

00:27:25.540 believe that,

00:27:26.380 you know,

00:27:26.960 some sort of

00:27:27.520 supernatural,

00:27:28.740 super national,

00:27:30.360 not supernatural,

00:27:31.100 but some sort

00:27:32.700 of super national

00:27:33.840 government

00:27:35.120 unelected by the people

00:27:36.800 will do a better job.

00:27:39.280 And I don't know

00:27:40.100 about you,

00:27:40.640 but I don't find

00:27:41.880 government the most

00:27:42.680 efficient organization

00:27:43.720 in the world.

00:27:45.320 No,

00:27:45.640 you know,

00:27:46.440 I don't know

00:27:47.000 who coined the phrase

00:27:47.920 watermelons,

00:27:49.100 but that is surely

00:27:50.380 what environmentalists

00:27:51.540 for the most part are.

00:27:52.960 They are green

00:27:53.540 on the outside

00:27:54.060 and red

00:27:55.000 on the inside.

00:27:57.000 And their solution

00:27:58.080 to everything

00:27:58.580 is more government

00:27:59.700 control of your life.

00:28:01.100 That's right.

00:28:01.940 And, you know,

00:28:02.500 there's various objectives.

00:28:03.740 People always ask me,

00:28:04.560 well,

00:28:04.640 this is so ludicrous.

00:28:05.820 What's going on?

00:28:06.900 I think,

00:28:07.360 first of all,

00:28:08.000 it is genuine ignorance

00:28:09.380 on the part

00:28:10.380 of a lot

00:28:10.860 of good-hearted people.

00:28:12.220 And again,

00:28:12.520 that's why I say

00:28:13.280 go to

00:28:13.800 climatechangereconsidered.org.

00:28:16.660 You know,

00:28:16.880 I'm their advertiser

00:28:18.440 because I actually

00:28:19.200 was a contributing

00:28:21.520 reviewer to that.

00:28:22.560 So I'm kind of

00:28:23.120 happy with that.

00:28:24.560 But so was Tim Ball.

00:28:25.860 Tim Ball did

00:28:26.400 phenomenal work

00:28:27.580 in that sort of thing.

00:28:28.840 But yeah,

00:28:29.280 check it out.

00:28:29.860 It's the most recent report

00:28:31.080 and it talks about

00:28:32.080 the fact that,

00:28:32.960 no,

00:28:33.680 we're not seeing

00:28:34.440 an increased trend

00:28:35.660 in any of these

00:28:36.500 extreme weather events.

00:28:37.700 And regardless,

00:28:38.840 even those that we are

00:28:40.080 in some areas,

00:28:41.440 it's nothing to do

00:28:42.300 with climate change.

00:28:43.860 Or they're completely

00:28:44.500 offset in other places,

00:28:46.000 as you point out

00:28:47.040 about the UK heat wave.

00:28:49.120 Yeah,

00:28:49.360 that's right.

00:28:50.220 Yeah,

00:28:50.360 at the time

00:28:51.000 that the UK heat wave hit,

00:28:52.840 it's interesting

00:28:53.540 because

00:28:54.160 the average global temperature,

00:28:57.340 which really doesn't

00:28:58.200 mean anything,

00:28:58.980 but the statistic anyway,

00:29:01.460 it stayed pretty well constant

00:29:02.920 about 0.2 to 0.3 degrees

00:29:04.980 over the 1979 to 2000

00:29:07.520 average global temperature,

00:29:09.500 which,

00:29:10.020 as I say,

00:29:10.320 doesn't really exist.

00:29:11.640 So that amount of warming

00:29:12.940 was obviously in England.

00:29:14.980 Yes,

00:29:15.280 it was severe,

00:29:16.700 but it was balanced

00:29:17.960 by cooling

00:29:18.580 in other parts of the world.

00:29:20.100 So once again,

00:29:20.840 it illustrates

00:29:21.420 that global temperature,

00:29:23.740 as a statistic,

00:29:25.120 doesn't matter

00:29:26.120 because when the Brits

00:29:27.080 were boiling,

00:29:28.700 the last thing

00:29:29.340 they wanted to hear

00:29:30.000 was that they're freezing

00:29:31.200 in New Zealand.

00:29:32.100 I mean,

00:29:32.360 it doesn't do them any good.

00:29:34.220 So all that really matters

00:29:35.340 is what's happening

00:29:36.260 in your region.

00:29:37.600 And that's why

00:29:38.320 it drives me crazy

00:29:39.580 when you hear

00:29:40.360 even conservative politicians

00:29:41.780 say,

00:29:42.660 oh,

00:29:43.160 global warming,

00:29:43.960 it's a global problem.

00:29:45.700 No,

00:29:46.060 it's not.

00:29:46.680 It's a regional problem.

00:29:48.380 You know,

00:29:48.540 if sea level is rising

00:29:49.720 in your area,

00:29:50.820 then you may have

00:29:51.680 to build dams.

00:29:52.920 If it's falling

00:29:54.060 in another area,

00:29:55.100 you're not going

00:29:55.480 to build dams

00:29:56.240 so you don't have

00:29:57.320 a one-size-fits-all

00:29:58.600 solution to climate change.

00:30:00.280 You have to look

00:30:01.040 at what's happening

00:30:01.960 in your region

00:30:02.980 and then have

00:30:04.140 proper adaptation.

00:30:05.540 And I'll tell you

00:30:06.040 a really good example

00:30:06.980 of adaptation

00:30:07.680 that's worked really well.

00:30:09.480 All along the coast

00:30:10.700 of the Bay of Bengal

00:30:11.720 in India,

00:30:13.040 every kilometer,

00:30:14.260 they have a multi-story

00:30:15.680 storm shelter.

00:30:17.340 So when a cyclone

00:30:18.320 comes whipping in,

00:30:19.820 nobody has to walk

00:30:20.980 more than half a kilometer

00:30:22.280 and then go up.

00:30:23.940 And Madhav Kandikar

00:30:25.780 and Tad Murti

00:30:26.600 and others who I know

00:30:27.400 from India

00:30:27.860 who are scientists,

00:30:28.760 they said India

00:30:29.800 has vertical evacuation.

00:30:31.740 They go two stories

00:30:33.100 above the storm

00:30:34.060 and they wait it out.

00:30:36.040 In the United States,

00:30:37.340 when a hurricane

00:30:38.440 hits Florida,

00:30:39.360 they jump in their cars

00:30:40.600 and they drive it

00:30:41.280 because they're trying

00:30:42.760 to get out.

00:30:43.540 Horizontal evacuation.

00:30:44.620 And, you know,

00:30:46.040 Tad Murti

00:30:46.840 and Kandikar,

00:30:48.480 they both said,

00:30:49.460 look, no,

00:30:50.180 the United States

00:30:50.960 should copy India 1.00

00:30:52.400 and build multi-story

00:30:54.040 storm shelters

00:30:54.920 so that people

00:30:55.920 can get away

00:30:56.640 from the waves.

00:30:58.540 And in fact,

00:30:59.120 interesting,

00:30:59.620 Tad would be telling me

00:31:00.940 stories about

00:31:01.540 what it was like

00:31:02.160 because he was

00:31:02.620 in storm shelters

00:31:03.380 in a number of typhoons

00:31:05.920 and cyclones.

00:31:07.560 And here's a story,

00:31:08.460 just a quick story

00:31:09.100 I'll tell you.

00:31:09.560 It's kind of interesting.

00:31:10.620 He said,

00:31:11.200 one of the troubles

00:31:11.920 with these storm shelters

00:31:13.400 was that they were,

00:31:14.520 of course,

00:31:14.820 cut off from everybody else

00:31:16.240 because they were

00:31:16.960 like a little island

00:31:18.000 in the middle

00:31:18.540 of the hurricane.

00:31:19.900 And he said,

00:31:20.960 so there would be

00:31:22.140 crime inside

00:31:23.040 and there'd be lots of,

00:31:24.320 you know,

00:31:24.720 it would be dirty

00:31:26.100 and it would really stink.

00:31:27.840 Yeah.

00:31:28.020 So one day

00:31:28.840 he was fed up with it.

00:31:29.960 He'd been in the shelter

00:31:31.080 for a couple of days.

00:31:32.200 So he went out

00:31:32.920 in the balcony

00:31:33.540 to get away

00:31:34.620 from the smell

00:31:35.520 and, you know,

00:31:36.300 the gangs

00:31:36.940 that were in there

00:31:37.580 and stuff.

00:31:38.400 And he looked around

00:31:39.400 and he told me,

00:31:40.120 he said,

00:31:40.480 he saw pythons

00:31:41.620 hanging in the trees,

00:31:43.040 dying.

00:31:43.680 He saw water buffaloes

00:31:45.640 upside down,

00:31:46.700 bloated of blood

00:31:47.840 and dying.

00:31:49.020 And he thought,

00:31:49.900 okay,

00:31:50.540 the smell's not so bad.

00:31:53.160 So he went back in.

00:31:55.000 So, yeah,

00:31:55.660 that's an example

00:31:56.520 of adaptation.

00:31:58.220 In Canada,

00:31:58.760 we should be

00:31:59.340 burying cables underground.

00:32:01.200 In areas of Nova Scotia,

00:32:03.120 perhaps,

00:32:03.560 where they have

00:32:04.260 had really bad storms,

00:32:05.760 maybe they want

00:32:06.340 to build some shelters.

00:32:07.820 Yeah.

00:32:08.000 Okay,

00:32:08.140 that makes sense.

00:32:09.420 But the whole idea

00:32:10.360 that you can stop this,

00:32:11.800 I mean,

00:32:12.120 this is ludicrous.

00:32:13.240 It's part of nature.

00:32:14.980 It's like saying

00:32:15.500 stop continental drift.

00:32:16.860 I mean,

00:32:17.140 you can't do it.

00:32:19.160 Well,

00:32:19.440 and, you know,

00:32:20.340 it's so inconsistent.

00:32:22.260 The environmentalists,

00:32:23.700 they don't pick a lane

00:32:25.520 because they don't think

00:32:26.760 they have to pick a lane

00:32:27.900 because the mainstream media

00:32:29.020 is not going to hold them

00:32:29.880 to account.

00:32:30.640 A great example of this

00:32:31.640 is the Yellowstone River flooding.

00:32:33.820 Yeah.

00:32:33.960 So the flooding

00:32:35.560 is an example

00:32:36.320 of climate change.

00:32:37.920 But if you look

00:32:39.100 at why the flooding occurred,

00:32:40.720 it seems as though

00:32:41.500 there was an above-average

00:32:42.600 snowpack,

00:32:44.080 which the environmentalists

00:32:45.820 keep telling me

00:32:46.460 the snow was going

00:32:47.200 to disappear

00:32:47.780 during the winters

00:32:48.920 because of,

00:32:50.840 again,

00:32:51.140 my time-traveling SUV.

00:32:54.040 But the flooding

00:32:55.500 was caused

00:32:56.100 by an increase

00:32:56.820 in snowpack

00:32:57.440 they promised me

00:32:58.160 would disappear

00:32:58.760 because of climate change.

00:33:00.160 So please,

00:33:00.900 people,

00:33:01.260 pick a lane.

00:33:02.220 Well,

00:33:02.500 and also,

00:33:03.000 you know,

00:33:03.140 they don't want

00:33:03.700 to hear this.

00:33:04.280 I mean,

00:33:04.580 Ecology Ottawa

00:33:05.420 and they actually

00:33:06.580 had an event

00:33:07.300 at the Museum of Space

00:33:09.040 and Aviation

00:33:09.700 a few years ago,

00:33:10.620 the end of snow

00:33:11.580 in Canada.

00:33:12.500 Right.

00:33:12.880 And I went to the microphone

00:33:14.680 and I asked

00:33:15.320 the different skiers

00:33:16.260 that were on stage

00:33:17.120 because they wouldn't

00:33:17.640 bring in a scientist.

00:33:19.060 But I asked them,

00:33:19.900 I said,

00:33:20.540 what do you think

00:33:21.100 about the fact

00:33:21.820 that a scientist

00:33:22.700 is not here

00:33:23.460 to tell you

00:33:24.300 that snow cover

00:33:25.960 in North America

00:33:26.720 has been gradually

00:33:27.520 increasing for decades?

00:33:29.420 And oh man,

00:33:30.300 the audience went berserk.

00:33:31.600 I mean,

00:33:31.860 one lady in the front row 1.00

00:33:33.040 she got up

00:33:33.600 and shook her fist

00:33:34.400 and she said,

00:33:34.980 go home,

00:33:35.920 you know,

00:33:36.320 so they don't want

00:33:37.300 to hear the data.

00:33:38.600 You know,

00:33:39.120 data is important.

00:33:40.900 It actually matters

00:33:41.900 what's really happening

00:33:42.940 in the real world

00:33:43.800 unless you're stuck

00:33:44.820 in some sort of

00:33:45.480 woke postmodern nonsense.

00:33:47.720 So what people

00:33:48.600 have to do

00:33:49.140 in fighting back

00:33:50.080 is they have to do

00:33:50.800 that kind of thing

00:33:51.540 is say,

00:33:52.180 hey,

00:33:52.800 how much do you think

00:33:53.480 it's warm since 1880?

00:33:55.380 And climate activists

00:33:56.680 will say,

00:33:57.040 oh,

00:33:57.260 it must be five,

00:33:57.980 10 degrees.

00:33:58.920 You say,

00:33:59.440 no,

00:33:59.980 even the UN

00:34:00.840 says it's just

00:34:01.860 over one degree.

00:34:03.820 So is that

00:34:04.640 a climate emergency?

00:34:05.960 The point Richard Linson made.

00:34:07.440 And how do you measure it?

00:34:08.740 Again,

00:34:09.200 how do you measure it?

00:34:10.420 It doesn't mean

00:34:11.120 a great deal anyway,

00:34:12.120 but,

00:34:12.600 but,

00:34:12.880 you know,

00:34:13.540 the different scientists,

00:34:14.540 I believe it was Linson

00:34:15.500 who said

00:34:16.100 that if it wasn't

00:34:17.700 for climatologists,

00:34:18.700 that amount

00:34:19.960 of temperature change

00:34:21.040 in 142 years,

00:34:22.720 you would never

00:34:23.840 notice in your

00:34:24.800 entire lifetime.

00:34:25.940 Of course not.

00:34:26.740 So,

00:34:27.080 so we've got

00:34:28.160 a climate emergency

00:34:29.240 that's so severe,

00:34:31.180 no one would notice.

00:34:33.100 Yeah,

00:34:33.260 I've got to care

00:34:34.160 about something

00:34:34.720 I couldn't possibly

00:34:35.900 experience.

00:34:37.260 Yeah.

00:34:38.280 Another interesting one

00:34:39.520 that I noticed

00:34:39.980 from your fact check,

00:34:40.780 which I thought

00:34:41.160 was kind of fun

00:34:41.860 because of the

00:34:43.140 historical creation

00:34:44.980 of Lake Mead.

00:34:46.220 So Lake Mead

00:34:47.500 in Nevada,

00:34:49.080 it's got

00:34:49.800 low water levels

00:34:51.860 and I don't know,

00:34:53.220 I guess all the

00:34:54.100 bodies tossed in there

00:34:55.160 by the gangsters,

00:34:56.000 those are starting

00:34:56.640 to surface.

00:34:58.220 I noticed that

00:34:58.980 I read a few articles

00:34:59.820 on that.

00:35:01.520 But Lake Mead

00:35:03.420 isn't even supposed

00:35:04.220 to exist.

00:35:05.060 So how can you

00:35:05.900 tell me

00:35:06.500 the water levels

00:35:07.900 in a lake

00:35:08.460 that really shouldn't

00:35:09.380 exist are too low?

00:35:10.980 How do we even

00:35:11.840 know they're too low?

00:35:12.640 The lake itself

00:35:13.620 is a man-made creation.

00:35:15.480 Well,

00:35:15.600 that's right.

00:35:16.160 And in fact,

00:35:16.640 what's happening

00:35:17.240 is they're just

00:35:17.760 simply taking water

00:35:18.940 out of the lake

00:35:19.900 faster than,

00:35:20.740 faster than the

00:35:21.800 streams are running

00:35:22.620 in.

00:35:23.300 So of course

00:35:24.020 it's going to

00:35:24.520 lower.

00:35:25.100 I mean,

00:35:25.520 it's the same

00:35:26.940 thing,

00:35:27.220 you know,

00:35:27.480 with the drought

00:35:29.260 issue.

00:35:30.120 I mean,

00:35:30.760 you know,

00:35:31.360 the trees

00:35:32.080 basically act

00:35:33.100 like a drain,

00:35:34.260 okay?

00:35:34.580 They suck up 0.93

00:35:35.360 the water

00:35:35.900 and they eventually

00:35:36.560 release it

00:35:37.260 to the atmosphere.

00:35:38.340 The analogy

00:35:38.960 I make is

00:35:39.920 that it's like

00:35:40.640 you put a plug

00:35:42.080 in your drain

00:35:42.780 in your bathtub

00:35:43.420 and you just

00:35:43.960 kept pouring water

00:35:44.960 in.

00:35:45.580 Well,

00:35:45.800 eventually your

00:35:46.360 bathtub is going 0.93

00:35:47.020 to overflow,

00:35:48.120 okay?

00:35:48.420 And that's

00:35:49.240 what's happening

00:35:49.740 in Pakistan

00:35:50.540 where they cut

00:35:51.260 the trees

00:35:51.640 down,

00:35:52.100 the soil

00:35:52.600 cannot absorb

00:35:53.440 the moisture

00:35:54.140 and so of course

00:35:55.600 the water

00:35:56.040 just flows

00:35:56.760 and the other

00:35:57.380 thing is

00:35:57.800 it takes a lot

00:35:58.900 more soil

00:35:59.380 with it

00:35:59.960 because the

00:36:01.280 roots aren't

00:36:01.700 holding the

00:36:02.160 soil in place.

00:36:03.320 So you have

00:36:03.700 a double whammy,

00:36:04.640 you have more

00:36:05.200 floods because

00:36:06.360 you've deforested

00:36:07.280 but you've also

00:36:08.380 got mudslides

00:36:09.420 and landslides

00:36:10.500 because you've

00:36:11.400 deforested.

00:36:12.480 So yeah,

00:36:13.080 plant your

00:36:13.500 down forest

00:36:14.260 back.

00:36:15.020 That would

00:36:15.460 make sense

00:36:16.040 and then

00:36:17.180 we've got

00:36:17.700 World Cup

00:36:19.040 skiing.

00:36:20.000 They say

00:36:20.840 that there's

00:36:21.300 going to be

00:36:21.700 an end

00:36:22.040 to their

00:36:22.400 sport

00:36:22.940 because of

00:36:24.720 climate change

00:36:25.620 and I cannot

00:36:26.780 think of,

00:36:27.880 well,

00:36:28.040 I can think

00:36:28.520 of a few

00:36:29.140 equally

00:36:30.180 carbon intensive

00:36:31.300 sports

00:36:32.060 as World Cup

00:36:33.400 skiing,

00:36:34.060 I don't know,

00:36:34.900 Formula One

00:36:35.460 racing.

00:36:36.240 They are

00:36:36.500 pretty concerned

00:36:37.200 about climate

00:36:37.760 change and I'm

00:36:38.280 like you guys

00:36:38.820 drive cars

00:36:40.340 in a circle

00:36:41.100 and then fly

00:36:42.320 to the next

00:36:42.920 place to drive

00:36:44.340 cars in a circle

00:36:45.120 and then you

00:36:45.580 load up the

00:36:46.080 cars and

00:36:46.620 everything and

00:36:47.160 you fly them

00:36:47.600 to another

00:36:47.940 place to drive

00:36:48.560 cars in a

00:36:49.060 circle.

00:36:49.480 Please don't

00:36:49.880 lecture me

00:36:50.320 again about

00:36:50.780 my time

00:36:51.180 traveling SUV.

00:36:52.560 And again,

00:36:53.000 it's these

00:36:53.960 elite winter

00:36:55.040 athletes who

00:36:56.560 are concerned

00:36:57.320 about climate

00:36:58.000 change.

00:36:59.120 I guarantee

00:36:59.860 you they have

00:37:00.860 not seen a

00:37:01.500 reduction in

00:37:02.160 snow in any

00:37:03.620 of the mountain

00:37:04.380 resorts in

00:37:05.340 which they stay

00:37:06.120 and play.

00:37:07.560 Yeah,

00:37:07.840 well,

00:37:08.020 you know,

00:37:08.220 the point we

00:37:08.660 make in this

00:37:09.520 handout is that

00:37:10.560 when World Cup

00:37:12.360 skiing started

00:37:13.240 in the 1960s,

00:37:14.400 the season

00:37:14.980 began in

00:37:15.640 January.

00:37:16.620 So, of

00:37:16.860 course, they

00:37:17.220 didn't have

00:37:17.580 any canceled

00:37:18.160 events because

00:37:18.940 yeah, but

00:37:20.520 now they're

00:37:20.980 starting it in

00:37:21.680 October, okay,

00:37:22.960 which is still

00:37:23.520 the autumn.

00:37:24.260 So, you

00:37:24.840 know, it's not

00:37:25.560 surprising that

00:37:26.460 we're having to

00:37:27.020 see some winter

00:37:28.120 events canceled if

00:37:29.180 they're saying

00:37:29.680 October is

00:37:30.500 winter.

00:37:30.660 Yeah, they're

00:37:31.040 before Halloween.

00:37:32.500 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:34.100 Yeah, and you

00:37:35.200 know, it's funny

00:37:35.660 because when

00:37:36.740 people look at

00:37:37.480 this, I always

00:37:38.620 say, well, which

00:37:39.460 would you rather

00:37:40.040 have, global

00:37:40.860 cooling or global

00:37:41.860 warming?

00:37:42.840 I mean, cooling

00:37:44.200 cold weather

00:37:45.100 kills 20 times

00:37:46.180 more people around

00:37:47.000 the world than

00:37:47.640 warm weather.

00:37:48.700 So, for

00:37:49.300 humanity as a

00:37:50.200 whole, it would

00:37:51.160 be a good thing

00:37:51.980 if our winters

00:37:52.800 got less severe,

00:37:54.360 okay?

00:37:54.920 But the reason

00:37:55.600 this World Cup

00:37:56.320 skiing event is

00:37:57.160 being affected is

00:37:57.960 because they're

00:37:58.580 starting in

00:37:59.740 October.

00:38:01.140 Yeah, they're

00:38:01.480 probably going

00:38:01.960 through till May

00:38:02.780 also.

00:38:03.480 Yeah, that's

00:38:03.860 right.

00:38:04.240 I suppose there's

00:38:04.820 some skiers that

00:38:05.460 like to be skiing

00:38:06.080 in the summer.

00:38:06.880 Actually, I did

00:38:07.460 ski on a glacier

00:38:08.420 in Switzerland in

00:38:09.360 the summer when I

00:38:10.000 was 20.

00:38:10.520 and, oh, man,

00:38:11.580 it was like

00:38:11.920 skiing on

00:38:12.660 concrete.

00:38:13.360 I don't think

00:38:13.720 you really want

00:38:14.200 to do it.

00:38:16.280 Now, what's

00:38:17.260 next in the

00:38:18.660 new year for

00:38:19.360 the International

00:38:20.020 Climate Science

00:38:20.820 Coalition?

00:38:21.300 What are you guys

00:38:21.740 up to?

00:38:22.280 What's on your

00:38:22.920 horizon?

00:38:24.080 Well, the main

00:38:24.900 thing we're trying

00:38:25.520 to do is to

00:38:26.400 replicate what we

00:38:27.240 did in Ottawa.

00:38:28.380 And you might

00:38:28.980 recall that in

00:38:29.720 Ottawa, we

00:38:30.460 organized a group

00:38:31.420 and I can tell

00:38:31.980 you who they are

00:38:32.480 now because they've

00:38:33.100 given me permission.

00:38:34.360 It's Action for

00:38:35.500 Canada, okay?

00:38:36.820 Based in

00:38:37.240 Vancouver and they

00:38:38.000 have chapters all

00:38:38.880 across Canada.

00:38:39.660 They're very brave

00:38:40.580 and very

00:38:41.580 knowledgeable people

00:38:42.480 who are doing

00:38:42.940 really excellent

00:38:43.540 work on a whole

00:38:44.180 lot of issues.

00:38:45.180 But they had me

00:38:46.080 give a presentation

00:38:46.720 to them back in

00:38:47.980 July of 2022 and

00:38:50.700 they really liked it

00:38:51.640 a lot.

00:38:51.960 So they asked how

00:38:52.540 they could help.

00:38:53.120 I said, well, you

00:38:53.660 know, there's an

00:38:54.200 Ottawa election

00:38:54.900 coming up.

00:38:56.020 Why don't we go to

00:38:56.940 the public debates

00:38:58.080 and bombard the 0.93

00:38:59.300 questions with

00:39:00.040 inconvenient but

00:39:01.100 important questions?

00:39:02.580 And happily, they

00:39:03.860 agreed.

00:39:04.820 So, in fact, in

00:39:05.780 the Ottawa election

00:39:06.560 of the roughly 25

00:39:08.000 questions that were

00:39:08.940 allowed from the

00:39:09.500 public in the

00:39:10.420 first three

00:39:10.820 debates, we, our

00:39:12.440 people, you know,

00:39:13.460 ICSC Canada and

00:39:15.040 Action for Canada

00:39:15.920 working with us, we

00:39:17.500 actually asked half

00:39:18.920 of all the

00:39:19.340 questions.

00:39:20.260 And I think the

00:39:20.900 organizers probably

00:39:21.700 didn't know what

00:39:22.260 hit them because in

00:39:23.480 the fourth debate,

00:39:24.680 they banned questions

00:39:26.000 from the public.

00:39:26.820 Of course they did.

00:39:27.920 Yeah, except those

00:39:28.900 that were screened

00:39:29.640 ahead of time by the

00:39:32.000 actual organizers.

00:39:33.780 And we thought,

00:39:34.280 aha, okay, we'll

00:39:35.360 put in a question,

00:39:36.220 we'll somehow get to

00:39:36.920 the mic and then

00:39:37.500 we'll ask something

00:39:38.080 different.

00:39:39.240 That didn't work

00:39:40.080 either, okay?

00:39:40.740 That was an Alinsky 0.61

00:39:41.580 trick, I guess.

00:39:42.920 But we couldn't do

00:39:43.780 that either because

00:39:44.520 they not only chose

00:39:45.560 the questions, they

00:39:46.920 also chose who would

00:39:47.920 ask the questions.

00:39:48.940 Of course they

00:39:49.400 didn't.

00:39:49.740 Okay?

00:39:50.940 So we want to

00:39:51.920 replicate that in

00:39:52.780 other cities.

00:39:53.500 And a great target is

00:39:54.500 Calgary because our

00:39:55.740 climate plan in

00:39:56.460 Ottawa, 57 billion,

00:39:58.080 was insane.

00:39:59.080 And by the way, the

00:40:00.220 climate activist who

00:40:01.300 was leading in the

00:40:02.160 mayoral election lost.

00:40:04.140 And according to

00:40:04.700 Joseph Benamy, who's

00:40:05.840 a leading conservative

00:40:07.180 strategist, he said

00:40:08.140 that the actions of

00:40:09.040 ICSC Canada did make

00:40:10.700 a difference.

00:40:11.460 Oh, I'm sure.

00:40:12.700 Yeah, we handed

00:40:13.280 hundreds of flyers to

00:40:14.420 everybody at virtually

00:40:15.480 every debate we could

00:40:16.380 get into talking about

00:40:17.940 how the plan for

00:40:18.980 Ottawa was terrible.

00:40:20.340 But we didn't

00:40:20.900 actually say, don't

00:40:21.980 vote for McKinney. 0.93

00:40:23.340 We just showed how

00:40:24.260 horrible the plan was.

00:40:25.460 And people were smart

00:40:26.340 enough to put two and

00:40:27.280 two together and say,

00:40:28.300 oh, well then I guess

00:40:29.620 we shouldn't vote for

00:40:30.500 the strongest supporter

00:40:31.520 of the plan.

00:40:33.080 And what happened is

00:40:34.200 Sutcliffe's vote suddenly

00:40:35.440 went from around 40 to

00:40:37.440 51 almost overnight and

00:40:39.840 he won.

00:40:40.320 So we want to do that in

00:40:41.360 other cities across

00:40:42.320 Canada.

00:40:42.960 And if people go to our

00:40:44.080 website,

00:40:44.760 icsc-canada.com,

00:40:48.220 what they'll see is a

00:40:49.600 link they can click on.

00:40:51.000 It says, let us help you

00:40:52.300 fight climate alarmism in

00:40:54.040 your city.

00:40:54.920 So we'd love to do it in

00:40:56.300 Calgary.

00:40:57.180 And probably through the

00:40:58.820 Calgary chapter of

00:40:59.940 Action for Canada, we're

00:41:01.200 working on that.

00:41:02.520 But what we want to do

00:41:03.420 is we want to get local

00:41:04.560 activists to hold their

00:41:06.240 politicians to account

00:41:07.440 because it's very easy in

00:41:10.000 many cases to point out

00:41:11.360 to them what would

00:41:12.780 happen if you actually

00:41:14.480 did your plan.

00:41:15.740 And we did that in

00:41:16.800 Ottawa and I think a lot

00:41:17.880 of the public woke up.

00:41:19.040 We want to do that across

00:41:20.260 Canada though.

00:41:21.160 We've had a few people

00:41:22.060 already applied.

00:41:23.100 You know, they fill out a

00:41:23.840 little form.

00:41:24.360 They say, here's the

00:41:25.120 problem I'm concerned

00:41:26.280 about in my municipality.

00:41:27.720 Here's a link to the

00:41:28.440 plan.

00:41:29.240 And then we look at it

00:41:30.220 and decide, okay, we can

00:41:31.760 help you.

00:41:32.540 And then we start to do

00:41:33.760 it.

00:41:33.980 So while I may not

00:41:35.380 physically go to all the

00:41:36.700 different locations that

00:41:37.760 ask for help, we can

00:41:39.100 organize and help them

00:41:40.460 ask questions and, you

00:41:42.040 know, write articles and

00:41:43.100 that sort of thing to

00:41:44.120 hopefully diffuse,

00:41:45.640 hopefully diffuse the

00:41:47.280 climate scare all across

00:41:48.640 Canada.

00:41:50.080 Edmontonians, if you're

00:41:50.940 watching this, and I know

00:41:51.940 I have a large Edmontonian

00:41:53.260 viewership.

00:41:54.540 Amarjeet Sohi was

00:41:55.620 Justin Trudeau's

00:41:56.340 natural resources

00:41:57.100 minister.

00:41:57.720 He is instrumental in

00:41:58.680 blocking those pipelines

00:41:59.680 and he is not going to

00:42:01.480 let Calgary be the

00:42:02.520 environmental superstar of

00:42:03.840 this province.

00:42:05.080 Get out in front of this

00:42:06.320 right now and reach out

00:42:09.140 to my friend Tom for some

00:42:10.380 help because he will help

00:42:11.340 you because we don't need

00:42:15.400 proof that Amarjeet Sohi is

00:42:17.160 an environmental radical.

00:42:18.540 He's already shown us when

00:42:20.320 he sat in Justin Trudeau's

00:42:21.520 cabinet and now he's the

00:42:22.920 mayor of Edmonton.

00:42:24.400 And he is, as I said,

00:42:26.240 he's not going to let the

00:42:27.360 sun shine only on Calgary.

00:42:29.700 He wants to be a superstar

00:42:30.900 too.

00:42:31.860 That's right.

00:42:32.240 And it's only superstar for

00:42:33.680 a short period because in

00:42:35.400 later administrations,

00:42:36.640 they'll wake up and say,

00:42:37.760 oh, my God, what a

00:42:38.620 mistake.

00:42:39.760 And so but we what we're

00:42:40.940 trying to do is, you know,

00:42:41.940 a lot of these plans are

00:42:42.860 already in place, but we

00:42:44.220 want to shorten the length

00:42:45.260 of time before they're

00:42:46.520 kicked out.

00:42:47.540 OK, so people do do send

00:42:49.420 us, you know, fill in the

00:42:50.400 form.

00:42:50.800 Let us know.

00:42:51.380 We'd love to help you

00:42:52.580 because if we can defeat

00:42:54.100 this at the municipal

00:42:55.040 level over and over and

00:42:56.820 over, it'll percolate up.

00:42:58.960 Yeah.

00:42:59.120 And that's one thing we

00:43:00.020 should have learned from

00:43:00.780 covid is that all of these

00:43:02.240 bad policies can be

00:43:03.300 implemented at the

00:43:04.140 municipal level.

00:43:05.120 And just you get this

00:43:07.080 patchwork quilt of

00:43:08.240 legislation through

00:43:10.500 municipalities.

00:43:11.620 And you never had to have

00:43:13.080 government overreach from

00:43:14.200 the province or even from

00:43:15.320 the federal government

00:43:16.060 because your local mayor

00:43:17.140 was happy to do it to

00:43:18.740 you.

00:43:18.980 That's right.

00:43:20.000 So Ottawa was going to

00:43:21.040 stop climate change.

00:43:22.300 You know, it's interesting

00:43:22.940 as a joke here.

00:43:24.040 We figured out that if you

00:43:25.660 believe the UN's climate

00:43:26.980 science, the impact of

00:43:28.940 Ottawa going to net zero

00:43:30.620 by 2050 and staying that

00:43:32.300 way all the way to the end

00:43:33.780 of the 21st century would

00:43:35.940 be drumroll one ten

00:43:38.460 thousandths of a degree C

00:43:40.160 for 60 billion dollars.

00:43:43.860 I mean, that was one of the

00:43:46.020 points that Janira brought

00:43:47.440 up.

00:43:47.640 He was with the People's 0.99

00:43:48.560 Party of Canada.

00:43:49.280 He was working with us.

00:43:50.560 He went to the mic and

00:43:51.420 said, my God, you know, he

00:43:52.820 essentially said, can't you

00:43:53.800 find a better way of using

00:43:54.920 your money, our money?

00:43:56.840 Yeah.

00:43:57.940 Yeah.

00:43:58.400 So, I mean, the climate

00:43:59.520 scare is so ludicrous that

00:44:01.060 common people, average

00:44:02.620 people with a little bit of

00:44:04.260 knowledge can massacre the

00:44:06.700 politicians.

00:44:07.200 And I really want to do that

00:44:08.840 all across Canada.

00:44:10.060 Well, again, let this be a

00:44:11.800 lesson.

00:44:12.380 Politicians are not smarter

00:44:13.480 than you.

00:44:14.300 And environmental activists,

00:44:15.500 they're definitely not

00:44:16.500 smarter than you.

00:44:17.300 They use language and

00:44:19.120 phrases to obscure the

00:44:20.440 meaning of what they plan

00:44:21.440 to do to you.

00:44:22.120 And they make things

00:44:22.760 purposefully complicated

00:44:24.000 when they are definitely

00:44:25.020 not.

00:44:26.020 And so once you break these

00:44:27.280 things down, as Michelle

00:44:28.320 Sterling did, into practical

00:44:29.760 terms and experiments, their

00:44:31.720 ideas fail every single

00:44:33.360 time.

00:44:33.800 So my advice to people is to

00:44:36.080 not be intimidated and to

00:44:37.440 get involved.

00:44:38.460 That's right.

00:44:38.920 Get to the microphone, ask

00:44:40.300 your questions, be brave, or

00:44:42.140 you will lose your society.

00:44:44.360 That's right.

00:44:45.060 Tom, thanks so much for

00:44:46.080 coming on the show.

00:44:46.720 Thanks so much for taking

00:44:47.520 the time.

00:44:47.960 I know I took a little bit

00:44:49.080 more of your time than I

00:44:50.000 normally do, but I really

00:44:50.880 appreciate it.

00:44:52.020 Happy New Year.

00:44:53.300 Merry late Christmas.

00:44:55.480 And best to you and yours

00:44:57.260 and good luck in your future

00:44:59.320 endeavors, educating the

00:45:00.600 public on how to hold their

00:45:02.720 politicians to account.

00:45:04.360 Yeah.

00:45:04.580 And thank God for Rebel News.

00:45:06.560 Amen.

00:45:07.340 You guys are fantastic.

00:45:08.800 Thanks, Tom.

00:45:09.340 We'll talk soon.

00:45:10.300 Yeah.

00:45:10.540 Bye.

00:45:13.860 Well, we've come to the

00:45:18.920 portion of the show where we

00:45:20.080 welcome your viewer

00:45:20.900 feedback.

00:45:21.380 I know I must get

00:45:22.980 redundant, but I say this

00:45:24.480 every week because it is so

00:45:25.640 important.

00:45:26.860 We care about what you

00:45:28.420 think about the work that

00:45:29.160 we're doing here at Rebel

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00:45:34.660 survive without you and

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00:45:38.120 We're so grateful for it.

00:45:39.880 And we want to take your

00:45:41.160 temperature on these things

00:45:43.080 because we don't have a

00:45:44.200 sugar daddy named Justin

00:45:45.280 Trudeau reaching into the

00:45:46.960 pockets of Canadians to

00:45:49.340 give us money to create

00:45:50.920 things that the victims of

00:45:53.040 the pickpocketing, well,

00:45:54.660 they don't really want to

00:45:55.540 see, as you can see in the

00:45:57.240 viewership statistics of

00:45:58.440 CBC.

00:45:59.420 So we want to hear from you.

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00:46:09.680 Put gun show letters in the

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00:46:12.560 easy for me to find it.

00:46:13.580 Not because I'm lazy and I

00:46:14.780 like things done the easy

00:46:16.100 way, but because I get so

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00:46:37.260 So who knows, they might

00:46:38.260 even be deleting your

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00:46:46.260 leave a comment.

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00:46:47.900 show here.

00:46:48.560 Now, today's letter comes to

00:46:49.740 us from Patricia Reimer,

00:46:52.900 who writes, I had fun

00:46:54.220 watching you read the

00:46:54.980 Christmas letters that

00:46:55.700 folks wrote you.

00:46:56.420 What a great way to hear

00:46:57.200 from your viewers.

00:46:58.460 Yeah, I had a lot of fun.

00:46:59.720 I got a ton of letters.

00:47:01.520 My kids cut them all up and

00:47:02.800 put them in a bucket for me.

00:47:03.880 And that video is

00:47:07.700 available for free on

00:47:08.800 YouTube so you can show

00:47:09.580 your friends.

00:47:10.720 But it was fun.

00:47:11.820 And frankly, I expected

00:47:13.380 more questions, but it was

00:47:14.860 more of a mutual

00:47:15.520 appreciation convention

00:47:16.940 between myself and my

00:47:18.440 viewers, which was fine.

00:47:20.220 I'm not mad about

00:47:21.380 complimentary emails, and

00:47:23.780 I was happy to have the

00:47:24.940 opportunity to thank

00:47:25.980 those of you who wrote in

00:47:28.140 for your support over the

00:47:29.240 years and those of you who

00:47:30.180 didn't write in.

00:47:30.940 As I said, we don't

00:47:32.100 survive without you.

00:47:33.880 I caught my attention

00:47:34.660 when you said that your

00:47:35.280 husband is obsessed with

00:47:36.260 blacksmithing.

00:47:37.100 I'm not even exaggerating a

00:47:38.540 little bit.

00:47:38.980 He loves learning

00:47:41.240 traditional useful skills.

00:47:43.220 It's like my obsession

00:47:43.960 with gardening and trying

00:47:46.420 my best to live off the

00:47:48.320 land that I live on

00:47:49.500 because this is the

00:47:50.480 traditional lands of my

00:47:52.420 family.

00:47:54.140 Generations and

00:47:54.800 generations of my people

00:47:55.900 have lived and died here.

00:47:57.900 And the gunwomen before 1.00

00:48:00.020 me, this land gave them

00:48:01.180 everything that they need.

00:48:02.080 And their family is

00:48:04.880 everything that they

00:48:05.440 need.

00:48:05.780 So I try to do a little

00:48:07.320 bit of that every single

00:48:08.600 day.

00:48:09.500 And my husband is

00:48:10.340 interested in learning

00:48:11.740 those traditional

00:48:13.440 farming skills.

00:48:14.620 Farming is a lot more

00:48:16.080 technologically advanced

00:48:19.160 than it was in my

00:48:20.080 great, great

00:48:20.940 grandparents' time

00:48:22.180 back in 1903.

00:48:25.620 But it's good to learn

00:48:26.720 those useful skills.

00:48:29.160 Patricia goes on to

00:48:30.120 write,

00:48:30.300 my husband is a

00:48:31.020 professional blacksmith.

00:48:31.920 You guys should check out

00:48:32.680 a short documentary that

00:48:33.620 our local Shaw TV station

00:48:35.160 did on him and his rise to

00:48:36.360 the world of public art.

00:48:37.540 That's so cool.

00:48:38.840 That's actual public art

00:48:40.080 and not the garbage

00:48:41.180 towers of unfinished

00:48:44.460 construction materials that

00:48:46.560 they call public art in

00:48:47.580 Calgary, by the way.

00:48:49.420 He now has public art

00:48:51.000 pieces across Western

00:48:52.120 Canada and in the states

00:48:53.320 of Colorado, Utah, and

00:48:54.820 Texas.

00:48:55.600 My hubby and I are

00:48:56.440 passionate freedom

00:48:57.180 fighters.

00:48:57.600 You know what, Patricia,

00:48:58.380 people with useful skills

00:48:59.720 generally are, you know,

00:49:00.780 truckers, farmers,

00:49:01.880 blacksmiths.

00:49:03.100 Paul drove with the

00:49:04.320 Freedom Convoy from our

00:49:05.500 home in Cranbrook, BC,

00:49:06.720 and stayed in Ottawa for

00:49:07.720 10 days.

00:49:08.200 I worked with Greg Hill,

00:49:09.040 the founder of Free to

00:49:09.760 Fly, a non-profit

00:49:10.800 committed to supporting

00:49:11.980 Canadians' right to

00:49:13.660 travel.

00:49:15.060 We've interviewed Greg

00:49:16.740 Hill on Rebel News

00:49:19.560 quite a bit.

00:49:20.440 Paul loves to show off

00:49:21.540 his shop and even gives

00:49:22.640 blacksmith lessons from

00:49:24.300 time to time.

00:49:25.080 If you're ever around

00:49:25.940 Cranbrook, please stop

00:49:27.320 in for a tour and a

00:49:28.240 visit.

00:49:29.100 Don't threaten me with a

00:49:30.180 good time, Patricia,

00:49:30.980 because I just might.

00:49:31.920 My daughter plays rugby

00:49:32.980 in BC quite a bit, and

00:49:35.120 so I just might take you

00:49:36.900 up on that offer.

00:49:38.840 Patricia Reimer.

00:49:40.160 And she also sends me a

00:49:43.160 link to my husband's

00:49:44.900 next YouTube viewing

00:49:46.480 session of her husband,

00:49:48.660 artist Paul Reimer, on

00:49:50.420 Shaw TV.

00:49:51.580 Thanks so much for the

00:49:52.720 letter, Patricia.

00:49:53.360 Patricia, I mentioned

00:49:56.320 it as I breezed through

00:49:57.300 your letter, but it is

00:49:58.160 true that most of the

00:49:59.400 people who made up the

00:50:01.420 Freedom Convoy were

00:50:03.840 useful people with real

00:50:06.740 tangible life skills.

00:50:08.420 They do the things that

00:50:09.760 you can't do from behind

00:50:10.740 a laptop.

00:50:12.280 And it was those people

00:50:14.580 who kept us going during

00:50:16.920 the pandemic, and it was

00:50:19.720 also those same people who

00:50:21.240 were hurt the most by

00:50:22.220 Justin Trudeau's.

00:50:24.320 restrictions and mandates.

00:50:26.240 Well, everybody, that's

00:50:27.120 the show for tonight.

00:50:28.140 Thank you so much for

00:50:28.980 tuning in.

00:50:29.600 I'll see everybody back

00:50:30.360 here in the same time, in

00:50:31.420 the same place next week.

00:50:32.400 And as always, don't let

00:50:34.920 the government tell you

00:50:35.680 that you've had too much

00:50:36.400 to think.

00:50:53.360 see you then.

00:51:03.240 of you.

00:51:05.120 in

00:51:06.620 the

Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ New year, same old climate change weather conflation

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