Rebel News Podcast - Who are the 11,000 “scientists” signing off on the latest global warming scare？ We checked, and you'll laugh!

00:00:00.000 Hey, folks, I got a really good one for you today, at least I hope you think so.

00:00:04.620 You know that big science study, 11,000 global warming scientists saying we're all doomed,

00:00:12.240 they signed a big research report or something? I actually went through the names, not all 11,000,

00:00:18.000 I didn't have that much time, but I went through all the Canadian names, there's about 400 of them,

00:00:21.580 and I just started Googling, who are these people? And the answers will make you laugh,

00:00:26.640 I swear. I wish you could see it, because I show you their name on the petition,

00:00:31.940 and then I show you, usually their LinkedIn page, you know, their biography, and I just show you

00:00:38.480 who they really are. And to enjoy the podcast, I think you'll get a kick out of it.

00:00:45.000 But can I encourage you, the reason I'm touting the video is because you can get the video version

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00:01:01.480 month, you get access to my show, Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies' show, and you support the

00:01:07.140 Rebel. And listen, the podcast is going to be great, but I wish you could see how silly this is with

00:01:14.500 your eyes. Okay, without further ado, here's today's podcast.

00:01:33.720 Tonight, who are these 11,000 scientists who signed the latest global warming scare letter?

00:01:39.820 I actually checked. You'll laugh so hard. It's November 6th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:47.540 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:51.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:55.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:02:00.280 right to do so.

00:02:01.260 Unless you've been living in a cave with no internet service for the past few days,

00:02:10.300 there's simply no way you haven't heard the official news narrative from the media party

00:02:15.920 that 11,000 scientists signed an emergency letter warning the world that we're all going to die

00:02:22.960 because of global warming. It was everywhere. Identical stories, really. Absolute stenography.

00:02:29.380 It's like they just republished a press release verbatim. Here's just one example from Justin

00:02:35.280 Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster in Canada, but all the networks were just as bad. Here,

00:02:41.400 listen to this kook read the news. Listen to her tone of voice.

00:02:46.760 In recent months, climate emergencies have been declared by Canada and a number of other countries.

00:02:51.980 I'm sure you've heard them. Cities have also sounded the alarm. Well, this morning,

00:02:56.680 in a brand new declaration, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries are bolstering that claim.

00:03:06.900 Here are some of what's in that declaration published in the journal Bioscience.

00:03:12.160 The Alliance of World Scientists says it has a moral obligation to warn humanity. It says greenhouse

00:03:19.380 gas emissions are still rising and that recent efforts to reduce them are not enough. The declaration

00:03:27.040 also says the climate crisis is accelerating faster than many scientists predicted, that it's caused even

00:03:35.040 more damage than many had feared. The Alliance says it had to speak out. Why? Because climate change

00:03:41.980 is threatening ecosystems and, get this, the fate of humanity. Scary words there. The fate

00:03:49.360 of humanity. CBC senior science reporter Nicole Martellaro is going through this report. And Nicole,

00:03:55.640 I know it's a big one, lots of dense information, but 11,000 scientists signed on. That's got to mean

00:04:01.080 something. What a nut. Her name is Suhana Maharshan. It won't surprise you to know that she's the ex 0.96

00:04:08.480 of Adam Vaughn, an extremist MP from Toronto. What an incestuous little world it is, the CBC and the

00:04:14.840 Liberal Party. But let's slow down what she said a bit. It wasn't a big report, in fact. It's not a big

00:04:22.440 report at all. It's not research. It's not a study. It has a few charts in it, but there's no research,

00:04:30.720 nothing new here. It's an op-ed, an opinion editorial. Here's the actual publication,

00:04:36.900 as seen on the Oxford University Press website that published it. You see the category it's in?

00:04:43.440 Do you see that? It says right there, viewpoint. See that in yellow at the bottom? Viewpoint.

00:04:50.060 It's not a study. It's a rant. If you click on it, you can view it as a PDF. And you can see,

00:04:57.980 again, right at the top, we put it in yellow. It says viewpoint, right? And let me read the first

00:05:02.540 few sentences to show you how sciency this is. Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly

00:05:09.840 warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to tell it like it is. On the basis of this obligation

00:05:16.800 and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories

00:05:24.840 from around the world, clearly and unequivocally, that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,

00:05:31.160 climate emergency. Yeah, that's not scientists, not how scientists talk. Those are political words.

00:05:39.860 But just a quick point. You heard that government journalist, Tuan Mishran, talk about what a big

00:05:45.060 report it was. It's not big. It's four short pages long, of which half are ultra-simplified

00:05:52.980 charts, dumbed down for journalists. It's not a heavy report. It's very light. It's a

00:05:58.920 press release pretending to be a study. Oxford University Press clearly marked it as an editorial

00:06:06.000 viewpoint. It's obvious that Maharshan herself never even looked at it, let alone read it.

00:06:14.420 I'm skeptical about anything the CBC says, because not only are they media, which is bad enough,

00:06:20.340 but they're state media. They're like Al Jazeera or Pravda. In fact, I don't know if you've noticed

00:06:25.980 this, but now YouTube even puts a warning label under every CBC news video online, just like they

00:06:32.460 do for Al Jazeera, pointing out that the CBC is a government broadcaster. A bit of a warning to you

00:06:39.960 that you're watching propaganda. Anyways, this Alliance of World Scientists, they put out this short

00:06:46.200 study. Not a study. It's a propaganda letter. Have you ever heard of the Alliance of World

00:06:52.240 Scientists before? Ever? Ever seen them, you know, publish any studies, hold a conference? Have you ever

00:07:00.780 met a member of this or seen one on TV? Ever heard of them at all? Try Googling them. You just won't find

00:07:07.980 it. It's not a thing. It's this. It's a one-page homemade website set up by some guy in the forestry

00:07:19.300 department at Oregon State University. It's a blog, but not even. It's just one page. It exists so that

00:07:25.580 every time they publish another editorial like this, they can get thousands of strangers to sign it.

00:07:31.660 But it sounds more impressive to say Alliance of World Scientists rather than we got some random

00:07:36.660 strangers on the internet to click like. Seriously, scroll down, and it says, we invite all scientists

00:07:45.680 to sign a short article on climate change. You see that? That's what they do. That's all they do.

00:07:53.900 It's not a real thing, this Alliance. Well, I clicked on that button to sign the letter because

00:07:58.820 I'm a scientist. What's the definition of that word anyways? But as you can see, when you click on it,

00:08:05.520 it says signatures currently disabled because the letter is now being published. But if that's really

00:08:12.820 who those 11,000 people are, just people on the internet, and if that's all this report is,

00:08:17.600 a short editorial that they keep publishing every few years, I'm sorry, but that's a joke.

00:08:24.200 But it sure was important for the propaganda to say there were 11,000 scientists signing this.

00:08:31.060 And I wonder, are there even 11,000 climate scientists in the world? Now, maybe, come to

00:08:36.160 think of it, because what a great way to get government grants. But boy, they sure seem

00:08:40.380 to be putting a lot of stock in that 11,000 scientists number. Listen to that government

00:08:46.380 journalist just one more time.

00:08:49.440 11,000 scientists. But 11,000 scientists. 11,000 scientists. 11,000 scientists. 11,000 scientists.

00:08:56.560 Yeah. So you're saying there were 11,000 scientists who agree with you from more than 150 countries and

00:09:04.940 that 400 of them were from right here in Canada. Well, then I guess the debate settled then because

00:09:10.280 I guess that's how science works. Scientists have a vote by clicking like on the internet. And that's

00:09:16.540 how they settle empirical questions. Well, like I say, this wasn't a scientific experiment or research.

00:09:23.160 It's just an editorial viewpoint. So I was curious. I know you're not supposed to question things.

00:09:29.160 But I'm a natural skeptic. So I clicked on the list of scientists who signed this letter. It's right

00:09:36.300 there on the Oxford University Press website. And indeed, it has thousands and thousands of names in

00:09:43.380 it. I didn't want to read them all. But you know, I actually took the time to go through and I looked at

00:09:49.000 every single name from Canada. It took me a couple hours and I just started typing a few names into

00:09:56.740 Google. Who are these scientists? And don't worry, I'm not going to show you all of them. But let me just

00:10:02.780 show you some of my favorite people who are amongst those 11,000 scientists.

00:10:08.900 Scientists. Scientists. Scientists. Scientists. Scientists. Scientists. Scientists. I just started

00:10:17.000 going through alphabetically. So here's Shannon Berg on the list. You see her name there? She's one of

00:10:24.320 the Canadians on this list of 11,000 scientists. But is she a scientist or just someone who clicked

00:10:30.340 that button I showed you as someone would click like on a Facebook post? Here's her LinkedIn page.

00:10:37.680 She's a manager of a health care project in Alberta. Her training is as an occupational therapist.

00:10:45.540 I read her entire resume. She seems like a really nice lady, really smart, very accomplished.

00:10:51.720 But as an occupational therapist who now is a manager in a health care bureaucracy,

00:10:58.360 she's not a scientist. Certainly not a climate scientist. Just someone who clicked 0.97

00:11:03.660 like on that website I showed you. Okay, maybe that's just her. Let's go to literally the next

00:11:10.140 name on the list. Terry Berg of Quantlin Polytechnic. That's a vocational school. Those are the best kind

00:11:17.920 of schools. They actually teach people practical things. And Terry Berg seems great. He even won an

00:11:24.900 award. Let me quote. For his unwavering commitment to widening equitable access to education,

00:11:31.780 his adaptations of multiple open textbooks and other OER production in developmental algebra and

00:11:38.560 physics. And for his selfless dedication to serving our most marginalized students, we present

00:11:43.000 Quantlin Polytechnic's fine instructor, Terry Berg, with the BC Campus Award for Excellence in Open

00:11:48.860 Education.

00:11:49.300 So he's not a climate scientist. He's a teacher at a vocational school, and he's such a good guy.

00:11:58.500 He makes free textbooks available to marginalized students. I'm not sure exactly what that means,

00:12:04.200 but it sounds really good. But he's not a climate scientist. I don't even think he's a scientist at

00:12:11.180 all, actually. Okay, let's keep going down the list alphabetically. Here's David Boyd.

00:12:16.960 But, except he's a lawyer. Does it get any lower? No, I'm just kidding. I used to be a lawyer, too. But

00:12:26.280 I'm sure he's nice. I'm sure he's a nice guy. But he's a lawyer. He's not a scientist. Okay,

00:12:33.240 let's keep going alphabetically. Here's George Burlesue on the list. Take a look at him. He seems

00:12:40.140 like a solid guy. He works at a company that makes light bulbs.

00:12:46.960 He's not a scientist. Here's Peter Carter. Is he a climate scientist? Or a scientist at

00:12:56.120 all? No, he is not. Peter is a retired doctor after nearly 40 years in practice as a family

00:13:04.400 physician, first in England and then in Newfoundland and British Columbia, Canada. Like I say, he

00:13:10.000 seems like a, like a, this is his blog here. That's Peter down there. Looks, looks like a

00:13:16.800 great family doctor. Seems like a caring man. He's retired now. He even set up this state

00:13:21.660 of the art website you're looking at to express his feelings about climate. Of course he signed

00:13:26.820 the petition. He's not a scientist. Here's Vanessa Cateau. She's on the list and she seems really

00:13:35.900 smart. Look at this. She teaches physiology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the

00:13:42.520 University of Alberta. I like dentists, but they're not, they're not really scientists and

00:13:48.140 they're not climate scientists. That's just someone who clicked like on that website I showed

00:13:53.500 you. Okay, let's keep going alphabetically. Here's Antoine Clark. Again, seems like a great

00:13:58.500 guy. He works at a hospital for sick children. Anyone who works at a hospital for sick kids

00:14:04.740 is a good guy, but he is not a climate scientist. He's a data analyst at a kid's hospital.

00:14:13.900 Oh, let's keep going on. Here's Rhiannon, Rhiannon Davey. She's not a climate scientist. She's the 0.99

00:14:22.820 assistant director of summer academic programs at this amazing place called Appleby College. It is a

00:14:32.820 private school for the ultra rich. I am not joking. Tuition for their high school program is as high

00:14:43.360 as $74,000 a year for high school. So yeah, not a climate scientist, but pretty cool gig.

00:14:54.560 Here's the next one. Here's a woman with the wonderful name. I got to pronounce it carefully.

00:15:00.180 Aviva Kundliff. And here's her LinkedIn page. She seems interesting. She's the CEO of something

00:15:09.480 called Green Carbon. Her bio says she's the chief scientist for GC Green Carbon Inc. And she is a

00:15:20.700 focused, energetic, and talented scientist who identified the thermostat of the planet in 2018.

00:15:27.680 And that sounds pretty sciencey. I've got to admit, I didn't know that there was such a thing as a

00:15:32.900 thermostat of the planet. Maybe that's just another way of saying the sun. But she would know, after all,

00:15:40.980 she has multiple degrees from Atlantic International University. Have you ever heard of them before,

00:15:50.420 Atlantic International University? Me neither. But it's not really a university as you or I know it. It's got a

00:15:57.380 mailing address in this office tower in Honolulu, which, as you know, is not on the Atlantic. It doesn't

00:16:08.000 have a campus. And how do I put this? It's not accredited. It is not a real university. It is a

00:16:18.340 diploma mill. If you pay them $6,500, they will give you a bachelor's degree. If you pay them $8,000,

00:16:25.660 poof, you're a doctor. I'm not saying that Viva Kundliff isn't nice or smart, or that she hasn't

00:16:33.020 found the thermostat of the planet. In fact, come to think of it, she's actually 100% perfect.

00:16:40.760 She's the perfect person to sign this global warming freakout letter by the fake alliance of

00:16:45.740 world scientists that is then peddled by the fake news outlets. I take it all back. Viva Kundliff is 0.97

00:16:51.480 perfect for this petition. Speaking of go-getters, here's William Knapp. Who's he? His LinkedIn page

00:16:59.460 says he graduated with a statistics degree in the 1970s, and then he worked for DuPont for 35 years.

00:17:07.040 But for the past 12 years, he's been the boss of Bio H2 Gen. No idea what it is, but here's his

00:17:16.160 website, and he says he's looking for money. Maybe he should sell some degrees to Viva Kundliff.

00:17:22.660 Up next on the list, I'm going alphabetically, here's, of Canadians, here's Alexander Diaz.

00:17:30.640 He's a student. He's studying education. It's a good idea. In his free time, he's a running

00:17:36.960 instructor. He seems like a nice guy, not a scientist. Here's Anne Erickson on the list. See that?

00:17:45.600 She's a, she's a kids author who specializes in climate hysteria. A global warming scientist? No. 0.66

00:17:52.940 Wow. Yes, if you believe the CBC. Here's Antonia Mills. She seems nice. Reminds me of that

00:18:00.020 Democrat, Marianne Williamson. You know who I'm talking about? I'm going to harness love for

00:18:06.460 political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win. I like her. 1.00

00:18:14.560 Anyways, Antonia Mills, she's an expert. How do I, how do I say this? I just, just come right out and

00:18:20.760 say it. She's an expert in reincarnation. I'm serious. Let me quote from her biography.

00:18:30.020 She has been awarded a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowship for a longitudinal study

00:18:37.100 of young adults who were said to remember a previous life. She teaches undergraduate and

00:18:43.220 graduate courses and one on indigenous perspectives on reincarnation and rebirth at both level.

00:18:50.220 Climate scientist? Close enough for the CBC. Speaking of feelings, Mariko Visserman is on the list.

00:19:00.000 She seems amazing. Here's her biography.

00:19:06.080 I currently work as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and York University,

00:19:11.460 Toronto. I study romantic relationship with a central focus on sacrifice, e.g., balancing self

00:19:21.080 and relationship interests, perceptions of partner sacrifice experiences, and intentions and determinants

00:19:26.400 of gratitude in response to partner sacrifice.

00:19:30.120 On the one hand, I absolutely can't believe our tax dollars are going to pay for that. And then,

00:19:39.260 on the other hand, I guess that's sort of hot. I don't know. Climate scientists? Well, global warming,

00:19:49.040 I don't know. Here's Mark Stoddard on the list. He's a sociologist. Here's Vicki Hutzband on the list. She's an eco-activist. 0.59

00:20:03.760 Here's Marina Cortez. She's not a climate scientist. She writes papers for the Perimeter Institute with really heavy questions like,

00:20:13.520 why is time always moving forward and never backward? That's the subject of this presentation here.

00:20:22.180 That's a really good question. Why does time move forward and not backward? But that's not really a climate science question.

00:20:29.360 It reminds me of something Justin Trudeau might say when he's kicking back with Gerald Butts and smoking some really good weed.

00:20:36.280 We have to rethink elements as basic as space and time to go all science fiction-y on you in this sense.

00:20:45.300 Yeah, thanks. Now, I'm going to stop now. I promise you that it's just a sample. Could you imagine who else is in the other thousands of names here?

00:20:55.960 It is just people literally signing a form on the internet. There's no vetting. There's no qualifications.

00:21:05.660 It's exactly the same as clicking a like on someone's Facebook page. The only reason why I couldn't be one of these expert scientists is because I thought of the idea too late.

00:21:17.500 But not this guy. I was working my way through the Canadians alphabetically, and I was tired and bored, and then I came across this lad, Hans Weinhold, from Mohawk College.

00:21:33.200 And his expertise, as you can see, is listed as BS detection and analysis.

00:21:41.060 Now, I've gone through a few hundred of these now, so I'm thinking, BS, that could mean Bachelor of Science.

00:21:48.740 And detection and analysis sounds like something you might say if you're a global warming scientist. 0.99

00:21:55.060 But maybe it's just what it looks like, BS, as in bullshit. 0.94

00:22:00.880 I was already all the way down to the W's now, so I was tired, but I Googled the guy. 0.93

00:22:05.780 And I found his Facebook page. That's him in the mask there, I think.

00:22:13.700 And I don't know if you can see, but he put his job down as welfare.

00:22:17.540 Well, so far, as you can see, I discovered no information to suggest he's not real.

00:22:23.260 I mean, I already showed you some hard-wing, hard-line lefty professors.

00:22:29.140 So, this guy's an antifa goon in a mask, maybe, and saying he takes welfare?

00:22:35.160 Well, tell me half these bureaucrats I've shown you do anything more than just waste your tax dollars all day. 0.97

00:22:40.760 You know, a hundred grand a year in some useless field of study.

00:22:43.920 I mean, I really like Mariko, but seriously, what's she doing studying relationships 0.99

00:22:48.980 and posting selfies that a thousand girls aren't doing on Instagram,

00:22:52.780 but I don't have to subsidize them through my tax?

00:22:55.420 But this guy, Hans Weinhold, is that him there?

00:23:01.220 This is from his Facebook page.

00:23:02.780 Is that him catching a fish?

00:23:04.560 That's very environmental.

00:23:05.620 But look at that hat. 0.64

00:23:06.680 Is that a Trump hat?

00:23:08.800 Is that Make America Great Again?

00:23:10.300 And what's this?

00:23:11.260 Look at this picture.

00:23:13.100 Is that an Infowars shirt?

00:23:16.400 And here he is in a yellow vest,

00:23:19.200 and he's wearing a Make Canada Great Again hat.

00:23:22.700 I think that's one of ours here from The Rebel.

00:23:24.460 And look at this from his Facebook page.

00:23:27.320 I won't even read it.

00:23:29.200 I'll just let you enjoy it.

00:23:31.780 My friends, I think I found the one guy on the entire list of 11,000 people who has a sense of humor,

00:23:43.200 who signed it as a joke to prove it was a joke.

00:23:47.640 I actually think he's probably kidding about being on welfare, too.

00:23:51.260 I went through his Facebook page, and he praises hard work and scoffs at politicians and know-nothings.

00:23:56.740 I literally sifted through hundreds of self-righteous, self-important know-nothings,

00:24:03.640 every single one of them living on the government dole in some way.

00:24:07.440 And they were the real welfare recipients, and not a single one of them a climate scientist at all.

00:24:17.060 11,000.

00:24:18.560 11,000.

00:24:19.700 11,000.

00:24:20.500 11,000.

00:24:21.020 No, sister.

00:24:24.040 There weren't 11,000 climate scientists signing a report.

00:24:28.440 There were 11,000 bored bureaucrats taking a break from playing solitaire at work,

00:24:34.860 who clicked like on some editorial they didn't even read.

00:24:40.660 And that was then breathlessly repeated by journalists who didn't read it either.

00:24:45.640 And not a single one of those journalists bothered to check who these 11,000 scientists are.

00:24:52.120 Yeah, it's 10,999 virtue-signaling prats.

00:24:58.640 And one practical joker from Hamilton, who loves him his Trump hat.

00:25:05.700 Stay with us for more.

00:25:18.540 Welcome back.

00:25:19.380 I have to tell you, I don't keep a lot of souvenirs or mementos, and I certainly don't collect autographs.

00:25:25.720 But there is one memento given to me by a former foreign minister of Canada, also a former environment minister.

00:25:35.680 His name is John Baird.

00:25:37.960 And he gave this to me out of the blue.

00:25:39.820 I was so surprised.

00:25:41.540 This is a copy of it.

00:25:43.140 I have the original.

00:25:44.760 It says, Ezra, a man ahead of his time.

00:25:48.960 John.

00:25:49.320 And this is a copy of the actual letter sent by John Baird to the United Nations back in, I think it was 2011,

00:26:01.580 notifying the UN that Canada was officially leaving the Kyoto Protocol.

00:26:10.500 Saying goodbye to the whole madness.

00:26:12.940 And this was just the icing on the cake.

00:26:15.880 The fact that John Baird gave me this as memento showed that he knew exactly what I cared about.

00:26:20.580 And in fact, I've treasured that little memento ever since.

00:26:23.900 Well, I've got even more amazing news for you.

00:26:27.500 Donald Trump has sent the same letter to the United Nations.

00:26:32.600 Here, take a look at this.

00:26:33.680 I am fighting every day for the great people of this country.

00:26:40.760 Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens,

00:26:50.100 the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.

00:27:06.100 Thank you.

00:27:10.460 Well, there you have it.

00:27:11.560 Now, it takes one year for the notice provision to work its way through, but it is a done deal.

00:27:17.660 And de facto, of course, America has been out for several years.

00:27:22.080 Joining us now to talk about this moment is our friend from ClimateDepot.com, Mark Morano.

00:27:27.520 Mark, I hope you get a signed copy of the official notice yourself.

00:27:33.560 I'm sure you would put it on a plaque on the wall behind you.

00:27:37.660 Yes, I would.

00:27:38.440 I mean, this is probably the greatest achievement, both symbolic and factual,

00:27:45.040 of the Trump administration and international and domestic policy.

00:27:48.800 It's a great one because it combines both international policy and domestic policy.

00:27:53.100 It says we're not going to be beholden to the international whims of the United Nations regulations,

00:27:58.540 and we're not going to affect U.S. policy by climate insanity.

00:28:01.880 So this is just Donald Trump being pure Donald Trump.

00:28:06.840 Donald Trump, a nationalist, America first figure.

00:28:10.560 And this is why, you know, his base loves him.

00:28:13.580 This is why the media hates him.

00:28:15.520 This is probably the most offensive thing that President Trump has done,

00:28:20.240 according to the mainstream media and to the liberals in America.

00:28:25.660 He could not do anything more damaging.

00:28:27.880 And he's following up on his pledge from June, was it 2017, to get us out this letter yesterday.

00:28:37.060 Secretary of State Pompeo, it's following up.

00:28:39.740 It's a complex process.

00:28:41.080 Still takes another year before we're formally out, before the United States is formally out.

00:28:46.100 But this is a moment where Donald Trump shines to his supporters and is literally the devil to his detractors.

00:28:53.580 Yeah.

00:28:54.020 You know, the timing is delicious.

00:28:55.560 I think the expiry of the one-year notice provision is pretty much spot on.

00:29:00.580 The day of next year's presidential election, of course, before the next president is inaugurated.

00:29:08.160 So Donald Trump will still be president.

00:29:10.040 It's just great.

00:29:11.760 You and I have talked about the importance of the climate file, the environment file.

00:29:19.160 We were huge fans of Donald Trump's first EPA boss.

00:29:23.580 And when he was drummed out by the Washington deep state, we were both worried that that was the end of Trump's war on junk science and war on climate globalism.

00:29:34.880 Here we are three years into the term.

00:29:37.300 America is now a net exporter of energy, the world's largest producer of energy.

00:29:42.540 Fracking is full tilt ahead.

00:29:45.200 LNG is full tilt ahead.

00:29:47.220 Oil production in Texas, in the Bakken, is at the highest ever, I think.

00:29:54.220 You see the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

00:29:56.720 You see offshore drilling in the Gulf.

00:29:58.180 I think that you and I were nervous a few years ago.

00:30:02.360 But looking back on the first three years, I think he's pretty much done everything he said he would do.

00:30:07.300 Am I right?

00:30:08.680 Yeah, he really has.

00:30:10.240 I mean, on environment and energy policy.

00:30:13.020 It is just phenomenal.

00:30:15.260 We are having the American energy renaissance under President Trump.

00:30:19.400 Now, the one dark spot is coal.

00:30:21.860 And the problem is, you know, Murray Energy just declared bankruptcy last week.

00:30:25.780 The problem is coal has two problems.

00:30:28.500 A, there was a war on coal for eight years under President Obama that just, you know, destroyed, slaughtered.

00:30:34.020 And secondly, fracking of natural gas has become so efficient, so abundant, so advanced that coal is really the real enemy of coal at this point is the new technology.

00:30:45.760 And I shouldn't say new technology of fracking, but the booming fracking industry.

00:30:50.080 And so that's what's happening in places like Pennsylvania and other states.

00:30:53.860 So that's the one area where I don't know how successful President Trump can be, but it has been an energy boom in the United States.

00:31:02.980 And so what happens now is a referendum next year, 2020, as we head into the U.S. presidential election, it is going to be a referendum on the Green New Deal and energy policy.

00:31:13.380 We are literally faced with a stark choice, President Trump, to continue this policy of the American renaissance.

00:31:19.940 Or it's going to be a complete and a 180 degree turn back the other way.

00:31:27.740 We are talking, every Democratic presidential candidate is pledging to ban fracking.

00:31:32.360 Not only fracking, but plastic straws and automobiles and have rotating fleets of electric vehicles.

00:31:40.360 We have candidates that are talking about banning every conceivable form of energy except solar and wind, which they think is going to magically replace it.

00:31:47.360 So as good as President Trump is, he's got to up his game in 2020 because he's got to run on this.

00:31:54.000 And I think this is one reason why President Trump is leading in all of these key states that he won last time, the Rust Belt states that rely on American energy.

00:32:04.740 It's because of these policies.

00:32:06.720 But there's still a lot of other states, New York, California, that are going to be out voting against him in this.

00:32:13.720 So it's a jump ball, I think, for next year, whether we continue these policies or go back in the Paris Agreement and start banning American energy.

00:32:22.760 All those numbers you just mentioned, Ezra, would reverse in the next four years if a Democrat is elected.

00:32:28.320 Yeah.

00:32:28.740 You know, the state I visited the most in your country, Mark, is Pennsylvania.

00:32:35.440 I've been there so many times, mainly to study the fracking boom there.

00:32:41.400 Now, that's largely gas as opposed to oil.

00:32:43.660 But it's almost a perfect transition.

00:32:47.460 As coal was being eliminated, first by Obama and then by the cheap competition of natural gas, you could almost see, in fact, you would drive down the same road.

00:32:58.960 You'd see a steel mill or a coal mill literally being shut down.

00:33:02.860 And then you would see a gleaming new fracking facility like an ethylene plant or ethene plant or just a frack pad.

00:33:11.000 And 200,000 jobs, instead of just evaporating, moved over.

00:33:16.560 They were still in the state.

00:33:18.220 They were still hard work, blue-collar jobs, well-paying, six-figure jobs in many cases.

00:33:23.520 The same guys, but still in the fossil fuel business.

00:33:27.800 Fracking saved Pennsylvania.

00:33:29.920 It was the antidote to all those Bruce Springsteen songs about the factory shutting down, the mills shutting down, you know, those sad songs like Born in the USA.

00:33:41.020 Fracking saved the day.

00:33:42.960 And let me come to my point, Mark.

00:33:46.220 I visited Washington County, Pennsylvania the most because that's really the heart of fracking in Pennsylvania.

00:33:52.340 And I studied the voting there.

00:33:54.000 In 2008, that place went for Obama pretty heavy by a double-digit margin.

00:34:01.760 By 2012, Obama's lead was cut in half.

00:34:05.360 And by 2016, Trump won Washington County, Pennsylvania by, I don't want to go from memory, by thousands of votes,

00:34:14.900 almost enough to sway the whole state and flip Pennsylvania for the first time in a generation from Democrats to Republicans.

00:34:23.060 I guess my point is the people in that neighborhood understood that fracking was going to save their community

00:34:30.620 and the Democrats were against energy and fracking.

00:34:34.300 And I think, I really think, Mark, that Pennsylvania voted for Trump because of the fracking revolution.

00:34:42.760 And I hope that all these states, especially the fracking states, the steel states, even the coal states,

00:34:48.860 that they don't go to the party that would phase out those very industries that saved them.

00:34:56.320 I can't see that happening.

00:34:58.800 In fact, my parents are both from Pennsylvania, Scranton and Uniontown.

00:35:02.020 I go to Pennsylvania all the time.

00:35:03.280 I just testified in Pennsylvania last week at a House hearing in the capital of Harrisburg.

00:35:09.780 The Democratic governor named Tom Wolfe wants to ruin Pennsylvania's success story.

00:35:14.640 Now, remember, Pennsylvania is one of the biggest success stories in the country.

00:35:19.020 States like Pennsylvania are the reason the United States is kicking the rear ends

00:35:23.580 of all the European signatories of the U.N. Paris Agreement and reducing our emissions

00:35:27.580 because of the fracking boom.

00:35:29.980 But their governor, Ezra, this is unbelievable, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania

00:35:33.980 wants to get them in the regional greenhouse gas initiative, the RGGI,

00:35:38.540 and tie in Pennsylvania's energy policies with those of Massachusetts, Vermont, New York.

00:35:44.780 I went and testified and I said, New York has nothing to teach Pennsylvania about energy.

00:35:51.340 They've banned fracking in New York.

00:35:53.580 They are anti-energy.

00:35:55.260 And I said, you have nothing.

00:35:56.400 You have everything to teach New York.

00:35:58.180 It should not be the other way around because they're actually considering

00:36:01.040 executive order of the governor of Pennsylvania ruining Pennsylvania's success story

00:36:06.520 and making essentially introducing a carbon tax in Pennsylvania.

00:36:10.140 So even a state like Pennsylvania that's a success story has a Democratic governor

00:36:14.860 that wants to take them down the carbon tax Green New Deal route. 0.87

00:36:18.500 It is a fight in every state.

00:36:20.740 It is a dividing line of America right now, this battle.

00:36:23.740 Well, that's so scary.

00:36:25.520 I mean, a thousand things have been helped by fracking in that state.

00:36:29.980 All the country roads that are paved, paid for by the fracking companies.

00:36:34.200 It's not just the 200,000 men and women working that's the boon and the taxes they pay, 0.67

00:36:41.180 but also lower power prices for everybody.

00:36:44.400 Like the idea that they would throw that away is almost as insane as Alberta shutting down

00:36:50.680 its oil sands.

00:36:51.580 But as you may know, that's actually happening.

00:36:54.940 Yes, it's ideology.

00:36:56.300 I mean, it happens.

00:36:57.140 It's not people don't look down and they look at it practically.

00:37:00.000 This is a religious ideological view.

00:37:02.480 They actually believe it.

00:37:03.820 Now, in Pennsylvania, they had the pen, essentially the pen head of the Pennsylvania EPA testified

00:37:08.600 the hearing where I was.

00:37:10.300 And he, guess what he bragged about, Ezra?

00:37:12.280 How many more jobs solar and wind employed in Pennsylvania?

00:37:15.780 So I'm like, wait a minute.

00:37:16.820 Here is the state director, the EPA head, essentially, of the state of Pennsylvania,

00:37:20.580 bragging about solar and wind employing more people than the fossil fuel industry.

00:37:23.940 That's not true.

00:37:24.360 Let's take a look at that number.

00:37:25.560 It turned out, I don't have it, again, I don't want to pull it up, I believe it was

00:37:29.240 about 15% from so-called renewable.

00:37:32.000 So you had, essentially, more employees producing a fraction of the energy of the fossil fuel

00:37:38.500 workers in Pennsylvania.

00:37:39.760 In other words, Pennsylvania has reduced the bragging that they have a bunch of, a lot of

00:37:44.540 workers producing virtually no energy, and they want to shut down the efficient workers

00:37:49.320 who are producing massive amounts of energy.

00:37:51.620 And that's true nationally in the United States.

00:37:53.120 One study found, I think it was, one co-worker produces the energy of 73 solar workers.

00:37:59.180 In other words, fossil fuels produce so much energy, but what they end up doing is bragging

00:38:03.820 about the number of jobs.

00:38:05.080 And the only reason you get those jobs is from government subsidies, mandates, forced jobs,

00:38:09.660 in other words, make work, in a sense, because they're not producing energy.

00:38:13.740 So as much as we think Pennsylvania is a success story, in place right now, right now they have

00:38:19.640 Republican legislators stopping a lot of this, but a Democratic governor is literally going

00:38:24.260 the route of AOC, the Green New Deal, carbon taxes, and the ways of New York.

00:38:30.560 And it's an amazing thing to watch, because you're right, you see a huge success story,

00:38:34.420 you think you'd want other states to copy it.

00:38:36.860 Instead, the state itself wants to commit energy suicide, which is what, unfortunately,

00:38:41.860 Pennsylvania could be on the brink of.

00:38:43.340 Oh my God, you know what, it's just terrible if that would happen.

00:38:47.420 Let me throw back to a speech Trump gave, and I think he might have even given this speech

00:38:52.720 in Pennsylvania.

00:38:53.660 We're talking a lot about Pennsylvania, I didn't mean for that to happen, but it's just,

00:38:56.680 it's the success story I think of, and it's so wonderful to see.

00:39:01.740 And as a Canadian, I'm so jealous of it, because I know there's a lot of natural gas that could

00:39:07.300 be fracked in Canada, both in Quebec and the Atlantic.

00:39:09.460 And of course, we have the Bakken geological formation in Saskatchewan, too.

00:39:15.160 But look at this speech from Trump, where he is crystal clear what the two polar opposites

00:39:21.220 here are.

00:39:21.560 Take a look.

00:39:24.440 Represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

00:39:31.940 Yeah, pretty obvious, Pittsburgh or Paris.

00:39:34.080 And that's the thing, in Canada, I just learned that our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has

00:39:39.380 literally 13 full-time lobbyists, diplomats, and bureaucrats trying to convince other United

00:39:46.920 Nations countries to vote for Trudeau to be on the Security Council, because the non-permanent

00:39:54.440 members of the Security Council, they rotate on.

00:39:57.200 And Trudeau is so intent on sucking up to the world's dictatorships and OPEC countries.

00:40:03.120 He's got 13 full-time lobbyists begging, you know, Venezuela and Nigeria and Iran to vote

00:40:11.360 for Canada.

00:40:12.620 He is clearly putting, you know, Algeria ahead of Alberta. 0.93

00:40:18.760 Trump putting Pittsburgh ahead of Paris is exactly why the United States is booming.

00:40:24.700 Last word to you.

00:40:25.640 Well, this is a battle, you know, again, 2020 is the referendum in the United States on which

00:40:32.200 way we go here.

00:40:33.020 And I say it's a toss-up at this point.

00:40:35.200 I mean, anything could happen.

00:40:36.840 And I think, by the way, the United Nations, interesting thing, we talked about this last

00:40:41.480 week, Chile had to cancel their UN summit because they followed the UN climate policies and the

00:40:46.800 population revolted in deadly riots.

00:40:49.400 Now they've moved it to Madrid.

00:40:50.640 This will be the last UN conference before the US election.

00:40:54.420 So I would expect a lot of more than usual Trump bashing at this UN climate summit in

00:41:00.120 Madrid as they try to set the world stage for the United States to get rid of Trump so

00:41:06.320 that we can again join those allegedly enlightened nations that are forward-looking in one essentially

00:41:12.360 planned energy economy and one UN bureaucrats ruling over us. 0.98

00:41:16.340 So that's where we're headed right now as the big push against Trump internationally is

00:41:21.640 about to happen.

00:41:22.300 And I'm sure Trudeau will be at the head of that bandwagon against Trump at the UN climate

00:41:28.140 summit.

00:41:28.720 Well, Mark, I've had a Swedish teenager listening into our conversation.

00:41:32.240 I'd just like to play a clip from here.

00:41:34.760 What does the young Swede have to say about what you and I have been talking about?

00:41:38.960 How dare you?

00:41:40.040 How dare you, Mark Moreno?

00:41:44.060 By the way, how dare she? 1.00

00:41:46.820 She is now looking to hitchhike somehow across the ocean. 0.66

00:41:50.780 She was planning on going to Chile, but now she's got to get to Madrid.

00:41:54.680 Former New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin, Ezra, has come out and said, why don't we

00:41:59.100 all batch buy a whole bunch of carbon credits so she can fly back to Madrid for the summit? 0.99

00:42:04.560 This is how deep the virtue signaling is going.

00:42:06.880 The mainstream media in league with Greta Thunberg trying to help her justify a fossil

00:42:12.880 fueled flight back to Europe.

00:42:14.960 Otherwise, they don't know how she's going to get there.

00:42:17.140 Is she going to take a yacht in December and the choppy waters of the Atlantic back?

00:42:21.360 You know, it's crazy.

00:42:22.600 And how dare you?

00:42:23.420 I still say as her comments, Greta's comments, the UN, I agree with how dare the UN imply

00:42:30.180 that they can control world temperatures, that they can control world energy.

00:42:34.880 If you look at what she's saying, she's disappointed and disgusted by the UN.

00:42:39.240 I think that's a view all healthy climate skeptics can and should take so we can stand with Greta

00:42:44.760 and asking, how dare you to the United Nations for implying that they can control global weather

00:42:50.880 and temperature?

00:42:51.820 Well, listen, don't get me started on my Greta impressions.

00:42:55.160 You have stolen my dreams.

00:42:57.160 I won't get into it, but it is too much fun.

00:42:59.120 And I don't know if you know this, Mark, but Archie and Bextie was the first journalist

00:43:03.100 I've ever seen to catch up with Greta and have a bit of a conversation with her about

00:43:08.580 her hypocrisy before she was whisked away by her handlers.

00:43:12.160 If you haven't seen that, I'll have to send you the link, over a million views.

00:43:15.500 I think he's the only journalist in North America to have done it.

00:43:19.160 Certainly, that's the way Trudeau would go.

00:43:21.940 But Trump is the way I wish our country would go.

00:43:25.600 Mark, great to see you again.

00:43:26.480 Thanks for your time.

00:43:27.240 All right, there you have it.

00:43:29.220 Well, just a reminder is that every year we send Sheila Gunn-Reed to this Global Warming 0.98

00:43:36.440 Conference, and we see Mark there all the time.

00:43:38.580 Sheila has gone, and she doesn't buy carbon credits, I can assure you.

00:43:42.600 And this year, Kian has expressed interest in going, too.

00:43:45.780 So we're going to have the tag team, the duo of Sheila and Kian going, and we were going 0.83

00:43:51.720 to send them to Chile, and we learned it's in Madrid.

00:43:53.820 We obviously have to crowdfund our plane tickets, economy class, to go there.

00:43:57.740 I don't know if we'll be let in.

00:43:59.300 We're usually banned from the actual conference, but I think that makes our reporting actually

00:44:02.980 better, because we're not just regurgitating press releases.

00:44:06.300 So we'll keep you posted when we know the details.

00:44:09.640 As far as I know, they haven't really locked in the date of the Madrid conference, or even

00:44:15.540 the exact location, because it was just a week ago that Chile announced it was cancelling

00:44:20.360 because of these energy poverty riots.

00:44:23.040 All right, that's this segment.

00:44:25.000 Stay with us.

00:44:25.540 More ahead in a moment.

00:44:35.520 Hey, what do you think of that global warming letter and its 11,000 signatories?

00:44:41.500 That was a huge story.

00:44:46.100 That was published everywhere.

00:44:49.680 And I don't think a single journalist bothered to check who signed it.

00:44:54.840 There aren't 11,000 climate scientists.

00:44:57.100 And it wasn't even a study.

00:44:58.360 It was just some editorial.

00:45:01.100 I went through it, and it was exactly as if they had this huge breaking news about some

00:45:07.600 guy who made a Facebook post, and a lot of people liked it.

00:45:11.020 That's exactly all this was.

00:45:13.780 I don't know.

00:45:14.740 I think it just goes to show you can't trust the word the media party says.

00:45:23.480 What do you think?

00:45:24.900 Send me an email with your thoughts.

00:45:26.860 Ezra at rebelnews.com.

00:45:29.300 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep

00:45:34.620 fighting for freedom.

00:45:35.380 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - November 07, 2019

Who are the 11,000 “scientists” signing off on the latest global warming scare？ We checked, and you'll laugh!

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