The Ben Shapiro Show - Political Mass Suicide On National TV | Ep. 854

00:00:00.000 Democrats roll out their climate change plans, and it is a full-scale disaster.

00:00:04.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:04.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:12.000 It is all climate change, all the time, because last night was the big CNN town hall on climate change.

00:00:12.000 That's right.

00:00:17.000 Now, I know you watched.

00:00:18.000 I know you watched with bated breath.

00:00:19.000 I know you, like millions of Americans, tuned in to hear Democrats talk about how they're going to take away your cow and your airplane and your car.

00:00:27.000 And how they're gonna magically create sources of energy that emerge from the buttocks of a unicorn. 0.96

00:00:31.000 I know that you were into every single moment of it, but if you weren't, we're gonna recap all of it for you.

00:00:37.000 But we begin with the media focusing disproportionately on a specific narrative with regard to climate change.

00:00:45.000 The narrative is not that there is a solution available, because as we will see, it turns out the solutions to climate change are extraordinarily difficult.

00:00:51.000 They require global cooperation that is extremely unlikely to happen.

00:00:54.000 The fact is that whatever climate change is going to happen is largely baked into the cake already.

00:00:59.000 There is future climate change that theoretically could be prevented by collective action, but collective action is incredibly difficult when you have developing countries that are seeking to better the lives of their citizens, like China, or India, or Brazil, for example.

00:01:12.000 But what the media have decided to focus on in the absence of solutions is the problem.

00:01:17.000 And this is how you know that people aren't serious about solving a problem.

00:01:21.000 When everybody focuses in on diagnosing the problem and how bad the other guy is, then this means they don't have a solution.

00:01:28.000 There's a guy I'm friendly with named Adam Grant.

00:01:29.000 He teaches over at University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School, and he once said to me that if you want to have a useful conversation, start with the solutions.

00:01:37.000 If you want to have a useless conversation, start with the problems.

00:01:40.000 Naturally, most of our politics starts with the problems.

00:01:43.000 Most of our politics is now about, well, I diagnose this as a problem, and then I don't have a solution.

00:01:48.000 But you aren't even diagnosing it properly, and that means you're bad.

00:01:52.000 Well, politics is not the business of diagnosing problems.

00:01:56.000 Politics is the business of providing solutions to those problems.

00:01:58.000 And if you have no solution, then your diagnosis is fairly useless.

00:02:02.000 So what the media have decided to do, what Democrats have decided to do, because the solutions to climate change are not easy, and also, they are not really doable in the way that Democrats are talking about, and they inflict enormous pain on the American public the way Democrats are talking about them.

00:02:16.000 Instead, they have an alternative narrative.

00:02:18.000 And the alternative narrative is, Republicans are science deniers.

00:02:21.000 They are climate change deniers.

00:02:23.000 Now, you'll notice, That isn't an argument for a solution.

00:02:26.000 That is not an actual solution being provided.

00:02:28.000 That is not an answer.

00:02:29.000 That is just, we are superior, we are better, because we understand science, and you are a science denier.

00:02:37.000 And so they focused in on the Trump administration with this.

00:02:40.000 Now, Trump does make that easy when he says things like climate change is a Chinese hoax and all of that.

00:02:44.000 Now, I don't believe that climate change is a Chinese hoax.

00:02:47.000 I think that climate change is happening.

00:02:48.000 I think that the majority of climate change is man-caused.

00:02:51.000 The reason I think that is because even people like Roy Spencer, who is frequently quoted on other talk radio programs, who studies this sort of stuff and is considered a climate change skeptic, even he suggests that well over 50% of climate change on planet Earth is at this point human activity caused.

00:03:07.000 He's what we call a lukewarmer.

00:03:09.000 And the vast majority of people who are quoted by the right Poor, credible scientists are lukewarmers, meaning that they believe that the climate is changing.

00:03:17.000 They don't know quite how much.

00:03:18.000 They are not sure what the sensitivity of the climate is to carbon emissions, but they are not going to deny that the climate has indeed been getting warmer over the course of the last century and a half, and that man-made activities are linked to this.

00:03:28.000 Bjorn Lomberg feels this way.

00:03:30.000 For example, in a second, we're going to discuss how what the left does is ignore all of that in favor of this narrative that the Republicans just deny science wholesale.

00:03:39.000 And they focus in on the most egregious examples of this to get outraged, to gin up the idea that Republicans are backwards and that they are cave dwellers and all the rest of this. 0.98

00:03:49.000 And all of that is really a misdirect, the misdirect from what they are actually proposing as policy, because it turns out their solutions suck. 0.98

00:03:56.000 Their solutions are so bad. 0.74

00:03:58.000 The Democrats had a long conversation internally about whether they should have a climate change debate.

00:04:02.000 And the DNC was like, no, we're not going to do it.

00:04:05.000 So instead, they went with this town hall.

00:04:06.000 You could see why they didn't want a climate change debate, because every moment of that CNN town hall last night was a Republican attack ad in the making.

00:04:14.000 It's utterly unbelievable.

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00:05:36.000 Okay, so, as I say, the narrative that the media wish to draw, instead of getting into the actual hard-nosed facts about climate change, is that Republicans deny climate change wholesale, and therefore they are stupid and evil and terrible. 0.98

00:05:49.000 And as I say, President Trump tends to play into this because he says things like climate change is a Chinese hoax and all of this. 0.99

00:05:55.000 Well, yesterday was another opportunity for the Democrats to smack Trump and smack them he did.

00:05:59.000 That was because President Trump did this press conference about Hurricane Dorian.

00:06:04.000 And it was a bizarre press conference because he held up an outdated chart of the storm path for Hurricane Dorian, which showed the possibility of Hurricane Dorian Hitting the entire state of Florida.

00:06:13.000 And then someone had taken a sharpie and marked in on the map that Hurricane Dorian could swing into Alabama.

00:06:20.000 And they did this presumably because Trump had said that Hurricane Dorian could swing into Alabama.

00:06:24.000 Well, as it turns out, Hurricane Dorian turned north.

00:06:26.000 It didn't turn west.

00:06:27.000 And therefore, there was really no shot that it was going to enter Alabama, apparently.

00:06:31.000 Instead, it was going to move up the coast into North Carolina.

00:06:35.000 This drove the left up a wall.

00:06:37.000 It was evidence that Trump was denying science and that the White House was tailoring the science in order to fit Trump's weird conception of reality.

00:06:43.000 So the New York Times reported, when President Trump displayed a large map of Hurricane Dorian's path in the Oval Office on Wednesday, it was hard to miss a black line that appeared to have been drawn to extend the storm's possible path into the state of Alabama.

00:06:55.000 That might have been intended to bolster Mr. Trump's claim on Sunday when he tweeted that in addition to Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated.

00:07:05.000 Never mind that the Alabama office of the National Weather Service quickly responded to Mr. Trump's original claim by insisting Alabama will not see any impacts from Dorian.

00:07:13.000 We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.

00:07:16.000 The system will remain too far east.

00:07:18.000 So, did Mr. Trump, who frequently uses black Sharpie pens to sign legislation, add the mark to justify his unfounded claim about the dangers faced by residents of the cotton state?

00:07:28.000 Or did someone else in his administration clumsily modify the map so that it would appear to back up the president?

00:07:34.000 There's a full-scale front-page story in the New York Times that somebody took a Sharpie and drew a picture on a map.

00:07:41.000 Because they're trying to draw the narrative.

00:07:41.000 Really, why?

00:07:42.000 And the narrative is that Trump denies science, his team denies science, and that they do silly things in order to please him.

00:07:47.000 They say the black line on the map was drawn to look like the top of the so-called cone of uncertainty that is familiar to weather watchers.

00:07:53.000 The line curved through the southwest corner of Georgia and the southeast corner of Alabama and into the Gulf of Mexico.

00:08:00.000 Asked about the marking on the map, Trump told reporters he didn't know how it got there.

00:08:03.000 I don't know.

00:08:04.000 He said on Wednesday while insisting that his assertion about the dangers that Alabama faced had been right all along.

00:08:11.000 Why this is a big story is beyond me. 0.98

00:08:13.000 Like, it's dumb, it's ridiculous, but it's a big story. 0.98

00:08:17.000 And it isn't beyond me, it's pretty obvious. 0.99

00:08:19.000 Okay, the reason that this is a big story is because the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself.

00:08:24.000 are attempting to create the narrative and push the narrative that Republicans deny science.

00:08:28.000 And so this ties directly in to their whole take on global warming.

00:08:32.000 So the big move over the last 24, 48 hours has been Trump needs to leave the White House because he's a climate change denier.

00:08:37.000 Now, denier is, again, a word that has usually been linked when you're talking about denial of something, denial of a set of facts.

00:08:45.000 It's usually been linked to things like Holocaust denier.

00:08:48.000 And so it is really, really overwrought.

00:08:50.000 But that is the language that the left wants to use.

00:08:53.000 It is a moral failing for you to deny that climate change is happening.

00:08:56.000 And then they extend that logic out to, it is a moral failing for you to deny the solutions that we have proposed for climate change.

00:09:03.000 Now, I think that we should look at the best available science, the facts on the ground, and we'll go through those in just a second, and then analyze what the solutions are that are possible.

00:09:11.000 Democrats, really, if they had their druthers, they wouldn't talk about solutions at all.

00:09:14.000 Instead, they would just lay out a litany of grievances with Republicans for not accepting the science.

00:09:19.000 And that's exactly what they did yesterday.

00:09:21.000 So Amy Klobuchar, who is still quixotically running for president, she was appearing on national TV and she said, Trump is bad, right?

00:09:29.000 The big story here is not that we have an answer to climate change.

00:09:31.000 Spoiler alert, they don't. 0.92

00:09:33.000 The big problem here is that Trump is a bad man, orange man bad.

00:09:37.000 We can do this, and there are so many opportunities when you're out there and you see that 99% of the wind turbines are in rural areas.

00:09:46.000 The potential for all these new jobs and technology, and we just have to put our mind to it, get the climate denier whiner out of the White House, and see this as actually an economic driver instead of just the negative.

00:09:59.000 We have to look at it as cost-benefit.

00:10:02.000 It's going to cost us something like $500 billion every year if we keep doing this.

00:10:07.000 OK, first of all, that is a really, really upper level estimate as to what it will cost us over the next century.

00:10:13.000 In terms of climate change to the United States public.

00:10:15.000 But the key there is the point that she's making.

00:10:18.000 Trump is a climate change denier.

00:10:19.000 Climate change denier.

00:10:20.000 And as we'll see, this is the Democrats' main thrust.

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00:11:49.000 Okay, so it's not just Amy Klobuchar doing the orange man bad routine. 0.98

00:11:52.000 Elizabeth Warren last night, she said, well, Trump is a nightmare. 0.98

00:11:54.000 That's the real problem here is Trump Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump is bad. 0.94

00:11:58.000 We'll get to their solutions.

00:11:59.000 As it turns out, you want to talk about a nightmare?

00:12:01.000 Wait until you hear what these folks have proposed for you and your life if they actually gain the levers of power.

00:12:08.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren, though, pointing out that on a moral level, because Trump is a climate change denier, he's a threat to us all.

00:12:16.000 So quick step into the future.

00:12:17.000 You win the nomination.

00:12:19.000 I like that.

00:12:19.000 Say that again.

00:12:20.000 So far the premise is good.

00:12:22.000 You're on the debate stage.

00:12:23.000 You're across from the president and he says the Green New Deal is a dream because we're 60% right now on fossil fuels.

00:12:30.000 You're saying you want to put into research and get it done but you don't know how right now.

00:12:35.000 So you want to bet our economy on an ambition.

00:12:38.000 What's the answer?

00:12:39.000 He says the Green New Deal is a dream.

00:12:42.000 I'm assuming he says it.

00:12:43.000 I don't know what he'd say.

00:12:44.000 No, but I'm just saying where he is right now is a nightmare.

00:12:50.000 That's not an actual answer to the question, right?

00:12:52.000 Cuomo asks a very specific question, which is, everything you're saying makes no sense. 0.81

00:12:56.000 And she's like, well, you're a nightmare!

00:12:58.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:13:00.000 And she just counts on the fact that it's a bunch of clapping seals in the audience.

00:13:04.000 Okay, that didn't solve anything, did it?

00:13:06.000 Right?

00:13:06.000 You shouldn't answer the question.

00:13:08.000 But this is the point, right?

00:13:09.000 Bernie Sanders did the same thing.

00:13:10.000 Bernie Sanders was asked about all of this. 1.00

00:13:11.000 He goes, well, Trump's approach is very idiotic. 1.00

00:13:14.000 And I know idiotic. 1.00

00:13:15.000 Let me tell you, I know many things about idiocy. 1.00

00:13:19.000 So yeah, I mean, I think it is just idiotic, if you like, that a president, a president takes that, has that type of approach toward climate change. 1.00

00:13:31.000 And again, it is, forget the word idiot, it is so dangerous. 1.00

00:13:36.000 It is dangerous. 1.00

00:13:38.000 We are the most powerful country on earth.

00:13:40.000 We should be leading the world. 0.99

00:13:42.000 Right, this is all vague crap, right? 0.96

00:13:43.000 We're gonna- We'll lead the world. 0.97

00:13:45.000 We need to do something.

00:13:47.000 It's danger- Are you hearing a solution anywhere in here?

00:13:50.000 As we will see.

00:13:51.000 I keep pitching this forward because, man, when you hear what the Democrats want to do to you, That is going to be really unpleasant.

00:13:59.000 OK, that is basically what they want to do to you in terms of policy is basically the first half of the movie Midnight Express.

00:14:05.000 It is just awful and nothing good is happening if the Democrats get control of the policy on climate change.

00:14:11.000 And by the way, it's not going to help climate change.

00:14:13.000 As we are about to see.

00:14:13.000 OK, and then the other thing that Democrats do is they say, well, it's a crisis.

00:14:17.000 We have 11 years left.

00:14:18.000 And if you don't take it seriously, then you're part of the problem.

00:14:20.000 Here's Julian Castro desperately vying for attention, saying we have 11 years left.

00:14:24.000 It is fun to watch the clock tick down for Democrats.

00:14:26.000 We have 12 years left.

00:14:27.000 No, it's 11.

00:14:28.000 No, it's 10.

00:14:28.000 No, it's one minute.

00:14:30.000 If we don't solve climate change in the next one minute, we'll all die.

00:14:33.000 Here's the reality.

00:14:34.000 The climate's going to change over the next century.

00:14:35.000 We're going to put into place adaptation and mitigation.

00:14:38.000 Not everybody is going to die.

00:14:39.000 There will be costs to climate change.

00:14:41.000 Those costs will largely come at the expense of people who have to move.

00:14:44.000 They will largely come at the expense of some of the mitigation efforts that we're going to have to put in place, building new sea walls, geoengineering, and all the rest.

00:14:50.000 You know what will survive?

00:14:51.000 Humanity.

00:14:52.000 It's going to be OK.

00:14:54.000 It's going to be OK.

00:14:55.000 It'll cost us money.

00:14:56.000 It ain't going to destroy the world.

00:14:57.000 But that's not a pitch.

00:14:59.000 So Julian Castro is like, no, we're all good.

00:15:01.000 We have 11 years to solve this thing.

00:15:03.000 Well, then I hope he's made his will, because guess what?

00:15:05.000 None of the solutions Democrats propose are a thing.

00:15:08.000 Looking back with the challenge that we have, right, with this U.N.

00:15:11.000 report that says now, I guess it's 11 years that we have left.

00:15:14.000 It was 12 years in 2018 when they released it.

00:15:18.000 Uh, I think many of us look back and say, wow, you know, we, the earlier we could start, the better.

00:15:25.000 So of course, if I were mayor of San Antonio again, would I approach things a little bit differently?

00:15:31.000 Yeah, perhaps.

00:15:32.000 Okay, guess what?

00:15:33.000 He wouldn't.

00:15:33.000 If you're mayor of San Antonio again, he wouldn't approach anything differently because People of San Antonio, we're not gonna be super into the answers that the Democrats are providing.

00:15:42.000 Okay, so, before we get to the answers Democrats are providing, I want to do a basic look at the science of climate change, because there are too many people, I think, on the right, who are under the misimpression that climate change is a complete fiction, that it's not happening at all.

00:15:55.000 This was pushed yesterday by a guy named James Taylor over at Real Clear Energy.

00:15:58.000 Who is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, which does do some good work.

00:16:04.000 And he has a piece yesterday talking about the idea that climate change is particularly a hoax.

00:16:09.000 He says, when American climate alarmists claim to have witnessed the effects of global warming, they must be referring to a time beyond 14 years ago.

00:16:15.000 That is because there has been no warming in the United States since at least 2005, according to the updated data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

00:16:23.000 In January 2005, NOAA began recording temperatures at its newly built U.S.

00:16:27.000 Climate Reference Network.

00:16:29.000 USCRN includes 114 pristinely maintained temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states.

00:16:36.000 NOAA selected locations that were far away from urban and land development impacts that might artificially taint temperature readings.

00:16:42.000 Prior to the U.S.

00:16:43.000 CRN going online, alarmists and skeptics sparred over the accuracy of reported temperature data.

00:16:49.000 With most pre-existing temperature stations located in or near urban settings that are subject to false temperature signals and create their own microclimates that change over time, government officials perform many often controversial adjustments to the raw temperature data.

00:17:01.000 Skeptics of an asserted climate crisis pointed out that most of the reported warming in the U.S.

00:17:06.000 Was non-existent in the raw temperature data, but was added to the record by government officials.

00:17:10.000 The U.S.

00:17:11.000 CRN has eliminated the need to rely on and adjust the data from outdated temperature stations.

00:17:15.000 Strikingly, U.S. 0.60

00:17:16.000 CRN temperature stations show no warming since 2005, when the network went online.

00:17:21.000 temperatures are now slightly cooler than they were 14 years ago.

00:17:21.000 If anything, U.S.

00:17:23.000 Okay, so this is the piece from James Taylor, and this was sort of flying around the internet among conservatives yesterday.

00:17:31.000 Okay, so a couple of things.

00:17:35.000 One, if you're talking about global warming, you can't just talk about regional warming like warming in the United States.

00:17:40.000 You have to talk about the global average temperature.

00:17:42.000 I emailed a friend of mine over at Caltech, who is a climate scientist, and I asked him specifically about this data.

00:17:48.000 And here is what he wrote back.

00:17:50.000 And I think that it is important to present both sides.

00:17:53.000 And again, this is a highly credible climate scientist at Caltech.

00:17:56.000 He says, this is cherry-picking data.

00:17:58.000 Generally, a decade is too short to see climate trends.

00:18:01.000 Weather varies, and the climate change signals drown in the weather noise on these relatively short timescales.

00:18:06.000 This is the difference between weather and climate.

00:18:08.000 Basically, if you want to look at long-term impacts, you can't look at a 10-year period.

00:18:12.000 You have to look at the course of the last century, for example.

00:18:15.000 He says, if you put the same data From the NOAA in a longer context, you can see the clear warming trend in the United States.

00:18:21.000 So here's a chart of the warming trend in the United States since like 1895.

00:18:26.000 Do we have that chart?

00:18:28.000 This would be the December average temperature anomaly, contiguous US.

00:18:32.000 There we go.

00:18:33.000 So this is a chart from the NOAA.

00:18:35.000 If you can't see this, what you see is since 1900, there has been an increase in temperature.

00:18:39.000 This is particularly warmed for the first half of the century a little bit, and then it sort of maintained a little bit of coolness through the 50s and the 60s, and then it starts climbing pretty radically all the way to 2020.

00:18:51.000 Right, so you have to lengthen the time period so you can see better exactly what is going on.

00:18:55.000 He says, even if you want to focus only on recent temperatures from quote-unquote good stations, you see an upward trend in minimum temperatures.

00:19:01.000 And then he sent over this chart, which shows the upward trend in minimum temperatures, which, as you can see, is a real thing, right?

00:19:09.000 The temperature is volatile on a year-to-year basis, but you do see a generalized upward trend since 2000.

00:19:17.000 He says, the urban heat island effect to which the article makes known is known to be small globally, is small even on scale of continents.

00:19:23.000 It does matter in cities.

00:19:24.000 Obviously, cities tend to be hotter than non-cities.

00:19:27.000 Okay, so climate change is not a myth.

00:19:31.000 It is a thing that is happening.

00:19:32.000 Now, there are serious questions as to how much climate change is going to happen.

00:19:36.000 Climate scientists don't know whether we are going to warm two degrees Celsius or six degrees Celsius over the course of the next century.

00:19:43.000 That is a very, very large variation, obviously.

00:19:46.000 And there are certain estimates that say we're at the low end, there are certain estimates that say we are at the high end.

00:19:50.000 What the left likes to do is not only take the high end, they then like to take tipping points.

00:19:54.000 They like to suggest that all sorts of horrible things are going to happen that are unforeseeable.

00:19:58.000 There's going to be a thaw in Antarctica and a woolly mammoth with the Black Plague is going to be unearthed and we're all going to die from that.

00:20:04.000 Or there's going to be massive tsunamis that are going to emerge and just wipe major cities from the coastlines.

00:20:09.000 None of that is predictable and all of that is based on sheer speculation at this point.

00:20:15.000 So, a few things can be true at once.

00:20:17.000 One, human activity is creating climate change.

00:20:20.000 Two, we don't know the sensitivity of the climate to human activity.

00:20:23.000 And three, we are able to mitigate against a lot of those effects.

00:20:27.000 But there's something else that is important to know, and that is that a global solution is not really in the offing.

00:20:33.000 Hey, this is the hard part, and the part that people on the left don't want to acknowledge.

00:20:37.000 That is, the solutions to climate change that they are proposing in the United States are not only ineffective, they're counterproductive.

00:20:43.000 They hurt American citizens, they make the rest of the world poorer, and if you actually want the rest of the world to care about climate change and the environment, they need to be richer, not poorer.

00:20:50.000 There are studies that show that countries start to care about environmentalism basically when the GDP per capita hits about $3,100 per capita.

00:20:57.000 Well, a lot of countries don't have that.

00:21:00.000 And you really think they're going to let their citizens continue to burn dung in their homes, which, by the way, ain't great for carbon emissions, instead of using coal-based energy to create electricity plants, for example?

00:21:10.000 In a second, I want to go through some of the facts on climate change.

00:21:12.000 Where are the emissions actually coming from?

00:21:14.000 And then we'll look at the Democratic solutions, and you will see how these solutions are not even tailored to solving the problem.

00:21:20.000 They're more tailored to making people feel good about themselves because Democrats know these things will never be implemented.

00:21:25.000 We'll get into that in just a second.

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00:22:49.000 Let's go through some of the information on where exactly greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.

00:22:54.000 And you can see the problem almost immediately.

00:22:56.000 Almost immediately here.

00:22:59.000 Greenhouse gas emissions for major economies.

00:23:01.000 What are the sources of these emissions?

00:23:04.000 Okay, first, if you look by country, what you'll see is that the United States has basically held steady since about 1990 in terms of its greenhouse gas emissions.

00:23:13.000 It's actually receded since the year 2000.

00:23:15.000 We've actually reduced our carbon emissions.

00:23:18.000 The same thing is true for the EU, which used to be responsible for the second most emissions as of 1990.

00:23:23.000 Look at this line for China, okay?

00:23:25.000 China continues to elevate its greenhouse gas emissions Arithmetically.

00:23:30.000 I mean, it's an arithmetic line from the bottom left of the chart to the top right of the chart.

00:23:36.000 And China continues to grow this way.

00:23:37.000 The same thing is true of India, which has now moved into a solid fourth place and will soon surpass the EU in total greenhouse gas emissions.

00:23:45.000 In other words, the United States can cut down its greenhouse gas emissions.

00:23:48.000 The EU can cut down its greenhouse gas emissions.

00:23:50.000 They're never going to cut those greenhouse gas emissions down to zero.

00:23:53.000 It's just not going to happen, at least not in the foreseeable future, as we'll also see in just a moment.

00:23:57.000 China and India are not going to stop any of this. 0.99

00:23:59.000 So if your solution is we're going to solve this thing in the next 10 years, you're going to have to get China and India on board. 0.92

00:24:04.000 Good luck to you, because if you think that China is simply going to cut off its access to carbon-based sources of energy on behalf of global Good?

00:24:16.000 You got another thing coming.

00:24:17.000 China is in a competition right now with the West and with the United States on everything from 5G through their IP stealing company Huawei to the belt and road system. 0.96

00:24:29.000 You think they're going to cut off that competition when it comes to an energy deal?

00:24:32.000 The greater likelihood is that they sign on to some deal like, for example, the Paris Climate Accords and then proceed to do absolutely nothing.

00:24:37.000 My evidence for this is that that's exactly what they have done under the Paris Climate Accords.

00:24:40.000 They signed on.

00:24:41.000 The US didn't.

00:24:42.000 We reduced our emissions.

00:24:43.000 China did not. 0.63

00:24:44.000 Okay, so that's number one.

00:24:45.000 And then we have to look at greenhouse gas intensity.

00:24:49.000 Okay, meaning on a per capita level, on a per GDP capital level, who is actually spending the most?

00:24:55.000 Like, are you a poor country that is disproportionately benefiting from carbon-based emissions?

00:25:01.000 As you'll see here, the United States' greenhouse gas intensity, meaning the amount of carbon-based fuel that we are using per dollar of GDP, is actually fairly low.

00:25:09.000 It is places like Russia and China, developing countries, That are that are spending enormous amounts of carbon emissions based on the GDP per capita that they have.

00:25:19.000 The United States is actually below the world average.

00:25:22.000 So again, China, Russia, developing countries, this is where the major problem lies in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

00:25:29.000 And then we have to look at where exactly these emissions are coming from, because there's this weird idea in the West that this is all coming from automobiles and eating meat.

00:25:37.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:25:38.000 That's not how this works.

00:25:39.000 If you look at the source of greenhouse gas emissions by sector globally, what you see is that the vast majority of it is coming from the energy sector.

00:25:47.000 The vast majority of it is not coming from automobiles.

00:25:50.000 The vast majority of it is not coming from agriculture.

00:25:53.000 The vast majority of it is coming from the energy sector, meaning electricity and heat, transportation, other fuel combustion, manufacturing and construction.

00:26:02.000 That 72% of all emissions are not coming from, for example, agriculture, or land use change in forestry, or waste, or industrial processes.

00:26:12.000 It's coming from actual energy grids, like people who are trying to live in the world.

00:26:18.000 Which means that if you are looking to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, then that should be the sector you're targeting.

00:26:24.000 But amazingly, Amazingly, that's not the sector that the left actually wants to target, mostly.

00:26:29.000 They're targeting coal, but they refuse to buy into, for example, nuclear power.

00:26:35.000 This is something Henry Olson writes about at the Washington Post today.

00:26:37.000 He says, 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls gather on Wednesday for a climate town hall in which they will lay out their plans to combat climate change.

00:26:44.000 There are two words few of them, if any, are likely to mention.

00:26:47.000 Nuclear power.

00:26:48.000 Voters who take climate change seriously should demand better.

00:26:51.000 Climate change activists tell us that the planet's future is at stake if we don't act now.

00:26:55.000 But nuclear power expansion is notably absent from three of the four leading Democratic candidates' climate action plans.

00:27:01.000 Warren, Harris, Bernie, So Warren and Harris don't mention it at all.

00:27:06.000 Sanders does mention nuclear power, and he says he will stop construction of all nuclear power plans and place a moratorium on renewing licenses for existing ones. 0.73

00:27:14.000 Now, as you will see, this is complete idiocy because here is a chart of the actual cost.

00:27:20.000 This is the one that we just pulled, guys. 0.96

00:27:21.000 The actual chart that shows the capital and other fixed costs of particular sources of energy.

00:27:29.000 What you will see here is that, by far, the capital and other fixed costs, the lowest source of available energy, is conventional combined cycle natural gas.

00:27:40.000 Natural gas is the cheapest thing to draw out, which is why fracking is so popular right now.

00:27:45.000 It is also true that the emissions rate of fracking and natural gas is significantly lower Then that of conventional coal, for example, which is one of the reasons why the United States has reduced emissions.

00:27:55.000 Fracking has actually led to a reduction in carbon emissions in the United States, because when you contrast natural gas with conventional coal, natural gas is significantly more carbon efficient than conventional coal.

00:28:06.000 Then you get to the actual cost of the other sources of energy, and what you see is that conventional coal costs the estimates of cost in the near-term electricity generation, and they are measuring They're measuring basically cost per unit.

00:28:22.000 And so cost per unit in capital and other fixed costs for conventional and combined cycle natural gas is like $2.05.

00:28:28.000 You get a conventional coal, it's $7.05.

00:28:30.000 Wind is $9.70.

00:28:30.000 Geothermal is $9.22.

00:28:31.000 Then you get up into solar, we're talking about like $21.

00:28:33.000 970, geothermal is 922, right?

00:28:37.000 Then you get up into solar, you're talking about like 21 bucks.

00:28:41.000 You're talking about solar thermal, 31 bucks.

00:28:43.000 Advanced natural gas is a lot lower.

00:28:46.000 It's closer to conventional natural gas.

00:28:48.000 So what exact advanced nuclear is not nearly as high as solar or solar thermal.

00:28:54.000 In essence, what this chart shows, the one that I'm showing right now, this comes from William Nordhaus's book, by the way, what this chart shows is that Democrats are focusing on the most expensive, least efficient forms of energy at the expense of the forms of energy that are most carbon efficient and also least expensive. 0.98

00:29:12.000 If you're focusing on wind and you're focusing on thermal and solar thermal, for example, and you're ignoring advanced nuclear or you're ignoring natural gas, you're a fool. 0.95

00:29:22.000 But that's exactly what Democrats are doing. 0.98

00:29:24.000 Now, it's also important to note here.

00:29:27.000 Where exactly climate emissions in the United States are coming from.

00:29:31.000 So here are the percentages of emissions in the United States by economic sector.

00:29:35.000 So people keep talking about agriculture, as you'll see.

00:29:38.000 9% of total US greenhouse gas emissions are coming from agriculture.

00:29:42.000 9%.

00:29:43.000 29% comes from transportation, so that would be cars and buses, but that's still only 29%.

00:29:46.000 Electricity and industry represent About 50% of all of the greenhouse gas emissions, which means that you're going to knock out some of the key industries in the United States and raise costs for consumers in some of the key industries of the United States.

00:29:58.000 Commercial and residential represents about 12%.

00:30:01.000 Broken down a different way.

00:30:03.000 From Nordhaus's book, if you look at emissions for different activities by U.S.

00:30:06.000 households in 2008, here's what you find.

00:30:09.000 The percentage of emissions in the United States for individual households, about 15%, is from automotive travel.

00:30:16.000 About 6% is from space heating.

00:30:18.000 About 3% is from air travel.

00:30:19.000 About 2.5% is from air conditioning.

00:30:22.000 Everything else, including non-households, is about 64%.

00:30:26.000 Meaning that the vast majority of the things that the Democrats are targeting are not the things that are actually going to affect the carbon emissions, right?

00:30:34.000 And here's the problem.

00:30:35.000 The problem is that there are no good solutions for any of this, because as that chart shows, the one that shows you about the alternative sources of energy and their relative costs, there ain't nothing great coming directly on the horizon.

00:30:46.000 William Nordhaus, the current Nobel Prize winner in economics, writes in his book Climate Casino, quote, The central question going forward is the prospect for economical low-carbon electricity.

00:30:56.000 Wind is the only mature low-carbon technology.

00:30:58.000 It is 50% more expensive than the best existing technology.

00:31:02.000 Moreover, its capacity is limited in the United States.

00:31:05.000 The other promising technologies with the possibility of large-scale deployments are, from least to most expensive, Advanced natural gas with carbon capture and storage.

00:31:12.000 This is where you create machinery that helps basically capture the carbon emissions from natural gas.

00:31:18.000 Advanced nuclear power and advanced coal with carbon capture.

00:31:22.000 These are 50 to 100 percent more expensive than the most economical existing technology.

00:31:27.000 So even these ones are way more expensive than just natural gas for itself.

00:31:31.000 itself.

00:31:32.000 Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels, says Nordhaus, emitting about half as much CO2 per kilowatt hour as coal when burned for electricity generation.

00:31:39.000 Shifting a greater fraction of electricity to natural gas is an important way of reducing CO2 emissions.

00:31:44.000 Guess what Democrats want to do?

00:31:46.000 Some of them are, okay, they say they want to kill the natural gas industry.

00:31:49.000 They're not interested in nuclear power, but they want to stop you from eating meat and using plastic straws. 0.99

00:31:54.000 If all this sounds like stupid virtue signaling that is not designed to actually solve the problem, that's because it is stupid virtue signaling that is not designed to solve the problem. 1.00

00:32:02.000 And it's because Democrats know they're never gonna do any of this crap. 0.99

00:32:05.000 We're going to go through the Democrats' climate change plans at long last in just one second. 0.97

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00:34:07.000 All righty.

00:34:14.000 So now, at long last, we get to the Democrats' plans on climate change.

00:34:18.000 As I say, what Democrats would prefer to do is say Republicans are denying the science.

00:34:23.000 I just ran you through all the science.

00:34:25.000 All of the things that I just quoted are things from people who are deep believers in climate change, people who are deeply concerned about climate change.

00:34:32.000 They're from books.

00:34:33.000 From Nobel Prize winners, there are studies from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

00:34:43.000 These are all data based on the same data that folks in the Democratic Party are using.

00:34:48.000 What I'm saying is that the only way to fight climate change in reality is going to end up being over the next century, investing in new technologies, which is already happening, and investing in geoengineering, Right, trying to take tax that mitigate climate change, not by destroying people's quality of life, but by actively trying to change the climate.

00:35:09.000 The only one who I heard talk about this at all yesterday was Andrew Yang, my boy Andrew Yang.

00:35:13.000 There's going to be mitigation effects, people attempting to build sea walls and move infrastructure.

00:35:18.000 That's what's going to end up happening in reality.

00:35:20.000 Then there's all the pie in the sky crap Democrats are talking about, which is not going to accomplish anything. 0.91

00:35:25.000 Which means this is all about virtue signaling. 0.88

00:35:26.000 So we're going to go through candidate by candidate and show you what they say.

00:35:29.000 So Joe Biden, last night, he said the Green New Deal, as in like AOC's Green New Deal.

00:35:34.000 You know, the Green New Deal that was supported by zero senators, including co-sponsors of the Green New Deal.

00:35:39.000 He says that that doesn't go too far.

00:35:41.000 You know, her $93 trillion plan for the United States economy.

00:35:44.000 Biden says that doesn't go too far.

00:35:45.000 Now, the reason he's saying this, of course, is because he is trying to force Republicans into a position of saying that they don't care at all about climate change.

00:35:53.000 He's trying to do with climate change what Democrats are doing with guns right now, which is we disagree on the solutions to the problem.

00:36:00.000 But that means I'm denying the problem according to the left. 1.00

00:36:02.000 So according to Joe Biden and the left, if I say that your stupid solutions are not in fact solutions, they're just dummy, they're just dummy garbage, then that's because I'm a denier. 1.00

00:36:10.000 That's Joe Biden's shtick here. 0.99

00:36:13.000 You're not saying that you support everything In the original Green New Deal, do you think it goes too far?

00:36:20.000 Is it unrealistic, promising too much?

00:36:22.000 No, it's not.

00:36:23.000 Here's what it is.

00:36:24.000 It doesn't have a lot of specifics.

00:36:26.000 But the reason, I don't know, I'm not opposed to the Green New Deal. 0.69

00:36:30.000 What I did was I thought beyond, at least in more detail, what the Green New Deal is calling for.

00:36:37.000 How to do the things we need to do.

00:36:40.000 When they have to be done.

00:36:42.000 How quickly we should move.

00:36:43.000 How much we should invest, etc.

00:36:45.000 Okay, except that he doesn't actually call for any specificity.

00:36:48.000 He just wants to say that the Green New Deal is a good idea. 0.93

00:36:50.000 So, because when he gets specific, here is where all the attack ads for Trump start.

00:36:54.000 Last night was a fantastic night for President Trump.

00:36:57.000 Listen to Joe Biden say he's going to shut down every coal plant in the country.

00:37:00.000 You think this is going to go well?

00:37:01.000 He's not going to invest in advanced carbon capture technology for coal plants.

00:37:06.000 He is not going to talk really about how to move those jobs.

00:37:10.000 Instead, we're just going to have to shut down all the coal plants in the United States.

00:37:12.000 Now, the United States is responsible on a global level for about 15% of all carbon emissions.

00:37:17.000 So he's now talking about wiping an entire sector off the face of the American economy.

00:37:22.000 And that sector, by the way, is already in trouble, largely because of technological advances.

00:37:27.000 But he's talking about forcibly killing that sector from above, to the tune of what?

00:37:33.000 Maybe 3% of total carbon emissions on planet Earth?

00:37:39.000 That would be a real high-end estimate.

00:37:43.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:37:45.000 We set out the rules for what kind of coal-burning plants.

00:37:50.000 No one's going to build another coal-burning plant.

00:37:52.000 We've got to shut the ones down we have.

00:37:54.000 But no one is going to build a new one.

00:37:56.000 Guess what?

00:37:57.000 They're not efficient.

00:37:59.000 OK, well, he is right that the coal plants are not efficient, that you'd be better off building natural gas plants.

00:38:05.000 There's only one problem, and nuclear plants, probably.

00:38:07.000 One problem.

00:38:08.000 The same Democrats who are talking about getting rid of coal plants are also avoiding the talk about how exactly they're going to build a new plant.

00:38:14.000 You're not building a wind farm to replace those coal plants.

00:38:18.000 It is just not happening.

00:38:20.000 And then Biden says, you know what?

00:38:21.000 We'd like to reach a point where everyone drives electric cars.

00:38:24.000 That's my plan.

00:38:24.000 Electric cars, electric cars.

00:38:26.000 There's only one problem with that, which is that electric cars ain't going to do a job.

00:38:30.000 Ain't going to do the job.

00:38:30.000 Here's a study from National Geographic circa 2014.

00:38:35.000 Electric cars can help limit reliance on imported oil and take a bite out of air pollution from urban traffic jams.

00:38:40.000 But as Surefire ammunition against climate change, a new study finds, they come up short.

00:38:46.000 The study attempted to take a big picture view, analyzing the ripple effects of electric vehicles on the U.S.

00:38:50.000 energy system.

00:38:51.000 Including possible changes in emissions of key air pollutants like heat-trapping carbon dioxide.

00:38:55.000 The team of researchers, led by Joseph DeCarolis, Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, created a model to look at the complex interplay among fuel prices, battery costs, government policies, and adoption of electric cars in the coming decades.

00:39:11.000 The team modeled 108 scenarios.

00:39:13.000 The new model found, they reported, that even in scenarios that yield the highest levels of electric vehicle deployment, plug-ins and hybrids would make up no more than 42% of all U.S.

00:39:23.000 passenger vehicles in 2050 and would reduce overall emissions by a slim margin.

00:39:28.000 But good news, Joe Biden wants to force you to drive one of these newfangled smart cars.

00:39:34.000 Will there be a point, or would you like there to be a point, and if so, when, that everybody drives an electric car or has to drive an electric car?

00:39:40.000 Well, I think, look, that's going to be based upon whether or not we can make it economically feasible.

00:39:45.000 And it is economically feasible.

00:39:47.000 Because guess what?

00:39:49.000 Everybody knows where the world's going.

00:39:51.000 We have to take combustion engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can.

00:39:57.000 But that also could create a significant number of jobs and opportunities for people.

00:40:02.000 No, actually it's going to take away a significant number of jobs because it turns out that American heavy industry and car companies are generally in the business of building light trucks.

00:40:10.000 The manufacturing in the United States is disproportionately not in the electric vehicle industry.

00:40:15.000 It also happens to be the case that, as we already referred to, only about 15% of household emissions in the United States come courtesy of your car.

00:40:21.000 So that actually doesn't solve the problem.

00:40:23.000 So what does solve the problem, according to Joe Biden?

00:40:25.000 A carbon tax.

00:40:26.000 Now, The truth is that if you had a global carbon tax, you artificially raise the price of carbon emissions, then that would be an effective way, presumably, of lowering carbon emissions.

00:40:35.000 There's one small problem with that.

00:40:36.000 Do you think that China and India are going to sign on to a global carbon tax?

00:40:41.000 Do you think developing countries are going to be into this?

00:40:43.000 You think this is a thing that's going to happen?

00:40:45.000 There are a lot of people who advocate for this, including William Nordhaus, who I talked about earlier.

00:40:49.000 This global carbon tax.

00:40:50.000 It does not work if it's regional.

00:40:52.000 If the United States taxes our own citizens on carbon and destroys our economy in the process, and presumably hurts other economies in the process also, preventing their upward mobility because the world economy is dependent on the United States economy, do you think that those economies are more or less likely to rely more on carbon-based fuels in order to spur their economy?

00:41:12.000 OK, a regional tax will not work.

00:41:14.000 You need a global tax.

00:41:15.000 Guess what's the thing that is not happening?

00:41:16.000 Any of this.

00:41:17.000 Here's Joe Biden talking about why we need a carbon tax anyway.

00:41:20.000 Would you support a carbon tax?

00:41:23.000 Other some other candidates said they would.

00:41:24.000 Yeah, no, I would.

00:41:26.000 But here's what we have to do.

00:41:27.000 Look, the bottom line of this is what we have to do is we have to understand that you need to be able to bring people and countries and interests together to get anything done.

00:41:39.000 You can have the plans are great, but executing on those plans is a very different thing.

00:41:44.000 We make up and it's the existential threat of not this generation, but the whole world.

00:41:49.000 The existential threat that exists.

00:41:50.000 We don't move on it.

00:41:51.000 OK, well, guess what?

00:41:52.000 China ain't moving on it. 0.59

00:41:54.000 That's why.

00:41:54.000 Listen, everyone who is serious about this topic.

00:41:56.000 It's funny.

00:41:57.000 There's there's almost like an Oreo cookie effect to knowledge about climate change.

00:42:00.000 It goes somewhat like this.

00:42:02.000 When you don't know a lot about climate change, you assume there really is not a lot we can do.

00:42:06.000 Then you know a little bit, and you're like, there's so much we can do, man, we can solve this thing.

00:42:09.000 Then you know a lot about climate change, you're like, ah, there's not that much we can do.

00:42:12.000 I mean, unfortunately, because the collective action problem is too grave, and also because all of these little measures that the Democrats are talking about taking do not solve the problem, do harm the economy, and are politically unfeasible.

00:42:25.000 I mean, Bernie Sanders is at least honest about this stuff, right?

00:42:27.000 Bernie Sanders is like, I'm just gonna ruin your life.

00:42:30.000 That's the wonderful thing about Bernie Sanders.

00:42:32.000 Bernie has, he doesn't even attempt to sell it.

00:42:34.000 Bernie's like, yes, I'm going to raise your taxes.

00:42:36.000 Yes, I'm going to make you stop eating meat. 1.00

00:42:38.000 Yes, I'm going to take your car.

00:42:39.000 Yes, I'm going to take away your airplane.

00:42:41.000 I won't do any of those things.

00:42:42.000 I still want my pudding, but you should do all of those things.

00:42:45.000 Now, let's talk about raising your taxes.

00:42:47.000 Sounds like a great idea, right?

00:42:48.000 Let's do this thing.

00:42:48.000 We have a moral responsibility to act and act boldly.

00:42:53.000 And to do that, yes, it is going to be expensive.

00:42:55.000 And when we do that, you're going to have a lot of taxpayers out there who will be paying more in taxes.

00:43:00.000 You'll have people who are not getting food stamps and so forth.

00:43:03.000 Would you guarantee to the American public tonight that the responsibility for $16.3 trillion, which is a massive amount of money, wouldn't end up on taxpayers' shoulders?

00:43:14.000 Well, it'll end up on some taxpayers' shoulders.

00:43:17.000 If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure.

00:43:23.000 Whenever Elizabeth Warren did the same routine, Elizabeth Warren said, the fossil fuel companies are going to pay for this. 1.00

00:43:28.000 It'll be the fossil fuel companies.

00:43:30.000 Fossil fuel companies want us to talk about straws and cheeseburgers, but really they're the ones who have to pay.

00:43:35.000 Okay, do you think that's not going to get passed on to you, the consumer?

00:43:38.000 In the same way that a tariff gets passed on to you, the consumer, if you tax the fossil fuel industry, you really think they're just going to keep the price the same?

00:43:45.000 Of course not.

00:43:46.000 And that's the part she's not telling you.

00:43:48.000 There are a lot of ways that we try to change our energy consumption and our pollution.

00:43:55.000 And God bless all of those ways.

00:43:58.000 Some of it is with light bulbs, some of it is on straws, some of it, dang, is on cheeseburgers, right?

00:44:04.000 But understand, this is exactly what the fossil fuel industry hopes we're all talking about.

00:44:10.000 70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air Okay, you can set those targets and guess what?

00:44:28.000 It ain't gonna happen because those costs are gonna get passed on to the American consumer.

00:44:31.000 That's the part that she is not telling you about.

00:44:33.000 Now again, at least you got to appreciate Bernie because he just puts it out there, man.

00:44:37.000 So yesterday, Bernie Sanders was asked about overpopulation, okay?

00:44:41.000 Which, again, has not been a problem historically on planet Earth.

00:44:45.000 And there's a lot of Malthusian theory going around for centuries about how we were going to overpopulate the Earth, there'd be mass die-offs.

00:44:51.000 Paul Ehrlich famously wrote a book called The Population Bomb in the late 1960s, suggesting that billions would die of starvation and hunger instead.

00:44:58.000 People are living more prosperously than they ever have, and there are almost 8 billion of us on planet Earth.

00:45:03.000 But nonetheless, this has become a sort of rote point of contention on the left.

00:45:08.000 It's become just a talking point on the left that there are too many people.

00:45:11.000 Bernie Sanders, he just lays it out there.

00:45:12.000 He's like, well, you know what? 1.00

00:45:14.000 If we have a problem with carbon emissions, let's just kill all the poor people. 1.00

00:45:18.000 They may not be born yet. 1.00

00:45:19.000 As long as they're not born yet, we can kill the poor. 0.97

00:45:20.000 Once they are born, we guarantee them all sorts of rights. 0.99

00:45:22.000 But if they're unborn, then we should probably pay to have them snuffed out in the womb. 1.00

00:45:26.000 Boom! 0.99

00:45:27.000 They're not the problem anymore.

00:45:28.000 No babies, no carbon emissions.

00:45:29.000 Problem solved.

00:45:30.000 Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. 0.98

00:45:39.000 Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?

00:45:46.000 Well, the answer is yes.

00:45:48.000 The Mexico City Agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions, or even get involved in birth control, to me is totally absurd.

00:46:02.000 So I think, especially in poor countries around the world, where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies.

00:46:11.000 Okay.

00:46:12.000 In poor countries, we should fund abortion so that it helps climate change.

00:46:17.000 That's a hell of a pitch right there.

00:46:18.000 Remember five minutes ago when they were saying the pro-life movement is racist, which makes no sense at all?

00:46:22.000 Bernie Sanders is openly stating he wants fewer poor brown babies around the world through abortion to fight climate change.

00:46:31.000 That's not great, Bernie.

00:46:33.000 But he spells it out.

00:46:35.000 That's the one thing people love about Bernie, is that that dude just lays it right out there.

00:46:38.000 Now, the thing people hate about Kamala Harris is that she is a pander bear, right? 1.00

00:46:41.000 Kamala Harris just tries to pander. 0.99

00:46:43.000 And so she is going over the top yesterday on the CNN town hall.

00:46:46.000 She's like, yeah, we're gonna ban everything, man.

00:46:48.000 We're gonna ban fracking.

00:46:48.000 Now, as I just showed you, There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

00:46:52.000 So, yeah.

00:46:52.000 carbon emissions in the United States right now is the substitution of natural gas for coal because natural gas is cheap and it is effective and it is a lot lower in terms of carbon emissions than coal.

00:47:02.000 Naturally, she wants to ban fracking, which makes tons of sense, obviously.

00:47:05.000 There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

00:47:08.000 So, yeah.

00:47:10.000 And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?

00:47:16.000 And And then there has to be legislation.

00:47:18.000 But yes, and this is something I've taken on in California.

00:47:20.000 I have a history of working on this issue.

00:47:22.000 And to your point... Okay, so again, we're going to ban fracking.

00:47:26.000 Again, quote, William Nordhaus.

00:47:28.000 Again, he knows more about this than she does.

00:47:30.000 Shifting a greater fraction of electricity to natural gas is an important way of reducing carbon emissions.

00:47:34.000 And she's like, let's ban fracking. 1.00

00:47:36.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:47:37.000 Then you get Kamala Harris suggesting we need to have Americans eat less meat. 0.50

00:47:40.000 Now, if Americans want to voluntarily eat less meat, that's fine.

00:47:44.000 But Kamala Harris is basically suggesting that the government should cram down, from the top, restrictions on your ability to eat meat.

00:47:53.000 Yeah, this is going to go over great with the American people.

00:47:55.000 Great.

00:47:56.000 By the way, again, agriculture represents about 11% of U.S.

00:47:59.000 carbon emissions.

00:48:00.000 And global emissions.

00:48:02.000 Agriculture does not represent a tremendous percentage, as we showed you earlier in the program.

00:48:06.000 Here's Kamala Harris saying we need to get people to stop eating meat.

00:48:09.000 Also, she wants to ban plastic straws.

00:48:10.000 We can play those back-to-back.

00:48:12.000 We the balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors.

00:48:22.000 I mean, just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time.

00:48:25.000 Right.

00:48:25.000 I mean, I just do.

00:48:27.000 And I think that but there is but there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment.

00:48:42.000 And we have to do a much better job of that, and the government has to do a much better job of that.

00:48:46.000 Okay, and then she called for a ban on plastic straws as well, Andrew Yang, competing with her, he said we should eliminate commercial air travel. 1.00

00:48:54.000 Like, this is a hell of a pitch, guys.

00:48:56.000 If Democrats really believe that the way to win the hearts and minds of Americans is to eliminate air travel, raise your taxes, increase your energy prices, and do all of this without significantly affecting carbon emissions, because there is no global deal in place, and because there is no new technology on the horizon that is going to replace carbon-based fuels at the moment, Those technologies may arise, but they ain't arising right now.

00:49:17.000 Instead of focusing in on mitigation and adaptation, which are the other sides of the coin, again, you can do something about climate change.

00:49:24.000 It may not be targeting your cheeseburger.

00:49:26.000 It may be about building seawalls.

00:49:28.000 It may be about geoengineering and figuring out how to change the climate by creating cloud cover.

00:49:33.000 There are things we can do.

00:49:34.000 They ain't the things the Democrats are talking about.

00:49:35.000 And you know what?

00:49:36.000 The Democrats know that.

00:49:37.000 The Democrats know that.

00:49:38.000 Because what the Democrats really want from all of this is to look like they are willing to do anything to stop climate change.

00:49:44.000 The problem is, the American people are not.

00:49:46.000 The people of the world are not.

00:49:47.000 Other countries are not. 0.99

00:49:49.000 And so basically, this is a bunch of virtue signaling nonsense that is really going to come back and bite them directly in the ass in the 2020 presidential election. 0.99

00:49:55.000 So good for them. 0.99

00:49:56.000 They want to own it?

00:49:56.000 Enjoy.

00:49:57.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I like, and then we'll do a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:00.000 So, Things that I like today.

00:50:03.000 First of all, I do not understand people making a big deal out of Joe Biden having a burst blood vessel.

00:50:08.000 Like, this is the headline at Drudge, that Joe Biden has a burst blood vessel.

00:50:11.000 You can actually see this burst blood vessel in his eye.

00:50:15.000 And I get it.

00:50:16.000 I mean, I know everybody's like, an eye beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood.

00:50:25.000 And people, ooh, he has a bloody eye.

00:50:26.000 Okay, my wife saw this last night.

00:50:29.000 She's a doctor.

00:50:30.000 And my wife was like, uh, no, that's not a thing.

00:50:32.000 Like, who cares?

00:50:33.000 That is not a sign of ill health.

00:50:35.000 That is not a sign of being elderly.

00:50:37.000 That is simply a subconjunctival hemorrhage.

00:50:39.000 Okay, it can be caused by a lot of stuff, but it does not have to be caused by just being an old person.

00:50:45.000 Nonetheless, people made a big deal out of it.

00:50:46.000 The internet is a funny place, and thus there were many funny memes about all of this.

00:50:50.000 But!

00:50:51.000 I will say that Joe Biden has been handling his lack of ability on the world stage and on the campaign stage with a fair bit of good humor.

00:51:00.000 So Biden was on Stephen Colbert last night, and he said the only thing that's been said that's funny on Stephen Colbert for years, actually.

00:51:07.000 You want to talk about issues, but a lot of people want to talk about your gaps.

00:51:10.000 You've called yourself a gaff machine, okay?

00:51:13.000 In the last few weeks, you've confused New Hampshire for Vermont, said Bobby Kennedy and MLK were assassinated in the late 70s, assured us, I'm not going nuts. 0.95

00:51:26.000 Follow-up question, are you going nuts?

00:51:30.000 Look, the reason I came on the Jimmy Kimmel show is because I'm not. 0.78

00:51:35.000 There's Joe Biden.

00:51:36.000 Again, Joe Biden, a little self-effacing humor goes a long way.

00:51:39.000 And it's something that if President Trump had self-effacing humor, it would really serve him pretty well.

00:51:43.000 OK, final thing that I like.

00:51:44.000 We're going to skip things I hate today because we're out of time.

00:51:46.000 But final thing that I like.

00:51:47.000 So Bernie Sanders was asked yesterday if he would cancel all credit card debt.

00:51:50.000 And he has no answer to this question because Bernie Sanders' basic program is that everything will be paid for by some deus ex machina called the rich.

00:51:59.000 I don't know who the rich are that are going to pay for all this stuff.

00:52:02.000 And I also don't know what his limiting principle is on simply relieving people of their debt.

00:52:06.000 Neither does Bernie Sanders, and that became perfectly obvious in this exchange.

00:52:09.000 Let's say you win the nomination.

00:52:10.000 Very good chance of that.

00:52:11.000 You're running now in the general election against President Trump and the Republicans.

00:52:14.000 And they're going to say what?

00:52:15.000 Bernie Sanders wants to wipe out college loan debt.

00:52:19.000 He wants to wipe out medical debt.

00:52:21.000 What's next?

00:52:21.000 Are you going to wipe out credit card debt?

00:52:23.000 How do you push back against that?

00:52:24.000 No, I think there's a difference.

00:52:25.000 We're not here to talk about, I don't believe we wipe out credit card debt.

00:52:29.000 You want to buy something, you pay for it.

00:52:31.000 But I do believe we have to make a distinction, Paul.

00:52:35.000 You wanna buy something you pay for, unless we're talking about college tuition, or your healthcare, or any of the other products that I want to relieve debt from.

00:52:42.000 If you rack up charges on your credit card, well then you're on your own.

00:52:45.000 Bernie Sanders, I have a feeling this thing's gonna last for very long.

00:52:47.000 I mean, honestly, I don't know why he doesn't just go here.

00:52:50.000 Like, really, why doesn't he just go here?

00:52:51.000 You know he wants to.

00:52:52.000 You know, deep in the recesses of Bernie Sanders' peculiar brain, there's a small voice, a small, weird Brooklyn voice going, Do it, Bernie.

00:53:00.000 Do it.

00:53:01.000 Tell them that you will relieve all credit card debt.

00:53:03.000 Do it.

00:53:04.000 You can do this.

00:53:06.000 You know that he wants to.

00:53:07.000 And sooner or later that will break free and he'll be like, I'm relieving all the mortgages and I'm getting rid of credit card debt.

00:53:11.000 In fact, we will call it Jubilee Year and we'll just relieve all the debt.

00:53:15.000 Like in the Bible, which I've never read.

00:53:17.000 It will be great.

00:53:19.000 Bernie Sanders, that dude's the best.

00:53:21.000 I do love that Bernie Sanders, again, he can't help but be honest.

00:53:25.000 And his honesty is, it's bracing, man.

00:53:27.000 It is bracing.

00:53:28.000 Alrighty.

00:53:28.000 Well, we will be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

00:53:31.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

00:53:33.000 We've already reached nearly the end of the week, guys, because we had a short week this week.

00:53:36.000 So congratulations to us.

00:53:38.000 We'll see you here a little bit later.

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