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00:00:19.000I 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.
00:00:27.000And how they're gonna magically create sources of energy that emerge from the buttocks of a unicorn.
00:00:31.000I know that you were into every single moment of it, but if you weren't, we're gonna recap all of it for you.
00:00:37.000But we begin with the media focusing disproportionately on a specific narrative with regard to climate change.
00:00:45.000The 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.
00:00:51.000They require global cooperation that is extremely unlikely to happen.
00:00:54.000The fact is that whatever climate change is going to happen is largely baked into the cake already.
00:00:59.000There 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.
00:01:12.000But what the media have decided to focus on in the absence of solutions is the problem.
00:01:17.000And this is how you know that people aren't serious about solving a problem.
00:01:21.000When everybody focuses in on diagnosing the problem and how bad the other guy is, then this means they don't have a solution.
00:01:28.000There's a guy I'm friendly with named Adam Grant.
00:01:29.000He 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.
00:01:37.000If you want to have a useless conversation, start with the problems.
00:01:40.000Naturally, most of our politics starts with the problems.
00:01:43.000Most of our politics is now about, well, I diagnose this as a problem, and then I don't have a solution.
00:01:48.000But you aren't even diagnosing it properly, and that means you're bad.
00:01:52.000Well, politics is not the business of diagnosing problems.
00:01:56.000Politics is the business of providing solutions to those problems.
00:01:58.000And if you have no solution, then your diagnosis is fairly useless.
00:02:02.000So 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.
00:02:16.000Instead, they have an alternative narrative.
00:02:18.000And the alternative narrative is, Republicans are science deniers.
00:02:29.000That is just, we are superior, we are better, because we understand science, and you are a science denier.
00:02:37.000And so they focused in on the Trump administration with this.
00:02:40.000Now, Trump does make that easy when he says things like climate change is a Chinese hoax and all of that.
00:02:44.000Now, I don't believe that climate change is a Chinese hoax.
00:02:47.000I think that climate change is happening.
00:02:48.000I think that the majority of climate change is man-caused.
00:02:51.000The 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.
00:03:09.000And 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.
00:03:18.000They 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.
00:03:30.000For 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.
00:03:39.000And 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.
00:03:49.000And all of that is really a misdirect, the misdirect from what they are actually proposing as policy, because it turns out their solutions suck.
00:03:58.000The Democrats had a long conversation internally about whether they should have a climate change debate.
00:04:02.000And the DNC was like, no, we're not going to do it.
00:04:05.000So instead, they went with this town hall.
00:04:06.000You 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.
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00:05:36.000Okay, 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.
00:05:49.000And 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.
00:05:55.000Well, yesterday was another opportunity for the Democrats to smack Trump and smack them he did.
00:05:59.000That was because President Trump did this press conference about Hurricane Dorian.
00:06:04.000And 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.
00:06:13.000And then someone had taken a sharpie and marked in on the map that Hurricane Dorian could swing into Alabama.
00:06:20.000And they did this presumably because Trump had said that Hurricane Dorian could swing into Alabama.
00:06:24.000Well, as it turns out, Hurricane Dorian turned north.
00:06:37.000It 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.
00:06:43.000So 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.
00:06:55.000That 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.
00:07:05.000Never 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.
00:07:13.000We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.
00:07:18.000So, 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?
00:07:28.000Or did someone else in his administration clumsily modify the map so that it would appear to back up the president?
00:07:34.000There's a full-scale front-page story in the New York Times that somebody took a Sharpie and drew a picture on a map.
00:07:41.000Because they're trying to draw the narrative.
00:07:42.000And the narrative is that Trump denies science, his team denies science, and that they do silly things in order to please him.
00:07:47.000They 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.
00:07:53.000The line curved through the southwest corner of Georgia and the southeast corner of Alabama and into the Gulf of Mexico.
00:08:00.000Asked about the marking on the map, Trump told reporters he didn't know how it got there.
00:08:13.000Like, it's dumb, it's ridiculous, but it's a big story.
00:08:17.000And it isn't beyond me, it's pretty obvious.
00:08:19.000Okay, the reason that this is a big story is because the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself.
00:08:24.000are attempting to create the narrative and push the narrative that Republicans deny science.
00:08:28.000And so this ties directly in to their whole take on global warming.
00:08:32.000So 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.
00:08:37.000Now, denier is, again, a word that has usually been linked when you're talking about denial of something, denial of a set of facts.
00:08:45.000It's usually been linked to things like Holocaust denier.
00:08:48.000And so it is really, really overwrought.
00:08:50.000But that is the language that the left wants to use.
00:08:53.000It is a moral failing for you to deny that climate change is happening.
00:08:56.000And 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.
00:09:03.000Now, 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.
00:09:11.000Democrats, really, if they had their druthers, they wouldn't talk about solutions at all.
00:09:14.000Instead, they would just lay out a litany of grievances with Republicans for not accepting the science.
00:09:19.000And that's exactly what they did yesterday.
00:09:21.000So Amy Klobuchar, who is still quixotically running for president, she was appearing on national TV and she said, Trump is bad, right?
00:09:29.000The big story here is not that we have an answer to climate change.
00:09:33.000The big problem here is that Trump is a bad man, orange man bad.
00:09:37.000We 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.
00:09:46.000The 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.
00:09:59.000We have to look at it as cost-benefit.
00:10:02.000It's going to cost us something like $500 billion every year if we keep doing this.
00:10:07.000OK, first of all, that is a really, really upper level estimate as to what it will cost us over the next century.
00:10:13.000In terms of climate change to the United States public.
00:10:15.000But the key there is the point that she's making.
00:10:20.000And as we'll see, this is the Democrats' main thrust.
00:10:22.000Because when it comes down to the actual conversation that matters, namely solutions, Democrats not only have nothing, they have a bunch of ideas that are wildly unpopular with the American people.
00:10:31.000Because the ideas, frankly, suck and are ineffective.
00:10:35.000First, let's talk about credit card debt.
00:10:37.000So, the fact is, credit card debt ain't going away.
00:10:40.000Bernie Sanders ain't relieving anybody's credit card debt because that would be nuts.
00:10:43.000It is also true that it's possible that you bought into a credit card thinking you could pay it off, and now you have all this credit card debt.
00:10:49.000It's raking in at 20% interest rate a month, and it's just terrible, and you need to do something about it as a responsible adult.
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00:13:15.000Let me tell you, I know many things about idiocy.
00:13:19.000So 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.
00:13:31.000And again, it is, forget the word idiot, it is so dangerous.
00:14:39.000There will be costs to climate change.
00:14:41.000Those costs will largely come at the expense of people who have to move.
00:14:44.000They 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.
00:15:33.000If 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.
00:15:42.000Okay, 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.
00:15:55.000This was pushed yesterday by a guy named James Taylor over at Real Clear Energy.
00:15:58.000Who is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, which does do some good work.
00:16:04.000And he has a piece yesterday talking about the idea that climate change is particularly a hoax.
00:16:09.000He 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.
00:16:15.000That 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.
00:16:23.000In January 2005, NOAA began recording temperatures at its newly built U.S.
00:16:43.000CRN going online, alarmists and skeptics sparred over the accuracy of reported temperature data.
00:16:49.000With 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.
00:17:01.000Skeptics of an asserted climate crisis pointed out that most of the reported warming in the U.S.
00:17:06.000Was non-existent in the raw temperature data, but was added to the record by government officials.
00:18:35.000If you can't see this, what you see is since 1900, there has been an increase in temperature.
00:18:39.000This 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.
00:18:51.000Right, so you have to lengthen the time period so you can see better exactly what is going on.
00:18:55.000He says, even if you want to focus only on recent temperatures from quote-unquote good stations, you see an upward trend in minimum temperatures.
00:19:01.000And then he sent over this chart, which shows the upward trend in minimum temperatures, which, as you can see, is a real thing, right?
00:19:09.000The temperature is volatile on a year-to-year basis, but you do see a generalized upward trend since 2000.
00:19:17.000He 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.
00:19:32.000Now, there are serious questions as to how much climate change is going to happen.
00:19:36.000Climate scientists don't know whether we are going to warm two degrees Celsius or six degrees Celsius over the course of the next century.
00:19:43.000That is a very, very large variation, obviously.
00:19:46.000And there are certain estimates that say we're at the low end, there are certain estimates that say we are at the high end.
00:19:50.000What the left likes to do is not only take the high end, they then like to take tipping points.
00:19:54.000They like to suggest that all sorts of horrible things are going to happen that are unforeseeable.
00:19:58.000There'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.
00:20:04.000Or there's going to be massive tsunamis that are going to emerge and just wipe major cities from the coastlines.
00:20:09.000None of that is predictable and all of that is based on sheer speculation at this point.
00:20:17.000One, human activity is creating climate change.
00:20:20.000Two, we don't know the sensitivity of the climate to human activity.
00:20:23.000And three, we are able to mitigate against a lot of those effects.
00:20:27.000But there's something else that is important to know, and that is that a global solution is not really in the offing.
00:20:33.000Hey, this is the hard part, and the part that people on the left don't want to acknowledge.
00:20:37.000That is, the solutions to climate change that they are proposing in the United States are not only ineffective, they're counterproductive.
00:20:43.000They 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.
00:20:50.000There are studies that show that countries start to care about environmentalism basically when the GDP per capita hits about $3,100 per capita.
00:20:57.000Well, a lot of countries don't have that.
00:21:00.000And 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?
00:21:10.000In a second, I want to go through some of the facts on climate change.
00:21:12.000Where are the emissions actually coming from?
00:21:14.000And then we'll look at the Democratic solutions, and you will see how these solutions are not even tailored to solving the problem.
00:21:20.000They're more tailored to making people feel good about themselves because Democrats know these things will never be implemented.
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00:22:59.000Greenhouse gas emissions for major economies.
00:23:01.000What are the sources of these emissions?
00:23:04.000Okay, 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.
00:23:13.000It's actually receded since the year 2000.
00:23:37.000The 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.
00:23:45.000In other words, the United States can cut down its greenhouse gas emissions.
00:23:48.000The EU can cut down its greenhouse gas emissions.
00:23:50.000They're never going to cut those greenhouse gas emissions down to zero.
00:23:53.000It's just not going to happen, at least not in the foreseeable future, as we'll also see in just a moment.
00:23:57.000China and India are not going to stop any of this.
00:23:59.000So 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.
00:24:04.000Good 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?
00:24:17.000China 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.
00:24:29.000You think they're going to cut off that competition when it comes to an energy deal?
00:24:32.000The greater likelihood is that they sign on to some deal like, for example, the Paris Climate Accords and then proceed to do absolutely nothing.
00:24:37.000My evidence for this is that that's exactly what they have done under the Paris Climate Accords.
00:24:45.000And then we have to look at greenhouse gas intensity.
00:24:49.000Okay, meaning on a per capita level, on a per GDP capital level, who is actually spending the most?
00:24:55.000Like, are you a poor country that is disproportionately benefiting from carbon-based emissions?
00:25:01.000As 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.
00:25:09.000It 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.
00:25:19.000The United States is actually below the world average.
00:25:22.000So again, China, Russia, developing countries, this is where the major problem lies in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:25:29.000And 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.
00:25:39.000If 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.
00:25:47.000The vast majority of it is not coming from automobiles.
00:25:50.000The vast majority of it is not coming from agriculture.
00:25:53.000The vast majority of it is coming from the energy sector, meaning electricity and heat, transportation, other fuel combustion, manufacturing and construction.
00:26:02.000That 72% of all emissions are not coming from, for example, agriculture, or land use change in forestry, or waste, or industrial processes.
00:26:12.000It's coming from actual energy grids, like people who are trying to live in the world.
00:26:18.000Which means that if you are looking to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, then that should be the sector you're targeting.
00:26:24.000But amazingly, Amazingly, that's not the sector that the left actually wants to target, mostly.
00:26:29.000They're targeting coal, but they refuse to buy into, for example, nuclear power.
00:26:35.000This is something Henry Olson writes about at the Washington Post today.
00:26:37.000He 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.
00:26:44.000There are two words few of them, if any, are likely to mention.
00:26:48.000Voters who take climate change seriously should demand better.
00:26:51.000Climate change activists tell us that the planet's future is at stake if we don't act now.
00:26:55.000But nuclear power expansion is notably absent from three of the four leading Democratic candidates' climate action plans.
00:27:01.000Warren, Harris, Bernie, So Warren and Harris don't mention it at all.
00:27:06.000Sanders 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.
00:27:14.000Now, as you will see, this is complete idiocy because here is a chart of the actual cost.
00:27:20.000This is the one that we just pulled, guys.
00:27:21.000The actual chart that shows the capital and other fixed costs of particular sources of energy.
00:27:29.000What 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.
00:27:40.000Natural gas is the cheapest thing to draw out, which is why fracking is so popular right now.
00:27:45.000It 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.
00:27:55.000Fracking 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.
00:28:06.000Then 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.
00:28:22.000And so cost per unit in capital and other fixed costs for conventional and combined cycle natural gas is like $2.05.
00:28:28.000You get a conventional coal, it's $7.05.
00:28:46.000It's closer to conventional natural gas.
00:28:48.000So what exact advanced nuclear is not nearly as high as solar or solar thermal.
00:28:54.000In 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.
00:29:12.000If 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.
00:29:22.000But that's exactly what Democrats are doing.
00:29:24.000Now, it's also important to note here.
00:29:27.000Where exactly climate emissions in the United States are coming from.
00:29:31.000So here are the percentages of emissions in the United States by economic sector.
00:29:35.000So people keep talking about agriculture, as you'll see.
00:29:38.0009% of total US greenhouse gas emissions are coming from agriculture.
00:29:43.00029% comes from transportation, so that would be cars and buses, but that's still only 29%.
00:29:46.000Electricity 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.
00:29:58.000Commercial and residential represents about 12%.
00:30:22.000Everything else, including non-households, is about 64%.
00:30:26.000Meaning 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?
00:30:35.000The 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.
00:30:46.000William 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.
00:30:56.000Wind is the only mature low-carbon technology.
00:30:58.000It is 50% more expensive than the best existing technology.
00:31:02.000Moreover, its capacity is limited in the United States.
00:31:05.000The other promising technologies with the possibility of large-scale deployments are, from least to most expensive, Advanced natural gas with carbon capture and storage.
00:31:12.000This is where you create machinery that helps basically capture the carbon emissions from natural gas.
00:31:18.000Advanced nuclear power and advanced coal with carbon capture.
00:31:22.000These are 50 to 100 percent more expensive than the most economical existing technology.
00:31:27.000So even these ones are way more expensive than just natural gas for itself.
00:31:32.000Natural 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.
00:31:39.000Shifting a greater fraction of electricity to natural gas is an important way of reducing CO2 emissions.
00:31:46.000Some of them are, okay, they say they want to kill the natural gas industry.
00:31:49.000They're not interested in nuclear power, but they want to stop you from eating meat and using plastic straws.
00:31:54.000If 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.
00:32:02.000And it's because Democrats know they're never gonna do any of this crap.
00:32:05.000We're going to go through the Democrats' climate change plans at long last in just one second.
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00:34:14.000So now, at long last, we get to the Democrats' plans on climate change.
00:34:18.000As I say, what Democrats would prefer to do is say Republicans are denying the science.
00:34:23.000I just ran you through all the science.
00:34:25.000All 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.
00:34:33.000From Nobel Prize winners, there are studies from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
00:34:43.000These are all data based on the same data that folks in the Democratic Party are using.
00:34:48.000What 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.
00:35:09.000The only one who I heard talk about this at all yesterday was Andrew Yang, my boy Andrew Yang.
00:35:13.000There's going to be mitigation effects, people attempting to build sea walls and move infrastructure.
00:35:18.000That's what's going to end up happening in reality.
00:35:20.000Then there's all the pie in the sky crap Democrats are talking about, which is not going to accomplish anything.
00:35:25.000Which means this is all about virtue signaling.
00:35:26.000So we're going to go through candidate by candidate and show you what they say.
00:35:29.000So Joe Biden, last night, he said the Green New Deal, as in like AOC's Green New Deal.
00:35:34.000You know, the Green New Deal that was supported by zero senators, including co-sponsors of the Green New Deal.
00:35:45.000Now, 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.
00:35:53.000He'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.
00:36:00.000But that means I'm denying the problem according to the left.
00:36:02.000So 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.
00:38:08.000The 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.
00:38:14.000You're not building a wind farm to replace those coal plants.
00:38:51.000Including possible changes in emissions of key air pollutants like heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
00:38:55.000The 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.
00:39:13.000The 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.
00:39:23.000passenger vehicles in 2050 and would reduce overall emissions by a slim margin.
00:39:28.000But good news, Joe Biden wants to force you to drive one of these newfangled smart cars.
00:39:34.000Will 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?
00:39:40.000Well, I think, look, that's going to be based upon whether or not we can make it economically feasible.
00:39:49.000Everybody knows where the world's going.
00:39:51.000We have to take combustion engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can.
00:39:57.000But that also could create a significant number of jobs and opportunities for people.
00:40:02.000No, 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.
00:40:10.000The manufacturing in the United States is disproportionately not in the electric vehicle industry.
00:40:15.000It 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.
00:40:21.000So that actually doesn't solve the problem.
00:40:23.000So what does solve the problem, according to Joe Biden?
00:40:26.000Now, 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.
00:40:52.000If 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?
00:41:27.000Look, 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.
00:41:39.000You can have the plans are great, but executing on those plans is a very different thing.
00:41:44.000We make up and it's the existential threat of not this generation, but the whole world.
00:42:02.000When you don't know a lot about climate change, you assume there really is not a lot we can do.
00:42:06.000Then you know a little bit, and you're like, there's so much we can do, man, we can solve this thing.
00:42:09.000Then you know a lot about climate change, you're like, ah, there's not that much we can do.
00:42:12.000I 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.
00:42:25.000I mean, Bernie Sanders is at least honest about this stuff, right?
00:42:27.000Bernie Sanders is like, I'm just gonna ruin your life.
00:42:30.000That's the wonderful thing about Bernie Sanders.
00:42:32.000Bernie has, he doesn't even attempt to sell it.
00:42:34.000Bernie's like, yes, I'm going to raise your taxes.
00:42:36.000Yes, I'm going to make you stop eating meat.
00:42:48.000We have a moral responsibility to act and act boldly.
00:42:53.000And to do that, yes, it is going to be expensive.
00:42:55.000And when we do that, you're going to have a lot of taxpayers out there who will be paying more in taxes.
00:43:00.000You'll have people who are not getting food stamps and so forth.
00:43:03.000Would 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?
00:43:14.000Well, it'll end up on some taxpayers' shoulders.
00:43:17.000If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure.
00:43:23.000Whenever Elizabeth Warren did the same routine, Elizabeth Warren said, the fossil fuel companies are going to pay for this.
00:43:30.000Fossil fuel companies want us to talk about straws and cheeseburgers, but really they're the ones who have to pay.
00:43:35.000Okay, do you think that's not going to get passed on to you, the consumer?
00:43:38.000In 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?
00:43:58.000Some of it is with light bulbs, some of it is on straws, some of it, dang, is on cheeseburgers, right?
00:44:04.000But understand, this is exactly what the fossil fuel industry hopes we're all talking about.
00:44:10.00070% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air Okay, you can set those targets and guess what?
00:44:28.000It ain't gonna happen because those costs are gonna get passed on to the American consumer.
00:44:31.000That's the part that she is not telling you about.
00:44:33.000Now again, at least you got to appreciate Bernie because he just puts it out there, man.
00:44:37.000So yesterday, Bernie Sanders was asked about overpopulation, okay?
00:44:41.000Which, again, has not been a problem historically on planet Earth.
00:44:45.000And 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.
00:44:51.000Paul Ehrlich famously wrote a book called The Population Bomb in the late 1960s, suggesting that billions would die of starvation and hunger instead.
00:44:58.000People are living more prosperously than they ever have, and there are almost 8 billion of us on planet Earth.
00:45:03.000But nonetheless, this has become a sort of rote point of contention on the left.
00:45:08.000It's become just a talking point on the left that there are too many people.
00:45:11.000Bernie Sanders, he just lays it out there.
00:45:48.000The 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.
00:46:02.000So I think, especially in poor countries around the world, where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies.
00:46:52.000carbon 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.
00:47:02.000Naturally, she wants to ban fracking, which makes tons of sense, obviously.
00:47:05.000There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
00:48:12.000We 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.
00:48:22.000I mean, just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time.
00:48:27.000And 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.
00:48:42.000And we have to do a much better job of that, and the government has to do a much better job of that.
00:48:46.000Okay, 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.
00:48:54.000Like, this is a hell of a pitch, guys.
00:48:56.000If 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.
00:49:17.000Instead of focusing in on mitigation and adaptation, which are the other sides of the coin, again, you can do something about climate change.
00:49:24.000It may not be targeting your cheeseburger.
00:49:49.000And 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.
00:50:16.000I 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.
00:50:51.000I 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.
00:51:00.000So 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.
00:51:07.000You want to talk about issues, but a lot of people want to talk about your gaps.
00:51:10.000You've called yourself a gaff machine, okay?
00:51:13.000In 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.
00:51:26.000Follow-up question, are you going nuts?
00:51:30.000Look, the reason I came on the Jimmy Kimmel show is because I'm not.
00:51:47.000So Bernie Sanders was asked yesterday if he would cancel all credit card debt.
00:51:50.000And 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.
00:51:59.000I don't know who the rich are that are going to pay for all this stuff.
00:52:02.000And I also don't know what his limiting principle is on simply relieving people of their debt.
00:52:06.000Neither does Bernie Sanders, and that became perfectly obvious in this exchange.
00:52:25.000We're not here to talk about, I don't believe we wipe out credit card debt.
00:52:29.000You want to buy something, you pay for it.
00:52:31.000But I do believe we have to make a distinction, Paul.
00:52:35.000You 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.
00:52:42.000If you rack up charges on your credit card, well then you're on your own.
00:52:45.000Bernie Sanders, I have a feeling this thing's gonna last for very long.
00:52:47.000I mean, honestly, I don't know why he doesn't just go here.
00:52:50.000Like, really, why doesn't he just go here?
00:52:52.000You know, deep in the recesses of Bernie Sanders' peculiar brain, there's a small voice, a small, weird Brooklyn voice going, Do it, Bernie.