The media joins in on the COP26 party to fear monger about climate change
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In the middle of a pandemic, the CBC blacked out local newscasts. MPs slammed the CBC for failing to carry out the most basic element of the CBC s mandate. Plus the CBC did not learn their lesson from those cringeworthy op-eds. They continue to publish the world s stupidest opinion pieces. And finally, the media joined the COP26 party to promote total doomsday scenarios and fearmonger about climate change.
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MPs slammed the CBC for failing to carry out the most basic element of the CBC's mandate.
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Plus, the CBC did not learn their lesson from those cringeworthy op-eds.
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They continue to publish the world's stupidest opinion pieces.
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And finally, the media joined the COP26 party to promote total doomsday scenarios and fearmonger about climate.
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Over at Black Locks, parliamentarians slammed the CBC for blacking out local evening newscasts.
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That's what the headline reads over at Black Locks.
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So we learned that network managers on March 18th, 2020, one week into the pandemic,
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decided to black out the 6 p.m. newscasts in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg,
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Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, Halifax, Charlottetown, and St. John.
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All regular programming was restored by June 15th.
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This is the first time the CBC has done this since 1952.
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So the CBC at the time called it a COVID precaution, but did not explain why cutbacks did not affect
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I cannot stress how short-sighted this would be in our province, given our reliance on local news,
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said then MP, Liberal MP, Scott Simmons of Newfoundland and Labrador,
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who was the chair of the Commons Heritage Committee.
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The lack of understanding and focus as to the proper role of a public broadcaster is deeply concerning,
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and it brings into serious questioning the judgment of the executives in times of crisis,
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wrote MP Wayne Easter, then the Liberal MP in Prince Edward Island and chair of the Commons Finance Committee.
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Easter said the cuts left Prince Edward Island without a local newscast.
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The CBC, as a condition of their license, promised at least seven hours of local programming per week.
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Senator Percy Down of PEI told the chamber another condition was they could not change without approval from the CRTC
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The CRTC failed in their responsibility, said Downey, who called the news blackout, idiotic.
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From the beginning of the pandemic, when we need it the most for information, they abandoned the field.
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CBC executives also received formal protests from the leader of the opposition in Newfoundland and Labrador,
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the leader of the Newfoundland NDP, and a local First Nations group, and the Federation of PEI municipalities.
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So even if you defend the CBC, even if you're one of those people who loves the CBC
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and really believes in the idea of having a public broadcaster or government-run broadcaster,
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that the sort of basic role that CBC fails is providing local newscasts in markets that don't have the private sector alternatives,
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so places where there isn't a CTV or a global newscast.
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The fact that CBC, right in the middle of a pandemic, said, yeah, you know what, we're just going to stop.
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We're just going to stop doing the news for a couple months here because of COVID.
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So sorry, you don't get any news at a time where we're having a global pandemic,
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where people really need the news, where CBC is relied upon in those communities.
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The fact that CBC, we just back out again, what a total, total joke of a network.
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It is so unbelievable that these people get 1.2 billion taxpayer dollars,
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and they don't even know how to run the most basic elements of a newscaster.
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If there's any reason to defund this network, there it is right there.
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The fact that they can't even fulfill the most basic aspects of their mandate, it is idiotic.
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They didn't follow through with the basic thing that they were supposed to.
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But of course, it's the CBC, it's the Canadian government.
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They get a stern talking to from these parliamentarians.
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They shrug their shoulders, cash your check, move on, do whatever the heck they want.
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This was brought to my attention the other day on the program by my colleague, Anthony
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Fury, who reminded me of this editorial piece that the CBC put out.
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It says, the planet is changing, so will our journalism.
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CBC News commits to doing even more climate change journalism.
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So CBC, what, they're finally going to talk about climate change?
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CBC is one of the worst offenders when it comes to ratcheting up fear, fear-mongering, promoting
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this sort of climate anxiety, climate alarmism, doomsday scenarios.
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Most of the time, they don't pan out to anything.
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But this idea that the planet is going to end, if we don't send Justin Trudeau and 300
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other delegates to Scotland as part of this climate change conference, the whole world's
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And here they are pledging that their journalism is going to change because, what, they weren't
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covering climate change enough, and now they want to cover it even more, and somehow that's
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It says, the impact of climate on our changing planet may be the most pressing story of our
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Yes, but it's also a story about health, the economy, jobs, energy, food, water, security,
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Okay, so it's not just, so we're learning here, we're not just going to hear more about the
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environment, but we're going to hear it in the lens of radical left-wing rhetoric here,
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Equity is the idea that we should have equality of outcome, not just equality of opportunity,
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not just equal treatment under the law, equal recognition.
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No, when you're talking about equity, you're talking about equal outcomes, equal outcomes,
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Everyone has to have the exact same outcome, not about where we start, but it's about where
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And so you see it right there in the language that they're really talking about something
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Climate change will define every aspect of our lives and those of generations to come.
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Every aspect of our life will be defined by climate change.
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So that, what, includes your marriage, your kids, your house.
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Like, we're supposed to believe that every single element of our lives is somehow going to
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So here they say, moving forward, we commit to doing even more.
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Our pledge is simply that climate change and the endeavors to mitigate its effect will
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get the sustained journalistic focus and attention they deserve at a time most experts
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describe as an inflection point for the planet.
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So again, if we don't send Justin Trudeau to Scotland and 300 other delegates and 400 private
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planes, if we don't send 30,000 world officials to Scotland, the planet is going to end.
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But don't worry, these liberals are here to save the planet and the CBC wants to tell
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I really don't understand the point of this editorial note here, editor's blog.
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Yes, we know you're obsessed with climate change.
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That's just what you've been doing for a very, very long time.
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And you're going to continue to do it even more so.
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So expect more propaganda from the CBC on climate.
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But again, I don't understand the purpose of this other than what maybe it was a slow
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news day over at the CBC and they wanted content or they just wanted to pat themselves
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on the back or they wanted to share pictures like this of little kids being used as props.
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These poor kids, I can't imagine how much anxiety they have from people around them telling
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And if we don't all just, what, completely abandon our modern way of life, give up on
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cars, airplanes, heating our homes in the winter, all these things that fossil fuels enable,
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if we don't just kind of give that all up, the planet is going to end.
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So here we're kind of left with this position, which again, is really hard for little kids
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But the idea is we either abandon our modern way of life or our planet implodes in a fiery
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ball of flames, which is a pretty scary proposition, especially for a little kid.
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So again, just total ridiculousness from the CBC.
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So if you tuned into last week's show, you know that we covered this really, really silly
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CBC only recently started doing opinion pieces.
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This is something from the last couple of years.
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But it's really strange because the state broadcaster is there to provide news and news is different
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Or you can be a straight news reporter, someone who just provides the news.
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Of course, the whole trouble with journalism in a nutshell is that the lines between these
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two types of journalism is really, really blurred.
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So when you're watching the Candace Malcolm show, when you're watching True North, when you're
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reading my columns in the Toronto Sun or on TNC.news, you know my worldview, you know
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my position, you know the way that I'm going to view a story and the lens that I'm
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The problem is that so many other journalists, every other journalist and every other outlet
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They have their own political opinions, but they lie and they pretend that they're completely
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They pretend that they're completely apolitical.
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But then by the positions that they put out and the way that they talk about different
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political parties, it's very obvious that they're biased and that it's full of spin
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They're not straight news reporters, but they're dishonest with the public about where
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And that's why trust in journalism really is at an all-time low.
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But again, this idea that the CBC is going to put out opinion, it's really strange because
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It's kind of the purpose of an opinion journalist is to put out strong opinions that some people
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are going to really disagree with, other people are going to really like.
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And by virtue of that, you're kind of polarizing or divisive in some ways.
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And so again, when it's the CBC doing that, it's like, is this the official endorsed position
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Because if it's controversial, it reflects really badly on the CBC.
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That's what we had last week with that really strange tirade from the elections Canada official
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who believed that all white people and all conservatives were evil racist bigots, basically
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like a paranoid screed about how much she distrusts her fellow Canadians.
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And it was so bad that the CBC had to actually go out and rewrite it because it was so awful.
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They're continuing to pump out these bizarre opinion pieces.
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Here is a piece that says, if you really want to affect climate change, talk to women.
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And then the sub headline here, it says, it's not that men are useless.
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It's that women are useful and are more likely to take action.
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So the basic premise of this piece is that women are more susceptible to climate marketing.
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And so coming from a marketing perspective, it's better to target women because they're more
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They're more likely to not know a lot about the issue.
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And therefore, when you tell them a little bit about the issue, they're more likely to
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In a nutshell, that's what this piece is about.
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So she says, according to research by Yale Climate Communications, we also know that women
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are much more likely to be undecided or admit that they don't know about many of Canada's
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key climate policies, as evidenced by recent polling.
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For example, in April 2021, a poll by Campaign Research said that women were more than twice
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as likely across all age groups to say they didn't know whether they supported carbon tax.
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Men were almost twice as likely to say they strongly oppose the policy across all age groups.
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She believes that household spending is based on climate change.
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She says women are much likelier than men to control household spending, which is where
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Who should you talk to about getting that new heat pump or energy efficient appliance?
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The person who is worried about climate and also happens to manage the household budget.
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So she's saying to focus your energy in promoting climate alarmism at women so they have more
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anxiety about the climate, so that they're more worried about the climate, so that they will
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So again, taking a step back, she's basically saying that women are more ignorant on the topic
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and therefore more persuadable, which doesn't really speak very highly about women or about the
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tactics of the CBC or people who are pushing climate propaganda.
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This is another one of those first person's essays, so similar to the one that we talked
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My climate anxiety has turned me into a trash hoarder.
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In an effort not to be wasteful, I'm creating a bigger mess at home.
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So again, really just strange things to be promoting over at the CBC.
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Really, what he's saying is that all of this doomsday scenario, all this idea of climate
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alarmism, the planet's going to end if we don't take action right away, is making people
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go crazy, and this is a pretty good first person account of that.
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So we have the COP26 conference going on over in Scotland.
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We'll be covering that really closely here on the Candace Malcolm Show.
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And it really got me thinking about all of the doomsday scenarios and projections that
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we've been hearing about for so long that don't really make sense.
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And I want to point out a couple instances of the media sort of jumping in and promoting,
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doing the dirty work of all these politicians who want you to believe
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that we have some kind of an existential threat when it comes to the climate, that the planet's
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going to end if we don't take action, if all of these officials aren't immediately flown
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to Scotland, so they can sit around and come up with schemes that will make us all poor
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and make them feel better, so they can virtue signal, basically.
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And so I went on to Twitter the other day, and this story was promoted all over Twitter.
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It says, nine cities that could be underwater by 2030.
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So this is a kind of alarmism that they love to promote.
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This idea that our world will somehow substantially change, fundamentally change in our lifetime.
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They love ground numbers, too, so it's always by a certain date.
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It says, global warming can be difficult to properly visualize.
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If you're not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages, or ravaged
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by wildfires, how do you know it's really happening?
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That's why projects like Climate Central are essential.
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The website creates maps that show which parts of the world could find themselves underwater
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So again, the whole concept is just a fearmonger here.
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These cities that supposedly could be underwater, and it's just so silly.
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Mostly because all of these cities are already underwater.
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So we'll just keep going on this Twitter thread here.
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So it says, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague sit low, flat, and close to the North Sea.
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The Dutch are famed for their flood defenses, and it seems the country's dikes, dams, barriers,
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levees, and floodgates could become even more essential in the years to come.
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So they're trying to scare us and say that Amsterdam could be underwater.
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But then it says right here that the Dutch are famed for their flood defenses.
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Why are they famed for their flood defenses?
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Why are they famed for the country's dikes, dams, barriers, levees, and floodgates?
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It's been underwater for a very, very long time.
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That's why they've become world leaders and innovators in this idea that the city is built
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And so they have to have all of these mechanisms to keep the city from flooding, even though
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And so fact check here, 26% of the Netherlands is already below sea level.
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50% of the country is less than one meter above sea level.
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And so because sea level varies by about 1.5 meters high and low tides and during storms,
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it means that at some times, currently right now, up to 60% of the Netherlands is vulnerable
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So that's why they have all of these systems and it's already underwater.
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So the silly idea that global warming is going to cause the city to flood is absurd.
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They found cities that are below sea level and they say that they're going to be flooded
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Well, yeah, of course, because they're built below sea level.
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So it says, again, without the city's systems of levees, New Orleans would be severely threatened
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When it was built, New Orleans was barely above sea level.
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The drainage system has unintended consequences.
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And so New Orleans is already underwater and it's sinking.
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And that's been the case for a really, really long time.
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So this is like one rare case where media might actually get it right.
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They might, their predictions might actually come true that these 10 cities are underwater
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in 2030 because most of them are already underwater in 2021.
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But I do want to highlight some climate predictions that went horribly wrong.
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I've covered it before on the Candace Malcolm show.
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But because everyone's out at COP26 pontificating and bloviating about all their climate importance,
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it's worthwhile to say that human beings are often wrong.
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Human beings are usually worried about our environment.
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And for at least the last 50 years, there have been scientists and public intellectuals
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and world leaders who have claimed that some various threat is going to end humanity.
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That something that we do, be it because of famines or because of an ice age coming or
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because of a nuclear holocaust or because of now climate change and global warming, the
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planet's going to end, species are all going to go extinct.
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They've been making these predictions for a very long time.
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So let's look at a couple examples of some climate predictions that have gone horribly wrong.
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So back in 1978, the Vancouver Sun cited a paper in the Journal of Science, the University
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Researchers predicted that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will have doubled
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And yet the CO2 in the atmosphere hasn't come close to doubling since 1978.
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So back in 1978, when the article was published, there were 335 parts per million of CO2 in the
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But in February 2020, the same organization reported that there were 413 parts per million
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in the atmosphere that represents an increase of about 23%, a far cry from doubling.
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This is a claim that we have covered on the show before because Al Gore talked about it
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in his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
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He predicted that there would be no snow on Mount Kilimanjaro by 2020.
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This is something that lots and lots of different geologists and environmentalists predicted.
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According to a geologist at the Ohio State University, Blondie Thompson said, at this rate, all of
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And yet in February 2020, the Times of London reported that the staying power of Mount Kilimanjaro
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So this prediction apparently helped tourism for Mount Kilimanjaro.
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The owner of a trucking company called Just Kilimanjaro said that the snow has certainly
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Many people have made Kilimanjaro a bucket list priority because of the Al Gore deadline.
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When they get there, they're pleasantly surprised to see lots and lots of snow.
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And finally, this one comes from True North over at tnc.news.
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Glacier National Park removed a sign predicting that the glaciers would be gone by 2020.
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So a national park in the United States, the northern part of the U.S., just south of the
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Alberta border in Montana called Glacier National Park.
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But there was a sign that said that the park's glaciers will be gone by 2020 due to global
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They had to take that sign down, though, because the glaciers are still going strong.
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There are still 26 glaciers at Glacier National Park, and the sign was quietly removed in
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late 2019 because the prediction just simply didn't come true.
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All of the fearmongering, all of the doomsday scenarios didn't turn out.
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It means that there are innovations, that human ingenuity is making the world a better
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So don't listen to the people who want you to be crippled with fear, who want you to be
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hoarding garbage because of your climate anxiety.
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Climate change doesn't impact every aspect of our lives.
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We should do our best to make sure that future generations get to enjoy the natural environment
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We should be committed to preserving the national environment, to make it clean, to make sure
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that, you know, that we're not doing something to catastrophically damage the planet.
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But again, all of these doomsday scenarios that are promoted by a hysterical alarmist
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.