Dr. Willie Soon
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If fossil fuels are found deep under the oceans and at the top of the earth, where do they come from? And how did they get there? Willy Soon, a geoscientist at Harvard University, joins me to talk about where they came from and what they could tell us about climate change and global warming. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsorships/OurAdvertisers Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Used wih permission. This episode was produced and edited by Tall Tales Productions, LLC. We do not own the rights to any music used in this episode. If you like what you hear, please consider leaving us a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Have a question or suggestion for our next episode? hl=en We'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcast listeners! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Where do we get our energy from? 2:30 - What are our main sources of energy? 3:40 - How do we know where our main energy sources come from ? 4:00 5:00- Where do fossil fuels come from 6:00s - What is our energy sources? 7:30s - Where are our energy source? 8:40s - How much energy do we need? 9:20s 10:00 | What are we need fossil fuels? 11:00 s? 12:00 Is there a fossil fuel? 13: What is the role of fossils? 15:00 is there? 16: What does our energy supply? 17:00 & 16:00 + 17:40 17 - What does it matter? 18:30 19: What are the implications of fossil fuels from fossil fuels in the universe? 14: What kind of energy sources are we getting from the earth s mantle? 21:30 + 16: Where are we going to get our oil and gas from the moon? 22: Is there any other place we can learn from our rocks and minerals from our oceans? 23:00 / 16:30 | What does this stuff coming from our atmosphere?
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In the United States, we often refer to our main sources of energy as fossil fuel, oil,
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natural gas, coal. They're fossil fuels because they come from fossils, ancient organic material,
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forests, jungles, plankton, dinosaurs. Held under the ground for millennia, they transform into oil,
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gas, and coal. Everybody thinks that's true. On the other hand, there's evidence that maybe it's
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not the whole story. If that's where fossil fuels come from, if that's how hydrocarbons are made,
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then how come they're found so deep under the oceans and at the top of the earth? How come one
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of Saturn's moons, according to scientists, has more oil and natural gas than earth? Were there
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dinosaurs and planktons and forests at one point on one of Saturn's moons? Probably not. So if all
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hydrocarbons aren't from fossils, where are they from? And why isn't this commonly known? And what
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are the implications of it? And what does it tell us about our modern climate change policy?
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These are not just esoteric questions. They're central questions, actually, as we chart the future
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of energy usage in the world. Willie Soon has been thinking about this for a long time. He's an
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astrophysicist, a geoscientist. He spent 31 years at Harvard. He recently left and he joins us here.
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It's a blessing to be able to come on your show.
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Well, it's a blessing to have you. And this is such an interesting question with so many
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implications. And I want to spend most of our time talking about the implications. But
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just to the strict question of where hydrocarbons come from, it sounds like they're not necessarily
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all from ancient forests or plankton or dinosaurs, are they?
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Yes. The story can be a bit long, so give me a few minutes to explain. You are certainly right. But
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most important to clarify is that the information that is found on the largest moon on Saturn,
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which is called Titan, is actually results from NASA, European Space Agency, and then the Italian
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Space Agency, who built this spacecraft called Cassini and Huygen. Actually, one of my thesis
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advisor committee is actually built the UV spectrometer. But the one that they use to discover this,
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is basically the ocean liquid, liquid form of methane, which is in ethane form, which is much
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more complicated hydrocarbon. It's a whole ocean of it. Because Titan is in such a way that it's
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very cold, by the way. So it's minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes. Hint, hint, hint. Where's the global
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warming there, right? If it's full of methane there, right? That's another problem because it's far away
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from the sun. That's what it is. Yes. And clearly that the question of abiogenic
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matter, which means no need of any biology, is true. Because we know. Actually, one experimental experiment
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was done in 2009. It was done in Swedish Royal Academy, one of those groups. But it's done by one Russian
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leader. He was able to show that if you squeeze methane, CH4 in chemical formula, so four hydrogen,
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one carbon, squeeze them in a form that in which they simulate the condition of the earth
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mantle, which is 1800 miles deep, kind of below the surface, because the earth is deeper, right?
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And it's within this 18, but basically the condition that is only about 40 to 150 miles in,
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that you actually can form complex hydrocarbon. You got benzene, you got ethane, you got all these
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other stuff forming. So that proof beyond doubt that you have such a way to make this. Plus that
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Titan proof beyond doubt. You actually see methane also in all the atmosphere, Jupiter, you know,
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you even find benzene in the rocks of Mars. And then for me, astrophysicist, I can tell you even more.
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You find this complex hydrocarbon called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. It's another one of those
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complex hydrocarbon. Then actually you found it in interstellar space, which is space within stars,
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intergalactic space. These are everywhere because temperature there are cold and probably the right
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pressure condition. All this complex hydrocarbon. It's kind of incredible because all of us,
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including myself until very recently, assumed that all of our main energy sources are these
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so-called fossil fuels. And of course their existence is going to be limited by the amount of fossils,
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by the amount of decaying organic material. Not so.
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So if that's not so, then we need to rethink a lot of things.
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A lot. I think, I think this one fit into a paradigm, a famous economist that I like very much.
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His name is Simon. Do you know about this guy named Simon?
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Julian Simon. Julian Simon. Yeah, the key guy. University of Illinois and then Maryland.
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He was the guy who said that the ultimate resource of humanity or earth is actually not all this material
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thing like uranium gold. Because uranium, there are far more uranium in the oceans than on the land,
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right? You have 4.5 billion tons of uranium in the ocean. You have only 17 million tons of that.
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Gold, copper, what do you want on the ocean? It's all there except they're in very dilute form.
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Clearly. So the ultimate resource actually is not that. It's the human mind. It's the innovation part
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of it. I think I like that principle a lot. It fits very well in terms of saying that it's all matter of
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cost. Even oil. Most, I don't know if any, any of you know, the audience know that 50 to 60 percent of
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the, the, I mean all, actually all the oil that you already drilled, the drill hole. Yeah, you can only
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pull out 40 to 50 percent of it. 60 percent of that remains in it. Because, simply because there's not
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enough pressure to get it out. This is why the, the idea of a biogenic oil is interesting. It's true,
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clearly true. It's all matter of cost, really. Because this thing has to form way inside the
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earth, the mantle, which is 50 to 100, 100 miles, right? Human, how deep have we ever drilled?
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Only the skin, which is only five miles maximum, five to, you know, six miles basically. That's
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at most that we can drill. And then all this stuff has to permeate into the reservoir. I, I got this
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information from the top. People that physically have to look for oil every day. One of my friends,
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Joseph Lime Cooler from Beacon Energy, Offshore Energy. Those are the guys who work day in and day
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out to bring us the energy actually, the oil that we need. So why, why don't most people know this?
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Why do most people think that the, the gasoline in their car was by definition...
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Have to be limited. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That there's, that there's just a tiny amount and it's,
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it's going away. We'll never find more. The world is full of untruth and half-truths,
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right? That's the whole problem, right? That's why for so long, even the idea that we are not
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limited and bounded by availability of, uh, let's say gasoline, petroleum or coal. Coal now,
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they won't allow us to use, right? As you know, in COP meeting in Dubai that just ended a day ago,
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they just physically declared themselves that we should stop using fossil fuel. Basically,
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petroleum, natural gas, and even coal. I mean, these people are insane now, really insane.
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I think they're going to harm more people with their own delusion. Plus, they always remember,
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these are people who actually don't represent the majority. Since when are this put up to work?
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It's always about this minority, the tyranny of the few, always robbing the whole census,
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the good census of the good people. This is part of the reason why as a scientist, I also speak out.
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Feel, I mean, not afraid of anything except for just telling the truth. And I'm glad to have this
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opportunity to say such thing in, in your show. So, I mean, if we haven't been told the truth about
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where hydrocarbons come from, and we haven't, I mean, I've never met a single person in my life
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who said, wait a second, they're not all fossil fuels, then we keep hearing there's a scientific
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consensus on climate change. Every scientist believes the same thing about it, believes Al
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Gore and John Kerry. Maybe that's not true either? Oh, that I can tell you, please. Thank you for
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asking that question, Tucker. I've been working on this subject of CO2 causing climate change or
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what other factors we can ask that cause climate to change for close to as long as since my postdoctoral
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year 1991, right? So it's about 32, 31 years, 32 years. And on this question, I think we have a very
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definitive answer. What we know now is CO2 ain't gonna cost nothing. It's not gonna change much of
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the climatic system, which means it won't change the speed of the hurricane. It won't change the
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how fast or how frequent tornado form. It won't, it won't even actually make any difference to the
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polar bear population. It's all conservation issue, right, on polar bear. It won't even cause
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how much fish you don't catch or catch, you know. It won't even cause what they call ocean acidification.
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It won't even cause this problem that they claim. It's all artificial. Everything they do,
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it's all dream from their model and the tyranny of the few again. That those few people just dream
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of this scary story that is just ain't true. And then when you come down to the most responsible
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group for this kind of bad stuff, I was reminded by my colleague Dr. Ronan Connolly and Michael
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Connolly, my two co-workers with me on my group, is to say that since, you know, since I work so
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carefully and I have about more than a hundred scientists the last three years alone working with
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me, so I don't speak on behalf of them, I speak on behalf of myself. My view is that the UNIPCC,
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United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is one of the primary problem,
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which means they have been misleading people. They've been using authority of science,
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which is not true, right? It's all governmental hackers, basically, right? People like John
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Kerry, who I guess can barely take a proper physics class who keep claiming that greenhouse effect is
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so simple, right? And then he refused to explain how does it work, right? I mean, he did all of that
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that is very terrible, that really embarrassing to America. He did that in Bali in Indonesia several years
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back. That is just so embarrassing. Do you think he can explain how it works?
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No, I don't think so. Even Al Gore, who claimed to know something about science, I challenged Al Gore.
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I did some of that in his face, actually. I was lucky enough to be in one of those Wall Street Journal
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eco-conference, and I was giving, you know, setting up with all the UC Santa Barbara students,
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please make sure when the question comes out, give me the mic, because I was making friends with them
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the night before. I explained now my details of my work. So I got the mic and asked questions about Al Gore,
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because one of the primary sad things that they refused to recognize, that I know you know that in
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even great school sciences. CO2 is a gas of life. When you have more CO2, the plant kingdom, the whole
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ecology, even the oceans, gonna have more, basically, ability, more fishes, more everything.
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More life. More life, essentially. That's why it's called gas of life. And these people want to
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demonize it as some gas that can cause global warming, can cause hurricanes to run faster or
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weaker. I don't know what they want. To have more rain, more droughts, and all this other nonsense that
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they claim. All of that, it just ain't so. That's the problem. By the way, this is how serious I am.
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I check everything they say. I check. As a scientist, you cannot just dismiss them. You cannot laugh at
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them. You cannot, you know, chide them. You cannot just make joke of them. You check everything. So as
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a very serious scientist, and I published scientific papers refuting all of these arguments. Scientific
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papers maybe mean nothing to the average people, but it's really important. It's like a document,
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that you have to document and then put out the proper scientific arguments about what is right,
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what is wrong. So that's what we have been doing at my particular center called series-sign.com.
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So anybody who wants more information about this, please go to the website, right, and study what
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we do there. Because we are the one that is truly independent from any funding agency, any money that you
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could possibly give me. Like Bill Gates, please don't give me money. Thank you. And all Al Gore,
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please don't give me money. Don't give me any money if you tell me what to do. You know, even some of your
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money, I might not want it. But the point is that I want to be independent, just like you. In the media, I want to be
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fearless. I've just set my own agenda. You don't tell me what to research either. I research what I
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want to research. So we've been researching on many, many topics. So on the climate change issue,
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I'm fully convinced. After all these years, even though we may not know exactly what is causing
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climate change, we suspect it's the sun. We have a lot of evidence to show that it's probably the sun.
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Very high percentage, you know, like I would say 90 percent, we're sure, but not 100 percent. But
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we know carbon dioxide is not the gas, it's not what you call like your thermometer in your room,
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can adjust up and down that you can set the temperature to be whatever level you want it.
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First of all, they can never tell us what temperature do they want it at. What is the temperature you want
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to set the global temperature? Al Gore has not been able to answer that. John Kerry has not been able to
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answer that because we know the temperature from the coldest in Siberia to the desert in Sahara.
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I mean, these are huge, at least 100 degree or more kind of differences. Yes. I mean, who are you to
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tell me which temperature is the correct temperature where you guys are talking like that? They are
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talking as if they are pseudo-God, they're God themselves. I mean, these people are so ambitious that
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in some sense, I think we have to keep their ambition down a little bit. I mean, these people are not
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contented, just like what you put out there. You cannot be ambitious when you're contented. But
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these people are so out of their mind in some sense that I think it's misleading. And somebody
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had to speak out against them. I think you are one of those who consistently point out their hypocrisy,
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right? And I really find that the whole problem of this global warming is a complete nothing,
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which means we should do nothing about it. Just go on and live life and adapt to it, right?
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So what I, here's, of course I agree completely, but here's what I don't understand. Global temperatures have
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dramatically fluctuated within the period that humans left records. I mean, not that long ago.
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I mean, there are cities underwater because sea levels have risen within recorded history.
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The signs of the glaciers are all around us. So that was all before the internal combustion engine.
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How do they explain that? This is, this is the problem. They, they admitted,
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a lot of them admitted. They willingly admitted. You can read all the- You can't deny it. I mean,
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we had glaciers and then they melted because of global warming. They are forced to confess. I mean,
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these are the confession time. It's the sun, actually, that does a lot of this. The glacier,
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like there's a period called Little Ice Age, you know, from about 1300 to 1900, you know, very cold.
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And then there's a beautiful warm period from 880 to about 1200. You know, it was warm. I mean,
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you can grow wine in England, right? And now you cannot grow wine, right? Things like that. I mean,
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Greenland was green back then. But now it's full of glaciers. Ice is coming in. So what are you
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talking about exactly? And it was the sun, actually. The sun fit quite well. As far as we know,
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in terms of deduct, deducing the information of how does the sun, how, how bright was it? How dim was it?
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Basically, just like that. Just the amount of light coming out from the sun. Very tiny percentage,
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by the way. Very small. It's on the order of less than a percent. But it's more than enough because
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there's another effect that is very, very important. It's basically because the sun,
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the earth is forced to go around the sun. And then the orbit changed ever so slightly because of
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perturbation from all the other planets. Yes. You know, Jupiter, Saturn, and even Venus and Mars,
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they're actually controlling what we do. And the moon, of course, is very important.
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But that other factors, the orbits, plus the changes of the sun by itself, between how bright,
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how dim it is, these two factors can explain just about everything that we know.
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All the data that I have, actually. So I've been stuck. This is why I was so fascinated in
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in studying this issue. I spent my whole life, actually, studying this. Nothing but doing just this.
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And the more I understand, the more I think that, wow, it's just a gap to be filled in.
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We have too much information. And then these people come along, say that CO2 is causing everything.
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I check. I check. Oh, maybe they're right. I check. As a scientist, I have to check them.
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But then it's not even close. I mean, these people are talking about things like this.
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I mean, there's a famous phrase by a very famous Wisconsin meteorologist. His name is
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Professor Reed Bryson. He's one of the father of climatology, really.
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He just say that you go out and then you might as well, if you think CO2 is so,
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then you might as well spit into the air and then see what happened to the airflow.
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He was just basically saying that CO2 is nothing. It cannot cause the climate to change or anything.
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It doesn't change anything, actually. It's the sun.
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Why do you think the most important things that you should talk about? They never talk about that.
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They always want to average the data. The most important thing they should talk about, you know what?
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It's the season. No two winter are the same. No two summers are the same.
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And they never explain that. It's actually the orbits with the sun changing it ever so slightly.
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And I'm not talking. I have published papers, papers and papers and papers like that,
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on all this to show and document why and how. That's what the fun part of doing science.
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It's not only chit-chatting, hand-waving like crazy.
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You have to be. Even though I may look like one now, but I'm always very calm when you write down.
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You know, like every time I have to write a paper, I always tell my wife, please,
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don't disturb me for a few days. I'll be back. Things like that. Of course, working at home,
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Is there any way to predict what climate change will be based on the sun?
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Actually, you can because of the orbit. The only thing we don't know is how to predict the sun changes
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by itself because the magnetism, you know, just the magnetic field on the sun is too complicated.
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The sun is the magnetized ball, right? It's a gas, hot gas. It's about, you know,
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the magnetic field is so strong. It's 10,000 times stronger than the earth. The earth is also
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a magnet, a bar magnet basically. It's one gauss. We have 10,000 gauss at least on the sun.
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So it's a very different property and it works very differently because it's heated by basically
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a thermonuclear reaction inside the sun. So it created all kinds of hot gas behavior
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that is very difficult to try to master or even to model using mathematical equations.
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Actually, it's much easier to study the earth than to do the sun. So that's part of the problem
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in scientific tasks, the physics tasks. It's very difficult. But then we learn a lot. We learn a lot
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through just watching the sun. I mean, Galileo Galilei, right? He pointed his telescope. He was smart enough.
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First, he pointed to Jupiter, to the moon, right? Jupiter. Then he saw the moon, right? He saw four moons around it.
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And then he's smart that he goes the next day to watch it again. He watched and then he says
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started to move. By the way, there's a famous story of Galileo Galilei. We'll talk about it someday.
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When he wrote that down, initially it was in Italian. When he realized he discovered something
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so unique, he changed the language to Latin. And the next day, yeah, you know, I got it, man. The good
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one. You know, so he started writing in Latin, precise language, okay? But anyway, for the sun,
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it's really so complicated that actually I've been studying this actually as long as you know me.
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I mean, I studied this for so long. We know a lot. I even wrote a popular book actually to try to explain
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why that during a period of the sunspot, so Galileo Galilei started in 1609, 1610 or so. So we have about
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now 413 years of data. But there's a period that deep inside the little ice age, 1645 to 1715,
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is called the Monder Minimum. Because during that period, the sunspot almost all disappeared,
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especially in the northern hemisphere. It disappeared completely. Nobody know why. And that's why
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the French astronomer, famous people like Cassini, the one that the Cassini spacecraft, he was observing
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at that time. He said, man, this Galileo guy must be on either drinking too much or lying or things
00:22:26.800
like that. He said there's a lot of sunspot, but when we observe at this time, we didn't see nothing.
00:22:31.680
What's wrong? But it's an actual phenomenon, right? My friend, my good friend, which is the number one
00:22:37.760
world sunspot historian, he just wrote email to me, Douglas Hoyt. He actually was the master of this,
00:22:43.120
collecting all the sunspot data, going back to all the major libraries, you know, from Galileo first
00:22:48.160
point all the way to present point. Basically found that this phenomenon is true because during that
00:22:53.600
period, the sunspot was not there, not because nobody was watching. There was at least observed
00:22:58.080
80 percent of the time during the 70 years. You see, it's so unique, that period. But now we're beginning
00:23:03.920
to try to learn what happened there. So during that period, we really think that the sun was so much
00:23:09.040
dimmer. It was substantially dimmer. This is why you have this Little Ice Age phenomenon.
00:23:14.560
All the Thames River were froze. You know, we have the Thames River in England, well-known,
00:23:20.240
and then all the ice skating thing, you know, in Holland, all the different culture. And then
00:23:25.440
these are all real actual phenomenon. And then this day, they're trying to say that maybe Little
00:23:30.560
Ice Age is not Little Ice Age. They even try to change that in scientific field, actually. So this was
00:23:35.920
very, very puzzling for me. Why would they try and change that? Oh, I don't know. Because they
00:23:40.480
want to say that CO2 is controlling everything. They kind of want to have CO2 as the prime driver
00:23:45.200
of everything. This is part of the problem that I find. Well, that's not science. That's lying.
00:23:50.240
Ah, it's bad. It's bad in science. This is why in science now, I'd rather say this thing outright.
00:23:56.080
I want, I'd rather have questions that cannot be answered and answers that cannot be questioned.
00:24:01.280
Because these people are just offering you the answer, and then you should just shut up like you
00:24:05.520
say. Don't ask any questions. Don't criticize. Don't even bother to think. Just accept what we say.
00:24:11.920
I mean, you may have known that actually, if you want to get there, I can talk about this,
00:24:16.240
because this is rather famous, because the other person is still around. He's the one who's shouting
00:24:20.320
up and down these last two days to say that, oh, we must stop fossil fuel. GOP is so evil. We must stop all
00:24:26.720
of them because we are the, GOP are the evil, uh, political bodies in America that causes all
00:24:32.640
this fossil fuel to be, we are using fossil fuel and all that. His name is Professor Michael Mann.
00:24:39.200
He created a paper. We call it the hockey shtick.
00:24:44.240
He basically say that the temperature history, first of all, the true temperature history looked like this.
00:24:49.040
It was very warm from 800 AD. Let's say warm, warm, and then it cools down. About 1300 started to go down. Cool.
00:24:57.280
And then since about 1900 century, it started to warm back up. Way, way before CO2 is important, okay?
00:25:04.400
That's another puzzle that they never want to explain. That looked like this. That's the real story.
00:25:08.960
Michael Mann came along, said that, well, he used mathematical algorithm, okay?
00:25:15.680
You can use fancy words, but believe me, it's just mathematical algorithm that he produced a shtick
00:25:22.400
for one time, 880 to about 1900 AD. It's all flat because it changed. It changed very tiny amount.
00:25:28.240
So small that actually it doesn't mean anything. 0.1 or 0.2 degrees Celsius. So small.
00:25:33.440
It doesn't mean the one that I talk about, the change is one degree at least, you know,
00:25:37.040
to five, six times bigger than what he say. And then he just say it is like this. And then it warm up
00:25:42.400
because of the blade, which is the warming because of rising carbon dioxide. But he forgot to explain
00:25:47.920
to you. This warming of the temperature started way before even the human part of the atmospheric
00:25:55.040
carbon dioxide could be anything meaningful. This is part of the problem. It's all been crazy from day
00:26:00.000
one. When this thing was published in 1999, I was the first few guys who raised a hand at the back of
00:26:07.360
the class and say, excuse me, professor, man, he used to be my friend, by the way. Now he will never
00:26:11.680
answer me. He used to exchange email with me because, you know, we more or less share the same
00:26:16.240
passion, want to understand things. Now he just say that his story, his story is the only one that is
00:26:21.120
correct. But it's not bared out by any data that we know. That's the problem. It's all mathematical
00:26:26.640
products. This is how scary the whole world can be. And United Nations, the IPCC group that I mentioned,
00:26:33.120
promoted his work, turned into a major hero because he has solved one of this old puzzle problem that
00:26:41.200
climatologists over millennia has been trying to solve since the day of the Greeks to try to understand
00:26:47.200
how climate change. And this guy come along, say that it looked like this. Only CO2 does it. And that's the problem.
00:26:54.400
So, I mean, it just ain't so what you're I mean, some of this is very complex, but in the way you're describing
00:27:01.120
and if he's saying the warming period began before there was a meaningful addition of CO2 into the
00:27:06.880
atmosphere caused by humans, even I can understand that. Yes. Right. That's the truth. So we were in
00:27:12.160
a meeting here at TCN the other day and I looked around the room and every other person had a kind
00:27:17.280
of ruddy vitality, pink cheeks, alertness, bright eyes, full mental acuity and a cheerfulness you could
00:27:27.680
almost smell. And I asked, why does everyone look so good? And part of the answer, of course,
00:27:34.320
is they like what we do for a living. It's really interesting. We think it's important.
00:27:38.720
But another reason everyone looks so good is because they'd all had a great night sleep.
00:27:45.840
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slash Tucker. Better sleep today and look great in your morning meetings as our guys do. So I would assume
00:29:31.840
that lots of scientists who do this for a living might be asking the same question. Why don't they speak up?
00:29:36.800
This is the problem. The whole problem in science this day is related to funding, how science is funded.
00:29:44.640
That philosophy, I wish to not get too much into it. This is part of the reason why I want to be totally
00:29:50.880
independent. I get out of this whole system, right? But it's how science is. It's about funding. Even if you don't get
00:29:57.920
money directly, it will influence the graduate students and on and on and so forth. All these
00:30:02.880
other related effects, you know? And many people are afraid to speak up. But I tell you, if you really
00:30:09.760
put all the scientists to an honest kind of polling if it's science, but science is not about polling too.
00:30:15.120
All it takes is one to be correct. Yes. That's the problem, right? Einstein used when he formulated the
00:30:20.640
famous general relativity or special relativity, actually, that was criticized. That basically
00:30:26.320
talk about speed of light is constant. So time and space are relative. Yes. Right? Time can be dilated.
00:30:32.320
Space is also slightly different because the speed of light is constant. Special relativity is based on
00:30:37.360
that concept. Then 100 of these Berlin academicians tried to wrote a pamphlet, say that Einstein is wrong,
00:30:44.320
but never awful. Why? What is the details that is wrong? And then Einstein indeed answered like this.
00:30:51.440
Why would you need a hundred? You know, if I were to be wrong, one would suffice. I mean, that's the
00:30:57.760
that's the theme of the science. Science is so bad because it's so totally upside down, inside out.
00:31:04.560
Covid is another case, you know. So let's stick to climate stuff. People are afraid to speak up. I don't
00:31:09.840
know why, actually. I was young. I had to worry about my three kids, where they eat and all that
00:31:14.640
stuff. You know, buffet all the time. Just kidding. The greatest American invention. This is truly
00:31:21.280
entrepreneur, by the way. Anyway, we have enough food. No problem. That's why food, I don't think
00:31:26.720
is also a problem in this world. Even material resources, right? All you think is have to think
00:31:31.200
like Julian Simon type. You know, we can generate everything. The only problem we left is lack of imagination,
00:31:37.840
narrow-mindedness, and all this anti-America sentiment. Put it this way. America is among
00:31:43.120
the best hope for humanity, you know, to put forward. We have the foundation document, the
00:31:47.360
constitution, for God's sake. That is the most beautiful thing that we could ever imagine.
00:31:52.400
And why don't we use it properly, right? People just trashing on it every day, right? Anyway, I digress.
00:32:00.640
Anyway, so yes, I think science is a problem now because of funding structure. People won't speak out. I don't
00:32:06.720
know why. I think it's natural for people to be afraid, but you can only be afraid for so long.
00:32:12.000
For me, I was frustrated because I was not afraid ever since I was in science. Because I'm in science,
00:32:16.880
because I love science. This is why, from my own perspective, I'm just very sad to see that science
00:32:22.560
is being trampled by all these other non-science forces, you know? That's why when I look at COVID also,
00:32:28.320
I cannot stand by and say nothing. On COVID-19, there are so many things wrong with it. That's why I want
00:32:33.520
to pre-advertise. With my group, series.science.com, we work with a bunch of people. One of the good
00:32:38.800
guests for you potential will be Professor Harvey Rich. He said he's been interviewed by you twice.
00:32:43.280
Yes. Even guys like Bob Malone, we work together, produce a paper. So when the paper come out,
00:32:47.680
hopefully we can have them on your show so they can tell more stories. We want to provide the
00:32:53.600
medical community or even the world to document this episode of Dark Ages in medical sciences.
00:32:59.360
Something went terribly wrong. The mask never really worked. The vaccine never really worked.
00:33:04.400
All of this doesn't work. The lockdown doesn't work. And why are we doing this? Now they're
00:33:09.280
trying to scare with another news scare all over the world now. Newspaper. This morning,
00:33:13.600
I just got one newspaper from my sister who has to start, oh, they start masking up in Malaysia now.
00:33:19.520
Because cases have to increase. The usual story. I laugh in a serious way because I see this is
00:33:26.560
another one of those attempts again to try to scare people. So I did digress now. Science is just so
00:33:32.160
complicated now that every aspect of the science that I look at, I've become very unhappy. Science is
00:33:37.840
no longer able to do where science leads. This is the theme of my series that's science.com. We
00:33:43.840
with few only colleagues. I don't have enough funding. I just hope to get as many donations by the way.
00:33:48.720
Donate but don't tell us anything. Do anything. Trust us because we are decent scientists. You can look at our
00:33:54.560
publication record that we are able to produce the most interesting and pure work. Like IPCC.
00:34:00.960
They have to reply to us. Two years ago, we published a very important paper. One of my
00:34:06.000
journalists, friend, a colleague wrote a paper, newspaper article. And then he go and ask IPCC,
00:34:12.480
why are you guys not signing this paper? They use the excuse to say that, oh, these people published late.
00:34:17.440
We have a deadline here, red line. Oh, if you don't publish before some date, like 2021, okay, like
00:34:24.000
January or 2021, then we won't include your work. So we published in August, so they won't include my
00:34:29.680
work. But they forgot to say that they are, they claim themselves, they proclaim, UNIPCC proclaim
00:34:35.520
themselves to be the best of the scientific world, produce the most updated and all that. But immediately,
00:34:41.840
their report came out, they already outdated because they haven't included my work, which is the most
00:34:47.520
comprehensive review of how the sun affects the climate. That's the work we did. So this, this year,
00:34:53.040
just two months ago, we published two more paper convincingly show that even the thermometer data that
00:34:59.680
they show you is, it's not what it is. It's actually not measuring climate. It's measuring urban heat
00:35:06.400
island changes. Something that I think everybody can understand. If you go to the inner part of the
00:35:12.240
big city, like TC is one of the best examples. I have graph to show that you go there, inner city is
00:35:17.600
much warmer than outside because of concrete retaining all the heat or you change all the surfaces or the,
00:35:23.520
you know, the surface become impervious between there's no breathing, no water going in and out,
00:35:28.560
things like that. And it's what we show is that it's not a phenomenon just on local science. You average
00:35:34.320
over this, you can see the effect all over the Northern Hemisphere. This is very powerful new
00:35:39.440
work that we spend. So concrete and asphalt raise the temperatures more than CO2. And that's what
00:35:44.960
they're measuring. And then they tell you this is global temperature. And then we provide an alternative.
00:35:51.040
We say, why don't we go look at rural station that is available? And guess what our result found?
00:35:55.840
Completely different story from, from the picture, the narrative that's coming out from this data set,
00:36:01.920
thermometer data that show that combined urban and rural. Okay. We show rural only. We can tell
00:36:08.800
you that you can immediately offer a different answer. For example, it's the sun that does it,
00:36:14.160
that does it. We show that, but we don't know that is the answer. We just simply show you that
00:36:19.920
the IPCC and all these so-called scientists from NASA, NOAA, and all of them are not doing their due
00:36:26.560
diligence. They are putting you very bad quality data product. Not only that, they hide it. Some of
00:36:32.800
them, it's so difficult to get the data. Okay? We- But it should never be difficult to get data.
00:36:38.640
I'm sorry, Tucker. This is how the problem in science now is so many serious- But I thought
00:36:43.280
transparency of data was science. I was hoping. I always believe in that. That's why
00:36:49.440
everything that we publish is there. Because we got it from somewhere. Here's the data. Use it.
00:36:55.360
Check us. If we're wrong, tell us we're wrong. That is one thing that I can always promise you. I'm
00:36:59.680
not here to try to gain favor or anything. If I'm wrong and I don't know, I tell you, I don't know,
00:37:04.320
Tucker. A lot of these things, I really under a lot of careful consideration, really a lot of deep
00:37:09.920
meditation, thinking about this topic. What I think is very problematic, I'm so glad to have this
00:37:15.040
opportunity to go this far, to be able to talk for this long now, is that really the IPCC product
00:37:21.040
is actually substandard. Of course, they have a different mandate. Their mandate is political,
00:37:26.480
right? To provide policy. We understand that. But how many people really understand that
00:37:31.600
pure science doesn't support anything they say? I mean, in the beginning of this COP28 meeting,
00:37:37.200
the chairman, or this guy from UAE, United Arab Emirates, the chairman, I don't know his name,
00:37:42.320
Sultan Al-Jaber, or something. He was saying that there's no scientific reasoning to say that we
00:37:47.520
should face up. He's right. But then he back off because of all this everybody's hurt mentality.
00:37:54.800
Everybody's doing the mad thing. Everybody, science is not about that. They all agree now. They all
00:37:59.600
agree to face up, right? For some kind of agreement. You know, that everybody declared that they're going
00:38:04.800
to do that, that they're going to face up. I don't even know how, actually. Why? Why are you doing this?
00:38:10.640
And then one of the claims is that they're going to triple the amount of solar and wind power. That is
00:38:16.240
a sad story. You know, of the amount that we spend that we can document, some 3, 3.6 trillion dollars,
00:38:24.560
they spent almost 2 trillion dollars on solar and wind power over the last, I don't know,
00:38:29.760
5, 10 years or so. And then what they did is that they spent more of the money, 2 trillion on
00:38:35.360
solar and wind. And solar and wind can only account for only 3% of the world power. 85% from fossil fuel,
00:38:42.160
as you can see, hydropower and nuclear. Nuclear is another puzzle. I checked with all my nuclear
00:38:48.240
expert friends that have been working for years on nuclear power. Nuclear power is one of the saddest
00:38:54.800
stories. I believe that we actually have almost a solution in hand. Not the fusion, of course. It's
00:39:01.200
you know, the fast reactor or the good generation of nuclear power. Peaceful use of that won't even
00:39:08.960
generate nuclear weapons. We can do all of that technology. The only thing barrier is red tapes,
00:39:13.840
environmentally scared of radiation. All these other problems. We almost have all of that in hand.
00:39:20.720
The power can last. One estimate shows that if we were to use it at the demand of that by 2050,
00:39:26.880
we can have enough power for 2,700 years. That's far more than any of the fossil fuel can promise.
00:39:33.280
And then, and we're still not doing it. We're not doing it. America is so far behind now.
00:39:38.800
We are, we just make one in Georgia, one of the nuclear plants. That's so over cost because of all
00:39:45.200
the red tape. That is so embarrassing. They are numbers. I mean, it costing a thousand or two thousand
00:39:51.680
times even more than what Korea and you know, even Korea now is, is a major guy who make this nuclear
00:39:58.480
power plant for, for different, any country who wants to do it. Right? I mean, Korea, India, they are making
00:40:04.720
a much cheaper cost. And the design, French designs are the best, right? French. They're all doing that.
00:40:10.960
And we're not doing it. China, of course, left and right doing that. But we're not doing anything.
00:40:15.840
Oh, we try to tell you that we got to shut off fossil fuel, increase solar and wind. Are you joking?
00:40:21.120
Even three times more will be 9%. I don't know. Can you turn on your, your, your light only 9% or now?
00:40:29.200
You should shut all this light off now. You're overusing it.
00:40:32.000
And it destroys the, the actual environment. Exactly. Wind farms.
00:40:35.200
This is a kind of a very bad incentive that they don't realize. It's about this
00:40:39.920
kind of people that is so out of their mind, in my view, that they really should be cautious.
00:40:45.840
Somebody should just ping on their head. Guys, don't, don't, don't keep saying those things.
00:40:52.240
You better think twice or consult somebody that knows something that is honest, you know?
00:40:57.520
You spent 31 years at Harvard. Would you be able to say this out loud at Harvard?
00:41:02.960
Actually, back then, I also didn't care. But, uh, most of the time I get called into
00:41:07.520
the director's office, this and that. They're always trying to tell, oh, why are you saying that?
00:41:11.440
Why are you saying this? I say, well, I'm a scientist. I should say whatever I want to say.
00:41:15.520
Not only that, the problem in, when I was at Harvard, part of the reason I quit,
00:41:19.520
as I try to explain is about JAP requirement, but another one is a bit of censorship.
00:41:25.360
I can only do certain things. I cannot do certain things. Like, I would never be able to write paper
00:41:30.320
on COVID-19. I would never be able to work, work, uh, on, let's say environmental air pollution issues,
00:41:36.480
you know, like, you know, so-called NOx or SOx and all these other things, or mercury and things like that.
00:41:41.040
I have a lot, I study a lot on those issues because I personally are concerned. So I dig into the literature,
00:41:47.280
one thing after another, basically because I sleep very little. So I really do a lot of things. I flip
00:41:52.160
every rock, pebbles, anything you want. So I study a lot. I produce a result that is good enough that
00:41:57.360
can be making a lot of scientific, but I never publish them because they simply won't allow.
00:42:02.320
They wouldn't allow you? Yes. It's about a matter of allowing because they say it doesn't fit
00:42:07.440
the theme of the Center for Astrophysics. So I don't want to talk back about the institution,
00:42:11.680
but it is the finest astrophysics institution in the world. In terms of instrument building,
00:42:17.360
in terms of technology, we can produce the best. You know, you often look at the
00:42:23.280
x-ray picture of the sun. Those are from very fine camera that we built that with multi-coding layers,
00:42:29.680
because the x-rays, they come in very slowly and then they're going to diffuse, come out,
00:42:34.240
but we make very fine way to catch them so they can come out so the images are crystal clear. You
00:42:39.120
can see all the structure on the sun. It's made by my center. They are good scientists,
00:42:44.560
except that when it comes down to a larger picture of science, shh, shh, don't say this,
00:42:49.280
don't say that, this and that, and then all of that. This is why even at Harvard, I quit taking
00:42:54.480
money from NASA and NSF, all these other places, in 2004, because I'm beginning to think that
00:43:00.800
science being so unaccountable, funded by taxpayer, that all these people, it's so unconscionable.
00:43:07.040
So I personally chose that. That is nobody to blame but myself, but I chose to take only from
00:43:12.800
foundation who are willing to give me money, right? So I wrote those kind of proposal and then got to go
00:43:18.080
through the director's office, this and that, right? I have a very, very happy and fruitful
00:43:22.560
career. Everybody can look up my publication list. It's very long. And not only that, it's not the
00:43:27.360
number that counts. It's the quality of the paper. I always want to remind people, I don't like talking
00:43:32.800
about how many thousands of papers you write, this and that. It's not important. Which paper that is
00:43:37.520
really important for certain issues, that's important that you, if you are able to show that, that's good.
00:43:42.320
That's what I mean. All my papers are basically under a lot of this serious, serious thinking and
00:43:47.680
serious evaluation, checking and rechecking before I would care to write about anything.
00:43:52.000
Because you don't want to write anything that's wrong tomorrow. You want something that can write.
00:43:57.040
But science is basically garbage can now. These scientific papers. I categorically would even
00:44:02.640
make this statement. I will make the statement that about 80 to 90 percent of the paper published in
00:44:08.160
so-called climate science today should not be published. But everybody have NSF grant. Everybody have all these
00:44:17.120
grants. You see how the inflation goes? You know, just like the other day, you hear that Yale
00:44:21.760
University, you know, a large part of it, most of the students on 2022 or something, all got grade A
00:44:28.800
grade, you know? Grade A, they diluted the grade. But Harvey Rich assured me that in medical sciences
00:44:33.840
and hard sciences, Harvey Rich is the professor at Yale University. He teach in the medical school.
00:44:38.640
So he said, no, not true. So he tried to assure me he has quality. Maybe not in his class,
00:44:44.960
but Harvey, not in any other class, right? Anyway.
00:44:47.760
So I want to ask you, this is a kind of last topic, which is not related to this,
00:44:51.520
but we talked about it off the air, and I think it's really interesting.
00:44:54.800
You were telling me that you see God or evidence of God in math.
00:45:02.240
Well, can you explain what you were saying? And maybe I misread what you were saying.
00:45:06.800
No, no, no, no, you did not. I mean, I, I have been closer and closer to God in the sense
00:45:12.320
that because it takes me a long time. I'm rather rebellious. You know, I have to say,
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damn it, God, you got to prove it to me. Show it to me, buddy. Just kidding.
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I'm sorry to anybody. No, no. No offense. But I really say it in that way.
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You know, you talk to yourself in a sense. But in many, many moments in history of physics
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or mathematics, things come out. You see, mathematics, you know, is this very pure word
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that it seems to have no connection to real world physics.
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That's right. It's true. It's a complex number. It's one of them. But it appears in quantum
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mechanics, right? It's so beautiful. But one of the things that sometimes you see in the equation
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is so amazing. When you formulate, you know, maybe it's not right. Maybe it's this and that.
00:45:50.400
Maybe, you know, you doubt yourself. But one of the most beautiful equations was the one that
00:45:54.720
derived by Paul Dirac. He's a professor at Cambridge University, but he retired in Florida,
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by the way. He died in Florida, Tallahassee. I mean, it's a refuge for him because he doesn't
00:46:05.600
like to talk. He would sit there for five days. He don't talk. One day, all of a sudden,
00:46:09.520
he talked. But anyway, he formulated that. He's a beautiful man. He, you know, Paul Dirac,
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he formulated this relativistic equation for electrons. But in one of the equations,
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the solution comes out to be a negative sign. Not only that, there's a square root involved.
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So there's strange behavior. There's a negative sign in law. But it has to have the exact property,
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like an electron and all that stuff. How come? Everybody say, you're crazy, you're stupid,
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this and that, right? He's not even weighed. He didn't, no sweat, buddy. He just say, I am right.
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Many years later, a few years later, it is shown in Caltech by Carl Anderson to show there's
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actually such a thing called positron. You know, the opposite, the brothers of an electron.
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That's such a thing. And then if you ask yourself, how is it possible? Right? There's something,
00:47:01.440
this is out of nowhere. Where does this thing come from? And then in mathematical sciences,
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there's a lot of things like this, like geometry. There's an even more famous thing about in
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geometry. It's called Calabi-Yau manifold that related to string theory. This thing was basically
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a revisit of Einstein's general relativity equation, asking itself whether is it possible to have
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close curvature in space-time that you actually don't require even gravity to be there. And they
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show that Calabi was trying to prove this Yao, Xing Dong Yao is one of the great mathematicians,
00:47:36.080
right? He's at Harvard, but he retired. Now he go to China, right? He was the one who tried to
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disprove this thing, but he turns out to be true. That is true that you can have close curvature in space-time
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that without gravity even. So that added even more reach in this world. That from mathematics to
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real world, we already have enough hard time understanding Einstein. And this guy added even
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more. And his discovery was in the seventies and things like that, you know? So there's so many
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examples and incidents like this. Just have to tell you that you have to bow down. You have to
00:48:10.800
occasionally take a deep breath, you know? There may be some ever presence of these forces,
00:48:16.960
these forces that allow us to illuminate our life. And I tell you, God has given us this,
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all this light that tell us that we have to follow the light and do the best we can,
00:48:27.600
rather than everyday devouring planet Earth saying that we are the Satan, we are the evil people.
00:48:33.520
You know, these people are constantly trying to, you know, make all of us a lesser human being.
00:48:39.920
I would never allow them anyway. So good luck, you know, for those people like Al Gore and all that,
00:48:45.600
who think that they're high and mighty, right? And trying to always, always lecture us on,
00:48:50.560
got to cut down on fossil fuel because we're going to hurt the planet Earth. I say,
00:48:56.240
Al Gore, do you ever think twice? Who are you to think that you can actually
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try to save the planet Earth even? Because they always use the word,
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I'm trying to save the planet Earth. I don't know who gives them the right to save the planet Earth.
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Same with this experiment that they're trying to do, by the way. The experiment to say that we
00:49:12.480
must cut down CO2 emission. I told you CO2 is good for, you know, for life. Because I asked Al Gore,
00:49:19.120
indeed, when I asked Al Gore the question in UC Santa Barbara, it's what? It's that CO2 is gas of life.
00:49:25.680
Who give you the audacity to cut down this? Then aren't you, are you going to be responsible for the
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ecological and humanitarian, all this crisis? Even, we know, rising CO2 affects even plants,
00:49:38.000
I don't know, especially food production, right? Maybe not exact number we know, but it does,
00:49:43.440
positively, right? We have technology to help it, better seed, better all this fertilization,
00:49:49.280
all this other thing. But who gives them the idea to do that, to cut down, because it's generally going
00:49:55.200
to be good for life. Because you have to push them around, because nobody should give them the
00:49:59.920
authority. So far, I don't think anyone can answer that question for me. So I tell them to please bow
00:50:05.040
down to God. Really answer to that question first, before you do anything else. Because it's ridiculous
00:50:10.240
for them to keep to claim that they have the upper moral and ethical high ground to try to prescribe
00:50:17.520
everybody to live in certain condition that they chose. But they themselves don't follow the rules.
00:50:22.880
And they tell us to take a bus. Elgo always even tell people to take a bus, Elgo. My God, I say,
00:50:29.360
Elgo, you take a bus from Tennessee to Massachusetts, I'll be waiting for you down there. Please.
00:50:34.560
I mean, this guy is just out of the, out of the, out of this world, man. I'm sorry, Elgo,
00:50:40.240
but you can still call me. Can you, um, Willie Soon, thank you. But before you go,
00:50:46.720
last thing for, for viewers who want to know more about what you do, can you say once again,
00:50:51.600
where they can read it? Yes. Please, uh, uh, I hope that, uh, I don't disappoint anyone,
00:50:56.320
but please come to series-sign.com. And I want to make one plug for my good friend,
00:51:03.120
Hal Shurtleff. As, uh, as I get older and older, including my own kids, my own kids,
00:51:08.400
three kids have been going to the camp constitution at New Hampshire. And we also wanted to invite,
00:51:13.840
uh, uh, uh, Tucker Carlson to come because Vivek Ravaswami came last, last summer. And because we
00:51:20.320
are very, very small group, we are tiny little group called camp constitution. So campconstitution.net.
00:51:26.160
We offer basically family, kind of a Christian kind of a background, but we don't talk about Christ all
00:51:31.440
the time, but we talk about Bibles. We talk about constitution. We talk about science. So I'm the
00:51:36.560
science instructor. I've been doing that for almost six, seven years now. So I've been doing every year,
00:51:41.600
I will give one or two classes, depends on how many, whatever they want me to do, I'll do.
00:51:46.240
And my own kids came to those things. And then, you know, we play, play music. We have campfire.
00:51:51.600
It's a family event. Used to be that focus on kids. But this day, I'm sorry, too many adults
00:51:57.040
started to come. So we have even people like my good friend, uh, Lord Christopher Moncton from England.
00:52:02.880
He spoke twice. So small little group, but if anybody who thinks that, you know, you have the time and even
00:52:09.280
come and learn what we do here and emulate in your own city and towns and all that, you know,
00:52:14.160
people from Wisconsin, please come. People from California, please come. You know, we have it in
00:52:18.880
New Hampshire every year, every summer. We have this camp and it's a very good thing. So campconstitution.net.
00:52:25.520
Okay. And I talked to your friend, Vince, uh, Allison from Maryland. I also called him before I came.
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He's one of the good guy, right? Yeah. Amazing. Willie Soon, that was the most interesting conversation
00:52:37.200
I've heard in a long time. Well, thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks.