Valuetainment - January 15, 2020


Episode 415： Climate Change – Myth Or Reality？


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

221.46355

Word Count

3,784

Sentence Count

223

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

In this episode of Valuetainment, we discuss the controversial topic of whether or not climate change is a real or not a problem, and how to counter those who believe it's a hoax and those who think it's real.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 30 seconds.
00:00:01.860 Did you ever think you would make it?
00:00:04.540 I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.
00:00:07.640 I know this life meant for me.
00:00:10.780 Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
00:00:14.600 Valuetainment, giving value is contagious.
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00:00:21.420 I'm the one.
00:00:22.580 I'm Patrick Bedevi, host of Valuetainment.
00:00:24.160 Today we're going to talk about a controversial topic,
00:00:26.640 but I'm going to take a complete different approach to it,
00:00:29.100 and that is climate change.
00:00:30.680 Is it a myth or is it a reality?
00:00:32.660 First thing we're going to talk about is those who believe climate change is a real danger,
00:00:36.940 those who think it's a hoax,
00:00:38.380 what really started the entire conversation with the greenhouse effect,
00:00:42.340 and then the fossil fuel leaders,
00:00:43.900 and then are there people on the money side, on the oil side,
00:00:46.180 that are kind of causing us to not look at certain research?
00:00:49.400 And then my final thoughts.
00:00:50.240 So let me start off with who thinks climate change is a danger.
00:00:53.020 So those who believe it's a danger, this is what they're saying.
00:00:55.900 It's caused by mankind.
00:00:56.980 You and I are causing it.
00:00:59.100 The opposite argument to it is they're saying,
00:01:01.140 it's been going on for a long time.
00:01:02.340 This is nothing new.
00:01:03.720 Then there's folks that say global warming will come and cause mass extinction.
00:01:08.960 You're even hearing some politicians saying,
00:01:10.560 we only have 12 years left to live.
00:01:12.340 This is a very common thing you hear on those who believe climate change is real.
00:01:16.980 On the other side, climate myth is it's natural.
00:01:19.400 Politicians are using this tactic of extinction as a method of propaganda
00:01:23.740 to put fear into you and I to want to win a vote, right?
00:01:26.840 Then some of the guys are saying satellite measures Antarctica are showing that we're losing ice.
00:01:33.580 By the way, there's a lot of different TED Talks that you can see
00:01:35.740 or different videos to see it all over the world,
00:01:38.160 not just in Alaska that this is taking place to.
00:01:40.520 So what is the argument to that?
00:01:42.100 What are they going to say about that?
00:01:43.040 That's proof right there.
00:01:44.520 The argument is it's a cycle.
00:01:46.300 This could be a simple cycle we're going through today
00:01:48.480 because ice age happened every 100,000 years.
00:01:51.800 What can you do about ice age, right?
00:01:53.720 I mean, there wasn't fossil fuel or emissions
00:01:56.240 or people going around doing what they're doing at the time.
00:01:59.740 How do you prevent an ice age when it took place?
00:02:01.800 Maybe we're going through that right now.
00:02:03.020 Matter of fact, we had a mini ice age from 1300 to 1800 in Europe and Northern America.
00:02:08.240 So maybe we're going through something right now.
00:02:10.400 Or what's your argument to the snowball earth
00:02:12.740 where 650 million years ago up to 710 million years ago
00:02:16.500 when the entire earth was pretty much white because there was snowball.
00:02:20.080 That's what they called it.
00:02:20.880 It was all white.
00:02:21.620 It was so cold.
00:02:22.700 It was minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit at the time.
00:02:26.120 And scientists still today can't figure out how that white went away.
00:02:30.740 Where did heat come from if no one's doing?
00:02:32.940 If you're saying it's mankind,
00:02:34.820 what made it go away when there wasn't mankind there, right?
00:02:37.280 So that's the argument to that point that's made.
00:02:39.120 Next one.
00:02:39.600 Al Gore had it all right.
00:02:41.540 Argument.
00:02:42.380 He's a career politician.
00:02:43.880 He's just trying to create some more propaganda.
00:02:46.800 Next one.
00:02:47.600 Nine out of the ten heat waves with most fatalities have occurred since 2000.
00:02:53.540 That's a fact, right?
00:02:55.040 Nine out of ten heat waves have occurred since 2000.
00:02:57.680 That caused the most death, 128,885.
00:03:01.700 And by the way, I don't know if you're following this issue that's going on right now with Venice.
00:03:05.340 We were in Venice just a few months ago.
00:03:07.200 Venice right now, Venice Italy, if you go to it,
00:03:09.100 here's what the floods look like on Venice.
00:03:10.940 Venice, if you look at Guardian, that's Venice today.
00:03:13.100 So what's the rebuttal to 128,000 people of that?
00:03:16.200 I mean, since 2000, nine out of the ten worst heat waves we've ever had.
00:03:20.200 What's your rebuttal to it?
00:03:21.300 The rebuttal is, that's because we have more data today than ever before.
00:03:25.180 We don't have real data from 100 years ago, or 1,000 years ago, or 20,000 years ago.
00:03:29.740 So that's today's data.
00:03:30.960 So people can say that's the worst we've ever had.
00:03:33.660 Okay, next one.
00:03:34.740 Here's another data from NASA showing that climate change may be real.
00:03:38.160 In the last 50 years, temperature around the world has increased by 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit
00:03:44.300 per decade, which means one degree roughly per 50 years.
00:03:50.380 That is one degree.
00:03:51.580 This is from NASA, right?
00:03:52.760 What's the rebuttal to that?
00:03:53.740 This is data that we have for the last 50 years.
00:03:55.300 The rebuttal is, it's only one degree in 50 years.
00:03:58.880 What's the big deal about one degree in 50 years?
00:04:01.320 Then the last one is, capitalists are protecting their oil money.
00:04:05.200 That's all they're doing.
00:04:06.500 This is their way of protecting their oil money.
00:04:08.560 They don't care about the future.
00:04:10.200 They don't care about their kids.
00:04:11.320 They don't care about all.
00:04:12.120 This is why I don't want to have kids, because capitalists just want to protect themselves.
00:04:15.740 They're not worried about anybody's kids or grandkids.
00:04:18.080 The rebuttal is, the intergovernmental panel of climate change is simply trying to shift
00:04:22.500 power by trying to strong-arm job creators.
00:04:26.180 So, they're just using data, and they're getting their facts wrong, and they're kind
00:04:30.100 of spinning things.
00:04:31.300 They're not really doing the right things.
00:04:32.520 So, you may be watching this right now, saying, Pat, I can't really figure you out.
00:04:34.820 Are you saying it is a danger, or are you saying it's a hoax?
00:04:36.840 Because, you know, I can't put you in any kind of a position.
00:04:39.720 You sound like you're on both sides.
00:04:40.980 The entire purpose of this is for you to watch it, and then from there, go do your own research.
00:04:45.100 Don't take my word for it, or the politician's word, or your uncle's word.
00:04:48.740 Go do your own due diligence, and don't just look at one side.
00:04:51.020 Don't just watch CNN, or MSNBC, or just Fox.
00:04:53.860 Look at both arguments.
00:04:55.140 So now, the argument here is that you and I are causing global warming.
00:05:00.640 You and I are causing the climate change to be a danger, us, human beings.
00:05:05.000 So now, how are we causing this is the simple concept of greenhouse effect.
00:05:10.020 Let me explain this to you.
00:05:11.360 Greenhouse effect is when you have a greenhouse, and you're growing plants, or you're growing
00:05:15.700 whatever you're growing in there, right?
00:05:16.940 It is set up in a way where the sun comes in, and the plants are getting the sun, which
00:05:23.580 they need to nourish and grow, but then the sun is not leaving, and it's somewhat staying
00:05:27.900 there a little bit for it to grow.
00:05:29.240 And if the glass is too thick, then the heat wave stays there, and it's not good for the
00:05:34.040 plants.
00:05:34.300 So there's a certain level of thickness you need for the sun to leave, for the heat to
00:05:38.540 leave so it doesn't stay.
00:05:39.320 Hopefully, that makes sense to you.
00:05:40.200 Let me explain to you in a different way.
00:05:41.220 So here's the sun, this is the earth, this is the moon, okay?
00:05:46.000 So the earth and the moon are roughly 93 million miles away from the sun.
00:05:50.480 So you got 93 million miles, earth, moon, sun, 93 million miles, right?
00:05:56.680 Which is about 150 million kilometers for some of you guys in Europe, right?
00:05:59.920 To kind of put you in perspective.
00:06:01.580 So what's your point here, Pat?
00:06:03.200 Here's what the point is.
00:06:03.980 Even though they're only 90, 95, 93 million miles away, it's the same number, moon in
00:06:10.380 the morning is roughly 212 degrees Fahrenheit, which means you and I would burn to death.
00:06:16.140 Within a minute, we're gone, right?
00:06:18.020 And at night, it goes from 212 degrees Fahrenheit on the moon to at night being negative 338,
00:06:23.940 which is you're going to be a popsicle at night, and you're dead as well.
00:06:26.700 So you and I cannot live on the moon in the current conditions they have.
00:06:29.800 Now on the other side, on earth, the temperature is roughly 57 to 61 degrees Fahrenheit throughout
00:06:35.680 the day, right?
00:06:36.340 Now you got some highs, you got some lows, but that's the average, 57 to 61, which means
00:06:39.980 you and I can exist and we can live on earth, which is what you and I have been doing for
00:06:43.400 roughly 200,000 to 300,000 years.
00:06:46.260 Your parents, your grandparents, all the other folks that came before us, right?
00:06:50.060 So now you look at this data and you say, Pat, then why is it that even though we're only
00:06:53.500 93 million miles away, why is it that we can live on earth but we can't on moon?
00:06:57.220 It's because of that atmosphere around.
00:06:59.020 And what that atmosphere does is, it allows the sun rays to come in and it bounces off
00:07:05.320 and goes, because it's the right thickness that it has, that remember the whole glass
00:07:09.700 demo we talked about?
00:07:10.960 That it leaves, but it keeps enough of the heat here so you and I can survive.
00:07:15.920 And because moon doesn't have that, you cannot live on the moon.
00:07:18.560 That's pretty much what the argument is with the greenhouse effect, right?
00:07:21.400 If that makes sense to you, why are they saying climate change and we are causing it?
00:07:26.540 Well, that's leading to the carbon dioxide, which carbon dioxide is causing this atmosphere
00:07:33.780 to get thicker.
00:07:35.000 And the thicker it gets, the rays, they cannot bounce off.
00:07:38.840 So they're going in and they're going boom, boom, boom, and they're coming back in.
00:07:41.380 Boom, boom, boom.
00:07:41.880 Some of them are leaving.
00:07:42.700 Boom, boom, boom.
00:07:43.100 Some of them are going back in.
00:07:44.000 Okay, just kind of try to get a visual for that.
00:07:45.560 So it's staying here and that's why the temperatures have been going up, based on what NASA said,
00:07:50.560 one degree in the last 50 plus years, right?
00:07:53.080 So now what does this mean, Pat?
00:07:54.340 Here's what it means.
00:07:55.240 CO2, carbon dioxide.
00:07:56.700 What does it mean?
00:07:57.380 How does it, who produces carbon dioxide?
00:07:59.860 A few different ways.
00:08:00.680 One of the ways is you and I.
00:08:01.680 We produce it.
00:08:02.360 Me, you, animals, we produce carbon dioxide.
00:08:05.260 Another way is volcano eruption produces carbon dioxide.
00:08:08.620 Then it's deforestation, which is what?
00:08:11.400 The more trees we cut, the higher the carbon dioxide we have, which means, again, it's getting
00:08:16.460 thicker and thicker and thicker.
00:08:18.040 Next one is the burning of fossil fuels.
00:08:19.940 The more you burn fossil fuels, it's putting pressure and it's keeping the heat within in
00:08:24.040 here.
00:08:24.600 And the last one is land use changes.
00:08:26.960 We're cutting grass and we're turning into roads, properties, et cetera, et cetera.
00:08:30.460 So that is causing the atmosphere to get thicker, which is causing the heat waves to stand.
00:08:35.100 If that makes sense to you, now we can go to the next part, which is 15 billion metric
00:08:40.180 tons of fossil fuel was consumed last year.
00:08:44.440 15 billion metric tons of fossil fuel last year.
00:08:48.980 And who are the leaders today?
00:08:50.400 Number one today is China, 27.21%.
00:08:53.940 Number two is U.S. at 14.58%.
00:08:56.760 India is number three at 6.82%.
00:08:58.620 Then you got Russia at 4.68%.
00:09:00.100 And then you have Japan at 3.33% at fifth place, right?
00:09:02.980 So now when you're listening to this, you're like, well, Pat, I'm watching this, but based
00:09:07.320 on what you're saying, this is kind of real.
00:09:08.540 This is really taking place.
00:09:09.660 So what is the argument that really gets them to say that climate change isn't a danger?
00:09:14.900 Because if you look at politics, President George Bush Sr., I believe in the 88 campaign,
00:09:19.880 went up there and says, this is really happening.
00:09:21.820 Global warming is happening.
00:09:22.960 We got to pay attention.
00:09:23.800 We got to do something about it.
00:09:24.860 If anybody can do something about it, America can, right?
00:09:27.600 And then you fast forward to around 2006, April 14th, I believe, the former CEO of Exxon
00:09:35.500 Mobile, Lee Raymond, he started going out there, and this is rumors, this is articles that was
00:09:40.180 written about it, that he was funding scientists to write articles and do research saying climate
00:09:44.980 change has not really happened.
00:09:46.400 It's not really that dangerous, and it's not man-made.
00:09:48.620 It's not caused by oil.
00:09:49.820 And by the way, Lee ended up getting a $400 million retirement package when he left April
00:09:54.740 14th, 2006, which is the largest ever at that time for a publicly traded company.
00:09:59.200 And then there comes Rex Tillerson, which is the CEO after Lee Raymond, and he ends up
00:10:04.660 striking a half a trillion dollar contract with Russia to go and dig in the Arctic, which
00:10:09.760 is not something that's happened in the past before.
00:10:11.980 And obviously when that deal took place, that kind of benefits Russia because money's going
00:10:17.200 to be made for ExxonMobil and Russia, and it just never happened before.
00:10:20.900 So it was a very big deal for him with Rex, and Rex is also former, I believe, CEO and
00:10:25.420 president of Boy Scouts himself, and he was involved in politics.
00:10:28.480 I mean, he did some stuff with Trump as well.
00:10:30.120 They had some issues with him and Trump based on what Nikki Haley came out and said that Rex
00:10:34.840 wasn't a fan, and he was a fan, and maybe he is, maybe he's not.
00:10:38.320 There was a lot of conflicts politically with him as well.
00:10:40.780 But that's some of the stuff with oil, because you'll hear a lot of arguments saying folks
00:10:44.000 who are running oil companies, ExxonMobil, they don't care about the safety of the world.
00:10:48.180 They're just trying to make a lot of money, and they're trying to get some big deals.
00:10:51.560 Now, all of this has caused countries like China to spend $780 billion in renewable energy
00:10:58.240 by 2030.
00:10:59.440 That's what their commitment is.
00:11:00.760 You got Bloomberg, who's now running for office.
00:11:02.660 He wants to be president, Democratic campaign, he's going out there to go up against all these
00:11:06.560 other guys.
00:11:07.280 He put $70 million into renewable energy.
00:11:09.820 Renewable industry is a $300 billion industry today, which attracts two different types of
00:11:13.980 people.
00:11:14.180 Those that are coming in that actually want to make a difference, like they want to correct an
00:11:17.880 injustice, but it also attracts some people that say, well, I can kind of come in and
00:11:21.180 kind of make some money here and act like we want to do the right thing, but make some
00:11:25.840 money.
00:11:26.060 And then, obviously, it attracts the politicians that kind of want to come and regulate everything.
00:11:29.780 So, the $300 billion industry leads to Northern Ireland government collapsed, I believe, last
00:11:36.680 year because of a $1.4 billion Green Deal scandal that took place.
00:11:42.160 Again, there's a lot of opportunity to make money.
00:11:44.180 So, some come in to make money, some are actually coming in to make a difference.
00:11:48.100 There was a scandal that went there with that.
00:11:49.480 So, it attracts people like that.
00:11:50.980 Saudi Arabia, which has got the Ramco company, $1.5 trillion company that I think just went
00:11:56.020 public.
00:11:56.620 It's the highest valuation company in the world.
00:11:58.480 They put $50 billion of money into renewable energy.
00:12:01.380 And Facebook is planning on running on fully on renewable energy by 2020.
00:12:04.780 All right, so let me give you my final thoughts on this sensitive topic of climate change because
00:12:07.820 many of you may say, Pat, how could you even say this?
00:12:09.600 You got the data here to show it's happening.
00:12:12.060 You just talked about, you know, the greenhouse effect.
00:12:15.080 You just talked about oil funding, all this other.
00:12:17.320 What do you mean it may be a hoax or this?
00:12:19.780 The debate is over with.
00:12:21.200 The debate isn't over with.
00:12:22.240 This is my challenge with this debate.
00:12:23.340 Let me explain to you what it is.
00:12:24.720 Let's just say climate change is caused by man.
00:12:27.740 And then the climate change is also caused by Mother Nature, which is historically, you
00:12:31.160 know, six ice ages, one every 100,000 years.
00:12:34.020 The question I'm trying to get answers is the following question.
00:12:36.460 It's a few questions.
00:12:37.060 One, what percentage of this is caused by mankind, us?
00:12:42.820 What percentage is Mother Nature?
00:12:44.700 Are we causing, is our cause 1%, 2%, 5%?
00:12:48.740 Because some of the scientists are saying, oh, it's 70% us and we're going to, I don't
00:12:53.540 agree with that.
00:12:54.640 And then on the other side, some of the people are saying, well, it's not even, we're not
00:12:57.640 having any effects on us.
00:12:58.600 What are you talking about?
00:12:59.260 There's no, I also don't agree with that.
00:13:00.720 I do think there is an effect that we're having at what percentage is what I want to know.
00:13:04.800 Second point when it comes down to this, I'm also not naive to not think about the fact
00:13:09.680 that, you know, cigarette companies, nicotine companies, Philip Morris for many years would
00:13:13.260 hire scientists paying money on the side saying, hey, give us some research to show that, you
00:13:16.980 know, nicotine is actually good for you.
00:13:19.300 We know when this happened with the movie, Thank You for Smoking, you know the story about
00:13:22.920 it.
00:13:23.080 Like, hey, yeah, nicotine is good for you.
00:13:24.960 It's not bad for you.
00:13:25.840 They pitched it and we bought it.
00:13:27.320 Milk is, does the body good?
00:13:29.120 Milk, there's a lot of different research that's also not as good for you.
00:13:31.780 Or sugar versus fat.
00:13:33.220 Sugar is not that bad for you.
00:13:34.820 Chocolate companies, fat is terrible for you.
00:13:37.540 We're learning fat is actually not bad for you.
00:13:39.260 We just didn't know about fat.
00:13:40.320 When all these scientists, we didn't know about it, we're getting smarter.
00:13:42.860 So there's also part of it that I get, funding scientists, because there's two different
00:13:47.120 types of scientists.
00:13:47.800 There's those that get involved and all of a sudden money buys them out to go to a different
00:13:50.920 place, make four times more, get a bigger funding.
00:13:53.100 And there are those scientists that truly want to do research to get the right answers.
00:13:57.260 The scientists that are trying to get the right answers, my challenge with them sometimes
00:14:00.180 is the fact that they start speaking like they're God in 100% accuracy.
00:14:05.440 It's not all of them, but a big chunk of them are always only hanging out with only people
00:14:09.300 that agree with them.
00:14:10.520 And sometimes to be in a setting where you're only around people that agree with you, it's
00:14:14.300 also not helping us use your brain that you have, the talent that's been given to you
00:14:18.360 to steer it and push it a little bit for you to get frustrated and want to go do more
00:14:22.360 research.
00:14:23.220 So the argument for me on both sides is taking place.
00:14:25.940 Look, I lived in LA.
00:14:26.620 I looked at the sky, I looked at the clouds and it was all black when I would drive down
00:14:30.640 the two freeway downtown or China.
00:14:32.840 You're seeing how, of course, we're having some effect on climate change.
00:14:37.680 And as somebody that's in the financial industry, to say 0.23% every 10 years, that's 1.15 degrees
00:14:43.640 in 50 years.
00:14:45.120 Compound interest means in the next 100, 200, 300 years, this can really compound into a
00:14:49.320 bad news.
00:14:49.640 So we do need to do some research about it.
00:14:51.580 I do know some politicians love to use this as a propaganda to say it's the end of the world.
00:14:56.060 I also believe that rhetoric that they're using that propaganda to give votes and put
00:14:59.880 fear in the younger generation to get younger generation to come and do videos crying, oh
00:15:03.220 my gosh, this is what's going on.
00:15:05.200 This is tactic that's been used for many, many years.
00:15:07.980 I'm just not the one that likes to be nice.
00:15:09.820 So this is my request to you.
00:15:11.000 This is my request to you.
00:15:12.000 For those of you guys that agree, disagree, and are neutral, you're saying, well, what is
00:15:16.040 your request to this, Pat?
00:15:18.220 Every time you get a climate change topic that takes place on CNN, Fox News, whatever, it's
00:15:21.980 26 minutes, or it's 42 minutes, and it's commercial breaks, and a break, okay, hold
00:15:27.280 that thought, we're going to come back to you, and it's typically filled with only people
00:15:30.860 that agree with each other, or on this side, and it's 20 minutes, how do you and I learn
00:15:34.780 about anything in 20 minutes, you know?
00:15:36.420 Or you watch a documentary, the documentary's all on this side, it's an Al Gore documentary,
00:15:41.260 or it's all on this side, it's a documentary that's a hoax.
00:15:43.660 First, I would like to bring the scientists who are for this, the photographers that were
00:15:49.480 there, those that say it's a hoax, those that say it's real, there are many scientists out
00:15:53.580 there that are, you know, gone and done decades of research, photographers, I want to bring
00:15:58.040 you to my office, my boardroom here, we sit you down, and we have one side and the other
00:16:03.200 side, camera crew, three hour debate, we go, I'm the mediator, I'm not the expert, I'm
00:16:08.160 the mediator, we go.
00:16:09.520 You have a computer, you have a screen, you have a board to write on, show whatever you want
00:16:12.720 to show, give your argument, if you're that strong about your argument, let's do this
00:16:16.720 together for three hours, and let's let the world look at this, and then after that, the
00:16:21.020 point isn't to win an argument, the point is to get to the truth, so we can do something
00:16:25.500 about this, this is not about winning an election, this affects lives, this affects our breathing,
00:16:29.660 this affects our health, so if the argument is to get to the truth, once we do that, the
00:16:34.260 final topic I want to leave with, if we know this is happening, what can we truly do to
00:16:39.320 change this and prevent this from happening?
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