Western Standard - November 17, 2023


Plan To Phase Out Fossil Fuels

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Robert Lyman Boy Scouts Steven Guilbeault Trudeau Gilboa
Boosting public safety in southern Alberta communities Conservative Demands for Trudeau's Mini Budget

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Length

3 minutes

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153.42

Word count

462

Sentence count

27

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1

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1

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In this episode, we talk to climate scientist and author Robert Lyman about his views on climate change, and why Canada should be worried about climate change. We also talk about the impact of the Trump administration on the climate, and what it could mean for the future of climate change policy.

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00:00:00.000 So they're actually asking Stephen Gilbeau to kick polluters out of the Canadian pavilion.
00:00:07.100 So they don't even want to have the Pathways Alliance events staged there.
00:00:13.760 These events are paid for by taxpayers and should be representative of all taxpayers, not just the climate clique.
00:00:23.020 And also oil, gas, you know, that is one of the biggest revenue earners for Canada.
00:00:30.800 It pays the bills for health care, for education, for all the services that we need in this country.
00:00:39.440 We need revenue. And yet these guys who actually just live at the public trough,
00:00:45.480 most of them are heavily subsidized by governments with grants and consultation contracts, with tax subsidies, because a lot of them are charities.
00:00:55.220 All these guys are trying to shut down the industry.
00:00:58.820 And the same at COP28. They're trying to do the same thing.
00:01:05.220 They're saying that, you know, Robert's saying countries like China, India, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq,
00:01:12.980 all see fossil fuel production as central to their economic development and energy security.
00:01:20.400 So, you know, if you think about this in terms of geopolitics, us trying to go along with climate change targets that will cripple our country.
00:01:28.980 It's really just giving the advantage to all these competitor nations and putting us completely at risk.
00:01:36.520 Well, yeah, Canada is always the one who wants to play the Boy Scout.
00:01:39.220 It seems we're the only ones ready to shut down our own resources and tighten our belts and starve a little more and subsidize battery plants
00:01:47.340 while we pay lip service and indulge all of these nations that are expanding their production and feeding world demand.
00:01:54.380 It's just absurd.
00:01:55.640 But do you think there's any chance any of that's going to change under the current administration?
00:01:59.440 You said people like Gilboa or Trudeau, this is what they've wrapped themselves around.
00:02:02.980 This is their prime mandate now.
00:02:06.020 Well, we just had our 20th annual climate science event at the Red and White Club.
00:02:12.260 And Robert Lyman spoke there on when will climate policy hit the wall.
00:02:16.920 And you can see these events online.
00:02:20.140 And he basically says he doesn't think that there will be a turnaround.
00:02:23.780 But he does see that the public are feeling the costs and the burdens of these crazy climate policies.
00:02:32.400 And lots of people are getting a lot more energy literate.
00:02:35.320 And they're seeing that, you know, it's ridiculous for Canada, which puts out perhaps 1.5% of the world's emissions,
00:02:42.980 to try and meet these ridiculous targets when countries like China, you know, China emits in one year, in one month, sorry, 0.77
00:02:52.620 what Canada emits in a year and, I think the new calculation, a year and eight months. 0.78
00:02:58.060 So whatever we do is completely useless.