This environmental catastrophe bearing down on us
I keep hearing that we’re killing the earth
How dare you.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood
But wait, I’ve been a consumer reporter for years,
I’ve covered so many scares.
Plague, famine, and perpetual war will kill us.
We’re going to run out of oil.
Nuclear power will give us cancer,
killer bees swarm ever closer,
bird flu, flesh-eating bacteria
The list of terrible things that were
going to get us is long,
and yet we’re living longer than ever.
None of those scares turned out to
be as frightening as the warnings.
But I’m told global warming is different!
Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
The alarmists have evidence that supports their fears.
Temperature is rising.
The UN predicts that it’ll rise another 2 to 5 degrees.
What do we do when the land we live on
is under attack?
But does that justify the fear?
Climate change is not a lie
so please don’t let our planet die
Does it justify this claim?
We have 12 years to act.
We have 12 years
We have 12 years before the effects are irreversible
Really?
12 years?
It's warmed up around one degree Celsius since 1900,
and life expectancy doubled the
industrialized democracies
And yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree,
and the entire system crashes?
That's the most absurd belief
I recently moderated this debate
on climate change at the Heartland Institute.
Well, not a debate...
because the alarmists who were invited didn’t show.
Heartland invited many
Please come over here and sit next to that
place and let’s have a discussion.
There's a lot more people want to hear what
you have to say.
Climate alarmists never agree to debate.
We would love to offer you the airtime
we will give it to you
I'll give you a special phone number that
goes to this phone
I invited Al Gore on my show often,
but he would never come
In order to solve the climate crisis
He makes lots of speeches,
but won’t respond to people who disagree.
It’s too bad that the alarmists won’t debate
because so much of what they say deserves debate
The world is going to end in 12 years
if we don’t address climate change
12 years.
Well, and in 12 years it'll be 12 more years
David Legates is a professor of climatology
at the University of Delaware.
Pat Michaels is former president
of the American Association of State Climatologists.
Willie Soon is an astrophysicist.
It's all about handwaving, it's about emotion,
about sending out kids in protest,
it has nothing to do with the science.
This group pointed out that even if the planet
warms by 5 degrees, humans can adjust.
People in Holland did, years ago
They said, we're going to adapt to
the fact that we're a low lying country,
and we're going to build these dikes,
and we're going to build these pumps,
are you telling me that the people in Miami
are so dumb that
they're just going to sit there and drown?
You acknowledge though the water is rising?
Yes, the water has been rising for approximately
20,000 years, and probably will continue
But we can adapt, like Holland has.
Except,
[Hurricane]
The alarmists say hurricanes and other storms
are getting worse.
It’s getting stronger and stronger
the winds are getting harder and harder
No they aren't!
You can take a look at all the hurricanes
around the planet.
We can see them since 1970,
because we got global satellite coverage.
Right.
And we can measure their power,
and we can add up their power.
And there is no significant increase whatsoever.
There is no relationship between hurricane activity,
and the surface temperature of the planet
The claim that hurricanes are getting worse
and the 12 year deadline
were 2 of 4 myths I heard the Heartland panel
convincingly debunk.
Myth #3 was that government action today
will save us
We have to act now
The Obama administration's model
projects that the amount of global warming
that would be saved
for going to zero emissions tomorrow.
You don't know how to do that.
Put you back in the Stone Age,
but let's just say we did it.
Would be 14 hundredths of a degree Celsius.
So no real effect on the climate, but
You'll sure have an impoverished dark country,
won't you?
Myth 4: the idea that carbon dioxide
is carbon pollution that just does harm,
and threatens the food supply.
There are places on earth where it is
just greening up like crazy.
So, if you're really concerned about the plants,
more carbon dioxide makes them not just grow faster,
but also makes them more water efficient.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.
but it also helps feed the world.
A lot of people pretend to know about climate.
Pretend to have studied it.
Pretend to come up with these answers,
and then make these proclamations to scare you
so that you'll do what we want you to do.
But if what that alarmists say is not true,
why would the the international
panel on climate change,
the United Nations, go along with exaggerations?
Governments like control.
Most governments want to keep control,
and most want governments to get
bigger and bigger over time
IPCC does stand for
Carbon dioxide becomes that molecule
by which we can take control of your lives,
of your efforts, and everything that goes on
Are they right?
It’s confusing when there are
so many serious people who are so worried,
I wish there were a real debate.
Why won’t the other side debate?
