1 00:00:04,919 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,679 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,560 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:16,399 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,480 stream I daily show prep with all of the links, 6 00:00:18,519 --> 00:00:22,359 become a patron, go to dpekclendarshow dot com. Make sure 7 00:00:22,359 --> 00:00:24,679 you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free 8 00:00:24,839 --> 00:00:27,239 right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,359 so much for your support. 10 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 2: Good afternoon, beautiful day, beautiful. I mean, you couldn't ask 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,920 for probably a better day to end the year on. 12 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:41,759 I mean, this is absolutely beautiful right now. If you're 13 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:46,159 paying attention to weather prognostications at all, you would kind 14 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,920 of be aware that there's something brewing out there that 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,759 all models are kind of When I say models, I 16 00:00:53,799 --> 00:00:56,600 mean all of the European and the American and a 17 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,679 couple other folks that are out there are showing that 18 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,640 it's going to be. It could be has the potential 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,439 likely to be a very cold January, like since nineteen 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,319 eighty five kind of cold. It's gonna blast down, and 21 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,239 even that the coast and down in Florida could be cold, 22 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:15,799 could be icy, weather could be snowy weather. Now I'm 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,760 trying to get my good friend Joe BOSTARTI to come 24 00:01:17,799 --> 00:01:19,159 on the air today. I don't don't know if he'll 25 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:20,640 be able to. I send him a couple of articles 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,319 we were communicating back and forth this morning. I'm going 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,480 to convey to you one of those articles, Michael Man. 28 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,079 And by the way, if you want to get in 29 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:30,799 on the conversation, you're welcome to do so. Seven oh 30 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,840 four five, seven oh eleven ten here at news Talk 31 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,000 eleven ten, nine nine three chat Adam sitting in for 32 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:37,840 Pete Callander and I hope Pete's enjoy I hope he's 33 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,159 having a blast. He works tediously throughout the year and 34 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:47,040 and just a great asset for WBT. Now when when 35 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:49,840 Michael so, Michael Mann is known for the hockey stick 36 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,680 graph and and he's he's he's one of the chief bishops, 37 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:56,359 or I guess he would call him a cardinal. If 38 00:01:56,359 --> 00:01:59,480 you're looking at the climate change cult as kind of 39 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:04,239 a an organized religion, which it really is, it's very atheist. 40 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:09,240 It's very much you know, claims to be driven by something. 41 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,879 They have their version of the truth. It's the only truth. 42 00:02:12,199 --> 00:02:14,759 No other version of the truth is really allowed in 43 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,360 their church. So I think Michael Mann would be a 44 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,879 cardinal at the cardinal level. He's not quite the pope 45 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,199 of the movement. I don't know if al Gore or 46 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:27,520 Michael Mann someone Greta Thunberg certainly is would be leading 47 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,000 up a sisterhood. If you were to make analogies to 48 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:33,479 the Catholic Church, you know, Greta Thunberg would be holding 49 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,840 up an order of nuns. But that kind of a 50 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,680 monkish group. And then you've got you know, the cardinals 51 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:42,840 and bishops and the priests and all that stuff on down. 52 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,800 It's a very interesting structure to this, and I guess 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,039 the scientists would be the monastic ones in a way, 54 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,560 or people that claim to be scientists. Michael Mann has 55 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:52,960 a peace out there and I'm trying to get job, 56 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,120 but started to call in he is an actual scientist, 57 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:00,439 along with Richard Ledson formerly Pat Michael's mister Spencer Roy 58 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:02,520 Spencer Down University of Alabama. There's a lot of these 59 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,560 people that have tried to push back to say it's 60 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:07,759 not that you need to say climate change doesn't exist. 61 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,439 What the argument should be is it's not the end 62 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,479 of animals or humanity, and that there's never been a 63 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,520 geologic period of time that's just stable. There's not a 64 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,520 global thermostat here. There never has been. I mean, there's 65 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,879 been times that's been far warmer than this. There's times 66 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:24,479 have been a lot more co two in the atmosphere 67 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,400 than this. There's been times there's been less than this. 68 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,280 We've had ice ages. We're not even really sure what 69 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,759 causes ice ages. By the way, that would be alarming 70 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,680 to me because imagine if whatever whatever switch that is occurs. 71 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,639 I don't know what it is, scientists aren't sure what 72 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:42,520 it is, but if it happened, because when it does happen, 73 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,000 it's bad. It's bad for all involved. It's bad for 74 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,439 the it's bad for animals, it's bad for the planet's 75 00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:51,400 bad for the oceans. But we have several periods of 76 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,439 time that we've had these ice ages, many ice ages. 77 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,919 And again, but I digress. Michael Man and Peter Hotez, 78 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,599 these are two folks that have they I love the 79 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:04,960 titles to a lot of articles in the political realm 80 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,199 because you can tell what they are and by just 81 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,560 reading the titles, and I do expect and Joe Bisarreadi 82 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:14,000 confirmed that when I send him this note that this 83 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:22,680 year you will see more hyper breathing labored thought. On 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,920 the climate front. The crazies will come out in full force, 85 00:04:27,319 --> 00:04:29,199 even if it's a colder year, and a lot of 86 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,839 people are saying we're likely to have a colder year, 87 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:33,240 because twenty five or twenty four is a warmer year. 88 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,879 But if it's linear, it's linear, and it there's no 89 00:04:36,959 --> 00:04:40,000 telling what's going to happen, and I'm not predicting it. 90 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:41,920 I'm certainly not on the front lines of that, but 91 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:46,480 I do appreciate looking back at what they've said and 92 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:49,120 then seeing how they've never been right. And that's one 93 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,319 of the problems with the sky's falling mentality, is that 94 00:04:53,639 --> 00:04:57,879 when you overplay that hand enough times, you lose the 95 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,160 narrative and rather than laying people so right now, there's 96 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:04,639 a lot of science science people that want to claim 97 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,279 they adhere to science, that say, hey, ched, if you 98 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,000 disagree with us, we think we should have the right 99 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,199 to put you in jail. That's not a conspiracy. That's 100 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,160 been said by many of the folks. In the European 101 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:17,720 side of things. There are folks that have suggested such 102 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:20,759 things to the un that the time for disagreement is over, 103 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:22,680 the time to act as now the planet is in 104 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,319 periled and anyone who disagrees with us needs to go 105 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,800 to jail. And in fact, at the end of Michael 106 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,600 Mann's piece that I'm getting ready to read, he talks 107 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:34,639 about that, he talks about that we can no longer 108 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,199 tolerate people who disagree with us. For the most part, 109 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,439 you know, we're researchers and academicians, that's what we are. 110 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,079 This is far more than an arcane discussion for our 111 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,000 faculty and students. Anti science. Remember, anti science is anyone 112 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 who disagrees with Anthony Fauci. Anti science is anyone that 113 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,959 disagrees with Michael Mann. Anti science is anyone who disagrees 114 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,360 with a given narrative that is peddled by this group. 115 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:01,439 If you disagree with them, then you'll or the anti science. 116 00:06:02,439 --> 00:06:05,920 It's kind of like the Witchcraft persecutions. You know, the 117 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,800 town elders come, I say you're a witch, but I'm 118 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,839 not a witch. But yeah, we say you are. And 119 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:14,560 if you disagree with us, you're a witch. And that's 120 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,759 the kind of mentality we find with this intolerant group 121 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,680 of scientists that don't want to discuss things. And so 122 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,639 what he writes is anti science is now a lethal 123 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:28,959 force that threatens human civilization. We can no longer fight 124 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,560 climate change in pandemics unless we can find a means 125 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,800 to diffuse the anti science bomb that threatens our future. 126 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:39,079 So they've equated. Michael Man has done this for years. 127 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,360 He just gets bolder every year. Is he's now saying 128 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:48,199 you if you disagree with them, you're basically a terrorist. 129 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,759 You are akin to someone carrying around a bomb, and 130 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,920 you threaten the planet. And they never look in. He says, 131 00:06:56,959 --> 00:06:59,839 you know, so far we're losing this battle while time remains. 132 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:02,920 The window of opportunities beginning to close. Now. They said 133 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,680 it was beginning to close in the eighties, they said 134 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,759 it was closing in the nineties, that it would absolutely 135 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:08,800 be closed by the two thousands. But then we only 136 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,680 had five years left, and then we had another five, 137 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,319 and then we had ten, but we lost that. So 138 00:07:12,439 --> 00:07:14,360 now it's gone. It's over. It's been over five or 139 00:07:14,399 --> 00:07:18,279 six times. In the seventies with the population bomb, Paul 140 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:21,040 Earlik earth Day. Earth Day was created because the end 141 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,160 was near. Now they never take stock of great victories 142 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:27,720 They never are pleased that we're not further on. They 143 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,240 never say, you know what, we're doing, this is wonderful. 144 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:33,000 It's not as bad as we thought it was. If 145 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,839 I was trying to sell you on something and I 146 00:07:34,879 --> 00:07:37,279 had told you information that was wrong for forty or 147 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:39,759 fifty years, one of the things that I think would 148 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,600 help shore up my your belief in me would be 149 00:07:43,639 --> 00:07:44,879 for me to come to you and say, you know what, 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,839 this is fantastic news that it hasn't gone as far. 151 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:51,639 There's still things to be concerned about, but it hasn't 152 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,560 happened as fast, it hasn't been as bad. And there's 153 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,279 actually some success stories out there. You know, when you 154 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:02,680 find a species that's doing well, recovering, expanding, those are 155 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,240 success stories. Be proud of those. We've paid attention to 156 00:08:06,279 --> 00:08:08,160 a lot more species that we've been worried about and 157 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,720 it's working. Take stock in that. Be pleased with that, 158 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,519 move forward with that. But they don't. It's that you 159 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,759 anti science people. Y'all are criminals. Y'all are carrying around 160 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:22,439 bombs that are against society. And I'll read through his 161 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,439 column because he dropped a column today here. It is 162 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,800 the last day of the year. Yes. In fact, he 163 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:32,279 claimed they're publishing it as January February. But in it, 164 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,759 what they're saying is it's not just a threat, we 165 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,120 now have triple threat. There's a triple threat to humanity. 166 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:41,120 And I'm going to go through why that is absurd 167 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:41,879 in just a second. 168 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 169 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:46,720 and before he died, my mom and my dad and 170 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:48,759 all of us really helped take care of him as 171 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:51,919 he got progressively worse. Forty years ago, there were no 172 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,120 treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. Things 173 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,360 are different today because of the work of so many people, 174 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:02,279 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a 175 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,919 great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've 176 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,480 been a supporter for like twenty five years. This cause 177 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:11,480 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 178 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,919 Walk to End Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte 179 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,600 team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign 180 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,799 up and join the team and walk with me. It's 181 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,039 on October nineteenth at Truest Field in Uptown. Sign up 182 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,720 at alz dot org. Slash Walk and then just look 183 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,559 for my team Pete's pack and there's also a link 184 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,840 in the podcast description here. Also, I'm going to be 185 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,080 mceing the Gastonia Walk on October fifth, So make a 186 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,480 team and join us or make a donation to help 187 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:39,720 me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There 188 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:43,240 are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and 189 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,919 you can go to alz dot org for all of 190 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,480 the dates and locations. We are closer than ever to 191 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:52,879 stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there, 192 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,200 we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me? 193 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:00,000 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 194 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,080 This is why I walk. 195 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Appreciate the staff, you guys, everybody. I've had 196 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:08,519 a great year and looking forward to another one. And 197 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,840 until they plant me in the ground, I hope it 198 00:10:10,879 --> 00:10:13,759 continues to be that way. Now, my friend jobs already 199 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:15,759 DI confirm he'll be joining us later in the broadcast 200 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:18,480 because he had seen he had seen the same article, 201 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:20,960 well because I sent him to him and he made 202 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,639 a comment about it, and so I said, hey, you 203 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,039 need to be on the show. He's like Okay, be 204 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:26,000 glad to do so. So not only will he talk 205 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:28,279 about probably not as much about that, but he's been 206 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,519 tracking these storm systems. He's the co founder of WeatherBell Analytics. 207 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,679 He does it for company. This is kind of interesting 208 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,600 because it's one thing to be out there and give 209 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:41,639 the local forecast, so you do it for your local 210 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:45,720 station and everything. It's another when the entirety of your 211 00:10:45,879 --> 00:10:51,000 corporate survival depends on the accuracy of your long range forecast. 212 00:10:51,399 --> 00:10:54,159 And Joe's been doing this. He's a great weather historian. 213 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,039 He's someone who is looked. What he does is he 214 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,000 goes back in history and looks at similar systems and 215 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,919 how things were lined up and how they will act. 216 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,320 What will this polar vortex be like, how does a 217 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:06,279 hurricane act, where does it move? How is it similar 218 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:10,080 to other hurricanes in similar climates at similar times. And 219 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,679 he's just an interesting, a very different kind of fellow. 220 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,799 We look forward to having it on the show now. 221 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,720 The article I was referring to is called a Triple 222 00:11:17,759 --> 00:11:21,519 Threat to Humanity, climate change, pandemics, and anti science by 223 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,519 Michael Mann and Peter Hotez, and he writes over the 224 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:27,399 past decade and I've got multiple comments on this, but 225 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,519 I want to try to convey what they're trying to 226 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:32,200 convey to you. Over the past decade, many of us 227 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,960 in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential 228 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,559 threat big words existential threat we face today, a threat 229 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:41,320 unlike any we'veked witnessed since the days of the US 230 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:44,159 and Soviet Cold War at the latter part of the 231 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,759 twentieth century. While even today the specter of nuclear annihilation remains, 232 00:11:47,879 --> 00:11:51,240 especially given the escalation with Ukraine, Russia and Israel Iran, 233 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,960 we now face entirely new twenty first century forces that 234 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,080 place the future of humankind in even worse peril. Our 235 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,279 newest and gravest channel may not feel as acute as 236 00:12:01,279 --> 00:12:04,120 the nineteen eighties Cold War threat of mutual assured destruction. 237 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,000 There are no missiles with nuclear warheads criss crossing the oceans, 238 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:10,399 but it's every bit is real. The next gen Mad 239 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,639 consists of three synergistic components. The first is the unprecedented 240 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,799 warming of our planet. By the way, his hockey stick 241 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,720 graph is if you look at it over history, is 242 00:12:19,799 --> 00:12:22,519 just wrong. He's using the same graph, by the way, 243 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:24,879 if they generated twenty years ago. It's called the hockey stick, 244 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:26,360 and it makes it look like the end is near. 245 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,679 It's not. But he says the unprecedented warming of our 246 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,480 planet that one of us, Michael Mann highlighted more than 247 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,639 two decades ago while still a postdoctoral researcher for the 248 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,960 hockey Stick curve, the warming of the planet its impacts, 249 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,519 which include coastal inundation from melting ice and intensified more 250 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,679 deadly hurricanes. They haven't been more deadly. The droughts are 251 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,919 not worse. The heat, heat, wildfires, waves, everything, whatever it is, 252 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 it's always bad, is taking a toll on our civilization. 253 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,320 By any measure, be it loss of life, which could 254 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,679 be measured in millions of lives per year, or economic 255 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,000 costs which could be measured in trillions, look no further 256 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,879 than deadly temperatures that exceed one hundred and twenty two degrees. 257 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:05,360 This past summer, more than two thousand Americans died from 258 00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:09,639 extreme heat, a tragic new record, by the way, more 259 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,639 humans than ever have in the country, and by the 260 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,120 way that takes into account the people who crossed the 261 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,559 border who died of exposure. So as much as Michael 262 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,600 Mann would love to say that's a climate death it's 263 00:13:21,639 --> 00:13:25,799 a death of political consequence. It's a death caused by 264 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:29,240 bad policies that led to women, children, and men dying 265 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,960 in deserts in the desert southwest. So a lot of 266 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,240 those deaths were on their hands. It wasn't the climate, 267 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,000 it was bad policy. But anyway, this is the kind 268 00:13:38,039 --> 00:13:40,399 of stuff they do. We need to stop using fossil 269 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,440 fuels for energy and transportation. The hockey stick description also 270 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,120 applies to the new pattern of cadence of pandemic threats. 271 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:53,759 Our second component. One of the most common ask questions is, hey, doc, 272 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:55,440 what the X going on? Why are we seeing three 273 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:59,639 major coronavirus global epidemics SARS, MERZ and COVID nineteen or 274 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,360 a bow in West Africa. By the way, the ebola 275 00:14:02,399 --> 00:14:05,000 is not an epidemic that tends to be isolated, as 276 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,279 it burns through populations. But it doesn't stop these guys 277 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:11,679 from saying it was these viruses all originate from bats. Actually, 278 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,399 we don't know where COVID nineteen came from. They're saying bats, 279 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,279 and we're not sure what the origins of ebola are. 280 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,360 This is what's weird. You can read any book from 281 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:23,519 the Hot Zone by Richard Preston, We've been looking for 282 00:14:23,559 --> 00:14:26,960 the origin of Ebola, but we're not sure. Even Marburg, 283 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,240 we know that the viral hamorrhagic fevers in the desert 284 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,799 southwester are caused by the hantavirus, which is caused by 285 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,240 rat pieces, but he doesn't mention that his post. Part 286 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,720 of this accelerating canes and pandemics may be shifts in 287 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:42,159 bat habitats that bring them closer to humans, in concert 288 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,919 with expanding human populations in formally forested areas due to urbanization. Again, 289 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,519 these are similar. Expansions in urbanizations together with climate chains, 290 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:55,840 also explain why we're seeing more mosquito transmitted virus infections 291 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,000 such as denge. Actually, it's because we have a lot 292 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:00,279 of stagnant water in and little puddles or on our 293 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,559 houses that mosquitos grow in because they tend to stick 294 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,039 close to where they're born. This is just unbelieved. This 295 00:15:06,039 --> 00:15:08,799 brings us to the third and perhaps most insidious component 296 00:15:08,879 --> 00:15:12,720 of all, a well organized finance, politically motivated, and steadily 297 00:15:12,759 --> 00:15:17,440 globalizing campaign of disinformation and attacks against mainstream science that 298 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:20,320 makes it extremely difficult to mount an effective global response 299 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,759 to climate threats. We witnessed an early instance, decades ago, 300 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:27,080 as Michael Man described in his book The hockey Stick 301 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,240 and Climate Wards with he and his colleagues came under 302 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,000 attack by forces linked to oil and gas. By the way, 303 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,279 the oil and gas industries, as much as michael Man 304 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:35,759 can say they attacked him, are also the ones on 305 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:39,679 the forefront of raking in subsidies from solar panels and windmills. 306 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:45,679 These people, it's so you know, you read their stuff 307 00:15:45,759 --> 00:15:49,840 and it just gets more, it gets a stranger. Increasingly 308 00:15:49,919 --> 00:15:52,600 we recognize how the forces behind the attacks on climate 309 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:56,960 science and biomedicine around vaccines and pandemics have begun to converge. 310 00:15:57,799 --> 00:16:01,679 Why have they begun to converge begun to converge because 311 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,759 a lot of the COVID nineteen vaccine stuff did not 312 00:16:04,879 --> 00:16:09,639 work out well. It did not the unfortunate realities. Vaccines 313 00:16:09,679 --> 00:16:12,559 are amazing. They've been around for since the seventeen hundreds. 314 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:14,519 People have learned how to use them, and we had 315 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:17,320 some phenomenal ones. We still have some phenomenal ones. But 316 00:16:17,399 --> 00:16:20,399 the ones for COVID nineteen were not that effective and 317 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,360 did have tons of side effects that we're just now 318 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:28,840 learning about more that undermined, if anything, undermined the vaccine science. 319 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,639 It was the people peddling the COVID vaccine that's what 320 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:39,039 undermined all of the other science on vaccines. But these 321 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,519 people never look in the mirror and accept responsibility for 322 00:16:41,559 --> 00:16:45,360 what they did. Michael Mann has pedaled the end is 323 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,240 near for forty years. For forty years he said the 324 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:54,120 end is near. It's not near. Tragically, this even includes 325 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:58,639 personal attacks on members of Congress and presidential candidates, attacks 326 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:01,320 from billionaires and conservatives like Fox News and the Wall 327 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,880 Street Journal. Now it's interesting again, never looking in the mirror. 328 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,839 In all, we have identified five major forces that have 329 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,599 advanced to tax on science and scientists and promoted anti 330 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,279 science dist information. We call them the five p's, the plutocrats, 331 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:20,079 the petro states, billionaires and state actors, the pros, the 332 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,319 hired guns. They call them, the propagandist, industry, shills and 333 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,880 opportunities posing as experts, and as we've already explained above, 334 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,920 the media. Together they can pose a coordinated, powerful and 335 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,319 formable anti science leviathan that threatens our future. Although we 336 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,240 are for now, and remember when you read these things, 337 00:17:38,759 --> 00:17:43,160 what I would ask that you do is always, always, always, 338 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:52,400 they always pose or pose it that they are the 339 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,720 angelic forces of our savior. They will bring about saving 340 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:01,599 the planet if only we listen to them. They are 341 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,400 the ones. So you could tell you could take these 342 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,440 five ps and you could be a conservative that wants 343 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:13,039 scientific discussion about climate and you would like to have 344 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,720 more truth, and you could say these same people are 345 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,279 in opposition to that. I would say Michael Mann is 346 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:21,359 in opposition because he's already said it's an existential threat 347 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,440 and the world is over, we need to have a 348 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,240 discussion about it. You can't tell him that he doesn't 349 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:26,960 want to have a discussion about it. He wants you 350 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,759 to be in jail and shut up because he's right, 351 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:31,880 you're wrong. And if I were to say from our side, 352 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,519 the same five piece the plutocrats, and I wouldn't call 353 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:38,039 him Petro states, I would call him, I guess the 354 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:42,480 windmill evangelist or solar evangelist, renewable evangelists. So you'd have 355 00:18:42,559 --> 00:18:47,400 the plutocrats and renewable evangelist, which are billionaires and state 356 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,400 actors who fund stopping debates. You would have the pros, 357 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,920 which are the hired guns that are out there to 358 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:58,119 stop debates. You would have the propagandist who are in 359 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,559 the media, and people like Michael Mann an opportunities posing 360 00:19:01,559 --> 00:19:03,680 as experts because many of these people that are scient 361 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:07,000 claimed to be scientists aren't. And as we've already explained, 362 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:08,599 the media, and I would say that most of the 363 00:19:08,599 --> 00:19:13,200 media CVS, NBC understand they are regularly say everything that. 364 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: Happens is to cost while transcending gene reporting. 365 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:21,559 Speaker 2: Turns radios and will disagree with your images although they're 366 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:23,720 most you're an atheist native videos. 367 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: This as it started at Christian ninety seven and mid Hill, 368 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,680 North Carolina. It was the first sign to provide this 369 00:19:28,799 --> 00:19:32,920 valuable servic didn't image if you disordered science, high quality 370 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:35,559 produce likes to be mediats and albums. 371 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:40,039 Speaker 2: It means to stand hurricanes are not power. You can't 372 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,759 use that is in a time perfect. If activity has increased, 373 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,839 then you can't say the first time mailed them, they'll 374 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:48,920 be ready to Buyers may have videos because we're not 375 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,400 doing control burning dinner, or you're allowing too much station 376 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:51,960 to build. 377 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Christmas, family vacations, the birthdays or just your family. We 378 00:19:55,799 --> 00:19:57,960 now know told I'm not imaged that, but you can 379 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,480 talk your photos. Yellow study rs are and the other 380 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:03,799 great example of the kind made. 381 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: The partul who came now were part of creative video Donham. 382 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:12,799 But back to his column here at the end, as 383 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:15,720 we first and foremost researchers and academics, this is far 384 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:18,559 more than ourcane discussion. Anti science is now a lethal 385 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,759 force that threatens human civilization. We can no longer fight 386 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:24,319 climate change in pandemics unless we can find a means 387 00:20:24,319 --> 00:20:28,119 to fuse an anti science bomb. I would say the 388 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,720 irony here as I finished this the segment is that 389 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:32,400 we are at a time in humanity when we were 390 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,839 more equipped to deal with more things in a more 391 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,799 direct way than ever before, while these people are saying 392 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:40,720 the sky is falling and the earth is ending, and 393 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:42,599 they are the ones that are creating the anxiety and 394 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,000 damaging your kids each and every day by telling them 395 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,759 the end is near and taking away their hope much 396 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:50,880 more to go now they're having just fighting. Now we 397 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,079 went to the break, it sounded like I was full 398 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,960 of chagrin. And what it is is the war of 399 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:02,519 ideas must continue. We whenever you get into a world 400 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:06,680 where ideas are not tolerated, where descent is quashed, you 401 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:10,200 for any of you that are sci fi fans, you know. 402 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,920 You know, if you're on the Enterprise and they come 403 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,440 to a planet where it's kind of monolithic thought, you 404 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:18,440 know there's a problem. The whole storyline is going to 405 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,480 be about, Hey, how do you overcome this monolithic thought? 406 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,319 If you read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit four fifty one, it's 407 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,440 the suppression of free thought. You're burning all the books. 408 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,079 If you get into Logan's run, you know, you can't 409 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,960 push back against the rules. You got to get on 410 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,519 the caresel when you're thirty four or thirty five and 411 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,440 be spun up and killed and under the auspices that hey, 412 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,400 someone might win. You know, if you Brave New World 413 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,359 by Alvis Huxley, these dystopian nineteen eighty four, the film Brazil, 414 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:51,359 all of these dystopian sci fi futuristic thoughts on humankind. 415 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:54,240 Even the Silo, something that's currently I'm shocked that it's 416 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:58,200 actually on Apple. The silo is this, Oh, you have 417 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:00,640 to believe, you have to follow this dog. Now, there 418 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,079 are aspersions to Christianity. There's this book of a foundation. 419 00:22:04,079 --> 00:22:06,440 You must believe the book. But the truth of the 420 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,079 matter is in acting like it's something that's not. It 421 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,119 actually proves the point I'm making, which is all of 422 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,559 these dystopian futuristic even Gatika, one of my favorite of 423 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:22,920 all time, they all portray don't question what we tell you. 424 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,440 That's the central theme of a lot of dystopian futuristic 425 00:22:28,559 --> 00:22:32,400 novels or scientific works of art, sipha whatever. It's that 426 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,359 you don't question so when. And one of the most 427 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:40,359 unique things about humans is we do question that inquiry 428 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,720 leads to breakthroughs. In Korey, a natural born curiosity. If 429 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:47,440 for those of you who believe were made in our 430 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,359 maker's image, we have a natural born curiosity. Sometimes we 431 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,880 have a natural born skepticism. But skepticism and curiosity or 432 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,599 tomato tomato, those go hand in hand. You have to 433 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:00,640 be skeptical even your own belief You should be skeptical 434 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,160 of your own beliefs sometimes, but you have to be 435 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:06,960 naturally curious. I think the media fails when it isn't. 436 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:09,200 We saw that with Joe Biden. I think they do. 437 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,599 Media does best when it asked difficult questions, regardless of 438 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,519 who's sitting in front of them, not just because they 439 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:19,359 don't like one person. Ask this guy difficult questions. Don't 440 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,880 ask this person any questions. We saw that with Kamala 441 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,680 Harrison Donald Trump, he would do one hundred interviews. She 442 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,680 wouldn't do them, and when she did, she was an epic. 443 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:28,960 She was a crash test dummy flying into the wall 444 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,359 without a seat belt. It was terrible. But that's what 445 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,559 I would say that Michael Man and many of the 446 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:40,640 sign the alleged scientists on the global warming right there, 447 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,440 they have a confirmation bias. When they find something that 448 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,440 affirms that confirmation bias, they run outside and scream it's 449 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,680 the end of the world. And if you were to 450 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,960 ask them, has the planet been warmer before, they would say, well, yes, 451 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,640 but that's different as was there a proliferation of life 452 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,480 when the planet was warmer? Yes, but that's different. Okay, 453 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:06,920 so what eradicated a lot of species was the cold, 454 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:10,400 wasn't it? Well that's different. It's always different because it 455 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,880 doesn't fit their narrative. Now, one of the most I'll 456 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,039 give you an example of where this all these because 457 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:20,720 the solution that everyone on in that ILK wants, if 458 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,279 you let's just say they're correct. Their solution to the 459 00:24:24,279 --> 00:24:27,319 problem is always socialism. Their solution to the problem is 460 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,279 we need to control the means of production by controlling 461 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,799 the production of energy, and energy is limited to renewables, 462 00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:37,640 which will not fund a society, will not keep us going. 463 00:24:37,759 --> 00:24:40,000 We need to limit trans limit your freedom. So you 464 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,440 can't travel by aircraft. You don't need to be traveled 465 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,480 by internal combustion engines. You can only recharge the engines 466 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,559 sporadically with intermittent energy. Maybe there's hydrodjew I don't know. 467 00:24:50,759 --> 00:24:52,880 Dams are probably permitted. I wish they'd go back to 468 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,039 nuclear being permitted, but they haven't grasped that yet. But 469 00:24:57,279 --> 00:24:59,559 so here's a really good example of why this kind 470 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:01,759 of fails. And this is from the BBC. This happened 471 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:03,640 in Great Britain. It was published, it was updated in 472 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,759 an hour ago. The carbon footprint of a long delayed 473 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,440 new green quote unquote ferry will be far larger than 474 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,400 the thirty one year old diesel ship that usually serves 475 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,160 the route between the Scottish mainland and the island of Iran. 476 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:21,279 Now a R R A N, not I R A N. 477 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,960 But it's in. So they they spent, oh we gotta 478 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,440 have a green ferry. We got to get rid of 479 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,119 this diesel plunker out there. The green ferry is going 480 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,480 to make things better. It'll change the temperature by a 481 00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:38,160 point oooo a million ohs one somewhow an emissions analysis 482 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,599 by cal Mack has calculated that the Glen Sannox will 483 00:25:41,599 --> 00:25:45,559 emit ten point three nine to one equivalent tons of 484 00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:48,880 CO two a year, compared to seven thousand, seven hundred 485 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,000 and thirty two for m V Caledonian Isles. So the 486 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,680 dual fuel ferry has more car capacity but requires larger 487 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,640 engines which emit methane, a greenhouse asked with a far 488 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,119 greater global warming effect than CO two. Fairies Procurement agency, 489 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,599 which owns the ship, said the comparison was inaccurate. It 490 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,319 always when they disagree with you, it's that accurate. The 491 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,640 size of the Glen Sannox is a factory in its 492 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,240 carbon footprint, but so too is the liquefied natural gas fuel, 493 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,559 which is less climate friendly than previously claimed. The business 494 00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:23,000 case for the ship, drawn up in twenty fourteen, predicted 495 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,039 it would admit about four hundred fewer times. It actually 496 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:30,759 admits three thousand more tons. Instead, it's now expected to 497 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:33,960 do seven hundred tons extra, rising to about twenty five 498 00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:38,119 hundred tons extra if methane is included now now. So 499 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,880 the point is they told the public this will be better, 500 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,640 it will be greener, much fanfare, much news media. Look right, 501 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,880 our green fairy, it emits worse more and it's four 502 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,200 times more expensive and over budget. The fairy costs four 503 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,359 times as much as predicted. The same thing we see 504 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,119 with a lot of real projects, even the one here 505 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:04,559 in Charlotte. The light rail here is you know, much 506 00:27:04,599 --> 00:27:07,160 more expensive than ever predicted. It never did meet the 507 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,599 kind of ridership predicted. It didn't save traffic or change anything. 508 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:14,400 It's just a boondoggle. It is saying it's anything other 509 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,240 than that is not being honest. So that's the kind 510 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,000 of solutions that don't help. 511 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,759 Speaker 1: You know, Stories are powerful. 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Chout out of hey for Pete Callender, 532 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,799 hoping he's enjoying his time off. And as we head 533 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:35,640 toward the top of the hour, you know, we were 534 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,960 talking about this in the green Agenda stuff, and you know, 535 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,160 here's the thing that's fascinating to me about that topic. 536 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,079 I'm not going to be laboring because we'll be talking 537 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:48,279 with JOBASARTI later in the broadcast. It is that somehow 538 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:51,279 and it works both ways. I want to say this 539 00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:57,359 in both ways. A topic that is supposed to be about. 540 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:04,599 It is the single overarching, most impactful topic that it 541 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,319 can affect your bottom line and freedom that we've seen 542 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:10,839 in our life times. I mean other than being invaded 543 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,559 by China or something like that. But largely the American 544 00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:19,599 way of life is anathema to the climate change solutions, 545 00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:23,440 if you read through them, the single greatest impact for 546 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,240 your ability to go and do things, enjoy things, travel, 547 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,640 I have a car, All of that is completely hindered 548 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,640 in many ways. I think the Amish are probably the 549 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,200 most climate friendly people horse drawn carriages. I think that's 550 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,640 what the Left doesn't realize that the ultimate result of 551 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,480 their policies would be something like that. You don't have 552 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,960 climate friendly aircraft. You don't. It's just not I mean, 553 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,119 the entire airline industry would go under. The ability to 554 00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:56,799 go cross country and you want to go in your 555 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,799 RV and pack up and head out to see great 556 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,640 you know, the Wonders of America. No, no, no, no, no, you can't 557 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,799 do that. It's your car. My truck only gets like 558 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,519 nineteen or less on the road, and it's a hybrid. 559 00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:09,640 It wouldn't get that much. It would be it would 560 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,240 be disastrous. In fact, I think it's only a hybrid 561 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,599 because there's some kind of incentive. It doesn't need to 562 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:17,759 be a hybrid. It just looks good to say it 563 00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:20,559 is right. It's to be rather I mean, to seem 564 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,920 rather than to be kind of mentality. But that's where 565 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,160 there really is, this battle in the trenches. It's not 566 00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:30,960 sexy when Greta and Michael Mann and the rest of 567 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,400 them are out there and they're frustrated because it's not sexy. 568 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,440 Used to it was just not sexy to push back 569 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,799 on it. Now it's not sexy to talk about it 570 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,880 at all. It's just and that's that's the frustration. My 571 00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:47,200 concern is because I saw what happened during the pandemic. 572 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,119 They were able. They meaning I guess the political left, 573 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:54,079 from Roy Cooper to Mandy Cohen to Anthony Fauci to 574 00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:57,519 the rest of them, were able to suppress people. We're 575 00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:00,279 able to force people. I mean, when I saw military 576 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:03,279 members being forced to take a vaccine that had been 577 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:08,359 untested and unproven, I thought it was very dystopian. It 578 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,400 was very alarming to me that we could force people 579 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,200 to do these things. I never would have dreamed if 580 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,720 you had have told me, oh yeah, We'll be able 581 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,599 to force people do whatever you want to. We'll be 582 00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:20,400 able to fire people because of not obeying what the 583 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,200 federal government told them to do on a vaccine or 584 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,960 a disease that you that you could just right across 585 00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:30,559 the board wipe an entire group out of their jobs. 586 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,920 So I don't say that, and I know it. I 587 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,480 realize it's boring when you talk about windmills and solar 588 00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:41,880 panels and that because most of us have adopted a Hey, 589 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,880 none of what they've said came true. But let's but 590 00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,759 be aware, be vigilant because it doesn't go away. Now. 591 00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:49,599 I do want to get to one, and you know what, 592 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:50,960 I'll probably get to on the other side. But I 593 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,480 do want to get to the New Tolerance Campaign. And 594 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:55,880 you've never heard of them. I doubt. I doubt maybe 595 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,720 one in one hundred and fifty of you have ever 596 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,720 heard of the New Tolerance Campaign. But they look at 597 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,440 the there are a grassroots watchdog organization, and they look 598 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,160 at who deserves National Woke Awards and they announce those. 599 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,480 We're going to go through their winners this on the 600 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,839 next in the next break. After the next break, we'll 601 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,079 go through their agenda of people, And I do want 602 00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:22,359 to get to the Obamacare thing is as as the 603 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,079 left cheers fifteen years of Obamacare, it's worth noting, you know. 604 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,079 And this is coming from the Democrats, by the way, 605 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,759 and you're going to see it more because now that 606 00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:33,000 Trump's in office, we'll be talking about health insurance a lot. 607 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,519 Democrats are warning. Sally pipestrote this over the Washington Examiner. 608 00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:38,839 Democrats are warning of a surge and the number of 609 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,160 uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expiring. In 610 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,240 other words, if they don't continue Obamacare, there's going to 611 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:49,079 be a lot of uninsured people. But exchange coverage is 612 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:52,319 borderline useless to many of the people that enrolled in it. 613 00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:55,920 It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it 614 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,119 kicks in and confines them to a narrow provider network. 615 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,599 So rather then subsidized junk insurance through the exchanges, lawmakers 616 00:33:03,799 --> 00:33:07,319 should deregulate the market so insurance can offer health plans 617 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,720 that are affordable and efficient without federal subsidies. Now this 618 00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:15,119 is an opinion piece, but imagine that insurance by virtue 619 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,079 of its existence. By the way, insurance is one of 620 00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:21,039 the reasons that America was founded. You don't believe me, 621 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,000 or maybe you're not aware of that. But it wasn't 622 00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:26,759 worth it for ships from Great Britain to cross the 623 00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:30,640 ocean in the seventeen hundreds or it's late sixteen hundreds. 624 00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:36,079 It wasn't worth it to them until insurance could insure 625 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:38,359 those vessels. Because the company lost one ship, they would 626 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,559 go under. So insurance looked at risk and said, hey, 627 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:43,000 the odds of that ship making it over this. If 628 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:44,920 you want to ensure that cargo's going to cost you this. 629 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,759 And that's how insurance work. Insurance for cars should work 630 00:33:48,799 --> 00:33:51,759 the same way, and it largely does. Insurance is based 631 00:33:51,839 --> 00:33:54,319 on your risk. You have a beach house, your risk 632 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,720 is different than if you have a house in Matthew's 633 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,559 or Union County or Caberras whatever. It's different. Risk is different, 634 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,759 and you pay relative to it. Now, in health insurance, 635 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:08,599 we've become kind of socialist there. We want to say 636 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,440 that if you want to be three hundred and fifty 637 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,000 pounds and unhealthy and your insurance should be the same 638 00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:18,880 as someone who's health is off the charts good. So 639 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,599 we're trying to take not we, not you, not me. 640 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:24,679 But groups that are out there in the political world 641 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,679 are trying to remove risk from health insurance and then 642 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,840 call it insurance. And the real goal of that is 643 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,960 to make it socialized, to make it a one size 644 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,559 fits all instead of making it about risk. So when 645 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:40,840 they say the exchange coverage is borderline useless, it requires 646 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,880 beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in 647 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,599 and confines them to narrow provider networks. That does look 648 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:48,840 at the exchanges. You can look at healthcare dot gov 649 00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:52,400 and you can see how your plans work where you're stuck. 650 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,719 But what if it was back to risk. It would 651 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,719 look very different, wouldn't it. The enhanced subsidies allow people 652 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,519 within comes up to one hundred and fifty percent of 653 00:35:01,519 --> 00:35:03,719 the federal poverty level, which is forty six thy eight 654 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,599 hundred dollars for a family of four. It's not a 655 00:35:05,599 --> 00:35:08,440 lot of money to sign up for free exchange coverage 656 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,719 at taxpayer expense. Exchange enrollies pay a progressively larger share 657 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,960 of income for premiums until they reach four hundred percent 658 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,440 of the poverty level, which is one hundred and twenty 659 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,239 four thousand for a family of four. When their contributions 660 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,440 are capped at eight point five percent of income. In 661 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,239 other words, the more money you make, the more you 662 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,000 have to pay. Now, that's how it works. These premium 663 00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:32,280 subsidies hide the actual cost of coverage. Consider a hypothetical 664 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,400 couple in their twenties living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ironically, that's 665 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,320 the town where I was born. It's where James Madison is. Harrisonburg, Virginia, 666 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,480 making eighty thousand dollars a year, by the way, not 667 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:45,320 a rich area, just under four hundred percent of the 668 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,000 poverty level. The least expensive plan they would be able 669 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,079 to purchase through the exchange runs at four hundred and 670 00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:53,079 seventeen dollars a month after an eighty two dollars tax credit, 671 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,199 But the plan comes with a narrow network, a seventy 672 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,360 two one hundred per person annual deductible, and a forty 673 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,360 percent coin insurance for most health expenses. The out of 674 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,239 pocket maximum is eighteen thousand dollars, enough to purchase a 675 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,400 decent car fresh off the lot. Add in the plan's 676 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,159 narrow provider network, and the picture gets worse. If the 677 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:18,000 hypothetical couple from Harrisonburg, Virginia can't find an in network provider, 678 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,480 then they're on a hook for one hundred percent of 679 00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:24,440 most fees for everything from primary care to lab test 680 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,760 to baby deliveries. If they visit an out of network 681 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,920 emergency department, they'd be on the hook for half of 682 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,800 the bill, even after they hit their deductible. In short, 683 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,320 the marketplace insurance often works like catastrophic coverage, only useful 684 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,280 if someone suffers a five figure health care catastrophe. But 685 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,239 that's not how the exchange is advertised. Many enrollees don't 686 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,280 learn that their coverage won't offer them much help until 687 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,920 they make their first claim. Democrats plan to make the 688 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:52,679 enhanced premium subsidies permanent would cost taxpayers three hundred and 689 00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:56,000 thirty five billion over the next ten years. According to 690 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,320 the Congressional Budget Office, we shouldn't be spending that kind 691 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,320 of money to subsidized coverage that many people we'll find useless. 692 00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:06,039 And they're right on that, if you think about it, 693 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,039 if we put some thought, and that's one thing I 694 00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:11,199 one of my wishes for twenty twenty five is for 695 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,239 us to have an honest discussion about health care, not 696 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,960 health insurance, because we conflagrate these two, don't we I've 697 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,159 got health insurance. Everything's fine. Well that's not healthcare. It's 698 00:37:20,199 --> 00:37:22,400 a way to pay for health care. But we need 699 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,440 to get a handle how much does healthcare cost? How 700 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,360 much does it cost you to go to the doctor. 701 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,920 How much does it cost you to go to the hospital. 702 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,840 How much does it cost you to go to urgent care? 703 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,719 You don't know if you have health insurance, show them 704 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,280 your card, you pay your twenty dollars or your hundred 705 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,480 or your fifty, and then you get a bill later 706 00:37:34,519 --> 00:37:36,800 on for the difference. We've got to get to where 707 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,639 we understand what we're paying and your doctor needs to 708 00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:41,519 understand what you're paying for. They don't. They have all 709 00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:43,199 That's why you walk in and most of the employees 710 00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:46,920 are not in healthcare. They're in paper pushing. Much more 711 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,239 to go here on the Pete Calendar radio show, Joe 712 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,800 was starting. We've got hour three, so much more to go, 713 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,519 so do stay tuned. We'll be back after this. 714 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,280 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 715 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,360 so much for listening. I could not do the show 716 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,880 without your support and the support of the businesses that 717 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,000 advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support 718 00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:07,719 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 719 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,400 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 720 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,119 go to dpecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 721 00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:17,400 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.