WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.360 Michael. 2 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:02.799 I had a friend who witnessed the nineteen ninety two 3 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:07.559 Rodney King Grace riots first hand, and it meant it 4 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:11.519 was like war. So I think because of that saying, 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.880 really that Trump is being proactive and he's doing the 6 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:15.439 right thing. 7 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.640 Oh, I agree, because if you allowed to get out 8 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:24.120 of hand, it will turn into nineteen ninety two. I 9 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.800 was there about four days after the riots ended, and 10 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:33.560 it was it was, It was unbelievable. It really was 11 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.359 widespread and destructive. South central LA was just a hell hole. 12 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.439 But south central LA is kind of a hell hole. Anyway, 13 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:46.719 last night, watching the Weather Reporter, as I normally, do 14 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:49.880 you know Dave Fraser, don't you guys have Dave Fraser 15 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.280 over on Mandy Show occasionally. 16 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.320 Every Wednesday, Wednesday Colorado's most accurate weather forecast, And so 17 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:02.039 that's why I watched KDVR, and of course I subscribe 18 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.840 to Corey's Weather Report from up in Greeley. 19 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:13.519 But they're both predicting that by this weekend it could 20 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:20.079 be ninety degrees Czechs calendar, Oh it's June, And in fact, 21 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.280 Fraser said last night on his weather report, yeah, I 22 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.920 think it's Saturday. Your Sundays we're supposed to be in 23 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.480 the nineties that normally we're a little late because usually 24 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:31.959 we have ninety degree weather before. 25 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.959 So it's summertime, right, So cue the hysteria. 26 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:40.079 I'm not saying Fraser's doing that, but you know that 27 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.079 Everybody's going to start talking about how hot it is, 28 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.760 Oh my god, because just like clockwork, the media is 29 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.760 going to try to gear us up, to convince us 30 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:56.159 that rising urban temperatures are a direct consequence of climate change, 31 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.519 and of course the greenhouse gases, you know, like the 32 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:02.519 carbon dioxide that you know, Ay Rodgers, and they're spewing 33 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:04.959 out as he sits back there in bitches and moans 34 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:10.039 about me. We already have ominous headlines from The Guardian, 35 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.680 the San Francisco Chronicle and others that will flood your 36 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.960 feeds on whatever social media or new sites you use, 37 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.319 warning of these heat fuel catastrophes, and nobody are asked 38 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:30.360 a simple question, where do we measure these temperatures and 39 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:36.159 what else, if anything, could be causing heat, particularly in 40 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:41.280 the summertime. You know, when we well we've moved into 41 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:45.639 the hot season. Yes, it's gonna get hot. Well, here's 42 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.800 a spoiler alert. It's not your internal combustion engine. It's 43 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.520 not your suv. Oh you know, I hadn't thought about this. 44 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.520 It could be the burning vehicles in Los Angeles. That 45 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.000 could be what's causing a heat. In fact, that's probably 46 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.719 why Dave Fraser has forecasted that by this weekend we'll 47 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.199 have ninety degree temperatures because all those burning vehicles in LA, 48 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:14.879 all of that heat's going to be picked up by 49 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.400 you know, a Pacific front. They will sweep down California, 50 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.400 it'll move, you know, up down through Arizona, pick up 51 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.599 some heat there and then move up here. So the 52 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.360 additional heat from the burning cars are going to cause 53 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.520 us to have a heat wave. I'm not trying to 54 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.719 be funny. I'm trying to point out that's how stupid 55 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:41.000 this whole thing is. Well, The Guardian recently warned that 56 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.520 the United States faces quote another summer of extreme heat, 57 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.000 but in a feed of mental gymnastics, they managed to 58 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:57.599 link summertime temperatures with are you ready Trump era tax cuts? 59 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:05.039 Because you see, tax policy is a thermostat. Write that down. 60 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:09.360 Tax policy is a thermostat. I know you maybe be 61 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.000 you might be a little bewildered right now, but That's 62 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:17.000 why I'm here to help you become unbewildered. In fact, 63 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:18.759 let me just read you the headline from the Guardian. 64 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:23.759 US faces another summer of extreme heat as fears rise 65 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:30.120 over Trump cuts. The subhead Brutal heat and drought expected 66 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:35.000 to blanket the country from Nevada to Florida, as experts 67 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:42.079 worry climate cuts will burn. Notice too, that it was 68 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:47.920 from where was it from Nevada, which is always hot 69 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.720 in the summer, down to Florida, which is hot and 70 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:56.079 humid and miserable during the summer. I don't understand all 71 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:00.439 you people a skeeping Colorado and going to Florida. Meanwhile, 72 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:07.120 Spain's sports scorching late May forecast, which which is all 73 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.240 over that country right now, comes with the heels of 74 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.600 remember the energy blackouts caused by, ironically the very green 75 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.920 policies that Spain and Portugal kept hailing as there, Oh, 76 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.639 this salvation is gonna save us. So when the wind 77 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.639 stopped blowing and the sun went down, the entire grid failed. 78 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:31.639 But speaking of nuance, don't expect that nuance in any 79 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.800 sort of climate reporting that you're going to start reading about. 80 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.759 Once again, the Guardian, Spain braces for late May heat 81 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:43.680 wave with forty degrees centigrade forecasts in south of country, 82 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.759 high pressure and hot dry air from North Africa to 83 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.920 bring temperatures five to ten degrees above normal for the 84 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.600 time of the for this time of the year. Now, 85 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.040 not to be outdone, let's go to the San Francisco Chronicle. 86 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.120 This is from May twenty six. California is bracing for 87 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.560 the first major heat stretch of twenty twenty five. 88 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.800 Here's how hot it's going to get. 89 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:17.360 Clearly sensationalist headlines, and they omit a little crucial context. 90 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:24.279 Urbanization and land use changes, not greenhouse gas concentrations are 91 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.199 or what's really driving much of this observed warming? And 92 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.560 I say observed warming because I'll give you a little 93 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:38.160 historical data in just a minute. It's pretty common. In fact, 94 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.319 Dave Fraser even often mentions this because our official weather 95 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.040 reporting station is out at Denver International. Now, granted, there's 96 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.240 a hell of a lot of concrete out at Denver International, 97 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:57.680 but the temperature is usually higher in downtown Denver. Even 98 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.600 when the Pollit Bureau is not in session and you 99 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.519 don't have all of that that hot air blowing out, 100 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.399 you still have well, you've got you know, all the 101 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:10.160 homeless farts and the heat wave from the homeless down 102 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.720 the streets, and you got the sixteenth Street mall, and 103 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:14.639 you got all the cars and traffic you can't move 104 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.360 anywhere because of the potholes. You have urban heat. And 105 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.079 even Dave Fraser points out, Oh, yeah, it's hotter downtown, 106 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:28.439 but that's to be expected because of oh urbanization, which 107 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:32.360 obviously amplifies heat readings, because of all the extended concrete 108 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.160 and the reduced vegetation. But I want you to take 109 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:42.000 a closer look at how the headlines and all the 110 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:51.720 congregants in the Church of the climate activists systematically misrepresent reality. 111 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:59.680 Heat Waves were traditionally understood simply as listen closely extended 112 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:07.759 pureeriods of temperatures significantly above average. That's what say, when 113 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.759 you and I were growing up, or even when a 114 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.600 rod was just a twinkle in his parent's eyes, which 115 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.040 I understand why it was a twinkle. It was like frightening, 116 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:26.000 but nonetheless extended periods of temperatures significantly above average. But 117 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.959 the definitions change again, going back to my point about 118 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.120 pay attention to the language, pay attention to how they 119 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:38.799 try to change the definition of words, because now the 120 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:43.879 definition of the heat wave has been broadened. Now it 121 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:50.840 takes in factors like duration, humidity, nighttime temperatures. So if 122 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:53.080 you're going to take all of that and add it in, 123 00:08:53.639 --> 00:09:00.519 then it's really hard to make comparisons to historical data sets. Now, 124 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.240 heat waves are not correlated with atmospheric CO two concentrations 125 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:13.080 or emissions. Instead, the expanding urban heat island effect and 126 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:17.559 the growing bullseye of urbanization that increases human exposure and 127 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:24.440 our perceived impacts. If you're strolling around in a park somewhere, 128 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.440 you know, out maybe on the front range, out in 129 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.120 the flat irons, it's not going to be nearly as 130 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.759 hot as if you are walking around Union Station or 131 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.080 sixteenth Street or the sixteenth Street Mall. 132 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.360 I think they should go back to the sixteenth Street. 133 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:42.639 Mall name, except instead of spelling at m al l 134 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:48.000 as someone suggested, m aul. Yeah, the sixteenth Street Mall. 135 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.919 Heat Waves again, are not correlated with atmospheric CO two 136 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:00.519 concentrations or emissions. It's a bullseye effect to across the 137 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:06.000 nature of heat waves. Let's think about it historically. In 138 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:12.200 nineteen thirty six, North America had a devastating heat wave. 139 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:19.679 That heat wave nineteen thirty six dust Bowl, anybody, occurred 140 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.120 at a time when atmospheric CO two was about three 141 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:27.960 hundred and ten parts per million compared to today's level 142 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.360 of about four hundred and twenty three parts per million. 143 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:40.080 The nineteen thirty six temperature averages, and where it was 144 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:47.559 much above normal. Oklahoma the epicenter, if you will, the 145 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:52.399 dust Bowl eighty four point four degrees, Kansas eighty two 146 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:58.080 point two. Ooh, Nebraska seventy seven point eight. That's a 147 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:03.519 record war for Nebraska and for South Dakota seventy eight. 148 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.840 Can't read the number of area seventy eight point eight 149 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.519 and North Dakota seventy one point five, but it's good 150 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.840 to Colorado. It was above normal at sixty seven point seven. 151 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.039 Now that's those are records. So despite the addition of 152 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:25.960 billions of additional tons of greenhouse gas emissions that have 153 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.720 been emitted since the dust Bowl, that historical event clearly 154 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.879 demonstrates that heat weighs can and do occur naturally, and 155 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.039 they occur independently of any sort of level of modern 156 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:41.360 greenhouse gas emissions. So that raises a fundamental question that 157 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:47.600 I've mentioned numerous times. If heat is the real issue, 158 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.879 how can the solutions that the Church of the Climate 159 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.879 activists keep pushing, like solar and wind farms that demonstrably 160 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.480 increase surface temperatures, how can they help. 161 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:02.799 Studies indicate that. 162 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:09.120 These green energy installations contribute significantly to localized heating, so 163 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.000 that obviously is an exacerbate urban heat islands and create 164 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:20.320 warmer conditions precisely where populations are the densest. The phenomenon 165 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.360 known as the urban heat island effect, caused by replacing 166 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:31.080 natural land services with heat retaining infrastructure, logically and significantly 167 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:37.840 increases urban temperatures independent of any global climate trends. For example, 168 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:43.679 when Las Vegas broke records last year, it wasn't because 169 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:49.519 of greenhouse gas emissions, but because they had expand significantly 170 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:55.480 Harry Reid International Airport, that's where the weather station is located. 171 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:04.200 If you look at aerial photos, you'll see that the. 172 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.200 The natural landscape. 173 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.960 In fact, as I look at two comparable pictures before 174 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:13.279 and after nineteen seventy seven and twenty twenty four, it's 175 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:17.679 as if the amount of concrete has increased by at 176 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:23.919 least two thirds, and then you've got oh, then you 177 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:30.320 have additional heat wave. There's some resources done by Spencer 178 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:36.799 Christian Braswell that quantifies the overlooked effect. That study reveals 179 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:41.559 that up to sixty five percent of observed warming in 180 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:48.960 urban and suburban areas is directly attributable to the urban 181 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:54.600 heat island effect. So when you hear that abstract was 182 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:59.440 published by the way, Roy Spencer was the lead author 183 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.080 on it, who does great work. You got to go 184 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:08.960 read that abstract because it's pretty intensive and completely debunks 185 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.159 this idea that greenhouse gas emissions are causing these heat waves. 186 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:14.559 But here's the kicker. 187 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.679 Many of the highest warming trends come from stations placed 188 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.600 at airports, where the heat radiates off the asphalt in 189 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:29.519 the concrete, not the atmosphere. So arguments such as Detroit 190 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.879 is greening and losing population miss the mark entirely. They 191 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:40.120 overlook what the National Weather Service does by strategically placing 192 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:48.559 their weather stations and these persistent heat islands irrespecting of 193 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:53.679 suburban shifts. So why move it out to Denver International Airport? 194 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.240 Why not keep it in? 195 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:57.720 I don't know. 196 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.240 If let's put it down in Douglas County, lots of 197 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.559 urban space, and I mean we got lots of open 198 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.279 space down in Douglas County to put it down there. 199 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.960 Why not put it out, you know, in Commerce city somewhere. 200 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.519 So all these claims that say that warming oceans and 201 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.759 polar regions as the counter arguments, that fails when you 202 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:25.039 scrutinize those two because the dynamics that are driving oceanic 203 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.799 and polar warming differ drastically from urban heat island phenomenon. 204 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.399 Yet all those nuances are ignored by all the major 205 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:37.240 climate reports, particularly the IPCC. So that leads us to 206 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.279 a simple question, what does the latest research truly say 207 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.440 about the urban heat islands and why is mainstream climate 208 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:51.399 science so intent on ignoring it? For example, the IPC, 209 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.039 the Inner Governmental Panel on Climate Change, they downplay the 210 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.679 role of land use in urbanization. When they do their 211 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:03.639 core assessments, they attribute only a small fraction of total 212 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.639 ratedty forcing to land use change. Instead, what do they 213 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:12.559 do They favor greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO two, They 214 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.639 just choose to say, hell it's CO two, and they 215 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.440 just ignore the urban heat effect. So you don't have 216 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:25.120 any room in their framework for including urbanization or the 217 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:30.440 heat retention effects of any infrastructure. So by doing that minimization, 218 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:39.679 that makes their scientific basis completely indefensible. Now, I know 219 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.639 that's an attack on the dogma and the religion of 220 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:49.240 the church of the climate activists, but nonetheless that's what 221 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.879 they do. They lie to you. So what did Roy 222 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.480 Spencer and those in their study in twenty twenty five 223 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:02.200 actually find. Now that paper that I referenced earlier uses 224 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.839 population density thresholds to classify stations and then empirically derive 225 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.720 the temperature contribution of urban heat island effects across four 226 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:19.359 different population tiers. So those four are as follows. Rural 227 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:25.039 stations zeroly ten persons per square kilometer accounts for about 228 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:29.519 eight percent PERI. Rural stations ten to one hundred persons 229 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:35.039 per square kilometer substantially more urban heat influence. Suburban urban 230 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:40.680 stations more than one hundred person per square kilometer sixty 231 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:46.200 five percent of observed warming from the urban heat indets 232 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:51.599 across all stations, only twenty two percent of observed warming 233 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.279 is attributable to the urban heat effect. So back to 234 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:01.039 Roy Spencer's study, he says, our results suggest that some 235 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.039 portion of the long term warning the United States surface 236 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:09.480 temperature record should not be attributed to global radiative forcing. 237 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.880 Now they don't suggest that greenhouse gases or CO two 238 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:20.000 doesn't have any effect, but it does force an uncomfortable 239 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.319 question that the congregates in the Church of the climate 240 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:28.960 activists simply won't ask, which is, if climate models and 241 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:33.559 public policy are based on surface temperature records that are 242 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:39.160 biased by urbanization, then how much of the current dogma, 243 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.119 the current gospel, if you will, is built on a 244 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:44.200 warming signal. 245 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.839 It's not global at all. 246 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.640 You see, the climate narrative that everybody wants us to 247 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:57.599 use depends on conflating local with global. So until the IPCC, 248 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:04.720 Noah and other ignoring urban heat influences or worse, hiding 249 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.240 it under the rug, then why would you trust any 250 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.119 of these headlines? Why would you trust any of the 251 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:16.039 scientific integrity? In fact, I don't trust any of the 252 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:21.119 scientific integrity anymore when it comes to those that simply 253 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:25.680 will not admit that. Oh most and somebody pointed this 254 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.480 out on the text line too. In fact, let me 255 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:32.920 give you credit nine zero one six, right, rights, Michael. 256 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.039 We must also see that normal heat measuring stations have 257 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.519 been closed and replaced the station to use computer modeling. 258 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:44.799 There's no temperature there's no thermometer over there stuck in 259 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.839 the butt of the earth somewhere trying to get the temperature. 260 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.480 It's just, Oh, a computer's going to model based on 261 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.680 all these different factors of what the temperature I guess 262 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:00.240 should be, as opposed to what the temperature is depends 263 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:07.359 on your definition of is I guess speaking of environmentalists 264 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:13.119 or just environmental whack a doodle stuff this whole thing about. 265 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.200 I've got a real bugaboo about cyber trucks. And I'm 266 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.480 not telling you the story to pick on Elon Musk. 267 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:24.960 He's got enough problems of his own. But the very 268 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.680 first time I saw a cyber truck in real life, 269 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.359 I saw a picture and that was bad enough. But 270 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.359 then seeing one in real life, and if you own one, 271 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.720 well it sucks to be you, But I think you're 272 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:35.960 driving a monstrosity. 273 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:37.160 Well. 274 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:39.000 Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal had a really 275 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:43.079 good article by Becky Peterson that detailed the very predictable 276 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:49.839 failure of this weirdly designed truck and how the cyber 277 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.680 truck has come to symbolize the struggles that Tesla is 278 00:20:53.680 --> 00:21:00.759 having over all amid failing US EV markets. The impacts 279 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:05.599 of Trump's tariffs and of course very rapidly changing federal 280 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:12.160 public policy regarding the environment and all these mandates. Now, 281 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.680 I always thought, and I know easy for me to 282 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.839 say it in hindsight, but I really did wonder. 283 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:19.279 In fact, a friend of. 284 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:24.480 Mine, when the cyber truck came out, was determined to 285 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.759 get on the list to buy one, waited forever to 286 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:29.799 get one, and I kept asking him, are you sure 287 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:30.599 you really want this? 288 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:32.440 Now he's still. 289 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:39.079 Driving it, but kind of the excitements worn off. So 290 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:41.880 I kind of thought, well before they started rolling off 291 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:46.319 the assembly line that they probably would be a failure 292 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.160 because they're going to have to appeal to a really 293 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:53.599 tiny segment of the population. And quite frankly, and even 294 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.599 though my friend's not exactly the wealthiest guy in the world, 295 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.279 they were marketed really to wealthy end of that could 296 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.720 afford to buy these things. So you combine the cost 297 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.640 with what I consider it to be a bizarre design 298 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:12.279 that automatically limits the available market to perhaps one tenth 299 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:14.680 of the country's wealthiest five percent. 300 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:20.279 Well, in the Wall Street Journal article, the author is. 301 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:23.079 The reporter I yuess, I should say, is really less 302 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:26.640 critical of the way the thing looks. She refers to 303 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:31.480 the cyber truck as an angular, stainless steel pickup which 304 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:35.880 was supposed to generate buzz for Tesla by showcasing new 305 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:42.799 technology and unlocking the lucrative truck market. She's so much 306 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:45.119 more polite than I am. How do you think they're 307 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:45.640 but ugly? 308 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:47.440 Just but ugly. 309 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:54.720 But here's some highlights from the report cyber Truck Challenges. Now, 310 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:57.839 the reason I find this interesting is I didn't know 311 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.240 any of this stuff, so therefore it's interesting to me. 312 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.720 I want to make it interesting to you. And if 313 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:08.319 you own a cyber truck, well, sorry, but the info 314 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.000 I'm going to give you, some of which you probably 315 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.119 already know from personal experience, and two you probably know 316 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:17.680 if you've tried to sell it or you've experienced some 317 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.000 of the recalls. So the Tesla cyber Truck, which is 318 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.240 really my most ambitious electric pickup. 319 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:27.599 Eight recalls. 320 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:34.920 Eight recalls since early twenty twenty four, different problems detaching panels, 321 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:39.599 failing windshield wipers, and then just this past March, there 322 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.000 was a major recall that affected forty six thousand cyber 323 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:46.200 trucks because there was a trim panel that could detach 324 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:51.240 and obviously that increased crush risks. So now every time 325 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.200 you drive by a cyber truck, just think, any of 326 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.599 those steel panels or whatever the hell are made out 327 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:02.319 of might just come flying off. Forty six thousand of 328 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:07.440 them might just come flying off. Sales have been dismal, 329 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:15.640 only thirty nine thousand units sold last year. The sales 330 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:21.480 goal two hundred and fifty thousand, a quarter million. They 331 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:27.000 didn't even make fifty thousand, only thirty nine thousand sold. 332 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:31.400 Tesla's overall sales dropped thirteen percent on the first quarter 333 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:36.440 of this year, obviously reflecting I think, obviously competition and 334 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:41.400 aging lineup, and I think probably to some degree, although 335 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:43.920 it's not qualified either by me or the Wall Street 336 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:50.519 Journal backlash against Musk's political involvement. Then there was the 337 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:56.160 explosion incident. Remember the cyber truck explosion outside Trump's Las 338 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.880 Vegas hotel back on January first, killed the driver in 339 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:03.799 Now must tried to clarify that the blast was caused 340 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.680 by fireworks or a bomb, not the vehicle itself, and 341 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:13.119 he totally, he completely and totally assisted the investigators with 342 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:16.400 all the data, and that earned him some praise from 343 00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:20.160 the authorities. But I'm not really sure we know the 344 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:25.359 exact cause yet. And then there's a poor performance and 345 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:29.680 Must feud with Trump. It's kind of a brand Tornado crisis, 346 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:32.200 if you will, with protest. 347 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:33.720 Targeting Tesla showrooms globally. 348 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:37.599 Analyst Dan Ives urged Must to reduce his Trump related 349 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:40.200 work in order to mitigate the damage to his country, 350 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.880 to his country, to his company, which is exactly what 351 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:43.880 Must did. 352 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.200 And then Tesla's stock. 353 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:53.839 Slumped fourteen percent last week amid the few although it 354 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.680 has recovered slightly, but the conflict rattled the markets, impacting 355 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.200 Tesla and SpaceX and of course strained must roll in 356 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:04.680 the Trump administration. And I think Trump recognized that, Yeah, 357 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:09.359 maybe it's a problem here. Let's back off the bottom line. 358 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:13.480 The cyber truck has been a major design, marketing and 359 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:17.119 a quality failure. It's turned out to be a a 360 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:22.559 fiasco for Tesla in general that really had otherwise pretty 361 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:30.240 much enjoyed adequate success and has become the unchallenged leader 362 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:33.680 in the EV space in the United States. So I 363 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.720 think it's probably worthwhile to note that Musk himself personally 364 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:42.119 oversaw and approved the design of that bizarre imitation of 365 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.200 a pickup truck. I don't know, we keep calling any 366 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:51.440 pickup truck. I know a lot of ranchers and real cowboys, 367 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:55.880 not urban cowboys, but like real cowboys. Not one of 368 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.880 them owns a cyber pickup truck, so we just call 369 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:03.039 it the truck and not a pickup truck, which only 370 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.519 proves that only even geniuses have really stupid moments in 371 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:10.640 their lives, as exemplified by Musk's absurd pissing contests with 372 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:14.480 the President of the United States. So here's an excerpt 373 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:16.079 from the story at the Wall Street Journalist. I want 374 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:19.559 to share this with you. The bromance between Musk and 375 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.559 Trump is ending in a difficult time for Tesla, which 376 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.039 at the time of the article had a three point 377 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:30.160 seven three point six seven percent increase green uppointing triangle. 378 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.759 The electric vehicle maker lost roughly one hundred and fifty 379 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.880 billion dollars in market value last Thursday, It's biggest drop 380 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:40.680 ever after the Tesla CEO and Trump started trading insults. 381 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.440 Sales of Tesla have slumped this year. Tariffs could disrupt 382 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.559 a supply of key components. The sprawling Republican Tax and 383 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:50.359 Spending bill would end the tax credits for ev buyers, 384 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.119 for which I think, hallelujah. I don't want to subsidize 385 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:57.240 your purchase of any ev let alone a cyber truck. 386 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:03.000 But she writes, Dusk set high expectations for the cyber truck, 387 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.000 telling investors it would be Tesla's. 388 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:06.960 Best product ever. 389 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.119 The angular stainless steel pickup was supposed to generate buzz 390 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.359 for Tesla by showcasing new technology and unlocking the lucrative 391 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.160 truck market. Instead, it has become synonymous with musk, polarizing 392 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:25.240 in politics, exposing some owners through graffiti or middle fingers 393 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:28.319 from other drivers, and its reputation has been tarnished among 394 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:32.799 Tesla fans because of that space of recalls and manufacturing 395 00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:39.000 issues that have resulted in cycles of repair. Here's the 396 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:46.319 lesson from this entire story. Business and politics shouldn't marry 397 00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:54.640 each other. They probably shouldn't even date bud light cyber trucks. Hmm, 398 00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:01.079 same coin, same side. Probably we both agree that the 399 00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:03.839 box car which is called the what. 400 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.400 The cube, Yeah, the Nissan Cube Cube. That's one of them. 401 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:08.000