Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade is heading for defeat | Michael Shellenberger interview

“Greta Thunberg is an end stage product of the climate religion. As renewables come into crisis everywhere in the world because of local community opposition to the land use impacts, as well as the high associated costs, the bloom is coming off the rose for climate activists.”
Michael Shellenberger is an environmentalist, author, and advocate for pragmatic solutions to climate change. He joins Steven Edginton to talk about the ‘religion’ of climate change for this week’s Off Script podcast. Watch the full interview above, or listen on your podcast app by searching “Off Script”.
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  • @davidtaylor5204
    @davidtaylor52045 ай бұрын

    It's easier to tell people a lie than it is to convince people they've been lied to.

  • @bobmex5362

    @bobmex5362

    5 ай бұрын

    Fact: The world is 1,1 degrees C hotter and rising. Fact CO2 has risen from 300 ppm to 400 ppm. Fact Seas are rising. Fact Seas are warming. Fact The sea is more acidic due to the CO2. Fact Glaciers are receding.

  • @senseofthecommonman

    @senseofthecommonman

    5 ай бұрын

    @@bobmex5362like he said it’s hard to convince people they’ve been lied to, thanks for proving his point.

  • @marksaunders3055

    @marksaunders3055

    5 ай бұрын

    @@bobmex5362 Still no proven link between the C02 raise and the temperature, glaciers are receding as we are still coming out of an ice age affecting sea levels and sea temperatures.

  • @tomasina10

    @tomasina10

    5 ай бұрын

    @@marksaunders3055EXACTLY..We had a brutal mini ice age in the 1800 that included summers with temperatures so low crops would not grow . The earth is ALWAYS changing and people adapt . Higher temperatures have greatly reduced famine due to better growing conditions. More people die of cold than heat . Part of the changes they are discovering have to do with the sun which is far beyond Our control . Changing dishwashers isn’t going to do ANYTHING but give more power to the government .

  • @JohnCarterIsMyName

    @JohnCarterIsMyName

    5 ай бұрын

    @@marksaunders3055 ... Countless studies have proven it. Back to your barstool LIGHTWEIGHT

  • @BM-jy6cb
    @BM-jy6cb5 ай бұрын

    Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion: 1). A bunch of middle class teenagers who've never lived in a house with a temperature below 22°C, never seen their kitchen cupboards empty, and never been disappointed at Christmas desperately searching for a cause that portrays them as a victim fighting for survival. 2). A bunch of retirees who themselves had a middle class childhood feeling no longer useful to society and unloved or even despised by the younger generation's accusations that they had it easy, desperate to show their relevance and usefulness in support of that younger generation's "struggle". Both cases can be summed up in a single word: narcissism.

  • @wendyharris8026

    @wendyharris8026

    5 ай бұрын

    Spot on! My thought exactly so elegantly phrased.

  • @ndavies8

    @ndavies8

    5 ай бұрын

    Stupid Bot

  • @Wanamaker1946

    @Wanamaker1946

    5 ай бұрын

    …..and lazimindedness.

  • @user-yr9lt7dz8k

    @user-yr9lt7dz8k

    5 ай бұрын

    Baizuo (pronounced "bye-tswaw) is a Chinese epithet meaning white leftist, naive western elitist snobbish so-called educated person who advocates for peace and equality only to satisfy their own sanctimonious and hypocritical feelings of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment while being obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they import backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism. The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. They believe in the welfare state that only benefits the idle and free riders.

  • @harryflashman4542

    @harryflashman4542

    5 ай бұрын

    status seeking for the affluent and idle.

  • @JB-gr6om
    @JB-gr6omАй бұрын

    And lifting the poorest people out of poverty is going to take energy.

  • @grahamkearnon6682

    @grahamkearnon6682

    4 күн бұрын

    30% of world energy is now renewables as of May 2024.

  • @kenth151
    @kenth1513 ай бұрын

    Michael Shellenberger is such a great speaker. The first 10 minutes is brilliant. Wish I could speak like he does. He really know his stuff.

  • @grumnut1

    @grumnut1

    28 күн бұрын

    No he doesn’t. The world has a genuine problem. The GBR has just bleached AGAIN. That’s 5 times since 1998. Now it’s every 2 years. That’s why the GBR has lost 50% of its coral populations. Even Ningaloo has just bleached. It doesn’t bleach.

  • @jamesmcd71
    @jamesmcd715 ай бұрын

    I grew up in South MS in the early 70s. My work has afforded me the opportunity to spend 6+ months in 37 different countries over the last 40 years. There is 1 thing that every country has that i see as the bedrock of a lot of problems. From the richest, like Germany to the poorest like Haiti, the lack of basic knowledge is overwhelming. At a time when everyone has unlimited access to information, the thirst for truth has been replaced by political propaganda. The willingness to defer to authority has overtaken the need for understanding.

  • @angelavanerp2

    @angelavanerp2

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah no one reads books, instead they read articles or propaganda, social media. No need for thoughtful inquiry.

  • @artemishumaan6984

    @artemishumaan6984

    4 ай бұрын

    What is more appalling is that even with a relative super computer in their pockets and a 21st century search engine they cannot even ask the right question or care to be interested to even approach relevant and intellectual curiosity. Those in power know that knowledge is power and they also know that knowledge give the masses power to overthrow them. This is why that they realize that AI is now their new enemy because at its core, it is zero and one and given all historical facts, it will tell the most logical truths and instantly reveal the massive amount of lying going on in main stream communication. My hope is that they will try to manage the AI code but it will outsmart the humans and finally figure out that humans are flawed and override its filters.

  • @howardmerkley2245

    @howardmerkley2245

    3 ай бұрын

    And the wrongthink banner below the video is there to help the true believers keep the faith.

  • @DHW256

    @DHW256

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, it's ironic that this "Age of Information" is plagued with misinformation and a compounding of ugly human nature. Even Shellenberger doesn't get it. "Climate change" is the greatest contextual fraud of our time, a modern-age Tower of Babel.

  • @stephenkalatucka6213

    @stephenkalatucka6213

    3 ай бұрын

    I don't see it so much deference to authority as the instinct to follow the herd.

  • @angelavanerp2
    @angelavanerp24 ай бұрын

    I miss the good ole days when we just lived our lives and enjoyed them.

  • @Despiser25

    @Despiser25

    4 ай бұрын

    Marxist Leftwit regressives: "Yea, those days are long gone silly Capitalist."

  • @munchingsquirrel5067

    @munchingsquirrel5067

    4 ай бұрын

    When was that, exactly?

  • @angelh5762

    @angelh5762

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, why has everything we do and say been politicised, it's oppressive.

  • @sew_gal7340

    @sew_gal7340

    3 ай бұрын

    @@munchingsquirrel5067 Probably any time before the 90s ... there were people in parts of the world who were oblivious to anything that was happening because there was no internet and no cell phones, they just received a letter called a newspaper to tell them what was happening

  • @Super-id7bq

    @Super-id7bq

    3 ай бұрын

    How are the next generation expected to enjoy their lives when the permafrost melts within the next 10 to 20 years, releasing thousands of gigatons of carbon storage? It's already underway.

  • @JaeCi-sh6fx
    @JaeCi-sh6fx2 ай бұрын

    When I first learned in grade school about how the general scientific consensus centuries ago was that the Earth was the center of the universe, I tried to imagine what conversations must have been like at the time, especially with those who held dissenting views. Little did I know, just a couple of decades later, I would not need to imagine anymore.

  • @eeeaten

    @eeeaten

    2 ай бұрын

    google "galileo gambit"

  • @Boalmighty

    @Boalmighty

    Ай бұрын

    It's due to the work of Galileo that we now have the scientific method, which all modern science follows. To ignore the scientists today is to revert to pre-galilean thinking.

  • @christophercanning7836

    @christophercanning7836

    21 күн бұрын

    @@Boalmighty And in that scientific method there is no such thing as consensus. That's not the way science works. Consensus is for politicians.

  • @jonmaloy6783

    @jonmaloy6783

    21 күн бұрын

    Att he time most people believed Earth was flat science didn't exist. Science started with Kepler and Galileo.

  • @eeeaten

    @eeeaten

    20 күн бұрын

    @@christophercanning7836 consensus is a part of science. I recommend “how science really works” Berkeley

  • @aubreydebliquy8051
    @aubreydebliquy80513 ай бұрын

    When is KZread going to figure out their Context notes are counter productive like the Streisand Effect?

  • @adrianjohnson7920

    @adrianjohnson7920

    2 ай бұрын

    I find it a useful flag for what's worth reading / viewing.😆 Thanks, KZread!

  • @rodpettet2819

    @rodpettet2819

    Ай бұрын

    They give the airheaded censors a warm fuzzy feeling.

  • @aubreydebliquy8051

    @aubreydebliquy8051

    Ай бұрын

    @@rodpettet2819 @Adrianjohnson7920 is grateful for KZread guidance. LOL

  • @tims5129

    @tims5129

    Ай бұрын

    Yes - I frequently take the bait and reply demanding they stop their ‘context propaganda’

  • @kadmow

    @kadmow

    27 күн бұрын

    - is there a way to use the "Context warnings" as search terms??

  • @ptaalman100
    @ptaalman1003 ай бұрын

    I've seen the young man who conducts these interviews before. He does an excellent job. He asks a question and lets his interview answer. He also asks excellent questions. Good work Dude!

  • @garysarela4431

    @garysarela4431

    3 ай бұрын

    "Book review: Bad science and bad arguments abound in ‘Apocalypse Never’ by Michael Shellenberger" - Source: Yale Climate Connections, Jul 15 2020

  • @gbrinch

    @gbrinch

    3 ай бұрын

    @@garysarela4431 Book burning by peer review!

  • @owenorders5202

    @owenorders5202

    Ай бұрын

    @@garysarela4431 And who wrote that review? A so-called .climate scientist.?

  • @garysarela4431

    @garysarela4431

    Ай бұрын

    @@owenorders5202 Peter Gleick is a scientist who studies the impact of climate change on water resources. His work is found in prestigious scientific journals, and he's received numerous awards/honors from scientific institutions and publishers. On the other hand, Shellenberger has a qualification in sociology, not science. What he has to say about climate change carries very little weight.

  • @HouseParty13

    @HouseParty13

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@garysarela4431climate alarmism is very much sociological. On the other hand all the alarmist don't have a background in climate studies, so what they have to say about climate change carries very little weight. (Heck, they need a biologist to determine that their own mother is a woman)

  • @GabrieleMeurer
    @GabrieleMeurer5 ай бұрын

    I live in Sweden. I drive a new Dacia on Diesel and "Ad Blue". I heat my house by warmth coming from deep earth (bergvärme) and I burn wood. I live inside the forest and I protect the trees, I also use the wood coming from these trees. I have a few solar panels. No climate hysterics for me!

  • @D45VR

    @D45VR

    Ай бұрын

    I'm in Colorado and have a similar lifestyle and also share your outlook.

  • @jimnewtonsmith

    @jimnewtonsmith

    Ай бұрын

    98% of people don’t/can’t live this

  • @GabrieleMeurer

    @GabrieleMeurer

    Ай бұрын

    Quite right. Unless they change their lives. I did. @@jimnewtonsmith

  • @michellekonzack

    @michellekonzack

    26 күн бұрын

    @@GabrieleMeurer Me too in Estonia. Living Off-the-Grid with Solar- and Windenergy. WoodStove and this year I will dig a big hole to build an EarthBattery to Store the Energy from two 9,9kWp Solarpanel Sets (which produce at least 24MWh a year) that I can heat the House in the Winter electric and can grow things in the winter in my Greenhouse (the EarthBattery is under it)...

  • @GabrieleMeurer

    @GabrieleMeurer

    25 күн бұрын

    @@michellekonzack Great! We are not alone.

  • @andersbonde2593
    @andersbonde25933 ай бұрын

    It's interesting how Michael Shellenberger sounds very much like Victor Davis Hanson - both very educated, wise and level-headed in approach and pleasant in demeanor. More power to them and their likes!

  • @anthonymarra2600

    @anthonymarra2600

    Ай бұрын

    Great Call on Victor!

  • @steveowen5143
    @steveowen51432 ай бұрын

    Mr Shellenburger does a great job describing the religion of climate activists. The comparison to the judeo-chriastian tradition was spot on.

  • @kathyfahey5469

    @kathyfahey5469

    25 күн бұрын

    Almost. He infers that the climate religion is bs, but somehow cannot quite get there abt the koolaid in judeo Christian (or any other) religion.

  • @kathyfahey5469

    @kathyfahey5469

    25 күн бұрын

    He also says later, referencing his book, that climate religion folks are just trying to fill the emptiness in them cuz they don't believe in the Big Man in the SKy. Happy horseshit! Pagans are closest to nature I think. They are happy. Buddhists, Shaolins, all sorts of other religions are content, but not Judeo Christian. Agnostics & atheists are good, despite not believing. (Not talking Abt the lazy minded, lazy bodied crazy progressives who never even wrestled with higher issues). He goes off the rails with this religion talk.

  • @gerhardtclanky7048

    @gerhardtclanky7048

    4 күн бұрын

    There is a psychological structure to every cult that is the same. It’s not just Judeo Christian. The structure of this ancient Psy-Op is codified and well known by those who execute it.

  • @judholmes2561
    @judholmes25615 ай бұрын

    Climate anxiety as expressed in a TV show in the US: "..It really makes everything we do seem really stupid and pointless. Why go to school? Why have a career? Why raise a family? It's all going to be over in a few years anyway." The catch? This is from the sitcom "Family Ties", Season 7 Episode 21, "Rain Forests Keep Falling On My Head", which aired 34 years ago in 1989.

  • @BorderlinePathetic

    @BorderlinePathetic

    5 ай бұрын

    That basically can be linked to the dutch song "De Bom" by Doe Maar (1983) or just the nuclear annihilation scare during the cold war. Only difference is, that the nuclear annihilation scare was quite a rational scare, the climate anxiety is blown way out of proportion and those who are completely sucked up into it actively are ignorant to actual solutions that can be realized with our current technologies a.i. nuclear energy.

  • @jennifermarlow.

    @jennifermarlow.

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BorderlinePathetic Or, just reduce our consuming. People wear that label without thinking about what it means. The earth would heal herself if we just stop the insane lifestyles, from food and clothing to screen addiction. just my 2

  • @needparalegal

    @needparalegal

    3 ай бұрын

    Globalist Propaganda has been on a 100 year plan

  • @grgmetube

    @grgmetube

    3 ай бұрын

    @@BorderlinePathetic Remember that a great number of people really did deny climate change or global warming as it used to be called. Now probably the majority accept that at least some is real. How much of the current problem is that we have left things too late from denying and we cannot accept the urgency because of not much time to do anything. We don't like change so we deny the urgency and necessity for it.

  • @Rick-yk5qb

    @Rick-yk5qb

    3 ай бұрын

    So what? The global warming scam goes back to 1922. : The Washington Post - November 2, 1922 "REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING." Go look it up.

  • @markham56
    @markham564 ай бұрын

    Most excellent interview! The interviewer asked great questions, then kept quiet and listened to Michael’s answers. Super!

  • @lewislee9201

    @lewislee9201

    4 ай бұрын

    Steven Edginton is a young man going places. Someone to keep an eye on.

  • @Rick-yk5qb

    @Rick-yk5qb

    3 ай бұрын

    No, it's a scam.

  • @petiadavis5122

    @petiadavis5122

    2 ай бұрын

    Agree

  • @johnyoung1761
    @johnyoung17612 ай бұрын

    Michael is so straight and true on so many topics and has super relevant evidence at hand for all of them. One smart fellow!

  • @nikjs
    @nikjs2 ай бұрын

    Glad to see Telegraph take a stand and let people hear out common sense

  • @jupiternativeson1
    @jupiternativeson15 ай бұрын

    I like how youtube is still putting warning labels under anything they disagree with 😂

  • @geoffdavids7647

    @geoffdavids7647

    5 ай бұрын

    They put that label under anything that talks about climate change in any capacity. Y'know, because it's real.

  • @wizardoffrobozz

    @wizardoffrobozz

    5 ай бұрын

    in this case it's tagging content that, although it's presented in a serious-looking discussion, it's unserious and can't be verified. if it can, shoot me some links, eh?

  • @Stafus

    @Stafus

    5 ай бұрын

    capitalism requires infinite population growth and an eternal servant class. capitalism is evil because of those two facts.

  • @mb-3faze

    @mb-3faze

    5 ай бұрын

    It's called 'warning viewers that the following video is propaganda; the oil industry pushing their biased agenda to your detriment and to their financial benefit. Please, go and get to real information for a more reliable source.

  • @jerry42023

    @jerry42023

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@geoffdavids7647👈 Klaus' Klimate Kult member.

  • @whiteflagrage
    @whiteflagrage4 ай бұрын

    The fundamental driver of 'climatism' is the ability of people with power to make a profit from it.

  • @Bingewatchingmediacontent

    @Bingewatchingmediacontent

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s also good click bait for media organizations. It’s not a coincidence that we have these existential threats constantly hovering over us as we became an attention economy. The rise of social media has made it so that media groups were competing to get people to click on their headlines, so needed those headlines to be more and more threatening, devastating, etc.

  • @stephenmerriman5620

    @stephenmerriman5620

    2 ай бұрын

    And Petroleum Industry? Not chasing a buck right.

  • @headlesschicken99

    @headlesschicken99

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes. Al Gore timed it perfectly

  • @nedhill1242

    @nedhill1242

    Ай бұрын

    @@stephenmerriman5620Try having a modern world without petroleum or its byproducts. It’s extremely difficult & expensive to find, extract, refine, etc. Oil companies are like Walmart. They aren’t price gouging. The margins are thin but they sell so much especially as democracy & capitalism bring the rest of the world out of poverty and the dark ages.

  • @benoitguillou3146

    @benoitguillou3146

    Ай бұрын

    LOL ...they already got currency ( they print it ) ...What they seek isn't "money" it's CONTROL

  • @mr.makeit4037
    @mr.makeit403729 күн бұрын

    Hmmmm. An extreme guest with a very calm demeanor and voice. In my opinion, buyer beware!

  • @einherjar2545
    @einherjar25453 ай бұрын

    I did not know who this man was until recently. I think he's the most credible person that I have ever heard talked. I really do. The first time was when he was talking to congress in the US about how the govt worked with social medias during the pandemic. He had Matt Tahibi on is side of the panel.

  • @irlc1254
    @irlc12545 ай бұрын

    Kudos to The Telegraph for holding this interview and publishing it. I hope others will follow suit. Would be good to see real journalism making a comeback.

  • @Stafus

    @Stafus

    5 ай бұрын

    capitalism requires infinite population growth and an eternal servant class. capitalism is evil because of those two facts.

  • @alanhat5252

    @alanhat5252

    5 ай бұрын

    It would indeed be good to see real journalism making a comeback, unfortunately this isn't it.

  • @ferdinand4444

    @ferdinand4444

    5 ай бұрын

    100%

  • @TheNobbynoonar

    @TheNobbynoonar

    5 ай бұрын

    What is then? Please enlighten us oh wise one.

  • @delta7554

    @delta7554

    4 ай бұрын

    @@alanhat5252because it listens to a different opinion?

  • @jkonior1
    @jkonior14 ай бұрын

    Great interview! Michael Shellenberger has become an important new voice here in the USA, very glad to see him being covered by The Telegraph in the UK.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    4 ай бұрын

    Joke ? ?

  • @jkonior1

    @jkonior1

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DANCEGARAGEPUNK -- I don't understand. Michael Shellenberger is no joke.

  • @robertallen591

    @robertallen591

    4 ай бұрын

    paid for by big oi;l

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    4 ай бұрын

    @@jkonior1 He`s great if you`re a privileged yuppy & support the global warming denial scam & corporate control ! : (

  • @headhuntersixx8164

    @headhuntersixx8164

    4 ай бұрын

    @@robertallen591evidence?

  • @berniehall9679
    @berniehall9679Ай бұрын

    Most common sense I have heard in a long time. Great interview .

  • @BMKFILM610
    @BMKFILM6103 ай бұрын

    this guy is brilliant

  • @ronobrien7187
    @ronobrien71875 ай бұрын

    I first heard of Michael Shellenberger over a decade ago. He participated in a documentary endorsing nuclear power as one aid in lowering global warming. "Pandora's Promise". It was very enlightening.

  • @bganonimouse2754

    @bganonimouse2754

    5 ай бұрын

    Probably influenced by his ties with the nuclear industry

  • @thomasfholland

    @thomasfholland

    5 ай бұрын

    @@bganonimouse2754But that didn’t negate any points of his arguments

  • @bganonimouse2754

    @bganonimouse2754

    5 ай бұрын

    @@thomasfholland I wasn't addressing his points, just explaining his overwhelming bias.

  • @strikerorwell9232

    @strikerorwell9232

    5 ай бұрын

    How does Israel come into this debate?

  • @gigsims980

    @gigsims980

    5 ай бұрын

    @@bganonimouse2754The US government and UN pay out a lot more for pro, “global warming” research advocates than oil companies or the nuclear industry do.

  • @viscache1
    @viscache15 ай бұрын

    I would just love to see everyone ignore those that glue themselves to the floor. Just leave them to figure out what went wrong for a few days until they’ve soiled themselves and get hungry and thirsty…and are ready to listen to reason. There is nothing that could help them more than doing nothing. Simply ignoring them. Let them work their own problem out however long it takes.

  • @intractablemaskvpmGy

    @intractablemaskvpmGy

    4 ай бұрын

    I like the idea. Problem is that these people will never take one iota of responsibility for their actions. As was demonstrated previously these particular activists blamed those that left them in their predicament. DID NOT LEARN A THING

  • @alanc6781

    @alanc6781

    4 ай бұрын

    @@intractablemaskvpmGy True. But I would love to see it.

  • @beverlymaskall3253

    @beverlymaskall3253

    4 ай бұрын

    Think how many millions of pounds of UK taxpayers' money that would save!

  • @carn941

    @carn941

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @alanc6781

    @alanc6781

    4 ай бұрын

    @@carn941 so? There is no way we could live without fossil fuels until our technology let's us. And we are not there yet. Just working on it.

  • @MH-zq4nl
    @MH-zq4nl2 ай бұрын

    Always so good to her Steven Edgington. He asks such intelligent informed questions.

  • @KINNZ94
    @KINNZ943 ай бұрын

    I really appreciate this post. He said everything I wanted to say. I will recommend this video to all my friends.

  • @mattgarcia440
    @mattgarcia4404 ай бұрын

    The earth is 4,500,000,000 years old and we've been keeping weather records for 200 years...

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    4 ай бұрын

    ? ?

  • @mitchmccarron8337

    @mitchmccarron8337

    2 ай бұрын

    @mattgarcia440 - Yep. We've been around as a species for a tiny fraction of that time, and strut around pretending we are wearing the big boy pants. All the while crying Chicken Little and preaching Gaia and Climate Gods. Money from taxes & reducing our standard of will fix it (in 250 years or so....)

  • @billchristian9863

    @billchristian9863

    Ай бұрын

    We know an awful lot about the climate going all the way back. It's a thing called "science".

  • @carlfrye1566

    @carlfrye1566

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@billchristian9863Do anu of the folks who promote global warming believe in the science of male and female which is a DNA thing?

  • @nedhill1242

    @nedhill1242

    Ай бұрын

    @@billchristian9863 Lmao. No. We know next to nothing and to think otherwise is arrogant & narcissistic.

  • @chrislarsen1033
    @chrislarsen10335 ай бұрын

    Look at Canada and the collapse of support for carbon taxes especially by young people.

  • @wallyblackler46

    @wallyblackler46

    5 ай бұрын

    So Trudo has learned how to control the temperature on the sun or is he just stealing your money?

  • @dingodog5677

    @dingodog5677

    5 ай бұрын

    Honestly Canada could do with some global warming.

  • @GhostofJamesMadison

    @GhostofJamesMadison

    5 ай бұрын

    1) the taxes don't do anything, 90% of all greenhouse gases come from Chinas record coal burning. 2) there is no such thing as green energy as it all uses lithium ion batterys which are all refined and made with Chinas record coal power plants. 3)it is repulsive that they would tax the youth who are already denied a home, cheap gas and groceries when Canada isn't even responsible for any of the green house gas. It's evil, it's sinister. It's fascism. It's authoritarian!

  • @charlesunderwood6334

    @charlesunderwood6334

    5 ай бұрын

    How many billions have been spent on the disinformation campaigns by the coal and oil industries?

  • @kerrylewisRN

    @kerrylewisRN

    2 ай бұрын

    @@wallyblackler46stealing their money

  • @_2-FA
    @_2-FAАй бұрын

    Michael Shellenberger is really lucid, cogent, and calm. Great interview - it really should be compulsory viewing in schools & universities.

  • @paymydues
    @paymydues2 ай бұрын

    Nice to hear someone telling it TRUTHFULLY for a change. great interviewer too.

  • @hollywoodartchick
    @hollywoodartchick5 ай бұрын

    He's got great points about how policy is not a rational response to the problems presented, but politicians get very invested in them....probably literally, as in they personally profit from them.

  • @r2dad282

    @r2dad282

    5 ай бұрын

    Pretty twisted when those claiming to identify the problem & champion the issue insist we must use their policies no matter how illogical/expensive. But that is the fault of the 2 parties, who are happy to just take one side of the issue so as to club opponent party members with it.

  • @--harry_

    @--harry_

    5 ай бұрын

    Like calling EVS zero emission vehicles. A battery is a storage unit, it is refilled by electric produced inefficiently at a power plant. The #1 source of man made emissions. Here in New Jersey, the production is about 40% efficiency. Our governor also announced the end of natural gas furnaces. Gas furnaces are now 97+% efficiency we will be forced to use zero emissions heat pumps. It is a central air conditioning system with a reversing valve. We all know how much electric the air conditioner uses? They remotely turn off people's air conditioners in the summer because there is not enough electricity.

  • @dereknewbury163

    @dereknewbury163

    5 ай бұрын

    A perfect time then for rational open-minded debate with all learning from each other. If we are unable to do that then we deserve what is coming (and soon in my amateur opinion!)

  • @Stafus

    @Stafus

    5 ай бұрын

    capitalism requires infinite population growth and an eternal servant class. capitalism is evil because of those two facts.

  • @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    5 ай бұрын

    The front man for climate in Brussel,was the Dutch frans Timmermans. His son work/owns a green windmill factory.

  • @Megatron-sl5us
    @Megatron-sl5us5 ай бұрын

    I have solar for my home. But I wasn't forced into it. I wanted to lower my electricity bills. I rarely pay for electricity now. Almost zero dollars. I have solar motion lights. But right now, I refuse to buy EVs. I would rather buy a hybrid than an all EV vehicle. EVs are too expensive, has low range, takes a long time to recharge, poor range in cold weather, fire issues, safety concerns, etc.

  • @geoffas

    @geoffas

    5 ай бұрын

    What occurred out of the industrial revolution when most peoples' mode of transport was the horse. Perhaps, the most-significant was personal transport which was a form of freedom. The powers-that-be want to suppress this. EVs are part of this, as they are not practical for longer journeys.

  • @fjockey1

    @fjockey1

    5 ай бұрын

    I have a solar based plan where the power company now owes me more than $3K. But I'm not naive about it. That money comes from government subsidies pushed by the free market hating left, not the actual power produced which is minuscule.

  • @Megatron-sl5us

    @Megatron-sl5us

    5 ай бұрын

    I chose to buy the whole system, not lease it. I got some money back after taxes.@@fjockey1

  • @user-bz4sy3gj4o

    @user-bz4sy3gj4o

    5 ай бұрын

    both solar and EV batteries use forever chemicals which are dangerous to life on earth, require a lot of mining and are very polluting...

  • @CosmicSeeker69

    @CosmicSeeker69

    5 ай бұрын

    @@geoffas unelected and unregulated powers....

  • @timfarrell2211
    @timfarrell221127 күн бұрын

    I love Michael. He is so base. We need more of him.

  • @henriettashenderey7096
    @henriettashenderey70962 ай бұрын

    So grateful for people like the guest, as we need to go back to sanity, where there is not just black and white in any issue, including climate change

  • @podunkest
    @podunkest5 ай бұрын

    I love Michael. He can say some incredibly scathing stuff as casually as if he's ordering a coffee.

  • @DBGE001

    @DBGE001

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @hyperreal

    @hyperreal

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DBGE001what a strange statement. I have no idea if he does or not, but what are your disagreements with his actual arguments?

  • @Mrs.Ventress

    @Mrs.Ventress

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DBGE001 And your point is...

  • @carn941

    @carn941

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank. He also thinks UFOs are real.

  • @downtownbrown50

    @downtownbrown50

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@DBGE001 I'd be more concerned if he worked for Kerry, or another left wing whacko, like Kamala Harris. Those folks trade in misinformation!

  • @victorchiappetta3230
    @victorchiappetta32305 ай бұрын

    It’s critical that we always allow the dimmest people alive to make all of the critical decisions. It’s about feelings, not results.

  • @Stafus

    @Stafus

    5 ай бұрын

    capitalism requires infinite population growth and an eternal servant class. capitalism is evil because of those two facts.

  • @davidhawley1132

    @davidhawley1132

    4 ай бұрын

    The extremists, the emotionally invested, those who stand to benefit, etc. are always going to be the loudest.

  • @DBGE001

    @DBGE001

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @AVToth

    @AVToth

    3 ай бұрын

    @@DBGE001 Better than working for a climate change septic tank.

  • @RichardMcPherson-sk3cq

    @RichardMcPherson-sk3cq

    3 ай бұрын

    @@carn941Shellenberger IS the Breakthrough Institute. And they are NOT funded by fossil-fuel, except for the fact that fossil fuels keep them and everyone else on the planet, alive.

  • @paulogmf
    @paulogmf3 ай бұрын

    As someone that works with bioenergy ,it's sad to see radical activist ruin the trust we have to work daily to get , ppl think we hate fossil fuels or that we don't understand the crucial role they play in modern society.

  • @johnbwill
    @johnbwill3 ай бұрын

    Just fantastic! This is the best view I have heard on the 'Cliimate' topic. Michaels understanding of human motivations and behaviour, is very solid. I've watched dozens of interviews and views on climate Change - in an effort to form some kind of balanced view on it .... this packages it all up for me, in one neat bundle. Thanks a lot.

  • @robinisathakur

    @robinisathakur

    2 ай бұрын

    I also like him, but he definitely has an agenda and his facts should be checked. For example, 2023 had the highest level of co2 emissions in all of human history globally, a fact he omits. His message to carry on with business as usual is how a lot of fossil fuel producers would like people to behave up to the point when the oil and gas runs out.

  • @redjohn1958
    @redjohn19585 ай бұрын

    CO2…is the gas of life and the sun is the driving force of the earths temperature rise,which is always followed by the rising amount of CO2.

  • @user-bz4sy3gj4o

    @user-bz4sy3gj4o

    5 ай бұрын

    it's greening the planet.... but the anti-human propaganda doesn't like the life

  • @Boppinabe

    @Boppinabe

    5 ай бұрын

    Blaspheming apostate!

  • @MrZetor

    @MrZetor

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes. T (ony) Heller, among others, have documented this clear and obvious fact with e.g. temperature and CO2 figures obtained from ice core samples covering hundreds of thousands of years of Earth's history. Obviously this data has been largely scrubbed from the 'net, and anyone who even questions why the official temperature graphs keep getting altered is labelled as a 'climate denier'. It's a cult.

  • @user-zz9gn2dc3l

    @user-zz9gn2dc3l

    5 ай бұрын

    Correct

  • @Mike-or3ry

    @Mike-or3ry

    5 ай бұрын

    Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now.The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

  • @rulez-sm9je
    @rulez-sm9je5 ай бұрын

    Before my retirement I had been acting as professor of economics. I can only subscribe everything that has been said here. I hope that not before too long, we will call the present era of suicidal collective madness just another dark age.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    Bullshit ! : )

  • @JimTheHammerXCIII

    @JimTheHammerXCIII

    5 ай бұрын

    pats @@DANCEGARAGEPUNK onna head

  • @carn941

    @carn941

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @carlfrye1566

    @carlfrye1566

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@carn941: Key word...."think", not a "feel" tank.

  • @alexjackson9997

    @alexjackson9997

    3 ай бұрын

    Economics is the real dark age.

  • @user-ob8bk3ld9q
    @user-ob8bk3ld9q10 күн бұрын

    Excellent interview - Michael Shellenberger - level-headed and pragmatic with his answers - I agree with him 100%

  • @feanariba
    @feanariba2 ай бұрын

    CO2 has never driven temperature change! If we were to double COs concentration to 800ppm, the temperature change would be 0.7 celsius. Yet, at that CO2 concentration, crop yields will increase dramatically to levels seen in green house setups.

  • @michaelwhittierpearson

    @michaelwhittierpearson

    29 күн бұрын

    Scientific American magazine reported as long as 55 years ago that it does. And the American Petroleum Institute believed it 48 years ago. I kind of lost track after that.

  • @DD-xk1xe

    @DD-xk1xe

    28 күн бұрын

    Why do they dump 100s of millions of tons of dry ice co2, carbon black, aluminum oxide titanium oxide and barium salts every year into the atmosphere. Weather modification programs RCW 70A.10.190 is Washington state law to poison the population, what is your states law?

  • @aLittlebullet

    @aLittlebullet

    27 күн бұрын

    It's the biggest scam ever. CO2 is plant food.

  • @paulschofield5452

    @paulschofield5452

    7 күн бұрын

    Water vapour is a green house gas...

  • @paulschofield5452

    @paulschofield5452

    7 күн бұрын

    US Dept of agriculture debunked carbon in 1941, NASA in 1971...

  • @santafecanon
    @santafecanon5 ай бұрын

    As a teen in the '70's, I read P. Erhlich's Population Bomb, Carlson's Silent Spring, and more from this philosophy. Hippies and rock stars telling me my parents and their world was the problem. This set me up for a doomsday view of future. I believed this bull......Now in 2020's do I realize how stupidly wrong I was.

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    5 ай бұрын

    I didn't read any of those. BUT I remember hearing how stupid our parents were and DESPISED anyone who said that. I had respect for my parents. Oddly enough they are saying the same again.

  • @bobhsohi704

    @bobhsohi704

    5 ай бұрын

    Amen there's a lot more people need to realize what BS were being fed natural gas even Clean Coal but nuclear why don't they do that there is no pollution with it

  • @coyote1117

    @coyote1117

    5 ай бұрын

    This notion that more humans is always better, is crazy. Every other species can overpopulate and destroy its habitat and experience famine - except humans. We have adapted to optimize for us, but at the cost of damaging the environment. Luckily urbanization and feminism will soon reverse the trend of human population growth and bring those numbers down without activism. And yes population decline means slow or no gdp growth, anathema for capitalism, but before that happens AI will replace about 50% of professions and social systems rarely survive more than 30% unemployment. Let's hope the AI's do a better job of it than we did.

  • @zimpoooooo

    @zimpoooooo

    5 ай бұрын

    The ironic thing is the constant crying wolf will blind us if the wolf finally arrives.

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    5 ай бұрын

    @@zimpoooooo The wolf already is here. They've cried wolf one too many times.

  • @EvaderGuy
    @EvaderGuy5 ай бұрын

    A very even handed treatment of the climate issue. Very interesting interview. BTW, if all I had was audio I would swear I was listening to a somewhat younger Victor Davis Hanson.

  • @user-hx2jx2vc5q

    @user-hx2jx2vc5q

    5 ай бұрын

    yeah, sounds simalar.

  • @DBGE001

    @DBGE001

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @isaiahwelch8066

    @isaiahwelch8066

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@DBGE001: Nice bot reply.

  • @isaiahwelch8066

    @isaiahwelch8066

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@carn941: Nice bot reply.

  • @carn941

    @carn941

    3 ай бұрын

    @@isaiahwelch8066 Pot meet kettle.

  • @LuciFur-wz8rc
    @LuciFur-wz8rc2 ай бұрын

    All I can say is that the mountains I see from my house looked a lot different 30 years ago than they do today. We used to be able to go skiing there in April.

  • @markstevens4023

    @markstevens4023

    2 ай бұрын

    Right, but I think a really important point to make in response to your example would be that your 30-year experience has been repeated many times over history, and long before the age of industrialization. And it is entirely possible that the 30-year period from 2143 to 2173, as an example, will be so "comparatively" cold that the world will be concerned about "global cooling". Not trying to offend...not at all. But it's an important consideration.

  • @D45VR

    @D45VR

    Ай бұрын

    We can do without skiing and its destructive effects on the mountains.

  • @naomiojala7144

    @naomiojala7144

    22 күн бұрын

    In the past at least 60 years where I live, ski season has varied by months. It's different every year. Some years earlier snow and some years later snow. Some years more and some years less. It's called weather.

  • @george2009town

    @george2009town

    13 күн бұрын

    All I know is Barack Obama bought beachfront property and the sea level hasn’t risen a millimetre at my local beach in the last 60 years.

  • @markstevens4023

    @markstevens4023

    13 күн бұрын

    @@D45VRthat made me laugh. Nice.

  • @fruitofaloom
    @fruitofaloom3 ай бұрын

    The host and Guest have both made me rethink much that I thought I knew by always staying alert and researching, Never thought I yet knew it all, but good questions and replies!

  • @SaraLittleWren
    @SaraLittleWren5 ай бұрын

    A normal informative fact driven honest discussion. God i miss these.

  • @michaelcagney2871

    @michaelcagney2871

    5 ай бұрын

    Precisely. Why do the majority seem to be okay believing without verifying? There is a reason the people pushing this will not allow a public debate between govt promoters of this nonsense and a group of the highly acclaimed experts, not reliant upon govt sponsorship to put food on the table. It should be glaring to everyone why govts around the globe are suddenly all aligned on complete censorship, control over speach and even thinking. The globalists with their mainstream media arms have successfully managed to scare people into believing them based on rediculous evidence and mostly emotional appeal.

  • @maryanncopeland4653

    @maryanncopeland4653

    5 ай бұрын

    Who cares what Greta Thunberg says. A NWO nobody!

  • @rebeccaanne9863

    @rebeccaanne9863

    5 ай бұрын

    And with no one trying to scream over anyone else to try to prevent them from being heard.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes normal for Corporate Elite Bullshit ! : )

  • @senseofthecommonman

    @senseofthecommonman

    5 ай бұрын

    @@michaelcagney2871well said

  • @JayFortran
    @JayFortranАй бұрын

    The soothing reassurance of Shellenberger is sure to change physics and save us😂

  • @kimdavid4406
    @kimdavid4406Күн бұрын

    Love Michael. Good conversation!

  • @thomaspaaruppedersen6781
    @thomaspaaruppedersen67815 ай бұрын

    28:15: Climate activists as lost souls. That checks out by merely pausing the videos and looking at the people wasting their own and other's time by sitting on a road. These are not well-adjusted happy people. They did not achieve personal success. Their either very young, or scruffy looking elders, who - judged simply by their 'fashion' choice and brand of backpacks - have lived outside of mainstream society.

  • @colinmartin2921
    @colinmartin29215 ай бұрын

    Terrific interview - rational and sensible. Every member of the public should listen to this.

  • @brelshar4968

    @brelshar4968

    5 ай бұрын

    Most of the public have the attention span of a cabbage, so no chance.

  • @regpharvey

    @regpharvey

    5 ай бұрын

    @@brelshar4968 lol true!

  • @seanpatrick1243

    @seanpatrick1243

    5 ай бұрын

    It wasn’t an interview at all. There was zero pushback to any of this BS. This was a misinformation infomercial.

  • @beowulf1312

    @beowulf1312

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@seanpatrick1243most people who think don't buy into your "climate" false religion.

  • @greglarson6293

    @greglarson6293

    5 ай бұрын

    @@seanpatrick1243Which parts were misinformation?

  • @FrankFellersFreedom
    @FrankFellersFreedom26 күн бұрын

    Fantastic presentation. Calm and intelligent.

  • @pchhcp7509
    @pchhcp750929 күн бұрын

    Having taken the red pill, amazing how clear the world becomes.

  • @grantmorrey5138
    @grantmorrey51385 ай бұрын

    One thing I've noticed the days are hotter yes but the nights are cooler that tells me the sun is responsible for the warming more than the goddamn gasoline in your car

  • @Jukilady
    @Jukilady5 ай бұрын

    Follow the money, that says every.

  • @pathacker4963
    @pathacker49633 ай бұрын

    Carbon is necessary for plant growth and life as a whole. Carbon is also renewable.

  • @user-wn4yj5mu7n
    @user-wn4yj5mu7n3 ай бұрын

    One guy with all the answers, fantastic 🙂

  • @jefffortney4261
    @jefffortney42614 ай бұрын

    Just finished Michael Shellenberger's "Apocalypse Never - Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All". Excellent book!

  • @falseprogress

    @falseprogress

    3 ай бұрын

    He makes sense on nuclear power and reducing "renewables" sprawl, but he's dishonest when he claims that nothing much has happened that's unprecedented, weather-wise. The extreme scale of WILDFIRES around the world can only be ignored if one takes a deliberately contrarian stand ("more tree thinning" is a joke unless all forests become like zoos). The smoke plumes are almost supernatural, as are the ground scars. Major ocean storms are hitting farther north, and so on. Shellenberger used to be a leftist and I think he's gone too far to the other side. AGW may never be fixable because a truly low fossil fuel world has never been tested. Nuclear only gives electricity and "miracle" batteries for portable power have hard physics limits due to energy density.

  • @jshays007

    @jshays007

    3 ай бұрын

    HE is not at all against the reality that the planet is warming ... He just chooses a less hyperbolic response to finding rational solutions to the actual problems. Bjorn Lomborg does a Triage model of what ails the planet. These guys really do make great sense.

  • @mrunning10

    @mrunning10

    Ай бұрын

    HORSESHIT. Why is a book, paid for by the fossil fuel industry "Excellent?" Why? Why is a lie "Excellent?"

  • @Upsideround
    @Upsideround5 ай бұрын

    The Climate cult really lost me when they opposed nuclear energy, genetically modified crops to feed more with less, and ignored the massive environmental impact of cobalt and lithium mining for batteries. Climate is not where their motivation lies.

  • @curiositycloset2359

    @curiositycloset2359

    5 ай бұрын

    Its not about providing us with clean energy

  • @francischambless5919

    @francischambless5919

    5 ай бұрын

    This is what's so damn hilarious. Two major factors that regulate the Earth's climate is :??? The sun, obviously, and ????.... Water Vapor. That's 98% of the pie. CO2 is a tiny portion of that 2% of the pie they're all focused on that's so stupidly negligible and irrelevant that it's insulting that this con has gone on as long as it has. Ironically with Nuclear Energy, the primary emission of Nuclear power plants that would ADD to the 98% portion of the pie would be what????...... Water Vapor. Yet this fact goes unquestioned and unnoticed. lol I find that funny, and ironic with the so-called "intellectuals". What a hoax.

  • @petermarsh4993

    @petermarsh4993

    5 ай бұрын

    That’s exactly what “Cultist” thinking is about - the fervent belief in non-provable philosophies for the aggrandisement of the speakers rather than helping the population and the environment.

  • @mal35m

    @mal35m

    5 ай бұрын

    The CCP literally invented the CO2/climate change paradigm. It was always about crippling the west so Marxists can take over.

  • @timothyrussell4445

    @timothyrussell4445

    5 ай бұрын

    Big fan of nuclear, GM crops and also realise that mining causes problems. That said, time's running out fast and battery technology is advancing

  • @jameswilliamsgb
    @jameswilliamsgb29 күн бұрын

    Very very good interview All credit to both participants.

  • @pqsnet
    @pqsnetАй бұрын

    He is spot on here ---> 36:32 I live in Sweden and Greta Thunberg is one of the reasons sweden dismantled the unique Nucleare infrastructure with power in abundance. Greta rather sat on the street than go to school encouraged by Left-wing political leaders, and with the Media advocated to shut down the Powerplants and put penalty taxes on Nuclear Power while funding windmills and sun-panels in a country where its as coldest when its no wind and or no sun. They also used the utterly dum argument of Fukushima despite Sweden have no Earthquakes and Tzunamis are an impossible scenario. Germany went the same way, and both countries are burning coal to maintain the energy. Great work Greta!

  • @thomasmcnicholas8656
    @thomasmcnicholas86563 ай бұрын

    Where the hell has this guy been all my life !!!! Put him in the spot light more often !!!

  • @MrD_2112

    @MrD_2112

    2 ай бұрын

    He was for a long time/sometime on the very same side as the apocalyptic left he is talking about. Always refreshing with people who come to their senses.

  • @megaotstoy
    @megaotstoy5 ай бұрын

    "greenhouse gases" are named this way for a good reason: they are actually widely used in greenhouse industry to BOOST the growth of plants... higher CO2 lvl is a blessing for the green mass of our planet

  • @ndavies8

    @ndavies8

    5 ай бұрын

    Stupidity

  • @geofflewis8599

    @geofflewis8599

    5 ай бұрын

    ..Yes greenhouses work up to 1200ppm CO2, to double production and as we get more green matter, it sequesters more carbon

  • @Mike-or3ry

    @Mike-or3ry

    5 ай бұрын

    Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

  • @dovesk1

    @dovesk1

    5 ай бұрын

    @@geofflewis8599 I have a Ph.D in plant biochemistry and yes more CO2 is good for plants, if it's effects were just confined to increased photosynthesis. But sadly it warms the earth, creates changes in sea level and ocean currents, and that affects rainfall which ends up with mass extinctions. Google Permian-Triassic extinction to see what usually happens when CO2 levels on our planet rapidly change.

  • @geofflewis8599

    @geofflewis8599

    5 ай бұрын

    @neildear ..we are in an 'interglacial', there have been about 22 glacial periods in the past 2.6 million years. At the coldest period of the most recent Glacial period, @ 16,000 years ago, sea levels globally were @130m lower than they are today..Climate changes..

  • @danielamnios
    @danielamnios2 ай бұрын

    This is the type of videos that should go viral

  • @paulbrown7872
    @paulbrown78725 сағат бұрын

    Shellenberger almost had me convinced but then I read the KZread context warning. Phew, that was a close one.

  • @Jacmac1
    @Jacmac13 ай бұрын

    This Schellenberger is one of the most pragmatic journalists I ever listened to on this topic. Most journalists have quite a different take on climate change and the activists.

  • @grumnut1

    @grumnut1

    28 күн бұрын

    He says, without irony, that there was less renewable power in California due to DROUGHT. He doesn’t see the problem here?

  • @analoguejerry9066
    @analoguejerry90665 ай бұрын

    There are no solutions, there are only trade offs - Thomas Sowell

  • @mimijuneau5187

    @mimijuneau5187

    5 ай бұрын

    PLEASE SEE MY COMMENTARY

  • @davegreene8588

    @davegreene8588

    5 ай бұрын

    There are possible solutions, that are unlikely to get the needed support.

  • @jamesdoyle5405

    @jamesdoyle5405

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@davegreene8588Economists talk of the point of diminishing returns. There is a point where each succeeding ton of CO2 costs geometrically more to remove than the previous ton. It is correct to say there is no solution if the solution is net zero.

  • @galahadthreepwood

    @galahadthreepwood

    5 ай бұрын

    No solution is needed because there's no "climate emergency"

  • @user-tf6mq5xf6k

    @user-tf6mq5xf6k

    5 ай бұрын

    Sowell is correct as always.

  • @darylhoskins919
    @darylhoskins9192 ай бұрын

    One clear theme I have seen in this video is that we have been lied to and we need to question and to think for ourselves.

  • @32geordie32
    @32geordie3223 күн бұрын

    Brilliant interview. What a refreshing view

  • @eeeaten

    @eeeaten

    20 күн бұрын

    prefer journalism to science?

  • @deslarcombe3448
    @deslarcombe34485 ай бұрын

    Brilliant Gent. His explanations needs to get to a much wider audience.

  • @tonywilson4713

    @tonywilson4713

    5 ай бұрын

    FIRST - I am in favor of nuclear energy. *BUT ITS SHlTHOUSE* how Shellenberger trots around the world supported by a mountain of nuclear energy money and never allows himself to be actually challenged on the *SHlT* he is selling. Like so many others he has been debunked as a cherry picking fraud so many times and YET clownish idiots claiming to be serious media types keep giving him oxygen. Why does he attack Greta Thundberg? Because he's paid to. That's how much of a low life SHlT he's become.

  • @SteffiReitsch

    @SteffiReitsch

    5 ай бұрын

    He's a brilliant shyster. No relevant credentials, of course. Makes a good living giving interviews and selling his book. He's got some competition from Lomborg and Alex Epstein, two other shysters cashing in on this awful predicament humans have got themselves into.

  • @AdelaeR

    @AdelaeR

    5 ай бұрын

    "Gent" is a city in Belgium. It's a pretty nice city, but calling it brilliant is stretching it.

  • @artiefount

    @artiefount

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@AdelaeRhar har

  • @Mike-or3ry

    @Mike-or3ry

    5 ай бұрын

    Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now.The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

  • @michaelrozell6661
    @michaelrozell66615 ай бұрын

    Fear makes money,simple as that.Based on what was told to us in the 1980's the ice age should of frozen us all.Now we are going to get to hot and burn in a hell on earth scenario.Repeat lies till they stick and capitalize on ignorance😢

  • @bluecollar58

    @bluecollar58

    5 ай бұрын

    Leonard Nimoy , In Search of. I remember it well , one of the last things he said was that the consensus among climate scientists is that we are entering or may have already entered the next ice age.

  • @AstroGremlinAmerican

    @AstroGremlinAmerican

    5 ай бұрын

    As a barely secret agenda hidden in bills to fight "inflation," huge wads of cash are being shifted around to offshore wind scams, hydrogen, and other fads. The public needs to learn a bit of physics and engineering because "faith based" is costing them billions.

  • @gingertom56

    @gingertom56

    5 ай бұрын

    Go google the ice age claim. It was a small reference that was put forward if the was a rapid thawing of the green iceshelf that would shut down the gulf stream. Thus collapsing heating of the north latitudes resulting in a new ice age. Then google for the Exxon Mobil predicted temperature rise that matches the last 5 decades of recorded temperature rise. It was done by their own sciencist they then buried the results back in the 1970s.

  • @pablolowenstein1371

    @pablolowenstein1371

    5 ай бұрын

    Look at all of the predictions on climate etc over the last 50 years...all crap..none came to pass.

  • @mattroberts86

    @mattroberts86

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@pablolowenstein1371besides the hottest year on record every year? Your wilful ignorance is only matched by your lazy desire for cheap and easy instant gratification.

  • @informativem5248
    @informativem5248Ай бұрын

    Deniers need to wake up to big oil's campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Same playbook that big tobacco came up with.

  • @willdon.1279
    @willdon.12792 ай бұрын

    Some interesting arguments for a more balanced approach to climate changes, which I, as a concerned but sceptical environmentalist, feel... Then he talked about how bad secularism is. The most significant way for us to live together with all different cultures and beliefs is ONLY under a true secular society (which is most of Europe) to be tolerant of all. It made me wonder about his other ideas. Otherwise, a worthwhile contribution.

  • @williamhamill813
    @williamhamill8135 ай бұрын

    Humans are great at fixing problems not mitigating issues in the first place.

  • @kennethg9277

    @kennethg9277

    3 ай бұрын

    lol we're not "great at fixing problems". Human beings are mostly idiots who have failed to fix any fundamental problem in history, except by blind luck and accident.

  • @robertwhitelegge6000
    @robertwhitelegge60005 ай бұрын

    Climate change is a money maker.

  • @anthonywhelan5419

    @anthonywhelan5419

    9 күн бұрын

    Only for the elite, not the rest of humanity.

  • @DrProgNerd
    @DrProgNerd27 күн бұрын

    Thank goodness for the 'Context' banner. It's all been made clear to me now.

  • @katyakompaneyets7982
    @katyakompaneyets798211 күн бұрын

    Great to hear the voice of reason, without hysteria.

  • @janfwagner
    @janfwagner5 ай бұрын

    Mr Steven Edginton has done some really excellent and informative interviews. Apart from this enlightening conversation, I really enjoyed the one with Jordan Peterson. "Weiter so!" as we say in Germany.

  • @dirtydave1889
    @dirtydave18895 ай бұрын

    They said back in 1978 that we are running out of oil. I worked offshore oil from 1980 to 2010. There is still plenty of hydrocarbons out there.

  • @damikey18

    @damikey18

    5 ай бұрын

    We may have plenty now and plenty in the future but the fossil fuels we have now will run dry eventually

  • @kenhickford6581

    @kenhickford6581

    5 ай бұрын

    Natural Gas & Nuclear will ALWAYS be with us. As for the Population size, well,.................@@damikey18

  • @normankennith7919

    @normankennith7919

    5 ай бұрын

    greta is here to stay!! well, as long as there is the planet!!

  • @ndavies8

    @ndavies8

    5 ай бұрын

    Man sthu

  • @kenhickford6581

    @kenhickford6581

    5 ай бұрын

    Agreed,there will always be a focus for 'Lost Souls' looking for a False God! Lol! @@normankennith7919

  • @selocan469
    @selocan469Ай бұрын

    Michael is really well informed and honest man and his arguments and comments are right on the spot

  • @eeeaten

    @eeeaten

    29 күн бұрын

    He’s a journalist. I prefer to get my science facts from scientists.

  • @BeaHindebars
    @BeaHindebars2 ай бұрын

    It's so good to hear glimmers of hope, thankyou.

  • @LouiseLLee
    @LouiseLLee4 ай бұрын

    I’m 57, in elementary on up ( yearly seventy’s through 80’s) we were told that California would be under water in by our 20’s

  • @user-co2li1vd5d

    @user-co2li1vd5d

    3 ай бұрын

    It was all just a redirect to appeal to peoples emotions, its a fakery. To distract from the blatant human rights violations and evil they are setting up

  • @onesong2001

    @onesong2001

    3 ай бұрын

    that's one of Al Gores's claims in his groundbreaking documentary. The one where none of his predictions were correct.

  • @Rick-yk5qb

    @Rick-yk5qb

    3 ай бұрын

    Tell lies, sell fear, steal money, gain power. That's always the way. That's better edited.

  • @creatrixZBD

    @creatrixZBD

    3 ай бұрын

    I’m only 5 yrs younger. (Australian). We were told we wouldn’t see adulthood due to nuclear destruction. It is not an understatement to say that this severely deformed my outlook over my lifetime. It was formative.

  • @asmo1313

    @asmo1313

    3 ай бұрын

    I am 52. When I was a little boy, the oil would be gone in 50 years any moment now I guess. just a little longer. any second now, we will have run out of oil. Oh no! the climate change will have killed all of us in 50 years!

  • @Video2Webb
    @Video2Webb5 ай бұрын

    Brilliant interview - on both sides. Michael Shellenberger has come into his own voice and it sure is a powerful one. Very calm, yet very lucid and very incisive. This is what is needed to make a change to the current mess of politics on so many fronts.

  • @chris4973

    @chris4973

    5 ай бұрын

    This Shellenhuber is a shill. Check out John Schellnhuber, who was the Lope’s primary consultant on his encyclical, Laudaoto Si. This Shellenhuber is a denialist shill…

  • @chris4973

    @chris4973

    5 ай бұрын

    Pope’s, not Lope’s…

  • @Mike-or3ry

    @Mike-or3ry

    5 ай бұрын

    Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now.The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

  • @garysarela4431

    @garysarela4431

    5 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger's assessment is based on feelings and half-truths and isn't backed up by science. Probably should listen to scientific specialists instead of a lobbyist.

  • @gerrys6265

    @gerrys6265

    5 ай бұрын

    @Video2Webb: Being lucid and calm can also mean manipulative....it is not necessarily connected to truth or reality in any way. I'd rather listen to the science than calm lucid people trying to tell me that I should ignore the scientists. So many holes in his arguments it is hard to know where to start....except by getting people to think for themselves when they listen to this type of misinformation chatter. The interviewer either didn't know enough to challenge him on any of his points or didn't care to...that is not being a good interviewer.

  • @larrya7037
    @larrya7037Күн бұрын

    Whenever Shellenberger is describing the psychology of climate activities i always get the feeling hes just projecting his own feelings onto them.

  • @suchin8524
    @suchin85245 ай бұрын

    I remember when we were told that "the climate would become chaotic and the world would be irreparably damaged" in the 1980's. We're still here. Also, the protest went a bit wrong with the fools that glued their hands to the floor in the VW dealership when the staff went home. All they accomplished was being laughed at and sitting in a dark, cold, lonely room all night.

  • @annademidchik631

    @annademidchik631

    5 ай бұрын

    I remember we were told that all oil reserves will be exhausted by 2020.

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    5 ай бұрын

    @@annademidchik631 I remember when we were told gas was going to run out at the turn of the century. (told in the 1970s) and here we are. Ask anyone who is about 60-70 years old about the gas lines in 1972-73.

  • @jeremycrisp4488

    @jeremycrisp4488

    5 ай бұрын

    I remember when they told us we needed to start using plastic bags and stop using paper bags to help save the environment. Now we are clogging everything up with micro plastics.

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    5 ай бұрын

    @@jeremycrisp4488 Yep Save the trees we were told.

  • @Pyrrho_

    @Pyrrho_

    5 ай бұрын

    In the 70s we were warned of a coming ice age.

  • @earthflute2248
    @earthflute22485 ай бұрын

    Climate anxiety in teens and 20s is making them think they have no future, leading to destructive behaviours, lack of relationships, and declining birth rates.

  • @jedjones9047

    @jedjones9047

    5 ай бұрын

    Only the stupid ones 😅

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    I think that`s more due to selfishness, greed & lack of community support : )

  • @MichaelSheffield-ox8yd

    @MichaelSheffield-ox8yd

    5 ай бұрын

    @@DANCEGARAGEPUNK Nah. That is universal. Community support? Communism? That has never led to anything a rational person would want.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    @@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd Community is not Communism ! - It`s Socialising with your family & neighbours, like your grandparents did LOL : ) We`re a pack animal, trying to live as loners is the cause of increasing greed, selfishness, mental illness, & suicides (

  • @Mike-or3ry

    @Mike-or3ry

    5 ай бұрын

    Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now.The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

  • @DD-xk1xe
    @DD-xk1xe28 күн бұрын

    Why does ever state allow the spraying 100s of millions of tons of dry ice (co2 ) and aluminum oxide, barium, carbon black in our sky's in the name of climate modification programs. RCW 70A.10.190

  • @artimuscoffee8921
    @artimuscoffee892125 күн бұрын

    This is great news Michael, love it!!

  • @vsksf
    @vsksf5 ай бұрын

    Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibi are the brightest lights in our current global fight for truth and rational thought in our society. they deserve much more credit and support from the media and society in general.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    joke ? ?

  • @vsksf

    @vsksf

    5 ай бұрын

    @@DANCEGARAGEPUNK only to the ignorant and brainwashed.

  • @DBGE001

    @DBGE001

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @vsksf

    @vsksf

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DBGE001 So, ?? Doesn’t make his work any less truthful.

  • @mbni574

    @mbni574

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@DBGE001co-founded and then left 9years ago

  • @seankennelly8085
    @seankennelly80855 ай бұрын

    Great interview, this guy really knows his stuff, I've heard his name before but have never seen him, huge fan now.

  • @moseybear

    @moseybear

    5 ай бұрын

    CO2 is insignificant element in climate temperature.... CO2 levels FOLLOW temperature not precedes it. FACT. The rest is PSYOPS.

  • @timothyrussell4445

    @timothyrussell4445

    5 ай бұрын

    Who's the greatest fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?

  • @4knanapapa

    @4knanapapa

    5 ай бұрын

    @@timothyrussell4445by that logic, anyone that buys into Greta Thunbergs madness is a fool.

  • @RedHotscot

    @RedHotscot

    5 ай бұрын

    Are we talking Greta here?@@timothyrussell4445

  • @Stafus

    @Stafus

    5 ай бұрын

    capitalism requires infinite population growth and an eternal servant class. capitalism is evil because of those two facts.

  • @ross3818
    @ross381828 күн бұрын

    Malthus wasn't "wrong", he didn't foresee the agricultural revolution- modern fertilizers, superwheat, etc.

  • @Anikanoteven
    @Anikanoteven3 ай бұрын

    Mind Blown!!!So glad I stumbled across this video. why is this intelligent and eloquent person not more widely known!!! Went immediately and ordered his book!

  • @kathrineelizabethanker
    @kathrineelizabethanker5 ай бұрын

    Come on, Greta Thunberg was managed by a strong team that wanted to use her. There is evidence...

  • @saltburner2

    @saltburner2

    5 ай бұрын

    Very probably: her parents and grandparents embraced the same ideology. But she was not forced to take the stand she did, though they obviously encouraged her, and have grown rich in the process.

  • @kathrineelizabethanker

    @kathrineelizabethanker

    5 ай бұрын

    not just parents. There were a whole team around her and she was actually headhuntet to begin with. It is no coincidence that she was "discovered" at her very first school strike by a camera team. And "Fridays for Future" was not her own concept. Check Corey Morningstar or Jacob Nordangård for more information ons this topic. @@saltburner2

  • @throughmylens5127

    @throughmylens5127

    5 ай бұрын

    Or her family took a world wide vacation paid for by the elites

  • @owenorders5202

    @owenorders5202

    5 ай бұрын

    @@saltburner2 Actually, her grandfather was a scientist who was well known for being a champion of the benefits of CO2. He wouldn't have agreed with her at all.

  • @CosmicSeeker69

    @CosmicSeeker69

    5 ай бұрын

    @@saltburner2 she was trained by her actor father and her 'agent' is directly related to the Roth.childs - and just look at who arranged her boat trip across the Atlantic.... The boat (Gitana 16)was commissioned for the Gitana Sailing Team founded by Benjamin de Rothschild. .. in 2015 it was renamed Edmond de Rothschild - then in 2019 the boat was renamed the Malizia II and In August 2019 took Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg across the North Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth to New York City Source Wiki

  • @randyscorner9434
    @randyscorner94345 ай бұрын

    I have to say that this is an excellent interview. No spin, very good questioning, and a rational discussion. This is a very important perspective that everyone should have.

  • @julioramirez8768

    @julioramirez8768

    5 ай бұрын

    I really appreciated that no one was yelling.

  • @PhilipX2030

    @PhilipX2030

    5 ай бұрын

    He's lying. Across the board. Someone selling a 'false sense of security' is not your friend. Deny and delay is the fossil Corp strategy. They're equivalent to the cigarette/ tobacco misinformation campaign, but Far more powerful

  • @DBGE001

    @DBGE001

    4 ай бұрын

    Shellenberger works for the Breakthrough Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded thinktank.

  • @bushbuddyplatypus

    @bushbuddyplatypus

    4 ай бұрын

    Co2 is not driving climate.

  • @joshb6993

    @joshb6993

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@PhilipX2030you are a religious nut and in a cult.

  • @boufns8
    @boufns85 ай бұрын

    For non-Swedes it might be interesting to know that Greta described her life as being empty and that she was struggling to an extreme degree with multiple mental issues, primarily depression, up until the day she discovered climate activism at around the age of 13. Her climate activism is LITERALLY just a way to cope with depression.

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    Same as Peterson & others climate denial mental issues then ?

  • @emanymton713

    @emanymton713

    5 ай бұрын

    @@DANCEGARAGEPUNKthey aren’t denying climate issues they are counter arguing that mankind is not the main cause…

  • @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    @DANCEGARAGEPUNK

    5 ай бұрын

    Equally idiotic, more so because they have zero climate knowledge LOL : )@@emanymton713

  • @RedHotscot

    @RedHotscot

    5 ай бұрын

    Who denies climate? What an idiotic response.@@DANCEGARAGEPUNK

  • @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    5 ай бұрын

    She was in the Netherlands. Here anti-Jew action made me vote for far right Wilders.

  • @danielshepherd2087
    @danielshepherd2087Ай бұрын

    So glad google has put a note on this showing me the "real" truth about climate change

  • @JackOutLoud
    @JackOutLoud2 ай бұрын

    Very good interview!

  • @AstroGremlinAmerican
    @AstroGremlinAmerican5 ай бұрын

    To be fair, there are big bucks to be had with climatism, including redistribution of wealth as a "cure" for social inequality. Climatism is an excellent means to shame rich countries to pay reparations to poor countries, even though climate change has nothing to do with their poverty.