Chad Adams Fills in For Pete Kaliner 12-31-24 Hour 2

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[00:00:29] Good afternoon. Beautiful day. Beautiful. I mean, you couldn't ask for probably a better day to end the year on. I mean, this is absolutely beautiful. Now, if you're paying attention to weather prognostications at all, you would kind of be aware that there's something brewing out there that all models are kind of, when I say models, I mean all of the European and the American and a couple other folks that are out there.

[00:00:58] We're showing that it's going to be, it could be, it has the potential likely to be a very cold January, like since 1985 kind of cold. It's going to blast down and even down at the coast and down in Florida could be cold, could be icy weather, could be snowy weather. Now I'm trying to get my good friend, Joe Bastardi to come on the air today. I don't know if he'll be able to. I sent him a couple articles. We were communicating back and forth this morning. I'm going to convey to you one of those articles.

[00:01:25] Michael Mann. And by the way, if you want to get in on the conversation, you're welcome to do so 704-570-1110 here at News Talk 1110-993. Chad Adams sitting in for Pete Callender. And I hope Pete's enjoying it. I hope he's having a blast. He works tediously throughout the year and just a great asset for WBT.

[00:01:43] Now, when Michael, so Michael Mann is known for the hockey stick graph and he's one of the chief bishops, or I guess you would call him a cardinal. If you're looking at the climate change cult as kind of an organized religion, which it really is.

[00:02:02] It's very atheist. It's very much, you know, claims to be driven by something. They have their version of the truth. It's the only truth. No other version of the truth is really allowed in their church.

[00:02:15] So I think Michael Mann would be a cardinal at the cardinal level. He's not quite the pope of the movement. I don't know if Al Gore or Michael Mann, someone Greta Thunberg certainly would be leading up a sisterhood.

[00:02:28] But if you were to make analogies to the Catholic Church, you know, Greta Thunberg would be holding up an order of nuns, but that kind of a monkish group.

[00:02:39] And then you've got, you know, the cardinals and bishops and the priests and all that stuff on down. It's a very interesting structure to this.

[00:02:45] And I guess the scientists would be the monastic ones in a way or people that claim to be scientists.

[00:02:50] Michael Mann has a piece out there, and I'm trying to get Joe Bastard to call in.

[00:02:53] And he is an actual scientist, along with Richard Lidzen, formerly Pat Michaels, Mr. Spencer, Roy Spencer down at the University of Alabama.

[00:03:01] There's a lot of these people that have tried to push back to say it's not that you need to say climate change doesn't exist.

[00:03:07] What the argument should be is it's not the end of animals or humanity and that there's never been a geologic period of time that's just stable.

[00:03:16] There's not a global thermostat here.

[00:03:18] There never has been.

[00:03:24] There's been times there's been less than this.

[00:03:26] We've had ice ages.

[00:03:27] We're not even really sure what causes ice ages, by the way.

[00:03:30] That would be alarming to me because imagine if whatever switch that is occurs.

[00:03:37] I don't know what it is.

[00:03:38] Scientists aren't sure what it is.

[00:03:39] But if it happened, because when it does happen, it's bad.

[00:03:43] It's bad for all involved.

[00:03:45] It's bad for animals.

[00:03:47] It's bad for the planet.

[00:03:48] It's bad for the oceans.

[00:03:49] But we have several periods of time that we've had these ice ages, many ice ages.

[00:03:54] And again, but I digress.

[00:03:56] Michael Mann and Peter Hotez, these are two folks that have they I love the titles to a lot of articles in the political realm because you can tell what they are by just reading the titles.

[00:04:07] And I do expect and Job has already confirmed that when I sent him this note that this year you will see more.

[00:04:18] Hyper breathing labored thought on the climate front.

[00:04:24] The crazies will come out in full force, even if it's a colder year.

[00:04:28] And a lot of people are saying we're likely to have a colder year because 25 or 24 is a warmer year.

[00:04:33] But if it's linear, it's linear.

[00:04:35] And there's no telling what's going to happen.

[00:04:38] And I'm not predicting it.

[00:04:40] I'm certainly not on the front lines of that.

[00:04:41] But I do appreciate looking back at what they've said and then seeing how they've never been right.

[00:04:48] And that's one of the problems with the sky is falling mentality is that when you overplay that hand enough times, you lose the narrative.

[00:04:58] And rather than blame people.

[00:05:00] So right now, there's a lot of science, people that want to claim they adhere to science that say, hey, Chad, if you disagree with us, we think we should have the right to put you in jail.

[00:05:11] That's not a conspiracy.

[00:05:12] That's been said by many of the folks in the European side of things.

[00:05:15] There are folks that have suggested such things to the UN that the time for disagreement is over.

[00:05:20] The time to act is now.

[00:05:22] The planet is in peril and anyone who disagrees with us needs to go to jail.

[00:05:26] And in fact, at the end of Michael Mann's piece that I'm getting ready to read, he talks about that.

[00:05:32] He talks about that we can no longer tolerate people who disagree with us for the most part.

[00:05:38] You know, we're researchers and academicians.

[00:05:40] That's what we are.

[00:05:41] This is far more than an arcane discussion for our faculty and students.

[00:05:45] Anti-science.

[00:05:46] Remember, anti-science is anyone who disagrees with Anthony Fauci.

[00:05:50] Anti-science is anyone that disagrees with Michael Mann.

[00:05:53] Anti-science is anyone who disagrees with a given narrative that is peddled by this group.

[00:05:58] If you disagree with them, then you're the anti-science.

[00:06:02] It's kind of like the witchcraft persecutions.

[00:06:04] You know, the town elders come by and say, you're a witch.

[00:06:08] But I'm not a witch.

[00:06:10] But yeah, we say you are.

[00:06:11] And if you disagree with us, you're a witch.

[00:06:13] And that's the kind of mentality we find with this intolerant group of scientists that don't want to discuss things.

[00:06:21] And so what he writes is, anti-science is now a lethal force that threatens human civilization.

[00:06:26] We can no longer fight climate change and pandemics unless we can find a means to diffuse the anti-science bomb that threatens our future.

[00:06:35] So they've equated, Michael Mann's done this for years, he just gets bolder every year, is he's now saying, you, if you disagree with them, you're basically a terrorist.

[00:06:48] You are akin to someone carrying around a bomb and you threaten the planet.

[00:06:54] And they never look in.

[00:06:56] He says, you know, so far we're losing this battle.

[00:06:58] While time remains, the window of opportunity is beginning to close.

[00:07:02] Now, they said it was beginning to close in the 80s.

[00:07:04] They said it was closing in the 90s, that it would absolutely be closed by the 2000s.

[00:07:08] But then we only had five years left.

[00:07:09] And then we had another five.

[00:07:10] And then we had 10.

[00:07:11] But we lost that.

[00:07:12] So now it's gone.

[00:07:13] It's over.

[00:07:13] It's been over five or six times.

[00:07:15] In the 70s with the population bomb, Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day.

[00:07:19] Earth Day was created because the end was near.

[00:07:22] Now, they never take stock of great victories.

[00:07:24] They never are pleased that we're not further on.

[00:07:27] They never say, you know what?

[00:07:28] We're doing this is wonderful.

[00:07:30] It's not as bad as we thought it was.

[00:07:32] If I was trying to sell you on something and I had told you information that was wrong for 40 or 50 years,

[00:07:38] one of the things that I think would help shore up my your belief in me would be for me to come to you and say,

[00:07:44] you know what?

[00:07:44] This is fantastic news that it hasn't gone as far.

[00:07:48] There's still things to be concerned about, but it hasn't happened as fast.

[00:07:52] It hasn't been as bad.

[00:07:55] And there's actually some success stories out there.

[00:07:57] You know, when you find a species that's doing well, recovering, expanding, those are success stories.

[00:08:03] Be proud of those.

[00:08:05] We've paid attention to a lot more species that we've been worried about, and it's working.

[00:08:09] Take stock in that.

[00:08:10] Be pleased with that.

[00:08:11] Move forward with that.

[00:08:12] But they don't.

[00:08:13] It's that you, anti-science people, y'all are criminals.

[00:08:17] Y'all are carrying around bombs that are against society.

[00:08:20] And I'll read through his column because he dropped a column today.

[00:08:24] Here it is the last day of the year.

[00:08:27] Yes.

[00:08:27] In fact, he claimed they're publishing it as January, February.

[00:08:31] But in it, what they're saying is it's not just a threat.

[00:08:35] We now have triple threat.

[00:08:37] There's a triple threat to humanity.

[00:08:38] And I'm going to go through why that is absurd in just a second.

[00:08:41] So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.

[00:08:44] And before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:08:50] Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:08:55] Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:09:01] It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:09:04] They've got huge hearts.

[00:09:05] I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:09:07] This cause means a lot to me.

[00:09:09] I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's.

[00:09:13] And I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:09:15] It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:09:16] You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:09:19] It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:09:23] Sign up at alz.org slash walk and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:09:28] And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:09:31] Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th.

[00:09:34] So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:09:38] I would really appreciate it.

[00:09:39] There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas.

[00:09:42] And you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:09:47] We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.

[00:09:50] And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:09:54] Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:09:59] This is why I walk.

[00:10:01] Good afternoon.

[00:10:02] Appreciate the staff.

[00:10:04] You guys, everybody.

[00:10:05] I've had a great year.

[00:10:06] And looking forward to another one until they plant me in the ground.

[00:10:10] I hope it continues to be that way.

[00:10:12] Now, my friend Joe Vestardi did confirm.

[00:10:14] He'll be joining us later in the broadcast because he had seen the same article.

[00:10:18] Well, because I sent him to him.

[00:10:20] And he made a comment about it.

[00:10:22] And so I said, hey, you need to be on the show.

[00:10:23] He's like, okay, be glad to do so.

[00:10:24] So not only will he talk about, probably not as much about that, but he's been tracking these storm systems.

[00:10:30] He's a co-founder of Weatherbell Analytics.

[00:10:32] He does it for companies.

[00:10:35] This is kind of interesting because it's one thing to be out there and give the local forecast.

[00:10:40] So you do it for your local station and everything.

[00:10:42] It's another when the entirety of your corporate survival depends on the accuracy of your long-range forecast.

[00:10:51] And Joe's been doing this.

[00:10:52] He's a great weather historian.

[00:10:54] He's someone who has looked.

[00:10:56] What he does is he goes back in history and looks at similar systems and how things were lined up and how they will act.

[00:11:00] What will this polar vortex be like?

[00:11:02] How does a hurricane act?

[00:11:04] Where does it move?

[00:11:05] How is it similar to other hurricanes in similar climates at similar times?

[00:11:09] And he's just an interesting guy, very different kind of fellow.

[00:11:12] We look forward to having him on the show.

[00:11:14] Now, the article I was referring to is called A Triple Threat to Humanity, Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez.

[00:11:23] And he writes,

[00:11:24] And I've got multiple comments on this, but I want to try to convey what they're trying to convey to you.

[00:11:30] Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat.

[00:11:35] Big words.

[00:11:36] Existential threat.

[00:11:36] We face today a threat unlike any we've witnessed since the days of the U.S. and Soviet Cold War at the latter part of the 20th century.

[00:11:44] While even today the specter of nuclear annihilation remains, especially given the escalation with Ukraine, Russia, and Israel, Iran,

[00:11:51] we now face entirely new 21st century forces that place the future of humankind in even worse peril.

[00:11:58] Our newest and gravest challenge may not feel as acute as the 1980s Cold War threat of mutual assured destruction.

[00:12:04] There are no missiles with nuclear warheads crisscrossing the oceans, but it's every bit as real.

[00:12:08] The next gen mad consists of three synergistic components.

[00:12:12] The first is the unprecedented warming of our planet.

[00:12:15] By the way, his hockey stick graph is, if you look at it over history, is just wrong.

[00:12:20] He's using the same graph, by the way, that they generated 20 years ago.

[00:12:23] It's called the hockey stick, and it makes it look like the end is near.

[00:12:28] He says, the unprecedented warming of our planet that one of us, Michael Mann, highlighted more than two decades ago,

[00:12:33] while still a postdoctoral researcher for the hockey stick curve,

[00:12:37] the warming of the planet and its impacts, which include coastal inundation from melting ice

[00:12:41] and intensified more deadly hurricanes.

[00:12:43] They haven't been more deadly.

[00:12:44] The droughts are not worse.

[00:12:46] The heat, wildfires, waves, everything, whatever it is, it's always bad.

[00:12:49] It's taking a toll on our civilization by any measure, be it loss of life,

[00:12:53] which could be measured in millions of lives per year, or economic costs, which could be measured in trillions.

[00:12:58] Look no further than deadly temperatures that exceed 122 degrees.

[00:13:02] This past summer, more than 2,000 Americans died from extreme heat, a tragic new record.

[00:13:07] By the way, more humans than ever have been in the country.

[00:13:12] And by the way, that takes into account the people who crossed the border who died of exposure.

[00:13:16] So as much as Michael Mann would love to say that's a climate death, it's a death of political consequence.

[00:13:24] It's a death caused by bad policies that led to women, children, and men dying in deserts in the desert southwest.

[00:13:31] So a lot of those deaths were on their hands.

[00:13:33] It wasn't the climate.

[00:13:35] It was bad policy.

[00:13:36] But anyway, this is the kind of stuff they do.

[00:13:38] We need to stop using fossil fuels for energy and transportation.

[00:13:41] The hockey stick description also applies to the new pattern of cadence of pandemic threats.

[00:13:49] Our second component.

[00:13:51] One of the most common asked questions is, hey doc, what the heck's going on?

[00:13:54] Why are we seeing three major coronavirus global epidemics?

[00:13:57] SARS, MERS, and COVID-19, or Ebola in West Africa.

[00:14:01] By the way, the Ebola is not an epidemic.

[00:14:03] That tends to be isolated as it burns through populations.

[00:14:06] But it doesn't stop these guys from saying it was.

[00:14:08] These viruses all originate from bats.

[00:14:10] Actually, we don't know where COVID-19 came from.

[00:14:14] They're saying bats.

[00:14:15] And we're not sure what the origins of Ebola are.

[00:14:18] This is what's weird.

[00:14:19] You can read any book from The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.

[00:14:22] We've been looking for the origin of Ebola, but we're not sure.

[00:14:26] Even Marburg.

[00:14:27] We know that the viral hemorrhagic fevers in the desert southwest are caused by the hantavirus, which is caused by rat feces.

[00:14:32] But he doesn't mention that in his post.

[00:14:35] Part of this accelerating cadence of pandemics may be shifts in bat habitats that bring them closer to humans,

[00:14:41] in concert with expanding human populations in formerly forested areas due to urbanization.

[00:14:46] Again, these are...

[00:14:49] Similar expansions and urbanizations together with climate change also explain why we're seeing more mosquito-transmitted virus infections, such as dengue.

[00:14:56] Actually, it's because we have a lot of stagnant water in little puddles around our houses that mosquitoes grow in,

[00:15:01] because they tend to stick close to where they're born.

[00:15:04] This is just unbelievable.

[00:15:05] This brings us to the third and perhaps most insidious component of all,

[00:15:09] a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation and attacks

[00:15:15] against mainstream science that makes it extremely difficult to mount an effective global response to climate threats.

[00:15:22] We witnessed an early instance decades ago, as Michael Mann described in his book,

[00:15:26] The Hockey Stick and Climate Awards, when he and his colleagues came under attack by forces linked to oil and gas.

[00:15:31] By the way, the oil and gas industries, as much as Michael Mann can say they attacked him,

[00:15:35] are also the ones on the forefront of raking in subsidies from solar panels and windmills.

[00:15:40] Ugh, these people.

[00:15:43] It's so...

[00:15:44] You know, you read their stuff, and it just gets more...

[00:15:47] It gets stranger.

[00:15:48] Increasingly, we recognize how the forces behind the attacks on climate science and biomedicine

[00:15:53] around vaccines and pandemics have begun to converge.

[00:15:57] Why have they begun to converge?

[00:15:59] They've begun to converge because a lot of the COVID-19 vaccine stuff did not work out well.

[00:16:06] It did not.

[00:16:07] The unfortunate reality is vaccines are amazing.

[00:16:10] They've been around for since the 1700s.

[00:16:12] People have learned how to use them, and we had some phenomenal ones.

[00:16:15] We still have some phenomenal ones.

[00:16:16] But the ones for COVID-19 were not that effective and did have tons of side effects that we're just now learning about more.

[00:16:23] That undermined...

[00:16:24] If anything undermined the vaccine science, it was the people peddling the COVID vaccine.

[00:16:32] That's what undermined all of the other science on vaccines.

[00:16:37] But they never...

[00:16:38] These people never look in the mirror and accept responsibility for what they did.

[00:16:43] Michael Mann has peddled the end is near for 40 years.

[00:16:47] For 40 years, he said the end is near.

[00:16:50] It's not near.

[00:16:52] Tragically, this even includes personal attacks on members of Congress and presidential candidates.

[00:16:58] Attacks from billionaires and conservative media like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

[00:17:02] Now, it's interesting, again, never looking in the mirror.

[00:17:05] In all, we have identified five major forces that have advanced attacks on science and scientists and promoted anti-science disinformation.

[00:17:12] We call them the five Ps.

[00:17:14] The plutocrats.

[00:17:15] The petrostates.

[00:17:17] Billionaires and state actors.

[00:17:19] The pros.

[00:17:20] The hired guns, they call them.

[00:17:21] The propagandists.

[00:17:22] Industry shills and opportunities posing as experts.

[00:17:25] And, as we've already explained above, the media.

[00:17:27] Together, they compose a coordinated, powerful, and formidable anti-science Leviathan that threatens our future.

[00:17:33] Although we are...

[00:17:34] Now, and remember, when you read these things, what I would ask that you do is always, always, always,

[00:17:45] they always pose or posit that they are the angelic forces of our Savior.

[00:17:54] They will bring about saving the planet if only we listen to them.

[00:18:00] They are the ones.

[00:18:02] So, you could tell...

[00:18:03] You could take these five Ps, and you could be a conservative that wants scientific discussion about climate,

[00:18:11] and you would like to have more truth, and you could say these same people are in opposition to that.

[00:18:16] I would say Michael Mann is in opposition because he's already said it's an existential threat and the world is over.

[00:18:22] We need to have a discussion about it.

[00:18:24] You can't tell him that.

[00:18:24] He doesn't want to have a discussion about it.

[00:18:26] He wants you to be in jail and shut up because he's right, you're wrong.

[00:18:30] And if I were to say from our side, the same five Ps, the plutocrats, and I wouldn't call them petrostates.

[00:18:35] I would call them, I guess, the windmill evangelist or solar evangelist, renewable evangelist.

[00:18:41] So, you'd have the plutocrats and renewable evangelists, which are billionaires and state actors who fund stopping debates.

[00:18:49] You would have the pros, which are the hired guns that are out there to stop debates.

[00:18:54] You would have the propagandists who are in the media and people like Michael Mann and opportunists posing as experts because many of these people that claim to be scientists aren't.

[00:19:05] And as we've already explained, the media.

[00:19:07] And I would say that most of the media, ABC, CBS, NBC, they all regularly say it.

[00:19:12] Everything that happens is due to climate.

[00:19:14] And it's boring and it helps us process the meaning of life.

[00:19:18] And if you disagree with them, you're the devil.

[00:19:20] Although they're mostly an atheistic move.

[00:19:23] This isn't started in 1997 in Mid Hill, North Carolina.

[00:19:27] It was the first company to provide this valuable service.

[00:19:29] And Fauci did not state photos and videos into high quality produced slideshows, videos, and albums.

[00:19:35] It means to stand up to the test.

[00:19:37] If hurricanes are not made of video, make over all the details with you to create a perfect project.

[00:19:41] If tornadic activity hasn't increased, then you can't say that it has.

[00:19:45] If forest fires may have causes because you're not doing controlled burning or you're allowing too much stuff to build up, you can't use that.

[00:19:54] You know, we now know.

[00:19:56] Well, no, I'm not going to get into that.

[00:19:57] But that's what your photos and videos are.

[00:20:00] And you have a great example of where mankind's intervention made the park worse for a long time.

[00:20:05] And they will tell others to come who used to work.

[00:20:07] Visit createavideo.com.

[00:20:10] But back to his column here at the end.

[00:20:12] As we first and foremost researchers and academics, this is far more than an arcane discussion.

[00:20:17] Anti-science is now a lethal force that threatens human civilization.

[00:20:20] We can no longer fight climate change in pandemics unless we can find a means to defuse an anti-science bomb.

[00:20:27] I would say the irony here, as I finish this segment, is that we are at a time in humanity when we are more equipped to deal with more things in a more direct way than ever before.

[00:20:36] While these people are saying the sky is falling and the earth is ending.

[00:20:40] And they are the ones that are creating the anxiety and damaging your kids each and every day by telling them the end is near and taking away their hope.

[00:20:47] Much more to go.

[00:20:48] Now they're having just fun.

[00:20:50] No, we went to the break.

[00:20:51] It sounded like I was full of chagrin.

[00:20:54] What it is, is the war of ideas must continue.

[00:21:00] Whenever you get into a world where ideas are not tolerated, where dissent is quashed, for any of you that are sci-fi fans, you know if you're on the Enterprise and they come to a planet where it's kind of monolithic thought, you know there's a problem.

[00:21:17] The whole storyline is going to be about, hey, how do you overcome this monolithic thought?

[00:21:20] If you read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, it's a suppression of free thought.

[00:21:26] You're burning all the books.

[00:21:27] If you get into Logan's run, you know, you can't push back against the rules.

[00:21:31] You've got to get on the carousel when you're 34, 35 and be spun up and killed and under the auspices that, hey, someone might win.

[00:21:38] And, you know, if you Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, these dystopian 1984, the film Brazil, all of these dystopian sci-fi futuristic thoughts on humankind, even the silo, something that's currently, I'm just shocked, it's actually on Apple.

[00:21:55] The silo is this, oh, you have to believe, you have to follow this dogmatic.

[00:22:00] Now there are aspersions to Christianity.

[00:22:02] There's a book, the foundation, you must believe the book.

[00:22:05] But the truth of the matter is, in acting like it's something it's not, it actually proves the point I'm making, which is all of these dystopian, futuristic, even Gattaca, one of my favorite of all time, they all portray don't question what we tell you.

[00:22:23] That's the central theme of a lot of dystopian, futuristic novels or scientific works of art, sci-fi, whatever.

[00:22:31] It's that you don't question.

[00:22:33] So when, and one of the most unique things about humans is we do question.

[00:22:38] That inquiry leads to breakthroughs.

[00:22:42] Inquiry, a natural-born curiosity.

[00:22:45] For those of you who believe we're made in our maker's image, we have a natural-born curiosity.

[00:22:50] Sometimes we have a natural-born skepticism.

[00:22:52] But skepticism and curiosity are tomato-tomato.

[00:22:55] Those go hand-in-hand.

[00:22:57] You have to be skeptical.

[00:22:58] Even your own belief, you should be skeptical of your own belief sometimes.

[00:23:02] But you have to be naturally curious.

[00:23:04] I think the media fails when it isn't.

[00:23:07] We saw that with Joe Biden.

[00:23:08] I think they do.

[00:23:09] Media does best when it asks difficult questions, regardless of who's sitting in front of them.

[00:23:14] Not just because they don't like one person.

[00:23:16] Ask this guy difficult questions.

[00:23:19] Don't ask this person any questions.

[00:23:20] We saw that with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

[00:23:22] He would do 100 interviews.

[00:23:23] She wouldn't do them.

[00:23:24] And when she did, she was an epic – she was a crash test dummy flying into the wall without a seatbelt.

[00:23:29] It was terrible.

[00:23:31] But that's what I would say that Michael Mann and many of the alleged scientists on the global warming right, they have a confirmation bias.

[00:23:43] When they find something that affirms that confirmation bias, they run outside and scream, it's the end of the world.

[00:23:50] And if you were to ask them, has the planet been warmer before?

[00:23:53] They would say, well, yes, but that's different.

[00:23:57] Was there a proliferation of life when the planet was warmer?

[00:24:00] Yes, but that's different.

[00:24:02] Okay, so what eradicated a lot of species was the cold, wasn't it?

[00:24:07] That's different.

[00:24:08] It's always different because it doesn't fit their narrative.

[00:24:11] Now, one of the most – I'll give you an example of where this all leads because the solution that everyone in that ilk wants, if you – let's just say they're correct.

[00:24:23] Their solution to the problem is always socialism.

[00:24:25] Their solution to the problem is we need to control the means of production by controlling the production of energy.

[00:24:31] And energy is limited to renewables, which will not fund a society, will not keep us going.

[00:24:37] We need to limit your freedom so you can't travel by aircraft.

[00:24:41] You don't need to be traveled by internal combustion engines.

[00:24:43] You can only recharge the engines sporadically with intermittent energy.

[00:24:48] Maybe there's hydro – I don't know.

[00:24:50] Dams are probably permitted.

[00:24:52] I wish they'd go back to nuclear being permitted, but they haven't grasped that yet.

[00:24:56] So here's a really good example of why this kind of fails.

[00:24:59] And this is from the BBC.

[00:25:00] This happened in Great Britain.

[00:25:02] It was published – it was updated an hour ago.

[00:25:05] The carbon footprint of a long-delayed new green, quote-unquote, ferry will be far larger than the 31-year-old diesel ship that usually serves the route between the Scottish mainland and the island of Iran.

[00:25:18] Now, A-R-R-A-N, not I-R-A-N.

[00:25:21] But it's – so they spent – oh, we've got to have a green ferry.

[00:25:25] We've got to get rid of this diesel plunker out there.

[00:25:27] The green ferry is going to make things better.

[00:25:30] It'll change the temperature by 0.0000001, somewhere.

[00:25:36] An emissions analysis by CalMAC has calculated that the Glen Sanix will emit 10.391 equivalent tons of CO2 a year compared to 7,732 for MV Caledonian Isles.

[00:25:51] So the dual-fuel ferry has more car capacity but requires larger engines which emit methane, a greenhouse gas with a far greater global warming effect than CO2.

[00:26:03] Ferry's procurement agency, which owns the ship, said the comparison was inaccurate.

[00:26:08] It always – when they disagree with you, it's inaccurate.

[00:26:10] The size of the Glen Sanix is a factor in its carbon footprint, but so too is the liquefied natural gas fuel, which is less climate-friendly than previously claimed.

[00:26:19] The business case for the ship, drawn up in 2014, predicted it would emit about 400 fewer tons.

[00:26:25] It actually admits 3,000 more tons.

[00:26:29] Instead, it's now expected to produce 700 tons extra, rising to about 2,500 tons extra if methane is included.

[00:26:36] Now, so the point is, they told the public, this will be better.

[00:26:42] It will be greener.

[00:26:44] Much fanfare.

[00:26:45] Much news media.

[00:26:46] Look, ride our green ferry.

[00:26:47] It emits worse, more, and it's four times more expensive and over budget.

[00:26:52] The ferry costs four times as much as predicted.

[00:26:56] The same thing we see with a lot of rail projects, even the one here in Charlotte.

[00:27:01] The light rail here is much more expensive than ever predicted.

[00:27:06] It never did meet the kind of ridership predicted.

[00:27:08] It didn't save traffic or change anything.

[00:27:10] It's just a boondoggle.

[00:27:12] It is.

[00:27:13] Saying it's anything other than that is not being honest.

[00:27:15] So, that's the kind of solutions that don't help.

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[00:28:26] As always, Chad Adams here for Pete Callender.

[00:28:29] Hoping he's enjoying his time off.

[00:28:31] And as we head toward the top of the hour,

[00:28:34] you know, we were talking about this.

[00:28:36] The green agenda stuff.

[00:28:38] And you know, here's the thing that's fascinating to me about that topic.

[00:28:42] I'm not going to belabor it because we'll be talking with Joe Bassardi later in the broadcast.

[00:28:46] It is that somehow, and it works both ways.

[00:28:50] I want to say this in both ways.

[00:28:51] It is a topic that is supposed to be about, it is the single overarching, most impactful topic that can affect your bottom line and freedom that we've seen in our lifetimes.

[00:29:08] I mean, other than being invaded by China or something like that.

[00:29:12] But largely, the American way of life is anathema to the climate change solutions.

[00:29:19] If you read through them, the single greatest impact for your ability to go and do things, enjoy things, travel, have a car, all of that is completely hindered.

[00:29:31] In many ways, I think the Amish are probably the most climate-friendly people.

[00:29:37] Horse-drawn carriages, I think that's what the left doesn't realize that the ultimate result of their policies would be something like that.

[00:29:44] You don't have climate-friendly aircraft.

[00:29:48] You don't.

[00:29:50] It's just not.

[00:29:51] I mean, the entire airline industry would go under.

[00:29:54] The ability to go cross-country, and you want to go in your RV and pack up and head out to see great, you know, the wonders of America?

[00:30:00] No, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:30:01] You can't do that.

[00:30:02] Your car, I mean, my truck only gets like 19 or less on the road, and it's a hybrid.

[00:30:07] It wouldn't get that much.

[00:30:08] It would be disastrous.

[00:30:10] In fact, I think it's only a hybrid because there's some kind of incentive.

[00:30:14] It doesn't need to be a hybrid.

[00:30:16] It just looks good to say it is, right?

[00:30:18] It's to be rather – I mean, to seem rather than to be kind of mentality.

[00:30:24] But that's where – there really is this battle in the trenches.

[00:30:27] It's not sexy when Greta and Michael Mann and the rest of them are out there, and they're frustrated because it's not sexy.

[00:30:35] Used to, it was just not sexy to push back on it.

[00:30:38] Now it's not sexy to talk about it at all.

[00:30:41] It's just – and that's their frustration.

[00:30:43] My concern is, because I saw what happened during the pandemic, how they were able – they, meaning I guess the political left, from Roy Cooper to Mandy Cohen to Anthony Fauci to the rest of them, were able to suppress people.

[00:30:56] Were able to force people.

[00:30:58] I mean, when I saw military members being forced to take a vaccine that had been untested and unproven, I thought it was very dystopian.

[00:31:08] It was very alarming to me that we could force people to do these things.

[00:31:13] I never would have dreamed if you had told me, oh yeah, we'll be able to force people to do whatever we want to.

[00:31:16] We'll be able to fire people because of not obeying what the federal government told them to do on a vaccine or a disease.

[00:31:24] That you could just right across the board wipe an entire group out of their jobs.

[00:31:32] So I don't say that, and I know – I realize it's boring when you talk about windmills and solar panels and that because most of us have adopted a, hey, none of what they've said came true.

[00:31:43] But let's – but be aware, be vigilant because it doesn't go away.

[00:31:47] Now, I do want to get to one, and you know what I'll probably get to on the other side, but I do want to get to the new tolerance campaign.

[00:31:53] And you've never heard of them.

[00:31:54] I doubt maybe one in 150 of you have ever heard of the new tolerance campaign.

[00:31:59] But they look at the – they're a grassroots watchdog organization, and they look at who deserves national woke awards, and they announce those.

[00:32:10] We're going to go through their winners this – in the next break.

[00:32:14] After the next break, we'll go through their agenda of people.

[00:32:18] And I do want to get to the Obamacare thing.

[00:32:21] As the left cheers 15 years of Obamacare, it's worth noting – and this is coming from the Democrats, by the way.

[00:32:29] And you're going to see it more because now that Trump's in office, we'll be talking about health insurance a lot.

[00:32:32] Democrats are warning – Sally Pipes wrote this over the Washington Examiner – Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire.

[00:32:43] In other words, if they don't continue Obamacare, there's going to be a lot of uninsured people.

[00:32:47] But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many of the people that are enrolled in it.

[00:32:52] It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines them to a narrow provider network.

[00:32:58] So rather than subsidize junk insurance through the exchanges, lawmakers should deregulate the market so insurers can offer health plans that are affordable and efficient without federal subsidies.

[00:33:09] Now, this is an opinion piece.

[00:33:10] But imagine that.

[00:33:13] Insurance, by virtue of its existence – by the way, insurance is one of the reasons that America was founded.

[00:33:20] You don't believe me, or maybe you're not aware of that.

[00:33:22] But it wasn't worth it for ships from Great Britain to cross the ocean in the 1700s or late 1600s.

[00:33:31] It wasn't worth it to them until insurance could insure those vessels because a company lost one ship they would go under.

[00:33:38] So insurance looked at risk and said, hey, the odds of that ship making it over are this.

[00:33:42] If you want to insure that cargo, it's going to cost you this.

[00:33:45] And that's how insurance works.

[00:33:47] Insurance for cars should work the same way, and it largely does.

[00:33:50] Insurance is based on your risk.

[00:33:52] You have a beach house.

[00:33:53] Your risk is different than if you have a house in Matthews or Union County or Cabarrus, whatever.

[00:33:59] It's different.

[00:34:00] Risk is different, and you pay relative to it.

[00:34:03] Now, in health insurance, we've become kind of socialist there.

[00:34:07] We want to say that if you want to be 350 pounds and unhealthy,

[00:34:13] your insurance should be the same as someone whose health is off the charts good.

[00:34:18] So we're trying to take, not we, not you, not me, but groups that are out there in the political world are trying to remove risk from health insurance and then call it insurance.

[00:34:28] And the real goal of that is to make it socialized, to make it a one-size-fits-all instead of making it about risk.

[00:34:36] So when they say the exchange coverage is borderline useless, it requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines them to narrow provider networks.

[00:34:46] Go look at the exchanges.

[00:34:47] You can look at healthcare.gov, and you can see how your plans work, where you're stuck.

[00:34:53] But what if it was back to risk?

[00:34:56] It would look very different, wouldn't it?

[00:34:57] The enhanced subsidies allow people with incomes up to 150% of the federal poverty level, which is $46,800 for a family of four.

[00:35:05] It's not a lot of money.

[00:35:06] To sign up for free exchange coverage at taxpayer expense.

[00:35:09] Exchange enrollees pay a progressively larger share of income for premiums until they reach 400% of the poverty level,

[00:35:17] which is $124,000 for a family of four, when their contributions are capped at 8.5% of income.

[00:35:23] In other words, the more money you make, the more you have to pay.

[00:35:25] Now, that's how it works.

[00:35:28] These premium subsidies hide the actual cost of coverage.

[00:35:31] Consider a hypothetical couple in their 20s living in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

[00:35:35] Ironically, that's the town where I was born.

[00:35:38] It's where James Madison is.

[00:35:39] Harrisonburg, Virginia making $80,000 a year.

[00:35:41] By the way, not a rich area.

[00:35:43] Just under 400% of the poverty level.

[00:35:45] The least expensive plan they would be able to purchase through the exchange runs at $417 a month after an $82 tax credit.

[00:35:52] But the plan comes with a narrow network, a $7,200 per person annual deductible, and a 40% coinsurance for most health expenses.

[00:36:01] The out-of-pocket maximum is $18,000, enough to purchase a decent car fresh off the lot.

[00:36:08] Add in the plan's narrow provider network, and the picture gets worse.

[00:36:12] If the hypothetical couple from Harrisonburg, Virginia, can't find an in-network provider, then they're on the hook for 100% of most fees.

[00:36:22] For everything from primary care to lab tests to baby deliveries.

[00:36:25] If they visit an out-of-network emergency department, they'd be on the hook for half of the bill, even after they hit their deductible.

[00:36:31] In short, the marketplace insurance often works like catastrophic coverage, only useful if someone suffers a five-figure healthcare catastrophe.

[00:36:38] But that's not how the exchange is advertised.

[00:36:42] Many enrollees don't learn that their coverage won't offer them much help until they make their first claim.

[00:36:47] Democrats plan to make the enhanced premium subsidies permanent would cost taxpayers $335 billion over the next 10 years.

[00:36:55] According to the Congressional Budget Office, we shouldn't be spending that kind of money to subsidize coverage that many people find useless.

[00:37:02] And they're right on that.

[00:37:04] If you think about it, if we put some thought, and that's one thing I, one of my wishes for 2025 is for us to have an honest discussion about healthcare, not health insurance.

[00:37:14] Because we can, we conflagrate these two, don't we?

[00:37:16] Oh, I've got health insurance.

[00:37:17] Everything's fine.

[00:37:18] Well, that's not healthcare.

[00:37:19] It's a way to pay for healthcare, but we, we need to get a handle.

[00:37:23] How much does healthcare cost?

[00:37:24] How much does it cost you to go to the doctor?

[00:37:26] How much does it cost you to go to the hospital?

[00:37:27] How much does it cost you to go to urgent care?

[00:37:29] You don't know if you have health insurance, show them your card.

[00:37:32] You pay your $20 or your hundred or your 50, and then you get a bill later on for the difference.

[00:37:36] We've got to get to where we understand what we're paying.

[00:37:38] And your doctor needs to understand what you're paying for.

[00:37:40] They don't.

[00:37:41] They have a, that's why you walk in and most of the employees are not in healthcare.

[00:37:43] They're, they're in paper pushing.

[00:37:46] Much more to go here on the Pete Callender radio show.

[00:37:48] We're at Joe Bastardi.

[00:37:49] We've got hour three.

[00:37:50] So much more to go.

[00:37:51] So do stay tuned.

[00:37:52] We'll be back after this.

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