Stop Climate Change Alarmism | Short Clips

so now seems like as good a time as every other moment prior till now to talk about climate change the planet has already warmed by 1 degrees Celsius since the time we started burning all these fossil fuels and we're on track to warm by four degrees possibly as soon as 2060 according to the most recent UN study even two degrees of warming would mean millions more refugees double the loss of food harvests 10 centimeters of sea level rise and an obliteration of all coral reefs which means we've got 12 years to have a shot at keeping the temperature to a still bad but manageably terrifying 1 and 1/2 degrees Celsius of warming so yeah banning plastic straws ain't gonna cut it we face an existential threat life as we know it is on the line we have 12 short years to change everything or it's game over this is the terrifying scenario that's used by many leading politicians to justify a green new deal an unprecedented increase in government power focused on the energy industry the core idea of a green new deal is that government should rapidly prohibit the use of fossil fuel energy and impose 100% renewable energy mostly solar and wind this may sound appealing but consider what it would entail today 80% of the energy Americans used to heat their homes farm their land run their factories and drive their cars comes from fossil fuels coal oil and natural gas only 3.4 percent comes from solar and wind despite decades of government subsidies and mandates to encourage their use their reason we don't use much sunlight and wind as energy is that they are unreliable fuels that only work when the Sun shines and the wind blows that's why no town city or country has ever come close to 100 percent or even 50 percent solar and wind and yet green New Deal proponents say they can do the impossible if only we give the government control of the energy industry and control of major users of energy such as the transportation industry manufacturing and agriculture all of this is justified by the need to do something about the existential threat of rising co2 levels we're told on a daily basis that prestigious organizations like the United Nations have predicted mass destruction and death if we don't get off fossil fuels what we're not told is that such predictions have a decade's long track record of getting it wrong and by wrong I mean completely missing the dartboard wrong for example in 1989 The Associated Press reported a United Nations prediction that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000 we're now two decades past 2000 we're not missing any nations and human beings are living longer healthier and wealthier lives than ever before but aren't things bound to get worse haven't scientists established that co2 is a greenhouse gas with a warming influence on the planet yes but that's only a small part of the big picture although co2 causes some warming it's much less significant than we've been told since we started using significant amounts of fossil fuels in the middle of the nineteenth century we've increased the percentage of co2 in the atmosphere from 0.03 percent to 0.04 percent which correlates with an average temperature increase of about two degrees Fahrenheit it also correlates with significant global greening because co2 is plant food all of this is far from unprecedented territory for our planet which has existed with at least 10 times today's co2 levels and a 25 degree warmer average temperature what is truly unprecedented though is how safe we are from climate the International disaster database a nonpartisan organization that tracks deaths from climate related causes such as extreme heat floods storms and droughts shows that such deaths have been plummeting as co2 emissions have been rising how is this possible because of the fossil energy that emitted the co2 which has empowered us to climate proof our environment with heating air conditioning sturdy buildings mass irrigation and weather warning systems fossil fuel energy has not taken a naturally safe climate and made it unnaturally dangerous it's taken our naturally dangerous climate and made it unnaturally safe fossil fuels are not an existential threat they're an existential resource because they increase something much more important than the level of co2 in the atmosphere the level of human empowerment increased life expectancy income health leisure time and education are all tightly linked to increased access to fossil fuels does this mean that we shouldn't look for lower carbon energy alternatives of course not but the alternatives should lead us toward more abundant more reliable power not less the most promising form of alternative energy is not unreliable solar and wind but reliable carbon free nuclear energy Sweden gets 40% of its electricity from nuclear France over 70% while nuclear energy is smeared as unsafe it has actually been demonstrated by study after study to be the safest form of energy ever created and yet Green New Deal proponents who say that we have 12 years to save the planet from rising co2 levels vigorously oppose nuclear in addition to all fossil fuel use by opposing every affordable abundant reliable form of energy the green New Deal won't protect us from an existential threat it is an existential threat