Happy Monday folks and welcome as always to the home of sound science and today I have a treat for you

relatively short one but I'm going to feature a recent talk that I saw by the amazing professor

Steve Coonan and he was provost of Caltech he was an advisor on science to the Obama administration

he's a climate scientist and he's also involved with many other universities.

So a brilliant, brilliant man.

But today we're going to go through some clips from his latest talk and the link is down

below to see the full talk.

But I'm going to feature some clips and fascinating stuff I assure you and it'll really

get you up to speed with realities around climate science so first I'll do a quick introductory

clip from him and he's kind of outlaying that the whole climate change thing he doesn't deny it at

all he's just very aware that the push towards

going to net zero is inherently absurd. So here we go. And so if we act too rapidly and in an ill

thought through way, we will incur a greater threat to human well-being than climate change itself.

And of course, I'm going to show you data and trends that support these statements.

And indeed, he does go on to show data and trends to support his point of view.

So now we're going to go to a very brief piece where he describes the level of the Nile River that was recorded for around a thousand years.

And he makes a really crucial point.

So let's hear him.

And what you see when you look at this graph, the blue values are the annual values, is that there's a lot of up and down from year to year.

So that's whether it happens year to year.

The second is if you look at the 30-year average, which is the red line,

you can see that it also goes up and down, a lot.

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