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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | The War on Climate Change

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Taking a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of climate change over the years. 

Jon Stewart talks climate change denialism in the U.S. Congress. Jordan Klepper investigates Trump's war on climate science. Roy Wood Jr. asks, what's wrong with our brains that we can't understand the climate threat? Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng insist that climate change actually is real. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:08.6

Now, you may be thinking, do we really need a march to raise awareness about global climate change?

0:17.4

I mean, it's an accepted scientific phenomenon pretty much everywhere.

0:21.5

Here's why you need the march. It's accepted pretty much everywhere, but there's one place

0:25.2

called the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

0:34.4

This is true. Last week, they held a hearing that they apparently recorded in 1971.

0:41.0

I guess that's the technology part of the committee name

0:43.7

on President Obama's plan

0:45.3

to shrink carbon emissions 30% by 2030.

0:48.2

The hearings, Sisyphus,

0:50.1

Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren,

0:52.1

charged the impossible task

0:53.6

of pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain

0:56.0

Of course, like any avalanche it began rather innocuously Texas Republican Steve Stockman

1:02.0

The lead scientist at NASA said this

1:05.0

He said that what ended the ice age was global wobbling is the wobbling of the earth included in any of your modeling?

1:12.4

And the answer was no.

1:14.0

When you have a model and you say we're going to leave out the most important impact of that model

1:19.6

out of our theory and not talk about global wobbling, how can you make projections?

1:25.6

LAUGHTER how can you make projections? What's up, scientists? What's up, scientists?

1:36.3

Global wobbling, bitches!

1:39.3

He sees your so-called global warming and raises you a global wobbling.

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