WTH is Going On With The Corruption of Climate Science? Roger Pielke Jr. Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
President Biden is pushing through climate regulations at record speed as his administration, activists, and international organizations warn of an impending climate disaster absent drastic policy changes. But as the US pauses exports of liquefied natural gas and attempts to spend over a trillion dollars on climate initiatives, few stop to ask the question, “Is the world really headed towards climate apocalypse?” In short, no. Climate science relies on scenarios, of which there are thousands. However, billionaires, policymakers, and climate forums have ensured that the most extreme, outdated, and implausible scenario is now the global “baseline.” What do climate scientists actually think of RCP 8.5? And how can US policy better reflect the realities of climate change?
Roger Pielke Jr. is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on science and technology policy, the politicization of science, and energy and climate. He is concurrently a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder; a distinguished fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan; a research associate of Risk Frontiers (Sydney, Australia); and an honorary professor of University College London. Dr. Pielke is a regular contributor for and oversees the popular substack The Honest Broker.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.6 | And I'm Mark Teeson. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:34.6 | Mark, what the hell's going on now? |
| 0:36.6 | What the hell is going on is we're talking about the corruption of climate science. |
| 0:41.9 | And we've got a colleague from the American Enterprise Institute, who Roger Pilka, who has a fantastic blog, and he's actually written an academic paper on this, that shows that a lot of the baselines that we are being told about the worst case scenarios |
| 0:57.1 | of the if we do nothing variety are antiquated based on the technology and data of 10 to 15 years |
| 1:05.9 | ago and are not accurate and they are affecting decisions that are being made by the Biden administration and by others |
| 1:14.2 | that are leading us to very possibly very bad and I would say catastrophic decisions when it comes to our economy and what we're doing in climate science. |
| 1:23.3 | What do you think, Danny? |
| 1:24.1 | Yeah, so I mean, I think it's absolutely fascinating to understand. |
| 1:28.0 | And again, you and I are not deep in scientists and don't understand, you know, all of the calculations that go into this. |
| 1:36.4 | But what is absolutely striking to me is the politicization of science. |
| 1:42.8 | This is fatal. |
| 1:47.4 | And I don't mean that it's fatal because it's bad for politics or bad. It is fatal because people are no longer believing in scientists, right? |
| 1:53.2 | Scientists have broken their... Or experts more broadly. Yes, absolutely. They have broken their brand, |
| 2:01.6 | right? Yes. |
| 2:02.6 | It is, and you know, just as we blamed Tony Fauci for this during COVID, I think that the |
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