1 00:00:05,066 --> 00:00:08,766 For the Climate Discussion Nexus I'm John Robson with the 2 00:00:08,766 --> 00:00:11,246 latest read out video from our Wednesday wake up newsletter 3 00:00:11,246 --> 00:00:13,966 with thanks to all of you who made a donation to our channel 4 00:00:13,966 --> 00:00:17,886 last week and with a hello to our viewers in Florida and to 5 00:00:17,886 --> 00:00:21,646 everyone who's chilling out there including those who don't 6 00:00:21,646 --> 00:00:26,446 want to be who fall into two broad categories some of them 7 00:00:26,446 --> 00:00:29,006 are the people who are having trouble affording heating as 8 00:00:29,006 --> 00:00:31,886 the Northern Hemisphere winter closes in and governments have 9 00:00:31,886 --> 00:00:36,566 done a splendid job of making vital energy expensive but the 10 00:00:36,566 --> 00:00:40,006 group are alarmists whose hottest year ever parade seems 11 00:00:40,006 --> 00:00:43,766 to have been cancelled. In case you missed it amid all the 12 00:00:43,766 --> 00:00:46,886 coverage of the climate crisis with warming turning to heating 13 00:00:46,886 --> 00:00:50,966 to extreme heating it seems there's been no boring old 14 00:00:50,966 --> 00:00:54,406 fashioned temperature actually went up warming for nearly 15 00:00:54,406 --> 00:01:00,246 seven years now since January of 2015. Or to be more precise 16 00:01:00,246 --> 00:01:03,526 no net warming. There was a temperature spike in 2020 17 00:01:03,526 --> 00:01:07,526 because of an El Niño as there was in 2016. But the best 18 00:01:07,526 --> 00:01:10,466 satellite data say that the ups and downs typical of real world 19 00:01:10,466 --> 00:01:13,826 climate have left us no warmer now than before anyone had 20 00:01:13,826 --> 00:01:17,746 declared an emergency and that seven year figure for the pause 21 00:01:17,746 --> 00:01:20,546 is based on the University of Alabama at Huntsville Data 22 00:01:20,546 --> 00:01:24,306 Series. Another very credible set the HadCrit data out of 23 00:01:24,306 --> 00:01:28,146 Britain say that the pause has instead been what's this? Eight 24 00:01:28,146 --> 00:01:31,906 years? How can it be? Isn't there a linear relationship 25 00:01:31,906 --> 00:01:37,726 between atmospheric CO2 and warming? No. At least Not 26 00:01:37,726 --> 00:01:41,806 according to what's that thing? The science. You know the one 27 00:01:41,806 --> 00:01:45,966 where you test theories against actual evidence. Now seven 28 00:01:45,966 --> 00:01:49,726 years some may say is not a trend. But if that's the case 29 00:01:49,726 --> 00:01:53,566 it isn't either way. Not if it's warming. Not if it's not. 30 00:01:53,566 --> 00:01:57,966 And if the simple alarmist more CO2 means more warming were 31 00:01:57,966 --> 00:02:00,766 correct there would not be there could not be a 32 00:02:00,766 --> 00:02:04,446 temperature pause stretching out for seven years. And since 33 00:02:04,446 --> 00:02:09,066 there is one we'd like to hear the explanation or at least an 34 00:02:09,066 --> 00:02:12,426 acknowledgement. Meanwhile in the Mate Belief World of 35 00:02:12,426 --> 00:02:15,706 politics where the good party's policies are all gained for no 36 00:02:15,706 --> 00:02:18,746 pain and vice versa for the baddies. Australia's opposition 37 00:02:18,746 --> 00:02:21,786 Labor Party leader finally coughed up a climate plan that 38 00:02:21,786 --> 00:02:24,986 quote will help to create jobs cut power bills and reuse 39 00:02:24,986 --> 00:02:28,506 emissions end quote. Specifically he promised to cut 40 00:02:28,506 --> 00:02:32,426 emissions by 43% by 2030 if they win the upcoming election 41 00:02:32,426 --> 00:02:35,626 and yet quote electricity prices will fall from the 42 00:02:35,626 --> 00:02:40,506 current level by $275 for households by 2025 at the end 43 00:02:40,506 --> 00:02:45,446 of our first term if we are successful end quote. Yeah. If. 44 00:02:45,446 --> 00:02:48,246 We might also point out that if they succeed, they'll fail 45 00:02:48,246 --> 00:02:51,046 because the only way to get people to stop using energy is 46 00:02:51,046 --> 00:02:54,966 to make it unaffordable or unavailable in which case yes, 47 00:02:54,966 --> 00:02:58,086 we suppose your energy bill would fall but they said price 48 00:02:58,086 --> 00:03:02,006 is not total spending. So, what's the magic trick to have 49 00:03:02,006 --> 00:03:06,726 cheap, scarce, available energy? Who knows? We mean that 50 00:03:06,726 --> 00:03:10,166 literally. There's an old rule, the origin of which we cannot 51 00:03:10,166 --> 00:03:13,366 now locate. That if enough people of intelligence and 52 00:03:13,366 --> 00:03:15,846 goodwill have looked for something long enough in a 53 00:03:15,846 --> 00:03:19,766 great many places and haven't found it, the chances are it's 54 00:03:19,766 --> 00:03:24,326 not there. So where's the country, state, province, or 55 00:03:24,326 --> 00:03:27,446 even city that has managed this remarkable feat of saving us 56 00:03:27,446 --> 00:03:31,926 from the climate crisis without any pain. If you can't already 57 00:03:31,926 --> 00:03:36,006 name it, we don't believe that it's about to be you. And if 58 00:03:36,006 --> 00:03:38,566 you can, there's no need for you to hem and haw and then 59 00:03:38,566 --> 00:03:41,606 produce a brilliantly original plan you just follow the 60 00:03:41,606 --> 00:03:46,646 leader. And now a word from our sponsor. And that's you. 61 00:03:46,646 --> 00:03:49,126 Because at the Climate Discussion Nexus we're 62 00:03:49,126 --> 00:03:52,646 dependent upon support from our viewers and our readers. Please 63 00:03:52,646 --> 00:03:56,846 go to our donate page and make a one time plan or if you can, 64 00:03:56,846 --> 00:03:59,966 a monthly one. 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Quote, a Japanese town is recycling used adult diapers 71 00:04:22,766 --> 00:04:25,246 but turning them into small pellets that can be used as 72 00:04:25,246 --> 00:04:27,806 fuel and quote and it's apparently a big deal because 73 00:04:27,806 --> 00:04:31,566 those diapers are now about 10% of the waste in that town. 74 00:04:31,566 --> 00:04:34,766 Which seems to us to miss the main triumph namely that Japan 75 00:04:34,766 --> 00:04:37,886 is rapidly depopulating all together. And without people 76 00:04:37,886 --> 00:04:41,006 you don't have man-made warming because dead men emit no 77 00:04:41,006 --> 00:04:44,286 greenhouse gases or at least not many. It's a case of 78 00:04:44,286 --> 00:04:47,886 destroying the village in order to save it. And Japan in fact 79 00:04:47,886 --> 00:04:50,846 now has more adults in diapers than it does babies. And by 80 00:04:50,846 --> 00:04:55,406 2030 it seems that a third of its population will be over 65. 81 00:04:55,406 --> 00:04:58,366 Even so this solution only seems to be heating the public 82 00:04:58,366 --> 00:05:01,886 bath not powering the rest of the economy. So let's not call 83 00:05:01,886 --> 00:05:06,106 it victory just yet. And that's all note that getting rid of 84 00:05:06,106 --> 00:05:08,426 people to save humanity is a plan that does have its 85 00:05:08,426 --> 00:05:11,066 critics. Prince William recently got himself into hot 86 00:05:11,066 --> 00:05:13,866 water for the superficially uncontroversial claim that 87 00:05:13,866 --> 00:05:16,666 rising population in Africa was putting pressure on the 88 00:05:16,666 --> 00:05:20,266 ecosystem. As Al Jazeera shortled quote experts critique 89 00:05:20,266 --> 00:05:23,226 Prince William's ideas on Africa population end quote. 90 00:05:23,226 --> 00:05:28,026 Then what experts say case closed. Al Jazeera added as if 91 00:05:28,026 --> 00:05:30,906 it were noteworthy that people quote took to social media to 92 00:05:30,906 --> 00:05:33,546 share their frustration at the Royal Figure sentiment with 93 00:05:33,546 --> 00:05:37,046 some connecting statement to eco fascism end quote which 94 00:05:37,046 --> 00:05:41,446 altogether now quote has racist connotations. In short black, 95 00:05:41,446 --> 00:05:43,846 brown and marginalized people are blamed for over population 96 00:05:43,846 --> 00:05:46,806 and consequently the environment's demise end quote. 97 00:05:46,806 --> 00:05:49,686 Well what about all the people who are blaming white people 98 00:05:49,686 --> 00:05:52,246 for emitting more greenhouse gases and for having done it 99 00:05:52,246 --> 00:05:56,166 longer. And in any case westerners do seem like the 100 00:05:56,166 --> 00:05:58,886 Japanese to be fixing the problem now by not having 101 00:05:58,886 --> 00:06:01,366 enough children to replace themselves. Whereas in Africa 102 00:06:01,366 --> 00:06:04,786 population has lately been rising from a surprisingly low 103 00:06:04,786 --> 00:06:08,866 $388 million in 1973. That's surprising because Africa's 104 00:06:08,866 --> 00:06:11,106 actually the world's second largest continent despite the 105 00:06:11,106 --> 00:06:14,706 distortion of a mercater map. To 1. 3 billion today and a 106 00:06:14,706 --> 00:06:19,026 projected 4. 3 billion by 2100 though if climate change kills 107 00:06:19,026 --> 00:06:21,986 all the crops and renders much of the earth uninhabitable they 108 00:06:21,986 --> 00:06:25,426 might not make it. In this week's newsletter we also 109 00:06:25,426 --> 00:06:28,226 report a national geographic taking a break from beating the 110 00:06:28,226 --> 00:06:31,186 climate drum to warn that quote European's butterflies are 111 00:06:31,186 --> 00:06:34,366 vanishing as small farms disappear end quote. And we're 112 00:06:34,366 --> 00:06:36,446 glad to see that there's an environmental issue other than 113 00:06:36,446 --> 00:06:39,726 climate change. We're sorry to hear butterflies are so well 114 00:06:39,726 --> 00:06:42,846 adapted to grasslands that even reforestation can harm them. 115 00:06:42,846 --> 00:06:46,206 Let alone urbanization or industrial monoculture. But 116 00:06:46,206 --> 00:06:48,766 it's interesting to reflect here that sometimes we don't 117 00:06:48,766 --> 00:06:52,046 want to let nature take its course entirely. Or spend so 118 00:06:52,046 --> 00:06:54,286 much time causing CO2 for killing plants and everything 119 00:06:54,286 --> 00:06:57,726 else that we have no time for real issues like habitat. Even 120 00:06:57,726 --> 00:07:00,526 if we don't like National Geographic make sure we throw 121 00:07:00,526 --> 00:07:03,966 in the climate's kitchen sink saying oh yeah and grasslands 122 00:07:03,966 --> 00:07:07,866 are a great carbon sink too. Doesn't the butterfly killing 123 00:07:07,866 --> 00:07:11,786 forest used to be the great carbon sink? And while we're 124 00:07:11,786 --> 00:07:14,906 cussing things let's not forget climate destroying patriarchal 125 00:07:14,906 --> 00:07:19,866 science. Yep. Although the trash from Cop26 has largely 126 00:07:19,866 --> 00:07:22,666 been swept away and the ambitions we should mention 127 00:07:22,666 --> 00:07:24,986 that the solution to climate change apparently was found 128 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:27,626 there. Quote the overrepresentation of white men 129 00:07:27,626 --> 00:07:30,506 in climate change decision making processes is stifling 130 00:07:30,506 --> 00:07:32,986 for both the imagination and the implementation of 131 00:07:32,986 --> 00:07:36,986 transformative solutions end quote. And yeah I guess we'll 132 00:07:36,986 --> 00:07:39,946 concede that if Gustaf Dunboy were a girl nobody would have 133 00:07:39,946 --> 00:07:42,186 listened to her especially not at some giant international 134 00:07:42,186 --> 00:07:46,186 climate gathering. But still once you've noticed the pale 135 00:07:46,186 --> 00:07:49,386 patriarchal person problem surely all you have to do is 136 00:07:49,386 --> 00:07:52,426 say whatever the women of color would be advocating if only the 137 00:07:52,426 --> 00:07:56,426 UN climate movement were not such a closed shop. Because 138 00:07:56,426 --> 00:07:59,706 quote when decision making processes incorporate gender 139 00:07:59,706 --> 00:08:02,426 perspectives and meaningful participation by women 140 00:08:02,426 --> 00:08:05,466 solutions are often more comprehensive and durable end 141 00:08:05,466 --> 00:08:09,626 quote. See it's easy. It set the part where you find out 142 00:08:09,626 --> 00:08:12,346 what to do. Because as it turns out there were a lot of women 143 00:08:12,346 --> 00:08:16,106 in NGO delegations to Glasgow as there happened to other of 144 00:08:16,106 --> 00:08:19,686 these cop gatherings. So What are their comprehensive and 145 00:08:19,686 --> 00:08:23,926 durable solutions? Well same as Joseph Biden, Boris Johnson and 146 00:08:23,926 --> 00:08:26,806 Justin Plutos for some reason even though those guys are 147 00:08:26,806 --> 00:08:30,326 white men. Which is especially odd since apparently another 148 00:08:30,326 --> 00:08:33,446 major problem is that men like science and that turns out to 149 00:08:33,446 --> 00:08:37,046 be as bad as denying it. Quote Doctor Sherilyn McGregor of the 150 00:08:37,046 --> 00:08:39,686 University of Manchester obvious that climate change has 151 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:42,646 been represented both as a scientific problem and as a 152 00:08:42,646 --> 00:08:45,286 threat to security. Science and security have been 153 00:08:45,286 --> 00:08:47,926 traditionally male domains while knowledge production and 154 00:08:47,926 --> 00:08:50,886 validation have been seen as the territory of a very narrow 155 00:08:50,886 --> 00:08:56,606 and male centric set of knowers and vote. Now it's a bit weird 156 00:08:56,606 --> 00:08:59,166 to go on to complain that quote the participation of female 157 00:08:59,166 --> 00:09:01,246 scientists in the intergovernmental panel on 158 00:09:01,246 --> 00:09:04,526 climate change has gradually increased but remains low with 159 00:09:04,526 --> 00:09:08,206 women making up just 32% of authors of a recent report end 160 00:09:08,206 --> 00:09:12,206 quote. Because if women make up a third of the authors 161 00:09:12,206 --> 00:09:14,926 including the co-chair of the scientific panel you'd think 162 00:09:14,926 --> 00:09:17,806 they could put forward the vital ideas we eagerly await. 163 00:09:17,806 --> 00:09:20,926 Which in any case predictably turn out to amount to communism 164 00:09:20,926 --> 00:09:24,846 as usual. Quote unless the way our global leaders frame the 165 00:09:24,846 --> 00:09:27,806 climate crisis changes we will continue to force women's 166 00:09:27,806 --> 00:09:30,766 participation to fit within very rigid sets of expertise, 167 00:09:30,766 --> 00:09:34,046 procedures, diplomatic styles that do not lend themselves to 168 00:09:34,046 --> 00:09:37,726 creating radical global and systemic change end quote. Just 169 00:09:37,726 --> 00:09:40,606 as some marginalized person called Garza Dunbury has also 170 00:09:40,606 --> 00:09:46,286 been insisting to thunderous applause. So there it is. Women 171 00:09:46,286 --> 00:09:49,086 have spoken. All we need is radical global and systemic 172 00:09:49,086 --> 00:09:52,926 change. And never mind what kind. That's such a male 173 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:56,446 question. So we suppose is pointing to the daily 174 00:09:56,446 --> 00:09:59,166 temperature records from the local agricultural station in 175 00:09:59,166 --> 00:10:03,006 Bathurst New South Wales and asking you to tell 1920 from 176 00:10:03,006 --> 00:10:07,086 2020. So let's instead look at what latest IPCC report really 177 00:10:07,086 --> 00:10:10,126 said about global greening. They don't go out of their way 178 00:10:10,126 --> 00:10:14,126 to draw attention to it but buried in section 2. 3. 4. 3. 3 179 00:10:14,126 --> 00:10:16,926 they can see that quote vegetation index data drive 180 00:10:16,926 --> 00:10:19,566 from satellites depicts increases in aspects of 181 00:10:19,566 --> 00:10:23,006 vegetation greenness IE green leaf area and or mass over the 182 00:10:23,006 --> 00:10:26,206 past four decades and quote blast that plant killing CO2 183 00:10:26,206 --> 00:10:30,206 and the patriarchal knowledge it on although curiously 184 00:10:30,206 --> 00:10:33,646 courtesy of CO2 Science.org we hear that despite horrifying 185 00:10:33,646 --> 00:10:36,826 predictions of the negative of rising carbon dioxide levels on 186 00:10:36,826 --> 00:10:39,946 Africa it's actually been good for agriculture and quote 187 00:10:39,946 --> 00:10:43,546 terrestrial ecosystem productivity end quote. I think 188 00:10:43,546 --> 00:10:46,826 that means nature. And for those whose love of nature in 189 00:10:46,826 --> 00:10:49,706 all its manifestations includes a particular affection for 190 00:10:49,706 --> 00:10:52,906 places with a lot of plants and animals and especially 191 00:10:52,906 --> 00:10:56,506 charismatic megaphonal like lions and giraffes and even 192 00:10:56,506 --> 00:11:00,746 perhaps their fellow humans it's got to be good news. For 193 00:11:00,746 --> 00:11:04,106 the climate discussion nexus the butterflies and the hippos 194 00:11:04,106 --> 00:11:07,386 I'm John Robson.