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kind of thing. It's not an X Prize but his own thing. He offered up to pay a hundred million dollars to whoever comes up with the best carbon capture technology. Who else did that? Like who else could have? Who else was smart enough? Who else knew that carbon capture technology is basically the only way to fix things? Did you know that? Did you know that there's basically no way to fix climate ch…
← Previous segment →nion piece on this by saying that doesn't mean we're doomed. It does mean we need to innovate. So it's sorted down to engineers need to save the world. Has that ever happened before? Engineers have to save the world. No way around it because the politicians aren't going to do it. If they did they would be starving their own public. Nobody's going to do that. You have to engineer your way out of it. And Elon Musk is at the moment he's the chief engineer of the world or let's say chief engineer of the United States because he's figured out the most important thing to do and then he put tremendous resources, you know 100 million dollars of money behind it. That's how you get out of it without starving people.
Elon Musk is the only person who told you the truth on climate change. Think about that. Elon Musk is the only person that I know of in the whole world, any politician, any pundit, I think he's the only person who's told you the truth, which is if you don't go hard at this and do the carbon capture there's no way to get there. So he put his money behind it and right now he's the most important person in the world I think because he's engineering the way out of our biggest problems.
Our biggest problems are not guns or transgender sports or whatever you're going to worry about today. I don't worry about that one but I know you do. So anyway he's I would say he's the most important person in the world right now.
Katie Couric apparently was chosen to host Jeopardy to replace Alex Trebek who passed away. I thought Katie Couric was an interesting choice. I'm not sure I would have chosen her for that job but you know she's a big name brand and she's great on TV so it makes sense I guess. But apparently she went on the Bill Maher show and said that Republicans need to be deprogrammed. And the Jeopardy people said we just hired you for a TV show where we would like everybody to watch our show. We'd kind of like conservatives to watch Jeopardy as you know there's a lot of them and they like their TV. So Jeopardy, the rumor is that Jeopardy is having second thoughts about hiring her because she just turned off half, well maybe a third of the country.
But her statement was that Republicans need to be deprogrammed. What do you think about that? I know most of you watching this is probably conservative leaning but do you believe that Republicans need to be deprogrammed? I would say yes. I would say anybody who believed in the Q stuff needs to be deprogrammed I think so. I think a lot of the climate opinions need to be deprogrammed. It might not make any difference if you do it or not but it would be useful. I think in terms of the let's say the election security probably need to be deprogrammed at least to the point of knowing that the obvious ones that have been debunked have been debunked. Now that doesn't mean that you could...
Yeah it's getting windy here. We got a little monsoon coming up. It's starting to get a little dicey here. All right so I would say that both Republicans and Democrats should be deprogrammed but on different topics.
All right. Biden says today there's a quote: nothing we can do to change the coronavirus trajectory. So now that Biden's president he says there's nothing we can do to stop the coronavirus. And I'm thinking well it would have been nice to say that during the election when he ran for office. Would you have preferred hearing Biden say...
If I take the microphone off of my body maybe it'll help a little bit. I've got a hurricane going on here. Let me walk inside. All right might be a little bit better. So here's the inside.
All right so I can see the climate change doubters doing the laffy laffy happy faces. Let's see if I can get this microphone back on. So those of you who are let's say climate skeptics, there's plenty of good reason to be a skeptic of climate because I think a lot of the climate claims are obvious. So if you're saying to me Scott, Scott how do you not realize that the climate change science is, how do you not see it? It's obvious. And here's the problem. A lot of it is obvious and you're completely right but there's a whole bunch of other stuff that isn't.
So the problem with the climate science topic is that if you're listening to let's say somebody who's a believer in climate they're going to give you a bunch of things that are true that you should believe and then a bunch of things that are obvious. If you talk to somebody who's a skeptic the skeptic will tell you a bunch of things that are true and then a bunch of things that are complete. So if you think the people on the left are all wrong or you think the people on the right or let's say just pro and con of climate change not left and right but if you think one of those sides has the good argument you are wrong. There are two bad arguments. The ones that are pro climate change and the ones that are anti-climate change belief I guess. Both sides are completely irrational.
Meaning that if you're going to be fair about it let me be a little bit... We still have the same problem out here looks like we do. It's about 100 times more windy than when I first had it. So let me put it this way. Almost everybody needs to be deprogrammed when it comes to climate change. Whatever you believe, if you were to make a list of all the things you say are true statements about climate whether you were pro or anti whichever side you were on, if you just wrote down 10 things you believed to be definitely true about climate you'd be wrong on five of them and it wouldn't matter which side you were on.
I don't think there's anybody who talks about this topic who isn't wrong about 30% of what they say on climate. I've never seen anybody who wasn't obviously in need of some deprogramming. And by the way that includes me when I started digging into this topic. And I've done quite a bit of looking at the skeptical arguments probably more than 99% of people. And I've looked at the pro, I've looked at the con, I've looked at the debunks for both the pro and the con, the debunks to the debunks. So I've gone down a few layers. I'll let you look at a better scenery while you're doing this. I've gone down a few layers into it and what I can tell is everybody's lying. So both sides are lying or they're just mistaken. I don't know. But I don't think there's anybody who's being completely honest about the climate stuff with two exceptions. And you're not gonna like this right? I know you're not going to like this.
There are two people that I believe are completely honest about it, probably are really close to also being accurate in terms of understanding it all. One of them is Bill Gates and I know you don't like that but I've been watching him for a long time and listened to a lot of what he says about this and I feel like he's as close as you can get to the real thing. I would bet, I don't know this for sure but I'll bet if you put Elon Musk and Bill Gates in the same room and said all right talk privately about climate change what is real and what should we not believe about climate change, I'll bet it would be close. Not exact but I'll bet the two of them would be on the same page about what's real and what isn't.
I'll bet you if I said to either one of them that the economic predictions are not reliable, you know the ones that look like it's great doom, I think they both agree with that. That you can't predict 80 years of economics. Too much innovation, too many surprises along the way. So I would listen to those two people. And when you see Elon Musk do something t
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his big, you know the 100 million for carbon capture, you should take that really seriously. I feel as if you're seeing some kind of a political shift that I like a lot. And it goes like this. Most of our future problems are going to be technology related. In other words you'd have to understand the technology in order to make the right decision. So they're technology related and they're going to…
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