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been a meathead. But have I mentioned that he's a meathead? I want to be as clear as this as possible. It's not funny. It's never been funny. And there's nothing you can do to it that'll make that a good comment. Right now if you were the only one who thought of it I'd say oh that's a good point. Nobody came to this conclusion that he had a character he played famously called the meathead. If you…

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eapon that's behind it all. Now there might be something that's behind it all. Might be some kind of electronics that are common to embassies that have some sonic problem to them or something. But I think I'm also the only person in the country who predicted that. Am I right? I didn't hear anybody else in the country predict that you would never find the sonic weapon. Haven't found it yet. So I like to talk about my predictions that no one has made.

All right, I have to talk about this again because it came on the slow news Thanksgiving day. But there is a new study saying that the Arctic Ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought. Now to be clear this new information does not debunk climate change in the sense of its direction and it doesn't debunk it in terms of humans causing it. It does however completely debunk the science.

So the reality might be that the earth is warming, people are causing it, maybe we need to do something about it. Right? That seems to be the case. And my current best guess because I'm not a scientist is that probably humans are causing warming because I think that's something you could study. I think you could do it in a lab. You could study it a million times and you could find out the CO2 has that effect. Seems reasonable. Which is different from saying that the science is right. Right? Because there's a lot of science. But just that one minor thing whether CO2 makes warming or not, I think they got that right. We don't know how fast, how much, how much has been in the past, how much we have to worry about. Those are all different questions.

But this new study, if it stands and it might not — you know maybe it gets debunked tomorrow — but if it were to stand would show that all the models are completely wrong. Sort of a big deal. There's no way the models could even be close to correct if this study is right because it says the warming started way before the largest am

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ount of industrial stuff happened by people. Humans put off heat. Well maybe you mean the human causation part. I don't know what you're debunking there but let me go on. So it puts the believers in climate science in kind of a bind because if this study is right it means that everything that they thought about climate change, at least the modeling part of it, just the modeling part, was wrong. B…

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