d or you can be super racist, but you cannot be both. That's too much. That's too much, Harvard. So Harvard said, well, as much as we love being super racist, I guess it would be better to be high paid. So they chose the money over the principle. Experts. Here's to the experts at Harvard who are teaching you how to manage without measuring things. To them. To them.

So good. Well, even though your highest educational facilities who teach people science and business, even though they apparently don't understand science or business, the one thing we can feel confident in is that they did produce scientists who really got climate change right. Because if there's one thing the scientists can do outside of the college environment, they can measure the temperature of the planet. Am I right? They can measure the temperature of the planet. So at least we've got that working for us. So good news on that front.

Oh, this is awkward. Wow. Kind of bad luck that this story came up in the order it did. Well, now I just feel like a dope. Zero Hedge is reporting that as many as 30% of all the thermometers that they use for the temperatures don't exist. I wonder if that's a problem in the accuracy. So they're called ghost thermometers, and they're thermometers that used to exist at one point but now they no longer do. So what they do, the people who are measuring the data, let's call them the experts, probably all came from Harvard and MIT and Yale, but I don't know that for sure. But when they go to measure and they realize that there used to be a thermometer there but now there isn't, what they do is they take the average of other thermometers.

So let's say you used to have an old one but now the old one's gone. Now it's been replaced with a new one, and it's not even necessarily in the same place. So you take the average of the temperatures of the thermometers that are not where the old one was, and you throw that in the mix. 30% of them. 30%. That's the claim.

Mr. Shuchuk said the USHCN stations, they reached a maximum of over 1,200. So in 1957 we had over 1,200 temperature measuring stations or thermometers. But after 1990 the number of active stations became declining due to aging equipment and personnel retirements. Huh. You know, I lived in the real world for a while, and I worked in a laboratory in which all we did was work with equipment and technology every day. Equipment and technology. And you know what I learned when I was working with equipment and technology? All that equipment and technology is 100% effective all the time, and it never breaks, never gets out of calibration, never gets out of tune, and is completely unaffected by temperature and the incompetence of the people involved. No, that's the opposite of what I learned.

Now, I would like to take a bow in a moment, but only after I tell you why, and then I'll see if you believe I deserve a bow, okay? You get to decide. If you say yes, Scott, you can take a bow, then I'll do it. But if you say no, they'll say, all right, all right, you have spoken. Who told you? Name anybody else who told you this, that in the real world you can't trust on people to read thousands of thermometers and compare it to 100 years ago when we didn't have thermometers and we had tree rings and ice core samples and come up with a believable, credible line that passes all scientific integrity. And I said in the real world that is literally not possible. There is no situation in which you could have 1,200 thermometers and maybe a thousand people involved, and that they're measuring the temperature and getting something like a real result.

Do you believe that with having no scientific background whatsoever, that using the Dilbert filter, which is what I did, I used the Dilbert filter, that the real world does not have any kind of competence that could possibly produce accurate temperature readings with the equipment used, things changing over time, and then human beings involved in the process? Who told you that that isn't even possible? Just me. Who else predicted that if you actually looked into it, it would look absurd? Just me. I'm the only one. Do I deserve a bow? You tell me. What do you mean no? Damn you. Damn you.

All right, all right. Did Linden know? So let me give you a different take on that. So somebody said that a professional climate scientist said that, well, the climate scientist didn't say exactly this story, but the climate scientists do say, you know, for this reason or that reason, the accuracy is not good. Now, from a scientific perspective and somebody within the industry, that may be an accurate take. But I'm not even in the industry, and I'm saying that you don't need to be a climate scientist who has worked deeply in the industry. You just have to listen to what they said. Wait, you just told me you measured the temperature of the earth so accurately that you can tell what direction it's going in. Why? I don't believe that. I don't believe that for a second.

So the Dilbert principle of just general incompetence really guarantees this isn't doable because it's too manual, has too many pieces of equipment involved, too much moving things around, too much temperature and weather destruction, too much bureaucracy. Yes, I would say that this is pretty solid evidence that we don't know if the temperature is going up or down. It's not my opinion that I know, by the way. So it's not my opinion that I know everything's fine climate-wise. It's my opinion that we can't measure it. That's a very big difference. So it could be a crisis. Maybe. How would I know? In order to know, I would have to trust science. Really? It's 2024. Who trusts science? Doesn't even feel like a thing.

Now, let me ask you this. How long do you think it will take Trump and let's say Vivek to turn that, and let's say this needs some confirmation, so it would be great if we had some confirmation of this, but suppose we get confirmation that 30% of the thermometers are ghost thermometers. How long would it take Vivek and Trump to turn that into a victory dance and say, well, we can't tell you what the temperature is doing. We can just tell you that they didn't know, and maybe it was a hoax. Would you say it's a hoax if I told you that 30% of the thermometers don't exist? Would you say it's a hoax? Maybe not, but it's not that far away, is it?

All right. Trump did the funniest Trump thing. I mean, every time Trump does something you don't quite expect, it feels like he's just operating on some different level. So here's what he did. He just did some video commercials recommending RFK Jr., his competitor, and he actually meant it because he's aware that Democrats are more likely to vote for him. So he just comes right out and says in videos, he said that RFK Jr. is a better man than Biden. And he says, quote, RFK Jr. is, as you know, the most radical left candidate. So he's making sure that there are no Republicans who want to go that way. So he characterizes him as the most radical left. That should eliminate all the Republicans from voting for him.

But he says he is more so than the Green Party, even lefter than the Green Party, says Trump. And says he's more so even than Crooked Joe Biden. But he's got some nice things about him. I happen to like him. And then Trump says, I guess I would mean RFK Jr. is going to be taking away votes from Crooked Joe Biden, and he should because he's actually better than Biden. He's much better than Biden. He's much better than Biden.

Now, how much do you love that? Have you ever seen that? Have you ever seen somebody just come right out and say, you know what, this other guy is better than the guy you're voting for. He's not as good as me, but you should at least not vote for that other guy because that's a disaster.

Would you like to hear what the young people in my town say? Here's what the young people in my town say about Joe Biden and RFK Jr. And I'm told that there are no exceptions. No exceptions. Now, I can't prove that, but I'm told there are no exceptions to what I'm just going to say at the young person sort of teenager, young adult level. When asked about politics, they'll say, you know, RFK Jr. is kind of attractive, but there's no way in hell I'd support Biden. And those are Democrats. You know, those are people who come from Democrat backgrounds. They're literally saying Biden is not even close to being a possibility. They're saying RFK Jr. all the way. The young people. Now, they're not saying Trump. The boys are more likely to say Trump, but the girls are saying, you know what, RFK Jr. looks a lot better than Biden.

Do you know what makes women decide on a candidate? Is whether they'd have sex with them. Is that too far? Nope. No, that would be a normal way that all human beings act. Did I not just tell you they did a study that said that lawyers who are m