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maybe you could take a Tylenol and it would make you stop worrying. Now that's not medical advice. Assume that anything that comes out of my mouth about medical advice is a bad idea for you to copy. But if it really does induce risky behavior, which is very close to not being afraid of things that you shouldn't be afraid of, I wonder if you could game that to find some use from the fact that it h…

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down. It could have several years where it goes up. But if you look at the past 40 years when humans have been pumping out the CO2 like crazy, no real difference from the historical record. So the Antarctic is not getting warmer or it's not getting warm enough to make a difference. We don't know.

But remember, I'm not going to say that the studies that kind of agree with me are the accurate ones. That would be crazy. So this, like all the other studies, throw it in the pile with things that are wrong half of the time. But it does seem like there are a lot of things going in the same direction suggesting that the ice hasn't melted, the sea level has not risen, there are no more hurricanes than you should expect. I feel like climate change is getting ready for a tipping point like it's going to be harder and harder to accept it as a real existential risk.

And then, okay, now I don't know if this next part I'm going to tell you is real. If it's real, my mind is blown but not surprised. According to the same article from Frank Bergman of Slay News, and again I don't know this is true. This is the first time I've ever heard this. It's blowing my mind. You remember the hole in the ozone? So when I was younger there was a hole in the ozone and then you remember that they banned certain kinds of aerosols that had some chemical that was causing it and then it was one of the greatest successes of science because the ozone hole actually closed. Is that what you think happened? How many of you think that's what happened? That's what my news told me. My news told me that science made a discovery of what was causing it. Government worked efficiently to ban that one item that was the problem and sure enough little time goes by and that ozone hole closed itself. Except according to Frank Bergman of Slay News, it's now bigger than it ever was and that it's also a natural variability that sometimes the hole is bigger, sometimes the hole is smaller. And after all that banning of all those chemicals it got smaller, but while they're still banned it's bigger than it's ever been. I've never heard that before. Have you? How many of you heard that? And again I'm going to put it in the category of is that true or is it bad data? I don't know. I think I'm a little skeptical that the ozone hole is bigger than it's b

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een but I will check it out. So I only just read this this morning. Has anybody heard of this? I'm hesitant to say it's true. I'll just say it's reported. Well, did you see all the stories about the drones on Christmas Day? You know, all the unidentified drones on Christmas Day? My God, did you see all the stories about that? No you didn't. You know why? Well I don't know for sure but I think all…

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