Back to episode — Episode 2716 CWSA 01/10/25
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tuff before any houses burned down. Now that's just about the most evil crime you can imagine, setting somebody's house on fire so you can rob it. The level of evil in that is hard to imagine. There was however one poor individual, a criminal, who had a little blowtorch and he was trying to allegedly set something on fire, presumably for that purpose. We don't know what he was thinking but he loo…
← Previous segment →to do worse they would have taken the only choice because I don't think that guy was going to walk out of that neighborhood. And things are getting really dicey. So when there is something that looks to residents like a complete breakdown of the social order, by the way I'll probably get demonetized on YouTube again. I got demonetized yesterday. I got demonetized for I don't know what but my best guess is suggesting that there's a danger that's approaching with this kind of behavior. So I don't know exactly what it is. I'm probably demonetized again just for this conversation.
Newsom says there'll be 8,000 of these National Guards. I saw Joel Pollak who lives in that area, whose house seems to have survived. We don't know if it's habitable. But he notes that there are more pro-Second Amendment people in the Pacific Palisades than the bad guys might expect. So if the bad guys are expecting a bunch of anti-gun people that they can easily handle, they should be warned that there's some serious personal protection in that area. So people have the assets to protect themselves. So I don't know where it's heading but it does look like a complete breakdown of order.
There's still a lot of talk about whether climate change is a small cause or the cause or no cause or is that just being political. And I wanted to give you a frame for understanding the climate change issue and one that you haven't seen before. And it can explain a little bit why the two sides can't really talk. You know, the yes I believe climate change is an immediate crisis versus the people Elon Musk would be on the other side, which is climate change could be real in terms of the climate might be changing but it's going to be slower than the alarmist believe. So why can't they have a productive conversation and figure out what's really true? And I'll give you my take on that, sort of the hypnotist take.
So if you can see my whiteboard, let me adjust it a little bit. So I just made this up. I call it the climate awareness chart. So the highest level of awareness is at the top but we'll get there. We're going to start at the bottom and see. Here we go. At the bottom level of awareness, and this is where I used to be as a young man, I would hear that 98, 99% of scientists were on the same side and I'd say well I'm done there. There's nothing else I need to know, right? I love science. Science is the best way to find the truth. It's imperfect, it's imperfect, but you know it's the best we have. So you tell me 99% of scientists have been looking into it deeply and they're all on the same side. I'm convinced. And I was. I was convinced.
Now I would say that level of awareness is roughly equivalent to the people who say how can they predict the climate when they can't even predict the weather and I don't believe in climate change because it's cold outside, right? So one is believing it, one is not believing climate change, but these are both the lowest level of understanding and I've been at this level. I've been there.
If you go up a little higher, let's say you decide, huh, I'm seeing two sides of this. I'm just going to look into it. So you look, you do a deep dive. Maybe you see Al Gore documentary. Maybe you read the most official statements from the biggest scientists. And when you're done with that you're going to say okay, okay, I can see why 99% of scientists are saying it because I've done my own research and yeah I mean it's like guaranteed climate change, the crisis, because you did your own research. And then there are also people who do a deep dive on the skeptic side. So maybe they never believe the 99% of scientists or didn't want to believe it so they did their deep dive on the other side. So they only looked at the skeptic's arguments. Both of them would be completely dudded by this process. It doesn't matter which one you're looking at. If you're looking at either the yes it's a crisis or no it's not, they both have the documentary effect. Which is
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if you look at one argument and you see a lot on that one argument you will be convinced beyond any doubt. You will be 100% convinced. And that has nothing to do with whether the thing you're looking at is true or not. Completely unrelated to the underlying truth is a guarantee that if you see one argument and it's really well developed and you spend hours on it you'll believe it every time. And y…
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