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Back to episode — Episode 2946 CWSA 09/02/25

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leasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. Go. Well, I had a little scare today. I'm preparing for the show and I'm looking at all these little suggestions that war is coming in all these small ways like, "Oh, we got the military, the Navy is surrounding Venezuela." And probably there were three different news it…

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ista, I would have said, even if they'd already started, I would have said, "Oh, darn. It's my fault I ordered the wrong thing. Can I adjust?" And the human would have said to me, "No problem." Because they would rather have me as a repeat customer. They would throw away what they started and start doing it the right way. And I'm thinking, you know, there might be like a hundred different reasons that you just won't put up with a robot. Like that's one that I wouldn't have imagined, that the length of time you had to wait for the cup of coffee that you didn't want is so long when you're watching a robot make it. So anyway, beware of coffee robots taking over.

This might be the funniest story of the day and it's a day of funny stories. As you know, a climate activist Greta Thunberg is trying to do her second flotilla to Gaza to protest Israel's actions there. And according to Breitbart News, she had to turn back because the winds were too high. So let me pull this all together for you if you're not already laughing. When the weather bothers somebody else, it's climate change. When the weather cancels her plans, it's weather. Didn't she predict that there would be more severe storms? I think she did. She wasn't right about that. There were not more severe storms. But the fact that she tries to change causes from climate change, which is obviously not working out, I'll tell you more about that, and trying to become the Gaza champion, and she gets stopped by the weather. So she'll probably take another run at it when the weather gets better.

Speaking of climate change, you know that the experts were also saying there's going to be more forest fires and because of the warming, everything would be dried out and next thing you know, one match would burn up half the world because it's all dried out. But the opposite is happening. Bjorn Lomborg is reminding us, I believe this has been a long-term trend, that there are fewer fires and fire damages every year because we're getting better at managing it basically. So apparently some new data came out that 2025 could become the lowest burn year in the 21st century. So big news on this. Cook just received. Bill Ple is saying, "Interesting." So we'll talk about that.

Here are the things that climate change confidently told us were going to happen, which would have been verification that they were on to something and that their understanding of the world was the right one. And if you didn't believe that climate change was a problem, they were going to prove it to you in 12 years when everything went to hell. So they told us the coral reefs were in trouble, but indeed they seem to have recovered and it seems to be just normal cyclical behavior. They told us the oceans would rise. I haven't seen any reports of any populated place that's having a problem with rising sea level. Have you? Is it? Maybe I just don't see it because the algorithm isn't feeding it to me, but I don't think there is. What about the melting Arctic ice? Didn't we learn that that wasn't going the direction it looked like it should? And what about the temperatures in the recent years? Aren't they sort of out of model? Now they would say, well, you know, you could have periods where it's not warming up that much. Then there'd be other periods where it is. But I feel like coral reefs, hurricanes, storms, fires, rising oceans, melting Arctic ice, and even the temperature has sort of paused.

Now what's left? Isn't that basically every variable that they told us was going to move in one direction did not? Every one of them. Is there anything left of the climate change predictions there? There might be. I mean, you would think that they couldn't all move in the wrong direction. There would be at least one variable, wouldn't you think? There'd be at least one variable that would make it look like the climate change people got it right. But I'm not sure there is. There might be no variables that match any of their predictions of doom. Am I right about that? I'll put that as I'm not 100% sure, but I think every single variable went the wrong way in recent years. So we'll see.

And you know what I always say? What do I always

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say at the end of a climate change story? Wait till you find out about the climate models. There's a 100% chance that in the future there will be exposés of how the climate models were fraudulent and that they knew they were. You want to anybody want to make a bet? I say 100% that someday. The trouble is I can't put a deadline on it. It might be 10 years from now, 20 years from now, but I guarante…

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