. That's a pretty good theory. I don't know if it's true, but another one is there's so much money to be made in AI that no one wants to criticize the energy industry anymore because if you go hard on climate change and clamp down on, let's say, fossil fuels, we would kill our AI industry. But is the AI industry the same as whoever might be funding and talking about and worrying about and astroturfing the climate change? I feel like those worlds overlap but not in an important enough way. So I don't know about that.

The other possibility, I think Mike Solana mentioned this, is that now that Greta Thunberg is a Palestinian supporter, Hamas supporter, whichever way you want to go on that. So she's off the board as if it never mattered. You have to wonder why would Greta go from this is the biggest problem in the world to another problem that of course you know is dire and drastic and it's a huge tragedy but it's also just a tiny little part of the world. How do you go from climate change will kill us all, billions of people, to well, now I'm only going to pay attention to this little tiny little tiny piece of the world. So it kind of makes it look like she's just sort of into causes and not so much into worrying about climate change. It makes it look like she didn't mean it. I can't read her mind. But when you change from the biggest problem in the whole globe to a little tiny problem in one part of the world, it's hard to take you seriously what you said about the big problem. You'd still be working on it.

Somebody else said in the comments that climate change was always a luxury belief in Europe, but Europe is having financial problems. So is it really the biggest problem in the world if the first thing you do when you have financial problems is you stop paying for it? That doesn't really match the biggest problem in the world, does it? It kind of puts a lie to it. It's like, wait a minute. As soon as money gets tight, that's the first thing that gets unfunded. The biggest problem in the world. Now, I realize there's a timing difference, but even so, it feels like not being taken seriously.

And then I'm going to give you the Scott take on this. My take is that the reason it's no longer a hysteria, climate change, is that the data has been so not cooperating now for several years. And we just don't have the signs that they promised us. Has it not been how many years have we been told that the water level is going up and it didn't? This year again the number of named storms is down instead of up. The number of lives lost to climate disasters down. So pretty much everything from the coral has recovered. The ice, it's a little unknown, but it doesn't look like it's melting as fast as they said. And let me summarize that for you. All data is fake. The entire climate change thing was based on data, right? Do you think any of that data was real? I didn't. I never believed that they could measure the temperature of the Earth well enough to know how it's changing from year to year. No. No. In the real world, that's not something humans can do. It's just too hard. No, we don't have like a new technology. We've got a bunch of thermometers that we put in different places around the Earth. Yeah, they're in structures, but of course there are heat islands and you know they replace them and sometimes they guess what it would have been if it used to be there but it isn't. I mean it's just a mess. So climate change I'm not expecting to make a big comeback but I could be wrong.

According to Bank of America, 26% of US workers sought financial help in 2025, which would be up from 13% in 2023. I don't know what that means exactly to seek financial help. Does that mean they couldn't pay their bills? Does that mean that they applied for a credit card? Would that be seeking financial help? So I don't know what that means, but if it were true that 25% of workers didn't have a way to meet their bills, which I hate to say it, but that feels like that might be about right, you know, based on my lived experience. I don't see many people who can pay their bills. Do you? By that I mean, you know, obviously I know some rich people who can pay their bills, but the people who are not legitimately rich, they don't really have any plan to ever be able to pay their bills, you know, in the long run, their expenses are way more than their earning potential. It seems like there's a lot of them. And if you told me that it's up to 25%, I would say I'm not that surprised. But I would tell you again, I don't know if I mentioned this, but all data is fake. And that might be fake data. Meaning that whatever they mean by seeking financial help, who knows what th