Back to episode — Episode 505 Scott Adams - TDS, Dopamine, Climate Crazies, Russian Interference, Bernie
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iticizing the press and the Democrats for acting as though the Mueller report said the opposite of what it said. So I think Glenn is puzzled — and maybe puzzled is the wrong word, frustrated sounds like a better word — with the fact that we all waited for the facts, the facts came out, and nobody changed their opinion. People just saw whatever they wanted to see independent of whatever was on the…
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Who predicted that nobody would change their opinion? Me. Somebody said Woodward. I believe Woodward said from the beginning that when he wrote his book he found nothing, nothing to worry about. Yeah, I'll have to look up Bob Woodward, but I think he never believed there was anything there and the Mueller report would have confirmed what he already did. So I predicted the most unlikely thing.
Think about how unlikely that was before I predicted it. Imagine if you will. Oh, Matt Taibbi could be. Yeah, I'd have to look more about what he said in the beginning, but I think he might be the one standout there. Think how unlikely my prediction was. So thinking about first of all I predicted that Trump would win in 2015. Very unlikely. But to be fair, a lot of people also predicted Trump would win. So I wasn't alone. I was sort of alone in describing it the way I did and there weren't too many people who wanted to say it in public, but there were other people. So I wasn't alone in that. But it was a hard prediction.
But how much harder was it for me to predict that the Mueller report would not change any opinions? Except maybe Matt Taibbi. That one was harder to predict, wasn't it? Yeah. And I committed to it. Both of my predictions I committed to.
So it's funny watching Glenn deal with this because you can see his — I would say that even though I'm no fan of Glenn Greenwald like as a person, I think he can be kind of a dick, and he and I have mixed it up on Twitter a little bit. So when I compliment his work you should know that that's genuine because I don't like the person so much. You know, I just don't have a positive feeling about the person. But his work is really good. Can't take that away from him.
Secondly, watching him as a free thinker, you know, and you can spot them, the people who actually seem to be following the data, watching him learn that the entire world completely ignored information that was critical information and watching him come to understand that that's the world he lives in. It's kind of fascinating.
Jordan Peterson tweeted, and I retweeted, an article about how the world is greening. So apparently the earth is substantially greener — more trees, more plants, more bushes — than it was ten years ago. And the attribution is that there's more land for agriculture and that the Chinese and India especially were planting trees. And they were actually doing this for the result they got. They were trying to plant more stuff to work on pollution and climate change I guess. So you can check my Twitter feed and you can see the details. I just tweeted it so it'd be near the top.
And oh, I love this. Somebody said CO2 is plant food because I was just going to talk about that. So interestingly the report I just read about how the world is greening, I read it quickly but I didn't see anywhere where they said CO2 is contributing to the greening, which seemed conspicuously missing. Isn't that the most obvious thing? CO2 good for plants. The big story is there's too much CO2 according to the scientists, but even they would agree the plants should be growing more because of the CO2. So it's weird that that was not in the story unless I just missed it. It was just one sentence or something.
Let me tell you the worst opinions about climate change. And I'm going to say this because every time I mention climate change my Twitter feed is filled with the worst opinions. Now when I say the worst opinions I don't mean that they're on one side or the other. So what I'm gonna say next has nothing to do about which side you're on or which side is right. What I'm going to talk about as the worst opinions are the opinions that don't make sense on any side. They're just by themselves they don't make any sense.
One of them is warming is good. And that whenever through history we've seen warming periods, those warming periods were associated with great gains in civilization. People ate better. There was more wealth. So warming is good. How many of you have that opinion? How many of you have the opinion about climate change specifically that warming is good and the warming that we will experience from climate change is also good because in the past it was good?
So look at the comments. You see lots of disagrees but plenty of people saying yes. Now for those of you who are saying yes, does it bother you that you're seeing so many people saying that doesn't make any sense?
Let me tell you why. And I don't know how to be polite about this. Those of you who are saying warming is good, do you not have a concept of too much? You know there are civilizations — I don't know if this is true but you've heard that there were early civilizations who didn't have a concept of zero. But it seems that there are lots of people in today's world who don't have a concept of too much. They don't know what that means or they can't hold it in their mind.
Let me explain this to you. The more CO2 you have the warmer it gets according to the scientists. Now if you're arguing that CO2 doesn't cause warming t
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hat's a separate argument. But the debate is that more CO2 creates more warming. Do you actually believe there's no limit to how warm it could get and we'd still be happier? Let me put it in these words. How many people believe there's no such thing as a limit to how warm it could get? In other words all warming is better forever at any rate. How many of you will commit to that? I want you to say…
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