The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Bjorn Lomborg & Steven Crowder | 8/18/20

Episode Date: August 18, 2020

The first night of the Democratic National Convention was geared toward people who don’t know what’s going on in the world, and Michelle Obama’s speech is a perfect example. Where is the media to fact-check all these lies? BlazeTV’s Steven Crowder has been remonetized on YouTube and joins to discuss his interview with David Dorn’s widow. “False Alarm” author Bjorn Lomborg explains why climate change alarmism costs trillions, harms the poor, and doesn’t accomplish much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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for you today. Um, we started with Michelle Obama and, uh, whoo, uh, and covering the convention. It is a wild ride. You don't want to miss.

We had Bjorn Lomburg on with us, the skeptical environmentalist who was fantastic. If everybody on the global warming scam was just saying the same things he was, it wouldn't feel like a scam, and I'd be a part of it. And I think everybody would be a part of it. Really, really logical. And he's got a new book out about, stop saying we're all going to be dead in 10 years, because it's not true. You're scaring the kids.

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Oh my gosh. When the, when they started with the, do we have the national, anthem from the DNC last night. Oh my, when this hit, I thought I was going to lose my mind. Powerful. Oh, look. And nobody's kneeling. Nobody's. That's fantastic.

Okay, stop. I can't take it. So you knew you were in for a very long night of agony. A very long night of programming. Honestly, Sesame Street has a higher. standard for education. Sesame Street has a higher standard. This thing was jam-packed with information for absolute morons and idiots. You start with a national anthem. An educated person says, how can you start with a national anthem? Because everybody's taking a knee. You guys aren't

defending the national anthem. You guys are saying that the national anthem is racist. So how are you doing that without any self-awareness? They're totally self-aware. They are programming to morons. They don't think you're aware of it. They don't think you know anything that's going on. And the people that will buy this don't. So you have to watch it in a different way.

Like Michelle Obama's speech, I'm going to try to get through. I just have, I think, 10 pieces of her audio to get through. I don't think I can do it. When you listen to Michelle Obama, first of all, The worst thing anyone can do on the right is tear Michelle Obama apart as a person or anything else because she is so liked. That's different than likable. You don't have to like her. You don't even have to understand how other people like her.

But you need to understand how liked she is. We don't feel this way because I'm sure she's a wonderful person if you agreed with her. So I don't feel this way because I know so much about her. I know that she doesn't love America. She said the first time she was ever proud of her nation was when Barack Obama was elected. The first time she was proud of her nation. We have heard too many off-camera comments from her. I know who she hung out with.

I know her Marxist friends. I know who she went to church with for 20-some years. There's no way you can have the kind of love and appreciation for this country that maybe you have. Now, maybe she appreciates it in a whole different way, like it's a great place to start all over again. Maybe. But we see her differently because we've been educated. We've paid attention. So let's listen to her speech.

Here's cut one. Good evening, everyone. It's a hard time. and everyone's feeling it in different ways. I don't like it so far. And I know a lot of folks are reluctant to tune into a political convention right now or to politics in general. Stop. Believe me, I get it.

Why do you hate it so far? I just don't get it. I know everyone thinks she's amazing and she's this incredible person and she's the most beautiful woman that's ever walked the face of the earth. She's an average person. She's, like, there's nothing wrong with being average looking, but that's just what she is. She's an average looking person who does, who, so, who, who again, like, I, I, I watch her speeches, and I feel like I'm in another universe. I watch every blue check on Twitter say how it was the most amazing thing they've ever seen.

And I, it's, I, I look at it and I'm like, that was, that looked like the wife of a politician trying really hard to read a, a speech who is written by a pretty good speechwriter, right? And she's overacting it and overdoing it. And she's not really great at this, but like, hey, let's, nice work. Separating her from who she is and what we know about her and her politics. Like, I just don't see her as this amazing transformative person. She has a way. Okay, she has a way.

Now, remember, talking two different things, way you see it and the way the half of the country sees her. They have not been exposed, nor have they listened to all of the things that make you go, she is not telling the truth here. She's not telling the truth. That's part of it. So it's part of it. But she hasn't said anything yet.

All she said was, you probably don't want to tune into a convention. I was like, oh. She also says all of the things. Now, this is a speechwriter, saying all of the things that everybody feels. And she has a way. She is good at one thing. She can look into the camera and connect with an individual. Maybe not you, but she can connect.

And that's a very rare skill. And I do think she has that. She seems overact-y to me. But if you're not predisposed to think she's a fraud, you may not feel that from her. All right, continue. I get that. but I am here tonight because I love this country with all my heart.

And it pains me to see so many people hurting. I've met so many of you. I've heard your stories. And through you, I have seen this country's promise. And thanks to so many who came before me, thanks to their toil and sweat and blood, I've been able to live that promise myself. That's the story of America.

Wow. All those folks who sacrificed and overcame so much in their own times because they wanted something more, something better for their kids. There's a lot of beauty in that story. There's a lot of pain in it, too. A lot of struggle and injustice and work left to do. Okay. And I have to tell you. What?

What? You see, this is the problem. They say things they don't mean. Because if you meant that, we wouldn't have a problem. Yes, there's a lot of pain and let's work through that pain. But that's not what's being said. What's being said, there is no beauty in the people that struggled in their own time, as she said. in their own time to make life better for their children.

They did in their own time. Their times were different. So they didn't meet today's standards, but they moved to the flag forward. And now it's our job to move the flag forward even more. But that's not what the left is saying. That's not what the Democratic Party stands for anymore. They call for the destruction of America,

a rewriting of our history, a washing us of everyone in their time that was trying to do the right thing for their children. That's a real problem. Now, let's go to SOT II. Listen to this. Tell me who she's describing. I am one of a handful of people living today who have seen firsthand the immense weight and awesome power of the presidency. And let me once again tell you this. The job is hard.

It requires clear-headed judgment, a mastery of complex and competing issues. Yes. A devotion to facts and history. History? A moral compass and an ability to listen. And an abiding belief that each of the 330 million lives in this country has meaning and worth. Okay.

All right. Okay. Stop. Stop. Now remember, she's giving the speech for Joe Biden. So let me just go through this. She's seen it firsthand, immense weight and awesome power of the presidency. She's seen it.

Can we say real quick? This country's not supposed to have an awesomely powerful president. That's not how it's supposed to work. Yes. But she's seen that. Yeah, she has seen that. Let me once again tell you this. The job is hard.

Agree? Sure. Yes. It requires clear-headed judge. judgment. Does Joe Biden have clear headed judgment? How could anyone say that with a straight face? Can't. How? Can't. A mastery of complex and competing issues. He can't even get to multiple syllable words at this point. Right. He might have five years ago, 10 years ago, certainly did when he was with, with Barack Obama at the beginning, certainly did. Now? No, a devotion of.

facts and history. No one on the left has that. Biden didn't even have that back in when he was going with Obama. I remember the, what was it? FDR and the television. Right. I mean, he just didn't have it. And if I may, a devotion of facts and history, let me go back to Michelle Obama in 2008. And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our conversation. We're going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to move into a different place. So we're going to have to change our history. So a devotion of facts in history, does she really mean that?

And does Joe Biden have that? A moral compass, a guy whose son has built with his dad millions of dollars through gun running drug lord, you know, mafioso style people in Ukraine and gotten deeply in bed with a communist Chinese party and made millions of dollars. Is that a moral compass that you think he has? I'm not saying, let's not, we don't have to compare. We could say, Donald Trump, just assume, haven't seen it, but just assume, oh, his kids are dirty as hell too.

Well, A, haven't seen that evidence. But B, we're talking about Michelle Obama saying, we need a moral compass. Does Joe Biden have that moral compass? Oh, and an ability to listen. The only reason why he's listening is because he can't speak anymore. I mean, who is she describing here? I mean, it's almost as if she's just, she's making the case that they should not nominate Joe Biden.

Right. It's almost like she's saying like, you know what, unless you give the job to me or Kamala or somebody else. You know, it's almost like she says, look, you know me. And I, I've seen it. Jobs hard. We're clearheaded judgment, mastery of complex and competing issues, devotion of facts and history, a moral compass, and an ability to listen.

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Did you watch the convention last night, Stephen? No, I don't know. We'll be live streaming Thursday because that's, you know, when Biden and Kamala Harris will be there. But we plan on live streaming every night. And thank God we didn't because nothing happened other than Michelle Obama saying that Donald Trump is not good. Oh, my gosh, it was bad. It was bad. How they opened with the Star-Spangled banner is beyond me.

But, Stephen, first of all, congratulations on getting, remonitized on YouTube. Let's just say, next time we go out for dinner, you're picking up the check. I can pick up a portion of the hors d'oeuvres. No oysters. Let's just, you know, like some mozzarella sticks?

Yeah. I'll make sure it's nice. And I actually wouldn't do that to you because I don't think it's going to last long. First of all, you have a great attorney. How did this happen and how long do you think it's going to last? Well, to answer the second part, your guess is as good as mine. probably a week. But this has been going on for 14 months. For 14 months, it's been going on with the Vox Apocalypse. People need to understand that YouTube changed their rules because we

didn't violate any guidelines. Those were the words uttered by the YouTube CEO Susan Wichitsky herself. So then they changed it and created new guidelines for advertising and then new community guidelines where you can't really insult people because we, listen, we understand that it's YouTube's playground and we play by the rules. And then they've changed the rules. And then there were some things behind the scenes where they tried to do a little more massaging and tweaking of the rules with which I was no longer comfortable. And now here we are. I sign in and it's a big remonitized symbol. But the weird thing is, you know, YouTube let us know that we would be remonitized last Thursday. And everyone knows us at the blaze because we said,

hey, this is going to happen. Don't let anyone know. We're going to announce it Thursday. YouTube requested that. It's just them and us. We're the only ones who know. And lo and behold, two days before that, it gets leaked to the verge owned by Vox and the little buddies at Matchable. So I have no idea how that got out. Wow. But, you know, it's like. Well, it wasn't anybody on your staff or our staff that leaked that to Vox. Gee, I wonder how that happened.

I thought you have Ezra Klein on Speed Diet. That's what I was. Let me, you did an amazing interview with David Dorn, his wife. David Dorn is the, the, the, former police captain in St. Louis that was guarding and helping out at a pawn shop and somebody came in to steal a t-shirt and killed him over that. Really a hair raising and gut-wrenching scene wasn't really, didn't make a difference really to the mainstream media, but anybody who really watched it was touched by this. First of all, how did you get the interview?

with his wife. Well, you know, I can't, that's credit to my dad. He's the booker for our show, and that really happened because everyone else was too afraid to book the show. So thanks, Dad. So he's gotten a lot of these interviews, you know, Stephen Willford after the Sutherland Springs shooter. Yeah.

I can't take credit for it. Really, we've been blessed with that. And to brief people in the story, yeah, we do have this shirt. It's the David Dorn shirt. You can go to LadawithKruder Shop.com. 100% of the profits are going to go directly to his family and his wife. Excellent. It was over 30 years that he was with the St. Louis Police Department.

I think the story is more important because he was off duty and he came in to help a friend to answer a call in distress, a pawn shop that was being looted. And he was shot. He was a black man, black police officer who served a black community for a very long time, served it well. You can't really find any dirt on this guy, which in 2020 is, it's almost impossible. And believe me, we really tried to search to see if there were any skeletons in this closet. No, there was nothing there that we found thus far.

You know, no one's perfect. And he was shot over a visio by another black gentleman. in that community. And this is someone, the reason I think it's an important story is not just because it's a black police officer and these people have been left out in the cold, despite the fact that there are more minorities in the police force than in the general population at large. And that's because they see it as a way to serve their community. We also see over 80% of black Americans who want at least as much police presence, if not more. So Black Lives Matter doesn't speak for them. They just have a megaphone with the media. But this is a man who not only is an example for

the black community, but anyone, any young men. I mean, if we want to talk about here, A guy who served his community for 30 plus years was answering a call off duty and was shot dead while protecting his neighborhood. That is a hero. And you know why? Because no one would have ever known if he never responded to that call. That wasn't a police call. There was no record of it. No one would have cared.

No one would have judged him for staying home in his comfortable bed sheets with a soft pillow. And instead he was going out doing the right thing. When no one was watching, no one cared. And unfortunately, no one cared after he died. in the media. And so we've really tried to take it upon ourselves to make sure that his story gets told. And you know, Glenn, I will say this. I've watched you quite a bit in the past and present. You've had a lot of big interviews. And I always struggle with these because I never want to be, you know, I never want to exploit somebody. Yes. But I also want to ask the questions that I

think everyone would like to have answered. I don't want to be Barbara Walters, you know, asking them what kind of tree would they would be or Oprah getting them to cry. So it was, it's always tough for me. And I hope I struck that balance because I really, really do admire both the late officer, Dorn, and his wife, who, by the way, is also a police officer. They were married police officers, and they started programs to help youth in their community and even help them enroll in the police force. So when people talk about reforming the police, when people talk about making it better, when people talk about tangible solutions, right, solutions that have observable metrics,

these people dedicated their life to it were shot dead for it, and no one tells their story. So that's a shame. Let me play a couple of clips. Here she is. This is Sergeant Andorn talking about why her husband's death wasn't covered in the media. Listen. Why do you think it is that this story with your husband has received comparatively so little media coverage? And we've done everything that we can, but we're obviously only one show.

But the ABC, NBC, CBS, almost nothing. The easiest answer is it doesn't fit their narrative. it doesn't fit the narrative of, you know, a policeman killing a black man. It doesn't, you know, it's a black on black crime. We have those every day in St. Louis, and I hate to say that. It's very sad. That's one component that we need to fix with this peace marks, and then we need to address. You know, all lives are precious.

Right. Every life out there is precious. And he just didn't fit the narrative. Yeah. Then cut two, please. He went out fighting, you know, the good fight, helping people. I believe everything happens for a reason. And, you know, he's going to speak through me.

And I'm hoping the reason is to help heal the city to realize, hey, he didn't have to die. You know, the young man didn't have to pull that trigger. You know, there's all triggers. There was no reason to pull the trigger and take David's life. you know David you know David went out honorably you know fighting so I can't I can't ask for anything more I don't I wouldn't have wanted it to happen that way I'd like to grow old with him right but um if he had to die this oh you know like this then yes you know he went out of here and I'm just hoping I can bring meaning to it she was very composed up until um that when she started talking about growing old with him, you can tell how much she loved him. Do you think that there is a problem in racism in the media itself,

the fact that she is white and he is black? Do you think that played a role in this not being covered, Stephen? You know, I don't even know if they got that far along the trail. Wow. I'm just like with the hydroxychloroquine lady who clearly, well, who I believe. probably knocked off her husband. They didn't do any research and find out that she was an anti-Trump activist and donor to the DNC. I think this was a story that didn't interest them from the get-go,

just like last night or yesterday when a man was beaten within an inch of his life, dragged out of his truck by Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists. I just don't think that it suits their narrative. And I know that that's a phrase that's used a lot. It doesn't suit their narrative. But I don't think it's ever been on more crystal-clear display for everyone to see, because if we're talking about black lives that matter, and all black lives do matter, and all lives matter, but let's say all black lives matter so that, you know,

we're not accused of burning crosses and having a white hood if you say all lives matter, but all black lives certainly matter. Wouldn't it stand to reason to look at the number one cause of death? Number one cause of death. For all black males under age 44, it's homicide. It's not even close. Death from police officers doesn't even crack the top of the list. Do you know that a black police officer, any police officer,

is actually 18 times more likely to be shot by. a black man, a young black man, then he is to shoot them. So if we're talking about, hey, all black lives matter and we want to help the black community, which is what David Dorn and his wife dedicated their entire lives to serve. It wasn't a hashtag they were doing this when no one was watching before. Hashtags were a thing. We should be talking about how to curb homicide with young black males in the community. And I want to be clear, I'm not like a Nick Cannon saying that homicide is because of melanin the skin. You know, he thinks that white folks don't have souls because it's melanin. No, I think we have a spiritual and a culturally broken problem

in the United States. I think it's across all colors, but I think particularly in the black community, and David Dorn obviously knew this because he served the youth, they are raised in fatherless households. And not only that, but in communities where there aren't other dads. And so you have record numbers of black lives being taken by other young black males. So, Stephen, I've got 90 seconds left. I've seen so many of your changed my minds recently. And I wanted to get a sense from you. When it comes to Black Lives Matter, when it comes to Marxism and everything else, are you seeing a turn at all, even a small turn?

Or is everyone just locked into that that, you know, Black Lives Matter, Inc. is good? Here's the thing. People hear the term Black Lives Matter think. good, right? If you pull people, just like don't kick puppies. Okay, that's good. When you actually read the demands and you read the history and the charter from Black Lives Matter and their founders, nearly everyone unilaterally disagrees with them, most of all Black Americans. So Black Lives Matter the idea, we're all on board with Black Lives Matter the organization, just like Antifa is a domestic terror organization, $600 million in property damage, $14,000 arrests, 900 officer casualties,

over 20 people dead. If you don't call that a riot, I don't know what is. Stephen Crowder, thank you so much. By the way, become a mug club member. Just if you're not a Blaze TV subscriber, go to blazTV.com slash Crowder and join today. You'll get interviews like Stephen just did with David Doran's wife that aren't available anyplace else. BlazTV.com slash Crowder join now. And make sure that you get one of the T-shirts, like he said, 100% of the profits on that will go. to his his wife and family.

Thank you so much, Stephen. Appreciate it. Thank you, Glenn. God bless you. God bless you. Man, we have such a great group of people on our network now. It's really, you're missing out if you're not part of the Blaze TV. Join us.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Bjorn Lomburg, author of False Alarm, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, visiting fellow from the Hoover Institution. I believe he was part of our first climate special that we did at CNN back when CNN actually would have opposing views on. Kind of. It took everything in them to let us do that special. But I am somebody who I own property out west in the mountains.

I believe in the environment. I love trees. I love animals. and I want to keep our water and our air clean and pure. I don't know of anybody who doesn't care about that. I'm sure they exist, but I don't know anybody who doesn't care about that. The problem seems to be with taking the climate change attitude and then applying it into an emergency panic, everybody's going to die quickly. And so we have to do this.

Well, what should we do? Beyond Lomberg is joining us now. Bjorn, how are you, sir? Hey, Clint. I'm good. How are you? I'm very good. So we wanted to talk to you about a couple of things, the alarmism.

But first, who is this book targeted to? So, look, I talk to a lot of people, and very many people are really, really worried about global warming. And especially their kids are worried about global warming. Lots of kids are saying, why should I study if there's no future? for me because of global warming. And that certainly is what we're being told. A new survey showed that almost half of the entire global population now believes that global warming will lead to the extinction of the human race. And that is simply crazy. Look, global warming is a real problem. It's something we should fix. But we need to get a sense of proportion. The UN Climate

Panel tells us that by the 2007s, the impact of global warming will be equivalent to somewhere between 0.2 and 2% the UNS expect that will be two and a half times richer. So a half times richer will be slightly less than two and a half times richer by 2007. That's a problem. That's not the end of the world. So this book is really to all the people who are worried and of course all and telling, well. So you're kind of in the category of Michael Schellenberger that, except you're probably more in line with the IPCC. You take those reports as gospel and say, look, we're just going to accept this as fact.

But then you look for the things that we can do that will actually make a difference. Would you put yourself kind of in Michael Schellenberger's kind of place? Oh, sure. And I think there's a lot of people in that camp. Because honestly, what that means is you take what the science is telling us. They also insist we need to look at the economic. of climate change and actually take the best science. I take my starting point in the guy who actually got the only Nobel Prize in climate

economics, William Nordhaus from Yale University. And he says, as do almost everyone in climate economics, that there is a real problem with climate change, so probably in the order of 3 to 4% GDP by the end of the century. That means if you can fix a substantial part for a good idea, a three to four percent problem by incurring peace. And that's what you're, I mean, you did an article in USA Today, climate change. Democratic alarmism leads to failing policies. Can you take us through that?

Yeah. So look, the Democrats, there's a real problem. And much to, you know, as you pointed out, they believe that this is going to lead to the end of the world and, you know, just not the case. If it was the case, if this was a, you know, a meteor or hurtling towards Earth, the only thing you should be doing would be to worry about global warming. You know, you just throw everything in the kitchen sink to this, send up Bruce Willis and everybody else and, you know, fix that meteor. Right. But the reality is, being our problem, it's not a zero problem. It's a three to four percent problem over the next 80 years. And so the risk and what they're clearly suggesting is, you know,

we should have no new gasoline cars by 2035 and fossil fuels in power sector in 2040, basically get the U.S. to net zero. So emit no new Cs that actually shows how costly that will be. So lots of nations have promised to be brave enough to actually ask, so how much is that going to cost? That was New Zealand. So, you know, left-wing New Zealand actually asked how much is this going to cost them? Estimate was this is going to cost us at least GDP. Oh my gosh. That for the U.S. is equivalent to paying a trillion dollars every year. more than what the entire national federal budget is right now. Every year.

It's twice the $5 trillion is twice the revenues of the United States of America. So you tax it's twice the revenues just for that. Yeah. Does not actually come from rich countries because we've already sort of peaked and we're increasingly going towards just producing services, which emits very little CO2. But most of the rest of the world, so China, India, Africa, Latin America still want to get rich.

They want to get to where we are today. And they will mostly be able to do that by using much more cheap. I'm telling them, I'm sorry, you can't do what we did. Unbelievable. I'm sorry. You'll just have to stay poor. Yeah. It's absolutely irresponsible.

But you're not talking about when you talk to global warming people, the zealots, you can't get them to talk about nuclear energy, the cleanest and the safest energy. out there. You can't get them to talk about that. You can't talk to them about let's help Africa grow to be a richer and, you know, an industrial nation and go through the industrial revolution, but in a clean way, we can help them get into the 21st century by giving them power. Nobody wants to, nobody wants to help them get richer and live our kind of lifestyle. They're trying to just bring everybody down to their lifestyle instead of bringing them up to our lifestyle? There's certainly a lot of truth to that.

I actually find that when you confront most people with us, especially well-meaning sort of left-leaning people, they also want that. And so you expose in some way a very clear twist in their minds between, on the one side, they want to help Africa and the world's poor, but they also want to fix global warming. And of course, what ends up is very often, they throw the Africans under the bus because they care too much about climate change. Again, if you think it's because it's the end of the world, that makes sense. But if you actually realize, oh, wait, this is a problem like many others we need to fix. You need to get much smarter on this issue.

And that's, of course, one of the reasons also why I wrote this book, that there are actually really... Talk to Bjorn Lomborg. The book is False Alarm. it's a great one. Bjorn, take us through some of this alarmism. One example you talk about in the book, and I've heard it from a million places, is that it's 170 million people

are going to be displaced by climate change coming up fairly soon, and that's what the science says. You go through that claim and kind of show what it actually is trying, the story is trying to tell. Is it totally different perception? Can you walk us through that one?

Yeah. I mean, so look, look, if you just look at rising temperatures will mean rising sea levels, that's very simple and that's very true. Rising fee levels, all other things equal will mean that more people will get inundated and eventually have to move. And of course, the more alarmist will tell us, oh, my God, they're all going to drown. But the reality is, of course, we actually adapt all of these estimates. So one very, very highly quoted estimate said,

187 million people are going to get flooded or are going to have to move by the end of the century because of global warming. That assumes no one does anything. So it assumes that everybody sit on the beach and watch as the waves start lapping up over their ankles and knees and ability they have to move or they drown. But of course, in reality, over the next 80 years, we've known since years ago. We know how to do this. A particular study that generated headlines across all of the U.S. and Washington Post and around the world, it tells you that if you do nothing, you're going to see 187 million people being to do. It's about 305,000 people, half the number of people that move out of California every year.

Of course, we can handle that globally over the next 80 years. So you're being told a story that's 600 times more alarming, and that's why you get really scared. And if this was just one single example, maybe it wouldn't matter all that much. But unfortunately, this is almost entirely how we're seeing classic and very unrealistic assumptions like you make any adaptation. and of course in real world, you will do. So I want to talk to Beyond Lomborg when we come back. I want to take a one minute break, but I want to come back and talk a little bit more about this.

For instance, hurricanes and the damage that is being done by hurricanes. There's a real clear reason for that. We'll get into that coming up. Author of the book, False Alarm, Bjorn Lomberg. Do you remember being on our special on CNN? It was a pleasure. It was a different time back then. And it's gotten worse because we can't talk about things anymore.

And you're immediately called a science denier. And we've always wanted to base everything on science. And I happen to believe that there is climate change. It seems natural to me. It also seems unreasonable to me that man, with all that we have done, is not affecting the earth in some way or another, of course. So I want to get into some of the things that individuals can do because that's the way it's always pitched.

You know, we all have to do everything we can. So let's get to the real things that we can. But before we go there, let's talk about the hurricanes. Hurricanes, and this drives me nuts. People are saying, oh, the cost are hurricanes. Well, hurricanes are going up because we didn't used to live right on the beach. And one of the reasons we didn't live on the beach is because the federal government didn't insure people.

You couldn't get insurance for your house if you lived right there on the beach where there's hurricanes. But then the federal government said, oh, we'll insure you. And now there's a right to live on the beach. And of course we're doing more damage. Does that, is that reasonable? Well, it's certainly the right way to describe this. So remember, the number of hurricanes hitting the continental U.S.

has actually declined since 1900. That's also true for the major hurricanes, so category three and over. And exactly what you say, the main reason why damages keep going up is because many more people live much closer to harm's way with much more stuff. So remember, Florida in 1900,

there was virtually nobody there. The population of the coastal counties in Florida has increased 67-fold since 1900. whereas the U.S. population has only increased fourfold. So obviously, with much more stuff, much closer to Hans Way, you're going to get much bigger damage. That does not mean this is because of global warming. And again, if you want to fix it, as you point out, maybe you should stop subsidizing people's insurance. Exactly.

They would feel more responsibly. So let's talk about another thing. The Amazon, of course, everybody knows now that this is the planet's lungs, true or false. that's false a stable ecosystem like the amazon uh emits no net oxygen uh so it's one of those many many myths that we hear um the world is on fire you know you're clearly a denier here world is on fire the lungs were on fire um down on the bottom end um there was a ring of fire in uh in australia california is on fire, what's causing that except global warming? So, it's fundamental we need to recognize that we've seen a dramatic decline of fire

over the last 150 years, basically because we've gotten richer and we've gotten much more careful with our environment. It actually matters to most people to make sure it doesn't burn. So burning rates also in the U.S. have gone down by five to ten times compared to the early part of last century. But there is a problem with global warming. It's likely that global warming will lead to somewhat higher burn rates. Still much less than what we used to have, but it is a problem.

And again, we need to ask them, is the right way to deal with us, is that to cut? We do that a little bit. We shouldn't do this because of fire. If you want to help, what is essentially Tinder boxes, those are simple ways to make sure that you zone people out where they're likely to get burnt like and people. paradise and other places in California. Do you believe in controlled burns? I mean, we stopped that in the 70s.

Sure. Yeah. And it seems, again, it seems like that is a very good idea most places. And we know how to do that. That's also one of the reasons why we've seen much, much less burn. Global, we've seen burn rates decrease about 25% just over the last 25 years. So we've seen a dramatic reduction. There is part of this that's due to global warming.

But again, the extrapolation, the alarmism that we see in the media, makes us very hard to understand, partly that this is not mostly caused by global warming and that our best, there's nothing to do with global warming if you actually want to help. 30 seconds before the break, is this alarmism is really hurting because people won't pay attention once it doesn't happen, right? Don't you think? Well, I think alarmism hurts because it both. It makes us spend much, much more. We're going to spend trillions and achieve almost nothing. And it makes us fail to focus on the things that really will matter, both solutions to climate, but also all the other problems that still are there.

Okay. We're coming back with Bjorn Lomburg, and we'll talk about the things that we can do that we should be talking about.