The Highwire with Del Bigtree - IS A CLIMATE LOCKDOWN ON THE HORIZON?

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

A recent article by the LA Times editorial board claims that California is experiencing record high temperatures. Jefferey Jaxen does a fact check on their claims. As President Joe Biden mulls the idea of declaring a climate emergency, we look into the potential powers that could be gained from this move. Will we have a climate lockdown on our horizon?#NOAA #Biden #ClimateEmergency #ClimateHoaxBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

We're going to do something that we do quite a bit here since the beginning of the high wire, which is fact check legacy media. And this is in the space of the climate change conversation. So the LA Times, the friends at the LA Times, have put out this editorial, and it's titled, If 10 straight months of record breaking heat isn't a climate emergency, what is? Well, we go into this article, literally the first paragraph, it says, Californians have had weekend after weekend of cool stormy weather, and the Sierra Nevada has been blessed with a healthy snowpack,

but the reality is that even the last few months have been more than two degrees hotter than average. Hold on a second. I mean, I know where this is going, but can we all just take that? Like, this is your media. If you ever, like, there's a little rule of journalism here.

You want to know when your newspaper is a complete and total shill for a non-story. It reads like this. Although we have record snow plaque and it's been really cold here, you'd be shocked to know that it's actually hotter. That's what that paragraph just said. I mean, they'll say absolutely anything you tell them to say.

I mean, what an incredible paragraph. Okay, go on. It's really important to stay thinking when you're reading. By the way, it's why I stop working for CBN. Like, I mean, I'm just, I'm not doing it. I'm not going to push this story. This is ridiculous. Okay, go ahead.

So we go over to NOAA. That's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And we look at some of their data. So they said the last two, that article is from April. So they look at the last two months. We have February, March. So we go to the California maximum temperature for February. And we look at this, and this is over 130 years of data here.

And that black line in the middle is the average temperature, which is 55.6 over that entire time. And now we see 2024 February and the max temperature is 56 degrees. So what does that do? That's about 0.4 degrees over the average. of all that time. And we look at this next chart here, in the top line there, February 2024, the rank out of 130 February, 130 years is what it's saying.

2024 ranked 62 of the hottest temperatures. Like literally right, right, it's like you couldn't define average better, right? Smack in the middle of 130 years, right? It's 62 years, 62 were ranked the 602 hottest February out of 130. Wow. That's amazing. So not two degrees, 0.3 degrees, but let's go. So they have one more. So they're one for one right now. So let's go to March because

they said the last couple months. So we go to March, California maximum temperature. And look at that average temperature going across the middle and the black line, 60 degrees, Fahrenheit. Well, unfortunately March was 59.7 degrees. So we actually were negative. 0.3 degrees cooler. And you can look at the chart here. And for the March 24, that's ranked 57 out of 130. So they didn't get that one right either. Now, but they go further. So that's the first paragraph, but they go big. This is LA Times for you. So it says the planet is experiencing a horrifying streak of record-breaking heat with March marking the 10th month in a row that the average global temperature has been the highest ever recorded. Back to know where we go.

We're going to look at NOAA's global land, the average temperature anomalies. And we have a chart here. And this is a time series again. We're going to look at just the last since 2005. And you can see here that far right is where we're at. It's not really the highest temperatures ever recorded. And it doesn't look like 10 months in a row. In fact, around 2016 looks like there's a big spike there.

I believe that was an El Nino at that time, which makes hotter temperatures. But let's go back to the chart and we have the last 10 months in a row, which we're supposed to be the 10 hottest ever recorded. And you can see their rank. What do we have? We have 227th. We have 193rd. The lowest we ever got was 156. So it's not close to 1 through 10. That should be 1 through 10 if you're believing the L.A. Times, but it's not. So, you know, that's just one article. But let's go to the bigger picture here because all of this information, all of this type of reporting is meant to lead to. to one thing, which is to give power to government to fix what we're told is a problem that is the biggest problem facing the globe right now. And what does that look like?

Well, it looks like this. In the news this week, check it out. The White House renewing internal talks on declaring a climate emergency. The White House says President Biden is now considering declaring a national climate emergency. The president says he's looking at ways to use his executive authority to try and curb carbon emissions, including reportedly declaring a climate emergency. The Pentagon has noted, not just in this administration, but even the previous one, that climate change is a national security issue.

This is a contentious decision if it's made. This discussion has come up many times, but if it is made, then the president would have additional powers in the short term, immediately. What that would enable the federal government to do is to direct more resources to a renewable energy and shift the country away from fossil fuels more quickly. It might also enable the administration to block some new oil and gas drilling permits. The Center for Biological Diversity has estimated Joe Biden would get about 130 wartime-like powers by which to bypass democracy and impose the Green New Deal on the America without

a single vote of Congress. Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation's and to the world. It's just what we need is more emergency powers in the hands of our leadership. Like forget Congress, forget Senate, let's just let these guys dictate emergencies so that they can have all the same rights

that they loved so much during COVID. It's unbelievable. We're at a really interesting situation here and a big point of it could go either way. And we go to the Brennan Center for Justice to go deeper into this story. This is a nonprofit, nonpartisan law and policy. Institute, and they have a guide to emergency powers and their use. And it says here, the Brennan Center,

building on previous research, has identified 135 statutory powers that may become available to the President when he declares a national emergency. An additional 13 statutory powers become available when a national emergency is declared by Congress. So let's pause for a second here because you just heard that news clip about shutting down gas and oil, but here's another angle we should really explore here. So there's a thing called climate reductionism and that's kind of basically just blaming the climate for everything even though it's not quite obvious that the climate may have caused it and we've seen the research community, the science community, the medical community take on this idea of climate

reductionism when it comes to infectious diseases. So we have an article here, a research study here and it's titled over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change. Here's another one from UC Davis. just this year. Experts warn climate change will fuel spread of infectious diseases. So think about this for a second. If there is a climate emergency that's declared and these powers are given to the president and pathogenic diseases are part of that climate emergency, this is something that the American people should know really well over the last four years. It activates this U.S. Code. This is 21 U.S. Code subsection 360. And it reads, Secretary of the Secretary of the

of health and human services may authorize the use of an unapproved drug device or biological product or an unapproved use of an approved drug device or biological product. And this is during an emergency. So it's not that far off to think that, you know, if another pandemic comes around, which they are, we're told that climate change exacerbates that these vaccines could come out under this climate emergency. This is kind of like a back door. And so why is that problem?

It seems like they're saying that the climate is the pandemic, right? I mean, if you're going to declare the emergency, it's not like, well, we're double emergency and then a pandemic clause. What they're saying is, I want all the power to say. And then once you're in the emergency situation, now all of a sudden, and I can imagine why Farm is funding our government to move into an emergency situation because they get to say, well, hey, now that's an emergency, we've got to rush our products out without the proper safety testing.

We're going to need that EUA again to handle this virus that we think is caused by the fact that it's all warmer here. And I'll say, Jeffrey, you know, this is something that we've got an amazing team that we rarely talk about all over the world. But one of the people on our team in England was warning us during COVID. Trust me, when you get through this, this isn't going to stop. They're going to start making pandemics for climate. We all kind of laughed at the moment. We're like, oh, come on. That will never happen.

And yet here we are. We're talking about climate pandemics being declared by the most powerful position in the world. And it also made me think about when I talked about being the shill that the L.A. Times clearly is stating that we've got a higher snowpack and it's colder than we've seen. But don't be fooled. It's actually hotter. Those types of things. I guess people read it and don't think. But do you remember Project Veritas?

We talked about this. And I just, this is what I love about my team. We see, can we get that video? Let me just play this video because this. This is what I think a top news person was saying, you're never going to believe what the next problem we're being told to talk about is. Just take a look at this. I think there's just like a COVID fatigue. So like whenever a new story comes up, they're going to latch on to it.

They've already announced inner office that once the public is, will be open to it, we're going to start focusing mainly on climate. climate like global warming and like that's gonna be our next like um I don't know like it's our speed be our focus like our focus was to get Trump out of office right without it saying it that's what it was right so our next thing is going to be for climate change awareness what does that look like I don't know I'm not sure I have a feeling it's just going to be like constantly shown videos of like decline and ice and weather warming up and like the effects having an economy and I really don't even head of the network like just he's that's that Zucker yeah I imagine that he's got his counsel and they've all like

discussed like where they think so that's like the next pandemic like story like that will yeah that will be to death but that one's got longevity you know what I mean it's not like does it definitive ending to the pandemic or you know like it'll taper off to a point that it's not a problem anymore probably I think it's gonna take the years so they'll probably be able to promote that for quite a bit you know but okay It is awesome. Welcome to your news that you are funding. Everyone, you're doing it. You're all paying that cable bills so that CNN gets funded to lie to you. And I love it when she's like, what do you think that's going to look like? I mean, he really can't see the future,

but if he could, it'd be like, I suppose it'll be like trying to explain why, you know, the Sierra Nevadas are buried their houses or under 15 feet of snow, but still it's because the world is the earth is hotter. And these are the hottest days we've ever seen. He couldn't even imagine how stupid is going to get, but he is right. It's a story this can last a really long time because while there's a sun and while it doesn't matter if there's 10 feet of snow on the ground to talk about global warming, we can do this forever. True legacy media. We can scare people for a long time on this story.