The Highwire with Del Bigtree - MEDIA USE HURRICANE HELENE TO FUEL CLIMATE AGENDA

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Mainstream media is once again using a tragedy to push the climate change agenda in the wake of Hurricane Helene in an attempt to ratchet up the public fear. Hear why mountains of data show otherwise and the strong claims made by experts that are now debunked.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Put all the politics aside because I watched George Bush flail at this. You know, I've seen Clinton's flail. I mean, everybody seems to flail, you know, and what is it? Why is it? I feel like in the military, they learn how to go into any, like it's immediate. We're under attack, handle it right away. Right, right. Like immediate forces.

Why don't we have that for disasters? I mean, it seems like there's this balance between command and control. I mean, we don't want full Soviet Union command and control. But it does seem like a disaster is a complex thing. There's a lot of moving parts, and obviously nothing goes as planned. But it seems like we should be removing this red tape. At this point, we had Katrina, everything since then. Right.

And we're still dealing with this. We're having FEMA come out with headlines saying, we just, sorry, we just don't have the money for this at this point. Maybe sometime in the future. This is absolutely unacceptable. And one of the things I want to talk about is Americans need health. in the South now. And one of the big issues are these large corporate media institutions, these outlets, are taking their time or using their platforms to push narratives instead

of giving updates and aid and trying to direct aid to this area. Yeah. What am I talking about in case people missed it? Take a look at this clip. All right. Hurricane Helene made landfall Friday in Florida's Big Ben, fueled by abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico. Greenpeace posted on social media that, quote, Hurricane Colleen must be a wake-up call for climate justice. Hurricanes draw energy from that warm ocean water. And as that climate change causes sea surface temperatures to rise, the energy available for these storms increases. In fact, we estimate that the world's oceans have absorbed over 90 percent.

of the excessive heat that's caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Helene intensified rapidly as it moved over super warm Gulf waters, up to five degrees above average. Climate Central calculates that climate change made those temperatures at least 500 times more likely. Hotter ocean fuels these storms, causes them to intensify more rapidly, causes them to get much more powerful, and a hotter atmosphere because we're living on an over currently overheating planet. So we get these intense, intense rainfalls which cause the sorts of flooding that's happening right now. Every hurricane that now exists contains more moisture than it would have without climate change. And that means the rainfall associated is in every case stronger than it would have been.

It's happening in North Carolina and Georgia. I mean, the real term that we should be using is climate weirding. Because we're going to keep seeing things like this. And it's going to be extremely. if we don't get on these sustainable goals. And we're we're wealthfully behind schedule. There would have been a time when a tropical storm would have been heading toward North Carolina and would have caused some rain and some damage, but not apocalyptic destruction.

Science and data, what a wonderful thing. I'm not sure this is the time for a lecture on climate change. Yeah, I mean, but the you, that's, we talk about agenda, right? This is the moment of instill fear. Right. And that's the idea. idea is fear, and we're talking about something that, I'm sorry the science isn't settled. We're talking about climate change. And you know the IPCC since the 1990s, they decided to choose human beings and their kind of output of carbon as the main driver of climate change.

And this is still up for contention. And the fear piece, we have Bjorn Lumberg. He's a best-selling author, but he was also the former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. And he wrote in the New York Post, this article, just recently, and it's titled Shrinking Islands Vanishing Polar Bears, the climate scare stories that turn out to be false. So we're seeing this narrative again, and he writes, looking back on more than 20 years of climate agitation, two themes emerge, a stubborn unwillingness by campaigners to acknowledge any inconvenient science

and ever-shifting favorite stories, first elevated, then dropped by the wayside, the one constant of fixation on scaring the public, which has in turn shaped bad climate policies. And this is something obviously we're reporting on quite a bit, but you don't have to go to current times. We can go all the way back to 2007 with one of the climate luminaries, we're told Al Gore, and he was making these predictions at that point. Take a look at this. What he had to say back then? The earth has a fever, and the fever is rising.

The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion, and a third. and the fourth. And the consistent conclusion restated with increasing distress is that something basic is wrong. We are what is wrong, and we must make it right. Last September 21st, as the northern hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented alarm

that the North Polar ice cap is, in their words, falling off a cliff. One study estimated that it is, could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week warns it could happen in as little as seven years. Seven years from now. It's now 17 years from then.

Right. Right. So, and by the way, I made everyone I knew watch it, inconvenient truth. I was definitely a part of the whole. The world is burning up. This is a crisis. I feel like I was the first generation involved in that. And I just, I still go to the beach.

I saw a picture of Plymouth Rock and they're showing where the water was like 100 years ago and it's exactly in the same place. The oceans do not appear to be getting deeper. The North Pole doesn't look like it's disappeared. Polar bears seem to be making their way back into existence as far as I can tell. barrier reef is as plentiful with coral as it's been in I think what 20 to 50 years so things are regenerating not to say that human beings look I'm all about like like let's watch our footprint on this planet yeah but this hysteria it's just not adding up right and look it was a compelling documentary at the time yeah more information has come out more debate has happened

more people have come in with more information more scientists have a bigger voice now bigger platforms and this has changed it's all changed now so that idea those ideologies those scare tactics. What really is clear to me is when the water recedes, the scare tactics that were used and the gravity of which they said the Earth will end. And so he's talking about the Arctic sea ice. So that's northern. And we have, you know, that's known actually to be some of the thicker sea ice.

Antarctic is usually known to be thinner. But we have some studies here. This is in nature looking at the Antarctic ice that's in the southern. And they say this. The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades. despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. And so that we could... So they can register greenhouse gases over Antarctica and it's not changing the temperature there at all.

Right, right. And people may say, well, Al Gore said, Arctic, this is Antarctic. Well, we can look at Greenland's ice core data and Greenland is a part of it. It's an Arctic country. And this is a chart looking at that right now. And you can see, and this goes back 5,000 years. So we have the Minoan warming. We have the dark ages there. warming and you can look at that far right side you see this little red circle that's the last hundred years to present so you could say we got we have some warming sure sure and so this is these charts we you keep bringing these in and to me it just i just feel like it's like mic drop like might drop like we we have seen this the world before human beings were here so much warmer so what was

warming it you know when it wasn't human beings i remember Thomas Massey asked John Kerry that really great question, but to see where the alarm is, it's in this rise that's all happening inside the 100 years, but in the perspective of the Mount Everest of where we'd been before, it's just, it just seems like they're riding on the back of what they know it'd be natural cycles, but trying to claim their own dominion over it. It's literally, I think, in some ways, that's where people say good and evil. This is where it's like you actually are trying to play God. It's like a magic trick.

You know where it's going anyway, but no, we did it because we took control over the earth. It's ridiculous. And look, there's other dynamics that are at play here that we don't fully understand. Scientists don't fully understand. Let's talk about the sun, not just the heat from the sun, the magnetic effects from the sun, the cycles of Earth, as we're seeing in a lot of these charge, and even the magnetosphere surrounding the planet, these are all impacting the climate on this planet, not just people breathing. So this has got to be really looked at in a bigger, more adult way.