The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE REAL CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

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There's a scientific consensus we're told climate change is your fault. It's your breath. It's the cows. It's the farms. But there's a lot of scientists that are not in this conversation because they're not part of the consensus. But there's a lot of science and there's a lot of research in other areas that have to do with what is causing and driving climate change on this planet.

One of them happens to be that thermonuclear fission ball of magnetic goodness in the sky, the sun that's right above our heads. And there it is right there. And it's shooting out a solar flare. And you can see how massive, massive this is. These solar flares are gigantic. I mean, several hundred thousand times larger than the Earth itself. You can actually see the Earth they're superimposed on what a solar flare.

I mean, these solar flares, these coronal mass ejections, they're gigantic. In fact, this is an entire field of study. And it's been going on for a very long time. NOAA actually has a space weather prediction center, and you can see this graph taken from there. The sun goes through solar cycles. Right now, we're in solar cycle 25. We're at the peak of solar cycle 25.

What happens at the peak? Well, we have a lot more solar activity. And so this is the headlines. These are mainstream headlines you can see here on December 15th. The biggest solar flare since 2017, just launched off the sun. And then on the 1st of January, 2024, to greet us into the new year. Strongest solar flare since 2017 detected.

Here's what to know. And those solar flares do have an impact on the climate here. In fact, in 1997, before, you know, the scientific consensus we were told, this is the New York Times reporting on this, just an everyday report. Another possible climate culprit, the sun. So this is regular reporting here. And, you know, my wife writes and it's tracked. There's hope. There's hope.

There's still enough of us still holding it together. My wife writes and tracks some of these solar changes. She was excited to see I was doing a report on this this week, and she directed me to the work of Dr. Brian Tinsley. Dr. Tinsley is the University of Texas. He's been studying this for over 60 years. He's an atmospheric physicist, and he wrote a paper. He's written many papers.

One of them is here, solar influence on climate during the past millennia. So he talks about something called solar forcing, and these are the variations in solar activity, how they play a significant role in forcing climate change. So basically there's a whole field of study claiming that our climate system on Earth is very sensitive to who would have thought, the sun. Well, you don't have to believe that if you don't want to because we're in cycles of ice ages. Those things do happen on this planet. We have several cycles of ice ages that we've been involved in.

And here's a graph right here. You can see several of them over millions of years. And to put a really fine point on this, we have Australian geologist Ian Plumer. He's from Australia, and he was at a CPAC event. And this is what he had to say about it. Take a listen. We hear about climate scientists, whatever that is. Now, in geology, we have a 250-year track record of arguing about climate.

Textbooks are full of it. We've been laboring about climate for a long while. And then there's this sudden new invention of climate science. And I had some of these when I was head of department at the University of Melbourne. And these are embittered, obscure, unemployable academics funded by your taxes. And those taxes are to fund these people's hobbies. And the end result of that is that they put good people out of work and they cost our nation trillions. So there's one group of people that use models.

Another group of people, I mean, this is really sinful. We use evidence. And the two are not in accord. And if they're not in accord, you've got to throw out the models, which we've seen time and time again are incorrect. So we can look back in the past. And we can see that we've had six great ice ages. During that ice age, we'll have the ice expand, that's a glaciation, or it will contract.

That's an interglacial. We are currently in an interglossil of an ice age that started on a Thursday, 34 million years ago. And the ice has come and gone. In our last interglosial, sea level was about seven metres higher. Temperature was about five degrees warmer. So if someone says, oh, this is the hottest day on record, You have to ask, since when? If it's the hottest day in the last 120,000 years, then that is a record.

But since when? So if we go to the peak of our interglacial, which was about 4,000 years ago, it was about 5 degrees warmer. So it's cooler than the hottest temperature on record. If we go to the time of Jesus when it was warm, it's about 4 degrees cooler than then. If we go to the dark ages, go to the Viking Age, we've actually warmed up since then. If we go to the medieval warming, we've cooled down since then. And if we go to the little ice age, we've warmed up since then. So since when?

And I know this is going to surprise you, but we've just come out of a little ice age. What do you think temperature is going to do? Fall or rise? It's been rising since the more than 300 years ago. So it is no surprise that if you have cut off times for temperature or for sea level or for hurricanes or whatever, you can spin whatever yarn you want to spin. That guy needs a giant mic to drop at the end of that. That's just incredible. And it is something that is, you know, I was taking that video in some of the science and what we now know are these cycles to many of my friends and, you know, family members and saying, how do we explain this? Is there really a crisis going on? Or are we injecting ourselves into a known

pattern? Part of me thinks that these God complex scientists know we're heating on a natural cycle and are going to try and see if man can actually stop that natural cycle. That's what I'm starting to wonder if that's what's really going on as they try to tell us we're creating it. I don't know. The whole thing is so bogus. Now, and again, not to say, I want to be able to eat a fish that I catch with my son in a river or in the ocean. I'm into cleaning this up. We all need to work together to do that. But we shouldn't be bowing down to some piece of insanity. That actually doesn't stand up in science. Absolutely. Absolutely. We've learned from, I mean, if everyone looked at the COVID response, we learned from the COVID response that scientists playing God and try to micromanage every aspect of

our lives is probably not the best idea. And when it comes to climate change, this reaction of the scientific community seems to be on steroids when it's trying to micromanage us. So I think we really need to pump the brakes on this one and have a really big open conversation and bring everyone to the table, not just the people in the Beltway.