Roger A. Pielke Jr.

But what does unstable mean, and how do they know? Glaciers have been melting for centuries as the planet warms naturally from the depths of the natural Little Ice Age, and surely the decreasing volume of ice spells less meltwater, not more.

But even more crucially, what actual data do they have on whatever instability they think is increasing? They certainly don't mention Roger Pielke Jr.'s point that both the local population and the tourist trade have increased dramatically in recent years so that anything that does happen will claim more victims.

Or our point that it also means that anything that does happen is far more likely to be recorded.

And at this point, we again show an image from a brochure that one of us was given in Alaska 13 years ago that shows a dramatic retreat of glaciers from their peak in...

That's okay.

But one of the interesting things if you subscribe to Roger Pielke Jr.'s Honest Broker Substack, he had a, a new report out where he went through the, the weather attribution group and their model.

And it reminded me of what you had said about the hurricane, because the hurricane now, even though it's, like, the first time in ages that there's only been one hurricane so late in the season, and that this is actually a good thing, but they say it's climate change.

Yeah.

So I just wanted to give a shout-out to that amazing, uh-

Holy smokes

... assessment and report by Roger Pielke Jr.

Wow.

But these two green billionaires fixed that pretty fast.

In 2014, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, according to Roger Pielke's point of view, they corrupted climate science because they started using this climate scenario known as RCP 8.5. which people even back then knew was implausible and even the people who developed it as a climate scenario said this is for research only do not use this as a policy projection but these guys started using it as the business as usual projection and it proliferated through academia there are tens of thousands of reports any catastrophic climate report you read look and see usually the parameter they're relying on is rcp 8.5 and this was a report that these guys developed as well it proliferated throughout the financial industry and of course made all these insurers and banks go wow you know we're going to lose our shirts because of climate change let's make sure that we take the shirts of the people who don't need them anymore to save the planet.

And so the EU sparks a huge rally in carbon credits in 2018. partly because of that market reorganization.

Goldman Sachs in 2019 spent $750 billion on climate transition projects, you know, from fossil fuels to green, and they plan to curb fossil fuel lending.