10-21-25 - 9am - Climate Resilience

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We wreak our yard because we have a pine tree,
and pine needles are bad for the grass.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, I agree, And that's why we have where our
pine trees are. We've landscaped it so that there's rocks there.
It's easier to break up the pine needles. I never
knew that.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
But we've always had rocks underneath the pine trees and
never put two and two together.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, did you put the rocks where? They were there
when you moved in?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
They were always there, always there, even growing up, they
were always there. I just never really thought of it.
But I guess that would be a good reason.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Are you saying that you are you living in the
house you grew up in? No?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh, but even in the house I grew up in,
pine tree rocks a circle of rocks around.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yea, well, that's like that in the real in the wild,
that's you know, look underneath the pine tree out in
the wild. Not a lot of grass growing, that's true,
not a lot of grass wars like God. Let's take
Gaza for example. At some point, assuming the ceasefire holds,

(01:04):
Assuming the ceasefire holds, assuming that Hamas actually does disarm,
assuming that this interim coalition governing body gets together and
actually does what it's supposed to do well. That war,
for all of the horrors and the bombings and everything else,
will then morph into the rebuilding of infrastructure, and there

(01:26):
will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people
employed defending nations against real foreign invaders. Is I mean
that alone is not good, but the aftermath is good.

(01:46):
But it's also the idea that somehow that you know,
a disaster brings economic activity and improves the economy of
a area that's been devastated by say a hurricane or tornado.
That's not really true because you have the Yes, you
have new economic activity, but you have all the lost

(02:09):
economic activity that that business would be engaged in. But
for the rebuilding. The point being that unlike wars, you know,
with all the whores that it often involves building infrastructure
and employing people. But the climate crisis is an entirely

(02:29):
fabricated threat. It's not something we're trying to, you know,
defend ourselves against real foreign invaders. The supposed enemy here
is not a hostile army invading our borders. It's the
air we exhale carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide at around

(02:50):
forty thousand parts per million in our breath, a harmless
life essential gas for plants that is now getting falsely
demon eyes as a pollutant. Why did they do that?
Because they wanted to justify trillions of dollars in theft,

(03:11):
equivalent to over three years of the entire US defense budget,
just vanishing into thin air. And these solutions that get
peddled by the activists in the Church of the congregates,
in the Church of the climate activists, and all the
bureaucrats that support that stupid church, invariably boil down to
one thing, and that is siphoning vast sums of money

(03:33):
from hard working taxpayers from the private sector where those
dollars will be put to productive use, and then funneling
those dollars into brand new NGOs, startups, some existing corporations
that have accomplished precisely nothing. Well, they have accomplished something.

(03:55):
They have enriched the politically connected insiders. Not hyperbole, as
Biden WANs slay. Not no joking, man, no joking. Over
just the past couple of years, trillions of dollars worldwide
have just vanished into that bottomless pit. And what do
we have to show for it rising global emissions. I
mean they're actually rising. But there's a cadre of self

(04:18):
proclaimed saviors that are living large on public money. Think
Al Gore in the World Economic for him, but Chris
Right in the Department of Energy, which I'm sure that
the congregants in the Church of the climate activists consider
Chris Right and the Department of Energy to be, you know, satan.

(04:41):
They're actually satan in this country alone. Biden's parting gift
was a frantic giveaway of billions of dollars in grants,
and as we now know, it went to some groups
that had no record whatsoever in environmental worker scientific expertise.
Remember that group that what was the old fat lady

(05:01):
in Georgia that was running for governor, that had some
sort of NGO that had like, what fifty dollars one
year means she gets fifty million dollars the next year.
These are not investments in tangible infrastructure. This is not
building a road or a power plant that could actually
reduce real pollution. They're handouts to groups that are promising us.

(05:25):
You know, now instead of stopping climate change, the language
is morphed again. Now it's about climate resilience. Yes, Now
I actually find some hope in that language, because if
they wanted to stop climate change, which was a fool's
errand now climate resilience could be not saying that it is,

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but could be interpreted as and acknowledgment that the climate
is going to continue to change. We just have to
learn to be resilient. So if big Air quotes around
the word, if if this increase in greenhouse gas emissions
really is bad, and if warming of the planet by
one degrees celsius really is bad, then we ought to

(06:09):
be doing things to protect ourselves against that. But I
don't think any of these innovations ever really going to materialize.
But who cares if they materialize or not? Because who benefits?
The planet doesn't benefit the poor people don't benefit you
and I don't benefit. The taxpayers don't benefit. But who does?

(06:32):
This vast network of activists, bureaucrats, political operaties who cloak
their greed in this moral superiority, all the while accusing
the fossil fuel industry of the phrase people over profits.
Where do you think that originated? It originated in the

(06:55):
church of the climate activists, that the fossil fuel industry
prioritizes profits over people. So let's just tear apart and
demolish that hypocrisy once and for all. The congregants in
the Church of the Climate activists perch on their self

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righteous moral high ground, shrinking that oil and gas companies
are greedy villains and they're torching the earth for shareholder profits.
Yet those same hypocrites preside over a system that siphon
trillions of dollars far eclipsing fossil fuel profits with zero accountability.

(07:38):
The fossil fuel industry employ employees around twelve million people worldwide.
It powers eighty two percent of global energy. And what
does it do. Fossil fuels actually lift people out of
poverty and no excuses, it just does. There is over it.

(08:01):
Dragon you MC made a note of this. I don't
have the graph in front of me, but our world
and data has energy consumption by source worldwide, and when
you look at it, fossil fuels make up Back in
nineteen sixty five, I'd say I'm close to ninety percent. Now,

(08:21):
fossil fuels meaning gas colon oil, probably account for eighty
five percent, so it's down a little bit, but it
still outstrips all the others, biofuels, solar wind, even hydropower.
Fossil fuels drive world energy. So those that are grifting

(08:44):
and bitching about the fossil fuel industry, what do they do? Well?
They always have conferences. They they're always flying around the
world somewhere to go to a conference, right, and then
they put out these really glossy reports. They use the
finest paper, they use the best color processors. All of
that is fantastic. But when you look at their pilot projects,

(09:06):
they burn through cash and it doesn't put a dent
any missions whatsoever. So if profits, as they say, are
the sin in the fossil fuel industry, then the climate
industry must be the biggest center of all because they
break in trillions of dollars. It's all pure profit, but

(09:31):
they have nothing to show for it. They're not powering
the modern world. The fossil fuel industry is what powers
the modern world. If if you stop and you look
at the pattern, the pattern is pretty simple. Think about

(09:55):
Judge Chutkin. Remember her, she blocked efforts to reclaim twenty
billion dollars in dubious EPA grants. What was she doing?
She was protecting politically aligned groups over scientific integrity. One
varying example that she did is the Climate United Fund.
They got nearly seven billion dollars. You know how old

(10:18):
they were at the time they got the money. They've
been in business a couple of months, a couple of months,
and they get seven billion dollars. I'll take that deal
any day. I'll walk down to the Secretary of State's office,
all formed, some non government organization, all formed some five
O one C three or five one C four hell's bills.

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I'll just form a typical corporation and give me seven
billion dollars. That's just one example. And if you look closely,
you'll find that high profile Democrats are deeply entangled in
that web of all that profit taking and all that

(11:00):
money being transferred, all the money laundry going into the
church of the climate activists. Oh with Stacy Abras, that's
the person I was thinking about. But there's a hero
in all of this. And the hero is, as I
said earlier, alluded to, is Chris Wright, the Energy secretary who,
in a gutsy strike announced earlier this month that he

(11:24):
is obliterated. That's the best word I could think of.
He is obliterated. Three hundred and twenty one financial awards
backing two hundred and twenty three bogus projects, calling back
of whopping seven and a half billion dollars for taxpayers.
Funds that could build I don't know, I estimate maybe

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fifteen thousand miles of new highways. It could fund, if
you wanted to play the game that the left always plays,
it could fund healthcare for millions instead of just vanishing
into the grift of the climate so called climate crisis.
And what was interesting is when you dig into his cuts,
they weren't random. He targeted initiatives that he deemed and

(12:12):
his staff dean to be economically unviable or actually misaligned
or unaligned with our national energy needs. Shockingly, about twenty
six percent of those awards, worth more than three billion dollars,
got rushed out between election day and inauguration day. So

(12:32):
between November four, twenty twenty four, in January twenty twenty
twenty five, they pushed out the door three point one
billion dollars. Now why would they do that, Well, they're
trying to lock in the griff before Trump could intervene.
Now I'm talking about hydrogen hubs, solar startups, Efficiency Alliance

(12:53):
as they were handed billions despite any real world experience,
or for that matter, any viable plan. Imagine someone, imagine
some of these people going to a venture capitalist and
say I need three point one billion dollars or mill
let's narrow it down one project. I need ten million dollars. Okay,

(13:14):
show me your plan. They don't even have a viable plan.
In other words, an angel investor, an institutional investor, somebody's
just wanting to, you know, because they believe the remember
the church that climate activists to no plan. So Chris
Wright deserves more attention and more thanks than I think

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he is getting. In a world where these activists claim
that the fossil fuel industry is the enemy, Chris Wright
reminds us that the real threat is unchecked spending by
the bureaucracy. So I started digging in trying to find

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some details. And here's where you get really outraged. How
did a consort arches H two LLC. It was formed
in twenty twenty two. It got one point two billion
dollars for a hydrogen project tied more to fossil fuel

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interest than genuine green innovation. Why was Heliogen Holdings that
was a solar startup. It was already struggling. It had
actually been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, yet
it had got tens of millions despite all the financial
red flags. These are exactly the kind of egregious handouts

(14:42):
that exemplified the Grift, and I'm telling you the grift
is awful. These weren't grants for building reliable power plants.
They weren't brants for addressing actual pollution like oh, I
don't know, toxic waste or microplastics. No, they were funding
the pie in the sky clean energy schemes, these hydrogen hubs,

(15:04):
solar tech battery startups. Oh, it sounds all futuristic. And
some of the things we actually do need some R
and D N, like you know, batteries. We actually do
need to get better with batteries if you really do
want to ev or you need to figure out how
to keep lithium batteries. You know, I was when I
went to New York. You know, you got to fill

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out the thing about your check bags and no, you
need lithium batteries. No, I need lithian batteries in there.
They're all my carry on. And then about two days
later I forget it was like a Singapore airline or
something where the overhead compartment was on fire because the
lithium battery you caught fire spontaneous combustion. But for the
non scientists among us, like me, hydrogens for example, is

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actually tauted as a green fuel. But producing hydrogen at
scale requires massive energy inputs. Where do you get that
from fossil fuels? And the infrastructure to use hydrogen? Once
you were able to produce at scale, the infrastructure to
use the hydrogen doesn't exist. So it's it's the same

(16:13):
as we're gonna bet on flying cars. And I know
there was a story out this past week about someone
actually had a flying car. I didn't see it. Maybe
it's like the Right Brothers. Maybe the flying car flew
about one hundred yards. I don't know. But we're gonna
spend billions on flying cars, but we're gonna ignore the
potholes on the roads that we actually drive on today.

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So in the meantime, the real energy needs, like affordable
electricity for heating homes or powering hospitals, for powering this studio. Oh,
that gets sidelined. So if you want to visualize and
let me articulate the scale, the wasting, the wasteful spending.

(16:57):
Let's look at the energy funding breakdown between twenty twenty
four Horn and Mike.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Here's an off the wall question for you. With there
being a silver shortage worldwide, India is out in the refineries,
there's a panic in London because the silver market is broken,
and everything needing silver for all of the AI and
electrical needs. What do you think is going to happen

(17:22):
to all the electrification stuff when there isn't any silver
to run it?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Just a question exactly what's going to happen? You're right,
you're going to skyrocket. We're going to have blackouts and
brown outs. We won't have a reliable baseline of energy anymore.
AI will. Whether you think it's a bubble or not
a bubble, I have to think it's not a bubble
like it was back in two thousand. But I think

(17:48):
it is a little overvalued. And I think there are
a lot of people producing some AI projects that don't
really have any intrinsic value. But I think AI has
a grand future. So it's a kind of a quasi bubble.
And when suddenly there's why do you think for example,
Google and Meta and some of the others are building

(18:09):
their own power plants or rebuilding three Mile Island on
their own because.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
They know evil nuclear power plants.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Nucleah absolutely, yeah, those evil nuclear power plants. Those are
the ones which, by the way, so I was going
to swerve into. So how where's this money going? Bloomberg
and the National Council Dragon if you want to look
this up, it's the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. They

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put together a report called Sustainable Energy in America, the
twenty twenty five fact book tracking markets and policy trends.
There's there's a graph in that in that report that
breaks it down, and the data shows a total of
ninety nine billion dollars allocated across different sectors, with batteries

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eating at twenty six and a half billion, utilities, which
I'm not quite sure what that means, but because it's
divided between utilities and utility projects anyway, utilities at seventeen
and a half billion, grid projects at nine billion, hydrogen
at seven and a half billion, much of which ties

(19:20):
into the very projects that Chris Wright canceled. So let's
go back to Arch's H two LLC, because I think
that's a great example. It's an example of how this
system funnels billions to unproven entities. But they've got one
key factor that makes them viable. Oh, not viable in

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terms of producing a product or innovating, but viable in
terms of why they ought to get the money. And
that's the deep political connections. So Archs H two LLC
formed in twenty twenty two. It was designed to check
Department of Energy dollars. Hey, I want to start a company. Okay,

(20:07):
what do you want to do get federal money? What
are you gonna do? I don't know. I just want
to get the federal money. That's that's that's precisely how
dumb ass this stuff is. So ARCHES. The Alliance for
Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems got that Arches Alliance for
Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems. Oh and it's public private too.

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It's led by a CEO by the name of Angelina Katativa.
Who she was. She's a longtime renewable energy advocate with
ties to California's Democrat establishment. Its partners include Chevron, Pacific
Gas and Electric. They got one point two billion dollars

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for hydrogen projects that the critics, including some environmental groups,
labeled as subsidies dirty hydrogen. Why is it dirty? Because
it's reliable natural gas to produce the hydrogen that they
want to use as a clean fuel. Oh so, isn't

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that kind of the equivalent of you driving an electric
vehicle to save the environment, and you claim you're saving
the environment because you don't have any emissions because you
charge your vehicle in your closed garage and you don't
die from carbon and monoxide poisoning. Oh that's right, because
the power is produced somewhere else using natural gas, coal, nuke,

(21:36):
whatever it might be. Yeah, that's what this company was doing.
And even the environmental wackles were upset because it was
dirty hydrogen. Oh guess who else is involved? Gavin Newsom
and Senator let me attack Christino Alex Padilla, both Democrats
who attended the launch events and hailed it as a

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hiss investment. Why is it egregious because billions went to
a newborn entity while California's grid teeters on absolute collapse
blackouts and they're ignoring real energy reliability for what political showcases.
Oh look what we're doing now, the Hydrogen Association or

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pmwh two, it's it's almost the exact same pattern, rushed
funding to ad hoc groups that didn't have any any
track record whatsoever. It was established in twenty twenty one
as a multi state coalition. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it. Washington, Oregon,

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the tribes, the Puget Sound Energy all aimed to build
a hydrogen economy. But they saw one million dollars in
Department of Energy awards, but suddenly gone because rights said no. Now,
it was a nonprofit, It had no prior large scale

(23:05):
operations experience. It relied instead on pilot projects and board
member ties to existing projects. So politically it drew bipartisan
local lip service. But Democrats like even Senator Maria Cantwell
and Congressman Kim Schreier decried the cancelation because it was

(23:26):
politically motivated. Wait a minute, it was politically motivated, but
it was created. I find it hilarious that go back
to Arch's H two LLC politically motivated in order specifically
to chase DOE dollars. The same is true with the

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Hydrant Association or PNWH two to chase the dollars. Then
when the dollars get chased, they get grabbed, but canceled.
Then they scream Oh, my gosh, political motivation, politically motivated cancelation.
They screamed the very same objection for doing the very

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thing that they used to chase the dollars in the
first place. I mentioned he Legion Holdings, Inc. That's a
solar startup. It was founded in two thousand and three.
It uses artificial intelligence for concentrated solar power. As I said,
it got delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in

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twenty twenty three because of their own internal financial turmoil.
They pivoted to software. So despite limited if any deployments whatsoever,
issues like their land leases got suspended from the Bureau
of Land Management Why for non compliance. It's still got

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thirty nine million dollars in DOE awards. It was backed
by a billionaire, Bill Gates. He did it through his
venture called Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Patrick sun Chong, both
major Democrat donors. He Legion's board includes figures like Julie Kane,

(25:20):
political legal backgrounds at Scream lobbying powers. Gates influence well
in Biden's climate push. That's notorious. No explanation needed there,
all channeling billions in Inflation Reduction Act funds to his ventures.
Democrat aligned grift at its best electric hydrogen. Another one.

(25:42):
It was founded at least a little long. You know,
it was founded a long time ago. It's an electrolysis
firm for green hydrogen, and it kind of shows you
how young startups with venture capitalists backing but no large
scale proof get massive sums. In this case, they got
forty one million dollars. Again, Bill Gates involved tying into

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the same Democrat leading network that preserved hydrogen tax credits
with help from a bunch of rhinos like Louisiana centator
Bill Cassidy, but rooted in Heiden's hub initiatives in blue states,
he got stuck at the pilot stage. That company's awarded
highlights the risk of taxpayer money propping up unviable technology,

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something that anything other than a dumb ass billionaire like
Bill Gates would never invest in, except he invests in
these things for purely ideological reasons and because I'm sure
he makes a little bit of graft off of it too. Nanoramic, Inc.
It was spun from MIT back in twenty nineteen. Its

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focus was advanced batteries for evs. He got forty almost
forty eight million dollars for a factory is planned in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
still delayed, small firm, no experience, couldn't scale anything. It
was announced with fanfare by the Connecticut Governor, Ned Lamanda, Democrat,

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underscoring how federal aid flows two Democrat strongholds. I've got
lists and lists of these. I've got one, two, three,
four more. But I just say this, these egregious examples,
from billion dollar hydrogen hubs to failing startups propped up
by billionaire Democrat donors. This is the damning portrait of

(27:37):
a system that is rotten to its core. This is
money laundering and graft like it. It's just unbelievable. Reliable
fossil fuels fueling eighty two percent of the world's energy,
sustaining millions of jobs. They're the ones that get scapegoated.

(27:57):
Chris Wright has the cajones stand up and say I'm
gonna st up this and does it We need more
Chris Rights leading the charge because I think this will
turn the tide. And then if you couple that with
you see the increased oil and gas production and how
gas prices are beginning to fall because now we are

(28:18):
the price of oils dropping because why increased production basic
supply and demand, cheap, reliable energy, fossil fuel industry. I
salute you.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
If you guys weren't so jocular and hilarious, I wouldn't
have to berate you for saying nuclear.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Nuclear.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
You know what's really funny?

Speaker 2 (28:41):
What it gives you?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
A transcript when people leave leave talk packs and it
said that it came out as new killer.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Did it really? Yep? New killer.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's that's a new way. I'm gonna say it. Newculer,
new killer, new killer.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Nuclear, new killer nuclear. Here's the news for the day.
Trump doesn't actually have to take a lot of action.
He can just say things or do things and it
will have an effect. There's a far left Antifa website
that actually promotes anarchist ideologies and they have shut down.

(29:19):
They've shut down because of According to them, they freely
admit this because of the dire political climate. Quote the
current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power, according
to the operators of this website. Now that follows Trump's

(29:40):
crackdown on domestic terrorist groups, particularly those associated with Antifa.
He issued that executive ordered on September twenty second, which
characterized Antifa as a military'st anarchist enterprise that seeks to
overthrow the US government and law enforcement institutions. Then he
signed that presidential memorandum. So IGED has operated for years,

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and it's actually gained notoriety for its content that's sympathetic
to anarchist extremist groups and it's so called direct action campaigns.
It's been cited by federal authorities in connection with riots, vandalism,
and sabotage. In fact, back in twenty twenty, the Department

(30:25):
of Just referenced the site in a criminal complaint related
to an attempt by somebody to derail a train in
Washington State. Now you've heard of Andy no the journalist
from up in Portland who covers these Antifa extremists all
the time, he said of the closure. Over the years
it's going down has posted numerous claims of responsibility for

(30:49):
domestic terrorist attacks, including an attempt by an Antifa militant
to derail a train, which led to the website being
mentioned in a federal criminal complaint. He says. The website
has also posted manuals on carrying out crimes and evading
detection for terrorist attacks. Huh So simply saying that if

(31:14):
you are supporting, materially supporting domestic terrorists, We're going to
come for you. Isn't this kind of an action that's
an acknowledgment that that's precisely what you've been doing. You
shut down a website that Andy know has been following
and reporting on for years and that you had direct involvement,

(31:38):
and you actually provide advice on how to Yeah, I
think that might be providing material support. So the Trump's
campaign against far left extremism that's actually engaged in violent
activities is having an unintended effect. And so the website

(32:02):
fearful of Donald Trump coming to get them, and probably
fearful that they could actually prove a case that they
not only incited, but materially supported some terrorist activities, and
decided to shut down. Sometimes all it takes is just

(32:22):
a different president. Yeah, just a different president