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Before the Flood Page #3
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City wide.
And of course we're paying
for it by our city revenues.
I had to raise tax revenue,
which you can imagine is not
do as a politician.
And this construction
is it going to make
- a major difference.
- Major difference.
And buy you a
significant amount of time.
Absolutely I would
think about 40, 50 years.
That's it?
Yes.
Now one of the things I always
say when people ask me this,
years, what's going to happen?
Well what we have to do
is come up with solutions,
and unfortunately we have a
governor and we have a cabinet
that doesn't believe that
this is a major issue.
Officials in Florida
were banned from using the words
climate change.
This policy began in 2011 after
Rick Scott came into office.
No one really wants
especially our senator
from Florida, Marco Rubio,
who doesn't believe that
we have climate change
and is not interested in
assisting our state.
I would hope that he would have
gone out and grabbed us federal
funds over the last three years
to help make our cities viable.
I do not believe that
human activity is causing
climate the way these scientists
are portraying it.
Why do you think there
is such opposition about
the science?
I think it's politics,
I think it so has to do with
lobbying and industry and I
always say one thing, Leo,
I said uh, the ocean
is not Republican
and it's not Democrat,
all it knows how to do is rise.
Satellite data show,
for the last seventeen years,
there has been no significant
recorded warming.
It's supposed
to be 70 degrees today,
it's freezing here!
Speaking of global warming where
is, we need some global warming!
It's freezing.
There's about
as robust a consensus
about human-caused climate
change as there is
for any matter in science.
Be it the theory of gravity.
97 percent of climate scientists
agree, the globe is warming,
our climate is changing, it's
due to fossil fuel burning
Unfortunately we are fighting
this massive disinformation
campaign to confuse the public.
You look at the
satellite data we actually
have had no significant warming
since 1998 actually no warming.
We have been cooling
in recent years.
If you actually believe
that global warming
is the biggest problem we face,
you're the dumbest son
of a b*tch on the planet.
So yeah, maybe you
could just talk a little bit
about your background, the
studies that you've done.
I was the classic
science and math geek
in high school.
Studied physics in graduate
school and a decade and half ago
my co-authors and I started
to look into climate change
in the more distant past.
there's this long-term cooling
trend and then all of
that has no precedent
as far back as you can go and
because it looks like the
blade of a hockey stick.
And once we had published
that graph I had set myself up
for a completely different life.
And why is that?
What did they do
specifically to?
I was vilified
on the editorial pages
of the Wall Street
Journal, on Fox News.
That I was a fraud.
Other German
Scientists have called it
statistical rubbish.
He's been called a
statistical charlatan.
I was being
attacked by congressmen.
They threw
spaghetti up on the wall
what they put in the chart.
I had death threats
that were actionable enough that
the FBI at one point had to come
to my office to investigate
an envelope that had been sent
to me that had a white powder.
I've had threats made
against my family.
These folks know they don't have
to win the legitimate scientific
debate.
They just need to
divide the public,
and all of that hatred and fear
is in fact organized and funded
by a few players.
Fossil fuel interests, folks
like the Koch brothers finance
climate change denialism.
The reality is a
lot of climatologists believe
that the science is not settled.
Global warming is
illusory were actually going
through a period
of global cooling.
It's easier to
believe in a benevolent god
the baby Jesus than it is in
some kind of theory about
global warming.
Websites and news
outlets and think tanks.
They find people with fairly
impressive credentials
who are willing to sell
those credentials
to fossil fuel interests.
Dr. Fred Singer,
President of the science
and environmental
policy project.
The weather balloons
around the world show no warming
of the atmosphere in
the last 25 years.
You have all of
these organizations with lofty
sounding names like Americans
for Prosperity
or The Heartland Institute.
These are front groups that are
funded by corporate interests.
Americans for Prosperity
for the Koch brothers.
That's an organization
founded by David and Charles
Koch and good
morning to you Tim.
- Good to be here, Bill.
- Welcome here,
what are you going
to get for your money?
We hope to see policies change.
Koch Industries is one
fossil fuel interests
in the world.
And they are doing everything
they can to protect that wealth.
Would you give up
all that industrialization,
would you give up all the
productivity that it's brought
us, all the lives that it has
saved over the last 100 years,
so that the temperature
wouldn't rise half a percent
or a milli percent?
They've lobbied Congress.
We keep hearing 2014 has
been the warmest year on record,
oh here Mr. President
catch this. Mhmm.
James Inhofe is
probably the most prominent
congressional climate
change denier.
Global warming is the
greatest hoax ever perpetrated
on the American people.
He's the chair of the
Senate Environment Committee.
There are some people
who are so arrogant to think
that they are so powerful that
they can change a climate.
Man can't change climate.
It might not be
surprising to learn that
James Inhofe is one of
the largest recipients
of fossil fuel money
in the U.S. Senate.
Fossil Fuel interests
have bought our House
of Representatives and Senate
Environment Committee.
We can't get a climate bill
passed through our Congress
because it's controlled
by fossil fuel funded
are blocking any bills
that would attempt
to deal with this problem.
How they're able to
discredit scientists who have
devoted their life to this issue
is kind of mind boggling to me.
It sometimes makes
me want to take a drink right.
I'm sure.
If I was a scientist
I would be absolutely pissed
every single day of my life.
These people are, you know,
engaged in an effort to
lead us astray in the name
of short term, you know, fossil
fuel profits so that we end up
leaving behind a
degraded planet.
What could be more
immoral than that?
Even now, man may be
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