I wanted to share a formative moment that occurred for me back in 2018 when I received an email response from Dr. Michael Bender regarding a question I asked him about his Vostok ice core study.

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One of the reasons why some people don’t believe that climate change poses an existential threat to civilization is invariably because many of us quite reasonably assume that society would not knowingly destroy itself. Sadly, that just isn't the case. Let's see why.

SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour-PolicyWatch • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone SOURCES: The Corporation (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q The New Corporation (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmZSGNW-QCU Global Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Industry - Market Research Report (IBIS World, September 2024): https://www.ibisworld.com/global/market-research-reports/global-oil-gas-exploration-production-industry Units and Calculators Explained (U.S. Energy Information Administration): https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price (The Guardian, June 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crimes-oil-and-gas-environment “We don't want to be the bad guys”: Oil industry's sensemaking of the sustainability transition paradox (Energy Research & Social Science, October 2022): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622003036 How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation (The Guardian, January, 2020): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/08/oil-companies-climate-crisis-pr-spending Your generation got us in this mess’: children of big oil employees discuss the climate crisis with their parents (The Guardian, December 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/07/conversation-between-big-oil-employees-kids US CEOs fired more quickly over low stock prices this year, report says (Reuters, November 4, 2024): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-ceos-fired-more-quickly-140408699.html CEOs Face The Same Threat Of Being Fired As Their Rank-And-File Workers (Forbes, August 2024): https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/08/19/ceos-facing-job-insecurity-like-workers

I know… I know. I'm just a retired school teacher... so who am I to question the perspectives of highly qualified scientists who also happen to be climate deniers? Let's find out. CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO: 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - Dr. Richard Lindzen claims temperatures aren't going up 04:10 - Dr. Richard Lindzen claims the consensus is based on fifty papers. 05:13 - Dr. William Happer 06:29 - Should we listen to climate deniers? 06:45 - Dr. Robert Brulle and the funding of climate denial 07:47 - Dr. Fred Singer going down the up escalator 08:18 - Thanks for Watching! SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone SOURCES: Make it Illegal to Knowingly and Intentionally Misinform the Public about Climate Change (Petition, Art Lightstone, Petition.org, 2023): https://www.change.org/p/let-s-make-it-illegal-to-knowingly-and-intentionally-misinform-the-public-about-climate-change Prager University Funded by Fracking Billionaires (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU... PragerU Homepage: https://www.prageru.com/ Satellite temperature record update closes gap with surface records (ARS Technica, 2017): https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/satellite-temperature-record-update-closes-gap-with-surface-records/ Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998 (Carbon Brief, 2017): https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998 Satellite temperature data, leaned on by climate change doubters, revised sharply upward (The Washington Post, 2017): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/corrected-satellite-data-show-30-percent-increase-in-global-warming-matching-surface-data/ Climate "Science" | Dr. Richard Lindzen (YouTube video, Jordan Peterson, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVSrTZDopM&sttick=0 It’s true: 97% of research papers say climate change is happening (The Conversation, 2013): https://theconversation.com/its-true-97-of-research-papers-say-climate-change-is-happening-14051 COMBATING A TWO-DECADE CAMPAIGN ATTACKING THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE (Europhysicsnews, 2013): https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2013/06/epn2013446p25.pdf RCEC Document "Climate Science and Policy: Making the Connection" (William Happer, George C. Marshall Institute) https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/rcec-document-climate-science-and-policy-making-the-connection/2295975#4 George C. Marshall Institute (Encyclopedia.pub): https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/37182 Frontrunner for Trump science advisor post agreed not to disclose fossil fuel funding (Greenpeace, 2017): https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/02/16/william-happer-trump-science-advisor/ Why a high-profile climate science opponent quit Trump's White House (Science, 2019): https://www.science.org/content/article/why-high-profile-climate-science-opponent-quit-trump-s-white-house Climate of Doubt (PBS Documentary, 2012): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/climate-of-doubt Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations (Robert Brulle, 2021): https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Brulle2021_Article_ObstructingActionFoundationFun.pdf

That’s right… I used to be a card-carrying member of the Conservative Party. However, I had to withdraw my support for the Conservative Party... and now I’m going to tell you why. CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - My background as a fiscal conservative 01:32 - Why I had to withdraw my support for the Conservative Party 02:50 - We don't need hydrocarbons 03:26 - Hydrocarbons are a losing game 05:28 - A better way forward 06:00 - Thanks for Watching! SOURCES: Conservative delegates reject adding 'climate change is real' to the policy book (CBC, 2021): https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-delegates-reject-climate-change-is-real-1.5957739 The Atmosphere: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide (NASA): https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/greenhouse-gases/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/ An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing (An Open Letter from Economists on Canada’s Carbon Pricing, 2024): https://ecofiscal.ca/2024/03/26/open-letter-carbon-pricing/ Climate change is costing us. Carbon pricing works. (Canada’s EcoFiscal Commission, 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_6uefqcQY&t=1s Clearing the air: How carbon pricing helps Canada fight climate change (Canada’s EcoFiscal Commission, 2018): https://ecofiscal.ca/carbon-pricing-works/ The carbon price debate is a distraction. What would those who oppose it do instead? (Clean Energy Canada, 2024): https://cleanenergycanada.org/the-carbon-price-debate-is-a-distraction-what-would-those-who-oppose-it-do-instead/ If Canada axed its carbon tax — and rebates — this is how different households would gain or lose (CBC: 2023): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/axe-the-tax-and-carbon-rebate-how-canada-households-affected-1.7046905 Understanding Canada's Federal Debt, 2015 (Art Lightstone, 2015): https://youtu.be/kwUeivsG2M8?si=67OoT25Z3gQhtGPD SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone

In this episode of Dubunk the Debunkers ( originally published as a video at: https://youtu.be/7TVoyh_JJak ) Uncle Gomer takes issue with Rosh Salgado D'Arcy's Debunking of Dr. William Happer's theory of CO2 saturation. The specific video that Uncle Gomer debunks in this episode is entitled, "The Science of CO2: Debunking the Saturation Myth," from Rosh's channel, All About Climate. For anyone who is genuinely curious about the notion of CO2 saturation and how it impacts the Earth's climate, I highly recommend that you watch this video. It can be found at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBDMeuHq_U&t=294s CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - CO2 Saturation of the Atmosphere 01:24 - CO2 Saturation for Plant Life 03:26 - CO2 Concentration in the Earth's Atmosphere has been Much Higher in the Past 04:38 - Uncle Gomer Debunk's Rosh Salgado D'Arcy's Debunk of Dr. William Happer 06:43 - Thanks for Watching! SOURCES: The Science of CO2: Debunking the Saturation Myth (All About Climate, August 17, 2021): https://youtu.be/TVBDMeuHq_U?si=g2J1JF1E0sUHvJLE Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? (Scientific American, January 23, 2018): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/ How much CO2 can trees take up? (Grantham Institute, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015) https://granthaminstitute.com/2015/09/02/how-much-co2-can-trees-take-up/ Eocene paleontology and geology of western North America (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, April 29, 2016) https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2016-0043 Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration unprecedented in Earth’s history? (The Royal Society, Last updated March 2020): https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-7 High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, which could worsen climate change effects, researchers say (University of Washington News, October 1, 2018) https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/10/01/thick-leaves-high-co2/ Leaf Trait Acclimation Amplifies Simulated Climate Warming in Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide (Global Biogeochemical Cycles, October 1, 2018): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GB005883 x Don't plants do better in environments with very high CO2? (MIT Climate Portal, Updated January 8, 2024): https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/dont-plants-do-better-environments-very-high-co2 Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon (Scientific American, July 26, 2023): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forests-are-losing-their-ability-to-hold-carbon/ SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone

If you live in Canada, and you’ve looked at your bank account recently, you’ll likely see that, at some point on January 15th, you received your quarterly Climate Action Incentive Payment, or what is colloquially referred to as the carbon tax rebate. Will the rebates be enough to cover what most Canadian families spend on carbon tax each year? That's the question I'll be examining in this episode of Green Neighbour. CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: 00:00 - Introduction to the Question 02:15 - Scenario A (Upper-Middle Income) 03:38 - Estimating Expenditures on Natural Gas 10:53 - Scenario B (Middle-Middle Income) 13:34 - Scenario C (Lower-Middle Income) 16:08: Final Analysis 17:26 - Thanks for Watching! SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone/ SOURCES: Motor fuel prices (Ontario Provincial Government): https://www.ontario.ca/motor-fuel-prices/#:~:text=The%20federal%20carbon%20tax%20is%20now%2014.31%20cents%20per%20litre Fuel consumption ratings search tool (Natural Resources Canada): https://fcr-ccc.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/en Average Natural Gas Usage Per Month (Shrink that Footprint, 2023): https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-natural-gas-usage-per-month/ Average Natural Gas Usage Per Month – 2024 (Shrink that Footprint, Updated, 2024): https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-natural-gas-usage-per-month/ How Big is a House? (Shrink that Footprint) https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house/ Federal Carbon Tax (Trans Gas): https://www.transgas.com/customer-central/federal-carbon-tax Federal Carbon Tax (Trans Gas): https://earth.org/carbon-tax-revenue-neutrality/ Canadians receiving first carbon tax rebate of 2024, here's when (CTV News, 2024): https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canadians-receiving-first-carbon-tax-rebate-of-2024-here-s-when-1.6723609 Brace yourself for surging heating bills (Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2023) https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/brace-yourself-for-surging-heating-bills Canada's budget watchdog troubled by spin around latest report on carbon pricing (CBC, 2023): https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/watchdog-spin-report-carbon-pricing-1.6805441 Gini Coefficients based on the adjusted family after-tax income, by province and territory, 2016 to 2021 (Statistics Canada, 2021): https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230809/t007b-eng.htm Tax filers and dependants with income by total income, sex and age (Statistics Canada) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1110000801 New analysis finds most Canadian households will save money in switch to electricity (Canadian Climate Institute, 2023): https://climateinstitute.ca/new-analysis-finds-most-canadian-households-will-save-money-in-switch-to-electricity ‘Great Canadian Class Study’ reveals strong belief in meritocracy despite low mobility across generations (University of Alberta, 2023): https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2023/11/great-canadian-class-study-reveals-strong-belief-in-meritocracy.html

There is no doubt that climate change is ramping up. We’re seeing more dramatic impacts of global warming every day, all around the world, but, do Canadians need to take any responsibility for all of this?

After all, the population of Canada is quite small compared to many other countries. In fact, Canada is only responsible for about 2% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, so do Canadians get a free pass on our responsibility to take swift and decisive action on climate change?

This is the question that we’ll be exploring today on Green Neighbour.

Please Note: A video version of this episode can be found at: https://youtu.be/xSm5-iZVx4s