Climate Realism and the Battle Against Eco-Extremism

On March 11, 2024, Janak Joshi, David Legates, Kurt Gerwitz, and Stephanie joined the show. Former Colorado state representative and physician running for Congressional District 8 outlines his voting record of fiscal discipline and three priorities for Congress: economy, immigration, and healthcare Climatologist and professor emeritus debunks climate alarmism narratives, explains natural climate variability, and warns that abandoning fossil fuels will reverse humanity’s progress against. Bringing Fiscal Discipline to Congress Start listening at 17:25 – Hour 1 Janak Joshi, a physician who immigrated legally to America over 50 years ago, explains why he earned the nickname “Dr. No” during his six years in the Colorado House. The CD8 congressional candidate served three terms with a consistent voting record: if a bill did not meet his criteria of smaller government, lower taxes, and less regulation, he voted no, including voting against his own party’s budget when Republicans broke their campaign promise not to increase spending. Joshi identifies three priorities for Congress: addressing the economy and inflation crushing American families, securing the border with proper immigration enforcement like the medical screenings he underwent as a legal immigrant, and fixing healthcare to restore the doctor-patient relationship. His website is janakforcd8.com. “Every time there was a bad bill, regardless whether it was a Republican or Democrat, it, my three principles, smaller government, lower taxes, and less regulations. And if that bill did not meet that criteria, I voted no. So they started to call me Dr. No.” Janak Joshi, CD8 Congressional Candidate Exposing Climate Alarmism and the War on Energy Start listening at 30:00 – Hour 1 David Legates, climatologist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, co-authored Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism with the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. He argues that climate activism has become a force for evil, morphing natural climate variability into a crisis narrative designed to destroy economies and ways of life. Legates dismantles the arbitrary 1.5 degree Celsius threshold, noting how activists constantly move the goalposts when their predictions fail. He explains that climate has never been constant since Earth formed, with documented warm and cool periods throughout history including the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age. The professor warns that the push for wind and solar will lead to brownouts and blackouts when conditions fail to produce power. The real technological advancement, Legates argues, has been making fossil fuels cleaner over 150 years while maintaining reliable energy. Inexpensive energy from fossil fuels lifted humanity from 90% poverty in the early 1800s to just 9% today. “Keeping it in the ground,” he says, echoing the parable of the worthless slave who buried his talent, will reverse that progress and harm the people environmentalists claim to help. “If you’re trying to come up with a way to make the climate constant and to make it keep it from changing, it’s akin to trying to stop the sun from rising. It just is not going to happen because it’s baked into the system.” David Legates, Climatologist, University of Delaware Shrinkflation and Economic Reality Behind the Headlines Start listening at 59:00 – Hour 2 Kurt Gerwitz, economics professor, breaks down why Americans fee...