TDS Time Machine | The War on Climate Change

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SPEAKER_3 (1:30)

You're listening to Comedy Central.

Jon Stewart (1:47)

Now you may be thinking, do we really need a march to raise awareness about global climate change? I mean, it's an accepted scientific phenomenon pretty much everywhere. Here's why you need the march. It's accepted pretty much everywhere, but there's one place called the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

This is true. Last week, they held a hearing that they apparently recorded in 1971, I guess that's the technology part of the committee name, on President Obama's plan to shrink carbon emissions 30% by 2030 The hearing's Sisyphus, Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren, charged with the impossible task of pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain.

Of course, like any avalanche, it began rather innocuously. Texas Republican Steve Stockman.

SPEAKER_5 (2:41)

The lead scientist at NASA said this.

He said that what ended the Ice Age was global wobbling. Is the wobbling of the Earth included in any of your modelings? And the answer was no. When you have a model and you say we're going to leave out the most important impact of that model out of our theory and not talk about global wobbling, how can you make projections?

Jon Stewart (3:14)

What's up, scientists?

SPEAKER_6 (3:15)

Global wobbling, bitches!

Jon Stewart (3:18)

He sees your so-called global warming and raises you a global wobbling. Explain that, Dr. Whitehouse.

SPEAKER_7 (3:24)

Global wobbling, which refers to changes in the Earth's tilt and orbit, takes place on characteristic timescales of 22,000 years, 44,000 years and 100,000 years. It is very slow. Global wobbling is a tiny effect on the timescale of 100 years in which we try to run these models.

Jon Stewart (3:47)

I didn't know we'd be talking to an actual scientist.

All right, Holdren, you ace the wobble warming. Riddle me this.

SPEAKER_5 (3:57)

At what point a level of CO2 does CO2 become damaging? At what level does it become harmful to human beings?

SPEAKER_7 (4:08)

Boom!

Jon Stewart (4:09)

How can CO2 levels be dangerous when I can still breathe?

SPEAKER_7 (4:14)

Vice Chairman Rohrabacher, I always enjoy my interactions with you.

Jon Stewart (4:22)

Much in the way one enjoys playing peek-a-boo with a baby or perhaps teasing a cat with a laser pointer.

SPEAKER_7 (4:31)

I have to say with respect, that's a red herring. We are not interested in carbon dioxide concentrations because of their direct effect on human health. We are interested in them because of their effect on the world's climate. And climate change has an effect on human health.

SPEAKER_3 (4:46)

Well, then, why can we still breathe?

Jon Stewart (4:49)

That's what I'm asking. I mean, you can hear me, right? We're breathing.

And it got more amazing as it went. Indiana's Larry Bouchon.

SPEAKER_8 (4:59)

It's not about affecting the global temperature and climate change. There's public comments out there that that question has been asked and answered saying no.

SPEAKER_7 (5:07)

Now, you should look at the scientific literature rather than the public comments.

Jon Stewart (5:24)

With all due respect, Representative Bouchon, I suggest you get the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology as opposed to the YouTube comment feed of Obama Lies 1776 But here's where Bouchon gives away the game.

SPEAKER_8 (5:40)

I have all the climatologists whose career depends on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles. Yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.