Bernie Sanders gets called out by Joe Rogan after he says, “some people think climate change is a hoax. It ain’t a hoax. I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record”
Bernie Sanders: “I know that, you know, there are some people think climate change is a hoax. It ain’t a hoax. I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record. And we can create millions of good paying jobs transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency, to solar, to wind, and other sustainable energies.”
Joe Rogan: “I think the climate change issue is very complicated, and I think, uh, did you see the Washington Post piece that they wrote? Where they did this long-term view? First of all, the reality is that the Earth’s temperature has never been static, right? We can both agree on that. It’s always been up and down, there’s been ice ages and heat waves. And then the Washington Post looked at it, what was the time period that they looked at? That essentially they found that we’re in a cooling period. That the Earth over the past X amount of years—and this was like a very inconvenient discovery, but they had to report the data, and kudos to them for doing that. Scientists have captured the Earth’s climate change over the last 485 million years. Here’s a surprising place we stand now. So look at the far end of that graph and you see we’re in a cooling period.”
Bernie Sanders: “Well, I’m not sure. I didn’t read that article, but I agree the scientists who are out there, I think…”
Joe Rogan: “I know, but there’s a lot of money involved in that too Bernie. That’s part of the problem. There’s a lot of money involved in this whole climate change emergency issue, and there’s a lot of control. And that’s a big part of this problem. Not only that—if we’re just talking about primarily carbon and carbon footprint, what are we going to do about China? Because China…”
Bernie Sanders: “Absolutely. They are the major polluter right now in terms of carbon, we’re number two. We used to be one, they’re number one right now.”
