Just a few minutes ago, a CNN producer called Heartland Senior Fellow for Environment and Energy Policy James Taylor and told him that breaking news from The New York Times about President Trump’s tax returns (… yawn …) mean his planned global warming debate on Cuomo Prime Time at 9 p.m. ET tonight has been bumped. The producer said he hoped the show could reschedule for next week. We’ll see.
That’s disappointing, but also the nature of cable news. Events drive shows more than subjects. And when it comes to CNN, anything potentially negative about Trump absolutely drives their programming.
If James is invited back to CNN for a rare actual debate on global warming, we’ll definitely let you know.
Via press release:
In a rare attempt at balance, CNN has invited Heartland Senior Fellow for Environment and Energy Policy James Taylor be on Cuomo Prime Time at 9 p.m. ET tonight to talk about the claim by the United Nations that human-caused climate change will lead to the extinction of one million animal species on earth if we don’t act now to stop it.
James will do his best to reduce the level of panic among CNN viewers – what’s left of them – by telling them the truth: Humans are not causing a climate crisis, and the animal kingdom has nothing to fear from us.
James’ opponent in this segment, other than CNN host Chris Cuomo, will be Michio Kaku. He might be a familiar face to you since he’s featured on seemingly every science program on cable TV these days. It will certainly be one of the few instances in which Dr. Kaku has been challenged by anyone in a debate.
We wouldn’t normally recommend watching CNN, but do tune in at 9 p.m. ET tonight! And be sure to let us know (in comments) what you thought of his work pushing back on climate alarmism.
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From the press release: “the claim by the United Nations that human-caused climate change will lead to the extinction of one million animal species on earth”.
The author of the press release misunderstood (or lies) since the most recent claim in the news this week was mostly about direct environmental impact and was described as a BIGGER and more urgent problem than even climate change! It’s not a new claim but put in some more final, concluding form.
The silence is deafening by the way. It’s news that puts professional climate alarmists and skeptics both out of business or at least outside their comfort zones. Or a new alarm on top of the old one? As if people are not getting alarm weary. Then again, at least environmental impacts can actually be measured and has some logic to it, that changing the habitat of a species (insects, fish) on a large scale might cause actual problems, also to everyone relying on those species and whatever is depending on them.
CNN are in big trouble, people have realised most of their news is fake and have stopped watching. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zb65YlTi4M
Looks like they changed their mind! Show was all about Trump’s investment losses over a 10 year period!
I noticed that. Isn’t it terrible? He lost a lot of money.
Once I lost $130,000 because one of my main customers decided he could just avoid paying me, since I was a foreign company and couldn’t easily sue him, and he was losing money. When I told one of my employees that I’m obviously not good at business, he pointed out that I was able to lose $130,000 and walk away, so I must be fairly good!
Same about Trump!
About a year ago I made the mistake of watching one of his ‘astronomy’ shows – I thought what a bunch of BS.
So just for the heck of it I went to Google and keyed in ‘Kaku stupid idiot’ – just as I thought there were many references to those key words.
WRAGGE: What are some of the theories behind this extreme weather, though?
KAKU: One theory says it’s random, natural fluctuations in the weather. For example, we have something called El Nina in the Pacific around the equator, which is helping to divert cold air into the United States. And also the North Atlantic oscillations, air currents in the North Atlantic, which again is helping to pull down, pull down more cold air into North America.
Wait, what? Did Dr Kukoo misspeak, or is he just another “climate expert”?
WRAGGE: Is this the same weather pattern, though, that’s affecting us that’s affecting other regions around the world? You’ve had problems in Brazil with mud slides, Australia’s going through some weather issues now. Is this the same?
KAKU: Similar. El Nina, cold weather around the equator, is contributing to what’s happening in Australia. And I was in Brazil just two weeks ago, where they had monster mud slides, killed hundreds of people because of flooding. Massive flooding. And it’s summertime now in Brazil.
WRAGGE: In El Nina, what are the patterns here? Is it every couple of years?
KAKU: Yeah, El Nina and the North Atlantic oscillations go back and forth every few years and they last a few months. And so we have both effects helping to bring down cold air from the north, while the Earth itself is heating up, creating more moisture in the Gulf of Mexico. And when the two meet, watch out.
I listened to Dr. Kaku‘s radio program a couple of times but just could not tolerate it. Not only did I find his tone of voice and over simplistic word choice insulting but in his attempt to simplify the explanations given he made several outright mistakes. Nothing is worse than someone putting themselves forward as an expert and yet cannot get a simple straightforward explanation wrong. I was reminded of what one of my college professors told me. That you really did not understand something until you were able to explain it to a ten year old. Dr. Kaku demonstrated to me that with regards to several topics he did not actually understand it.
I would love to see someone of Kaku’s caliber try and defend the climate models’ output against someone who knows how they are parameterized and subjectively tuned, and only compared to other models output for validation. Certainly Dr Kaku knows the models are indefensible from a science and scientific integrity stand-point, so he was in a hopelessly dangerous position I suspect. Dangerous from the stand-point of either having to compromise his own integrity, or to be honest and then incur the wrath of Left if he admitted on-air that the models are junk.
Michio Kaku – an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator).
Well that explains it. All sizzle, no steak. He’s obviously intelligent, but in no way and expert on the climate.
Pretty intelligent guy though. But wise, intelligent people acknowledge what they do not know and don’t try to BS people when their is major uncertainty. And the major uncertainty in CliSci of course is climate sensitivity to ∂CO2 that hasn’t improved in 40 years when it was first proposed in the Charney report.