I know, it's hot outside.
You know what I can do about that?
Zero things.
Thank God, we have this thing called air conditioning, it's awesome.
It's a great cure for being super duper hot outside,
being a first world country, amazing.
>> Speaker 2: There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the beginning, middle, and
end of the rights take on massive global warming and
climate chaos that we're currently in the middle of.
The coldest take on the hottest summer on record right there, there you have it.
But of course, if you guys didn't know already, we are in the middle of this hot
summer, and we're gonna look at all the different places it's affecting.
We're talking 58 million people are experiencing triple digit temperatures
this week, along with millions of people across the world, Europe,
the Middle East, and China.
But there you had Ben Shapiro, there's air conditioning, just turn it on.
This is great, that's why we're in a first world country.
What else could we do to stop global warming?
There's a million things we could do, and we know exactly what we could do,
here's just a few.
We could eliminate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We could half them by the next decade.
If a small number of current technologies and behavioral trends are ramped up and
adopted more widely, that's what researchers have found.
Saying strong civil society movements are also needed to drive such change.
We could avoid deforestation, improve land management, reduce emissions by 9 billion
tons of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, this is according to a recent report.
We could ramp up solar and wind power right now,
which is cheaper than fossil fuels in so many regions.
It must be scaled up rapidly to replace coal fired generation.
And this alone could have emissions from electricity generation by 2030.
If the rapid uptake of electric vehicles in some parts of the world could be
sustained, the vehicles could make 90% of the market by 2030.
Those are all the things we can actually do.
We know we can do that, Ben Shapiro knows we could do that,
and yet, this is what they're spinning.
Before I give it to you guys,
let's just look at what's going on around the country, okay?
From Phoenix to Kentucky, let's start with Phoenix.
As of July, 1518 people had died of heat associated causes in metro Phoenix,
another 69 suspected of heat deaths, and that's under investigation.
However, I'm sure there's some sort of preexisting condition,
according to the right wingers, that caused them to die of this extreme heat.
So Phoenix hit 110 degrees 19 consecutive days, but it kept climbing.
The mercury, this, according to the Washington Post,
hit 116 degrees two hours later, breaking a record for Tuesday's date, and
rose as high as 118, according to the National Weather Service data.
The hot streak is not expected to end soon,
meaning old records will be shattered and
high temperatures are forecasted to reach 115 or hotter for the next week.
Here's some photos from Phoenix.
Here's a fire department trying to put out the fires that
obviously have been raging because of this much more volatile to fires over there.
Here's just a stoplight melting in the heat of the sun.
Meanwhile there's fires in Canada, I wanna skip down and just go to in Texas,
inmates are saying that their food is melting before their very eyes.
A lot of Texas prisons do not have air conditioning.
And so one inmate reported that she had food in her cell and
it just immediately melted before her eyes.
So, guys, turn on the AC, just turn it on.
>> Yeah.
>> Speaker 2: Yay, we live in a first world country.
>> Speaker 3: So I'm gonna break down a couple of sleight of
hands that Ben Shapiro did.
Unfortunately, almost everybody in media these days uses illusions, right?
And right wing media is well, no, mainstream media is the king of illusions,
but right wing media is a close second.
So in this case, I watched a longer clip, and
he talks about they said there'd be all these deaths.
There's no deaths, except there are 18 people died in Phoenix,
thousands have died across the world in just this one heat wave.
Let alone the hundreds of thousands that have died in extra heat waves,
extreme weather events that have happened, but he just says it like it's true.
So that's the first illusion, just a lie, right?
But there are no deaths, so we move on, right?
You think the right wing watching that goes, wait a minute,
I'm gonna look that up, [LAUGH] okay?
No, they just assume it's true when it isn't.
Did you see that traffic light?
That was unbelievable, that's how hot it is.
You're surprised people are dying, of course, they are, right?
And by the way, Ben Shapiro is, it's okay, I can afford air conditioning.
Well, what if you can't?
Oops, so second slide of hand is probably the best one here.
He's, well, I mean, they want us to do something, I got my air conditioning,
that's why we don't have to do anything.
No, the carbon is causing massive climate change,
which is heating up the planet and causing extreme weather events.
Your air conditioning does not address that at all,
it just makes you slightly cooler for the moment being.
But it makes it sound like your choices are either you have to do everything or
keep your air conditioning.
Why can't I keep my air conditioning and
actually do something about climate change?
But it creates this false option, and it also makes it seem like,
they're going to want to get rid of your air conditioning.
>> [LAUGH] >> Wait a minute, nobody said that.
[LAUGH] So our only second option is to do nothing, okay?
And finally, he does the thing about, we're developed nations, so it's okay,
developed nations are fine.
The undeveloped nations, well, I guess that's their problem.
You know who creates more climate change than anyone else?
Developed nations, and we are number one in that regard.
And so I have this in Justice is Coming, a little fun stat for you guys.
The average American creates seven times as much climate change as the average
person in China and 168 times the average person in Bangladesh.
So we create the problem and then Ben Shapiro comes in, goes, so what?
We have air conditioning, you don't have.
I don't think that solves it at all.
>> Speaker 4: And Cenk is pointing out something so important.
Our first world lifestyle, to which Ben Shapiro is referring,
is one of the things that's producing this climate crisis in large measure.
And we're loathed to give up that lifestyle, right?
So that's why fossil fuel burning and fossil fuel exploitation in this country
and globally continues at the pace it does.
Even as, I know we've set aside some money for electric vehicles and some
alternative energy, we are still very much connected to the world of fossil fuels.
I hadn't really seen that level of belligerence about climate crisis when you
say, well, I've got air conditioning.
There's sort of a level of, as I say, almost, it's denying with an fu attached.
But the reality is, this is a bad crisis that will affect all of us,
even developed nations.
Agricultural belts are shifting, thousands of flights have been canceled during
this just most recent heat wave because of the heat.
And you're seeing fish dying by the thousands, by the millions,
because of, again, warming of the waters in which they swim.
Look, habitats are in freefall, this is undeniable.
And when that sort of flip answer that Ben Shapiro offers comes around, I go,
wow, that's just another level of first world deniability.
It's a bad look.
>> Speaker 2: Absolutely, but Mark, surely the people of Kentucky would
have been saved by their air conditioners, just check out the flooding there.
I mean, if only they had had some AC going, they could have prevented
this once in a thousand year flood from eating their car, surrounding their home.
Clearly, if they only just flipped on the AC, we'd all be safe.
No, sadly, you cannot insulate yourself from the cost, the effects,
the impact of rampant fossil fuel and carbon emissions, and
the effects of climate change, right?
It's socializing the cost, but privatizing all of the profit for those companies.
Honestly, y'all, I don't know how you guys feel, but
a wave is supposed to end at some point, that's the thing with waves.
They surge, and then they go away.
I'm not seeing the wave letting up in Phoenix, or here in Los Angeles,
or anywhere, it seems like it's just continuing.
>> Speaker 3: No, we're in for an epic disaster, I mean, literally,
like we've never seen before.
It can't be any more literal.
So you mentioned the 1000 year storm in Kentucky.
There was also one in New England this year.
In 2017, there was one in Houston.
So in six years, we've had 3000 year storms.
And by the way, the 1000 year storm is not just like a throwaway line,
they calculate probabilities based on existing weather patterns.
And they say, this type of extreme weather event should happen once every 1000 years
if we followed the normal pattern.
Can you see that we are way, way, way outside of the normal pattern.
And now the only thing that might catch right winger's attention is money.
So now insurance companies are pulling out of a lot of places in America going,
this place is gonna be lost to climate change, I'm not gonna insure it,
you guys are all screwed.
So good luck with your homes, I don't know that they're worth anything anymore.
And now a little bit of panic has set in about that.
And because of this latest extreme heat, and by the way,
last week was the hottest week ever in recorded human history.
Now crop failures have begun.
And once the crop failures begin, then you've got supply and demand issues, then
you've got inflation, you've got lack of resources, and then you've got a lot of a,
angry people, and b, people that have to immigrate, they don't have a choice.
They got to get out of the zone of the equator.
Where's the equator?
Well, that's Latin America.
And they're gonna have to push on up north, they have no choice.
I mean, look, everything is melting.
And so when they do push up north,
then the right wingers are, where'd they come from?
Where'd this caravan come from?
Turn on AC, right?
>> [LAUGH] >> So look guys,
we're now in the middle of the movie, don't look up.
The scientists are, it's already hitting us.
Look, literally traffic, metal, pavement,
they're all melting, the world is collapsing and on fire.
And everybody's, no, we're good, turn on the AC.
Don't look up, don't look up.
This is not gonna end well.
>> Speaker 4: There are already massive refugee crises as a result and
worldwide it'll only get worse, as Cenk has just noted.
I mean, the other thing is, this is been screamed about for 40 years and I go,
the scientists all of a sudden, we were gonna be done by now.
No, scientists talked about extreme weather events getting worse and worse,
and that's exactly what's happening.
So everything is right on schedule.