It's getting hot out there, Harold.
It's getting real hot.
What's going on with the weather?
If the weather is the same thing as the climate, I don't even know that.
I don't know who to believe at this point.
I don't know if this is normal, I don't know if this is abnormal.
I don't know anything anymore.
I don't know who to trust.
None of these numbers make any sense to me.
>> Speaker 1: Okay, that's Jesse Watters asking a lot of questions about climate
and weather, whether this is normal, how to interpret the numbers.
And I like it when people are lifelong learners.
Now, justifiably that's pretty basic information.
So we're gonna send him some children's books on climate change, and hopefully,
we'll catch him up on it.
But the basics of it is, Jesse, yeah, no, it's hot out there and it's not normal.
And the numbers are not that confusing, they're just kind of scary.
Here's a chart for you.
Take a look at these numbers.
The average global surface temperature for
the first 23 days of July going back to 1940.
You'll notice a bit of a pattern.
It's hard to discern at first, but I've run multiple regressions,
and in the end number go up, Jesse, number go way up.
And that means that it's getting hotter.
Since mid March as well,
the world's oceans have been hotter than at any time since at least 1982.
And you can see daily global average sea surface temperatures here.
The red line, conveniently red, and it makes sense, is 2023.
It is hotter than in those, just last year, let alone the average,
which is quite a bit cooler.
And what's interesting about this is that they're commenting on climate change
at all in Fox News.
Generally, they don't want to acknowledge it because the evidence is hard to ignore.
If you're a regular person, if you're a regular conservative, you go out there,
you know that it's getting hotter.
When there are these reports of people tripping and the ground is so
scalding hot that they have to go to the hospital, that's not good.
We're rightly focusing on inequality, the new Gilded Age.
We're also in the griddle age.
We cannot touch the ground anymore outside.
And so, they were angry about this tweet from Hillary Clinton who said,
hot enough for you?
Thank a MAGA Republican, or better yet, vote them out of office.
And there is something to that.
Certainly Republicans have all, 100%, for decades refused to admit that
climate change was happening, or that if it was happening,
it's our fault, or that if it's our fault, we should do anything about it.
But to be fair, how much better have the Democrats been?
They've done some stuff.
Joe Biden had his little climate bill or whatever, but
I think there's a lot of blame to go around.
What do you both think?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so first of all, I appreciate Jesse Watters honesty there.
So, we'll take a rare moment of honesty by Trump host there, I'm sorry,
a Fox News host there.
I really didn't mean >> Still accurate.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's like, I don't know what it is.
How about looking it up before you go on air?
How about looking it up, like, 20 years ago before you went on air?
It's not that complicated, but I think the Fox News audience likes that.
Like, I don't know anything, man.
Weather, climate, I don't know what it is.
I know we're all uncomfortable, and I know that we take fossil fuel money, but
I don't know anything other than that.
I know my job is to kiss their ass and tell you we need more oil, but
I'm starting to get a little worried I might die.
Yeah, Jesse, now you're beginning to get it, right?
Because this is not normal.
That chart that John showed you,
there's about 200 other charts that all show you the same exact thing.
You could talk about temperatures in general,
you could talk about ocean temperatures,
you could talk about the glaciers melting, every chart shows you the same thing.
And 99% of the world's scientists didn't make it up.
And Jesse, you don't have to know.
He's like, I wonder whose job it is to know.
Scientists.
Here, I can answer that for you, scientists.
And do they disagree?
No, it's because of big Pharma.
This has nothing to do with Pharma.
What?
Okay, they have no incentive to lie.
They're getting big government contracts.
Really?
Brazilian scientists are getting government contracts from America?
Indian scientists?
Scientists from Botswana and Indonesia.
All of those scientists agree, and they're all getting secretly paid?
Or they just know how to read a thermometer.
Okay, so, no, it's definitely happening.
There's one other thing that 99% of the world scientists agree on, gravity.
Okay, you wanna try it out?
You never know with these guys.
Yeah. Scientists.
They'd know science.
Okay, me step off building, see what happens.
Don't.
Even if you're MAGA, please don't, okay?
Okay, now to the devastation we're in.
It's taken a turn, guys.
We knew it was coming,
the scientists said that it would get here actually a little later.
It's gotten here earlier,
and El Nino has kicked it up a notch that people did not expect.
And so, we showed you on earlier shows, the traffic lights are melting in America.
They're melting off of the stand, and the roads are cracking.
And now, the reason Jesse Watters is saying that on Fox News,
is because they're getting feedback from right wing viewers saying,
guys, I think this might not be normal.
Apparently, what that segment tells me is there are some bounds to
how much you could lie to an audience.
Because now the audience, as they're melting,
their final words are like, I think Fox might have lied to me,right?
And so, that's what's happening.
Don't get excited, they're not going to do a big turn.
They're still total crooks.
They're gonna lie to you 24/7, right?
But to me,
the reason I'm a little bit excited about that is because this feels like the same
moment when Tucker Carlson started talking about how big business is so bad.
Now, of course he directed it.
It's because they want you to buy Starbucks coffee.
What?
And it's because they're too woke and they're too gay and too black and
too this, right?
But I was like, so
your audience is telling you that they don't like big business.
Interesting turn of events.
And now I think the audience is starting to tell Fox News hosts,
we're worried about the weather or climate.
We don't understand it either.
But now we're worried.
And they should be.
>> Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just that so much damage has been done.
I was reading today where, there's still time to turn this thing around.
It still can be fixed if we'll all just pull together and
do some meaningful things.
But now you have these what they call climate doubters.
They know that this is real, but they don't think because of the damage
that the Jesse's Fox News do, that we really have a chance to fix this thing.
I don't know what Jesse Watters knows or not,
I tend to think that when you talk about the ocean waters warming,
he thinks that's a good thing to go on vacation, okay?
You'll take the punch, and it'll feel soothing and therapeutic to him.
But it's a real issue.
And I, too, agree with you, Cenk.
I do think that all people now are saying something's going on.
It feels like even my tires are melting and
have to be replaced sooner on the hot pavement.
It's an issue.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, And it affects people differently.
It might be that their tires melt,
it might be that Jesse Watters steps onto the deck of his boat and
his boat shoes melt to the surface, it's a tragedy and it's in different forms.
But anyway, yeah.
Conservatives living in Tennessee know that they didn't use to spend months
every year under a massive cloud of smoke because all of Canada burned a month ago.
People can tell that things are changing.
The question is, will anything be done?
And how much longer can they delay actual progress?