king of the intellectual dark web Jordan Peterson an inspiration to bros
everywhere.
Decided to weigh in on the climate emergency because I guess
the next trend among goons like him is to focus their energy
on being the non experts who question climate science.
And so with that said, I give you the most insane word salad you will ever hear.
Let's watch.
>> The climate change one is a weird one.
So that one because there's no such thing as climate, right?
Climate and everything are the same word.
And that's what bothers me about the climate change types.
It's like this is something that bothers me about it technically it's like
climate is about everything.
It's okay but your models aren't based on everything.
Your models are based on a set number of variables.
So that means you've reduced the variables which are everything to that set.
Well, how did you decide which set of variables to including the equation
if it's about everything and that's not just a criticism.
That's like if it's about everything,
your models aren't right because your models do not and cannot model everything.
>> Okay so what does that even mean?
>> Even Rogan didn't really seem super on board with that.
>> I hope he's not clearly he's easy to influence as we've seen in this weird
shift toward like just complete denialism when it comes to science related to Covid.
But okay all the guys who are very defensive and
literally spend their full day on Twitter defending Jordan Peterson
their argument is well, why don't you let the video keep playing.
You put it took him out of context, okay.
>> It's like a minute long video.
>> Yeah. >> Okay.
>> Rogan asked him to clarify after that, and here's what he said.
This is his statement verbatim.
Well, that's what people who talk about the climate apocalypse claim in some
sense, we have to change everything.
The same with the word environment.
That word means so much that it actually doesn't mean anything.
Like when you say everything, like in a sense that's meaningless.
What's the difference between the environment and everything?
There's no difference.
What's the difference between climate and everything?
Well, there's no difference.
Okay, then, in that case I'm gonna go ahead and
refused to believe the vast majority of climate scientists.
99% of them who disagree with whatever climate denialism,
he's trying to like push on Joe Rogan's podcast and
I'm gonna go ahead and believe the guy who's wearing a bow tie.
And a tuxedo to Joe Rogan's podcast and
also the guy who used to endorse eating an all red meat diet.
>> It doesn't know.
>> But he's the expert.
You guys, he's the expert.
Don't you know he's so smart.
He's so smart, we just don't get it because we're dumb and
even though he's not a climate expert or
a climate scientist has no expertise in this area whatsoever.
He's just better than all of us and knows better than all of us.
And since he used that ridiculous word salad that you all heard,
he knows what he's talking about.
We can rest easy, no climate change, okay.
>> Exactly, yeah.
>> You guys are real smart.
>> And kudos to him for
not like at least learning a little bit about climate science.
So it would be there'd be a little bit of ambiguity because he's got a PhD and
something, so maybe he's learned about it.
No, clearly hasn't.
So I appreciate him not doing the bare minimum there.
Nothing that the fundamental frustrating thing about that is.
The horrible combination of relatively dumb, dense person armed with
rhetorical questions that should not be rhetorical, all of those questions?
He has contacts, ask a climate scientist about all of those things,
but how they make their models, how they choose which variables to focus on,
how they rule out other variables.
And you might learn a little bit about the process that can narrow it in from your
false assumption that the environment and the climate is about everything and
everything needs to be looked at?
That's not how it works literally at all.
Do you understand the greenhouse effect?
Do you understand what excess carbon does when it accumulates in the atmosphere?
Do you understand how we get an excess of carbon in the atmosphere?
Do you have an alternative explanation as to how that could happen other than human
activity provide anything.
He didn't really provide anything there.
And the biggest issue was he is denying climate change there without ever
saying that the climate isn't changing.
He's just saying I have issues based on my ignorance and
the fundamentals of climate science.
He doesn't say I've done independent research and
there isn't more carbon in the atmosphere, no PPMs that we got to worry about and
the earth actually isn't heating up.
I've done my own, he hasn't done any of that stuff.
He's just saying it's big.
It's like having an issue with Neil Degrasse Tyson and being like, well,
physics is the study of everything.
How can you map the motion of heavenly bodies?
There's too many variables if it's everything, it's nothing.
Yes, in some sense, they figured out how to do it and you can talk to the man and
learn a little bit.
He actually wrote a book, simplifying it for regular people.
It's just the whole thing is very frustrating.
Joe Rogan is not an expert on this and honestly, I don't even know where he
stands on climate for all I know he accepts climate change.
I don't know.
>> I obviously do not listen to his podcast regularly anymore, but
from the time where I did, he was good on climate science.
In fact, he had.
>> Will he be after a couple more.
>> I don't know if that's what I'm worried about because he's so impressionable and
that's like the thing that terrifies me.
I'm like, just stop talking.
He that interview by the way with Jordan Peterson went 4.5 hours long,
that is terrifying considering how impressionable he is.
So, I don't know.
We'll see what happens.
>> That's more than enough time to sweat through a tuxedo.
I hope they had a break, mop up a little bit.
>> Yeah, you're just dismissing him because he's wearing a tuxedo.
No, I'm dismissing him because he's stupid especially on this issue.
Sorry and all the people who think he's like this insanely enlightened guy,
everything boils down to clean your room.
>> Yeah. >> Right?
>> It was actually a close
tie to the patriot front. We're going to be a story we're gonna be
talking about there is this need for a basic level of discipline and
organization of their life that they feel that they didn't get and many by the way,
haven't gotten. And he is a very inroads to it.
He is the da Vinci code of self help
written to the lowest common denominator. Maybe intriguing on its surface,
but you shouldn't believe everything that you're reading it, right?
And then while on one hand,
he wants you to take personal responsibility and clean your room.
I will leave you with this one last quote
from the joe Rogan interview that he did recently.
So this is a crisis of everything.
It's like, no, it's not or if it is, if it really is,
then we're done because we can't fix everything.
>> He's getting paid, I don't have any proof, I don't have any evidence.
He's shilling for the oil industry.
That's what he's doing there and it ain't to sell more of his books.
Does he even talk about climate or oil or anything like that in there?
Check the numbers, check his investments.
>> [LAUGH] >> I don't know.
>> He's not a climate expert.
I choose to believe the actual scientists,
not the guy who's trying to tell us that climate is everything.
And if it's everything, then how do we know climate?
Just- >> How do you clean your room when clean
could be anything?
Can I clean up decay, cosmic psychological trauma that manifests in an area?
If it's everything, then can we ever fix it?