Summary of #28 - Gregory Wrightstone: Celebrate the BENEFITS of modest warming & increased CO2!

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Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and author of "Inconvenient Facts," discusses his findings that challenge the popular conception that climate change is harmful. He advocates for the many benefits of modest warming and increased CO2 that has led to thriving ecosystems and improved human conditions. Wrightstone is a member of the CO2 Coalition, along with over 110 top scientists and experts working on climate change and promoting facts, with whom he has developed educational resources that challenge common misconceptions surrounding climate change. He also advocates for the clean-burning of coal to create electricity, getting rid of the Jones Act, accelerating the leasing of the Gulf, opening up Alaska, and banning the Biden administration's limitations on oil and gas production to strive towards energy dominance.

• 00:00:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and author of "Inconvenient Facts," discusses his personal search for the truth about climate change, which led him to discover that just about everything we've been told about it is incorrect. He explains that his next book, currently in the works, will be separated into three sections, with the focus on the many benefits of modest warming and increased CO2. Despite being silenced on LinkedIn due to his factual scientific data, Wrightstone is determined to get the word out about the thriving ecosystems and improving human conditions resulting from modest warming and increased CO2.
• 00:05:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone discusses how his book has been positively received on Amazon with solid five-star reviews, despite being banned on social media platforms for presenting facts. He leads the CO2 Coalition with over 110 top scientists and experts in the world working on climate change and promoting the facts about it. Some of these experts include Dr Will Happer, Emeritus professor at Princeton, and Dr Richard Linds, Emeritus professor at MIT, who Wrightstone highly regards and believes should be treasured. Happer is currently working on a landmark paper about nitrogen nitrous oxide, which, if successfully debunked, could lead to crop failure, famine, and millions of deaths. Wrightstone highlights the importance of celebrating the beneficial aspects of modest warming and increased CO2, and encourages us to fight against governments seizing farms and imposing agricultural suicide.
• 00:10:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone discusses the importance of the data and research provided by the CO2 Coalition to fight against the misconceptions surrounding climate change. He mentions that their white papers provide technical details, which he interprets and summarizes for the layman. The conversation then drifts to the warming trend and how the rise and fall of temperature has a strong relationship with the rise and fall of civilizations and empires throughout history. Wrightstone details the three warm periods dating back to the Bronze Age, the Minoans, Hittites, and Babylonians. Life was good, food was plentiful, and crop growth was great. However, when the temperature started falling, it led to the collapse of these civilizations and empires. Finally, he discusses the little ice age, where crops were failing and people were burning witches.
• 00:15:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone discusses the witch hunts that occurred during the cold climate in the past and how people blamed the weather on witches. The killing of witches supposedly resolved the issue, and the crops began growing again. He compares this belief to today's demonization of CO2 as the cause of catastrophic warming while referring to it as a miracle molecule. Wrightstone also mentions the CO2 Coalition, of which he is a member, and their attempts to communicate science without the use of alarming language. He talks about their education initiative that includes comic books for children and lesson plans created by PhDs.
• 00:20:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone discusses the educational resources his team has developed, including books and videos about CO2, recycling, and photosynthesis. He also mentions the Inconvenient Facts app, which provides users with 60 facts about climate change, as well as charts and sources to back them up. The app also includes a model that shows how little warming would be averted if CO2 emissions were reduced in the United States. Wrightstone criticizes policies that prevent pipeline construction in New York and New Jersey, leading to high energy costs in New England.
• 00:25:00 In this section, geologist Gregory Wrightstone discusses the abundance of natural gas resources in the United States, particularly in the Appalachian Basin, including the Mega giant field known as the Burkett Shale. However, the pipelines are at maximum capacity and the Jones Act requires that any commodity shipped from one American port to another American port has to be an American flag vessel, which inhibits buying and selling natural gas within the country. Wrightstone suggests getting rid of the Jones Act and accelerating the leasing of the Gulf, opening up Alaska, and banning the Biden Administration's limitations on oil and gas production to strive towards energy dominance. He also advocates for the clean burning of coal to create electricity, which produces only carbon dioxide that is not considered a pollutant.
• 00:30:00 In this section, Gregory Wrightstone, a member of the CO2 Coalition, discusses the group's efforts to challenge the EPA's "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. He notes that the coalition has more than 100 top scientists working on providing the science, facts, and data that refute that claim. However, when asked who he recommends for energy analysis besides himself, he expresses frustration with Alex Epstein and others who admit that CO2 is a greenhouse gas leading to problems. Wrightstone is a huge proponent of the benefits of carbon dioxide and believes it is not causing any harm.