Summary of #65 Chris Morrison: A real journalist talks about the climate scam

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Chris Morrison, a journalist with a background in investigative journalism, discusses his perspective on the climate change debate in this video. He notes the bias in mainstream media reporting on climate change and the similarities between the coverage of the topic and the Lloyd's crisis, emphasizing the importance of questioning everything. Morrison shares how Toby Young's blog Daily Skeptic provides a critical inquiry-based news platform that highlights alternative views, including skepticism about climate change. He also discusses the difficulty of monetizing views that go against mainstream left-wing opinions on the topic and explains how the rise of social media has democratized the publishing industry. Morrison criticizes the media's left-wing bias and constant narrative promoting Net Zero without considering the science behind it, warning of the consequences to the economy and society if cheap, reliable fossil fuels are removed. Finally, he discusses the cyclical nature of Arctic ice and the long-term trends of climate change, emphasizing the need to protect what we have and be more cautious about the impact of our actions.

• 00:00:00 In this section, journalist Chris Morrison discusses his background and experience in investigative journalism, particularly in the financial sector. He talks about his time as the environment editor for the Daily Skeptic blog and how he has seen the journalism industry change over the years due to the rise of the internet and the changing subscription models. Morrison also touches on the corruption he witnessed in the financial markets during the 80s and how his experience as a journalist has influenced his perspectives on the current climate change debate.
• 00:05:00 In this section, Chris Morrison, a journalist and former musician, talks about his transition to writing about climate change. Morrison was interested in the subject and began to look at the evidence behind it. From a journalist’s perspective, there seems to be an undeniable bias in the mainstream media's reporting on the issue which is akin to how the Lloyd’s crisis was reported. According to Morrison, climate change is similar to the Lloyd's crisis because the mainstream narrative states that there is an existential crisis that must be dealt with by moving away from fossil fuels, despite some of the evidence to the contrary. While carbon dioxide is a significant greenhouse gas, the evidence suggests that it is not the only one and may not be the main one responsible for climate change.
• 00:10:00 In this section, Chris Morrison discusses how the temperature pause in the satellite and surface datasets disappears due to the upward adjustments made by the Met Office. He notes that despite using satellites for measuring ice and other things, they do not use satellites for temperatures, which raises simple journalistic questions. Morrison also shares an example of how journalism fails in reporting the truth and repeats false information about the temperature recording at RAF Commerce B. Similarly, journalists continued to use the figure of 33% inundation of Pakistan despite being debunked beyond dispute. Morrison stresses the importance of questioning everything and highlights the critical inquiry-based news platform, Daily Skeptic, started by Toby Young. He points out the similarities between the coverage of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and how alternative views are rarely acknowledged in mainstream media.
• 00:15:00 In this section, Chris Morrison, a journalist with a mainstream editorial background, talks about how he got involved with Toby Young's blog, which started off as a critical analysis of the Lockdown measures, and later expanded into a platform for skeptical journalism on topics such as climate change, the Great Reset, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Morrison explains how the blog's focus on specialized topics catered to a smaller, but more engaged audience, and how this trend toward niche journalism was spurred by the development of cheaper, easier-to-print newsletters and online publishing. He also notes that the rise of social media has democratized the publishing industry, allowing anyone to become a "publisher."
• 00:20:00 In this section, Chris Morrison discusses the difficulty of monetizing views that go against mainstream left-wing opinions on climate change. He notes that in the past, people were more prepared to pay subscription fees, but now, it is more challenging to monetize. There are still journalists who write skeptically about climate change, but mainstream media has become more conformist. However, there are exceptions such as GB News and Talk TV, which take a skeptical view. Morrison highlights the difficulty for climate realists in working at the BBC, implying that people who know it's all "baloney" but keep their jobs by pretending to believe in it.
• 00:25:00 In this section, journalist Chris Morrison talks about his distrust of the BBC and how they refuse to show alternative views on climate change. He refers to an example he heard on Radio 4 where the sports editor claimed a businessman's interest in Manchester United was due to a bid to clean up his chemicals company's image. Morrison believes this is an example of the media's left-wing bias and constant narrative promoting Net Zero without considering the science behind it. He argues that the public is being brainwashed into believing in this agenda, but have no idea of the consequences to the economy and society if cheap, reliable fossil fuels are removed. Additionally, renewable energy sources are inferior products, requiring subsidies and replaced frequently.
• 00:30:00 In this section, journalist Chris Morrison discusses the danger of a referendum on Net Zero in the UK and how the BBC's promotion of the agenda could lead to its passing, despite the public's lack of awareness of the disaster that would arise from it. He notes that while upper-middle-class people promote the idea of Net Zero, people are starting to question its feasibility due to stories about millions of bats being killed by wind turbines and the impracticality of battery cars. Additionally, he argues that the success of the Daily Skeptic is a testament to growing interest in realism against the climate change narrative, and he discusses the general lack of coverage in the mainstream media on stories that counter the climate change narrative like the growth of the Arctic ice and the increasing size of the Green Light Sheet.
• 00:35:00 In this section, Chris Morrison discusses the cyclical nature of Arctic ice and the long-term trends of climate change. He criticizes the fearmongering of climate change activists, such as David Attenborough, who claimed that summer sea ice could be gone by 2035. Additionally, he argues that the Net Zero agenda is a reflection of the hard left ideology and malthusianism. Morrison believes that people have been brainwashed under the guise of environmentalism and that there is a lack of appreciation for the prosperity and little warfare of the post-World War II era.
• 00:40:00 In this section, journalist Chris Morrison discusses how a certain level of decadence has set in on western societies, leading to a lack of awareness and appreciation of prosperity, and how societies eventually fall due to this. He mentions how the middle classes, who run mainstream media, have a certain blindness towards poverty and the fragility of the human condition. Morrison also believes that the Net Zero concept is nonsense as it is nearly impossible to remove 85% of your energy and continue without any consequences. People, he believes, will need to feel the consequences of these actions before realizing that it needs to be corrected. This section of the talk emphasizes the need to keep protecting what we have and being more cautious about the impact of our actions.