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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Such a good and positive interview. We need Alex to speak up constantly, there are too many people with too much power in La La Land. They are smothering our way of life and our futures 😃 Thank you for all your good work and may God bless you!!

Kathy

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Thanks Joel! Safe travels to your next destination. Have heard interviews with Epstein before and he is a great spokesman for a rational view on energy. He highlights the absurd idea that we don’t need highly dense and transportable energy for human life, especially in harsher climates. What arrogance for western developed countries to now demand emerging countries forgo the benefits of cheap energy. If you haven’t heard Epstein before, probably due to censoring, he is worth the time. Have a great Sunday all.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Brilliant - but who is listening? We need this sort of information to go viral. Perhaps Musk's 'New Twitter' could help - he seems to be keen on overcoming the 'anti-free speech' brigade.

Another worthwhile book on the topic is Steven Koonin's 'Unsettled' - perhaps Steven would be prepared to chat to you, Joe. Should help to reinforce Alex's message.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

I also extend my thanks to Joel for his interview with Alex Epstein. Alex's book sits proudly in the centre of my bookcase - so thanks for your contribution also, Alex.

Al the best to both of you. There are more sane people on the world who need to speak up to overcome those who are blindly advocating the impossible.

As a Civil Engineer, I am amazed by the number of Engineers who remain silent about this false god (at best) and those who promote solar, EVs etc, (at worst - as professionals, with support from the National Engineering Institutions) without taking note of the actual cost to the community.

Best regards, Norm

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Encouraging to see pragmatic common sense green shoots, emerging from noisy solar farmers fields of sun drenched idiocy.

That so many, have in so few years, been brainwashed to use extrapolations of selected data is frightening in the new age of AI, representing ‘truths’, created in micro seconds, from volumes of selected fiction.

The power of one or two human brains to fight this monetised destruction of human life takes us back the era of the Sun revolving around the Earth.

Fortunately that man derived wisdom found it’s way into the realms of ridicule and derision.

In future years, the thought that men and women in 2023 in white coats, at lecture pontificating as if learned but with catastrophic agendas, had the forums to change nature, command the world to avoid extinction by carbon dioxide, was nothing but grandstanding hypocrisy, that just almost destroyed their civilization.

All hail to the minorities fighting for common sense, in this age where critical thinking is almost deemed an oxymoron.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

“… and how quickly it can be lost if we neglect reality and we neglect rational thinking.” Best line in the interview.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

And the TRUTH shall set you free, but beware of misinformation, , often known as the "official word ( story).

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Alex has a great thesis! However, I think Dr. Shaw's thesis about peak people is THE most significant existential threat to humanity. If we cannot keep up the population with 2.1 births per woman, the Human Race is doomed, regardless of our adoption or shunning of fossil fuels.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

What school you went, Joel?

For Christ's sake!

Sesquipedalian...

Thanks be to Wiktionary!

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Interesting perspective. I didn't understand that the leadership of the anti-fossil fuel movement was entrenched in opposition to any of the efforts to extract energy from the earth. Thus they would embrace any mirage for energy replacement (wind/solar). They don't need successful models for replacement, they only need a concept that they can sell to the hoi-polloi, because they hate the digging and transmission lines.

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Great. Thanks

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

The best read I've had from you.

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Gentlemen, All this politico-eco talk, appropriations and actions to reach net Zero of Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere is based on a scientifically unsteady climate model, namely, that man produced carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is the only or prime driver of measured atmospheric temperature increases since 1850. Notwithstanding that man's emissions have increased, these increases do not closely correlate to temperature increases as a cause and effect would. Dr. Steven Kooning,former Obama undersecretary for Science USDOE, Ph.D. physics, Stanford prof., NAS wrote UNSETTLED ? What climate tells us ,what it doesn't and why it matters.

His thesis is that thorough examination of the UN's IPCC data is not scientifically accurate enough to point the finger of global warming only or mostly due to man's emissions; hence UNSETTLED. There are 40,000 miles of undersea volcano ranges spewing out water at ~ 240 degrees F, heat emissions from the earth's interior, perturbations of the earth's path and inclination towards the sun, unknown changing solar output, natural methane emissions from the frozen methane "ice" below 15,000 ft, deep. All these must be known and found lacking as causes of global temperature increase. Bottom line-Net Zero may be a premature no- achievement if man is REALLY NOT the major cause of atmospheric temperature increase, then we are on a wild goose chase of dubious results. Joe Gilio

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

...sorry - Joel!

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Jun 4, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Good discussion. Thanks.

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The simple answer is: with 1500 active volcanos on the planet spewing out 96% of the CO2 ..... Man is only responsible for about 4%.

Man cannot alter this equation ... it is just simple math stupid!!!

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