ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano discusses climate activists disrupting Climate Week NYC. Activists were targeting AI and data centers, claiming they are responsible for climate change. Morano analyzes the emerging power struggle between tech development and environmental mandates that threaten energy security.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Oh, boy, it’s a Climate Week clash as world leaders gather in New York to celebrate their sustainability accomplishments. Climate activists crash an A.I. event accusing tech companies of fueling climate change. Watch.
All right. Joining me now is Marc Morano from ClimateDepot.com. He was featured as a speaker during Climate Week. So let me get this straight, you were the speaker at the climate conference…
Marc Morano: Yes. My organization, CFACT, we actually signed me up to be a speaker, and the green group allowed it. And about three weeks later they realized, wait a minute, this guy doesn’t fit in here, and they didn’t cancel me. They said we’re committed to free speech.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Wow.
Marc Morano: So I was able to speak at a panel, and I mentioned they have to stop instilling climate action into the youth. I said you need to stop scaring kids. We need diversity, tolerance; we need dissent. We need to allow professors to dissent on climate. I’ve talked to them about offshore wind, whales, about how EVs aren’t green. And, amazingly, the audience agreed. See: Video: Morano featured speaker at UN’s NYC Climate Week – Shows activists how they created ‘climate anxiety’ in kids! Slammed student climate lawsuits, declared EVs are not ‘green’ & called for allowing climate dissent in academia
Rachel Campos-Duffy: And it’s hard to think back so many years ago when literally any professor who opposed the idea of climate change was basically thrown out of the profession. I mean, there really was a tyranny around this ideology.
Marc Morano: Yes.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: So explain to me this clash now. Because you have Bill Gates in a fight with Al Gore…
Marc Morano: Yes.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Bill Gates, who was a big climate guy—now he’s not because of A.I.?
Marc Morano: Well, these students you’re seeing protest, they know instinctively that A.I. is killing the climate hoax. Bill Gates came out right before the last U.N. climate summit and said climate is not a catastrophe; we need human flourishing. This made heads explode. Al Gore shows up at a U.N. climate summit attacking Bill Gates as wrong, as being bullied by Donald Trump. Larry Fink, ground zero for the whole financial scam of climate change from BlackRock, has publicly announced that A.I. cannot be powered by solar and wind. You need dispatchable power from fossil fuels, coal, oil, gas, nuclear.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: That’s so interesting, because Larry Fink was pushing all the climate stuff.
Marc Morano: All of it.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Now that it interferes with A.I.
Marc Morano: The students are correct that their agenda’s being ripped out by their fellow activists. A.I. means doom for them.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Yeah, in a lot of ways. Affordability—they’re at the climate conference, they see this vulnerability of affordability, they think it will hurt the right, so they’re fighting for affordability, but how do you get affordability if you’re not for fossil fuels? You need cheap fossil fuels if you want prices to come down.
Marc Morano: They get it, very simply, through fantasy engineering. They say solar and wind are coming on, we have to ban fossil fuels and solar and wind will take over because—Al Gore says there’ll be an explosion of technology. Same thing they did with cars. They thought EVs would just overtake. They never got higher than 7%. The Toyota CEO said I think we’re at about max.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: What we’re seeing is the implosion of the whole climate hoax. How much of this has to do with President Trump? I don’t think he gets enough credit for having destroyed this movement.
Marc Morano: No, he doesn’t. We have to say this. In the last 50 years, this was FDR, Ronald Reagan-style action. Just look at what Donald Trump did on the climate event. Over 300 actions as president to unleash American energy, and here’s the key thing: permanence. He’s pulling us out of the 1992 Earth Summit treaty that George H.W. Bush got us into. That’s unprecedented. We’re officially out in February, which makes it much harder for a future president AOC or Gavin Newsom to get us back in. And he’s also ending this endangerment finding which is essentially regulating carbon dioxide. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide as humans. That exhale is regulated as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. And even though the Act never mentioned it. Trump is trying to get unelected bureaucrats to no longer have the power to regulate all aspects of our economy, from meat eating to gas stoves, etc. So he’s doing a level of permanence that even Trump 1.0 didn’t go after.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Oh, yeah. I don’t think he gets enough credit for what he’s done in that space. I think it’s an important topic for people to consider as we move into this midterm election. He is absolutely transformational, and it was a tyranny. It’s hard to think back on how things were. Marc, you’ve always been at the forefront of this, and we thank you for doing the good work of going to the climate conference.
Marc Morano: Thank you, Rachel.