Summary of Harry Decker: Climate realism from a longtime Arizona resident | Tom Nelson Pod #103

00:00:00 - 00:25:00

In a conversation with Tom Nelson, Harry Decker expresses his skepticism towards climate change and its impact on Arizona. He believes that biased reporting by the mainstream media outlets has led people to overlook the other side of the story. Decker also points out that Arizona's water scarcity is due to over-usage for residential and recreational purposes, population growth, and urbanization rather than climate change. He challenges claims about melting ice caps and rising coastlines due to climate change, and questions the feasibility of relying solely on solar and wind energy to power modern society's necessary machinery. Overall, Decker urges people to verify data and be skeptical of apocalyptic predictions, viewing climate change as a religious movement that people blindly follow.

• 00:00:00 In this section, Harry Decker discusses how he became aware of the biased reporting on climate change by mainstream media outlets after listening to lectures by Tony Heller and realizing that the other side of the story was not being told. He then points out that Arizona is not running out of water due to climate change but instead due to the high usage of water for residential swimming pools, public pools, water parks, golf courses, trees, plants, and private man-made lakes. He attributes population growth and urbanization as the culprits behind the increase in water usage.
• 00:05:00 In this section, Harry Decker discusses the impact of climate change on Arizona's high-tech and military industries, as well as the leasing of land to Saudi Arabia to grow cotton. He also talks about the history of climate in Arizona, including severe droughts, canals built by Native Americans, and 100-year floods that have occurred in the past. Decker criticizes politicians and the mainstream media for not providing adequate information and instead using climate change to explain droughts and extreme weather events in Arizona.
• 00:10:00 In this section, Harry Decker challenges those who claim that the ice caps are melting and that coastlines are rising due to climate change. He points out that the data contradicts those claims and confronts the issue of the green agenda pushed by politicians and the news media. He talks about the need to test and verify data and the consequences of ignoring it, as he recalls his experience working for a medical hospital. Decker also discusses his essay "Humans versus Antarctic," focusing on the size of the continent, temperature weather stations, the largest cluster of volcanoes, and the volcanic activity in the Pine Island Glacier. He concludes by highlighting the number of machines worldwide that burn fossil fuels, including those used in logging and mining, which have to operate in remote locations where there are no roads.
• 00:15:00 In this section, Harry Decker questions the feasibility of relying solely on solar and wind energy to power the equipment used for lawn and field maintenance. He argues that these machines were established during the Industrial Revolution and are necessary for modern society, with no way to power them using solar panels or windmills. To make this point clearer, Decker calculated how much space all these devices would occupy and found that they would take up roughly 3% of Antarctica's land mass. Additionally, Decker argues that if carbon dioxide is as evil as they say it is, then why aren't carbonated beverages being banned since they are one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide in the world? Despite this, Decker acknowledges that pollution is a problem, with only about 20% of plastics being recycled.
• 00:20:00 In this section, Harry Decker lists various uses of carbon dioxide, such as refrigeration, transportation, oil recovery, water treatment, methanol and urea production, and even decaffeinating coffee. He notes that carbon dioxide is also used in fire extinguishing systems, to create plastics and polymers, and even to mobilize animals in a humane manner before slaughter. Decker expresses frustration that despite the many practical applications of carbon dioxide, the United Nations and Congress are swayed by emotional appeals rather than listening to scientists and experts. He references Greta Thunberg and criticizes the use of her emotional appeal to promote propaganda, noting that other, less publicized young activists like Naomi Seibt offer valid critiques of climate change and vaccination policies. Ultimately, he concludes that predictions of climate change need to be viewed with skepticism, as many apocalyptic predictions have failed to come to pass in the past.
• 00:25:00 In this section, Harry Decker expresses his skepticism towards climate change and believes it is a smoke screen for other issues that are not as important such as the transgender movement, medically modified foods, and Donald Trump. He believes that climate change has become a religious movement that people blindly follow without questioning their beliefs.