Vlad Bogorov talks about Glasgow City Council’s plans to spend tens of billions to pursue net zero and Bogorov’s three YouTube videos from public meetings where officials gave vague, cliché answers, asked for written questions, and objected to being filmed. Bogorov argues such environmentalism is “low resolution thinking,” primarily about power and public money, and claims renewables and policies like EVs can increase CO2 when accounting for grid losses, mining, and transmission. He cites Germany closing nuclear and burning more coal, contends nuclear is safest and necessary for net zero, and urges critics to focus on whether environmentalism raises or lowers CO2 rather than debating global warming itself.

00:00 Glasgow Net Zero Meetings

01:07 YouTube Complaint Fallout

02:00 Vague Answers No Details

03:54 Renewables And Public Trough

04:35 Low Resolution Thinking

05:02 History Slavery Nuclear Examples

09:36 Sahara Solar Fantasy

11:53 Environmentalism Blocks Nuclear

14:24 Wrong Conversation On Costs

16:31 Electric Vehicles Emit More

20:06 Germany Coal After Nuclear

24:34 Politics Is About Power

27:31 Debating CO2 And Focus

28:45 Environmentalism Backfires

30:11 EV Batteries and Tradeoffs

31:15 Glasgow Council Push

32:28 Power Without Accountability

34:29 Why Facts Dont Persuade

39:23 Placards and Public Reactions

41:15 Change the Battlefield

42:04 Anti Nuclear Contradiction

46:46 Winning and the Real Cost

47:48 Social Movements End Hard

49:45 Closing Thanks

His YouTube channel, “Buchanan Street is my pub.”: https://www.youtube.com/@Buchanan1111

When History Had Other Plans, 2025: https://a.co/d/4ykoJrJ

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Julian Morris presents slides on climate change: global temperatures have risen since 1850 and human greenhouse gas emissions plausibly contribute via radiative forcing, but he argues harms are not worsening. Using the EM-DAT disaster database, he notes reported extreme-weather disasters rose while geophysical disasters rose similarly, suggesting reporting and population effects; meanwhile climate-disaster mortality has fallen over 90% since the 1920s due to adaptation, technology, trade, infrastructure, warnings, and better buildings. He highlights long-term declines in energy and CO2 per GDP and potential decoupling, attributing progress to innovation and institutions like free markets and property rights. He critiques democratically unaccountable NGO–foundation–intergovernmental coalitions, discusses perverse incentives in conservation (rhino horn trade bans), ethanol mandates, and possible blockchain tracking for wildlife products.

00:00 Meet Julian Morris

01:02 Is the World Warming

01:33 Are Humans Causing It

02:24 Disaster Counts Rising

04:51 Why Disasters Get Counted

06:21 Deaths From Disasters Fall

07:46 How Humans Adapt

11:03 Should We Worry Next

11:34 Efficiency Cuts Emissions

13:57 Energy Decouples From CO2

16:20 Fuel Shifts Over Time

21:13 Tech Efficiency Breakthroughs

23:18 Projecting To Net Zero

24:37 Environmental Kuznets Curve

27:24 Institutions Drive Decoupling

29:48 Policy Takeaways And Tradeoffs

31:54 Global Carbon Intensity Trends

32:22 Hurricanes And Alarmism

32:47 Lighting Progress Metrics

33:44 Segmented Sleep Debate

35:07 Democratic Deficit Ecosystem

37:32 Climate Coalition Incentives

39:39 Declining Climate Credibility

42:13 Availability Cascades Explained

43:35 Perverse NGO Incentives

46:10 Rhino Horn Trade Ban Fallout

50:42 Saving Species With Trade

51:59 Ethanol Baptist Bootleggers

54:54 Blockchain For Provenance

57:26 Wrap Up And Resources

https://reason.org/author/julian-morris/

https://x.com/Julian_Morris

Defending Democracy from the DoDOs: How Power Escapes Democratic Control: https://laweconcenter.org/resources/defending-democracy-from-the-dodos-part-i-how-power-escapes-democratic-control/

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Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis presents a 2020 talk arguing the “climate change agenda” is political, tracing it to Henry Kissinger’s 1974 UN speech and subsequent WMO, CIA, U.S. agency actions, leading to the CO2 program, world climate conferences, and the IPCC’s 1988 creation. He reviews Time magazine’s shifting narratives from global cooling to warming and CO2, then describes elite networks and philanthropy—especially Rockefeller-linked funding—aimed at moving climate from science to policy, promoting carbon pricing, and expanding global governance. He draws a historical analogy to Rockefeller-supported eugenics and warns of emergency politics limiting rights. In discussion, he contrasts Greek and U.S. belief levels and says COVID fears waned in Greece while climate remains influential.

00:00 Intro and Talk Setup

01:43 Roadmap and Sources

03:15 1973-74 Power Players

05:45 Kissinger Career Background

06:44 Five Labors Overview

10:16 Climate Alert at UN

12:38 Cooling Scare and Agencies

14:38 CO2 Program to IPCC Birth

16:42 Climategate and IPCC Politics

19:00 Time Magazine Narrative Shift

19:30 From Ice Age to CO2 Villain

22:57 Rio to Kyoto Green Industry

24:47 Panic Marketing and Activism

26:38 Greta and Climate Migration

28:15 COVID vs Climate Messaging

31:09 Part Three World Saviors

31:30 Rockefeller Web of Influence

33:34 Money Geography and Oil Roots

35:32 Big Oil Meets Big Green

37:11 Grantmaking and Consensus

37:56 Rockefeller Climate Strategy

39:29 Divestment and Multi Agenda Grants

41:14 Foundation Funding Machine

42:53 Podesta Emails Elite Coordination

44:26 Big Green Mega Projects

45:27 Climate Emergency State

48:35 Climate as Global Governance Vehicle

51:58 Supranational Solutions Go Mainstream

55:12 Paris COP Influence Network

56:53 Eugenics Historical Parallel

59:25 From Consensus to State Policy

01:02:31 Epilogue Doom Predictions

01:04:09 COVID Pivot and World Order

01:08:56 Closing Truth and Freedom

01:11:22 Q and A Wrap Up

Home page: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/dk/

Substack: https://climath.substack.com/

The political origin of the climate change agenda: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/2035/

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