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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 313 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week, the ITT crew talks about the painfully unfunny lineup of late night talk shows and their recent “Climate Night.” They discuss the failure of this event and discuss the climate and energy topics they neglected to bring up. OPENING CHIT CHAT The shows have essentially become scripted propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LN1Z2uRGj8 Sometimes they literally have the same script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HS4EzVaImc Late Night Coordinates for climate action https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1440415704503635968?s=21 Federalist - ‘Climate Night’ Was Just As Condescendingly Cringey As Expected https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/23/climate-night-was-just-as-condescendingly-cringey-as-expected/ Trevor Noah had Greta Thunberg as a guest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW7NEdT45q0 Washington Post – At U.N., Biden calls for unity in addressing pandemic and climate change https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-at-un-calls-for-unity-in-addressing-the-pandemic-and-climate-change/2021/09/21/6c8c2368-1ac3-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html WHAT THE LATE SHOWS WON’T TELL YOU In The Tank ep205 – Wind and Solar Energy Are Terrible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYSXThtRK8c&t=14s Cost compared to reliable energy - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IER_LCOE2019Final-.pdf “Days of 10-fold increases to efficiency are over” - https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible Land area and resource usage are high - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-renewable-energy-cannot-meet-needs/ Environmentally toxic – waste material - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/the-mounting-solar-panel-waste-problem/ Curbing CO2 in US will do nothing to reverse global levels – China’s output - https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/06/china-building-89-shercos-coming-years/ Temp impacts of zero-emissions objective insignificant – AEI GND study = 0.173c by 2100. - http://www.aei.org/spotlight/green-new-deal/ Cost of energy for people - https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFIEPIC_WP_201962_v3.pdf Reliability - https://www.texaspolicy.com/the-cost-of-renewable-energy-subsidies-in-texas/ Regressive nature of rising energy costs – hurts the poor - https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/21/californias-energy-mandates-amount-to-state-legislated-energy-poverty/ Climate Change is an excuse for alarmists / Societal change - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/14/the-real-reason-they-hate-nuclear-is-because-it-means-we-dont-need-renewables/#21086894128f Socialism – GND - https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/policy-brief-the-green-new-deal-a-grave-threat-to-the-american-economy-environment-and-freedom WEF - Christine Lagarde on how to address COVID-19, climate change and inequality https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/klaus-schwab-christine-lagarde-covid-19-climate-change-inequality/ The Hill - China seeks to extend critical minerals monopoly with help of Taliban https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/572932-china-seeks-to-extend-critical-minerals-monopoly-with-help-of Yahoo Finance – Rare Earth Metals: A Testament to China’s Economic Power https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rare-earth-metals-testament-china-194742145.html [Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.]