Charlie Kirk Challenges College Student on Climate Change Evidence and the Scientific Method

[00:00] you say that you support

[00:02] facts and not feelings right so I was

[00:05] wondering how you reconcile this with

[00:06] Trump's climate policy or environmental

[00:09] policy

[00:10] because this is a pretty significant

[00:12] threat in my opinion based on the

[00:14] evidence that I've seen and the research

[00:16] that I've seen

[00:17] which threat exactly yeah climate change

[00:20] specifically and I know that's a

[00:21] politicized term but I'm just interested

[00:23] to know what you think they change it

[00:24] from global warming to this another

[00:26] thing Democrats like they love

[00:27] Linguistics they changed it from global

[00:29] warming to climate change do you know

[00:30] why because when scientists are looking

[00:32] into global warming right there was

[00:34] actually no factual data to back up

[00:35] their arguments so they changed to

[00:37] climate change because the climate's

[00:38] always changing right there there was

[00:41] this is literally why they changed it

[00:43] they were they were telling us a lie

[00:45] extracting our tax dollars for some

[00:47] Parish agreement they had no actionable

[00:48] plan and America was losing so you know

[00:50] what Trump did he ripped it up we got

[00:52] out of there periscreant I saw that

[00:53] happen yeah

[00:55] um but those are distinct like

[00:56] scientific terms like climate change

[00:58] global warming is happening like there

[01:01] are curves

[01:02] it's okay there you can let you can look

[01:05] at the studies let's talk about this

[01:07] there's Rising global temperatures so

[01:08] let me ask you three quick questions can

[01:10] you prove humans are contributing to it

[01:11] can you prove how long it's been

[01:13] happening and what the causation is and

[01:14] can you prove that anything we can do

[01:16] can stop it can you answer those three

[01:17] questions I can

[01:19] um so the first proof humans are

[01:20] contributing well I'm just a freshman at

[01:22] college but uh the the the the obviously

[01:25] but the fact is no one can the answer

[01:27] those three questions are no one can

[01:29] kind of how science works yeah you can

[01:30] you can prove humans are contributing

[01:32] using the scientific method wait could I

[01:35] could I could I could I just adjust it

[01:38] you can adjust well

[01:40] um I mean okay hold on we'll do this

[01:43] after no this is important

[01:45] no but like but here's the question

[01:47] here's the three main questions is can

[01:48] you prove humans are contributing can

[01:50] you prove what we're going to do is

[01:51] actually going to affect global

[01:54] temperatures positively or negatively

[01:55] and then at what cost are we going to

[01:56] completely restructure our carbon-based

[01:59] economy for something that is still

[02:01] having an immense amount of debate

[02:03] dialogue and discussion around it

[02:04] because I'll tell you right now other

[02:05] countries such as India and China

[02:07] they're trying to get their hands on as

[02:08] many fossil fuels as possible now if the

[02:10] market wants to go towards a carbon-free

[02:13] economy so be it the government should

[02:14] not subsidize it nor should we get in an

[02:17] international pact as Candice mentioned

[02:18] which will restrict our economic

[02:20] competitiveness while all of the

[02:21] countries that hate us are going to burn

[02:23] as much coal and as much natural gas as

[02:25] they can get their hands on that's

[02:26] exactly right the Paris agreement wasn't

[02:27] worth the piece of paper it was written

[02:29] on it was not there was nothing

[02:30] actionable in it he was right to pull us

[02:31] out of it completely okay well uh for

[02:34] the first part of your question people

[02:35] causing climate change

[02:37] um it's kind of a boring explanation and

[02:38] I could tell you're not into too many

[02:39] boring things but uh for sure definitely

[02:42] there's uh there's a thing called the

[02:43] Seuss effect you can look it up if you

[02:45] want um I'm familiar with basically yeah

[02:47] it's the day there's certain isotopes of

[02:49] carbon that decay when they're um taken

[02:51] in by plants and then uh

[02:54] yeah turn into fossil fuels so

[02:56] underground so ultimately those Isotopes

[02:59] Decay when they're burned they're

[03:00] released into the atmosphere the fact

[03:02] that the concentrations of those

[03:03] Isotopes are increasing shows that

[03:06] there's it's almost certainly linked can

[03:07] you can you draw a direct correlation

[03:09] using the scientific method of the

[03:11] aggregation of those Isotopes to rise in

[03:13] global temperatures

[03:14] well yeah of course because more so than

[03:16] sunspots or natural climate activity

[03:19] I'm just curious the reason I ask is

[03:22] real climatologists ask these questions

[03:23] and they're still debating them the ones

[03:25] that are not government funded or highly

[03:27] politicized there is a 99 consensus so

[03:30] what about the one percent science is

[03:31] not a democracy

[03:33] we don't we don't vote on gravity we

[03:35] don't vote on Newton's Second Law prove

[03:37] it

[03:39] I mean if you don't want to do the

[03:41] reading you don't have to I have I

[03:43] guarantee you I've read much more than

[03:45] you have but answer the question is is

[03:46] science a democracy no you said 99 if

[03:49] it's 100 then it's true 99 is an opinion

[03:51] that's not I mean I can debate with you

[03:53] about how science no prove me wrong how

[03:55] is 99 prove anything

[03:58] you can't 99 of the people in this room

[04:01] can believe one thing that doesn't make

[04:02] it true no scientists these are

[04:04] scientists that have put their entire

[04:05] work and their entire life on the line

[04:07] yet it's three percent and it's 90

[04:09] something the statistics that's used 97

[04:10] which is a totally flawed statistic but

[04:12] let's pretend it's true for a second

[04:13] that three percent that disagrees and

[04:15] defects I want to know why they disagree

[04:17] and defect absolutely yeah but but the

[04:19] reason there's not consensus if we're

[04:21] able to prove it without a shot of a

[04:22] doubt that there's a direct causation or

[04:23] correlation between fossil fuel activity

[04:25] and rise in global temperatures and it

[04:26] would be 100 those three percent that

[04:28] are defecting and disagreeing that's

[04:30] what science is all about that's what we

[04:31] have a scientific method that's why they

[04:33] gather and they disagree and they

[04:34] discuss but you you came at it from how

[04:36] could I disagree with facts on getting

[04:38] you a fact that it hasn't been proven