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heritage.org. backe serves as the ronald reagan distinguished fellow here at heritage and conservative movement leader she serves as the chairman of conservative action project and also advocates for the american conservation and advances energy and natural resources policy and generally and previously served as the vice president for external relationships and most recently led the restore america project. before joining in 1998, she served as the secretary of natural resources for therc commonwealth of virginia and the cabinet of them governor george allen in served rules of the the ronald reagan administration as the deputy assistant to the president for the presidential personnel, special assistant to the president and directorpe of hiss cabinet office and as well as senior special assistant to the attorneyl general ed meese and as interior deputy under secretary of the department as well as an assistan assistant sy fosecretaryfor fish, wildlife a.

please join me in welcoming my colleague and friend. [applause] thank you. let me add my words of welcome. we love having people come to the heritage foundation either personally or online on television, so welcome, welcome. the heritage foundation has promoted the american conservation we call the lan itd of liberty, stewardship of america's environment and the number one principle that the outline is people are our most important, unique and precious resource and/orrc number eight principle is that the most successful environmental policies flowvi from liberty. people and liberty. so,op when i read the opening sentence ofhe chapter one of the book that i got from accounting

books, i read this sentence. this book is about freedom, and i was hooked. i knew i had to read the rest of this book. the author is with a us today ad he has a final copy of his book, green tierney. and the author is rupert. he's been in business finance. he's been an investment banker, he's been in the public policy arena, he's been in government. he's seen this issue from a lot of angles and he studied at cambridge where he studied economics and history, a great foundation for writing this fine book. let me just tell you what a

couple of our friends have said about his new book. michael berg on who i brown whof all of us here at heritage and is well known across o the couny said he has written a definitive and a clear history of global warming alarmism.al it's success a enlisting western elitesuc and its cause, wow, vey important. rupert has told a story and well. his truth may be inconvenienced some. and finally, let me say that charles moore from the daily telegraph wrote rupert is a

wonderful historian of intellectual and political move is which is just the job to explain what has been inflicted on us over the past 30 yearsrs r so in the name of saving the planet. many people who've read this are recommended to all of us if we are fortunate here at the heritage foundation to have the author to come and talk to us a little bit about his book what prompted him to write it and take your questions, so welcome to the heritage foundation. [applause] thank you for those kind words. i was in washington almost exactly a year ago and it's extraordinary how much has changed since then. nowhere has tha the change beene profound, more consequential and

more necessary than on climate andic energy policy. the united states is going to withdraw from the paris agreement, the climate treaty president obama doesn't have the guts to send to the senate for its advice and consent. no one should underestimate the historical importance of president trumps decision. this is the third time a republicande president rejected time tables and the first bush, president bush and the un framework convention on climate change and second, the kyoto protocol. the president's decision is the important. it is devastating for the climate process. the whole architecture of the agreement has been designed to support to obtain the advice and consent. to freeze america to be the hydrocarbon superpower it enables the administrator to

roll back the plan. is this happening because of what happened on november 8, 2016. it wouldn't have happened but for the tremendous work undertaken by the conservative and libertarian think tanks in this city and across the country, notably chicago and austin texas. they took on the climate of industrial complex. they prepared the intellectual grounds and shaped why it needed to be done and what needed to be done. america owes a huge debt of gratitude for being at the forefront of this great effort as do i. so i would like to take the opportunity to recall my thanks to those that helped in various ways. altogether with fueling freedom, the environmental quality and

the one building in washington that's more powerful than this one because this is something bigger in the energy policy from its bigger than economics with the jobs being from the shale revolution and bigger than all the manufacturing jobs being restored thanks to america's energy superabundance. this is about something more fundamental. ultimately this is a battle between the administrative state ando america's constitutional order. it's about freedom in a word. returning to the recipient of my remarks i would like to tell you how we got here. it turned out to be the age. global warming was not meant to be like this. the original idea was that it was going to be the solution. politics and global warming actually began in sweden, not germany what most people suppose.

people first started talking about it in the late 1980s that the scientists and climate alarmist hansen gave his testimony to the committee that sweden had alreadydy been obsessing about global warming for a decade and a half. in 1974 the swedish prime minister said climate change would be the big issue at the end of the century, sweden. the country that the progressive left wants america to become of the welfare state, a foreign-policy, the longest period of one-party rule in any western democracy, social democratic policies to the correct lineal dissent a policy they want the democrats here to be. there's a lot for good reason.

in 1971 the observer correspondentde wrote a book called the totalitarians. he had a new form of the soft authoritarianism and two centuries before napoleon, sweden developed a a centralized apparatus when they formed their first in 192 1921 i gave them a critical system that adapted to the swift enactment and intentions to theen bureaucracy and legislated the executive machine. does that sound at all familiar it sounds to me very much like what the state wants it to become. it became the perfect instrument to carry out the most prolonged and for an experiment in social engineering outside of the soviet union andnd communist cha

and pioneered a cradle to grave welfare state to abolish and replace the family and abolish the patriarchy and operated a eugenics progra program chaptero chapter five the scientists alike. the student protests in the late 1960s and 1970s used anti-americanism as a safety valve and align sweden with a vietcong and fidel castro. they had a policy neutrality since the napoleonic war. that's how did they know throughout the cold war sweden had a lab with washington or that the studied in ohio and what was the pro- swedish intelligence service. sweden is not what it appears. in the late 1960s, they launched a war on cold first with the acid rain to scare and then global warming. what was it tough to?

it would be naïve to take this at face value and think that it was motivated by genuine conce concern. it came through this talented and sophisticated -- and. in a newspaper interview where he first talked abouter global warming, how much utopia as the same function as in the desert without the garage he wouldn't get to the next oasis. global warming is a political garage. they were about to embark on the program in terms of gigawatts per capita but it wasn't at all popular with the swedish voters said they decided they had to frighten them by training the alternative is far worse. they don't have any of its own sowi they were hyping up acid

rain. they will buy and the legs will fill up with acid.s the rain drain global warming. they played a leading role in both and he wrote the first government report anywhere in the world on acid rain. his reporthis report has a famig replace acid rain with climate change and it reads like a prototype of an assessment report. indeed more than any single individual could claim credit for the creation of the anti-governmental plan on climate change in the sweden more than any other country. as you will find in the pages of my book, global warming was politicized right from the start and make no mistake global warming was first deployed for political reasons. yes, sweden succeeded in putting acid rain on the international agenda but it completely failed when it came to nuclear power.

given. that they started the global warming scare to get nuclear power how did we end up with wind and solar. in the first book i touched on the environmentalism in the darkest chapter of history. it happens to be a historical fact the first political party in the world to champion, which they did in the 1930s. just weeks after debating the talk the companions tha but it s the future i suppose you might say in that regard he got something right but in the three decades after world war i germany was a model western democracy as they complained that the american way of life but that began to change. no other countries have such a high portion.

a survey found 30% of westou german highiv schools and university students claimed to sympathize. in the 1950s the school of intellectuals returned from the united states to frankfurt with studentin protests and a student demonstrated was shot and killed in west berlin was the shot that the volt to the progressive country it is today from decades later. the west berlin was a communist state. radicalization of students turned in to terrorism: a big when a plane was hijacked the head of the association is out and killed and imprisoned and

committed suicide. they found themselves washed up in the west german society and thon found a way back. they want to build a string and program a week and something deep in the soul which laid dormant since the nazi period, don'no huge spontaneous demonstrations against the power, the washed up student radicals saw their chance into the party was formed in 1980 but the new left the student radicals by then middle-aged radicals taking the leadership of the party and absorbing the old ecological guard of the neo-nazis and other far right nationalists. to do this, they didn't have to perform, they just changed color.

they took the concepts of the t past interest them up in the garb that we see today. it was a catastrophic mission of capitalism and a catastrophe instead of the socialist utopia and instead of the cult of the factory it was becausfactory ite forest and instead of the color red, the color green. i wish i had written that. it was written by the intellectual in an essay first published in the new republic in 2001. the rights of the radicals from 1968 is motivated by anti-nazis. looking hiding under every bed becoming so twisted they ended up seeing the state of israel as summarized in the situation only

to have ended up they take the analysis one step further not only do they share the irrationality but they ended up embracing the ideology red and green makes brown and here we come to one that cannot be sugarcoated the people on the wrong side of the cold war came out on top. they hope to turn back peacefullyo to try to prevent them from capturing the threat posed and as the president put it pacifism is in the west and the missiles are in the east. the deployment of the missile's advocate within the circle of doctor batiste, not to the west with loyal to ourselves and they

argued for what they called nonviolent social defense against the nazi occupation in the second world war and they have done so successfully after they had been crushed in other words whe i object to the premeditated surrender. to say that there was a gift to the kremlin would be understating the matter. it was heavily penetrated by the eastern intelligence. thenc kremlin financed and the local parties stamped out anything remotely critical. if they had gotten their way in the behalf of the atlantic alliance would have become detached as it would have effectively lost protection of the abdullah. in short, the west would have lost the cold war. being on the wrong side turned out to be a career enhancing move. by 97 ther 97 that there were ne coalitions in germany and in

1998 the first red green coalition was being formed in berlin and two years later they passed a renewable energy act by giving the task to the most inefficient renewable technologies to renewable energy act put them on the path to l energy. the renewable energy law had been included in any party manifesto in the election campaign and they didn't know what was in the bill. so they ended up with more of a the capacity than any other country in the world and unleashed the manufacturing boom in china. german assistance agreed in the directive removing the policies for the rest of europe and as i put in the book is the price they paid for winning the cold war.

it's toward german's use the more accurate term to forest uptake of renewable energy technology is the opposite of the creative destruction described by what he called the central fact. it's an example of destructive destruction of the overt and covert regulations of one kind or another. i do that quite a feww pages to analyzing the destructive economics of the energy and the deceptions used by the obama administration to justify the plan. i would like to make a correct point when we put the green ideology and environmentalists in charge of the policy that certain it will be ay car crash. in 2004, they said it would cost

the equivalent of a scoop of ice cream on your monthly energy bills and later the cost could be 1 trillion euros. systematic deceit is a picture of the propaganda put out by the climate industrial complex. inin the book i have a revealing speech made in 96 by the top government bureaucrats. a plus candid about empty phrases to push forward the environmental agenda. ecological equilibrium is an example of a phrase he said quite rightly that was meaningless. another was the technology and economy were not in conflict. i myself made this claim going to be less than truthful. just remember that when you come acrossou claims of clean energy

jobs as a total contrast i would like to mention it's the understanding and the great communicator of it. he was on a panel convened by the white house. they also had a leading role in the nuclear winter and another example of where they had been on the wrong side of the cold war emerges in the cold war era with the exception of the two individuals with those that signed up to this pair subsequently became prominent supporters of the consensus. now people who are deferred to by governments around the world. i would like to quote what toometo meis a priceless exchann

1994, nightline gig allegations of who is funding the climate skeptics and before reminding the viewers that they had predicted environmental damage in the alleged traumatic effect ofof the first war and on the other hand as ted koppel told reviewer's key was wrong and doctor singer was right. before resulting to the political means for russia to be resolved on a scientific basis and this brings me to the classic book of the enlightened and what he calls the sciencet f freedom. the most important part is

really think it'ss better than the people they governed and how they should be governed. we must have at our disposal all of the knowledgeac possible together and unlimited authority to translate the programs into law. do i need to say this is what the industrial complex doe justo the united states a form of rejection and 76 in favor of the troops and body then the declaration of independence. america's unique uniqueness became independent to create something without a precedent. the government dedicated to the growth of our liberty, the industrial complex and the preservation of liberty are incompatible. the government must act. global warming demands more, to

hold their tongues and to be silenced. there's a strong impulse towards the absolutist and the political culture of the totalitarian. that is what makes it unique. ultimately, global warming is a battle for america's soul and that's what we are here to pay for, to fight it. [applause] thank you so much. we want plenty of time for questions, so if you have a question, please raise your hand and wait for the microphone r to arrive to introduce yourself to the audience and then ask your question. who has the first question? >> very good. i'm going to go first and then we'll go with g the audience. >> when the soviet union fell -- i ammy an investor and retired

physicist interested in climate change, global warming and all that kind of stuff. when the soviet union fell, the listheylisted all kinds of confessionals. and you made a good case that the soviet union and international conspiracy shall we say had a role in this, but it was absent in all the bad things they admitted doing to us in the papers that were released at that point. is there any documentation that they said they were in globalho warming and som in some of thesr things that are in your book that were left-wing conspiracies? i accept the left-wing conspiracy but like we are

talking about it was a direct collusion. i think global warming came from sweden. it is the case is in the 1970s the kremlin exploited environmentalism after the accord which was about human rights and there was some language about the environment so they tried to shift the argument they made a speech on the environment and signed up to the fact it didn't and they had to do anything but it was all about demonstrating that they were on the right side. the evidence was very clear that

this was the proudest achievement which was then taken up and there was a conference in washington to play all the threat and basically to undermine the administration and the arms buildup. they got their way. the outcome would have been very different. >> right here in the back and then we will go to you. >> i have read a few newspaper accounts of some eyes that they were involved currently in efforts to fund opposition to fracking. is there any evidence but that t is actually going on?

>> i think it is the case that they already have a huge interest in preventing fracking which is done immense damage to the economy in terms of the collapse and natural gas prices. i don't review the evidence of that in this book. i have the oligarchs of silicon valley in the campaigns and thereby essentially waging war on the heartland of america, middle of america depends and thrives on and you've got an economic civil war in american capitalism against the. >> a gentle man in the back.

introduce yourself please. >> could you introduce yourself please. your name [inaudible] i haven't read your book but from what you said over here close to 8-years-old life somebody has the needs and related together issues to reject some scientific real or not matter. the question is is it happening or not. if it's not happening or not

doesn't have anything to do with whether it was done by green or the soviet union or the war movement or anything like that. my question is is global roaming actually happeningis or not. >> as it happens i have a paper being produced today that looks at what scientists themselves say about the certainties or the lack of regarding climate science into the global warming hypothesis, but the key thing in the book that is important and why this issue was put on the

agenda is an important thing to understand, but the prototype of the global warming scare in my view is acid rain and it's very clear the science turned out to be wrong. in the national academies here in canada, sweden it's more certain than on global warming and they turned out to be wrong. when such truth emerged, what was interesting is that epa was pushing through the amendments and they suppressed the finding and they demonized the principal scientist involvedti discovering the consensus was completely wrong and to this day none of those academies have retracted or admitted t that they got the science wrong, so i would put a big question mark over the

credibility of these organizations when they say that it's settled because there's a previous dialogue where they said that and they got it wrong. >> would you not say one of the issues we are dealing with here is the fear mongering that is going on in other words going to this gentleman's question, we started off with a global warming crisis and then it became global warming and then it became climate change in other words, they seem to be showing whether the change in where it is and don't you think this fear mongering is a tactic they are using to affect government policies? >> not only do i think that, i demonstrate in the book that actually that was absolutely embedded so there were two

conferences just as the iabc c. was being fought in austria and italy and what's clear from the documents is that to get the government to change policy they had to reverse engineer the catastrophe because they said unless the discount rate is so low that you can't actually show that there's that much damage from climate change you have to assume there would be a great big catastrophe down the road and that enables you to justifyo the policies. you can read from the documents summarized in the book they reverse engineered to get the policye they wanted. >> any other questions? let me say as we bring this to a close we have copies of the book available for you, exposing the

totalitarian roots of the climatehe industrial complex. one of the things that is important for us to keep in mind in the united states of america is we want to encourage people to seek truth. that is what we are all about. and i might say one of the most impressive things to me is when you get to page 267, there are footnotes or other resource material and that goes on through page 314. in other words if you want to seek truth first thing you should do is get a copy of this book and read it and then go to the footnotes and get those materials and read them. in other words, don't be suckered by fear mongering scare

tactics with politicians. the book green tierney and seek truth. let's all thank rupert for being here today. [applause]

journalist on the natural and man-made causes of earthquakes and their future earthquakes are likely to occur. this event took place at the café bookshop in baltimore. >> thank you for coming out tonight i appreciate it. at the end of 2017 not so long ago we were celebrating, that's probably a bad word for commemorating the anniversary of hurricane candy which obviously affected a large part of the eastern seaboard and i was reporting as it struck. many research became what was my third book superstore and in that book i was looking at how it was that we had gotten so wrong how it was the new sort fields to issue orders and how it was that so many buildings and key pieces of