Postcard From Paris

1:53:42 No, it's too damn big! AAAAAAAAHHHHH! In the morning! You walk into this. That's cool. Woah! I walked into it, but there was a brick wall I walked into. My face hurts. Oh, man. AAAAAAAAHHHHH! Alright, alright. Well, change of topic then, perhaps. Yes. Let me take us somewhere. But I'd like to take you some- Oh, what? I was gonna do an entremont just for the keep, just so we get in the right mood. Okay. Earthquake coming. Ooh, I always love that. To the index and a new warning about the big one hitting Southern California, a leading earthquake scientist predicting the San Andreas fault is quote locked, loaded and ready to roll. He says stress has been building along the state's longest fault line for more than a century now. The last big quake to hit the southern San Andreas was a 7.9. That was back in 1857. I'm gonna die.

1:54:37 You're gonna die. You're gonna die. The big one is ready, locked and loaded. Gotta love it. That's right, back in the climate gate. We had the big, big meeting while we were on our European tour, EU tour, the Climate Initiative. And you recall, we looked at the Climate Initiative. That is one of these funds that is being funded by taxpayer money that will be distributing these funds in carbon credits and other infrastructure projects. Pretty much the money. And I have to say, I'm not really against the concept because

1:55:15 We're going to be taking this money to put into American companies. The problem is they're going to be building infrastructure in other countries instead of it happening here. So we do get some money, but you know, it's not really a good thing. And this is part of this whole Paris Agreement. So jumping a little bit ahead of the gun, everyone was at this, everyone was being interviewed in relation to the Paris Agreement and this climate initiative. And let me see what I have here. First up we have Sean Donovan. He is part of the administration. He's from the Office of Management and Budget. Then he sees a very, very bleak future for, you know, when it comes to climate change. But he knows that Wall Street is going to pay attention eventually. We know what happens where we live impacts you.

1:56:09 When the surging seas storm onto Wall Street, that stifles commerce globally. When infrastructure buckles, U.S. airports or seaports shut down, we all get stuck. And what happens where you live impacts us. When a heat wave hit Russia in 2010, damaging crops, the whole world saw a doubling of wheat prices, threatening food security. Price shocks to stable crops don't just threaten food security, they can contribute to political unrest. In Syria, drought contributed to mass migration and urban unrest. Pay no attention to the bombs and the boots on the ground and the terrorists and all that. Pay no attention to that. It was climate change.

1:56:56 That's why I'm proud that the United States has committed to contributing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund starting this year. Ah, he's good. The climate related extreme weather events, and I won't go through them all, but every night on the television news now is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation. Every night on television now it's like a nature hike through the book of Revelation. Thanks Al. And I could, believe me, show you thousands of examples. The US just relocated our first climate refugees domestically too, right? We just relocated our first climate refugees, yeah, yes.

1:57:43 John, we did you know that in the United States we just we just migrated our first climate change refugees. Did you know this? It was everywhere in the news. Did you not know? I apparently missed that. Missed the story. This is a hometown story, baby. Climate change refugees migrated because of extreme weather events. In Houston, Texas, two weeks ago. There you go. We got refugees in Texas. Climate change refugees. They got the 260 billion gallons. That's three and three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls. 260 billion gallons. What happened to three inches of rainfall or a foot? But now it has to be 260 billion gallons of rainfall. What kind of trick is this? It's a good one. Is this also cognitive dissonance? Because it sounds like a lot more than, you know,

1:58:42 You know, three inches of rain. Well, but there was a lot of water. We had floods, but you know. ... our first climate refugees, yeah, yes. And in Houston, Texas, two weeks ago, they got the 260 billion gallons. That's three and three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls. It's a reference within a reference. Too many references. I think so too. Less than two days into Harris County. And it's the second year in a row that this has happened in Houston. Today, they're evacuating. Now it is weather. You know that by now. Extreme weather events. Three more cities in Alberta. 70,000 people evacuated yesterday because of the fires right in the center of the tar sands region. So Mother Nature turns out to be more persuasive than any of us.

1:59:35 The laws of physics are a little bit hard to deny. The laws of physics now. The laws of physics are hard to deny. Not sure how that works into it. I guess everything's physics. Then there was this huge native ad that ABC ran. I don't know if you caught this. It was for globalchange.gov, which is, you know, it's all a part of this week, all a part of the Paris Agreement, part of the funding or the announcement of the funding of something. It hasn't been ratified yet, but, you know, they're pushing for it. And Jimmy Kimmel ran kind of like a PSA, which started with his lead in, you know, which was... Kimmel has a lot of this on his show, I have to say. This was an ad. This was an ad. It was funny from a comedic standpoint.