The Climate Denier's Playbook
Climate Town
From the minds that brought you Climate Town, comes... a podcast that's suspiciously similar to Climate Town.
Rollie Williams (Climate Town) and Nicole Conlan (The Daily Show) are two comedians with Master's Degrees in Climate Science & Policy and Urban Planning. But don’t get too excited, because they’re here to examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it obnoxiously difficult to address the looming climate crisis you've probably heard about.
If you're looking to get your hands on some of the absolute coldest, hardest, climate changing-est facts to help sift through the noise, then you've come to the right place, brother.
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The Climate Denier's Playbook [Trailer]
The Climate Denier's Playbook
06/28/23 • 2 min
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From the minds that brought you Climate Town, comes... a podcast that's suspiciously similar to Climate Town.
Rollie Williams (Climate Town) and Nicole Conlan (The Daily Show) are two comedians with Master's Degrees in Climate Science & Policy and Urban Planning. But don’t get too excited, because they’re here to examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it obnoxiously difficult to address the looming climate crisis you've probably heard about.
If you're looking to get your hands (ears) on some of the absolute coldest, hardest, climate changing-est facts to help sift through the noise, then you've come to the right place, brother.
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We Shall Blot Out The Sun!
The Climate Denier's Playbook
03/13/24 • 68 min
Why reduce our CO2 emissions when we have a perfectly good Bond-villain plan to stop the sun from heating Earth up in the first place?
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- Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan
- Executive Producer: Ben Boult
- Producer: Gregory Haddock
- Editor: Brittany Terrell
- Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
- Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center
SOURCES
- Ali, S. (2021, November 22). Controversial practice of seeding clouds to create rainfall becoming popular in the American West. The Hill.
- American University. (2020, June 24). Fact Sheet: Ocean Alkalinization. American University.
- Berardelli, J. (2018, November 23). Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming. Cbsnews.com.
- Biello, D. (2012, July 12). Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink. Scientific American.
- Boyd, P., & Vivian, C. (2019). Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows. Nature, 570(7760), 155–157.
- Brogan, J. (2016a, January 6). Can We Stop Climate Change by Tinkering With the Atmosphere? Slate Magazine; Slate.
- Brogan, J. (2016b, January 6). Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet. Slate.
- Buckley, C. (2024, February 2). Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? The New York Times.
- Chu, J. (2020, February 17). Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Clegg, B. (2016, July 23). The Planet Remade - Oliver Morton ****. Popsciencebooks.blogspot.com.
- Cohen, A. (2021, January 11). A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? Forbes.
- Collins, G. (2016, January 15). Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem. Slate.
- Geoengineering Monitor. (2021, April 9). Ocean Fertilization (technology briefing). Geoengineering Monitor.
- Hickel, J., & Slamersak, A. (2022). Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(7), e628–e631.
- IPCC95. (1995). INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Se...
It's The Sun, Stupid
The Climate Denier's Playbook
07/25/23 • 48 min
The thing these “scientists” will never tell you is that the sun has natural cycles that are causing all the climate change.
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- Music: Tony Domenick
SOURCES
- Milankovitch Cycles NASA Article
- How scientists know it’s not just Milankovitch Cycles
- More Milankovitch Science
- NASA 11-Year Cycle
- Space.com Solar Cycle
- Sun Spots
- NASA on Sun Spots and Solar Flares
- PBA Lane Maintenance Philosophy
- Best of Bowling: “Bowling Oil Patterns Explained (2022 Complete Guide)”
- NASA: “Is the Sun Causing Global Warming?”
- NASA: “Why Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming” (2020)
- Skeptical Science: “Sun & climate: moving in opposite directions”
- Media Matters: “Fox Responds To New Obama Climate Action With Global Warming Denial” (2013)
- Tucker Carlson clip
- Ron Johnson clip
- 2003 James Inhofe speech video (C-SPAN)
- Willie Soon paper: “Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years” (PDF download)
- Transcription of Willie Soon’s 2003 testimony before U.S. Congress Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Catalog of Willie Soon’s academic publications (ResearchGate)
- Inside Climate News: “Documents Reveal Fossil Fuel Fingerprints on Contrarian Climate Research” (2015)
- NYT: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful...
WoKe CaPiTaLiSm Is Destroying America!
The Climate Denier's Playbook
10/17/23 • 80 min
RED ALERT! The shadowy deep-state cabal of coastal elites that controls the world is using “ESGs” and wOkE CaPiTaLiSm to kneecap the American entrepreneurial spirit!
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- Music: Tony Domenick
SOURCES
- The Ingraham Angle. (2022, September 22). Fox News via Media Matters.
- Little Rock Public Radio. (2023, March 22). Audio recording reveals coordinated push against ESG investing. University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- Capitalisn’t: The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing. (n.d.). The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Pucker, K. P., & King, A. (2022, August 1). ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet. Harvard Business Review.
- Dierking, D. (2022, May 19). S&P 500 ESG Index: Tesla Out, ExxonMobil In. ETF Focus on TheStreet: ETF Research and Trade Ideas.
- Hillsdale College. “Woke Capitalism Against America | Vivek Ramaswamy.” (2021, May 20) Appears at 8:29. YouTube.
- Pollman, E. (2022, 15 September). The Making and Meaning of ESG. U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23. European Corporate Governance Institute.
- Fink, L. (2021). Larry Fink's 2021 letter to CEOs. BlackRock.
- Phillips, M. (2021, June 9). Exxon’s Board Defeat Signals the Rise of Social-Good Activists. The New York Times.
- Taft, M. (2022, October 21). The Right-Wing Groups Behind the War on ESG. The New Republic.
- Vogel, K. P. (2022, October 12). Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. The New York Times.
- Floodlight, A. A. (2023, June 12). Lawmakers passed a bill to stop insurers from considering ESG criteria in setting rates. The Texas Tribune.
- D. Garrett et al. Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies. (n.d.). Brookings.
- Surgey, A. K. B. (n.d.). Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance.” ProPublica.
- Hoyle, E. (2023, July 12). MEMO: Leonard Leo Pulls the Strings Behind MAGA House
- Masters, B. (2022, December 14). Vanguard spared ESG grilling in Te...
Natural Gas: The Bridge to Nowhere
The Climate Denier's Playbook
03/27/24 • 60 min
Problem: fossil fuels. Solution: different fossil fuels.
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- Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
- Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center
SOURCES
- The Obama Whitehouse. (2014). The 2014 State of the Union Address (Enhanced Version). YouTube.
- NowThis Impact. (2019). Trump Speaks at Natural Gas Plant in Louisiana | NowThis. YouTube.
- Natural Allies for a Clean Future. (2023) Earth Day 2023. YouTube.
- Energy Information Administration. (2023). Electricity explained. U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- DOE. (2006). Mercury Emission Control R&D. U.S. Department of Energy.
- Palmer, B. (2021, November 15). Natural Gas 101. NRDC.
- The Oklahoman Video Archive. (2017). Natural Gas Boom (2008-07-30). YouTube.
- ClimateProgress. (2009). Video 5. YouTube.
- Alvarez, R. A. et al. Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain. Science, 361(6398). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar7204
- Union of Concerned Scientists. (2014, June 19). Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas.
- EPA. (2013). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 - 2011 (p. 439). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- International Trucks. (2012). President Obama Supports Natural Gas. YouTube.
- Olano, M. V. (2023, July 14). Chart: The US is now exporting more LNG than ever before. Canary Media.
- Williams, Curtis. (2024, January 3). US was top LNG exporter in 2023 as hit record levels. Reuters.
- Energy Information Administration. (2023, November 13). Today in Energy. U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Jeremy. (2023, November 14). Report: Status of U.S. LNG Export Permits and Associated Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Symons Public Affair.
Climate: The Movie [Patreon Preview]
The Climate Denier's Playbook
06/19/24 • 34 min
How can we possibly be expected to trust settled climate science when we simply refuse to do so?
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- Music: Tony Domenick
- Special Thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center
SOURCES:
- Battle of Ideas 2015 | speaker | Martin Durkin. (n.d.). Archive.battleofideas.org.uk. Retrieved June 8, 2024
- British Thought Leaders. (2024, April 23). The Science Simply Does Not Support the Ridiculous Hysteria Around Climate At All: Martin Durkin. YouTube.
- Burns, D. (2024, April 11). Review of Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) reveals numerous, well-known misinformation talking points and inaccuracies - Science Feedback. Https://Science.feedback.org/.
- Claire Fox. (n.d.). Academy of Ideas. Retrieved June 11, 2024
- Clement, N. O., Michael E. Mann, Gernot Wagner, Don Wuebbles, Andrew Dessler, Andrea Dutton, Geoffrey Supran, Matthew Huber, Thomas Lovejoy, Ilissa Ocko, Peter C. Frumhoff, Joel. (2021, June 1). That “Obama Scientist” Climate Skeptic You’ve Been Hearing About ... Scientific American.
- Cook, J. (2019). Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says. Skeptical Science.
- Desmog. (n.d.). Willie Soon. DeSmog. Retrieved June 10, 2024
- Does Urban Heat Island effect exaggerate global warming trends? (2015, July 5). Skeptical Science.
- GOV.UK. (n.d.). FAST CAR FILMS LIMITED filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK. Find-And-Update.company-Information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved June 8, 2024
- Hayhoe, K. (2017, November 23). New rebuttal to the myth “climate scientists are in it for the money” courtesy of Katharine Hayhoe. Skeptical Science.
- Hayhoe, K. (2024, April). Katharine Hayhoe on LinkedIn: There’s a new climate denial movie doing the rounds. In the first 42... | 54 comments. Www.linkedin.com.
- Hobbes, M. (2023, June 18). x.com. X (Formerly Twitter).
- Jaffe, E. (2011, October 25). Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Www.bloomberg.com.
- Kriss, S. (2016, May 12). “Brexit: the Movie” Reveals Why the Upper Classes Are So Excited About the Prospect of Leaving the EU. Vice.
- Lowenstein, ...
15-Minute Cities
The Climate Denier's Playbook
08/08/23 • 66 min
NO!!! The radical left is using climate lockdowns to imprison us in communist cities where we’ll be forced to walk to all the nearby amenities.
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- Music: Tony Domenick
SOURCES
- Google Trends: “15 Min City” Search term interest since 2018
- What Is A "15 Minute City" & Why Are They Part Of "The Great Reset"? w/ Marc Morano – Ask Dr. Drew (YouTube)
- AFP Factcheck: Ohio train derailment fuels 15-minute city conspiracy theories (2023)
- Instagram post by standupcardiff (2023)
- Reuters Fact Check: Fact Check-‘15-minute city’ is an urban planning concept that promotes easy access to essential amenities (2023)
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action (2021)
- Project Syndicate: Avoiding a Climate Lockdown (2020)
- MarketWatch: Opinion: We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change (2020)
- TedTalk by Carlos Moreno: The 15-minute city
- MPDI: Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities (2021)
- NYT: He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ (2023)
- Teen Vogue: What Are “15-Minute Cities” and Why Are Conspiracy Theorists Worried About Them? (2023)
- NewsBusters: Soros/Gates-Funded Org ($6.5M): World May Need ‘Climate Lockdown' (2020)
- IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change, Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022, PDF Download)
- Coin Bureau: 15 Minute Cities: Oxford Won't Be the Same! (YouTube, 2023)
We’re Back, Baby! [Season 2 Teaser + Q&A]
The Climate Denier's Playbook
02/21/24 • 32 min
Great news! We’re back with a second season of Finland’s 8th favorite comedy podcast, The Climate Denier’s Playbook! Full episodes dropping in early March, and in the meantime, we’re here to give you a little peek at the climate myths we’ll be ghost-busting for Season 2. We’ll also answer some listener-submitted questions, and even crack wise about a fun little Tucker Carlson clip that didn’t fit anywhere else in the season.
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- Editor: Brittany Terrell
- Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
- Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center
SOURCES
- World On Fire - YouTube [Nicole’s YouTube channel!]
- Carlson, Tucker (2024, Jan 9). The Tucker Carlson Encounter: The Truth About Fossil Fuels
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Just Put the Emissions in the Ocean [Patreon Preview]
The Climate Denier's Playbook
04/10/24 • 21 min
The ocean is vast and complex, but I’m sure we can fix climate change by dumping a bunch of algae food into it.
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- Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
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“The Wilds - 40 Million Salmon Can't Be Wrong - Live at Blue Frog Studios”
"Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!"
SOURCES
- Ali, S. (2021, November 22). Controversial practice of seeding clouds to create rainfall becoming popular in the American West. The Hill.
- American University. (2020, June 24). Fact Sheet: Ocean Alkalinization. American University.
- Berardelli, J. (2018, November 23). Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming. Cbsnews.com.
- Biello, D. (2012, July 12). Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink. Scientific American.
- Boyd, P., & Vivian, C. (2019). Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows. Nature, 570(7760), 155–157.
- Brogan, J. (2016a, January 6). Can We Stop Climate Change by Tinkering With the Atmosphere? Slate Magazine; Slate.
- Brogan, J. (2016b, January 6). Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet. Slate.
- Buckley, C. (2024, February 2). Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? The New York Times.
- Chu, J. (2020, February 17). Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Clegg, B. (2016, July 23). The Planet Remade - Oliver Morton ****. Popsciencebooks.blogspot.com.
- Cohen, A. (2021, January 11). A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? Forbes.
- Collins, G. (2016, January 15). Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem. Slate.
- Geoengineering Monitor. (2021, April 9). Ocean Fertilization (technology briefing). Geoengineering Monitor.
- Hickel, J., & Slamersak, A. (2022). ...
Project 2025: A Literal Climate Denier’s Playbook
The Climate Denier's Playbook
10/18/24 • 86 min
Have you tried turning the EPA off and on again?
Register to vote (or check to make sure you’re registered): https://www.climatechangemakers.org/quick-register-to-vote
Check out the Evergreen Action Plan 2.0: https://evergreenaction.com/initiatives/a-bold-climate-plan-evergreen-action-plan-2
And if you want to get more involved, Climate Changemakers also lined up this Vote Forward page, where you can write letters and send them to potentially critical prospective voters in swing states. You can write about whatever you want, but if you’re reading this, you might want to focus on the exciting and actually very good climate action that could come from the next climate-focused US President: https://votefwd.org/climatechangemakers
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CREDITS
- Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben Boult
- Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan
- Executive Producer: Ben Boult
- Post-production: Jubilaria Media
- Producers: Irene Plagianos, Miranda Manganaro, Daniella Philipson
- Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
- Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center
- In partnership with: Evergreen Action
SOURCES
- Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Project. (2024). The Heritage Foundation.
- Dans, P., & Groves, S. (Eds.). (2023). Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The Heritage Foundation.
- The Heritage Foundation. (2023, April 28). Project 2025: Staffing the Next Conservative Administration | #Heritage50 [Video]. YouTube.
- ProPublica. (2024, August 10). Project 2025 Private Training Video: Left-Wing Code Words and Language [Video]. YouTube.
- MSNBC. (2024, June 22). Top Project 2025 architect talks conservative blueprint for Trump second term [Video]. YouTube.
- CNN. (2024, July 4). Pro-Trump think tank leader makes ominous threat about ‘second American Revolution’ [Video]. YouTube.
- The Kevin Roberts Show. (2024, September 24). New York Times Climate Forward | Dr. Kevin Roberts [Video]. YouTube.
- Heritage Response Room. (2018, January 25). Tommy Binion discusses how Trump has embraced 64% of Heritage policy recommendations on Fox Business [Video]. YouTube.
- Washington Post. (2017, October 18). Watch Trump’s full speech to the Heritage Foundation [Video]. YouTube.
- CNN. (2024, July 11). Evidence shatters Trump’s claims about his ties to Project 2025 [Video]. YouTube.
- Fox News. (2024, July 25). Trum...
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How many episodes does The Climate Denier's Playbook have?
The Climate Denier's Playbook currently has 23 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Cars, Society & Culture, Myths, Climate Change, Comedy, Podcasts and Global Warming.
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The episode title 'The Climate Denier's Playbook [Trailer]' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Climate Denier's Playbook is 53 minutes.
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The first episode of The Climate Denier's Playbook was released on Jun 28, 2023.
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