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Tom Steyer Talks Debates, Climate, National Security & More

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Businessman and activist Tom Steyer remains in the Democratic presidential race and on the debate stage long after other party hopefuls exited the race. But why is he there?  What does he bring to the campaign that other Democrats do not?

In a conversation with Greg Corombos, Steyer explains what compelled him to run after initially deciding not to be a candidate.  They also dive into Steyer’s signature issue of climate change.  What is his specific plan and is it realistic to think we can phase out fossil fuels entirely?

In Tuesday’s debate, Steyer claimed his international business experience has prepared him to be commander-in-chief.  But how does that kind of experience specifically prepare him for deciding whether to commit U.S. troops to combat?

In recent weeks, Steyer has climbed to double digits in polls of voters in the early primary and caucus states of Nevada and South Carolina.  What’s responsible for the surge?

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Martini Awards Part 3: Worst Scandal, Best Political Theater, Worst Political Theater

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We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and we’re glad to have you back as we return to our prestigious Three Martini Lunch Awards. Today, Jim and Greg discuss the worst scandals of 2019, which Jim choosing a foreign policy mess and Greg opting for a domestic one. Next, we sift through a ton of possibilities for the best and worst political theater of 2019, with a pretty heavy emphasis on the 2020 campaign.

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House Dem Opposes Impeachment, Obama Dings Biden, Ivy League Idiocy

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One good and two crazy martinis await today. Jim and Greg react to House Democrat Brenda Lawrence backing away from impeachment and now saying censuring President Trump would be more appropriate in an election year. They also try to figure out what Barack Obama’s 2020 approach is as he not only doesn’t endorse Joe Biden but in private is apparently slamming Biden’s inability to connect with voters. And they roll their eyes as Harvard and Yale students disrupt the annual football game between the two schools to protest both schools for investing in fossil fuels.

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Gates vs. Warren, Government & Your DNA, Libs Push Population Control

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Jim is on vacation but there’s still plenty of fireworks on Thursday’s Three Martini Lunch. Greg is joined by Chad Benson, host of “The Chad Benson Show.”  Today, they get a kick out Bill Gates wondering just how much of his money Elizabeth Warren wants and concluding a conversation with Warren might not be worth his time because he’s not sure how open-minded she is.  They also recoil as a judge allows police to demand DNA from one of those outfits that tracks your heritage as part of an investigation, although Chad reminds us we all have pretty much voluntarily given up our privacy. And they fire back at 11,000 “scientists” who now say the Green New Deal is not enough, but we have to engage in population control too.

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Unlikely Impeachment Foes, Protecting Hunter, Prince Harry’s Climate Hysteria

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are surprised to see prominent Trump critics David Brooks and John Kasich saying Democrats are moving way too quickly on impeachment. They also get a big laugh out of New York Times podcast host Michael Barbaro demanding that people leave the children of political candidates alone – while specifically referring to 49-year-old Hunter Biden. And they roll their eyes hard as Prince Harry says he has trouble getting out of bed some days because he is so concerned about the future of the planet.

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The Real Climate Agenda: Crippling Capitalism

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On Monday, the morning commute in Washington, D.C., was snarled by climate demonstrators taking over high profile streets and intersections to demand residents focus on the allegedly urgent need need to confront and reverse climate change.  But what the activists actually revealed is an anti-capitalist agenda.

Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner reacts to the Shut Down D.C. movement and what it actually accomplished – not greater awareness of their cause but fierce anger from motorists and the demonstrators admitting their goal is to crush capitalism.

Horner explains this is nothing new for climate activists.  They’ve actually been open about it for a long time, but the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to take the demonstrators at their word.

Also on Monday, progressive teen sensation Greta Thunberg delivered an angry rebuke to political leaders for not acting on climate change a long time ago.  Thunberg accused the leaders of destroying her childhood and her future.

In response, Horner passionately criticizes the adults in the green movement for exploiting Thunberg and explains how the climate movement was planning years ago to use children to build emotional support for their cause.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Horner address these issues and where he thinks this fight is headed next.

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Booker on the Brink, House GOP Exodus, ‘Shut Down DC’ Stupidity

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Join Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America as they serve up some strong martinis to start the week.  First, they find an odd appreciation for Sen. Cory Booker’s campaign admitting it needs to raise $1.7 million by the end of the month to have any chance at being competitive for the Democratic nomination – and it makes Jim wonder why several other weak candidates haven’t already closed up shop.  They also shake their heads as a lot of House Republicans don’t want to be there anymore.  Many of them understandably hate being in the minority but Jim offers another, more serious reason for why a lot of conservatives want out of Washington.  And they have no patience for the Shut Down DC climate protesters who snarled traffic in Washington this morning by demonstrating on several critical roads and intersections.

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The Cost of Telling Climate Truths

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For many years, Dr. Tim Ball has joined us to explain climate science, how the climate is changing, and how those changes differ drastically from with the United Nations, politicians and the media insist are the facts about climate change.

In addition to interviews, Dr. Ball also makes presentations confronting the conventional wisdom among scientists.  But instead of responding with a robust debate, the climate change advocates instead ridicule Dr. Ball and they sue him – a lot.

Dr. Ball, who taught climatology at the University of Winnipeg, was the target of multiple lawsuits known as SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) suits.  Every contested case against him has been dismissed, with one still pending.  And they get dismissed because the plaintiffs refuse to engage Dr. Ball on the scientific merits.  But standing up for himself in court has cost Dr. Ball $800,000.

In this podcast, Ball explains the real reason is is sued for defamation.  He says it’s because he has the gall to confront a movement that refuses to tolerate any dissension.

“What people should be worried about is the increasing use of the law to silence people,” said Dr. Ball.

Listen to the full podcast, as Dr. Ball explains why the “scientific consensus” is bogus, why climate scientists often stay silent out fear of reprisal, and the ones who do look at the evidence are appalled at what has been allowed to pass for concrete science.

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What’s Behind the Dems’ Climate Hysteria?

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This week, many Democrats running for president appeared in a marathon CNN town hall to demand sweeping, urgent action on climate change, but a leading climate scientist says it’s little more than hot air.

Over the course of several hours, former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed shutting down all coal-fired power plants.  Sen. Kamala Harris said she would ban fracking.  Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed to expand abortion to control the population.  And former Rep. Beto O’Rourke claimed he told his son their hometown of El Paso, Texas, would soon be uninhabitable.

“This is pure alarmism based on absolute ignorance,” said Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg.  He is also the author of :The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.”

“These people haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.  They don’t even know the difference between weather and climate,” said Ball.

Ball says candidates like Harris and Biden – and the others – are attacking coal and fracking because their entire climate agenda consists of the assumption that carbon dioxide is the problem and we have to stop burning it to fuel our society.

Listen to the entire podcast as Dr. Ball explains where the Democrats base their argument that we have only eleven years to do anything about the “climate crisis” and why the science behind that conclusion is bogus.  He also reveals which direction the earth’s temperature is quickly heading, and it’s not what the activists would have you believe.

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‘Absolute Rubbish’ that Climate Threatens One Million Species

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The United Nations reports that human-caused climate change now threatens one million plant and animal species in the coming years if urgent global action is not taken, but a scientist who frequently butts heads with the UN says that conclusion is “absolute rubbish.”

The report on biodiversity says a half-million land species “have insufficient habitat for long-term survival” and will likely go extinct in a matter of decades until human activity radically changes.  The report also says our actions are putting human survival in long-term jeopardy.

“It’s more of the current hysteria.  Absolute rubbish.  There’s not one bit of evidence to support anything they’re saying,” said Dr. Tim Ball, a former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg and author of “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.”

George Mason University Professor Thomas Lovejoy told the Associated Press “the biological diversity of this planet has really been hammered, and this is really our last chance to address all that.”  UC Santa Barbara ecologist Lee Hannah is quoted as saying we are “in the middle of the sixth great extinction crisis.”

Ball has a challenge for the experts.

“Get them to name the species that have gone extinct in the last ten years.  Get them to give you some names.  Don’t just say that there’s this number.  Give me the actual names.  You can’t find it,” said Ball.

According to Ball, most scientists believe only about 35 percent of the earth’s species are even identified and the concrete data we do have shows species numbers moving in the opposite direction.

“Every single week we’re finding far more species than they’re claiming are going extinct,” said Ball.  “Just a few years ago they were saying there were something like 20,000 species.  Now the estimates are 20 million.”

Ball says numbers like this are hard to rebut in detail because they’re not based on any detail.

“It’s purely a number that they’ve come up with that, because it’s put out by a scientist suddenly is treated like it’s an actual measurement.  It isn’t” said Ball.

Listen to the full podcast as Dr. Ball explains the logic used by climate scientists to conclude that species are vanishing or endangered at an alarming rate and what the real goal of these sorts of reports is.

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