On January 20th, 2025, at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, Elon Musk sieg heiled the crowd that had gathered to celebrate the occasion. That single act set off a sequence of events that would forever change how the world viewed Elon Musk, Tesla, and the United States of America.

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Maye Musk shares her ‘crazy’ childhood trekking through the African desert in search of a lost city (CNBC, August 21, 2020)https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/maye-musks-crazy-childhood-trekking-through-the-desert-in-africa.htmlThe making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him? (The Guardian, March 10, 2025):https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africaERROL MUSK On Growing Up in SA, Elon Musk,Donald Trump,Dating Step Daughter, Ex Wife’s I EPISODE 613 (Podcast and Chill Network, Nov 14, 2024):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1U5x8LXgsHow the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa (The Guardian, January 26, 2025):https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africaElon Musk's X app ran ads on #whitepower and other hateful hashtags (NBC News, June 6, 2024):https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-x-twitter-antisemitism-hashtags-trending-hate-rcna151945Elon Musk and the narratives of decadence that link all anti-democratic movements (The Conversation, January 20, 2025):https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-and-the-narratives-of-decadence-that-link-all-anti-democratic-movements-247396Any other CEO would have been fired for what Elon Musk just said (CNN, October 23, 2024):https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/business/elon-musk-nazi-jokes/index.htmlElon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid (February 13, 2025):https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid Used Teslas pile up in Canada as Musk embraces politics (The Financial Post, March 21, 2025):https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/used-teslas-pile-up-in-canadaWhat is the 'TeslaTakedown' movement? What to know ahead of planned 'day of action' (USA Today, March 24, 2024):https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/24/tesla-takedown-protests/82641286007Tesla Protests And Vandalism Surge: Trump Backs Musk-Promoted Theory Left-Wing Billionaires Are Behind Protests (Forbes, March 26, 2025):https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/26/tesla-protests-and-vandalism-surge-trump-backs-musk-promoted-theory-left-wing-billionaires-are-behind-protestsBay Area organizers say Tesla protests are bigger than ever as Trump escalates threats (San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2025):https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-tesla-protests-20241879.phpHundreds gather outside Tesla showroom in Boston to protest Elon Musk (Associated Press, March 24, 2025):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH6kjh2tlkAnti-DOGE Protesters Demonstrate Outside Of Tesla Dealership In New York City (Forbes Breaking News, Mar 22, 2025):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPYx8U-2kUFBI launches task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ (CNN, March 25, 2025):https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/us/fbi-task-force-tesla-attacks-hnk/index.htmlTrump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal. (March 21, 2025)Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk (Politico, March 23, 2025)Pam Bondi is more interested in protecting Elon Musk than defending our democracy (MSNBC, March 25, 2025)‘Tesla is a good target’: Elon Musk’s car business is focus of fury for political role (The Guardian, March 17, 2025)Trump fires inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies (CNN Politics, January 25, 2025)

Green Neighbour examines the case for why Elon Musk must divest from Tesla and resign as CEO of the company.Also posted at www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbourSOURCES:Judge rules DOGE's USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution (abc News, March 18, 2025):https://www.abc12.com/news/politics/judge-rules-doges-usaid-dismantling-likely-violates-the-constitution/article_045f9e25-e3fa-518d-9376-f31f0e4c0d38.htmlTrump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government (The Unpopulist, February 16, 2025):https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-mass-firing-of-inspectorsDiverse groups opposing Trump-Musk agenda coalesce around date for nationwide protest (MSNBC, March 15, 2025):https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/diverse-groups-opposing-trump-musk-agenda-coalesce-around-date-for-nationwide-protest-234497605740Teslas set alight outside French dealership in arson attack (The Telegraph, March 4, 2025):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/04/teslas-set-alight-outside-french-dealership-arson-attackTeslas set on fire with Molotov cocktails and shot with gun in Las Vegas attack (NBC News, March 18, 2025):https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teslas-set-fire-molotov-cocktails-shot-las-vegas-attack-rcna196942Tesla Model Y Was the World’s Best-Selling Car in 2023 (Kelley Blue Book, June 14, 2024):https://www.kbb.com/car-news/tesla-model-y-was-worlds-best-selling-car-in-2023Here's Why Tesla Stock Is Dropping Again Today (Howard Smith, The Motley FoolTue, March 18, 2025):https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-why-tesla-stock-dropping-155728743.htmlElon Musk says he's shocked at the level of Tesla hate and vandalism happening: 'I've never done anything harmful' (Business Insider, Mar 19, 2025):https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-responds-tesla-vandalism-protests-2025-3Tesla Values Are Tanking Three Times Faster Than Any Other Brand (Inside EVs, March 18, 2025):https://insideevs.com/news/753814/used-tesla-values-depreciation-highTeslas were a symbol of progressive values. Now some progressives are ditching the cars. (NBC News, March 17, 2025)https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/progressives-selling-getting-rid-teslas-elon-musk-rcna196058“No brand has lost so much value so quickly:” Analysts take stock of Musk and Tesla (The Driven, March 17, 2025):https://thedriven.io/2025/03/17/no-brand-has-lost-so-much-value-so-quickly-analysts-take-stock-of-musk-and-teslaTesla (TSLA) - Cash on HandCompanies Market Cap, Cash on Hand as of December 2024https://companiesmarketcap.com/cad/tesla/cash-on-hand/#google_vignetteAs Trump Upends Foreign Policy, Berkeley Scholar Sees Irreparable Damage to U.S. Power and Prestige (UC Berkeley Research, March 7, 2025):https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/trump-upends-foreign-policy-berkeley-scholar-sees-irreparable-damage-us-power-and-prestigeTesla EV Sales Statistics (Road Genius, Last updated February 5, 2025): https://roadgenius.com/cars/ev/statistics/sales-by-automaker/teslaElon Musk’s net worth falls by $121 billion as Tesla shares sink (Nairametrics, March 7, 2025):https://nairametrics.com/2025/03/07/elon-musks-net-worth-falls-by-121-billion-as-tesla-shares-sinkHow the Tesla brand turned so toxic (The Verge, Mar 20, 2025):https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/633200/tesla-takedown-protest-elon-musk-toxicTesla longtime investor says it’s time Elon Musk found a ‘suitable CEO’ for the job (Fortune, March 20, 2025):https://fortune.com/2025/03/20/ross-gerber-elon-musk-ceo-tesla-step-down-share-priceTesla’s Q1 Sales May Be Its Worst In Years As Analysts Warn Stock Could Sink 50% (CarScoops, March 17, 2025): https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-salesWho Will Buy Tesla When It Goes Bankrupt? (Clean Technica, March 13, 2025)Conservatives’ Tesla Rescue Mission Has Its Work Cut Out (New York Times, March 16, 2025)

I wanted to share a formative moment that occurred for me back in 2018 when I received an email response from Dr. Michael Bender regarding a question I asked him about his Vostok ice core study.

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One of the reasons why some people don’t believe that climate change poses an existential threat to civilization is invariably because many of us quite reasonably assume that society would not knowingly destroy itself. Sadly, that just isn't the case. Let's see why.

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I know… I know. I'm just a retired school teacher... so who am I to question the perspectives of highly qualified scientists who also happen to be climate deniers? Let's find out. CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO: 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - Dr. Richard Lindzen claims temperatures aren't going up 04:10 - Dr. Richard Lindzen claims the consensus is based on fifty papers. 05:13 - Dr. William Happer 06:29 - Should we listen to climate deniers? 06:45 - Dr. Robert Brulle and the funding of climate denial 07:47 - Dr. Fred Singer going down the up escalator 08:18 - Thanks for Watching! SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone SOURCES: Make it Illegal to Knowingly and Intentionally Misinform the Public about Climate Change (Petition, Art Lightstone, Petition.org, 2023): https://www.change.org/p/let-s-make-it-illegal-to-knowingly-and-intentionally-misinform-the-public-about-climate-change Prager University Funded by Fracking Billionaires (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU... PragerU Homepage: https://www.prageru.com/ Satellite temperature record update closes gap with surface records (ARS Technica, 2017): https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/satellite-temperature-record-update-closes-gap-with-surface-records/ Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998 (Carbon Brief, 2017): https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998 Satellite temperature data, leaned on by climate change doubters, revised sharply upward (The Washington Post, 2017): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/corrected-satellite-data-show-30-percent-increase-in-global-warming-matching-surface-data/ Climate "Science" | Dr. Richard Lindzen (YouTube video, Jordan Peterson, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVSrTZDopM&sttick=0 It’s true: 97% of research papers say climate change is happening (The Conversation, 2013): https://theconversation.com/its-true-97-of-research-papers-say-climate-change-is-happening-14051 COMBATING A TWO-DECADE CAMPAIGN ATTACKING THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE (Europhysicsnews, 2013): https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2013/06/epn2013446p25.pdf RCEC Document "Climate Science and Policy: Making the Connection" (William Happer, George C. Marshall Institute) https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/rcec-document-climate-science-and-policy-making-the-connection/2295975#4 George C. Marshall Institute (Encyclopedia.pub): https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/37182 Frontrunner for Trump science advisor post agreed not to disclose fossil fuel funding (Greenpeace, 2017): https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/02/16/william-happer-trump-science-advisor/ Why a high-profile climate science opponent quit Trump's White House (Science, 2019): https://www.science.org/content/article/why-high-profile-climate-science-opponent-quit-trump-s-white-house Climate of Doubt (PBS Documentary, 2012): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/climate-of-doubt Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations (Robert Brulle, 2021): https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Brulle2021_Article_ObstructingActionFoundationFun.pdf

That’s right… I used to be a card-carrying member of the Conservative Party. However, I had to withdraw my support for the Conservative Party... and now I’m going to tell you why. CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - My background as a fiscal conservative 01:32 - Why I had to withdraw my support for the Conservative Party 02:50 - We don't need hydrocarbons 03:26 - Hydrocarbons are a losing game 05:28 - A better way forward 06:00 - Thanks for Watching! SOURCES: Conservative delegates reject adding 'climate change is real' to the policy book (CBC, 2021): https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-delegates-reject-climate-change-is-real-1.5957739 The Atmosphere: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide (NASA): https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/greenhouse-gases/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/ An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing (An Open Letter from Economists on Canada’s Carbon Pricing, 2024): https://ecofiscal.ca/2024/03/26/open-letter-carbon-pricing/ Climate change is costing us. Carbon pricing works. (Canada’s EcoFiscal Commission, 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_6uefqcQY&t=1s Clearing the air: How carbon pricing helps Canada fight climate change (Canada’s EcoFiscal Commission, 2018): https://ecofiscal.ca/carbon-pricing-works/ The carbon price debate is a distraction. What would those who oppose it do instead? (Clean Energy Canada, 2024): https://cleanenergycanada.org/the-carbon-price-debate-is-a-distraction-what-would-those-who-oppose-it-do-instead/ If Canada axed its carbon tax — and rebates — this is how different households would gain or lose (CBC: 2023): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/axe-the-tax-and-carbon-rebate-how-canada-households-affected-1.7046905 Understanding Canada's Federal Debt, 2015 (Art Lightstone, 2015): https://youtu.be/kwUeivsG2M8?si=67OoT25Z3gQhtGPD SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone

In this episode of Dubunk the Debunkers ( originally published as a video at: https://youtu.be/7TVoyh_JJak ) Uncle Gomer takes issue with Rosh Salgado D'Arcy's Debunking of Dr. William Happer's theory of CO2 saturation. The specific video that Uncle Gomer debunks in this episode is entitled, "The Science of CO2: Debunking the Saturation Myth," from Rosh's channel, All About Climate. For anyone who is genuinely curious about the notion of CO2 saturation and how it impacts the Earth's climate, I highly recommend that you watch this video. It can be found at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBDMeuHq_U&t=294s CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - CO2 Saturation of the Atmosphere 01:24 - CO2 Saturation for Plant Life 03:26 - CO2 Concentration in the Earth's Atmosphere has been Much Higher in the Past 04:38 - Uncle Gomer Debunk's Rosh Salgado D'Arcy's Debunk of Dr. William Happer 06:43 - Thanks for Watching! SOURCES: The Science of CO2: Debunking the Saturation Myth (All About Climate, August 17, 2021): https://youtu.be/TVBDMeuHq_U?si=g2J1JF1E0sUHvJLE Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? (Scientific American, January 23, 2018): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/ How much CO2 can trees take up? (Grantham Institute, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015) https://granthaminstitute.com/2015/09/02/how-much-co2-can-trees-take-up/ Eocene paleontology and geology of western North America (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, April 29, 2016) https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2016-0043 Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration unprecedented in Earth’s history? (The Royal Society, Last updated March 2020): https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-7 High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, which could worsen climate change effects, researchers say (University of Washington News, October 1, 2018) https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/10/01/thick-leaves-high-co2/ Leaf Trait Acclimation Amplifies Simulated Climate Warming in Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide (Global Biogeochemical Cycles, October 1, 2018): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GB005883 x Don't plants do better in environments with very high CO2? (MIT Climate Portal, Updated January 8, 2024): https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/dont-plants-do-better-environments-very-high-co2 Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon (Scientific American, July 26, 2023): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forests-are-losing-their-ability-to-hold-carbon/ SOCIAL MEDIA: • Web: www.green-neighbour.com • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GreenNeighbour • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtLightstone • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenNeighbour • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@GreenNeighbour • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenneighbour • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artlightstone