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Joe Rogan stuns Bernie Sanders as he debunks climate change 'hoax' leaving senator speechless
Joe Rogan shut down one of the biggest advocates for strict government-controlled climate regulations, revealing that the Earth may actually be in a 'cooling period.'
US Senator Bernie Sanders was put on the defensive as Rogan, 57, pushed back on the politician's stance that the US needs to focus on creating jobs and sustainable energy facilities.
As Sanders argued that climate change was not a 'hoax', Rogan interrupted with data from a Washington Post report which found that the Earth actually goes through peaks and valleys when it comes to temperature.
In that report, researchers had found the planet was currently in one of its cooler periods when compared to the last 485 million years of climate data.
When Sanders, 83, voiced his skepticism about the report and said that other scientists were still saying climate change is a real emergency, Rogan pounced on his guest.
'I know, but there's a lot of money involved in that, too, Bernie,' the host said on the June 24 episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
'That's part of the problem. There's a lot of money involved in this whole climate change emergency issue, and there's a lot of control. And that's a big part of this problem,' he continued.
Sanders sat in silence as Rogan continued to lay out the case that climate scientists had become financially entangled in pushing costly policies that regulate the public's behavior.
'I think one of the things that we have to recognize is that whenever there's an issue that everyone can agree on, you're going to have a bunch of people that capitalize on that issue and they look to gain more money,' Rogan said on Tuesday's podcast.
The American podcast host then pointed out that the UK was already instituting climate policies which promote '15-minute cities,' where the government has control over residents' movements and how they impact global warming.
'You're not allowed to travel. They'll be able to look at your carbon footprint. Yeah, see? That's the problem,' Rogan told Sanders.
'The problem is giving people that are in power, these people that we've all discussed that have so much money and so much control over our societies, multinational corporations, giving them more control over citizens. And this is a vehicle for that. And this is what's dangerous,' he added.
Rogan then directly attacked the 'climate change emergency,' saying that a group of 'f****** creeps' had been allowed to instill fear and place more constraints on the public, who were already living paycheck to paycheck.
'You put additional measures where you can look at their carbon footprint, you can look at the amount they travel, what do you, you know, put a carbon tax on these people, let's figure out how to extract more money from them. That's what bothers me about this climate change emergency,' Rogan argued.
Sanders did not address Rogan's comments about the perceived corruption taking place in climate science.
Instead, the senator shifted the discussion to the Native American tradition of respecting nature.
However, Sanders soon changed topics completely, telling Rogan he wanted to move the conversation to artificial intelligence and robotics.
Sanders has been a consistent advocate for government regulations to address climate change for over four decades, emphasizing the need for aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to renewable energy.
Sanders was already alleging that fossil fuel industries had influence on media coverage of climate issues in the 1980s.
By 2007, he was vocal in US Senate hearings, criticizing the Bush administration's inaction on global warming and urging stronger federal oversight.
In 2015, Sanders introduced a bill to tax carbon emissions, described as a 'gold standard' for climate legislation, aiming to transform the US energy system.
Four years later, he co-sponsored legislation with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to declare climate change a national and global emergency.
Since then, however, multiple studies have pushed back on the scale of that global emergency.
In March, researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai found Antarctica suddenly reversed its decades-long trend of catastrophic melting and actually gained record amounts of ice in recent years.
From 2021 through 2023, the study found unusually 'intense snowfall' in Antarctica helped build up layers of fresh ice, an event that also caused sea level rise to slow as well.
The Washington Post report noted by Rogan was based on 2024 study in the journal Science that examined 485 million years of Earth's climate history.
While scientists found that Earth was experiencing rapid warming due to human-created CO2 emissions, they emphasized that Earth experienced warmer climates for most of the Phanerozoic Eon, our current current geological period spanning over 500 million years.
Sanders is not the only politician to face pushback on his call for strict government control and lavish funding of climate initiatives.
In 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration was slammed for giving $41 billion to fund nonprofits that 'spread radical, left-leaning ideology' to eliminate fossil fuels.
A report by the House Energy and Commerce Committee blasted the White House for subsidizing a shift to green energy tech 'which relies upon supply chains dominated by the Chinese Communist Party.'
Financial analysts who cover the US energy sector disputed those claims.
In a public statement , Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said in November: 'It couldn't be more clear: The Biden-Harris administration rewards its environmental special interests at the expense of the American people.'
'Equally as alarming is how these policies benefit the Chinese Communist Party — the world's worst polluter,' Representative Rodgers noted.
On Tuesday, Sanders and Rogan both agreed that China had surpassed the US as the world's largest creator of carbon emissions.
'It's not an American issue. It is a global issue. And all I can tell you is that we are, in my view, going to see more extreme weather disturbances in the coming years than we have ever,' Sanders warned.
