Power Hour with Alex Epstein

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Power Hour with Alex Epstein episodes

July 16, 2020 Greenpeace cofounder Dr. Patrick Moore eviscerates climate catastrophism
On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Dr. Patrick Moore, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace, about climate catastrophism.

Moore eviscerates climate catastrophism by looking at rising CO2 levels from a scientific and pro-human perspective–not the pseudoscientific and anti-human perspective that dominates today.

Topics include:
- Why Moore left Greenpeace.
- The beginnings of the climate catastrophe movement.
- Why Moore believes human beings would not only survive but survive better at far higher average temperatures (which would be concentrated toward the poles).
- Why Moore believes that contrary to being in a Sixth Extinction, we are actually at an unprecedented time of biodiversity with no end in sight.
- Why Moore believes “ocean acidification” claims are totally meritless.
- The commonality among opposition to plastics, GMOs, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels.
- Moore’s unrefuted theory that human beings actually saved life on Earth from terminal decline in CO2 levels.
1 hr 4 min
July 08, 2020 Alex Epstein interviews Caleb Rossiter on the campaign to silence climate debate on Facebook
Alex Epstein interviews Caleb Rossiter , Chairman of the CO2 Coalition.

There is an active campaign, led by billionaire anti-fossil-fuel activist Tom Steyer, to convince Facebook to remove the CO2 Coalition from its platform.

Some highlights include:
- Rossiter’s decades-long work on African issues.
- Why fossil fuels, especially coal, are crucial to African prosperity.
- How Rossiter became suspicious of climate models.
- CO2 as a warming gas *and* a plant fertilizing gas.
- How challenging climate catastrophism hurt Rossiter’s career.
- How the “paid off by the fossil fuel industry” narrative is laughable.
58 min
July 03, 2020 “I apologize for the climate scare”: Alex Epstein interviews Michael Shellenberger
With in-depth interviews of experts on controversies such as “green energy,” offshore drilling, “energy independence,” fossil fuels, etc, Power Hour seeks to help listeners get clear on these complex but vital issues. Every episode features a new guest, an extended interview/discussion, and a closing segment with my takeaways from the discussion.
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July 02, 2020 “I apologize for the climate scare”: Alex Epstein interviews Michael Shellenberger
Alex Epstein interviews Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never, which hit #5 on Amazon. His recent article, ‘On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare,’ has been widely shared.

Some highlights:
- How Shellenberger went from being a renewables activists to championing nuclear.
- Why Shellenberger decided to stand up against climate catastrophism after years of silence.
- How modern environmentalism is a religion.
- The real motives of most of modern environmentalism.
- How environmental journalists misrepresent environmental science.
55 min
June 24, 2020 Michael Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg, and the Pro-Human Environmental Movement
Alex Epstein discusses two soon-to-be released books: Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger and False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg.

He explains why these are crucial books in the broader project of a pro-human environmental movement that rejects climate catastrophism.
58 min
June 17, 2020 Alex Epstein interviews Naomi Seibt on her fight against the German government
On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Naomi Seibt, the 19-year-old German teenager who has been called “the anti-Greta” for her articulate and outspoken challenges to climate catastrophism.

The focus of the discussion is the outrageous attempt of the German government to take down her videos challenging climate catastrophism and advocating what she calls “climate realism.”

Instead of trying to resolve the issue quietly, Naomi says “I’m going to go big this time. And I’m going to involve the press. I’m going to make this very public….people will see what’s going on and how they try to silence us. And I think that will make them question the issue a lot more.”

59 min
June 10, 2020 Q&A on 100% renewable policies, violating stay-at-home orders, and George Floyd
On this episode of Power, Alex Epstein answers listener questions about “100% renewable,” why he publicly violated Gavin Newsom’s stay at home order, and the George Floyd saga.
1 hr 6 min
June 03, 2020 How Energy Innovation Works: an interview with Matt Ridley by Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein interviews Matt Ridley on the topic of “how energy innovation works.” Drawing from Ridley’s new book, “How Innovation Works,” they discuss:
-Why Ridley considers “the conversion of heat to work” to be perhaps the most important innovation.
-The true story of innovation in fracking and why the conventional narrative about it being a government-led innovation is false.
-Why there’s so little innovation in nuclear–and what to do about it.
-Why freedom is crucial to innovation.
1 hr 5 min
May 28, 2020 The Power Liars: How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pretend to be 100% renewable
On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein and Steffen Henne discuss:
- Why no company is or can be 100% renewable for the foreseeable future.
- The three dishonest techniques companies use to claim that they are “100% renewable” or “carbon neutral.”
- How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon use these techniques to deceive the public.
- Why companies’ refusal to consider nuclear energy is cowardly.
- How 100% renewable propaganda pollutes the energy debate.
1 hr 16 min
May 20, 2020 Ray Niles on How a freer market can help us protect ourselves from COVID-19
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour

On this week’s Power Hour I interview economist Ray Niles on how a freer market can help us protect ourselves from COVID-19. We covered topics including:
- How price controls, in the form of anti-“price-gouging” laws, caused – shortages of vital medical supplies and other supplies.
- How we are in a critical moment for freedom in America.
- How “temporary” incursions on freedom rarely go away.
- How a freer market in hospitals would increase capacity.
- The long-term consequences of money-printing and “stimulus.”
55 min