Super-Spiked Videopods (EP45): Can You Trust The United Nations on Energy and Climate?

This week we focus on the question “Can you trust the United Nations on energy and climate?” The question is sparked by a “climate change” warning label that KZbin placed on Super-Spiked Episode 37 “Goodbye Europe, Hello Rest of World” that discussed an updated climate change statement from Barclays, German de-industrialization, and our thoughts on the role of US and Canadian traditional energy. The warning label linked to a United Nations website that highlighted what it described as “Facts” and “Myth Busters” on climate energy.
In reviewing the 16 “facts,” we find that 2 we would agree are definitively facts, another 2-3 are factually true but start the U.N. down the road of advocacy and weaponizing the topic of climate, and the other 10-11 are a mix of opinion, advocacy, and in some cases outright falsehoods. Our concern with what the U.N. presents as “facts” is that it is the organization that oversees the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is widely (universally?) considered the authority on so-called climate science.
We have spent considerable time in prior posts and videos discussing our concerns with institutional advocacy under the pretense of sober analysis from groups like the International Energy Agency (IEA), Glasgow Financial Alliance For Net Zero (GFANZ), and within bank and asset manager ESG/Sustainability groups. Frankly, we have been late to taking a closer look at the U.N. itself, most likely because we have not relied on its data directly and it has otherwise not been within the purview of our “Wall Street” approach to discussing energy and climate. The U.N. and IPCC clearly deserve greater scrutiny given their massive influence on how the world understands climate.
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CREDITS
Intro & Outro music: Wolf Hoffman on Apple Music: Concerto for 2 Cellos in G Minor, Rv 531: I. Allegro Moderato.
This episode of Super-Spiked Videopods was edited and produced by Veriten Productions.

[@martytayman9138]

Arjun, this is one of your very best posts. I love your passion and I love your civility. I wish that I was more urbane like you. This post was absolutely needed and it will go a long way in stimulating dinner time discussions. Thank you.

[@MrDeathswap]

Hey Arjun, just to add my 2c: - Fact #2 & #3: Not all climate change is caused by humans, and there's significant dispute among scientists about just how much humans are contributing to climate change. But we have (literally) billions of years of data of Earth's climate constantly changing. - Fact #9: Michael Cembalest discussed this issue in this year's JPM Annual Energy Report (beware of the PUNIs). Sadly the message hasn't gotten through. - Fact #11: One big unknown for wind & solar costs is that the build-out has so far been in windy and sunny places (which makes economic sense). But even with significant technological progress, it's not clear if wind & solar costs will continue to fall if we have to start building them out in places with less optimal wind and solar. Germany is the perfect example of this phenomenon. Just like mining, there's cost curves and not all locations are created equal (see global irradiation maps).

[@patrickmcguire4617]

Simple two word answer to the question....can you trust the United Nations on energy and climate....hell no!!! I don't like getting lied to and I especially dislike liars acting as "fact checkers". You were kind and respectful, more so than I would have been. Keep up the good work! Enough people speaking truth, along with the inevitable and inescapable voice of Nature, speaking through the Laws of Physics, will eventually overcome the false voices like the UN on the whole climate issue. In the mean time, a lot of people will suffer because of the waste of trillions of dollars that could have been spent far more wisely on things that will actually increase human flourishing.

[@globilus]

Thank you for this brilliant, balanced, and fact-based analysis on the UN’s climate change positions. It was long overdue. This short video should be mandatory viewing in schools worldwide.

[@bernhart12]

Its not balanced.

[@sailorbob74133]

Energy Transfer did weatherize and made billions off that storm.

[@johnblaker2454]

KZbin already slapped you with the “fact check” again 😂 it’s a badge of honor. It means your videos actually have reach. If you weren’t effective, they wouldn’t bother counter-signaling you.

[@super-spiked]

Very much appreciate that, thank you.