Who Funded PragerU's Propaganda About Climate Change?

[@Thatdude_Nik]

Ok, but no one is talking about the fact that at 4:58 they purposefully leave out CO2 from the graph? 💀

[@mihirjain6462]

i generally dont comment on videos but this is some well researched infromation which yt algorithm needs to promote so here goes nothin.. also the author should collaborate with other more established youtubers to promote this awesome channel

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you! Talking to a few other big channels about collaborations. Stay tuned.

[@6tabularasa9]

@Distilled - Thank you Michael for your work, and all the best to you and this channel. May you have many new Subscribers on the horizon.✨ Cheers

[@IstasPumaNevada]

More people need to know about this. A lot more. Also, fossil fuel companies need to be held (financially and legally) accountable for the campaign of lies and misinformation they've been engaging in for the past fifty years.

[@distilled-earth]

Agreed!

[@zooeylaw4759]

indeed it reveal how delusional ppl like you and the other leftists are.

[@Whayles]

Nice video, i thought I had a good handle on Prager U and wasn’t expecting to gain anything from watching, but I really did, a very well thought out criticism of them

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

[@lordeastwood]

Got here from More Perfect Union, and like a few other people here wasn't expecting anything new about Prager, but this was informative and I'll be sure to share it! Great and informative work!

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you!

[@kenwoodburn7438]

As a former member of the Climate Cult I'd ask the same question about who spreads the lies about anthropogenic climate change. It's all about globalist control and one world government. If 2020 didn't wake you up nothing will.

[@juliefiliberti3976]

I'm loving your videos! Well done and very thought out. You have a talent and you need to be shared widely!

[@distilled-earth]

That's so nice of you to say! Glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@NedTheUndead]

My favourite PU vid is where a man who was being paid $1000/hr explains how raising the minimum wage will be bad.

[@distilled-earth]

😂

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

How do you know is salary? There's a difference between earning money and wealth versus overcharging for small jobs. And causing a small business to close down or have to fire people cause they can't afford to pay everyone minimum wage. That doesn't sound like you care about everyone either. Some jobs are meant to be small, a start, temporary, and not have a high salary, not permanent. Overly demanding a higher pay for a super simple and easy job sounds like you're scamming others too.

[@markkronenberg4707]

Imagine a business has $1200/week to spend on payroll. Is it more moral to pay four people $300/week or to pay three people $400/week? The latter option puts one worker out on his ass. Businesses have a finite amount of money. When they are forced to spend mire per worker, unemployment is inevitable.

[@retbeart]

Geez. I could give told them that for free. Obvious.

[@LilBoyHexley]

We got companies spending millions upon millions on lobbyists, astroturfing, and clowns like these. While folks gotta fight tooth and nail for some protected bike lanes.

[@distilled-earth]

:(

[@mtamech535]

lmao, bike lanes?

[@billystutz55]

It’s funny that I searched for Prager U and this was the first video that popped up. No agenda here 😂

[@godontog]

We don't need any more censorship. PragerU videos bring another point of view to many subjects. If you watch the entire video instead of picking snippets, you may learn something. I am glad there are billionaires funding PragerU!

[@hlynner5460]

This is so relevant to me at this moment, your timing could not have been better. Also, it’s brilliantly done and I appreciate you. Thank you!

[@distilled-earth]

Oh I'm glad to hear that! Thank *you*

[@erikdnielson]

Somehow I've never heard about PragerU. Thanks for the TL;DW. It's pretty disheartening that all it takes is money to perpetuate these harmful systems and companies. And as you rightfully show, they're not even sophisticated in their presentation. Just promote heavily to get it infront of people who want to see it, and will share it.

[@distilled-earth]

Ya *sigh* Thanks for watching and the kind comment!

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Idk, but I think maybe PU already believes there isn't climate change and would speak against it anyways whether they got donations or not. I've seen lots of regular people and comments who don't get donations or have platforms speak against climate change too. But PU getting a large donation from fossil fuel a company is not a good look, and suspicious.

[@solar3013]

Great first videos and excited to see more content about climate change on KZbin

[@dougandersen645]

Carbon is good, more is better. I wasn’t paid one penny to tell the truth.

[@T0NYD1CK]

The University of East Anglia has lots of climate scientists who contribute to the IPCC reports. They have received money from fossil fuel companies as well.

[@cassiusdhami9215]

Wow! First time viewer and I'm really impressed. Short and consise yet informative and illuminating. You've earned this guy's sub. Well done. Looking forward to more. The Climate Crisis is the most existential threat facing humanity but we barely hear about it from that perspective.

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you!

[@willnitschke]

If you can't criticize the facts, attack the messenger.

[@michealray4895]

Wasn't there a Nobel prize winning mathematician that argued against the global warming narrative?

[@LeafHuntress]

If there was they should stay in their lane. I take my shoes to a cobbler when they need to be repaired, not a baker. Nor do i expect the baker to preform a surgery. But when i want croissants, i don’t go to the surgeon, nor the cobbler. A mathematician does maths in their own special subsection of the mathematics field, no-one does all maths! The gaps between scientific fields are even greater. Several fields are connected to climate change; from biologists studying animal behaviour, to those studying pollen, from those studying ice cores, to geologists studying studying the craters in the artic(see the video on this channel about explosions), to meteorologists studying the weather patterns. All those & all the data they collect point in one direction. Some lone scientist(usually paid for by oil companies, just like the subject of this video) disagreeing with the facts, does not change those facts. Also, there is NO Nobel prize for maths. So whoever told you this was lying to you.

[@michealray4895]

@@LeafHuntress didn't say he got a nobel prize because of math

[@playlistenthusiast]

Can't forget their rival, The Gravel Institute, made to compete with PU from the left. Shame they haven't uploaded in a while.

[@distilled-earth]

Hadn't heard of them before. Will check them out.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

2:29 That's a hillbilly-ass religious thing to say.

[@Casual_Stroll]

Thoughts on Prager U: They're evil

[@distilled-earth]

lol

[@K4g4m1]

Fantastic video. Don't quit. Your audience should hopefully grow to match the quality of your videos.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

Have you had a channel previously before this one? The quality is way too good if the answer is no.

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you! Ya, I've been making videos for the last 5 years. But recently started this channel to focus on climate. Here's my old channel - kzbin.infovideos

[@Merlincat007]

@@distilled-earth Nice! I checked out the recycling video and learned a bit about a topic I care a lot about

[@susanstrobel7296]

Yaaaay, fossil fuel billionaires!!! We need more of them.

[@平和-v1z]

I can't wait for more amazing content from you, brilliant content!

[@ChubbyUnicorn]

Oil companies own and direct public education in Oklahoma too. Their donations built the schools and in return the schools must present oil education in every grade K thru 12.

[@distilled-earth]

Yikes!

[@Cannabonsai]

This was great, short and sweet and to the point! Thank you! Subbed

[@distilled-earth]

Welcome!

[@charleslittleton9367]

There is no climate crisis.

[@Anikanoteven]

Hmmmand the climate crisis industry hasn’t spent a dime😅

[@Aaron-ik6sy]

Keep up the good work! Shout out to Simon Clark

[@distilled-earth]

Thanks! Big fan of Simon's work.

[@arwilmington]

Found my way here from your appearance on the Volts podcast. Great videos so far, keep it up!

[@distilled-earth]

Thanks!

[@dougandersen645]

It takes money to tell lies, it also takes money to get the truth out there..😊

[@ourfamilyaccount]

My parents a few years ago sent an email with video link to P.U. , feel gross I contribute a view to it. I'm glad KZbin channel's like this one, Climate Town, Two bit Da Vinci and Kurzgesagt exist.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Yeah, but I think people should learn different views and not get biased and in a bubble. Which many people on both sides do too much. I don't like either side but I agree with some things from both sides. There's even people making videos saying how a music genre or hobby is bad or elitist and arguing over the pettiest things. I saw a comment, on I think a Tantacrul video, say there is no good modern music while also saying he/she doesn't search out, try, or listen to modern music. So he was in a biased, noninformative bubble, and didn't even try modern music yet but he already judged it was bad. Probably partly cause there's videos and comments saying modern music is all bad.

[@cwmoo]

Probably a good idea to focus on climate change. Their climate change videos are so easily proven wrong because they lie about easily verifiable things, and the link to fossil fuel billionaires shows the conflict of interest so clearly. PragerU's videos on economic theory and race are just as deceitful - but it's much easier to get sucked into a pointless debate over those topics.

[@distilled-earth]

Absolutely. Lots of blatant lies in the climate videos.

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

Commenting for the bump!

[@distilled-earth]

Bump! 👊

[@MartinJacobs-el1fs]

Lots of insinuation here; but fact free as far as climate science goes. For those who want to be informed on this subject: UNSETTLED, by Steven Koonin

[@diamondkharness]

Awesome content so far. Perfect background, study and delivery including digestible time allotment. Show us more. There’s lots of long term climate denial that can be disproven. Your doing great 👍

[@Lukehmcc]

lovely video, feels a lot like Vox's content The quality of the content makes me worry if you're being funded by the green energy billionaires /s

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you! Funded entirely by my audience here - www.distilled.earth/ I don't take any money from advertisers, foundations, or anyone but subscribers.

[@jelletje8]

bump

[@distilled-earth]

👊

[@LeahandLevi]

This is SUPER well done! Thanks for creating stuff like this Michael!

[@richgambino9623]

Hows your views on private jets being used to attend climate change summits?

[@distilled-earth]

Um, I don't like it? But I think it's generally used as a tactic to distract people from the larger debates at those summits and the problem of climate change more broadly.

[@handsfortoothpicks]

A bunch of private jets like once a year isn't as bad as constant highway construction and car dependency

[@greenleopard49]

There should be laws in place to fact check videos and news networks.

[@distilled-earth]

100%. Or at least some way to prevent this type of stuff from spreading to so many people.

[@frankbottoms8655]

Be careful what you wish for….

[@greenleopard49]

@@frankbottoms8655 Why? What would be the downside to this? The news would be less for entertainment purposes?

[@stilladreamer1]

@greenleopard49 The downside is it is not always the "good guys" making the laws. Our individual liberties may have its downsides, but historically the less liberty we have the more corrupt billionaires have the opportunity to put their men in the government and make laws for themselves. What may be good today, may be terrible 20 years from now. After all is it not the same politicians making those laws the ones supporting wars for oil. Better to solve problems in your own life day to day actions by free will.

[@LoquatJuice_]

Some of the views come from angry people, so you can't get rid of them.

[@billhamilton355]

Without regard to Prager, how do you respond to people like Koonen and Happer?

[@pat9353]

“Look air quality gets better and more fossil fuels are being used!” Ya because the government said you can’t burn as terrible fuels anymore. Things like coal with high sulfur content that turned rain into sulfuric acid, and limiting the legal levels of nitrogen oxide emissions from vehicles. The problem got solved by regulation, not wishful thinking.

[@distilled-earth]

Yes!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Wealthy people do know what they are doing, they are not fools. They know when they are lying. Free speach is not meant to harm. That is the point of free speach.

[@LoquatJuice_]

Ban that video so these ads become broken.

[@LoquatJuice_]

Y'all report it for misinformation.

[@anuncomfortablenewt4006]

Brilliant breakdown of this propaganda campaign

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you!

[@Simikins]

Unsurprising that one of the first recommended videos is a Jordan Peterson interview with one of the climate scientists featured in these PragerU videos

[@marilynprice1739]

Great video and very good investigation! If Google had their ruling in 2021 shouldn't they need to take down the PragerU videos that are still running?

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

If flat earth videos are allowed so are others even if people might think they're misinformation. Censoring people too much is not a good precedent. You're just going to cause climate deniers to say they're like martyrs, that they being censored is cause climate people can't argue with truth, and that it's double standards cause some videos, like flat earth, aren't censored. They're already saying that now. You could also end up censoring truth, oppressing innocent people, and fearmongering. The answer is more speech, such as to criticize or debunk others' views.

[@sknewytboy]

I am so sick of being lied to! Thank you for making this video.

[@distilled-earth]

Thanks for watching!

[@aaronfloyd1985]

PragerU isn't right about communism either? I have lived half a century in communism and they fall short on that hateful system. If PragerU is equally right about the climate as they are about communism, they are absolutely right about everything. The equation is very simple.

[@johnnydoe3603]

Misinformation is a Profitable Business And Facebook & Google Made a Fortune on Misinformation Ads. 😊

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

If it was about money, there's plenty of other ads people can show. Like about products from stores. I don't think politics should be pushed on people like that.

[@Nathan-Croft]

More people should see this video. Great job ,👌

[@notme4494]

Propaganda?

[@Busto]

Wonderful video. Keep it up!

[@distilled-earth]

Thank you! Will do!

[@MikeReed-j1i]

Please learn how to manage the sound levels from clip to clip. And find a microphone that is not so heavy on the base. It is difficult to understand you.

[@bearfreeman7604]

"What a blessing to see other meteorologists actually researching before regurgitating. I was asked to write about climate and the IPCC report straight out of college for a Hawaii news station. When I looked up the authors of the IPCC, I was disgusted to find out most of them were politicians and business people trying to make a name for themselves with personal websites having nothing to do with emergency management or weather. I only looked them up because I could not believe how false everything was thatI was I was reading. I ended up getting fired after sharing too many facts. I'm not with two national entities that I really feel good with. It's great not to be censored and be surrounded by people who look deeper instead of taking everything at face value".

[@Gaza4Life2024]

Great Job. Daily Wire next?

[@RubyJamez]

Pager-style thumb is just a cherry on a cake

[@JerroldKavanagh]

Great work.

[@hegyak]

Prager UwU did a Video on Slavery. And tried to Justify it. Just saying.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

I didn't see the video, but are you sure did PU justified slavery or were they saying people shouldn't whine about the past too much when the past can't be changed, and weaponize the past as a excuse to browbeat people. Cause there are people who do that.

[@vsexybabe5]

PragerU videos will be allowed in Florida K-12 schools.

[@momofgeniuskid]

Very informative! Thank you for making this video! People need to know this!

[@PUAlum]

Would you challenge Prager to a debate that could be run on both your channels?

[@forthesnowflakes7691]

I love that PragerU paid so much and yes I've seen many of those commercials but the reason why I love it is bc I always knew they were FoS the whole time. Sounds like a lot here needed this documentary to reveal it. I'm glad this mini doc revealed it for you but just know as a general rule of thumb that most if not all RW sided video channels are FoS. Stop being sheep, people.

[@whitecolour4390]

You are full of craft.

[@c0ttage]

this is a very clean video oml

[@distilled-earth]

Thanks!

[@bryanarmstrong7967]

you are the problem who is backing you with your scamming

[@charlesbwilliams]

I think this is a great introductory video for large number of folks who think that PragerU is an unbais, honest news source.

[@charlessmith1144]

Ragers has it correct.

[@markkronenberg4707]

I get what the author is saying about oil funding driving the message at Prager U. Can't the same argument be made about government funding for scientists where grants go to those who believe that humans are the main cause of temperature increases? If government grants went to neutral scientists who don't know how much of temp increase is man-made, wouldn't the results be more credible? Now I don't know which side to believe.

[@LoquatJuice_]

commenting so youtube promotes it

[@LeanAndMean44]

I recommend watching some videos from the channel „All About Climate“, which has deconstructed and debunked several videos from „PragerU“.

[@LeanAndMean44]

youtube.com/@AllAboutClimate

[@puhiwa1]

Any censorship is fast fascism you are just a racist if you’re just trying to shut somebody’s opinion down, we should always have debate and open thoughts

[@robertrogers7331]

P.U. is clearly just another old guy basking in denial with a nasty chip on his shoulder. I should know, I’m an old guy with a chip on his shoulder.

[@TheAnimeist]

Laugh my ass off. So the choice is between rich guys funding their work, and scientists with a consensus? Nether is credible, but who other than a rich guy is going to defend their business? And who other than a politician will use this as a ploy to redistribute wealth among other nations? Or lower the wealth of others? Distilled, who sponsors you? edit: It's not even a consensus among scientists. Only among the group that was sampled. Please explain the circumstances of the consensus. Hardly anybody knows how selective the sample is, yet the media goes with it. Distilled, what you post is propaganda. How is it not?

[@matthewboyd8689]

The guy that days because fossil fuels built our past that it should build our future. All I could think of is, is this how slave owners tried to convince the North that abolishing slavery was a bad idea?

[@kyle.1442]

Firstly, money isn’t evil it’s just money. Money can and does plenty of good and bad. Secondly, this garbage channel hasn’t produced anything for 6 months, hopefully this continues.

[@LoquatJuice_]

🐠🐟

[@fromDAYONE1]

So that is about PragerU. What about the other multiple sites that also make similar claims. Also, who are funding the climate scientist.......?????

[@psikeyhackr6914]

So how much of the CO2 in the atmosphere is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence? When do climate scientists ever comment on planned obsolescence? Economists do not talk about the depreciation of durable consumer goods resulting from planned obsolescence either.

[@scottk4960]

If it's propaganda then you should take Dennis Prager's standing offer of cash to debate him. You will literally get paid to prove him wrong. Will you put your money where your mouth is?

[@matthewboyd8689]

Climate denial be like: there are many causes of changing climate so therefore it must be one of the natural ones Also, Murderer: how many natural ways to die. So therefore this man could not have been stabbed to death by me

[@nmonster]

Do a takedown of Hillsdale College next.

[@diamondkharness]

Wish I had access to this video 5 years ago, when I told my son basically the same information. But now we don’t talk anymore and he believes everything that PragerU and Chic-fil-amen feeds him. To him and others like him… enjoy your rapture ‘cause Mother Nature will have no pity on your souls.

[@G5Hohn]

As a fan of science, I'm always concerned when I see sloppy reasoning or just laziness in the scientific context. This video uses a lot of ad hominem and genetic fallacy. You should know that the funding source says nothing of the validity of the claim. Moreover, it's especially disappointing that you can't trace the 1.6% claim back to the Cook et al paper from which it derives. It is not "some internet commenter". Cook et al used seven categories in the survey of 11,944 abstracts. They were: 1) Explicitly states that humans are the primary cause of global warming” 2 “Explicit endorsement without quantification” 3 “Implicit endorsement” 4 “No opinion, or uncertain” 5 “Implicit rejection” 6 “Explicit rejection without quantification” 7 “Explicit rejection with quantification” Level of Endorsement 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total # of papers 64 922 2910 7970 54 15 9 11944 Note that 7970/11944 paper EXPRESSED NO OPINION AT ALL. Now, why is it that full 2/3 papers in the Cook et al survey would be silent in making any claims at all when the evidence is supposedly so overwhelming in favor of AGW? The number of Abstracts that explicitly stated that humans are the primary cause of global warming--with quantification-- is 64/11944. If we discard the huge majority of papers that took no opinion, and calculate the percentage of papers the endorse the "consensus" we throw out 7970 papers and calculate the percentage of papers that is 64/3974. Which is? 1.6%. But hey, I'm just some internet commenter.

[@erikastjarnstoft]

That is not the conclusion the authors of that paper reached, you are using the paper in a way that the authors explicitly discourages, they answer your question why so many don't take a stance and as a result you are the one who appears to be lazy.

[@lunchbox6576]

I didn't have kids on purpose I thought the world was over crowded in the 1980's. Stories like this make me believe made the right decision.

[@par3me]

Can anyone tell me how this is different than the climate scientist that are funded by the businesses that will benefit from “going green”? Just curious how you’ll deny or spin this? We could all just agree but should be far more transparent.

[@cassiusdhami9215]

Could you inform me as to who those scientists are? A couple of examples? A source to that information?

[@HaldaneSmith]

The IPCC and many other scientists have been explaining global warming since 1989. The solar, wind and EV industries were miniscule before 2010 because there had been little money invested in them to allow them to scale up, become more efficient, and much cheaper. So why were scientists publishing findings on global warming before there was an industry to bribe them? In fact, some were demonized by the fossil fuel industry and right wing media. See the book Merchants of Doubt.

[@par3me]

@@HaldaneSmith Nome of that is true. It’s something we’ve pushed since the 60’s. Stating the world will end in normally 10-15 years if we didn’t act. Then every 10-15 years we slightly change the narrative. Knowing humans are so dumb that we wouldn’t realize this have been going on for well over 60 years with the same message of ending in 10 years if we don’t act. Most of the wind farms, especially those in California aren’t operational. There a massive draw backs that people don’t want to admit of discuss.