Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2014-05 to 2026-09.
The people on the most episodes about this topic over the trailing three months, excluding their own shows — ordered by VoiceRank, their score across the whole corpus. The chart tracks each one’s episodes month by month.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Human-caused climate change is a severe, scientifically verifiable threat that requires immediate systemic and collective global action.
51 people · 46 episodes
Focusing solely on personal carbon footprint is insufficient to solve the climate crisis and should be replaced by advocacy for systemic change.
“it definitely isn't enough to just focus on our personal carbon footprint right i mean when we talk about climate action most people immediately go to light bulbs and recycling or diet and plug-in cars and solar panels and you know don't get me wrong i've done all of those things but i've done the m”
StarTalk · Apr 2022 · 4 episodes · 4.2M views on this topicAddressing the source of climate change, specifically greenhouse gas emissions, is the most effective way to deal with ice loss rather than building sea walls.
“100 we should be doing something at the source but you know what the sources in this case the source is climate change the source of that is greenhouse gas polluting gas emissions and that by the way is man-made”
StarTalk · Jan 2022 · 1 episode · 186K views on this topicHuman-caused global warming pollution is trapping heat in the atmosphere, causing extreme weather events and necessitating the global deployment of existing solutions.
“The extreme weather events we have been experiencing in recent years are caused in significant measure by all the man-made global warming pollution that we've been putting into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet”
TED · Oct 2021 · 4 episodes · 13.2M views on this topicThe world is currently in a race between the exponential impacts of climate change and the exponential progress of technologies to address it.
“There's no doubt that we are facing exponential impacts of climate change. There is also, however, no doubt that that is being met with exponential progress of the technologies that can help to address climate change. So what we have here is, frankly, a race between two exponential curves.”
TED · Dec 2023 · 3 episodes · 13.1M views on this topicHumanity must reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions from 59 gigatons to net zero by 2050 to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe.
“Simply put, Tim, we're dumping 59 gigatons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. as if it's some kind of free and open sewer. And that number has got to go to zero by 2050.”
Tim Ferriss · Nov 2021 · 2 episodes · 12.4M views on this topicThe climate change movement is often driven by politicized narratives, fear-mongering, or ideological agendas rather than objective data.
16 people · 15 episodes
Climate models are overly reliant on extreme emission scenarios and are currently too error-prone to provide reliable future projections.
“The IPCC six assessment report working group one they also sort of rejected the climate models to some extent. They were guided by them in their projections but they also you know defined a plausible range of climate sensitivity and looked at the projections from there. So even the IPCC is stepping ”
Jordan B Peterson · Feb 2023 · 1 episode · 1.2M views on this topicApocalyptic fear-mongering regarding climate change is used as a tool to gain power and exert control over the population.
“so much of what we're told about the future is transmitted to us by people who ratchet their way to power by terrifying and compelling the population. And that's the sign of a kind of tyranny.”
Jordan B Peterson · May 2025 · 15 episodes · 11.3M views on this topicRichard Lindzen claims that the scientific consensus around climate change is an ideologically driven narrative rather than a result of objective scientific methodology.
“There's no room for any rational debate and if you discuss it at all, you are now a climate change denier. Yeah. Which is like being an anti-vaxxer or, you know, fill in the blank with whatever other horrible thing you could be called.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025 · 2 episodes · 4.0M views on this topicWilliam Happer characterizes the modern focus on CO2 in climate science as a cult-like phlogiston-era phenomenon that is disconnected from the actual data.
“So I call this phlogiston era of climate science where phlogiston is CO2.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topicClimate change predictions are frequently alarmist and inaccurate, with new claims serving only to manipulate the public.
“There must always be some looming Armageddon, some fast approaching catastrophe. There always has to be something like that. This is what they used to manipulate us”
Matt Walsh · Nov 2025 · 4 episodes · 622K views on this topicClimate risks are manageable through technological innovation, adaptation, and economic development rather than radical…
8 people · 8 episodes
Humanity should address climate dangers through resilience and technological innovation rather than by attempting to eliminate human impact on the climate.
“the way we our our idea is we're going to keep ourselves safe from climate by destroying fossil fuels which by the way have made us way safer from climate and then suddenly the climate's going to be nice to us”
Jordan B Peterson · Jan 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.4M views on this topicGlobal warming is a real, man-made problem that should be addressed, but it is not the end of the world and is not the most important issue the world is currently facing.
“Of course, global warming is real, it's a problem, it's man-made, it is something that we should be concerned about. But, first of all, we need to get it right on the level of concern, and a lot of people think this is the end of the world. It's by no means the end of the world”
StevenCrowder · Jul 2023 · 6 episodes · 2.0M views on this topicHumanity is a resilient species, and the current global warming projections do not support the idea that climate change will lead to a collapse of civilization.
“to think that another 1.3 degrees as kind of the average projection for warming at the end of the century is going to crash Humanity it just beggar belief we are remarkably resilient adaptive species”
The DemystifySci Podcast · Apr 2024 · 2 episodes · 1.2M views on this topicA global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius is not a disaster and would actually benefit the world by opening up land for farming.
“it is so stupidly ridiculous to say that a 1.5 degree celsius increase in global atmospheric temperature is going to be a disaster as a matter of fact it will open up vast areas of Farmland that were too cold before”
Jordan B Peterson · Apr 2024 · 1 episode · 574K views on this topicAddressing climate change should be based on cost-benefit analysis and the assessment of trade-offs rather than moralizing rhetoric or grand, immediate government action.
“it really is fundamentally about um about trade-offs and so you know the the the republican mainstream position on this isn't denying climate change right it's it's just assessing the facts and saying okay there's certainly some warming going on”
Jordan B Peterson · Jan 2022 · 1 episode · 325K views on this topicExtreme weather events are being intentionally engineered or manipulated by authorities rather than occurring due to global climate change.
3 people · 2 episodes
The speaker asserts that extreme weather events in the United States are being intentionally engineered rather than being natural consequences of global climate change.
“That storm is engineered top to bottom and the plethora of toxic elements being dumped into that record warm moisture out of the record warm Gulf of Mexico and and Gulf of California that that is highly toxic material.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 423K views on this topicThe host claims that the government is utilizing weather modification as a covert military tool while hiding the programs under the guise of climate security.
“Biden declared climate change a matter of national security, so these programs could legally be hidden, shielded from public scrutiny, and funded beyond his presidency.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Jan 2026 · 4 episodes · 701K views on this topicThe authorities utilize weather modification systems to advance their strategic objectives, such as manipulating the path of hurricanes.
“I would say that was the application of the weather modification systems, which is directed energy weapons. And this shows how they use these things like a, you know, a tool in their toolkit to accomplish their chess games.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · May 2025 · 1 episode · 168K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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