Joe Rogan’s Podcast Puts Scientists on Edge With Climate Misinformation
The popular podcaster brought back an argument against climate models that’s all too familiar to scientists
Joe Rogan announcing a UFC match in Jacksonville, Fla. on May 9, 2020.
Photographer: Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images North AmericaThe biggest podcast in the world became a venue this week for what climate scientists see as classic disinformation about the widely used forecasts that ground the response to global warming.
It started Monday with Joe Rogan’s interview of prominent Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson for the Spotify podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” thats among the biggest with audiences. “There’s no such thing as climate, right?” Peterson said, before addressing a familiar criticism at climate scientists: “Your models are based on a set number of variables. So that means you’ve reduced the variables — which are everything — to that set. But how did you decide which set of variables to include in the equation if it’s about everything?”