Steven Pearce, PhD
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
"You don't like it? Report me. But if you put me on social media, I will destroy you. If anybody puts me on social media, I will go after you legally and destroy your future."
"I haven't posted this online. If any of you do, you're dead."
"I'm an expert in this field. Why won't you listen to me? I did a PhD in planetary physics. I made models like this. I know what I'm talking about. What do you do, watch CNN?"
"Where do you get your information from? Class? From your Marxist professors?"
"Oh, I'll be detained as a domestic terrorist, cause I supplied money to Tommy Robinson. I'll let you all know about it, you can go out there and tell administration that I'm a far right Nazi."
CMPT 276 - October 30th, 2024, 1:28pm
Published February 14th, 2025
Transcript:
Steven: Do you know what's involved in climate modeling? The atmosphere, which is involved with the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the exosphere, and somewhere in there is the clouds, there's carbon dioxide, there's methane, there's also the, that's the ice. There's also the lithosphere, there's the hydrosphere. The oceans are the most important part to play a game in the interaction of all the elements in climate and in weather, of course, which is short term climate. So, do you think we understand all those things? We're so far from understanding any of them; we have no agreement on it. Yet there's a... climate emergency. I hope you stop and think about what that means and what I just said.
Student 1: Well aren't there simulations made from models?
Steven: Yes, I just described the simulations have parameters, didn't I? I just said that they describe small parts of it, not the whole thing. Did I not just say that?
Student 1: Yeah.
Steven: Okay then, be quiet. All right, so a lot of observations don't agree with these climate models. These observations from balloons and satellites are completely different! They show nowhere near that <Unintelligible>.
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Student 2: Politics?
Steven: That's not politics. It's science.
Student 1: Just because the models that we currently have are overestimating stuff doesn't mean that there isn't a problem.
Steven: There's a problem with the ecosystems. There's been problems and if you stack them all up, climate change is at the bottom of the list. But the beauty about climate change, is that it affects every person on the earth at the micro levels. The best way of controlling the masses. Oh, you think that's a conspiracy theory? I'm going to give you some homework on the right side of the fence, not your side of the fence. Have I made my point?
Student 1: Sure.
Steven: I'm an expert in this field. Why won't you listen to me? I did a PhD in planetary physics. I made models like this. I know what I'm talking about. What do you do, watch CNN?
Student 2: Oh, wait, Steve! Steve!
Steven: Shut up! What do you do? Where do you get your information from? Class? From your Marxist professors?
Student 2: Steve, can we go back to the course?
Steven: It had to be said.
Steven: You don't like it? Report me. But if you put me on social media, I will destroy you. If anybody puts me on social media, I will go after you legally and destroy your future. That's not going to happen more than once. Does that make any kind of sense to you people? And I have an armada protecting me now. Yeah, I feel good about this. Thank you for letting me unload. So we've talked a lot about models, thank you for protecting me. This is the figure that I-oh, by the way, another thing I want to talk to you about is climate change is a scientific theory.
Student 2: Wait, Steve can we just go back to the course?
Steven: A scientific theory that is allowed to be falsified. There is no politics involved.
Student 1: It is a theory, though.
Steven: Yes, it is a scientific theory that you can falsify. You cannot cancel. You can't move against it like a political juggernaut. You cancel it so that you can push your political agenda forward. Do you see the difference?
CMPT 276 - October 30th, 2024, 1:48pm
Published February 14th, 2025
Transcript:
Steven: So there it is, foreign involuntary detention. Something I'll experience when I go to England in January.
Student: For like a conference?
Steven: Oh, I'll be detained as a domestic terrorist, cause I supplied money to Tommy Robinson. I'll let you all know about it, you can go out there and tell administration that I'm a far right Nazi. Go on.
Student: Cmon, Steve.
Steven: Shut up! Even though I'm as moderate as I can possibly be, I am the most moderate pro-feminist, pro-woman bitch... you'll ever meet. I haven't posted this online. If any of you do, you're dead. Sometimes I don't sleep well and stuff oozes out of my mouth. Have I said anything you find controversial?
Student: Yeah.
Steven: Except for him, anybody? I tell the truth.
Student: <Laughs>
Steven: Let me show you how the truth works.
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