On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring researcher Gregg Braden, host Joe Rogan took aim at former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 climate documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” During the conversation, he argued that the film’s dire predictions have failed to materialize nearly two decades later.
“This film freaked everyone out and was totally inaccurate. It was horribly inaccurate,” Rogan said, noting that Gore’s PowerPoint presentation warned that by 2025, coastal cities like Miami would be underwater.
“The coasts haven’t moved at all,” Rogan observed, before delivering his most pointed criticism: “Some of the wealthiest, most influential people in the world buy property on the coastline. So, like that, by the way, I should tell you, you know, if the billionaires are buying beach houses, I think it’s going to be okay in that regard.”
Rogan also highlighted that Gore became extremely wealthy from the film and his subsequent climate activism, creating the carbon credit system and earning hundreds of millions from speaking engagements.
“It became really weird because it became he was speaking everywhere and he made hundreds of millions of dollars,” Rogan noted.
The podcast host expressed frustration that Gore faced no accountability for predictions that proved false. “When I saw it in 2006, all my friends were like, ‘Oh my god, we got to do something now.’ We were all freaked out. 20 years later, very little difference.”
Braden, a geologist by training, offered scientific context that challenged mainstream climate narratives. He pointed to NASA data showing Earth has become greener over the past 20 years due to increased carbon dioxide, which plants absorb. He also presented geological evidence that CO2 levels have been significantly higher in Earth’s history without catastrophic consequences.
“Climate change is a fact and I want to be on record. I want to say it is a fact. It’s constantly changing and Earth is warming,” Braden said. However, he argued the warming is primarily driven by natural cycles rather than human activity, citing ice core data from Antarctica showing temperature increases often preceded CO2 rises, not the other way around.
Braden suggested that ocean warming from below, caused by cosmic ray interactions with Earth’s core on approximately 12,500-year cycles, is the primary driver of current climate patterns. He acknowledged humans contribute to atmospheric CO2 but characterized it as a minor factor compared to natural outgassing from warming oceans.
