Joe Rogan Brutally Corrects Bernie Sanders On Climate Change

Joe Rogan brutally corrected Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over a claim he made about climate change on Tuesday, using data to show the globe is not experiencing a heat spell.  

Sanders, who appeared on Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, claimed that climate change “ain’t a hoax” and that sourcing energy from more natural resources will create millions of jobs. 

“I think the last ten years have been the warmest on record,” Sanders said. “We can create millions of good-paying jobs by transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency, to solar, to wind, and to other sustainable energies.”

“First of all,” Rogan replied, “the reality is that the earth’s temperature has never been static, right? We can both agree on that. It’s always been up and down. There’s been ice ages and heat waves. And then, The Washington Post looked at it. … Essentially, they found that we’re in a cooling period.”

Rogan then brought up The Washington Post article that directly contradicted Sanders’ claim that the last ten years have been the hottest ever recorded.

“This was, like, a very inconvenient discovery,” Rogan said as Sanders remained silent. “But they had to report the data, and kudos to them for doing that.”

The report claims that the hottest temperature Earth has ever reached is an average of 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the study, this happened nearly 100 million years ago and is far hotter than the 58.86 degrees average the planet hit in 2023.

“Well, I’m not sure,” Sanders responded. “I didn’t read that article, but — but the scientists who are out there — I think —”

“I know,” Rogan interrupted. “But there’s a lot of money involved in that, too, Bernie. That’s part of the problem. There’s a lot of money involved in this, this whole climate change emergency issue. And there’s a lot of control.”

Sanders pivoted from arguing that the earth is experiencing a heat spell but doubled down on the claim that climate change is a “global issue,” especially when it comes to China’s carbon footprint. 

“All I can tell you is that we are, in my view, going to see more extreme weather disturbances in the coming years than we have ever,” he said. “We’re seeing them right now.”

Sanders did not offer any examples of these supposed disturbances.