Alex Epstein: 'Hottest Period in History' Claim Is Nonsense—We're Safer Thanks to Fossil Fuels

"It's just total nonsense."

Energy expert Alex Epstein dispels the myth that we're living through the hottest period in the planet's history.

"They're trying to make our CO2 levels today, and our temperatures today, seem unprecedented... We're one tenth the CO2 that we've been throughout much of the history of the planet."

"We're warming slowly, at a cold time in the planet's history, where far more people die of cold than of heat, and where we're safer from both heat and cold because of energy from fossil fuels."

"It just makes no sense, unless you really don't care about human beings, which is my conclusion about a lot of the leaders of this movement."