ar enough that we can send an atomic bomb and change the direction of a meteor coming in our direction? Maybe. Maybe there is a very small chance we'd be wiped out by a meteor but you know maybe so. In a world with multiple risks you've got to be smarter about your risk management.

Somebody says you are making excuses for what? I don't even know what that criticism is. Oh maybe I think I know how your criticism is making excuses for not doing enough about climate change but then you would have missed the whole point.

This Lauter meter is at a hundred percent. So this Lauter meter is the prediction that the president would win based on current conditions which nobody assumes would remain stable through from now until the election. So it's an artificial number. It doesn't really predict. It just says if nothing changed this is what would happen at this moment. And you saw the president's poll numbers just reversed in a week and went from it's a pretty good job to you know from not such a good job. At the moment there's just no way he can lose unless something new happens. But of course new things will happen before now and then.

How much does the pandemic reduce CO2 planet-wide? More people tell me this that pollution can go away quickly you know just falls to the ground but CO2 has a far longer period of reduction. But I still think it's the right question. Now until somebody really really smart who works in this field tells me this is dumb I'm going to say that this is at least possible. Which is that we could learn something there maybe we couldn't have learned in any other way. Which is does the level of CO2 come down at all? Yeah does it come down at all in a month where you're not putting out as much? Now you might be able to measure that it didn't go up. Now again it depends on the sensitivity. I'm only talking about doesn't go up by a thousand or something like that but it's science. Right? Science can measure stuff.

Somebody's asking me about the stock market which I haven't looked at today. Let's see what it's doing if my stock ticker is up to date. Well I guess you're pretty happy you bought stocks yesterday huh? When resorts are up 25 percent today, Snap is up six, the broad index of the Fortune 500 is up 1.7, Apple's up 2.5. All green. Nothing but green.

Somebody says CO2 is not pollution. You need to go somewhere where people don't know that and then shout that out. Everybody on this Periscope knows that CO2 and pollution are different things. All right so if you're trying to tell me let's see, CO2 and pollution are different things, you're in the wrong place. There must be somebody who needs to know that but nobody here did. Nobody here would be confused by that.

Somebody says they missed me saying measure in my normal way. Measure my upstate New York way. Somebody says stop asking about stocks. Why American Airlines is up etc. And let me throw out an idea for you. This is a poorly thought-out idea. You can immediately see the problems but if you're not new to this you know that I often throw out poorly formed ideas because it might make you think of one that's good. So in other words it will just take your brain to a different place and you might say well yours doesn't work but you reminded me of something that would work. So that's the spirit of this.

So we've got a bunch of cruise ships sitting there empty because nobody wants to take a cruise and it's probably not even legal at the moment. I don't know what the situation is. We also have a bunch of young people who want to go on spring break. See where I'm going? What if we take the young people who were going to spend money on spring break and we say if you let us test you at least for a fever or whatever, and again I know there's you can always get it etc. so the testing is incomplete, but suppose we say all you spring breakers if you were going to spend your money anyway I'll give you a cheap cruise. Now how much would spring breakers like to be on a cruise ship? A lot. A lot.

Now suppose you said all right since you know if you agree to go on the cruise ship you're also going to have to agree to some other conditions which is you know if something breaks out you're all going to be there for two weeks but we're going to be a lot smarter about