An idea so strange to the crusty senior male on the panel, listen to him go “Ommmmmmm…” at the beginning, as if this was some kind of New Age woo woo concept.
Watch well informed reporter Contessa Brewer attempt to inject a fact bomb at 3:53 – “Climate risk is real – and there’s always a chance for a cyber attack that takes down the grid.”
Not good enough for crusty white guy – “Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong!” He worries about increases in grid outages, without anyone pointing out that blackouts by far occur because of an aging, obsolete transmission system, rather than a shortage of power, or the changing generation mix.
Readers here, of course, would have seen the video description below 5 years ago.
Haven’t watched CNBC in a long time but Steve Liesman always seemed alright to me, though he does come off as kind of crotchety in this clip. He is not a rabid right winger like Joe Kernan.