This episode is actually juggling two issues, and it juggles them poorly:
Issue #1: is climate change real?
Issue #2: Are unscrupulous people profiting off climate change, and climate change fears?
I'm sure that you, being a perfectly sane and rational person, can see that these two issues are almost completely unrelated. The same apparently cannot be said for Jesse Ventura and his team, because they switch back and forth between these two questions without any transition.
Ventura's proposition is that climate change (he keeps calling it "global warming" but the appropriate term is "climate change" so that is what I will use) is an excuse to make money and control the world.
A lot of this perception rests on the shoulders of Cap and Trade, and the way that companies can buy carbon credits as a "permission slip to pollute." Frankly, I think Ventura has a point here. A lot of progressives and lefties are against Cap and trade for that very reason: it lets companies continue to pollute.
After going after a lot of random targets, Ventura narrows in on Maurice Strong, an oil billionaire in charge of trading carbon credits, linked to the UN "oil-for-food scandal." Strong now lives in Beijing, where many "shadowy sources" claim he is working towards establishing a world government to override the industrialized nations
Ventura fails to explain how a climate change conspiracy is going to "control our lives." Instead, he does an awful lot of yelling. He is the bull in the climatology lab. It's easy to understand Ventura, much easier than it is to understand words like "anthropogenic," much less the science behind climate change. I get the feeling Ventura is the kind of guy who substitutes volume - which is to say, the force of his personality - for a persuasive argument.
If you ask me, is climate change real, I will say yes, beyond a doubt. If you ask me, are people using climate change as a cash grab, I will also say yes, beyond a doubt. But just because unscrupulous people are using climate change fears to manipulate the situation and make a ton of money, that doesn't invalidate climate change itself.
People like Maurice Strong are doing the equivalent of standing on the slowly tilting decks of the Titanic, selling life preservers for $5,000 apiece. It's unconscionable and greedy, but it doesn't mean the Titanic isn't sinking. (In fact it's probably a good sign of the exact opposite, because they can leverage the truth.)
At the end, the episode devolves into a One World Bank, All World Government, World Currency, Jewish banking conspiracy muddle that I frankly tuned out. Spoiler alert: it ends with talk about the Euro as a conspiracy, and B roll of a dog herding sheep. (Wha?)
It's funny how all these crazy conspiracies always end up back in the U.N. The episode was on pretty solid footing at the beginning. It's hard to argue with the proposition that some very rich people are getting even richer off fears of climate change. But by the time we get to the Rothschilds, it all falls apart.