Their rainfall issues are partly self-inflicted. They've been building dams and diverting rivers without considering what it's going to do to water evaporation and such As a side note, if their dams are constructed to the same quality levels of their other infrastructure, I wouldn't want to live downstream of 3 Gorges...
Next to nothing, I would suppose. Rainfall is generated from moisture produced in tropical oceans, by and large. Rain falls uninterrupted on land and then collects in rivers. Damming rivers increases slightly the opportunity for evaporation from reservoirs, but that is trivial comp0ared to moisture from tropical/ocean areas. Just as one example, huge amounts of rainfall on the west coast of North America come from "atmospheric rivers" originating over the tropical Pacific Ocean and then traveling east until it hits mountains of North America.
Even if one were to live downstream, the floods are probably going to relocate your home to a nice seaside wreckage of a house. At least hopefully before the dam itself collapses
i know they seed the clouds to prevent rain during important events, and then seed them with another chemical to produce rain. i can't imagine this to be a good thing
@@SeattlePioneer That is not true here. For instance the Yangtze river, beginning in the 1950s, dams and dikes were built for flood control, land reclamation, irrigation, and control of diseases vectors such as blood flukes that caused Schistosomiasis. More than a hundred lakes were thusly cut off from the main river. There were gates between the lakes that could be opened during floods. However, farmers and settlements encroached on the land next to the lakes although it was forbidden to settle there. When floods came, it proved impossible to open the gates since it would have caused substantial destruction. Thus the lakes partially or completely dried up. For example, Baidang Lake shrunk from 100 square kilometers in the 1950s to 40 square kilometers in 2005. Zhangdu Lake dwindled to one quarter of its original size. So it literally is a case of man-made structures encroaching on the natural replenishing cycle of the river and leaving it worse off as a result.
@@thomaslunde5014 China has half through the biggest water transfer project in the history of mankind that is south to north water transfer project. America can only dream of project of this calibre and skill.
@@thomaslunde5014 millions of homeless that are sleeping on the streets in every city in under filthy conditions with no access to toilets, clean water and electricity in USA need credit rebuilt Some of them might be your relatives. Nobody gives them credit. Your elite serving poor hating incompetent govt has failed them. Send all the poor and homeless $2 each so that they can rebuild their lives. Shame on you.
One possible problem with China's rush to convert to hydroelectricity is that China's construction of so many dams to create large reservoirs for feeding hydro-generation stations is preventing their rivers from properly draining the large amounts of water that accumulate during their monsoon season. This results in the rivers swelling on their banks, as the flow backs up due to the downstream restrictions from the reservoirs, and in spillages from the reservoirs, as they reach their capacity. The end result is the flooding that we have been seeing every year during their rainy season.
I was thinking the same thing with lines of dams blocking one river and as each is in danger of overtopping, each is opened up and causes a flood of water to the next dam, which is opened up - until there is so much someone gets flooded (not helped by the city downstream that refuses to release water lest they get flooded).
@@silverbird425Overtopping water in the reservoir is likely the least to worry about in the big picture. Dams creates ecological catastrophe all the time.
That is nonsense. Flooding occurs because we dont hold back the water. Its covering everything in concrete and constriction drains. Nature holds water back, preventing flooding
@@richardkut3976 Richard, wasn't talking about the weather problem, but the fact that China runs on coal & the benefits that would result in personal profit, for investment.
There is just something so poetic about a country that 'paints' some of the mountains green in touristy areas of China, 'going Green' to show off to the outside world.
@@neolithictransitrevolution427what? How does painting the hills help with that? You’re literally wasting human capital and paint and polluting the environment and making it potentially more difficult for plants to grow all at the same time. Also, once all the paint starts to flake off and float around, you’re potentially causing lung irritation and clogging up filter systems and polluting waterways. I can’t think of much things dumber honestly.
@@CountJeffula I'm obviously refering to the second half of the "poetic" symmetry, the "going green". And in doing so pointing out that China, while driving the world transition to renewables and electrification, does not care about environmental issues when painting a mountain or covering it in solar panels.
G’day Count. I think Neolithic is parroting typical CCP propaganda/narrative which has mesmerised most of the 1.4 billion citizens. A bit like North Korea.
treadmills were torture devices in prisons before they became an exercise equipment way before both those things they were "human powered engines" for pumping water and grinding grain. so not far off
If you look the USA was producing "green" aluminum before it was in fashion. The Aluminum industry in Washington state in the city of Goldendale produced aluminum using electricity from dams on the Columbia river and the source for carbon in the electrodes was charcoal from trees used in the turpentine industry in the eastern Cascade Mountains. The turpentine industry was shut down due to completion from petroleum based solvents, and the electricity now goes to California who has shut down its nuclear power plants.
Here in the UK we had an aluminium smelter at Invergordon on the West coast of Scotland, designed to use electricity from the nearby very wet mountains.
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Here is the really stupid thing. Aluminium can be 100% recycled. In actual fact the world doesn't bother to recycle more than 75%. And that's idiotic because recycling it involves using only 5% of the energy of producing brand new aluminium and causes 90% less CO2. How many countries let the waste happen?
That's the kind of thing caused by high temperatures in the arctic, driving higher evaporation and precipitation in the north (less dry = more snow) and shutting down the North Atlantic circulation
It was an ice age…and we are at the END of the last ice age. This climate is not changing due to man or animal emissions. The science around this is completely bought by green energy Nazis…..don’t perpetuate their grift.
That canal shows everything wrong with the CCP. They do these infrastructure projects always with reputation in mind, they want people in other countries to think that China is somehow a country of great infrastructure. A series of underwater pipes would be a lot more efficient than a canal. How many millions of gallons of water will be lost through evaporation?
I wouldn't act as though China's use of hydo power is a good thing. They have caused far more harm than good by the use of hydro. Their flooding is in large part caused by the CCP and the work they have done and not done over the last 80 yrs.
Ya the Three Gorges dam is kinda impressive but they would have produced more power, had more flood control, and impacted the environment less by building a bunch of smaller upstream dams.
@@piotrmajewski5978 the propaganda is really key. Floods of the Yellow River are literally legendary, a giant, world tilting dam to control it is a real psychological win.
14:23 Fun fact - the second biggest hydro-electric plan is on the Paraná river between Paraguay and Brazil. One generator supplies all of Paraguay's electricity and the other 18 about 25% of Brazil's.
The original name was aluminum, but the inventor of the name was convinced to change the name the aluminium to be consistent with Latin names like sodium. So, in 1808, the name was aluminum, and in 1812, aluminium was preferred by chemists. But aluminum stuck in the US. Which is better? I don't know.
They dont need a pass. They are adding more renewables via wind and solar than any other country. There carbon footprint will start dropping pretty soon, and they have pledged net neutrality by 2060, although I would put money on that happeneing much sooner than that at there current pace. They already have 3x more energy produced via renewables than the united states, and will likely continue to outpace us on installations every year. I would be surprised if we achieved net neutrality before them. Not just on the grid, but also transit and any other major pollution area. Ie transit.
Don’t get us southerners started. We make two or three extra syllables for most words which really comes in handy for old country music songs. But if you start adding them and we was to get ahold of them, it could be a mess.
@@geoff9759 well daddy always said if you keep your trap shut folks might think you’re a idiot but if you start running your mouth you’ll prove them right. Apparently someone else said something similar but daddy put it in southern Appalachia so’s I could understand. Understand?
It amazes me how metallurgy has been something we humans have been experimenting with for many, many thousands of years. Such a crucial part of the development of human civilization.
Anything that starts your motor. Bending over the crank to start up a Model A Ford would make a cow blush with embare-assment. Thus, the production of gas. It's scientifical. You probably couldn't follow the mathy bits.
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@@ahmataevo - 20 million years ago the CO2 was between 500-600 ppm. 420 x 20 = 500? 😂😂😂😂😂 Your mathematics is even weaker than your science. 😂 I think you’re confusing 300 million years ago with 20 million years.
@Marat_2023_Husnutdinov People leaving California are moving to a different state. People leaving Russia are moving to a different country. Two different things.
Sorry Joe Aluminium is not the British spelling and pronunciation… it’s the worldwide standard accepted by the scientific community for over 200 years. The Americans, at that time, decided to defy the world because their aluminum industry was too big and important at the time that they felt they might hurt it if “people got confused” (“people” in this context is limited to those in North America) - this message brought to you by an American himself. SMH
Totally agree, I think Alcoa set this into the American mind. Pretty much all other metals that end in um have the i preceding it. They really botched that.
Something else too mention about the graphics missing is that when the snow are on the top of the mountain, or snowing around us they usually melt next year become water, but not always. That depends on the condiditon on the weather. Last few years in Norway the snow have turned into steam and vanished., but more often then it will be turned into water and that will also fill up the "pool".
erratic weather reduces food production. Unexpected rain or heat at key points in the growing cycle can kill plants or blossoms. Warmer weather means that insect pests wyhich would die off in winter can survive year round. But this program is about industry and energy supply.
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THANK YOU JOE! You are the 1st person to differentiate tween the spelling 'of aluminum and..., the other spelling. Bein' a simple Yank, it's much appreciated as all this time I thought the spelling was the same. Silly Yank!
China has also pushed solar and wind, but locations of power vs location of consumption is huge disconnect. However, if multiple renewable sources are created you can better adapt to climate induced variations.
No. There is a unique global scientific consensus on climate change backed by hundreds of thousands of peer reviewed multi disciplinary papers telling you what is happening and it is backed by lived experience in every country in the world. Variability has been comprehensively ruled out.
Perhaps worth noting that the drop in hydro production in 2020-2021 was because of massive rain and flooding. Too little water and the turbines can't run. Too much water and the pressure can damage things. Typically you can open up a bypass flow to keep the pressure down, but if the flooding is too much, then you just can't run the turbines and the water goes unused. Another issue is that they dam the river in the southern mountains every few miles... And they just haven't been all that coordinated. So a hydro dam up stream has too much water and needs to purge, which then causes a cascade of waste down-river. And if someone purges too much, or needs to empty for maintenance, then it can take days to weeks to rebuild the reserve, stopping water down stream. It's some bad planning. And because of this, countries down stream are getting cut off or flooded without warning or communication from the utility providers. It's a massive humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed.
@@Gabor-y3h 30 C here in the Netherlands. Just keep calm as it never takes long before the temperature takes a nosedive as the next cold-front comes along.
i do not know where you are quoting your temperature numbers from but i can assure you that this year has been cooler than usual in northeast Ohio . i was born in the U.K and i can assure you that it was far hotter in 1976 than this year . I am sick of idiots and their left wing politics trying to scare people.
The world has changed a lot since 1850, urban centres have expanded and where weather station were once in the countryside, they're often now surrounded by buildings ..... and we (and the starlings) know that towns are warmer then the countryside, especially at night ..... and jet engines at airports produce more heat than piston engines, just sayin'. I'll wager the modern records weren't weighted to take those changes into account.
Rudeness @@mksln is never a good idea. Satelllites are indeed used but local weather stations all over the world provide much of the information that's fed to models for predicting the weather ..... models modelled after their creators desires.
The temperature of the Earth changes. We know this. We cannot stop it changing- we know this too. Instead of killing ourselves trying to control it (which we cannot) we should adapt as required.
We shouldn't blame the Americans for messing up the English language this time. Alumin(i)um was first named by the the English chemist Humphry Davy. He seems to have been better at chemistry than at spelling so he spelled it both ways and caused the confusion that still exists today.
Your syllabification is off. It's five syllables: a-lu-mi-ni-um, and syllables start with a consonant where possible. If you're going to get on us yahoo yanks for not speaking the King's English, at least get the syllables right. That said, we were brainwashed from infancy. Every mom (er, mum?) in the country had a roll of Reynold's aluminUM in the kitchen drawer. No doubt the greedy capitalist warmongers of American industry improved the bottom line by dropping that additional 'i".
@@MrRezillo Actually it really should be Al-u-min-ium. Syllabification by Americans (i.e. citizens of the USA rather than Americans in general) is skewed by the fact that they pronounce it Al-loo-min-um.
If by colonials you mean Americans, we aren't lazy, we are utilitarian. I believe a fairly common comment Europeans make about Americans is that we work too much.
As an American, it should be pronounced aluminium…all the other um metals are ium; it makes no sense that aluminum drops that. Brits are right on this one. Stupid Alcoa.
As a Brit, when an American says 'chip' I know they mean crisp. when they say 'jelly' I know they mean jam. If a Brit starts using Americanisms, do they mean British chip or American chip? it winds me up, because it just makes things less clear.
@@adamdonovan4071 Pudding i believe refers to the stomach that they were boiled in, so thats where black pudding comes in, i assume early steamed pudding were made the same way, and then it became synonymous with desserts. How Yorkshire puddings got that name, speaking as a Yorkshire man, I have no idea.
@@benholroyd5221 ive had black pudding and white pudding, actually pretty good. I was thinking more Christmas pudding or figgy pudding, which I think is more like a cake.
@@adamdonovan4071 Christmas pudding and figgy pudding are / were steamed. Normally in a muslin these days, I assume it was done in an animal stomach originally?
The Earth's tilt varies between approximately 22.5° and 24.5° degrees over a 41,000 year period. The Earth's climate changes because of it, but it takes thousands of years, not 100 years.
The idea that hotter means more extreme weather. Read a book about the little ice age and see what cold does to the environment. All greenhouse gases make up less than 0.1% of the atmosphere and water vapor accounts for 97%.
I don't think the amount of CO2 coming off the refining process is all that significant, on a global scale. ...mostly, it is how much energy it takes, and is that energy created by fossil fuels that 'can' make it bad for the climate. Hydro-electric energy is fossil fuel free, but it does mess up the riparian system it disrupts... Processing aluminum takes an enormous amount of energy... But once the aluminum is formed, it lasts, virtually, for ever. 95% is recycled...
I'm in Canada and fairly used to hearing the Brits pronounce 'Aluminium'... so hearing someone with a British accent say 'Aluminum' sounds a little odd, haha. Love the channel.
Their rainfall issues are partly self-inflicted.
They've been building dams and diverting rivers without considering what it's going to do to water evaporation and such
As a side note, if their dams are constructed to the same quality levels of their other infrastructure, I wouldn't want to live downstream of 3 Gorges...
Next to nothing, I would suppose.
Rainfall is generated from moisture produced in tropical oceans, by and large. Rain falls uninterrupted on land and then collects in rivers.
Damming rivers increases slightly the opportunity for evaporation from reservoirs, but that is trivial comp0ared to moisture from tropical/ocean areas.
Just as one example, huge amounts of rainfall on the west coast of North America come from "atmospheric rivers" originating over the tropical Pacific Ocean and then traveling east until it hits mountains of North America.
Even if one were to live downstream, the floods are probably going to relocate your home to a nice seaside wreckage of a house. At least hopefully before the dam itself collapses
i know they seed the clouds to prevent rain during important events, and then seed them with another chemical to produce rain. i can't imagine this to be a good thing
@@SeattlePioneer That is not true here. For instance the Yangtze river, beginning in the 1950s, dams and dikes were built for flood control, land reclamation, irrigation, and control of diseases vectors such as blood flukes that caused Schistosomiasis. More than a hundred lakes were thusly cut off from the main river. There were gates between the lakes that could be opened during floods. However, farmers and settlements encroached on the land next to the lakes although it was forbidden to settle there. When floods came, it proved impossible to open the gates since it would have caused substantial destruction. Thus the lakes partially or completely dried up. For example, Baidang Lake shrunk from 100 square kilometers in the 1950s to 40 square kilometers in 2005. Zhangdu Lake dwindled to one quarter of its original size. So it literally is a case of man-made structures encroaching on the natural replenishing cycle of the river and leaving it worse off as a result.
None of your claims deal with reduced evaporation due to dams. That was the claim made in an earlier post.
The water situation is going to get much worse as China has dammed all of the rivers that flow into the southern countries such as Vietnam and Laos.
Worry about America.
@@DK-ev9dg Deflection is cool right?
@@thomaslunde5014 China has half through the biggest water transfer project in the history of mankind that is south to north water transfer project. America can only dream of project of this calibre and skill.
@@DK-ev9dg Your social credit must be great.
@@thomaslunde5014 millions of homeless that are sleeping on the streets in every city in under filthy conditions with no access to toilets, clean water and electricity in USA need credit rebuilt Some of them might be your relatives. Nobody gives them credit. Your elite serving poor hating incompetent govt has failed them. Send all the poor and homeless $2 each so that they can rebuild their lives. Shame on you.
One possible problem with China's rush to convert to hydroelectricity is that China's construction of so many dams to create large reservoirs for feeding hydro-generation stations is preventing their rivers from properly draining the large amounts of water that accumulate during their monsoon season. This results in the rivers swelling on their banks, as the flow backs up due to the downstream restrictions from the reservoirs, and in spillages from the reservoirs, as they reach their capacity. The end result is the flooding that we have been seeing every year during their rainy season.
I was thinking the same thing with lines of dams blocking one river and as each is in danger of overtopping, each is opened up and causes a flood of water to the next dam, which is opened up - until there is so much someone gets flooded (not helped by the city downstream that refuses to release water lest they get flooded).
@@silverbird425 That's a good observation, a sort of cascade of catastrophies.
@@silverbird425Overtopping water in the reservoir is likely the least to worry about in the big picture. Dams creates ecological catastrophe all the time.
That is nonsense. Flooding occurs because we dont hold back the water. Its covering everything in concrete and constriction drains. Nature holds water back, preventing flooding
And they keep building more of these dams ......
Natural disasters are a tragedy. Natural disasters accompanied by lies, corruption, indifference and incompetence are a mega tragedy.
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Mother Nature Knows.
@@richardkut3976 Richard, wasn't talking about the weather problem, but the fact that China runs on coal & the benefits that would result in personal profit, for investment.
There is just something so poetic about a country that 'paints' some of the mountains green in touristy areas of China, 'going Green' to show off to the outside world.
Are you sure they paint the mountains green or is that made up? The Winnie the Pooh is banned in China story turned out to be made up.
It's not to show off, it's to remove a major strategic weakness and improve limited domestic resource usage.
@@neolithictransitrevolution427what? How does painting the hills help with that? You’re literally wasting human capital and paint and polluting the environment and making it potentially more difficult for plants to grow all at the same time. Also, once all the paint starts to flake off and float around, you’re potentially causing lung irritation and clogging up filter systems and polluting waterways. I can’t think of much things dumber honestly.
@@CountJeffula I'm obviously refering to the second half of the "poetic" symmetry, the "going green". And in doing so pointing out that China, while driving the world transition to renewables and electrification, does not care about environmental issues when painting a mountain or covering it in solar panels.
G’day Count. I think Neolithic is parroting typical CCP propaganda/narrative which has mesmerised most of the 1.4 billion citizens. A bit like North Korea.
Now they will be opening 2 coal-fuelled power stations per week, not just one as now.
I thought, two a week is the norm?
Karma for a country that specializes in diverting its downstream river flows away from its not subservient enough neighbours ?
Confucius says "if you believe all you hear, you will eat all you see"
Which river is that? I thought water from Mekong river is being nicely shared by all relevant countries?
@@sandybrown4957including rodent feet... Yuks
@@azahariawang9155 Yes, soon to be 99% to china via diverted rivers and one percent to Mekong river.
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China can produce electricity with people on treadmills. Solves unemployment as well. 😅
treadmills were torture devices in prisons before they became an exercise equipment way before both those things they were "human powered engines" for pumping water and grinding grain.
so not far off
That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.
@@veikovasko5603 As is 5000 years of Chinese tradition.
Chinese farming has used so much pesticide that their bee population has crashed and they have to pollinate crops by hand. I guess there's always tea.
Hamster wheel economy.
If you look the USA was producing "green" aluminum before it was in fashion. The Aluminum industry in Washington state in the city of Goldendale produced aluminum using electricity from dams on the Columbia river and the source for carbon in the electrodes was charcoal from trees used in the turpentine industry in the eastern Cascade Mountains. The turpentine industry was shut down due to completion from petroleum based solvents, and the electricity now goes to California who has shut down its nuclear power plants.
They produced aluminum downstream in the Dalles as well. Spokane had some aluminum stuff too.
Here in the UK we had an aluminium smelter at Invergordon on the West coast of Scotland, designed to use electricity from the nearby very wet mountains.
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Your videos are the bench mark for all other instructional videos: clear, concise and no irritating background 'music'.
Amen to the lack crap background music 😂
Despite this, he is not boring.
He is being paid to bring this crap to people who don't know what's going on in America
I hate background noises, stupid whooshing sound. Pop, beeps, or worse the maniacal drumming.
Thank you Joe Bloggs for striking this blow for British English. Your loyal British audience appreciates all you Britishisms!
American here sharing your enthusiasm for Joe blogs. I\we appreciate Joe, you and our British friends.
Here is the really stupid thing. Aluminium can be 100% recycled. In actual fact the world doesn't bother to recycle more than 75%. And that's idiotic because recycling it involves using only 5% of the energy of producing brand new aluminium and causes 90% less CO2. How many countries let the waste happen?
I hope someone powerful in the energy department is paying attention to this important post.
10,000 years ago Sweden was covered with 3km thick ice, I think that is extreme.
So are the +50 celsius temperatures on mediterranean atm
That's the kind of thing caused by high temperatures in the arctic, driving higher evaporation and precipitation in the north (less dry = more snow) and shutting down the North Atlantic circulation
How many people were living in Sweden 10,000 yrs ago?
It was an ice age…and we are at the END of the last ice age. This climate is not changing due to man or animal emissions. The science around this is completely bought by green energy Nazis…..don’t perpetuate their grift.
So what @P6006D?
Not only energy production, but that 1000 mile canal being built to supply Beijing with water.
That canal shows everything wrong with the CCP. They do these infrastructure projects always with reputation in mind, they want people in other countries to think that China is somehow a country of great infrastructure.
A series of underwater pipes would be a lot more efficient than a canal. How many millions of gallons of water will be lost through evaporation?
China even wants to drain the Baikal lake to feed Beijing but Russia doesn't consent to it.
I wouldn't act as though China's use of hydo power is a good thing. They have caused far more harm than good by the use of hydro. Their flooding is in large part caused by the CCP and the work they have done and not done over the last 80 yrs.
Ya the Three Gorges dam is kinda impressive but they would have produced more power, had more flood control, and impacted the environment less by building a bunch of smaller upstream dams.
China and Environmentalism go together like -
a Democratic Party/Labour Party voter... and facts and logic.
@@neolithictransitrevolution427But that would look worse in propaganda. And flooding only impacts regular, poor people, so...
@@piotrmajewski5978 the propaganda is really key. Floods of the Yellow River are literally legendary, a giant, world tilting dam to control it is a real psychological win.
Which floods?? You sound clueless!
14:23 Fun fact - the second biggest hydro-electric plan is on the Paraná river between Paraguay and Brazil. One generator supplies all of Paraguay's electricity and the other 18 about 25% of Brazil's.
Who ever thought you could get aluminum foil out of that rock and all the steps to do it sure had a far thinking brain!
Aluminium is English, and the other version is some weird concoction from a country that invented spray on cheese.🤢
As an American I find your comment hilarious...I should be insulted, but...😂
The original name was aluminum, but the inventor of the name was convinced to change the name the aluminium to be consistent with Latin names like sodium. So, in 1808, the name was aluminum, and in 1812, aluminium was preferred by chemists. But aluminum stuck in the US. Which is better? I don't know.
@@johnhaller5851 The IUPAC determined the spelling as: aluminium, which means that is the recognised spelling.
I wear spray on cheese. I keeps the seagulls from pecking my coconut.
@@johnhaller5851 Thank God for 'O' level chemistry.
One other thing it is totally wrong to NOT include China as one of the developed nations and stop giving them a pass on things.
They dont need a pass. They are adding more renewables via wind and solar than any other country. There carbon footprint will start dropping pretty soon, and they have pledged net neutrality by 2060, although I would put money on that happeneing much sooner than that at there current pace.
They already have 3x more energy produced via renewables than the united states, and will likely continue to outpace us on installations every year. I would be surprised if we achieved net neutrality before them. Not just on the grid, but also transit and any other major pollution area. Ie transit.
Go away. Who are you?
@@DK-ev9dg Who are you?
if they can spend money on sending probes to the moon, they should be recognized as a developed country
China gets discounts due to being categorised as a 'Developing Country'. Yes agree....
Joe, I'm always impressed by the wide range of topics that you cover in your videos. What was your profession before becoming a content creator?
It’s good to see the connection between climate change and inflation being explained. The impacts of food price inflation are already apparent.
The most abundant element on earth is iron, not aluminium. However, most of it is confined to the earths core.
Thanks Joe now i can understand much easier, you deserve a medal.
Don’t get us southerners started. We make two or three extra syllables for most words which really comes in handy for old country music songs. But if you start adding them and we was to get ahold of them, it could be a mess.
best keep quiet?
@@geoff9759 well daddy always said if you keep your trap shut folks might think you’re a idiot but if you start running your mouth you’ll prove them right. Apparently someone else said something similar but daddy put it in southern Appalachia so’s I could understand. Understand?
and if you aint what you is then you is what you aint
@@Bob-nd2mr my favorite line from O Brother Where Art Thou: Is you is or is you ain’t my constituency
Don't you mean, " Countarey Muusak-uh?". Doesn't Brad Paisley prove global warming?
You’ve a thorough approach to research JB, underpinned by a prodigious curiosity. It’s a privilege to watch, cheers.
It amazes me how metallurgy has been something we humans have been experimenting with for many, many thousands of years. Such a crucial part of the development of human civilization.
Joe, loved the scientific explanation of the aluminum process!
my head can deal with yanks misspelling Aluminium but how the hell did they turn petrol into gas, especially as we already had gas.
Anything that starts your motor. Bending over the crank to start up a Model A Ford would make a cow blush with embare-assment. Thus, the production of gas. It's scientifical. You probably couldn't follow the mathy bits.
Great how you explained these connections and consequences!
This is a program well worth watching ... well presented and informative
You are definitely doing right with the channel. Thanks from a Patreon supporter
Every day I give thanks to the universe that I was not born in China.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'd agree if you were born say before 2000. Do pick up some travel china vids like Sun Kissed Bucket List if you don't fly much!
@@jchung5265 those "travel china" videos are becoming anti ccp for some unknown reason 😂
A person with a shitty job living in a trailer in Georgia - struggling but parodxically still overweight, hit the worldwide birth lottery. Because's 1) they're not Chinese or any of 50 or so other repressed nationalities, 2) they're born free, and 3) they can improve their lot through industriousness. I called a window manufacturer here in West Virginia yesterday - they no longer make the windows - just can't find people to work the machines. Especially nowadays, a person with a work ethic can change their stars.
yes your like lots of other losers but you got your wish, China likes win, winners not loose, losers and China got it's wish
Very educational, thank you.
Maybe Mr Xi could spend some of that US$700 million he's sitting on to aid his subjects.
that's the reason he is selling US$B bonds , to pay for disasters!🤣
Dividing the US$700 million by a population of 1.4 billion, would give each person 50 cents.
or he could just spend the money on flood prevention measures and more effective water distribution systems
@@mombaassa natural disasters are usually localized, unlike‘COVID’ like plans
Excellent channel. Thanks for putting information in a easy-to-use format.
Thank you supporters for subsidizing the presentation.
Very high-quality content. Thank you!
Thanks Joe for the blogs!!
Those EVs suck the live out of the network.
Thank you. Awesome channel!
What an awesome video!!! Thank you soooo much Joe. Keep it up…
Cut down forests and you get extreme weather and less rain fall. No global warming needed for that.
Nonsense. If you increase CO2 concentration to levels not seen in 20 million years that will cause change.
@@NapoleonGelignite - 20 million years ago the Co2 content was 20 times greater than it is now. It's in ice core samples from that time.
@@ahmataevo - 20 million years ago the CO2 was between 500-600 ppm.
420 x 20 = 500? 😂😂😂😂😂
Your mathematics is even weaker than your science. 😂
I think you’re confusing 300 million years ago with 20 million years.
Brilliant video thank you for all the information provided by your good self keep smiling and be happy
Correction. Penstock builds water pressure (not velocity) to spin the turbines. Thanks for the great presentation.
How do the British pronounce "Platinum"? Is it by chance "Platinium"?
For that matter, why the change from "Londinium"? 😛
In America it's 'Plutonum-nuts.' Like Beer Nuts, only a bit more radium-actively.
Thank you for sharing 👍❤
You say, "Aluminium", I say, "Tomato".
You say aluminium, I say aluminum,
You say fortnight, I say two weeks,
Fortnight, two weeks,
Let's call the whole thing: making a tempest in a teapot.
Let's call the whole thing off.
You say tomato, i say aubergine
tomatoe
@@azahariawang9155 Nobody likes eggplants.
Great presentation thank you compulsory listening
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The Chinese can take some pointers from South Africa and simply ignore the problem.
There sure is an abundance of doom and gloom around the world, like I've never seen in 60 years.
True, but I always find Joe's gloom and doom vids about China and Russia rather heartwarming.
It has all been planned at an extremely high level
It's always been there. We just live in the age of information now.
@Marat_2023_Husnutdinov People leaving California are moving to a different state. People leaving Russia are moving to a different country. Two different things.
@Marat_2023_Husnutdinov People leave California for more benign reasons than people leave Russia now.
Extra impressed with this video. The deep dive into Aluminum/Aluminium(?) ;) production and rainfall effects on it are fascinating. Thank you sir.
Sorry Joe Aluminium is not the British spelling and pronunciation… it’s the worldwide standard accepted by the scientific community for over 200 years. The Americans, at that time, decided to defy the world because their aluminum industry was too big and important at the time that they felt they might hurt it if “people got confused” (“people” in this context is limited to those in North America) - this message brought to you by an American himself. SMH
Here, let me SYH too, ya gormless derp.
Totally agree, I think Alcoa set this into the American mind.
Pretty much all other metals that end in um have the i preceding it. They really botched that.
Excpet for a few rare ones like tantalum and Molybdenum@@adamdonovan4071
proof americans are more efficient hehehe
@@adamdonovan4071 So the rest of the world spells platinum as platinium? Learn something new everyday.
We need a blooper roll for this episode. "Alumumblium, Abloomium, Alulumbrium."
Great analysis Joe, thanks man.
Something else too mention about the graphics missing is that when the snow are on the top of the mountain, or snowing around us they usually melt next year become water, but not always. That depends on the condiditon on the weather. Last few years in Norway the snow have turned into steam and vanished., but more often then it will be turned into water and that will also fill up the "pool".
guess we forgot that warmer weather means that globally food production increases, man who would have thunk....
Wouldn't growing regions shift, some areas open up and others get hit by droughts/dry weather
erratic weather reduces food production. Unexpected rain or heat at key points in the growing cycle can kill plants or blossoms. Warmer weather means that insect pests wyhich would die off in winter can survive year round. But this program is about industry and energy supply.
The "I'm bi-lingual, I can say 'aluminum' or 'aluminium'" --> got a nice little chuckle out of me!!
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THANK YOU JOE! You are the 1st person to differentiate tween the spelling 'of aluminum and..., the other spelling. Bein' a simple Yank, it's much appreciated as all this time I thought the spelling was the same. Silly Yank!
China has also pushed solar and wind, but locations of power vs location of consumption is huge disconnect. However, if multiple renewable sources are created you can better adapt to climate induced variations.
'Aluminum' should never be spoken by a Brit
CRIKEY!😆
true - lazy colonials only
Aluminium is the original English word.
@@geoff9759 I bet you meant colonists, americans. The colonials would be the Brits again.
We actually put that rule in place centuries ago, that's why they use a non-sense replacement
Give it up Joe, people only watch sometimes, like when they need a laugh !!
there were massive floods and droughts in china long before hydro was established
background climate variability much larger than most people realise
No. There is a unique global scientific consensus on climate change backed by hundreds of thousands of peer reviewed multi disciplinary papers telling you what is happening and it is backed by lived experience in every country in the world. Variability has been comprehensively ruled out.
Perhaps worth noting that the drop in hydro production in 2020-2021 was because of massive rain and flooding. Too little water and the turbines can't run. Too much water and the pressure can damage things. Typically you can open up a bypass flow to keep the pressure down, but if the flooding is too much, then you just can't run the turbines and the water goes unused.
Another issue is that they dam the river in the southern mountains every few miles... And they just haven't been all that coordinated. So a hydro dam up stream has too much water and needs to purge, which then causes a cascade of waste down-river. And if someone purges too much, or needs to empty for maintenance, then it can take days to weeks to rebuild the reserve, stopping water down stream. It's some bad planning.
And because of this, countries down stream are getting cut off or flooded without warning or communication from the utility providers. It's a massive humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed.
Thank you that was very informative. I have subscribed.
Don't talk to me about extremes. We've had 6 consecutive sunny days where I live and now we're all in a panic!
Same here after one of the wettest springs on record.
@@Gabor-y3h 30 C here in the Netherlands. Just keep calm as it never takes long before the temperature takes a nosedive as the next cold-front comes along.
That explains the higher temperatures. 😂
The hysteria over the weather is the real extreme.
@@joesterling4299 As long as you realize that there's consensus about the climate.
i do not know where you are quoting your temperature numbers from but i can assure you that this year has been cooler than usual in northeast Ohio . i was born in the U.K and i can assure you that it was far hotter in 1976 than this year . I am sick of idiots and their left wing politics trying to scare people.
good programing, thank you.
R. Old
Looking at global temperatures since 1850 is like trying to get directions to the Mall only looking at a map of your neighborhood.
Of course, if you only have records that go back to 1850, you have to make do with what you have.
The world has changed a lot since 1850, urban centres have expanded and where weather station were once in the countryside, they're often now surrounded by buildings ..... and we (and the starlings) know that towns are warmer then the countryside, especially at night ..... and jet engines at airports produce more heat than piston engines, just sayin'.
I'll wager the modern records weren't weighted to take those changes into account.
Wow you are so wrong. I Wonder how everything el se in your life is if you are that wrong with something so simple @@petermach8635
@@petermach8635wrong. They are actually done via satellite observations vs you sticking your bum out the window to check the temperature.
Rudeness @@mksln is never a good idea. Satelllites are indeed used but local weather stations all over the world provide much of the information that's fed to models for predicting the weather ..... models modelled after their creators desires.
Plus we are having dams break because of excess water flow. Just had one break in Minnesota.
When you have a lot of reservoirs more square foot of evaporation so more rain in some places drought in others
china produces 3 times the amount of hydro power that Canada does but thinking of it through the lens of per capita is pretty huge for Canada.
And Quebec has 50% of that hydro-power and 90% of the AL production. BC is in second place with 18% of the power and 10% of the AL production.
An important side benefit of water power is building water reservoirs and flood control. It’s complicated.
The temperature of the Earth changes. We know this. We cannot stop it changing- we know this too. Instead of killing ourselves trying to control it (which we cannot) we should adapt as required.
Earth never in its history warmed as fast as the last 100 years and we are causing that.
I am grateful that Joe has the "mettle" to deal with pronunciation issue. :)
The yanks should learn to speak the King's English!
Al-um-in-ium!
🙂
We shouldn't blame the Americans for messing up the English language this time.
Alumin(i)um was first named by the the English chemist Humphry Davy. He seems to have been better at chemistry than at spelling so he spelled it both ways and caused the confusion that still exists today.
Now you know why they threw the tea in the harbor.
Your syllabification is off. It's five syllables: a-lu-mi-ni-um, and syllables start with a consonant where possible. If you're going to get on us yahoo yanks for not speaking the King's English, at least get the syllables right.
That said, we were brainwashed from infancy. Every mom (er, mum?) in the country had a roll of Reynold's aluminUM in the kitchen drawer. No doubt the greedy capitalist warmongers of American industry improved the bottom line by dropping that additional 'i".
@@MrCenturion13 Bunch of trouble makers...
@@MrRezillo Actually it really should be Al-u-min-ium.
Syllabification by Americans (i.e. citizens of the USA rather than Americans in general) is skewed by the fact that they pronounce it Al-loo-min-um.
The diction explanation is greatly appreciated by us yanks😊.
Very interesting. You have left out New Zealand! Major hydro generator, and an aluminium producer (335,000 tonnes/yr).
"Aluminium" is what every science-savvy person calls it.
Spoken like a true provincial.
Science savvy person here.
I definitely don't pronounce it like that.
When it's used in an engine block, I call it Crapium.
Haha! Love the aluminum vs aluminum bit.
14:32 Paraguay is a huge exporter of electricity. As far as I know, they produce approximately twice as much electricity as they need.
Thanks for explaining how aluminum is made.
Your into reminded me of this: two countries separated by a common language.
It is and always was Aluminium, the colonials are lazy with language, hence 'thru'
If by colonials you mean Americans, we aren't lazy, we are utilitarian. I believe a fairly common comment Europeans make about Americans is that we work too much.
@@cleanwillie1307 lazy
@@cleanwillie1307 You are both right. But how come Americans drive everywhere rather than walk?
Great graphics
the polar ice caps were supposed to be gone by 2012 . we have been lied to
Aluminium in Australia as well, don’t forget us!!
Bauxite is also a source of Gallium and China recently put export controls on Gallium (affecting the battery and semiconductor industries).
As an American, it should be pronounced aluminium…all the other um metals are ium; it makes no sense that aluminum drops that.
Brits are right on this one. Stupid Alcoa.
As a Brit, when an American says 'chip' I know they mean crisp. when they say 'jelly' I know they mean jam. If a Brit starts using Americanisms, do they mean British chip or American chip?
it winds me up, because it just makes things less clear.
@@benholroyd5221 lol. That is funny.
On that note, I don’t understand British pudding…
There are so many of them. Fanny vs Fanny; very different.
@@adamdonovan4071 Pudding i believe refers to the stomach that they were boiled in, so thats where black pudding comes in, i assume early steamed pudding were made the same way, and then it became synonymous with desserts. How Yorkshire puddings got that name, speaking as a Yorkshire man, I have no idea.
@@benholroyd5221 ive had black pudding and white pudding, actually pretty good. I was thinking more Christmas pudding or figgy pudding, which I think is more like a cake.
@@adamdonovan4071 Christmas pudding and figgy pudding are / were steamed. Normally in a muslin these days, I assume it was done in an animal stomach originally?
Great Job Joe 💯💫💫💫💰💰
Ha-ha! :) Enjoyed the linguistics lesson as so necessary to understand our British brethren. :)
Its getting warmer because the earths tilt has moved 7 degrease
Nope.
The Earth's tilt varies between approximately 22.5° and 24.5° degrees over a 41,000 year period. The Earth's climate changes because of it, but it takes thousands of years, not 100 years.
The aluminum/aluminium segment is hilarious. (My Apple computer is alerting me aluminium is misspelled.)
The idea that hotter means more extreme weather. Read a book about the little ice age and see what cold does to the environment. All greenhouse gases make up less than 0.1% of the atmosphere and water vapor accounts for 97%.
21% is oxygen, 78% nitrous, so no, it's not 97 % water vapour.
Abrupt changes in temperature in either direction are very damaging. The problem isn't change; it's how fast that change happens.
Joe China has over 1200 coal fired power stations and building more! This is confirmed on Google. India has over 300!
I’ve heard they are opening 6 new ones every day.
I don't think the amount of CO2 coming off the refining process is all that significant, on a global scale. ...mostly, it is how much energy it takes, and is that energy created by fossil fuels that 'can' make it bad for the climate. Hydro-electric energy is fossil fuel free, but it does mess up the riparian system it disrupts... Processing aluminum takes an enormous amount of energy... But once the aluminum is formed, it lasts, virtually, for ever. 95% is recycled...
Good points, but Leftists are fact immune.
It truly is a religion.
Good to hear someone who actually understands climate change and its effects
Trouble is HE DOS'NT!
I'm in Canada and fairly used to hearing the Brits pronounce 'Aluminium'... so hearing someone with a British accent say 'Aluminum' sounds a little odd, haha. Love the channel.
Thanks Joe!