Don't worry about depressing me, Dave. I've dug a nice hole in the back garden, and when climate news gets to be too much, I just stick my head into it.
For some reason I seem to watch his videos when I’ve just woken, well before my tea. I have to say it seems to be a beneficial twofold service effect. My sleepiness dulls the an exacerbated startle response which i’m prone to, and still the subject matter helps wake me up. Le Sigh. Haven’t rolled back under the covers as a response yet.
Talking about Homo Struthionensis specie, some of my neighbors just buy bigger and heavier SUVs to also stick their as*es in it. They feel they'll be protected this way.
Black humor is something to brighten us up at least a little in these preapocalyptic times. Thanks for hard work of combining rock steady science and some stand up comedy 😃
@@freedomruss interestingly climate deniers try to drive us into this depressing dystopia. Climate activists try to steer us away from that which unfortunately gets more difficult every day...
Yeah sometimes i like and fwd the video without watching... when I am drowning in depressing data already. I am 54 and I got the gist of the situation at appx 6yrs old, realizing that society/humanity was far from sane, logical, reasonable, peaceful beings.
There's no need to be scared of plant food; stop allowing yourself to be frightened of the weather by grifters, and realise that you don't have to be a useful idiot for the profit of elite shysters who hate you.
Please keep informing us! The frustration don't come from being informed but from watching how general media missrepresent the reality and seeing certain politicians still lying about it.
The first 80 second span of this video is perhaps one of the most cathartic and simply-yet-eloquently spoken pieces on the science and communication of climate change ever put to screen. Thank you
@@JustHaveaThinkAnytime ✊🏻 As an educator, biologist, and one of the folks arrested on the 4/6 Scientists Rebellion climate protests, what you said was very poignant, and overall your videos give me sanity
No it isn't, not even close. But I can see how so many might think it is, and why frankly we are doomed. Maybe if we are lucky the ice melting will make it less shallow around here.
@@JustHaveaThink oh I think some of your past ones have even touched on python level humor in doucheing those that have prospered at polluting the planet!
I think people are tired of hearing about climate change because we're rarely getting new information (or information discernably new to a layman) and even more rarely being told about something we can do differently. It's agonizing. Most of the people complaining, also, probably consciously sought out the very content that they're sick of (Hello). The complaint in many cases may be more about the state of the world than the fact that news reminds us of such state.
@@rylans.5365 Do you realise how ridiculous your statement is ? Arctic ice and Antarctic ice is stable. Summer temperature is not rising. In truth, temperature in recent years have been below average in summer
Yeah, brilliant how he is willing to inform us when an earth shattering catastrophe hit us and neither of us noticed... Also very funny is his lie about 2012 with his so called lowest ever minimum extent... ofcourse he know he is lying but who cares.
Points to consider ,; does it matter that there is a reduction in sea ice ; is man made CO2 the cause ; the world is getting greener ( NASA ) ; Antarctic is colder ; every catastrophic prediction in my lifetime , I'm old , has proved to be false ; climate "Experts" have no greater credibility than the man in the street.
I spent most of my life living and working in Alaska, from top to bottom, east to west. The amount of glacier coverage that has been lost since the early 1980's that I have seen personally as I have flown around in floatplanes, helicopters and other small planes for work and on my hunting and hiking trips is noting short of alarming in and of itself. For those that may say I contributed to it, I will point to the fact that Alaska is over 2x the size of Texas but only has around 1% of paved road miles compared to Texas and many towns in Southeast Alaska are on islands with no bridges connecting them to a major road system to the other towns. You go by boat-car ferry or by air, no other way.
Great; just watched it before bed. Now, as Alice Cooper would say, it’s time for, “ Welcome to my Nightmare “! Economists and business leaders are voicing concerns at the start of 2023 that the year could be a difficult one. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said that the Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates to 6% to fight inflation, higher than the peak level between 5% and 5.5% in 2023 that most Fed officials penciled in after their December meeting. Although I read an article of people that grossed profits up to $500k during this crash, what are the best stocks to buy/short now or put on a watchlist.
Emotionally-charged decisions to sell off large quantities of stocks or other investments now lock in your losses, removing any chance for future growth
A 2022 Northwestern Mutual study found that 75% of U.S. adults admit their financial planning needs improvement. However, only 29% of Americans work with a financial advisor.
@@floydchusset3143 Very correct; the bear market has contributed significantly to the growth of my investment. I was able to quickly increase my portfolio from $180K to $572K. Essentially, I was just doing as my financial advisor instructed. You're good to go as long as you get competent assistance
@@ashwinaditi1039 Would it be okay if I asked you to recommend this specific advisor or company that you used their services? Seems you've figured it all out
@@elliotwilson8874 I won't pretend to know everything, though. Her name is LAURA GACE ABELS but I won't say anything more. Most likely, you can find her basic information online; you are welcome to do further study
Thank you, Dave Borlace, to help us with a fast approach to new research results. Your comments: If some colleagues think, they cant take the truth: OK, you warned before you start the information. I need these information, so thanks to everybody who is working hard to do that research and communicate the result. The very important truth is: We can still do something about ist. And that's what you also never stop to show us. Remark: It's not just about elections. It's also about habits, investment (e.g. insulation a home, EV, PV-panels, ...). Not the facts from nature are 'depressing' - it's the slow reaction of us humans still not responding adequately.
@@iaincrawford5472 do you really need help knowing? Wow. Well, first, shout louder at politicians, so they know your opinions and those don't get drowned out by oil companies and other big polluters. If they don't know their constituents demand change, they aren't going to change. Second, make sure companies you buy things from know what you want - running manufacturing on rerenewal energy, less packaging, the ability to repair rather than trashing stuff, recycled materials and easier recycling of the items, among just a few. And finally, VOTE. Yes, VOTE, and help anyone with the same beliefs to register to VOTE as well, and make sure they can get to the polls, and do all you can do to encourage them to VOTE as well. Then, when it comes time to vote, make damned sure you know who on your ballots will push for better, stronger, and definitive climate policies, and make sure those are the ones whose names you choose on those ballots. And help others - friends, family, neighbors, etc. - to know who to vote for that will push for those changes, too. Those would definitely be a good start. Why you have to ask, when you're ON this channel, is beyond me. Unless you're just a troll.
Sure when you have a narrative that is being driven by special interests who refuse questions about the findings and also do not want to follow the science because it doesn’t fit their agenda you won’t find an informed public. Let’s talk methane emissions. They like to blame farmers and cows . I never hear about massive holes bubbling up methane off the coast of Oregon on the sea floor spewing out methane like there is no tomorrow right on the coastal convection plate. Or the rift zone in Ice land or the Arctic Ocean near the Kurl Trench that separates the arctic from the Pacific Ocean. Then there is IndoChina sea that is ripe for methane emissions so much so Asia has mining exploration. Antarctic ice is melting from under the ice sheet all very hot regions. The heat anomalies over the United States happen to start over YellowStone. So much so the park no longer publishes gas readings for the park publicly. But plenty of wild life is dropping dead. Not a word from the ISGS except they park is closed for repairs so they say. 50 active volcanos are belching all over the world and not small ones either. Those things cough up more Co2 and So2 then our present 7.8 billion breathers ever could in a single year. So how bout an honest discussion about what this planet is facing above and below and stop guilt tripping people over what they cannot control? So big energy can keep banking profits while you freeze in the winter. This is NOT ANTHROPOGENIC. It is a Geo magnetic upset. The wandering pole and pillars should tell you that we are in for some serious trouble.
@@MaryAnnNytowl Could be that Iain is a skeptic. I think that what you are suggesting might make you feel virtuous. Do what you must.... but perhaps be ready to admit that the die has been cast. Is it possible that the dominant culture at its base is built to exploit our greed?
A lot of us saw this coming. In the early 80s, I had a conversation with a staunch Republican. I said, "You have four daughters whom you say you love. Don't you care what kind of world you leave them?" He responded with a shrug of his shoulders: "That's their problem." That attitude has not changed and if anything has gotten worse. The people who care nothing about future generations are the ones WE vote into power, and allow to run the corporations that are destroying us. Looking at the overall record, I expect absolutely nothing to be done about Climate Change, because there is too much MONEY riding on... doing nothing. I'm 83, so perhaps I won't see the worse of it, but so much more has been damaged beyond what I ever expected. I think the generation being born now are going to wind up hating their parents for having brought them into a world in crisis.
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan climate change is hard to ignore Dave, especially when shoveling over twenty inches of heavy wet snow on the first week of May. I've lived here for 70 years and spend a lot of time outdoors and see the changes happening in real time. Keep up the good work Dave!
Great episode!! I hit subscribe and thumbs up. I've been gathering nettles and Japanese knotweed and fiddleheads down by the river, Cambridge On. Canada, and in past years, there's always been Dryad's Saddle or Pheasant Back mushrooms growing on the fallen or dead trees. You could gather them by the shopping bag in 5 minutes and only harvest from a few trees. Last year, there were few. so I left them alone. This year I've seen none. I'm 70 and I'm kinda worried for our future. If we don't have mycelium any more, we're dinked.
I love your videos! Just to add to the points about arctic sea ice and why the polar ice caps melting are a feedback loop: 1. The albedo effect cannot be emphasized enough. Blue water absorbs 8x as much of the sun's energy as fresh snow. Various hues of ice would have various albedo values, but suffice to say that because the ice is currently a surface on which snow can fall, there’s frequently fresh snow on top of this ice. And someone might be inclined to think "oh, well it will only absorb more energy when the sun is up." Right. Starting March 20, the sun is always up, for six months. During May - early August, the sun is constantly bathing the North Pole in sunlight directly overhead. So just imagine an area the size of Canada now absorbing 8x as much energy as it used to. 2. The phase change from ice to liquid water requires 80x as much energy as raising the temperature of that same volume of water by one degree C. The energy that is currently going to the Arctic Sea is being absorbed by that below 0 ice, until that ice melts. Once the ice is melted, that energy will now raise the temperature of the water. I think this is why the older ice is considered more beneficial - it’s probably significantly colder than 0C. The fresh ice would have just crossed the threshold in that phase change and would be only a couple of degrees below 0. These two points multiply. So this theoretical cubic centimeter of ice with snow of top that used to reflect 90% of the sun’s light is now absorbing 80% of it as blue water, and instead of that energy melting it from ice to water using 334 Joules, it is raising its temperature by one degree for every 4.187 Joules it receives. On a clear day with the sun directly overhead, that square centimetre is receiving a Joule of energy every ten seconds, so every minute that little cubic centimetre is going to warm more than one degree. Of course, that heat will be dissipated throughout the rest of the Arctic Sea. But a 640x increase in the warming effects on 14.06 million km2 of open ocean from 24 hour a day sun in the spring and summer is enormous. The world’s oceans have served as our heat sink for a long time; water is so good at absorbing energy that humanity has been spared the effects of climate change so far. But even the oceans do not have an infinite ability to do this, and indeed the heat they have stored up will take just as long to be released elsewhere precisely because water is so good at absorbing energy. There will likely be a point within my lifetime when we have the "blue ocean event," when the minimum on that barrel graph you showed becomes 0 - all of the ice melted that summer. This has not happened in all of human history, and it will be a watershed (haha, word choice) moment in human civilization.
"polar ice caps melting are a feedback loop". Of course, solar absorption anomaly is a powerful +ve feedback process. Your calculations are, to be frank, worthless. I did all this in July, August 2018, took me 150 hours, and I matched within 4% the (Open Source) scientific paper about it all of June 2019. Bottom line is that ocean vs typical Spring, Summer average ice mix and average Sunshine is 19% more of the solar radiation at top-of-atmosphere (TOA) gets absorbed by ocean than sea ice. So for the 6 months from March 22nd the average heater of ocean instead of ice is simply 19% * 270 = 51 w / m**2 over the 16,300,000 km**2 (I used the centre of area which is 74.6N). The Arctic Ocean surface/air gets its heat from 2 sources that provide almost equal amounts of heat to it as follows, in w/m**2 at latitude 75N for 2016 AD: spring & autumn annual summer & winter average 159 11 85 Sunshine absorbed 66 121 93.5 Warm air (mostly by far) & water from the south -10 10 0 Heat into or out of the Arctic Ocean -19 19 0 Ice--->water or water--->ice latent heat ----- ------ ------ 196 161 178.5 Total radiated to space The following average semi-annual & annual surface/air temperatures are supported by those heat quantities: w/m**2 degrees 196 1.1 161 -12.1 178.5 -5.3 When there is no Arctic Ocean sea ice on March 13th then add 30 w/m**2 to the "159" above and alter the other numbers in the ways that you think they will alter based on your studies. The huge uncertainty in the above is that Kevin Trenberth actually shows 164 w/m**2 rather than the "121" above but 164 w/m**2 is way too much heat for the actual surface/air temperature and thus my assumption that 43 w/m**2 gets radiated to space without affecting surface/air temperature because it arrives at high altitudes (much tropospheric thermal inversion). That is just an assumption to get the quantity total to the correct sort of scale. Incidentally, there's a massively-wide misunderstanding of ice latent heat from persons who've have no science education and they have modest brain functionality. The existence or not of ice latent heat has no effect at all on the ANNUAL AVERAGE temperature of the polar region so then it has no effect at all on the ANNUAL AVERAGE temperature of the Earth, no effect at all on global warming. The ice latent heat is, absolutely literally, a huge battery exactly like the big dirt heat storage batteries that Mister Think here sometimes advertises (oops, sorry, I mean Mister Think sometimes discusses). In Spring & summer the sunshine melts ice and it is charging up the huge ice battery, then through autumn & winter that huge battery provides heat by converting from water back into ice and giving up exactly the same amount of latent heat as it took in from sunshine over 6 months and that is the battery discharging and giving up its energy. That is in my energy table above on the line with "Ice--->water or water--->ice latent heat". If there were no sea ice then that exact same battery duty would be performed each year by a huge ocean battery. So the only heating difference between ice or no ice is that ocean absorbs that 19% more sunshine than typical Spring, Summer average ice mix there (but that is a huge heater, relatively speaking of 51 w / m**2 over 6 months each year). Let me know if you have any questions. -------------- I just remembered my 51 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months calculated above is the heating from full year-round ice to no ice all year, so it's starting maybe in the 1715 CE Little Ice Age and ending when there's no Arctic Ocean sea ice. The other quantities, more relevant, are that 14 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months has been added from 1979 to 2016 because less ice, more sunshine absorbed, and 31 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months remains to be added from 2016 to whenever there's no sea ice in early April each year, then it's all over, sea ice all gone so no more heating available.
Outstanding piece of analysis!!! I cannot see how our grain and oil seed crops can continue to grow reliably in a post blue ocean event world. Somewhere before 2050 the human population will be put into sharp decline.
@@grindupBaker Excellent hard work, You know that the northwest passage is FULL of ice right now as per Canada website right? and TWO new icebreakers are on order. Stop frightening the Muppets with your over educated bullshit.
Well, it's not about "a few million deaths" (like we {who? :-)} "accepted" from Corona. This is another threat category - it is the stability of human civilization as a whole that is at stake. If we continue "business as usual", BAU, the impact not only on environmental systems but also on the human economy and society, will definitely grow beyond the limits that humans can deal with. By the time this intense stress arises, it is (much) too late to react in a way that prevents further progressive damage - and repairing the damage becomes far too expensive and beyond our means. That's why we have to avoid such a path from the outset - and that's why the BAU scenario cannot be continued.
Perhaps you underestimate. When a billion or much more go (six or seven), then it is time to pay closer attention. Oh, yeah, then it is too late. Oh, yeah, already true. It will be for us and our children to live the nightmare.
I love this. I've been reading and contributing (at least attempting) to the study of changes in the Arctic for over a decade. I'd love to chat with you directly about this more. Love what you are doing to make the very complex phenomena we're looking at more understandable.
If you have been studying it you will know that there has been no downward trend in summer minimum since 2007. It is indeed complex and certainly NOT a one variable equation, related to CO2 levels. No "tipping points" there. In fact it disproves the naive hand waving talk of more water absorbs more heat. More water is more heat loss: less insulating ice cover , more wind driven evaporation more IR losses in winter. The amount of sun in the Arctic is very limited and short lived. It is NOT the simplistic feedback always trotted out without proof.
I love the idea that people are watching this being like “No stop I don’t want to hear about it.” But not turning the video off. Also I loved your excellent summation of the overall situation at the end there.
Brilliant as always. Sad. Frustrating. Sobering. But brilliant. Thank you :) Good luck everyone. Keep fighting. We must fight this right until the end…if we don’t fight, we are as responsible as the cretins who don’t care about climate change, and roll their eyes when it’s raised as a topic. Don’t be like them… Imho
I’ve long worried about the Arctic and feedback systems almost as much as warming of oceans. Possibly more. I have seen too much hydrides of methane in almost all deep water basins (used to interpret seismic data which showed these offshore hydrides). Not sure if all these basins hold more methane than permafrost but it’s worrying. That’s not even considering the albedo effect of the Arctic ice. Keep up with the your videos, someone needs to ring the alarm!
The combination of hot pacific and hot arctic is already reaking havoc on the weather patterns. As the old saying goes, “it’s later than you think.” The methane hydrides are an anvil dangling overhead from a piece of twine. “Don’t look up,” I guess. Best wishes.
I’m especially dyslexic before my tea, and at first I read - “Not sure if these brains hold more methane than permafrost …” - there’s an applicable joke in there per his intro i’m sure.
Did my final year paper of my Earth sciences degree (many years ago) on the Storegga Slides off the Norwegian coast. Massive methane hydrate deposits poised for that apocalyptic warming of the seas causing instability in the sediments… You’re bang on. We’ve learnt nothing as a species, and clearly now we never will, I’m sorry to say. Maybe it is too late. You feel that when talking with many scientists…there was a time to reverse direction, but maybe it’s already passed… We mustn’t give up of course, but the problem is that it’s not up to us - the world is ruled by the madmen who believe in unending economic growth and of wealth above all things. There’s a famous quote which says something like, ‘when the last fish is eaten, the last animal dead and the last drop of water gone, only then will we realise that we can’t eat or drink money’… Keep educating and talking and being a stubborn pain in the butt about it all. Maybe there’s still time…maybe… Imho
When I was in primary school, some decades ago now, we were all informed that the Arctic would be ice free by the new millennium and because it would then no longer reflect the heat back to space the world would be uninhabitable by anything other than bacteria by 2020. They showed us a map of Australia (where I live) that was almost totally underwater. Well we didn't cut carbon emissions and the world is not yet uninhabitable. Its possible they are just as wrong now as they were back then. There is a lot of money in making doom and gloom predictions.
No way that you can sugar-coat the facts, it is what it is. It's just so frustrating that global leadership has not tackled the problem head-on & allowed all the trends to gradually worsen. As you say climate breakdown is just one of several existential threats running in parallel together, a fertile cascade for black humor.
Which global leaders will actually state facts? The most important one to me is that economies and standard of living are based on energy use. Who can change that? What are they going to do? Tell everyone to stop being consumers?
They are tackling it. It’s called the great reset. Let the rich have consumption and production of climate change and make it expensive that the poor cannot. The total production of green house gases will reduce by the fact there will be a smaller and smaller amount of people being able to afford the cost of producing the greenhouse gasses. Not a future that most people will vote for eh? The real problem is population expansion and living standard rise for the general population, but no one will accept that either. Look at the population increase in India and the increase in living standards and the resulting increase in consumption from that. Everyone says don’t worry it’s reducing but it’s not, the rate of increase is slowing. In the interim there is more and more demand for what the west has which is terribly polluting. It’s not solvable in an equatable way. Get used to it as you don’t have a choice and democracy will be subverted.
Don't let complainers stop you. Personally, I want to be informed about what's happening and going to happen, how quickly we're going to see changes. I'm currently in law school in a certain large northern US city. My family wants me to return South when I graduate, but I think they're all crazy for staying there considering what's going to happen in the next thirty or so years. I try to keep up-to-date on climate news so that I can make an informed decision about where to move after graduating.
... and thanks for your hint to Thomas W. Murphy‘s 2023 article „Limits to Economic Growth“ in Nature Physics. It‘s essential reading and gets you to understand that every politician who still recommends continuing growth regardless of what insane levels of consumption a society might already have achieved is behaving sort of criminal. You also understand why firm resistance against this sort of criminal agitation is becoming a duty for academics.
The criminals are those who want to shut growth down when there is still so much global poverty. That is the real "emergency" that costs lives right now.
I have always wondered why, if we clearly live on a finite planet, with finite resources, the economists still think that we have to keep growing our economies forever. Surely at some stage someone has to say, enough is enough.
@@carlgrove8793 As Kenneth E. Boulding, renowned economist himself, stated: „Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.“
Great video again Dave! Nice summary of everything we've been discussing on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum in the past few weeks. Have you been following our discussions there? I just wrote this a few days ago. I don't think civilization will collapse because of things, technology. It will crash because of food shortages, hunger, because of massive crop failures. And this could already happen in the coming years if that predicted super El Niño arrives and turns out to be devastation. As many as 1 billion people across the planet depend on coral reefs for food (source), so if they die off as well, there will be a lot of people going hungry. And what do hungry people do? They migrate or fight. Just look at the Arabian spring. That started because of high food prices. Also the war is Syria started because farmers couldn't grow food on their land anymore due to drought. And so they migrated to the cities. Which caused conflict… And now we are facing a possible massive El Niño... So it will be hunger, migrating, and increasing conflicts that which will cause civilization collapse. People will become increasingly more hateful. Fascism is already growing. Democracy is becoming fragile, helped by the internet, and now we just added artificial intelligence to the mix. Soon we won't know who or what to trust anymore, and it will become increasingly easier to blame all those migrants for everything that's wrong with the world. And all the while, climate change will continue to happen... People still think we can fix the climate if we will all start driving an electric car. But that's just bullshit. You still need energy for the transition. And the majority of that energy to make all those things is still fossil fuels... That's why I can only see one solution now. We need to get rid of the cause of all our problems, and that cause of all our problems is CO2 in the atmosphere. It needs to be taken out ASAP, because no matter how fast we transition, we'll never make it in time. No way Jose! It's not going to happen... Those that believe we still can, are not being realistic. Even if we stopped adding CO2 today, the planet will still keep warming up for many decades to come. And IMHO it won't stop, because the planet will start releasing its own greenhouse gasses now. We've passed that tipping point. So CO2 removal is the only way we can stop a total collapse now, and as you all probably know by now, I can see only one way to do that. We need to make use of our oceans. Planting a few trees is not going to save us. Way more will be burned or cut down. So let's plant trees in the ocean. Fertilize them so algae can grow and suck up carbon. Use Olivine, and maybe electricity to turn CO2 into calcium. And yes Kassy, we need to stop adding CO2 ASAP too. We need to build a lot more factories to build wind turbines, solar panels, and HVDC cables. We need to do all of the above. But just not adding CO2 anymore isn't going to save us. We need to start extracting massive amounts of CO2 right now too. But IMHO we're already too late, because El Niño is here. My hope is that this predicted super El Niño will be so bad that it will wake the whole world up, without collapsing it. Just maybe then we'll still have a chance... But I doubt it... People can be real greedy selfish idiots sometimes...
I appreciate your work in making this complex subject more accessible. I'd like to add in addition to being "involved in the democratic process of replacing the global commercial and political leaders...hurtling all of us toward a very painful brick wall" (nicely put) that this should not only mean waiting for the next general election, but actively getting involved in raising public consciousness on the streets and with non-violent civil disobedience. I know many people hate those protesters causing disruption, but they're showing real courage in raising awareness of the danger we're in so that urgent action is taken by whatever government we have. I doubt I'd go as far as blocking traffic, but the more of us who come together to engage publicly, the broader and more effective these types of demonstrations will become toward achieving the urgent change needed.
Keep up the great work! Just because others are choosing to ignore or choose cognitive dissonance over the most important issues of human existence is threatened unless extreme measures are taken now, doesn’t make it go away. I appreciate you. Thank you 🙏🏽
Nicely nuanced political message woven within this excellent video, Dave. 😊 I was with you all the way through this one - polar ice and some of its feedback functions being a particular concern of mine at present. When the late James Lovelock was around, he'd be using those ice caps as an example of Gaia, the Earth as a feedback system. It's relatively easily understood - the Earth undergoes a constant series of energy inputs, sourced from the Sun, the consequences of which are often highlighted on this channel. And Earth is constantly"trying" to find equilibrium. (trying is a bad word for this - it happens as energy is transferred within the system), like a stone falls into water and the ripples eventually peter out as energy is transferred. Thinner ice overall in the Arctic means that the day when it becomes ice free for a significant part of the year comes ever closer. Climate effects are slow, in the order of decades, so the fact that we experience them should be of major concern. Let's get some braver politicians, who don't mind annoying fossil fuel executives, on the scene, quicker and more effectively. Did I hear protest?
Rambler Andy: What are you rambling about? You know WE cannot do anything to change the eventual outcome of the Earth's climate cycles. Just stop worrying about it and make sure you have a good relationship with whomever you credit as your Creator. Put all the science of our bodies and our existence on the table and then realize what makes it work is our soul, which is the province of an almighty power.
I live in Alberta, a Province rife with climate deniers, and we have already entered into our forest fire season. The Province is currently under emergency measures ! El Niño is forecast for this Summer, which makes it even hotter, here in the near North. I hope that someday that the people more concerned with ROI understand that life is more important than $.
I live in Alberta, the weather is variable, in 23 years of living here I have see NO two seasons the same. So you have evidence of no warming or cooling in 20+ years. What on earth are you worried about.
Well put Mr. Baker, i'm glad to hear that there is at least one more believer in climate change here in Canada, besides myself. I'm sure there's more, but here in the agricultural belt of southern manitoba you'll get chased out of the room if you mention the 4 word's, human induced climate change. 1.5 C runaway tipping point not very far away, keep practicing what we preach.
Perhaps some of it is wilful ignorance because of your oil industry? I've seen very few Californians, very few people in the UK and very few people in Kashmir that are wilfully ignorant about climate change, in part because we don't have those fossil fuels
@@duanepomrenke2073 For the last 10000 years the planet was warmer than it is today except for the little ice age thing, Humans did not cause that warming. You can believe in whatever you wish but the data is factual and scientifically recorded in GISP2.......
A more meaningful measurement of Artic Sea Ice is Volume, Research indicates that 75% of Arctic Sea Ice by Volume has been lost and most of the ice remaining is new ice. Most of the old ice has now gone for good.
That historic sea ice graphic towards the end was an excellent demonstration of this topic. You can see the amount of ice slowly, then quickly, diminishing. We really are quite screwed.
Not to worry mate, when the climate gets so dangerous that transportation of products becomes impossible, only then will politicians start to realize that we have a problem. Me personally, I'm worried about how much methane is going to be released this summer when more permafrost is melted.
I'm personally more worried about AC usage. AC usage in the UK is expected to skyrocket These refrigerants are much worse for the planet. That, and we're relying on the "miracle" product that are heat pumps. I worry that we might be solving one issue but potentially making another problem far worse because they too use refrigerants.
more people need to see these videos. among the best on any topic, but especially the impending apocalypse that most of us sit like frogs in a pot of water on a stove
Most people would totally freak out - if they'd grasp what s going on at least. Most however choose to not look. I been watching series of Nate Hagens videos, who stresses the fact that we're close to running out of easy _fossil_ energy, that the upkeep of a fossil free economy is nowhere close on the horizon, less than 10% total energy consumption is from renewables which themselves are hardly renewable as under 5% of their material can be recycled for another round, and resources of metals needed to build renewables are limited, while their mining so far is totally dependent on fossil machinery - as is the production of renewables themselves - solar cells essentially are molten sand, requiring millions Joules to produce. Hagens does not want to go on main stream media though he has the contacts. Reckons society will totally freak out when they find the predicament. Series is called the Big Simplification, after what's going to be after easy energy - and food production , the major essential user, run out. In that story, climate change is mostly a side effect, and multiplying crisis factor.
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. We saw Magpies a few days ago. Not a usual spring visitor here. What I selfishly worry about is my dogs, who have never had a flea or a tick. As it warms here…life will change. I grew up in western Washington…flea collars and flea fogging the house were the cost of having dogs and cats.
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. It didn't get cold enough last winter to kill the ticks, so now ticks are everywhere. That's just one way that life changes in a new climate regime.
@@marklee2508 it works best to test soil before building and avoid it. Our test was 75 ft when we built and then 200 feet for a well. Solid, dry glacial silt for 100 feet, then gravelly layer. Where the risk of melting cannot be avoided, one solution is to build on pilings that allow the house to be leveled when the ground shifts.
Thank you Dave for this very informative and delightfully amusing video. I find the humor makes the information stay in the old noggin. And always look on the bright side of life......all together now!
Presumably that's vote Green? Make the anarchists Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook World leaders? Close all fast food burger joints as they are wicked purveyors of animal flesh? Ban all ICE vehicle private ownership and make everyone walk or cycle instead? The list could go and on of loonie demands that are never gonna happen by blocking ambulances and fire engines.
"forewarned is forearmed" people have been forewarned for more than 50 years. Close to nothing has happened. But folks are not angry about the fossil fuel industry or inactive politicians, they are angry about climate activists. I have very little hope that this will end well.
Because the activists behave like **activists.** They're not interested in long term local government seat-change or helping people in those neighborhoods. The only thing an Activist is qualified at, is changing the academic definitions of words, and organizing brief "stunts" that leaves two-thirds of the population inconvenienced and disgruntled
I live where "I need to know the truth" and "I can't unsee that" collide. It's a lovely-ish place filled with uncertainty, contradiction and loneliness and I can't imagine living anywhere else. Won't you all come join the party?
Dave, I’m in the Sierra Nevada of California, near Yosemite. In the last ten years we’ve watched a few hundred million pines, firs, giant Sequoias, oaks, and other trees die in our forests. Millions of hectares more than normal have burned, much more than the long-term average. It is hotter, smokier, and other than this past, spectacularly wet winter, drier than the long term average. Our home insurance costs have quadrupled. In short, our climate has changed enough to have significant impacts.
Science tells us that 90% of all fires are caused by humans. Look it up. Arsen, errant campfires, cigarettes, power lines, ATVs, 4x4s, dirt bikes and automobiles. In 1850 the entire population of California was 93,000. Today it's 40 million. That's a 43,000% increase in people. 6 million people go camping every year in California. Thats a 7,000% increase over the entire population in 1850. Power lines, dirt bikes, ATVs, 4x4s and automobiles didn't even exist 173 years ago. To actually believe that these fires are caused by a 1c rise in average global temperatures is mind boggling. Burn acreage has fallen for the last 75 years. A hundred years ago fires were put out by a bucket brigade. Before humans were around fires, caused by lightening burned continuously. Today we have massive aircraft dousing fires with fire retardants created by fossil fuels.
Would be nice if all cities used thirsty concrete for there roads to reduce flooding sand mining and noise pollution. Also would be fantastic if they lined the sides of roads with native plants and trees flowers and shrubs cactus succulents and more to reduce flooding air and ground even noise pollution too. Oh ya it will reduce heat and wind damage. But most importantly we should change are lights to low or even off but have sensors to see people so it can have a light 100 feet behind and in front of the person and for cars 200 feet behind and 500 in front. Why well this will reduce light pollution it will let all plants/trees to rest and be more able to withstand more are cities bring and it will reduce energy use reducing co2 emissions to make that energy.
When the blue ocean events get yearly and rapidly large sections of the previously ice-covered Arctic Ocean are open from august to november, i really do wonder what it will do to the unique water layer system up there? If the surface waters heat up to say even 10C at the beginning of fall, it will be an utter and complete disaster for the water cycles and ecology in the ocean. Haven't seen all that much talk about the BOE since 2015 or so.
Good one Dave..thanks a bunch. I got over my climate and planetary destruction grief a couple years ago. Now i just try to do good things for people and the land. And i go to the pub. A lot. Cheers.
Mean while back in Australia which now has one of the most corrupt governments in the world is approving coal and gas leases all over Australia while having the highest deforestation rate of any country.
The complexity of interactions among various elements of the Arctic, including the ice and water and atmosphere, is just incredible. I wonder if increased surface water temperature might increase the rate of upwelling of cold water and drive an increase in flow rate of currents, perhaps affecting the rate of flow of ice out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean.
«Increase the rate of upwelling of cold water and drive an increase in flow rate of currents». Are they not two opposites? I am very worried about the currents slowing down, because we need that current to keep us warm here in Scandinavia.
@@olestokke Hmm, I realize I was thinking about the direction wrong. Warm water from south sinks up north. Warmer arctic water might slow its sinking rate and perhaps slow down the entire heat transport. Again, so many complexities!
@@TedToal_TedToal I think there are more than 1 video on this channel about that. It's called AMOC slowdown/shutdown. It also affect things like ecosystems and plankton, salinity, oxygenation and acidification, how much energy oceans can uptake and radiative forcing, oceanic gyres, atmospheric currents and weather patterns, humidity and cloud cover, carbon, methane and aerosols cycle, sea and ice levels. Furthermore it's connected with Pacific through the Great Conveyor Belt (Thermohaline Circulation).
Too often, folks are more concerned with being "liked" over being truthful, and consequently, these folks say things just to make others more comfortable. I prefer the truth.
Actually, this unprecedented in the geologic record. We are heating the Earth 10X faster than the largest excursion from normal ever seen in the fossil record, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 55 million years ago. In case you missed it: WE ARE HEATING THE EARTH 10X FASTER THAN HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED IN GEOLOGIC HISTORY. That is by definition unprecedented.
I think we need to look at the earth's natural Coolant s that have been removed IE oil/gas/coal and so forth leaving great voids underground . These sudden sink holes opening up are no surprise. Then we have to look at the sun, it's closest to the earth in early January at present . Then we need to look at the many volcanoes active around the Arctic and Antarctic.... Pushing up heat from below. And let's not forget we are due for an ice age at any time ... We are in a hot period of the coldest cycle .
Toughen Up, Fluffy: Remember that total worldwide extinction is not UNPRECEDENTED and it will happen whenever Mother Nature, Father Time, and GOD decide.
Another awesome, informative video Dave. We all need to hear this kind of news as much as possible and really take note and realize that we as a species are on borrowed time. Don't worry about the ones who would rather not hear it, do nothing and bury their heads in the sand. They will also be the first ones complaining when it all goes to sh^t and try to do stuff when it is far to late to make a difference. Keep up the brilliant work you do on getting the message out and congratulations on hitting over 500k subs 👍
Your information is absolutely fine... and as an engineer for electrical optics working 5 years intensively with CO2 gas lasers, I can only confirm co2 is an absolutly optical active molecule that scatters Earth's heat radiation around as all other molecules having an uneven number of atoms. I am much more furious about the situation and tired of explaining the phenomenon of climate change. But you British understatement and humor hopefully reaches many people. Best regards from Germany
Thank you for your clear and interesting videos about this subject. It is so important and necessary. Don't worry about the ostriches. Keep on keeping on !!
Don't worry about depressing me with this news. It can't possibly make me more depressed than I already am 😂🥹😥😢😭 It's good to know what's going on so keep it coming. 😊
Well done Dave for finding new angles for communicating complex research. The more you explain these interactions, the more i see that that we are blessed with a wondrously diverse ecosystem interacting with a wonderfully placed planet; Carl Sagan's 'Small Blue Dot'. And we can still save our ecosystem; all we have to do is recognise the risk to our children. After all, what would any parent not do to prevent risk to their children?
Complex? Yes. As complex as Covid PCR testing. It's all a pretext for removing your freedom with new climate emergency laws to track and trace and control EVERYTHING centrally. A policy that has been applied thousands of time before and resulted in millions of deaths. You'll know it's the end game when you give up your guns.
Collectively, apparently NOTHING. Parents of rich children are increasing their carbon foot print, while that foot is on the neck of the 98% of poor children. the result is a bleak future for 2 billion kids, and an uncomfortable future for the selfish rich parents kids! does not sound like a "wonderfully placed planet" to me.
As Greta says, there’s hope in being honest and having the courage to see things as they are not as you’d like them to be. Good on you for having the guts to spread the facts. The reason we need to do this is at the political level there is a total resistance to taking responsibility on our behalf to address climate collapse. Technology on its own won’t save us. The capture of the political class by fossil fuels and livestock production lobbies is near total. Until the pitchforks and guillotines are in front of the political class (generalising ) we won’t get the transformations we need urgently. Earth cooling technologies need to be trialed now as a matter of urgency to see which ones a are most benign, ethical, scalable and affordable. But the political class and even the IPCC won’t admit we have left it too late and now must consider such approaches to preserve what’s left of ecosystems and a safe-ish climate.
Actually, satellite coverage of the Arctic started in 1972, not 1978. A 1990 IPCC report on Arctic Sea Ice shows this, and it also shows that sea ice extent in 1972 is about where it is now. . The late '70s was one of the coldest times in the 20th Century and this IPCC report shows 1978 sea ice extent to be unusually high compared to 1972. Noted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson noted in 1937 that the weather stations on the Yukon and the Arctic reported temperatures over 100 degrees F. Stefansson also describe sea ice between the North Pole, and Alaska and Eastern Siberia as thin and rotten. From "The Cairns Post" Feb 18, 1952 "The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 80 years ago". ~~~Dr William S Carlson, Arctic expert I think we're talking normal variation, and human CO2 emissions have little or nothing to do with it. And is the world's weather really get worse? Not in the US. There were 9 hurricane strikes in the US from 2010 to 2019. That's the lowest number of hurricane strikes for a decade in US history. The record high number of hurricanes strikes in a decade for the US was the 1880s when 26 hurricanes struck the US. The US has not had an F5 tornado since 2013. That's a record long period for no F5 tornadoes since these records have been kept starting in the 1950s. Also, there were no F4 or F5 tornadoes in 2018. That's the first time that's happened. As Roy Spencer recently said, there has been no increase in the number or intensity of heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, or tornadoes.
Great intro. The folks who want to stick their heads in the sand can go ahead and do so without the benefit of some of the wisdom you try to impart. Make no mistake, what you do is significant. It matters.
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
One of the thing you can delve into is the post glacial rebound (glacio isostasic rebound) At the end of last glacial era the melting of so much water meant that a lot of weight got moved around (water going from inland glacis to the ocean) This disturbed the tectonic equillibrium causing eathquakes and volcanic eruption. Already there are papers noting that the current water movements are changing the vertical crustal motion and we are to expect a serie of earthquakes and eruptions in the northern hemisphere. Not many people expect climate change to cause such aftereffects...
I ask people what they think about the fact that we no longer need to clean windscreens in summer. Either they haven't noticed or they think it's good. What is education for?
Great content and delivery! *love* your work Dave, considering the topics you delve into. Not lightweight stuff but you make it digestible 👍🙂 Now if only we could all be logical and analytical thinkers 😄🤓👌
Congratulations on the 504k subscribers! Should be a lot more but there are a lot of people like Lee Iaccoca (Ford Motor Co) who never want to hear bad news.😂
Thanks for keeping the state of the global warming emergency in the forefront of our concerns for our planet. Regular updates, both the bad and the good, keep us energized to effect solutions at an individual level and to agitate to effect public policy solutions as well. Sticking our uninformed heads in the sand is not an option.
5:20 Contrary to your graphic, the annual minimum polar ice cover in September is being hit by VERY low-angle light from a sun that's barely on the horizon, and entirely gone just weeks later.
Another one you likely won’t want to read about is just how close we may be to a thermodynamic restructuring of the atmosphere from a three-cell circulation to a single cell circulation. Or about oceanic anoxification in response to the breakdown of the great oceanic circulation, and where that leads.
@@ralphc314 N one that I know of - fun or otherwise. As the temperature rises the atmosphere deepens, the circulation slows, and the coriolus and drag forces change their balance allowing the atmosphere to flow farther north, then return south. The rain band at 45 north vanishes and everything we know about weather goes out the window. I asked about this in the 1990s. The atmospheric thermodynamics folks didn't think that likely. After they analyzed it they said we were very close. Not good. Oceanic circulation keeps the ocean stirred. When that breaks down, great anoxic zones form. We are already seeing this with anoxic upwelling on coastlines with tragic consequences. But when great anoxic gyres form, everything pretty much dies that enters them. Purple cyanobacters take over, iron sinks and the ocean stops emitting oxygen and instead begins belching hydrogen sulfide. Not nice. There are a few stories about that.
@@tunneloflight Thank you Palmer Joss for your respond. The outlook is very bleak. Also by fun videos, I just might inforamtive videos like this one. Easy videos to follow.
@@ralphc314 One of the problems with anticipating the future is that it of necessity must include looking particularly at the bleakest issues. Only in doing so can we ever hope to do anything to change our path to ameliorate and prevent those to focus on the happier desirable futures. Our current situation is to say it mildly - dire. We have far over run the Earth's ability to absorb our impacts without major changes (catastrophic climate change). We have encroached ever corner of the biosphere, releasing some terrible viruses and pathogens in the process - SARS-CoV-2 being the most recent, and not the last. NeoCoV, MERS or others hybridizing with SARS2 may be truly terrifying. We have far too late recognized the accelerated aging that each bout of COVID causes. That is still not "accepted" science. Science waits for proof. By then the impacts are unstoppable and recovery from them is exceedingly hard or impossible. However, at any point that we recognize things we have a chance to change the path to some degree. Not recognizing them and facing them, we then have no chance of that and we are at the whim of chance every bit as much as the dinosaurs were seeing the meteor arcing through the sky that ended their age, and ended all of them but the smallest feathered ones. Will mankind make it through this transition to hot house earth? If we don't radically change our ways immediately, it is hard to see how we could. Will mankind and civilization survive this forever pandemic? Mankind - possibly, at least until the atmosphere and oceans shift from climate change. Civilization? Unlikely. The accelerated aging impacts are so grave that the rate of collapse will it seems almost certainly exceed the rate of collapse any civilization has ever survived. Can we significantly change any of that? The answer to that is at best uncertain and unlikely. But we have never been promised more than this moment. So live in the present, doing what we can for as long as we can. Dreading the future serves no purpose at all.
I was digging around in my garden this afternoon, and I found a couple of bullet shaped fossils. I looked them up on the Internet and was reliably informed that they are the fossilised remains of the rear end of a squid. my garden is at 140 m above current levels ….And allegedly this type of sea squid lived in tropical waters and my garden is in northern Europe. Change is the one constant in the universe, but everything goes in cycles. Think about it. You breathe in and breathe out. If you are running, you might take a very deep breath in and a very deep breath out. If you are sitting quietly reading a book your breathing, maybe very shallow. If someone makes a loud noise we might take a sharp deep breath out of character with your regular breathing, but you will return to normal. Irrespective of man’s input, nature will continue . it is believed that the dinosaurs lived on this planet for hundreds of millions of years, and in fact, many of them still exist in the form of birds and large reptiles. Many bacteria plants and fish have survived hundreds of millions of years of climate change and no doubt humans will too.. ps Ever thought about why Greenland was named Greenland.?
I found fossil clam shells 90 meters below original ground, in Northern Alberta...used to be the Albion Sea a couple times over since those clams grew 300 million years ago. There's another seem of ocean fossils in 60 million year old clays at about 30 meters below grade.
Interesting video. Firstly, has enyone enjoyed recent Aurora displays at lower latitudes? Secondly you mentioned the ice sheets moving across the artic region. Are you aware of the accelerating geomagnetic pole excursions and their trajectories? What about our neighborhood. Neptune’s stratosphere appears to have cooled between 2003 and 2009, followed by a dramatic warming of the south pole between 2018 and 2020. Conversely, upper-tropospheric temperatures didn’t vary much except for the south pole, which appeared warmest between 2003 and 2006. Jupiter's red eye is tired and packing it in. The storm has been diminishing year on year after raging for over a hundred years. Mars is experiencing global warming as well. Those rovers were just too much. Humans were around for the last glacial period and the one before that and the one before that. Evidence pertaining to the last one gave birth to its naming being Laschamp. Lake Mungo event before that one. Just came back from there actually. Mono Lake the one prior to that. All spaced approximately 12.5k apart. What causes La Nina? What caused 3 in a row? What's causing these Aurora anomalies? All valid questions and not one mention of any of them. Remember when it was actually called global warming? Climate change now. Why's that? A valid question too. Nothing to see here, just what we want you to see.
@@achebwahs1111 the pleasure was all mine. My biggest concern is the complexities of climate are unfathomable. Most people don’t understand the simplest factors that are frequently touted, let alone planetary solar system forces. Keep asking questions, one day you may receive a halfway decent answer. Cheers
@@cliff9136 Just back from outback NSW and time on country with the original folk of this land. Astrophotography and astronomy are kinda my bag (total friggin nerd), as is learning the ancient history and customs of true custodians of this land. I get up to the red centre each year and stay with friends of the Yankunytjatjara people on community near Uluru. For 60K-70K+ years multiple tribes of the first nation's people lived across this entire continent peacefully and in true harmony with all that exists. Richly cultured, spiritually awake, one with their environment and so much wisdom passed down through each generation all oratory, in story form, in song and in dance. Going all the way back to their creation stories during the Dreamtime. Only 240 years ago, massacred in their thousands. They have song-lines about the climate cycles. About the giant Rainbow Serpent snaking from one horizon to the other. North to South, responsible for changing the landscape, carving new rivers, emptying lakes and bringing fire from below. I'm collating stories and songs from various elders but I think it's the story of Earth's geomagnetic pole reversal cycle. The serpent is very close in describing an Auroral S.T.E.V.E event. An enormous meandering multicolored arc of supercharged dielectric energy spanning from the North pole to the South pole during a full geomagnetic pole reversal cycle. It looks like Climate Change Jim, perhaps just not as we know it.... Thank's for bearing with me Cliff
Weather changes in canada are pretty wild. Totonto we used to have snow for like 8 months of the year consistently. Now we have like a month if we're lucky, and people still act like its fine. The +20 days in the middle of winter with no snow kinda shocked people though.
I keep mentioning to people they ought to do the physics experiment of putting some ice in a styrofoam cup with a thermometer and monitoring it while the ice melts and see what happens when it does. SPOILER ALERT ... the temperature stays steady until the last bit of ice melts and then it goes up abruptly to room temperature. Point being our global ice caps and glaciers are moderating our temperature, and then they are gone things are going to change real fast, and I doubt humans will survive it.
Don't worry about depressing me, Dave. I've dug a nice hole in the back garden, and when climate news gets to be too much, I just stick my head into it.
I think that most people employ that strategy
For some reason I seem to watch his videos when I’ve just woken, well before my tea. I have to say it seems to be a beneficial twofold service effect. My sleepiness dulls the an exacerbated startle response which i’m prone to, and still the subject matter helps wake me up. Le Sigh. Haven’t rolled back under the covers as a response yet.
Talking about Homo Struthionensis specie, some of my neighbors just buy bigger and heavier SUVs to also stick their as*es in it. They feel they'll be protected this way.
Doesn't sound very NIMBY.
Nice comment Robert. Are you related to Hoss? I think he's a character on Bonanza🤠
Black humor is something to brighten us up at least a little in these preapocalyptic times. Thanks for hard work of combining rock steady science and some stand up comedy 😃
Thank you :-) I really appreciate your feedback
Imagine believing in dystopia as the only future possiblity. 🤷♂️ Must be a depressing life.
@@freedomrussthe science is indicating exactly that. Denying it won't change that reality.
@@Morning404 you don't have to believe the " science" aka computer modeling aka ARTIFICIAL intelligence. It's guesswork, conspiracy theory.
@@freedomruss interestingly climate deniers try to drive us into this depressing dystopia. Climate activists try to steer us away from that which unfortunately gets more difficult every day...
I actually do skip these sometimes, for my own sanity, but I'm happy to support you every month all the same!
Yeah sometimes i like and fwd the video without watching... when I am drowning in depressing data already. I am 54 and I got the gist of the situation at appx 6yrs old, realizing that society/humanity was far from sane, logical, reasonable, peaceful beings.
There's no need to be scared of plant food; stop allowing yourself to be frightened of the weather by grifters, and realise that you don't have to be a useful idiot for the profit of elite shysters who hate you.
Depression over this topic is real. It's very easy to feel helpless, and feel the accompanying despair.
Same
Please keep informing us! The frustration don't come from being informed but from watching how general media missrepresent the reality and seeing certain politicians still lying about it.
The sensationalizing media and alarmists such as Gore, have been a major problem in communicating climate science to the public.
The "Don't want to hear it!" Brigade is the reason we haven't averted this disaster. Truth will out!!!
The first 80 second span of this video is perhaps one of the most cathartic and simply-yet-eloquently spoken pieces on the science and communication of climate change ever put to screen. Thank you
Wow! Thank you very much. I really appreciate that :-)
@@JustHaveaThinkAnytime ✊🏻 As an educator, biologist, and one of the folks arrested on the 4/6 Scientists Rebellion climate protests, what you said was very poignant, and overall your videos give me sanity
It's just a pity that his knowledge of atmospheric physics is so low and his gullibility for IPCC/UNFCCC claims is so high.
No it isn't, not even close. But I can see how so many might think it is, and why frankly we are doomed. Maybe if we are lucky the ice melting will make it less shallow around here.
@@JustHaveaThink oh I think some of your past ones have even touched on python level humor in doucheing those that have prospered at polluting the planet!
Please, keep informing people and remind over and over again about the problem. Your job here is crucial.
No problem. Summer temps in the arctic and antarctic are not rising
I think people are tired of hearing about climate change because we're rarely getting new information (or information discernably new to a layman) and even more rarely being told about something we can do differently. It's agonizing. Most of the people complaining, also, probably consciously sought out the very content that they're sick of (Hello). The complaint in many cases may be more about the state of the world than the fact that news reminds us of such state.
@@stephenrichards5386 they are rising. Those parts are the fastest warming on the planet. It may not seem like it because it’s still cold
@@rylans.5365 Oh, OK. So their cold but warm except in summer when they are normal. 🤣
@@rylans.5365 Do you realise how ridiculous your statement is ?
Arctic ice and Antarctic ice is stable. Summer temperature is not rising. In truth, temperature in recent years have been below average in summer
This episode had me cackling like a crazy man. Absolutely love the humor in delivering so frequently bleak news.
Yeah, brilliant how he is willing to inform us when an earth shattering catastrophe hit us and neither of us noticed...
Also very funny is his lie about 2012 with his so called lowest ever minimum extent... ofcourse he know he is lying but who cares.
Thanks, absolutely clear.
@YTcensors California is doing brilliant. Same as Chicago, Seattle, Portland, NYC, Philly. They're all just killing it with policy.
Points to consider ,; does it matter that there is a reduction in sea ice ; is man made CO2 the cause ; the world is getting greener ( NASA ) ; Antarctic is colder ; every catastrophic prediction in my lifetime , I'm old , has proved to be false ; climate "Experts" have no greater credibility than the man in the street.
@@YTcensors ? They're not doing good. ? Sawry?
I spent most of my life living and working in Alaska, from top to bottom, east to west. The amount of glacier coverage that has been lost since the early 1980's that I have seen personally as I have flown around in floatplanes, helicopters and other small planes for work and on my hunting and hiking trips is noting short of alarming in and of itself.
For those that may say I contributed to it, I will point to the fact that Alaska is over 2x the size of Texas but only has around 1% of paved road miles compared to Texas and many towns in Southeast Alaska are on islands with no bridges connecting them to a major road system to the other towns. You go by boat-car ferry or by air, no other way.
Great; just watched it before bed. Now, as Alice Cooper would say, it’s time for, “ Welcome to my Nightmare “! Economists and business leaders are voicing concerns at the start of 2023 that the year could be a difficult one. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said that the Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates to 6% to fight inflation, higher than the peak level between 5% and 5.5% in 2023 that most Fed officials penciled in after their December meeting. Although I read an article of people that grossed profits up to $500k during this crash, what are the best stocks to buy/short now or put on a watchlist.
Emotionally-charged decisions to sell off large quantities of stocks or other investments now lock in your losses, removing any chance for future growth
A 2022 Northwestern Mutual study found that 75% of U.S. adults admit their financial planning needs improvement. However, only 29% of Americans work with a financial advisor.
@@floydchusset3143 Very correct; the bear market has contributed significantly to the growth of my investment. I was able to quickly increase my portfolio from $180K to $572K. Essentially, I was just doing as my financial advisor instructed. You're good to go as long as you get competent assistance
@@ashwinaditi1039 Would it be okay if I asked you to recommend this specific advisor or company that you used their services? Seems you've figured it all out
@@elliotwilson8874 I won't pretend to know everything, though. Her name is LAURA GACE ABELS but I won't say anything more. Most likely, you can find her basic information online; you are welcome to do further study
Great video, Dave, and well done for 500k, well deserved!
Cheers Martin. Thanks for your support.
Thank you, Dave Borlace, to help us with a fast approach to new research results.
Your comments: If some colleagues think, they cant take the truth: OK, you warned before you start the information. I need these information, so thanks to everybody who is working hard to do that research and communicate the result.
The very important truth is: We can still do something about ist. And that's what you also never stop to show us.
Remark: It's not just about elections. It's also about habits, investment (e.g. insulation a home, EV, PV-panels, ...).
Not the facts from nature are 'depressing' - it's the slow reaction of us humans still not responding adequately.
@@iaincrawford5472 do you really need help knowing? Wow.
Well, first, shout louder at politicians, so they know your opinions and those don't get drowned out by oil companies and other big polluters. If they don't know their constituents demand change, they aren't going to change.
Second, make sure companies you buy things from know what you want - running manufacturing on rerenewal energy, less packaging, the ability to repair rather than trashing stuff, recycled materials and easier recycling of the items, among just a few.
And finally, VOTE. Yes, VOTE, and help anyone with the same beliefs to register to VOTE as well, and make sure they can get to the polls, and do all you can do to encourage them to VOTE as well.
Then, when it comes time to vote, make damned sure you know who on your ballots will push for better, stronger, and definitive climate policies, and make sure those are the ones whose names you choose on those ballots. And help others - friends, family, neighbors, etc. - to know who to vote for that will push for those changes, too.
Those would definitely be a good start. Why you have to ask, when you're ON this channel, is beyond me. Unless you're just a troll.
Sure when you have a narrative that is being driven by special interests who refuse questions about the findings and also do not want to follow the science because it doesn’t fit their agenda you won’t find an informed public. Let’s talk methane emissions. They like to blame farmers and cows . I never hear about massive holes bubbling up methane off the coast of Oregon on the sea floor spewing out methane like there is no tomorrow right on the coastal convection plate. Or the rift zone in Ice land or the Arctic Ocean near the Kurl Trench that separates the arctic from the Pacific Ocean. Then there is IndoChina sea that is ripe for methane emissions so much so Asia has mining exploration. Antarctic ice is melting from under the ice sheet all very hot regions. The heat anomalies over the United States happen to start over YellowStone. So much so the park no longer publishes gas readings for the park publicly. But plenty of wild life is dropping dead. Not a word from the ISGS except they park is closed for repairs so they say. 50 active volcanos are belching all over the world and not small ones either. Those things cough up more Co2 and So2 then our present 7.8 billion breathers ever could in a single year. So how bout an honest discussion about what this planet is facing above and below and stop guilt tripping people over what they cannot control? So big energy can keep banking profits while you freeze in the winter.
This is NOT ANTHROPOGENIC. It is a Geo magnetic upset. The wandering pole and pillars should tell you that we are in for some serious trouble.
@@iaincrawford5472 Examples of "What-About-ism," oversimplification, ridiculous exaggeration and worst of all: apathy and disempowerment.
@@iaincrawford5472 iain Crawford: What on earth did you say?
@@MaryAnnNytowl Could be that Iain is a skeptic. I think that what you are suggesting might make you feel virtuous. Do what you must.... but perhaps be ready to admit that the die has been cast. Is it possible that the dominant culture at its base is built to exploit our greed?
I absolutely adore your channel, thank you for keeping us informed.
Thank you. I really appreciate your support :-)
A lot of us saw this coming. In the early 80s, I had a conversation with a staunch Republican. I said, "You have four daughters whom you say you love. Don't you care what kind of world you leave them?" He responded with a shrug of his shoulders: "That's their problem."
That attitude has not changed and if anything has gotten worse. The people who care nothing about future generations are the ones WE vote into power, and allow to run the corporations that are destroying us.
Looking at the overall record, I expect absolutely nothing to be done about Climate Change, because there is too much MONEY riding on... doing nothing.
I'm 83, so perhaps I won't see the worse of it, but so much more has been damaged beyond what I ever expected. I think the generation being born now are going to wind up hating their parents for having brought them into a world in crisis.
Thank you, Dave. Channels like yours make me come back to RUclips after so many years on a daily basis.
Have some recomendations for a guy looking for informative channels like this one?
@@kalahari21 look up Nate Hagens for cutting edge discussions with all kinds of professionals dealing with the meta crisis or parts of it.
I don't care what they say Dave, you're alright. Thanks for what you do and keep it coming.
He is wrong, there is no climate catastrophe. Do you think there's a chance he is just a doomed for clicks.
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
Carry on, mate! We need your excellent videos to keep us informed! 😊
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan climate change is hard to ignore Dave, especially when shoveling over twenty inches of heavy wet snow on the first week of May. I've lived here for 70 years and spend a lot of time outdoors and see the changes happening in real time. Keep up the good work Dave!
I've also seen changes in my part of the world, which is close to your antipode, in my life time as well.
@@bluceree7312 Those changes are called weather you don't live long enough to see climate effects.
@@bluceree7312 I've seen it happen twice, really
Once, to my parent's former village and then in the north of England.
I know it sounds crazy, but it does not snow in May. I don't want to know anymore. I see it on the News.
Cheers Ossie
Great episode!! I hit subscribe and thumbs up. I've been gathering nettles and Japanese knotweed and fiddleheads down by the river, Cambridge On. Canada, and in past years, there's always been Dryad's Saddle or Pheasant Back mushrooms growing on the fallen or dead trees. You could gather them by the shopping bag in 5 minutes and only harvest from a few trees. Last year, there were few. so I left them alone. This year I've seen none. I'm 70 and I'm kinda worried for our future. If we don't have mycelium any more, we're dinked.
....A very heartful.....I phkn get it!!.....
‘We’re dinked’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣I’m Canadian living in Australia and haven’t heard that saying for years!!!!🤣🤣
The problem with global warming is thinking CO2 is causing our weather.
I love your videos! Just to add to the points about arctic sea ice and why the polar ice caps melting are a feedback loop:
1. The albedo effect cannot be emphasized enough. Blue water absorbs 8x as much of the sun's energy as fresh snow. Various hues of ice would have various albedo values, but suffice to say that because the ice is currently a surface on which snow can fall, there’s frequently fresh snow on top of this ice. And someone might be inclined to think "oh, well it will only absorb more energy when the sun is up." Right. Starting March 20, the sun is always up, for six months. During May - early August, the sun is constantly bathing the North Pole in sunlight directly overhead. So just imagine an area the size of Canada now absorbing 8x as much energy as it used to.
2. The phase change from ice to liquid water requires 80x as much energy as raising the temperature of that same volume of water by one degree C. The energy that is currently going to the Arctic Sea is being absorbed by that below 0 ice, until that ice melts. Once the ice is melted, that energy will now raise the temperature of the water. I think this is why the older ice is considered more beneficial - it’s probably significantly colder than 0C. The fresh ice would have just crossed the threshold in that phase change and would be only a couple of degrees below 0.
These two points multiply. So this theoretical cubic centimeter of ice with snow of top that used to reflect 90% of the sun’s light is now absorbing 80% of it as blue water, and instead of that energy melting it from ice to water using 334 Joules, it is raising its temperature by one degree for every 4.187 Joules it receives. On a clear day with the sun directly overhead, that square centimetre is receiving a Joule of energy every ten seconds, so every minute that little cubic centimetre is going to warm more than one degree.
Of course, that heat will be dissipated throughout the rest of the Arctic Sea. But a 640x increase in the warming effects on 14.06 million km2 of open ocean from 24 hour a day sun in the spring and summer is enormous. The world’s oceans have served as our heat sink for a long time; water is so good at absorbing energy that humanity has been spared the effects of climate change so far. But even the oceans do not have an infinite ability to do this, and indeed the heat they have stored up will take just as long to be released elsewhere precisely because water is so good at absorbing energy.
There will likely be a point within my lifetime when we have the "blue ocean event," when the minimum on that barrel graph you showed becomes 0 - all of the ice melted that summer. This has not happened in all of human history, and it will be a watershed (haha, word choice) moment in human civilization.
"polar ice caps melting are a feedback loop". Of course, solar absorption anomaly is a powerful +ve feedback process. Your calculations are, to be frank, worthless. I did all this in July, August 2018, took me 150 hours, and I matched within 4% the (Open Source) scientific paper about it all of June 2019. Bottom line is that ocean vs typical Spring, Summer average ice mix and average Sunshine is 19% more of the solar radiation at top-of-atmosphere (TOA) gets absorbed by ocean than sea ice. So for the 6 months from March 22nd the average heater of ocean instead of ice is simply 19% * 270 = 51 w / m**2 over the 16,300,000 km**2 (I used the centre of area which is 74.6N). The Arctic Ocean surface/air gets its heat from 2 sources that provide almost equal amounts of heat to it as follows, in w/m**2 at latitude 75N for 2016 AD:
spring & autumn annual
summer & winter average
159 11 85 Sunshine absorbed
66 121 93.5 Warm air (mostly by far) & water from the south
-10 10 0 Heat into or out of the Arctic Ocean
-19 19 0 Ice--->water or water--->ice latent heat
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196 161 178.5 Total radiated to space
The following average semi-annual & annual surface/air temperatures are supported by those heat quantities:
w/m**2 degrees
196 1.1
161 -12.1
178.5 -5.3
When there is no Arctic Ocean sea ice on March 13th then add 30 w/m**2 to the "159" above and alter the other numbers in the ways that you think they will alter based on your studies.
The huge uncertainty in the above is that Kevin Trenberth actually shows 164 w/m**2 rather than the "121" above but 164 w/m**2 is way too much heat for the actual surface/air temperature and thus my assumption that 43 w/m**2 gets radiated to space without affecting surface/air temperature because it arrives at high altitudes (much tropospheric thermal inversion). That is just an assumption to get the quantity total to the correct sort of scale. Incidentally, there's a massively-wide misunderstanding of ice latent heat from persons who've have no science education and they have modest brain functionality. The existence or not of ice latent heat has no effect at all on the ANNUAL AVERAGE temperature of the polar region so then it has no effect at all on the ANNUAL AVERAGE temperature of the Earth, no effect at all on global warming. The ice latent heat is, absolutely literally, a huge battery exactly like the big dirt heat storage batteries that Mister Think here sometimes advertises (oops, sorry, I mean Mister Think sometimes discusses). In Spring & summer the sunshine melts ice and it is charging up the huge ice battery, then through autumn & winter that huge battery provides heat by converting from water back into ice and giving up exactly the same amount of latent heat as it took in from sunshine over 6 months and that is the battery discharging and giving up its energy. That is in my energy table above on the line with "Ice--->water or water--->ice latent heat". If there were no sea ice then that exact same battery duty would be performed each year by a huge ocean battery. So the only heating difference between ice or no ice is that ocean absorbs that 19% more sunshine than typical Spring, Summer average ice mix there (but that is a huge heater, relatively speaking of 51 w / m**2 over 6 months each year). Let me know if you have any questions.
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I just remembered my 51 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months calculated above is the heating from full year-round ice to no ice all year, so it's starting maybe in the 1715 CE Little Ice Age and ending when there's no Arctic Ocean sea ice. The other quantities, more relevant, are that 14 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months has been added from 1979 to 2016 because less ice, more sunshine absorbed, and 31 w / m**2 average heat over 6 months remains to be added from 2016 to whenever there's no sea ice in early April each year, then it's all over, sea ice all gone so no more heating available.
Well said, informative too. And scary. Which is why we are here.
Translation ... we're f-ed!
Outstanding piece of analysis!!! I cannot see how our grain and oil seed crops can continue to grow reliably in a post blue ocean event world. Somewhere before 2050 the human population will be put into sharp decline.
@@grindupBaker Excellent hard work, You know that the northwest passage is FULL of ice right now as per Canada website right? and TWO new icebreakers are on order. Stop frightening the Muppets with your over educated bullshit.
Negligence will cause millions to die.
Well, it's not about "a few million deaths" (like we {who? :-)} "accepted" from Corona. This is another threat category - it is the stability of human civilization as a whole that is at stake. If we continue "business as usual", BAU, the impact not only on environmental systems but also on the human economy and society, will definitely grow beyond the limits that humans can deal with. By the time this intense stress arises, it is (much) too late to react in a way that prevents further progressive damage - and repairing the damage becomes far too expensive and beyond our means. That's why we have to avoid such a path from the outset - and that's why the BAU scenario cannot be continued.
Perhaps you underestimate. When a billion or much more go (six or seven), then it is time to pay closer attention. Oh, yeah, then it is too late. Oh, yeah, already true. It will be for us and our children to live the nightmare.
Thank you for bringing a little lightheartedness and humor to a grim subject. It's a tricky balance, isn't it? You do it well.
I love this. I've been reading and contributing (at least attempting) to the study of changes in the Arctic for over a decade. I'd love to chat with you directly about this more. Love what you are doing to make the very complex phenomena we're looking at more understandable.
If you have been studying it you will know that there has been no downward trend in summer minimum since 2007. It is indeed complex and certainly NOT a one variable equation, related to CO2 levels. No "tipping points" there. In fact it disproves the naive hand waving talk of more water absorbs more heat. More water is more heat loss: less insulating ice cover , more wind driven evaporation more IR losses in winter. The amount of sun in the Arctic is very limited and short lived. It is NOT the simplistic feedback always trotted out without proof.
I love the idea that people are watching this being like “No stop I don’t want to hear about it.” But not turning the video off.
Also I loved your excellent summation of the overall situation at the end there.
Who worries a second about the world hitting an object & being destroyed? No one..
@@webstercat I’m confused at what you’re saying here
Brilliant as always.
Sad. Frustrating. Sobering.
But brilliant. Thank you :)
Good luck everyone. Keep fighting. We must fight this right until the end…if we don’t fight, we are as responsible as the cretins who don’t care about climate change, and roll their eyes when it’s raised as a topic. Don’t be like them…
Imho
Well said Brams
I’ve long worried about the Arctic and feedback systems almost as much as warming of oceans. Possibly more. I have seen too much hydrides of methane in almost all deep water basins (used to interpret seismic data which showed these offshore hydrides). Not sure if all these basins hold more methane than permafrost but it’s worrying. That’s not even considering the albedo effect of the Arctic ice.
Keep up with the your videos, someone needs to ring the alarm!
The combination of hot pacific and hot arctic is already reaking havoc on the weather patterns. As the old saying goes, “it’s later than you think.”
The methane hydrides are an anvil dangling overhead from a piece of twine. “Don’t look up,” I guess.
Best wishes.
I’m especially dyslexic before my tea, and at first I read - “Not sure if these brains hold more methane than permafrost …” - there’s an applicable joke in there per his intro i’m sure.
Did my final year paper of my Earth sciences degree (many years ago) on the Storegga Slides off the Norwegian coast. Massive methane hydrate deposits poised for that apocalyptic warming of the seas causing instability in the sediments…
You’re bang on.
We’ve learnt nothing as a species, and clearly now we never will, I’m sorry to say. Maybe it is too late. You feel that when talking with many scientists…there was a time to reverse direction, but maybe it’s already passed… We mustn’t give up of course, but the problem is that it’s not up to us - the world is ruled by the madmen who believe in unending economic growth and of wealth above all things.
There’s a famous quote which says something like, ‘when the last fish is eaten, the last animal dead and the last drop of water gone, only then will we realise that we can’t eat or drink money’…
Keep educating and talking and being a stubborn pain in the butt about it all. Maybe there’s still time…maybe…
Imho
When I was in primary school, some decades ago now, we were all informed that the Arctic would be ice free by the new millennium and because it would then no longer reflect the heat back to space the world would be uninhabitable by anything other than bacteria by 2020. They showed us a map of Australia (where I live) that was almost totally underwater. Well we didn't cut carbon emissions and the world is not yet uninhabitable. Its possible they are just as wrong now as they were back then. There is a lot of money in making doom and gloom predictions.
@@legallyfree2955lol this is pure cope. The science is correct buddy, face reality.
I feel like we all need to be aggressively learning how to garden like our lives depend on it. Global food chains are going to break soon.
Your videos are always impressively informative. Some of the very finest content. Appreciation
No way that you can sugar-coat the facts, it is what it is. It's just so frustrating that global leadership has not tackled the problem head-on & allowed all the trends to gradually worsen. As you say climate breakdown is just one of several existential threats running in parallel together, a fertile cascade for black humor.
Which global leaders will actually state facts? The most important one to me is that economies and standard of living are based on energy use. Who can change that? What are they going to do? Tell everyone to stop being consumers?
They are tackling it. It’s called the great reset. Let the rich have consumption and production of climate change and make it expensive that the poor cannot. The total production of green house gases will reduce by the fact there will be a smaller and smaller amount of people being able to afford the cost of producing the greenhouse gasses.
Not a future that most people will vote for eh? The real problem is population expansion and living standard rise for the general population, but no one will accept that either. Look at the population increase in India and the increase in living standards and the resulting increase in consumption from that. Everyone says don’t worry it’s reducing but it’s not, the rate of increase is slowing. In the interim there is more and more demand for what the west has which is terribly polluting. It’s not solvable in an equatable way. Get used to it as you don’t have a choice and democracy will be subverted.
@@davideyres955 You love the actual one true fascist. Brilliant. The most elite club leader that's ever existed. Kllaus son, gimme you Davos tix!
Don't let complainers stop you. Personally, I want to be informed about what's happening and going to happen, how quickly we're going to see changes. I'm currently in law school in a certain large northern US city. My family wants me to return South when I graduate, but I think they're all crazy for staying there considering what's going to happen in the next thirty or so years. I try to keep up-to-date on climate news so that I can make an informed decision about where to move after graduating.
30 years ago they said we were all going to be dead by now.
Don't sweat the fear mongering bullshit narrative. Enjoy your family in the south. ✌
... and thanks for your hint to Thomas W. Murphy‘s 2023 article „Limits to Economic Growth“ in Nature Physics. It‘s essential reading and gets you to understand that every politician who still recommends continuing growth regardless of what insane levels of consumption a society might already have achieved is behaving sort of criminal. You also understand why firm resistance against this sort of criminal agitation is becoming a duty for academics.
The criminals are those who want to shut growth down when there is still so much global poverty. That is the real "emergency" that costs lives right now.
I have always wondered why, if we clearly live on a finite planet, with finite resources, the economists still think that we have to keep growing our economies forever. Surely at some stage someone has to say, enough is enough.
@@carlgrove8793 As Kenneth E. Boulding, renowned economist himself, stated: „Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.“
@@achenarmyst2156 I'm not sure that I find that reassuring...
Great video again Dave! Nice summary of everything we've been discussing on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum in the past few weeks. Have you been following our discussions there?
I just wrote this a few days ago.
I don't think civilization will collapse because of things, technology. It will crash because of food shortages, hunger, because of massive crop failures. And this could already happen in the coming years if that predicted super El Niño arrives and turns out to be devastation. As many as 1 billion people across the planet depend on coral reefs for food (source), so if they die off as well, there will be a lot of people going hungry.
And what do hungry people do? They migrate or fight. Just look at the Arabian spring. That started because of high food prices. Also the war is Syria started because farmers couldn't grow food on their land anymore due to drought. And so they migrated to the cities. Which caused conflict…
And now we are facing a possible massive El Niño...
So it will be hunger, migrating, and increasing conflicts that which will cause civilization collapse. People will become increasingly more hateful. Fascism is already growing. Democracy is becoming fragile, helped by the internet, and now we just added artificial intelligence to the mix. Soon we won't know who or what to trust anymore, and it will become increasingly easier to blame all those migrants for everything that's wrong with the world. And all the while, climate change will continue to happen...
People still think we can fix the climate if we will all start driving an electric car. But that's just bullshit. You still need energy for the transition. And the majority of that energy to make all those things is still fossil fuels...
That's why I can only see one solution now. We need to get rid of the cause of all our problems, and that cause of all our problems is CO2 in the atmosphere. It needs to be taken out ASAP, because no matter how fast we transition, we'll never make it in time. No way Jose! It's not going to happen... Those that believe we still can, are not being realistic. Even if we stopped adding CO2 today, the planet will still keep warming up for many decades to come. And IMHO it won't stop, because the planet will start releasing its own greenhouse gasses now. We've passed that tipping point.
So CO2 removal is the only way we can stop a total collapse now, and as you all probably know by now, I can see only one way to do that. We need to make use of our oceans. Planting a few trees is not going to save us. Way more will be burned or cut down. So let's plant trees in the ocean. Fertilize them so algae can grow and suck up carbon. Use Olivine, and maybe electricity to turn CO2 into calcium.
And yes Kassy, we need to stop adding CO2 ASAP too. We need to build a lot more factories to build wind turbines, solar panels, and HVDC cables. We need to do all of the above. But just not adding CO2 anymore isn't going to save us. We need to start extracting massive amounts of CO2 right now too. But IMHO we're already too late, because El Niño is here.
My hope is that this predicted super El Niño will be so bad that it will wake the whole world up, without collapsing it. Just maybe then we'll still have a chance... But I doubt it... People can be real greedy selfish idiots sometimes...
I appreciate your work in making this complex subject more accessible. I'd like to add in addition to being "involved in the democratic process of replacing the global commercial and political leaders...hurtling all of us toward a very painful brick wall" (nicely put) that this should not only mean waiting for the next general election, but actively getting involved in raising public consciousness on the streets and with non-violent civil disobedience. I know many people hate those protesters causing disruption, but they're showing real courage in raising awareness of the danger we're in so that urgent action is taken by whatever government we have. I doubt I'd go as far as blocking traffic, but the more of us who come together to engage publicly, the broader and more effective these types of demonstrations will become toward achieving the urgent change needed.
This channel keeps getting better
Thank you. I appreciate that
Ok, I watched till the end. Well researched and you are right that the news is depressing.
Thank you (and sorry too)
You are so on the mark, Dave. Excellent matter-of-fact delivery.
Your channel keeps getting better and better, even if the news you bring keeps getting worse and worse... Keep nailing it!
Keep up the great work! Just because others are choosing to ignore or choose cognitive dissonance over the most important issues of human existence is threatened unless extreme measures are taken now, doesn’t make it go away. I appreciate you. Thank you 🙏🏽
hey, just a thought: you might be suffering from the same affliction..
Love this keep up the good work dude.
Cheers Linda :-)
Thank you for saying that 😊
Nicely nuanced political message woven within this excellent video, Dave. 😊
I was with you all the way through this one - polar ice and some of its feedback functions being a particular concern of mine at present. When the late James Lovelock was around, he'd be using those ice caps as an example of Gaia, the Earth as a feedback system. It's relatively easily understood - the Earth undergoes a constant series of energy inputs, sourced from the Sun, the consequences of which are often highlighted on this channel. And Earth is constantly"trying" to find equilibrium. (trying is a bad word for this - it happens as energy is transferred within the system), like a stone falls into water and the ripples eventually peter out as energy is transferred. Thinner ice overall in the Arctic means that the day when it becomes ice free for a significant part of the year comes ever closer. Climate effects are slow, in the order of decades, so the fact that we experience them should be of major concern. Let's get some braver politicians, who don't mind annoying fossil fuel executives, on the scene, quicker and more effectively. Did I hear protest?
Rambler Andy: What are you rambling about? You know WE cannot do anything to change the eventual outcome of the Earth's climate cycles. Just stop worrying about it and make sure you have a good relationship with whomever you credit as your Creator. Put all the science of our bodies and our existence on the table and then realize what makes it work is our soul, which is the province of an almighty power.
I live in Alberta, a Province rife with climate deniers, and we have already entered into our forest fire season. The Province is currently under emergency measures ! El Niño is forecast for this Summer, which makes it even hotter, here in the near North. I hope that someday that the people more concerned with ROI understand that life is more important than $.
I live in Alberta, the weather is variable, in 23 years of living here I have see NO two seasons the same. So you have evidence of no warming or cooling in 20+ years. What on earth are you worried about.
Well put Mr. Baker, i'm glad to hear that there is at least one more believer in climate change here in Canada, besides myself. I'm sure there's more, but here in the agricultural belt of southern manitoba you'll get chased out of the room if you mention the 4 word's, human induced climate change. 1.5 C runaway tipping point not very far away, keep practicing what we preach.
Perhaps some of it is wilful ignorance because of your oil industry?
I've seen very few Californians, very few people in the UK and very few people in Kashmir that are wilfully ignorant about climate change, in part because we don't have those fossil fuels
@@waqasahmed939 For sure, big oil buys big toys. All fossil fuel driven
@@duanepomrenke2073 For the last 10000 years the planet was warmer than it is today except for the little ice age thing, Humans did not cause that warming. You can believe in whatever you wish but the data is factual and scientifically recorded in GISP2.......
A more meaningful measurement of Artic Sea Ice is Volume, Research indicates that 75% of Arctic Sea Ice by Volume has been lost and most of the ice remaining is new ice. Most of the old ice has now gone for good.
That historic sea ice graphic towards the end was an excellent demonstration of this topic. You can see the amount of ice slowly, then quickly, diminishing.
We really are quite screwed.
Not to worry mate, when the climate gets so dangerous that transportation of products becomes impossible, only then will politicians start to realize that we have a problem. Me personally, I'm worried about how much methane is going to be released this summer when more permafrost is melted.
Politicians don't care is the problem. In fact they rejoice that the arctic will be a new trade superhighway!
I'm personally more worried about AC usage. AC usage in the UK is expected to skyrocket
These refrigerants are much worse for the planet. That, and we're relying on the "miracle" product that are heat pumps. I worry that we might be solving one issue but potentially making another problem far worse because they too use refrigerants.
@@YTcensors Yup. Public transport is far better
more people need to see these videos. among the best on any topic, but especially the impending apocalypse that most of us sit like frogs in a pot of water on a stove
Most people would totally freak out - if they'd grasp what s going on at least. Most however choose to not look.
I been watching series of Nate Hagens videos, who stresses the fact that we're close to running out of easy _fossil_ energy, that the upkeep of a fossil free economy is nowhere close on the horizon, less than 10% total energy consumption is from renewables which themselves are hardly renewable as under 5% of their material can be recycled for another round, and resources of metals needed to build renewables are limited, while their mining so far is totally dependent on fossil machinery - as is the production of renewables themselves - solar cells essentially are molten sand, requiring millions Joules to produce.
Hagens does not want to go on main stream media though he has the contacts. Reckons society will totally freak out when they find the predicament. Series is called the Big Simplification, after what's going to be after easy energy - and food production , the major essential user, run out.
In that story, climate change is mostly a side effect, and multiplying crisis factor.
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. We saw Magpies a few days ago. Not a usual spring visitor here. What I selfishly worry about is my dogs, who have never had a flea or a tick. As it warms here…life will change. I grew up in western Washington…flea collars and flea fogging the house were the cost of having dogs and cats.
How is the permafrost? How are foundations holding up? What type works best?
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. It didn't get cold enough last winter to kill the ticks, so now ticks are everywhere. That's just one way that life changes in a new climate regime.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Have y'all experienced any Lyme disease? Your health services should stay on top of that.
@@marklee2508 it works best to test soil before building and avoid it. Our test was 75 ft when we built and then 200 feet for a well. Solid, dry glacial silt for 100 feet, then gravelly layer. Where the risk of melting cannot be avoided, one solution is to build on pilings that allow the house to be leveled when the ground shifts.
@@annanelson6830 Keep US apprised about the Aleutians. Thanks
Don't apologize mate; you're doing a great job and a great service... cheers from Down Under.
Thank you Dave for this very informative and delightfully amusing video. I find the humor makes the information stay in the old noggin. And always look on the bright side of life......all together now!
Definitely the best message yet because he s saying what needs to be done.!
Presumably that's vote Green? Make the anarchists Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook World leaders? Close all fast food burger joints as they are wicked purveyors of animal flesh? Ban all ICE vehicle private ownership and make everyone walk or cycle instead? The list could go and on of loonie demands that are never gonna happen by blocking ambulances and fire engines.
"forewarned is forearmed" people have been forewarned for more than 50 years. Close to nothing has happened. But folks are not angry about the fossil fuel industry or inactive politicians, they are angry about climate activists.
I have very little hope that this will end well.
Because the activists behave like **activists.** They're not interested in long term local government seat-change or helping people in those neighborhoods. The only thing an Activist is qualified at, is changing the academic definitions of words, and organizing brief "stunts" that leaves two-thirds of the population inconvenienced and disgruntled
Thanks Dave, although the situation is really grim we still need to hear stuff like this until many more of us become actively against it.
Extinction rebellion is looking better and better.
@@globalwarming382 Quite so, absolutely!
Hello, this is brilliant! so glad the algorithm led me to you. And thank you so much for not having music!
9:38 brilliantly summarised overview of our situation in under 2 minutes 👌
I live where "I need to know the truth" and "I can't unsee that" collide. It's a lovely-ish place filled with uncertainty, contradiction and loneliness and I can't imagine living anywhere else. Won't you all come join the party?
I'm right there with you.
This is the moment tardigrades have been evolving for
Hehe
Absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much for sharing incredibly important information!
Stay strong my friend.
This is claimed every summer, then every winter we have record ice. What a surprise!
Dave, I’m in the Sierra Nevada of California, near Yosemite. In the last ten years we’ve watched a few hundred million pines, firs, giant Sequoias, oaks, and other trees die in our forests. Millions of hectares more than normal have burned, much more than the long-term average. It is hotter, smokier, and other than this past, spectacularly wet winter, drier than the long term average. Our home insurance costs have quadrupled. In short, our climate has changed enough to have significant impacts.
Science tells us that 90% of all fires are caused by humans. Look it up. Arsen, errant campfires, cigarettes, power lines, ATVs, 4x4s, dirt bikes and automobiles. In 1850 the entire population of California was 93,000. Today it's 40 million. That's a 43,000% increase in people. 6 million people go camping every year in California. Thats a 7,000% increase over the entire population in 1850.
Power lines, dirt bikes, ATVs, 4x4s and automobiles didn't even exist 173 years ago. To actually believe that these fires are caused by a 1c rise in average global temperatures is mind boggling.
Burn acreage has fallen for the last 75 years. A hundred years ago fires were put out by a bucket brigade. Before humans were around fires, caused by lightening burned continuously. Today we have massive aircraft dousing fires with fire retardants created by fossil fuels.
Excellent honest unbiased independent scientific and up to date analysis.
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Thanks Dave, I feel so much happier now.
Knowledge, sarcasm, insight and humor. You bring it all to the table. Thanks!!
We appreciate your help. We need it!!!
Would be nice if all cities used thirsty concrete for there roads to reduce flooding sand mining and noise pollution.
Also would be fantastic if they lined the sides of roads with native plants and trees flowers and shrubs cactus succulents and more to reduce flooding air and ground even noise pollution too.
Oh ya it will reduce heat and wind damage.
But most importantly we should change are lights to low or even off but have sensors to see people so it can have a light 100 feet behind and in front of the person and for cars 200 feet behind and 500 in front.
Why well this will reduce light pollution it will let all plants/trees to rest and be more able to withstand more are cities bring and it will reduce energy use reducing co2 emissions to make that energy.
Deaths Garden: I was just thinking ALL of that. No, seriously
@@HaroldBrice great minds think alike
Enjoy every single milestone. Quality content so you deserve to enjoy it🎉
Arctic Summer sea ice will definitely be gone soon. You already made an exceptional video on what happens after a Blue Ocean Event.
When the blue ocean events get yearly and rapidly large sections of the previously ice-covered Arctic Ocean are open from august to november, i really do wonder what it will do to the unique water layer system up there? If the surface waters heat up to say even 10C at the beginning of fall, it will be an utter and complete disaster for the water cycles and ecology in the ocean. Haven't seen all that much talk about the BOE since 2015 or so.
Thanks Regan
Good one Dave..thanks a bunch. I got over my climate and planetary destruction grief a couple years ago. Now i just try to do good things for people and the land. And i go to the pub. A lot. Cheers.
Mean while back in Australia which now has one of the most corrupt governments in the world is approving coal and gas leases all over Australia while having the highest deforestation rate of any country.
The complexity of interactions among various elements of the Arctic, including the ice and water and atmosphere, is just incredible.
I wonder if increased surface water temperature might increase the rate of upwelling of cold water and drive an increase in flow rate of currents, perhaps affecting the rate of flow of ice out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean.
«Increase the rate of upwelling of cold water and drive an increase in flow rate of currents».
Are they not two opposites?
I am very worried about the currents slowing down, because we need that current to keep us warm here in Scandinavia.
@@olestokke Hmm, I realize I was thinking about the direction wrong. Warm water from south sinks up north. Warmer arctic water might slow its sinking rate and perhaps slow down the entire heat transport. Again, so many complexities!
@@TedToal_TedToal I think there are more than 1 video on this channel about that. It's called AMOC slowdown/shutdown. It also affect things like ecosystems and plankton, salinity, oxygenation and acidification, how much energy oceans can uptake and radiative forcing, oceanic gyres, atmospheric currents and weather patterns, humidity and cloud cover, carbon, methane and aerosols cycle, sea and ice levels. Furthermore it's connected with Pacific through the Great Conveyor Belt (Thermohaline Circulation).
I love the brick walls you offer. Thanks for the continued informative content. Keep it up! ❤
Cheers Max
I think everyone should just relax, do some yoga, stretch out, and get limber enough so that we can all kiss our asses goodbye.
Feedback loop: ‘the faster it melts, the faster it melts.’
Too often, folks are more concerned with being "liked" over being truthful, and consequently, these folks say things just to make others more comfortable. I prefer the truth.
Actually, this unprecedented in the geologic record. We are heating the Earth 10X faster than the largest excursion from normal ever seen in the fossil record, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 55 million years ago. In case you missed it: WE ARE HEATING THE EARTH 10X FASTER THAN HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED IN GEOLOGIC HISTORY. That is by definition unprecedented.
I think we need to look at the earth's natural Coolant s that have been removed IE oil/gas/coal and so forth leaving great voids underground . These sudden sink holes opening up are no surprise. Then we have to look at the sun, it's closest to the earth in early January at present . Then we need to look at the many volcanoes active around the Arctic and Antarctic.... Pushing up heat from below. And let's not forget we are due for an ice age at any time ... We are in a hot period of the coldest cycle .
Toughen Up, Fluffy: Remember that total worldwide extinction is not UNPRECEDENTED and it will happen whenever Mother Nature, Father Time, and GOD decide.
Thanks for the great news mate 😇
Another awesome, informative video Dave. We all need to hear this kind of news as much as possible and really take note and realize that we as a species are on borrowed time.
Don't worry about the ones who would rather not hear it, do nothing and bury their heads in the sand.
They will also be the first ones complaining when it all goes to sh^t and try to do stuff when it is far to late to make a difference.
Keep up the brilliant work you do on getting the message out and congratulations on hitting over 500k subs 👍
Your information is absolutely fine... and as an engineer for electrical optics working 5 years intensively with CO2 gas lasers, I can only confirm co2 is an absolutly optical active molecule that scatters Earth's heat radiation around as all other molecules having an uneven number of atoms. I am much more furious about the situation and tired of explaining the phenomenon of climate change. But you British understatement and humor hopefully reaches many people. Best regards from Germany
Thank you for your clear and interesting videos about this subject. It is so important and necessary. Don't worry about the ostriches. Keep on keeping on !!
This is the most important channel on the internet. Also the drollest. Also the scariest...
Thank you :-)
Don't worry about depressing me with this news. It can't possibly make me more depressed than I already am 😂🥹😥😢😭
It's good to know what's going on so keep it coming. 😊
Well done Dave for finding new angles for communicating complex research. The more you explain these interactions, the more i see that that we are blessed with a wondrously diverse ecosystem interacting with a wonderfully placed planet; Carl Sagan's 'Small Blue Dot'. And we can still save our ecosystem; all we have to do is recognise the risk to our children. After all, what would any parent not do to prevent risk to their children?
Complex? Yes. As complex as Covid PCR testing. It's all a pretext for removing your freedom with new climate emergency laws to track and trace and control EVERYTHING centrally. A policy that has been applied thousands of time before and resulted in millions of deaths. You'll know it's the end game when you give up your guns.
Collectively, apparently NOTHING. Parents of rich children are increasing their carbon foot print, while that foot is on the neck of the 98% of poor children. the result is a bleak future for 2 billion kids, and an uncomfortable future for the selfish rich parents kids! does not sound like a "wonderfully placed planet" to me.
Thanks Dave for all the info as ever it's vital that those concerned hear the facts
You are so interesting & are a wonderful communicator. You are doing us a great service, by telling us the truth. Thank you!!! 🏅🏆
It is the RATE of change folks. The RATE.
Sure, this has happened before, but not at this rate!
As Greta says, there’s hope in being honest and having the courage to see things as they are not as you’d like them to be. Good on you for having the guts to spread the facts. The reason we need to do this is at the political level there is a total resistance to taking responsibility on our behalf to address climate collapse. Technology on its own won’t save us. The capture of the political class by fossil fuels and livestock production lobbies is near total. Until the pitchforks and guillotines are in front of the political class (generalising ) we won’t get the transformations we need urgently. Earth cooling technologies need to be trialed now as a matter of urgency to see which ones a are most benign, ethical, scalable and affordable. But the political class and even the IPCC won’t admit we have left it too late and now must consider such approaches to preserve what’s left of ecosystems and a safe-ish climate.
Actually, satellite coverage of the Arctic started in 1972, not 1978. A 1990 IPCC report on Arctic Sea Ice shows this, and it also shows that sea ice extent in 1972 is about where it is now. . The late '70s was one of the coldest times in the 20th Century and this IPCC report shows 1978 sea ice extent to be unusually high compared to 1972.
Noted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson noted in 1937 that the weather stations on the Yukon and the Arctic reported temperatures over 100 degrees F. Stefansson also describe sea ice between the North Pole, and Alaska and Eastern Siberia as thin and rotten.
From "The Cairns Post" Feb 18, 1952
"The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 80 years ago". ~~~Dr William S Carlson, Arctic expert
I think we're talking normal variation, and human CO2 emissions have little or nothing to do with it.
And is the world's weather really get worse? Not in the US. There were 9 hurricane strikes in the US from 2010 to 2019. That's the lowest number of hurricane strikes for a decade in US history. The record high number of hurricanes strikes in a decade for the US was the 1880s when 26 hurricanes struck the US.
The US has not had an F5 tornado since 2013. That's a record long period for no F5 tornadoes since these records have been kept starting in the 1950s. Also, there were no F4 or F5 tornadoes in 2018. That's the first time that's happened.
As Roy Spencer recently said, there has been no increase in the number or intensity of heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, or tornadoes.
Great intro. The folks who want to stick their heads in the sand can go ahead and do so without the benefit of some of the wisdom you try to impart. Make no mistake, what you do is significant. It matters.
He conveniently left out the fact that the ice is melting from below. And no mention of volcanic activity. He is nothing but a shill for the globalist that want to take our freedoms away.
One of the thing you can delve into is the post glacial rebound (glacio isostasic rebound)
At the end of last glacial era the melting of so much water meant that a lot of weight got moved around (water going from inland glacis to the ocean)
This disturbed the tectonic equillibrium causing eathquakes and volcanic eruption.
Already there are papers noting that the current water movements are changing the vertical crustal motion and we are to expect a serie of earthquakes and eruptions in the northern hemisphere.
Not many people expect climate change to cause such aftereffects...
Etienne: Were you in deep sleep when you assembled this idea?
Etienne, about 35 years ago I learned that there may be upward movement of landmasses after loss of ice sheets. So I say: "Oh, Etienne, do keep up!"
@@HaroldBrice No, I was reading PNAS peer reviewed papers.
Loved your intro! Access to the latest published data means paying for each research paper. Many students are grateful for your channel!
I ask people what they think about the fact that we no longer need to clean windscreens in summer. Either they haven't noticed or they think it's good.
What is education for?
Great content and delivery! *love* your work Dave, considering the topics you delve into. Not lightweight stuff but you make it digestible 👍🙂
Now if only we could all be logical and analytical thinkers 😄🤓👌
Congratulations on the 504k subscribers! Should be a lot more but there are a lot of people like Lee Iaccoca (Ford Motor Co) who never want to hear bad news.😂
Thanks for keeping the state of the global warming emergency in the forefront of our concerns for our planet. Regular updates, both the bad and the good, keep us energized to effect solutions at an individual level and to agitate to effect public policy solutions as well. Sticking our uninformed heads in the sand is not an option.
5:20 Contrary to your graphic, the annual minimum polar ice cover in September is being hit by VERY low-angle light from a sun that's barely on the horizon, and entirely gone just weeks later.
Another one you likely won’t want to read about is just how close we may be to a thermodynamic restructuring of the atmosphere from a three-cell circulation to a single cell circulation. Or about oceanic anoxification in response to the breakdown of the great oceanic circulation, and where that leads.
@@ralphc314 N one that I know of - fun or otherwise. As the temperature rises the atmosphere deepens, the circulation slows, and the coriolus and drag forces change their balance allowing the atmosphere to flow farther north, then return south. The rain band at 45 north vanishes and everything we know about weather goes out the window. I asked about this in the 1990s. The atmospheric thermodynamics folks didn't think that likely. After they analyzed it they said we were very close. Not good.
Oceanic circulation keeps the ocean stirred. When that breaks down, great anoxic zones form. We are already seeing this with anoxic upwelling on coastlines with tragic consequences. But when great anoxic gyres form, everything pretty much dies that enters them. Purple cyanobacters take over, iron sinks and the ocean stops emitting oxygen and instead begins belching hydrogen sulfide. Not nice. There are a few stories about that.
@@tunneloflight Thank you Palmer Joss for your respond. The outlook is very bleak. Also by fun videos, I just might inforamtive videos like this one. Easy videos to follow.
@@ralphc314 One of the problems with anticipating the future is that it of necessity must include looking particularly at the bleakest issues. Only in doing so can we ever hope to do anything to change our path to ameliorate and prevent those to focus on the happier desirable futures.
Our current situation is to say it mildly - dire. We have far over run the Earth's ability to absorb our impacts without major changes (catastrophic climate change). We have encroached ever corner of the biosphere, releasing some terrible viruses and pathogens in the process - SARS-CoV-2 being the most recent, and not the last. NeoCoV, MERS or others hybridizing with SARS2 may be truly terrifying. We have far too late recognized the accelerated aging that each bout of COVID causes. That is still not "accepted" science. Science waits for proof. By then the impacts are unstoppable and recovery from them is exceedingly hard or impossible.
However, at any point that we recognize things we have a chance to change the path to some degree. Not recognizing them and facing them, we then have no chance of that and we are at the whim of chance every bit as much as the dinosaurs were seeing the meteor arcing through the sky that ended their age, and ended all of them but the smallest feathered ones.
Will mankind make it through this transition to hot house earth? If we don't radically change our ways immediately, it is hard to see how we could. Will mankind and civilization survive this forever pandemic? Mankind - possibly, at least until the atmosphere and oceans shift from climate change. Civilization? Unlikely. The accelerated aging impacts are so grave that the rate of collapse will it seems almost certainly exceed the rate of collapse any civilization has ever survived. Can we significantly change any of that? The answer to that is at best uncertain and unlikely.
But we have never been promised more than this moment. So live in the present, doing what we can for as long as we can. Dreading the future serves no purpose at all.
I was digging around in my garden this afternoon, and I found a couple of bullet shaped fossils. I looked them up on the Internet and was reliably informed that they are the fossilised remains of the rear end of a squid. my garden is at 140 m above current levels ….And allegedly this type of sea squid lived in tropical waters and my garden is in northern Europe. Change is the one constant in the universe, but everything goes in cycles. Think about it. You breathe in and breathe out. If you are running, you might take a very deep breath in and a very deep breath out. If you are sitting quietly reading a book your breathing, maybe very shallow. If someone makes a loud noise we might take a sharp deep breath out of character with your regular breathing, but you will return to normal. Irrespective of man’s input, nature will continue . it is believed that the dinosaurs lived on this planet for hundreds of millions of years, and in fact, many of them still exist in the form of birds and large reptiles. Many bacteria plants and fish have survived hundreds of millions of years of climate change and no doubt humans will too.. ps Ever thought about why Greenland was named Greenland.?
I found fossil clam shells 90 meters below original ground, in Northern Alberta...used to be the Albion Sea a couple times over since those clams grew 300 million years ago. There's another seem of ocean fossils in 60 million year old clays at about 30 meters below grade.
Interesting video. Firstly, has enyone enjoyed recent Aurora displays at lower latitudes? Secondly you mentioned the ice sheets moving across the artic region. Are you aware of the accelerating geomagnetic pole excursions and their trajectories? What about our neighborhood. Neptune’s stratosphere appears to have cooled between 2003 and 2009, followed by a dramatic warming of the south pole between 2018 and 2020. Conversely, upper-tropospheric temperatures didn’t vary much except for the south pole, which appeared warmest between 2003 and 2006. Jupiter's red eye is tired and packing it in. The storm has been diminishing year on year after raging for over a hundred years. Mars is experiencing global warming as well. Those rovers were just too much. Humans were around for the last glacial period and the one before that and the one before that. Evidence pertaining to the last one gave birth to its naming being Laschamp. Lake Mungo event before that one. Just came back from there actually. Mono Lake the one prior to that. All spaced approximately 12.5k apart. What causes La Nina? What caused 3 in a row? What's causing these Aurora anomalies? All valid questions and not one mention of any of them. Remember when it was actually called global warming? Climate change now. Why's that? A valid question too. Nothing to see here, just what we want you to see.
Bingo!
@@cliff9136 A single word speaks volumes Cliff. Appreciate you replying friend
@@achebwahs1111 the pleasure was all mine.
My biggest concern is the complexities of climate are unfathomable. Most people don’t understand the simplest factors that are frequently touted, let alone planetary solar system forces.
Keep asking questions, one day you may receive a halfway decent answer.
Cheers
@@cliff9136 Just back from outback NSW and time on country with the original folk of this land. Astrophotography and astronomy are kinda my bag (total friggin nerd), as is learning the ancient history and customs of true custodians of this land. I get up to the red centre each year and stay with friends of the Yankunytjatjara people on community near Uluru. For 60K-70K+ years multiple tribes of the first nation's people lived across this entire continent peacefully and in true harmony with all that exists. Richly cultured, spiritually awake, one with their environment and so much wisdom passed down through each generation all oratory, in story form, in song and in dance. Going all the way back to their creation stories during the Dreamtime. Only 240 years ago, massacred in their thousands.
They have song-lines about the climate cycles. About the giant Rainbow Serpent snaking from one horizon to the other. North to South, responsible for changing the landscape, carving new rivers, emptying lakes and bringing fire from below.
I'm collating stories and songs from various elders but I think it's the story of Earth's geomagnetic pole reversal cycle. The serpent is very close in describing an Auroral S.T.E.V.E event. An enormous meandering multicolored arc of supercharged dielectric energy spanning from the North pole to the South pole during a full geomagnetic pole reversal cycle. It looks like Climate Change Jim, perhaps just not as we know it.... Thank's for bearing with me Cliff
Weather changes in canada are pretty wild. Totonto we used to have snow for like 8 months of the year consistently. Now we have like a month if we're lucky, and people still act like its fine. The +20 days in the middle of winter with no snow kinda shocked people though.
Beautiful British understatement, thanks Dave. No, adaptation is not the long-term solution, but how many world 'leaders' are worried about that?
I keep mentioning to people they ought to do the physics experiment of putting some ice in a styrofoam cup with a thermometer and monitoring it while the ice melts and see what happens when it does. SPOILER ALERT ... the temperature stays steady until the last bit of ice melts and then it goes up abruptly to room temperature. Point being our global ice caps and glaciers are moderating our temperature, and then they are gone things are going to change real fast, and I doubt humans will survive it.