The Climate Solutions Worth Funding - Now | Jonathan Foley | TED
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- When it comes to climate solutions, "now is better than new, and time is more important than tech," says scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a six-part framework to more efficiently address climate change, from better aligning capital with carbon to utilizing affordable solutions that are ready to go now. Learn more about what the data says to do - and how the solutions might be cheaper than we think.
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I wish he’d explained those categories. What is electricity? Source of electricity, like renewables? Transitioning to electric appliances? What is industry? Does that include commercial buildings? The big part of his talk was passed over.
Yeah isn't an economist, so he has no business speaking on how to reduce emissions
@@design-strategist He has the basics wrong so....
@@design-strategist He opens his talk by saying there is a climate crisis. There isn't. That is propaganda.
It's not my level of knowledge. It's his level of clarity in explaining his terminology. Have a nice day. @@design-strategist
Its in the other video. Check Drawdown website and other videos by them
Great topic, but this was all build-up and no payoff in the form of specific solutions. Just categories of solutions.
Great idea to come up with new cheaper alternatives to carbon based fuel but for now, we need that technology. Too much CO2? Plant stuff.
Ikr
Jon Foley does have a suite of solutions in his Project Drawdown website. Perhaps he should have referred listeners to it, but maybe his studio audience knew this. It is admirable that people like Jon are still working tirelessly on climate solutions, whilst govts are basically offering only lip service and NOT implementing their IPCC pledges
@@mikeharrington5593it is a shame we generally pay passing interest in his and Bjorn Lomborg’s ideas.
Phasing out burning organic materials to generate heat and prepare food in the third world countries…
Improve education in third world countries….
Low hanging fruit…..
But when we teach kids to hate other humans….. spend taxes to subsidise wealthy people into Tesla’s …… it demonstrate that we have lost the plot.
Good speech, though.
Never heard such a clear, complete and enlightening analysis concentrated in just a few minutes. Above all understandable to anyone; I also hope from those who have to make decisions in the application of the suggestions presented. I think about politics, and here alarms are triggered.😊
The title says "solutions worth funding now" yet he doesn't present at least one solution. I'm very disappointed by the clickbait.
The elephant in the room here is the oil lobby. So powerful that it doesn't even need to lobby any more: we are addicted to the stuff in every aspect of our lives and so simply saying 'reduce emissions' is like asking a junkie to go cold turkey
A lot of misguided hate on this video. It’s not about the details of the solutions, he’s telling us that we need to rethink our climate based investments, and where we get the most results from the smallest amount invested.
📝 Summary of Key Points:
📌 Science is crucial in addressing the climate crisis by conducting meta-analyses to determine effective climate solutions.
🧐 Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the most crucial step in addressing climate change, and early action is essential.
🚀 Different types of climate solutions include emergency brake solutions, infrastructure solutions, and nature-based solutions.
🚀 Efforts should be geographically focused to have the most impact, addressing air pollution caused by fossil fuels.
🚀 Building a portfolio of actions that cut emissions and utilize carbon removal is important.
🚀 Effective action requires evidence-based solutions, affordability, readiness, geographic focus, equity, and alignment with the carbon problem.
🚀 There is a narrow window of opportunity to address climate change, and every action and resource counts.
💡 Additional Insights and Observations:
💬 "Climate change is a cumulative problem, and the longer we wait, the less effective the solutions will be."
📊 Carbon removal has a relatively small impact compared to emissions cuts.
🌐 The importance of using science and data to guide climate interventions and focus efforts where they will have the most impact.
📣 Concluding Remarks:
The video emphasizes the importance of using science to guide climate action and highlights the urgency of addressing the climate crisis. It stresses the need for early action, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and utilizing various types of climate solutions. The video also emphasizes the importance of geographic focus, equity, and alignment with the carbon problem. With a narrow window of opportunity, every action and resource counts in addressing climate change.
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YEEEEES!!! Michael Shellenberger has been getting at this for years, how the capital allocation for climate solutions is very poor.
Cut back r&d, and deploy our best tech today. And..... IT'S NOT ABOUT EVS!!!!!
Give the information to the children they too can innovate 😇🌎. Thanks
This lecture is great, it seems we still have room to mitigate climate change.
“Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.”
-Caitlin Moran
Guy explained like 4 methods of combating climate crisis, the interconnected politics, and how we need to go about them. And alot of yall are pretending he didn't tell us specifics on what or how XD. Jesus christ, watch the video again or pick up a book
This video is too important to only have 48k views.
Interesting video.
2:34 considering climate change and associated costs of housing… I think we should try out housing design that takes advantage of the weather and biomass for energy needs and maybe we should use composting toilets…. They have a luxury earthship in New Mexico I think it’s air bnb? It will teach you to be mindful of resources from a daily living perspective.
So this was a 10 minute presentation to say not all climate change is from transportation and energy, and emission reduction can be cumulative. That bit could have been condenced into 1 minute and the rest could have been the 80-20 TLDR on what is the best changes we can do now. Going on a limb pipeline analysis isnt only a small part of that list.
I disagree with the opinion that carbon removal is less efficient than carbon reduction. I’m all for carbon reduction but you need to be industrialized to reduce carbon, kinda a oxymoron, i think massive conservation projects like re-greening the desert and changing forestry practices would have a massive impact, one solution i heard was to bring back the northern caribou because they actually kept the trees from overgrowing and subsequently kept snow reflecting light back to space longer, which cools the planet.
A Climate Remediation Suggestion
There is a lot of discussion about Global Warming, whether it really exists, how serious a threat and the role of Carbon Dioxide. However, the following is generally agreed. Namely that a lot of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution and a lot of it has ended up in solution in sea waters. There is at least 150 times as much CO2 in a cubic meter of sea water as there is in a cubic meter of atmosphere at NTP. This is acidifying the sea waters and possibly harming Coral Reefs and other fauna. There has also been some agreement that the Temperature of the Earth has warmed somewhat.
The Earth's rotation and the Coriolis Effect has formed a number of Tropical/Semi-Tropical Oceanic Gyres, within which the mass of sea water is rotating, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anything floating, i.e., less dense than sea water tends to float towards the center of the Gyre. There are five main Gyres all of which are Tropical/Semitropical. They are the North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, North Atlantic, and South Atlantic Oceans. Together they form a very large proportion of the 70% of the Earth's surface which is covered by water.
The North Pacific has a lot of floating debris, "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch", some of it being debris washed off Japan by tsunamis following the recent Fukishima Earth Quake. The Southern Hemisphere Gyres do not appear to contain much floating debris.
The North Atlantic Gyre is unique. It contains the Sargasso Sea which is characterized by the presence of two species of Sargassum which float by virtue of oxygen-filled follicles. It was discovered (first documented) by Columbus from his voyage in 1492. There is a Sargasso Sea Commission, with an Office in Washington DC, which is charged with protecting the Sargasso Sea from pollution etc. There is a website that basically describes all of the positive ecological values of the Sea.
Since 2011 the Sargassum appears to be overflowing from the Sargasso Sea and moving via the west bound currents across the north coast of South America into the Caribbean and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico. This has been attributed to agricultural run off from the USA or Brazil but might be due to the increased levels of CO2 in solution.
It has been washing up on beaches through out this region, as one might expect to happen. When it dies and rots it emits H2S. Since a lot of these beaches have tourism as their main industry, the weed has to be removed manually which has given Sargassum a bad name. There are several Facebook entities that keep track of Sargassum landings and there are frequent postings enquiring about Sargassum occurrence on specific tourist areas.
The occurrence of Sargassum in the Caribbean would, however, make it very easy to put live Sargassum into the Pacific off the west coast of Mexico. From there the currents would carry it all the way across the Pacific, photosynthesizing and growing all the way absorbing a lot of CO2 and heat energy, photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction. Absorbing CO2 from the Ocean would allow CO2 from the Atmosphere to dissolve in the sea. The Sargassum would probably stay in the North Pacific Gyre but some might drift into the South Pacific.
One might balk at the idea of covering a lot of the Oceans with Sargassum but it does have uses. It can be used to make ethanol, paper or cardboard. Some one in the Caribbean is making construction bricks from it and others are feeding it to goats..
If there appears to be some benefit from Pacific Sargassum we could easily add Sargassum to the other Gyres using ships that are transiting the Panama Canal. It seems likely that some Sargassum will eventually get into the South Atlantic Gyre, but that may take a while.
I would welcome any thoughts. Robert O Ducharme (rodincus@aol.com).
There are two types of speakers on climate change. The majority makes an emotional appeal, while there is a minority that gives you numbers to give a thought to.
The speaker falls in the minority, and pleasantly so.
It is highly unburdening to hear about the work in the field of climate change where the problems are getting talked about with statistical evidence.
I have the perfect solution to the climate problem, but nobody cares, all I need is a $10,000 grant!
Intelligent channel no doubt
Question: You mentioned that gold spraying is a method to balance our climate. Why does that help?
B: Because it reflects the idea of sunlight returning to space and cooling the planet. And it's also beautiful and wonderful, forever.
About gold: ...It never decays into anything else. So the symbol is the idea of the present moment, eternal, infinite, within the present moment. So those who can resonate with that idea can use gold or gold alone in that way to speed up their own vibration, to align with it, but again, that's just one License is like any other license. It will work and work for some people, but for others it simply won't work because it doesn't relate to what they're exploring.
CHEMTRAILS and those responsible for them.
B: In a sense, they're under the false impression that they need to do something in some way to balance the climate on your planet, but the idea is that they're actually emitting more more toxic substances in the air because they don't necessarily use substances that actually work.
ABOUT GOLD
If they used it, it would actually balance the climate on your planet with absolutely no bad side effects.
20 to 25% stiment taxes celleding not full 100%
150 dallors per Beral crude oil refining carbon taxes and taxes celleding in price of crude oil
grazie
Taxes celleding policy of general scientist globally peace
All world carbon taxes celleding general scientist globally peace
Seems to have little meat about what exactly to do.
250 dallors per ton still and metals manufacturing carbon taxes
A lot of just trust us, we will be fair and spread the costs and hurt to everyone. Sadly like each plan so far, the costs are all focused on the middle and lower classes, as is the sacrifice. In short he is more than willing to offer our money and our restrictions, while the leader class will do as they wish relying on our sacrifices. Just "trust me bro"is not a plan to those of us getting tired of being stepped all over.
Talk to your Bank Manager then take your money to a bank with a low carbon footprint / financing of the oil industry.
100 dallors per ton cement production carbon taxes
These kind of videos make me angry. All 'We have solutions right now' yet offer none. Not only that, it is completely wrong in its analysis as well. On average 50-70% of the industrial and up to 90% of residential CO2 emissions is because of wasted heat. Either due to low insulation values or due to extremely inefficient processes. This is not addressed by anyone because it is inconvenient/harmful in relations with those parties. In addition it also sickens me to hear him talk about science being the solution. This is also wrong. Science offers potential solutions, Engineers make it a reality. That last step is critical. If you can't make it, it doesn't matter. I know this distinction very well as I was a scientist and switched to engineering, so I can make it happen. With my last project at a medium sized factory we saved emissions equivalent to over 2.5 million households just by a few minor modifications. The only reason why it was approved was because of the bottom line... It was profitable
Save Our Planet
500 dallors per ton natural gas and coal burning and chemical processing and rubber tiyer producing carbon taxes
“I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.”
- Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP 28, also CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Mukhtar Babayev will be the president for COP 29; he is also a former executive of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijian Republic.
Seems more and more likely, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment may come to fruition (or at least the higher end of the spectrum). I say enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the generations to come.
Pandora left hope in the jar, because hope prolongs suffering in a predicament. We are simply not sapient enough to deny the negative sum game Moloch has laid out for us. We have inadvertently sacrificed our children to the maximum power principle. Bless our hearts.
So I was doing a bit of studying the other day and the idea of the bering land bridge came up which is scientifically accepted to have formed and melted countless times throughout the history of planet Earth. My question is that if vehicle and industrial co2 pollution is causing the seas to rise and glaciers to melt like they tell us...then was it vehicle and industrial co2 pollution which caused previous the climate changes and glacial melting tens of thousands of years ago? And before that? And before that? And before that? And if so...is it then quite possible that we just haven't dug deep enough to find evidence of these ancient vehicles and technologies?
Its not industrial polution causing the glaciers to melt & the sea levels to rise. Its the solar flares emited by our sun. But no climate change activist ever mentions this because no one can control the sun or make money from the truth!
The science and meta analyses have been so disturbed it is a joke. Thanks!
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More people , more health care, and supporting global trade in the first world is an awesome solution. Money is a man made thing that is part of the problem. Pollution is the problem which is supported by the side that cares.
OMG, so much doublespeak devoid of new content or new viable solutions. How can I get these wasted ten minutes back??
If all people on earth become Jain then all problem on earth will be solved.. Hypothetically u can think of it and come to conclusion easily.
No scientific procedure will solve this issue but a physiological will do. So good religion should to spread
My colony has many jains who waste a hug amount of water to clean their expansive cars and homes. Never saw them. Planting tree or doing good work.
Religion is not solution untill we work on ground level.
Nothing new in this Ted Talk….all old news. And he has no answers to HOW
Over several years as our old appliances etc timed out we replaced with heat pump dryer inverter refrigerator heat pump water heater heat pump HVAC. Bought used model 3 and used leaf. When residing our 72 yr old house new insulation and sheathing. EVs alone save $1,800 annually. Heat pump is superior system for air quality and noise. Water heater uses 300: Watt when running, dryer has no exhaust hole in our house. Eliminated gas fees of $45/month before gas cost. So far so good. Took 10 years
I am.first
A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one
More C02 = greener Earth
Useless ted
Sure, he only missed the information that fossil fuels are also responsible for the human development and medicine advances (which made people lives better and longer)
This guy should go back to teaching 3rd grade.
Pure waffle. Not one concrete thing.
Net zero is the wrong target. We need to bring carbon down below 350 ppm. Net zero will leave it much higher.
The underlying need to the damaging effects of capitalism and its effects to the planet - Really whether communism, socialism or capitalism the real problem is there are too many human beings living on the planet, but it seems that all of these global issues with the climate stem from the massive exploitation of Earth to support its equally massive population. This all seemingly has happened during the rise and fall of capitalism... However, a worldwide birth control so as the natural death rate surpasses the live birth rate until the human populations of the world fall under 1 billion (1800's levels), but ideally closer to population levels prior to the pre-industrial society. Starting with a 5 year stop birth worldwide...
This hasn’t provided any solutions plus renewables are not the answer, too intermittent
Without Cabon Dioxide plants, trees can not make oxygen. So carbon netzero is out of the question. Without oil, electric vehicles can not be made and the list keeps right on .
"Without Carbon Dioxide plants, trees can not make oxygen. So carbon netzero is out of the question." Just to clarify the meaning of the word, "net zero" simply means that humans stop digging up and burning fossil fuels, thus INCREASING global levels of CO2. There will still be plenty of CO2, and in fact, there's already too much CO2 in the air for the wellbeing of land ecosystems, oceans, and the creatures that live in them.
The solution? Finish capitalism, thats the one no one wants to talz about
I think most of our climate change depends on the sun & other factors we can't control.
Humans are the real problem AI said lol