What can humanity do about heatwaves? | The Take
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- It's still spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but the world faces scorching hot temperatures. Summer heat has arrived early, setting records, claiming lives, and expected to get worse. Who's responsible and what should be done about it?
In this episode:
- Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Jeff Goodell, Author of “The Heat Will Kill You First”
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan, with Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
Jeff seems extremely optimistic. I worked with several teams of top climate-scientists for years in rural India and none of the cutting-edge research suggests we should be optimistic. Rather, it appears we are underestimating how rapidly, and wide-spreading, the collapse may be. We genuinely cannot be alarmed enough.
There have been concerns and warnings for over 20 years now... Also it is rough telling developing nations to built climate friendly.
Yep! And nobody is talking about the need to bring down the human population. 8 billion people burn a lot of carbon and need more food than we can grow.
Jeff's point is that action is necessary, and that this is true regardless of what threshold we pass.
And he is correct.
@@davidmenasco5743 Agreed. Action is necessary, but as a realist I have to concede that meaningful action seems unlikely to come from a profoundly sick society.
Lots of reports already state that its too late, even if we stopped everything today, the ball has dropped and you cannot stop the inevitable. sorry, there is no point in thinking about it, 5 degrees is in our future...better to just grieve and accept than to worry about it now
I FEEL SORRY FOR WILDLIFE
Soon we will feel sorry for ourselves
Monkeys were literally dropping dead in Mexico 😢
They will be gone just like in the day of Noah
Yeah… me too :(
Huh...? It doesn't matter how much 'we' care. 'We' don't run oil corporations, big agri, big tech, mining, logging, drilling or refining and if you think the super-rich oligarchs are going to give up their wealthy positions, to 'help' the poor live better, you have not been paying attention...
Are they extracting oil on the other planets that are warming?
@@Samaa-os7hx Oh yes. The Martians are cracking on, the Venusians are drill baby, drill...
THIS! 🎯
@@russtaylor2122 sorry to disappoint you but no one lives on Mars and Venus. And both are warming.
We use their products. We buy cheap instead of reusing existing stuff. We take the car or the plane when we can take the bus or the train. We eat animals when we should eat plants. We have it in our hands.
Last few decades have shown that temperature rise is accelerating. It is not a steady linear climb.
Already receding El Niño was not that special, there have been lots more stronger ones, specially in 2016. We were @1,2C before El Niño, that added 0,2-0,3C to temps. And the solar maximum added nearly 0,1C. SO2 Aerosols may have part in this, specially on warmer oceans... The main cause is climate warming, but added elements boosts some years. Last 12 months has been @1,63C (Copernicus). And you may reach that by simply adding on several different natural booster elements (1,2+0,2+0,1+... =1,63C).
Now we are entering La Niña phase and temperatures will drop slightly. We may end up to 1,4C and within 5-10 years we most likely end permanently over 1,5C. First 2C year follows in 14-16 years.
Our current trend is toward 3-5C warming. Ie. 77% of IPCC experts estimates that we go to 2,5-5,0C (or more) warming by 2100.
2C will kills coral reefs along with over 30% of marine life, rises sea level by 12-20 meters (by 2300, perhaps sooner [latest Rignot et al. findings]), arctic sea ice is lost (boosts energy intake), mountain glaciers are lost (less water during summers), extreme events are boosted (seen at weaker levels already), 6th mass extinction worsens rapidly (we have killed so much already), water and food crises makes havoc, multiple tipping points are crossed with chance of domino effects (that may lead to 18C warming)...
3C is a point where civilizations begins to collapse. (No food/water available for few days is enough... Already several areas are under threats like droughts and floods, some foods have already seen impacts)
Any warming above that makes total annihilation of human race more likely. And we are heading toward this.
To avoid worsening the situation:
Stop burning ANY fossil fuels. Today.
We've past the 1.5c threshold long ago from the original 1750 baseline & the aerosol masking paradox makes abundantly clear that reducing the cooling effect of reflective sulphates in fossil fuels will only accelerate heating as already stated by James Hanson. Better hope those planes keep flying if we want to extend our stay a few more years!
How do people survive with out jobs
@@Muddslinger0415 Most of the current jobs are to create overconsumption and wealth for the owners/CEO's (so they can keep consuming way too much). We can choose our jobs that are not in this hamster wheel, but are benefitting nature and majority of the people. Having new car, house, ... any item, is often just to add to this overconsumption scheme. Do we really need these? Often the answer is: No.
We need jobs that are benefitting all. But yea, these are hard to find. And having one often means you take a leap from the hamsterwheel that overconsumption schemes offer. Humans are build to think more about today, but not what happens in years or decadal timescales. This leads to pushing forward things that are here now, but are making things worse tomorrow.
Societies, and people within, have to wake up and start building better jobs that are beneficial in decadal scales, not in quartal year money laundring scales. Even democratic governments runs in too short terms to really think more than next election.
No job is a bad situation, but toxic job, that will kill you and/or larger population, is even worse.
Martin, in my region, the constant fires are destroying the insurance and home industries. No insurance and home buying business will dry up. Electricity and food prices are also much higher. The climate crisis is costing us $20,000 or more a year in direct business losses, higher prices, and extra spending on mitigation. That isn’t sustainable.
@@freeheeler09 And those $20k's in multiple businesses and households are not counted in this $40 trillion climate change costs...
We have to shutdown fossil burning, because it is the main cause of these climate driven extra costs. And not forgetting all havoc for the nature all around you.
And while your business takes $20k losses, it could be even more. Because people around you are also having these costs and that makes them poorer and therefore there is less of those who can afford whatever your business offers.
The climate crisis is a symptom of an unsustainable economic, social and political HUMAN system - industrial and global. For instance, celebrating 'green energy' growth masks the fact that such 'growth' is championed and embraced as a more morally suitable means to sustain the existing distribution of power, material advantages, and ways of consumerism. The massive changes required to salvage humanity need to bring human ways of living and being into sustainable balance within the planetary ecosystem and its aspects that humans characterise as 'resources'. We need to begin by understanding that the climate crisis is an existential threat for HUMANS, not for the planet or life itself. We need to expose and abandon the arrogance we attach to the meaning of human existence and our significance - all self attributed. The planet and its ecosystems will adapt and, in the process, do just fine without HUMANS. Climate science experts and commentary needs to get off of the pot about this, and speak frankly, directly and without qualification about this as the first principle. Thereafter, it becomes all about bringing about the system changes required.
Awesome comment. Climate change is a consequence or symptom of deeper systemic problems. It cannot be remedied unless core issues are resolved. Focus on climate is useless, except, only as a metric of the seriousness of our predicament.
Heavy lifting(studies) on this has already been done by “Limits to Growth” and the Club of Rome, William Catton, William Rees, Nate Hagens, Alice Friedemann, Jack Alpert, and several others.
Nothing deliberate, orderly, or consensual is going to be done about this. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a rough ride as we accelerate into the brick wall up ahead.
😂
Mate, other planets are warming too.
@@Samaa-os7hxAnd, what does this have to do with the reaction of CO2 and methane to sunlight?
Because this is the problem we're facing here on planet Earth.
It is certainly true that our political and economic systems are part of the problem. Ok, arguably the whole problem, in terms of origins.
The question is, can we sit around and wait for these systems to be transformed? Or should we rather focus on the immediate crisis at hand?
If the elites in charge offer us the choice of "green energy" or fossil fuels, I say we take the green energy.
The fact is there are major substantive differences between these two energy sources with very broad implications.
Breaking the grip of the fossil fuel industries over the governments of the world will be the single greatest act of human liberation ever achieved.
@@davidmenasco5743 because CO2 has nothing to do with it
Bottom line is we deserve everything that’s coming!!!
We were all going to die anyway.
The greedy oligarchs do, not the average hardworking person.
Stop taking airplane flights, stop unnecessary driving. Stop eating meat. Stop buying plastic, single use items like water in a plastic bottles (so stupid!), rip out the lawn and plant a garden. How about an individual carbon ration: do you need to go to the grocer for dinner? Too bad, you spent your carbon ration on that new blouse- - eat that. WE are individually responsible.
This is a completely fallacious argument.
Our lives are shaped by the options offered to us, and the marketing campaigns behind them. And these things, in turn, are dictated by political and economic elites - CEOs, directors, senators and their sponsors, etc. And even their behavior is shaped by the system they are part of.
It is a complex system, but with organized effort it can be changed.
The solution to the climate crisis is to move the system enough to allow and encourage ways of life that do not require the burning of fossil fuels.
Technically, this is not a problem. Culturally, it is a tremendous challenge. We shall see whether the human species is up to the challenge.
@@davidmenasco5743 Part of what you're saying is true but I still believe that when enough people change their own lives, corporations and governments take notice. Are we so mesmerized by marketing ads that we have no choice but to consume?
All this plastic/other packaging is unnecessary... Travel is something we can't really do without. Meat is essential for our nutrition on few occasions... But I agree those are the main factors...
When you report deaths due to heat you also need to consider other increased deaths from heart attack, strokes and many other conditions plus the number of people hospitalised, miscarriages, birth complications. The impacts are far greater than the reported deaths.
One of my cats died during a heat wave, she could get enough air anymore. The same day our neighbor died of a heart attack.
And it wasn’t that hot like it is now in those countries.
I feel sad for the animals terrible what human do 😅
What can we do? Obviously everything suggested for the past 60 years was ignored in preference to flash and greed. As a young person in the 1960's we grew organic and warned of pesticides and we were villainized by the war machinery, chemical companies, and big oil Watch your own thoughts and movements and observe the true wealth of your own energy and power when you connect with the whole. Shade your plants and animals. Those that survive will adapt. Oil has got to go.
12:50 "every tonne (CO2) we put in, means our future is a bit hotter". I guess adding 37bn tonnes last year didn't help then.
Meanwhile in 2025 President Biden or President Trump will visit Europe with Air Force 1 B747, several C-17 transport planes for the 50-80 vehicles in the motorcade, the Marine One helicopters. Two or three Beast limos. Not one vehicle in the presidential motorcade is an electric vehicle.😂🤣
The bigger problem and the sad part is that we trust 70+ year-old people all over the world to lead us through a radical change in human society that will eventually happen. 20th century politicians will never get us trough this, the ideas they worship and kept pumping up are simply not compatible with what needs to be done!
What really gets me is between 50-70,000 climate scientists get on a jet every year to attend a climate conference they could hold over Zoom.
@TobinMiller-el6yk Or... govt makes it illegal to have conferences. My point is, individual acts like you propose won't help, it has to be a blanket solution, i.e. imposed by govts on everybody.
A whole lot of denial going on.
Hahaa exactly. Qatari outlet distracting from fossil fuel industry and instead blaming the consumers
Other planets are warming too, but no one wants to tell you that.
@@Samaa-os7hxdo they have people on them?
Ross. the five phases of dying, 1. denial 😂
5. acceptance 😢
I recently come across this podcast and find it appealing.
This episode is well done. I might check out some others.
Thank you for this!
Dont drive, dont fly, turn off your cell phone.
Cimate change has become a weapon : each country emits as much as possible of CO2, hoping that its ennemies will suffer from it more than themselves....
How many of these alternative energy are affordable especially in developing countries?
While most countries suffer with heat, here in the UK we're suffering from endless rains and cold. It should be summer now, but all we get is rain and cold winds.
when humanity is restored
nature will be restored
until then
heat waves
floods
disasters
are all a process
and its a sad reality
but oppression has real consequences
6:06 fun business idea: buy throw away/damaged luxury sunglasses and up cycle/recycle/redesign them into sunglasses that your neighbors/visitors/average people can afford. Volume sales not price point sales.
First responsibility for the rich nations:
STOP MAKING SITUATION WORSE!
Stop burning fossil fuels. Today.
Israel, Germany and most of Murica run on coal...
NO ONE IS SERIOUS
REDUCE CO2-Output!!!!!! INCREASE Oxygen-Output!!!
Half the earth's population wiped out their's to many people here to sustain.
Safe and effective 🎉
These programs always end on a such a positive note. If everything is being talen care of then why should we care?
I think you missed the point.
The point is that immediate action is needed, and it doesn't matter how bad things get, action will still be needed. It doesn't matter if we cross the 1.5 degree or 2.5 degree threshold. Immediate action is still needed. We must end the burning of fossil fuels.
In the 1970's when the first scientists warned us about CO² caused climate change, we should have stopped all industrial developments and adapt to an Amish-like lifestyle. But there was never a point in time where industrial and technological developments could be stopped because they bring much comforts and luxuries. Do you want to live like the Amish or party till you drop?
You've missed a few points.
Firstly, policy makers were warned beginning in 1959 (see the Wikipedia page for Edward Teller).
Secondly, there was never a need to end development, only to change some aspects of it.
Thirdly, these changes didn't have to impact the comforts and luxuries of regular folks. But they did put the comforts and luxuries of certain corporate executives and shareholders into question.
So, it was really a question of the ability of our political system to put the needs of the general population above the needs of the richest segment.
This has proven to be problematic.
But remarkably, there has been some progress. This is because at least a few rich and influential people feel like it's a bad idea to allow the fossil fuel companies to drag the entire society into a new dark age.
I’m a bit of a doomer. Give it another 25 to 30 years and we’ll be history, and if we are not, we will wish it so.
It's very clear that this planet is in serious need of a reset anyway. Humans have abused it to death.
What people always have done when circumstances became unlivable: Migrate. The north of Europe, Canada and Russia better be prepared
Northern Europe is gonna get very cold when the AMOC reaches tipping point
Yeah, you don't want to live in Canada if you want cold, cold weather which is like 6 months and you are tax to death. 😅
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Fossil fuel emmissions will decline substantially after several billion humans die because of the heat.
Last year's heat was a warning from the earth.
When it gets a little hot, we use coolers all at once, which uses even more electricity and increases CO2 emissions.
As a Japanese person who has experienced this, I would like to suggest that you use wind to exhaust heat as much as possible.
The effect is obvious, as I have actually been able to reduce my electricity bill in just the past few years.
Please click on the icon if you are interested.
And tell this to your acquaintances who still come to Japan on jet planes for sightseeing.
Buy this product and go home for carbon cancellation.
But other planets are warming too
The politician policy is how long can you tread water in a tsunami
too many humans.
Too many RICH humans. Poor people have not caused this dystopia.
how many tons of CO2 did we put into the air during the pandemic shutdown?
Go back into caves or under ground.
Perhaps due to nuclear war
That would also help here in the Midwest with our tornadoes!
That may not be such a bad idea. But I should point out that people never actually lived in caves or underground. So, if we did so, it would be a new thing.
Some people have lived in the side of cliffs, but no populations have lived deep inside caves. It's a common misconception.
Just have more babies 👶 and everything will be fine!🎊
It's Not due to only the burning of fossil fuels like coal,oil and Gass,it's also nuclear energy and weaponry experimental Explosions too
Nuclear energy does not contribute significantly to climate change.
It uses a lot of concrete, which is not very green to be sure. But that's about it.
Existing nuclear plants are not a problem, and may be important, from the perspective of solving the climate crisis.
New nuclear plants are a problem, just because the funding could be spent much more efficiently and effectively on solar, wind and battery storage -- these technologies cost much less and can be built much more quickly.
If there is ever a serious shortage of solar panels and wind turbines, then nuclear plants could be the next option.
People will die...the earth will, ultimately, be fine. Nothing to see here.
NOTHING.
Unless you can change the orbit of the planet around the sun and shift the Earths tilt and procession around it.
Carbon tax everyone, trudeau said so,,it will help lots😅
A properly implemented carbon tax would make the difference that is needed.
People will begin to migrate towards the northern rich countries. Correction it has already began.
Kiss our butts goodbye? This is proof positive that humans value $$ and possessions above life itself. Watcha going to do?
no discussion of geoengineering, the actual cause of oppo-season weather across the world right now?
Stop Animal Agriculture. That's what Humanity can do.
🤣
Stop having babies.
Ban Geoengineering.
Are you talking about burning fossil fuels?
Maybe you missed it. Burning fossil fuels IS geoengineering. We've been doing it for over a hundred years.
The result of that experiment is what we are beginning to see now.
Is there some way to filter out the sad soul climate change deniers? Asking for a friend
Nothing to do with the military warfare in the Middle East over the past few decades? We were meant to have the hottest summer on record in Australia this year. It didn't happen. Sad that this is happening in Europe and other countries..
The oil addiction is causing both problems. It is causing climate change, and it is causing geopolitical conflicts over the control of oil and oil wealth.
I'll make sure that I get the train to work and pay tax to the global south. I'll try to forget the profligacy of Qatar's ruler and his 123m superyacht and private jets. Petrostates are victims too!
It's the end days ..... we are doomed.
This is exactly what the guest was saying is not the case.
Just because we're going to pass the 1.5 degree threshold, doesn't mean all is lost. It just means that we need to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible.
Methan.
I bet the radar is putting off heat in the air and making it hotter than normal. Understand bouncing signals off the moisture like a microwave.
One day humans will live underground of planet
Perhaps due to nuclear warfare
Like we once did... many places with vast, ancient underground tunnels!
Something you should talk about is where the sun is rising and would that have any affect on the temperature.
Something you should talk about is the tonnage of b.o-.m-b..s and explosives that's been battering our skies and how those things affect the temperature.
Its scary that you would write this and at the same time think that you are being smart somehow.
@@kurtilein3 So you read my mind to say what I think? You must be a mouse to say what I wrote is scary. Mind reading mouse, nice👍🏾
@@akz7610 I did not respond to you, otherwise your username would be linked. Your comment is not quite as dumb as "sun goes up", but still shows a fundamental lack of understanding.
@@kurtilein3 does the sun rise in a different area. You say this, but I don’t think you know the facts about what I said.
Scientist say bla bla bla
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It's summer another chance to blame it on climate change. To much rain, climate change. Drought, climate change. To much snow, climate change
H'mm record hot year, yeah that probably is related to global warming.
yea. too much rain in dubai? yea cloud seeding. too much rain in florida? yea hurricane. too much rain everywhere? yea, climate change.
It's never too late to educate yourself on Climate Heating: e.g. NOAA, check the Science if u dare!
@@jocelynevkb5889oh, it's screaming Greta again 🥱
Lol OC doesn't know that all of these things correlate to the chief complaint: global warming... this guy votes btw.
Is Anyone Taking To Account Nuclear Wastes Impact Here? It's Too Hot To Believe Its Natural.
It’s a second coming Jesus Christ be ready for judgment
Our judgement will depend on what we do with CO2.
Migrate as nomads. It's nature's way
It is all mentioned in the book of Revelation =The Bible...Yeshua/Jesus Messiah will return...Follow him and repent of sin...
Stop these religious bullshit ...
Ok peggy. Will do.
😂😂
Oh, which verse does it states that releasing CO2 into the atmosphere increases global temperatures?
😂😂Al jazeera is caring about humanity when supporting trorrist groups in the Middle East?
Buy an aircon unit, easy
Not when it hits 60 or 70ºC
Wait a min you have time for talking about heat wave but not the terrorist attacks that happened in india?
Like seriously literally you are talking about everything and anything but the terrorist attacks intentionally.
This video is not about a heat wave. It is about the DECADE BY DECADE INCREASE IN GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
This problem will kill more people than every terrorist attack in the history of the world, times a hundred. Unless we stop burning fossil fuels.
It's mild here. Summer but mild temperatures. I would use natural cooling methods.
As it gets hotter india will become unlivable and where will the refugees go? Will there be war? Enslavement? Mass death? Millions dead by heat stroke?
lol 😂I’m still waiting for a heat wave! Last year was the coldest summer, we didn’t hit 30 degrees once in July and this year is shaping up to be a repeat. I have the windows closed and the heat on and it’s June 14! Bring on global warming… let me know when the heat will be here.
Where do you live?
It is all about you. Never mind what the rest of the world is experiencing.
So what region are you referring to? Even if what you claim is true, localized weather events is named WEATHER. So what? Fact: The last 30 day cycle when the Earth experienced cooler than normal temps. was December 1985.
@@Thehigher13 Its likely a russian trollbot.
Troll warlord
😅😅😅 again
Your hilarity may be replaced by hysteria when you understand the full consequences of global warming.
@@nigeljohnson9820 lmao not even saint Al Gore calls it than anymore cultist. its now super duper scary global boiling
It should be winter right now in Kenya. In fact from the beginning of May all the way to the beginning of September is typically Kenya's winter season. And yet as I type this 6 weeks into the winter season, we are yet to start experiencing cold spells. I'm literally watching the sun rise right now and nobody seems to care....
You are exactly right. It's the same in New Zealand. We dream our lives away.
I’m in Idaho, USA. Water is getting low and we are breaking heat records. Nobody seems to care. I do my bit but it’s not enough. I blame Republicans stopping every bill to help the planet in return for billions from oil lobbyists.
funnily enough, those of us in the north (uk) are supposed to be having summer right now and it's been and raining and cold all the way through from winter. about five sunny days since march.
i think they are messing with the weather to mess with the food supply.
I checked your claim and found it's not true.
Most people start running when they see the wave, not sense the earthquake...
Sorry folks, it's too late.
Oh ok then, lets just do nothing.
Stop stressing, relocate if you can. Religion won't help anyone. Live peacefully with your fellow men.
@@ToneyCrimson thats what we've been doing, nothing!
We stop burning fossil fuels and it’ll keep getting hotter and many humans will starve or be forced to become climate migrants. We do nothing and many, many millions more humans will starve or be forced to become climate migrants.
For whom? Don't make yet another dumb suggestion, it's people like you that helped get us here. How about help clean up your own mess for a change, instead of not giving a fk and leaving it for someone else to deal with.
Let's save our home for our kids and theirs 😢
Nah
Boomers don’t care unfortunately.
Too late, Earth will reset us...
@@helenpauls1496How do you know that?
And what do you care about?
Don’t make us stupid cows!Talk about corporations and billionaires and countries that are in fossil fuel industry!
In 100 years the heat and water will be the biggest concern all the lives will die slowly slowly due to the shortage of water and heatwave.
We are doomed, not that we don’t know what can be done, it is our greed that we want to live a better life than others. And that if I don’t take advantage on others, someone else will, so why not me.
Have you heard ( ? ) ... the devastation in Gaza has now contributed in a big way to having a negative environmental impact.
If you don't mention the global masking effect, you are not addressing the full complexity of what our global economic religion is responsible for.
I am so disillusioned about the coverage of climate change by media, that I was expecting another "drink water and run the AC" type of video. Real answers here.
The equator is moving North
Wait for Donald Trump to be elected for a second term. Then you won’t be so optimistic anymore.
How many people died in India from heatwaves?
In 2000, the estimated number of deaths due to non-optimal temperatures in India was 175,800, which increased to 294,400 in 2021; similarly, the total deaths linked to high temperatures was 105,900 which increased to 155,900 in 2021; deaths linked to low temperatures in 2000 was 72,900 and 143,700 in 2021, as per the
We need to massively reduce our consumption, reuse whatever we can, replace all energy production with renewables.
We need to send solar panels to the global south, free of charge, to power air conditioning units while establishing food forests.
We need to green all the deserts.
Most of all we need to do what we can, not just sit on our computers commenting “it’s too late” or “blame the corporations”.
Research Greening the Desert, SolarPunk, food forests.
AND VOTE GREEN PARTY!
There is hope!
...and don't touch our car, don't tell most of us not to fly to far away countries for our holidays, don't ask most of us to stop eating (red) meat. Even though the latter would liberate lots of land to grow enough food for more than 8 milliard people. And the rich and mighty and powerful won't even think of giving up any of their privileges..
Tis sad boys and girls !
It's over
i think the DOOMERS have better advice than the Oil Executives.
Aren't they both saying essentially the same thing?
The best advice is the opposite of theirs. We should do everything possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible, because it will make a huge difference to future generations.
A big part of this will be ending the burning of fossil fuels. It is technically very feasible, but will require some outside the box thinking.
In 1992 the international community committed to SAFE CONCENTRATIONS and thus safe heat (UNFCCC agreement). In 1995 the IPCC, in its second assessment report, unilaterally threw this objective out the window and substituted reduced emissions. This measure INCREASED the already unsafe concentrations, which is why we're in deep trouble today. Few people know about this, and no-one talks about it.
We're letting mother nature correct us and she doesn't care if it hurts.
we are nature, there’s no separation. we’re doing this to ourselves
Involuntary Mass Murder charges could be pending in UN Court?
Capital generated from fines could build nano screen in Solar stationary orbit between Sun and the Earth to adjust the amount of Photons that are Earth bound would cost less than a $11,000,000,000 dollar wall.
Ask the Palestinians how well UN courts work for them. They can't even prevent a genocide.
The author said it - 10 years of ignorance, inspite it is hie field of interest - but not able to take it for real.
He needed *the experience to learn*
Generalizing this little story - we'll be cooked because of the lack of imagination. Too dumb.
Trees and fountains .... has been like this for centuries.
..... and we are not talking about little Trees.
Trees are great. But it hasn't been like this for centuries.
The rate of temperature increase, is increasing.
Corporations our Responsible for the Emissions and Green House gases....not me 🍀
meanwhile in Ireland we are enjoying 10c and freezing persistent rain
Sounds fun, you will love it when AMOC stop up then.
@@ToneyCrimson as long as we have the gulf stream AMOC is welcome to visit
@@roontunes What are you even saying...
Maybe you missed it. The Gulf Stream is what they're talking about. If we don't act to address climate change, the Gulf Stream will very likely stop working.
This is actually why they started calling it climate change instead of global warming.
See, global warming refers to the fact that the GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE is increasing decade by decade. It does not mean that temperatures are warmer everywhere on the globe.
The term climate change takes into account the possibility that temperatures in some places, like northwestern Europe, could drop by 10C, while the global average goes up by 2.5C.
But here's the scary part: It also means that somewhere down south, the temperature will shoot up by 10C, because the Gulf Stream will no longer be carrying their heat up to you. Ouch!!
If we pay more tax, will that help the weather?
Maybe it will lower them, when you consider many governments give subsidies to big oil. Subsidies that the industry really doesn't need or deserve,in light of their record profits.
But the industry lines the pockets of our politicians, so I think we don't have much hope.
Not really, the problem is your tax money is going to subsidize fossile fuel industry. So its not like the goverment doenst have the money to do it.
The answer is maybe.
A properly implemented carbon tax would be the best single thing we can do to reduce the burning of fossil fuels. And this, in turn, would solve about 70% of the problem.
The carbon tax could be revenue neutral, or it could be used to fund the energy transition.
In the long run, the savings from using wind and sun instead of oil and coal, will be a huge savings for everyone except oil tycoons and coal barons.
Stop worrying about who is responsible and find practical solutions. Like buying a cheap A/C. On another YT news channel, they reported that Chinese A/C sales are up 40% YoY to Southeast Asia and Europe.
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Because China's got some great stuff
We can't do ANYTHING ABOUT IT, OK? NOTHING! JUST GIVE UP ON LIFE!
the dating market will solve it don't worry
What can people do? Stay indoors and turn up the aircon. In situations where there is no aircon, stay in the shade, hydrate and seek cooling places like bodies of water.
Thanks, I know it all....
What about humidity
@GD-mm8ev Aircon dehumidifies the air as it cools it. If there is no aircon, then you can use a dehumidifier, but that will warm the air, so it's best to just put up with it.
aircon takes energy which pollutes more
look up wet bulb temperature. it means a person dies even with unlimited water
Yeah, winter, summer, fall and spring also come because of men's activity. Also solar flres and the fact that planets move around the sun also caused by men's activities 😂😂 men is responsable for everything!😂😂 men is god! 😂🎉
Thanks for the FUD, but no thanks.
None of those things has anything to do with the DECADE BY DECADE INCREASE IN GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
Here's the bottom line: How quickly we stop burning fossil fuels will determine how much food your great grandkids will have to eat for dinner. That's the basic situation we're in.
@@davidmenasco5743 yeah since you have been here for billions of years along with the planet, you know ALL the cosmic season and changes. Hahaha 😂 right, forgive me GOD!
@@Fitandover40 Yeah, there's this thing called systematic study of the evidence.
We can't know everything, but some things are pretty clear. And the basic properties of carbon dioxide is one of those things.
@@davidmenasco5743 yes god, as you say, you won. Forgive me god.
We live on a planet with a dynamic atmosphere and climate. It is in a constant state of change. The same rules apply as have always...adapt or die. Humans have survived much worse.
Yeah, that's like saying abortion isn't murder because the fetus would have died eventually when it was old anyway because everyone dies.
It only sounds intelligent to the unintelligent, sadly about half of US adults read at or below a 5th grade level.
And when it hits 60º or 70ºC?
@@jhaduvala Hyperbolic nonsense.
@@frozencanuck6764 I wish it was.
Oh, they'll adapt alright, as millions of refugees migrate into your neighbourhood.
Complete fabrication.
Our Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, "Two years before the Anti-Christ comes ALLAH (SWT) Will withhold 1/3rd of rain, One year before the Anti-Christ comes ALLAH (SWT) Will withhold 2/3rd of rain and the year the Anti-Christ comes ALLAH (SWT) Will withhold all of the rain. "
2026/27
2027/28
2028/29
ALLAH (SWT) KNOWS BEST!!!!