Rethinking Climate Change | Paul Deane | TEDxClonakilty

In his talk, Paul Deane points out, why it is important to rethink our approach and attitude towards climate change. Climate change issues are mostly addressed within a global context, highlighting the potential and possible catastrophic outcomes, which can be perceived as overwhelming and can create an attitude of "well, if its that bad, then there is nothing I can do to change anything". Paul Deane suggests that we approach climate change issues from a community and national perspective, allowing and encouraging small changes people can identify with and benefit from.
As a small boy growing up on the edge of Ireland, Paul would often stare out the window at school and wonder what the future would be like. All this wondering resulted in Paul spending far too much time in school and in university. Thankfully it wasn’t all to waste, and Paul finally found an outlet for his curiosity in the Environmental Research Institute in University College Cork. Paul now works with a group of scientists, economists and engineers. Their research helps inform government and European policy. Instead of looking out the window, Paul now uses computer models to understand how we will heat our homes, fuel our cars and generate our electricity in the future. Paul will talk about why we need to think about climate change a little differently.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@2brecords885]

This need's to be addressed in heart and in mind, for the outcome, some think they won't
be here, or , long gone , heart-less not mind-less , we are thankful the time that you placed
in and of your work's be it as it may ,we look to and will change ,attitude,approach,and
maybe our outcome.I thank you , no ,we all thank you

[@CB222HOTMAIL]

Anyway enough of that doom and gloom , I just got a new 4x4 it's great , bit heavy on the old diesel though . And me and a few pals are off to see the British grand pri today 😃 and next week it's up to Scotland to see the rally . I'm not going in johns car , don't wana be squashed in the back I'll take the 4x4 I can please myself then take a detour or whatever 🚛💨. 🔥⚡️🌍🔥🔥

[@ttmallard]

Geologic context for the Pleistocene CO2 rate-of-change avg 1-ppm/1000-yrs, big jump up end of the last ice-age 1-ppm/180-yrs last year we set a record 3.05-ppm, one year.
That's 5-times outside "natural variation" of the max for the epoch of 305±5-ppm over the 800k-yr ice-cores avg 180-280ppm 25/280 = 9%, at 405-ppm 125/280 = 45%.
At 405-ppm we jumped CO2 too fast, ~1/460th the time of natural systems and that's acidifying the oceans 10-times faster than an extinction event to put frosting on the burnt carbon cake.
The neverending bonus at 405-ppm is sea-level balances out to 25m/82ft higher than today matters not how long it takes we're biz-as-usual.
A record 2015 = 37-Gigatons CO2eqv, frozen it's 37 cubic kilometers of gas, 25% of it stays for over 10,000-years from when it was emitted, Catch-22 on CO2 emissions.
The idea to sequester that much CO2 a year will shatter strata to earthquakes along with poisoning by the CO2 from touching groundwater or aquifers via acid dissolution.
Dumped into the sea it causes a benthic extinction.
That's rather immature and delusional geophysically speaking, it's the same problem with nuclear waste, eh?
Ending the Steam-Age for electrons is the ONLY way out of the death spiral.

[@oldmanvollox7793]

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