@@phil20_20, It makes no sense to promote nuclear, because it takes too long to implement, costs too much per MWh and requires too much water to cool it, which may not be available in the future, plus it has high risks and its waste is expensive too store. By every objective criteria, it makes no sense to build new nuclear plants. In the US, wind turbines cost about $1.7M per MW, utility solar costs $0.8M - $0.9M per MW, whereas Vogtle 3 and 4 cost $15.2M per MW. Even if you figure a 60 year lifetime and a 0.95 capacity factor, nuclear power simply doesn't work on economic grounds. Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia started its permitting in August 2006 and started construction in Aug. 2009 and its construction was supposed to cost $14 billion and take 7 years for reactor 3 and 8 years years for reactor 4. It ended up costing $34 billion and taking 14 years for reactor 3 and 15 years for reactor 4. It is the same story at Flamanville in France, Olkiluoto in Finland, Ohma and Shimane 3 in Japan, Hinkley Point C in the UK, Saeul 3 in S. Korea, Kudankulam 3&4 in India and Akkuyu 1&2 in Turkey. Every single new nuclear reactor being built in a democratic country is now way over budget and has blown its original timelines. Only if you live in China where the government can ignore people's concerns about safety can you claim that nuclear can be built on budget, and the average reactor still takes 7 years to build in China. In comparison, construction time is usually less than 2 years for wind farms and 1 year for solar farms and battery storage, so it makes no sense to invest in nuclear if the goal is to build as much clean energy generation capacity as fast as possible. The reality is that no power companies in the US or Western Europe are planning to build new nuclear reactors after Hinkley Point C is finished, so nuclear power has no future in the West. Yes, there are idiots like Bill Gates that are still willing to keep wasting seed capital on it, but solar and wind and battery storage are now so cheap that they have effectively killed all new nuclear plans, so stop pushing false solutions that have no viability in the real world.
CO2 is not a pollutant. "Climate change" is fake-science. Stop opposing people and their jobs. No need to wreck the economy, no matter what the liar communists say.
@@phil20_20 _More like 2080. Then hopefully fusion will start to come into play. It's going to be a very rough next 100 years._ But not due to science or physics, but rather due to our failure to arrest the evil deep state and Democrats, and our failure to charge them with high treason and crimes against humanity. It is not like we do not have good options, but rather rampant lying and manipulation by often non-elected non-leaders who do not care about us, who we worship more so than God. How can all this corruption be? BTW, we could easily be some 12 billion people in the world, as early as 2060, which should be received as good news that we humans can be so many, that the human life should expand, yet evil population-phobics do not want to do anything to improve population accommodation, but would rather use population as the convenient scapegoat for all the predictable failings of their immoral and wicked policies. Human sin is the problem, and not that there are so many of us humans, nor that we need reliable and cheap energy to power civilization and to reduce poverty.
here in Oregon the USFS is CLEAR CUTTING millions of acres of public forest due to fear of fires! and the heavy equipment they use is also tearing up the soils! Recovery of those forest won't happen in my life!
Recovery of these forests won't happen at all. Five+ years ago experts testifying to the Oregon legislature noted that by 2050 Douglas Fir trees will not be able to live in Oregon. As the climate destabilizes and rockets to +11 C globally (now unavoidable), the vast majority of species and whole phyla will die off. When things finally settle down a d evolution explodes,wholly new forests will develop. We will enter an equable climate for some unknowably long time. But that likely won't matter to any human. We are unlikely as a species to survive the transition. In the near term (a few decades), things are going to get very rough. After that it will get really exciting. Exciting is a really bad thing.
@@tunneloflight Buckle up... Mother Nature will shake us off the planet like pesky fleas... We are temporary, anyone that doesn't realize that hasn't read evolution... I don't think they even teach it in school anymore... gender studies, and their 51 genders...!!!!! Dead man walking.!!!!
Over 40 years ago the late great Carl Sagan warned us against tipping into a "Runaway Greenhouse". From what I see it looks like we did that beginning last July, and the evidence mounts daily showing that is likely. Maybe it's time to dig Sagan out of the memory hole. When Hansen spoke to Congress in 1988 he was mostly just telling the same story that Sagan told Congress in 1985! It's on RUclips...
I keep seeing this figure 40+ years in political economy discourses. This is when I date the beginning of the Second Gilded Age when Bernays-psyops level PR started us on the path to excess.
We talk allot about what "we" are emitting, as we should. Here's the problem as I see it. The CO2 that "we" are emitting has warmed the planet enough to start melting permafrost, which acts like a cork on a bottle. Under permafrost is centuries worth of detritus material which when thawed will decay and send those gases into the atmosphere in a reinforcing feedback loop. In other words: "the more ice we melt the faster we melt ice". I hope I am wrong but if this occurs we are in for some very bad times.
I have my own Facebook group add two years before the United Nations Red Alert for Humanity announcement I was already detecting Global changes in the annual summer increase of heat waves and much higher temperatures in many different countries
That is true but it doesn’t look like that’s had a big effect yet. The reduced albedo due to less ice is helping to increase earth energy imbalance which is the proximate cause of global warming. EEI has gone from around .5 W per M^2 in 2001 to around 1.4 today. The main reason for the big uptick is lower albedo, mostly from changes in cloud cover. I suspect a cloud feedback has kicked off over S America which is why it’s getting so hot down there.
@@5353Jumper I started following the science in the early 90's and it was crystal clear by then that the earth's surface temperature was rising and CO2 was the cause but money and the need to stay ahead of the rest of the world trumped action to stop using fossil fuels as an energy source. And now the consequences.
@@anabolicamaranth7140 I think most climate scientists understand the loss of ice is the main reason the higher latitudes are warming much faster than the rest of the world otherwise know as "Arctic Amplification". Either because of a change in albedo or arctic methane release or both I guess it really doesn't matter the exact processes the result is similar.
Hanssen hypothesizes that sulfate cooling effects, and as a result, CO2 heating effects may both be underestimated in IPCC climate models. Since 2010 sulfate output is reduced. A few extra years of accelerated warming are needed to confirm the hypothesis of much stronger warming vulnerability of CO2.
Well it got significantly reduced with shipping switching from Heavy Fuel Oil to lower sulphur Marine Diesel Oil and the cloud paths over the Atlantic faded. So ya we can see how fast the effect can be in just two years.
Daniel Rosenfeld's research group already proved that Aerosol Masking Effect is twice as bad as previously thought - that research came out about five years ago.
Good report and appreciate it. However, CO2 removal from the atmosphere (an additional 5-7 billion tons per year) is a joke. People making better food choices, another joke. Politicians changing policy fast enough to make a dent in fossil fuel use, really? When equatorial zones become uninhabitable and billions of people migrate north and south, then, maybe, the population of people will get the idea that radical changes need to happen.
Only equatorial regions are not warming. Warming is almost entirely measured at the poles. There is this thing about oceans that drive atmospheric temperatures. They move energy to the atmosphere primarily by evaporation. And evaporation vastly increases with higher temperatures. 30° C is as high as the ocean surface can go as long as we have cold poles. Nothing about this is controversial. The problem is that FUD drives the jobs that pay this woman and everyone else in the climate change governmental/industry sector.
@ranadd, You clearly haven't been paying attention. 92% of new power generation worldwide was low carbon (wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal) in 2023. 37% of new cars in China, 24% of new cars in Europe and 9.5% of new cars in the US were electric or plugin hybrids in 2023. China is the biggest auto market in the world and 50,7% of new car registrations in China were electric or plugin hybrid in July 2024 and China is now the biggest exporter of automobiles worldwide, surpassing both Japan and Germany in 2023. Changing agriculture and reforestation to capture carbon in the soil is not a "joke". Capturing carbon with biochar is a very good idea and lots of places are demonstrating that it works. Your nihilism is counterproductive, and frankly doesn't match reality.
I don't understand why the scientists say they've been surprised. Every bit of data that I've seen over the last decade made it seem like this is exactly what to expect. From the melting in Alaska leading to methane releases and less reflection from ice cover, to the slowing of the Atlantic conveyer due to melting in the arctic, and so much more. My brain could put those things together and see how the heat was quickly gaining momentum and deduce that their predictions were off, by quite a lot.
Possibly the mechanically-driven Northern Ferrel Cell has slowed a bit. That would certainly cause exactly what has happened. It would hardly be surprising if Wonky Northern Jet Stream wasn't pushing the Northern Ferrel Cell as much as before. If the +ve cloud feedback turns out to be strong then the ocean below the mechanically-driven Northern Ferrel Cell could also warm by increased SWR.
The reason we have climate changes is the same reason nothing much will be done to mitigate climate change. The rush for profit and progress has driven climate change. The people who've achieved great success want to continue doing all the things they have gotten used to doing. Which means more profits, more tech progress and more climate change.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 Leaders matter. Capitalist leaders lead for profit and making more profit. As a result, many other feature necessary to the creation and maintenance of a healthy society are neglected. For example... capitalist have shown no particular concern about polluting and then externalizing these business costs onto the public. So, no climate change has been created by the greedy types... not normal people.
@@blogintonblakley2708 capitalists are normal people. It's part of our nature to grow, to want more and more in an unsustainable way. And this is happening since thousands of years before capitalism. Actually we keep this trait since we were simple bacteria. Denial of our animal nature will not help... unless what you really want is a dictatorship of the proletariat, then it helps a lot.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 Capitalists are not normal people. They are focused on themselves and their gain. Capitalists are extraordinarily greedy and authoritarian when compared to a normal person. Because capitalists are authoritarians and it's the authoritarian part that matters... it doesn't really matter if the authoritarian is a capitalist a communist... a tyrant or a religious figure. You get the same social results. A few greedy people use the mechanism of the community to grab more than necessary for themselves. Greedy people are... pushy authoritarian people are. Such self focus and ruthless people make bad leaders because they siphon away social capital by grabbing most of the gains everyone works for. This has been true for thousands of years. Started with civilization... spread like a virus. Before civilization... greed was seen as an extremely negative social trait, and people were trained and socialized to steer clear of it. The particular sickness of capitalists and market economies is that such systems make a fetish of greed. Capitalists are authoritarian who culture a set of social priorities intended burden their communities by their presence instead of contributing. All "contributions" by such people are accomplished in their personal interests and leech away community resources and talent to frivolous personal ambitions.
The climate crisis is an existential threat, but it is just one of many facing us and life on Earth. Our human population is still exploding and our cities are still gobbling up farmland and wildland. Twelve billion people won’t leave any habitat for other species. We are are still overexploiting increasingly scarce ground and surface water. Scarcity and demand are driving up prices for fossil fuel and fertilizer, key inputs for agriculture. And, wildlife populations are rapidly declining and going extinct. We are already using more resources than our planet can sustainably provide to us. As our population rapidly grows from immigration in the US and Europe, and too many births elsewhere, and as the climate veers further from what our agricultural systems can adapt to, mass starvation will increase.
I suspect you are thinking in terms of emphasizing "threat" as in possibility, rather than "existential" as i. holy $%#$, we are $^#%ed. Yes, the other issues are involved and drive things harder and faster. There is zero chance that the changing conditions will allow us to ever reach 9 billion people, let alone 12. The $%#% is about to become intimately involved with the fan.
Great talk. Former and plant ecologist here, and resource manager for various entities. In retirement, I run a construction and travel business. My ideas differ from yours a bit, but mostly agree with you. I’m concerned about the climate crisis because it is currently costing me and my construction and lodging business at least $50,000 in direct costs (higher food, air conditioning, electricity, insurance costs); lost business due to fire and smoke; mitigation including using more fire resistant siding and other materials, etc. And, thousands of people in North America and hundreds of thousands of us humans throughout the world, who who used to think our regions were safe from fire and flooding, are losing our homes now! Today! As I type! Human overpopulation is the primary driver of the climate crisis, increasing food and water scarcity, mass extinctions of wildlife, increasing global conflict, etc. If we ignore overpopulation, no point in wasting time and money addressing the climate crisis. I am infinitely skeptical of carbon removal. The promise of it does nothing more than justifying the continued sale and profit from fossil fuels by the Saudis, Russia, Excon, the US, etc. Then there is increased migration which is causing riots in Britain today, and the election of fascist strongmen like Trump in Europe and North America. We now think that the Syrian civil war was caused by climate impacts to farmland. Water and food shortages, the deaths of the natural systems that sustain us, are the result of human overpopulation and rapid climate change. We need to stop burning stuff. Yesterday. If we act now, we will save more of our natural world and our civilization. Individual actions are good but insignificant compared to societal-scale actions. Ok, good work you two. Keep speaking out.
Our climate and environment issues are beyond human fixing. Why ? Because we humans have something called " greed and selfishness" and those issues require team work which governments and individuals are not willing to do so. Maybe in word but in reality.
This is actually a parasite collapse. Long ago, the tribe of Dan lied to try to reside off another, far higher tribe. Include this ongoing, untold pandemic and come out with parasitical collapse. Human life is what these parasite people have targeted. Big mistake. Rebecca Ann Grubb
Her carbon removal spiel was purposely vague, and definitely misleading. We have to be honest about our predicament, and all of the factors involved, regardless of one’s agenda.
Agreed! And, the climate crisis caused by our burning of fossil fuels is bur one of the existential threats that we face. We have to increase birth control and family planning. We have to protect our remaining wildlife.
@@freeheeler09Careful about accidentally becoming an eco fascist. Overpopulation is the mechanism by which eugenicists sneak into the conversation. It's always the other guy that ought to stop having children, and usually the poor.
I like the idea of addressing carbon now for getting ahead of the emissions tech. curve of practical and real world needs earlier in the carbon capture impacts phase. emissions need to transition to inmho hydrogen fuel cell function for transportation of our lard butt's and for freight also hydrogen fuel cells.The splicer is available for your solar cells arrays. Need for clarity for the human time line and it's viability. Malthus end lock
And be honest about what we can do about it … If the UK achieved NetZero we would reduce global boiling by 0.0004 degrees C per year. A … UK emissions per year = 400 million tons (gov.uk) B … CO2 required to increase global temperature by one degree C = 1 million million tons (IPCC) Divide A by B to get the reduction in global temperature if UK achieved Net Zero. Answer; 0.0004 degrees Centigrade per year. That’s four ten-thousandths of one degree C per year. California is also 0.0004 … Australia 0.0005 degrees C per year.
@gerhardusvanderpoll so when it's 125 inside a car, that's from climate change. "Data" is manipulated through this type of sampling and don't disparage Einstein, he was "special"
@gerhardusvanderpoll so if you take the temperature inside a car,has climate change caused that temperature increase, or is it because of where you measured the temperature? As for the Einstein comment, are you even aware that it doesn't make sense if you're implying that I don't know what I'm saying when obviously skewed data is used all the time. If you only use , nevermind, apparently logic is not your thing.
We can cut emissions, sure, but what about all the BURNING going on in South America, Africa, and Mongolia? Right now BURNING in countries we have no control over is doing more damage than a 20 minute commute to work.
@@spookyaction8917 NOT worried.... The Yellowstone caldera will blow long before global warming kills us all... Enjoy the ride while we are here... Not much we can do about it.!!!! Earth WILL have another reset eventually... Meteor, Solar flare, who knows.?? life is too short to worry about it.
Hearing this from others like Nate Hagen many times; still makes my stomach churn & heart hurt badly. I do believe that one of many many solutions we have is exactly what this brilliant lady said she is doing..micro climates. We can’t stop the monster that is society but we certainly can take responsibility to our own areas which adds up. Get angry but also get to work. Find solutions no matter how small & apply them. Thank you both a wonderful & terrible talk
Deforestation: +1.3°C! Just blew right past that... 🤪🌲 Like, maybe the U.S. should be bringing back some of the wilderness we have torn down... 🤔 Anyone who owns property can insulate their attic. That is the easiest thing to do. I plan to put 3/4" Polyiso on my inside walls and panel it. I have a full brick wall house which is about R3.
La Niña and El Niño are two sides of the same heat coin. Both exist within our planet. It is more like night and day - or sunshine and shade -- the heating is still there. We are just sometimes feeling the cooler of both conditions.
They can be replaced with new windmills and solar panels when they eventually wear out and need a refresh. Oil is not renewable because there is a finite limit to how much we can pull out of the ground before the wells run dry. It may be a long time before that happens, but at some point it will happen. Humans cannot make more oil so it is non-renewable.
The "new ice age" was just a couple popular magazine articles about the discovery of the Aerosol Masking Effect which is actually twice as bad as previously thought.
I am 14 and live every day in fear for my future. My life is as great as it can be right now, but every time I look at science, all I see is the calm before the storm.
Yes, we are heading into the heat extreme. That said, volcanic and earthquake activities are dramatically increasing. The melting of the glaciers, and ice sheets will influence this geological anomaly. A super volcanic eruption, such as the Yellowstone which is active now. This may be inevitable. Along with a major seismic subduction event, such as the Cascade devastating vast coastal areas. Uncharted, but we need to come to terms with what we individually can do to address this crisis. Great example with ditching the lawn, and helping biodiversity with water resiliency. Thank you.
Yes, Yellowstone will probably have a major eruption again - someday, probably thousands of years in the future. Yes, the Juan de Fuca plate continues to subduct and there will be another megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Volcanic and earthquake activity are not increasing, they are just affecting more people, because in the last tiny tick of geologic time, the number of people has increased exponentially. So let's not get confused about what disaster we need to concentrate on, which is the one humans caused and the only one we can actually do anything about.
@@darrellturner560 Volcanic activity on decadal time scale is much higher last 5 decades than 5 decades before. On year to year scale it follows 22 yrs cycle.
@@darrellturner560 it depends on what time frame one is referencing. Recent could be compared to two, to ten years ago, or a hundred. Something for you to do your research on.
Why can’t they emphasize plant based eating? It’s something absolutely everyone can do and can have an enormous impact on emissions and overall resource use. It’s frustrating that we are still dancing around this issue.
Here in the US Midwest we’re hitting a stunningly LOW number of summer record highs. We’re still burning lots of coal and have high SO2 levels. Columbus OH # of 100F+ days from 1931-1955: 31. Number of 100F days from 1956- 1980: Zero. Coal plants started going into service around 1950. India also has high SO2 and per Goddard climate reports it is not warming nearly as fast as planet average. Scaling up renewables will mean much hotter summers in the Midwest. No more aerosol masking and we’ll obliterate records.
It's what Hansen calls "the Faustian bargain." If we stop burning coal, (and we should, not only because we can't afford the climate change from the CO2 emissions, but also because coal harms respiratory health and causes acid rain), then we lose the cooling effect of the aerosols produced.
@@anabolicamaranth7140 The US midwest has "weather" We are talking about "climate", not "weather". We had a record cold June here in Austria, which of course means that the whole world must be much colder than usual. Right? And the last three weeks we had record high temperatures up to 36 degrees celsius. Which means the whole world must be 10 degrees warmer than in the 1970s. Right?
Don't worry about carbon capture now. Worry about stopping your emissions first...! And after we stopped emitting, then we can worry about carbon removal...
Carbon capture - lets use a massive mount of energy reducing some of the harm from our energy production!!! The kind of math only a petroleum executive can love.
Breaching the 1.5c definitely means human efforts in solving global warming isn't lowering the warming but only breaking temperature records every single year. Expect 1.6 or 2.0c in the next 5 or so years is more realistic.
Plant deciduous trees, to shade your home in the summer to keep it cooler. In the winter, when the leaves drop it will allow the sun to warm your home. Good for the environment too.
The 'glass half full' way to understand Gavin Schmidt's comment, (referenced ~ 6:30), is that by present scientific understanding, we can expect the current unprecedented temperature anomaly to moderate by August, 2024. We'll see, eh?
Confused, WTH is climate change? I have survived and thrived upon this landmass called earth for 29,410 days and each day experienced changes in climate, hot, cool, cold, warm, dry, rain, etc. Is there anyone giving attention to the sun, magnetic waves or atmospheric layers between earth and the sun?
Yes, you know who studies the sun, sun cycles, orbits, inclinations? Climate scintists. You know who is saying this recent global warming is not caused by the sun? Climate scintists. According to all the natural cycles (Milankovitch and others) we are supposed to be cooling. Atmospheric carbon is supposed to be reducing. Glaciers are supposed to be growing. But the opposite is happening. And the only explanation anyone can find to why is because of human caused increase in Atmospheric carbon. Oh yeah, you know who Milankovitch was? A climate scientist that every climate scientist is taught about in school because of all his research into the sun.
I hipe you did not experience a climate change on your own. That would mean you are as large as the whole globe. That does not sound desirable. Weather is not Climate.
Says everyone who does not understand the waivey jetsteam phenomenon, how cold arctic air going to places it is not normally seen is due to global warming. Maybe look it up so you know.
High temps above Antarctica are pushing cold air unseasonably up into southern Australia..this is extreme climate change..I live in East Gippsland ,Thursday was like summer today is colder than winter..Best to you all out there we are in abrupt climate change.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 what I mean by we have time is...I can't say it outright or it'll get erased. It's all about the SON. We are being bombarded by so lar rad I ation. Look at the SOUTH ATLANTIC ANO moly. Planes literally have to fly around it because its a huge hole. They'd crash if they flew through it.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 they don't need to do anything. There's nothing that can be done. The real problem rises in the east and sets in the west. That's the real problem. Not carbon.
I've had a home energy audit and followed up with action to secure this house. I also included installing three forms of solar energy use. All I had to do is not buy a new vehicle and not go on vacation for a few years!
If they were worried about the heat, they would quit flying their private jets, stop the cloud seeding, quit cutting down trees, and stop laying black asphalt.
Money grab by the climate cabal... We pay more for EVERYTHING, while they fly to their parties and laugh at us... there's a lot of STUPID out there. that just eat this crap up...
Science does not care about the heat. Science blames fuel use as the problem when they use more than most anybody. They could stop all the space programs and shut down ice core freezers around the world, but they won''t do anything that takes the focus off them and their funding.
it is always interesting to hear that in order to reduce Co2 emissions we need technology progress.... we need to confess to our selves that we abuse our earth we life on.... we need to learn to live in balance with nature again...
I thought that it was pretty well known by the serious climate scientists that we are currently experiencing the anticipated temperature anomaly primarily caused by the amount of water injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption in 2022. The CO2 contribution to the current heat anomaly is relatively miniscule compared to the contribution of the increased water vapor in the Stratosphere. My understanding is that this water vapor anomaly is expected to contribute to increased temperatures for 9-10 more years.
Umm...no. One little volcano out of thousands per year had nearly zero effect on the atmosphere and it only lasted a few months. The "water vapor" problem everyone is talking about is caused as a feedback loop from all our human emissions of atmospheric carbon. So sorry your false narrative is - false.
According to James Hansen in his paper Warming In The Pipeline, the effect of that volcano/excess water vapor in stratosphere is absolutely real, but its greenhouse/warming effect is minimal. What "serious" climate scientist are you referring to out of curiosity?
"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
NASA figures show the world is 15% greener than 20 years ago. Hardly surprising when commercial greenhouse farmers use over 1000 ppm of CO2. How can and increase in CO2 be bad when it benefits all plants and animal life while making the earth wetter and greener?
Dyson was not even a climate scientist, he was a mathematician. Had no understanding of the natural cycles of earth's climate and the unnatural way we have effected it. And with all his "math" skills he could not seem to figure out that if plant life could use all the carbon we are emitting - atmospheric carbon levels would not be increasing. The very fact that atmospheric carbon levels are increasing proves that the former natural balance between natural emissions and natural consumption has been broken. So your little quote from one of the most discredited "scientist" to ever exist does not mean much.
I can remember growing up... we always wanted "Endless Summers"... The world now seems to be filled with very unhappy people... If it gets HOT, make more lemonade... You folks need to CHILL.!!!!!
@@wolfgangpreier9160 Get's HOT, Get's COLD.... hasn't changed much in 75 years, and I live in Valley of the Sun... Phoenix ARIZONA... I like it HOT.... can't handle the cold.!!!!
Our country needs to think bigger. Let's start with hydrating Desert Valley using any of the many techniques that are all over youtube, planting 20 billion trees, and introduce Black Soldier Fly Larvae to address our national garbage problem.
@@dougmoore4653 Yes, the last few days have been cooler. I recommend you google "July 2024 heat waves British Columbia", and read the July 17 (updated July 18) article in The Toronto Sun.
My objection to your comment is that this video is concerned with global climate change. Since climate is the statistical average of weather, over many years, why would you think the weather of a few months would have much to say about it? And since we're talking about global climate, even the statistical average of many years of Florida's weather, (its climate), would not be significant; Florida is one third of one tenth of one percent of the surface of the earth. @@dougmoore4653
You are talking weather when the video is about climate. Climate explores global anomalies not day to day weather. We had an unusual cool spell for about ten day here in Missouri in August but that does not reflect global trends. However the anomaly is data that shows things are getting less predictable. Dog days of August in June and the strange fall weather in August are both bad signs for the overall climate. Get informed instead of making baseless statements about misinformation. Climate change is when my area had decades of deep ice every winter in my youth, but now we never have ice thick enough to walk on safely in winter. We use to get feet of snow many times each year but now we rarely have such events. One six inch snowfall does not invalidate the trend. Now take my local experience and compare/contrast that globally over all areas and look at the big picture. Weather is by definition a local phenomena.
Some of the comments here suggest CO2 levels are at extremely high levels. In truth, it's 0.04% or about 420 ppm. Many plants struggle to grow at 0.03% C02. It's more about big business and promoting fear and division than it is about the planet.
Don't quite get your post. If the truth of CO2 0.04% while "Many plants struggle to grow at 0.03%." Thus, plants are struggling to grow? Please clarify.
@@danpress7745 yes, plants are struggling to grow at 420 ppm CO₂ in the atmosphere (400 ppm = 0.04%) as evidenced by the fact that plants grow better at higher CO₂ levels greenhouses and marijuana growers typically use between 1,200 ppm and 1,500 ppm
A 10 second Google search shows you are totally wrong, unless you are pulling that statistic from Alaska??? Global deaths from severe heat are 3x to 5x higher than deaths from extreme cold. And in 2022 it was around 10x more heat related deaths.
Overconsumption is a huge problem. In politics we measure success with it. GDP... The very life on this planet is dying because of it. Don't buy anything but food and what you drink. If you really need to then you should only buy things that you use several times per month. And you should use them until they break. Our society is forcing us to buy ever more, but we should change whole system, so it would not be dependant on overconsumption. Start with adding adblocker to YT...
We are moving into an el niño season, so of course this summer was supposed to be very hot in the northern hemisphere. In fact, this isn’t just any el niño, but it’s an amalgamation cycle el niño, meaning this summer was anticipated to be particularly hot, possibly even record breaking. It’s funny how nothing is said when we have cool summers or record breaking cold winters. It’s only when we get the relatively rare really hot days. This is why a lot of people remain skeptical of global warming claims, even unreasonably. Yes, we are going to have some hot summers. The climate isn’t static and we are moving into warming phase of Earth’s climate cycle. That doesn’t mean that we should have a knee-jerk reaction just because we have a couple weeks of a hot summer. What Stephanie Roe didn’t disclose, is that directly or indirectly, a lot of her funding is dependent on public fear over the climate and the ringing of alarm bells at every opportunity. One hot summer and people are coming out of the woodwork with global warming alarmism, yet the previous summers, which weren’t el niño years oddly enough, were particularly cool, and we’ve had some very cold winters. FWIW, I’m not a climate change denier. Just a climate change realist.
It takes 10 years, for the full effect of each year's emissions to manifest, as I'm sure you are aware. We are headed to the same temperature regime that existed when Primates first evolved---tiny little tree dwelling Primates (during and after the PETM). Thank you for keeping the masses pacified, while I prepare to migrate to southern South America. Thank you.
Well we're emitting 36 gigatons every year trees won't pull fast enough, especially planting new trees it takes decades for them to take off. Carbon capture, unless it's powered by geothermal or hydro and you have walls of them bisecting countries all over, it would seem to toss money. Even if we could stop burning carbon today it'll be decades before relief is noticeable globally.
We would need to approximately double the number of trees on the planet. And also double all other natural carbon sinks. So double the amount of nature on the planet today. No it is not possible. The only solution is to reduce our emissions, stop harming nature, and wait to see if the planet wants us on it or not.
As a doomsayer prognosticator that has a scorecard of predictive success compared to IPCCC, and in spite of never being listened to I continue by pointing out the obvious. Due to governments' inability to address the cascade of extreme weather events civil society as we know it will collapse by 2100.
Still waiting for observable heat records from any relative, colleague, friend or associate; except one in California. Until now we had a cool and wet year in central Europe, so bad that harvests suffer (and no, elevated night temperatures don't compensate for this, much less pose a problem.
Can we Make a law to shutdown the economy 1 month a year globally everyone goes out to plant trees, do clean ups, we also have to change daily habits an consumptions also etc. reduce the private flights for rich or politicians and other factors. I'm sure people would appreciate life more if we changed the way we worked and view the planet. We all need to be more in tuned with planet everything is about money not considering the effects being caused. many will suffer
Horrible idea if you want to drastically increase heating by removing those cooling aerosols! There is no way out of this paradox. We're damned if we do & damned if we don't at this point!
2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide removal by soil management? not sure that is right, by stopping cutting down trees doesn't really count as capturing carbon just mean your not adding more
Here is a prosaic idea.Why not build several oxygen processing plants pumping O2 into the atmosphere which can help breakup the carbon dioxide emissions.?
Stop cutting the grass & flowers & trees. Stop putting building before nature. Most area is farmland or urban, so needs 're-wilded'. People have proven deserts can be re-greened.
Sorry, sorry, but I couldn't go on with these untruths. C3S published "Hottest May on record spurs call for climate action" on 7-25-24, which includes the 0.75 degC global ave. temp increase for the 3.5 yrs. beginning this decade, so divide 0.75 by 3.5 and get 0.214 degC for the annual ave. temp increase, right? If so, and it's on a trend line over the past 13 mo's (18 ?), then we're on the way to 2 degC by 2027, 3 degC by 2032, 4 degC by 2037, 5 degC by 2042, and 6 degC by 2047, right? These numbers are relative to the most relevant 1991-2020 baseline, unlike the baloney of 1.2 degC increase relative to the 1850-1900 baseline. If this woman is the best that our taxpayer's money and NOAA can do, I'd stick with C3S, if I were you? That's what I do.
We're already in uncharted territory . The 1st CO2 molecule for the industrial era went up I750. It won't come down for another 730 years. We are the frogs in the pot of water.
you have no idea what your talking about. we are currently in an extremely LOW CO2 amount in our history. AND ice cores show CO2 FOLLOWS temperature rise and NOT causes it. CO2 is plant food and will green up the planet.
What is preventing action on climate change? Whatever that is needs to be fixed. Maybe we are not capable of fixing whatever that is? Or maybe even incapable of identifying whatever that is?
Climate change isn't any thing to fear. It's actually an immensely positive thing for the bulk of humanity. Look at what the climate was like during the Eocene period, when the earth was on average 14 deg F warmer. The tropics weren't any hotter then. But the places that are frozen wastelands now were very mild then, with alligators and palm tree fossiles found way up in Alaska and Canada. If you take all the land that is inhospitable now as frozen tundra and aboreal forest now, and change it to something like a wet mediterranean climate (like San Francisco), it would unlock a TON of living space for humanity. Likewise, places such as the Sahara and the intermountain west that are vast deserts now would become very nice grasslands. I estimate it would open up such vast territories for human settlement, it would be the equivalent of having two extra Earths as we know it today! That's like having two extra planets worth of living space without having to develop faster than light travel to colonize distant worlds! Now you may begin to see just why the elites who are obsessed with nothing but their own totalitarian control want to prevent this new era of human civilization!
Hate to break this to you but during the Eocene there was not enough oxygen for large mammals like humans to survive. So you really want to go back to that?
And seriously you have me laughing so hard. You think the "elites" are the ones arguing for emissions reduction - wtf??? You don't think the "elites" are the ones running the trillion dollar petroleum and global transportation industries that are bent on us maintaining fuel demand forever no matter what the cost to our society?
I can't believe scientists are having a conversation about data showing changes but you don't show any tables or graphs of the data you discuss. Amazing. A BIG thumbs down, for me.
I'm a fan of dark humour and honestly I laughed quite a lot during this interview. The reality of our situation and the multi-layered predicament both our civilization and biosphere are currently facing is so much more complex and intractable than is being admitted to here. I don't know if the speakers are being consciously simplistic to get across a hopeful message or if they really believe that co2 emissions and climate change are the sum of the issues we face. In any case, there is no feasible way for us as a species to meaningfully reduce our emissions and much less our energy use and maintain anything like the kind of lifestyles that most of humanity expects or aspires to as of 2024. That is not going to happen by choice, ever, period. And even if it did, it would not "solve" the existential issues created by the very existence of our civilization. Our way of life is so far out of wack with the physical limits of what could be sustained, the pressures placed on the biosphere by our sheer numbers are so gargantuan and unreasonable, and our lived understanding of the world and our place in it is so deluded and divorced from reality that a cascading collapse across multiple levels is inevitable, and in fact, it is well underway. That may not be a very palatable message but it is much more intellectually honest than what they are saying here. By all means, reduce your contribution to c02 emissions, drive an electric car if it tickles your fancy, but don't pretend that the world is going to continue to sustain 8 billion + people for much longer, regardless. Whether you drive a Tesla or a Toyota is not going to change the underlying dynamics almost at all. If you are serious about what we facing, a much more drastic course of action is required and that can only really be achieved on small-scale, by a a narrow demographic, and that is to go live like the global poor did over a century ago. Good luck selling that as a lifestyle. Anyway, best of luck to everyone. We are not slowing down.
Man has lived through 24 ice ages polar bears have lived through 26 . At the beginning of the last ice age co2 was in the atmosphere at a much higher percentage than now .as the seas cooled in the last ice age co2 was absorbed into the oceans ,as the climate warmed co2 is given off to the atmosphere, as in every previous ice age . This is due to Henry's law of co2 equilibrium.
I'm surprised I made it all the way through this. I didn't hear much science at all. mostly conjecture and vague references to trends and statistics. No citations or data was offered. Obviously offered for the layperson. Her assertion that if the trend doesn't break by August it will be bad, is a guess at best as she admits there is no past data to confirm her hypothesis. She is also compltly ignoring other sciences that play a major role in climate change such as magnetic, geological and solar impacts, and their subsequent effects.
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Jevons' paradox. Increased energy efficiency will result in more energy consumption, not less.
It's also how we produce the energy. Go nuclear, and insulate your attic!
Tax payers took $8 billion in energy tax credits. That should over 10 or less years reduce consumption by $8 billion. Expect more consumption.
@@phil20_20, It makes no sense to promote nuclear, because it takes too long to implement, costs too much per MWh and requires too much water to cool it, which may not be available in the future, plus it has high risks and its waste is expensive too store. By every objective criteria, it makes no sense to build new nuclear plants. In the US, wind turbines cost about $1.7M per MW, utility solar costs $0.8M - $0.9M per MW, whereas Vogtle 3 and 4 cost $15.2M per MW. Even if you figure a 60 year lifetime and a 0.95 capacity factor, nuclear power simply doesn't work on economic grounds.
Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia started its permitting in August 2006 and started construction in Aug. 2009 and its construction was supposed to cost $14 billion and take 7 years for reactor 3 and 8 years years for reactor 4. It ended up costing $34 billion and taking 14 years for reactor 3 and 15 years for reactor 4. It is the same story at Flamanville in France, Olkiluoto in Finland, Ohma and Shimane 3 in Japan, Hinkley Point C in the UK, Saeul 3 in S. Korea, Kudankulam 3&4 in India and Akkuyu 1&2 in Turkey. Every single new nuclear reactor being built in a democratic country is now way over budget and has blown its original timelines. Only if you live in China where the government can ignore people's concerns about safety can you claim that nuclear can be built on budget, and the average reactor still takes 7 years to build in China.
In comparison, construction time is usually less than 2 years for wind farms and 1 year for solar farms and battery storage, so it makes no sense to invest in nuclear if the goal is to build as much clean energy generation capacity as fast as possible. The reality is that no power companies in the US or Western Europe are planning to build new nuclear reactors after Hinkley Point C is finished, so nuclear power has no future in the West. Yes, there are idiots like Bill Gates that are still willing to keep wasting seed capital on it, but solar and wind and battery storage are now so cheap that they have effectively killed all new nuclear plans, so stop pushing false solutions that have no viability in the real world.
I cannot imagine being at all hopeful that emissions will peak anytime in the next 2 decades.
That is just rubbish. This video is junk
CO2 is not a pollutant. "Climate change" is fake-science. Stop opposing people and their jobs. No need to wreck the economy, no matter what the liar communists say.
More like 2080. Then hopefully fusion will start to come into play. It's going to be a very rough next 100 years.
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_More like 2080. Then hopefully fusion will start to come into play. It's going to be a very rough next 100 years._
But not due to science or physics, but rather due to our failure to arrest the evil deep state and Democrats, and our failure to charge them with high treason and crimes against humanity. It is not like we do not have good options, but rather rampant lying and manipulation by often non-elected non-leaders who do not care about us, who we worship more so than God. How can all this corruption be?
BTW, we could easily be some 12 billion people in the world, as early as 2060, which should be received as good news that we humans can be so many, that the human life should expand, yet evil population-phobics do not want to do anything to improve population accommodation, but would rather use population as the convenient scapegoat for all the predictable failings of their immoral and wicked policies. Human sin is the problem, and not that there are so many of us humans, nor that we need reliable and cheap energy to power civilization and to reduce poverty.
@@phil20_20 CO2 fertilization is greening earth.
here in Oregon the USFS is CLEAR CUTTING millions of acres of public forest due to fear of fires! and the heavy equipment they use is also tearing up the soils! Recovery of those forest won't happen in my life!
Recovery of these forests won't happen at all. Five+ years ago experts testifying to the Oregon legislature noted that by 2050 Douglas Fir trees will not be able to live in Oregon.
As the climate destabilizes and rockets to +11 C globally (now unavoidable), the vast majority of species and whole phyla will die off. When things finally settle down a d evolution explodes,wholly new forests will develop. We will enter an equable climate for some unknowably long time.
But that likely won't matter to any human. We are unlikely as a species to survive the transition.
In the near term (a few decades), things are going to get very rough. After that it will get really exciting. Exciting is a really bad thing.
The govt use energy directed weapons to cause the fires ...do your research
The US government. You have to love them. They break your leg.... Give you a crutch... And say "see... What would you do without us" 😂
@@tunneloflight Buckle up... Mother Nature will shake us off the planet like pesky fleas... We are temporary, anyone that doesn't realize that hasn't read evolution... I don't think they even teach it in school anymore... gender studies, and their 51 genders...!!!!! Dead man walking.!!!!
You just love telling yourself fake stories, dont you? Open your ears instead of your mouth....@@bobd251
Over 40 years ago the late great Carl Sagan warned us against tipping into a "Runaway Greenhouse". From what I see it looks like we did that beginning last July, and the evidence mounts daily showing that is likely. Maybe it's time to dig Sagan out of the memory hole. When Hansen spoke to Congress in 1988 he was mostly just telling the same story that Sagan told Congress in 1985! It's on RUclips...
I suspect the runaway was set in motion some decades ago but now it’s becoming more and more obvious.
I keep seeing this figure 40+ years in political economy discourses. This is when I date the beginning of the Second Gilded Age when Bernays-psyops level PR started us on the path to excess.
Late Great ? He was a legend in his own mind but not many others.
Isn't Hansen the one that said NYC would be under water in 20 years.....30 years ago? gtfoh.
well carl sagen said it in 1985 but james hanson said it also in 1988 so ..
We talk allot about what "we" are emitting, as we should. Here's the problem as I see it. The CO2 that "we" are emitting has warmed the planet enough to start melting permafrost, which acts like a cork on a bottle. Under permafrost is centuries worth of detritus material which when thawed will decay and send those gases into the atmosphere in a reinforcing feedback loop. In other words: "the more ice we melt the faster we melt ice". I hope I am wrong but if this occurs we are in for some very bad times.
I have my own Facebook group add two years before the United Nations Red Alert for Humanity announcement I was already detecting Global changes in the annual summer increase of heat waves and much higher temperatures in many different countries
That is true but it doesn’t look like that’s had a big effect yet. The reduced albedo due to less ice is helping to increase earth energy imbalance which is the proximate cause of global warming. EEI has gone from around .5 W per M^2 in 2001 to around 1.4 today. The main reason for the big uptick is lower albedo, mostly from changes in cloud cover. I suspect a cloud feedback has kicked off over S America which is why it’s getting so hot down there.
If only someone had warned us about all this decades ago before we triggered natural feedback loops.
@@5353Jumper I started following the science in the early 90's and it was crystal clear by then that the earth's surface temperature was rising and CO2 was the cause but money and the need to stay ahead of the rest of the world trumped action to stop using fossil fuels as an energy source. And now the consequences.
@@anabolicamaranth7140 I think most climate scientists understand the loss of ice is the main reason the higher latitudes are warming much faster than the rest of the world otherwise know as "Arctic Amplification". Either because of a change in albedo or arctic methane release or both I guess it really doesn't matter the exact processes the result is similar.
The aerosol masking paradox makes abundantly clear that there is no way out of this situation!
That was explained back 2005 with the BBC documentary called Global Dimming.
Hanssen hypothesizes that sulfate cooling effects, and as a result, CO2 heating effects may both be underestimated in IPCC climate models. Since 2010 sulfate output is reduced. A few extra years of accelerated warming are needed to confirm the hypothesis of much stronger warming vulnerability of CO2.
Well it got significantly reduced with shipping switching from Heavy Fuel Oil to lower sulphur Marine Diesel Oil and the cloud paths over the Atlantic faded. So ya we can see how fast the effect can be in just two years.
Daniel Rosenfeld's research group already proved that Aerosol Masking Effect is twice as bad as previously thought - that research came out about five years ago.
I don't understand why RWNJ are not throwing the Chinese under the bus for cutting it's sulfur emissions.
Good report and appreciate it. However, CO2 removal from the atmosphere (an additional 5-7 billion tons per year) is a joke. People making better food choices, another joke. Politicians changing policy fast enough to make a dent in fossil fuel use, really? When equatorial zones become uninhabitable and billions of people migrate north and south, then, maybe, the population of people will get the idea that radical changes need to happen.
By then it will be way too late. It’s already way too late.
Only equatorial regions are not warming. Warming is almost entirely measured at the poles.
There is this thing about oceans that drive atmospheric temperatures. They move energy to the atmosphere primarily by evaporation. And evaporation vastly increases with higher temperatures.
30° C is as high as the ocean surface can go as long as we have cold poles.
Nothing about this is controversial. The problem is that FUD drives the jobs that pay this woman and everyone else in the climate change governmental/industry sector.
@@paulsnowand what comes through the poles again? Ahhh yes...solar radiation...in a solar maximum world ..
@@paulsnow Las Vegas is not warming at all.
@ranadd, You clearly haven't been paying attention. 92% of new power generation worldwide was low carbon (wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal) in 2023. 37% of new cars in China, 24% of new cars in Europe and 9.5% of new cars in the US were electric or plugin hybrids in 2023. China is the biggest auto market in the world and 50,7% of new car registrations in China were electric or plugin hybrid in July 2024 and China is now the biggest exporter of automobiles worldwide, surpassing both Japan and Germany in 2023. Changing agriculture and reforestation to capture carbon in the soil is not a "joke". Capturing carbon with biochar is a very good idea and lots of places are demonstrating that it works.
Your nihilism is counterproductive, and frankly doesn't match reality.
This video should have millions of views.
I don't understand why the scientists say they've been surprised. Every bit of data that I've seen over the last decade made it seem like this is exactly what to expect. From the melting in Alaska leading to methane releases and less reflection from ice cover, to the slowing of the Atlantic conveyer due to melting in the arctic, and so much more. My brain could put those things together and see how the heat was quickly gaining momentum and deduce that their predictions were off, by quite a lot.
Please stop putting "music" onto the intro track. It might just be a higher decibel than the voice.
With you on this. The guys who produce this din should be fired and get a proper job. I mean, they really are a waste of space
Possibly the mechanically-driven Northern Ferrel Cell has slowed a bit. That would certainly cause exactly what has happened. It would hardly be surprising if Wonky Northern Jet Stream wasn't pushing the Northern Ferrel Cell as much as before. If the +ve cloud feedback turns out to be strong then the ocean below the mechanically-driven Northern Ferrel Cell could also warm by increased SWR.
The reason we have climate changes is the same reason nothing much will be done to mitigate climate change. The rush for profit and progress has driven climate change. The people who've achieved great success want to continue doing all the things they have gotten used to doing. Which means more profits, more tech progress and more climate change.
We are in extreme overshoot now.😢
and the ones that were not smart enough to have success want to have the same nice things
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 Leaders matter. Capitalist leaders lead for profit and making more profit. As a result, many other feature necessary to the creation and maintenance of a healthy society are neglected.
For example... capitalist have shown no particular concern about polluting and then externalizing these business costs onto the public.
So, no climate change has been created by the greedy types... not normal people.
@@blogintonblakley2708 capitalists are normal people. It's part of our nature to grow, to want more and more in an unsustainable way. And this is happening since thousands of years before capitalism. Actually we keep this trait since we were simple bacteria. Denial of our animal nature will not help... unless what you really want is a dictatorship of the proletariat, then it helps a lot.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 Capitalists are not normal people. They are focused on themselves and their gain. Capitalists are extraordinarily greedy and authoritarian when compared to a normal person.
Because capitalists are authoritarians and it's the authoritarian part that matters... it doesn't really matter if the authoritarian is a capitalist a communist... a tyrant or a religious figure. You get the same social results. A few greedy people use the mechanism of the community to grab more than necessary for themselves.
Greedy people are... pushy authoritarian people are.
Such self focus and ruthless people make bad leaders because they siphon away social capital by grabbing most of the gains everyone works for.
This has been true for thousands of years. Started with civilization... spread like a virus.
Before civilization... greed was seen as an extremely negative social trait, and people were trained and socialized to steer clear of it.
The particular sickness of capitalists and market economies is that such systems make a fetish of greed.
Capitalists are authoritarian who culture a set of social priorities intended burden their communities by their presence instead of contributing.
All "contributions" by such people are accomplished in their personal interests and leech away community resources and talent to frivolous personal ambitions.
The climate crisis is an existential threat, but it is just one of many facing us and life on Earth. Our human population is still exploding and our cities are still gobbling up farmland and wildland. Twelve billion people won’t leave any habitat for other species. We are are still overexploiting increasingly scarce ground and surface water. Scarcity and demand are driving up prices for fossil fuel and fertilizer, key inputs for agriculture. And, wildlife populations are rapidly declining and going extinct. We are already using more resources than our planet can sustainably provide to us. As our population rapidly grows from immigration in the US and Europe, and too many births elsewhere, and as the climate veers further from what our agricultural systems can adapt to, mass starvation will increase.
NATO is doing its best to reduce human population through its proxy war with Russia via Ukraine. Ukraine’s lost what, 400,000+ soldiers?
I suspect you are thinking in terms of emphasizing "threat" as in possibility, rather than "existential" as i. holy $%#$, we are $^#%ed. Yes, the other issues are involved and drive things harder and faster. There is zero chance that the changing conditions will allow us to ever reach 9 billion people, let alone 12. The $%#% is about to become intimately involved with the fan.
Especially when they are shutting down farms!
Bullshit
@@joebloggs8292 hard science.
Great talk. Former and plant ecologist here, and resource manager for various entities. In retirement, I run a construction and travel business. My ideas differ from yours a bit, but mostly agree with you.
I’m concerned about the climate crisis because it is currently costing me and my construction and lodging business at least $50,000 in direct costs (higher food, air conditioning, electricity, insurance costs); lost business due to fire and smoke; mitigation including using more fire resistant siding and other materials, etc.
And, thousands of people in North America and hundreds of thousands of us humans throughout the world, who who used to think our regions were safe from fire and flooding, are losing our homes now! Today! As I type!
Human overpopulation is the primary driver of the climate crisis, increasing food and water scarcity, mass extinctions of wildlife, increasing global conflict, etc. If we ignore overpopulation, no point in wasting time and money addressing the climate crisis.
I am infinitely skeptical of carbon removal. The promise of it does nothing more than justifying the continued sale and profit from fossil fuels by the Saudis, Russia, Excon, the US, etc.
Then there is increased migration which is causing riots in Britain today, and the election of fascist strongmen like Trump in Europe and North America. We now think that the Syrian civil war was caused by climate impacts to farmland. Water and food shortages, the deaths of the natural systems that sustain us, are the result of human overpopulation and rapid climate change.
We need to stop burning stuff. Yesterday. If we act now, we will save more of our natural world and our civilization.
Individual actions are good but insignificant compared to societal-scale actions.
Ok, good work you two. Keep speaking out.
Our climate and environment issues are beyond human fixing. Why ? Because we humans have something called " greed and selfishness" and those issues require team work which governments and individuals are not willing to do so. Maybe in word but in reality.
Greed has finally caught up with our species and humanity is going to pay the ultimate price
Good. It’s time for earth to correct this mistake called humans
This is actually a parasite collapse. Long ago, the tribe of Dan lied to try to reside off another, far higher tribe. Include this ongoing, untold pandemic and come out with parasitical collapse. Human life is what these parasite people have targeted. Big mistake. Rebecca Ann Grubb
If we have time to do something then we do nothing
Her carbon removal spiel was purposely vague, and definitely misleading. We have to be honest about our predicament, and all of the factors involved, regardless of one’s agenda.
Agreed! And, the climate crisis caused by our burning of fossil fuels is bur one of the existential threats that we face. We have to increase birth control and family planning. We have to protect our remaining wildlife.
@@freeheeler09Careful about accidentally becoming an eco fascist.
Overpopulation is the mechanism by which eugenicists sneak into the conversation.
It's always the other guy that ought to stop having children, and usually the poor.
I like the idea of addressing carbon now for getting ahead of the emissions tech. curve of practical and real world needs earlier in the carbon capture impacts phase. emissions need to transition to inmho hydrogen fuel cell function for transportation of our lard butt's and for freight also hydrogen fuel cells.The splicer is available for your solar cells arrays. Need for clarity for the human time line and it's viability. Malthus end lock
@@freeheeler09 Oh good grief. Calm down.
And be honest about what we can do about it …
If the UK achieved NetZero we would reduce global boiling by 0.0004 degrees C per year.
A … UK emissions per year = 400 million tons (gov.uk)
B … CO2 required to increase global temperature by one degree C = 1 million million tons (IPCC)
Divide A by B to get the reduction in global temperature if UK achieved Net Zero.
Answer; 0.0004 degrees Centigrade per year.
That’s four ten-thousandths of one degree C per year.
California is also 0.0004 … Australia 0.0005 degrees C per year.
Temperature currently 33°C today (29 July 2024). Malaysia 🇲🇾.
Why are so many temperature recording stations installed in the midst of heat islands, concrete and asphalt.
Stop questioning the science.
Well Einstein....it is to measure the climate change effects specific to the environments you mention...
@gerhardusvanderpoll so when it's 125 inside a car, that's from climate change. "Data" is manipulated through this type of sampling and don't disparage Einstein, he was "special"
@gerhardusvanderpoll so if you take the temperature inside a car,has climate change caused that temperature increase, or is it because of where you measured the temperature? As for the Einstein comment, are you even aware that it doesn't make sense if you're implying that I don't know what I'm saying when obviously skewed data is used all the time. If you only use , nevermind, apparently logic is not your thing.
Because the idiot deniers don’t understand what an average is.
The rate of global warming is increasing exponentially. Don't even ask if its related to climate change. We all should know by now.
We can cut emissions, sure, but what about all the BURNING going on in South America, Africa, and Mongolia? Right now BURNING in countries we have no control over is doing more damage than a 20 minute commute to work.
It's time to start building underground housing.
They're called coffins.
We are ALL heading in that direction.!!! Not much we can do about it.
You first.
@@spookyaction8917 NOT worried.... The Yellowstone caldera will blow long before global warming kills us all... Enjoy the ride while we are here... Not much we can do about it.!!!! Earth WILL have another reset eventually... Meteor, Solar flare, who knows.?? life is too short to worry about it.
Where will you get your food? Once the plants start dying from the heat, no more food. Mushrooms? Mold? Slime?
Hearing this from others like Nate Hagen many times; still makes my stomach churn & heart hurt badly. I do believe that one of many many solutions we have is exactly what this brilliant lady said she is doing..micro climates. We can’t stop the monster that is society but we certainly can take responsibility to our own areas which adds up. Get angry but also get to work. Find solutions no matter how small & apply them. Thank you both a wonderful & terrible talk
We need to have every flat roofed building grow wild flowers and grasses to reduce their need for
A/C and heating, and to sequester CO2.
Deforestation: +1.3°C! Just blew right past that... 🤪🌲 Like, maybe the U.S. should be bringing back some of the wilderness we have torn down... 🤔 Anyone who owns property can insulate their attic. That is the easiest thing to do. I plan to put 3/4" Polyiso on my inside walls and panel it. I have a full brick wall house which is about R3.
Soylent Green, watch it.
I love Soylent Green wafers. I eat them every day. That's why I'm so healthy, don't look any better, but at least I'm healthy.
Watch planet of the humans.
Our grand kids will live from it in the Siberian Gulags if we do not learn to reduce our energy hunger and stop poisoning our planet.
@@Comluc Steer clear of the Soylent Brown wafers.
La Niña and El Niño are two sides of the same heat coin. Both exist within our planet. It is more like night and day - or sunshine and shade -- the heating is still there. We are just sometimes feeling the cooler of both conditions.
Exactly what is renewable about a windmill or a solar panel???
They can be replaced with new windmills and solar panels when they eventually wear out and need a refresh.
Oil is not renewable because there is a finite limit to how much we can pull out of the ground before the wells run dry. It may be a long time before that happens, but at some point it will happen. Humans cannot make more oil so it is non-renewable.
The packaging. 😊 Be green!
Thank god the "new Ice age" was prevented in the 1970's. I used to lay in bed worring about freezing to death by 1982,
You too? That time is over. Forever.
The "new ice age" was just a couple popular magazine articles about the discovery of the Aerosol Masking Effect which is actually twice as bad as previously thought.
Start by not using AC in home and office, as this units causes too much outdoor heat.
Nothing you can do.... Grow a damn forest garden!!!!
I am 14 and live every day in fear for my future. My life is as great as it can be right now, but every time I look at science, all I see is the calm before the storm.
Yes, we are heading into the heat extreme. That said, volcanic and earthquake activities are dramatically increasing. The melting of the glaciers, and ice sheets will influence this geological anomaly. A super volcanic eruption, such as the Yellowstone which is active now. This may be inevitable. Along with a major seismic subduction event, such as the Cascade devastating vast coastal areas. Uncharted, but we need to come to terms with what we individually can do to address this crisis. Great example with ditching the lawn, and helping biodiversity with water resiliency. Thank you.
Volcanic activity is down according to volcanologists so I don't know where you are getting your info
Yes, Yellowstone will probably have a major eruption again - someday, probably thousands of years in the future. Yes, the Juan de Fuca plate continues to subduct and there will be another megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Volcanic and earthquake activity are not increasing, they are just affecting more people, because in the last tiny tick of geologic time, the number of people has increased exponentially. So let's not get confused about what disaster we need to concentrate on, which is the one humans caused and the only one we can actually do anything about.
@@darrellturner560 Volcanic activity on decadal time scale is much higher last 5 decades than 5 decades before. On year to year scale it follows 22 yrs cycle.
anything an individual does is'nt impactful enuff to matter. get rid of your hopium and live for moment.
@@darrellturner560 it depends on what time frame one is referencing. Recent could be compared to two, to ten years ago, or a hundred. Something for you to do your research on.
Why can’t they emphasize plant based eating? It’s something absolutely everyone can do and can have an enormous impact on emissions and overall resource use. It’s frustrating that we are still dancing around this issue.
Here in the US Midwest we’re hitting a stunningly LOW number of summer record highs. We’re still burning lots of coal and have high SO2 levels. Columbus OH # of 100F+ days from 1931-1955: 31. Number of 100F days from 1956- 1980: Zero. Coal plants started going into service around 1950. India also has high SO2 and per Goddard climate reports it is not warming nearly as fast as planet average. Scaling up renewables will mean much hotter summers in the Midwest. No more aerosol masking and we’ll obliterate records.
Where is your source of this finding
@@caterthun4853does it matter? Believe facts that support their feelings.
@@caterthun4853 National weather service records. It's just what the thermometer says.
It's what Hansen calls "the Faustian bargain." If we stop burning coal, (and we should, not only because we can't afford the climate change from the CO2 emissions, but also because coal harms respiratory health and causes acid rain), then we lose the cooling effect of the aerosols produced.
@@anabolicamaranth7140 The US midwest has "weather" We are talking about "climate", not "weather".
We had a record cold June here in Austria, which of course means that the whole world must be much colder than usual. Right?
And the last three weeks we had record high temperatures up to 36 degrees celsius. Which means the whole world must be 10 degrees warmer than in the 1970s. Right?
Don't worry about carbon capture now.
Worry about stopping your emissions first...!
And after we stopped emitting, then we can worry about carbon removal...
Carbon capture - lets use a massive mount of energy reducing some of the harm from our energy production!!!
The kind of math only a petroleum executive can love.
Breaching the 1.5c definitely means human efforts in solving global warming isn't lowering the warming but only breaking temperature records every single year. Expect 1.6 or 2.0c in the next 5 or so years is more realistic.
Plant deciduous trees, to shade your home in the summer to keep it cooler.
In the winter, when the leaves drop it will allow the sun to warm your home.
Good for the environment too.
The 'glass half full' way to understand Gavin Schmidt's comment, (referenced ~ 6:30), is that by present scientific understanding, we can expect the current unprecedented temperature anomaly to moderate by August, 2024. We'll see, eh?
Confused, WTH is climate change? I have survived and thrived upon this landmass called earth for 29,410 days and each day experienced changes in climate, hot, cool, cold, warm, dry, rain, etc. Is there anyone giving attention to the sun, magnetic waves or atmospheric layers between earth and the sun?
Yes, you know who studies the sun, sun cycles, orbits, inclinations? Climate scintists.
You know who is saying this recent global warming is not caused by the sun? Climate scintists.
According to all the natural cycles (Milankovitch and others) we are supposed to be cooling. Atmospheric carbon is supposed to be reducing. Glaciers are supposed to be growing. But the opposite is happening. And the only explanation anyone can find to why is because of human caused increase in Atmospheric carbon.
Oh yeah, you know who Milankovitch was? A climate scientist that every climate scientist is taught about in school because of all his research into the sun.
I hipe you did not experience a climate change on your own. That would mean you are as large as the whole globe. That does not sound desirable.
Weather is not Climate.
What heat wave? In australia we had a cold snap last week.
Says everyone who does not understand the waivey jetsteam phenomenon, how cold arctic air going to places it is not normally seen is due to global warming.
Maybe look it up so you know.
High temps above Antarctica are pushing cold air unseasonably up into southern Australia..this is extreme climate change..I live in East Gippsland ,Thursday was like summer today is colder than winter..Best to you all out there we are in abrupt climate change.
It’s been too late for decades.
and they keep saying we have time, just to ensure that nothing will be done
@@dreaming_butterfly1970because we do. And that's because they're lying to you
@@noneyabusiness88 great. I feel so positive now. Lets hope somebody will do something.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 what I mean by we have time is...I can't say it outright or it'll get erased. It's all about the SON. We are being bombarded by so lar rad I ation. Look at the SOUTH ATLANTIC ANO moly. Planes literally have to fly around it because its a huge hole. They'd crash if they flew through it.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 they don't need to do anything. There's nothing that can be done. The real problem rises in the east and sets in the west. That's the real problem. Not carbon.
Eight degrees wow. I'm still planting!
I've had a home energy audit and followed up with action to secure this house. I also included installing three forms of solar energy use. All I had to do is not buy a new vehicle and not go on vacation for a few years!
I did the same with my backyard. Good for you Dr Roe!
If they were worried about the heat, they would quit flying their private jets, stop the cloud seeding, quit cutting down trees, and stop laying black asphalt.
Did you ever think they may just be stupid 😮
Money grab by the climate cabal... We pay more for EVERYTHING, while they fly to their parties and laugh at us... there's a lot of STUPID out there.
that just eat this crap up...
Science does not care about the heat. Science blames fuel use as the problem when they use more than most anybody. They could stop all the space programs and shut down ice core freezers around the world, but they won''t do anything that takes the focus off them and their funding.
@@edtizzard8064 They're stupid AND evil, on purpose.
What? Those who are worried about aren't doing any of that.....lets try and keep it real.
it is always interesting to hear that in order to reduce Co2 emissions we need technology progress....
we need to confess to our selves that we abuse our earth we life on.... we need to learn to live in balance with nature again...
Hey, not using either fuel or electricity is always an option. So is just reducing consumption of everything else too.
I thought that it was pretty well known by the serious climate scientists that we are currently experiencing the anticipated temperature anomaly primarily caused by the amount of water injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption in 2022. The CO2 contribution to the current heat anomaly is relatively miniscule compared to the contribution of the increased water vapor in the Stratosphere. My understanding is that this water vapor anomaly is expected to contribute to increased temperatures for 9-10 more years.
Umm...no.
One little volcano out of thousands per year had nearly zero effect on the atmosphere and it only lasted a few months.
The "water vapor" problem everyone is talking about is caused as a feedback loop from all our human emissions of atmospheric carbon.
So sorry your false narrative is - false.
According to James Hansen in his paper Warming In The Pipeline, the effect of that volcano/excess water vapor in stratosphere is absolutely real, but its greenhouse/warming effect is minimal. What "serious" climate scientist are you referring to out of curiosity?
"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
NASA figures show the world is 15% greener than 20 years ago. Hardly surprising when commercial greenhouse farmers use over 1000 ppm of CO2. How can and increase in CO2 be bad when it benefits all plants and animal life while making the earth wetter and greener?
Dyson was not even a climate scientist, he was a mathematician.
Had no understanding of the natural cycles of earth's climate and the unnatural way we have effected it.
And with all his "math" skills he could not seem to figure out that if plant life could use all the carbon we are emitting - atmospheric carbon levels would not be increasing. The very fact that atmospheric carbon levels are increasing proves that the former natural balance between natural emissions and natural consumption has been broken.
So your little quote from one of the most discredited "scientist" to ever exist does not mean much.
I can remember growing up... we always wanted "Endless Summers"... The world now seems to be filled with very unhappy people... If it gets HOT, make more lemonade... You folks need to CHILL.!!!!!
I don't understand why humans haven't introduced genetic modified trees which can bind more CO2 tham standard tree ,especially in cities...
30 years ago the estimated population of arctic polar bears was 5,000. Today it is estimated at 55,000. Go figure.
Polar bear meat tastes like chicken.!!!!
Does this mean I won't have to turn on my HEATER this coming October.???
If you do not want to or cannot afford it, yes.
Weather is not climate, but whatever.
@@wolfgangpreier9160 With Ditz-Brained Democrats in charge, we may NOT be able to afford heat this winter... JoJos' Dark Winter...
@@wolfgangpreier9160 Get's HOT, Get's COLD.... hasn't changed much in 75 years, and I live in Valley of the Sun... Phoenix ARIZONA... I like it HOT.... can't handle the cold.!!!!
@@richard8031 Not everybody lives in hell. Some live in Garden Eden and do not want it to become hell.
@@wolfgangpreier9160 LOVE ARIZONA... No snow, No skeeters, or rats.... and we are having a very mild summer, so far... this year.
Our country needs to think bigger. Let's start with hydrating Desert Valley using any of the many techniques that are all over youtube, planting 20 billion trees, and introduce Black Soldier Fly Larvae to address our national garbage problem.
in other news it has been very mild temp in Florida (stop the misinformation)
And it's been very hot here in British Columbia, so I guess there's no way to know anything about climate, eh?
@@robertcartwright4374 i just looked up weather in British Columbia and it is at 70 high
@@dougmoore4653 Yes, the last few days have been cooler. I recommend you google "July 2024 heat waves British Columbia", and read the July 17 (updated July 18) article in The Toronto Sun.
My objection to your comment is that this video is concerned with global climate change. Since climate is the statistical average of weather, over many years, why would you think the weather of a few months would have much to say about it? And since we're talking about global climate, even the statistical average of many years of Florida's weather, (its climate), would not be significant; Florida is one third of one tenth of one percent of the surface of the earth. @@dougmoore4653
You are talking weather when the video is about climate. Climate explores global anomalies not day to day weather. We had an unusual cool spell for about ten day here in Missouri in August but that does not reflect global trends. However the anomaly is data that shows things are getting less predictable. Dog days of August in June and the strange fall weather in August are both bad signs for the overall climate. Get informed instead of making baseless statements about misinformation. Climate change is when my area had decades of deep ice every winter in my youth, but now we never have ice thick enough to walk on safely in winter. We use to get feet of snow many times each year but now we rarely have such events. One six inch snowfall does not invalidate the trend. Now take my local experience and compare/contrast that globally over all areas and look at the big picture. Weather is by definition a local phenomena.
How do you spell her name?
Check if the bank you use invests in fossil fuel companies. If it does, move your money...
Some of the comments here suggest CO2 levels are at extremely high levels. In truth, it's 0.04% or about 420 ppm. Many plants struggle to grow at 0.03% C02. It's more about big business and promoting fear and division than it is about the planet.
Big Gov never stops reaching for more power and growth.
@@alweedo8377 no one wants to hear the truth. They would rather panic. It's all about controll. They will see when it is too late.
Don't quite get your post. If the truth of CO2 0.04% while "Many plants struggle to grow at 0.03%." Thus, plants are struggling to grow? Please clarify.
@@alweedo8377 Yeah, the same idea that 0.04% plutonium will do nothing when injected. Either do the science or shut up.
@@danpress7745
yes, plants are struggling to grow at 420 ppm CO₂ in the atmosphere
(400 ppm = 0.04%)
as evidenced by the fact that plants grow better at higher CO₂ levels
greenhouses and marijuana growers typically use between 1,200 ppm and 1,500 ppm
Any thoughts on Airforce 2025? Using weather as a Force Multiplier!
Five times more people die from extreme cold rather than extreme heat.
Get out of here with your pesky facts, we're trying to scare people in here....move along.
A 10 second Google search shows you are totally wrong, unless you are pulling that statistic from Alaska???
Global deaths from severe heat are 3x to 5x higher than deaths from extreme cold.
And in 2022 it was around 10x more heat related deaths.
Overconsumption is a huge problem. In politics we measure success with it. GDP...
The very life on this planet is dying because of it.
Don't buy anything but food and what you drink. If you really need to then you should only buy things that you use several times per month. And you should use them until they break.
Our society is forcing us to buy ever more, but we should change whole system, so it would not be dependant on overconsumption.
Start with adding adblocker to YT...
We are moving into an el niño season, so of course this summer was supposed to be very hot in the northern hemisphere. In fact, this isn’t just any el niño, but it’s an amalgamation cycle el niño, meaning this summer was anticipated to be particularly hot, possibly even record breaking. It’s funny how nothing is said when we have cool summers or record breaking cold winters. It’s only when we get the relatively rare really hot days. This is why a lot of people remain skeptical of global warming claims, even unreasonably. Yes, we are going to have some hot summers. The climate isn’t static and we are moving into warming phase of Earth’s climate cycle. That doesn’t mean that we should have a knee-jerk reaction just because we have a couple weeks of a hot summer. What Stephanie Roe didn’t disclose, is that directly or indirectly, a lot of her funding is dependent on public fear over the climate and the ringing of alarm bells at every opportunity. One hot summer and people are coming out of the woodwork with global warming alarmism, yet the previous summers, which weren’t el niño years oddly enough, were particularly cool, and we’ve had some very cold winters. FWIW, I’m not a climate change denier. Just a climate change realist.
Earth has never been hot before ?🧐. Never been in an ice age ?🤔
It takes 10 years, for the full effect of each year's emissions to manifest, as I'm sure you are aware. We are headed to the same temperature regime that existed when Primates first evolved---tiny little tree dwelling Primates (during and after the PETM).
Thank you for keeping the masses pacified, while I prepare to migrate to southern South America. Thank you.
Well we're emitting 36 gigatons every year trees won't pull fast enough, especially planting new trees it takes decades for them to take off. Carbon capture, unless it's powered by geothermal or hydro and you have walls of them bisecting countries all over, it would seem to toss money. Even if we could stop burning carbon today it'll be decades before relief is noticeable globally.
We would need to approximately double the number of trees on the planet. And also double all other natural carbon sinks.
So double the amount of nature on the planet today.
No it is not possible. The only solution is to reduce our emissions, stop harming nature, and wait to see if the planet wants us on it or not.
As a doomsayer prognosticator that has a scorecard of predictive success compared to IPCCC, and in spite of never being listened to I continue by pointing out the obvious. Due to governments' inability to address the cascade of extreme weather events civil society as we know it will collapse by 2100.
And yet no mass migration to Alaska. It's puzzling.
We need a plan for the worst case scenario, as it seems to be taking place, hope has only led to inaction😢.
Still waiting for observable heat records from any relative, colleague, friend or associate; except one in California.
Until now we had a cool and wet year in central Europe, so bad that harvests suffer (and no, elevated night temperatures don't compensate for this, much less pose a problem.
Can we Make a law to shutdown the economy 1 month a year globally everyone goes out to plant trees, do clean ups, we also have to change daily habits an consumptions also etc. reduce the private flights for rich or politicians and other factors. I'm sure people would appreciate life more if we changed the way we worked and view the planet. We all need to be more in tuned with planet everything is about money not considering the effects being caused. many will suffer
Good Idea... However, God commanded that and called that the Sabbath Day. He probably instituted for a good reason.
Horrible idea if you want to drastically increase heating by removing those cooling aerosols! There is no way out of this paradox. We're damned if we do & damned if we don't at this point!
Hard to hear the man talk with all the background music.
2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide removal by soil management? not sure that is right, by stopping cutting down trees doesn't really count as capturing carbon just mean your not adding more
Half the Globe is in winter, people don't realize, when you talk about Global averages.
Here is a prosaic idea.Why not build several oxygen processing plants pumping O2 into the atmosphere which can help breakup the carbon dioxide emissions.?
Cold here in England
The planet started to heal when we shut down due to COVID.
We need to stop flying and driving, but that is too “inconvenient.”
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Extremely dangerous heat this year😭😢
Odd, I'm 70, lived in Arizona my entire life... and some IDIOT will say that every summer... especially transplants...
especially for morons that go hiking in flipflops in Arizona.... usually, tourist visiting from the NE states...
Additional warming? How about additional CO2?
Stop cutting the grass & flowers & trees. Stop putting building before nature. Most area is farmland or urban, so needs 're-wilded'. People have proven deserts can be re-greened.
Sorry, sorry, but I couldn't go on with these untruths. C3S published "Hottest May on record spurs call for climate action" on 7-25-24, which includes the 0.75 degC global ave. temp increase for the 3.5 yrs. beginning this decade, so divide 0.75 by 3.5 and get 0.214 degC for the annual ave. temp increase, right? If so, and it's on a trend line over the past 13 mo's (18 ?), then we're on the way to 2 degC by 2027, 3 degC by 2032, 4 degC by 2037, 5 degC by 2042, and 6 degC by 2047, right? These numbers are relative to the most relevant 1991-2020 baseline, unlike the baloney of 1.2 degC increase relative to the 1850-1900 baseline. If this woman is the best that our taxpayer's money and NOAA can do, I'd stick with C3S, if I were you? That's what I do.
We're already in uncharted territory . The 1st CO2 molecule for the industrial era went up I750. It won't come down for another 730 years. We are the frogs in the pot of water.
Interesting, does it take that long to clear out?
Frogs in the pot of water is exactly right.
Yup. Many Scientists just can accept it's too late. they kinda know. They must know.
you have no idea what your talking about. we are currently in an extremely LOW CO2 amount in our history. AND ice cores show CO2 FOLLOWS temperature rise and NOT causes it. CO2 is plant food and will green up the planet.
the only things uncharted are the way temps are recorded differently to feed this baloney, its summer wake up dawn kee
Has climate mapping been put to A.I. ?
What is preventing action on climate change? Whatever that is needs to be fixed. Maybe we are not capable of fixing whatever that is? Or maybe even incapable of identifying whatever that is?
Looks like I need to buy some shorts
A dying ocean has no reason to function the same.
Climate change isn't any thing to fear. It's actually an immensely positive thing for the bulk of humanity. Look at what the climate was like during the Eocene period, when the earth was on average 14 deg F warmer. The tropics weren't any hotter then. But the places that are frozen wastelands now were very mild then, with alligators and palm tree fossiles found way up in Alaska and Canada. If you take all the land that is inhospitable now as frozen tundra and aboreal forest now, and change it to something like a wet mediterranean climate (like San Francisco), it would unlock a TON of living space for humanity. Likewise, places such as the Sahara and the intermountain west that are vast deserts now would become very nice grasslands. I estimate it would open up such vast territories for human settlement, it would be the equivalent of having two extra Earths as we know it today! That's like having two extra planets worth of living space without having to develop faster than light travel to colonize distant worlds! Now you may begin to see just why the elites who are obsessed with nothing but their own totalitarian control want to prevent this new era of human civilization!
Hate to break this to you but during the Eocene there was not enough oxygen for large mammals like humans to survive. So you really want to go back to that?
And seriously you have me laughing so hard.
You think the "elites" are the ones arguing for emissions reduction - wtf???
You don't think the "elites" are the ones running the trillion dollar petroleum and global transportation industries that are bent on us maintaining fuel demand forever no matter what the cost to our society?
I can't believe scientists are having a conversation about data showing changes but you don't show any tables or graphs of the data you discuss. Amazing. A BIG thumbs down, for me.
I'm a fan of dark humour and honestly I laughed quite a lot during this interview. The reality of our situation and the multi-layered predicament both our civilization and biosphere are currently facing is so much more complex and intractable than is being admitted to here. I don't know if the speakers are being consciously simplistic to get across a hopeful message or if they really believe that co2 emissions and climate change are the sum of the issues we face. In any case, there is no feasible way for us as a species to meaningfully reduce our emissions and much less our energy use and maintain anything like the kind of lifestyles that most of humanity expects or aspires to as of 2024. That is not going to happen by choice, ever, period. And even if it did, it would not "solve" the existential issues created by the very existence of our civilization. Our way of life is so far out of wack with the physical limits of what could be sustained, the pressures placed on the biosphere by our sheer numbers are so gargantuan and unreasonable, and our lived understanding of the world and our place in it is so deluded and divorced from reality that a cascading collapse across multiple levels is inevitable, and in fact, it is well underway. That may not be a very palatable message but it is much more intellectually honest than what they are saying here. By all means, reduce your contribution to c02 emissions, drive an electric car if it tickles your fancy, but don't pretend that the world is going to continue to sustain 8 billion + people for much longer, regardless. Whether you drive a Tesla or a Toyota is not going to change the underlying dynamics almost at all. If you are serious about what we facing, a much more drastic course of action is required and that can only really be achieved on small-scale, by a a narrow demographic, and that is to go live like the global poor did over a century ago. Good luck selling that as a lifestyle. Anyway, best of luck to everyone. We are not slowing down.
Got to watch planting trees. Here in California the increasing fire risk can be aggravated by more trees on one's property.
Man has lived through 24 ice ages polar bears have lived through 26 . At the beginning of the last ice age co2 was in the atmosphere at a much higher percentage than now .as the seas cooled in the last ice age co2 was absorbed into the oceans ,as the climate warmed co2 is given off to the atmosphere, as in every previous ice age . This is due to Henry's law of co2 equilibrium.
"Man has lived through 24 ice ages.." @paulhardy761 == Standard IRRELEVANT drivel
1.5c were past that and not going to do any cutting what are we really talking about
The one that pays the scientist decides the report that their employers want..It's good for collecting taxes that disappear
On Mars we won't need green energy. Relax.
I'm surprised I made it all the way through this. I didn't hear much science at all. mostly conjecture and vague references to trends and statistics. No citations or data was offered. Obviously offered for the layperson. Her assertion that if the trend doesn't break by August it will be bad, is a guess at best as she admits there is no past data to confirm her hypothesis. She is also compltly ignoring other sciences that play a major role in climate change such as magnetic, geological and solar impacts, and their subsequent effects.
Gee, I wonder if the glacier over the Ohio River Valley is going to melt? Oh, it already has.
Let me be very clear
Yeah! and when you try to explain your motives to people they think your nuts! When your starving and cold, is when people will wake up to reality!
I can't listen to this. Very one sided
it has been cooler than normal all year,here.Have not had ac on yet....but what is normal
Monday (July 22, 2024) broke record preliminary global surface temperature at 17.15°C!!!!!!!