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This Is How the World Ends According to Science
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There’s an 18% chance that global warming exceeds four degrees by 2100 and that’s not a small risk when the stakes are civilization-ending.
In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher Luke Kemp and strategic climate risk expert Laurie Laybourn about why high-end warming scenarios are often dismissed as “doomerism,” even though worst-case planning is standard in most fields. We break down how uncertainty in climate sensitivity and political derailment could push warming higher than expected and how climate shocks can trigger cascading failures across food systems, financial markets, and geopolitics. Understanding the climate endgame isn’t pessimism. It’s risk management.
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Your government doesn't give ANY real information anymore about ANYTHING
What do you expect when crooked politicians in the pocket of fossil fuel industries keep getting reelected.
@there_is_nothing_here Exactly
Yeah I was going to say, they don't want us to read graphs, period.
keithwhite9978 that is almost certainly to happen whether humans want it to or not.
keithwhite9978 I agree. To maintain this kind of lifestyle it shouldn't be over 2-3 billion people
love how they cut funding and you guys immediately started reporting on the things they’re trying to hide ❤
All the projects they couldn't do
Nobody is trying to hide anything
@jhonfredym2608yeah thats why they’re shutting down science programs and erasing evidence against certain agendas
@groovy9977And just DELETING parts of the Constitution?
@jhonfredym2608 There are some Epstein files that they’re trying to hide.
Ah yes, a guy who's almost 80 years old gets to limit our access to information to help plan for the future.
To me, that‘s the one of the biggest challenge of our time: Trump’s generation doesn’t give us space to decide for a future that no longer belongs to them! And… the older humans get, the less they like changes!
Gotta be the menace until the end. That orange fart's whole career is based on bullying.
it wasn't Trump: it's half the country who voted for him. And globally is kind of the same half population tending alt-right.
We are just going on a train wreck carried by global ignorance
And arguably one of the stupidest 80 year old men on the planet. Insane. Madness, all of it.
@BadProtein actually, it is the engineered chemicals being deployed from aeroplane trails that is wrecking this train. set aside politics and go back to nephology.
Can't say I love the updates, they make me feel sick to my stomach, but that being said knowledge is power and for that reason I love this channel and I love that you push these updates out. Thank you for reporting the critical information
Action is the answer to that sick feeling. Call all your congress people.
Exactly!@
I'm moving to Tasmania, in Melbourne now. Still, it won't be a good world.
@OldJackWolf Calling them doesn't work when they are funded by oil companies. The political system has to change.
Organise politically. We need a global greens movement, for a Green democratic future.
the french revolution is looking more and more like a game plan
Before you go romanticizing the French Revolution I suggest you read up on what followed it, The Reign of Terror.
@colinmurphy8222 anacyclosis is a real pain in the ass
@colinmurphy8222 I suggest you do some reading on the subject yourself.
You might learn something about the circumstances that made people turn to such a desperate measure.
The adage, "An animal, when cornered, is at it's most likely to lash out" is appropriate
I'd be happy for another country to invade us and bring Democracy to America.
@JoJeromeMP I’ll take another country giving us the Venezuela treatment
We’re still getting more and more extreme weather events in Australia too, with two “once every 500 year” floods occurring twice in three years..
Katoomba and Blackheath just set new 24 hour rainfall records.
Darwin is currently enjoying the best wet season in DECADES, after we were told a few years back that Oz was transitioning to El Nino after years of La Nina. One group that is laser focused on rainfall, drought and fires is the insurance industry and it's not looking great for many parts of the East Coast.
@n@notsmokingdapotgoogle is free
@arthurwatts1680I’m in NZ and the normal summer is being supplanted with low pressures from the Pacific, flooding in East Cape and cold southerlies in the south. I suspect the normal El Niño/La Niña pattern is breaking down and that’s affecting Australia too.
And yet our government has cancelled all climate change related regulations and has frittered away the Climate Change mitigation fund on tax cuts for the wealthy.
Good luck Australian brothers and sisters!
@notsmokingdapotstop smoking you are making no sense!!
Billionaires did it with lobby captured politicians
It says a lot the fact that lobby is not considered corruption.
And its all because of the poorly educated and easily manipulated Conservatives who blindly supports billionaires stomping down on everyone necks
And billionaires only exist because of capitalist property relations, which are a social hierarchy that enables the accumulation of wealth and power, that is supported by state violence and repression.
@somerandomguy4919 Americans have been fed one of the purest form of propaganda created by humanity, a mix of exceptionalism and culture wars. Every American thinks he or she can be the next Jeff Bezos, so they oppose taxes on the rich, like the unrealized gains tax, while believing that abortion, trans people, and Starbucks Christmas cups are the deadliest catastrophes facing humanity. Meanwhile, billionaires keep doing their reverse trickle down economics.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
@somerandomguy4919 Who don't support billionaires? You probably buy things from companies they own to sustain your lifestyle.
It's so sad that PBS has to have merch and a Patreon...
uncanny that this show reports on climate change the peddles climate changing merch that is a dime a dozen and will be in the trash heap in a year
@az55544 Did you just ask a fish; "How is the water?"
@az55544it wouldnt need to if the US government didnt defund it
all the speech and activism flew throw the window of sense
They're really trying to defund PBS?
As an environmental studies student, my college has had to change the coursework because we no longer have access to the data we used to. They deleted it from the internet.
Someone is controlling the internet?
Backups?
DOGE.
Identify "they". Possibly you were accessing false data.
@syberawa7429 THE US GOVERNMENT, YOU USELESS NPC.
Being alive today feels like watching a train crash in slow motion, sitting far enough down the train to not but initially affected by the crash for what feels like decades.
I feel the same way. It's like we went to sleep in 2019 and woke up in the Mirror Universe.
Not for feminist outside my window. 🐢👍
Purging billionaires would be the healthiest thing for the planet.
Why so you could have some of their billions? 😂
They would just be replaced
@NoName-zi9qs they don't even use 50% of their money so it is fair
And create a vacuum which is worse
@cjyoung7372 - A vacuum from what? Political interference, propaganda and wealth hoarding?
I really think we passed the tipping point back in the 90’s. All we can do now is to control the angle of descent
“I think we’ve reached a critical desalination point.”
When a leader takes actions like pulling out of the Paris Accord, that's a signal of global destruction.
There could be a honest collective change or individual. But the collective is dangerous because of betrayal. And it always bothers there is no justice and dishonesty. I prefer the independent Vendetta. Makes me feel tougher. 🐢👍
What’s crazy is there is already solutions out there for basically all of this and we refuse to change our ways.
By “we” it’s the oil cartels
@entropy8634 not just them, tere is enough people who don't believe in climte change, even tho a lot of them rememeber winters of the past,
Individual action can't do much against the wealthiest companies and people in the history of humanity. These people have decided the end of the world is better than decreasing their profits
My wife and I are just completing a house rehab that both helps with global problems but also makes our house into a climate haven. Win/win.
@entropy8634even the people.
They/we prefer oil car instead of electric, they prefer homes heated at 20+ rather than wearing a sweatshirt.
They prefer air conditioning instead of getting hot during summer...
I want a longer version of this, going into more detail of how that 18% scenario could play out. My biggest worry for a long time has been the methane etc in the permafrost getting released and doing a speed run. It's the scariest feedback loop I've ever seen.
2500X current C02 in Fossil layer. It's Game Over
I am so glad I'm not the only one terrified of this feedback loop!
@cammieg4381 feedback loops, plural not singular. There is also the melting of ice sheet that results in less reflection of☀️, forest turning into CO2 sources, oceans absorbing less and less CO2 as they get warmer and more acidic.
Agreed. No one knows the future, for good or ill. But if we wind up going to a Venus-like future, methane will almost certainly be the culprit. Fortunately that looks to be very low probability - broadly similar to a second snowball earth period. I see the real challenge as coming up with changes that will help futures ranging from minimal temperature rise up to something like 6C rise, with some focus on a 3C rise (which is still pretty dire and is also fairly likely). The trick, I think, is actions that do help with bad and likely scenarios and do not make others worse.
It's game over for us. The time to reverse it was during 70s but noone did anything meaningful and it's too late now.
Remember: Trump ordered the Republicans in Congress to pull funding from PBS because he thought PBS Newshour, which is known for its calm, reasoned, unbiased reporting was critical of him.
Let that soak in. A President pulled funding from public media, something unpartisan, because he thought that their being unbiased and objective wasn’t positive enough for him.
PBS is no longer neutral and went to the leftist agenda.
@beemikeme that’s not true.
Just because a corrupt politicians says they have a left bias doesn’t mean they do.
I’ve never heard anyone on PBS Newshour call for the destruction of the government, or the arresting of all billionaire elites; that would be leftist reporting.
To anyone with an education, who doesn’t believe what politicians say without question, know that in the US, PBS Newshour is the most unbiased, credible news you can get.
The reason is, with public funding, they had to remain apolitical, and they weren’t ratings-driven like for-profit corporate media is. So, you just get the facts. It’s boring, but adults like it.
@b@beemikemeserious question: are you also against any right-biased media? That’s almost all media.
@beemikemeIt’s really unfortunate that left wing narratives often align with the truth
@beemikemeGet off this thread, you Bot
"So long and thanks for all the fish".
4.2? More like 42!
I’ve got my towel ready and I’m scanning the skies.
4.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century is fucking insane
Don't worry, the billionares will have turned us into fuel to run their machines to keep them alive indefinitely by then.
more insane than hotter periods humanity survived or colder periods when no farming could exist?
It will mean the death of most living things, according to the numbers. And that's not even considering the unpredictable factors.
@szymonbaranowski8184I'd need some details on these 'hotter periods humanity survived' compared to the conditions associated with four point five degrees above the pre industrial average.
Assuming those temperatures recorded back then we're taken accurately.
@szymonbaranowski8184
Small numbers of humans survived in very primitive conditions. Not something you could have with billions of people reliant on a vast interconnected system of technology, trade, environment, politics and other factors. I think its very likely that the population of Earth will be considerably lower than the current level even if we manage to limit the total rise to 3C by the end of the century.
Politicians have hijacked a scientific fact. GREED will doom humanity to extinction
I would argue that the main reasons are Ignorance and mostly stupidity
Greed is in the crosshairs of all religions. That hasn't saved any religion from being hijacked for political leverage. It is time that deity worship went full circle and we return to worship of our living planet. And hopefully Elon will will bugger off to Mars.
Really appreciate the willingness to look at worse case scenarios. People need hope but they also need to be cleared about how badly things could go. Love Weathered!
@notsmokingdapot If it turns out to be not fear mongering, who will you blame as the world falls into chaos?
In before AMOC collapse
Are you though? When the World Trade Center fell, was the collapse from when it began until it ended, or only once it was completely flattened?
@Mike80528 quite frankly it's depressing we even need to distinguish that 😢
@Mike80528You would make a very good physicist. A lot of physicists have spent a lot of time looking into the World Trade Center. Those buildings were very beautiful in the 90’s.
In before Epstein files released
@Mike80528 in my book, whatever point of no return is the point of collapse. The plane crashing into the building was the point of no return. The weakening polar jet stream may be the sign of this point of no return.
in New Zealand we have already begun the insurance pull back . Areas prone to surface flooding and costal surges have had HUGE increases in premiums and some insurance companies will not issue insurance once the policy changes , i.e when a house or lot is sold. And in some communities they just walked away by not offering a renewal . Interesting one would think the premiums are based on a time cycle like 100 years, I bet if you ask the insurance co for insurance for only 10 years the premiums would have been lower , there’s a rip here from the insurance companies.
Well, they have had a rude awakening with the Canterbury earthquakes in 2010 & 2011 - nothing to do with climate change obviously, but everything to do with insurance financials... And since extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and can be equally damaging, it is understandable that insurance companies are becoming more cautious. There are lots of locations in NZ and around the world where we should simply not be building houses. Flaky clifftop edge? Million dollar views, for sure, but at what cost?! Beach-front property? Great surfing, for sure, but for how much longer?! Steep hillside with engineered foundations? Great views, for sure, but costly to build, and how about that 200-year rain event that is hitting next year, bringing the whole hillside down in a landslide?! I much prefer insurance companies withdrawing from some areas over everybody else having to cross-subsidise the extravagant ideas of some people through inflationary insurance premiums... And it isn't only insurance companies either, but government and its agencies have also started working on retreating from some disaster-prone areas for much the same reasons: it just doesn't make sense to live in these high-risk places.
If humans were smart, we would have all of this under control.
Yet no they are not because they’re greedy and controlling and corrupt.
If we weren't led by egomaniacal morons we would have already solved it.
But half are poorly educated and easily manipulated Conservatives they are actively destroying education in favor of a theocratic government that only benefits them
@LobstersLobsters the problem might be the people buddy. You guys are still a democracy... for now.
If humans actually cared about their grand kids or even just their kids we would have it under control.
The powers that be want to silence anyone who speaks the truth. It's horrible that we are all at the mercy of the people who want to doom this planet.
Cheer up, the technocrats will still have a chance to exterminate us "parasitic bottom feeders" first and create their bigly (not vital to life on Earth, completely unnecessary) AI monsters while they hide out in their bunkers 🎉🎉
@Vicki_Benji No, we are not. We outnumber the criminals by the millions. We just need to stop sitting on our hands, stop pointing at each other, but go out there joining forces to sweep them away by sheer numbers.
They don't care about the planet, just about the current outdated economic model.
If we stop listening to the propaganda for eternal growth and get a steady state model and global cooperation we could be fine.
Just remember: Even if the current leaders can't/won't change there is always someone behind them hungry for power, even if it is power in a very different and egalitarian world.
@redefiningmyself8598 That is the plan! Robots, dark factories, AI, no need for 90% of the population! All they need is a cold island?🤔 Greenland!🤫
Let the world burn! 🔥 Time to eat the Rich? Ban Billionaires!
Then make the people the power not the rich and greedy.
The chance of +4C by 2100 is much greater than 18%, more likely 5 or 6C.
Why? Because this warming process is not linear but accelerating!
This is something that many or most people do not understand, and even many scientists do not want to realise, although they know.
Between 2000 and 2025 the rate of warming (or Earth Energy Imbalance) has more than doubled, almost 2 1/2 times.
My personal belief is 5º by 2050. I'm not a pessimist, but a realist.
0:40 CO2 direct measurements in Hawaii have shown a record breaking rate increase over the last three years. I'd love to hear about how we're avoiding the worst climate scenarios if we are still increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, at record rates.
Thats a completely reasonable take. The worst climate scenarios were calculated, with a "business as usual" rate of CO2 emissions, which means that the rate of increase emission doesnt slow down, rather keeps accelerating.
We currently HAVE slowed down the rate of INCREASE in emissions year by year, which means that we are emitting more CO2 year by year, but the increase in emissions are accelerating slower and slower.
This is the only path towards stopping emissions, because when you are emitting more and more each year, you firstly have to stop emitting more and more before you can start emitting less and less.
These industrial processes have a lot of inertia, so they are really hard to change, and without economic incentive people might not see the point. I believe given our situation we have done many things for this situation, but I believe that major change will only start when the effects become more pronounced.
@pali3329I completely agree that industry needs time to change it's direction and that this should have been accounted for, butI don't think the numbers bear out what you're saying, in that they planned for this situation, exactly. The rate of increase is greater than the original RCP 8.5 scenario had as an estimate, before 2040, I believe. IPCC models don't seem very accurate, which makes sense, as they are essentially the Climate Communications branch of a government who is financially captured by the largest Capitalist intrests on the planet.
What the planet needs most is more CO2 plant food.
Taking co2 measurements in a highly volcanic area is just fraud...
@Marcsimson-dk9yn Strange how consistent they seem to be. Almost as if volcanic emissions are transient and possible to account for in the data, or something...
Nice explanation of how cascading effect can be devastating
Boy. It's sure a good thing that rump essentially shut down the EPA. I feel safer already.
It's like being on a bus driven by a moron, and when you notice he's driving right towards a cliff and you warn, shout, plead, BEG him to change course, slow down, find a safer path - he instead floors it and keeps going straight for the cliff.
In this case, the moron is orange.
And covers the windshield saying "now no more danger"
Its even worse than that. He has called for de-orbiting weather satellites because they might point out an inconvenient truth.
In this case, the moron was elected to do exactly that. Don’t forget the morons cheering him on, buying gold tennis shoes and watches so they can identify with their moron cult.
Always impressed with Weathered - based in science, but keeping it very human. I hope it continues! Off to the purchase some merch!
It is sad to see the world die but at least it is very well presented 😂
HELL YES. Thank you Maya and team for creating this video. I believe the whole “we need to keep climate stuff positive so people feel empowered” has been in part pushed by vested interests. People aren’t going to act accordingly until they soil themselves learning what it’s going to be like. Big relief. Please do a video focussed on a specific cascading risk sequence that ties it to impacts on livelihoods of folks in the G7..
who's causing polution? major corporations ... who's making the most $$$? major corporations... who set regulations? major corporations! Who losses? the regular ppl.
A mere 32 corporations are causing most of the greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
(sigh...) i'll get the old guilotines...
Bill Gates hopped off the climate bandwagon as soon as he saw how much energy these AI datacenters will need
Seeing that is so infuriating
He's pro-nuclear that's the real climate bandwagon.
Gates didn't change his mind about the climate crisis being serious, but millions are projected to die due to Trump's cuts to USAID (cuts that were based on DOGE lies), so Gates felt it was more urgent to focus on immediate life-saving efforts with his energy and charity giving. (He also has been a little too influenced by Bjorn Lomborg's swiss cheese arguments that the climate crisis isn't that urgent).
@HealingLifeKwikly Bill Gates Epstein best bud? I digress
Let's be real did anyone ever really saw him as a climate guy? He never really felt like a significant presence on this issue compared to other climate activists.
Your ability to simplify concepts is remarkable, much appreciated
The world won’t end. Human CIVILIZATION will end.
Either stop Secret Societies or going down. 👍🐢
Good. Then the planet and other life forms can recover from our destructive behaviors
Utter tripe from Trotters on the trough alarmists.
I first began to see the impacts in my field work in '98 - I wasn't quite sure a decade earlier but by then, yes, for sure. My denial involved the government. I assumed they were doing something about it, in spire of the headlines. After all, if they weren't, well god help us all. Then, around 2006, I realized government scientists had determined the process was irreversible. When I heard that I said 'oh shit'. But then I realized, holy shit, the government knows too. And they squashed the report. I think we truly are in our last chance moment here. Now. I just hope everyone knows to grasp at that chance. And ACT.
Early 90s was around the time I started to hear OTR Truckers saying the bugs were disappearing.
Windshields used to get really covered 50+ years ago but by this century, not so much...
And people keep having kids even people who believe in climate change
Your solution is for everyone to die off @Ivana9910..? WTAF?!?
@Ivana9910 While choosing to not have kids because of climate change is completely valid, policing or morally judging people for choosing to still have kids enters into some dangerous eugenics-adjacent territory. If you believe it's unethical to bring kids into a world where climate change is a significant risk, then logically you would likely also have to agree that it's unethical for people with genetic conditions that could put their children at risk to reproduce. And then you would have to conclude that if climate change weren't a risk, only select people who are perfectly healthy and able should be allowed to have kids: literally eugenics.
@Peter_Lewis So, you think it's ethical to force genetic conditions on kids? That's child abuse. Reproduction shouldn't be a right and people suffering from genetic conditions should receive reparations for having them imposed on them by the society.
we're all going to die from stress.
This is proper snark!
First time..?
lol!
That's why I smoke weed
@pedrodepacas-ic1cbyou kind of beat me to it, but I was going to say mushrooms/LSD.
Mankind is fundamentally changing the planet at an accelerating level because of technological advances. The wildfires and catastrophic flooding are already here and we are witnessing the seesaw effect created by the growing energy imbalance on the planet. Depending on your geographic location, it could be heaven or hell and the positions can flip very rapidly nowadays.
womenkind are part of that too.
Thank you for being courageous and posting truth that the current administration wants to erase.
I think you mean propaganda...
🤣🤣🤣 You spelled "propaganda" wrong!
This teaser made me think of The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan. Thank you for taking the time to report and research this.
What's angering and sad is we have the resources and ability to do the opposite of where we are headed. In order to do that, we must be courageous and rid out greed, and the people pushing us to the worse case scenarios. It truly is at this point, a class war for survival.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate this channel.
The hardest part isn’t changing the climate, it’s changing human behaviour.
I don’t believe that we’re capable of that change as a species. That doesn’t mean I’ll give up trying and I hope others don’t either, but I genuinely don’t believe it’s possible to convince the people who need to be convinced to fix this.
I disagree.
There's been plenty of change internationally, the US is just the last place we'll see progress.
The more the US is an isolated pariah and seen for the failed state that it is, the better humanity's chances of survival.
If human behavior could be changed, fixing every problem humanity faces can happen, doing literally nothing extra, in about 50 years.
You just have to stop people from breeding. Not some of them (eugenics), ALL of them. Once population dwindles to a few million, which is Earth's natural carrying capacity for a mammal of human size, then let them start again.
I feel the same way and am with you😔 gotta stick together I guess bbygurl:(
We (humans) have been reclassified as an invasive, parasitic species!
"Your socio-political reaction speed is ten times too slow for the physical rate of change." An AI wrote that sentence....
04:10
You didn't mention that, as of 2025, the greenhouse gas CO₂ equivalent concentration is now 573 ppm, which is 2.046 times higher than preindustrial levels. Also, we're also on track to hit 3°C by 2060, and 3°C is believed to be incompatible with an organized global society.
Sadly the leaders pushing policies leading to worsening climate will not be around to witness their handiwork. It will be a generation or more that’s yet to be born that will pay the price, along with elderly survivors of GenZ and later.
I'd like to be optimistic. But if I'm being honest, recent history has made it very clear to me that humanity is very bad at adequately predicting black swan events (though, this can cut both negative and positive, so maybe that's where there's hope?) and very unwilling to follow through on necessary collective action to ensure best outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable people.
The falling costs of cleaner energy do give me cause for some very tentative encouragement, because brute economic realities have always seemingly been more likely to drive policy and infrastructure changes than simple prudence or good will. But basically, it's a race between, "When does that become overwhelmingly economically advantageous to the point that it reduces fossil fuel use?" and, "How much immediate energy extraction via fossil fuels is demanded by the massive capex outlays happening currently and how long will that go on/how much will it continue to scale?"
Hi I am a 19 yo biomedical and veterinary major, I don’t know if this will even be seen by anyone but is it just me or does it feel like there is no reason to continue persisting it feels like we call people are crazy as they react to the fact that the world is in such a bad position and it feels like most people have no real ability to affect these issues and the people who do don’t do anything it’s like the only way to make a difference is everyone moving together but instead it’s like we are all stepping out of sink in our small groups and in this get put down and fall back with the idea we can’t do anything instilled into us than the cycle continues I don’t mean to be a down or world is ending but I can’t help but ask why are we still trying if we aren’t doing it together and will there ever be a day where we can say the future is going to be better without an inkling of a lie or the shadow of misunderstanding? I just wonder in my own life is it worth spending all my time learning vet medicine or trying for anything when I have no control when everything is going to fall apart no matter what I do
Sorry for my bad punctuation and any other issues I’m bad at using my phone for typing, and sorry for being such a long and possibly tedious read - Neko
Hi Neko. The future needs people like you. For one thing, lots of people realkly depend on their pets as much as family. They need to be taken care of and you can help them. We all need people who are willing to fight for a better future. Almost assuredly there willl be some tough times but we'll only get through them wth all of us working together. You can be a veterinarian and work for a better future. We really can't afford to lose a single person who cares about future earth. The animals will suffer the most because there's so many people taking over every ecosystem. You can be one of those who help make a better life for them. But only if you stay engaged. Don't check out, instead help make a better world.
@philbeauchamp2884 I appreciate you words thank you
I once read a quote that sums up beautifully what we are supposed to do when things appear ugly, painful, and difficult.
"If you are going through hell, keep going!" (I believe it was W. Churchill)
When we are going through a rough time, getting paralyzed won't allow us to move forward and escape the situation. Action is what propels us forward!
Yes, your life is worth spending your time learning whatever you aspire to do!
None of us ever had or ever will have control over the future. Things can change in a heartbeat for better or the worst. You always hope for and work towards the best but prepare for the worst because none of us know what the future holds. Don't let fear hold you back from what you really want to do. Live! Live your life! And if you are faced with obstacles that appear insurmountable, never give up! The things that we have to fight for, the ones that don't come easily, those are the ones we always cherish the most. Maybe things won't turn out exactly the way you envisioned them to be, but you'll always be able to say, "I gave my best! I tried!" and you'll be able to hold your head up high!
Hey Neko, some of us have seen your message. I’d like to echo the other responses… the world needs people like you , your family needs you and your friends need you… you’ll never know who or how you will affect/engage/support/change someone else you meet along the way. And as a healthcare provider I can honestly say no one is guaranteed a tomorrow or even the rest of today, time is a gift it’s how we spend it that matters, remember to take some time for yourself too, hobbies, meditation, relaxation whatever that looks like for you, take joy in everything, little things and big things, make sure each day is a day well lived. I wish you all the best my friend!
From the UK ( American but living here lol)
@andreamortimer2610 that’s for words I like that way of thinking about it because I was thinking more of it aswell and as I do I can’t help but think of something I read a day later which was something like “if buying the shirt makes you happy do it the last one didn’t have pockets” and it’s about the fact though we need to be ready for the future it’s not a guarantee so enjoy now and work for the future because though it feels like we can only have one it was never a choice we had to make but one we thought we did and it makes me feel like I should spend more time with friends but ether way thank you a lot
I studied geology and climate in uni during Trump's first presidency. A day has not gone by since where I haven't thought about the AMOC.
Then you should know (assuming you CAN read) that the Earth is comprised of multiple complex systems that adapt and change constantly
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It is ironic having to see an ad for british petroleum for this video.
You're not using an ad-blocker?
@woodypigeon nah idm. 5 seconds not that big deal
@diyaanrambhia8241 More a matter of principle for me. Advertising is psychic pollution.
@woodypigeon well u can always mute it buddy 🙂.
@diyaanrambhia8241 Nah, adblockers are great, and do the job of what @woodypigeon speaks.
A climate change denier is like a person throwing themselves off the top of a 20 story building. They are about halfway down to the ground and they are thinking "So far so good".
Alarmist use denier as someone who does not accept the political agenda
The disaster cycle is here
Everything is fine
@gladlawson61 lol ok
All because of conservativism
Propaganda 🐑🐑🐑Propaganda 🐑🐑🐑Propaganda 🐑🐑🐑 Propaganda🐑🐑🐑...........
Current policy is extinction policy. The great filter is upon us.
Unfortunately, Steven Miller's stated goal is to get US pop down to 100million (from a total c.334million) He also supports eugenics in doing so. SIGH. These people aren't shy about announcing politics.
As far as disaster preparation of what I'm seeing where I live? Power outages leading to heat and cold deaths at a minimum. Heat deaths due to only allowing gas and electric power. (Power companies won court case financially punishing people installing solar power in their homes so only very rich can afford it). Pandemics due to not using simple masking (that's unpatriotic here) and no vaccinations covered by ins. Air pollution due to wildfires. (This really effects me.) Famine due to supply chain disruption. Economic decay as unemployment rises even more. Again, ok for very rich.
The very rich are too complacent. The extreme rich know they are WAY outnumbered and need to build safety shelters while the world burns around them. . That's what I see NOW and expect to get worse unless we really turn things around.
@joythree You hit the nail on the head
Can something that is knowable (and is known to us) and preventable be "the great filter". Nothing in our history says that this is/was inevitable, I can easily think of some decisions/events in the past or a few people that could have changed the trajectory. George Bush Sen. and the CO2 price for example...
@thomase2718 why not. You don’t have to be unaware of something for it to be a filter. And a part of the original hypothetical wasn’t that it was impossible to get past the filter, just incredibly difficult. Those people would have never made those decisions because they had no incentive to.
@joythree You are delusional. Bill Gates and Soros are the eugenicists and want to reduce the world's population.
So that's basically "DON'T LOOK UP" but in real life?
I always enjoy content. Even if the topic can be a little dismaying. Keep the updates and science topics coming.
Thanks for your support! We'll keep them coming!
@pbsterra Love you guys! Keep telling the truth about the science!!
Thank you for your commitment to informing the public about climate. I'm fucking appalled that so many people have led us to where we are now.
You can tell by the way the current government is piling on the debt, taking away rights and rigging future elections they don’t care, maybe it’s because they already know we are doomed. They certainly won’t try to fix anything because it may cause the elites a bit of money
Thanks for the update, knowledge is survival.
I'm frankly stunned that the worst case scenario hasn't already been thoroughly explored. I thought it had been. Thank you so much for all you do.
Part of the problem is that new climate mechanisms keep on being discovered, and they're almost all universally bad. Specifically, it's the feedback effects that can lead not only to tipping points but to significant periods of exponential growth as these effects all start maturing on different but overlapping time frames. No existing models account for this completely. I've done some rough modeling here, and although it agrees with Maya that we may hit 2°C of warming as early as 2032, the exponential growth that no one fully accounts for leads to an estimate of 9°C by 2100. And of course, warming doesn't stop just because we hit the year 2100. Even if fossil fuel emissions have ended well before then (which is implied by these temperatures), Dr. James Hansen's climate response time says that the planet will continue to warm, reaching 63% of its final temperature about a hundred years after major temperature forcing effects cease.
This is why I'm not having kids. Couldn't answer that question when the time inevitably came...."if you knew, why did you have me".... nope, no thank you
Thank you for this highly informative video. I hit the 🔔 to make sure I see the next one when it comes out.
Please do an episode on the impacts of increasing CO2 and decreasing O2 on brain health.
I wrote a paper on this when I was in High school 42 year's ago. And told them that all this would happen. They collected the research and said they were going to look into it!
Thank you for this great video!
Would it be possible to have one on the list of tipping points and system breakdown that we know of? Their effects and their thresholds? Thanksss!
Evidently that's what the American electorate wanted. They wanted Ukraine totally under Russian control. They wanted all the January 6th insurrectionists freed. They wanted the US out of the World Health Organization (only 2 of 193 countries in the UN not a member). They wanted all nationwide diversity programs ended. They wanted scientific research significantly curbed. They wanted Medicare run more like a private HMO. They wanted Canada taught a lesson for bullying the United States. They wanted the states badly gerrymandered. And they wanted all climate research stopped and all information suppressed. And that's exactly what they got. So be it.
I understand your anger. Remember that Trump won in the electoral college but not the popular vote. Many of those who voted for him now regret their vote. So I wouldn’t say that the American electorate voted for the items you listed. However, it is up to Americans to now rise up, resist fascism and try to take the country back. They must do this for the sake of the planet, not just for themselves.
The American REPUBLICAN electorate, you mean.
The Electorate College, Republican voter suppression, Democrats flailing in their own entitlement, and the christian-fueled racist culture gave us tRump.
We were given two candidates. One was a useless criminal that has a personality, the other was an unlikable diversity hire and professional gobbledegook speaker parachuted into the position with no thought to the usual democratic process that chose candidates because the chosen guy pulled out at the last minute. No one was voting for any of what you listed. The voting was decided in the 4 years of Biden when prices for everything went insane and people had seen enough. You cannot just screw over your entire population and expect people to vote for you.
Quick example, I keep receipts for car stuff, 4 tires in September 2020 cost $640, last month 4 of the exact same tires costs $1400. Everything has more than doubled in price while Democrats sat there doing nothing, and so they lost.
@M00NatureTrump won the popular vote in 2024, mostly due to abstentions.
This channel and its host keep getting better & better: deeper research, more honest/critical assessments, more sophisticated in its analysis. Thanks.
10:40 Feels good to be an Australian 😎
Bushfires and drought? Sure, we'll do okay in a nuclear winter, but global warming is making the whole "droughts and flooding rains" thing a whole lot worse.
Speaking as a farmer, I'm working on getting my family out of here. There's no future for farming on mainland Australia unless it's in a big air conditioned shed under solar powered grow lights.
Conservatively speaking…
@tealkerberus748 And other parts flooding. Cyclones more frequently.
Surviving humans will move towards less affected areas. You guys won't be spared at all. Besides, with what economy haha
Currently burning and flooding but at least we won’t starve!
100 million dead directly from heat in the next 24 years, 1 billion refugees. Even PBS won't tell you where we are really heading.
Don't worry guys, the world may be ending, but at least the shareholders had a really high imaginary number
Alzheimer's is a helluva disease. Ad stroke to the mix. Trump is dangerously stupid. We all screwed.
what if his brain arteries just you know. pop? seems likely with how dried and old he is and how much stress he goes through trying to be the next putin. dont you think hes probably eating garbage? not as if he doesn't have a professional chef. just that he chooses wrong. i think his low wisdom will cut his life off sooner than later.
I don't think he's really that stupid, just completely lacking in empathy. I mean, he's old enough that he'll be dead long before the effects of climate change would hurt him. He doesn't care about the world he leaves us when he dies, he just cares about the world he builds for himself while he's still alive.
He can be (and is) both an incredible moron and completely dereft of empathy
Does he have Alzheimer's or something similar? Yes, probably. Much more then likely
Would he do stuff like this regardless? Yes
He won't be alive and he can profit in the now. The mindset of large businesses is literally "screw the future, I need cash now!"
A malignant narcissist with diminishing brain function is our only hope. He knows he’s dying and he’s figuring out how to take all of us with him.
Thank you guys so much for talking about how dire the situation is this honestly. I have been telling people for years that the biggest risk in waiting to address this is the global political destabilization it will cause. if we wait to act we might not have the capability to anymore.
Thanks for the great overall presentation and the use of analogies is always helpful
Those wind models are so cool...🦅
Worst case scenario, Donny as POTUS.
Another worst case scenario the poorly educated and easily manipulated Conservatives are actively destroying democracy in favor of an authoritarian government that only benefits them
What is the map on the video thumbnail? I'm not seeing it within the video itself.
I feel like I won the lottery living at peak humanity. All I can say is that I'm glad I have no kids.
I'm sad you don't. Cause you might have been fighting even more for a better future if you had.
@foxy_drakainanope.
Wrong answer.
You can't make anyone do anything.
Even if you have 100 percent proof you still cannot get anyone to change.
It's like trying to heard a bunch of feral cats!
I have been warning people about what's going on now in the US since 9/11.
About how the American Taliban could actually take over.
This got me nowhere. People laughed others said that I was crazy.
The best thing is to not have children.
We still have no idea how nasty this ending is going to be.
Look up the Georgia guidestones and what they said. Those were put up by a group of billionaires stating what they want to do about climate change.
They love their money more than anything else. Their solution is ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
For 99 percent of the population. They will not need us to serve them they will have robots and AI.
@foxy_drakainapeople with lots of kids don't seem to care any more about this than people with no kids... in fact perhaps the opposite
Just move to Australia or Argentina
Correct 😊
Thank you so much for your honest reporting.
Food insecurity alone would very quickly cause panic and lead to violence and societal collapse
Once civilization collapses and we lose the dimming the climate will be spinning out of control
another-words, it would be helpful if more of us would pull our heads out when voting on elections
(in other words)
Both sides say the same thing so, please be more specific...
Especially in first past the post systems, we should stop with the "both sides are the same" nonsense.
We vote with our MONEY and our choices. Stop supporting the damn corporatist machine that is exploiting and killing us all. It is ran by genocidal psychopaths. They do not CARE cause they can’t care.
@user-ms1ue8bd8r yes, we ALSO vote with our money. then again, i have lived on less than $10k/yr for 20yrs now so i cut off corporations in a big way. most of what i buy goes to local producers.
Of all ways to solve a problem, denial is the least effective.
Although it feels good for a little while.
Does the "The Day After Tommorrow" sceneario plausible?
Our fate was sealed in 2000 when Bush Jr won by a "recount" paused by Jeb. 16 years later, we have an orange makeup wearing diapered con man in office who wants to further invest in fossil fuels.
All our solutions and ideas wont happen because of oil barrons and evil, dumb politicians.
Time to move to Australia.
Australia won't escape climate change
@jasonkinzie8835Australia won’t escape being invaded.
By whomst @CT-vm4gf Does the world want to take the roos..?
The difference in the US that could've been had that election not been stolen is absolutely crazy to think about. Actual climate policy and (most likely) no 9/11 nor Global War on Terror. 2008 market collapse likely would've still happened.
Fires, we have worse increasing fires during summer. Some places in Australia get cyclones and they'll get more common and probably spread to more places. Australia is very very dry (at least a large portion of the land). The dryness will just spread killing wildlife, plantlife and crops and stuff.
Good video
The oceans are the key to life on the planet and if we let the conveyor belt of the ocean die
We all die
I'd love to see what a climate resilient community would look like; micro-grids, local sustainable food systems, ect. How could a community become fully self resilient, and how could that get upscaled to the city model.
Cities would have to be smaller and only house the worker that run the concentrated services that support the rural communities around them.
Jeff is right about big cities because only rural agrarian economies with much simpler and lower tech lifestyles, much more plant-based diets, and more manual labor and reliance on natural materials is sustainable.
It would be demonized as 'woke' propaganda, I'm sure. Taylor Sheridan would make a whole TV series bashing it.
Just try to grow any amount of food when the climate is cooked I dare you, even now it's getting pretty hard to grow food consistently
When systems get top heavy they are more likely to collapse.
Unless there is a lot of spin to provide angular momentum, like a top...
One year ago, I watched someone interview Mark Carney where he raised the very issue of home owners insurance becoming harder to obtain as a signal for the need for climate action.
Mark Carney knows what the collapse of the global banking system looks like because he was the Governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2007 Global Financial crisis.
Watch "Threads". That's where trumpf is leading us.
Love this professionally made content with actual facts and research. Need less junk opinion based influencers in my life…
Not exactly related to the video, but I got the pink weathered sweater and it is SOOO pretty and comfortable. I love the message in the art.
"That's it man! Game over!"
Thank you.
3:38 That's some super impressive modelling
This is so under viewed that I am sure we are all doomed.
No, just you.
Runaway train started 250 years ago
Industrial revolution. The worst thing to ever happen to us.
@robertfergison9921could you elaborate for the ignorant please? Thanks
@robertfergison9921Nah, agricultural revolution was far far worse.
@Alberts_Stuffthe Industrial Revolution began humanity’s reliance on Fossil Fuels and birthed the industries that now are preventing progress towards a more sustainable economic system.
Computer predicts end of civilization 1973 youtube video now sounds more accurate but what do you think world one computer program on its accuracy?
Capitalism will end us, and most other things.
Perhaps it's just an inevitable great filter. That seems to be a good theory to explain the Fermi paradox.
TY to the Weathered crew. You are doing GOOD work 😊
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Trump hates what he doesn't understand like science, words, eating utensils, the internet, world maps...etc
He only understands oil and money.
@iqbaalannaafi761not if presented in an optional salad side dish.
Trump makes Bush look like Albert Einstein that is how stupid Trump is
How to expand the pie of safety?protection as a whole instead of pieces. Planning on overall safety
I hope the people who voted the orange clown into power are watching this (although I doubt it)
Science is kryptonite lol
Brains have been smoothed. Oligarchs and christofascists are having their day.
They think reading is the Devil's Tool
The "people" who voted him in don't have autonomy to think for them selves.
And I hope that they suffer from the worse effects of climate change