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Lets call uranium "natural rock" so people take nuclear more seriously
Funny thing is, it really is the most natural because it eventually becomes intert and doesn't make problems worse. It's the only one that goes away by itself without any other engines necessary (plants consume the CO2 emitted, otherwise it wouldn't go away) because nuclear waste eventually goes inert. All radioactive material eventually becomes lead.
I thought the official term was "Spicy Rock?"
Green Rock, LLC INC.
*PROFIT*
Hear, hear!
I mean, if uranium isn’t meant to be a natural rock, then why does it fluoresce green?
It's called natural gas, because it releases naturally from the ground. Shocker I know, it had nothing to do with big bussiness. Sorry to burst all y'alls bubbles
"Natural gas" has to be one of the most effective branding strategies of all time
the issue isnt co2.. i buy and dump co2 as a greenhouse grower.. biggest issue is NOT capturing industrial AND animal methane.. which can be recycled to power farms and local towns by cow farms (like my area) producing the co2 needed for greenhouse plant growth like tomato and peppers..
i am three steps ahead on this, for years, heh.. few listen and take the protips ive proven for 17 years here..
It's been called that for decades, long before climate change caught public attention.
@Welgeldiguniekalias I didn't call it a "rebranding". We should really just call it methane now, but no company would ever do that because there are positive implications with something being "natural".
It was called "natural" because of town gas, which was made out of coal, being "artificial"
Calling anything 'Natural' or 'Healthy' on any branding should be a red flag to anyone.
Personally I don't think that should be legal.
Buying a Times Square Billboard slot for a two second joke is incredible
He doesn't have a frog face! He has a flat face like a regular human boy!
This is UA-cam content in its purest form. Thanks climate town for not sucking but also not trying to act like high budget network TV trying to take over UA-cam
Accurate
It doesn't have the impure thoughts that UA-cam likes to shadow ban.
Truly the peak, nothing creams my corn quite like a 40-minute Climate Town on my homepage
15:30 technically, the escaped methane is heating all of our houses..
...permanently
I was thinking the exact same thing when he said that.
I see what you did there😂
I see what you did there😂
@@ifeoluwaadeoye6557 well for at leasta few decades.
I lived next to a natural gas pipeline and complained constantly about headaches and dizziness. My husband called the people who were in charge of the line at least 5 times and they'd always say that there's no leak and not to worry about it. After they finally came out to check they called him back and thanked him for reporting a leak.
Probably gave them millions of extra $$$$
companies NEVER take responsibility, it is such a disgrace. PFA-s, Asbestos, nylon and plastic, the effing list goes on how many environments these things pollute because "they superwise themselves and found no harm done".
Yeah I don't understand why gas companies aren't willing to deal with the leakages. You'd think that they have some pretty big incentives to not waste their own commodity all the time? I mean I get that you can't really expect gas companies to give a fuck about the environment, but I would have expected gas companies to care about money, and it feels like the largest waste of money ever to just let huge amounts of gas leak everywhere. It would also be super easy to detect. All you have to do is measure how much gas is going into the pipeline and how much is coming out at the end. If it's less, there has to be a leak.
@@jaspermooren5883 I work on fugitive gas self-reporting systems (software side, not in the field) in the gas pipeline industry. IMO the only real solution is for independent (non-government) third parties to monitor and report emissions, possibly with a bounty system so they have a financial incentive to report quickly (perhaps a bounty would be paid when a third party reports a valid leak before whomever owns the leaking equipment does, to incentivize both sides to respond quickly).
@@jaspermooren5883it must be cheaper to just ignore it then. If it was worth the profit to try and prevent the leakage that’s what they would do undoubtedly.
Dude, you are the John Stewart of environmental comedy journalism but you deserve even more credit because you focus 100% of your team's work on the greatest existential threat to man kind, you stay independant by making this all available on you tube, and do so with far less resources, which in effect, keeps your committed to environmental integrity to the max! How about that for a run on sentence? I'm just excited because Climate Town helps us stay educated on the sobering facts of climate change but done with comedic brilliance. Last part... any chance you've considered making a video about what another Trump presidency would do to our already weak climate action and environmental policies? There's so many issues and policies he will continue to detriment if elected, but I am confident that if he is, his environmental policies will truly take us to the point of no return and the voters need to know this. Thanks for all your teams hard work, you're doing a hell of a job and I look forward to sharing with my friends, family and coworkers - signed, NH solar energy electrician
Are you happy being worked up about sht all the fckng time?
Agreed with everything you said about CT, but honestly we don't need any videos about what a second term of Trump would mean to the environment. He delivered a cabinet that essentially shut down the EPA. He delivered a supreme court that is about to rule that the EPA can't really exist ever again without Congress specifically writing laws about every role the EPA should enforce, in a time when Congress can barely keep the govt open. There's no mystery here about how horrible Trump would be to re elect. The only real mystery is why people with children and grandchildren would possibly choose to enable such a climate disaster.
Jon Stewart is a rich capitalist parasite.
@@MilwaukeeF40C Uhhh I think you mean "Are you happy about being concerned for the wellbeing of the planet, and by proxy, humanity?"
A video about possible moves a Trump admin would make feels needed
We can't forget that Methane reacts with Ozone to make CO2 and water, which just extends how long it exists as a greenhouse gas and wears away at the Ozone layer.
What is then used by plans to turn into O2 and then we realize this whole climate crisis is just biggest scam that has gone for decades. Human effect to co2 levels is said to be 60% increase.... except atmosphere consists 0.04% of co2 witch is fuck all. Climate has always changed and will keep changing what ever we are here or not. In viking days they farmed Greenland and soon we shall do so too, then it will dip into cooling period and ice forms again like it has done many times. If you want to help the environment, stop buying cheap single use shit from China, instead buy more expensive things made locally made to last, restore, repair and repurpose things far as its possible and stop buying say exotic exotic avocados grown on other side of the world, shipped by massive container ships that run on the sludge that is left after diesel, gasoline, kerosine and other fuel variables have been separated from it. Ships that have zero filtration and guzzle it by metric tons by seamile.
Methane as fuel is great, would not personally use it inside a house, but that is each of our own decision what is best suited to you. I will not go demanding women stop using hair sprays and what ever that use methane as compression gas, even though those aerosols are also used by metric ton, unburned every day.
Please fix cow farts first before you come after my gas
@@TKUA11firstly no law about stoves ever suggested that people's stove be taken. You are grandfathered in. It only applies to new construction. Learn some facts while you chomp your burger.
"FCK PROPERTY RIGHTS"
-leftists
Natural gas bans should be challenged in court as uncompensated takings from both property owner and franchise utility.
@@TKUA11 So you're advocating genocide? the fuck is wrong with you.
Also, did you not see that graph? Cow farts aren't particularly important.
You do also know that without the ozone layer, life on this planet goes extinct, right?
You don't get it, it's a "bridge" in the sense that it's a bridge between us and the Scorched Earth of our future.
It's a bridge in the same way the Francis Scott Key bridge is a bridge
well, they never specified the destination ...
@@danielowefitzpatrick2291 Holy topical!
RIP those six construction workers.
in Baltimore?
The commercial with the kids celebrating national gas was straight terrifying
There's something really dark about using kids to help improve your marketability, knowing full well you're selling out their futures in the process.
@@drewfedorka it's a representation of how far gone these people are and just how much they've lost their humanity. it's batshit to even entertain the idea of centering a dangerous and polluting substance around children, in a positive light. deliberately spreading propaganda and to know you are actively worsening the future of every single one of those children, and do so anyways, is reprehensible beyond belief, to me, at least. the insidious irony lies in the fact that not one of the heads of the company would ever live next to a natural gas plant, nor allow their children to occupy the same space. it's disgusting
Absolutely disgusting, indeed. But the worst part is that it works on people. Those kids aren't capable of understanding even a single aspect of what they are shilling.
Because you believe nonsense that was reinforced into your brain by adding fear so others could make money...nice job
I hope every one of those children grows up to realize how they were used and become ruthless climate warriors as a result.
Climate town is thejuicemedia of the US, or thejuicemedia is the Climate town of the Australia. In any case, I love them both. ❤
That’s so harsh on Climate Town Jesus Christ
Wow! You pronounced Calcasieu correctly! As someone who lives here, I appreciate that.
“Just a little bit of more gas, just a little bit more of methane and we’ll get right on that climate change issue. Just one more year, just one more 🤑 ”
Just one more lane bro
"We just need a little more money"
I swear, it's going to fix traffic
Def addict behavior coming from these greedy money grubbers.
@@marwanfakhradin2543 just one more lane
Call it fossil gas already. I heard on the radio the other day some ad that said they had “renewable natural gas”
My city has recently been looking into RNG, and so I have some interested facts about it. You are correct in stating that NG is a fossil fuel, obtained through the fracking and horizontal drilling method that Rollie mentioned.
However, RNG is not gathered this way. There's multiple ways for it to be formed, but it's by taking a waste product such as sewage or garbage and doing some funky nonsense to turn it into fuel chips and natural gas.
The issue with this is that it's still NG, the production of it is often attached to existing sewage or garbage processing, meaning it's really fucking close to residential neighborhoods and watersheds (the proposed trash processing facility is less than 300m away from our main river), and the process is super inefficient, especially with trash.
Metal, glass and plastic are totally unable to be processed, paper products are generally more of a hassle than they're worth, so the only thing being turned into natural gas is organic garbage, but the issue is that it generally takes more energy to make RNG than it will eventually produce, making it dangerous, polluting, expensive, and ultimately inferior to any other form of renewable energy. Hell, I'd argue its be safer to put a nuclear power plant that close to residential than most RNG plants
@@jeremygrover5979 that’s some good info, thank you. The landfill in my hometown just literally burns their methane right next to the road, which may or may not be better than trying to capture it into RNG. They could maybe power a steam generator, that’s all I can think of 😂
@@jeremygrover5979
Good to know, thanks for sharing.
We have some renewable natural gas here in Toronto. We get it from our anaerobic composting facilities.
It's cool, but obviously only the tiniest amount. We fuel some of our garbage trucks with it.
Hey, I have that right here! I experienced that the renewing cycle can be shortened by eating beans!
I paused on the picture of your BSA uniform to check out how decorated you are. I gotta say, I'm impressed. All 3 Eagle Palms and Order of the Arrow! Never got past Life rank, myself. You're the real deal, Rollie.
Barf
That Phillips 66 leak was what sparked them to become a client of my company. There are plenty of people working in the industry who want to do things the best they can to minimize leaks, emissions, etc. But they rarely make the C suite.
Can you elaborate more? What’s your company?
Insane that we have to rely on private groups launching satellites to detect the leaks and hopefully hold them accountable instead of the government that we pay for whose job is ostensibly to regulate these companies for our protection.
It's super messed up!! Have you called the regulators using the Playbook in the video description yet?? We made it with the Climate Town team specifically for this video. It has a template and everything to make it simple to speak up on this.
I mean they're a joint project between private philanthropy and public institutions (universities). And in reality once they identify leaks the fossil fuel companies generally do try to close them off (to protect their product if nothing else.)
Oil and gas pay the government, a bit of "conflict of interest" going on there.
Vote! Vote out Republicans, vote out corporatists Democrats, vote for Democrats who aggressively go after corporations.
That's the only way you'll get actual change. Vote, vote every election, vote as if your future depends on it, because it does. We got into this mess because of the way people voted, and that's how we'll get out.
And prepare for propagandists to come in and tell you why you shouldn't vote against Republicans. But if you want change, that's what you need to do.
They should make it like a bug bounty where you get a portion of the fines you report. Pull a reverse Uno with capitalism
The first call on that phone better be "WAHZZZZUUUPPPP!!!!"
This channel deserves more recognition!
autism awareness is on it
He's just a doosh advocating big government. There's a billion of them on YT.
Hopeful news from the UK. Back in 1990 coal supplied around 60% of our electricity generation, with nuclear providing most of the rest. In the 90’s coal was rapidly replaced by “natural” gas and by 2000 gas and coal each supplied around 30%, renewables made an insignificant contribution. Things stayed much the same in the naughties, gas increasing somewhat, but in around 2010 things changed rapidly. Renewables started to increase exponentially and electricity generation from coal fell off a cliff. By 2020 it was under 5% and the last coal powered station in the UK is scheduled to be closed later this year. Gas increased to over 40% but this lasted only a few years and renewables have continued to overtake fossil fuels. Last year was the first year when renewables beat fossil fuels and this year wind looks almost certain to surge past gas as the largest single source of electricity. We take a load of LNG from Norway, the Gulf and the USA but this is likely to drop rapidly as domestic heating moves away from gas boilers to heat pumps. It can happen and increasingly economics will make it happen. Businesses will not stand for inflated energy prices from fossil fuels as renewables become cheaper and cheaper, and there’s not a lot governments backed by fossil fuel lobbyists will be able to do about it. As libertarians everywhere claim to believe, you can’t buck the market. Thanks to Carbon Brief for the stats on UK energy production.
You missed the part that it was Germany who made EU decide that gas is green and designed their "green" transition on russian gas (closing nuclear). Now the dealer is in jail and the US provides for the junkie at a high price.
Germany is still buying from russia just like they kept buying gas from iraq... but they do so under the radar and have to pretend they arent. how on earth are you so easily propagandized?
Actually Germany's politicians voted against labeling gas as well as nuclear as green, not only because the current government is not the same that established the dependency on Russian gas but also because it is made up of a coalition with the green party that see gas as a bad but necessary bridging technology . Currently the gas comes mainly from Norway (42 %), the Netherlands (29 %) und Belgium(23 %) and not mainly from the US in fact.
@@BioWeeed How bad is it to build nuclear reactors out of concrete, shut them down or never use them, then switch to a leaky gas that heats the earth if it's leaked or used?
@@BioWeeed didn't the EU increase iport from the US after Russian sanctions ?
@@NandR Germany shut down mostly old reactors.
hits even harder when you realize the MIT dorks who wrote the paper are 90% engineers, with one physics professor and a couple climate policy/research professors. just incredible
Great report to put on your resume if you're applying to work for these companies.
Engineers are not saints, they have human tendencies despite some part of the popultation thinking they are weird and thus must be omnipontent.
@@NoNameForNoneHe means to say that instead of climate scientists or something wriitng the report its engineers. Which while you can expect a couple of subject specialists it does scream of wrong people for the wrong job when there's so many of them co writing the paper.
@@NoNameForNonelol my dads an engineer and he forgot what year the 2008 financial crisis happened he should not be allowed to influence government policy in any way ever. He also thought CRISPR was fake and made up by people online.
@@friedrice4015 ...exactly. people think Ben Carson must be brill, yet, no. he's informed & good at brain surgery (and napping while standing), but that doesn't mean he's got an overall high intelligence/intellect or wide-ranging knowledge helpful in understanding new concepts. not to say people like that are void of other positive qualities.
One of the best combinations of comedy and educational content I've ever seen, not any easy topic either.
The guy wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops in the middle of an wet industrial coal field is maybe my favourite part of this video. ( 5:57)
Rollie will buy a billboard but not a mic clip 🤣🤣
Priorities man. If it ain't broke...
His small microphone has a clip, you can see it when it's taped to the bigger microphone 😂
I like the masking tape, it's like his trade mark.
At least he's not holding it with two fingers...
You seem to have missed that in the second half of the video the mic is clipped above the tape. The tape is a bit.
24:51 I like how he taped the small microphone to the big microphone.
AMAZING😂😂😂😂😂😂
It is kind of like putting a hat on a hat and yet it does work very well.
I think it's also about having the same sound throughout the video
This is one of his best and well researched videos. He still shows significant naïveté regarding the scale, potential timeline and tradeoffs of an energy transition. For example, when he laments natural gas as a bridge fuel, he highlights the long-term investments made to support continued usage. It's not ideal and seems like a dunk until you acknowledge that we're nowhere close to transitioning to other energies and that it will take many decades to rebuild the global energy infrastructure that has evolved over the last century+. I'd love to see one of his videos where he discusses real solutions and tradeoffs - i.e. what it would take to actually stabilize demand - rather than focusing just on things he would like to see go away and pretending like it's just going to happen by magic.
I love your videos. As a public historian, this is the stuff historians will write about our time.
NEW CLIMATE TOWN DROPPED YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS and now im sad about our world
while simultaneously giggling thru the tears. bless u rollie (& writing team)
Every time.
Don't get sad get angry
I love the upside down paper bit for the, "they're being built in high-income areas with predominately white residents. wait a minute....". As usual your comedic genius sells the science and facts perfectly!
I live near a $40 billion dollar LNG plant in NW British Columbia. A huge majority here love the project. Eventhough most jobs are taken by foreign or out of province workers.
Anyway great video! Almost perfect. Would have liked to see more on the fracking process. Water uses, wastewater, sand trucked in, power needed to frack a site, radioactive buildup on fittings and how they despose radioactive waste and frack fluid. And just how much power it takes to make liquefied methane.
Keep up the great work!
I find it very telling that in Canada, where I live, fracking is outright banned in 3 provinces, and even in the top coal and gas producer, Alberta, you have to get a whole list of permits to be allowed to do any fracking. And Canada has fairly equal natural gas potential to the US.
I think Rollie raises a good point. Not enough people talking about the rudeness of coal out here.
@@slevinchannel7589 I really hope you have a (well-paid) editor, or are writing in a language you're more fluent in, if this comment is representative of your output in English.
@@nenmaster5218 Okay then.
@@nenmaster5218 If you honestly think how I worded that is 'being a rude brat to a total stranger,' I worry about anyone who has ever offered you critique, however milquetoast the language it was couched in.
Don't bother responding, I've already blocked you. You have nothing to say that I would care about, coming out swinging like that, opening with limp insults and paternalism, demonstrating you offer no critique worth caring about.
Hes right. Where are your manners ?
@@bearlytamedmodels
@@loturzelrestaurant No.
Got a commercial from Epoch Times about the 'There is no climate change' declaration right before the video. How fitting.
The Epoch Rag is a Falun Gong-owned rag that's funded by US rightwing think tanks.
They are cult funded propaganda and got really big during Covid, unfortunately.
I got one for a mining simulator app.💀
Epoch times is crazy 😜 I used to get their ads constantly. Anti c o m m u nist propa.
I'm surprised that there are still outlets that deny climate change when not even energy companies deny it anymore.
I cannot thank you enough for working with Climate Changemakers. It really makes a difference when you take action.
It feels like you keep mentioning that the length of the videos are becoming too long, already a while a go when we were barely at 30 minutes, and they just keep getting longer and longer. I love it!
Keep it up Rollie! If anyone has any doubt, he is actually doing something positive about the climate crisis. This is how you do something positive about the climate crisis.
"Natural gas" is named such in contrast to the manufactured coal gas that older city gas infrastructure was originally made for. When they discovered natural gas, it was just like "oh shit, this stuff just comes from the ground and it's a million times less awful to live and work around than the coal gas we've been using!" What's fun is that in order to produce the brightest possible flame for gas lamps, they needed a lot of large particles to be in the combustion products, so the coal gasification process was optimized to maximize the soot by spewing the worst possible shit into the air.
Jeah, it means "dirty" gas.
At 2:26 he explains that methane traps "80 times the heat in a 20 year period" ...and if you know anything about the science and the timeline you would know how hilariously "true but misleading" this claim is. Methane breaks down extremely quickly. This video is political dross, masquerading as scientific infotainment. You got got.
"Now you're cooking with Methane!"
Im glad to see another video from my favorite "walking down streets talking" channels
The most infuriating part of all this is that the answer to our energy problems has been staring us all right in the face for years: Hamsters. Lots and lots of hamsters, on lots and lots of hamster wheels.
I have eaten four guinea pigs.
Beavers can produce more
In Australia they call it a transition fuel. Australia has become one of the world’s largest gas producers. We’re going to be using that transition fuel until it runs out.
Yep, and not only you, the entire world does, fueled (pun intended) by oil and gas lobbyists making the gullible people believe that it will never run out. And that it’s all just fear mongering by some liberal woke tree huggers (and voila, all words that make conservative’s blood boil have been used).
Like all energy infrastructure, once people spend money on it, they want EVERYONE to pay them back forever.
It's half the reason there's so much push for nuclear even though it's 500% as expensive per MWh as solar and wind and getting more expensive every day.
In the 50's, the nuclear age promised an infinite return on investment. And then 20 years later no one wanted it.
They thought it would be the new petroleum and it ended up being New Coke, now there's an entire industry trying to convince people to deregulate it and overinvest in it at the cost of cheaper, safer, renewable fuel sources. 🙄
And ironically we are exporting so much of it, they are forecasting domestic shortfalls within the next 5 years.
Sold on the cost effectiveness, bitten in the arse by the cost of refusing to reserve supply in all but one state.
Solar hot water was already common in the 90s, but I swear cheap instant burners are in almost every rental now. Tenants are swallowing the promise of low cost energy.
reminds me of this russian saying that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Pre-watch predictions:
- Cow Farts will be mentioned at least 3, but no more than 5 times.
- Rollie will spend a significant portion of the video talking about natural gas
- Rollie will apologeticly mention the length of the video and it will be at that point that I realized I've been watching this video for 47 minutes without once looking at my phone and I could easily go for another 22 hours.
- Rollie will make some funny jokes.
- An eagle will flash across the screen.
- Rollie will extol the virtues of America and the wonderful oil and gas industry.
I love this. A bingo version would be fun too
Hell yeah this pre comment wins
you cant go 47 minutes without looking at your phone?
This is a great drinking game, you'll get smashed pretty quickly to deal with emotional toll of knowing we live in the bad timeline
Useless comment. Trying to be witty & funny. 😢 your comment holds no value or purpose for me, and I suspect others.
I feel stupid asking this in a UA-cam comments section but has anyone checked if there's a relationship between the increase in LNG shipping and the spike in ocean surface temps along major shipping routes? Seems like sulfur emissions fell off just as LNG shipping increased between Europe and the US, and if methane is 35x more insulating than CO2, that's gotta contribute the record breaking surface temps we've seen in the last year
"Theres an easter egg hunt in all of these videos" I listen to these videos on a single earbud while setting up the restaurant before my shift 😭
Thank you, Rollie Williams and team, for making me not feel crazy by releasing another video covering one of the many topics I constantly have explain to my conservative family, coworkers, and friends who think my climate degree is bullshit.
The papers and reports form climate scientists can be used to create or block policies and help protect our futures. So it's incredibly important.
Your climate degree is sht. Stop telling people what to do.
@@potpu haven't been able to find/obtain a position that:
A. Pays somewhat well.
B. Does something legitimate other than suggestions.
But I'm working my way up through state government analysis positions and hope I can transfer to something in real climate analysis when it is created.
@@MilwaukeeF40C y so salty? You okay little man?
That tucker Carlson clip needs to be a meme 😭 what a tool he is
Love the abrupt edit too.
He is a science denier and a threat to our democracy.
The guy honestly creeps me out when he does stuff like that.
what's so funny i don't get what he's laughing about
@@CATZgamingnofatchicks it's like a demon cackling while peeling a man
Would love to see a video talking about food production for average diets! Might boost vegetarianism who knows
I was just looking at EPA jobs yesterday to see what options I have when I finish my Ecology degree. Good to know their ideas of science are asking fossil fuel companies to do it for them. yayyyyyyyyyyyy
EPA is a regulatory agency, not really a science one. When I was working for a local office of another federal actual science agency and we had to move the library, practically all the EPA pubs got junked. Because they weren't really pertinent for sources.
Strapping a lapel mic to a stand mic and holding them to speak into is an incredible bit.
I am honestly furious!
Just at the end of this masterpiece (thank you for your great work) i had an add from epoch times about "1600 scientist who don't believe climate change is an issue an overrated"
I mean... how tf can this be an legit add on youtube! It's ridiculous!!
You pay, you play.
"Viewers added context: ..."
Ad block's the way to go babyyyyyyyyyyyy
UA-cam's advertising policy is its own rabbit hole.
Upside: the money spend on those ads is wasted on the audience here, in fact the channel gets a share of it.
As a climate educator, thank you for making this video!!
As climate town matures, the runtime increases. Better nuance, same high quality script. Is it worth the more limited reach? Science communication is a tough field! Good thing Climate Town is the premier place to go! They roll all their own jokes!
I find it funny how he mentioned immediately that he "doesn't think about electricity but its a catastrophe when it goes out" because my energy went out twice this past week and it was, indeed, a catastrophe both times
Green party's attack on nuclear power was a mistake. This is definitely not due to my wanting a fusion power mecha.
Seeing the rise in pollution after New York replaced Indian Point with two NG plants was both horrible and entirely predictable. California's premature shutdown of nuclear and replacing it with gas is a similar disaster that we'll all be paying for.
We humans are unfortunately extremely guillable and bad at objective risk assessment. A nuclear meltdown is much more dramatic than the slow steady death by tons and tons of small sources.
Great video. Another thing they won’t mention is that it’s preferable to export LNG to chase profit at all costs and if the local price of LNG goes up they can get more profit again
Love this channel, my wish... longer more frequent videos.
Fracking was a swear word in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
[extremely McBain voice] Yes. That's the reference.
They spelled it "frak" for the show.
And warhammer 40,000
fraking toasters
Seriously appreciated the BSG reference in the middle of my climate town vid :D
Funny how the government approves LNG projects by awarding them “convenience certificates” but approves grid projects by issuing them “permits”
Im Wirter and wanna sak Climate-Town-Fans: If my Protag timetravels, should he introduce Coal and if so HOW? How to not wreck the Planet but still summon the Future?
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It’s deliberate corruption in standardized format. You recognize this by making this comment.
@@slevinchannel7589 every town had a water or wind mill for milling grain, just turn those into electric generators. Boom, no coal.
@@OnlyForThePriceOf999 Interesting! Can you tell me more?
And while starting sentences big so my autistic brain doesnt say a 'Ouchie'?
they should have a bounty on the leaks, like if you as a private citizen detect a leak, they get fined and you get a portion of the fine money
Fortis BC - A Kinder Morgan subsidiary that bought the publicly-owned BC Gas in the early 2000's - has bus ads stating how "The World is crying for our natural gas!" BC is currently building 4 LNG terminals - Prince Rupert, Kitimat, and two near Vancouver - all exclusively for the export of LNG. There have been huge First Nations + Environmental blockades and lawsuits, with the Federal + Provincial governments literally bulldozing their way through and siccing the RCMP on anyone who is legally protesting. There is NO talk about the environmental issues surrounding LNG. Pipelines are being built from the northeast corner of BC a thousand kilometres west to the BC coast through forests and First Nations territories. There is no talk about the foreign state-ownership of the LNG facilities, which means the citizens of BC aren't even seeing the financial benefits from reasonable royalties on LNG. We paid for the infrastructure - including the expansion of the Site C dam at $20Bn - but are going to see less that 3% royalties. What we really get is more environmental degradation and higher taxes - as we pay fr Carbon Taxes, cuz the citizens are supposedly the bad people polluting so much. In short, yes, LNG is a massive scam.
"A drug bust worth of coffee" made me LOL
as a PSA, Extinction Rebellion ( What Economists Don’t Know about Climate Science Can Kill Us) has hosted a presentation by Prof Steve Keen on the benighted role the field of economics had in trivializing climate change. People should go watch that too. The field of economics needs a house cleaning of theory.
I saw your own video on it (Desert of the Real). Economists have routinely failed to adequately estimate climate externalities... so routinely in fact, it seems like a little bit more than just a blindspot.
Might this be Extinction Rebellion? I'm not finding a hit for Science Rebellion.
Economics is the crux. If people could understand the basics we would have our uniting force.
Along with Keen, Michael Hudson is one of my favorites for understanding economics. His book Junk Economics explains how the establishment has changed the meanings of words and ideas like "free market" in order to confuse the public and make them forget simple market processes that everyone understood hundreds of years ago. Economics is more than just money, it's intertwined in every aspect of our lives. And the global organizations that are corrupting our Republic have diametrically opposing needs of people and their communities.
Economics is a religion in service to the interests of the already wealthy.
@@ExterminatorElite I am delighted! It is more than a blind spot. Individuals like Nordhaus actively worked with people involved in denial of CFCs, tobacco etc. They help corporations. It is important to popularize (ie spread awareness) that mainstream economics is awful. By this I mean Flat Earthers vs science awful. They are indulged because they legitimize corporate consolidation and now financialization and BigOil. This is why I am dedicating effort to spread the word of economist Steve Keen’s efforts. Steve’s talk hosted by Extinction Rebellion dives into Nordhaus’ and mainstream economics’ trivialization of climate on the global economy. Unless you too think 10C warming is naught. ;)
Another great video by @climatetown! Feeling more empowered knowing more about this scam. Thanks Rollie!
I love the climate town intro🔥🔥
It's almost like some area that is highly dependent on gas suddenly lost access to a lot of gas for some unknowable reason
Unknowable 😂nice
Yes. The implication here was that the US sold the idea of importing and consuming LNG to Europe when in fact it was the actions of Russia leading to Europe needing to divest itself from energy dependency from Putin’s regime. Europe was already all-in on Gas just because they got it cheap from Russia.
@@robsengahay5614 Europe has some strong climate/emission goals to meet, so they are switching over to renewables.
problem is, they have to build enormous wind farms, cover millions of roofs with solar, build hundreds of hydro plants and probably build a couple of dozen nuclear plants to go completely green. and those things take time. so to be able to heat Europe and keep businesses running between now and the moment those things are build they need some kind of fuel.
and instead of coal or brown coal they use gas for that.
the sooner they can go 100% renewable the better, but it's not like they can just flip a switch and it's done.
If they manage to stop, though, what is going to happen to all of these export and import terminals? Because I was sitting here thinking the same but the contracts being multi decade thing was concerning.
@@ChristiaanHW 100% renewable is probably impossible for Europe because of land & climate limitations. Many places aren't very sunny, and lots of places are already limited in terms of available land when all other uses are taken into account. Off-shore wind and/or tidal is the best option for a lot of them in terms of renewables. Hydro is extremely limited due to flatness of many of the countries (sure Switzerland can make it big there but the Netherlands and the UK aren't going to be able to make significant hydro). Nuclear is going to be a necessary backbone to reduce the amount of battery storage required.
I shit you not i got an oil well mapping advertisement at the end of the video 😂
Did you block it?
"Dear god."
"There's more."
"No."
I remember googling " what is natural gas " and "is natural gas just methane" and getting hundreds of non answers if not contradictory answers about its energy density and composition
Rollie should also make a video on biofuels, and how we're not using our land as a potential carbon sink because of this poorly thought-out policy.
UPVOTE SUPER LIKE THIS^^^^
Higher lifecycle emissions that gasoline, soil loss, fertilizer and pesticide run off, more cost, more expensive food, biodiversity loss.
Indonesia aims to run half its liquid fuel on palm oil.
Biodiesel and corn ethanol are the most atrocious industries.
Up voted as well!
Corporate welfare to big agribusinesses to institute an environmentally destructive and economically idiotic use of resources? I think it was thought out exactly how they intended, unfortunately.
Engineering Explained has a couple of videos on it, so I'm already good and angry about what a scam biofuels are. But I would absolutely love Rollie's take on it.
Also gets me good and mad whenever someone whines about electric vehicle or solar subsidies when fossil fuels and biofuels (and the farmers wasting land growing corn we don't need for ethanol we shouldn't be using) go so many more subsidies.
Oh yeah, and biofuels also contribute to antibiotic resistance due to the antibiotics biofuel producers use in the ethanol fermentation process.
I wanna also add: I remember when the "Natural Gas" fan boy rise was starting and I was suspicious the entire time. In no way is the word "GAS" ever a good thing. ANNNNNND at the same time I remember everyone complaining about how "METHANE FROM COW FARTS IS WORSE!" and then in the same breath be OK with methane gas in their homes.
I triiiiied to avoid gas in my home but it's been in 3 homes I have lived in, the third being the current. I keep telling my husband I don't want it. As a child, we had a small house fire that ruined the kitchen (The scars of that fire are still there near the stove). Thankfully, it was an electric stove. I cannot begin to imagine a gas stove going up in flames. I would have lost my childhood home at age 4 if that were the case.
A gas stove would have been about the same... but probably wouldn't have caused a fire. Natural Gas is really good because it burns clean it is just the leaks. What we actually need is nuclear power but you are probably so misinformed that you think it is the most scary of them all.
My grandmother had neighbours whose entire house was obliterated by a gas leak. Thankfully, nobody was home when it happened, but sadly they came home from vacation to a pile of smoking rubble.
Clearly we need to figure out how to affordably bottle cow farts and use THAT methane instead of mining for it.
A truly renewable source, rather than just "there's so much buried in our land it might as well be renewable, we swear, even though we want to multiply exponentially how much of it we mine and sell."
(mostly joking, but what if we could...)
@@allisont.6878 its possible, just not practical or economically justifiable. also its not enough methane, when people talk about methane emited by agriculture, they tend to lump it all together, giving a number around 40%, but that includes EVERYTHING, if we only account for livestock farts it goes down to 25%, while some estimates say methane from leaks alone can be as high as 40 or 50% (ignoring the laughable self-reporting from energy companies and using other metrics).
that is also why I think the fight against meat is a missdirection. its A LOT of methane, and people in countries like the US and China do consume a exorbitant amount of meat (per capita), meaning we would do well in reducing it, but its not as cathastrophic and unecessary like natural gas. specially because we NEED the manure for fertilizers, so the food industr DEPENDS on those cows, meaning we will never end livestock, its a fight that we will never win, BUT we don't need natural gas. so it sounds a lot like the energy industry strategy to shift the blame to something that is impossible to fight against, like the personal responsibility campaign, so we don't focus on fights we can win.
@allisont.6878 What you are describing is an anaerobic digester, and they are pretty common to collect methane from manure and landfills
Love your videos. I used to work for a natural gas pipeline engineering firm 10 years ago. This is a company that mainline gas distribution owners hire to design their pipes and valve and meter stations. Then supervise the contractors doing the install. A LOT of effort goes into making the systems so that they dont leak and so that leaks can be detected. This was NEVER out of the goodness of their hearts though. Leaking methane is lost revenue. Also a small shout to safety because the only thing worse than lost revenue is a lost lawsuit. There is a critical part of commissioning called a Nitrogen test. Basically they pressurize large segments of the pipline, 10-20 mile segments. Between valve sites. Then they watch the pressure for some time depending on how big the pipe is. If pressure doesnt drop then they release the pressurized N2 and now must purge the pipe with methane. Basically this is like cleaning out a city water line by opening the fire hydrant. Open the valves and let fly into the atmosphere until the amount of nitrogen drops below a certain limit that they can deliver the gas to the utilities. In the big scheme of things this is nothing compared to big leaks by drilling companies. But just the general attitude about leaks or line purges of "meh". I only worked there for 9 months because it really wasnt a good fit for my skills and it had so many moral compromises attached that I just felt yuck. For all the effort made to avoid and detect leaks, they still happen regularly and only large ones get attention to be repaired. Oh, and those big pipes? No mercaptan. That gets injected at the metering sites where the gas is handed off to local utilities. If there is a leak in a big pipe it wont be noticed by hikers or highway workers (where the big pipes are typically routed). So it will go until the gas company notices a discrepancy in metering and then prioritizes a repair which may not happen for years. I think most people think "how hard can it be to stop a leak?" As an engineer, trust me when I say HARD. Damn near impossible. Also the pressures involved are absurd. 1000s of psi. This is to max the capacity of the lines. Nothing in the daily human experience comes close for a measure of comparison. Maybe the hydraulic pressure in large earth moving equipment. Like that, but with a gas. Leaks are to be managed, not eliminated.
I love how he makes climate education a form of genuine entertainment.
I’m just here to appreciate that you taped a mic to a mic.
An engineer I know said everything leaks. It is impossible to make something leakproof. You can only design a way for the leaked fluid to drain away or be contained for clean up.
I signed the petition to stop that project! It felt awesome to finally get a win when it comes to climate related business
As an American, I feel like "choosing between two bad options" is too common.
be aware that coal also emits a lot of methane...
(it degasses from the mined coal, cf coal mine methane. It seems to be difficult to reliably quantify this, though.)
I also want to bring that up. How much methane does coal mining release, because it does release quit a bit, enough for an explosion hazard.
The ground also emits methane. So does rock decay.
Every time I see a truck that says "runs on clean burning natural gas" I giggle.
"Burning" and "clean" are words that can never be used on the same subject.
Burning hydrogen is clean.
@davidbrooks9576 Only if the source of oxygen is 100% pure. If you use ambient air, you can still create NOx pollutants, albeit in much smaller quantities. Impurities in the hydrogen and lubricants in the engine can also lead to CO2. It's cleanER, but not clean.
@@kevincorpetti1379 NOx can be dramatically knock down using catalytic converters, it's why all passenger vehicles are mandated to use them.
@@12pentaborane We're talking about hydrogen combustion engines.
@@kevincorpetti1379 The same principle can be applied. Just because it's being produced by hydrogen combustion doesn't change the chemistry of it.
Thanks for another wonderful video. You all at least make the spiral into our (unfortunately at this point, inevitable?) climate-disaster future entertaining. On a more serious (and more optimistic) note, it's always great you provide some practical points of what can be done.
Thanks for the amazing and thoughtful content as always bump bump bump
the quality of your videos is unmatched.
They're slick, but are playing to a bubble chamber choir.
@@mdombroskiIs your brain vacant? TF you mean "bubble chamber"? Does climate change not exist? Are 98% of what was stated in the video not straight facts? Are all these not real issues we're currently facing?
@@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529 TF I mean by "bubble chamber"? I mean just what I said. You guys are a bubble chamber! Do you guys keep up with the vibrant growing movement of podcasts and commentators pushing for nuclear power and maintaining the integrity of the electric grid? Have you ever heard of Robert Bryce, Emmet Penny, Chris Keefer, Judith Curry, Mark Nelson, Mark Mills and more? Why doesn't Rollie try to get an interview with one of them? I'd suggest Robert Bryce. He's recently interviewed Bill McKibben.
Yes, climate change exists and it's being overblown and exaggerated just like the late Pat Michaels said:
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@@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529 I probably should've said echo chamber instead of bubble chamber, but Rollie is clearly playing to a choir. Anyone listening to him should also check out podcasts and videos by Robert Bryce, Emmet Penny, Decouple and more. Yes climate change exists and it is being exaggerated!
Sorry to hear about your two last good years coming up! My condolences! Congratulations on your coming passing. I hope it's a good one! Thank you!
Oooh, I saw the copy of Andreas Malm's "How to blow up a pipeline?" on your desk. Nice touch 😉💥
i worked in the building where they moved natural gas from the pipes into a powerplant and the "you need to get out of this building right now" detector went off more days than it didn't. and the only reason it wasn't going off every day is because they put the detector.... in the always-open door to the building, halfway down. i asked why they didn't put it at the top of the door so it could detect if there was any methane cloud filling the room, & you know what they told me? because when they did that the methane alarm never stopped going off. ever
40 minutes of Climate Town is all I need in my life
As a car enthusiast I have no idea what happened in my life to watch climate change videos but I'm here for it when they're from climate town
Im Wirter and wanna sak Climate-Town-Fans: If my Protag timetravels, should he introduce Coal and if so HOW? How to not wreck the Planet but still summon the Future?
Hey, think of it this way: if you can get your local government to put in bike paths and public transportation, you can still drive your car whenever you want. Just now you don't have to share the road with so many frustrated commuters, and you're not forced to wear your car out in boring rush hour traffic every day, if you don't want to.
As a car enthusiast... Are you specifically an ICE fan or have you fallen in love with EV torque?
EVs made me a bit of a driving enthusiast.
as a car enthusiast myself, I want that activity to actually be enjoyable.. so I'm 100% in support of building a world where no one is dependent upon a private auto as their only realistic means of going about daily life. Fewer cars on the roads just means there's less traffic for us to freely enjoy a classic car on a weekend drive.
@@tristanridley1601 ICE enthusiast. I've driven an E-Golf before and while it's a good commuter car and reasonably fun, it was by no means a replacement for the cars I like
That's the best patreon ad I've ever seen in my life.
They are building an new gas pipe and hub in my town in Australia. No one wants it and the last chief minister got kicked out for conflicts of interest but their party still gets voted in. People are idiots.
Gee willickers, it’d be SUCH a shame if someone sabotaged the infrastructure and permanently suspended the development…
Maybe you and politicians are not the deciders of wanting it.
The only silver lining I can see about Methane is that its atmospheric lifespan is relatively short compared to CO2, only lasting 7-12 years meaning if we do ever get a grip on natural gas leaks, it wont take too long to see the impact of reducing them.
Those numbers are highly suspect and a significant portion of methane decomposes into carbon dioxide anyway.
It doesn't last that long... Because it becomes CO2 when it Reacts with the Ozone layer.
LMAO
@@Gelatinocyte2 sure, but we already established in this video that CO2 is relatively way less bad as a greenhouse gas... I thought that was obvious.
@@Nighthawk20000 combined with destroying the ozone, though? It's basically the same level of destruction, just split into two.
i suggest getting a basic high school science education. then you wouldn't say dumb sht like this
15:18 And they tried to convince us it was all cow farts!
lets hope i'm not the only one in the UK to ditch gas for heating/hot water. Having a £7500 government grant towards heat pumps will hopefully help others.
This is a public service announcement.
I'm from Texas. I really enjoy your channel. I really like the phone idea, discord server, especially comes to advocacy.
Please keep up the good work, I hope to be a patreon very soon
Props to everyone working on these absolute banger videos. Climate Town never seizes to impress me with just how utterly ready I am to become a climate advocate at the end of each immensely entertaining gig. Too bad I'm not from the US, really wish peoples would be doing the same kind of quality work but for the eastern european region
This 40 min documental should be on Netflix
I wish you'd visit South Africa because last year almost every day we experienced a Hindenberg level event 😅😢
Im afraid to ask more about these numerous catastrophes
@dozergames2395 😅 he said he felt that way about momentarily losing power but unfortunately we've been experiencing scheduled power outages for over a decade (the last 3 years have been brutal) but Solar is way cheaper so we'll be okay
It upsets me so much that anyone ever took chucky carlton seriously even though he laughs like the goddam hedonism bot from futurama
Awww is somebody practicing his party 5 minutes of hate? You didn't come with an actual critique you came with insults that you are trying to put forward as a critique, you look like a clown to anybody that isn't in your party echo chamber and think that saying somebody's name is somehow a joke.
This content is very important. 👍
7:29 the dog fountain is hilarious 🤣
NEW CLIMATE TOWN I PRAYED FOR THIS
More evidence suggesting that climate scientism is a religion.