AS an outdoor person and an organic farmer 80 years old I have seen the loss of many insect, and bird species that we need to pollinate our food...so sad, scary.
Research in Europe and elsewhere has seen a 70-80% drop in insect populations across the world in the past few decades. We replaced DDT with equally potent insecticides with predictable outcomes, while DDT is still being used in poorer parts of the world.
As a scientist/ ecologist this video was an under statement imo. We're already hitting several tipping points and the impacts of plus 5m sea level rise were glossed over with rose coloured glasses. Not stated were the loss of 1000s of other ecosystems such as peat lands, alpine and sub alpine areas, cool temperate rainforests, wetlands, the sub arctic etc. The impact on human populations is also glossed over imo. Societies will increasingly fall into economic collapse and chaos and we can see that starting already in 2022.
Fact 1: Remove the Earth’s atmosphere or even just the GreenHouse Gases and the Earth becomes much like the Moon, no water vapor or clouds, no ice or snow, no oceans, no vegetation, no 30% albedo becoming a barren rock ball, hot^3 (400 K) on the lit side, cold^3 (100 K) on the dark. At our distance from the Sun space is hot (394 K) not cold (5 K). That’s NOT what the Radiative GreenHouse Effect theory says. EVIDENCE: RGHE theory “288 K w - 255 K w/o = a 33 C colder ice ball Earth” 255 K assumes w/o keeps 30% albedo, an assumption akin to criminal fraud. Nikolov “Airless Celestial Bodies” Kramm “Moon as test bed for Earth” UCLA Diviner lunar mission data Int’l Space Station HVAC design for lit side of 250 F. (ISS web site) Astronaut backpack life support w/ AC and cool water tubing underwear. (Space Discovery Center) Fact 2: The GHGs require “extra” energy upwelling from a surface radiating as a black body. EVIDENCE: According to the K-T atmospheric power flux balance, numerous clones and SURFRAD the GHGs must absorb an “extra” 396/333/63 W/m^2 LWIR energy upwelling from the surface allegedly radiating as a black body. These graphics contain egregious arithmetic and thermodynamic errors. See ua-cam.com/video/0Jijw7-YG-U/v-deo.html Fact 3: Because of the significant non-radiative, i.e. kinetic, heat transfer processes of the contiguous participating atmospheric molecules the surface cannot upwell “extra” energy as a black body. EVIDENCE: As demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science. For the experimental write up see: principia-scientific.org/debunking-the-greenhouse-gas-theory-with-a-boiling-water-pot/ CONCLUSION: No RGHE, no GHG warming, no CAGW or mankind/CO2 driven climate change.
I agree with you Peter, as a trainee scientist (at university now) and a person who takes great interest in such things, the video did keave lots out, but I would hazard a guess that that was a deliberate choice so not so to overwhelm the average person with information and the more complex issues. Not to mention this video would significantly increase in length if they included more and as we know, the average persons attention span to such information doesn't tend to extend beyond 30 minutes (if not less). In terns if social and economic effects from climate change, there will be conflicts and wars as food/water resources become more scarce due to less fresh water availability, crop failures and loss of habitats/farming land. There's also the issue of carbon sinks and oxygen production as acidification of the oceans kills of O2 producing plankton and photosynthetic trees/plants due off due desertification and other changes to the environments causing die offs. The feedback loops will intensify and worsen climate change impacts/consequences. I'd argue that we'll be lucky to stop a 3°C global average temperature rise tbh. What many people don't understand is, the biggest issue with climate change isn't the fact the climate is warming, but the speed at which climate change is occuring. Instead of changing over 10s to 100s of 1000s of years, it's happening over a few 100 years at most and that is the biggest issue with it, because life simply can't adapt to changes that quickly and as a result starts dying off and potentially going extinct. After all, we are now in a (anthropogenic caused) mass extinction events based on the number of species going extinct.
I think Larry Niven, scifi writer, might be right. We're going to let this get so bad the planet is almost uninhabitable. Then, we'll fix it, fast. In the meantime 100s of millions will die. And don't think they'll go peacefully. The upside? We'll know how to terraform, cause we've just terraformed Terra.
I had a biology professor in university who looked us all square in the face when talking about potential climate change scenarios and said, "I don't care. My generation wrote the check, but you and your kids will be cashing. I'll be dead. Best of luck to you. 🤷♀️"
@@Shavenhamster Really? I've been wondering why it is that companies like Koch Industries, BNSF and ExxonMobile have pumped literally hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns, lobbyists, lawyers, public relations and advertising on every level, just about anything to make sure no meaningful legislation gets passed yet have not spent so much as a single dime on research that proves beyond question their end products are not the cause of the climate upheavals we are currently experiencing. Texas has some of the finest petroleum engineering and science research programs on the planet, seems that a $50 million or even $100 million grant specifically to clear them would produce bullet proof results and shut up naysayers for good. $100 million is a rounding error for them. An oil giant like Shell or BP doesn't think twice about dropping a billion dollars into just trying to find out if an oil field is worth drilling, but nothing to save their very livelihoods? Why do you suppose that's the case? Why do you think a global industry that generates trillions of dollars annually doesn't prove the science that would keep their revenue streams and even their very industry from collapsing? Of course back in the 1980s Mobile Oil researchers did look into it, and when they concluded that hydrocarbons pose a very real and significant threat to the planet's biosphere corporate executives made sure those findings were promptly buried.
I remember as a child in the UK how I used to catch salamanders in wild pools. Nobody told me not to! But how many kids today have ever seen salamanders in their natural habitat?
thnks for the info... yes indeed, they were probably newts! Btw, according to Google, the skin of a newt contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a chemical that's 1,000 times more toxic to humans than cyanide - so beware of dropping tasty newts into your breakfast cereal 😄
Yes I remember as a child in the UK catching Newts which to most of us were referred to as Salamanders - we thought thats what they were. The ones with the orange/yellow underbelly ( which could be quite big ) are Great Crested Newts and are now a protected species.
Frogs, Fireflies, Whippoorwills, multiple thousands of Ducks and Geese, migrating twice a year, a car covered with dead Bugs on the windshield and front grill... Their numbers have dwindled to few or none now but sure; "we'll be fine".
"WE STILL HAVE TIME" , is the phrase of procrastination and feeds into denial. Discovered 140 years ago, to have the alarm bell rung repeatedly over the years as nothing changed enough, always ending with , "WE STILL HAVE TIME," clearly didn't work. No one in a movie theater fire would ever say such a thing.
So I am on the opposite spectrum of you …….. I’m 40 and when I was in grammar school I was told by 2020 I would only see snow on mountain tops, Polar bears would be extinct, ice caps would be ice free and the coast line would be under water and everyone would have to move. And it was the same message you are giving… “we don’t have time “ fear mongering… Well here we are in 2024. I went sledding with my kids last week at the local forest preserve, polar bear populations have increased by 5 times, the polar ice caps are the same size and the most expensive/desired real estate is coastal properties… Honest question, how much longer will it take when no climate disasters to happen for you to realize you have been fooled? What if another 30 years goes by and everything is the same? Will you question it then ?
@@beezybeez4207 All of that is false. I believe you’re exaggerating wildly. I believe no one told you any of those things. Certainly no scientist ever said any of it, so we’re talking about climate science saying true things vs. rumors, folklore, or intentional disinterpretation. lying-by-strawperson to delay the solutions to climate catastrophe & preserve the profits, power & position of the rich & the right. Since science is what we’re talking about, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers written over a century & a half, & every single scientific organization in the world agree that Earth is warming, it’s caused by human greenhouse gases, & it threatens civilization & nature, that’s the only thing that matters. As I’ve said before, if you have evidence anyone said those things please post it-names, dates, quotes, recordings. No, there aren’t 5x the polar bears. There are ever fewer & they’re in peril. "Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?" Carbon Brief, December 7, 2022 No, the icecaps are a lot smaller & shrinking faster all the time. “Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract” video, James Hansen "Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years" ‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss The Guardian, August 23, 2020 No scientist has ever said snow would disappear any time soon. Coastal property owners all over are having trouble getting insurance, & Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, & other places are experiencing insurance meltdowns. Floods & storms are getting worse, along with droughts, fires, heat waves, crop failures, ecological disruptions, & dozens of other effects of global heating. Failed states are multiplying. The increase in disasters is obvious & scientifically determined to be caused or in some cases exacerbated by human-caused climate catastrophe & the larger ecological crisis.
@beez “Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)” All about climate W Rosh “How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video “Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures” Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann... 'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023 “Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?” The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017 "James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?” Yale Climate Connections 30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony “BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic” Climate Crocks June 24, 2018 Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress. ”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.” ““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions” Climate Crocks June 25, 2018 “At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?” Skeptical Science 20 June 2023 IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022 “What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with. My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained. google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to ever hold another position of responsibility.
Yes, absolutely. “Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)” All about climate W Rosh “How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video “Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures” Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann... 'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023 “Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?” The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017 "James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?” Yale Climate Connections 30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony “BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic” Climate Crocks June 24, 2018 Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress. ”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.” ““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions” Climate Crocks June 25, 2018 “At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?” Skeptical Science 20 June 2023 IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022 “What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with. My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained. google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to never hold another position of responsibility.
@@beezybeez4207 I’d like to see evidence of any scientist ever saying any of that; I'm talking about climate science saying true things & you’re talking about rumors, folklore, or intentional disinterpretation-lying-by-strawperson to delay the solutions to climate catastrophe & preserve the profits, power & position of the rich & the right. 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers written over a century & a half, & every single scientific organization in the world agree that Earth is warming, it’s caused by human greenhouse gases, & it threatens civilization & nature, that’s the only thing that matters. No, there aren’t 5x the polar bears. There are ever fewer & they’re in peril. "Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?" Carbon Brief, December 7, 2022 No, the icecaps are a lot smaller & shrinking faster all the time. “Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract” video, James Hansen "Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years" ‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss The Guardian, August 23, 2020 No scientist has ever said snow would disappear any time soon. Coastal property owners all over are having trouble getting insurance, & Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, & other places are experiencing insurance meltdowns. Floods & storms are getting worse, along with droughts, fires, heat waves, crop failures, ecological disruptions, & dozens of other effects of global heating. Failed states are multiplying. The increase in disasters is obvious & in case after case, scientifically determined to be caused or exacerbated by human-caused climate catastrophe.
I have already made massive changes, I relocated away from the coast, downsized and created a 5 acre native edible food forest for my family and wildlife. I now have apex predators visiting from a wildlife corridor behind my land. I built 2 ft high hugelkultur beds around my house to berm and moderate indoor temps and grow food without irrigation. I compost and do not use pesticides or fertilizers. I switched electric appliances for manual. Every year my heating bill has dropped, in part due to better passive solar use. My old truck gets 33 mpg and I doubt I will change it. I am looking at an ebike, but only drive once a week into town. If a collapse shut off my electricity (community solar), I have a partially underground shed that maintains better temperatures. Takes a lot more than me, though.
@@keyisme1356 I read recently that US gardens increased from about 22 million to 76 million in the last couple years. Hopeful. I am reading Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee. In the middle of Agriculture's Mixed Blessings chapter. Paleopatholology shows that hunter-gatherers were taller, healthier, and lived longer than farmers. Modern hunter-gatherers eat about 85 plants, but the rest of humanity consumes about 50 percent of our calories as wheat, rice, corn. Our diets are atrocious. I both forage and grow native plants, no wonder my health is so good at 69. I do eat about 3 cups of vegetables every day and anything else I want, so I'm no purist. Still, 50 years of gardening and foraging is a lot of free food, a blessing in inflationary times. Before I bought a house, I grew food in an elderly neighbor's yard. We shared the produce and I kept my toddler with me.
And here we are, 10 months later, and some climate experts are starting to admit that the climate is changing faster than they had expected. This is because we humans talk and talk, but precious few will do much to really change their lifestyle.
the easiest thing to help would be to stop ordering shit on amazon so much, but most arent even willing to do that. Half the people dont give a shit, the other half are spoiled with modern convenience that they wont give up
The tipping point happened 40 years ago when we didn't make the changes we should have. We love talking about the doom but we never did anything about it.
Dear PBS Terra, you REALLY need to talk about "overshoot". Climate change isn't the only environmental disaster we are facing. We (the humans) simply can't keep "overshooting" Mother Nature's ability to heal the planet. Dumping toxins in the rivers, cutting down rain forests, sucking all the water out of the ground, overfishing, plastic in the ocean, spraying pesticides on everything, etc. We have got to spot over-exploiting the planet. To put it bluntly, capitalism needs to be scaled back. Even if electric vehicles and solar panels keep us below 1.5c, it won't make any difference if the Earth is a burned out wreck.
It's happening on every planet in the solar system not just earth. We are in for a magnetic flip and possible crust displacement, worst of all is the potential micronova from the sun(estimated around late 2030s-2040s) we don't help but this change has happened many times in the past. What we are dealing with human wise is all distraction for the elites, will the info cause chaos? Maybe but chaos is here already
Exactly. There can not be infinite economic growth on a finite planet and everyday we are losing something that is going to be lost forever. De-growth is the only sustainable solution.
It may not be the only environmental crisis we face but climate change is the most pressing. Maintaining global increases in temperatures would make a huge difference. You're not wrong that capitalism needs to be scaled back though.
The Thwaits glacier alone will cause chaos because even a few feet of ocean rise will cause millions upon millions of people to move farther inland and we have seen just recently how horribly humans react to immigrants moving into other people's region. And make no mistake, Thwaits is going now in real time.. And yet, I know many people who've had babies this year. Wow, good luck, babies.
As an older person I feel heartbreak for this generation of children. As a young person I read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Civilization did not heed her dire warning about the environment. Back then there was possibly still time to take some necessary drastic action.....but now? The heartbreak is overwhelmingly painful.
I was scuba diving in the Maldives and they actually gave us colored filters to put over our goggles to make all the dead, white coral look livelier and more colorful. I could not believe it.
The word is "unhinged" and its not climate, it's just ducky, but the weather clowns haven't flown over the cuckoo's nest, they're homesteading it. Your "1.5" has been pulled from someone's rectum. It's not possible to "record" the "average" temperature of the entire Earth. It's also not possible to measure the average IQ of all Earthlings, but judging from the comments I read here, it's a good bet that it's declining if judged from the equally limited sample they represent.
As an avid amateur gardener nearing 70, I have seen dramatic changes in the garden. Where I live went from a zone 5 to a zone 6. Some of my annuals, like snapdragons have gone from annuals to perennials. I can now grow plants & shrubs that couldn’t take the winter temps in the past. Nothing will change in the US until we do reach a tipping point (flooding in Houston for example). When someone’s income (fossil fuel industry) is on the line, they will continue to fund anti-climate research & dissemination. Just like the tobacco industry did starting in the 60s. I’m hoping our leaders recognize this eminent threat, but I fear it is already too late. Don’t invest in coastal properties for now, especially in FL. Or lower Manhattan & Long Island for that matter. Phoenix will become unlivable. Potable water problems in the west will continue to worsen.
@@johngrundowski3632 I grew up in NE PA. I remember hip deep snow and severe cold for days on end. Now it seems it barely reaches freezing before it shoots up to 50 again mid January! That was unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.
Agreed! My mom had a gardening book from 1954 saying my garden was zone 5. Today it is officially zone 7, but I only had zone 8 winters for the last 9 years. I collect rainwater, and just added 200 gallons storage. I moved away from Seattle-under-water 9 years ago. No mortgage and no regrets.
yup, same story in Sydney Australia, I planted sugarcane, reading that there was potential to get it to 1 metre in height with winter protection, when growing outside it's range (which Sydney absolutely is for a tropical plant), anyway, it went straight to 4 metres high & about 1 litre of juice per cane, which is impressive even in tropical climates. My sweet potato thrives too, as does my coffee plant. I only moved to where I live now, with a good garden space, a decade ago & originally planted as per the "correct" zone, but I've learnt to ignore that now & treat it as one to 2 zones warmer than the official zoning. No potential to grow crops like iceberg lettuce, just too hot for it, even in winter, it just bolts straight to seed! Lots of others that seem similar too, but I can't say for sure with some as to if it's a climate change thing or was always the case in this area, or if it's my gardening to blame, but no question it's warmer than it used to be! (exception being the last year, due to the Tongan volcano eruption & the significant cooling that caused in the southern hemisphere, impact of that seems to have subsided though, after snow here in December, we're now experiencing over a month of "heat wave" conditions, high 20's to 30's everyday, high 30's everyday in parts of the country, in what should be coming into Autumn & cooling temps)
When I was a kid, I would come up in the morning and see the frost in every patch of grass; this would go on for at least two weeks straight during the winter. My last year on my old city, about three years ago, I did not see the same a single day. Also populations of birds and insects have dramatically decreased since I was a kid, which had decreased since my parents were kids. Now, I'm south-american, my wife is eastern-european and says simillar things have happenned there too. My point is it's real, it's worldwide and it's bad.
Really well YOU will be surprised to learn that temperature, weather AND climate are ALL totally within NORMAL long term variability for our current interglacial !
Imagine building a machine in your home. There's a side effect of the mechanics that causes a fire, but otherwise works fine. So you just keep working it while it burns more and more of your home, yet you still have that machine going. We're insane as a people.
Now imagine a world without machines. There would be no solar panels no wind turbines. No electricity, no medical care, no way to even see an upcoming event such as this! You would be dead at a young age. I challenge you to try not using ANY technology for one week! I bet you can't!
Have you noticed that there are hardly any bugs on the windshield any more when driving down the highway? We have known about the issues of pollution, heat islands et al since the 1970s but humans don't do anything until a situation is critical. In 2015 when I saw the Mendenhall glacier near Juneau, Alaska which had retreated eight kilometres (five miles) my thought was that it was too late; we had already hit the tipping point.
The insect pesticides and repellants that people are consuming in mass amounts is the main reason for insect, bird reptile and fish loss on such a scale in recent decades. Demanding consumers prefer the unnatural growth and color mutations with that perfect and polished consistanty in their choices of unblemished fruits and veggies, And the profits from those perfect consumables must be protected, If insects are repelled or die off after eating from the garden, that's a red flag for me, Imagine how much DDT was consumed by the children's- children of the corn in the 1950's & 60's before it was banned in the US Just the consequences of storm water runoff through crop fields and pig farms inyo our drinking water, alone makes me cringe.
I have news for you............Your bugs moved here to Western NY in the summer! 😂😂 There are plenty up here. Must have a healthier ecosystem but it is rural.
@@sandersson2813 They were just two examples and I did say "et al". What I am pointing out is that we have known for at least 50 years man's impact on our environment in many areas of human activity and done nothing but talk about it. Perhaps we have done some things like removing CFCs but the hole in the ozone layer still exists and with the lag time from implementation it is estimated that it will take up to 100 years for it to repair. Implementation and lag time are going to be crucial issues. This is a very complex but extremely important matter but a forum like this is too limited to have a full on discussion. I wish you all well.
Let's face it, we won't only reach 1.5C very fast, we will get past it. We are nowhere near what should be done to prevent 1.5C. And with the tipping points (and the fact I don't believe we would stop at 1.5C anyway) I can easily see we getting to 2C way before the end of the century. Buckle up guys, this is going to hurt.
@Caio Lima Netto Yes, way, way before. We’re already at 1.2°C, adding about .5°C/decade, so doing the math that’s...let’s see, 14, carry the 1, we’re likely to hit 1.5 by 2028. Except since we’ve already seen some tipping points have been breached, we know climate change is accelerating, so 2027 is also likely. 2°C is likely between 2035 & 2040. Not a damn thing we can do about that, especially with so many people in charge telling the 2050 not zero lie.
@@J4Zonian lol the 2050 net zero is completely delusional when we are still ramping up emissions, not even peaked. There is no way we can get from accelerating to zero in 30 years. I bet we won't see net zero by 2100. Only hope (which is most of these lies are based upon) is some dream tech-miracle that will be able to do carbon capture on a planetary level in record time. I am 44 and I think I will still be alive when we get to 2C and I will probably die before net zero.
It's already too late. I say we speed up the process, so the earth can heal - once all of the people are gone. Whadaya say? Join me in a diesel truck race and a nice used tire bonfire? I feel like we should at least get to enjoy the end of mankind.
10 meters of sea level rise?! I feel like that really got glossed over here, that was not given the weight it deserved to people who aren't familiar with metric. That's saying we're currently locked in to 32 feet of rise!!
Seriously? You believe taht??? She said she was using the I{PCC data. If you look at the IPCC report they say 1-3 feet rise by the end of the century. This lady is simply scaring you into believing her. Stop being the fool!
What you didn't mention is that rising sea levels changes the weight on the tectonic plates under the oceans, and Greenland and Antarctica would weigh less, which could lead to more powerful earthquakes along the tectonic plates around the rim of the oceans, including the ring of fire, and with it, more volcanic activity, which could add even more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Or, it could result in super volcanoes erupting, leading to an ice age like a nuclear winter around the entire planet. Or it could change the convection layers in the mantle, destabilizing our planets geomagnetic field. Destabilizing tectonic plates could be the most catastrophic of the climate change issues.
I’m an American living in southern Mexico. I’ve been here 13 years. The rainy season used to start in mid May. Now it starts mid July. We are receiving less that half the rain than previous years. It’s really scary to me. Scariest of all are the climate deniers who really just want to get as rich as they can. They don’t believe the science. They choose not to believe! God help us.
@timnray99 Unfortunately in our increasingly desperate & unequal world, the rich are the only ones who can afford to work for months for nothing. The larger change in the world has been by the right wing rulers, who have become increasingly disturbed in denying science & reality & embracing horrific racism, misogyny, anti-ecological fanaticism, & intolerance & hatred for all who disagree. So yes, they actually are evil-doers who in fact are not just seeking but actually destroying civilization & worsening the ongoing mass extinction. Save your scorn for those who deserve it.
Thought about what you wrote, and then my question is what about effects of trust fund recipients and irrevocable trust money on the opposite side of the spectrum? Doing all they can selfishly do to allow the human race to self- destruct.
@DeniseChang Well, Denise, you should stop that shit because it’s insane to keep denying climate catastrophe 40 years after all scientific debate about the essentials was ended. And don’t tell me you don’t know what it means. It’s so childish & pointless to try to win a gunfight with semantics. After nearly 2 centuries of scientific debate, performed in the realm of science, by doing science, the conclusions are clear, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists from a hundred countries & scores of scientific specialties, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers, & every single major & national scientific organization agree: Earth is warming. It’s caused entirely by human greenhouse gases. It’s an imminent threat to civilization & nature.
I remember being a child in the 1980's Across the street from our house in town was a large empty lot/yard filled with grass, dandelions, flowers, etc. In mid-afternoon one day I walked over to check it out. There were so many bees, butterflies, dragonflys and other insects flying around. I felt like I was a kid on Heaven exploring the world outside. Yet since the mid-90's to today, all these critters disappeared or are so rare to see.
@@patrickcummins79 my parents dont use fertilizer or pesticides in our yard and havent cut the grass in along time and i started to see butterflies, fireflies, dragonflies etc this summer
I have always wondered about the black asphalt on all the roads and parking lots would it help if they could be white or silver to cool the temperature in the atmosphere. Maybe some scientist should study the effects of this.could be very worthwhile. I changed the color of my garage roof from brown to white.around 20 degrees cooler instantly. Just my 2cents worth.
@@jerryw6699 But it radiates back to space and can escape the planet. At least it's passive cooling not requiring the expenditure of even more energy to cool living spaces. It works. When I had my house re-roofed, I chose the lightest color shingles available. It made a noticeable difference.
I feel my blood boil when I think that my kids and grandkiddos may face an inhospitable world due to corporatist pols, culture warriors and religious zealots who either cannot see "the handwriting on the wall," or don't regard the aspect of catastrophic climate change as nearly so pressing as raising profits, scoring political points, and chanting that "the Lord will provide." Humans have been terrible stewards of our planet, so I would caution against any deity saving the world when people have so abused the gift given them. And obscene wealth will matter little if climate change transforms the planet into one massive nightmare scenario.
My biggest concern is that the delay of reasonable measures will just lead to some stupid and extreme solutions when the catastrophe is visible even to the most ignorant. Like detonating a nuke in yellowstone, or pumping some weird chemical in the atmosphere, or dropping a bilion tons of reflective white balls onto ocean surface.
My biggest concern is that people will actually listen to you maniacs and completely wipe out civilization so that your precious leaders can become dictators of the world.
WHY take ANY actions when temperature, weather AND climate are TOTALLY within normal long term variability for our current interglacial. Nothing unusual is going on.
One of my saddest underwater experiences was to view the extensive destruction of the coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over ten years ago or more. It was devoid of the once brilliant colors and fish. I was shocked to see the damage of global warming.
In 2003 I was lucky enough to see Hawaii's coral reef, I was hoping some day to bring my husband who has a degree in adventure recreation, concentration in diving to see it. 20 years later I doubt he will ever be able to see the beauty I once saw. It breaks my heart. Its sad that he has never seen a reef.
I guess we lose the amazon rainforest not because of global warming, but just because of deforestation, much much earlier (like in the next years the tipping point might be reached)
I watched in 2003 when we passed the most critical tipping point; CO2 became unrecoverable. 230 ppb. Now we're well over 400. Then the gov't started 'moving the goalposts', changing the labels until no one knew what was happening. We are now truly screwed no matter what goes right.
like how they changed the definition of vaccine to include things that function solely in a therapeutic way with the human body instead of preventing infection like every vaccine was before 2020. just so they could do the "most lucrative business opportunity in the history of capitalism"
I was born in 1987 and looking back at what was happening around that time, it seemed as if humanity was going to get everything under control. Sensible people would act back then, but they stopped, and humanity got stupider and stupider, and stupider from there. The fact that we haven’t done anything really, even until now despite how much worse everything has got; and the fact that we are still making basically no progress politically, or in terms of reducing consumption shows that so clearly. Realistically, I can’t say I have much faith in humans. But I am an idealist, and I’d love to see us all wake up tomorrow, basically remove the capitalists from mainstream society and any political power somehow (because they’ll never change) and save ourselves. I hope so, but every day we keep going on like this, the hope goes down another notch. That’s the unfortunate truth, that every day matters and we’re doing nothing at all relatively speaking.
Humans are not going to fix this. There's is too much money and power behind polluting. And the people making the money will be dead long before the really bad sh!t happens or will have the money to insulate themselves from the worst of it. There are so many benefits to moving to renewables but it's not going to happen. Too much greed being propped up by the ignorant uninformed masses.
@@pisces031372aj I wouldn’t say the people making the money are necessarily going to escape. I mean if the crops really fail catastrophically soon, then theoretically they’d be able to pay for the food that’s left. But they’re not going to be left alone by the starving masses if that happens.
@@saxmanphd I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic at all. Just that the idealistic part of my nature makes me consider scenarios that most people would flat out dismiss as impossible, because things generally don’t turn around in a relative instant. Which is what they will have to do if we’re to continue on this planet in a way that we would consider fun.
Excellent documentary. To your question, "What can we do?" My short answer is this: collectively, nothing that will matter much. Many of these tipping points are already happening, and our global climate has gone into a self-accelerating runaway heating and destabilization whose symptoms are everywhere. We're in for a rough ride that will only get rougher. Not much of a legacy for our children, I'm afraid. Individually is a different matter, however. We can grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness, forming garden guilds within our own neighborhoods where we learn and teach how to grow our own food, share our equipment and skills, and steadily reduce our dependence on the larger infrastructures that are destroying our planet (e.g. fossil fuels, the money economy, rampant consumerism, etc.) And we can devote these skills to healing our landscapes and each other, practicing permaculture design, managing and recycling water, etc. This may not save us from the fate we have already locked in through our arrogance and greed, but it will make the remaining years less stressful and more convivial, and may even result in some of us actually surviving to start the long healing process thereafter.
@@samuelguy1838 That would be nice, if you believe it. But for me and others with their feet firmly planted in the realities disclosed by scientific inquiry, all of that is balderdash, appealing only to the credulous.
Per-acre cereal crop yields have more than tripled since 1960. There are several reasons for that increase, but one of the major reasons is rising CO2 levels. Through all of human history, FAMINE was a Damoclean sword, hanging over humanity... until now.
@@ncdave4life Dude, seriously, that's a fascinating level of bullshit that you made there. Cudos! CO2 levels are not the CAUSE of that crop yield increase, but a (minor) REASON for it: Fossil fuels used to make fertilizer.
@@ianhenk, I did not say that rising CO2 levels are "THE cause" improving crop yields, I said they are "one of the major reasons" for rising crop yields. Which is right. It has been heavily studied by agronomists for well over a century, with thousands of published studies. It is a very large effect. There is no legitimate dispute about it, among scientists. Here's a small sample of some of the relevant papers/studies; there are many others, but this should get you started: doi:10.1007/s10018-020-00263-w, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198928, doi:10.1111/gcb.13263, doi:10.1002/grl.50563, doi:10.1111/gcb.12830, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.042, doi:10.1038/nclimate3004, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.11.015, doi:10.3386/w29320, doi:10.1111/nph.17802, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11271920-549.
please talk about how losing coral reefs can make nutrition cycling difficult for some parts of the world. losing diversity is not only sad, it is physically dangerous
@@Mrbfgray " The greatest threat to reefs is the rise in oceanic carbon dioxide levels. When carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, the water becomes more acidic and the ocean’s pH (a measure of how acidic or basic the ocean is) drops. Even though the ocean is immense, enough carbon dioxide can have a major impact. In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic-faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years. Calcium carbonate, the building block of a coral's skeleton, forms only if the water pH sits in a specific range. The more acidic seawater makes it more difficult for corals to build their calcium carbonate skeletons. And if acidification gets severe enough, it could even break apart the existing skeletons that already provide the structure for reefs. Scientists predict that by 2085 ocean conditions will be acidic enough for corals around the globe to begin to dissolve. For one reef in Hawaii this is already a reality. " ... Source: ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-coral-reefs
"Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, though the reef is still vulnerable to climate change and mass bleaching, a monitoring group said Thursday." CNBC August, 2022 All while CO2 has been rising! Next
@@anglosaxonmike8325 the principle is, by the time you are aware of many tipping points, you're already past them. There's no list, and people with their head in the sand won't be convinced, even with more evidence
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Greenland, the world’s biggest island, appears to have hit a tipping point around 2002-2003 when the ice loss rapidly accelerated, said lead author Michael Bevis, a geoscientist at Ohio State University. By 2012 the annual ice loss was “unprecedented” at nearly four times the rate in 2003. But we know you think Donald Trump knows more about the weather than a climate scientist. So no matter how many scientists say disaster is imminent, you will believe a stupid corrupt politician over a scientific expert.
In situations like this, I remember what Canada did. When a river flooded a town that had grown around it, the river flooding killed animals, destroyed property, and killed people. But, they learned from the experience. When they rebuilt, all areas that had been flooded were off limits, and instead were turned into a public park with no permanent structures allowed. There are summer music and art concerts, and a walk / bike trail along the river. 50 years later, the river flooded again, but because they had learned, no lives and no property was lost. We need to do the same everywhere. Places that flood from rivers and hurricanes should be turned into parks, as should places like "Tornado Alley". People who want to build in fire prone areas need a psych evaluation, not a condo that will "need" to be saved. We've "paved over paradise and put in a parking lot", and need to undo our mistakes.
Just so you know by not being able to put buildings in fire prone area youve completely eliminated the western half of the usa , basically all of australia , and so much more
@@FronosElectronics Yes. Getting a tiny minority of people out of harm's way, and "future proofing" civilization, is somehow synonymous with depopulating the entire US east coast. 🙄
@@benrudolph5582 Yes, it is. There is no place on Earth not subject to climate-change caused disasters now. A billion refugees are likely by 2050, the year the insane people pretend we can solve this by by doing practically nothing at all. Welcome to Denier World.
@ben I agree, but between places prone to floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, deadly heat waves, droughts, ecological collapses, crop failures, dire endemic diseases, & other disasters, that are some mighty big chunksa territory. The parts of California alone that apply are home to tens of millions of people. It probably involves most of the inhabited area of the planet, a national & international crisis we will have to face. Unless we continue to ignore & “bungle”* it & in the process kill billions of people & destroy most nations on Earth along with the coherence of global civilization. I’m guessing we’ll continue to choose the latter. Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, wrote Bring Back the Buffalo, about establishing the mostly empty Great Plains as essentially a wilderness area & haven for free herds of bison as there were before 1800. *the ultimate feature-not-bug problem.
I'm 83 now. I had had 2 children before hearing of global warming. At that point I determined to have no more children. I later married 2 childless men (not at the same time 🤓), and had no more children. Being so close to the end of my life, I hope to miss the worst of the looming disaster. Unfortunately, my great-grandaughter will live it. 😢
If you're 83 you lived through the mass hysteria of Armageddon in the 1950's. You also lived through the 1973 energy crisis, the predictions of global starvation by the 1990's, the impending ice age and Y2K. All of these fairy tales began with "scientists say" and the media ran with their hyperbole and sensationalism. Have you learned nothing? Your great granddaughter will be fine and experience a life that you and I could only dream about. She'll likely be working on Mars and vacationing on the moon. Cheers.
@@anthonymorris5084You regurgitate 50 years of Petrochemical Industry media disinformation and lies. The pitiful truth is that you believe the trash, even when the industry scientists knew it to be a whitewash of the truth.
@@PaulBowman-y1rthe lie is people are doing it. We are in the middle of a pole shift which is being omitted. So yes there are several lies involved. Buckle up butter cup. The cyclical climate change is in action and accelerating.
Just think: scientists tried to warn everyone back in the 1970's, but their message was ridiculed and undermined by big industry and many government officials around the world. How would things be now, if everyone had listened, and acted on their advice, back in the 1970's?
Just think, we would be trying to prevent global cooling...cuz that's what the "consensus" was in the 1970s. Then someone figured they could get rich on warming, because they could make carbon a boogey man and control everything. Nearly everything tangible contains carbon.
@@Crypto666 No, the scientific consensus, even back in the 1970s, was global warming. Examining peer-reviewed research articles on the climate from the 1970s, we find that almost 70% agree that the globe is warming overall, and all articles with global cooling relied on scenarios for increasing concentrations of Sulphur dioxide and other aerosols, while CO2 concentration in the air remained constant. By the mid-1970s, it was already clear that CO2 levels were rising faster than aerosol, and the consensus was that the Globe was warming. However, Media independence is a sham. In total, by 1979, there were 6 papers discussing the possibility of cooling as contrasted to 43 papers on global warming. However, due to the weakening polar vortex, north American winters were (and still are) getting colder, as cold arctic winds are able to more easily move southwards. Hence, the media gave all the attention to people saying global cooling instead of global warming until the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, most news magnates are also heavily invested in oil and coal. Here is a great video explaining Global Cooling. ua-cam.com/video/5E7K70DFLJQ/v-deo.html
You have missed the disappearance of the mountain glaciers. Causing the drying up of the major rivers, the denudation of the mountains, increased warming, failure of most croplands.
Yeah, except that's not actually happening. The earth is like a terrarium. It has a finite amount of water that goes through lots of changes but comes right back to being water somewhere else on the planet. Sorry you slept through the part of science class that would have kept you from buying in to this bullshit.
@@daisy8luke perhaps you are thinking of the hydrological cycle. Assuming you listened to your terrarium teacher! Without the freezing conditions the precipitation flows down as flash floods rather than a slower continuous stream. Then after flood drought occurs when the rivers dry up. Did you watch any news this year and see the effect in the northern hemisphere. Good gotcha try, keep believing GOP.
Just as happened during the other four Interglacial Warming Periods over the last half million years! I've read through each and every one of the IPCC Assessment reports from 1990 to present. My undergrad was in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, wherein we studied ocean currents both current as well as how they have changed over the eons. I have three degrees total, including two in Science, summa cum laude for my two graduate degrees, each with its own respective concentration. What I am NOT, however, is climate scientist, and THANK GOD, as it allows myself and many thousands of other scientists to SEE CLEARLY the forest through the trees instead of perpetuating this damned MYTH. Look it up: Interglacial Warming Period. They occur roughly every 105,000 years and last for 10,000 to 30,000 years before Earth cools back into her usual "snowball Earth" mode where the temperatures drop by upwards of 8 deg C (nearly 15 deg F) for 60,000 to 70,000. Geologists have used the Vostok and other ice core samples dating back to more than 1.5 million years ago to learn Earth has experienced precisely the SAME effects of even higher temperatures, CO2, CH4 (methane), permafrost melt, methane release, and sea level rises during the other Interglacial Warming Periods over the eons as we're seeing today, but without human involvement or cause. The climate scientist in this video remains so hyperfocused on upon the last 20,000 years he can't see the bigger picture AT ALL. Either that, or he's IGNORING the fact Earth is nearing the peak of her FIFTH Interglacial Warming Period of the last 420,000 years. Earth spends 2/3 to 4/5 of its time about 6 to 8 deg C colder than its Interglacial Warming Periods, which occur roughly every 105,000 years. It's a NORMAL and NATURAL CYCLE, people. Humans certainly didn't cause the last four, nor the thirteen before that, and, at best, humanity's contributions to our current Interglacial Warming Period are around 15%. The remaining 85% are ALL Mother Nature's. This is actual, factual, science-based reality, people, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE. Do we need to take care of our planet? Absolutely! Stop dumping plastics and organic toxins into our rivers and oceans! Yank Monsanto's/Bayer's glyphosate license forever! Stop building crappy or hyper-expensive construction when the real problem involves stopping IR, conduction and convection while employing proper amounts of INTERNAL thermal mass. Great homes DO NOT cost half a million dollars or more! Try $50,000. THAT is reality, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE. STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
I was "lucky" enough to help measure the movement of the WAIS in 1995/6. The ice streams within the sheet were moving rapidly. I heard recently the the tipping point for the WAIS has been passed...game over. Living in Aotearoa (NZ), we here all aware of the threat to the populations of the small atolls in the South Pacific near us.
Surprised you did not mention the risk that as oceans warm, the vast amounts of frozen methane hydrate would melt and be released. This would also greatly increase the global green house gas effects.
Well this is awfully strange because only a few months ago science was saying there is no global warming I wonder why? They were saying anyway that every million years or so the earth does a different orbit with the moon and it does this always They also stated that we are in this orbit now and this is why it seems as though this is global warming Not that people aren't capable of destroying our plant though which lately we have been seeing War etc no real recycling being done lies lies and more lies
Correct! Methane will come pouring out of ancient deposits of frozen methane hydrates in the shallow sections of the Arctic Ocean and the deep deposits under the tundra lands.
Can't wait to tell my grandchildren about the before times when the coast citys that are underwater were fun tourist spots instead of habitat for fish full of plastic
One day you'll be sitting there with your grandchildren telling them about this monumental hoax that was perpetrated against the People by governments who wanted to control them. And you'll be doing it in a cave because the entire world's economy will have collapsed from these useless ineffective green policies.
Even if you do not believe in global warming (I do not know how it is possible in 2022...) we have to change radically to have a cleaner and greener planet earth.
You don't know how someone can not believe in global warming in 2022? Well, for the same reason as five years ago or ten years ago. It's called having a brain, having some life experience, and knowing marxist propaganda when you see it. Reading a handful of comments on this thread is like being taken back in time to Woodstock. A bunch of spaced out hippies dutifully parroting the "anti-establishment" propaganda they're fed. At least Woodstock offered great music, climate change threads offer nothing but despair at how gullible people are.
Sadly, that is all too possible amongst the Conservative voters in the U.S. apparently they're put stock in the theory that global warming is propaganda devised by the government for political purposes😢
This thinking is precisely the problem, because it means you can sit back and do nothing. And: humans can no longer adapt to 3 degrees of warming. The planet and some species can. But not us.
There may be still some time to stop this, but it awfully looks like that the people who actually have the power to stop that have no inclination to invoke truly effective measures to accomplish that. Our political, industrial and commercial leaders don't want to do what is necessary, and in the end simply won't do enough to stop the catastrophe.
@@aluisious yes we are and in 30 years you will still have those people "how the F did this happen" i tell you people in power did little to stop it wich is far worse genocide then hitler or stalin did
Too late to stop it. Too many people are making too much money as it is. What we can do is work to limit the damage and save as much as we possibly still can.
That's why the class war is being fought using eco-genocide of the global lower classes. Our destruction is assured, and honestly, I think it's warranted. Human beings were too stupid to accept the reality they could clearly see -- we collectively deserve to die in this mouse trap. Sad, but true.
There is NOTHING to stop, !, nothing unusual is going on !, weather temperature and climate are ALL totally within normal long term variability for our current inter glacial, the data is VERY clear.
We already witnessed what we need to do during the first months of the pandemic: reducing dramatically overall planet consumption and human mobility. During the first 3 months of the pandemic, when we all were locked down at home to avoid the spreading of covid19, we observed how rapidly nature was able to restore the environment: the skies became clearer than ever seen before (remember those skies in Delhi, Tokyo or New York as a few examples); wildlife came back to our towns and cities to recover what once belonged to them; raise on global temperatures stopped for those few months; and on and on. But let’s be clear: reducing human consumption and mobility carries consequences, such as a reduction in global demand of products and servicies, which involves less production, which inevitable lead to an increase of unemployment and the consequences associated to that. The key question here is: are we open to radically change our lifestyle, away from capitalism and the commodities that come with it?
Clear skies are very bad for climate. You are behind the times. The more haze the better. Canadian wildfires were a brilliant stroke of luck this year.
Thank you for sharing these perspectives that are rarely mentioned. I loved the analogy of the tipping over chair. Many people reject the concepts of tipping points because they prefer to believe that humans are so clever, inventive and resourceful that we can overcome any problem that we have created. Such perspectives often come from those who have little understanding of human dependence upon a healthy surrounding biosphere. In my view we've already crossed many tipping points and most of them interact with the others to accelerate our plunge into darkness. I urge readers to search for the following warning articles that most people seem to have displaced from their consciousness. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 4-years ago.
I note how you quote two highly unreliable socialist media outlets as proof of your perspective both of which blatantly pursue information as a propaganda tool. The U.N IPCC has demonstrated for its whole existence that nothing they say can be taken seriously. Their own scientific report data never supports what they say publically. The U.N has been saying we only have two, or ten or five years for DECADES and NOTHING ever happens to climate that is unusual. I just bet YOU dont even know what climate is ! Q. Define what climate is and how it is measured ? You are just another gullible socialist, who knows nothing about the science, demonstrate some tipping points you think exist and have been crossed, this should be good for a laugh.
- Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority. They have been convinced that socialism is evil and have learned to condemn anything associated with socialism and liberalism. They share a package of values and charismatic leadership that provided them with a sense of community and personal identity. It brings them joy, the same sort of joy I've noticed in some cult beliefs. Climate science deniers tend to now brand themselves as simply being 'skeptics.' Interestingly these so-called 'skeptics' take great pride in their capacity to reject mountains of scientific evidence that clashes with their deeply entrenched worldview. This is similar to their pride in rejecting all the mounting evidence that Donald Trump has engaged in multiple criminal activities and it is reflected in their support of all the Republican leadership who lack the backbone to admit that their party has been taken over by seditionist forces. The numerous United Nations (UN) IPCC reports contain a summery of the peer reviewed research results of many thousands of scientists around the planet, working in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines for the last half-century. Conservatives have no problem rejecting those findings with claims that its driven by personal greed, or a vast globalists conspiracy campaign. The meaning of climate and climate change can be found in the following Wikipedia articles. I'm listing just the titles since the UA-cam algorithms reject my comments when I include the URL links. Climate change (Wikipedia) Greenhouse gas (Wikipedia) Radiative forcing (Wikipedia) --- Climate change: How do we know (NASA) The GISTEMP climate spiral 1880-2021 (NASA) What's Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg) More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change (Cornell University) Over 200 health journals call on world leaders to address 'catastrophic harm to health' from climate change (ScienceDaily) Climate: What did We Know and When Did We Know it? (UA-cam) Scientists warned the US president about global warming 50 years ago today (TheGuardian) Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) (TheGuardian) Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation system (Yale University) A Horrifying New Study Found that the Ocean is on its Way to Suffocating by 2030 Seafloor Discovery Shows The Ocean's Undergoing a Change Not Seen in 10,000 Years (ScienceAlert) Satellite data confirms globe is warming rapidly (Axios) CO2 Concentration - Last 800,000 years University of California, Scripps Institute) Climate change 'tipping points' too close for comfort (PhysOrg) World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (TheGuardian) Almost 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970, report reveals (TheGuardian) World’s largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate (Nature) Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm (TheConversation) Insects are dying off at record rates - an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction (BusinessInsider) Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (Stanford University - PNAS) Humanity is ‘cutting down the tree of life’, warn scientists (TheGuardian) Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis (Mnogabay) New study undercuts favorite climate myth ‘more CO2 is good for plants’ (SkepticalScience) Experts explain how rising carbon dioxide depletes nutrients in our food (Accuweather) Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn (TheIndependent) Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns (TheGuardian) Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions (PhysOrg) There's No Science Behind Denying Climate Change (Forbes) Heartland's '6 Reasons To Be A Climate-Change Skeptic' Are Six Demonstrable Falsehoods (Forbes) Skeptical Science (SkepticalScience)
@@vernonbrechin4207 I asked YOU for the definition of what climate is and how it is measured NOT a link . That you did not answer this simple question demonstrates YOU dont know. You should have been able to offer the correct answer from memory. That you did not reply with that information demonstrates you probably have no idea. Q. What is climate and how is it measured ? Answer the question ! Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority. Your post reproduced above describes SOCIALISTS very well, after all socialism is a RELIGION and you have made a religious response devoid of facts but simply referencing segments of your new bible. Had you any understandng of the physics involved you would have explained them to justify your position. That you have NOT indicates strongly that you do not understand them at all. Most of the sources you cite are still left wing media sources and are NOT a scientific argument. You even quote the skeptical science propaganda website run by the notorious fraud John Cook who produced the most famous stastical fraud study 99% of scientists say...... When replicated properly that study was ACTUALLY .3% of scientists say. Most of what you have cited are long discredited, we are NOT for example n a sixth major extinction that has been formally falsified and was always based on very dodgy statistics and most animal species counted were NOT known to exist but were simply assumed to exist. If you want to have any credibility, for right now you have none. Then you need to justify YOUR position with an explanation of the physics. NOT well this on line article says.........
@@vernonbrechin4207 One problem I have with the word denier is that you guys throw everybody in there who is not alarmist. For example Michael Schellenberger and Steve Koonin are both labeled as deniers even though both want action on climate, they just don't believe in catestrophic climate change.
I went last year to Hawaii, the Big Island which I have visited four times the last thirty years and all of my favorite snorkeling spots are now 90% devoid of marine life. I saw the destruction gradually happening in each visit. Last time we went was last spring and I'm never going back again. Its heartbreaking. People don't care to wear sunscreen and bug juice that is less damaging to reefs plus they touch the corals which just kills them. Shame on these people that don't give a damn!
I snorkelled in Oahu in 1980 or so and it was a wonderland. I snorkelled in Kauai in 2015 and there were still fish, but it was less than I expected, and only in Poipu. The north part of the island essentially had no tropical fish, and I thought it would have something, though it always depends how busy an area is of course.
Key Largo coral reef the water temperature yesterday was 98 degrees Fahrenheit. That says it all. Industries need to wind it all down, the population needs to go back to 3 billion stability, everything that can be produced locally needs to be, to reduce all shipping (now just a source of extra revenue). Travel needs to be minimized. You see?, this is about globalized finance and a ravenous type of capital that hordes at the top. None of that will take place, so the planet will stop us, plain and simple, it cannot support capitalism and over population unbridled. Expect 80% of all ocean life to die off, soon, there is the beginning of the end of the planet as we knew it. Look straight at finance & industry unregulated as the most greedy of the most destructive species to ever exists laments it’s hubris and arrogance, in mass. This is no longer Edgar Cayce prophecy, it is our reality, playing out before our eyes.
@@foto21 I'm on Oahu, been here for over 60 years. I have sadly watched the steady death of the sea. And the heating of the land. Food fish are rarer and rarer. I used to buy a block of ahi belly (yellow fin tuna) for New Year's celebration. Made a big plate of sashimi, with wasabi and shoyu. Some thin sliced green onion. Used the less primo parts for poke.... cubes of raw fish in a sauce with chili peppers, oyster sauce, and thin sliced red onion. It was 5 dollars a pound most years. If the catch was bad, or demand was unusually high, it could go to 7 or 8 dollars a pound. Now, you had better make a RESERVATION for the best cuts and it may go for over 100 dollars a pound. And you may not get really good fish, you might have to take a lesser quality or another fish entirely, like bluefin or big eye.
The primary killer of coral reefs is not sunscreen it's the acidification of the ocean water. As we pump ever increasing amount of CO2 into the air the oceans are forced to absorb more and more of it which causes a decrease in the pH of the water making it unlivable for coral reefs which can only survive within certain pH levels. When it becomes too acidic the polyps that live in the coral reefs leave which means death for the coral. These animals are what give life to the reefs and without them they die, leaving behind lifeless rock.
“There’s still time.” Maybe, but it doesn’t matter much if the people in charge are still doing nothing. I think we’re gonna suffer through this regardless what we do.
@@shalizzle793 no, it’s the truth that many refuse to accept. The amount of carbon in our atmosphere will be there for the next several thousand years without some kind of way to remove it, and current removal methods add more carbon to the atmosphere than is removed. That’s also not keeping in mind that many many places on Earth have no desire to stop using carbon because even if there are alternatives, they don’t want to use them because carbon is quicker and cheaper. So, yeah. That’s not being a doomer, those are just the facts. Sorry you can’t accept them.
Our politicians (in basically every first world nation at least) have already basically told us they don't care and won't do anything. I don't see any kind of meaningful action on Climate Change until Millennials are in control of politics, and even then? I question my generation's willingness to challenge corporations - cuz we're not going to get any meaningful movement on Climate Change until we do.
Fun fact if you go off 1750 to today its 1.7c more not 1.1 like they say now. Parking lots take up 25 to 30% and sometimes more of the land in cities why cant we just go up. Make parking garages for stores with big parking lots like Walmart Costco malls reduce your parking lots size by 80% go up loss none and probably gane more parking spaces. The freed up land can be used for trees and the parking garages can be covered in solar to reduce energy demand and have batteries on bottom floor of the parking garage where cars can't park of course so tada energy storage for when the gride needs it.
Do solar panels cause heat island effect? Large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a solar heat island effect that, though much smaller, is similar to that created by urban or industrial areas, according to a new study.Nov 7, 2016
Give up dude. The real issue is TOO MANY HUMANS! You know how every life I’m this planet has checks and balances… except us. Ya that’s the real issue. If there was less of us we would be just fine with the systems we have now. It’s too many humans… that’s the only solution.
Or plant food forests on the tops of every parking, local food without extra transport and focus on perennial food plants means less soil disturbance, more carbon storage, less water usage, less need for tractors or similar equipment.
Since we have a third consecutive La Nina weather cycle, I think we have reached a tipping point. If the La Nina weather pattern becomes permanent Australia will need to get used to a lot more rain, California will be in a permanent drought. I have a bad feeling that this is our new reality.
The last time Australia had 3 consecutive years of La Niña was 1998 - 2001, so it’s not unheard of. Following that was the millennium drought (2001 - 2008) with people back then predicting the drought would be permanent. There’s no way of predicting that La Niña will become permanent. There are also other weather systems (SAM, IOD) that influence Australia’s weather. Let’s wait and see if there’s a 4th consecutive year of La Niña before deciding whether a tipping point has been reached.
One point regarding La Nina. From what I understand, La Nina cools the planet slightly and despite this 3 year La Nina we are seeing record breaking heatwaves all over the northern hemisphere from China to Europe to the USA. So it may be masking some of the warming thats already happening and we wont realize it until El Nino hits at some point and we go further into uncharted territory.
@@mikeekim1101 La Nina has the biggest impact on North American weather in winter (according to NOAA). It can cause warmer & drier winters in the south, cooler & wetter in the north & Canada. But it's not the only driver of weather so other systems can cause different outcomes. We're not currently in La Ninã (it became neutral in June) but there's a 70% likelihood of it returning soon.
I'm only 38 years old, but I already remember there used to be lots of dead insects in the windscream of my father's car while returning from my gramma's house, which was in a nearby city, at night. Now doing the same travel we don't see almost any insects on the windscream anymore.
Yes. Because car windshields and radiator grills have killed 90% of them. And what are you blaming? You post the mechanism that's killing them all and then blame something else. That's pure genius.
@@JimmyD806 Insecticides, habitat loss, eutrophication, & increasingly, climate catastrophe, are wiping out insects. Several studies have shown an 80% loss in numbers. "A landmark new study warns us that 40% of the world's insect species are declining and a third are endangered -with a catastrophic effect on our planet’s ecosystems.” "Malnourished Insects: Higher CO2 Levels Make Plants Less Nutritious” Naked Capitalism, March 10, 2020 "Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature’" The Guardian, 2/10/201
It's hard to say where exactly we lie on these tipping points due to such high error bars. We may be nowhere close or we may have crossed them long ago depending on which model was used to study it. If anything, finding out that such a possibility exists should incentivize world leaders into taking action.
I am afraid that we are dooming our children and grandchildren . It's like we are in our house and it's on fire but we just keep saying " Oh it's only a small fire I'm sure it will go out in time . I'll just sit here and watch the Kardashians " . I am beginning to feel that not only are humans not the smartest creature , we may be the dumbest .
But dont worry there is still time? This is a very soft view of the future. The coast lines will displace incredible amounts of people being population centers. This massive migration will further destabilize surrounding areas already dealing with poor crops and starvation due to climate change. Further stripping the land base of plants and animals as the human population clings onto life. This is happening now just due to the global food crisis. And all these tipping points happening in unison will speed the negative effects of fires, melting, and biodiversity die offs. I dont think there is time because we have done next to nothing thus far and all attempts are washed away at the fear of a slowing economy. Humans may not deserve the gem they were fortunate to evolve with. I saw all this coming 20+ years ago with a few science classes at a community college.
Not only is what you say true but I am 100% certain that one of these Nuclear armed countries is going to start using those nukes way before the last little bit of nature are consumed anyway. So we will inevitably blow ourselves up and everything else on the planet which will be a quick, Swift extinction which I think is better than the drawn out; use up every last resource extinction you’re talking about. Either way it’s unavoidable and I’m happy the quick nuclear route will be most likely. I already have my heroin and needle ready. I’m saving some fentanyl laced heroin I bought and when the time comes I’m going to go out peacefully with everyone else! Can’t wait, we surely didn’t deserve the beauty we evolved with unfortunately…. Good luck and safe travels fellow human!
There is still time to act. We need to do what we can to save as much as we still can from the inevitable collapse. We can still have an impact on how hard it hits and how much is lost.
Not to mention that these changes will lead to increased geopolitical instability that will lead to an increase in global conflict, including the possibility of nuclear war.
Today it is 21 degrees Celsius in my city. It is supposed to be a middle the winter right now. The last time we had a record in February was 2009 with 16 degrees.
I have worked on northern Illinois trees for 45 years. It used to be in the late 1970's that a dead oak was fairly unusual to encounter, usually oak wilt. Today, nearly every oak and many other trees are under attack by an array of insect and fungal borne diseases. These diseases are attributable to warmer winters, and warmer and wetter growing seasons. Colder winters used to kill off many insect pests. It is likely that in 50 years, all Midwest native oaks will be gone. The changes have been increasingly rapid, and profound.
Fortunately the tropics are full of trees used to 12month insect pressure. Archaeobotany shows the Wyoming jungles had plants constantly being bitten by insects. Wyoming jungles didn't collapse from insects. They collapsed from cold/drought (same thing)
We will NOT limit warming at 1.5 degree Celsius unless we implement an effort that can be compared to a war effort. If you read the IPCC report, and I have, the whole 2600 pages, you will learn that we have released, since the second half of the 19th century until 2020 roughly around 2300 billion tons of CO2, also called gigatons (gtn). On the IPCC report you will find a graphic that shows you that to limit our increase in temperature to 1.5 we must NOT emit more than 3000 billion tons of CO2, of which 2300 billion have already been released. So basic math tells you that we have a budget of 700 billion tons of CO2 left. In other words: if we consider that we've released 2300 billion tons of CO2 since the last half of the 19th century, with a world population averaging for since that time to 2020 around 3 billions, a kid being born today or a kid who's 5-10 years old, living in a world in which we have 8-9 billion people will have to emit around 1/10th less CO2 than his grandparents. Around 1/6th less CO2 if we want to stay under an increase in temperature of 2 degrees Celsius. Both won't happen and we will reach probably an increase way more than 3 degrees Celsius before the end of this century.
Thank you for your analysis and for all the research you did into the mainstream climate science perspective on this issue. Far less than 0.1% of the world's population of 8-billion people have bothered to do what you have done.
Over 50 years ago, the scientific community voiced their theory about "global warming" or the expression of "the greenhouse effect" and they were ridiculed for predicting the impact of excessively using "fossil fuels ". It wasn't until the catastrophic impact of several years of devistating droughts, then the catastrophic bushfires in 2020 - which were then followed by the unprecedented floods, then plagues of mice, then more floods, more fires and the choking smoke that caused health issues for anybody that had respiratory problems. To top all these repedative disasters * Covid19 had soon spread and was declared a pandemic* with catastrophic death tolls being recorded globally. To think that these absolutely devastating events are only the beginning of the impact of climate change, really makes me worry about the future that is coming for my children and granddaughter. They are going to inherit the earth, in an unstable and unpredictable and unfriendly condition, as the combined impact is set to be extremely hostile planet. We are witnessing the worst climatic conditions, which have already been contributing to crop and stock losses and it is no secret that famine is spreading * either due to financial poverty or crop losses and there is also cases of wars disrupting crop production. With all the "gloom and doom" being thrown into our faces each day * it is no wonder our children and grandchildren are experiencing depression and are suicidal.
Yesterday in geologic time--there were 12 deg C changes in a matter of decades, only 12.5k yrs ago, yet humanity survived. This is all total bullshit, we've been hearing this alarmism for 30 yrs, Al Gore predicted ice free artic for a decade ago. Learn some darn history.
@@parrsnipps4495 If any such tipping points were available they had hundreds of opportunities in just the last half million yrs. Yesterday in geologic time, 12.5k YA, Younger Dryas witnessed not 1 or 2 deg. C but *12 C in a matter of decades* swings in temp. Tipping points are a fabrication invented to distract from the fact that climate models and predictions have completely failed.
925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion animals enslaved in farms are given enough food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota
I love this show. In this case, I’m afraid it’s missing an opportunity by being too polyanish in its assessment of the earth’s climate system. 1.5 is well in our rear view and our able to grasp the rate of the change that is upon us endangerous us even more.
Official global warming is +1.0 to 1.5 C in the GMST anomaly (Know what that is?) over 140 to 170 years depending on the "expert" and database. 15 C to 16 C is a scary increase of 6.7%. But “C” does not have thermodynamic substance, “K” does. Properly cited as 288 K to 289 K, + 0.34%, this difficult to measure change is too trivial to be some kind of dangerous trend. The current GMST trend is 0.013 C PER YEAR!!! (UAH data) Insignificant! And impossible to actually measure. How is that a “heat wave?” It's noise in the data, UHI, instrument uncertainty and drift, minor albedo change....... 80% of the surface did/does not even have credible weather data. (Heller) Some summer engineering interns loaded gobs of garbage data into the computer's maw, spun the algorithm wheel and hurled out a statistical hallucination.
I'll know people are serious about climate change when the start screaming at China and demanding sanctions be placed on that country in order to pressure it to reduce its massive, world-leading amount of CO2 emissions.
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Nick, on one hand I wish I was smoking whatever you are so that I had the same ability to deny reality. On the other hand, I’m happy I acknowledge the truth, as this allows me to take action to minimize our impact on the environment.
Civilization will collapse by 2050. There is no getting around this. No more iphones. No more Internet. No more TV. No more USA. The lucky ones won't make it. Those who survive get to do farming and/or hunting 24/7 just to freed yourself while fending off raiders.
I live in deep south Texas, where 20 years ago, mosquitoes reigned in the summer. Now there are hardly any mosquitoes around anymore, even after hard rains, and I don't hear the toads/frogs anymore.
Live in Central PA, and it used to be so loud to fall asleep- bats, frogs, toads, crickets. I haven't heard most of them in so long, and I just heard a bullfrog for the first time again last week. I actually sat on my porch crying for a few minutes because I had missed the sound so much.
I'm old enough to remember when November was a winter month. It rarely snows in the New York City area and the fall colors are less intense and later. Being aware is the first step. Otherwise I'm not sure what the answer is.
@Buck Rothschild having known people from, and visited Wyoming fairly recently, I can understand this for sure. A closed minded bunch, most of who I met. It's interesting to see how geography and isolation comparative to larger, more populated areas affects mindset of residents.
@Buck Rothschild there are tens of thousands of nomads who live in the Sahel of the Sahara all without much water. And when you listen to their songs they endlessly bicker about not being left alone to live in sand with camels
The first and most important thing that has to occur, is for humanity to come out of its schizophrenic fragmentatation, and come together as one unified species, with a similarly unified directive to address climate change full force and according to what's needed in every locale on the planet. Without that unity of purpose and applied action, climate change will accelerate and overwhelm human efforts at mitigation and any hope of stopping it. These efforts should have begun 20 years ago, but due to the misfortune of human greed, stupidity and complacency, we are all in a much more precarious and critical situation. It's time for the world to consciously act now, as if our survival depends on it - because it does.
@@michaelstreeter3125 I'm trying to let you know the source. YT isn't letting me pass it along to you. I've tried 8 times now. YT is removing all my replies because (I'm guessing here) they contain news article headings, or partial headings. YT also doesn't allow direct links any longer.
Sky news released a video yesterday talking about record temperatures yesterday. The thing that shocked me, was how many people commented they didn't care but most didn't believe it.
The sun melted the ice in my cooler .. the water is coming out the plug and getting my blanket all wet. Pretty soon I’m gonna be wet. It’s so hot My dogs water bowl is empty and my hands are sticky. My friends went to buy chairs since blanket wet and bottle water for my dogs wipes for my hands and a new blanket and Ice and cooler ., expensive and drag have to go store.,
Haha no of course fill up dog bowl . Wash hands and close plug. 🤣🤣 Funny buying a chair hah that wld be like letting sea levels rise. Haha build a damn and use the water of course . Yes of course this show is ridiculous.., plug it and use it .. duh
maybe because its not record temps , it only covers the last 200 years , and barely 100 in other places , record temps should cover since the dawn of time not a measly 200 years and then you will realize what record temps means
I run an after-school activity on environmental awareness. Engaging and informative videos like this one really helps. Please continue to provide teachers with great resources, balancing the frightening ones with some that show possible solutions. Thanks.
Tell your pupils that climate has, does, and will continue to change with natural processes. Otherwise, your grandkids will start paying into a fresh air tax. We are close to being taxed on the air we breathe.
@@trentcook8021 "Tell your pupils that climate has, does, and will continue to change with natural processes." That's correct, but NONE of those natural drivers of climate change have caused any net change over the last 140 years, and ALL the observed global warming was caused by our emissions. Tell your grandchildren every time you burned a gallon of gas in your car, you added 19 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere, and every tankful in your van or truck added 400 pounds of excess CO2 to the atmosphere. Multiple that by billions of people and their gas-burning devices, and that's how you, me, and everyone else alive know caused the planet to warm rapidly.
@@jimmoses6617 Thanks for your reply. "If you truly believe what you just wrote..." It's not a matter of "belief," I'm a long-time university researcher and have spent many thousands of hours studying what humans are doing to the planet and what we must do to prevent the worsening breakdown of ecosystems and society. When you burn a gallon of gas in your car, that creates ~19 pounds of CO2. That's just a scientific fact. Humans caused ALL recent global warming (plus the climate disruption that resulted from it)... that's a well-established scientific fact that all nations on earth have agreed on. "can I ask you this: How often do you fly?" Used to fly a ton for business when I was younger, but I only remember flying once in the last maybe dozen years or so. I've also eaten a vegan diet for 10 years (reduces your carbon footprint by about 1 ton a year), walk six blocks to catch the bus to work, turn down the heat to 64 in the winter, etc. "I tell my children that I love them and that they will be fine." That's great you tell them that you love them, but unfortunately, the health of ecosystems will continue to deteriorate, and that will continue to degrade our quality of life until humans get their act together and transform their economies and lifestyles. Humanity's consumption and wastes are currently overshooting earth's carrying capacity by about 75% per year, and the laws of nature dictate that if you keep that up for long, you are heading for collapse. Climate crises and crop failures will continue to eat up more and more of our personal and national budgets. All that causes political and economic instability. "We must avoid filling our children's heads with hysteria and fear for this does NOTHING but cause anxiety and demoralization in our children." I have a PhD in educational psychology and for decades have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human development, including in emotional development, motivational development, and trauma. I'm also a parent, so from those two perspectives, here are a couple of thoughts about your comment. As a parent--and former child--I know that most parents teach children the stove is hot, not to put things into electrical sockets, to look both ways before crossing the street, not to touch guns or drugs if you find them, and we teach them about stranger danger, to not play with fire, and we even teach them how to "stop, drop, and roll" in case their clothes catch fire. We did tornado drills in schools, in some places kids learn about evacuating before the hurricane hits, and we are even doing active shooter drills in schools. In some places on earth, children are taught what to do when they hear the fighter planes coming and to not touch unexploded bombs. Parents and teachers might wish the world was all sparkly bubble gum and panda bears for children, but it's not, so we teach children that they SHOULD be scared of those things. WE also signal to them that some people and places are scary and should be avoided. We do that because we love them and know that appropriate fear of real threats saves lives and prevents all types of harms from occurring. When I was in maybe third grade, just a couple of weeks after having the stranger danger training in school, I was walking home from school and a man pulled up in a car, opened the passenger door, offered me some candy and told me he'd give me a ride home. I didn't get in. On the natural science side, there is overwhelming evidence humans are warming the planet, destabilizing the climate, and pushing Earth's ecosystems towards worsening breakdown... and that unraveling of the web of life is already underway. We still have strategies and time to turn the boat around and avoid collapse if people are appropriately afraid and motivated to leap into action. But if people think everything will be fine and the earth and society are just going to continue smoothly on for the next 62 years the way they have for the 62 years of my life, they are in for a terrible shock. Many things will keep deteriorating over coming decades--including steady food supplies and the prices of food--until we bring our economy and lifestyles in line with the laws and limits of nature. There will be no hiding these problems and threats from children once they have their own access to a phone, laptop, or TV, because things the heat wave/drought in China, floods in Pakistan, other droughts in Europe, Africa, and the SW U.S. are all global news, as are California wildfires, the PNW killer heat wave, the recent European heat waves, etc. Speaking as an educational psychologist, what we know helps children and adults with coping with real threats is learning strategies for handling them well (saying no to the man in the car with the candy and walking away briskly) and developing a sense of confidence (efficacy) that they can handle those threats. Kids and youth know that the health of the planet is in trouble, but if adults sweep it under the rug or don't talk about it--and have no plan or take no action to try to fix it--THAT creates a sense of helplessness, terror, and depression. These threats will just keep getting bigger and more destructive until we face them and turn our society around. There are hundreds of strategies for achieving one-planet living, but we must take the threats seriously first... in order to motivate people to take action. Take care. P.S. The scientists who know the data of what is going on with the climate and how climate, pollution, and habitat destruction threaten Earth's ecosystems are all scared--REALLY scared. Think they might know something you don't?
Realistically, the point of no return was 2O years ago. At this point we're grappling with how to adjust to and mitigate what lies ahead. One thing we should all agree on first and foremost is that we should not kill off the poor to solve climate change. I wish I could say that people concerned about CC all agree on this, but their actions (restrictions on food production, business, travel etc) give me cause for grave concern.
I'd say we are already on the tipping point in many areas. 1) Permafrost is thawing at record speeds releasing more GHG's to the atmosphere (100-1000GtCO2e). This leads to wast areas being taken from the permafrost to the melted ground. Also we have found that rains and warm weather also drains lakes faster than previously thought. 2) Greenland ice sheet has most likely gone over its tipping point and will melt during next few centuries. 3) Arctic sea ice is getting thinner and arctic has heated 4 times faster than rest of the world. Partially tipped already. Like Barents sea is mostly ice free. 4) Forests like Amazon, boreal forests and many other have tipped at least part of the year to the state where it produces more carbon than what sinks there. We are losing too many forests that were a major carbon sink. 5) We are losing coral reefs already at record speed. 50% of the Great Barrier reef is dead and more bleeching events are coming almost every year. Almost all reefs has bleached at some level already. 6) Droughts. There are several areas in the world that are on going yearly droughts. Some have been under drought conditions for decades, some years and in this year many areas have been affect simultaniously. US west is on megadrought, Africa is on drought, mediterraneian area is on drought, Pakistan drought with extreme flooding, remember Australian wildfires, ... 7) Mountain glaciers are under tipping points in many areas. In Europe Alps are losing all glaciers and this year was one of the worst, yet. Rocky mountains in USA are losing glaciers, see "glacier park" that is losing its glaciers fast or what is happening to the Colorado river. Himalayas are losing some of its glaciers and main river are drying up. Andies are losing glaciers and some cities are threatened because there is no alternative water sources. Even places like Canada and Alaska are losing their glaciers. Swedens highest point was changed due to melting glacier. ... You may add most of the animals to the mix if you want. But that's not only a climate issue. Sixth mass extinction needs its own talks. Even with these on going tipping points, we still emit even more emissions this year. And likely next year. And year after that. Pure madness that is heading to over 4C (pledges will not be fulfilled) world with tipping elements that are rising temperatures even further..
What a load of bollocks. "50% of the Great Barrier reef is dead". No it's bloody not and I sincerely wish you foreigners would stop lying about it. The GBR did suffer from bleaching a few years ago, in some areas caused by a drop in sea levels. The most recent data is that about 2/3 of the reef has the highest coral cover in nearly 40 years. The only thing really destroying coral reefs are Chinese fishermen going after giant clams. Let's look at a few of your other claims; 1. Rains are draining lakes. You do know that lakes are generally filled by rain, don't you? But would you care to name one? (One that isn't having huge amounts of water removed for farming and cities that is) 2. Greenland ice sheet. Exactly what is the scientific basis for this tipping point you claim it's gone over? Can you provide any evidence it exists? Bearing in mind the ice sheet is around 2.6 million cubic kilometres in volume and at current rates, assuming it doesn't start freezing again like it did a few years ago will take around 10,000 years to melt. 3. Arctic in summer is certainly getting smaller but the Winter extent is about the same. This means that ever year about 11,000 cubic kilometres (based on 11 million square kilometres area and 1 metre thick) melt and refreeze. The more ice lost in summer (the Arctic was predicted to be ice free by 2013) means the more planetary cooling as the water freezes going into winter. It's called a "Natural cycle". Did you think the ice didn't melt in Summer? The first submarine to surface at the North Pole (literally) was the USSN Skate, SSN 578 in 1959. 4. Forests. Check with NASA the world is getting greener with more forests than 100 years ago. And environmental groups in the 1970s were claiming the entire Amazon basin would have no trees at all by the year 2000. Go figure. 6. Never heard of the "Dustbowl" in the USA? Australia regularly has to explain to 7 year olds what rain is because the drought was long and they've never see it. And do not mention our bushfires as evidence of climate problems, they aren't. They're because we listen to environmental morons and don't do fuel reduction burns. There are plenty of well done reports on our fires, go read one or two and get educated about the real situation. 7. Glaciers. They need to be taken by area. For example the Swiss Alpine glaciers have advanced and receded about 7 times since the romans. You say that this year was "one of the worst" but fail to mention that the melting is revealing the roads the Roman legions used to cross the ALPs into Gaul. The glaciers were smaller in Roman times than today. An ice core in 2020 brought up elephant and other dung from under 10 metres of ice in one valley, demonstrating there was far less ice in 200 BC than today. And Sweden's "highest point" has changed a lot. Sweden used to be over a kilometre higher, but then the ice melted. And the land rose. Canada in places is still rising from the ice loss of 10,000 years ago. Climate is a lot more complicated when you accept the world is dynamic and not static. The problem with talking about "tipping points" is that they are a political and not scientific term. To be scientific it must be able to be defined with set values, that isn't happening, it's just a term used to scare people into thinking a problem exists and will become irreversible. The old "We only have X years to save the planet" has got old because they keep changing the date every few years. We were being told we only had 10 years 40 years ago. "Tipping points" sound scary but don't tie you down and cannot be proven to exist. (Another sign of pseudo science BTW). And there is no "6th mass extinction" event. It's a figment of fevered minds playing with dreamed up figures. Sorry.
@@JohnJ469 the sixth mass extinction started during the last ice age and has continued to present with humans causing mass extinctions of most mega fauna, and so on
Don't know what to think of this. It's both good and extremely naive. It completely misses the tipping point between forest fires, the propagation of invasive beetles that kill trees, and climate change that steers precipitation patterns and causes heat stress that weakens trees... Dead trees decay into CO2. Warmer temperatures make North America look more like home to insects from Africa and Asia. Changes in the polar albedo are steering rain away from our forests. And Asian moths, Japanese beetles etc are endangering many types of trees. Pine trees need to move North by 1 km / year to maintain their temperature balance yet most pine trees I've seen do not walk. And meanwhile there's absolutely no discussion of the political, social, economic or strategic implications of having 2 billion people flee the central latitudes after we exceed the wet bulb temperature. Protein such as in our bodies denaturizes at between 110-120 F. You know like scrambled eggs? 2 billion people are about to decide they need to emigrate... or die. 10% of the 1 million Syrians died during their exodus. Do we think that number will scale linearly when we're talking about 2 billion people? I don't. I think it spells collapsing global trade, materials shortages, preemptive action, fighting, disease, famine, genocide and very, very likely WW3. Scarcity breeds aggression. There's also a complete failure to discuss the fact that one tipping point can tip any or all of the other tipping points. If say a forest fire tipping point has been crossed. Witness what the Australian forest fires did to the atmosphere above Australia. That's a positive feedback cycle right there. Fires-> less ozone -> more UV -> more heat -> more heat stress -> more fires. I also believe the poles have tipped and likely Greenland as well. About 50% of the world lives at sea level. This video has utterly failed to discuss the implications of having the water level rise by even 50 cm let alone 2 m or 5 m or 10 m. Meanwhile I've read that IPCC scientists are predicting we'll cross 1.5 deg C by 2028-2033... and that this effect is baked in. Conservation of momentum is a bitch as they say. I've read 2 degrees C overall means 7 deg C warmer on land. And meanwhile there's no discussion of what these consequences mean for global food supply. Or that we're predicting 30% less food in North America by 2030... and that's before things get bad. 2 deg C implies heat waves become 13.8x more likely as well as many, many other effects. I can't even begin to write it all down. I would say though that if the population is increasing in size exponentially while the world food supply is decreasing in size at the same time, that's not a happy combination. We're like 10 people lost at sea in a boat for a month with enough water for 1 person. Who here predicts a harmonious resolution to the problem? Final point... all the short term behaviors on a societal / economic level that human beings are engaging in are only forcing the hook upon which we hang in deeper. Short term gain. Long term pain. That's our MO.
Is it just me or does it seem like we're now living in a disastrous movie plot :') So much of this stuff is also not an "if" but a "when"... apart from the planet turning into a carbonated piece of toast and a likely partial if not full collapse of the global economy, the higher temperatures could actually increase the rate of viruses jumping between species. Apart from that, rising temperatures at certain latitudes are causing diseases to spread into areas they were never found before. Large scale farming in a lot of cases is also like running a science experiment with countless petri dishes with the potential to create new pathogens. Since the start of 2020 it's hard to see that stability, whether its economic, environmental, or health related, is happening anytime soon - interesting time to be alive indeed. Let's hope there's still a minute probability that a drastic heat deflecting climate saving technology will be invented at the last minute that can prevent the earth from turning into an eternal crisp...
You're certainly correct about viruses and invasive species related to warming temperatures. I've talked about that elsewhere (like on LInkedIn) at length... I read an article yesterday that there was a dolphin found that had bird flu for instance... Crazyness. Concerning miraculous technologies, humankind seems to have decided fusion + carbon sequestration or bust. If we don't change our value systems and we also don't manage to invent our way out of these problems, it's all over for 90% of every one and every thing alive.
I find it interesting there was no mention of desertification along the equator expanding out. The US, North-Central Africa and China are dealing with worse and worse prospects for future food production.
Food production is the ONLY world metric that has actually risen in step with CO2.(have a look at 3rd world crop yields vs CO2) It is thanks to the rise in CO2 that the number of deaths from famine over the last decade have been at an all time low despite the world population being at an all time high. Over the last 50 years the world population has increased by 40% while deaths from starvation are down over 97%.( look at femine deaths and world population) Life on earth is carbon based, all of the carbon for all life enters the food chain from atmospheric CO2, CO2 feeds the world, NO CO2 = NO LIFE (at all). (this is basic biology) The planet is still cooler now than it has been for 9,000 of the last 10,000 years, (check out Holocene temperatures) this insane "CO2 is BAD" is really just hype, pure and simple. the sea level is not changing any faster now than it was when Abe Lincoln was president, (plot any tide gauge data you can find there is no 'acceleration in any of them since they were installed) in other news; The Greenland Ice mass balance has NEVER been below a 20 giga tonne increase in ice years on year (2012 was the lowest) . for the last 3 years it has seen over 400 giga tonne per year increases. The desert is getting greener not sandier, Higher CO2 reduces transpiration requirements so less water is lost and plants are able to grow in dryer climates )biology again). The barrier reef is doing better than it was in the 1980's Polar bear numbers have increase 3 fold since the 1950's, Arctic sea ice extent has been higher this year than it has since 1980 with no trend visible.
@@BladeValant546 i told you how to search for them yourself, if I gave you any addresses you would accuse me of giving you biased sources. Famine deaths have been being recorded since the 1800's and are very easy to find. Tide gauge data from almost every tide gauge across the world are available for free for you to plot for yourself, some have been recording since Abe was in charge. plot the data for yourself, that way it cannot be from a manipulated data set. Where life get its carbon is basic biology, so you could read some biology books Holocene temperature records are from the GIST ice core data. I try to look for the original plots rather than any partisan analysis. Greenland ice mass balance is published every year by Dancea (Danish Cooperation for Environment in the Arctic) which gives daily accumulations and melts, the lowest gain was in 2012 when the net gain was only 20GT but every year since it has be over 100GT and over polar bear numbers are estimates but latest estimates are over 35,000 compared to 10,000 in the 50's. Crop yields are published by country, not so easy to find but just pick a few third world countries and see that their yields have increased with CO2, some could be due to modern fertilizers or seeds but these are far less common in the 3rd world so less likely to skew the data. If you are happy just to be spoon fed the data analysis by someone else then you run the risk of being lied to by the one holding the spoon. Use your own spoon. just for a laugh, there have been an almost endless list of climate doom predictions produced during every warm, wet, cold and dry spell across the world for well over 200 years, can you find me a single one that has actually come true?
@@davebrown6552 Now that is a well researched comment. Obviously the MSM won't/don't want to hear that. Are the Maldives under water? is the Arctic ice free Mr. Gore? I didn't think so.
The only way anything will ever be done to slow down disastrous climate change is if people start voting en masse for politicians who will do something about it. Unfortunately, it seems most people vote for politicians they agree with on matters of "foreign invasions" (for or against), tax reduction/increase, more jobs, more roads, etc... all of which have nothing to do with helping slow down climate change but everything to do with the people's perceived benefits to their own personal little lives. Find politicians willing to do what is necessary and vote for them and then make sure they do what they said they would do. Seeing that my suggestion is unlikely to get enough people to vote for the right politicians, then I suggest we all look forward to a very much more complicated life, with less 'stuff' available or workable, with having to move to safer ground, with getting used to certain foods being no longer available.... all bit by bit. Our poor children will be the true victims of our failure to act when it was still possible to slow things down. And for those who 'don't believe in climate change', don't worry, you will soon enough.
I pray for my grandchildren and their grandchildren as the landscape is changed to continuously more inhospitable conditions. It's the car crash in slow motion that everyone seems to care about but still watching helplessly.
Probably a good idea to stop having children until there are concrete solutions to this. Not much of a future for them. Kind of cruel to force them to exist at the end of human history.
I think about this daily. It makes me miserable. Im losing hope that we have the will to do the right thing. I wish beyond wish that we had the political momentum globally to save ourselves. I’m terrified and mortified by humanity.
@@aussieintexas61 I don't see how a barren rock will be better off without us. If humans were to go away, fine. But I hate so much how we're taking out all the beautiful life ahead of us. I don't care about a stone sphere. I care about the creatures that live on it. We're setting back evolution by orders of magnitude.
"I think about this daily. It makes me miserable." Odd... I'm not consuming much far left channels and don't have this problem. Maybe it's somehow related...
I would relax a little, go to the beach maybe. Nothing is happening too fast and the Earth has a way of self regulation. Don't watch videos like this or pay attention to the media, It's not healthy for many. Subscribe to this channel, you'll feel a little better ua-cam.com/users/TonyHeller
The last time we had a chance to turn this around was in the late 80s. The tipping point happened 40 years ago. We presently live in the middle of the 6th mass extinction, 150 to 200 species are becoming extinct every single day right now. This is a irreversible abrupt climate change. The main problem we're experiencing is programs like this that lack either the education, or the will to tell the truth.
There's only one reason that influencers and the media don't tell the truth. If everybody just gives up hope we don't even have a chance. And these people who are ignorant and don't educate themselves have no clue how dire our very immediate future is. Even scientists who've dedicated their whole lives educating themselves every way that they are able, can't predict the unforeseen variables. There are so many things we haven't even learned about our planet enough to factor into climate predictions. But if the general populous sees that there's no chance then it's just going to be worse over the next decade. If we make it that long, really. I t's hard for me too. To say we still have a chance. when I talk to everybody I know about climate change. I'm really bad at sugarcoating anything but the media has to. All of the information is right there at their fingertips if they want to learn about climate change. I highly doubt it's because think it's all going to work itself out. We already did that. Worked ourselves out of a future. We won't even try to mitigate the worsening catastrophies if there's no hope. Even false hope can help us slightly delay our own extinction. I'm actually surprised it's not more than 150 to 200 species going extinct every year because that's what it was in 2017. But maybe we're just running out of animals to kill. And that 150 to 200 don't factor on all of the species we haven't discovered yet nor are we able to monitor all of the species on our planet. Everyone trips about if koalas or polar bears go extinct. We can't even keep bees alive. They've got that covered though with robotic bees that sinc to each other . We spent all this money on all these technologies like air purifiers on the side of the freeway in LA but we can't just plant some trees which is far more effective than building plants (not of the photosynthesising variety ) that just create more greenhouse gasses. I have to stop myself from ranting. This could go on all night. It's a good thing I'm not in media.
1,5 degrees warming are already locked into the system, there is no way to avoid those tipping points, especially considering the fact that with the slowing of industrial production we will reduce air pollution and thus lose much of the linked cooling effect of aerosols. We need now build society structures which will assure decent living conditions for as many earthlings as possible. We are on our way to a global population of 2 billion by 2100. The only question is if we manage to accomplish this transition in a human way, or if billions will have to starve to death.
Please explain WHY 1.5 Deg C warming is a problem when 4-6 Deg C warming was NOT A PROBLEM earlier in the Holocene ? For MOST of the period of human civilization it was significantly HOTTER than now. Its clear you know so little about this subject you dont realize this video is just PROPAGANDA where they have not only deceived you but in some cases flat out lied to you.
Mankind does not think in proactive terms. We don't seem to care about future generations. Politically speaking, we have a large group of Americans who want to turn the clock back, and ignore what lies in our future. These tipping points are like the Titanic. They cannot suddenly change directions. Even 2 billion people by 2100 might be too many for sustainable living in a vastly changed environment.
Tim lenton and anyone from Exeter university are amazingly well informed . The worst thing about tipping points and thinking one has time to deal with them is that , just like having a party on a boat on a river , the distant sound of the waterfall seems far away but unknown to the occupants its already to late to get to the side ,
Two phenomena to consider........ inertia, physical and intellectual, and exponential change. The sound diminishes as the cube of the distance, roughly, while the danger doesn't.
I year later and everything is accelerating the wrong way ..everything ! accelerating ! , after 32 years of pledges and 50 years of irrefutable warnings .
This is entertaining. I'm excited for the end of the world. Homo sapiens are the biggest threat to Earth. We need to go extinct if we REALLY want to save the planet.
So basically Earth is a big balancing act and humans have been able to keep their position on top for a minute of geological time and perhaps they can maintain that position if they can adapt to sudden changes to the climate. Research of ancestral DNA shows that at one point the human race out of Africa was nearly wiped out but somehow they made it through with very limited technology, albeit greatly reduced in numbers. Reliance on advanced technology has caused the human race to abandon those basic survival technologies, which brings up some really interesting questions.
Sadly no. If the planet reaches these tipping points, & it will, the changes cannot be stopped. One must consider all the flora & fauna that will not survive. That being the situation, most would starve to death. I’m not even speaking about how many will die bc of direct or indirectly related runaway climate crises events. Biologist 👋
How about water to drink or plants & animals to eat, air to breathe etc. also it’s happening a lot faster than anyone thought. The truth is that we can’t really predict what will happen or when but we will find out sooner than we think as it’s happening a lot faster than anyone predicted
I have had some level of consciousness of these issues since the 1980's. I have been a volunteer in environmental politics. I personally, believe that the ways that we work, play and what our material expectations are HAVE to reduce the resources that we each expect to have. What we conceive of as our "standard of living" HAS to reduce, if humans have any chance of surviving in any numbers. By 'we' I'm referring to those of us in the "more advanced" economies - those with the highest standards of living. Our brothers and sisters in developing countries are already living with less. This is NOT because of any sense of guilt, only the practicality that here in Australia we consume over 8 times what we can sustainably produce in Australia. It is obvious that [ and any similar data elsewhere in the world] is unsustainable... Currently politicians are scared of voters expectations, that flow into political choices. If we ignore this issue, our options will rapidly become more and more unpalatable... Change early and with less pain, or ignore the issue and have change thrust upon us after catastrophic events...
@david Yes, but personal lifestyle changes aren’t within many orders of magnitude of being enough to change our direction. We have to remove the far right ruling the US & other countries from power & wealth, & elect progressives who will do what’s needed. NOW, is it too late to realize the Democrats should have packed the court years ago? Declared an emergency? Taken strong enough action to matter?
I live in New Jersey and we've had significant beach erosion consistently for the last 30 - 40 years. The beach needs to be replenished of it's sand on a yearly basis. This is in addition to hurricane events. I fear my state will be under water in the next 30 years, in my lifetime.
Dutch North Sea coast of beaches and sand dunes, receive tonnes and tonnes of sand "suppletion" each spring, to compensate for erosion each year. Our system is supposed to be able to deal with 2 metres / 7 foot sea level rise. However, level rise travels along rivers inland, as rivers can not flow out to sea as before, when sea levels are higher. I do wonder whether this raised river effect is taken in account in America's river basins or other countries with less organized flood protection schemes.
Your state will not be under water, because the expected sea level rise in the next 30 yrs is about 5 cm or 2 inches. Also erosion is not man made. It's a process going on since water and air exists.
Thank you for this presentation. Here is an excerpt from the writings of Marshall Vian Summers about how to respond to the signs the world is giving us about the changes that are already underway. "The world itself will tell you what is coming if you know how to read it and to discern its signs and messages. You do this without projecting any of your thoughts or fantasies or fears. You just watch and you listen, and piece by piece, the picture comes together. But to have this clarity of mind, you must be watching without coming to conclusions, without trying to tie things together, without trying to make them simple and comprehensible. Instead like building a puzzle, you allow the pieces to emerge and to fit together. This is called seeing. Most people do not see because they do not look with this emphasis. Impatient, they want conclusions...solutions...answers. They do not patiently wait ... allowing the picture to become clear. It is the same with hearing. You hear certain things, but instead of drawing conclusions or having these things reinforce your current assumptions and beliefs, you let them simply reside in your mind -- building. Let them instruct you...You must commit yourself to seeing and to hearing... For all of humanity now there is growing danger, and nature has equipped you to respond to it." (The Great Waves of Change, MVS)
The world is indeed telling us whats happening....., NOTHING UNUSUAL ! NORMALITY !, weather temperature and climate are TOTALLY within normal long term variability for our current interglacial ! Our temperature movements are SLOW and MILD, and there has been almost NO overall warming for most of the last 25 years and NONE at all for the last 7-8 years. If i were you i would throw away your Van Summers book, get back into the REAL world and start looking at the data !
Wow - under the title "What Will Earth Look Like" I expected scenarios of mass migration, widespread hunger, deadly heatwaves, costs of "adaption" to natural desasters that eat up the budget of even the richest countries, not to mention the conflicts over land, ressources, but most importantly over water, the wars of the future are already in the making after all. Looking at these prospects realisitcally is a cause for depression and anxiety, so much so that there is whole new field of psychology around the hopelessness, depression and fear, that are spreading like wildfire in the younger generations. I was stoked to see how PBS Terra would handle the chellange to communicate all this. Instead, this was a feelgood description of some of most important tipping points with only a hint of the consequences (displacement, mass migration, food insecurity). Society cannot react approprietly, if the media doesnt paint the full picture.
I was thinking how saying there will be more arable land in Greenland belies the TIME between loss of the ice sheets and the functionality of that land. Feel good sound bites make for enjoyable viewing but don't give a realistic picture of climate change outcomes.
Yup. Many ignore the fact that all of this was written in the Bible thousands of years ago. This is just the beginning. Bible says mens hearts would fail them when they hear what’s coming for the earth. 100pound hails stones + more…. I hope I’m not alive to see that happen.
Despite the endless preaching of 'resilience', 'mitigation' and 'adaptation', from those who actually acknowledge that 'Houston, we have a problem', it is still considered anti-capitalistic to actually acknowledge that the most significant tool we have in combating the impacts of climate change is 'self-restraint'. This is a notoriously difficult thing for humans to embrace at the best of times, so how we are going to persuade enough of us to accept this as not only the least worst option, but to encourage enough of us to do it with some genuine sense of urgency, is hard to imagine. Given that the connection we had as a species with the rest of our natural environment has been so severely eroded, fast-tracking a re-discovery of our sustainable place in it seems, alas, highly unlikely. But that's not to say it's not worth a shot :)
Very conservative and meant for a general audience. And per usual no one want to discuss the fact that climate change is a symptom of a problem and not the problem itself.
@@liasonlee1248 its all in play together, fossil fuels and its high EROI gave us the energy source to boom and our idea of infinite growth economics ( capitalism ) has meant we've consumed the world..ie overshoot - living beyonds the planets carrying capacity
@@alexspringett yes it is, but with a different economic approach other than capitalism, this planet can sustain 10 times more population than the current one, and without restraint of technological developments by capitalist system, human would have been a space faring race before population reaches the threshold.
It will likely take a real first-world mass casualty event to really get people's attention, I'm afraid. By then it is likely to be largely too late and our response is likely to be one that causes more harm than good (terraforming attempts, Military/Economic action to stop others from emitting, ineffective migration...). Not saying it is hopeless, not at all. We understand what needs to be done. We will as a culture simply refuse to do it if we continue to avoid speaking the truth plainly. Most people need to forego private transportation. We all need to use dramatically less energy. We need to dress for the weather and severely reduce our use of heating and cooling. We need products that can be repaired rather than replaced. We need to end air travel. We need to dramatically reduce transportation that supports global trade. We in the first world need to lower our standard of living. I say that all while sitting in front of a powerful computer with 2 screens running in a well illuminated office as I listen to the hum of the air conditioner. Sure, the thermostat is set to 80F, my home is very efficient and well insulated, and it simply is not good enough. My electric car won't save the world my consumer lifestyle is killing. If there were easy answers, we would have found them already. There are some hard realities our world will need to face in coming years. Poorer countries closer to the equator are already facing the first wave of real climate calamities. It will get much worse before it gets better... if it ever does.
You forgot to mention that we need to switch to non-meat diets, eliminate pavement, and start destroying things, like for example your AC that you dont need that is harming everyone. Same with your electric car which is not a solution should never have been made as it causes more harm. You can just walk places instead as far as I am concerned.
Deep Adaptation is helping us. We accept reality prepare how we can. Already low impact humans. Only thing we bought in our apartment is a bed. International College kids buy new then throw everything away end of term. Just one small example of the MASSIVE waste of resources involved in Unlimited Economic growth. We are Bezos Refusniks and Climate change migrants to Great Lakes region from Oregon . Things are NOT good there. Klamath River Water Wars have begun. Eastern Oregon is Ground Zero. Native Americans versus Farmers. Heavily armed with the Bundys in the middle of it. Mueller Wildlife refuge. Oregon jury Aquited them for that. And About to hit Deadpool Hoover Dam and many more in Colorado River basin. We either Change or Perish. No more Time. Enjoy what is left. Get inland off coasts.
We've already seen them. How many have died in European heatwaves in the last few years? We've seen Australia and the entire North American west coast burn. Just this week we've seen New England, Mississippi and Pakistan drown. At this point I think it would take Bangladesh being flooded permanently with 200 million climate refugees looking for a new home
AS an outdoor person and an organic farmer 80 years old I have seen the loss of many insect, and bird species that we need to pollinate our food...so sad, scary.
Stop it!😆
1 word: MONSANTO
@@dolmarf411 Monsanto - weeds.
As a 72 year old that loves gardening in Oregon. I have noticed a dramatic drop in bees that are needed to pollenate some plants.
Research in Europe and elsewhere has seen a 70-80% drop in insect populations across the world in the past few decades. We replaced DDT with equally potent insecticides with predictable outcomes, while DDT is still being used in poorer parts of the world.
As a scientist/ ecologist this video was an under statement imo. We're already hitting several tipping points and the impacts of plus 5m sea level rise were glossed over with rose coloured glasses. Not stated were the loss of 1000s of other ecosystems such as peat lands, alpine and sub alpine areas, cool temperate rainforests, wetlands, the sub arctic etc. The impact on human populations is also glossed over imo. Societies will increasingly fall into economic collapse and chaos and we can see that starting already in 2022.
Fact 1: Remove the Earth’s atmosphere or even just the GreenHouse Gases and the Earth becomes much like the Moon, no water vapor or clouds, no ice or snow, no oceans, no vegetation, no 30% albedo becoming a barren rock ball, hot^3 (400 K) on the lit side, cold^3 (100 K) on the dark. At our distance from the Sun space is hot (394 K) not cold (5 K).
That’s NOT what the Radiative GreenHouse Effect theory says.
EVIDENCE:
RGHE theory “288 K w - 255 K w/o = a 33 C colder ice ball Earth” 255 K assumes w/o keeps 30% albedo, an assumption akin to criminal fraud.
Nikolov “Airless Celestial Bodies”
Kramm “Moon as test bed for Earth”
UCLA Diviner lunar mission data
Int’l Space Station HVAC design for lit side of 250 F. (ISS web site)
Astronaut backpack life support w/ AC and cool water tubing underwear. (Space Discovery Center)
Fact 2: The GHGs require “extra” energy upwelling from a surface radiating as a black body.
EVIDENCE:
According to the K-T atmospheric power flux balance, numerous clones and SURFRAD the GHGs must absorb an “extra” 396/333/63 W/m^2 LWIR energy upwelling from the surface allegedly radiating as a black body. These graphics contain egregious arithmetic and thermodynamic errors. See ua-cam.com/video/0Jijw7-YG-U/v-deo.html
Fact 3: Because of the significant non-radiative, i.e. kinetic, heat transfer processes of the contiguous participating atmospheric molecules the surface cannot upwell “extra” energy as a black body.
EVIDENCE:
As demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
For the experimental write up see:
principia-scientific.org/debunking-the-greenhouse-gas-theory-with-a-boiling-water-pot/
CONCLUSION:
No RGHE, no GHG warming, no CAGW or mankind/CO2 driven climate change.
Hitting the limits to growth, we are.
I agree with you Peter, as a trainee scientist (at university now) and a person who takes great interest in such things, the video did keave lots out, but I would hazard a guess that that was a deliberate choice so not so to overwhelm the average person with information and the more complex issues. Not to mention this video would significantly increase in length if they included more and as we know, the average persons attention span to such information doesn't tend to extend beyond 30 minutes (if not less).
In terns if social and economic effects from climate change, there will be conflicts and wars as food/water resources become more scarce due to less fresh water availability, crop failures and loss of habitats/farming land. There's also the issue of carbon sinks and oxygen production as acidification of the oceans kills of O2 producing plankton and photosynthetic trees/plants due off due desertification and other changes to the environments causing die offs.
The feedback loops will intensify and worsen climate change impacts/consequences. I'd argue that we'll be lucky to stop a 3°C global average temperature rise tbh.
What many people don't understand is, the biggest issue with climate change isn't the fact the climate is warming, but the speed at which climate change is occuring. Instead of changing over 10s to 100s of 1000s of years, it's happening over a few 100 years at most and that is the biggest issue with it, because life simply can't adapt to changes that quickly and as a result starts dying off and potentially going extinct. After all, we are now in a (anthropogenic caused) mass extinction events based on the number of species going extinct.
I think Larry Niven, scifi writer, might be right.
We're going to let this get so bad the planet is almost uninhabitable.
Then, we'll fix it, fast.
In the meantime 100s of millions will die. And don't think they'll go peacefully.
The upside?
We'll know how to terraform, cause we've just terraformed Terra.
How does this climate, Compare to the climate when dinosaurs roamed the earth?
There are too many powerful greedy people in the world who could watch this and say "I can live with that."
Silliness. The Illuminati? Freemasons? The Trilateral Commission? Fabian Society?
There is many powerful greedy people paying for this kind of nonsense to be swallowed as facts by the gullible masses.
I had a biology professor in university who looked us all square in the face when talking about potential climate change scenarios and said, "I don't care. My generation wrote the check, but you and your kids will be cashing. I'll be dead. Best of luck to you. 🤷♀️"
@@scottslotterbeck3796 Donald Trump.
@@Shavenhamster Really? I've been wondering why it is that companies like Koch Industries, BNSF and ExxonMobile have pumped literally hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns, lobbyists, lawyers, public relations and advertising on every level, just about anything to make sure no meaningful legislation gets passed yet have not spent so much as a single dime on research that proves beyond question their end products are not the cause of the climate upheavals we are currently experiencing. Texas has some of the finest petroleum engineering and science research programs on the planet, seems that a $50 million or even $100 million grant specifically to clear them would produce bullet proof results and shut up naysayers for good. $100 million is a rounding error for them.
An oil giant like Shell or BP doesn't think twice about dropping a billion dollars into just trying to find out if an oil field is worth drilling, but nothing to save their very livelihoods? Why do you suppose that's the case?
Why do you think a global industry that generates trillions of dollars annually doesn't prove the science that would keep their revenue streams and even their very industry from collapsing? Of course back in the 1980s Mobile Oil researchers did look into it, and when they concluded that hydrocarbons pose a very real and significant threat to the planet's biosphere corporate executives made sure those findings were promptly buried.
I remember as a child in the UK how I used to catch salamanders in wild pools. Nobody told me not to! But how many kids today have ever seen salamanders in their natural habitat?
You may have caught newts in UK, but there are no native Salamander species in UK.
thnks for the info... yes indeed, they were probably newts! Btw, according to Google, the skin of a newt contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a chemical that's 1,000 times more toxic to humans than cyanide - so beware of dropping tasty newts into your breakfast cereal 😄
Yes I remember as a child in the UK catching Newts which to most of us were referred to as Salamanders - we thought thats what they were. The ones with the orange/yellow underbelly ( which could be quite big ) are Great Crested Newts and are now a protected species.
I don't see beaver dams in our cities here in the USA anymore. It's progress I guess. Our Norway rats have all but disappeared.
Frogs, Fireflies, Whippoorwills, multiple thousands of Ducks and Geese, migrating twice a year, a car covered with dead Bugs on the windshield and front grill...
Their numbers have dwindled to few or none now but sure; "we'll be fine".
"WE STILL HAVE TIME" , is the phrase of procrastination and feeds into denial. Discovered 140 years ago, to have the alarm bell rung repeatedly over the years as nothing changed enough, always ending with , "WE STILL HAVE TIME," clearly didn't work. No one in a movie theater fire would ever say such a thing.
So I am on the opposite spectrum of you …….. I’m 40 and when I was in grammar school I was told by 2020 I would only see snow on mountain tops, Polar bears would be extinct, ice caps would be ice free and the coast line would be under water and everyone would have to move. And it was the same message you are giving… “we don’t have time “ fear mongering… Well here we are in 2024. I went sledding with my kids last week at the local forest preserve, polar bear populations have increased by 5 times, the polar ice caps are the same size and the most expensive/desired real estate is coastal properties… Honest question, how much longer will it take when no climate disasters to happen for you to realize you have been fooled? What if another 30 years goes by and everything is the same? Will you question it then ?
@@beezybeez4207 All of that is false. I believe you’re exaggerating wildly. I believe no one told you any of those things. Certainly no scientist ever said any of it, so we’re talking about climate science saying true things vs. rumors, folklore, or intentional disinterpretation. lying-by-strawperson to delay the solutions to climate catastrophe & preserve the profits, power & position of the rich & the right.
Since science is what we’re talking about, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers written over a century & a half, & every single scientific organization in the world agree that Earth is warming, it’s caused by human greenhouse gases, & it threatens civilization & nature, that’s the only thing that matters.
As I’ve said before, if you have evidence anyone said those things please post it-names, dates, quotes, recordings.
No, there aren’t 5x the polar bears.
There are ever fewer & they’re in peril.
"Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?"
Carbon Brief, December 7, 2022
No, the icecaps are a lot smaller & shrinking faster all the time.
“Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract” video, James Hansen
"Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years"
‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss
The Guardian, August 23, 2020
No scientist has ever said snow would disappear any time soon.
Coastal property owners all over are having trouble getting insurance, & Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, & other places are experiencing insurance meltdowns. Floods & storms are getting worse, along with droughts, fires, heat waves, crop failures, ecological disruptions, & dozens of other effects of global heating. Failed states are multiplying. The increase in disasters is obvious & scientifically determined to be caused or in some cases exacerbated by human-caused climate catastrophe & the larger ecological crisis.
@beez “Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)”
All about climate W Rosh
“How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video
“Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures”
Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann...
'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected
The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.”
Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023
“Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?”
The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017
"James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?”
Yale Climate Connections
30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony
“BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic”
Climate Crocks June 24, 2018
Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress.
”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.”
““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions”
Climate Crocks June 25, 2018
“At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?”
Skeptical Science 20 June 2023
IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On
Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022
“What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red
I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with.
My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained.
google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to ever hold another position of responsibility.
Yes, absolutely.
“Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)”
All about climate W Rosh
“How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video
“Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures”
Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann...
'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected
The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.”
Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023
“Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?”
The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017
"James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?”
Yale Climate Connections
30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony
“BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic”
Climate Crocks June 24, 2018
Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress.
”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.”
““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions”
Climate Crocks June 25, 2018
“At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?”
Skeptical Science 20 June 2023
IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On
Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022
“What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red
I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with.
My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained.
google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to never hold another position of responsibility.
@@beezybeez4207 I’d like to see evidence of any scientist ever saying any of that; I'm talking about climate science saying true things & you’re talking about rumors, folklore, or intentional disinterpretation-lying-by-strawperson to delay the solutions to climate catastrophe & preserve the profits, power & position of the rich & the right.
99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers written over a century & a half, & every single scientific organization in the world agree that Earth is warming, it’s caused by human greenhouse gases, & it threatens civilization & nature, that’s the only thing that matters.
No, there aren’t 5x the polar bears.
There are ever fewer & they’re in peril.
"Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?"
Carbon Brief, December 7, 2022
No, the icecaps are a lot smaller & shrinking faster all the time.
“Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract” video, James Hansen
"Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years"
‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss
The Guardian, August 23, 2020
No scientist has ever said snow would disappear any time soon.
Coastal property owners all over are having trouble getting insurance, & Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, & other places are experiencing insurance meltdowns. Floods & storms are getting worse, along with droughts, fires, heat waves, crop failures, ecological disruptions, & dozens of other effects of global heating. Failed states are multiplying. The increase in disasters is obvious & in case after case, scientifically determined to be caused or exacerbated by human-caused climate catastrophe.
I have already made massive changes, I relocated away from the coast, downsized and created a 5 acre native edible food forest for my family and wildlife. I now have apex predators visiting from a wildlife corridor behind my land. I built 2 ft high hugelkultur beds around my house to berm and moderate indoor temps and grow food without irrigation. I compost and do not use pesticides or fertilizers. I switched electric appliances for manual. Every year my heating bill has dropped, in part due to better passive solar use.
My old truck gets 33 mpg and I doubt I will change it. I am looking at an ebike, but only drive once a week into town.
If a collapse shut off my electricity (community solar), I have a partially underground shed that maintains better temperatures.
Takes a lot more than me, though.
nice.!!!!!
There are a lot of people doing this and many more who would like the opportunity to. You're not alone.
@@keyisme1356 I read recently that US gardens increased from about 22 million to 76 million in the last couple years. Hopeful. I am reading Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee. In the middle of Agriculture's Mixed Blessings chapter.
Paleopatholology shows that hunter-gatherers were taller, healthier, and lived longer than farmers. Modern hunter-gatherers eat about 85 plants, but the rest of humanity consumes about 50 percent of our calories as wheat, rice, corn. Our diets are atrocious. I both forage and grow native plants, no wonder my health is so good at 69.
I do eat about 3 cups of vegetables every day and anything else I want, so I'm no purist. Still, 50 years of gardening and foraging is a lot of free food, a blessing in inflationary times. Before I bought a house, I grew food in an elderly neighbor's yard. We shared the produce and I kept my toddler with me.
Very good. Trouble is though, when climate disaster really kicks in, some climate change denier with a gun will come and take all that from you.
@@user-wg8bs8do1c maybe... But not necessarily. All those things require knowledge and maintenance, which a dude with a gun won't have.
And here we are, 10 months later, and some climate experts are starting to admit that the climate is changing faster than they had expected.
This is because we humans talk and talk, but precious few will do much to really change their lifestyle.
the easiest thing to help would be to stop ordering shit on amazon so much, but most arent even willing to do that. Half the people dont give a shit, the other half are spoiled with modern convenience that they wont give up
This polar shift happens regardless of C02 emissions. What wiped out ancestors out over and over again.
Wake up, it’s all fake to push the globalists agenda and that’s what you’ve to worry about their end goal while they have you crying over the climate.
And some think its all a load of tripe , which it is
What do you want to do? Going by your so called experts we need to go back to the Stone Age.
The tipping point happened 40 years ago when we didn't make the changes we should have. We love talking about the doom but we never did anything about it.
40 years ago Leonard Nemoy was making a documentary warning of the pending ice age.
Alarmist
Hi. I am writing a book. Would you mind if I quote this?
So by your logic we should be all underwater by now, 40 years of failed doom mongering predictions more like.
@@michaelwalsh9145 exactly doom mongerers , alarmists
Dear PBS Terra, you REALLY need to talk about "overshoot". Climate change isn't the only environmental disaster we are facing. We (the humans) simply can't keep "overshooting" Mother Nature's ability to heal the planet. Dumping toxins in the rivers, cutting down rain forests, sucking all the water out of the ground, overfishing, plastic in the ocean, spraying pesticides on everything, etc. We have got to spot over-exploiting the planet. To put it bluntly, capitalism needs to be scaled back. Even if electric vehicles and solar panels keep us below 1.5c, it won't make any difference if the Earth is a burned out wreck.
It's happening on every planet in the solar system not just earth. We are in for a magnetic flip and possible crust displacement, worst of all is the potential micronova from the sun(estimated around late 2030s-2040s) we don't help but this change has happened many times in the past. What we are dealing with human wise is all distraction for the elites, will the info cause chaos? Maybe but chaos is here already
Exactly. There can not be infinite economic growth on a finite planet and everyday we are losing something that is going to be lost forever. De-growth is the only sustainable solution.
It may not be the only environmental crisis we face but climate change is the most pressing. Maintaining global increases in temperatures would make a huge difference. You're not wrong that capitalism needs to be scaled back though.
We're all going to get out of this dead no matter what we do & or descendants.
To some we are worse than cattle and useless eaters anyway.
The Thwaits glacier alone will cause chaos because even a few feet of ocean rise will cause millions upon millions of people to move farther inland and we have seen just recently how horribly humans react to immigrants moving into other people's region. And make no mistake, Thwaits is going now in real time.. And yet, I know many people who've had babies this year. Wow, good luck, babies.
Seriously I'm way too scared to ever consider subjecting a child to this future.
@@lindsay6518 idiocracy nailed it.
As an older person I feel heartbreak for this generation of children. As a young person I read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Civilization did not heed her dire warning about the environment. Back then there was possibly still time to take some necessary drastic action.....but now? The heartbreak is overwhelmingly painful.
@@lindsay6518 and thats if you can even afford it!
My baby son is due next month. His brother was born 16 months ago. I am terrified.
I was scuba diving in the Maldives and they actually gave us colored filters to put over our goggles to make all the dead, white coral look livelier and more colorful. I could not believe it.
Didn't they predict the Maldives to be under water 20 years ago?
Wow, let's just pretend the problem doesn't exist! "Don't the corals look amazing? No no! Put your colour filter back on!" Ugh... 🙄🙁
Coral bleaching event was caused by larger el Nino effects in 1990s.
@@WeighedWilson No.
@@J4Zonian they predicted that in the late 1980s. Sorry to disappoint you.
This show was a year ago. We have topped 1.5 and the climate is becoming unravelled.
agree, it is unfortunate and terrifying
The word is "unhinged" and its not climate, it's just ducky, but the weather clowns haven't flown over the cuckoo's nest, they're homesteading it.
Your "1.5" has been pulled from someone's rectum. It's not possible to "record" the "average" temperature of the entire Earth. It's also not possible to measure the average IQ of all Earthlings, but judging from the comments I read here, it's a good bet that it's declining if judged from the equally limited sample they represent.
*RE: "the climate is becoming unravelled.*
....and you have become "unhinged?"
Some people are just dumb as stumps, aren't they?
As an avid amateur gardener nearing 70, I have seen dramatic changes in the garden. Where I live went from a zone 5 to a zone 6. Some of my annuals, like snapdragons have gone from annuals to perennials. I can now grow plants & shrubs that couldn’t take the winter temps in the past.
Nothing will change in the US until we do reach a tipping point (flooding in Houston for example). When someone’s income (fossil fuel industry) is on the line, they will continue to fund anti-climate research & dissemination. Just like the tobacco industry did starting in the 60s.
I’m hoping our leaders recognize this eminent threat, but I fear it is already too late.
Don’t invest in coastal properties for now, especially in FL. Or lower Manhattan & Long Island for that matter. Phoenix will become unlivable. Potable water problems in the west will continue to worsen.
I live in Pennsylvania / I am62- and the zone changed here 10years ago. I agree with your assessment. We are getting 40° changes on a regular basis.
@@johngrundowski3632 I grew up in NE PA. I remember hip deep snow and severe cold for days on end. Now it seems it barely reaches freezing before it shoots up to 50 again mid January! That was unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.
Agreed! My mom had a gardening book from 1954 saying my garden was zone 5. Today it is officially zone 7, but I only had zone 8 winters for the last 9 years.
I collect rainwater, and just added 200 gallons storage. I moved away from Seattle-under-water 9 years ago. No mortgage and no regrets.
yup, same story in Sydney Australia, I planted sugarcane, reading that there was potential to get it to 1 metre in height with winter protection, when growing outside it's range (which Sydney absolutely is for a tropical plant), anyway, it went straight to 4 metres high & about 1 litre of juice per cane, which is impressive even in tropical climates. My sweet potato thrives too, as does my coffee plant. I only moved to where I live now, with a good garden space, a decade ago & originally planted as per the "correct" zone, but I've learnt to ignore that now & treat it as one to 2 zones warmer than the official zoning. No potential to grow crops like iceberg lettuce, just too hot for it, even in winter, it just bolts straight to seed! Lots of others that seem similar too, but I can't say for sure with some as to if it's a climate change thing or was always the case in this area, or if it's my gardening to blame, but no question it's warmer than it used to be! (exception being the last year, due to the Tongan volcano eruption & the significant cooling that caused in the southern hemisphere, impact of that seems to have subsided though, after snow here in December, we're now experiencing over a month of "heat wave" conditions, high 20's to 30's everyday, high 30's everyday in parts of the country, in what should be coming into Autumn & cooling temps)
In Seattle the South Park neighborhood just flooded due to climate change.
We thought we had 10 more years...
When I was a kid, I would come up in the morning and see the frost in every patch of grass; this would go on for at least two weeks straight during the winter.
My last year on my old city, about three years ago, I did not see the same a single day.
Also populations of birds and insects have dramatically decreased since I was a kid, which had decreased since my parents were kids.
Now, I'm south-american, my wife is eastern-european and says simillar things have happenned there too.
My point is it's real, it's worldwide and it's bad.
@Adriel Tzu every generation sees a trend in climate change, don't be manipulated so easy
Really well YOU will be surprised to learn that temperature, weather AND climate are ALL totally within NORMAL long term variability for our current interglacial !
@Adriel Tzu you try it first
@Adriel Tzu try not to be indoctrinated into denialism
@@peterjones4180 sure, it's the exact same as fish industrial revolution, and almost as hot as dinosaurs industrial revolution. It's the same picture.
Imagine building a machine in your home. There's a side effect of the mechanics that causes a fire, but otherwise works fine. So you just keep working it while it burns more and more of your home, yet you still have that machine going. We're insane as a people.
Now imagine a world without machines. There would be no solar panels no wind turbines. No electricity, no medical care, no way to even see an upcoming event such as this! You would be dead at a young age. I challenge you to try not using ANY technology for one week! I bet you can't!
No one forces you to turn your lights on child.
@@manmaje3596 do you think all of anthropogenic climate change is from turning on lights?
As a people, many of us deny the house is on fire. Those people are called politicians, not scientists.
So I'm guessing you use a candle and bath in a rain barrel then.
Have you noticed that there are hardly any bugs on the windshield any more when driving down the highway? We have known about the issues of pollution, heat islands et al since the 1970s but humans don't do anything until a situation is critical. In 2015 when I saw the Mendenhall glacier near Juneau, Alaska which had retreated eight kilometres (five miles) my thought was that it was too late; we had already hit the tipping point.
The insect pesticides and repellants that people are consuming in mass amounts is the main reason for insect, bird reptile and fish loss on such a scale in recent decades. Demanding consumers prefer the unnatural growth and color mutations with that perfect and polished consistanty in their choices of unblemished fruits and veggies, And the profits from those perfect consumables must be protected, If insects are repelled or die off after eating from the garden, that's a red flag for me, Imagine how much DDT was consumed by the children's- children of the corn in the 1950's & 60's before it was banned in the US Just the consequences of storm water runoff through crop fields and pig farms inyo our drinking water, alone makes me cringe.
What a ridiculous thing to bring up.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
Bill gates probably vaccinated the insects! Lol 😅
I have news for you............Your bugs moved here to Western NY in the summer! 😂😂 There are plenty up here. Must have a healthier ecosystem but it is rural.
@@sandersson2813 They were just two examples and I did say "et al". What I am pointing out is that we have known for at least 50 years man's impact on our environment in many areas of human activity and done nothing but talk about it. Perhaps we have done some things like removing CFCs but the hole in the ozone layer still exists and with the lag time from implementation it is estimated that it will take up to 100 years for it to repair. Implementation and lag time are going to be crucial issues. This is a very complex but extremely important matter but a forum like this is too limited to have a full on discussion. I wish you all well.
Let's face it, we won't only reach 1.5C very fast, we will get past it. We are nowhere near what should be done to prevent 1.5C. And with the tipping points (and the fact I don't believe we would stop at 1.5C anyway) I can easily see we getting to 2C way before the end of the century. Buckle up guys, this is going to hurt.
@Caio Lima Netto Yes, way, way before. We’re already at 1.2°C, adding about .5°C/decade, so doing the math that’s...let’s see, 14, carry the 1, we’re likely to hit 1.5 by 2028. Except since we’ve already seen some tipping points have been breached, we know climate change is accelerating, so 2027 is also likely. 2°C is likely between 2035 & 2040. Not a damn thing we can do about that, especially with so many people in charge telling the 2050 not zero lie.
@@J4Zonian lol the 2050 net zero is completely delusional when we are still ramping up emissions, not even peaked. There is no way we can get from accelerating to zero in 30 years. I bet we won't see net zero by 2100. Only hope (which is most of these lies are based upon) is some dream tech-miracle that will be able to do carbon capture on a planetary level in record time. I am 44 and I think I will still be alive when we get to 2C and I will probably die before net zero.
It's already too late. I say we speed up the process, so the earth can heal - once all of the people are gone. Whadaya say? Join me in a diesel truck race and a nice used tire bonfire? I feel like we should at least get to enjoy the end of mankind.
It's already higher than that. The scientists changed the starting year for temperature rise to a later date making the rise look better.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
10 meters of sea level rise?! I feel like that really got glossed over here, that was not given the weight it deserved to people who aren't familiar with metric. That's saying we're currently locked in to 32 feet of rise!!
American and their imperial thingy 😆
conclusion: don't buy a car, buy a submarine!
Looks like we need another planet.... Unfortunately, only the sci-fi writers can formulate that fantasy utilizing their fertile imaginations.
@@ronaldturner4849 what we need is for idiots to stop getting their information from social media, and actually think a little bit.
Seriously? You believe taht??? She said she was using the I{PCC data. If you look at the IPCC report they say 1-3 feet rise by the end of the century. This lady is simply scaring you into believing her. Stop being the fool!
What you didn't mention is that rising sea levels changes the weight on the tectonic plates under the oceans, and Greenland and Antarctica would weigh less, which could lead to more powerful earthquakes along the tectonic plates around the rim of the oceans, including the ring of fire, and with it, more volcanic activity, which could add even more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Or, it could result in super volcanoes erupting, leading to an ice age like a nuclear winter around the entire planet. Or it could change the convection layers in the mantle, destabilizing our planets geomagnetic field. Destabilizing tectonic plates could be the most catastrophic of the climate change issues.
Cheers from Ontario Canada where the climate has warmed over 1.5 degree's in FIFTY years
BS!
Or it could all be sweet
@@joylarson9040 it's true...do some research
@@2pintsofcremedementh well you must be smoking 2 pints of cremede"meth"....cuz it is not sweet at all. The proof is killing people as we speak.
I’m an American living in southern Mexico. I’ve been here 13 years. The rainy season used to start in mid May. Now it starts mid July. We are receiving less that half the rain than previous years. It’s really scary to me. Scariest of all are the climate deniers who really just want to get as rich as they can. They don’t believe the science. They choose not to believe! God help us.
@timnray99 Unfortunately in our increasingly desperate & unequal world, the rich are the only ones who can afford to work for months for nothing. The larger change in the world has been by the right wing rulers, who have become increasingly disturbed in denying science & reality & embracing horrific racism, misogyny, anti-ecological fanaticism, & intolerance & hatred for all who disagree. So yes, they actually are evil-doers who in fact are not just seeking but actually destroying civilization & worsening the ongoing mass extinction. Save your scorn for those who deserve it.
Thought about what you wrote, and then my question is what about effects of trust fund recipients and irrevocable trust money on the opposite side of the spectrum? Doing all they can selfishly do to allow the human race to self- destruct.
No one Denise climat Chang, we denie that humans are changing the climat, becaus humans can not Chang the climat.
@DeniseChang Well, Denise, you should stop that shit because it’s insane to keep denying climate catastrophe 40 years after all scientific debate about the essentials was ended. And don’t tell me you don’t know what it means. It’s so childish & pointless to try to win a gunfight with semantics.
After nearly 2 centuries of scientific debate, performed in the realm of science, by doing science, the conclusions are clear, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists from a hundred countries & scores of scientific specialties, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers, & every single major & national scientific organization agree:
Earth is warming.
It’s caused entirely by human greenhouse gases.
It’s an imminent threat to civilization & nature.
Stop forcing your religion on us!
I remember being a child in the 1980's Across the street from our house in town was a large empty lot/yard filled with grass, dandelions, flowers, etc. In mid-afternoon one day I walked over to check it out. There were so many bees, butterflies, dragonflys and other insects flying around. I felt like I was a kid on Heaven exploring the world outside. Yet since the mid-90's to today, all these critters disappeared or are so rare to see.
I barely see fireflies in summer anymore.. I used to see them all the time, as a child in the 1990s…. Too much fvxking round up I’d guess..
@@patrickcummins79 my parents dont use fertilizer or pesticides in our yard and havent cut the grass in along time and i started to see butterflies, fireflies, dragonflies etc this summer
People spray their YARDS for unwanted pest ever single day and bet you spray for Mosquito`s which kills them and flying creatures too.
Your anecdotal evidence is absurdly stupid.
That's not how you determine whether things are declining.
Pesticides not warming
I have always wondered about the black asphalt on all the roads and parking lots would it help if they could be white or silver to cool the temperature in the atmosphere.
Maybe some scientist should study the effects of this.could be very worthwhile.
I changed the color of my garage roof from brown to white.around 20 degrees cooler instantly.
Just my 2cents worth.
Painting black asphalt to a particular shade of light gray is starting to be done already. Not in too many places, but it does help people in cities.
@@rridderbusch518 The heat still goes somewhere, not really an answer to the problem at all.
@@jerryw6699 Yes, the heat rises. Doing this keeps people without AC from dying, tho.
@@jerryw6699 But it radiates back to space and can escape the planet. At least it's passive cooling not requiring the expenditure of even more energy to cool living spaces. It works. When I had my house re-roofed, I chose the lightest color shingles available. It made a noticeable difference.
The color of the asphalt will not produce any significant change if it's STILL ASPHALT
I feel my blood boil when I think that my kids and grandkiddos may face an inhospitable world due to corporatist pols, culture warriors and religious zealots who either cannot see "the handwriting on the wall," or don't regard the aspect of catastrophic climate change as nearly so pressing as raising profits, scoring political points, and chanting that "the Lord will provide." Humans have been terrible stewards of our planet, so I would caution against any deity saving the world when people have so abused the gift given them. And obscene wealth will matter little if climate change transforms the planet into one massive nightmare scenario.
So……, you didn’t know about this before you had kids?? I’m 44 and have known since I was a kid. I have zero kids 🎉
I've just realised this was made 2 years ago! We did nothing and it got worse. We hit 1.5⁰ of warming earlier this year 2024
My biggest concern is that the delay of reasonable measures will just lead to some stupid and extreme solutions when the catastrophe is visible even to the most ignorant. Like detonating a nuke in yellowstone, or pumping some weird chemical in the atmosphere, or dropping a bilion tons of reflective white balls onto ocean surface.
Yea those will just create more problems in other areas of our lives. Best to just do the right thing first and do it now.
Nah the most ignorant in America will still deny
inflation, recession and rolling blackouts aren't enough?
My biggest concern is that people will actually listen to you maniacs and completely wipe out civilization so that your precious leaders can become dictators of the world.
WHY take ANY actions when temperature, weather AND climate are TOTALLY within normal long term variability for our current interglacial.
Nothing unusual is going on.
One of my saddest underwater experiences was to view the extensive destruction of the coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over ten years ago or more. It was devoid of the once brilliant colors and fish.
I was shocked to see the damage of global warming.
have you looked at it lately? its bigger than ever now. damn that global warming, right?
More BS, It's thriving.
jerryw66 reported for misinformation.
@@rain1956 by "misinformation", you mean "truth that i dont agree with" right?
In 2003 I was lucky enough to see Hawaii's coral reef, I was hoping some day to bring my husband who has a degree in adventure recreation, concentration in diving to see it. 20 years later I doubt he will ever be able to see the beauty I once saw. It breaks my heart. Its sad that he has never seen a reef.
I guess we lose the amazon rainforest not because of global warming, but just because of deforestation, much much earlier (like in the next years the tipping point might be reached)
Never let a good dying rainforest go to waste. Blame it on fossil fuels.
go watch eating our way to extinction narrated by Kate Winslet. real eye opener
@@Littlebigbot
How does that make sense? The rainforest is being leveled for farmland not oil.
The new president has a major reforestation program going on. That at least I would say is something.
@@Littlebigbot Know the difference between deforestation and climate change. 🙄
Suggestion: maybe promote public transportation and stop estimating consumerism
I watched in 2003 when we passed the most critical tipping point; CO2 became unrecoverable. 230 ppb. Now we're well over 400. Then the gov't started 'moving the goalposts', changing the labels until no one knew what was happening. We are now truly screwed no matter what goes right.
China doesn't have to cut CO2 just north America. Duh.
like how they changed the definition of vaccine to include things that function solely in a therapeutic way with the human body instead of preventing infection like every vaccine was before 2020. just so they could do the "most lucrative business opportunity in the history of capitalism"
@@sandrakisch3600 Blaming China so you're innocent? 🙄 Lack of personal responsibility is how Humans failed as a species.
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
The industrial greenhouses, have far higher CO2. That make plants grow faster.
I was born in 1987 and looking back at what was happening around that time, it seemed as if humanity was going to get everything under control. Sensible people would act back then, but they stopped, and humanity got stupider and stupider, and stupider from there. The fact that we haven’t done anything really, even until now despite how much worse everything has got; and the fact that we are still making basically no progress politically, or in terms of reducing consumption shows that so clearly. Realistically, I can’t say I have much faith in humans. But I am an idealist, and I’d love to see us all wake up tomorrow, basically remove the capitalists from mainstream society and any political power somehow (because they’ll never change) and save ourselves. I hope so, but every day we keep going on like this, the hope goes down another notch. That’s the unfortunate truth, that every day matters and we’re doing nothing at all relatively speaking.
Humans are not going to fix this. There's is too much money and power behind polluting. And the people making the money will be dead long before the really bad sh!t happens or will have the money to insulate themselves from the worst of it. There are so many benefits to moving to renewables but it's not going to happen. Too much greed being propped up by the ignorant uninformed masses.
@@pisces031372aj I wouldn’t say the people making the money are necessarily going to escape. I mean if the crops really fail catastrophically soon, then theoretically they’d be able to pay for the food that’s left. But they’re not going to be left alone by the starving masses if that happens.
I wish I shared your sense of optimism but nothing right now gives me much of a positive outlook.
@@saxmanphd I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic at all. Just that the idealistic part of my nature makes me consider scenarios that most people would flat out dismiss as impossible, because things generally don’t turn around in a relative instant. Which is what they will have to do if we’re to continue on this planet in a way that we would consider fun.
You can thank capitalism!
Excellent documentary. To your question, "What can we do?" My short answer is this: collectively, nothing that will matter much. Many of these tipping points are already happening, and our global climate has gone into a self-accelerating runaway heating and destabilization whose symptoms are everywhere. We're in for a rough ride that will only get rougher. Not much of a legacy for our children, I'm afraid.
Individually is a different matter, however. We can grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness, forming garden guilds within our own neighborhoods where we learn and teach how to grow our own food, share our equipment and skills, and steadily reduce our dependence on the larger infrastructures that are destroying our planet (e.g. fossil fuels, the money economy, rampant consumerism, etc.) And we can devote these skills to healing our landscapes and each other, practicing permaculture design, managing and recycling water, etc. This may not save us from the fate we have already locked in through our arrogance and greed, but it will make the remaining years less stressful and more convivial, and may even result in some of us actually surviving to start the long healing process thereafter.
Bullshit written in bollocks
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God is the one that will recreate a New World free from sin, sickness and death for those who will be saved because of their Faith in God the Creator.
@@samuelguy1838 That would be nice, if you believe it. But for me and others with their feet firmly planted in the realities disclosed by scientific inquiry, all of that is balderdash, appealing only to the credulous.
You could add what this means for worldwide crop yield. Like, in numbers of people who no longer have something to eat.
Per-acre cereal crop yields have more than tripled since 1960. There are several reasons for that increase, but one of the major reasons is rising CO2 levels.
Through all of human history, FAMINE was a Damoclean sword, hanging over humanity... until now.
@@ncdave4life Dude, seriously, that's a fascinating level of bullshit that you made there. Cudos!
CO2 levels are not the CAUSE of that crop yield increase, but a (minor) REASON for it: Fossil fuels used to make fertilizer.
@@ianhenk, I did not say that rising CO2 levels are "THE cause" improving crop yields, I said they are "one of the major reasons" for rising crop yields. Which is right.
It has been heavily studied by agronomists for well over a century, with thousands of published studies. It is a very large effect. There is no legitimate dispute about it, among scientists. Here's a small sample of some of the relevant papers/studies; there are many others, but this should get you started: doi:10.1007/s10018-020-00263-w, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198928, doi:10.1111/gcb.13263, doi:10.1002/grl.50563, doi:10.1111/gcb.12830, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.042, doi:10.1038/nclimate3004, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.11.015, doi:10.3386/w29320, doi:10.1111/nph.17802, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11271920-549.
please talk about how losing coral reefs can make nutrition cycling difficult for some parts of the world. losing diversity is not only sad, it is physically dangerous
That's a myth. Turns out coral reefs are cyclical, Great Barrier Reef is doing fine.
@@Mrbfgray " The greatest threat to reefs is the rise in oceanic carbon dioxide levels. When carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, the water becomes more acidic and the ocean’s pH (a measure of how acidic or basic the ocean is) drops. Even though the ocean is immense, enough carbon dioxide can have a major impact. In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic-faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years. Calcium carbonate, the building block of a coral's skeleton, forms only if the water pH sits in a specific range. The more acidic seawater makes it more difficult for corals to build their calcium carbonate skeletons. And if acidification gets severe enough, it could even break apart the existing skeletons that already provide the structure for reefs. Scientists predict that by 2085 ocean conditions will be acidic enough for corals around the globe to begin to dissolve. For one reef in Hawaii this is already a reality. " ... Source:
ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-coral-reefs
@@bobbart4198 So you are saying the oceans are getting colder, that's the only way they can hold more CO2. In any case, the corals are doing fine.
"Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, though the reef is still vulnerable to climate change and mass bleaching, a monitoring group said Thursday."
CNBC August, 2022
All while CO2 has been rising!
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The Great Barrier Reef was supposed to be bleaching….it’s doing fine better than normal. Models are not reality.
Trouble is, we've already blown past some tipping points we didn't know we had.
where? Name them with evidence,
@@anglosaxonmike8325 the principle is, by the time you are aware of many tipping points, you're already past them. There's no list, and people with their head in the sand won't be convinced, even with more evidence
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Greenland, the world’s biggest island, appears to have hit a tipping point around 2002-2003 when the ice loss rapidly accelerated, said lead author Michael Bevis, a geoscientist at Ohio State University. By 2012 the annual ice loss was “unprecedented” at nearly four times the rate in 2003. But we know you think Donald Trump knows more about the weather than a climate scientist. So no matter how many scientists say disaster is imminent, you will believe a stupid corrupt politician over a scientific expert.
Who's we?
@@anglosaxonmike8325 We don't know what they are. Reading comprehension is an essential tool.
In situations like this, I remember what Canada did. When a river flooded a town that had grown around it, the river flooding killed animals, destroyed property, and killed people. But, they learned from the experience. When they rebuilt, all areas that had been flooded were off limits, and instead were turned into a public park with no permanent structures allowed. There are summer music and art concerts, and a walk / bike trail along the river. 50 years later, the river flooded again, but because they had learned, no lives and no property was lost.
We need to do the same everywhere. Places that flood from rivers and hurricanes should be turned into parks, as should places like "Tornado Alley". People who want to build in fire prone areas need a psych evaluation, not a condo that will "need" to be saved.
We've "paved over paradise and put in a parking lot", and need to undo our mistakes.
Just so you know by not being able to put buildings in fire prone area youve completely eliminated the western half of the usa , basically all of australia , and so much more
Oh yeah , also the east coast is prone to hurricanes. Eliminate that too?
@@FronosElectronics
Yes.
Getting a tiny minority of people out of harm's way, and "future proofing" civilization, is somehow synonymous with depopulating the entire US east coast.
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@@benrudolph5582 Yes, it is. There is no place on Earth not subject to climate-change caused disasters now. A billion refugees are likely by 2050, the year the insane people pretend we can solve this by by doing practically nothing at all.
Welcome to Denier World.
@ben I agree, but between places prone to floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, deadly heat waves, droughts, ecological collapses, crop failures, dire endemic diseases, & other disasters, that are some mighty big chunksa territory. The parts of California alone that apply are home to tens of millions of people. It probably involves most of the inhabited area of the planet, a national & international crisis we will have to face. Unless we continue to ignore & “bungle”* it & in the process kill billions of people & destroy most nations on Earth along with the coherence of global civilization. I’m guessing we’ll continue to choose the latter.
Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, wrote Bring Back the Buffalo, about establishing the mostly empty Great Plains as essentially a wilderness area & haven for free herds of bison as there were before 1800.
*the ultimate feature-not-bug problem.
I'm 83 now. I had had 2 children before hearing of global warming. At that point I determined to have no more children. I later married 2 childless men (not at the same time 🤓), and had no more children. Being so close to the end of my life, I hope to miss the worst of the looming disaster. Unfortunately, my great-grandaughter will live it. 😢
If you're 83 you lived through the mass hysteria of Armageddon in the 1950's. You also lived through the 1973 energy crisis, the predictions of global starvation by the 1990's, the impending ice age and Y2K. All of these fairy tales began with "scientists say" and the media ran with their hyperbole and sensationalism. Have you learned nothing?
Your great granddaughter will be fine and experience a life that you and I could only dream about. She'll likely be working on Mars and vacationing on the moon. Cheers.
@@anthonymorris5084You regurgitate 50 years of Petrochemical Industry media disinformation and lies.
The pitiful truth is that you believe the trash, even when the industry scientists knew it to be a whitewash of the truth.
dont worry please see the bigger picture its all lies
@@PaulBowman-y1rthe lie is people are doing it. We are in the middle of a pole shift which is being omitted. So yes there are several lies involved. Buckle up butter cup. The cyclical climate change is in action and accelerating.
Just think: scientists tried to warn everyone back in the 1970's, but their message was ridiculed and undermined by big industry and many government officials around the world. How would things be now, if everyone had listened, and acted on their advice, back in the 1970's?
Just think; if we never practiced science, we wouldn't be in this predicament.
no, they have tried to scam everyone since the 19th century. things are about the same now as they were then.
@@aegaeon117 Wishful thinking. We have been driving megafauna extinct since the stone age
Just think, we would be trying to prevent global cooling...cuz that's what the "consensus" was in the 1970s. Then someone figured they could get rich on warming, because they could make carbon a boogey man and control everything. Nearly everything tangible contains carbon.
@@Crypto666 No, the scientific consensus, even back in the 1970s, was global warming. Examining peer-reviewed research articles on the climate from the 1970s, we find that almost 70% agree that the globe is warming overall, and all articles with global cooling relied on scenarios for increasing concentrations of Sulphur dioxide and other aerosols, while CO2 concentration in the air remained constant. By the mid-1970s, it was already clear that CO2 levels were rising faster than aerosol, and the consensus was that the Globe was warming. However, Media independence is a sham. In total, by 1979, there were 6 papers discussing the possibility of cooling as contrasted to 43 papers on global warming. However, due to the weakening polar vortex, north American winters were (and still are) getting colder, as cold arctic winds are able to more easily move southwards. Hence, the media gave all the attention to people saying global cooling instead of global warming until the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, most news magnates are also heavily invested in oil and coal. Here is a great video explaining Global Cooling. ua-cam.com/video/5E7K70DFLJQ/v-deo.html
You have missed the disappearance of the mountain glaciers. Causing the drying up of the major rivers, the denudation of the mountains, increased warming, failure of most croplands.
Yeah, except that's not actually happening. The earth is like a terrarium. It has a finite amount of water that goes through lots of changes but comes right back to being water somewhere else on the planet. Sorry you slept through the part of science class that would have kept you from buying in to this bullshit.
@@daisy8luke perhaps you are thinking of the hydrological cycle. Assuming you listened to your terrarium teacher! Without the freezing conditions the precipitation flows down as flash floods rather than a slower continuous stream. Then after flood drought occurs when the rivers dry up. Did you watch any news this year and see the effect in the northern hemisphere. Good gotcha try, keep believing GOP.
Just as happened during the other four Interglacial Warming Periods over the last half million years!
I've read through each and every one of the IPCC Assessment reports from 1990 to present. My undergrad was in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, wherein we studied ocean currents both current as well as how they have changed over the eons. I have three degrees total, including two in Science, summa cum laude for my two graduate degrees, each with its own respective concentration.
What I am NOT, however, is climate scientist, and THANK GOD, as it allows myself and many thousands of other scientists to SEE CLEARLY the forest through the trees instead of perpetuating this damned MYTH.
Look it up: Interglacial Warming Period. They occur roughly every 105,000 years and last for 10,000 to 30,000 years before Earth cools back into her usual "snowball Earth" mode where the temperatures drop by upwards of 8 deg C (nearly 15 deg F) for 60,000 to 70,000. Geologists have used the Vostok and other ice core samples dating back to more than 1.5 million years ago to learn Earth has experienced precisely the SAME effects of even higher temperatures, CO2, CH4 (methane), permafrost melt, methane release, and sea level rises during the other Interglacial Warming Periods over the eons as we're seeing today, but without human involvement or cause.
The climate scientist in this video remains so hyperfocused on upon the last 20,000 years he can't see the bigger picture AT ALL. Either that, or he's IGNORING the fact Earth is nearing the peak of her FIFTH Interglacial Warming Period of the last 420,000 years. Earth spends 2/3 to 4/5 of its time about 6 to 8 deg C colder than its Interglacial Warming Periods, which occur roughly every 105,000 years.
It's a NORMAL and NATURAL CYCLE, people. Humans certainly didn't cause the last four, nor the thirteen before that, and, at best, humanity's contributions to our current Interglacial Warming Period are around 15%. The remaining 85% are ALL Mother Nature's.
This is actual, factual, science-based reality, people, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE.
Do we need to take care of our planet? Absolutely! Stop dumping plastics and organic toxins into our rivers and oceans! Yank Monsanto's/Bayer's glyphosate license forever! Stop building crappy or hyper-expensive construction when the real problem involves stopping IR, conduction and convection while employing proper amounts of INTERNAL thermal mass. Great homes DO NOT cost half a million dollars or more! Try $50,000.
THAT is reality, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE.
STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
What mountain range is in contention in your comment? Tibet is stable afaik although uttrakhand has seen some dry seasons
@@haberdasherrykr8886 All major orogenies. The same problems are occurring at all of them.
1:50 Props to the guy who seems to have genuinely fallen ass over tincan for this shot
I was "lucky" enough to help measure the movement of the WAIS in 1995/6. The ice streams within the sheet were moving rapidly. I heard recently the the tipping point for the WAIS has been passed...game over. Living in Aotearoa (NZ), we here all aware of the threat to the populations of the small atolls in the South Pacific near us.
Surprised you did not mention the risk that as oceans warm, the vast amounts of frozen methane hydrate would melt and be released. This would also greatly increase the global green house gas effects.
Well this is awfully strange because only a few months ago science was saying there is no global warming I wonder why? They were saying anyway that every million years or so the earth does a different orbit with the moon and it does this always They also stated that we are in this orbit now and this is why it seems as though this is global warming Not that people aren't capable of destroying our plant though which lately we have been seeing War etc no real recycling being done lies lies and more lies
We must all do what we can. What kind of world will we leave? Science doesn't lie...
Science tells us what serves the elite agenda
It seems every cause, or effect, of warming just accelerates it more. I’m positive it’s way under predicted, 😩
Correct! Methane will come pouring out of ancient deposits of frozen methane hydrates in the shallow sections of the Arctic Ocean and the deep deposits under the tundra lands.
Can't wait to tell my grandchildren about the before times when the coast citys that are underwater were fun tourist spots instead of habitat for fish full of plastic
To say nothing of the sports teams that will have to move - not that this is a major concern, of course. St. Louis Saints? Oklahoma Marlins?
Are you actually implying there will be fish?
One day you'll be sitting there with your grandchildren telling them about this monumental hoax that was perpetrated against the People by governments who wanted to control them. And you'll be doing it in a cave because the entire world's economy will have collapsed from these useless ineffective green policies.
@@daisy8luke either way sounds like we're fucked
They are going to be fun scuba spots in the future.
Even if you do not believe in global warming (I do not know how it is possible in 2022...) we have to change radically to have a cleaner and greener planet earth.
You don't know how someone can not believe in global warming in 2022? Well, for the same reason as five years ago or ten years ago. It's called having a brain, having some life experience, and knowing marxist propaganda when you see it. Reading a handful of comments on this thread is like being taken back in time to Woodstock. A bunch of spaced out hippies dutifully parroting the "anti-establishment" propaganda they're fed. At least Woodstock offered great music, climate change threads offer nothing but despair at how gullible people are.
Sadly, that is all too possible amongst the Conservative voters in the U.S. apparently they're put stock in the theory that global warming is propaganda devised by the government for political purposes😢
Separate issues
Only thing I have to say about this as a 2000s kid is "Well, we're fucked."
Nothing will stop it. It’s adapt or die. Unfortunately the people who contributed the least will suffer the most. Life is just not fair
This thinking is precisely the problem, because it means you can sit back and do nothing. And: humans can no longer adapt to 3 degrees of warming. The planet and some species can. But not us.
What exactly do you believe will happen?
It would suck if apocalyptic future humans find this video in a historical file from when climate destabilization was yet preventable.
Future humans?????😂optimistic
I doubt if they will pretty much everything will be destroyed as it has been in the previous five pole reversals.
We are those humans, you just have to look at the stone structures all over the earth (and mars)
There may be still some time to stop this, but it awfully looks like that the people who actually have the power to stop that have no inclination to invoke truly effective measures to accomplish that. Our political, industrial and commercial leaders don't want to do what is necessary, and in the end simply won't do enough to stop the catastrophe.
But that would hurt this quarter's numbers!
We are screwed.
@@aluisious yes we are and in 30 years you will still have those people "how the F did this happen" i tell you people in power did little to stop it wich is far worse genocide then hitler or stalin did
Too late to stop it. Too many people are making too much money as it is. What we can do is work to limit the damage and save as much as we possibly still can.
That's why the class war is being fought using eco-genocide of the global lower classes. Our destruction is assured, and honestly, I think it's warranted. Human beings were too stupid to accept the reality they could clearly see -- we collectively deserve to die in this mouse trap. Sad, but true.
There is NOTHING to stop, !, nothing unusual is going on !, weather temperature and climate are ALL totally within normal long term variability for our current inter glacial, the data is VERY clear.
We already witnessed what we need to do during the first months of the pandemic: reducing dramatically overall planet consumption and human mobility. During the first 3 months of the pandemic, when we all were locked down at home to avoid the spreading of covid19, we observed how rapidly nature was able to restore the environment: the skies became clearer than ever seen before (remember those skies in Delhi, Tokyo or New York as a few examples); wildlife came back to our towns and cities to recover what once belonged to them; raise on global temperatures stopped for those few months; and on and on. But let’s be clear: reducing human consumption and mobility carries consequences, such as a reduction in global demand of products and servicies, which involves less production, which inevitable lead to an increase of unemployment and the consequences associated to that. The key question here is: are we open to radically change our lifestyle, away from capitalism and the commodities that come with it?
You're a capitalist, you wouldn't last five minutes without oil and gas and your demand drives supply.
The temperature DIDN'T go down during covid lockdowns.
Clear skies are very bad for climate. You are behind the times.
The more haze the better. Canadian wildfires were a brilliant stroke of luck this year.
Thank you for sharing these perspectives that are rarely mentioned. I loved the analogy of the tipping over chair. Many people reject the concepts of tipping points because they prefer to believe that humans are so clever, inventive and resourceful that we can overcome any problem that we have created. Such perspectives often come from those who have little understanding of human dependence upon a healthy surrounding biosphere.
In my view we've already crossed many tipping points and most of them interact with the others to accelerate our plunge into darkness. I urge readers to search for the following warning articles that most people seem to have displaced from their consciousness.
IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian)
UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill)
* This statement was made 4-years ago.
Many people reject tipping points because they are bull crap
I note how you quote two highly unreliable socialist media outlets as proof of your perspective both of which blatantly pursue information as a propaganda tool.
The U.N IPCC has demonstrated for its whole existence that nothing they say can be taken seriously.
Their own scientific report data never supports what they say publically.
The U.N has been saying we only have two, or ten or five years for DECADES and NOTHING ever happens to climate that is unusual.
I just bet YOU dont even know what climate is !
Q. Define what climate is and how it is measured ?
You are just another gullible socialist, who knows nothing about the science, demonstrate some tipping points you think exist and have been crossed, this should be good for a laugh.
- Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority. They have been convinced that socialism is evil and have learned to condemn anything associated with socialism and liberalism. They share a package of values and charismatic leadership that provided them with a sense of community and personal identity. It brings them joy, the same sort of joy I've noticed in some cult beliefs.
Climate science deniers tend to now brand themselves as simply being 'skeptics.' Interestingly these so-called 'skeptics' take great pride in their capacity to reject mountains of scientific evidence that clashes with their deeply entrenched worldview. This is similar to their pride in rejecting all the mounting evidence that Donald Trump has engaged in multiple criminal activities and it is reflected in their support of all the Republican leadership who lack the backbone to admit that their party has been taken over by seditionist forces.
The numerous United Nations (UN) IPCC reports contain a summery of the peer reviewed research results of many thousands of scientists around the planet, working in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines for the last half-century. Conservatives have no problem rejecting those findings with claims that its driven by personal greed, or a vast globalists conspiracy campaign.
The meaning of climate and climate change can be found in the following Wikipedia articles. I'm listing just the titles since the UA-cam algorithms reject my comments when I include the URL links.
Climate change (Wikipedia)
Greenhouse gas (Wikipedia)
Radiative forcing (Wikipedia)
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Climate change: How do we know (NASA)
The GISTEMP climate spiral 1880-2021 (NASA)
What's Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg)
More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change (Cornell University)
Over 200 health journals call on world leaders to address 'catastrophic harm to health' from climate change (ScienceDaily)
Climate: What did We Know and When Did We Know it? (UA-cam)
Scientists warned the US president about global warming 50 years ago today (TheGuardian)
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) (TheGuardian)
Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation system (Yale University)
A Horrifying New Study Found that the Ocean is on its Way to Suffocating by 2030 Seafloor Discovery Shows The Ocean's Undergoing a Change Not Seen in 10,000 Years (ScienceAlert)
Satellite data confirms globe is warming rapidly (Axios)
CO2 Concentration - Last 800,000 years University of California, Scripps Institute)
Climate change 'tipping points' too close for comfort (PhysOrg)
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (TheGuardian)
Almost 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970, report reveals (TheGuardian)
World’s largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate (Nature)
Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm (TheConversation)
Insects are dying off at record rates - an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction (BusinessInsider)
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (Stanford University - PNAS)
Humanity is ‘cutting down the tree of life’, warn scientists (TheGuardian)
Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis (Mnogabay)
New study undercuts favorite climate myth ‘more CO2 is good for plants’ (SkepticalScience)
Experts explain how rising carbon dioxide depletes nutrients in our food (Accuweather)
Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn (TheIndependent)
Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns (TheGuardian)
Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions (PhysOrg)
There's No Science Behind Denying Climate Change (Forbes)
Heartland's '6 Reasons To Be A Climate-Change Skeptic' Are Six Demonstrable Falsehoods (Forbes)
Skeptical Science (SkepticalScience)
@@vernonbrechin4207 I asked YOU for the definition of what climate is and how it is measured NOT a link .
That you did not answer this simple question demonstrates YOU dont know.
You should have been able to offer the correct answer from memory.
That you did not reply with that information demonstrates you probably have no idea.
Q. What is climate and how is it measured ?
Answer the question !
Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority.
Your post reproduced above describes SOCIALISTS very well, after all socialism is a
RELIGION and you have made a religious response devoid of facts but simply referencing segments of your new bible.
Had you any understandng of the physics involved you would have explained them
to justify your position.
That you have NOT indicates strongly that you do not understand them at all.
Most of the sources you cite are still left wing media sources and are NOT a scientific argument.
You even quote the skeptical science propaganda website run by the notorious fraud John Cook who produced the most famous stastical fraud study 99% of scientists say......
When replicated properly that study was ACTUALLY .3% of scientists say.
Most of what you have cited are long discredited, we are NOT for example n a sixth major extinction that has been formally falsified and was always based on very dodgy statistics and most animal species counted were NOT known to exist but were simply assumed to exist.
If you want to have any credibility, for right now you have none.
Then you need to justify YOUR position with an explanation of the physics.
NOT well this on line article says.........
@@vernonbrechin4207 One problem I have with the word denier is that you guys throw everybody in there who is not alarmist. For example Michael Schellenberger and Steve Koonin are both labeled as deniers even though both want action on climate, they just don't believe in catestrophic climate change.
I went last year to Hawaii, the Big Island which I have visited four times the last thirty years and all of my favorite snorkeling spots are now 90% devoid of marine life. I saw the destruction gradually happening in each visit. Last time we went was last spring and I'm never going back again. Its heartbreaking.
People don't care to wear sunscreen and bug juice that is less damaging to reefs plus they touch the corals which just kills them.
Shame on these people that don't give a damn!
I snorkelled in Oahu in 1980 or so and it was a wonderland. I snorkelled in Kauai in 2015 and there were still fish, but it was less than I expected, and only in Poipu. The north part of the island essentially had no tropical fish, and I thought it would have something, though it always depends how busy an area is of course.
Key Largo coral reef the water temperature yesterday was 98 degrees Fahrenheit. That says it all. Industries need to wind it all down, the population needs to go back to 3 billion stability, everything that can be produced locally needs to be, to reduce all shipping (now just a source of extra revenue). Travel needs to be minimized. You see?, this is about globalized finance and a ravenous type of capital that hordes at the top. None of that will take place, so the planet will stop us, plain and simple, it cannot support capitalism and over population unbridled. Expect 80% of all ocean life to die off, soon, there is the beginning of the end of the planet as we knew it. Look straight at finance & industry unregulated as the most greedy of the most destructive species to ever exists laments it’s hubris and arrogance, in mass. This is no longer Edgar Cayce prophecy, it is our reality, playing out before our eyes.
@@foto21 I'm on Oahu, been here for over 60 years. I have sadly watched the steady death of the sea. And the heating of the land. Food fish are rarer and rarer. I used to buy a block of ahi belly (yellow fin tuna) for New Year's celebration. Made a big plate of sashimi, with wasabi and shoyu. Some thin sliced green onion. Used the less primo parts for poke.... cubes of raw fish in a sauce with chili peppers, oyster sauce, and thin sliced red onion. It was 5 dollars a pound most years. If the catch was bad, or demand was unusually high, it could go to 7 or 8 dollars a pound. Now, you had better make a RESERVATION for the best cuts and it may go for over 100 dollars a pound. And you may not get really good fish, you might have to take a lesser quality or another fish entirely, like bluefin or big eye.
The primary killer of coral reefs is not sunscreen it's the acidification of the ocean water. As we pump ever increasing amount of CO2 into the air the oceans are forced to absorb more and more of it which causes a decrease in the pH of the water making it unlivable for coral reefs which can only survive within certain pH levels. When it becomes too acidic the polyps that live in the coral reefs leave which means death for the coral. These animals are what give life to the reefs and without them they die, leaving behind lifeless rock.
@@kimweaver1252 Japanese overfish for the tuna. $1 million a fish.
“There’s still time.” Maybe, but it doesn’t matter much if the people in charge are still doing nothing. I think we’re gonna suffer through this regardless what we do.
doomer trash
@@shalizzle793 no, it’s the truth that many refuse to accept. The amount of carbon in our atmosphere will be there for the next several thousand years without some kind of way to remove it, and current removal methods add more carbon to the atmosphere than is removed. That’s also not keeping in mind that many many places on Earth have no desire to stop using carbon because even if there are alternatives, they don’t want to use them because carbon is quicker and cheaper.
So, yeah. That’s not being a doomer, those are just the facts. Sorry you can’t accept them.
We need a legit bottom up worldwide revolution
Our politicians (in basically every first world nation at least) have already basically told us they don't care and won't do anything. I don't see any kind of meaningful action on Climate Change until Millennials are in control of politics, and even then? I question my generation's willingness to challenge corporations - cuz we're not going to get any meaningful movement on Climate Change until we do.
@@SadisticSenpai61 you’re spitting some truth here. Appreciated that
We are above 1,5 degree warming now!
Fun fact if you go off 1750 to today its 1.7c more not 1.1 like they say now.
Parking lots take up 25 to 30% and sometimes more of the land in cities why cant we just go up.
Make parking garages for stores with big parking lots like Walmart Costco malls reduce your parking lots size by 80% go up loss none and probably gane more parking spaces.
The freed up land can be used for trees and the parking garages can be covered in solar to reduce energy demand and have batteries on bottom floor of the parking garage where cars can't park of course so tada energy storage for when the gride needs it.
Plural for City is Cities.
Really? Yes. 🤣
No, cars really just need to go and cities should be more compact not sprawly
Do solar panels cause heat island effect?
Large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a solar heat island effect that, though much smaller, is similar to that created by urban or industrial areas, according to a new study.Nov 7, 2016
Give up dude. The real issue is TOO MANY HUMANS! You know how every life I’m this planet has checks and balances… except us. Ya that’s the real issue. If there was less of us we would be just fine with the systems we have now. It’s too many humans… that’s the only solution.
Or plant food forests on the tops of every parking, local food without extra transport and focus on perennial food plants means less soil disturbance, more carbon storage, less water usage, less need for tractors or similar equipment.
Since we have a third consecutive La Nina weather cycle, I think we have reached a tipping point. If the La Nina weather pattern becomes permanent Australia will need to get used to a lot more rain, California will be in a permanent drought. I have a bad feeling that this is our new reality.
Well if it is current, yes it is new.
The last time Australia had 3 consecutive years of La Niña was 1998 - 2001, so it’s not unheard of. Following that was the millennium drought (2001 - 2008) with people back then predicting the drought would be permanent. There’s no way of predicting that La Niña will become permanent. There are also other weather systems (SAM, IOD) that influence Australia’s weather. Let’s wait and see if there’s a 4th consecutive year of La Niña before deciding whether a tipping point has been reached.
All conjecture.
Global warming is not an existential threat. This is all about CONTROL. Scaring everyone to give up power to the government.
One point regarding La Nina. From what I understand, La Nina cools the planet slightly and despite this 3 year La Nina we are seeing record breaking heatwaves all over the northern hemisphere from China to Europe to the USA. So it may be masking some of the warming thats already happening and we wont realize it until El Nino hits at some point and we go further into uncharted territory.
@@mikeekim1101 La Nina has the biggest impact on North American weather in winter (according to NOAA). It can cause warmer & drier winters in the south, cooler & wetter in the north & Canada. But it's not the only driver of weather so other systems can cause different outcomes. We're not currently in La Ninã (it became neutral in June) but there's a 70% likelihood of it returning soon.
Your director's putting his body on the line, I respect that. 😁
I'm only 38 years old, but I already remember there used to be lots of dead insects in the windscream of my father's car while returning from my gramma's house, which was in a nearby city, at night. Now doing the same travel we don't see almost any insects on the windscream anymore.
Yes. Because car windshields and radiator grills have killed 90% of them. And what are you blaming? You post the mechanism that's killing them all and then blame something else. That's pure genius.
@@JimmyD806 Insecticides, habitat loss, eutrophication, & increasingly, climate catastrophe, are wiping out insects. Several studies have shown an 80% loss in numbers.
"A landmark new study warns us that 40% of the world's insect species are declining and a third are endangered -with a catastrophic effect on our planet’s ecosystems.”
"Malnourished Insects: Higher CO2 Levels Make Plants Less Nutritious”
Naked Capitalism, March 10, 2020
"Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature’"
The Guardian, 2/10/201
It's hard to say where exactly we lie on these tipping points due to such high error bars. We may be nowhere close or we may have crossed them long ago depending on which model was used to study it. If anything, finding out that such a possibility exists should incentivize world leaders into taking action.
"Action" - aka A totalitarian dictatorship or technocracy.
Our leaders are a useless bunch and you must be taking the piss.
I enjoyed your use of the word "should" 🤣
anything is possible. can't rely on that.
@@damienpol5215 The longer people like you obstruct taking action for the climate, the more likely you make it that your own fears will come true.
I am afraid that we are dooming our children and grandchildren . It's like we are in our house and it's on fire but we just keep saying " Oh it's only a small fire I'm sure it will go out in time . I'll just sit here and watch the Kardashians " . I am beginning to feel that not only are humans not the smartest creature , we may be the dumbest .
Humans are evolution's greatest mistake.
But dont worry there is still time? This is a very soft view of the future. The coast lines will displace incredible amounts of people being population centers. This massive migration will further destabilize surrounding areas already dealing with poor crops and starvation due to climate change. Further stripping the land base of plants and animals as the human population clings onto life. This is happening now just due to the global food crisis. And all these tipping points happening in unison will speed the negative effects of fires, melting, and biodiversity die offs. I dont think there is time because we have done next to nothing thus far and all attempts are washed away at the fear of a slowing economy. Humans may not deserve the gem they were fortunate to evolve with. I saw all this coming 20+ years ago with a few science classes at a community college.
Not only is what you say true but I am 100% certain that one of these Nuclear armed countries is going to start using those nukes way before the last little bit of nature are consumed anyway. So we will inevitably blow ourselves up and everything else on the planet which will be a quick, Swift extinction which I think is better than the drawn out; use up every last resource extinction you’re talking about. Either way it’s unavoidable and I’m happy the quick nuclear route will be most likely. I already have my heroin and needle ready. I’m saving some fentanyl laced heroin I bought and when the time comes I’m going to go out peacefully with everyone else! Can’t wait, we surely didn’t deserve the beauty we evolved with unfortunately…. Good luck and safe travels fellow human!
When people have no hope they stop trying. Optimism in the face of impossible odds makes those odds just slightly better.
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
There is still time to act. We need to do what we can to save as much as we still can from the inevitable collapse. We can still have an impact on how hard it hits and how much is lost.
Not to mention that these changes will lead to increased geopolitical instability that will lead to an increase in global conflict, including the possibility of nuclear war.
Today it is 21 degrees Celsius in my city. It is supposed to be a middle the winter right now. The last time we had a record in February was 2009 with 16 degrees.
I have worked on northern Illinois trees for 45 years. It used to be in the late 1970's that a dead oak was fairly unusual to encounter, usually oak wilt. Today, nearly every oak and many other trees are under attack by an array of insect and fungal borne diseases. These diseases are attributable to warmer winters, and warmer and wetter growing seasons. Colder winters used to kill off many insect pests. It is likely that in 50 years, all Midwest native oaks will be gone. The changes have been increasingly rapid, and profound.
What makes you certain that it's not other factors?
@@jamesgreig5168 Read Scientific American instead of posting dumb.
In 50 years, your northern Illinois trees will be of the Palm variety.🌴
@@jamesgreig5168 Such as?
Fortunately the tropics are full of trees used to 12month insect pressure.
Archaeobotany shows the Wyoming jungles had plants constantly being bitten by insects.
Wyoming jungles didn't collapse from insects. They collapsed from cold/drought (same thing)
It would take us to see each other as connected to this planet.
We will NOT limit warming at 1.5 degree Celsius unless we implement an effort that can be compared to a war effort. If you read the IPCC report, and I have, the whole 2600 pages, you will learn that we have released, since the second half of the 19th century until 2020 roughly around 2300 billion tons of CO2, also called gigatons (gtn). On the IPCC report you will find a graphic that shows you that to limit our increase in temperature to 1.5 we must NOT emit more than 3000 billion tons of CO2, of which 2300 billion have already been released. So basic math tells you that we have a budget of 700 billion tons of CO2 left. In other words: if we consider that we've released 2300 billion tons of CO2 since the last half of the 19th century, with a world population averaging for since that time to 2020 around 3 billions, a kid being born today or a kid who's 5-10 years old, living in a world in which we have 8-9 billion people will have to emit around 1/10th less CO2 than his grandparents. Around 1/6th less CO2 if we want to stay under an increase in temperature of 2 degrees Celsius. Both won't happen and we will reach probably an increase way more than 3 degrees Celsius before the end of this century.
Thank you for your analysis and for all the research you did into the mainstream climate science perspective on this issue. Far less than 0.1% of the world's population of 8-billion people have bothered to do what you have done.
Over 50 years ago, the scientific community voiced their theory about "global warming" or the expression of "the greenhouse effect" and they were ridiculed for predicting the impact of excessively using "fossil fuels ". It wasn't until the catastrophic impact of several years of devistating droughts, then the catastrophic bushfires in 2020 - which were then followed by the unprecedented floods, then plagues of mice,
then more floods, more fires and the choking smoke that caused health issues for anybody that had respiratory problems.
To top all these repedative disasters * Covid19 had soon spread and was declared a pandemic* with catastrophic death tolls being recorded globally.
To think that these absolutely devastating events are only the beginning of the impact of climate change, really makes me worry about the future that is coming for my children and granddaughter. They are going to inherit the earth, in an unstable and unpredictable and unfriendly condition, as the combined impact is set to be extremely hostile planet.
We are witnessing the worst climatic conditions, which have already been contributing to crop and stock losses and it is no secret that famine is spreading * either due to financial poverty or crop losses and there is also cases of wars disrupting crop production.
With all the "gloom and doom" being thrown into our faces each day * it is no wonder our children and grandchildren are experiencing depression and are suicidal.
The most dynamic tipping point is the release of methane hydrates in the eastern Siberian shelf of the artic ocean. It's already starting to bubble.
Yesterday in geologic time--there were 12 deg C changes in a matter of decades, only 12.5k yrs ago, yet humanity survived. This is all total bullshit, we've been hearing this alarmism for 30 yrs, Al Gore predicted ice free artic for a decade ago. Learn some darn history.
Yes, & most reports on climate tipping points miss that one.
Like farts in a bathtub. Another feedback mechanism. How many have we missed?
@@parrsnipps4495
If any such tipping points were available they had hundreds of opportunities in just the last half million yrs. Yesterday in geologic time, 12.5k YA, Younger Dryas witnessed not 1 or 2 deg. C but *12 C in a matter of decades* swings in temp.
Tipping points are a fabrication invented to distract from the fact that climate models and predictions have completely failed.
@@davidsalo8397 this one can spell extinction. Much more hazardous than bathtub farts
925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion animals enslaved in farms are given enough food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota
That's shocking
Unsustainable and bloody brutal to boot. Smh. We deserve hell for what we do to other animals.
I love this show. In this case, I’m afraid it’s missing an opportunity by being too polyanish in its assessment of the earth’s climate system. 1.5 is well in our rear view and our able to grasp the rate of the change that is upon us endangerous us even more.
Official global warming is +1.0 to 1.5 C in the GMST anomaly (Know what that is?) over 140 to 170 years depending on the "expert" and database. 15 C to 16 C is a scary increase of 6.7%.
But “C” does not have thermodynamic substance, “K” does.
Properly cited as 288 K to 289 K, + 0.34%, this difficult to measure change is too trivial to be some kind of dangerous trend.
The current GMST trend is 0.013 C PER YEAR!!! (UAH data) Insignificant! And impossible to actually measure. How is that a “heat wave?”
It's noise in the data, UHI, instrument uncertainty and drift, minor albedo change.......
80% of the surface did/does not even have credible weather data. (Heller)
Some summer engineering interns loaded gobs of garbage data into the computer's maw, spun the algorithm wheel and hurled out a statistical hallucination.
Sure hope you’re correct.
I'll know people are serious about climate change when the start screaming at China and demanding sanctions be placed on that country in order to pressure it to reduce its massive, world-leading amount of CO2 emissions.
Nick, on one hand I wish I was smoking whatever you are so that I had the same ability to deny reality. On the other hand, I’m happy I acknowledge the truth, as this allows me to take action to minimize our impact on the environment.
Civilization will collapse by 2050. There is no getting around this. No more iphones. No more Internet. No more TV. No more USA. The lucky ones won't make it. Those who survive get to do farming and/or hunting 24/7 just to freed yourself while fending off raiders.
I live in deep south Texas, where 20 years ago, mosquitoes reigned in the summer. Now there are hardly any mosquitoes around anymore, even after hard rains, and I don't hear the toads/frogs anymore.
Frogs are the canary in the coal mine. The skin is super sensitive to drying out.
No mosquitos huh? All global warming fault😂
Live in Central PA, and it used to be so loud to fall asleep- bats, frogs, toads, crickets. I haven't heard most of them in so long, and I just heard a bullfrog for the first time again last week. I actually sat on my porch crying for a few minutes because I had missed the sound so much.
I'm old enough to remember when November was a winter month. It rarely snows in the New York City area and the fall colors are less intense and later. Being aware is the first step. Otherwise I'm not sure what the answer is.
@Buck Rothschild having known people from, and visited Wyoming fairly recently, I can understand this for sure. A closed minded bunch, most of who I met. It's interesting to see how geography and isolation comparative to larger, more populated areas affects mindset of residents.
@Buck Rothschild there are tens of thousands of nomads who live in the Sahel of the Sahara all without much water. And when you listen to their songs they endlessly bicker about not being left alone to live in sand with camels
November not being a "winter" month is a good thing. That's an improvement. right?
@@michaelbarry8373 I agree lol. I don't like walking in slippery ice and snow.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 spoken like a true narrow minded elitist
The first and most important thing that has to occur, is for humanity to come out of its schizophrenic fragmentatation, and come together as one unified species, with a similarly unified directive to address climate change full force and according to what's needed in every locale on the planet. Without that unity of purpose and applied action, climate change will accelerate and overwhelm human efforts at mitigation and any hope of stopping it. These efforts should have begun 20 years ago, but due to the misfortune of human greed, stupidity and complacency, we are all in a much more precarious and critical situation. It's time for the world to consciously act now, as if our survival depends on it - because it does.
could have written that myself except change 20 years to 40, Joni Mitchell Big yellow Taxi.
Permaculture, Permaculture, Permaculture
the climate changes no matter what we do. we have no measurable effect on climate.
@@johnnywhatthefuck1626 with half the people like you pulling in the wrong direction, it sure makes it more difficult.
@@izzytoons good. genocide should be difficult.
Just two months later, we now know we're actually closer to 3°C warming than 1.1°C.
Please link to a source for that claim.
@@michaelstreeter3125 I'm trying to let you know the source. YT isn't letting me pass it along to you.
I've tried 8 times now. YT is removing all my replies because (I'm guessing here) they contain news article headings, or partial headings. YT also doesn't allow direct links any longer.
@@michaelstreeter3125 Article by Reuters, October 27, 2022, partially headed every fraction of a degree counts.
@@michaelstreeter3125 Science Daily article partially headed the world will miss climate goals.
Sky news released a video yesterday talking about record temperatures yesterday.
The thing that shocked me, was how many people commented they didn't care but most didn't believe it.
The sun melted the ice in my cooler .. the water is coming out the plug and getting my blanket all wet. Pretty soon I’m gonna be wet. It’s so hot My dogs water bowl is empty and my hands are sticky. My friends went to buy chairs since blanket wet and bottle water for my dogs wipes for my hands and a new blanket and Ice and cooler ., expensive and drag have to go store.,
Haha no of course fill up dog bowl . Wash hands and close plug. 🤣🤣
Funny buying a chair hah that wld be like letting sea levels rise. Haha build a damn and use the water of course .
Yes of course this show is ridiculous.., plug it and use it .. duh
maybe because its not record temps , it only covers the last 200 years , and barely 100 in other places , record temps should cover since the dawn of time not a measly 200 years and then you will realize what record temps means
I run an after-school activity on environmental awareness. Engaging and informative videos like this one really helps. Please continue to provide teachers with great resources, balancing the frightening ones with some that show possible solutions. Thanks.
Tell your pupils that climate has, does, and will continue to change with natural processes. Otherwise, your grandkids will start paying into a fresh air tax. We are close to being taxed on the air we breathe.
@@trentcook8021 "Tell your pupils that climate has, does, and will continue to change with natural processes." That's correct, but NONE of those natural drivers of climate change have caused any net change over the last 140 years, and ALL the observed global warming was caused by our emissions. Tell your grandchildren every time you burned a gallon of gas in your car, you added 19 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere, and every tankful in your van or truck added 400 pounds of excess CO2 to the atmosphere. Multiple that by billions of people and their gas-burning devices, and that's how you, me, and everyone else alive know caused the planet to warm rapidly.
@@trentcook8021 with a bit of luck, you may end up in one of her classes when you start going to school. 🙂
@@jimmoses6617 Thanks for your reply. "If you truly believe what you just wrote..." It's not a matter of "belief," I'm a long-time university researcher and have spent many thousands of hours studying what humans are doing to the planet and what we must do to prevent the worsening breakdown of ecosystems and society. When you burn a gallon of gas in your car, that creates ~19 pounds of CO2. That's just a scientific fact. Humans caused ALL recent global warming (plus the climate disruption that resulted from it)... that's a well-established scientific fact that all nations on earth have agreed on.
"can I ask you this: How often do you fly?" Used to fly a ton for business when I was younger, but I only remember flying once in the last maybe dozen years or so. I've also eaten a vegan diet for 10 years (reduces your carbon footprint by about 1 ton a year), walk six blocks to catch the bus to work, turn down the heat to 64 in the winter, etc.
"I tell my children that I love them and that they will be fine." That's great you tell them that you love them, but unfortunately, the health of ecosystems will continue to deteriorate, and that will continue to degrade our quality of life until humans get their act together and transform their economies and lifestyles. Humanity's consumption and wastes are currently overshooting earth's carrying capacity by about 75% per year, and the laws of nature dictate that if you keep that up for long, you are heading for collapse. Climate crises and crop failures will continue to eat up more and more of our personal and national budgets. All that causes political and economic instability.
"We must avoid filling our children's heads with hysteria and fear for this does NOTHING but cause anxiety and demoralization in our children." I have a PhD in educational psychology and for decades have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human development, including in emotional development, motivational development, and trauma. I'm also a parent, so from those two perspectives, here are a couple of thoughts about your comment.
As a parent--and former child--I know that most parents teach children the stove is hot, not to put things into electrical sockets, to look both ways before crossing the street, not to touch guns or drugs if you find them, and we teach them about stranger danger, to not play with fire, and we even teach them how to "stop, drop, and roll" in case their clothes catch fire. We did tornado drills in schools, in some places kids learn about evacuating before the hurricane hits, and we are even doing active shooter drills in schools. In some places on earth, children are taught what to do when they hear the fighter planes coming and to not touch unexploded bombs.
Parents and teachers might wish the world was all sparkly bubble gum and panda bears for children, but it's not, so we teach children that they SHOULD be scared of those things. WE also signal to them that some people and places are scary and should be avoided. We do that because we love them and know that appropriate fear of real threats saves lives and prevents all types of harms from occurring. When I was in maybe third grade, just a couple of weeks after having the stranger danger training in school, I was walking home from school and a man pulled up in a car, opened the passenger door, offered me some candy and told me he'd give me a ride home. I didn't get in.
On the natural science side, there is overwhelming evidence humans are warming the planet, destabilizing the climate, and pushing Earth's ecosystems towards worsening breakdown... and that unraveling of the web of life is already underway. We still have strategies and time to turn the boat around and avoid collapse if people are appropriately afraid and motivated to leap into action. But if people think everything will be fine and the earth and society are just going to continue smoothly on for the next 62 years the way they have for the 62 years of my life, they are in for a terrible shock. Many things will keep deteriorating over coming decades--including steady food supplies and the prices of food--until we bring our economy and lifestyles in line with the laws and limits of nature.
There will be no hiding these problems and threats from children once they have their own access to a phone, laptop, or TV, because things the heat wave/drought in China, floods in Pakistan, other droughts in Europe, Africa, and the SW U.S. are all global news, as are California wildfires, the PNW killer heat wave, the recent European heat waves, etc.
Speaking as an educational psychologist, what we know helps children and adults with coping with real threats is learning strategies for handling them well (saying no to the man in the car with the candy and walking away briskly) and developing a sense of confidence (efficacy) that they can handle those threats. Kids and youth know that the health of the planet is in trouble, but if adults sweep it under the rug or don't talk about it--and have no plan or take no action to try to fix it--THAT creates a sense of helplessness, terror, and depression.
These threats will just keep getting bigger and more destructive until we face them and turn our society around. There are hundreds of strategies for achieving one-planet living, but we must take the threats seriously first... in order to motivate people to take action.
Take care.
P.S. The scientists who know the data of what is going on with the climate and how climate, pollution, and habitat destruction threaten Earth's ecosystems are all scared--REALLY scared. Think they might know something you don't?
Brainwashing videos like this are ideal for impressionable minds. In that I include environmental awareness teachers.
We can't stop this process without learning to love the earth... and seems we cannot even figure out how to love each other.
Your acquiescence to their ideologies is exactly what they need you to be doing. This entire video is based on flawed models built by flawed men.
@@daisy8luke yep exactly everyone love the cool aid around d here
@@daisy8luke explain my acquiescence?
They don't tell you that Antarctica was 5.2 below average a few weeks ago .
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Realistically, the point of no return was 2O years ago. At this point we're grappling with how to adjust to and mitigate what lies ahead. One thing we should all agree on first and foremost is that we should not kill off the poor to solve climate change. I wish I could say that people concerned about CC all agree on this, but their actions (restrictions on food production, business, travel etc) give me cause for grave concern.
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I'd say we are already on the tipping point in many areas.
1) Permafrost is thawing at record speeds releasing more GHG's to the atmosphere (100-1000GtCO2e). This leads to wast areas being taken from the permafrost to the melted ground. Also we have found that rains and warm weather also drains lakes faster than previously thought.
2) Greenland ice sheet has most likely gone over its tipping point and will melt during next few centuries.
3) Arctic sea ice is getting thinner and arctic has heated 4 times faster than rest of the world. Partially tipped already. Like Barents sea is mostly ice free.
4) Forests like Amazon, boreal forests and many other have tipped at least part of the year to the state where it produces more carbon than what sinks there. We are losing too many forests that were a major carbon sink.
5) We are losing coral reefs already at record speed. 50% of the Great Barrier reef is dead and more bleeching events are coming almost every year. Almost all reefs has bleached at some level already.
6) Droughts. There are several areas in the world that are on going yearly droughts. Some have been under drought conditions for decades, some years and in this year many areas have been affect simultaniously. US west is on megadrought, Africa is on drought, mediterraneian area is on drought, Pakistan drought with extreme flooding, remember Australian wildfires, ...
7) Mountain glaciers are under tipping points in many areas. In Europe Alps are losing all glaciers and this year was one of the worst, yet. Rocky mountains in USA are losing glaciers, see "glacier park" that is losing its glaciers fast or what is happening to the Colorado river. Himalayas are losing some of its glaciers and main river are drying up. Andies are losing glaciers and some cities are threatened because there is no alternative water sources. Even places like Canada and Alaska are losing their glaciers. Swedens highest point was changed due to melting glacier. ...
You may add most of the animals to the mix if you want. But that's not only a climate issue. Sixth mass extinction needs its own talks.
Even with these on going tipping points, we still emit even more emissions this year. And likely next year. And year after that. Pure madness that is heading to over 4C (pledges will not be fulfilled) world with tipping elements that are rising temperatures even further..
Capitalism is the answer to the Fermi paradox
What a load of bollocks. "50% of the Great Barrier reef is dead". No it's bloody not and I sincerely wish you foreigners would stop lying about it. The GBR did suffer from bleaching a few years ago, in some areas caused by a drop in sea levels. The most recent data is that about 2/3 of the reef has the highest coral cover in nearly 40 years. The only thing really destroying coral reefs are Chinese fishermen going after giant clams.
Let's look at a few of your other claims;
1. Rains are draining lakes. You do know that lakes are generally filled by rain, don't you? But would you care to name one? (One that isn't having huge amounts of water removed for farming and cities that is)
2. Greenland ice sheet. Exactly what is the scientific basis for this tipping point you claim it's gone over? Can you provide any evidence it exists? Bearing in mind the ice sheet is around 2.6 million cubic kilometres in volume and at current rates, assuming it doesn't start freezing again like it did a few years ago will take around 10,000 years to melt.
3. Arctic in summer is certainly getting smaller but the Winter extent is about the same. This means that ever year about 11,000 cubic kilometres (based on 11 million square kilometres area and 1 metre thick) melt and refreeze. The more ice lost in summer (the Arctic was predicted to be ice free by 2013) means the more planetary cooling as the water freezes going into winter. It's called a "Natural cycle". Did you think the ice didn't melt in Summer? The first submarine to surface at the North Pole (literally) was the USSN Skate, SSN 578 in 1959.
4. Forests. Check with NASA the world is getting greener with more forests than 100 years ago. And environmental groups in the 1970s were claiming the entire Amazon basin would have no trees at all by the year 2000. Go figure.
6. Never heard of the "Dustbowl" in the USA? Australia regularly has to explain to 7 year olds what rain is because the drought was long and they've never see it. And do not mention our bushfires as evidence of climate problems, they aren't. They're because we listen to environmental morons and don't do fuel reduction burns. There are plenty of well done reports on our fires, go read one or two and get educated about the real situation.
7. Glaciers. They need to be taken by area. For example the Swiss Alpine glaciers have advanced and receded about 7 times since the romans. You say that this year was "one of the worst" but fail to mention that the melting is revealing the roads the Roman legions used to cross the ALPs into Gaul. The glaciers were smaller in Roman times than today. An ice core in 2020 brought up elephant and other dung from under 10 metres of ice in one valley, demonstrating there was far less ice in 200 BC than today. And Sweden's "highest point" has changed a lot. Sweden used to be over a kilometre higher, but then the ice melted. And the land rose. Canada in places is still rising from the ice loss of 10,000 years ago. Climate is a lot more complicated when you accept the world is dynamic and not static.
The problem with talking about "tipping points" is that they are a political and not scientific term. To be scientific it must be able to be defined with set values, that isn't happening, it's just a term used to scare people into thinking a problem exists and will become irreversible. The old "We only have X years to save the planet" has got old because they keep changing the date every few years. We were being told we only had 10 years 40 years ago. "Tipping points" sound scary but don't tie you down and cannot be proven to exist. (Another sign of pseudo science BTW).
And there is no "6th mass extinction" event. It's a figment of fevered minds playing with dreamed up figures. Sorry.
@@JohnJ469 there is definitely a mass extinction
@@Sparticulous There are claims, but no proof. Science requires proof.
@@JohnJ469 the sixth mass extinction started during the last ice age and has continued to present with humans causing mass extinctions of most mega fauna, and so on
Don't know what to think of this. It's both good and extremely naive. It completely misses the tipping point between forest fires, the propagation of invasive beetles that kill trees, and climate change that steers precipitation patterns and causes heat stress that weakens trees... Dead trees decay into CO2. Warmer temperatures make North America look more like home to insects from Africa and Asia. Changes in the polar albedo are steering rain away from our forests. And Asian moths, Japanese beetles etc are endangering many types of trees. Pine trees need to move North by 1 km / year to maintain their temperature balance yet most pine trees I've seen do not walk. And meanwhile there's absolutely no discussion of the political, social, economic or strategic implications of having 2 billion people flee the central latitudes after we exceed the wet bulb temperature. Protein such as in our bodies denaturizes at between 110-120 F. You know like scrambled eggs? 2 billion people are about to decide they need to emigrate... or die. 10% of the 1 million Syrians died during their exodus. Do we think that number will scale linearly when we're talking about 2 billion people? I don't. I think it spells collapsing global trade, materials shortages, preemptive action, fighting, disease, famine, genocide and very, very likely WW3. Scarcity breeds aggression. There's also a complete failure to discuss the fact that one tipping point can tip any or all of the other tipping points. If say a forest fire tipping point has been crossed. Witness what the Australian forest fires did to the atmosphere above Australia. That's a positive feedback cycle right there. Fires-> less ozone -> more UV -> more heat -> more heat stress -> more fires. I also believe the poles have tipped and likely Greenland as well. About 50% of the world lives at sea level. This video has utterly failed to discuss the implications of having the water level rise by even 50 cm let alone 2 m or 5 m or 10 m. Meanwhile I've read that IPCC scientists are predicting we'll cross 1.5 deg C by 2028-2033... and that this effect is baked in. Conservation of momentum is a bitch as they say. I've read 2 degrees C overall means 7 deg C warmer on land. And meanwhile there's no discussion of what these consequences mean for global food supply. Or that we're predicting 30% less food in North America by 2030... and that's before things get bad. 2 deg C implies heat waves become 13.8x more likely as well as many, many other effects. I can't even begin to write it all down. I would say though that if the population is increasing in size exponentially while the world food supply is decreasing in size at the same time, that's not a happy combination. We're like 10 people lost at sea in a boat for a month with enough water for 1 person. Who here predicts a harmonious resolution to the problem? Final point... all the short term behaviors on a societal / economic level that human beings are engaging in are only forcing the hook upon which we hang in deeper. Short term gain. Long term pain. That's our MO.
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Is it just me or does it seem like we're now living in a disastrous movie plot :') So much of this stuff is also not an "if" but a "when"... apart from the planet turning into a carbonated piece of toast and a likely partial if not full collapse of the global economy, the higher temperatures could actually increase the rate of viruses jumping between species. Apart from that, rising temperatures at certain latitudes are causing diseases to spread into areas they were never found before. Large scale farming in a lot of cases is also like running a science experiment with countless petri dishes with the potential to create new pathogens. Since the start of 2020 it's hard to see that stability, whether its economic, environmental, or health related, is happening anytime soon - interesting time to be alive indeed. Let's hope there's still a minute probability that a drastic heat deflecting climate saving technology will be invented at the last minute that can prevent the earth from turning into an eternal crisp...
You're certainly correct about viruses and invasive species related to warming temperatures. I've talked about that elsewhere (like on LInkedIn) at length... I read an article yesterday that there was a dolphin found that had bird flu for instance... Crazyness.
Concerning miraculous technologies, humankind seems to have decided fusion + carbon sequestration or bust. If we don't change our value systems and we also don't manage to invent our way out of these problems, it's all over for 90% of every one and every thing alive.
I find it interesting there was no mention of desertification along the equator expanding out. The US, North-Central Africa and China are dealing with worse and worse prospects for future food production.
Food production is the ONLY world metric that has actually risen in step with CO2.(have a look at 3rd world crop yields vs CO2) It is thanks to the rise in CO2 that the number of deaths from famine over the last decade have been at an all time low despite the world population being at an all time high. Over the last 50 years the world population has increased by 40% while deaths from starvation are down over 97%.( look at femine deaths and world population) Life on earth is carbon based, all of the carbon for all life enters the food chain from atmospheric CO2, CO2 feeds the world, NO CO2 = NO LIFE (at all). (this is basic biology) The planet is still cooler now than it has been for 9,000 of the last 10,000 years, (check out Holocene temperatures) this insane "CO2 is BAD" is really just hype, pure and simple. the sea level is not changing any faster now than it was when Abe Lincoln was president, (plot any tide gauge data you can find there is no 'acceleration in any of them since they were installed)
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The Greenland Ice mass balance has NEVER been below a 20 giga tonne increase in ice years on year (2012 was the lowest) . for the last 3 years it has seen over 400 giga tonne per year increases. The desert is getting greener not sandier, Higher CO2 reduces transpiration requirements so less water is lost and plants are able to grow in dryer climates )biology again). The barrier reef is doing better than it was in the 1980's Polar bear numbers have increase 3 fold since the 1950's, Arctic sea ice extent has been higher this year than it has since 1980 with no trend visible.
@@davebrown6552 lol sources please.
@@BladeValant546 i told you how to search for them yourself, if I gave you any addresses you would accuse me of giving you biased sources.
Famine deaths have been being recorded since the 1800's and are very easy to find.
Tide gauge data from almost every tide gauge across the world are available for free for you to plot for yourself, some have been recording since Abe was in charge. plot the data for yourself, that way it cannot be from a manipulated data set.
Where life get its carbon is basic biology, so you could read some biology books
Holocene temperature records are from the GIST ice core data. I try to look for the original plots rather than any partisan analysis.
Greenland ice mass balance is published every year by Dancea (Danish Cooperation for Environment in the Arctic) which gives daily accumulations and melts, the lowest gain was in 2012 when the net gain was only 20GT but every year since it has be over 100GT and over
polar bear numbers are estimates but latest estimates are over 35,000 compared to 10,000 in the 50's.
Crop yields are published by country, not so easy to find but just pick a few third world countries and see that their yields have increased with CO2, some could be due to modern fertilizers or seeds but these are far less common in the 3rd world so less likely to skew the data.
If you are happy just to be spoon fed the data analysis by someone else then you run the risk of being lied to by the one holding the spoon. Use your own spoon.
just for a laugh, there have been an almost endless list of climate doom predictions produced during every warm, wet, cold and dry spell across the world for well over 200 years, can you find me a single one that has actually come true?
@@davebrown6552 Now that is a well researched comment. Obviously the MSM won't/don't want to hear that. Are the Maldives under water? is the Arctic ice free Mr. Gore? I didn't think so.
@@poochie49 I was promised another ice age back in the 70s.
The only way anything will ever be done to slow down disastrous climate change is if people start voting en masse for politicians who will do something about it. Unfortunately, it seems most people vote for politicians they agree with on matters of "foreign invasions" (for or against), tax reduction/increase, more jobs, more roads, etc... all of which have nothing to do with helping slow down climate change but everything to do with the people's perceived benefits to their own personal little lives. Find politicians willing to do what is necessary and vote for them and then make sure they do what they said they would do. Seeing that my suggestion is unlikely to get enough people to vote for the right politicians, then I suggest we all look forward to a very much more complicated life, with less 'stuff' available or workable, with having to move to safer ground, with getting used to certain foods being no longer available.... all bit by bit. Our poor children will be the true victims of our failure to act when it was still possible to slow things down. And for those who 'don't believe in climate change', don't worry, you will soon enough.
I pray for my grandchildren and their grandchildren as the landscape is changed to continuously more inhospitable conditions. It's the car crash in slow motion that everyone seems to care about but still watching helplessly.
Probably a good idea to stop having children until there are concrete solutions to this. Not much of a future for them. Kind of cruel to force them to exist at the end of human history.
@@lindsay6518 Maybe not having babies IS the concrete solution?
Support clean safe, carbon-free nuclear power.
Your grandchildren will not have a chance to have grandchildren unless drastic measures are taken now Your timeline is out of whack.
Glad that there’s time.
Sad that we will inevitably squander that time and reap the literal whirlwind.
Your time is up! Humans are already suffering from so much air pollution we can't think.
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I think about this daily. It makes me miserable. Im losing hope that we have the will to do the right thing. I wish beyond wish that we had the political momentum globally to save ourselves. I’m terrified and mortified by humanity.
the world will be a way better place without us....shes been through it time and time again, before we were even a smear on the dirt.....
@@aussieintexas61 I don't see how a barren rock will be better off without us. If humans were to go away, fine. But I hate so much how we're taking out all the beautiful life ahead of us. I don't care about a stone sphere. I care about the creatures that live on it. We're setting back evolution by orders of magnitude.
"I think about this daily. It makes me miserable." Odd... I'm not consuming much far left channels and don't have this problem. Maybe it's somehow related...
I would relax a little, go to the beach maybe. Nothing is happening too fast and the Earth has a way of self regulation. Don't watch videos like this or pay attention to the media, It's not healthy for many. Subscribe to this channel, you'll feel a little better
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History has never smiled upon the doomers. Don’t let the despair get in the way of taking action.
Now, the world has recently reached world record breaking temperatures globally... Congrats🎉
The last time we had a chance to turn this around was in the late 80s. The tipping point happened 40 years ago. We presently live in the middle of the 6th mass extinction, 150 to 200 species are becoming extinct every single day right now. This is a irreversible abrupt climate change. The main problem we're experiencing is programs like this that lack either the education, or the will to tell the truth.
There's only one reason that influencers and the media don't tell the truth. If everybody just gives up hope we don't even have a chance. And these people who are ignorant and don't educate themselves have no clue how dire our very immediate future is. Even scientists who've dedicated their whole lives educating themselves every way that they are able, can't predict the unforeseen variables. There are so many things we haven't even learned about our planet enough to factor into climate predictions. But if the general populous sees that there's no chance then it's just going to be worse over the next decade. If we make it that long, really. I t's hard for me too. To say we still have a chance. when I talk to everybody I know about climate change. I'm really bad at sugarcoating anything but the media has to. All of the information is right there at their fingertips if they want to learn about climate change. I highly doubt it's because think it's all going to work itself out. We already did that. Worked ourselves out of a future. We won't even try to mitigate the worsening catastrophies if there's no hope. Even false hope can help us slightly delay our own extinction. I'm actually surprised it's not more than 150 to 200 species going extinct every year because that's what it was in 2017. But maybe we're just running out of animals to kill. And that 150 to 200 don't factor on all of the species we haven't discovered yet nor are we able to monitor all of the species on our planet. Everyone trips about if koalas or polar bears go extinct. We can't even keep bees alive. They've got that covered though with robotic bees that sinc to each other . We spent all this money on all these technologies like air purifiers on the side of the freeway in LA but we can't just plant some trees which is far more effective than building plants (not of the photosynthesising variety ) that just create more greenhouse gasses. I have to stop myself from ranting. This could go on all night. It's a good thing I'm not in media.
1,5 degrees warming are already locked into the system, there is no way to avoid those tipping points, especially considering the fact that with the slowing of industrial production we will reduce air pollution and thus lose much of the linked cooling effect of aerosols. We need now build society structures which will assure decent living conditions for as many earthlings as possible. We are on our way to a global population of 2 billion by 2100. The only question is if we manage to accomplish this transition in a human way, or if billions will have to starve to death.
Please explain WHY 1.5 Deg C warming is a problem when 4-6 Deg C warming was NOT A PROBLEM earlier in the Holocene ?
For MOST of the period of human civilization it was significantly HOTTER than now.
Its clear you know so little about this subject you dont realize this video is just PROPAGANDA where they have not only deceived you but in some cases flat out lied to you.
I agree 100%.
Mankind does not think in proactive terms. We don't seem to care about future generations. Politically speaking, we have a large group of Americans who want to turn the clock back, and ignore what lies in our future. These tipping points are like the Titanic. They cannot suddenly change directions. Even 2 billion people by 2100 might be too many for sustainable living in a vastly changed environment.
Tim lenton and anyone from Exeter university are amazingly well informed . The worst thing about tipping points and thinking one has time to deal with them is that , just like having a party on a boat on a river , the distant sound of the waterfall seems far away but unknown to the occupants its already to late to get to the side ,
Two phenomena to consider........ inertia, physical and intellectual, and exponential change. The sound diminishes as the cube of the distance, roughly, while the danger doesn't.
I year later and everything is accelerating the wrong way ..everything ! accelerating ! , after 32 years of pledges and 50 years of irrefutable warnings .
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Great show, thank you for educating people instead of just entertaining them.
This is entertaining. I'm excited for the end of the world. Homo sapiens are the biggest threat to Earth. We need to go extinct if we REALLY want to save the planet.
That wasn't education that was promoting an agenda.
I'm an Independent.
@@justintindall9515 What agenda ?
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So basically Earth is a big balancing act and humans have been able to keep their position on top for a minute of geological time and perhaps they can maintain that position if they can adapt to sudden changes to the climate. Research of ancestral DNA shows that at one point the human race out of Africa was nearly wiped out but somehow they made it through with very limited technology, albeit greatly reduced in numbers. Reliance on advanced technology has caused the human race to abandon those basic survival technologies, which brings up some really interesting questions.
Sadly no. If the planet reaches these tipping points, & it will, the changes cannot be stopped. One must consider all the flora & fauna that will not survive. That being the situation, most would starve to death. I’m not even speaking about how many will die bc of direct or indirectly related runaway climate crises events. Biologist 👋
Even the dinosaurs experienced Global Warming & Ice Ages... people have nothing to do with earth's natural changes.
Right wing: "Diversity bad, Monoculture Good!" Their opinion applies to natural species and human populations.
How about water to drink or plants & animals to eat, air to breathe etc. also it’s happening a lot faster than anyone thought.
The truth is that we can’t really predict what will happen or when but we will find out sooner than we think as it’s happening a lot faster than anyone predicted
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I am glad you are taking the time to document these things and film these places before they are gone! 😫😵😓.
I have had some level of consciousness of these issues since the 1980's. I have been a volunteer in environmental politics. I personally, believe that the ways that we work, play and what our material expectations are HAVE to reduce the resources that we each expect to have. What we conceive of as our "standard of living" HAS to reduce, if humans have any chance of surviving in any numbers. By 'we' I'm referring to those of us in the "more advanced" economies - those with the highest standards of living. Our brothers and sisters in developing countries are already living with less. This is NOT because of any sense of guilt, only the practicality that here in Australia we consume over 8 times what we can sustainably produce in Australia. It is obvious that [ and any similar data elsewhere in the world] is unsustainable... Currently politicians are scared of voters expectations, that flow into political choices. If we ignore this issue, our options will rapidly become more and more unpalatable... Change early and with less pain, or ignore the issue and have change thrust upon us after catastrophic events...
@david Yes, but personal lifestyle changes aren’t within many orders of magnitude of being enough to change our direction. We have to remove the far right ruling the US & other countries from power & wealth, & elect progressives who will do what’s needed.
NOW, is it too late to realize the Democrats should have packed the court years ago? Declared an emergency? Taken strong enough action to matter?
I live in New Jersey and we've had significant beach erosion consistently for the last 30 - 40 years. The beach needs to be replenished of it's sand on a yearly basis. This is in addition to hurricane events. I fear my state will be under water in the next 30 years, in my lifetime.
I grew up in central Florida, and incredibly I remember summer mornings being chilly. Now summers in Florida stay hot 24 hours a day.
Research jettys and long shore currents shifting sand.
@@AWBepi research king tide levels over the last 50 years... then sit down.
Dutch North Sea coast of beaches and sand dunes, receive tonnes and tonnes of sand "suppletion" each spring, to compensate for erosion each year. Our system is supposed to be able to deal with 2 metres / 7 foot sea level rise.
However, level rise travels along rivers inland, as rivers can not flow out to sea as before, when sea levels are higher.
I do wonder whether this raised river effect is taken in account in America's river basins or other countries with less organized flood protection schemes.
Your state will not be under water, because the expected sea level rise in the next 30 yrs is about 5 cm or 2 inches. Also erosion is not man made. It's a process going on since water and air exists.
I just looked at an elevation map and with 30m sea rise the ocean is literally one street away from my house when it's 42 miles away now.
It was 30cm, not 30m. Expect only 1 metre+ in the next few years, so you'll be okay...
@@gamingtonight1526what part said 30 cm?
I heard 10 m, which is just shy of 33 feet by end of century.
@@gamingtonight1526 AMOC tipping point, that is the 30 cm rise, I fast forwarded that section by accident.
All tipping points in video was 10 m.
@@erdelegy 10 m sea rise stated in the video for all tipping points, is about 33 feet, which is in the range you stated.
if it reaches 30 meters, I better learn scuba diving, I'll be underwater!
Thank you for this presentation. Here is an excerpt from the writings of Marshall Vian Summers about how to respond to the signs the world is giving us about the changes that are already underway.
"The world itself will tell you what is coming if you know how to read it and to discern its signs and messages. You do this without projecting any of your thoughts or fantasies or fears. You just watch and you listen, and piece by piece, the picture comes together. But to have this clarity of mind, you must be watching without coming to conclusions, without trying to tie things together, without trying to make them simple and comprehensible. Instead like building a puzzle, you allow the pieces to emerge and to fit together. This is called seeing. Most people do not see because they do not look with this emphasis. Impatient, they want conclusions...solutions...answers. They do not patiently wait ... allowing the picture to become clear. It is the same with hearing. You hear certain things, but instead of drawing conclusions or having these things reinforce your current assumptions and beliefs, you let them simply reside in your mind -- building. Let them instruct you...You must commit yourself to seeing and to hearing... For all of humanity now there is growing danger, and nature has equipped you to respond to it." (The Great Waves of Change, MVS)
The world is indeed telling us whats happening....., NOTHING UNUSUAL !
NORMALITY !, weather temperature and climate are TOTALLY within normal long term variability for our current interglacial !
Our temperature movements are SLOW and MILD, and there has been almost NO overall warming for most of the last 25 years and NONE at all for the last 7-8 years.
If i were you i would throw away your Van Summers book, get back into the REAL world and start looking at the data !
Thank you for this.
Wow - under the title "What Will Earth Look Like" I expected scenarios of mass migration, widespread hunger, deadly heatwaves, costs of "adaption" to natural desasters that eat up the budget of even the richest countries, not to mention the conflicts over land, ressources, but most importantly over water, the wars of the future are already in the making after all.
Looking at these prospects realisitcally is a cause for depression and anxiety, so much so that there is whole new field of psychology around the hopelessness, depression and fear, that are spreading like wildfire in the younger generations. I was stoked to see how PBS Terra would handle the chellange to communicate all this.
Instead, this was a feelgood description of some of most important tipping points with only a hint of the consequences (displacement, mass migration, food insecurity).
Society cannot react approprietly, if the media doesnt paint the full picture.
I was thinking how saying there will be more arable land in Greenland belies the TIME between loss of the ice sheets and the functionality of that land. Feel good sound bites make for enjoyable viewing but don't give a realistic picture of climate change outcomes.
"a third of the things in the oceans which have life, a third of the trees and all the green grass"
If only someone had warned us a long time ago...
Like in 1905?
Yup. Many ignore the fact that all of this was written in the Bible thousands of years ago. This is just the beginning. Bible says mens hearts would fail them when they hear what’s coming for the earth. 100pound hails stones + more…. I hope I’m not alive to see that happen.
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We're way, way passed a third. We're at least into three quarters. God's late
Despite the endless preaching of 'resilience', 'mitigation' and 'adaptation', from those who actually acknowledge that 'Houston, we have a problem', it is still considered anti-capitalistic to actually acknowledge that the most significant tool we have in combating the impacts of climate change is 'self-restraint'.
This is a notoriously difficult thing for humans to embrace at the best of times, so how we are going to persuade enough of us to accept this as not only the least worst option, but to encourage enough of us to do it with some genuine sense of urgency, is hard to imagine. Given that the connection we had as a species with the rest of our natural environment has been so severely eroded, fast-tracking a re-discovery of our sustainable place in it seems, alas, highly unlikely. But that's not to say it's not worth a shot :)
Very conservative and meant for a general audience. And per usual no one want to discuss the fact that climate change is a symptom of a problem and not the problem itself.
agreed - the tipping point with most significance was probably when this civilisation went into overshoot, with population passing 2.5billion people !
@@alexspringett nothing to do with overpopulation. It is the social economic system no one wants to talk about, capitalism.
@@liasonlee1248 its all in play together, fossil fuels and its high EROI gave us the energy source to boom and our idea of infinite growth economics ( capitalism ) has meant we've consumed the world..ie overshoot - living beyonds the planets carrying capacity
@@liasonlee1248 Hey, I didn't create religious delusions !
@@alexspringett yes it is, but with a different economic approach other than capitalism, this planet can sustain 10 times more population than the current one, and without restraint of technological developments by capitalist system, human would have been a space faring race before population reaches the threshold.
A planetary tipping point warning system just might help extend the planet's ability to support complex life...
It will likely take a real first-world mass casualty event to really get people's attention, I'm afraid. By then it is likely to be largely too late and our response is likely to be one that causes more harm than good (terraforming attempts, Military/Economic action to stop others from emitting, ineffective migration...).
Not saying it is hopeless, not at all. We understand what needs to be done. We will as a culture simply refuse to do it if we continue to avoid speaking the truth plainly. Most people need to forego private transportation. We all need to use dramatically less energy. We need to dress for the weather and severely reduce our use of heating and cooling. We need products that can be repaired rather than replaced. We need to end air travel. We need to dramatically reduce transportation that supports global trade. We in the first world need to lower our standard of living.
I say that all while sitting in front of a powerful computer with 2 screens running in a well illuminated office as I listen to the hum of the air conditioner. Sure, the thermostat is set to 80F, my home is very efficient and well insulated, and it simply is not good enough. My electric car won't save the world my consumer lifestyle is killing. If there were easy answers, we would have found them already. There are some hard realities our world will need to face in coming years. Poorer countries closer to the equator are already facing the first wave of real climate calamities. It will get much worse before it gets better... if it ever does.
I couldn't say it better myself.
You forgot to mention that we need to switch to non-meat diets, eliminate pavement, and start destroying things, like for example your AC that you dont need that is harming everyone. Same with your electric car which is not a solution should never have been made as it causes more harm. You can just walk places instead as far as I am concerned.
Deep Adaptation is helping us. We accept reality prepare how we can. Already low impact humans. Only thing we bought in our apartment is a bed. International College kids buy new then throw everything away end of term. Just one small example of the MASSIVE waste of resources involved in Unlimited Economic growth. We are Bezos Refusniks and Climate change migrants to Great Lakes region from Oregon . Things are NOT good there. Klamath River Water Wars have begun. Eastern Oregon is Ground Zero. Native Americans versus Farmers. Heavily armed with the Bundys in the middle of it. Mueller Wildlife refuge. Oregon jury Aquited them for that.
And About to hit Deadpool Hoover Dam and many more in Colorado River basin. We either Change or Perish. No more Time. Enjoy what is left. Get inland off coasts.
I’ve been hearing these same predictions for the past 25 years. Not one bit of it has come to pass. Enough with your religion.
We've already seen them. How many have died in European heatwaves in the last few years? We've seen Australia and the entire North American west coast burn. Just this week we've seen New England, Mississippi and Pakistan drown. At this point I think it would take Bangladesh being flooded permanently with 200 million climate refugees looking for a new home