Coping as the world’s best known climate scientist | ft. Katharine Hayhoe
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Katharine Hayhoe is quite possibly the world's most famous climate scientist. She's produced wide ranging research, and communicated climate change with everything from books to late night TV appearances with Jimmy Kimmel. So how does Katharine cope with all this work? Whether it's the mental health consequences of understanding the climate crisis, or the barage of hate she gets every single day? I was thrilled to sit down with her and talk about what it means to be one of the most visible people working on climate change... in the world.
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Dr. Levy, there is a website where you can go and find out how much carbon was in the atmoshphere when you were born. Can you post this please? I was thinking of the scarf Katharine was wearing and a comment you made in another video about this. TY L
I really love her point that "none of us can reduce our (carbon) footprint to zero in the system that we live in", but we can still make choices that move us towards a better future.
Yes. In no country are more than 25% of emissions decided by individual domestic end consumers; the rest (75%) come from Business, Institutions and Government (BIG).
That BIG bite rises to 95% in four dozen 'petrostates' whose government policies push fossil trade, through exports and imports.
Focus on the managers who run BIG to recognize and act on BIG responsibility to end emissions.
Check out Project Drawdown's Roadmap for ideas, and their Climate Solutions 101 program online, which should be mandatory for BIG workers.
I don't think that any possible near future is gonna be "better" than what we're living now. The choice is between "bad" and "worse" 🤔
@@bartroberts1514 Yup. The hypocrisy of their greenwashing media campaigns gaslighting us into making big carbon footprint sacrifices while they massively increase theirs (and their profits).
@@bartroberts1514Do you think individual consumers are unrelated to Business, Institutions and Government? BIG argue that they act the way they do because consumers demand it. And they are probably quite right…
You love her for an utterly obvious point that was being discussed many years ago (environmental footprint then)?
I'm very grateful for getting in contact with this conversation. It makes me want to live to see and act on climate change with respect to my emotions and peace in my heart. Thank you both. ❤
That's lovely to hear - thanks so much for watching! ❤
imagine hating scientists for trying to prevent the apocalypse
Yeah we're really in a dilemma of:
-We stop climate change and save humanity but the big oil companies stop making money
or
-We destroy the environment and by proxy, ourselves, but the big oil companies continue to make their money
Gotta love capitalism ig☠️
@@DrizzyB Big Oil is among the biggest investors in "green" so that trope don't fly anymore! They will make bank either way. What do they care? This "save humanity" crap has taken on religious undertones for sure.
Oh… but she does.
That's not their job.
Well being a scientist trying to better the world is actually being paid to make 9 bad ideas for the funding to make 1 good one. Like, at what point in the future do we admit the Amish were right about technology.
"the system has to change" pretty much.
Hayhoe's unrelenting optimism is deeply inspiring to me as an environmental science student, and aspiring climate scientist
Great advice for staying sane in an insane world
Thank you both, for your good work.
Thank you for being a part of this community!
My beacon of hope are videos from this channel. I do as much as I am able to do on my end, keeping in mind that I am one of the privileged people that can do something. The online hate is horrible, but I started to contribute with my examples - and it slowly starts to work. People at least start to consider other options.
Keep it up - first they ignore you, then laugh about you, then they fight youb(that's where we are now) and then you win (that's already in progress in many areas).
And another thing. If humans would cease having wars which, in addition to the human suffering, cause huge environmental degradation and immense CO2 emissions, it would certainly help. We need this planet far more than this planet needs us.
Absolutely - I have a recent video all about conflict's huge climate impact
@@ClimateAdam How do we stop conflict though? We've been at it for 50,000 years or so. Tribal conflict has turned into nationalism. I was born into a "country" as we all have. I like the social programs in this country, but I don't identify with a particular nationality. None of us chose our nationality (or tribe). We made up borders. In reality, they don't exist.
This is true but also a worn-out truism. Should Ukranians surrender to the Russian aggressor (who btw is one of the biggest petrol states) to help us in our ridiculously insufficient attempts to battle the climate crisis?
I love when she said she makes her students watch her stuff. ❤ Wish I had a teacher like that.
*his stuff
@@jonathanmelhuish4530 ?
Thank you both for your compassion, dedication and honesty. The haters are stuck in Denial or Anger; the first two stages of grief. They'll get to Bargaining soon, which is too late, then Depression and finally Acceptance. We are in massive human population and ecological overshoot. It is only a matter of time before vast areas of the world will be unlivable and people will move. Watch out for that! Please don't say 'Hope'! That's wanting an outcome over which we have no agency. Be more honest and tell them what is about to happen. False hope is as cruel as denial...
We love you Adam and Katherine! Thanks you!
I really need to comment that I love Katharine's scarf! Watching people so invested in their field that they WEAR it makes me so happy
I have a full warming stripes dress also 😊
@@kathhayhoe Oh that's lovely!
Whenever there was a discussion on climate change and its impact, usually the time period said was 50 or 100 years from then. But since the start of 2024 till today we are overwhelmed with natural calamities like tornadoes, flooding, heat waves, strong unpredictable storms all occurring almost at the same time all around the world at the same time. Somehow I am sure many of us are thinking that we are nearing a tipping point of no return. Adam I personally would love to hear more about it from the world of good scientists struggling to help our mother earth. Thank you for such thoughtful discussions, loved your videos 👍
She is a powerful force!
She's just done so much incredible work! Was difficult to contain how star stuck I was.
@@ClimateAdam She is kind and approachable, so if you're going to be star struck you could've done much worse.
" never meet your heroes" ... it's almost like most 'heroes' aren't actually doing anything heroic.
good people doing progressive work, that is one genre of what makes a hero. and Katharine Hayhoe seems to be one of those heroes for sure.
meeting these heroes , i can imagine, is inspirational.
The analogy with a mountain is so cool, and so true the voice issue. But then, it all depends on who you're "surrounded" by. For instance, I have a plot of land left by my mother, now it's only me and my brother going there seldom, and that is the only time I meet him. Whenever I try to mention anything like recycling, generally ecology related, I get a "jump me over" attitude. And in town where I live I harvest rainwater, filter it and give it free to my neighbors for plant watering needs, all grateful as they do not use tap water because of someone's initiative. My brother would send me to a shrink. Combatting such attitutes really does suck up one's energy.
Katharine is great, Adam is extraordinary and I love his honest and intelligent presentations. Thank you both. We need everyone to find their personal way to contribute to solving the problems of this lovely planet, the "only known celestial body with chocolate!"
Celestial body with chocolate 😂
btw: everybody knows that chocolate is extremely sensitive to heat 😏
Wow, she's like a TV presenter. Such a good communicator.
If someone asks you why they're getting sick, and you investigate and find that their home needs cleaning, you tell them they will be less sick if they get rid of the roaches. In response, they abuse you and want to restrict what you can say. How do you keep from concluding that help isn't really possible?
Thing is there's not just one person in the home...
Thank you both for standing in the line of fire. True soldiers!🙏
I need to hear positivity that only comes from groundbreaking breakthroughs in the fight to save this planet. Scientists with uplifting and revealing stories are who we need to listen to.
I'm working hard and am so close to completely revamping my lifestyle to one in complete balance with nature... maybe even carbon negative! Just a couple more years and I'll be able live as I've always wished to~
And we should remember those folks who came before doing such great work, such as the great Stephen Schneider.
This was a fantastic interview! Thanks Adam and Katharine!
this lady is professionally hopeful. the truth is, we are already on the far side of the hill. she knows very well, but she s got a very good job, and anyway, gloom doesnt suit a cheery temperament.
truth is also, there never was the right time to fix this. remember a few years ago? people just looked at you. some still do. not so wise after all, those humans.
i am ever so grateful to be able to comment to you both at the same time,...THANK YOU.
The opposition to Climate reality is a force to be reckoned with, ..Please stay strong ,..i believe you and i KNOW you are telling us the truth.
Leave the "Battling" to us,..the ones that appreciate YOUR EFFORTS.
It truly is a fight against good and evil , education and ignorance
YOU are LOVED and NOT Alone.
Thank you Adam and Katharine for the amazing work that you do. I want you know that it matters and has a huge impact! 💚💚💚 Katharine inspired me to join a climate action group and talk to my coworkers and students about the importance of taking action. We all have to use our voices exactly as Katharine has said. Keep up the great work! We will get there 😊
Adam, Katherine, the work you do is so important and so cool! Thank you so much for your effort, and take care of yourself. The world needs you
You both are wonderful human beings. Thank you so much for the good work that you do!
Thanks for your work! Great videos always 👏👏👏
Thank you for sharing this with us. 🙋🏻♂️
What great positivity! If left to you two, we might just make it. Unfortunately, happy positive conversations are not reducing emissions. My last commercial flight was in 1992, because it was clear back then we can't continue the madness. One lifetime of personal responsibility has had zero effect on our trajectory.
I have been watching Kathrine for over a decade, soft peddling climate change. Methane from permafrost is not worth her time. She makes positive comments only, dismissing the more profound aspects of rapid global warming. That is how she gets so many gigs abroad, promising hope.
Hope kills action. She is still flying around selling happy thoughts, so we are nowhere near taking the action needed. That is what creates climate anxiety. Folks talking about the things we could do, but aren't, scares folks more.
I love how she refers to Texas, of all places, doing well with solar. The den of the oil barrons and religious fundamentalist is a hotpot of denialism. That money put Trump in power and seeks to do it again. She lives in the one place where her climate talks could help, but she flys around telling folks Texas is doing well. Blind positivity is more harmful than the hard truth.
About that, the truth is out there! We do know how this show plays out. Our science is very sound and clearly indicates very large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide held in permafrost. The idea that it stays there is not consistent with the temperatures we are already commited too.
Our options at this point are quite limited. Especially since there is absolutely no way folks will stop flying, or driving, or eating. We will not reduce emissions on a scale that changes our rapid warming. At least, we will hit +2°C but probably +3°C by 2050. So says the IPCC, as we are exceeding the RCP8.5 path at this point. Can we cut our emissions in half? Not even in your dreams.
I like your channel Adam, don't get me wrong. All efforts are needed, you are needed. So is Katherine. I don’t blame folks for the tack they take in communicating climate change. But you should know that false hope creates anxiety. That is the problem of hope. Selling it doesn't work. The only hope worth having, comes from the actions taken. Direct action to reduce emissions. I will reserve having hope, until I see the wealthy of the world, stop flying around. Perhaps some day in the future, humans can resume our wandering ways, but we should stay put until we get a handle on the situation. Zero emissions is a big ask of humanity, it starts with the wealthy country's, giving up privileges they have had for many decades now. It starts with people like Kathrine, putting their foot down and insisting others do the same.
Adam, have you talked to Kevin Anderson? Now that guy walks the thin line. He has a good bead on the future. He is a real hero in this battle to get the change we need. Kathrine has improved her messaging but still falls short of internalizing the message. In time, our understanding of permafrost will become well known and documented. Perhaps then, Kathrine will be able to address it properly. So many folks turn from the obvious, to keep the hope they have. Part of why hope is so bad for us. We cling to unreasonable expectations as though everything hinges on their beliefs. Religion conditions us to expect that we are the exception. We are not special or significant, we are... funny walking monkeys!
If we manage our way into a future, against all odds, then we might have reason to think we are special. The Fermi paradox is not easily transitted. This is our test, geoengineer our planet into a safe zone, or perish becoming another failed attempt of a species to transcend the boundries of nature. You can be sure, the challenge ahead is going to require a great deal of sacrifice. Not flying, is the lowest hanging fruit. We are hopeless while folks insist on flying. Imagine us succeeding and act accordingly. Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for us yet...
Great comment!
There is no way around massive and meaningful individual action PLUS eco-activism.
I stopped flying in 2010.
Essentials are organic vegan diet, no fossil mobility, no fossil heating NOW.
Our indispensable ecosystems don‘t care about our foul compromises.
Im a Geologist and I get so nervous to speak up about this issue as well as how much trash I see when I’m in the field due to the amount of hate I know I’d get. Thank you for this video, I was wondering how Dr’s deal with this mentally.
I love your videos!
Thank you for talking about your fears. This means a lot to me. You are both so lovely and important for our future. ❤
You both are the Nicest and the most Sensible people that i have ever listened to. Now i can't even imagine people hating these Scientists just because they are stating the facts. But they might know the fact that they are the ones who are ignoring and are responsible for it and thus hating you guys.
Thank you so much.
I love and appreciate both of you!! Thanks for the education and hope!
Good on you both for getting the word out. Hard to be optimistic sometimes, especially when you see the number of large private vehicles on the road with big capacity petrol/diesel engines when there is no need. Hopefully electric vehicles will become more affordable.
Don't worry, they already are becoming more affordable and will continue to do so. In the meantime, let's fight the nonsense and lies that are spread about EVs. And if you have any friends who are thinking of spending over $40k on a car, or drive enough that the fuel savings would negate the extra leasing/financing costs, encourage them to test drive a few electric models before they decide. They might be surprised how much they enjoy it!
Let‘s face it: we cannot afford ANY fossil cars on the roads any more. We cannot afford to continue buying fossil cars until EVs are cheaper. Buy a small, maybe used EV NOW, or don‘t buy any car at all. ❗️
Very well done, clear, calm and hopeful, while making the need to take action now obvious. I love you both.
💚💚💚
She’s not the hero that we deserve, but she’s the hero we need.
Or maybe: the hero that we deserve, but not the one we need?
We need anti-fossil warriors. For example those experts who try to establish Ecocide as the fifth crime at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
@@achenarmyst2156 not a competition. We need people across the spectrum, all doing what they are best at. It's not a zero-sum game!
Your channel is so great, Adam. It speaks plainly and it is inspiring at the same time.
thank you so much for being a CliMate! it's good to have you on board!
Just wanted to say thanks... this video made me smile. I needed that today. Yesterday our city councillors just put through a redevelopment plan to increase lanes and car traffic and go against their long term strategies. I just keep seeing our politicians say, "yes here is our plan to reduce our emissions", and it looks good, and then they vote the other way and I see them getting further and further from their plans.
these moments are so frustrating, and frustratingly common. I'm so glad this video brought a smile to your face though!
Thank you for what you do! So important!
I love how much passion and effort you put into your job❤
I hope that all the climate scientists have a bigger and bigger audience as soon as possible
Adam, thanks for your continued effort in getting the word out there about climate change. As you and Katharine eluded too, it’s physically and emotionally taxing on so many levels. It’s an inspiration for me to be more vocal about climate action in the spaces I work in. Your work makes a difference!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful interaction with Katharine Hayhoe. The setting was so calming. Katharine could have added that the plant transpiration serves to cool and humidify the immediate environment.
Absolutely fantastic! Positivity even with the most negative (political) environment
Great subject you chose there. I loved the video, both of you do a tremendous job and you are so simple in what you share. Thank you therefore ! I discovered Katharine with this video I have to admit 😁
Great interview. Can't help smiling about how, whenever she says nature, it sounds like Nietzsche.
Thank you both!
I just noticed your blue nail polish, Adam! So cute! Such a nice color! 🥰
Thank you! 💅
When I first saw WARMING WARNING, in 1981, aged 15, I immediately scuppered all my plans. Up to that point all I'd ever wanted from life was to have a family and to see the world: I had a long list of places I wanted to see. But I didn't have kids, nor travel - unless I can walk or bicycle I stay home.
You know what I know.
Why do you feel you deserve to be able to see the world, while people like me have never been more than 100 miles from where they were born?
This Is what takes away my hope. People who should know better, travelling the world willy-nilly. I'm pretty furious tbh.
She did explicitly articulate that when she travels she tries to make it as effective and meaningful as possible. If this is your first exposure to Kathryne Hayhoe, then you have no idea how prolific she is in regards to climate communication. She is profoundly influential in this area. None of us can individually offset the carbon we produce. We have to drive systemic change, which requires critical mass of people, which requires more people knowing about it and being mobilized to act. THIS is why it’s worth it for her to fly all over the world, cause we need THE WHOLE WORLD mobilized
@@JumpingSpider37 I was referring to Adam primarily, but now that you mention it, how many thousands of activists does she generate/flight?
Yes, I am familiar with her, and her work.
@@JumpingSpider37 Regards offsetting: my footprint is 2t/year, and I plant at least one tree a day - have done since 1985...
There are many ways to travel the world (relatively) sustainably, if you're sufficiently motivated: e.g., sailing, cycling, trains. Personally my dream is an electric vehicle and a big stack of solar panels :) Not as 'eco' as bicycle touring but faster and a lot more comfortable.
@@jonathanmelhuish4530 Every single person on the planet needs to live sustainably, sacrificing many modern luxuries and conveniences. We need to only travel or buy things when ESSENTIAL. If we don't we condemn all life on Earth.
Prof Hayhoe is great! Superb work Adam :)
Thanks for the work
One of the weirdest epiphanies I had recently is that in a Media landscape of doomscrolling-esque news, your and other climate educators' content actually are my feel-good safe spaces. Often your news/explanations are disheartening, but the fact that you and others are talking about it at all means (the societal) we can't be gaslit as easily. Thank you for that.
What a lovely thing to hear! I'm so glad this channel provides thst for you.
Love this conversation!
Thank you I needed this
Global Weirding was the first UA-cam Climate-focused channel that I subscribed back in 2017. Without it, I wouldn't have reached out to your channel. Great work both of you
that's so cool to hear! glad you found both of us!
Remember when they talk about having hope, hope is what we have when there is nothing left.
Paul Beckwith he coined the term (Blue Ocean Event) Natalia Shakhova (the Arctic Methane Clathrate Queen) Jason Box, Jim Hansen, and this woman.
Thank you both for all you do.😄
One of the most resounding videos I've ever seen. thank you so much!
oh wow that's amazing to hear! thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Here’s one of the heartwarming comments 😇 You were one of my inspirations to start sharing my views and knowledge about Sustainability on youtube, so thank you Adam❤
lovely to hear thank you!
Thank you for making this.
She's my hero too; great interview; thank you!
Keep up the good work! I’m still pleasantly flabbergasted by how much progress has actually happened - from working on other movements, things tend to eventually catalyze for the best - it’s swift and sudden and it always feels like it’s taking forever - just need to stay in the game!
I love that attitude - definitely something I try to channel on days when I feel less motivated!
Oh wow this interview is amazing! Very strong opening question 🙏🏻
11:52 Adam: "It's earning that hope as well. It's saying, okay, well, there are people who are willing to, you know, act on this and talk about it and make changes in their own lives. [EDIT] And, and I'm one of those people!"
I'm wondering if in that edit Adam said "...like going vegan" or paused while considering saying it but didn't because Katharine has not made that change in her own life. 🤔
Later, at 18:36 Katharine says, "Well, so often we think that the most important thing we can do to fight climate change is also the most important way we can cut our carbon footprint. But it isn't. Now, don't get me wrong. Obviously making personal choices to cut our carbon footprint is important, but if we don't change the system, we're not going to fix this problem."
I agree, wholeheartedly. As Adam said, we must "act on this and talk about it and make changes in [our] own lives." They are stacked in the order of importance - 1. Acting 2. talking, and 3. changing. Katharine changes her personal use of fossil fuels in solidarity with bottom-up change, she talks about how our energy system needs to change, and she acts (ie. engages in activism) to win policies that will create top-down change.
When she says "...the most important way we can cut our carbon footprint" she means cutting meat out of our diet. Why didn't she say it? Well, she doesn't do it. As "The world's best known climate scientist" she should be 1. Acting on 2. talking about and 3. changing her personal relationship with foods and products that drench her footprint with carbon. As Chief Scientist of the Nature Conservancy she knows better than everyone the impact of animal agriculture on all 9 planetary boundaries, but it may be precisely the politics of that role that steer the vast majority of 1. 2. and 3. to mitigating fossil fuels and not systemic changes in our food system that we absolutely need.
Am I being rude to ClimateAdam's guest? Many will think so, and this post very well may be deleted. It ought to sting, though, after citing 2. talking about the problem. I'd prefer a response, a rebuttal, or links to where Katharine Hayhoe makes it clear that the beef industry is a dramatic net loss to the conservancy of nature.
Thank you Adam and Katharine!
Thank you for being on this front line for the rest of us.
Everybody is on the front line.
9:25 is the most important part of this video IMO.
How do the oil executives look their grandkids in the face? The job of sorting through the thousands of petrochemicals/materials that we "think" are indispensable and finding alternatives will take YEARS! A massive effort is needed NOW since we have ignored the problem for so long. But, that effort is nowhere to be seen.....
I wish that climate professionals would stop discouraging people by saying trying to reduce your personal carbon footprint is not enough. It causes apathy, instead tell them it is a good first step but also do other stuff; and then direct them to other stuff they can do.
You are selling the need to act you always motivate people by telling them nice job now add this to what you are doing for more effect.
Significantly reducing your personal carbon footprint now is essential (significantly meaning vegan diet, no flying, no use of fossil cars or fossil heating). People should not be talked into the belief that they may wait until politics manages to make these the cheapest solutions. There is no use just complaining about evil mega corporations.
The only possible way out of this insane consumerist, infinite growth system (apart from the nightmare of total collapse) is to make it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we would almost unanimously agree we NEED to have done and work much less. Society could not break down..in fact it would be able to keep on improving ALL the things that are important.
Wow I need to hear this info.
Hmm. Thought I was following the news but never heard of her. Thanks for the introduction.
Great video, enjoyed it immensely, thanks. Just one correction, however, Hayhoe is neither the most famous (Surely that accolade must go to the 'godfather of climate science', James Hansen) nor is she the most eminent (she's currently number 301 in the Reuters hot 1000 list based on profile, citations and publications amongst other indicators). But very influential and important she certainly is, and the hyperbole in the video's title didn't distract one bit from my enjoyment of it.
I never suggested she was the most eminent (that's actually a metric I wouldn't use!). As for fame: I think in different circles hansen and hayhoe are better known. I think there's a case to be made for both!
Hi Adam, would you like making a video about or referring me to accessible sources of climate science on ... the potential of non-industrial low-tech innovation like food forests, agro-forestry, regenerative agroculture?
I've spent a large part of my time over the past 20 years on grasping the developments of human behaviours and paradigms related to climate change and biodiversity loss and pollution. Again and again I've come to dire conclusions. I'm rather sceptical there's any potential to fix anything timely. Are you familiar with the work of the late Michael Dowd? His channel The GreatStory where he talked with ecologists and the like, helped me dealing with climate grief. Post-doom, no gloom; to gracefully act during the by now irreversible collapse of the world's biosphere.
I hoped food forestry and such agro-forestry could be a wider and deeper re-wilding ecological complexity for beyond agroculture; for city planning (the class difficulties were mentioned in this video), for recreational parks, for all environments, for the sake of damage control and gracefully extending liveability. And i dont mean quantitative tree planting fiasco's. But sustainable more rugged and thoughtful mass applications of rewilding complexity, not to fix CO2 easily, but to offer graceful damage control. After a decade of research and practice at home in my tiny wild forest garden, I've started doing courses to test and deepen my skills and to act, to take part. However, sincethen I've started to doubt the worth of these re-wilding movements. Not only does itlack scientific backing (research has onlyjust begun) and is often run by ambiguous experts, but it seems all such practices either get stuck in and/or detrimentally changed by governmental applications of red tape and politics, and/or get repurposed in commercial context by capitalist interests, making it an expensive excluding individualist trend of the marginal richer "haves" to show off their decorative lands for status and for them to feel good. There is verylittle environmental heart, it seems rightwing-green, there is no social thread, and no larger societal concern. I don't see how there will be significant rewilding within a few years. Or even decades.
First of all, I'd like to encourage you, both of you.
You are doing a great job,
sharing your knowledge, your expertise.
And that's for free.
We are so grateful to you, and your colleagues, to scientists like you,
who take their precious time, teaching us.
It's a world-wide audience, that is listening to you.
Not everyone is evil-minded,
who struggle with what they can't easily digest.
It's part of a learning process, that might lead people sometimes astray.
This can also happen to well-educated, quite intelligent people, simply because they are no experts in the field.
What is familiar to climate scientists like you,
crystal-clear, beyond any doubt,
might appear kind of obscure to them.
There is so much information out there, we cannot handle.
It's quite easy to get distracted, diverted from the truth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein called it "a main cause of philosophical diseases:
a one-sided diet. One nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example."
And this is not constrained to philosophy, isn't it?
In our modern world we might experience this, maybe thx to the youtube algorithm,
feeding us, unfortunately too successfully, with videos of the same kind.
Isn't it thx to an AI?
This is when your messages become very important and meaningful.
They are to us like powerful beams of light,
emanating from lighthouses.
When do we need them most? On a bright day?
Especially, when the sea of misinformation is roaring, and the sky of cognition is veiled by gloomy clouds of ignorance,
they become crucial, providing orientation to those of us, groping in the dark.
Maybe we don't understand immediately.
But we can update our beliefs and correct our opinions. (similar to the Bayesian approach)
This makes us humans so powerful: the ability to learn, quite so often from mistakes.
What is required to gain knowledge?
It simply needs an open mind.
Plz, do not underestimate your gifts, even though it's sometimes challenging to you.
Plz, be patient and forgive those of us, who are a little delayed in getting it right.
You play an important role to clarify our perception.
We rely on you, who are worth to build our faith upon.
Thank you very, very much!!!
Oh,
I'm afraid, I chose an ill-formulated phrase.
I beg your pardon.
What did I mean with what 'is challenging to you'?
The stubborness of those us, who refuse to learn.
It's not easy to you, to stand harsh replies from an unqualified audience.
You deserve appreciation for what you offer to us: profound insights in your field of science.
There is always hope!
Plz, never lose an optimistic view of humanity.
Plz, stay healthy,
both of you.
Sending love from rural Oklahoma. You reach is far and wide. Never stop!
It says a lot to me each time I learn of all the travelling these people do. Then you know they're just blah blah, not do do. The whole affair is truly hopeless.
Through this whole video, all I thought was "yet she still decided to get on that plane".
Katharine Hayhoe is awesome!!
What does she say about CO2 resulting from unnecessary manufacturing due to Planned Obsolescence?
Wow this is such a positive video. Ok such a heavy topic too. I always feel so much better after taking action on climate. Meeting with Climate Changemakers, 350. Just hearing from others how much we share in the cause. I really feel so much better to see other humans at protests and marches. Just knowing that people all over the world care about this.
where do we find the list of what we have done and what people are doing?
how do we get a mindmap of the whose and whats?
a list of cities and their proposed and active environmental protections
a list of leaders doing what
what individual scientists are working on
what groups and their actions
what politicians are allies with policies that are effective and warranted.
" we use our voice as an individual, when we join an organization
or climate action group to magnify or amplify the impact of our voice"
- great, what groups are suggested? where is the master list of all of them?
"when we use our voice with our money, where we bank, where we
put our retirement, what type of credit card we use"
- great. what bank / credit card is suggested , retirement fund is suggested?
"we use our voice when we vote and when we speak with politicians,"
-great, what politicians , what policies?
"we use our voice where we work or where we study."
- great, this is just talking, so lets get a talking point playbook. loaded with the evidence so we are not accused of parroting.
- i would love to see individual citizen scientist projects that we can do to SHOW people the evidence too. lets teach everyone to be citizen scientists.
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i have been searching and asking for years now from the youtube community for praxis, not wishy-washy "solidarity". -sigh-
That's a really good question! Collecting that information is a massive undertaking but helpful- it would be like mapping a fungi network..... so I would use something like obsidian to map it. I once thought about doing something similar at smaller scale as I still kept finding so much disconnection! But also that it was overwhelming and depended what scale you were looking at and the reason for mapping changes what / how you might do it
@@melusine826 yup. definitely an undertaking.
and i know the anarchist answer as to why not to do it... infiltration.
for a movement to never die there has to be federated but decentralized operations.
but for the top level iceberg stuff... we need some kind of over arching handbook, IMO.
if nothing else, a framework.
as for all the disconnection and being overwhelmed , yup. i have notes scattered places but could never get them in a useful form. if there was an established format, i.e. APA formatted stuff, or a business plan style planner.... then many people everywhere could write up what they are doing and what's available and add it to the network.
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i appreciate your comment.
The science is hard, but easy compared to persuading govts to change systems, structures and paradigms of thinking such as neoliberal economics, turbo charged capitalism and consumerism. It requires a coherent thought out govt approach. That is the harsh reality. There is much resistance to that.
Today the BP CEO announced plans to abandon wind farms and ramp up oil and gas production. They do not pay thr full eco cost of FF, that include negative externalities, pollution and warming.
FF subsidies amount to 7 trillion dollars per year, per IMF 2022. These need to go.. Doing so would mean a reduction of CO2 by 7% per year, redirected to green energy.. Few call for this, which can only be gone at govt and intergovernmental level. The challenge is massive, inertia, as big.
Great, wind farms are awful. This is great news.
I would love to have a copy of the transcript that I could translate into Spanish to be distributed to our environmental collective, Colibrí, in Bolivia.
The video is subtitled and I think there are ways to download those subs using a third party website!
No way no how is Katharine hey ho anywhere near the most famous scientist in the world no way no how
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Please interview Dr. Sailesh Rao concerning his position paper on the climate impact of animal agriculture. This impact has been deliberately minimized by The IPCC and most climate scientists from what I understand. I would love to hear how he is wrong or right honestly.
The climate crisis is a symptom of an unsustainable economic, social and political HUMAN system - industrial and global. For instance, celebrating 'green energy' growth masks the fact that such 'growth' is championed and embraced as a more morally suitable means to sustain the existing distribution of power, material advantages, and ways of consumerism. The massive changes required to salvage humanity need to bring human ways of living and being into sustainable balance within the planetary ecosystem and its aspects that humans characterise as 'resources'. We need to begin by understanding that the climate crisis is an existential threat for HUMANS, not for the planet or life itself. We need to expose and abandon the arrogance we attach to the meaning of human existence and our significance - all self attributed. The planet and its ecosystems will adapt and, in the process, do just fine without HUMANS. Climate science experts and commentary needs to get off of the pot about this, and speak frankly, directly and without qualification about this as the first principle. Thereafter, it becomes all about bringing about the system changes required.
@@johnbatson8779 Silly me thinking that childhood immunization, obstetrics, medical science, and unionization leading to healthier working conditions were/are among the key particular factors underwriting life expectancy gains. By the way, you might want to acquaint yourself with age cohort social demographic attributes to open the window on how life expectancies are calculated.
thanks for doing this video, what do you guys think about the Clintel declaration that there is no climate emergency. I understand that combatting climate change will push millions of people into more extreme poverty and cost many trillions of dollars without any guarantee that what we do will have any effect whatsoever on the climate. I have done some reading and research and not convinced about it at all, unfortunately. It was drummed into university that the world was ending from climate change and i came out with a degree, pretty radicalised and scared by it all. but then i started doing my own reading and research and the doubts began to creep in. Even such simple things as placing basically all of the temperature gauges from which we get 'global average temperatures' in airports, and then using data from this to create news stories to scare monger us more into this doomsday scenario seems strange. I am an engineer, and anyone who is an engineer is aware of the urban heat island effect, so if you are going to take temperature readings from anywhere to get a good idea of the temperature in any given 'area', an airport is going to be hotter than everywhere else in the surrounding area, drastically more on hotter days because of the asphalt and heat absorbing surfaces so to use this data seems crazy. Also, carbon is not a 'pollutant', human beings emit carbon, so are we polluters? if so, would not want to think about potential methods for reducing carbon pollution from the impact of human respiration. Carbon has little if any effect on climate and looking at the period of earth where everything was covered in rainforest, we were at 8000ppm, so the idea that carbon increase, is an apocalyptic scenario, is just wrong. When you consider all plant life dies at less than 150 ppm, we are currently at 440 ppm (i think), should we really be 'removing' carbon from the atmosphere. It sounds like an unwise thing to do, at this level of carbon, should we not be considered to be in a carbon deficit? Also, what about the regreening of the earth in the last 20 years, is it not equivalent to the size of the continent of america? Increased carbon, therefore, means increased farm land, crops, wealth, opportunites for people, no?. I also understand that our current ability to model water vapor in the atmosphere is beyond poor, so accounting for such things as the eruption of hunga tonga, which increased water vapor in the earths atmosphere by 10-15% I believe, isnt something is mentioned much these days in climate alarmism. I also understand that because this was an underwater eruption, that instead of cooling the planet with release of ash into the atmosphere it actually is expected to heat the planet over a period of years as only water vapor got into the atmosphere, and ash did not. can someone who has the time please explain to me how i am wrong about all of these things with links to research and evidence to debunk it, i can provide information for all of the points i have made, i am not an expert, i just want to know the truth and have a respectful chat about it. thanks again.
12:07 I’m gonna put that on my fridge. Thank you for making this video. Y’all light up a gloomy day.
Never heard from this woman. Very famous indeed.
What gives her hope? Greening „poor neighborhoods“.
Now that probably gives also hope to fossil corporations. If those are leading climate scientists‘ core actions their CEOs may lean back and continue their expansion plans.
What would give me hope? A joint attack of climate science and politics on fossil corporations (who are effectively criminal ecocide offenders), disowning them wherever possible and performing controlled reduction of fossil production in accordance with the Paris agreement.
Your videos have helped so many people. Without climate scientists like you we would all fall victim to the massive amount of disinformation and greenwashing put out there by fossil fuel companies.
thank you for saying that 💚
*Whole food plant based for the environment* and health; vegan for the victims!
Even better than just vegan, CANDIES. Before climate gets any stranger:
Cut 2% of today's level of fossil trade per month down to zero by 2030 by regulated limits on fossil finance and licensing -- "Jevons' Paradox and the clean energy transition", Giri Venkataramanan, Wisconsin Energy Institute;
Avoid methane emissions as much as possible as soon as possible, especially litho-methane -- "Unsung (climate) hero: The business case for curbing methane | Presented by Stephan Nicoleau", Project Drawdown;
National programs to increase energy efficiency 8% per year with matching fossil trade cuts, and transition new cement pours to carbon-negative 15% per year;
Diversify wildlife by conservation efforts equivalent to 40% immediate drop in shipping traffic at sea, and like measures on land, such as Miyawaki Forests;
Increase biomass equivalent to a trillion new trees afforested -- and harvested to avoid new methane from their decay -- worldwide by 2060;
Educate key policymakers on the economic benefits of climate action - Project Drawdown's Roadmap and Climate Solutions 101;
Stop leakage offshore by border measures to keep fossil equipment and materials from moving internationally.
Great work guys . The planet thanks you
In other words, the system that creates climate change has to change. Individuals doing individual things are not effective against a system that counters everything they do. It is a giant waste without a systemic effort. Organize.