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what is also not included in the map is the storm surge and hurricane damage from the increased frequency of what were previously 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1000 or possibly even 1 in 10000 year weather events that can obviously influence the impact area
Aerosol Masking Effect is already kicking out 2 watts per meter squared as renewable energy reduces sulfur pollution - and as biomass fires rage. East Siberian Arctic Shelf has 1200 gigatons of pressurized methane - accelerating into the atmosphere already as Natalia Shakhova's research group has detailed.
trump mentioned recently that there's no more global warming in the daily conversation. It's because the definition of our future has changed. A hot earth is baked in to our future now. And it's about adapting to and surviving it, by our generations to come. Geological processes determine our hot and cold cycles. 8 billion humans sharing the same rock is the lubrication changing our "goldilocks" earth, into a hot earth with unrestricted ease. Our weather now is predicted by computer models based on past data, adjusted for real time. A future hot earth will have no such historic data to fall back on. It'll be a brand new weather science to begin predicting weather patterns on a hot earth. Our future isn't about global warming... that's a done deal. It'll be about weather unpredictability, under a sky laden with water.
Thank you. Sorry to say it was near impossible to look at the places I have lived to see if they would be underwater. There seems a modern presenter problem in education that the presenter matters more than teh subject matter. Maps of sea level rises flashing by then a few minutes of presenter. not just this one. Not just the sci show. it is modern disease where the cover matters more than teh book. I do not want to have to try to pause to see the tiny part where the rest of the world is shown. I am not that ignorant that I only care about the USA. Maps and pictures take time to absorb. Go to teh Louvre on a bicycle and see how much you retain.
The soils of south Florida are very porous. Sea water does not need to be at ground level to infiltrate drinking water sources and back up sewer systems and all sorts of other fun.
Not only that, but the ensuing collapse of insurance coverage across the state (remember - they won't just pull out of Miami, so if you live in the state but are "safe" from the water level, it still affects you) means you won't be able to secure a mortgage - your home value used to be $800k but now it's worth the $50k cash someone has in their bank account. Now factor in that Florida's economy is very dependent on growth. The exodus of people from coastal areas to more secure (i.e., not Florida) inland locales will push the growth metric to a negative value and flip our economy on its head. This is very bleak indeed, even if absolutely everyone survives the flooding.
@@afterburn2600 It's true, I'm sorry haha... Seriously though the nature is amazing and some cool stuff inland for sure! it's where the humans are that's f*cked up. Well and the bugs 😬😂
Sure, we’ve completely destroyed the climate and doomed our species to a future of constant ecological catastrophe, but at least a handful of cooperations were able to make a lot of money!
@@homewall744Endless growth is impossible, and changing conditions can render the status quo untenable. Logic dictates you should at least be aware that man-made climate change is at minimum a potential threat to our society.
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As a South Florida resident, I would like to mention that levees work well if the ground is river silt that is relatively impermeable to water, like in New Orleans or Amsterdam. Levees will not work in Miami because the ground is limestone, which is permeable, so the seawater will just go under the levee and come up from the ground. This limestone is also the aquifer which holds the rainwater that serves as drinking water for over 5 million people in South Florida.
If they get too much water it will just fill the half empty aquifer backup and there won't be any more sinkholes. Now go worry about your GF she's been seen with the mailman.
You just elected a guy who thinks wind turbines cause cancer , good luck . Sea level rises are almost secondary , more frequent extreme weather events are going to be of more concern before the rise in sea levels are even noticed
@@mementomori7825 Lets see when Trump was in office there were no major wars, now we have three going on and under threat of a nuke one... stop watching left news ..
Yeah it’s not ideal. But the onus on Westerners to address while we keep shoveling the coal into the Asian factories. I reject the presuppositions of the policy makers because that aspect is never to the fore... Must buy electric cars by x, carbon taxes etc doesn’t not address the content of this video. Similar to the Vaccines when not once they said to go outside in the sun and put down the Doritos.. in tandem with the other guidance. The arbiters of this information are terrible in holding who moves the needle to account. Because money!!
Our intelligence totally isn’t giving targets for our missilies into Russia.. I suggest you watch that dnipro attack and say... was the Sabre rattling worth it?
Approximately 15 years ago, Dr. Thomas Peterson, lead author on the IPCC 2007 climate report, did a presentation after which I was able to ask him, "Which of the models most closely fit the historical data?" His response was none of the existing models were aggressive enough to reflect actual observed data. In other words, all the existing models (again, 15 years ago) underestimated the effects of climate change. I believe scientists at the time were reluctant to be more forthcoming about the severity of future impacts due to fear of being labeled reactionary, alarmist, etc., causing me to question whether that is still the case? If so, the projected impacts in this video are still underestimating future impacts.
They were lying then and they are lying now. They appear to be a large group of mentally disturbed people. Not a single thing they have predicted has ever come to pass. You remind me of guys I KNow who would rant and rave about Big Pharma and then go buy illegal drugs from some clown on the corner named Shaggy claiming what they were getting was pure as the driven snow. Can you hear yourself now. You've been conned.
Computer models can't even predict yesterdays weather with all the known variables. Computer models only have a 5% accuracy rate. So why are we relying on something so unreliable?
@@roddymcclain7695 I agree. Hurray for common sense. I'm not sure why people think it's a good idea to let 13 year old nerds take over the future planning of the world.
We keep pushing the narrative that the low to middle scenarios are 'more likely' but if you look to past data, the worst case scenario has consistently been materialized.
Yes. Scientists who participate in IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) report admit in interviews that they have to tone down data in order for politicians to sign off on the report.
Yeah, I don't know why they're going out of their way to be so blindly faithful. I suppose it's an attempt not to seem "doomerist," given people tend to just shut off at that point -- but, frankly, all of the accurate data and real expectations we can make frankly WOULD render a normal person to shut off, that's just how damning and catastrophic the actual data is when compared to historical standards of how we take data into account in public policy (literally not at all in any meaningful way, if anything quite the opposite with industry just using such data as an indicator of the fruitlessness of pursuing systemic change and instead justifying further hydrocarbon extraction in a zero-sum profit maximization game). I appreciate that PBS wants to provide educational material in the typical vein of educational material, which is to be pseudo-inspiration porn, but it's frankly deeply depressing how mind-numbingly optimistic PBS in their typical coverage of this shit. It's not there are really any even remotely positive signs of change anytime soon: all of the signs indicate the opposite, that we've already well and truly failed to prevent climate change, and everybody is not only essentially entirely over it, at this point, but industry and government are actively giving up on previous climate change policy and prioritizing "energy security" and other neoliberal bullshit. I'd really prefer if scientists said the truth: we've already fucked up and failed as far as prevention within preexisting contemporary systems will allow, and we must begin pursuing deeply radical solutions up to and including the outright end of capitalism itself, if we want to have any hope of preventing hundreds of millions of climate refugees from being extant at any given time for the remainder of human history as a direct consequence of entire countries and subnational jurisdictions being swallowed up by boiling, perpetually-hurricane prone waters.
@@RosscoAW Well and bravely stated. Hurricanes are revving up from tropical storm to category FIVE in a single DAY. Just you wait, Florida, for when super-heated super-storms come barreling for the coast, knocking out your power while they deliver unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures. The prevention = cure is unthinkable, though. Less wealth. No new plastic. New economics, new politics. Smaller military - which introduces other existential risks.
Here Here. Agreed. Dumb Americans voted for a POS that will be a dictator and screw everybody that is not rich. The other 99%. Stupidity on this level is so unhinged and brain dead, there is no other way to make any sense of it
@AL-pc1rb Not one single thing these ridiculous climate alarmists have predicted has happened. Remember Al Gore said New York City would be underwater by 2020. What a joke.
@@Tinfoilhat311 Still a loyal, devout sheep in the cult are you? Still sending monthly social assistance cheques to your "very, very rich billionaire" cult leader? Still haven't thought of wondering why your cult leader is the only "billionaire" in the world who regularly begs millions of random strangers to send him financial assistance so that he can pay his bills? Still haven't figured out that the real purpose of the MAGA cult is grifting from gullible MAGA cult sheep? That's quite sad and pitiful. Trump did say that he loves the poorly educated.
@@michaelcap9550 I guess you don't read science: The evidence has been clear for decades that humans are pushing the web of life toward catastrophic collapse, and we are doing so in multiple ways simultaneously. The world's leading scientists have been warning us about this for 65+ years, but we didn't want to listen.
As an environmental scientist, I’ve been telling friends and family to not buy property within 50 feet of current sea level since the 1980s. Yes, they may not live to see a large rise, yet they may have descendants who inherit their property.
@@andy99ish with math and physics/science you can predict the future, an environmental scientist easily has the required skills to estimate how much sealevel will rise and then consult a topographic map to find the new shoreline.
We left Florida in 2019 after living there since 1973. We grew up there but it’s far too risky. Eventually banks are going to stop writing loans for homes anywhere near the coast. The day that happens is when the real estate market in Florida will drop off a cliff. Get out now while prices in states north of Florida are still low.
We didn't move from Florida, but we did move further north and away from the Atlantic. We picked the Great Lakes region after a comprehensive climate risk analysis.
Yeah. The U.S. will now secede from global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Gotta have that macho "liquid gold." When a complex civilization reaches its ecological limit, it collapses. We're at that limit now. Mad Max, on the water.
Why is everything all about Trump?? He has nothing to do with climate change. This is going to happen no matter who is in charge and we are only one country there is china and India the two countrys who are destroying the environment faster then we can fix it.
The wild thing is, people in the central areas of countries don't really care. Uhmm where do y'all think the other half of the population will go to once their areas get flooded? Climate change affects EVERYONE.
Yes, we do care, and not just for the potential for getting an influx of climate-change refugees. I see so much talk about coastal areas, but it's hard to find projection maps for places on rivers banks and lakeshores, or even the Great Lakes. It might not look as dramatic as the Gulf or Florida, but our water isn't going to stay at the same level either, and nobody seems to be talking about it.
@@Ron-rs2zl they're staying. Lots of people own hundreds of acres in the middle of nowhere. I care but I have moments where I'm so frustrated that I remind myself I'm a good 500 meters above sea level with a lot of land in Canada in an area that's pretty safe from wildfires. We have a lot water. We grow a lot of our own food. Our kids could build their own houses on our land. We're offgrid and financially sound. We'll continue voting for change and do what we can to help. But we're going into this crisis in the best position we can be.
these interactive maps were all available on NASA website ten years ago. the trump administration had them taken down. ten years ago, when I was selling my house and looking at where I wanted my family to be situated to weather climate change and the disasters it creates, I could just go on the web site, zoom in on a town or city, and manually raise the sea level to see how it would fare. I made some very big choices based on that information. but the loons in florida don't KNOW that coastal properties and UNLIKELY to survive the thirty years it will take to pay off their mortgage. the contractors building them don't care, they get their money up front, they take it and run. leaving millions of unwary climate deniers faithfully making their payments, and heading right down the barrel of the climate change gun to financial ruin in their old age. it's a tragedy and a national economic disaster just waiting to happen. and the big banks and insurance companies will get bailed out, but the people will not... and keep in mind, climate change is happening ten times faster than the scientists are predicting.
I can go online now and find those same measurements. Bush senior is on telly saying much further back, "we had the choice between the environment or jobs" Trump is the result of your system not the cause.
I came from a family of scientists and used those maps when house hunting too. It's ironic that the areas that most deny climate change are generally the ones most at risk by it and will need the government help that they decry as "socialism".
@@dmc3489"Propaganda"? Really?? You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Fox (or even farther right), would you?? THATS where the propaganda - and flat LIES come from.
Forbes, fires are down 25% worldwide thanks to the more co2 in the atmosphere, making trees hold more moisture. Co2 is the lowest it has been in 600 million years. Just google 600 million year co2 chart. Our magnetosphere is 25% weaker and weakening 5% every 10 years until it reverses polarity. The weaker our atmosphere gets, the less our ocean can absorb CO2. The planet has been mostly ice-free for the past 600 million years. It is rare for the earth to have ice caps. The climate has always been changing, not a big deal its just water. With our magnetosphere getting weaker, the weaker will be more unpredictable as it tries to balance out.
Humans are still hardwired with primitive cognitive biases which worked well in the hunter-gartherer days, but are hopeless and even dangerous in modern civilisation. Intelligence requires choosing to override those primitive instincts when logic dictates it is the correct thing to do.
yes thank you pbs for using my tax dollars to tell us we must give up cars and start eating bugs. it is too bad we don't have machines that can turn co2 to o2 and self replicate.
Maiya is a natural at communicating and explaining complex topics. It’s so important for everyone to understand these concepts! Thank you for the passion and commitment!!
If you understood this, then you’d know this is all bs. This is a natural cycle….we are running through solar maximum currently. Also, the tilt on the earth has changed sparking new climate zones.
CRAP. She pretends to be a particle physasist like some iron age rambler pretends he knows his god created the universe. She is a witless scaremonger who gets paid to reitterate others failed prophasies. Global warming and cc are weather issues - he we change some weather systems - onthing to do with how a supposed 0.02% alteration in atmospheric composition is somehow heating the other 99.98%, then transfering virtually all that heat to the oceans with a profound bias to the Atlantic......... she is selling scientific snake oil
Owners and CEOs of oil and gas producers know all about this, and have, for some time. They are not willing to sacrifice their wealth for what won't affect them in their lifetimes. Their attitude is "Let the future take care of itself."
It's because it's getting more and more clear there are runaway feedback loops like Siberian methane emissions that were never properly modeled and our real worst case scenarios are more like 5-6 degrees warming and sooner that anyone is ready for.
Well, some mega-rich corporations and their wealthy bosses and owners spent a lot of money and expended huge political efforts to undermine the science, to buy politicians, and to spread the lie that no big changes were really needed and that a bit of green-washing would sort it all out, so they might claim it was not so easy for them.
I'm from the Netherlands, and I am really hoping we can beat the ocean once more. Fighting the ocean is part of our heritage after all. I fear that the scale of what we're going to face is too vast, though.
I am grateful for your awareness, especially given your nation's ingenuity, dedication, and industry. I wonder what will be needed to choose a long solution to modeled sea level rise.
No, there are a lot. Americans…like yourself… are just terrible at choosing outlets, because they would rather be entertained, and have opinions Eren forced. And major companies know that is what they want, and stack themselves. In short A,Erica’s whine and say wrong things like that because they don’t like the fact they made their own mess.
That's all saying nothing of the increased heat of the sea, the increased ferocity of the storms, and their increased extremity. More flooding in some areas... and more droughts in others!
I'm afraid that current politicians are too old to care since they won't be around when things get real bad. Also organizations still have time to exploit for maximum profit before strong regulations come in to save our race.
It's more that they don't have a thing to replace oil or the system money depends on. If you have something to replace those and keep the system running they would be keen to hear it, age doesn't replace oil and if the people won't change by themselves a bit harsh to blame people just because they are old, offer something to replace it, even with your actions and I am sure everybody would listen.
@@antonyjh1234there are alternatives and have been alternatives including water-powered motors. like healthcare or any other industry, they will only pursue something if its more profitable. unfortunately gas and oil is the cheapest and as a result the most profitable. greed is literally destroying our world
@@markwilson1096 I know it's easy to say that but in all reality when you have a network of roads that use asphalt or car tyres that are synthetic rubber or even plastic for batteries that come from the same barrel as diesel or petrol it really is more than funding or profit, take everything away from your life that involves oil, even plastic for medical devices, there won't be much left.
Those of us that lived in the New Orleans area during Katrina got a preview of what will happen when sea levels rise. It wasn't the hurricane that decimated the area, it was the fact that the levees failed, and they could fail again if a Helene or Milton comes our way, which it almost certainly will at some point. My city is about 3 feet above sea level. If I live another 20 years, I fully expect I will either lose my house to a monster hurricane or be under water. I have little faith that our government will take the necessary steps to prevent many of its citizens from losing their lives or homes due to climate change. I really hope I'm wrong.
No, they don't. Humans will die out before climate takes us out, which is inevitable regardless of what we do. No, you won't be under water in 20 years, stop eating up that propaganda.
America’s government is a reasonable image of the people it represents. If it’s not taking the necessary steps, it’s because enough people don’t want it to.
And the EPA. Florida has some sort of "don't say climate change" law. Add to that the uneducated trumpers that deny anything a college educated person says and it's an uphill battle.
That's such a dimwitted idea. What happens to the data collected, or the instruments? Why is every election to terrible? I don't want either of these people to be president.
idk what this has to do with anything. PJ2025 isn't endorsed by either candidate and both have actually said they disagree with it's proposals. Why bring up something no one but a lobbying group wants?
in fact, imo, its one of the least threatening aspects of climate change. Extreme weather, a second "little ice age" in europe and global desertification/famine are my biggest fears
Sea level rise is more of an inconvenience than a problem. There are lots of problems that will result from climate change that will be considerably more important. By the time Florida is under water no one will be able to live there anyway. Storms along will be an issue along the coast centuries before sea level will be.
Where I live (Polk County) we are still above water in the worst projection. What kills me is - our local weatherman said, around August 1st, that we had broken our record for 90+ degree days in a year. That was then followed by 60 straight days of 90+. And 90+ means 100+ heat index. I can't handle that six months a year...nor can my electric bill.
I'm in Lake county and yes, it's been a hot one this year. Power bill price shock hit me. I went to window AC's and cooling what rooms we would be in. A good unit can cool 3 rooms with a fan assist. It cut my bill by more than half.
@@breannathompson9094 Florida doesn't have many caves that aren't in state parks. Many are natural springs however nice thought. In the Australian outback many live underground in dugouts. It's 72 degrees all year round.
This is what has been going on in Europe for years now. We felt the impacts the earliest in terms of temps. I'm relatively young and I feel like in a different climate from 10 to 20 years ago. And this is not just a feeling it is backed up by data. Paris for example is preparing ACTUALLY ALREADY! for 50°C days in the city. 50°C!! This is considered hot in Baghdad! 30°C was a hot day. 35°C was exceptionally hot and 40°C was scorchingly hot and in many places didn't even occur. Now 35°C is hot 40°C is exceptionally hot but happens more often and we're looking at 50°C as scorching not yet appearing!
Thank you, Maiya! The Weathered Series is so necessary. I wondered who was reporting on our tipping points. I’m in NYC & although my house is not underwater in these scenarios, other family members are. We do need a plan.
we underestimate sea level rise because it’s so much slower than climate change that even if we solve climate change in 21st Century we’ll continue to battle it into the 22nd
"If." We've already failed, and these projections are not only inevitable but, frankly, the best case scenario assuming we stop further catastrophic acceleration in its tracks... which we categorically are not and will not do, so. Y'know. Only going to get much, much worse than these projections, by the time they come to fruition.
At what is termed the end of the last ice age the sea levels rose by about 4 inches every year for more than 1000 years. That is just 5 minutes ago in geologic time spans. What is being predicted here is nothing in comparison. The earth's climate has always changed and always will no matter what humans do. We will have to accept that.
Growing up in the 90s on Long Island, NY we were constantly told in science that sea levels were going to rise and that Florida & Long Island would be underwater. So when my husband and I got married 20 years ago we decided to move upstate and raise our kids in the mountains. We saw how disastrous hurricane Sandy was. My grandfather’s house was completely destroyed in Freeport our friends who also lived in Freeport and had their home destroyed moved to Austin, TX. My in laws had no electricity for 2 weeks in Levittown and ended up coming to stay with us. We feel like we made the right decision. Both my brothers also left Long Island. We were told after 9/11 that an atom bomb has a 50 mile radius my mom felt safer to move 50 miles away from NYC. During COVID many people left the cities (that are mostly on the coast) for the suburbs. I think there already has been a migration. While many people still live in these danger zones. I think in the back of everyone’s mind for the past 40 years has been we’re going to have to move.
i feel like we're in a slow collapse with multiple factors, like future historians might wonder about it like the classic maya collapse of the bronze age collapse
@jastermereel4946 no denying we are headed that way watch the Pandora's box man its insane an mind boggling how much damage we've done for thousands of years to nuclear weapons to animals extinction to medicine all of it its mind boggling
@@jastermereel4946: I think you're right, big picture. Clearly a rapidly rising global population puts lots of pressure on available resources per person over time -- even if we didn't have issues like climate change, pollution, etc. And of course, we do have MANY such issues, often caused by us. I think re humanity overall, you can't fix stupid. We could at least TRY to seriously educate the populace, but the GOP/religious right fights against even the poor education we have now.
So you just keep falling for it over and over and over and over again… You have a mental disease. Your brain should have turned on when NY wasn’t under water when they said it would’ve been. You’re theirpawn
We're at a point where we need to be totally committed to reducing our impact AND mitigating for what is already coming. We could have avoided the latter, but we didn't. The longer we delay, the more both efforts will cost us. Thank you for the video. It's amazing some people still do not see the importance of acting.
Yes, we must learn to control the climate of this planet. We must stagnate the natural evolution of this planet so we can keep it suitable for human life. For most of this planets history it's been inhospitable to human life. We can't let that happen again. So we must control and dominate this planet with our human superiority.
@@artworthi Or people want things now and don't want to give them up. Like, do you no longer drive, fly or otherwise use anything that is created by burning?
Yet the people yawn and do nothing. I see all that driving, all those airplanes, all those fireplaces, all that burning of fuels for electricity, all that ignoring of reducing fishing and destruction of the oceans and having all that "recycled plastic" ending up in the rivers and oceans.
Why are trucks and SUVs in America getting heavier and bigger if we are "on track"? Why hasn't trucking and train freight been redesigned to not be such a risk to the public? Why are 80 year olds living alone in 3000 sq ft homes heated and cooled in America? Why is it that the government allows for it be too expensive for the elderly to live in communities like retirement condos, so they can downsize? Why are there so many barely used vacation homes? Why is real estate an investment and not something that would be owned only if you really need it? A society that is run like a big scam can't be efficient. When everything is designed against the survival of the individual, the individual chooses self preservation. Take away the fears and real risk that cause people to choose the least environmentally sustainable options and only then can any progress be made.
Eventually, the population will collapse. Every species that lacks a natural predator exploits resources to the point of collapse, and then balance establishes. You can't fix human nature by stripping the power of choice.
It’s an arms race to keep people family safe. They see giant trucks running around get worried so they get giant trucks themselves, protect their families and on and on and on.
Sounds like you're talking about common sense, as someone outside of the USA I know for a fact that anything that seems like common sense is actually a commie plot. Perhaps you guys should fight harder politically to change that impression. You guys had a revolution over less when founding the USA.
Actually, we have seen evidence all over the world, literally all major reefs grow higher as sea level rises. This even happened as the sea level recovered over 120 meters as the last ice age subsided, if it can go over 100 meters it can do 2-3 inches easy peasy.
Some people may think more oceans so more fish. Nope, nope we are over fishing the oceans. I worked on the NOAA ship Discoverer R102 in the early 90s. We measured a drift net that was 100 miles long. I think drift nets are now banned. However, other destructive forms of over fishing continue.
It's not only that. The Bering Sea got too warm and the crab didn't do so well. Messing with the salt content and temperature... Most species can't take it. Some will. The salmon in the north are having to deal with metals leaching out of the permafrost and that's going to be a big problem. It's all bad. But very exciting.
Also, increases in ocean acidity and sea-water temperature will destroy the ability of many marine species to breed, or to survive at all, as well as destroying marine habitats such as coral reefs. When you factor-in the progressive collapse of food chains, from Phyto-plankton upwards, it's easy to see how the seas could be largely lifeless by the end of this century.
Well, that depends. Coastal areas are going to be inundated with habitat soon for small fish as houses become destroyed, even if a metre is reclaimed that is quite a bit of land globally. As cities become destroyed I can see people living in high rises without power fishing below them and if it gets to that stage you could kiss goodbye a lot of ports and roads.
@@antonyjh1234 if salt levels in water drop too much, that habitat for small fish might not have fish that can live there- only a relatively small amount of fish can move and thrive in both salt and fresh water (and variations between the two)
Somewhat unrelated but it's terribly ironic one of the most climate change vocal candidates, Al Gore, lost the 2000 election because of like 1000 votes in Florida... when Florida is going to be the most affected by climate change.
The video at 01:10 is from Rodanthe, Outer Banks, NC and is from September 2024. The builders (and buyers) were informed of the instability of the Banks and of rising ocean levels.
Yeah I mean it's dramatic footage but those are all vacation rentals. They were built to strip mine the beach for seasonal rents and they probably paid their note in the 20-30 years they stood. The beach rentals are worth billions to Dare County, that's why they keep building up the Outer Banks. What's more concerning is the massive new bridges they've put up over Oregon Inlet and in the sound around Rodanthe. Won't be that long until they are standing in the ocean connected to nothing because the sandbars washed away.
dude, the outer banks could all be gone one day, not because of fucking climate change, but because they are barrier islands made of sand! the ocean changes them at its will and the only reason the stay intact is human intervention. They don’t call it the a ship graveyard because it’s easy to traverse, the ocean is always changing the ocean floor and sand banks
OK, let's take a reality check here. Firstly, there is no indication that the populations of those countries guilty of the greatest CO2 emissions (most especially the USA) are willing to make the changes to their societies, to their way of life (eg. changing their diet and curbing wasteful over-consumption), or to their economies, that are absolutely essential for reducing emissions to anything near zero in the foreseeable future... even though the science has been crystal clear for years now. Secondly, the impact of rises in sea levels is NOT just that people will be forced to move their homes and businesses... in many parts of the world (poorer parts especially) that mass displacement of populations will bring societal collapse, conflict, disruption of agricultural systems and food production/distribution. Basically there will be widespread violence and starvation, and much of this will occur in nuclear-armed countries like India, Pakistan, and (the really BIG one) China. Mass population displacements in Asia and Africa will also multiply the flow of desperate refugees to the North and West, putting Liberal Democracy under unbearable strain across Europe (we already have fascists or authoritarian nationalists in power in Italy and Hungary, and they are a rising force in many other nations). Thirdly, even hitting a zero emissions target (at some point in the far-too-distant future) will not stop Global Warming, because positive feedback loops are very likely to have kicked in (and maybe they already have) that make this process unstoppable. If the global temperature increase hits 4° C then there is no way we can stop it there. It MAY stabilise, but there is a good chance that it may not and could simply keep on rising, and if this does happen then it's probably curtains for the vast majority of larger mammals on Earth (including the most numerous, which is homo-sapiens). Either humankind, and its political leaders, grasp this nettle now, overcome the hugely powerful vested interests and the greedy and selfish motives that drive so much of the public discussion on these topics, and make the necessary and drastic changes essential for our medium-term survival, or our technological civilisation, and perhaps our species, is living on borrowed time.
I always take the high scenario in these projections for similar reasons. The world of capital will shake itself apart before sacrificing the profit motive. As for our species I am confident we will survive. But they will have a vastly different world to contend with. Read The Great Bay by Dale Pendell if you want a fictional novel that shows some of the futures we may have, and it ain’t all bad. People will live on, and they will experience joy and wonder and heartbreak and terror just like we do now. And maybe, just maybe, some of them will remember, and guard against the cancerous logic of endless growth. They’ll have our ruins to remind them.
Western democracies have created people who need tons of things done for them and who need resources gained from other areas of the world. Certain standards of living, infrastructure, cement, meat, luxuries, freedom to drive and travel without restrictions, have no limits on general consumption or population controls in the name of freedom. These people don't have the will either to elect leaders that have the will to say the hard thing and ban plastics productions. We'd need leaders to ban new car productions, establish local unions to get work done in every city and ban market stockholders collective greed in some way shape or form. And of course this would wipe out lots of fictional and real money in the system, maybe even necessitating martial law and enforced distribution of resources equitable in the short term in the name of public safety. Sea levels rise anyway and we slowly pivot our monoagriculture to sustainable, biodiversity based methods. All of this is just not possible for we the electorate. Who will give up their car or their ability to travel to visit loved ones. Have huge data centers for all of our technology pumping waste heat into the environment. There's just no will for it.
Have you ever asked yourself "what would it look like if America sided with the fascists during WW2?" No need, we're living through it, with America more interested in continuing the genocide of the Palestinian people than in even maintaining America's own geopolitical hegemony long-term (given an entire year of unabashed support for genocide is a very effective way of lighting all your non-military political capital on fire, and ensuring that literally the only thing international actors respect you for is your ability and stated willingness to murder them with nukes and their desire to avoid being nuked, invaded, regime changed, cut off from SWIFT, sanctioned, embargoed, or otherwise, by the infinitely long dick of American Empire). ...You think there is even a REMOTE snowballs chance in hell that American Empire is going to sacrifice the last leg that it's military hegemony rests on -- near-unilateral control of the petrodollar and the global oil/energy industry -- while it's stated near-peer adversary (China) unilaterally dominates every aspect of the renewable energy industries, from batteries to solar even to wind manufacturing? With all due respect, we won't see a cohesive, global response to climate change until America has officially -- finally -- keeled over and killed itself (something it's actively doing its absolute best to accelerate the process of, anyway). Unfortunately, given China's very obvious desire to just allow America to fuck up and fail without intervention, we will simply have to wait until the global neoliberal order has been -- thoroughly -- repudiated and invalidated. Which isn't likely to happen before most of the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. Even if China were to forcibly develop the entire global south, at hyperspeed, so that China can continue to grow it's renewable energy industries without relying on the West, it's unlikely that the West will get over it's obsession with neoliberalism and being cucked to Americana anytime within this half of the century, at least. Bluntly, we've missed our window and you're better off abandoning the fantasy that that's not the case. Reform within this "system" won't be happening, that's already a foregone conclusion. If there's any slight chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change, it's clearly only possible under China's model of economics... or, ideally, an even more -- properly -- socialist one, given China's clearly more interested in simply waiting and watching for America to fuck up over and over again than it is in genuinely advancing international socialism (not that I can blame them, given how much America really well and truly is the Big Bad Evil Guy in your stereotypical sci-fi about a big bad empire, especially if you're even remotely aware of America's global militarism and it's aiding and abetting of every fascist genocidaire that would side with them ever since Hitler).
@@Escobamos I completely agree. I think we'll make the change when we're forced into it and not before. We have to take care of each other in the meantime; and do what we can to wean ourselves off our little bullshit luxury treats (and I am as guilty of indulging in them as any regular person in the Global North). "The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber
So oligarchs instead control policy makers and the public narrative to ensure their descendants will be able to insulate themselves from worldwide human suffering.
"The seas will rise. The lands will dry. Whole cities will have to be abandoned. Whole coastlines will have to be abandoned. Not in some future century, but in this century. Not tomorrow, but it is coming." [The Great Turning Point for Humanity, 2019]
In other words, the planet will return to its default state - a hothouse, with not a scrap of ice. I don't get why this is a problem, because life thrived back then. Anyway... give it a hundred million years Antarctica will be near the equator and all the ice will be gone anyway. Will we be taxing plate tectonics?
@@BenotzJoe Are you a liar or someone indoctrinated by liars? There are so many peer reviewed science journal articles speaking to climate change that only liars and fools don't admit that this a genuine phenomenon. In fact, you might want to look up the Doomsday Glacier (the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica), ocean warming, dying coral reefs, islands sinking, AMOC, methane escaping from glaciers and the Siberian permafrost contributing to global warming. There are more but that's a start. Which grade level did you complete? I can find resources for people who aren't well educated if you would like.
@@hannahguin5428 You gotta realize there are people out there who believe in "predictive programming." Like when a 3rd grader learns a new vocab word and suddenly sees it everywhere. It's nonsense, but it helps people feel more comfortable in explaining the world around them.
How does the mass increase in methane fit into your model? Permafrost thawing is rapidly increasing methane release and some lakes that have a lot of methane held at depth by temperature and pressure are also releasing more methane and methane is worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Many models have focused only on CO2, which are incomplete.
Methane, while having far more effective insulating properties, does break down relatively quickly in the atmosphere. CO2 on the other hand persists and is therefore more problematic in the long term.
What's the best way to avoid climate action? Belay panic. We need panic. It's the only thing that humans respond to. Expecting us to radically transform our way of life without panic is futile. Please, folks, panic, and then act. Get on board with substantial transition, serious sacrifice, and face the hard truths of how much we need to change.
During the worst of the pandemic we were experiencing death on the order of multiple 9/11s every week. Some people couldn't have cared less, and many were ready to take up arms because they couldn't get haircuts for a while. I'm not optimistic. As we speak, there are people who believe the two hurricanes that just hit Florida were the result of weather weapons instead of warmer oceans. Unless those people come around and join the rest of us in reality, climate change -- or rather our failure to address it -- will likely be our Great Filter event.
@@gman13531 What scared me the most was the people who would not take measures to save THEIR OWN lives because of political brainwashing. That's the kind of stuff that really scares me. You realize a whole society can just commit to a completely self-destructive ideology even if it's obviously going to kill them and their loved ones. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around that.
@@gman13531 i just read a news article that said people were sending death threats to meteorologists because of the disinformation being spread and i just cant wrap my head around how people think humans can control the weather to attack political enemies like we are anime villains, its getting nuts and im honestly at my wits end with these people who stick their heads in the sand
Come on. There are far worse things out there than heat and storms. And, storms aren't bad if you've got the right kind of homes in the most affected regions, and the local flora and fauna loves the high rainfalls. And, wouldn't that be cool, the usa's western deserts turning into grassy prairie lands.
Have you thought about what a billion refugees and the loss of major cities worldwide will do to politics, culture and economies? It’s pure nightmare fuel.
@@frederickheard2022 I expect the coasts to empty out because of the storms before sea level rise does. You can run from sea level rise - a foot by 2050 can happen, but that can be a managed move. Cat 4s and 5s along the coasts are happening now - they can not be managed. Yes, I understand about the world economies, etc.
@@LyricsQuest I got into FL a day after Hurricane Michael hit and served about 5 miles from Mexico Beach. Do you know what we heard at night? Nothing. Silence. Even the bugs were taken out. And prairies are maintained by nature's fire, btw.
Really sad. In 1966 my family learned about climate change watching PBS. My mom and dad made many trips to just a small number of recycling centers. They are gone now so they don't have to hear that not rinsing plastic bottles would ruin a truck full of plastic. I have switched to desolving sheets and they are working well as detergent
Plastic for recycling is simply shredded and washed in shredded form (which also separates polyethylene and polypropylene from the other plastic because it floats (all other plastic sinks).
It's probably better to change it to political science - as a conservative option - as the inertia is most certainly political in nature. At the other end of the scale, maybe military science is better, since the political side certainly isn't looking likely to be fixed, and that means one thing, which begins with W.
Worse, the models used for this grossly downplay the rate and severity of the temperature and sea level rise - as required by politicians and big money interests. The adverse impacts will be much worse, will occur vastly faster, and will snow ball one into another in a chain of interlocking feedback loops that drive us to +11 C.
@@umpalumpa6565 Gee. Just perhaps House31x is actually reading the latest science. Perhaps s/he then is noting the divergence of reality from the "accepted" (politically allowed) models and their low balled climate sensitivity; and not by a little, but by huge margins. Perhaps s/he has paid attention to the eruption of Pingos in the Yamal, the melting and rotting of the tundra, and the immense tundra fires, and read the reports about the dynamic changes in the arctic currents that drive the AMOC and the PDO through the falling cold currents. Perhaps s/he has actually read and understood the science related to the myriad feedback loops and their dependence on one another, and how tripping any single tipping point cascades through all or most of the rest, and those then cascade to the rest. Perhaps s/he has read the paleoclimate record and science and has seen the parallels from ancient conditions to today. Perhaps s/he has studied the arctic and antarctic sea ice records to again - see the patterns and response. Perhaps s/he has followed in detail the development and process involved in the IPCC that conditions all reports and science on a) being at least 10 years old, and b) being palatable to the political and financial whims of the politicians and governments of the world, and the oligarchs and major corporations. Perhaps too s'he has read what the scientists are actually saying over the last decade. Perhaps s/he knows a hell of a lot more than you do, as evidenced by understanding that the climate tipping points are akin to the dominoes of the 1960s-1980s domino political theory.
One thing I never see mentioned is how the sea level rising is how it effects one of the major things we need to live (and not just humans either). Drinkable water. With the rise of the sea level, it will invade our major cities. From under ground. Under ground is where most of our major plumbing systems are, not just water, but sewage systems. In other areas, it will invade areas where crops are grown. Both of these mean that effluent and agricultural fertilizers will enter the marine ecosystem enmass. This will cause huge algal blooms, and the death of millions if not billions of sea life. It will also mean that getting nourishment from the oceans will have to be stopped because anything that has survived will still be poisonous for us to consume. All this contaminated sea water will have entered and contaminated the water table. The water table (and aquifers)is where a large portions of the world get their drinking water. Then there is also the problem of one of the other necessities, food. All of our food stuffs (meat and plants) that are farmed on land will suffer from the contaminated groundwater. If not by the sewage, then by the salt. In ancient history, some invading armies would "salt the earth", so that their enemies wouldn't be able to grow crops. Vast tracts of land will become useable for the purpose of growing crops or herds of animals for consumption. This is without going into the spread of disease from all the raw sewage and dead sea life washing up on shore in unheard of numbers. It will be an environmental apocalypse. We will survive, but at greatly reduced numbers. And yes, I'm fun at parties. 😂
I’ve been following this for about 15 years now. We always track the ‘business as usual’ aka ‘worst case’ scenarios. So that’s what I base my plans on. And until something happens to drastically reduce the number of shortsighted greedy hominids, I don’t see anything likely to change this.
Most of the industrialised world has had falling emissions for a while now. It will take a bit of time for the rest of the world to slow down but they are also working towards it.
@@edbouhl3100 When do you think worldwide peak emissions will happen? My bet is this year. 2025 will see a slight decrease. 2026 will see a slightly greater decrease. And so on.
@@General12th My take is that emissions will fall when extreme weather gouges away enough industrial capacity. Weather seems to be ramping up faster than a linear rate so it’s a guess at best.
Florida republicans have been in denial of human driven global heating, so let them raise their taxes to pay for the flood insurance and hurricane insurance that private companies no longer want to provide. The rest of the country shouldn't pay higher federal taxes, so the people in florida can live in flood zones and unsurvivable hurricane zones. We've known this for decades, and they're still building new houses and new high rises there.
I mean sure, we could avoid flooding our major cities, displacing millions of people, and all the other catastrophes inherent in unabated warming by CO2 emissions. But have you considered the counter that really rich people would probably not be as rich as they could have been? I mean, put that way, I'm sure you can see how this is actually a difficult and complex decision... /s
All these future projections look pretty grim but what is happening right now is hard to ignore. Now that hurricanes are averaging cat 5 and dumping 3 feet of rain in a span of mere hours how is that survivable? So people are expected to rebuild every year now? That's ridiculous. Every year it will get worse, where does it go from here? It's too late to stop what we've done, all that is left is to survive.
Remember just a few years ago when meteorologists were wondering whether or not it was even possible for a hurricane to sustain wind speeds over 165mph without tearing itself apart? We just watched one handled 180mph winds with ease... For scale, an EF4 tornado has winds ranging from 166-200 mpg... so Milton had EF4 TORNADO strength winds in its eyewall.
@@PersonPersons-kh3bg No they (meaning scientists, climatologists and a host of other experts and others your brain erroneously thinks it's smarter than) did not. Faux News said it and then told gullible people like you that "they" said it. And as usual, you still don't get it.
@@PersonPersons-kh3bg no one said that. Moron right winger keep making shit up and pretending that it was actually said. But if you had any brains at all you'd be reading the papers not making up what "they" said
Sad to say, we are already into an "Avalanche effect" scenario. Notice it's 95F in October in Texas, that's 10-15F over normal temps. Notice each year is breaking the previous year's record highs. Then notice that the water cycle is currently breaking under the strain, with extended droughts, then massive hurricanes back to back. So, we've already broken through the 10F threshold, which is causing the ice caps to rapidly melt, thus releasing tons of permafrost methane, which is an even more potent greenhouse gas, which causes more heat, which melts more ice caps, which reduces reflectivity, which causes more heat, which causes more fires. The soot from the fires falls on the ice caps, making them darker, thus accelerating their melting... So, you see, we've already kicked off a tipping point from which we cannot stop. Even if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today, the destruction would continue since the 420 ppm of global CO2 would still be in play, as would all the methane that is being emitted from the permafrost melt. Humans, the only creature smart enough to destroy their Goldilocks zone of habitation due to our lust for fossil fuel consumption. Scientists and oil companies themselves have well understood the ramifications for over 70 years, yet the Petroleum cabal has decided our collective fate was worth the sacrifice for their immense wealth (think Dubai and Saudi Prince type money) Chevron CEO Michael Wirth made $22,610,285 in 2021, 123 times more than the median salary at Chevron. ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made $23,904,954 in 2021, 133 times the median employee salary at ConocoPhillips. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods made $23,572,488 in 2021, 125 times the median salary at ExxonMobil. Marathon Petroleum CEO Michael Hennigan made $21,185,206, 142 times the median salary at Marathon Petroleum. Hess CEO John B. Hess made $12,408,198, 63 times the median salary at Hess. Honorable mention for international corporations BP and Shell: BP CEO Ben van Beurden made GBP £4,457,000 in 2021. Shell CEO, also Ben van Beurden, made EUR €7,380,000 in 2021. President Biden and the Democrats are working hard to hold these greedy executives accountable and address the root causes of climate change - chief among them, emissions from the oil and gas industry. Congressional Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will create jobs, lower costs, and fight climate change, and introduced a bill to stop price gouging in the oil and gas industry. Not a single Republican - many of whom are bankrolled by Big Oil - voted for either of these bills, effectively giving these greedy executives permission to keep stealing from American families and allowing the industry to keep emitting deadly pollutants.
republicans want money. they don't care about the climate. nor the people. they just lie their way to get elected. and its working on 50% of the population. that is so sad
Hi PBS! I just found you online and subscribed! I’m a native of Miami, FL born in the “Iron Age” of 1942 so I remember when I was a kid climbing trees and walking a mile to school in the winter wearing a dress and my legs FREEZING COLD sooo I see the changes very vividly. I have lived in South Florida, raising my children and working every day …. I currently live in a western suburb of Broward and our condo is on 13’ above sea level, which used to make me feel somewhat protected from the future encroachment of rising seas…..now: not so much! Any place in Florida you could suggest I move to….or someplace else that isn’t FREEZING IN THE WINTER (like it was when I lived a decade in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia…I froze my toes!)….😊😊😊
Things are warming everywhere. Even here in Wisconsin, spring comes earlier, summer is longer, and fall hangs on past Thanksgiving. I am sure as long as you stay in the South it will be warm enough for you soon.
The rising seas, the burning skies, A world that mourns, that hopes, that cries. Return to roots, let nature guide, In her embrace, we turn the tide. A life in balance, pure and true, Is found where earth and heart renew.
Longer than that 😢😢😢 and it's only getting worse, especially since people want to deny climate change even exists. I encourage everyone to go Vegan as 1 way to make the largest pact against climate change as well as protecting all sentient beings, our Mother Earth and our future generations 💚🌱💚
"Too late" for what? Avoiding any change? Well, yeah. Total ice melt and up to 40' of sea level rise, like in the Pleistocene? NOT too late. The more we do, and the sooner we do it, the less catastrophic the effects. This is NOT an "all or nothing" proposition, and to frame the situation that way is defeatist.
On top of this also comes bigger storms and more rainfall. So as the sea level rises areas that normally would get flooded would begin to flood with smaller and smaller intervals, long before they will be completely under water.
I always appreciate the framing and production quality of Terra videos. This is the first time I've seen anyone publicly speak about post-2050 actions with any specificity. I appreciate the realistic view and the contextualization of what a 2.5 - 3˚C range looks like. Indeed, that's where a BBC poll earlier this year put a mean climate scientist's attainanable warming level (with the now obvious disclaimer: don't trust polls).
Yeah, sadly people in the last election were far more concerned about the genitalia of people entering bathrooms than they were about the climate. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@Soda_and_me feelings are important but land is not the same thing as soil for growing food. We have a record 310 million that are food insecure with 50 million in "acute" food insecurity (meaning starving unless they get food assistance). That number will escalate fast.
Humanity might not even be here in 2050, and not because of anything we have/haven't done, there is an event much larger that we have absolutely no way of changing or controlling, if you know, you know.
@@bonysminiatures3123 yawn - no it won't. One of the issues with say the sea ice at the North Pole is it requires specific layers within the ocean to be present. But they are getting disrupted due to melting ice - so once the ice at the North Pole hits a point of no return, it will never refreeze, no matter how cold it gets. But the big issue is - physics. Heat just doesn't disappear. It transfers - but it doesn't disappear. So even if we stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow - that ice is not refreezing anytime in your lifetime.
@@zoeherriot ice can't melt at north pole its always below freezing , danish scientists monitoring Greenland melts in summer , refreezes winter it holds its mass
64 I watch the deer out my window, and think the same thing. They are on the run with nowhere left to go. Their habitat is gone, the waters ruined. We humans have obliterated everything natural. And still going full bore.
@@chinookvalley Actually deer are flourishing on peoples' lawns and eating their garden flowers, we've hunted their natural predators, so the deer population has actually exploded, and they are a hazard to cars driving around at night!
The situation will probably be worse than projected because so far climate scientists have been underestimating the effects of fossil fuel burning induced global heating.
According to this video, the damaging effects of CO2 in the atmosphere will last for 500,000 years: v=qJVM6FVt25w Also not mentioned in this video: the fact that 90 of the world's 400+ nuclear power plants are located in coastal areas.
12:22 I do believe it is important to look at carbon capture as a way to repair damage already done, not as a way to offset new emissions. Carbon storage is ineffective as an offset mechanism, and wasted for that. But to mitigate damage and reduce the peak damage (lagging effect suhch as rising sea levels) we could afford to use carbon capture once we have stabilized around zero emission such as nuclear, wind and solar. Hydro sounds promising, but will have large short term effects in the form of methane emissions ("short term" is 10-20 years), and the question is if expanding hydro in areas that are currently not regulated is a good idea, as we risk further large scale ecological damage.
Yesh, the magical "batteries".... come on kids, batteries are not an energy source. You can, with very little development, replace some of the fossil fuel with renewable hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons that would burn much cleaner than the ones we pick up from the ground today. It would require a huge input of energy, but if we harness that energy using biological means (algae) instead of technological (solar, wind, nuclear) we create a new carbon cycle. It might not be long (a few months from capture to release) but it will be net-zero and will allow us to put the electricity from other sources to better use than driving heavy batteries around our cities. Then again, in cities electrical short range vehicles are great because of their lack of "tail pipe emissions", the will be NOx and other combustion products that are not healthy. In the US you need to electrify all your railroads, you have a huge cargo rail network. Sure. a lot of it is shuffling coal around, but it can be put to better use if rail corridors are upgraded to high speed trains capable of beating air travel over medium distances.
Use today's technology, not tomorrows. Do you know what of today's technology can stop global warming? Nuclear weapons, if we use them and billions die, this will cut carbon emissions and start nuclear winter, do you want that?
How about heat shield tiles falling off SpaceX Starship and hitting little birdies on the head causing them to fall out of trees, should the FAA investigate that?
Hey, thanks for watching! Great question. The photo is simulating ~3 feet of groundwater. Since the location is ~7 feet above high tide levels, in this scenario the sea level would be at 10 feet (3 meters) to see ~3 feet of groundwater.
What the h are you talking about the lady and the graphs are both talking feet yeah the guy from the NOAA is talking in meters but the graph still says feet.
This is so dumb. Can we all just use meters like the rest of the world!?! Especially when conveying scientific information. Force the "feet knuckle draggers" do the conversion. I'm being a bit facetious as an American myself, but I use metric in my work and it's just so much easier to use. I also changed my phone and thermostat to use Celsius to become more familiar with it. Anyway, great video PBS! Yes, just be sure the video and graphs match to avoid this silliness.
@@charleshartley9597 Heh. Right? I want metric time >1 second, as in 1 min = 10 sec (or 100), 1 hour = 100 sec, etc. If it weren't for the pesky rotational speed of the planet. Amiright? :) While we're at it, let's at least eliminate AM/PM and use the 24-hour clock until we figure out metric time.
@@dr_shrinker he literally withdrew us from the paris climate agreement, all types of scientific reporting from government institutions that showed evidence of climate change was taken offline, he opened up yellowstone to fracking and drilling, and at numerous points has said with his mouth that he doesn't believe in it. not sure what else you want. maybe if he hangs greta thunberg and some climate scientists out by the washington monument you might believe the words he says and actions he takes?
I'm listening. I care. But we just had proof that a majority of people in the US don't. It's hard to have hope for my grandchildren's future when Floridians deny what's happening right in front of their faces.
The problem with renewable energy is that corporate greed and poor implementation by government will make meaningful change near impossible. Solar has been needlessly limited in terms of efficiency for many years by companies pushing fossil fuels and the the lobbying of government by them. Same system, same issues. The priorities are whack.
Absolutely. In my area, there's a law (tax incentive, actually) that incentivizes people to adopt cleaner more efficient technologies. The fossil fuel industry has responded by creating a crafty disinformation program that tells people they'll have to get rid of their gas stoves. It's baloney. There's NOTHING in the law that bans anybody's gas stove, or even prevents them from buying a new one. But the Fossil Fuel Boys have dozens of millions of dollars to buy ads and print literature that the rest of don't have. They defeated a very well constructed cap-and-trade plan about 10 years ago by launching a huge advertising campaign telling our citizens (this is WA State) that it would increase their grocery taxes. Well guess what? WA State HAS NO TAXES ON GROCERIES - something any citizen could verify by simply LOOKING AT THEIR GROCERY STORE RECEIPTS. But it didn't matter. The Fossil Fuel Boys had $60 million more bucks than the people who campaigned for the cap and trade (including the mayors of most of our major cities), and so they got their way. This is how the cancer operates, and more people need to be aware of these devious tactics.
Let's remember that President Carter put solar panels on the White House, and Reagan yanked them down virtually his first day there. I've been fighting this fight since 1970 and it's been disheartening to say the least. Still, I'm likely to be alive in 2050 and I hope we succeed in making the alterations necessary.
@@YogiMcCaw i guess you have never heard of Sales tax before my freind? and it does exist in washington state. Democrats control it they TAX EVERYTHING! Your teeth will be taxed soon.
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what is also not included in the map is the storm surge and hurricane damage from the increased frequency of what were previously 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1000 or possibly even 1 in 10000 year weather events that can obviously influence the impact area
I've been watching the series, along with the Big Cats series on the app.
Aerosol Masking Effect is already kicking out 2 watts per meter squared as renewable energy reduces sulfur pollution - and as biomass fires rage. East Siberian Arctic Shelf has 1200 gigatons of pressurized methane - accelerating into the atmosphere already as Natalia Shakhova's research group has detailed.
trump mentioned recently that there's no more global warming in the daily conversation. It's because the definition of our future has changed.
A hot earth is baked in to our future now. And it's about adapting to and surviving it, by our generations to come.
Geological processes determine our hot and cold cycles. 8 billion humans sharing the same rock is the lubrication changing our "goldilocks" earth, into a hot earth with unrestricted ease.
Our weather now is predicted by computer models based on past data, adjusted for real time.
A future hot earth will have no such historic data to fall back on. It'll be a brand new weather science to begin predicting weather patterns on a hot earth.
Our future isn't about global warming... that's a done deal.
It'll be about weather unpredictability, under a sky laden with water.
Thank you. Sorry to say it was near impossible to look at the places I have lived to see if they would be underwater. There seems a modern presenter problem in education that the presenter matters more than teh subject matter. Maps of sea level rises flashing by then a few minutes of presenter. not just this one. Not just the sci show. it is modern disease where the cover matters more than teh book. I do not want to have to try to pause to see the tiny part where the rest of the world is shown. I am not that ignorant that I only care about the USA. Maps and pictures take time to absorb. Go to teh Louvre on a bicycle and see how much you retain.
What people don't understand is that South Florida becomes unhabitable LONG before it looks like that.
The soils of south Florida are very porous. Sea water does not need to be at ground level to infiltrate drinking water sources and back up sewer systems and all sorts of other fun.
Not only that, but the ensuing collapse of insurance coverage across the state (remember - they won't just pull out of Miami, so if you live in the state but are "safe" from the water level, it still affects you) means you won't be able to secure a mortgage - your home value used to be $800k but now it's worth the $50k cash someone has in their bank account. Now factor in that Florida's economy is very dependent on growth. The exodus of people from coastal areas to more secure (i.e., not Florida) inland locales will push the growth metric to a negative value and flip our economy on its head. This is very bleak indeed, even if absolutely everyone survives the flooding.
@afterburn2600 ...and inland Florida is a nightmare
@@Merlinsmeditations 🤣 There are parts that have their charm thank you very much.
@@afterburn2600 It's true, I'm sorry haha... Seriously though the nature is amazing and some cool stuff inland for sure! it's where the humans are that's f*cked up. Well and the bugs 😬😂
Sure, we’ve completely destroyed the climate and doomed our species to a future of constant ecological catastrophe, but at least a handful of cooperations were able to make a lot of money!
Sure, you can see that life is far worse for a far greater proportion of the population than ever in history, except it's not.
@@homewall744Endless growth is impossible, and changing conditions can render the status quo untenable. Logic dictates you should at least be aware that man-made climate change is at minimum a potential threat to our society.
@@homewall744 LOL
It's true! It's true! The DeSantis has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That's how conditions are.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot!
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
And the politicians they funded.
As a South Florida resident, I would like to mention that levees work well if the ground is river silt that is relatively impermeable to water, like in New Orleans or Amsterdam. Levees will not work in Miami because the ground is limestone, which is permeable, so the seawater will just go under the levee and come up from the ground. This limestone is also the aquifer which holds the rainwater that serves as drinking water for over 5 million people in South Florida.
For now... next week another hurricane.
sucks to be them
Florida is a giant sinkhole waiting to happen.
If they get too much water it will just fill the half empty aquifer backup and there won't be any more sinkholes. Now go worry about your GF she's been seen with the mailman.
@@TheWhale45 It would fill the half-empty aquifer back up with salt water.
You just elected a guy who thinks wind turbines cause cancer , good luck .
Sea level rises are almost secondary , more frequent extreme weather events are going to be of more concern before the rise in sea levels are even noticed
should of kept Joe than the nukes would get us long before the rising water
@@russoley8995 You think the threat of nuclear war is lower with "we have nukes, why can't we use them" guy back in office?
@@mementomori7825 Lets see when Trump was in office there were no major wars, now we have three going on and under threat of a nuke one... stop watching left news ..
Yeah it’s not ideal. But the onus on Westerners to address while we keep shoveling the coal into the Asian factories.
I reject the presuppositions of the policy makers because that aspect is never to the fore...
Must buy electric cars by x, carbon taxes etc doesn’t not address the content of this video.
Similar to the Vaccines when not once they said to go outside in the sun and put down the Doritos.. in tandem with the other guidance.
The arbiters of this information are terrible in holding who moves the needle to account. Because money!!
Our intelligence totally isn’t giving targets for our missilies into Russia..
I suggest you watch that dnipro attack and say... was the Sabre rattling worth it?
I predict Denial for the next 10 years to continue, follow by stunned realization then blaming everyone but themselves.
Bad weather is proof because bad weather never happened in the past
@@kmoses582 incoherent
Exactly.
Though, dumb as, say, MAGA types generally are, I expect a LOT of denial to go well past when a house pet could see the obvious.
@@rogergeyer9851MAGA dumb? lol. 😅 get ready for 4 years when he wins!!
I Forsee most climate change grifters will be arrested and imprisoned for fraud. BY Democrats.
Approximately 15 years ago, Dr. Thomas Peterson, lead author on the IPCC 2007 climate report, did a presentation after which I was able to ask him, "Which of the models most closely fit the historical data?" His response was none of the existing models were aggressive enough to reflect actual observed data. In other words, all the existing models (again, 15 years ago) underestimated the effects of climate change. I believe scientists at the time were reluctant to be more forthcoming about the severity of future impacts due to fear of being labeled reactionary, alarmist, etc., causing me to question whether that is still the case? If so, the projected impacts in this video are still underestimating future impacts.
Well, MAGA bought the ticket now we are in for the rude.
The writers of Day After Tomorrow were ahead of their time.
They were lying then and they are lying now. They appear to be a large group of mentally disturbed people. Not a single thing they have predicted has ever come to pass. You remind me of guys I KNow who would rant and rave about Big Pharma and then go buy illegal drugs from some clown on the corner named Shaggy claiming what they were getting was pure as the driven snow. Can you hear yourself now. You've been conned.
Computer models can't even predict yesterdays weather with all the known variables. Computer models only have a 5% accuracy rate. So why are we relying on something so unreliable?
@@roddymcclain7695 I agree. Hurray for common sense. I'm not sure why people think it's a good idea to let 13 year old nerds take over the future planning of the world.
We keep pushing the narrative that the low to middle scenarios are 'more likely' but if you look to past data, the worst case scenario has consistently been materialized.
Yes. Scientists who participate in IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) report admit in interviews that they have to tone down data in order for politicians to sign off on the report.
Yeah, I don't know why they're going out of their way to be so blindly faithful. I suppose it's an attempt not to seem "doomerist," given people tend to just shut off at that point -- but, frankly, all of the accurate data and real expectations we can make frankly WOULD render a normal person to shut off, that's just how damning and catastrophic the actual data is when compared to historical standards of how we take data into account in public policy (literally not at all in any meaningful way, if anything quite the opposite with industry just using such data as an indicator of the fruitlessness of pursuing systemic change and instead justifying further hydrocarbon extraction in a zero-sum profit maximization game). I appreciate that PBS wants to provide educational material in the typical vein of educational material, which is to be pseudo-inspiration porn, but it's frankly deeply depressing how mind-numbingly optimistic PBS in their typical coverage of this shit. It's not there are really any even remotely positive signs of change anytime soon: all of the signs indicate the opposite, that we've already well and truly failed to prevent climate change, and everybody is not only essentially entirely over it, at this point, but industry and government are actively giving up on previous climate change policy and prioritizing "energy security" and other neoliberal bullshit.
I'd really prefer if scientists said the truth: we've already fucked up and failed as far as prevention within preexisting contemporary systems will allow, and we must begin pursuing deeply radical solutions up to and including the outright end of capitalism itself, if we want to have any hope of preventing hundreds of millions of climate refugees from being extant at any given time for the remainder of human history as a direct consequence of entire countries and subnational jurisdictions being swallowed up by boiling, perpetually-hurricane prone waters.
@@RosscoAW Well and bravely stated. Hurricanes are revving up from tropical storm to category FIVE in a single DAY.
Just you wait, Florida, for when super-heated super-storms come barreling for the coast, knocking out your power while they deliver unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures.
The prevention = cure is unthinkable, though. Less wealth. No new plastic. New economics, new politics. Smaller military - which introduces other existential risks.
@@RosscoAWgood luck with that
@@RosscoAWsome scientists do say we are fucked and we’re past the point of no return… they just don’t get much media coverage
Mar-a-Lago can't be underwater soon enough.
The liberal copium is very entertaining.
Here Here. Agreed. Dumb Americans voted for a POS that will be a dictator and screw everybody that is not rich. The other 99%. Stupidity on this level is so unhinged and brain dead, there is no other way to make any sense of it
@@Tinfoilhat311 losing your home to own the libs, epic
@AL-pc1rb Not one single thing these ridiculous climate alarmists have predicted has happened. Remember Al Gore said New York City would be underwater by 2020. What a joke.
@@Tinfoilhat311
Still a loyal, devout sheep in the cult are you?
Still sending monthly social assistance cheques to your "very, very rich billionaire" cult leader?
Still haven't thought of wondering why your cult leader is the only "billionaire" in the world who regularly begs millions of random strangers to send him financial assistance so that he can pay his bills?
Still haven't figured out that the real purpose of the MAGA cult is grifting from gullible MAGA cult sheep?
That's quite sad and pitiful.
Trump did say that he loves the poorly educated.
This is the biggest issue people should be organizing around and it’s the one that’s most laughed at. We’re irrevocably doomed.
dont look up
Liberal plot. Nothing more.
@@michaelcap9550Right wing brainwashed. Nothing, period.
Of course you’re laughed at
@@michaelcap9550 I guess you don't read science: The evidence has been clear for decades that humans are pushing the web of life toward catastrophic collapse, and we are doing so in multiple ways simultaneously. The world's leading scientists have been warning us about this for 65+ years, but we didn't want to listen.
As an environmental scientist, I’ve been telling friends and family to not buy property within 50 feet of current sea level since the 1980s. Yes, they may not live to see a large rise, yet they may have descendants who inherit their property.
tell Obama. he doesn't seem to mind. he spent 120,000,000$ he made as president, buying just one of his houses on the beach
So you are a clairvoyant ?
@@andy99ish We've known about sea level rise and climate change since the 70s if not before.
@@andy99ish with math and physics/science you can predict the future, an environmental scientist easily has the required skills to estimate how much sealevel will rise and then consult a topographic map to find the new shoreline.
@@andy99ishderp
We left Florida in 2019 after living there since 1973. We grew up there but it’s far too risky. Eventually banks are going to stop writing loans for homes anywhere near the coast. The day that happens is when the real estate market in Florida will drop off a cliff. Get out now while prices in states north of Florida are still low.
We didn't move from Florida, but we did move further north and away from the Atlantic. We picked the Great Lakes region after a comprehensive climate risk analysis.
@@OldJackWolf So if they find a cure for aging, you may live to see the year 2100 AD and also watch the ocean level rise!
You don't even need to move out of Florida. You could just move to the panhandle or uppermost region, that'll likely be even cheaper
@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 I saw Michael damage up there too. Besides, I want a carefree retirement and where rights are respected.
Already happened. Insurance poofed out of Florida, which is enough for banks to not bother
And then Trump got elected... 6C here we come!!!
Yeah. The U.S. will now secede from global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Gotta have that macho "liquid gold." When a complex civilization reaches its ecological limit, it collapses. We're at that limit now. Mad Max, on the water.
Good news is that they like to build walls. Just tell them immigrants are rafting over from Africa.
trump thinks his money will save him
I hope he will see the need. This will literally change the world
Why is everything all about Trump?? He has nothing to do with climate change. This is going to happen no matter who is in charge and we are only one country there is china and India the two countrys who are destroying the environment faster then we can fix it.
The wild thing is, people in the central areas of countries don't really care. Uhmm where do y'all think the other half of the population will go to once their areas get flooded?
Climate change affects EVERYONE.
That’s better for me. Create more demand in my area and make my property values go up. Win win
Yes, we do care, and not just for the potential for getting an influx of climate-change refugees. I see so much talk about coastal areas, but it's hard to find projection maps for places on rivers banks and lakeshores, or even the Great Lakes. It might not look as dramatic as the Gulf or Florida, but our water isn't going to stay at the same level either, and nobody seems to be talking about it.
@@Bonafide188and then where do you go?
@@Ron-rs2zl they're staying. Lots of people own hundreds of acres in the middle of nowhere.
I care but I have moments where I'm so frustrated that I remind myself I'm a good 500 meters above sea level with a lot of land in Canada in an area that's pretty safe from wildfires. We have a lot water. We grow a lot of our own food. Our kids could build their own houses on our land. We're offgrid and financially sound. We'll continue voting for change and do what we can to help. But we're going into this crisis in the best position we can be.
What about the rich? Will it affect them?
Thank you for communicating what we’re up against. The selfishness of people with power today and disregard for future generations is disgraceful.
these interactive maps were all available on NASA website ten years ago. the trump administration had them taken down. ten years ago, when I was selling my house and looking at where I wanted my family to be situated to weather climate change and the disasters it creates, I could just go on the web site, zoom in on a town or city, and manually raise the sea level to see how it would fare. I made some very big choices based on that information. but the loons in florida don't KNOW that coastal properties and UNLIKELY to survive the thirty years it will take to pay off their mortgage. the contractors building them don't care, they get their money up front, they take it and run. leaving millions of unwary climate deniers faithfully making their payments, and heading right down the barrel of the climate change gun to financial ruin in their old age. it's a tragedy and a national economic disaster just waiting to happen. and the big banks and insurance companies will get bailed out, but the people will not... and keep in mind, climate change is happening ten times faster than the scientists are predicting.
Yeah, the climate scientists are very good at underestimating the power of human stupidity when multiplied by the power of human greed.
I go used those maps. Not for the same purpose as you though. Couldn’t find a soul with a care.
I can go online now and find those same measurements. Bush senior is on telly saying much further back, "we had the choice between the environment or jobs"
Trump is the result of your system not the cause.
I came from a family of scientists and used those maps when house hunting too. It's ironic that the areas that most deny climate change are generally the ones most at risk by it and will need the government help that they decry as "socialism".
@@Phrancis5 No what's ironic and EVIL is that the much-hated, much-despised "leftist" blue states will be EXPECTED to bail out the RED ones ...
For news without noise, donate to PBS. It's reporting the story with no editorializing.
Good, because, I like my propoganda without the editoralizing.
@@dmc3489 I love my dmc3489 propaganda better
@@dmc3489"Propaganda"? Really?? You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Fox (or even farther right), would you?? THATS where the propaganda - and flat LIES come from.
Forbes, fires are down 25% worldwide thanks to the more co2 in the atmosphere, making trees hold more moisture. Co2 is the lowest it has been in 600 million years. Just google 600 million year co2 chart. Our magnetosphere is 25% weaker and weakening 5% every 10 years until it reverses polarity. The weaker our atmosphere gets, the less our ocean can absorb CO2. The planet has been mostly ice-free for the past 600 million years. It is rare for the earth to have ice caps. The climate has always been changing, not a big deal its just water. With our magnetosphere getting weaker, the weaker will be more unpredictable as it tries to balance out.
What a conundrum it is that humans can be so intelligent and stupid at the same time.
Clever but not wise is how I put it.
All of their cleverness misdirected toward justifying their own past behaviors and stances
Yes, stupid people believe in hysterical nonsense and intelligent people do not.
@@thetranya3589 yeah, like the idea that immigrants are the source of societal problems
Humans are still hardwired with primitive cognitive biases which worked well in the hunter-gartherer days, but are hopeless and even dangerous in modern civilisation. Intelligence requires choosing to override those primitive instincts when logic dictates it is the correct thing to do.
Thank you for this excellent work, PBS. You are a boon to humanity. This subject is vitally important to understand.
OI OI OI
@@julianssciencelab2886 🫡
yes thank you pbs for using my tax dollars to tell us we must give up cars and start eating bugs. it is too bad we don't have machines that can turn co2 to o2 and self replicate.
Has anyone else noticed they put “Philadelphia “ in New Jersey lol
@@yuribezmenovwasright dont worry about eating bugs. they'll all be gone soon.
Maiya is a natural at communicating and explaining complex topics. It’s so important for everyone to understand these concepts! Thank you for the passion and commitment!!
Legend.
A natural? 3° of warming is "good news" according to her. Yeah nah.
If you understood this, then you’d know this is all bs.
This is a natural cycle….we are running through solar maximum currently. Also, the tilt on the earth has changed sparking new climate zones.
CRAP. She pretends to be a particle physasist like some iron age rambler pretends he knows his god created the universe. She is a witless scaremonger who gets paid to reitterate others failed prophasies. Global warming and cc are weather issues - he we change some weather systems - onthing to do with how a supposed 0.02% alteration in atmospheric composition is somehow heating the other 99.98%, then transfering virtually all that heat to the oceans with a profound bias to the Atlantic......... she is selling scientific snake oil
She explained nothing that a parrot could not repeat.
One good thing comes out of this, Mar-a-Lago will be gone. 😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly! 😂
That's ok. Trump will be in the White House 😆 🤣 😂 😹 ... stay bitter.
@@Metal_Stacking poor melania will have no where to go
@@Metal_Stackingif you love a dictator
The shift from we will keep it to 1.5 deg, to now we aim for 2.5 - 3 deg was far too easy.
Owners and CEOs of oil and gas producers know all about this, and have, for some time. They are not willing to sacrifice their wealth for what won't affect them in their lifetimes. Their attitude is "Let the future take care of itself."
It's because it's getting more and more clear there are runaway feedback loops like Siberian methane emissions that were never properly modeled and our real worst case scenarios are more like 5-6 degrees warming and sooner that anyone is ready for.
Yes, and that means you can halve the years mention here. Instead of 2150, think 2070! Instead of 2100 think 2050....
The last couple years have been 1.5°C above pre industrial levels.
Well, some mega-rich corporations and their wealthy bosses and owners spent a lot of money and expended huge political efforts to undermine the science, to buy politicians, and to spread the lie that no big changes were really needed and that a bit of green-washing would sort it all out, so they might claim it was not so easy for them.
I'm from the Netherlands, and I am really hoping we can beat the ocean once more. Fighting the ocean is part of our heritage after all. I fear that the scale of what we're going to face is too vast, though.
Don't give up now - the rest of us are counting on your expertise.
move inland its cheaper
@@Soda_and_me I'm afraid they have already done as much of that as possible. Do you even have any idea where the Netherlands are on a map?
Installations of solar panels are taking a nosedive in NL. Thanks to a government that does not care about the future.
I am grateful for your awareness, especially given your nation's ingenuity, dedication, and industry. I wonder what will be needed to choose a long solution to modeled sea level rise.
One of the few journalist with honest - fact based reporting left in the USA - thank you for your courage!
😂😂😂
@@TheWhale45 go ahead and explain it away dummy
@@TheWhale45
Man you're gullible.
No, there are a lot. Americans…like yourself… are just terrible at choosing outlets, because they would rather be entertained, and have opinions Eren forced. And major companies know that is what they want, and stack themselves.
In short A,Erica’s whine and say wrong things like that because they don’t like the fact they made their own mess.
That's all saying nothing of the increased heat of the sea, the increased ferocity of the storms, and their increased extremity. More flooding in some areas... and more droughts in others!
I'm afraid that current politicians are too old to care since they won't be around when things get real bad. Also organizations still have time to exploit for maximum profit before strong regulations come in to save our race.
Strange .. since many of these folks have children and grandchildren. 😢
It's more that they don't have a thing to replace oil or the system money depends on. If you have something to replace those and keep the system running they would be keen to hear it, age doesn't replace oil and if the people won't change by themselves a bit harsh to blame people just because they are old, offer something to replace it, even with your actions and I am sure everybody would listen.
@@antonyjh1234there are alternatives and have been alternatives including water-powered motors. like healthcare or any other industry, they will only pursue something if its more profitable. unfortunately gas and oil is the cheapest and as a result the most profitable. greed is literally destroying our world
@@markwilson1096 I know it's easy to say that but in all reality when you have a network of roads that use asphalt or car tyres that are synthetic rubber or even plastic for batteries that come from the same barrel as diesel or petrol it really is more than funding or profit, take everything away from your life that involves oil, even plastic for medical devices, there won't be much left.
@@markwilson1096Tell us how you like your water fueled car.
Those of us that lived in the New Orleans area during Katrina got a preview of what will happen when sea levels rise. It wasn't the hurricane that decimated the area, it was the fact that the levees failed, and they could fail again if a Helene or Milton comes our way, which it almost certainly will at some point. My city is about 3 feet above sea level. If I live another 20 years, I fully expect I will either lose my house to a monster hurricane or be under water. I have little faith that our government will take the necessary steps to prevent many of its citizens from losing their lives or homes due to climate change. I really hope I'm wrong.
No, they don't. Humans will die out before climate takes us out, which is inevitable regardless of what we do. No, you won't be under water in 20 years, stop eating up that propaganda.
Why should the government bail you out of a problem you yourself see coming? In other words, why not move now?
America’s government is a reasonable image of the people it represents. If it’s not taking the necessary steps, it’s because enough people don’t want it to.
@@marianneb.7112 You volunteering to pay for them. Ever had to up and move?
@@75YBAYes, I have. If I can do it, so can others.
The blond guy works for NOAA which Project 2025 wants to ditch.
And the EPA. Florida has some sort of "don't say climate change" law. Add to that the uneducated trumpers that deny anything a college educated person says and it's an uphill battle.
Have some respect for Sweet
That's such a dimwitted idea. What happens to the data collected, or the instruments?
Why is every election to terrible? I don't want either of these people to be president.
will MagaLego go under water?
idk what this has to do with anything. PJ2025 isn't endorsed by either candidate and both have actually said they disagree with it's proposals. Why bring up something no one but a lobbying group wants?
Scary part is Sea level rise is not the only major problem caused by climate change 😕
in fact, imo, its one of the least threatening aspects of climate change. Extreme weather, a second "little ice age" in europe and global desertification/famine are my biggest fears
Sea level rise is more of an inconvenience than a problem. There are lots of problems that will result from climate change that will be considerably more important.
By the time Florida is under water no one will be able to live there anyway. Storms along will be an issue along the coast centuries before sea level will be.
Indeed. Tautologies are VERY SCARY! HA HA!
It's ALL of the problems. The true losers are poor people. They are always the ones who suffer the most and have no chance.
Where I live (Polk County) we are still above water in the worst projection. What kills me is - our local weatherman said, around August 1st, that we had broken our record for 90+ degree days in a year. That was then followed by 60 straight days of 90+. And 90+ means 100+ heat index. I can't handle that six months a year...nor can my electric bill.
In Polk county Florida as well... In 45 years I can't recall a more insufferable summer. Too hot to live here anymore
Find a home with a natural cave nearby, use the cold air from it to draft into the house.
I'm in Lake county and yes, it's been a hot one this year. Power bill price shock hit me. I went to window AC's and cooling what rooms we would be in. A good unit can cool 3 rooms with a fan assist. It cut my bill by more than half.
@@breannathompson9094 Florida doesn't have many caves that aren't in state parks. Many are natural springs however nice thought. In the Australian outback many live underground in dugouts. It's 72 degrees all year round.
This is what has been going on in Europe for years now. We felt the impacts the earliest in terms of temps. I'm relatively young and I feel like in a different climate from 10 to 20 years ago. And this is not just a feeling it is backed up by data. Paris for example is preparing ACTUALLY ALREADY! for 50°C days in the city. 50°C!! This is considered hot in Baghdad! 30°C was a hot day. 35°C was exceptionally hot and 40°C was scorchingly hot and in many places didn't even occur. Now 35°C is hot 40°C is exceptionally hot but happens more often and we're looking at 50°C as scorching not yet appearing!
Thank you, Maiya! The Weathered Series is so necessary. I wondered who was reporting on our tipping points.
I’m in NYC & although my house is not underwater in these scenarios, other family members are. We do need a plan.
we underestimate sea level rise because it’s so much slower than climate change that even if we solve climate change in 21st Century we’ll continue to battle it into the 22nd
also saltwater intrusion makes it so that there is less and less available drinking water
"If." We've already failed, and these projections are not only inevitable but, frankly, the best case scenario assuming we stop further catastrophic acceleration in its tracks... which we categorically are not and will not do, so. Y'know. Only going to get much, much worse than these projections, by the time they come to fruition.
THROUGH the 22nd Century, BET on it! 🤨
At what is termed the end of the last ice age the sea levels rose by about 4 inches every year for more than 1000 years. That is just 5 minutes ago in geologic time spans. What is being predicted here is nothing in comparison. The earth's climate has always changed and always will no matter what humans do. We will have to accept that.
@@Guvament_bsYour UA-cam handle checks out. Deny until the oceans boil but you'll still be wrong.
Now it is much more likely to occur with Trump and MAGA in charge
Growing up in the 90s on Long Island, NY we were constantly told in science that sea levels were going to rise and that Florida & Long Island would be underwater. So when my husband and I got married 20 years ago we decided to move upstate and raise our kids in the mountains. We saw how disastrous hurricane Sandy was. My grandfather’s house was completely destroyed in Freeport our friends who also lived in Freeport and had their home destroyed moved to Austin, TX. My in laws had no electricity for 2 weeks in Levittown and ended up coming to stay with us. We feel like we made the right decision. Both my brothers also left Long Island. We were told after 9/11 that an atom bomb has a 50 mile radius my mom felt safer to move 50 miles away from NYC. During COVID many people left the cities (that are mostly on the coast) for the suburbs. I think there already has been a migration. While many people still live in these danger zones. I think in the back of everyone’s mind for the past 40 years has been we’re going to have to move.
i feel like we're in a slow collapse with multiple factors, like future historians might wonder about it like the classic maya collapse of the bronze age collapse
I really can't understand how anyone still buys property in florida...
@jastermereel4946 no denying we are headed that way watch the Pandora's box man its insane an mind boggling how much damage we've done for thousands of years to nuclear weapons to animals extinction to medicine all of it its mind boggling
@@jastermereel4946: I think you're right, big picture. Clearly a rapidly rising global population puts lots of pressure on available resources per person over time -- even if we didn't have issues like climate change, pollution, etc. And of course, we do have MANY such issues, often caused by us.
I think re humanity overall, you can't fix stupid. We could at least TRY to seriously educate the populace, but the GOP/religious right fights against even the poor education we have now.
So you just keep falling for it over and over and over and over again… You have a mental disease. Your brain should have turned on when NY wasn’t under water when they said it would’ve been. You’re theirpawn
We're at a point where we need to be totally committed to reducing our impact AND mitigating for what is already coming. We could have avoided the latter, but we didn't. The longer we delay, the more both efforts will cost us. Thank you for the video. It's amazing some people still do not see the importance of acting.
capitalism isn’t compatible with this view - 🔥 responses
Yes, we must learn to control the climate of this planet. We must stagnate the natural evolution of this planet so we can keep it suitable for human life. For most of this planets history it's been inhospitable to human life. We can't let that happen again. So we must control and dominate this planet with our human superiority.
@@artworthi Or people want things now and don't want to give them up. Like, do you no longer drive, fly or otherwise use anything that is created by burning?
Yet the people yawn and do nothing. I see all that driving, all those airplanes, all those fireplaces, all that burning of fuels for electricity, all that ignoring of reducing fishing and destruction of the oceans and having all that "recycled plastic" ending up in the rivers and oceans.
I'm just trying to pay my bills 😅
Why are trucks and SUVs in America getting heavier and bigger if we are "on track"? Why hasn't trucking and train freight been redesigned to not be such a risk to the public? Why are 80 year olds living alone in 3000 sq ft homes heated and cooled in America? Why is it that the government allows for it be too expensive for the elderly to live in communities like retirement condos, so they can downsize? Why are there so many barely used vacation homes? Why is real estate an investment and not something that would be owned only if you really need it? A society that is run like a big scam can't be efficient. When everything is designed against the survival of the individual, the individual chooses self preservation. Take away the fears and real risk that cause people to choose the least environmentally sustainable options and only then can any progress be made.
Amen
Eventually, the population will collapse. Every species that lacks a natural predator exploits resources to the point of collapse, and then balance establishes. You can't fix human nature by stripping the power of choice.
It’s an arms race to keep people family safe. They see giant trucks running around get worried so they get giant trucks themselves, protect their families and on and on and on.
Sounds like you're talking about common sense, as someone outside of the USA I know for a fact that anything that seems like common sense is actually a commie plot. Perhaps you guys should fight harder politically to change that impression. You guys had a revolution over less when founding the USA.
GREED!
The earth doesn't need us (humans), but we need it. So many seem to forget that.
That bit at the end is some wildly optimistic hopium. I wish the media would start telling the truth about how screwed we are.
When they do the faux news propaganda machine goes into overdrive and changes the narrative
9:56 3°C is NOT good. We lose most/if not all reefs at 2°
Yep, scientists agree, 1.5 - 2C will cook reefs. Check out our last episode, we went to Florida during the major bleaching event.
We need to keep the warning under what we're already at. We need to reverse it otherwise we will be in trouble
We will basically snuff ourselves out 😵
@@Yesitisbrett Fentanyl crisis is just a prelude.
Actually, we have seen evidence all over the world, literally all major reefs grow higher as sea level rises. This even happened as the sea level recovered over 120 meters as the last ice age subsided, if it can go over 100 meters it can do 2-3 inches easy peasy.
Some people may think more oceans so more fish. Nope, nope we are over fishing the oceans. I worked on the NOAA ship Discoverer R102 in the early 90s. We measured a drift net that was 100 miles long. I think drift nets are now banned. However, other destructive forms of over fishing continue.
It's not only that. The Bering Sea got too warm and the crab didn't do so well. Messing with the salt content and temperature... Most species can't take it. Some will. The salmon in the north are having to deal with metals leaching out of the permafrost and that's going to be a big problem. It's all bad.
But very exciting.
Also, increases in ocean acidity and sea-water temperature will destroy the ability of many marine species to breed, or to survive at all, as well as destroying marine habitats such as coral reefs. When you factor-in the progressive collapse of food chains, from Phyto-plankton upwards, it's easy to see how the seas could be largely lifeless by the end of this century.
Well, that depends. Coastal areas are going to be inundated with habitat soon for small fish as houses become destroyed, even if a metre is reclaimed that is quite a bit of land globally. As cities become destroyed I can see people living in high rises without power fishing below them and if it gets to that stage you could kiss goodbye a lot of ports and roads.
Adding ocean acidification to the list.
@@antonyjh1234 if salt levels in water drop too much, that habitat for small fish might not have fish that can live there- only a relatively small amount of fish can move and thrive in both salt and fresh water (and variations between the two)
At least it will reduce Florida's electoral votes.
Somewhat unrelated but it's terribly ironic one of the most climate change vocal candidates, Al Gore, lost the 2000 election because of like 1000 votes in Florida... when Florida is going to be the most affected by climate change.
Thank you, Maiya , Weathered crew and PBS. I will be watching every episode you put out because this is truly the most important topic worldwide.
The video at 01:10 is from Rodanthe, Outer Banks, NC and is from September 2024. The builders (and buyers) were informed of the instability of the Banks and of rising ocean levels.
phil I worked for developers in the 80's and they KNEW, they just didn't care. $$$$$
Yeah I mean it's dramatic footage but those are all vacation rentals. They were built to strip mine the beach for seasonal rents and they probably paid their note in the 20-30 years they stood. The beach rentals are worth billions to Dare County, that's why they keep building up the Outer Banks. What's more concerning is the massive new bridges they've put up over Oregon Inlet and in the sound around Rodanthe. Won't be that long until they are standing in the ocean connected to nothing because the sandbars washed away.
dude, the outer banks could all be gone one day, not because of fucking climate change, but because they are barrier islands made of sand! the ocean changes them at its will and the only reason the stay intact is human intervention. They don’t call it the a ship graveyard because it’s easy to traverse, the ocean is always changing the ocean floor and sand banks
OK, let's take a reality check here. Firstly, there is no indication that the populations of those countries guilty of the greatest CO2 emissions (most especially the USA) are willing to make the changes to their societies, to their way of life (eg. changing their diet and curbing wasteful over-consumption), or to their economies, that are absolutely essential for reducing emissions to anything near zero in the foreseeable future... even though the science has been crystal clear for years now.
Secondly, the impact of rises in sea levels is NOT just that people will be forced to move their homes and businesses... in many parts of the world (poorer parts especially) that mass displacement of populations will bring societal collapse, conflict, disruption of agricultural systems and food production/distribution. Basically there will be widespread violence and starvation, and much of this will occur in nuclear-armed countries like India, Pakistan, and (the really BIG one) China. Mass population displacements in Asia and Africa will also multiply the flow of desperate refugees to the North and West, putting Liberal Democracy under unbearable strain across Europe (we already have fascists or authoritarian nationalists in power in Italy and Hungary, and they are a rising force in many other nations).
Thirdly, even hitting a zero emissions target (at some point in the far-too-distant future) will not stop Global Warming, because positive feedback loops are very likely to have kicked in (and maybe they already have) that make this process unstoppable. If the global temperature increase hits 4° C then there is no way we can stop it there. It MAY stabilise, but there is a good chance that it may not and could simply keep on rising, and if this does happen then it's probably curtains for the vast majority of larger mammals on Earth (including the most numerous, which is homo-sapiens).
Either humankind, and its political leaders, grasp this nettle now, overcome the hugely powerful vested interests and the greedy and selfish motives that drive so much of the public discussion on these topics, and make the necessary and drastic changes essential for our medium-term survival, or our technological civilisation, and perhaps our species, is living on borrowed time.
But how?
I always take the high scenario in these projections for similar reasons. The world of capital will shake itself apart before sacrificing the profit motive.
As for our species I am confident we will survive. But they will have a vastly different world to contend with. Read The Great Bay by Dale Pendell if you want a fictional novel that shows some of the futures we may have, and it ain’t all bad. People will live on, and they will experience joy and wonder and heartbreak and terror just like we do now.
And maybe, just maybe, some of them will remember, and guard against the cancerous logic of endless growth. They’ll have our ruins to remind them.
Western democracies have created people who need tons of things done for them and who need resources gained from other areas of the world. Certain standards of living, infrastructure, cement, meat, luxuries, freedom to drive and travel without restrictions, have no limits on general consumption or population controls in the name of freedom. These people don't have the will either to elect leaders that have the will to say the hard thing and ban plastics productions.
We'd need leaders to ban new car productions, establish local unions to get work done in every city and ban market stockholders collective greed in some way shape or form. And of course this would wipe out lots of fictional and real money in the system, maybe even necessitating martial law and enforced distribution of resources equitable in the short term in the name of public safety. Sea levels rise anyway and we slowly pivot our monoagriculture to sustainable, biodiversity based methods. All of this is just not possible for we the electorate. Who will give up their car or their ability to travel to visit loved ones. Have huge data centers for all of our technology pumping waste heat into the environment. There's just no will for it.
Have you ever asked yourself "what would it look like if America sided with the fascists during WW2?" No need, we're living through it, with America more interested in continuing the genocide of the Palestinian people than in even maintaining America's own geopolitical hegemony long-term (given an entire year of unabashed support for genocide is a very effective way of lighting all your non-military political capital on fire, and ensuring that literally the only thing international actors respect you for is your ability and stated willingness to murder them with nukes and their desire to avoid being nuked, invaded, regime changed, cut off from SWIFT, sanctioned, embargoed, or otherwise, by the infinitely long dick of American Empire). ...You think there is even a REMOTE snowballs chance in hell that American Empire is going to sacrifice the last leg that it's military hegemony rests on -- near-unilateral control of the petrodollar and the global oil/energy industry -- while it's stated near-peer adversary (China) unilaterally dominates every aspect of the renewable energy industries, from batteries to solar even to wind manufacturing?
With all due respect, we won't see a cohesive, global response to climate change until America has officially -- finally -- keeled over and killed itself (something it's actively doing its absolute best to accelerate the process of, anyway). Unfortunately, given China's very obvious desire to just allow America to fuck up and fail without intervention, we will simply have to wait until the global neoliberal order has been -- thoroughly -- repudiated and invalidated. Which isn't likely to happen before most of the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. Even if China were to forcibly develop the entire global south, at hyperspeed, so that China can continue to grow it's renewable energy industries without relying on the West, it's unlikely that the West will get over it's obsession with neoliberalism and being cucked to Americana anytime within this half of the century, at least.
Bluntly, we've missed our window and you're better off abandoning the fantasy that that's not the case. Reform within this "system" won't be happening, that's already a foregone conclusion. If there's any slight chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change, it's clearly only possible under China's model of economics... or, ideally, an even more -- properly -- socialist one, given China's clearly more interested in simply waiting and watching for America to fuck up over and over again than it is in genuinely advancing international socialism (not that I can blame them, given how much America really well and truly is the Big Bad Evil Guy in your stereotypical sci-fi about a big bad empire, especially if you're even remotely aware of America's global militarism and it's aiding and abetting of every fascist genocidaire that would side with them ever since Hitler).
@@Escobamos I completely agree. I think we'll make the change when we're forced into it and not before. We have to take care of each other in the meantime; and do what we can to wean ourselves off our little bullshit luxury treats (and I am as guilty of indulging in them as any regular person in the Global North).
"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber
Problem is policy makers know they won’t live long enough to be affected.
So oligarchs instead control policy makers and the public narrative to ensure their descendants will be able to insulate themselves from worldwide human suffering.
"The seas will rise. The lands will dry. Whole cities will have to be abandoned. Whole coastlines will have to be abandoned. Not in some future century, but in this century. Not tomorrow, but it is coming." [The Great Turning Point for Humanity, 2019]
With more tornadoes and hurricanes, destroying homes and businesses that are not even along the coast.
Most of Indonesia’s cities are going to go
In other words, the planet will return to its default state - a hothouse, with not a scrap of ice. I don't get why this is a problem, because life thrived back then. Anyway... give it a hundred million years Antarctica will be near the equator and all the ice will be gone anyway. Will we be taxing plate tectonics?
@@sillypuppy5940are you a human who lives on earth? If so, these events may concern you!
Not sure when this one was filmed, but ooof, the timing of this one 😬
We are all Tampa. We are all Ashville.
And this is just the beginning
False, I am Justin
no sir. I am actually Joseph
@@jaydee975the point is that there is no place that can escape the effects of climate change.
No we're not. And guess what? These things have happened throughout history and will continue to. You sound like a clown
Thank you, Ms. Mays. I love your presentations. People need to understand what is happening in this world. ❤
This is not happening like she claimed.
@@BenotzJoe Are you a liar or someone indoctrinated by liars? There are so many peer reviewed science journal articles speaking to climate change that only liars and fools don't admit that this a genuine phenomenon. In fact, you might want to look up the Doomsday Glacier (the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica), ocean warming, dying coral reefs, islands sinking, AMOC, methane escaping from glaciers and the Siberian permafrost contributing to global warming. There are more but that's a start. Which grade level did you complete? I can find resources for people who aren't well educated if you would like.
That reminds me of Waterworld, a movie that shows Earth, now covered with the ocean as the all of the glaciers melt
Complete fiction meant to steer public sentiment. And a complete flop as a movie when it was released.
@@thetranya3589 The guy's not claiming it's fact. It's a movie. Chill.
@@hannahguin5428 It’s called predictive programming. It is rampant in popular media and has been for decades. Look into it.
@@hannahguin5428 You gotta realize there are people out there who believe in "predictive programming." Like when a 3rd grader learns a new vocab word and suddenly sees it everywhere. It's nonsense, but it helps people feel more comfortable in explaining the world around them.
@@thetranya3589 meant to steer public sentiment into believing that humans will evolve gills?
How does the mass increase in methane fit into your model? Permafrost thawing is rapidly increasing methane release and some lakes that have a lot of methane held at depth by temperature and pressure are also releasing more methane and methane is worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Many models have focused only on CO2, which are incomplete.
Methane, while having far more effective insulating properties, does break down relatively quickly in the atmosphere. CO2 on the other hand persists and is therefore more problematic in the long term.
What's the best way to avoid climate action? Belay panic. We need panic. It's the only thing that humans respond to. Expecting us to radically transform our way of life without panic is futile. Please, folks, panic, and then act. Get on board with substantial transition, serious sacrifice, and face the hard truths of how much we need to change.
During the worst of the pandemic we were experiencing death on the order of multiple 9/11s every week. Some people couldn't have cared less, and many were ready to take up arms because they couldn't get haircuts for a while.
I'm not optimistic. As we speak, there are people who believe the two hurricanes that just hit Florida were the result of weather weapons instead of warmer oceans. Unless those people come around and join the rest of us in reality, climate change -- or rather our failure to address it -- will likely be our Great Filter event.
@@gman13531 What scared me the most was the people who would not take measures to save THEIR OWN lives because of political brainwashing. That's the kind of stuff that really scares me. You realize a whole society can just commit to a completely self-destructive ideology even if it's obviously going to kill them and their loved ones.
I still have trouble wrapping my mind around that.
@@gman13531 i just read a news article that said people were sending death threats to meteorologists because of the disinformation being spread and i just cant wrap my head around how people think humans can control the weather to attack political enemies like we are anime villains, its getting nuts and im honestly at my wits end with these people who stick their heads in the sand
don't worry its nearly xmas you can buy your doom goblin greta thunberg calendar soon
Give it 20 years. The Devil always gets his due, and frankly, human civilization deserves it
there should be a visualization of how much profit Shell, BP, etc. made for each degree of temperature rise.
Ever since cars were introduced and highways expanded in the 1950s, we have been in a direct collision course with global disaster
Granted, we'll lose much, but sea level rise isn't what scares me. Its the heat and the storms that will kill.
yes, the humidity and non-stop storms is whats going to take humanity out
Come on. There are far worse things out there than heat and storms. And, storms aren't bad if you've got the right kind of homes in the most affected regions, and the local flora and fauna loves the high rainfalls. And, wouldn't that be cool, the usa's western deserts turning into grassy prairie lands.
Have you thought about what a billion refugees and the loss of major cities worldwide will do to politics, culture and economies? It’s pure nightmare fuel.
@@frederickheard2022 I expect the coasts to empty out because of the storms before sea level rise does. You can run from sea level rise - a foot by 2050 can happen, but that can be a managed move. Cat 4s and 5s along the coasts are happening now - they can not be managed. Yes, I understand about the world economies, etc.
@@LyricsQuest I got into FL a day after Hurricane Michael hit and served about 5 miles from Mexico Beach. Do you know what we heard at night? Nothing. Silence. Even the bugs were taken out. And prairies are maintained by nature's fire, btw.
To be fair Florida looks like that now.
Parts of it anyway
@@TheGiggleMasterP Give it a couple more years... besides hurricane isn't even over! What an absolute tragedy...
It’s gonna gwtbworse
The storm surge from hurricanes are basically just showing us our future for the coastal areas..
looks like Florida stop the alarmist clap trap
Really sad. In 1966 my family learned about climate change watching PBS. My mom and dad made many trips to just a small number of recycling centers. They are gone now so they don't have to hear that not rinsing plastic bottles would ruin a truck full of plastic. I have switched to desolving sheets and they are working well as detergent
Back then you'd have heard about worry for a mini ice age returning.
@homewall744
That wasnt taken seriously among the scientific community at any point.
Plastic for recycling is simply shredded and washed in shredded form (which also separates polyethylene and polypropylene from the other plastic because it floats (all other plastic sinks).
@@allangibson8494then they are sent to bangaladesh landfill and I get to wash my mind of moral impurity
If laundry detergent sheets or pods use polyvinyl alcohol as an ingredient... that's essentially plastic/petrochemical fyi 😢
Weathered is GREAT! Maya has almost convinced me to change careers to planet science. So inspiring! Thank you!
It's probably better to change it to political science - as a conservative option - as the inertia is most certainly political in nature. At the other end of the scale, maybe military science is better, since the political side certainly isn't looking likely to be fixed, and that means one thing, which begins with W.
she just using climate change too gain subs , its trash science
All of these models are underestimating the speed of which the domino effect will impact other variables
You have a paper that discounts the hard work of the scientists?
They did talk about the domino effect. Its in the absolute worst case scenario and won't happen until close to the end of the century.
Worse, the models used for this grossly downplay the rate and severity of the temperature and sea level rise - as required by politicians and big money interests. The adverse impacts will be much worse, will occur vastly faster, and will snow ball one into another in a chain of interlocking feedback loops that drive us to +11 C.
How The f do you know that?
@@umpalumpa6565 Gee. Just perhaps House31x is actually reading the latest science. Perhaps s/he then is noting the divergence of reality from the "accepted" (politically allowed) models and their low balled climate sensitivity; and not by a little, but by huge margins. Perhaps s/he has paid attention to the eruption of Pingos in the Yamal, the melting and rotting of the tundra, and the immense tundra fires, and read the reports about the dynamic changes in the arctic currents that drive the AMOC and the PDO through the falling cold currents. Perhaps s/he has actually read and understood the science related to the myriad feedback loops and their dependence on one another, and how tripping any single tipping point cascades through all or most of the rest, and those then cascade to the rest. Perhaps s/he has read the paleoclimate record and science and has seen the parallels from ancient conditions to today. Perhaps s/he has studied the arctic and antarctic sea ice records to again - see the patterns and response. Perhaps s/he has followed in detail the development and process involved in the IPCC that conditions all reports and science on a) being at least 10 years old, and b) being palatable to the political and financial whims of the politicians and governments of the world, and the oligarchs and major corporations. Perhaps too s'he has read what the scientists are actually saying over the last decade. Perhaps s/he knows a hell of a lot more than you do, as evidenced by understanding that the climate tipping points are akin to the dominoes of the 1960s-1980s domino political theory.
One thing I never see mentioned is how the sea level rising is how it effects one of the major things we need to live (and not just humans either).
Drinkable water.
With the rise of the sea level, it will invade our major cities. From under ground. Under ground is where most of our major plumbing systems are, not just water, but sewage systems. In other areas, it will invade areas where crops are grown.
Both of these mean that effluent and agricultural fertilizers will enter the marine ecosystem enmass. This will cause huge algal blooms, and the death of millions if not billions of sea life. It will also mean that getting nourishment from the oceans will have to be stopped because anything that has survived will still be poisonous for us to consume.
All this contaminated sea water will have entered and contaminated the water table.
The water table (and aquifers)is where a large portions of the world get their drinking water.
Then there is also the problem of one of the other necessities, food.
All of our food stuffs (meat and plants) that are farmed on land will suffer from the contaminated groundwater. If not by the sewage, then by the salt.
In ancient history, some invading armies would "salt the earth", so that their enemies wouldn't be able to grow crops.
Vast tracts of land will become useable for the purpose of growing crops or herds of animals for consumption.
This is without going into the spread of disease from all the raw sewage and dead sea life washing up on shore in unheard of numbers.
It will be an environmental apocalypse. We will survive, but at greatly reduced numbers.
And yes, I'm fun at parties.
😂
I’ve been following this for about 15 years now. We always track the ‘business as usual’ aka ‘worst case’ scenarios. So that’s what I base my plans on. And until something happens to drastically reduce the number of shortsighted greedy hominids, I don’t see anything likely to change this.
Most of the industrialised world has had falling emissions for a while now.
It will take a bit of time for the rest of the world to slow down but they are also working towards it.
@@matthewrichard9626 Last year set another record for emissions. I’ll believe in falling numbers when I see them measured.
@@edbouhl3100 When do you think worldwide peak emissions will happen? My bet is this year. 2025 will see a slight decrease. 2026 will see a slightly greater decrease. And so on.
@@General12th My take is that emissions will fall when extreme weather gouges away enough industrial capacity. Weather seems to be ramping up faster than a linear rate so it’s a guess at best.
@@General12th 2080 will be peak and final emissions, my prediction XD
Florida republicans have been in denial of human driven global heating, so let them raise their taxes to pay for the flood insurance and hurricane insurance that private companies no longer want to provide. The rest of the country shouldn't pay higher federal taxes, so the people in florida can live in flood zones and unsurvivable hurricane zones. We've known this for decades, and they're still building new houses and new high rises there.
When Florida floods, they shouldn’t be allowed to cross the border to get out of Florida.
I mean sure, we could avoid flooding our major cities, displacing millions of people, and all the other catastrophes inherent in unabated warming by CO2 emissions. But have you considered the counter that really rich people would probably not be as rich as they could have been? I mean, put that way, I'm sure you can see how this is actually a difficult and complex decision... /s
No chance US will do the right thing on this. Say goodbye to the coasts and food resources.
My children won’t have seasons. It will just be hot and cold
To be fair, that’s how I grew up in Florida.
Or drought and flood.
Winter is coming will only be a prophecy to look forward to in the future.
AI will solve everything don’t worry. They will figure out something
Iowa- for the last 5 years, at least
All these future projections look pretty grim but what is happening right now is hard to ignore. Now that hurricanes are averaging cat 5 and dumping 3 feet of rain in a span of mere hours how is that survivable? So people are expected to rebuild every year now? That's ridiculous. Every year it will get worse, where does it go from here? It's too late to stop what we've done, all that is left is to survive.
Remember just a few years ago when meteorologists were wondering whether or not it was even possible for a hurricane to sustain wind speeds over 165mph without tearing itself apart?
We just watched one handled 180mph winds with ease...
For scale, an EF4 tornado has winds ranging from 166-200 mpg... so Milton had EF4 TORNADO strength winds in its eyewall.
@@rakeshmalik5385holy shit
Imo, they are not smart, this info is seen and available. They should move now or risk the ins increases, loss of life and property value.
Hurricanes are not averaging cat 5.
@@matthewrichard9626 So that means no problem? HA! Just wait pal.
When you say "Not very likely," it is clear that you underestimate the rapacious greed of today's hypercapitalism.
Dude they said Florida would be under water in 2002, then again and again and again. No this time it’s real? REALLY? So naive
@@PersonPersons-kh3bg No they (meaning scientists, climatologists and a host of other experts and others your brain erroneously thinks it's smarter than) did not. Faux News said it and then told gullible people like you that "they" said it. And as usual, you still don't get it.
@@PersonPersons-kh3bg no one said that. Moron right winger keep making shit up and pretending that it was actually said. But if you had any brains at all you'd be reading the papers not making up what "they" said
Sad to say, we are already into an "Avalanche effect" scenario. Notice it's 95F in October in Texas, that's 10-15F over normal temps. Notice each year is breaking the previous year's record highs. Then notice that the water cycle is currently breaking under the strain, with extended droughts, then massive hurricanes back to back. So, we've already broken through the 10F threshold, which is causing the ice caps to rapidly melt, thus releasing tons of permafrost methane, which is an even more potent greenhouse gas, which causes more heat, which melts more ice caps, which reduces reflectivity, which causes more heat, which causes more fires. The soot from the fires falls on the ice caps, making them darker, thus accelerating their melting... So, you see, we've already kicked off a tipping point from which we cannot stop. Even if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today, the destruction would continue since the 420 ppm of global CO2 would still be in play, as would all the methane that is being emitted from the permafrost melt. Humans, the only creature smart enough to destroy their Goldilocks zone of habitation due to our lust for fossil fuel consumption. Scientists and oil companies themselves have well understood the ramifications for over 70 years, yet the Petroleum cabal has decided our collective fate was worth the sacrifice for their immense wealth (think Dubai and Saudi Prince type money) Chevron CEO Michael Wirth made $22,610,285 in 2021, 123 times more than the median salary at Chevron.
ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made $23,904,954 in 2021, 133 times the median employee salary at ConocoPhillips.
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods made $23,572,488 in 2021, 125 times the median salary at ExxonMobil.
Marathon Petroleum CEO Michael Hennigan made $21,185,206, 142 times the median salary at Marathon Petroleum.
Hess CEO John B. Hess made $12,408,198, 63 times the median salary at Hess. Honorable mention for international corporations BP and Shell:
BP CEO Ben van Beurden made GBP £4,457,000 in 2021.
Shell CEO, also Ben van Beurden, made EUR €7,380,000 in 2021.
President Biden and the Democrats are working hard to hold these greedy executives accountable and address the root causes of climate change - chief among them, emissions from the oil and gas industry. Congressional Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will create jobs, lower costs, and fight climate change, and introduced a bill to stop price gouging in the oil and gas industry. Not a single Republican - many of whom are bankrolled by Big Oil - voted for either of these bills, effectively giving these greedy executives permission to keep stealing from American families and allowing the industry to keep emitting deadly pollutants.
republicans want money. they don't care about the climate. nor the people. they just lie their way to get elected. and its working on 50% of the population. that is so sad
Um... DFW 1899 Oct. avg. was 69.4, fast forward 120 years, DFW Oct. avg was 69.2, I think your 15F over normal is about as accurate as this video.
Hi PBS! I just found you online and subscribed! I’m a native of Miami, FL born in the “Iron Age” of 1942 so I remember when I was a kid climbing trees and walking a mile to school in the winter wearing a dress and my legs FREEZING COLD sooo I see the changes very vividly. I have lived in South Florida, raising my children and working every day …. I currently live in a western suburb of Broward and our condo is on 13’ above sea level, which used to make me feel somewhat protected from the future encroachment of rising seas…..now: not so much! Any place in Florida you could suggest I move to….or someplace else that isn’t FREEZING IN THE WINTER (like it was when I lived a decade in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia…I froze my toes!)….😊😊😊
Things are warming everywhere. Even here in Wisconsin, spring comes earlier, summer is longer, and fall hangs on past Thanksgiving. I am sure as long as you stay in the South it will be warm enough for you soon.
Thank you Maiya & Crew! And all the experts interviewed. Such great quality videos that are easy to understand ❤
The rising seas, the burning skies,
A world that mourns, that hopes, that cries.
Return to roots, let nature guide,
In her embrace, we turn the tide.
A life in balance, pure and true,
Is found where earth and heart renew.
It’s been too late for 50 years now
Longer than that 😢😢😢 and it's only getting worse, especially since people want to deny climate change even exists. I encourage everyone to go Vegan as 1 way to make the largest pact against climate change as well as protecting all sentient beings, our Mother Earth and our future generations 💚🌱💚
"Too late" for what? Avoiding any change? Well, yeah. Total ice melt and up to 40' of sea level rise, like in the Pleistocene? NOT too late. The more we do, and the sooner we do it, the less catastrophic the effects. This is NOT an "all or nothing" proposition, and to frame the situation that way is defeatist.
@@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920Thank you for saying this. If we’d done what we were doing now 50 years ago, we would be in a far better place.
The best we can do is mitigate the damage
No, I'm afarid we can't and won't. @ecurewitz
On top of this also comes bigger storms and more rainfall.
So as the sea level rises areas that normally would get flooded would begin to flood with smaller and smaller intervals, long before they will be completely under water.
This is the coolest year of the rest of your life.
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That would be funny if it weren't true.
I always appreciate the framing and production quality of Terra videos. This is the first time I've seen anyone publicly speak about post-2050 actions with any specificity. I appreciate the realistic view and the contextualization of what a 2.5 - 3˚C range looks like. Indeed, that's where a BBC poll earlier this year put a mean climate scientist's attainanable warming level (with the now obvious disclaimer: don't trust polls).
I gave this video a thumbs up, but I do not approve of sea level rise nor our willful uncaring about it.
And with Trump returning to Washington our climate will get worse much quicker count on it.
Yeah, sadly people in the last election were far more concerned about the genitalia of people entering bathrooms than they were about the climate. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Trump saying it will make a lot more land....
Wrong.
Most of Florida will be gone.
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the north of canada is becoming more habitable i feel like theres more land
@@Soda_and_me feelings are important but land is not the same thing as soil for growing food. We have a record 310 million that are food insecure with 50 million in "acute" food insecurity (meaning starving unless they get food assistance). That number will escalate fast.
@@Soda_and_meno, US will not just invade Canada for it 🤪
My home, atop Clay Hill in northeast Pasco County, Florida will be on an island.
Always being fair, honest, balanced = is the reason why the new administration wants defund of PBS, so please donate
Thanks for continuing to do the work of getting this out there.
You can never have too much hoax.
I live in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod and we are basically at sea level and coincidentally we have a town meeting next week to discuss this
Humanity might not even be here in 2050, and not because of anything we have/haven't done, there is an event much larger that we have absolutely no way of changing or controlling, if you know, you know.
oh thank god. Earth needs an enema.
We should just prepare for all the ice to melt.
yawn no it won't it will refreeze
@@bonysminiatures3123 yawn - no it won't. One of the issues with say the sea ice at the North Pole is it requires specific layers within the ocean to be present. But they are getting disrupted due to melting ice - so once the ice at the North Pole hits a point of no return, it will never refreeze, no matter how cold it gets. But the big issue is - physics. Heat just doesn't disappear. It transfers - but it doesn't disappear. So even if we stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow - that ice is not refreezing anytime in your lifetime.
That would take 100s or 1000s of years. You don't need to worry about all the ice melting.
@@zoeherriot ice can't melt at north pole its always below freezing , danish scientists monitoring Greenland melts in summer , refreezes winter it holds its mass
It's really scary. I cannot apologize enough to my Grandchildren 😢
64 I watch the deer out my window, and think the same thing. They are on the run with nowhere left to go. Their habitat is gone, the waters ruined. We humans have obliterated everything natural. And still going full bore.
Your grandchildren can solve the problem better than you!
@@chinookvalley Actually deer are flourishing on peoples' lawns and eating their garden flowers, we've hunted their natural predators, so the deer population has actually exploded, and they are a hazard to cars driving around at night!
@@thomaskalbfus2005 Nobody's grandchildren are solving it now even if they have Phds.
@@iGame3D with the help of artificial intelligence they might.
I need a five minute highlight reel no commercials version of this to possibly share w my friends and family who are still drinking FauxNews
It won't change anything. Those people are hopelessly deluded.
Global warming can also cause a freeze in Eastern Canada and US. If the Gulf stream stops because of melting ice from Greenland.
Please
The situation will probably be worse than projected because so far climate scientists have been underestimating the effects of fossil fuel burning induced global heating.
According to this video, the damaging effects of CO2 in the atmosphere will last for 500,000 years:
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Also not mentioned in this video: the fact that 90 of the world's 400+ nuclear power plants are located in coastal areas.
Indeed just last week "Liquid Natural Gas produces 400% more greenhouse gases than coal after mining/processing/transport is taken into consideration"
@@iGame3D Where did you read this?
12:22 I do believe it is important to look at carbon capture as a way to repair damage already done, not as a way to offset new emissions. Carbon storage is ineffective as an offset mechanism, and wasted for that. But to mitigate damage and reduce the peak damage (lagging effect suhch as rising sea levels) we could afford to use carbon capture once we have stabilized around zero emission such as nuclear, wind and solar. Hydro sounds promising, but will have large short term effects in the form of methane emissions ("short term" is 10-20 years), and the question is if expanding hydro in areas that are currently not regulated is a good idea, as we risk further large scale ecological damage.
Yesh, the magical "batteries".... come on kids, batteries are not an energy source. You can, with very little development, replace some of the fossil fuel with renewable hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons that would burn much cleaner than the ones we pick up from the ground today. It would require a huge input of energy, but if we harness that energy using biological means (algae) instead of technological (solar, wind, nuclear) we create a new carbon cycle. It might not be long (a few months from capture to release) but it will be net-zero and will allow us to put the electricity from other sources to better use than driving heavy batteries around our cities.
Then again, in cities electrical short range vehicles are great because of their lack of "tail pipe emissions", the will be NOx and other combustion products that are not healthy.
In the US you need to electrify all your railroads, you have a huge cargo rail network. Sure. a lot of it is shuffling coal around, but it can be put to better use if rail corridors are upgraded to high speed trains capable of beating air travel over medium distances.
130,000 years ago all of Southern Florida was under water when the seas rose 25' during one of the stages of melt during ice age.
and what does that have to do with what's happening now?
Thank you!
Kind of worried you are talking about 2100 and 2150…
Isnt the goal net zero 2050?
We aren’t going to reach net zero.
We are increasing our use of fossil fuels every year, not reducing it.
@@CarrieLovesLife. yea ok but pbs isnt in on that
We have already exceeded 1.5C warming.. it's too late.
Use today's technology, not tomorrows. Do you know what of today's technology can stop global warming? Nuclear weapons, if we use them and billions die, this will cut carbon emissions and start nuclear winter, do you want that?
known unknowns, acidification of the oceans, release of methane from the permafrost, cascading stupidity from my local government...
Exactly.That's why I think the worst case scenario is the most likely
How about heat shield tiles falling off SpaceX Starship and hitting little birdies on the head causing them to fall out of trees, should the FAA investigate that?
@7:32 The voice says 3 feet, the text box in the lower right says 3 feet, but the lower-third says 3 meters(!) contradicting the text and voice over
Hey, thanks for watching! Great question. The photo is simulating ~3 feet of groundwater. Since the location is ~7 feet above high tide levels, in this scenario the sea level would be at 10 feet (3 meters) to see ~3 feet of groundwater.
What the h are you talking about the lady and the graphs are both talking feet yeah the guy from the NOAA is talking in meters but the graph still says feet.
This is so dumb. Can we all just use meters like the rest of the world!?!
Especially when conveying scientific information. Force the "feet knuckle draggers" do the conversion.
I'm being a bit facetious as an American myself, but I use metric in my work and it's just so much easier to use. I also changed my phone and thermostat to use Celsius to become more familiar with it.
Anyway, great video PBS! Yes, just be sure the video and graphs match to avoid this silliness.
@@charleshartley9597 Heh. Right? I want metric time >1 second, as in 1 min = 10 sec (or 100), 1 hour = 100 sec, etc. If it weren't for the pesky rotational speed of the planet. Amiright? :)
While we're at it, let's at least eliminate AM/PM and use the 24-hour clock until we figure out metric time.
And that’s without assuming many more catastrophic weather during the rise in water levels. 🥶
YET! We just elected a president that doesn't believe in climate change.
Oh the stupidity of my fellow Americans!
I’m sure you’re wrong. Cite where he said he doesn’t believe in climate change.
@@dr_shrinkerWorld Economic Forum in Davos in 2020.
He called it a “Hoax”.
@@dr_shrinkerand while he was president he did what to tackle the problem???? Nothing.
@@dr_shrinker he literally withdrew us from the paris climate agreement, all types of scientific reporting from government institutions that showed evidence of climate change was taken offline, he opened up yellowstone to fracking and drilling, and at numerous points has said with his mouth that he doesn't believe in it. not sure what else you want. maybe if he hangs greta thunberg and some climate scientists out by the washington monument you might believe the words he says and actions he takes?
I'm listening. I care. But we just had proof that a majority of people in the US don't. It's hard to have hope for my grandchildren's future when Floridians deny what's happening right in front of their faces.
Hurricanes never hit Florida in the past
@kmoses582 I can no longer easily tell what's sarcasm and what's sincere.
@@gregoryferraro7379 I was being sarcastic because alarmist act like bad things never happened in the past.
@kmoses582 OK, I understand. I really wish I could have been sure you were being sarcastic. But, alas, I have learned not to assume.
The problem with renewable energy is that corporate greed and poor implementation by government will make meaningful change near impossible. Solar has been needlessly limited in terms of efficiency for many years by companies pushing fossil fuels and the the lobbying of government by them. Same system, same issues. The priorities are whack.
Absolutely. In my area, there's a law (tax incentive, actually) that incentivizes people to adopt cleaner more efficient technologies. The fossil fuel industry has responded by creating a crafty disinformation program that tells people they'll have to get rid of their gas stoves. It's baloney. There's NOTHING in the law that bans anybody's gas stove, or even prevents them from buying a new one. But the Fossil Fuel Boys have dozens of millions of dollars to buy ads and print literature that the rest of don't have. They defeated a very well constructed cap-and-trade plan about 10 years ago by launching a huge advertising campaign telling our citizens (this is WA State) that it would increase their grocery taxes. Well guess what? WA State HAS NO TAXES ON GROCERIES - something any citizen could verify by simply LOOKING AT THEIR GROCERY STORE RECEIPTS.
But it didn't matter. The Fossil Fuel Boys had $60 million more bucks than the people who campaigned for the cap and trade (including the mayors of most of our major cities), and so they got their way.
This is how the cancer operates, and more people need to be aware of these devious tactics.
Let's remember that President Carter put solar panels on the White House, and Reagan yanked them down virtually his first day there. I've been fighting this fight since 1970 and it's been disheartening to say the least. Still, I'm likely to be alive in 2050 and I hope we succeed in making the alterations necessary.
@@YogiMcCaw i guess you have never heard of Sales tax before my freind? and it does exist in washington state. Democrats control it they TAX EVERYTHING! Your teeth will be taxed soon.
What are we building these panels with? The giant black panel farms in the sahara have altered weather patterns.
P.S. Tesla was and is correct. The actual solution is the energy already present around and within.
I have been hearing about rising sea levels for 35 years and they are still the same today,
Don’t be obtuse. Sea levels are higher than 35 years ago.
You could easily discover that you are wrong, but you choose to live in your blissful ignorance.
Yup, just like that 35 year older ass of yours. Looks the same from your perspective no doubt
"Faster Than Expected!"