Given the UK clearly can't even build a railway or houses, or sustain basic infrastructure or public services, but is giving out new oil licences like sweets, I think there's some optimism thst we would ever manage to either plan or build appropriate sea defences in time to prevent a complete debacle.
Nick, Paul Beckwith recently published a video that put the Antarctic ice loss in the context of a 2019 paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Pistone. It calculates the effect of an ice-free arctic ocean on global warming, which would be the equivalent of 1T tons of C02 emission and was estimated in the paper to accelerate global warming by 25 years. Very sobering. Now there are lots of variables and differences between the two poles which he points out, but the effects of the Antarctic ice loss could be much, much worse than anticipated. If you get the chance, it would be a great topic for discussion with your guests. Keep up the great work.
Unstoppable? Ice sheets retreat during warm periods and advance during cold periods. Nothing new. Glaciers retreated during the Medieval Warm Period. Then advanced during the Little Ice Age when Frost Fairs were held on the frequently frozen Thames River. Then the climate warmed after the Little Ice Age. Climate has always changed and it always will regardless of what we do.
There's a paper out there : A. Levermann and R. Winkelmann: A simple equation for the melt elevation feedback of ice sheets Has an equation of the lag time, as I can throw ice cubes into a fire and they will still stay ice cubes for a while, at 5c it will take 330 years at the fastest rate, 500 median and 930 at the slowest for 10% of the ice worldwide to melt, if you want 100% at the fastest rate that is 2140 years. Ok 5c might be reached by century end but lag times and your own life being quite short comparatively.. I get the timeline on an earth scale is quick but in our lifetime scales, maybe your plans could be a little different, it's hard to carry water to the top of a hill.
Right, well, I didn't mean it literally. It was intended more as a cynical joke, and a bit of wistful fatalism in the face of forces much greater than ourselves.
Thank you for your work.
Yes can we have more shorts (short videos) please !!!
Given the UK clearly can't even build a railway or houses, or sustain basic infrastructure or public services, but is giving out new oil licences like sweets, I think there's some optimism thst we would ever manage to either plan or build appropriate sea defences in time to prevent a complete debacle.
The UK is at the pinnacle of astounding incompetence and corruption. It needs to change fast.
More Brits will be moving to Canada soon.
I think many people will be surprised when we have a one foot sea level rise by 2050
Unprepared for tidal surges.
1200 gigatons of Pressurized methane will make things "faster than expected."
7 Meters by 2070!
@@nicevideomancanada Well Paul Beckwith says 7 Meters by 2100 so you're not far off
No, He stated 7 Meters by 2070. I'm not mistaken.
I'm not says this, he is. @@reallymysterious4520
Nick, Paul Beckwith recently published a video that put the Antarctic ice loss in the context of a 2019 paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Pistone. It calculates the effect of an ice-free arctic ocean on global warming, which would be the equivalent of 1T tons of C02 emission and was estimated in the paper to accelerate global warming by 25 years. Very sobering. Now there are lots of variables and differences between the two poles which he points out, but the effects of the Antarctic ice loss could be much, much worse than anticipated. If you get the chance, it would be a great topic for discussion with your guests. Keep up the great work.
Paul Beckwith also stands by his claim that there will be a 7 Meter Sea Level rise by 2070 and that it doubles every 7 years to then
@@nicevideomancanada...Well, get back to me in 2070 and let's see if he was right
Unstoppable? Ice sheets retreat during warm periods and advance during cold periods. Nothing new. Glaciers retreated during the Medieval Warm Period. Then advanced during the Little Ice Age when Frost Fairs were held on the frequently frozen Thames River. Then the climate warmed after the Little Ice Age. Climate has always changed and it always will regardless of what we do.
In short: if you want to plan for the future build yourself a nice, self-sufficient farm high on a hilltop...and fortify it.
There's a paper out there : A. Levermann and R. Winkelmann: A simple equation for the melt elevation feedback of ice sheets
Has an equation of the lag time, as I can throw ice cubes into a fire and they will still stay ice cubes for a while, at 5c it will take 330 years at the fastest rate, 500 median and 930 at the slowest for 10% of the ice worldwide to melt, if you want 100% at the fastest rate that is 2140 years. Ok 5c might be reached by century end but lag times and your own life being quite short comparatively..
I get the timeline on an earth scale is quick but in our lifetime scales, maybe your plans could be a little different, it's hard to carry water to the top of a hill.
Right, well, I didn't mean it literally. It was intended more as a cynical joke, and a bit of wistful fatalism in the face of forces much greater than ourselves.
That's probably worse then, joking when people are scared and seek direction you come along with a cynical joke that means nothing..@@jamesquinn5489
you are not far off there mate.