Well considering how much land is up North in Canada and Russia I think we should do all we can to push for climate change. It happens all the time geologically. We talk of terraforming other planets but somehow ours is sacred FROM humanity? We speak of a broad Goldilocks zone but changes in the Earths orbit have created ice ages in the past along a much much more narrow "zone." If it happens let it happen and adapt, that's what we do as a species. Do you really think "climate change" is more dramatic a change than industrialization? Hubris...
@@OutSideTheBoxFormat I'd rather we spend our collective resources on food assistance programs for our poor (which is good for our farmers), than spend more money on our bloated military. So....let's give the military budget the axe, and spread our resources to fighting climate change instead, a war with an enemy far more dangerous to our prosperity.
@@rickjohnson2165 It is coming true, The glaciers are melting high in the mountains and Greenland. Elsewhere the ice caps are melting in Antarctica. This is causing sea levels to rise around the world. It's just an inch or two a decade now, but it's accelerating, and it's not going to stop anytime soon. Decades and centuries in the future the sea will flood major coastal cities. It's an easy prediction to make and it's already starting to happen.
@@Acccountable Yeah, and sea level has risen a lot in the past 100 years. Around 10 inches in the New York City area. Go out a few centuries and it;s enough sea level rise to flood cities that have low lying coastal exposure.
trung nguyen hoang I’m an American been living in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) since 2013, I can tell you every year the flooding during rainy season and high tides have been getting worst, the rainstorms are more intense every year, even my life long vietnamese friends are noticing it. Keep denying reality and stay stupid to changing events right in front of your eyes.. Look no further than weather issues in the US (hurricanes tornadoes snowstorms flooding fires) and more extreme and frequent, I’m 65 I don’t remember the amount of things things being as intense, numerous, big, and frequent as the past 15 years. Tho I agree dikes may not be the answer but ignoring it surely won’t be the answer
Yes the Dutch are pretty much masters. What disturbs Me is that LIBERAL NY, will want the rest of us in the Nation to come to their aid...with MONEY...I say NAY!
Do the people behind Verge Science know that the city of Venice was built on unstable shallow ground on a lagoon and the Venetians used to extract underground fresh water from aquifer, thus causing the city to sink faster? If the sinking of Venice were due to permanent sea level rise , then the coastal town of Caorle in Venice should also be flooded but it is not. GOOGLE: Venice Menace: Famed City is Sinking & Tilting
@@simon6071 the thing is, you can CLEARLY see the rise of sea levels around the world Compare sea level data from before the industrial revolution to the 2019 datas
@@simon6071 this is actually very true and a large problem for coastal areas that dont have water pumped from other areas. But when rising sea levels would combine with this it can get even more dangerous.
@@bradhaaf4749 Sea level is predicted to rise only a few inches by 2100... why would the nuclear facilities be under water? The current ones will likely be decommissioned anyway.
Exactly!!! We need to design a technique for REMOVING cities and Rebuilding in new locations. And we need to do it NOW before it becomes a full blown issue.
gambling how do you know to what edge? so abandon billions of people and trillions in infrastructure and valued environmental treasure to taking on -proven man-made- climate change to an irresponsible idea of reducing this to investment opportunities - pure psychopathic capitalistic insanity to consequences where there are solutions
12800-+ years ago the oceans rose 400 feet practically over night swallowing up coastal lands around the world. Maybe we all should have been taught this while in school. Now you know . If you live next to any body of water, river,stream,lake,sea or ocean don’t complain . Just move. That’s all it is.
He is talking about ice here..... if you unplug a freezer, the ice in Antarctica will melt, and if the ice melts in Antarctica, we can’t re- freeze it to stop flooding
It’s happening in some places like Venice Besides the rising water levels, the tectonic plate in which Venice sits in is sinking underneath another plate
Climate change is causing the sea levels, so the Artic ice melts each year and the oceans will eventually become overflowed. As the Earth heats more, the ice will continue to melt.
Keisha Sims So in theory the inside of the earth could heat up a lot more as well and eventually melt rock higher up near the earth’s crust. this could eventually lead to more fragile tectonic plates and the sinking of heavy masses of land.
Don't blame mother earth for living and breathing blame the developer's for building next to waters that are always rising and falling. Who builds on a flood plain ?
Laugh even louder in Russian. Boy, I can't wait for Global Warming to strike and get rid of Permafrost in Siberia and melt/weaken ice in northen seas... that'll be an economical boom!
Haha hell yes. It's crazy but intresting how others are just now waking up when it's becoming a problem while we've been dealing with these problems for decades.
Two cities in my country (COLOMBIA) will dissapear sooner or later they are like under 10 meters over sea level. It's sad, goodbye Santa Marta and Cartagena.
The surging seas map needs a lot of work to be more user friendly, if you want old people (which is where the majority of climate change deniers reside) to use it, it needs to be way more friendly. I cannot figure out how to simply set a year and projected sea level rise for a location.
"Old people" have seen your con game played out dozens of times and are far better educated than you; we designed the internet and made computers so easy to use even naive children like you can use it. We designed the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo projects using slide rules while your generation cant count to ten without using your fingers.
Why? When designing anything, your target should be in mind. The target audience of this video is obviously Americans who aren’t concerned enough about this impending doom. If you use metric, meters make the figures numerically smaller and less severe seeming anyway. Again, the target is Americans, meaning they’re easily convinced by bigger numbers.
Tonyisgaming wow, that sounds slightly hateful. You know, the ignorant Americans that deny climate change are never going to watch videos like this. And I know from experience that most educated Americans prefer metric anyway. “Numerically smaller” doesn’t mean anything if you know it’s general implications
well, planting trees is definitely helpful and an amazing solution but not because they hold water. Planting trees is helpful because they turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen. That helps because it is the only thing in the carbon cycle that can actually absorb the CO2 and help lower the greenhouse effect that is caused by that GHG that warms the atmosphere causing the sea levels to rise. By planting trees you are lowering the greenhouse effect that would prevent the sea levels to rise.
We have been told for at least 30 years that sea level rise will inundate coasts in the near future. NYC was supposed to be under 10 feet of water by 2014 even if the estimated are off by several years shouldn't NYC be under at least 4 or 5 feet of water by now? Why are Venice, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands not under water today? You do know that places like Miami are actually SINKING not being covered by sea rise?
At different places effects will be different due to tides. More floods, droughts, mass immigration, city distruction, ecological degradation is not a joke. Go vegan or tell people plant based diet reduce resource use, don't emit methane and reverse heart disease for our future sake
Justin setting so there used to be this thing called an ice age Earth just exited 12000 years ago. Look up a graph of average co2 concentration over earth’s lifespan, and average temp. Earth isn’t that warm, infact it’s cool because we are still exiting an ice age. The earth is dynamic and changes over thousands of years, the fact it’s a tiny warmer means almost nothing to the earth. The Sharjah used to be tropical. The ice age ended without human influence, the trend will continue without humans or with
Looking at some world maps, there is often a pale blue outline around areas of land. Some seemingly actually joining land masses together. This is shelves or offshore shallows, where once there was land. The process continues, if now at an accelerating rate. I live in Key West Fl, US. 4.3m above sea level. Property values are extremely high here. One day it will just disappear into the rest of the pale blue patch surrounding it.
It’s not technically the water from melting glaciers that’s causing the sea levels to rise (it contributes, but not much). It’s the fact that as water molecules get warmer, they expand. Joe Scott did a video on that you can look up. The main way that melting glaciers actually affect the sea level is the fact they reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface because they’re white, hence keeping the Earth cooler. As the surface area of glaciers decreases, the less light is reflected, making the climate warmer, and in turn, the water molecules of the ocean expand and push back the shorelines. You can see this in action when you take a chilled unopened water bottle from the fridge and let it sit out for a while to warm up. You’ll notice that the bottle starts out crinkly and malleable when it’s cold, then when it warms up to room temperature or hotter, it becomes hard to squeeze.
@@SPRlNK That is not true. Sea levels have already risen 19cm since 1900. The climate crisis has never been more real. They are rapidly rising more and by 2100 approximately 600mio. people would be living under the sea level. However it is true that it is not just individuals responsibility to avert this change. Carbon tax needs to be done correctly and not just affect the poor. And governments need to take responsibility.
this right there is the smoking gun - metric is the ONLY measurement used in seriousness. even American medicine and military use it. the serfs still use the dummy system. (and so does this video) BRILLIANT! - not...
@@hugosmith6776 If you want to adress the general populus, you speak their language. Many Americans already have not much interest in hearing the global warming message and some just deny it. So make it easier to understand for them.
"Once we unplug a freezer, it's unplugged. You can't plug it back in..." That's a ridiculous analogy. Of course you can plug it back in! What king of fridge do you own?
@Bill Fletcher I think the opposite will happen, but we will build a wall and America is going to pay for it 😂. Jk, we have a good record with taking in immigrants
Every time a new boat is put in the ocean, the sea level will rise. A tiny tiny amount. But if you consider the millions of boats and barges in the oceans, it has to add up to to some measurable amount. Right?
Plenty of land in Nebraska....stop issuing permits to build in these areas a make those with properties have a demo plan/fund for when the waters start to rise.
@@alexiscardone3210 I mean, I get what you're saying, but hydropower and maritime trade somewhat undermine a statement that simple. The whole analogy is a little shaky.
If you live near a coast the best way to combat it is to encase your entire home in state of the art advanced glass. And get a submarine, or submersesable object that is also a car, or some amphibious vehicle
I'm a conservative independent in Florida who believes strongly in climate change... with that said, I believe that nobody deserves to lose their homes more than Floridians for voting in year after year politicians who deny climate change.
@@LostSwiftpaw in the rest of the world the reality of climate change isn't a partisan issue. Conservatives realize it's a threat to the economy as well as safety. It's unfortunate that here in the US people like the OP are a rare breed. Right-wing media and politicians have made it so.
Lost Swiftpaw I’m slightly more towards the conservative side of the spectrum and I also too am unable to sit back and ignore the science and deny the fact that we are seriously fucking shit up here on our beautiful planet. It’s incredibly frustrating being around other people who deny climate change.
Actually Alexandria use to have a bit more coast line about 2000 years ago, but it's lost about half a mile of coast line if not more since 2000 years ago, funny.... cause the sea levels rose about 800 years ago around that area.
“Once we unplug a freezer, it’s unplugged. You can’t plug it back in and it’s going to melt.” What kind of crazy-ass electrical plug do you have attached to your freezer at home? You’d think the CEO of that kind of organization would have better metaphors concerning global warming.
Sorry nothing melting, Glacier's are beginning to advance again. Ice pack is healthier then in 1978. Hudson Bay didn't thaw all the way last winter. The big CO2 lie is coming out. We better bundle up.
I was thinking maybe as a stop-gap savior to impending sea level rise, it may be worth a feasible study of creating a vast inland ocean in a large arid area: how to make it a viable habitat, implications of it's effect on weather: If it could be designed to siphon the top warmer ocean layer. Just a thought
Till now I heard that Ohio could be one of those places.. I mean it's got good connections to the sea and can be such a Catalyst for that.. just gotta explain that too the ppl..
This is happening around the world, because people loved to have a short way to the ocean, thats why they built their houses along the sea, but now those who want to keep their feet dry have to move up high above the sea, I remember that when I lived up in north of Norway and I read a lot of local papers, and there I found an ad about the rising of sea levels and that Norwegian companies were looking at this seriously and I hope we hear from them soon!!!
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Right across the page from your youtube post is a pic and story "A Dangerous Glacier Grows....". which seems to debunk the global warming nonsense. There's lots of junk science out there, and the fact is that there's not a thing you can or could do to stop sea level rise.
I do remember seeing a sign, which is some kind of an artwork but with a hint of warning, somewhere in front of Rotterdam Central station, telling people these places would all be underwater very soon.
@@jbgood7694 That was an easy one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_island_nations Mainly the islands are suffering from salt being injected into their freshwater tables by increased ocean pressure. That's the immediate concern. Behind that is pure sea-level rise. Oh, and don't give me the "What, Wikipedia?" routine until you have read at least a few of the references in the article.
I want to criticize two things: Firstly, use Metric! At least put the metric number on screen in post. Secondly, you could've used a noise filter on the sound from the laptop-guy. Would sound much better!
“During some high tides in Miami water already slides across city streets” I live in Miami and this isn’t a thing unless there is a hurricane or a bad tropical storm. Climate change is a thing. It’s happening. But Miami isn’t flooding like this during high tides.
Matt S. but that rate is going faster it isn’t going to rise with the same amount every year. every year it’s increasing the rate. and heavy rainfalls and droughts are going to be more common same with floods and hurricanes
Matt S. maybe that’s true that there doing it for money, but in my country the summers are getting hotter every year. and i am sure the usa manufacturing is more cleaner. but not in big country’s like china india or indonesia. and that the ice is melting and then regrowing, i cannot be sure or disagree with because i don’t know or live somewhere near places that have a lot of ice, in this world i can never be sure what’s fake or real , only if i see it in real life i can be sure so for now i’m more on that it’s real considering the agriculture last year had some problems with a long period of drought .
My city has had flooding on the regular, and in the last 3yrs we've had two sinkholes and a tornado. Things our area had never had before. (One of the sinkholes was HUGE, the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the other was admittedly minor.) Thing is? I live in the capital of Canada. That massive sinkhole I mentioned? Yea it happened a block away from Parliament. Ottawa's built on the Ottawa River, which gets fresh water from melting ice and feeds into the ocean, so it's directly impacted by this shit.
Am I the only person that experiences a sense of "schadenfreude" about sea level rise. Like it's frustrating that people don't recognize the threat it has, so I'm just like, WHATEVER!
I feel the same way. It's like very unpoetic justice. The decision makers of the world taking massive losses after living a selfish life feels good. The problem is how much everyone else will suffer being massively disproportionate make me sick. It's like a dystopian millennial schadenfreude.
I'm sure you've heard of the concept of a Sahara Sea, wouldn't going through with that endeavor lower sea levels by at least a few inches due to so much water being diverted into the new sea? I'm not saying that'll solve the problem, just thinking that would slow down the rate of rising tides a bit while also tackling another ecological issue.
Very interesting. I wonder if it's actually viable. It would be pretty radical. I wonder though if it could actually be big enough? I'm going to have to Google this ...
I'm not sure how Africa would feel about everyone else looking at that, given that it's projected to divide Africa down the middle taking whole nations and is the forecast because of rising sea levels, in which case nothing will change!
Continental drift is about 25mm a year. This invalidates all sea level gauge data. But understanding that would be difficult for a modern climate scientist.
A very simple solution is, MOVE AWAY FROM THE COAST!!! Cities have relocated many times in the past. Does anyone ever think about flood zones?? No matter what is done to control rising sea levels, there are STILL tidal waves / tsunamis, and larger than normal hurricanes. Look at the aftermath of the recent hurricane flooding of Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, .....
"Guaranteed" because there is a lag between putting greenhouse gases in to the atmosphere and the consequent effect on sea level. The 4 feet rise is a benchmark based on what is already in the atmosphere. Guaranteed isn't a term you'd necessarily use in a scientific context, but for a public outreach video, it's a pretty reasonable use of the word.
I'm hiding in my garage sitting in a tub of lotion because acid rain melted my skin in the 70's. In the 40's 50's and 60's global cooling took my toes and fingers. Climate change is no joke, we'll all be dead soon it's SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!!
After reading "The Population Bomb" in the 1950s I started hoarding canned food, because with exponential population growth, it's gonna' be impossible to feed the world by the 1980s.
It's fair to suspect that promoters of rising sea levels will profit somehow with all the studies, redevelopment people, construction, etc. etc. I live 2 miles from the ocean . . it hasn't risen an inch.
Since the end of the last Ice Age sea levels have risen some 400 feet. What evidence is there that shows sea levels were to stop rising and remain at the current levels forever and ever?
@@johnperic6860 You're too stupid to even remain consistent and coherent within your own comment. Are you suggesting that sea level doesn't rise, or that humans have no control over whether it does rise? What do you mean by investing trillions into something you have little control over? We're talking about investing in sea walls to keep the rising sea out - that would be completely independent of whether or not we have any control over the sea-level rise. You can't even stick to one moronic misconception at a time. We have fairly good estimates at *minimum* sea-level rise, and so far scientific estimates on sea-level rise and ice melt has been too conservative. There are much more likely to be unpredictable tipping points escalating the melting, than the other way around, at least that's what has been consistently happening so far. For one there is no greenhouse mitigating gas occuring in nature, while there are many greenhouse gases, such a methane, which we don't know exactly where is located, and therefore cannot account for in many cases. This can potentially accelerate melting beyond our current estimates, while the likelihood of an opposite event is zero, for reasons just stated.
@Thomas Headley Except for that sea levels have been pretty much contant for the past 2500 years, which encompasses all of modern human civilisation in which humans have built "cities" - and by a fairly good margin, so the idea that our ancestors saw actual cities flood from sea level rise and consequentially moved their cities is preposterous. You seem rather ignorant of history.
Not to mention that as people are displaced they'll move to bigger cities, causing more issues down the line. Climate change is humanity's tipping point, where we decline or survive.
Should we explain the difference between climate and weather to you, *again?* Weather is essentially variable, hour after hour of every day; still, weather forecasts have become more and more accurate as meteorology progresses. If you don't believe it, stay at home with your windows wide open when a hurricane or snowfall is announced. Climate means the permanent features you expect to find in a place, as observed, recorded, lived through centuries and millennia. You don't pack your snow attire for summer vacations in Hawaii, right? When the statistics resulting from observations show that, in the course of the last decades, the general features, the climate is changing and continues to change faster and faster, when ancient glaciers are melting acceleratedly, when old houses and highways constructed on permafrost sink in the melting land, when forests die from dryness and are set alight in each year wider wildfires, the coral bleaches again and again, algae bloom where they didn't before, and, cities like Miami get flooded when there isn't any storm around, tell us, isn't anything changing?
I've marked your words ... human population has increased four-fold in the past 100 years ... another four-fold increase in the next 100 years puts the population at around 30 billion souls ... something really really bad will happen that has nothing to do with global warming ...
John P. We are at the end of intermediate era. And temp rises quickly right before it falls. I would go in the next 500-1000 years, we will be in the next ice age.
They say that due to the temperature rise it could stop the gulf stream therefore stopping heat moving in towards Europe meaning it stays colder for longer. I personally believe we won't just live on a desert planet and live on planet with extreme seasonal weather Ice age type winter and desert like summers
As a Government worker I went to one of these in 2003….various maps showing shaded areas of a 100kilometre stretch of coast where I live. Diagrams showed regular inundation zones expected by 2025-2030. Then those zones permanently inundated by 2050-2060. It was all very well done and quite convincing back in 2003. So what’s changed here? Nothing much at all. Yes some coastal erosion in places but no sea level rises into regular inundation zones. No sea water encroachment at all. All the houses that were predicted to be flooded in the low lying zones are still habitable in 2024 just 1-5 years short of the catastrophic inundation predictions. Those properties still being bought and sold. Real estate prices are premium for these coastal homes. Go figure.
Actually, no, you cannot. To 'refreeze' the Arctic or Greenland, CO2 would have to drop to lower levels. That takes thousands of years, as does the cooling that would follow. Sorry.
How else do you think life in coastal cities will have to change to cope with sea level rise?
Not me😐
why the terrible music on the background... are you trying to manipulate the viewer?
Yo! Coastal cities😕🧐 what about #sids we're smaller and we will go first!
Well considering how much land is up North in Canada and Russia I think we should do all we can to push for climate change. It happens all the time geologically. We talk of terraforming other planets but somehow ours is sacred FROM humanity? We speak of a broad Goldilocks zone but changes in the Earths orbit have created ice ages in the past along a much much more narrow "zone." If it happens let it happen and adapt, that's what we do as a species. Do you really think "climate change" is more dramatic a change than industrialization? Hubris...
@@SaneAsylum what? have you seen the hurricanes and forest fires recently? It's not juste sea rise.
6:09 "You can't just pick up and move a city very easily"
Patrick Star would beg to differ
Lets just *PUSH* it somewhere else
Ben Shapiro would suggest you just sell it
Land reclamation
@@jerrodshackelford6773 thats actually not a bad idea at all.
@@person8064 heave ho heave ho heave ho
10 billion USD... that's like 1/60th of the millitary budget of USA...
Trump! Please stop investing in the military! Please help stop the wars! Stop climate change!
60% of US Gov't spending is on Social Programs. How bout we cut out food stamps.
@@OutSideTheBoxFormat I'd rather we spend our collective resources on food assistance programs for our poor (which is good for our farmers), than spend more money on our bloated military. So....let's give the military budget the axe, and spread our resources to fighting climate change instead, a war with an enemy far more dangerous to our prosperity.
TalanSouthway food stamps keep people from moving up in the world
TalanSouthway we spend $100 billion on people who shouldn’t even be in our country in the first place
Just when I thought I'd never be able to afford to move closer to the beach I find out I don't have to.
Why would any one move close to the beach ? For this exact reason
@@lily_2479 just move there with a smart house made by element
They've been saying this for 40 years.
Actually over a 100 years.
It’s the same old scary stories that never come true.
Did you pay attention to what they said about when it would happen?
@@rickjohnson2165 It is coming true, The glaciers are melting high in the mountains and Greenland. Elsewhere the ice caps are melting in Antarctica. This is causing sea levels to rise around the world. It's just an inch or two a decade now, but it's accelerating, and it's not going to stop anytime soon. Decades and centuries in the future the sea will flood major coastal cities. It's an easy prediction to make and it's already starting to happen.
@@Acccountable Yeah, and sea level has risen a lot in the past 100 years. Around 10 inches in the New York City area. Go out a few centuries and it;s enough sea level rise to flood cities that have low lying coastal exposure.
That's the most creative use of a superimposed Skype call on a MacBook I've ever seen.
Lyserberg yup!!! I like it actually.
US Coast is in need of some Dutch engineering !
jerome vet money
jerome vet first need to get an entire Republican Party of deniers to face reality instead of solely focusing on more tax cuts for the rich
trung nguyen hoang I’m an American been living in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) since 2013, I can tell you every year the flooding during rainy season and high tides have been getting worst, the rainstorms are more intense every year, even my life long vietnamese friends are noticing it. Keep denying reality and stay stupid to changing events right in front of your eyes..
Look no further than weather issues in the US (hurricanes tornadoes snowstorms flooding fires) and more extreme and frequent, I’m 65 I don’t remember the amount of things things being as intense, numerous, big, and frequent as the past 15 years.
Tho I agree dikes may not be the answer but ignoring it surely won’t be the answer
Or maybe we can stop treating earth like a fucking garbage dump
Yes the Dutch are pretty much masters. What disturbs Me is that LIBERAL NY, will want the rest of us in the Nation to come to their aid...with MONEY...I say NAY!
The Verge logo kinda looks like its from a dystopian megacorporation
Do the people behind Verge Science know that the city of Venice was built on unstable shallow ground on a lagoon and the Venetians used to extract underground fresh water from aquifer, thus causing the city to sink faster? If the sinking of Venice were due to permanent sea level rise , then the coastal town of Caorle in Venice should also be flooded but it is not.
GOOGLE: Venice Menace: Famed City is Sinking & Tilting
VIDEO: Shameless Sea Level Lies At The LA Times
Global sea level rise? What global sea level rise?
@@simon6071 the thing is, you can CLEARLY see the rise of sea levels around the world
Compare sea level data from before the industrial revolution to the 2019 datas
Its a variation on the Penrose triangle, just a cool logo, Penrose is a physicist, they probably look up to him, being scientists and all.
@@simon6071 this is actually very true and a large problem for coastal areas that dont have water pumped from other areas. But when rising sea levels would combine with this it can get even more dangerous.
They can’t predict the weather tomorrow, but are so sure of the weather, 100 years from now.
🎉 weather machines 😅
Build a wall around new york. Best of all, new jersey will pay for it!
that's what donald trump would say but new jersey would also like to have the wall
I say Ohio pay for it.
*Hell Yea!*
Wait, are you on the inside, or out?
I say let em go under n.j broke enough
@Nita Wealand ain'ters will ain't
“We can’t just move a city”
Patrick Star: “hold my kelp shake “
Haha, nice
New Yorkers should have let Amazon build the HQ in Manhattan just so Amazon gets underwater.
Wow sick burn you really owned the billionaires
You told those billionaires!! Go you!!
@@odinangie1377 we could solve the billionaire problem by just killing them
You might remember that Miami was constructed below sea level to begin with
Yes correct. Which will be one of the first cities to go.
I have some "Ocean-front property in Arizona" for sale in 80 years.
After 80+ nuclear facilities are underwater i don't think anyone will want it lmao
@@bradhaaf4749 Sea level is predicted to rise only a few inches by 2100... why would the nuclear facilities be under water? The current ones will likely be decommissioned anyway.
@@bradhaaf4749 Interesting little quiz. Thanks for the link. Might have to do some more study. Only scored 8/10.
@@robby3467 6 feet*
@@robby3467 only few inches by 2100??? Wake up and do more reading, bozo.
Lesson learned :
Invest in inland properties
Mountains are nice :-)
Justin2534 my spot in Texas is good. No tornados or earthquakes. It does flood a bit when it rains hard but that doesn’t happen too often
Exactly!!! We need to design a technique for REMOVING cities and Rebuilding in new locations. And we need to do it NOW before it becomes a full blown issue.
gambling how do you know to what edge? so abandon billions of people and trillions in infrastructure and valued environmental treasure to taking on -proven man-made- climate change to an irresponsible idea of reducing this to investment opportunities - pure psychopathic capitalistic insanity to consequences where there are solutions
Kaw Milo leason learned :
Destroying the planet destroys us
the netherlands: *Yall are bad at this*
12800-+ years ago the oceans rose 400 feet practically over night swallowing up coastal lands around the world. Maybe we all should have been taught this while in school. Now you know . If you live next to any body of water, river,stream,lake,sea or ocean don’t complain . Just move. That’s all it is.
Please link to the visualizer in description :)
ss2.climatecentral.org/
sealevel.climatecentral.org/
lmgtfy.com/?q=surging+seas
In the control button set it to 1ft as this is the closest to a guarantee. The verge used 10ft
It’s definitely there.
"Once you unplug a freezer, you can't plug it back in."
I mean... no?
I tested his hypothesis: I unplugged my freezer, waited an hour, and then plugged it back in.
And it worked!
gerald frost melted water back in the freezer?
Mark McGregor Yes, that was a ridiculous metaphor.
He is talking about ice here..... if you unplug a freezer, the ice in Antarctica will melt, and if the ice melts in Antarctica, we can’t re- freeze it to stop flooding
Agreeed
What if the water level isn’t actually rising but all of our land is just sinking
Kowalski Analysis..=-O
It’s happening in some places like Venice
Besides the rising water levels, the tectonic plate in which Venice sits in is sinking underneath another plate
Good point!
Climate change is causing the sea levels, so the Artic ice melts each year and the oceans will eventually become overflowed. As the Earth heats more, the ice will continue to melt.
Keisha Sims So in theory the inside of the earth could heat up a lot more as well and eventually melt rock higher up near the earth’s crust. this could eventually lead to more fragile tectonic plates and the sinking of heavy masses of land.
Don't blame mother earth for living and breathing blame the developer's for building next to waters that are always rising and falling. Who builds on a flood plain ?
people in 100000 BC learning about farming:
laugh in the netherlands
Laugh even louder in Russian.
Boy, I can't wait for Global Warming to strike and get rid of Permafrost in Siberia and melt/weaken ice in northen seas... that'll be an economical boom!
Haha hell yes. It's crazy but intresting how others are just now waking up when it's becoming a problem while we've been dealing with these problems for decades.
@@Woozler554 your house comprises the whole world, yes.
**If those walls that prevent the water were made by foreign countries...**
No, people in the Netherlands don't laugh about it. They take it very serious
Let's not forget about all the islands that are gonna be eradicated from the map
sounds even more unlikely than an alex jones conspiracy theory.
Retired Shitposter How so? Rising sea levels WILL swallow some islands.
@@retiredshitposter1062 Alex Jones gets a lot of stuff right
Funny enough, Hawaii will be fine
And new islands will be created. This has been happening for thousands of years.
Two cities in my country (COLOMBIA) will dissapear sooner or later they are like under 10 meters over sea level. It's sad, goodbye Santa Marta and Cartagena.
The surging seas map needs a lot of work to be more user friendly, if you want old people (which is where the majority of climate change deniers reside) to use it, it needs to be way more friendly. I cannot figure out how to simply set a year and projected sea level rise for a location.
"Old people" have seen your con game played out dozens of times and are far better educated than you; we designed the internet and made computers so easy to use even naive children like you can use it. We designed the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo projects using slide rules while your generation cant count to ten without using your fingers.
Yeah, I am getting tired of holding my breath in Miami since its been under water for 24 years now....
I wish they use metric instead of feet
It's pop science.
Why? When designing anything, your target should be in mind. The target audience of this video is obviously Americans who aren’t concerned enough about this impending doom. If you use metric, meters make the figures numerically smaller and less severe seeming anyway. Again, the target is Americans, meaning they’re easily convinced by bigger numbers.
Verge "science"
@@TonyisToking You can't call yourself a science channel and use feet.
Tonyisgaming wow, that sounds slightly hateful. You know, the ignorant Americans that deny climate change are never going to watch videos like this. And I know from experience that most educated Americans prefer metric anyway. “Numerically smaller” doesn’t mean anything if you know it’s general implications
Stop cutting down trees an plant more trees, trees hold thousands of gallons of water. Or you could build sham wow levy's.
well, planting trees is definitely helpful and an amazing solution but not because they hold water. Planting trees is helpful because they turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen. That helps because it is the only thing in the carbon cycle that can actually absorb the CO2 and help lower the greenhouse effect that is caused by that GHG that warms the atmosphere causing the sea levels to rise. By planting trees you are lowering the greenhouse effect that would prevent the sea levels to rise.
@@helenaferrocordeiro xcuse me what does ghg mean?
elliot oomen green house gasses (the ones responsible for making out atmosphere warmer)
It is not a solution you will need billlions of trees and at least 100 years for them to grow
Your right I plant regular trees and fruit trees to bring back what it was
Climate have always changed... Warm periods followed by cold periods. The idea that our temperatures and sea levels are the norm is just not true.
We have been told for at least 30 years that sea level rise will inundate coasts in the near future. NYC was supposed to be under 10 feet of water by 2014 even if the estimated are off by several years shouldn't NYC be under at least 4 or 5 feet of water by now? Why are Venice, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands not under water today? You do know that places like Miami are actually SINKING not being covered by sea rise?
Solution: giant seawall from Bladerunner 2049
BUILD THE SEA WALL, MAGA 2049!! duhs`kjdjgjk`iovhckvfvf;v
Exactly! It's a valid idea
Dang, guess we shouldn’t have built buildings 10 feet from the ocean
its going to be like in venice in italy lol
At different places effects will be different due to tides. More floods, droughts, mass immigration, city distruction, ecological degradation is not a joke. Go vegan or tell people plant based diet reduce resource use, don't emit methane and reverse heart disease for our future sake
lol 1st world problem
Justin setting so there used to be this thing called an ice age Earth just exited 12000 years ago. Look up a graph of average co2 concentration over earth’s lifespan, and average temp. Earth isn’t that warm, infact it’s cool because we are still exiting an ice age. The earth is dynamic and changes over thousands of years, the fact it’s a tiny warmer means almost nothing to the earth. The Sharjah used to be tropical. The ice age ended without human influence, the trend will continue without humans or with
^Duh, now they want to tax the rest of the country to pay for their arrogance.
Looking at some world maps, there is often a pale blue outline around areas of land. Some seemingly actually joining land masses together.
This is shelves or offshore shallows, where once there was land.
The process continues, if now at an accelerating rate.
I live in Key West Fl, US.
4.3m above sea level.
Property values are extremely high here. One day it will just disappear into the rest of the pale blue patch surrounding it.
It’s not technically the water from melting glaciers that’s causing the sea levels to rise (it contributes, but not much). It’s the fact that as water molecules get warmer, they expand. Joe Scott did a video on that you can look up.
The main way that melting glaciers actually affect the sea level is the fact they reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface because they’re white, hence keeping the Earth cooler. As the surface area of glaciers decreases, the less light is reflected, making the climate warmer, and in turn, the water molecules of the ocean expand and push back the shorelines.
You can see this in action when you take a chilled unopened water bottle from the fridge and let it sit out for a while to warm up. You’ll notice that the bottle starts out crinkly and malleable when it’s cold, then when it warms up to room temperature or hotter, it becomes hard to squeeze.
China would just build more islands, no biggie
@@SPRlNK That is not true. Sea levels have already risen 19cm since 1900. The climate crisis has never been more real. They are rapidly rising more and by 2100 approximately 600mio. people would be living under the sea level. However it is true that it is not just individuals responsibility to avert this change. Carbon tax needs to be done correctly and not just affect the poor. And governments need to take responsibility.
@@lewisbeauchamp9092 the poor are the biggest polluters of this world and must pay the tax
Verge science but not enough on the verge to use actual scientific units like meters
this right there is the smoking gun - metric is the ONLY measurement used in seriousness.
even American medicine and military use it.
the serfs still use the dummy system. (and so does this video)
BRILLIANT! - not...
This is for America, where drug dealers have mastered the metric system, but it's coming more slowly for everyone else.
@@hugosmith6776 If you want to adress the general populus, you speak their language. Many Americans already have not much interest in hearing the global warming message and some just deny it. So make it easier to understand for them.
Oof
@@hugosmith6776 some mines use imperial
Verge Science: From where did you accumulate the data to come out with these projections of increments on sea levels
"Once we unplug a freezer, it's unplugged. You can't plug it back in..." That's a ridiculous analogy. Of course you can plug it back in! What king of fridge do you own?
One of the best MacBook pro ads I've ever seen. 😋
The Dutch are like: I guess you need me, i happen to live bellow sea level. give me new amsterdam back if you want to save florida
@Bill Fletcher I think the opposite will happen, but we will build a wall and America is going to pay for it 😂. Jk, we have a good record with taking in immigrants
Swiss cheese bedrock is the reason Florida is toast.
Just built a new Metro in Amsterdam. The Dutch, experts on sea level. Predict no sea level rise for 500 years. Ouch!
@@jdshaman6448 Well thats a story. How does this jibe with their "Room for the River" program or their push to develope floating houses?
@@jdshaman6448 Nonsense, Dutch planning assumes sizable sea level rises.
Every time a new boat is put in the ocean, the sea level will rise. A tiny tiny amount. But if you consider the millions of boats and barges in the oceans, it has to add up to to some measurable amount. Right?
im pretty sure that is not the cause of sea levels rising 😂
Plenty of land in Nebraska....stop issuing permits to build in these areas a make those with properties have a demo plan/fund for when the waters start to rise.
gina delsasso And Deal with Tornados 🌪
Build that seawall?
And make Global warming pay for it
its called a dijk
Johan sigurdson Except real water doesn’t contribute to our economy
@Johan sigurdson 7,000,000 jobs need filling in the U.S tell. me more how people are stealing your jobs Lol
@@alexiscardone3210 I mean, I get what you're saying, but hydropower and maritime trade somewhat undermine a statement that simple. The whole analogy is a little shaky.
“Once you’ve unplugged a freezer you can’t plug it back in.”
Wait.....yes you can lol
Not the best analogy but I get what you’re saying haha
Lmao that's what I was thinking too
If you live near a coast the best way to combat it is to encase your entire home in state of the art advanced glass. And get a submarine, or submersesable object that is also a car, or some amphibious vehicle
Humanity deserves extiniction for what they did to Earth because of money
I'm a conservative independent in Florida who believes strongly in climate change... with that said, I believe that nobody deserves to lose their homes more than Floridians for voting in year after year politicians who deny climate change.
Wow i didn't know conservatives that believe in climate change are possible
@@LostSwiftpaw in the rest of the world the reality of climate change isn't a partisan issue. Conservatives realize it's a threat to the economy as well as safety. It's unfortunate that here in the US people like the OP are a rare breed. Right-wing media and politicians have made it so.
You're the first conservative that says that.rip to Florida
Lost Swiftpaw I’m slightly more towards the conservative side of the spectrum and I also too am unable to sit back and ignore the science and deny the fact that we are seriously fucking shit up here on our beautiful planet. It’s incredibly frustrating being around other people who deny climate change.
@XY ZW with no science?
Yay the beach will be getting closer to us, shorter vacation trips!
Now we don't even have to leave the house!
Amazing!
SteveTheDrugdealer how many times have you made this or a variation of it in a reply. Its not even a good joke like damn
@@jaltrayen3882 I disagree, I wish California would sink into the ocean.
lol beaches will be under water, no sand duh
Boo... no beach remains.
Sea water : " I am tired of being an iceberg living in freezing climate , it's time to become water again , take back my beach from human. "
Actually Alexandria use to have a bit more coast line about 2000 years ago, but it's lost about half a mile of coast line if not more since 2000 years ago, funny.... cause the sea levels rose about 800 years ago around that area.
On the other hand many ancient Greek sea ports are now many miles inland. Sea level is a local thing.
3:50 - subtitles just say (mumbling)... "but we also looked at intense precipitation." Who even wrote these? XD
“Once we unplug a freezer, it’s unplugged. You can’t plug it back in and it’s going to melt.”
What kind of crazy-ass electrical plug do you have attached to your freezer at home? You’d think the CEO of that kind of organization would have better metaphors concerning global warming.
cwg73160 that's the message you got out of this video? Really?
Sean Juhl Sorry, man. I must’ve deleted the memo that outlined the guidelines for commenting. Please share the link with everyone here.
Sean Juhl yeah that’s the message I got just plug the freezer back in and we are good duh
He's probably rich. He's got maids that handle all of that kind of stuff. He wouldn't know lol
Sorry nothing melting, Glacier's are beginning to advance again. Ice pack is healthier then in 1978. Hudson Bay didn't thaw all the way last winter. The big CO2 lie is coming out. We better bundle up.
I was thinking maybe as a stop-gap savior to impending sea level rise, it may be worth a feasible study of creating a vast inland ocean in a large arid area: how to make it a viable habitat, implications of it's effect on weather: If it could be designed to siphon the top warmer ocean layer. Just a thought
Till now I heard that Ohio could be one of those places.. I mean it's got good connections to the sea and can be such a Catalyst for that.. just gotta explain that too the ppl..
This is happening around the world, because people loved to have a short way to the ocean, thats why they built their houses along the sea, but now those who want to keep their feet dry have to move up high above the sea, I remember that when I lived up in north of Norway and I read a lot of local papers, and there I found an ad about the rising of sea levels and that Norwegian companies were looking at this seriously and I hope we hear from them soon!!!
So should we start saying "Flood the rich" now ?
Hold the Koch Bros.’ heads under the water.
Rich people have a lot of seafaring properties. If climate change was real, they would be selling it asap. But they aren't. Seems like it's a hoax.
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Yay, I live one block away from the beach.
*chuckles*
(I'm in danger)
Me: unplugs freezer, plugs freezer back in. It still works.
Also me: well I’ll be damned!
You fail to mention how long it takes for the ice caps to melt. You also fail to mention how bad your climate projections have been in the past.
We could have a surprise sea level rise of a foot by 2030!
A whole foot what will I do!
glad someone is lying attention :)@@wildcard2219
I really love to watch these stories,issues,explanation from you 'The Verge' team and learned a lot
Right across the page from your youtube post is a pic and story "A Dangerous Glacier Grows....". which seems to debunk the global warming nonsense. There's lots of junk science out there, and the fact is that there's not a thing you can or could do to stop sea level rise.
It's happening in Michigan. A lot of the beaches disappeared this year.
To be fair, Michigan isn't really known for beaches though
They will have to deal with it the same way it would be if no co2 had ever been released.
NYC: (flooding)
Federal Govt: we don’t have enough money to save the biggest city in the Country
Good bye Wall Street
I do remember seeing a sign, which is some kind of an artwork but with a hint of warning, somewhere in front of Rotterdam Central station, telling people these places would all be underwater very soon.
soon = 10 years ago
I got an ad about saving our oceans, now I need an ad about saving our land.
If you get an ad for saving the air and saving fire, you'll have the whole set!
3 years later the sea level is still the same.
If we lose Florida, im perfectly OK with that
then all those people will just have to move north and we sure don't want that !!!
Then no more Florida man
The map is not going to change that much by the year 2100. Just like it has not changed that much since the year 1900.
Strange how coastal areas on every continent are seeing increased development and rising values despite the doom and gloom news of sea level rise.
Tell it to the Pacific Islanders whose nations are shrinking.
@@puncheex2 Aside from 1 foot high sand bars disappearing, what islands nations are shrinking?
@@jbgood7694 That was an easy one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_island_nations
Mainly the islands are suffering from salt being injected into their freshwater tables by increased ocean pressure. That's the immediate concern. Behind that is pure sea-level rise.
Oh, and don't give me the "What, Wikipedia?" routine until you have read at least a few of the references in the article.
This feels awfully familiar. They were saying this back in the 70s that the sea level would rise a foot by the year 2000
tell me what the weather is going to be next week. pretty hard, eh?
ok, now tell me what the weather is going to be this afternoon
@@twisted_fo0l there are many places where you couldn't be sure of the afternoon weather.
I want to criticize two things:
Firstly, use Metric! At least put the metric number on screen in post.
Secondly, you could've used a noise filter on the sound from the laptop-guy. Would sound much better!
Have the Eu fine the verge for using imperial-ist measurements.
Fuck metric
Not if you want people in the USA to know what you're talking about.
Obviously they want people who use Metric to drown.
“During some high tides in Miami water already slides across city streets”
I live in Miami and this isn’t a thing unless there is a hurricane or a bad tropical storm.
Climate change is a thing. It’s happening. But Miami isn’t flooding like this during high tides.
Other Countries
Just Move Inland
Hong Kongers
Where can I move
Especially Hong Kong is even under tyranny
Venice's water heights changed so much the past 500 years. those cannels used to be roads!🍻
Wrong
Matt S. but that rate is going faster it isn’t going to rise with the same amount every year. every year it’s increasing the rate. and heavy rainfalls and droughts are going to be more common same with floods and hurricanes
Matt S. maybe that’s true that there doing it for money, but in my country the summers are getting hotter every year. and i am sure the usa manufacturing is more cleaner. but not in big country’s like china india or indonesia. and that the ice is melting and then regrowing, i cannot be sure or disagree with because i don’t know or live somewhere near places that have a lot of ice, in this world i can never be sure what’s fake or real , only if i see it in real life i can be sure so for now i’m more on that it’s real considering the agriculture last year had some problems with a long period of drought .
yens realize all my comments are jokes?🍻
My city has had flooding on the regular, and in the last 3yrs we've had two sinkholes and a tornado. Things our area had never had before. (One of the sinkholes was HUGE, the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the other was admittedly minor.)
Thing is? I live in the capital of Canada. That massive sinkhole I mentioned? Yea it happened a block away from Parliament.
Ottawa's built on the Ottawa River, which gets fresh water from melting ice and feeds into the ocean, so it's directly impacted by this shit.
never = billions of years of earth time.
@@mediamattersismycockholste562 That was not the point of their comment.
@@AceOfWaffles then why say never?
@@mediamattersismycockholste562 Hyperboles.
How can the sea be gnawing away at the corners of our carefully drawn maps when the sea level has barely risen more than a few inches in 100 years?
Robin Smith Climate change speeds up the rise of sea levels, did you watch the video?
So global warming caused underwater ruins in Minecraft
Earth is taking its Planet back in simple terms
Am I the only person that experiences a sense of "schadenfreude" about sea level rise. Like it's frustrating that people don't recognize the threat it has, so I'm just like, WHATEVER!
Nope, you are one of many spoon feed sheep.
@@asherdie what do you mean?
It feels hopeless that governments will actually do anything.
I feel the same way. It's like very unpoetic justice. The decision makers of the world taking massive losses after living a selfish life feels good. The problem is how much everyone else will suffer being massively disproportionate make me sick. It's like a dystopian millennial schadenfreude.
I'm sure you've heard of the concept of a Sahara Sea, wouldn't going through with that endeavor lower sea levels by at least a few inches due to so much water being diverted into the new sea? I'm not saying that'll solve the problem, just thinking that would slow down the rate of rising tides a bit while also tackling another ecological issue.
Very interesting. I wonder if it's actually viable. It would be pretty radical.
I wonder though if it could actually be big enough?
I'm going to have to Google this ...
I'm not sure how Africa would feel about everyone else looking at that, given that it's projected to divide Africa down the middle taking whole nations and is the forecast because of rising sea levels, in which case nothing will change!
Continental drift is about 25mm a year. This invalidates all sea level gauge data. But understanding that would be difficult for a modern climate scientist.
Climate Change is hard for people to understand because the basics of science is still hard for people to understand.
A very simple solution is, MOVE AWAY FROM THE COAST!!! Cities have relocated many times in the past.
Does anyone ever think about flood zones?? No matter what is done to control rising sea levels, there are STILL tidal waves / tsunamis, and larger than normal hurricanes. Look at the aftermath of the recent hurricane flooding of Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, .....
ya i'm sure the 80+ nuclear facilities under the ocean won't affect you lmao
@@bradhaaf4749 They don't bother me at all. they are not the topic!
someone call thor, he needs to drink a few feet of the ocean again
I live near the ocean. It has not raised.
*Guaranteed* to see 4 feet of see level rise? That’s ridiculous.
"Guaranteed" because there is a lag between putting greenhouse gases in to the atmosphere and the consequent effect on sea level. The 4 feet rise is a benchmark based on what is already in the atmosphere.
Guaranteed isn't a term you'd necessarily use in a scientific context, but for a public outreach video, it's a pretty reasonable use of the word.
I'm still hiding in my garage with camping stove and a handgun awaiting the Y2K disaster.
lol, joined me after I went in for the acid rain,
I'm hiding in my garage sitting in a tub of lotion because acid rain melted my skin in the 70's. In the 40's 50's and 60's global cooling took my toes and fingers. Climate change is no joke, we'll all be dead soon it's SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!!
After reading "The Population Bomb" in the 1950s I started hoarding canned food, because with exponential population growth, it's gonna' be impossible to feed the world by the 1980s.
With weathering with you, it visualises what a city might look like if underwater.
It's fair to suspect that promoters of rising sea levels will profit somehow with all the studies, redevelopment people, construction, etc. etc. I live 2 miles from the ocean . . it hasn't risen an inch.
Wall Street is in danger? Good they deserve it.
Why?
wall street goes down, the world goes down. New York is the financial capital of the world
Don Trump Jr's great grandson will be bumming to see his Wall Street under water!
Since the end of the last Ice Age sea levels have risen some 400 feet. What evidence is there that shows sea levels were to stop rising and remain at the current levels forever and ever?
Stop with the common sense, educated people are among us. It confuses most of them.
The rate wouldn't be expedited and people would have a chance to react.
We was suppose to be under water 50 years ago and we are not even close
Source?
Ancestors when cities flood: We should move
Us when cities flood: We must engineer the planet
Yes, let's just abandon trillions of $ in infrastructure instead of trying to do something.
What ancestors? Sea level has been consistent thoughout all of human history. This problem is completely new and completely unchartered territory.
@@johnperic6860 You're too stupid to even remain consistent and coherent within your own comment. Are you suggesting that sea level doesn't rise, or that humans have no control over whether it does rise? What do you mean by investing trillions into something you have little control over? We're talking about investing in sea walls to keep the rising sea out - that would be completely independent of whether or not we have any control over the sea-level rise. You can't even stick to one moronic misconception at a time. We have fairly good estimates at *minimum* sea-level rise, and so far scientific estimates on sea-level rise and ice melt has been too conservative. There are much more likely to be unpredictable tipping points escalating the melting, than the other way around, at least that's what has been consistently happening so far. For one there is no greenhouse mitigating gas occuring in nature, while there are many greenhouse gases, such a methane, which we don't know exactly where is located, and therefore cannot account for in many cases. This can potentially accelerate melting beyond our current estimates, while the likelihood of an opposite event is zero, for reasons just stated.
@Thomas Headley Except for that sea levels have been pretty much contant for the past 2500 years, which encompasses all of modern human civilisation in which humans have built "cities" - and by a fairly good margin, so the idea that our ancestors saw actual cities flood from sea level rise and consequentially moved their cities is preposterous. You seem rather ignorant of history.
Not to mention that as people are displaced they'll move to bigger cities, causing more issues down the line. Climate change is humanity's tipping point, where we decline or survive.
So if they can’t get rain on Monday right how am I suppose to believe their 12 year forecast
Should we explain the difference between climate and weather to you, *again?*
Weather is essentially variable, hour after hour of every day; still, weather forecasts have become more and more accurate as meteorology progresses. If you don't believe it, stay at home with your windows wide open when a hurricane or snowfall is announced.
Climate means the permanent features you expect to find in a place, as observed, recorded, lived through centuries and millennia. You don't pack your snow attire for summer vacations in Hawaii, right?
When the statistics resulting from observations show that, in the course of the last decades, the general features, the climate is changing and continues to change faster and faster, when ancient glaciers are melting acceleratedly, when old houses and highways constructed on permafrost sink in the melting land, when forests die from dryness and are set alight in each year wider wildfires, the coral bleaches again and again, algae bloom where they didn't before, and, cities like Miami get flooded when there isn't any storm around, tell us, isn't anything changing?
The problem with these projections is they show humans still on the planet when all this happens. We will all be long gone.
I’ve seen the future and this is the least of our problems *mark my words*
yeah man, have you heard mumble rap? we're in huge trouble.
go away edgelord
I've marked your words ... human population has increased four-fold in the past 100 years ... another four-fold increase in the next 100 years puts the population at around 30 billion souls ... something really really bad will happen that has nothing to do with global warming ...
Russ Crawford yes it will be super chaotic
@@russcrawford3310 Or hopefully it'll even out, like some predictions
so when's the next ice age??
either when yellowstone erupts or humans disappear... whichever comes first
John P. We are at the end of intermediate era. And temp rises quickly right before it falls. I would go in the next 500-1000 years, we will be in the next ice age.
They say that due to the temperature rise it could stop the gulf stream therefore stopping heat moving in towards Europe meaning it stays colder for longer. I personally believe we won't just live on a desert planet and live on planet with extreme seasonal weather Ice age type winter and desert like summers
As a Government worker I went to one of these in 2003….various maps showing shaded areas of a 100kilometre stretch of coast where I live. Diagrams showed regular inundation zones expected by 2025-2030. Then those zones permanently inundated by 2050-2060. It was all very well done and quite convincing back in 2003. So what’s changed here? Nothing much at all. Yes some coastal erosion in places but no sea level rises into regular inundation zones. No sea water encroachment at all. All the houses that were predicted to be flooded in the low lying zones are still habitable in 2024 just 1-5 years short of the catastrophic inundation predictions. Those properties still being bought and sold. Real estate prices are premium for these coastal homes. Go figure.
“Once you’ve unplugged a freezer you can’t plug it back in”
Umm, yes you can.
Dude, you need a better analogy than that.
Actually, no, you cannot. To 'refreeze' the Arctic or Greenland, CO2 would have to drop to lower levels. That takes thousands of years, as does the cooling that would follow. Sorry.
Verge is about as good at science as it is at building computers.