The Doomsday Glacier Is Collapsing…Who Is Most at Risk?
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Sea level rise is a problem that is garnishing increasing attention among both scientists and the media. And as climate change continues to warm the earth, the current rate of 1.4 inches per decade is projected to increase, with NOAA predicting another foot of sea-level rise along US coastlines by 2050.
The most consequential tipping point, when it comes to sea-level rise, is Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday glacier, located in West Antarctica. When this massive ice sheet melts, the earth’s seas are predicted to rise by at least two feet. But perhaps the greater concern is what will happen to the surrounding ice once Thwaites is no longer there to stabilize the region around it. Many scientists predict that, were this system to completely collapse, we would actually see around 6 feet of sea-level rise - a truly catastrophic scenario.
In this episode, we explore just how likely this dire outcome is, take a look at how America’s most at-risk city, Miami, is already experiencing the effects today, and what all of this has to do with gentrification.
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I find it very telling that many of these comments in this thread say something like 'my area won't be affected' or 'I'm smart and moved' Only thinking about ourselves is what got us here.
Only thinking about myself is what will keep me here buddy I don't know you so good luck
@@GodsSon5000one day you will have to face whatever saw fit to let you exist on this planet and you will have to explain why you were worth it
@@lului1456 lol God put me here, that's who gone send you to hell for calling him Whatever Connie Chung
@@lului1456you are a fool for even thinking that anybody can save somebody from God doing, he is doing this, I'm focused on saving my own soul not some strangers trying to figure out how to fix what God has determined to destroy ignorant lady
@@lului1456 do you have any daughters I can use
Just curious, doesn’t the removal of trees and land from coastal areas to build homes also have an effect on the coast?
I am gonna sell my car and buy a boat
Yes it does, tree roots help keep the soil in place and prevents erosion
@@AliciaOnlineGameplay I’m not saying there aren’t any other factors, but the buildup on the coasts can’t help the situation. Furthermore, the harvesting of trees which absorb water and continue the water cycle is detrimental to an already fragile ecosystem. Trees also provide shade, absorb CO2 which feeds to climate change. I say stop cutting down forests and encourage more adaptive measures for a cohesive life with climate
Yes, coastal flora like mangroves keep the soil compacted and act as a barrier for incoming tides, slowing them down.
In their absence, there is more erosion of the coast, plus waves and tides reach much more inwards
@@maureenjacobs3697 Someone needs to tell our climate czar (tyrant) nitwit John Kerry flitting around the world in his wife's private jet that planting trees does not remove carbon from the earths carbon based life forms. Everything that holds carbon in living cells will release it when these living things die. You people are not very bright are you?
It is true that releasing sequestered carbon creates more life and if you consider life to be pollution then go live in the Sahara although the worlds dead places are all being threatened with abundance - holy shit run for your lives.
Lived in South Miami for 30 years and 3 years ago I moved to the mountains of North Carolina. The area I lived in was constantly being flooded so I packed my stuff and got out of there.
yeah people have no clue that the Sea been rising for over 1000 years
@@Dave-vy8wg yet they get scared and feel they can change the course of nature
The last ice age ended around 15,000 years ago if I’m not mistaken. Since then the planet has been warming and the ice has been melting/‘retreating’. It’s still happening. It’s earths destiny to warm and cool. Mankind has just sped it up a little. All the wacko’s on both ends of the argument is what makes it more confusing than what it is. And yes, we should limit burning ‘fossil fuels’ because honestly, who the hell wants to breath that crap into your lungs if there’s an alternative. And yes, that is a major contributor to climate change. Full disclosure- I am a gas guzzling largish(38’) boat owner so I’m smart AND I’m guilty but I’m not ignorant. Own your truth.
@@Dave-vy8wgit makes a huge difference if you are hit by a car at 3 mph or at 30mph. Yes, sea level was rising but we massively increased the rate. This is all on top of the “natural” sea level rise. When you talk to Denise like you they point out the very slow increase since 1900 but they never actually take a look at the decal increase which shows that it was increasing way slower in 1900 and is massively picking up speed.
At some point real estate prices in these areas are going to plateau, and then it will start to hit home ( pun intended ) how serious and irreversible sea level rise is.
Enjoy the view from the mountain!
Here in Rio, Brasil, we hardly had a winter season. It was stifling hot (May thru September 2022). Now that is early Spring (Nov 2022) we are experincing unseasonal cool weather. In the southern sierra of Brazil we even had a snow fall for the first time in history in early November. Beats me!
It's called weather, it changes. The planet is not warming.
What scares me is this is happening in every corner of the world
@@torqingheads Weather can fluctuate in our times. Climate is a different story. The glaciers in the Alps are melting fast. When I was a child over 50 years ago, those glaciers were big. Now most of them are gone, and what's left is tiny.
@@samreh6156 Glaciers advance and retreat and there is a lag, for every retreating glacier that you know of somewhere another is advancing. The corrupt govt/ scientist/ media cabal will hide from you the truth . CO2 historically has followed warm periods not caused them. According to NASA the earth's mean temp is steadily falling.
Climate change is climate instability & climate extremes.
Food production relies on reliable weather.
8 billion people will be impacted.
We live in the Global Food Distribution century.
We also live in the Age of Information.
Ignorance is a choice.
War. Weather induced famine. Sea level rise. These are the drivers that will make this decade the decade of the refugee. Just the beginning.
Blame white people
Lowering sea level is Mathematical and the cheapest method to address rising sea level, also reduces CO2 ppm atmosphere by method.
Naive people who believe in climate change will give power to evil ideologues so they can “fix it”. The same people who murdered Gadaffi and created the economic migrant crisis flooding Europe with Africans and Arabs. Stupid people believing idiotic “science” produced as propaganda, those people are going to kill billions and pretend it was a good thing. Because some liar in a labcoat will tell them so on PBS.
Very few people have a clue of what will transpire before the end of this decade.
Extinction of most life on the planet
Sea level rise takes a long time to accelerate relative to a human lifetime. Sea level rise rise refugees are going to remain rare for a while. Then they will grow exponentially.
I find it interesting that in most of the world, it's the poor who will be most affected, but in North America, it's the wealthy who tend to live ocean-front.
it's so pretty....till it crashes in on you.
That's because the wealthy KNOW IT'S A LIE. Barack Obama hasn't bought anything but OCEAN front property since he left office. But that doesn't mean anything, right? The Four Seasons just built an ultra chic resort in the Maldives, that island chain that was supposed to be submerged by now, according to the climate hoaxers like PBS. And why does no one hold Al Gore accountable for his utterly laughable predictions about Manhattan and Miami??? Check Tony Heller's channel on here on rumble for the details of how these people LIE about "the science".
@@cavaleer You are so delusional. Ocean front property is the hottest, a good investment now and maybe for 20 years but slowly it's eroding away. Rich people don't care, but sell it before buyers catch on. Its one face real estate sellers don't talk about as it's big bucks.
The best property is of course on the high ground, with a great view, but still with ocean front property included - how else could you have those beach parties?
Rich people (i e. the lords of the land) will always push the poor out, just as showed in the video. Their landlords just increase the rent, until the poor can't afford it.
There is not a but the first part of the sentence is 10000% true in North America as well.
I'm from Florida, Tampa and Miami. I left 40 years ago, but still return on a regular basis to visit friends. The rising water in Miami is obnvious to me, particularly in places like Matheson Hammock, Crandon Park, and parts of Miami Beach. I now live in Los Angeles. Years ago I would go RV camping at McGrath State Beach in Oxnard, CA. Now the park is closed because of constant flooding in the (former) camping area. So for me, it's real and now. At least my home is 140 feet above sea level, so this neighborhood is not at risk, as with most of LA. I got rid of all the methane appliances in my home. And I drive an electric car (not a hybrid), so I have a much lower carbon footprint than most households here, or anywhere else in the U.S.
The St. Adreas vault will be your undoing, my friend.
The water in Biscayne Bay is about 5 inches higher than about 50 years ago. I grew up at Matheson before that. It flooded then. add five inches. Global rise is at about 2.3mm per year and varies but that average is over 100 years old. This video is BS gaslighting to make you scared of "climate change" We are currently in an interglacial period and we will return to cold. There is nothing man can do about it.
I think this needs to be broadcast daily. I recently talked to a few coworkers and they had no idea that this is happening. They are kind of climate deniers anyway.
its not happening its fear mongering. global warming doesnt exist its fallacy. everything theyve ever told you is a lie
If this was broadcast daily, people would "get used to it". They'd get tired of it. Then they'd ignore it. Not a good idea.
Climate changes. The only thing that warms or cools the earth are the sun and occasional volcanoes. Mankind, even with the unimaginable amount of pollution caused by China and India (combined population, greater than 3 billion and counting, ie just under 50% of the global population), has no affect.
@@davidh9844 love to know there is someone with a brain out there...great comment man
Floating ice that melts has zero effect on water levels. Fear mongering.
My way of coping with living near a coast was to move to Arizona instead, where I can enjoy the dryness of a megadrought instead. I kinda joke...but it sorta felt like a pick your poison scenario.
I genuinely do not think there's a chance in hell this world has the fortitude to actually do anything to thwart climate change. We just got through two years of people screaming that a mask is oppression. Think how they'll react to significant changes in their lifestyles.
The truth is, none of these disasters are going to happen. Nothing happening without climate is unprecedented.
Arizona is burning again the Tunnel Fire is out of control with very little chance at this point of getting it under control anytime soon with the fire fighting aircraft grounded due to high winds. I’m a snowbird getting ready to head back to the Great Lakes and for another year I’m worried about wild fires being a problem getting out of Arizona.
@@steve-ph9yg you will always find disasters when you look for them.
@@roberthicks1612 I’m looking for my way out of a state with 3 wild fires and two main highways out running west to east one the Tunnel Fire is right now north of I40 and spreading fast last night it was 30 square miles and grew 6,000 acres overnight with another fire burning near Albuquerque NM the only pass through the mountains on I40. It was two years ago that the route I take from Mesa to I40 at Holbrook I had to go through Flagstaff a much farther way the area of this fire the fire by Kingman is terrible but doesn’t affect me it’s hundreds of miles west of me. I don’t look for disasters like you said I can find them anywhere.
@@steve-ph9yg The only reason we have fires like this is they choose to do nothing to prevent them. There are places where people are threaten with being arrested and sent to jail if they do anything to prevent wild fires. Geologist say that in past centuries, there were wild fires bigger than the state of Arizona. The difference is that they happen so often and with nothing to stop them that they ran though the under brush and burned it off, leaving the trees to recover naturally.
In order to have them under control, they have to put in fire breaks and do back burns periodically, but the liberals refuse to allow that. The result is that when they do start, they are almost impossible to contain.
The only difference between current disasters and ones in the past, is speed we learn of it.
500 years ago, you would only learn of a major disaster if it was in your region of the world. That might take many months or even years for you to hear of it.
300 years ago, you would hear of it within months due to ships travel.
200 years ago, you would hear of it due to telegraph services within a week.
100 years ago, you would hear of it in the newspapers the next day.
50 years ago, you would hear of it on the nightly news.
25 years ago, you would hear of it in hours.
today, you can watch it happen on live streaming.
We need to clean these areas that will be under water otherwise toxic stuff will poison the ocean. For example, nuclear reactors, garbage dumps, industrial chemical plants
That's more like it. prepare for the worst.
i'm sure desantis will be right on that.
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They won't be under water because this is a propaganda video used to push the climate scam and bad politics on us. Sea level rise is about 7 inches per century and steady. The rest is fear mongering crap about ice that isn't going anywhere.
@@alexanderson4582 It's a scam. This video is propaganda.
I grew up in Hialeah in the 1950s. I could dig a hole in my back yard and hit the water table within two feet. The highest point in Dade county is a "hill" in one of the parks that is less than 11 ft above sea level. You have problems with septic tanks and sewers because the water can not flow downhill. The east coast of florida is a limestone shelf that runs north and south along the coast the land gradualy drops in elevation to the west. 40 miles west of the east coast the elevation might only be two feet above sea level. I think Miami and the everglades are doomed. Growing up in Miami in the 1950s was very nice. There were a lot fewer people then and a kid could go down town on his own. I miss that era.
Thank you for sharing that Richard.
I've lived in The same area in and near Los Angeles all of my life and I see the changes too. I grew up in the 60's.
We are currently in a Mega drought which is defined as a drought lasting 2 decades or longer. This is year 22. This mega drought started in 2000.
"Since 2000, the average soil moisture deficit was twice as severe as any drought of the 1900s, and greater than it was during even the driest parts of the most severe megadroughts of the past 12 centuries, say the authors." Adapted from a press release by UCLA.
As with all of these issues it comes down to who do I believe? Should I listen to the people who understand what is happening ( e.g climate scientists and flood victims) or should I go with the pig I saw flying past my window this morning ,who told me there's nothing to worry about?
What is incredible,is that about one third of this country(republicans), does not believe in climate change.
The pig isn't collecting money from the govt for grants to study climate change or improving the value of his stock in solar, windmills and electric cars. Sure climate changes and has been since the beginning of time but if politicians were really concerned they wouldn't be flying all over the country every day. While the US is going crazy with wind mills China is building coal fired power plants as fast as they can.
We've got seven years for Florida. This isn't just about glaciers. We're talking about increase in storm size, storm frequency, increased weather extremes in general, the inevitable looming great arctic methane burp... _It's all happening now._ Florida ports will be worthless within a decade due to our negligence with regards to climate change. Yes, I'm telling you the sky is falling. It's time for us as a species to _act._
50 years of failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions; the so-called ‘experts’ are 0-50. Do some research. Al Gore got rich off of people who think like you.
We're still too busy wasting all our energy talking about race, as this piece was so keen to point out than to talk about saving the species.
@@monkeyman2174 Feel free to go live on the coast of Florida in a port town if you're so sure of yourself.
Wait until you find out about all the nuclear waste dumped in the Atlantic in the early days, just covered in concrete that's now crumbling because of sea water. We're all screwed soon....
@@LaughterOnWater I already do. Now what?
Northern California climate change sufferer here - last 3 of the 4 years I've had to evacuate due to threat of wildfires and/or power shut off for multiple days by power company for wildfire prevention. Praise God I've always had a home to return to. More and more I notice fluctuations in the weather - hotter earlier than expected in the season, winters with no rain for extended periods of time only to follow with 1-3 days of extreme rain. It's a crazy time to be alive.
@ Julie Ann
Did you know a live red laser beam aimed at Sonoma County showed up, quite unexpectedly, on a live earthquake map? Those fires were/are intentional. The rolling blackouts that occurred in CA, years back, were found to be caused by Wallstreet shutting down the power in one place and then another, selling the energy. It's all planned and intentional. Just like if/when this comment is removed.
Stay safe out there, thankfully I’m in central Massachusetts where we haven’t had any major problems yet
"crazy time" is this geologic time, where gravity might fail us
I hear you. I’m a Southern Californian. I lost my home to a wildfire. Before that happened, I lost my childhood home (we didn’t live there anymore). My friends and family members have lost homes too. I finally moved due to climate change and that was 12 years ago. It’s just getting worse. I saw the change, it’s a bad drought I keep hoping things will return to what we saw as normal. I miss my home state so much. But I couldn’t live with the fires anymore.
Here in Sweden I've noticed we had alot of snow when I was little and then we had green winters, now the winter comes months late and alot of snow in a short period then it quickly goes away and our summers are dryer and more wildfires.
I unfortunately had to drive through one a couple of years ago, wasn't fun.
It’s now possible in 5 years. Can you do an update video? Scientists say the glacier is hanging on by “its fingernails”
It's finalized. Completely adrift
I live in the Netherlands. We go blub blub if waterlevels rise rapidly. A big part of our country is well beneath sealevel as it is. So a rise of 2 meters will be interesting to say the least. Especially with springtides. We seem to have a government that isn't all that keen on taking drastic measures. It is frustrating at best. And we are world renowned for our waterworks. It is strange to see that it doesn't seem to worry our politicians all that much. We are driven by economics. But if we don't take action the economic impacts will only get bigger and bigger. We have had a drought that is quite insane. With rivers running dry and prices flying through the roof because of it. A lot of goods are shipped over rivers in Europe. And a lot of ships couldn't travel or could only take a 1/3 to a 1/4 load because the waterlevels were at record lows. I think we are in for some tough times. And this summer is just a prequel. Thank you for the information of this video. It lights another side of Climate change.
Living on South Florida waterfront since 1999. Just sold my house to move inland to SC.
While I never got flooded the high tide in the canal clearly got higher over the years to the point that it now reaches the top of the seawall within about an inch. That puts the house 2ft above high tide now. It's only a question of time...
It's amazing and pretty terrifying that you have actually been able to track the rising ocean during your lifetime like that. Did you move because of that?
@@RyanWalshGuitar It is part of the reason; the others are 7 hurricanes, bad drivers (many without insurance), crime, crooked contractors and generally rude people. Ah yes, and ridiculously overpriced real estate.
Same here, but not to SC. The beach erosion is so insane now. I remember being a kid and the beach went out so far, now there's barely any beach left. A few years back, I think it was hurricane Matthew, washed out part of A1A which is a major beach side road and it took the city a couple years to rebuild it and set up seawalls. So sad
I feel bad for the new homeowner, but also, you did what you had to do. I don’t blame you at all
People, do a little research. There are areas that are, how can I put this, not going to be as badly effected. Michigan is one. Probably the Great Lakes acting as a buffer.
Yes, I live in Michigan.
That doesn't mean no effects here. At the least Michigan needs to gear up to take in lots LOTS of climate change refugees.
Oh, the Michigan legislature and most local governments are solidly controlled by Republicans. So I don't see the compassion kicking in the way it needs.
As a Miamian, I cannot wrap my head around how no one seems to even worry about this. they keep building and building and this place is gonna be underwater before 2030
talk witcher guvner! deathsantos!
i don’t get it either everyone will keep building down here until they literally cannot anymore
UGY KELL NEKIK, 50 ÉVE MONDTÁK MÁR A PROBLEMÁKAT A PARTON, DE MÉGIS...
One thing I did not get is why in this report they mentioned that the people that own beachfront property will be able to sell their property for top dollar. But who's going to buy a house underwater...Aquaman?!
@@Drought-jr6pb sell it now before you need goggles to fix breakfast in the morning.
I love how they talked to people who are being forced out of their homes due to rising rent yet the crew stayed in an airBnB. The lack of awareness in that one is ironic.
A humble Air B&B? Not a 5star hotel?
People can get offended by Literally ANYTHING…🙄
Thank you for covering these issues 🙏
so a scientist that worked on the UN for sea levels says that the ocean hasnt risen at all in at least 100 years must be full of crap ?? come on people stop listening to this junk
This is why I got the heck out of Florida. I owned a house, sold it and took off. I'm in north central alabama now, 600 ft above sea level, i'll be good for a while
When winter in Riverside California included 100% temperatures, I moved my family to Oregon. Some of us are able to read the handwriting on the wall. 👍
If everyone could stop being led by greed, and actually thought abt the future of our world, then we could do so much to counter this. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening.. the rich always want to b richer..
The other part of that is that the rich think their wealth will somehow protect them. They can always move, buy what they need, fortify themselves, etc. The fact is, they will be among the first to die.
Got that right
@Glennsten Bergkvist that's irrelevant to the point of my statement.. but ur correct. Some rich ppl do that..
@Glennsten Bergkvist The rich do what they do for selfish reasons. Wealth is taken. It is created by workers. They create the prosperity that the rich enjoy.
The rich are unnecessary. They are poor stewards of our limited resources. And they are driving us to the brink of this disaster for their own purposes. They are in control and they could stop this if they were benevolent as you propose. But the truth about the rich is that they are not special. They are not better. They are human. And greed will drive them to the end of the Earth, and the rest of us with them.
What is you solution?
I have been watching all of this for many years. I made the decision about 45 years ago not to live near a coastline. I went through Hurricane Carla as a child when I lived within 40 miles of Corpus Christi at the Gulf of Mexico. Later, I lived in Long Beach, Ca., which got earthquakes>possible tsunami, plus I took notice of climate change in high school. (Science nerd). Now I live in Central Texas. No place is 100% 'safe', but near an ocean? Just NO.
Volcanic action under the ice is why a lot of the ice is melted.
I live in the country mentioned by the glaciologist Kiya Riverman in the video: Bangladesh.
I have to live in fear every day - not because climate change is happening - just because almost all my neighbours and family members (including my parents & spouse) are strong climate deniers. I am all alone with this ultimate climate fact in my knowledge, and I cannot convince them to start thinking to relocate to safer ground before it's too late. I cannot move alone, while seeing them suffer from the consequences. What I should do!!
I am so sorry to hear this, Mohammad but I can understand it in some ways. Very few people are excited about change and so as a species we are very good at denial. We do not want to see or understand things that make us uncomfortable and so we look away from the multiple discomforts that climate change is producing and will go on producing. For those of us who are logic minded, it can seem unbelievable that others are not grasping the damage that we have done to the earth, that is changing the climate. Unfortunately there is not a lot you can do but, you can be patient with your family and friends and help them see the changes that are already occurring in your country, especially the ones that directly impact their lives, their jobs and their ability to improve their surroundings. I would also encourage you to educate yourself around the psychology and sociology of humans as intelligent persons have done amazing research into those topics. Perhaps you will find more insights that will help you convince your friends and family of the gravity of the crisis that is occurring and will only get worse. I am glad that you are so thoughtful and are concerned about those around you as that is something to be celebrated in a world that seems increasingly centered on the individual and not on the whole. Good luck my friend.🙏
I have friends and family that are the same way even though you can see some of the changes with your own eyes. Crazy
Find work in Nepal , Bhutan type of areas where elevation is 20 meters higher. And move your family . Pray for these things to happen in the Name of Jesus and it will happen . Set your mind to this goal . Pray this for 3 weeks and tell me your story.
GEOENGINEERING..not climate change.
Okay, so far you have not convinced your family to relocate, BUT you can show them the scientific evidence and keep on bringing the topic to their minds. If you want someone to do something more, make it EASIER for them. Simple graphs? Photos? A little demonstration with ice in a bowl of water? Keep trying. And meanwhile, YOU find a feasible new location to attract them away from the coast. You CAN do this, Mohammad.
Here in the South of New Zealand, there has been what they politely call unseasonal weather. The suspended fences along coastlines where farming is practiced are common. Erosion to the landscape is becoming more evident and serious. Runoff is polluting our waterways. People talk about the heavy storms and flooding as if they were expected and compare them to other times when it was much worse as if by saying that, it's not so bad. Personally, I can feel an ominous background vibe of forboding and am looking for land inland with an altitude above 400mts above sea level away from the coast. I am trying to convey the need for preparedness and scientifically backed up information like this presentation encouraged.
Weather is always "unseasonal" [sic] or we would call it the climate. Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.
We are living through Don't Look Up
No worries, as long as you settle at least 10 to 20 m above sea level, you should be safe for your life time - 400 m is a bit of an overkill, since around 70 m is the most that sea level will possibly rise, on average, and that would still take at least hundreds of years. And we don't know how many species (perhaps including ourselves) we might have killed by then.
@@qvintuse.urvind7002 the entire planet is dying, and I'm supposed to take that as a condolence?
@@asherplatts6253 Yes, don't worry, be happy. Also, don't look up, for Mars or other planets. Look down at the fertile soil and the sea, where life comes from. This species of ours will go extinct or evolve into a new wonderful world with biodiversity, peace and prosperity. No worries.
Google Earth needs a "Sea Level Rise" slider, where you can use it to show the sea level rise...
Here in Vancouver the rich are all lower levels and beachfront (Richmond is build on sand banks, of all the stupid ideas...) while the poorer families are forced to live further in on the mainland on raised elevations. As such, the flooding will affect those who caused it the most.
They are rich and will just move. Simple
In Portland Maine we see both Gentrification AND sea level rise effects. King tides regularly flow backwards through storm drains and flood low lying inland areas, AND workforce housing is being demolished to make way for million dollar condos on the water. It is truly insane.
Maine is going to feel a tremendous squeeze when the working class no longer has any place to live to staff the resorts and clean the condos. My husband and i left in 2018 to move to NY for work and haven't looked back. Combined with how completely uninterested Mainers are in literally any changes at all (you should have SEEN the responses i got when i surveyed people about coastal geohazards for school), i can't imagine the future looks great there.
I will believe in climate change when billionaires stop buying beachfront mansions.
@@stephenkalatucka6213 You realize that to a billionaire a million dollar mansion is like buying a $1 Arizona Iced Tea to somebody who has $1000 in savings?
My mom has a place in Machias. "Million Dollar condos"!! There is some humor there. Land in Aroostook may be the best bet? The problem with individual parcels is coastal roads will be flooded at so many points, and disappear. Imagine Bay of Fundy plus 3 feet!! Maybe land up off the Airline, hwy 9 from Bangor to Calais will be safe?
@@timisaac8121 They are saying over 100 inches of sea level rise. That's more than 3 feet by quite a bit.
Me from the Netherlands will have to deal with the consequences for sure and very soon. Being active in R&D into renewable technologies, I see that we as society cannot make the target 1.5C and most likely not even 2 or 2.5C. I see very little change in behavior measured in various EU studies pointing to any real change. So let's us all prepare for massive change for our children and their offsprings.
Obviously haven't read many of the newer ones then because the trend has reversed and the thinking is that we ARE going to prevent 2.5 and that catastrophic climate change has been averted but if we want to avoid the worst of the effects, we have to make more changes quicker.
you gonna have to deal with nuclear fallout as putin helps us rid the world of the israelie kkk empire
The 1.5 deg C target is TOTALLY artificial, ITS MEANINGLESS !
Thats direct from the professor at the Potsdam institute who INVENTED the target for the IPCC.
In his interview he explained HE had been approached by the IPCC to come up with a figure (for propaganda purposes) HE did not research and publish this as a study.
He explained to them that what they wanted was scientifically meaningless, but they insisted
and to use his words he just plucked 1.5 Deg C OUT OF THIN AIR !
When you live within a socialist superstate like the E.U, its hard to come to grips with the reality that the media AND the government lies to you on a daily basis about some things and are acting AGAINST your best interests, yet they are.
Most of what you think you know about this is wrong.
I remind you that the Minoan warm period was around 4 Deg C WARMER THAN NOW, the Holocene warmings were WARMER STILL, in fact if you look at the peak warmings
over the last 8000 years they have been getting shorter and cooler as we move toward now.
The Medieval warming was almost certainly a bit warmer than now, they still cannot grow grapes in the U.K as far north now as they did then.
The massive changes your government have in mind for your children are NOT for their benefit, the political agenda is laid out clearly in Limits to Growth p 1972 by The Club of Rome, which is an organization set up by the Rockefeller family owners of Standard Oil,
who set up the UNEP AND the IPCC, and are the IPCC's primary advisors on environmental issues.
The Rockefellers are one of the planets most ruthless and unprincipled capitalists.
I suggest if you want to get some ACCURATE perspectives on this issue contact CLINTEL.
Because right now YOU are a danger to your grandchildrens future out of sheer gullibility.
@@peterjones4180 How about a source other than: "Just trust me bro".
@@sirkana I NEVER ask for references and i never give them.
My perspective is shaped by scientific papers, books by scientists and speaking directly to scientists some of whom have worked for the IPCC.
How about YOU list everything you think is wrong in my comment and we can take it from there.
Thank you for keeping these short and digestible. Well done.
I think for me what is so awful, is that communities that will be the most impacted are the ones that haven’t been offended at all from pollution that’s contributed to climate change. Even if you don’t agree with the polluting that’s happened or are too young to have done anything about it, in the very least if you’ve benefited from it it makes some sense. So many indigenous and poor communities are going to be decimated or displaced from actions by wealthy nations.
In India, southern part, this year we just didn't experience winter as we used to just 5-6 years ago. There was a cold wave in Northern parts but it did little to cool off temperatures and that too for just a week or so. Now we are experiencing heatwave after heatwave right from the start of February. I'm scared to think what's going to happen in a decade or two!
Woah, I wasn't tracking the temps there, that's crazy!
Anyone else think that the increase in warming has become exponential instead of a slow steady increase.
It is very serious smh
It's not even a question to me. Temperatures, at least where I live in the Bay Area (California), have risen exponentially and are becoming more erratic. One week might have normal temperatures for this time of year (80-90 degrees) and then we'll have a week where we have to stay inside our houses for fear of having a heat stroke because it's 114 outside. I've never seen anything like this before and I'm dreading the rise in heat that will probably be inevitable due to a lack of change to decrease greenhouse gasses. I'm 21 and I'm not expecting to live past 27 because by then in 2028 the world might not be a place I can survive in.
Mother Earth is resetting herself
No, nothing close to it. You clearly don't know what exponential means.
Sea level rise for example is hardly higher than a kerb stone in the last 300 years, and temperature has barely risen either .
We simply hear more about things now
Even exponential changes would not be new. There are exponential changes in temperature, and other climate variables on every level: daily, weekly, monthly...decadal, by the century and millennial. Climate changes all the time and often exponentially. The curious thing is that these happened long before man produced much CO2. Why else would we have had long ice ages with tiny warm periods in between every 100k years or so? Trying to stop climate change is like King Canute commanding the tide to go back. It won't.
I think we're at around 1.2' Celsius above pre-industrial average temperature now. So if every car, factory, heater, airplane, coal power plant shut off right now, forever, we would still go significantly above safe levels. Since we're still burning 4 Billion gallons of oil and 35 million tons of coal each day, it's like driving a huge freighter that takes 30 miles to stop directly at a wall with the foot on the gas and the wall is 10 miles away.
My houses basement never flooded until last winter, when the snow melted and it rained the same day.
Now, it’s flooded 3 times total since then.
I live about a mile from the coast , near Boston.
Life is gonna get scary , fast, for a lot of us living on the coasts.
Yeah, a lot of politicians thinks climate change is just hotter summer. But in reality it’s more like extreme weathers, certain areas get exceptionally large amount of rainfall while some areas gets drought. Summers would get crazy hot and winters get freezing cold. That stirred up heat exchange also creates more hurricane too
@@hughlachesis8020 More and more intense hurricanes too. Imo things are pretty screwed already and people should prepare for disaster that is coming. We aren't stopping the warming; we can't even agree on basic scientific facts in the US. (for those in US)
@@hughlachesis8020 exactly. Climate change means having to budget for a basement water pump, and having to figure out how much longer you have in the current house before you need to move.
Basically, making the poorer poor.
I’m thankful I live near Worcester, I feel bad for everyone on the coasts
@@hughlachesis8020 It's not just the politicians - who probably don't really think that way, but are likely getting campaign donations from people making money on the status quo. In much larger numbers, it's average people - those who do not have science degrees, and maybe didn't take a lot of science in high school or college. Average people need to be shown how this is happening to them, using what they or we see all around.
We don't live on or near the coast, but I'm sure people relocating will affect us. Our season shifts are noticeably altered already. The unpredictability is a majoor gardening and agriculture challenge.
Really you're seasons have been changing your full of it.
@Jim Bob
You can ignore reality, but I guarantee that reality will not ignore you.
Sorry to break this to you Dr Michael Mann, but 1.5 degrees is gone. It would take massive carbon removal on a scale that we can’t (won’t) do. 2 degrees C has serious implications but is a achievable target to aim for.
my biggest dream as a kid was to one day live in a beach city, sprawling with life and culture and community, and it makes me sad that these same dreams and experiences will be taken away from our future generations .. im afraid for the new normal
do you honestly and sincerely believe that even with the gross exaggerations of this video there won't be beach front properties being built and sold?
@@jimcrozier3785 the point of my comment is to say that the future is never secured. kids cant dream of a stable happily ever after
@@saylahvee especially not when they are being lied to this bad about climate change and everything else. i mean our dollar has lost 99% of its value and youre worried about our kids not having oceanfront property? climate change is a hoax and the weather is always changing. there is ZERO proof climate change actually exists. i would be more worried on whether our kids will own their own home at all given the new slogan is you will own nothing and be happy.
Underground volcanoes. National geographical said that there's about 91 volcanoes underneath the ice 19 are active and 3 are very active. This article was published about 10 yrs ago.
Nobody will talk about the main causes which are totally out of our control, because it won't make money. The moon isn't slowly leaving Earth's orbit. The Tonga hunga volcano didn't erupt causing millions of tons a green house water vapour into the atmosphere. The Sun's 11 year cycle and solar flares have nothing to do with warming the Earth either. If people just did their own homework and educate themselves to understand that nothing stays the same in the universe. If you dare speak the truth to the narrative, Super AI might learn something they don't want it to know. Cheers Blessings Alan 🙏.
I know it seems hopeless with all the world’s most powerful people ignoring the issue. But please know that not only can we avoid the worst of the crisis, we can still avoid many of the more “minor” negative effects! We’re getting to the point that it is cheaper to use reusable energy than coal and oil! Yes there are wrinkles to iron out, but we are at a point now that was unimaginable 12 years ago. We can’t give up, not now, because that’s exactly what big petroleum wants.
Stay safe everyone. ✌️🕊☮️
Maybe working remotely would reduce those carbon emissions?
Sadly even though it's been realized that immediate action to stop this is needed, people being people, politics, money and lethargy will push us over the edge, that's the whole picture. Were going to see summer weather when people die from excessive heat (already happening) air quality due to forest fires become an issue (already happening) and the heat keeps rising. I'm not a tree hugger but my eyes are open. Enjoy your family and friends while theirs time.
My husband and I already live in an affected area (in Canada) due to Climate Change (we endured multiple atmospheric rivers during the winter when the ground was so saturated, it couldn't accommodate any more water and the city pump stations were running at full tilt and one neighbouring community's pump station nearly failed that would have resulted in the area turning back to a prehistoric lake). We decided it is time to move before we lose our only investment (our house/property). However, due to the Housing Crisis, there is NO OPTION for us. We are stuck here. Speculation and greed have ruined everything. We even opted to not have children as we just can't see how their lives would be better. We would only have them for our own selfish *wants* of having a family. They would be doomed to a world WORSE than what we had/have due to Climate Change.
Don't worry, last I read a third of the houses being bought up are by investors so it looks like we're in another housing bubble so it might burst soon.
Exactly, never give up hope. Have faith and the universe will provide, even in dark times always look ahead for the light
@ Tia
Rent to buy or rent out your home, monthly/yearly lease, then move out.
At least you've got a house. Never bow down never give up, if you are good people have kids. If our ancestors gave up we wouldn't be here, floods and cataclysm have knocked back humanity before and we are still here.
@@hamish1309 that's like saying " I got hit by a snowflake and I was fine, an avalanche will be no problem"
I live in New Orleans. In Louisiana sea level rise has already contributed to increased flooding during storms. All of southern Louisiana is basically flat so there is nothing to slow or stop the water as long as there is pressure pushing it onto land. As hurricanes increase in intensity as predicted more and more communities will be rendered uninhabitable due to massive storm surges. Even in the past few years damage has increased dramatically; places that haven't flooded in the past have been inundated up to 40 miles inland.
Increased flooding can happen for many reasons, quite normal in high tides for water flowing from land to disperse more slowly, it's like pushing up against a heavy truck. Remember the ides of climate predictions, no ice in Artic by 2015, then again by 2018, Maldives under water 2018 ..none happened ...on to the next scare story ..of a 1.5-2 feet increase in Louisiana sea levels by 2050... far enough away to create a "now" stir, but far enough away for those that made the predictions to have disappeared quietly, when it doesn't happen.
umm they built the city under the water line from day one..what do you expect?
Louisiana gets a double impact.
Because not only is the sea level rising, the ground is also sinking due to geological processes.
They used to talk about this 30 years ago and the oceans never went over what they were supposed to
Thank you for this important information! But what can we ACTUALLY DO in order to prevent the worst case scenario?
The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg
Don't vote Republican.
Love being a Bangladeshi in this awful timeline of the universe where we produced 0.09 percent of the world's carbon emissions but now we are the ones to go underwater first. Also love watching people in western nations still bicker about whether or not climate change exists while my house has been starting to go underwater since before I was born
Somebody in your family at some point should have considered moving.
I'm sorry for your struggles dude (or dudette). It's not fair on you guys. I'm fighting to get my corrupt government to do something about climate change but they are paid by the fossil fuel corporations to pretend nothing is wrong and block all renewable energy projects. Election soon so hopefully the bastards will be voted out and my country can start doing its bit to fight the coming apocalypse.
@@danusdragonfly6640 Do you even KNOW where Bangladesh is?
@@Kiyoone Yep. I am fairly good with geography and study geopolitics as well as different religions, customs, archeology, paleontology, plants and animals. Do you have a serious question?
the close neighbors of China and India aren't entirely blameless either, they have the opportunity to use the catch up effect and really minimize their emissions but instead opt to invest in the same 100yo tech that causes this.
I'm in Amsterdam, which today sits at sea level, polders around sometimes are over 10 feet below. All protected by several BN worth of flood protection. We won't suffer yet, though over 7 feet seas rise probably will do us in. Yet they're still building in the lowest polders, some 20-24 feet below.
But that's still all very long term, our greatest concern is drying out of the North Africa and middle east, which will bring 10 millions of refugees. That could happen within 10-20 yrs, even quicker if another major food growing area is hit by megadrought, now Ukraine and South Russia are almost of the market for 2 years.
Very true. A 7 foot or 2 meter rise in sea level will cause billions (with a B) of people to have to leave where they are, from either floods or droughts, causing the hugest refugee crisis ever. These will be very desperate people, who have literally nothing to lose. It won't be something that any country or community can avoid by somehow keeping "them" out.
At the current rate of sea level rise (assuming there is no cooling between then and now) it will take 1423 years to rise that 7".
Moreover sea levels are between 1-2 meters LOWER now than they were only 4500 years ago.
@@peterjones4180 "At the current rate" is the sticking point. As the global average temperature rises due to our current carbon and methane emissions along with the immeasurable future methane emissions from the thawing of permafrost and undersea hydrates, "the current rate" is expected to increase dramatically.
@@chrisjones6030 You need to study the physics a lot more Ch4 is NOT going to make any difference, H20 vapor is 97% of the atmospheric greenhouse gases it absorbs long wave IR in the same band widths mostly as Ch4.
Those bandwidths are MOSTLY saturated.
This is why the Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Minoan Warm period,
and Holocene Thermal optimums, did NOT create the effect you fear, neither did the preceding two interglacials which were both much warmer than our current one.
If it did not happen at the much higher temperatures in the HWP, MWP, RWP, its NOT going to happen now.
What you are looking at is a natural cycle.
Likewise human Co2 emissions are LESS than 4% of the annual Co2 emissions into the atmosphere or MORE than 96% of the annual Co2 emissions are from non human sources.
Co2's greatest warming effect is at 20 ppm, with every subsequent doubling of Co2, the additional warming produced DECREASES LOGARITHMICALLY.
Co2 is mostly saturated and has very little ability left to add warming.
Co2 ALSO absorbs IR radiation in mostly the same bandwidths as H20, and so also for that reason is mostly saturated.
When you look at the paleoclimate record
its very clear the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere makes no difference to the temperature, we have had massive ice ages with 4000 ppm + Co2 and high temperature periods with very LOW Co2 levels.
Co2 levels have very POOR correlation to
the temperature record, solar variability on the other hand has EXCELLENT correlation
to the temperature record.
Moreover the ice core series show clearly that its NOT rising Co2 levels that drive up temperature, its RISING TEMPERATURE that drives up Co2 with a lag of 800-1000 years.
Higher Co2 levels NEVER prevent subsequent cooling, indeed Co2 levels continue to rise for some time AFTER temperatures have cooled.
@@peterjones4180oceans are taking up over 90% of warming, hard to notice - as yet. Slight temp rise does melt the frozen-to-bottom underside of these glaciers, around all of Antarctica. When they get loose, we will start to see some extra rise. Still take some 100s yrs to do that 7 feet, but over 1000, not.
If you are concerned about them sea levels of bronze age - pyramids didn't even exist, let alone, this modern interconnected global economy, where war in Ukraine means Africa won't get no wheat and can no longer afford fertilizer - essential component K mined in Ukraine, with such economy so easily disrupted, rising oceans are the least of your concerns. We'll be fighting over food & water within 30 years, making the current wave of refugees seem a 4th July party in comparison .
If you do think the old, not the future sea levels are relevant, the last time we had this level of CO2, mid Miocene or so, sea levels were some 100+ feet higher. Those levels, co2 and seas, took eons to rise. We got to 420 ppm CO2 in half a century, half of emissions after 1990. Your little car drive to the mall, makes co2 level rise by 1ppm, in the cargo volume of a modern container ship, over 22000 cubic meters. Take a guess just how many of those drives are made around the world, each day. Plus all factories, planes, ships, plus plus plus. Things are looking up, mister.
Great job reporting ❤
1 year later and we have breached 1.5C over last 12 months. Last 3 months has been 1.7C.
Man, I'm at the point of having no idea how one person can have any impact on this stuff and instead resigning myself to a slow death for the species. It feels hopeless. It's mostly companies doing the damage, what can we do to fight that? They don't listen to anyone.
Stop using companies that contribute as much as you can. Gas is unfortunately currently the only mass production of effective vehicles besides going back to horse and buggy ( which wouldn't be a bad thing) even EV manufacturing is based on the use of massive CO2 emissions factories. But the responsibility doesn't just fall on companies, it's the people too. Wanting instant everything. It comes with a cost.
stop shopping reuse reduce and stop shopping with them dont lose hope we can still turn things around at all points
If every single person did their part, you would make a huge difference. Buying power and changing the way we purchase changes companies.
It does look pretty bleak, Nora, I'll give you that. You're probably already voting as much as possible for reps that will champion green initiatives, climate justice, etc. Local action is kind of the vanguard these days, so maybe there's a way you can nudge your hometown folk to change. I also need hopey boosts; th-cam.com/users/PiqueActionYT is a good daily reminder that the needle is in fact moving. Don't give up! We can do this!
Tell your elected officials you don't wanna fuckin die.
All of this in a state where a ridiculous amount of its inhabitants and politicians refuse to even believe that climate change is a real thing. It’s sad. The American education system, media, and our culture in general has failed whole generations of people.
Idiotic propaganda. Nobody believes climate change isn't real. People just disagree on what causes it. There is no evidence that its caused by humans and tons of evidence that it is a natural and uncontrollable cycle that would exist even if humans did not. All this doomsday propaganda doesn't help anyone or anything. All it does it make dumb people paranoid about a future they can't possible predict. All these predictive models that scientists show, none of them take into consideration mitigating factors, whether they are known, unknown, natural or man made. It just assumes the sea levels will continue to rise indefinitely. And everyone gets scared and blames humanity over it. This is no different than the Aztecs resorting to a blood sacrifice because a volcano went off and they interpreted it as the gods being mad at them.
I believe in intelligence change. Ten years ago no one would have believed our nation could be collectively stupid enough to elect a corrupt senescent perverted moron to run our lives, this was all caused by something called "education."
No such thing as man-made climate change,why are politicians buying water front property ? Have you ever had a glass full of ice overflow after it melts? Do some research before buying into the UN money grabbing scam !
@@melodyhart1331 This is the greatest scam that government has ever bamboozled the kids with that they have indoctrinated. Its far worse that the con job of "getting a degree" with a student loan. Degrees today are almost useless with few exceptions. Lets face it, degrees have been denigrated now that any dummy with an IQ above 80 can "earn" a PhD. (see Jill Biden)
This is not real science (the ethos of skepticism towards established truth). It is rather a combination scientism (the false idea that even real science supplies answers to all questions) and junk science (the misuse of statistics to promote a non-scientific agenda, in this case socialism)
Socialism is the false concept that when you vote for someone else's property (the product of their minds and bodies and therefore inseparable from them) you can then call it yours. Taking someones work effort by force is called slavery even when slavery is sold as an egalitarian concept.
This goes far beyond the UN. Trillions of dollars and nearly unlimited power are being traded on this scam. The bets have been placed and the fools who accept this scam are being forced to cover them. Not one of the assholes pushing this bullshit believes a word of it with the possible exception of Joe Biden who follows Easter bunnies.
I'm more scared of what the WEF is openly admitting what they want to do to humanity than I am of climate change. The solutions to these problems are what frighten me most.
@oceanofoil:
Please don't be shy and elaborate about "what frightens you the most"!
Are you afraid that maybe, if we mitigate against Climate Change, then people will not lose their homes to rising sea levels???
I dare anyone of you to do an experiment. This glacier has broke loose from an ice shelf. Ice shelves are floating ice. Here is the experiment. Put an ice cube in a glass and then fill the glass to the brim with water, use an eye dropper for the last bit and you can actually get the water a little bit above the rim of the glass. Now sit back and watch what happens when the ice cube melts! Here is a hint, you won’t need any wipe cloths. Floating ice that melts has zero effect on water levels. Try it !
I moved away from the coast a decade ago because of this. The models being too conservative was already being discussed online and I lived in a hurricane prone area. No way I was dealing with an increased chance for a cat 5 hitting me.
@ Adam Pope
Smart move, you have my respect, sir - From me, living on the East Coastline. My trust is in The Lord to get out in time, should something occur.
God bless you 🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻
LOL! How many CAT 5 hurricanes have made landfall in America? Has there been ANY change in the average number of hurricanes per decade or their intensity since records began? NO! The only thing that has changed is our ability to detect and study them. You need mental health treatment.
Same. Was living off the coast of NC and that place is quickly becoming a hot mess due to climate change and capitalism so made the choice to move mid west.
@@JynxeeKat lol same. I was living outside Wilmington. I looked at future sea level rise and at three meters my house was going to be river front property. I used to think that three meters wouldn't happen in my lifetime but after seeing all these ice shelves collapsing, I'm beginning to think that we're in the midst of a modern meltwater pulse.
@@adampope5107 I lived in Jax for 15yrs. Yeah we both know what’s up. Every new storm brings a huge host of problems. Lots of peeps don’t realize the plethora of farming communities in and around the coast as well and how it adds to other issues! Nothing like having fecal waste ponds over flowing everywhere. Yeah I’m enjoying life in the Rockies.
What do I think. Saying "Communities of color" and "the poorest" are effected the most is shooting yourself in the foot WRT encouraging action on climate change.
The second you say that, you've lost the attention of most people in the richer nations.
The focus needs to be on how climate change will negatively effect those most responsible for GHG rise.
These PBS psychos are racist nazi leftists.
Just some more racist BS propaganda clouding an otherwise great conversation about climate science.
It's just a fact. The poorest are always most affected. That's how capitalism and any society works.
Another brainwashed disciple.
If we can't find solidarity with the poorest communities in our society than we won't ever fix climate change. The richest will always make excuses for themselves so it's better to just be honest and present the full picture.
I am really liking these programs. Real science delivered in a digestible manner. Excellent!
This is one of the reasons I moved out of south florida. I now live in the mountains, but there are so many other factors to climate change. Insane flooding, wildfires strong storms, tornadoes, drought . I am protected from much of it but he powers that be have to get together and make drastic changes. I feel and see the changes so much. This part of the country, which is known for its lush green forests, has been in a strange dry spell and drought of sorts forbabout a year and a half now, and if it hangs round, it will bring wildfires here too. I also noticed a drastic decline in insects in this area.
Things are definitely not the normal we know of...
People do NOT want to see the changes or they might feel bad and have to change their lifestyles. But as a former Floridian, you already know that.
i try to live an environmentally friendly lifestyle, but it feels like it's never enough. society's greed will doom us all. have a great day everyone
Join others, vote Green politicians into office, use mass transit and if your area laks good transportation for all, the harass them with others until they meet your needs with zero carbon vehicles.
Societal greed and overpopulation. We call ourselves an intelligent species yet repeatedly fall prey to the basal desires instilled by billions of years of evolution - get more and reproduce. Pretty hard to fight against that.
Water, water everywhere yet not a drop to drink! Droughts are happening just miles away from the floods.
Speak on it😅
The ocean is 40ft from our deck. Next door is an 18" high seawall built in 1976, the water isn't any higher than it was in 76. Someone that doesn't understand tides and king tides and how they are influenced may be fooled but here in south Fla the average level isn't changing. 25 years ago Al Gore said south fla would be under water and the polar ice cap would be gone by 2016. Here we are in 2024 and I believe he invested in solar, wind mills and passing out govt grants to study climate change.
Although where I live climate change will not force me to move, however the effects of the changing climate is a major concern to many in this area. Due to this i cycled to work for 12 years prior to retirement because I could physically do so and to keep the gasoline in my car and keep the exhaust from the atmosphere. In my lifetime our winters are much milder and our summers start sooner and are much warmer for longer periods of time. There are all kinds of tree planting efforts by many people in this area. I am very concerned for the future and hope mankind can figure out a way to recapture the carbon in our atmosphere as well as reduce the carbon we add to the air.
And the fossil fuel industry is not being held accountable for any of these catastrophic changes.
We the fossil users are equally to blame. If we stopped using it, then the supply chain comes to a screeching halt
We need to hold the Democrat party responsible for reparations for being the party of slavery first. Who do we hold responsible for the stabbing death of a young girl, is it the steel makers, the knife manufacturers, their distributors, or their retailers?
That tool you are tapping on was made with petroleum.
Are you innocent? Have you used electricity or ridden in a car during your life? The climate change doesn't come from them pumping oil. It comes from everyone USING it. Go look in the mirror for the "Guilty Party" that needs to pay.
@@georgepoitras3502 That's like saying the drug dealer isn't partially responsible for your addiction .
Your argument is untenable.
@@tr7b410 You CLEARLY stated that is was THEIR Fault. No. We all share the blame. If they should pay to fix it, no one is innocent. We all used that power that was generated. Including you "Evolved" beings that went to college and got brainwashed into forgetting you used to leave lights on and used heat and AC and drove. Get off your pedestal.
Here in Belgium we’ve had one of the worst floods due to excessive rainfalls last summer, and almost a year later they’re still cleaning up garbage and rebuilding infrastructure. And we’re still 50-60 m above sea level … I’m sorta glad these catastrophic events happen because now people are starting to open their eyes and urge governments to change course. I just hope they will not only set lofty goals for like 2040-50 but also in the short term. Drastic changes need to happen right now if we want to prevent the worst!
No thank you on the drastic change. If it is your choice, why aren't you doing it now?
Ft Not m
50 To 60 Feet Not Meters
@@garytrawinski1843 We Europeans are doing it, but unfortunately at least for Germany, necessary action has been stalled by conservative and liberal parties for years; a time we can ill afford to loose. We all need to do more.
Don’t live waterfront- it’s a choice. Don’t live on a flood plane. Don’t live in a desert expecting water and electricity and food. The Earth has an angle in incidence to the sun and space has cosmic waves… also affecting this phenomenon.
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All those Credits going to David HOLLAND is a bit ironic while talking about a potential sea level rise ... 🙊
If sea levels rise by 30ft, I'll be living on a small island. The nearest town will be mostly gone, other surrounding towns will most definitely disappear beneath the waters, the whole area will be fragmented with hilltops turned into tiny islands.
This is actually starting to happen now, as the river through the town has gone from flooding once every few years to flooding a few times every year.
Maybe we should look into buying a boat.
IF...
@@jaybee5794 They will, according to the scientific consensus, it is just a matter of time.
I hope people read this. As a Northerner I am well aware of how ice melts. In the spring it seems like it will never leave even as the temperature rises. Then you see it gets a little soft but it still won't go. The next stage it changes color, gets slushy and it's all gone in 2 days. If we wait for slush, it's too late. Thank you @pbs
Here we call it "rotten ice". It looks ok on the surface, but step on it and you go right through it.
But amazing enough it returns every year.
@@AORD72 Irony so clear it's impossible to miss ! 😨
@@AORD72 That's "climate change" for ya. Tell the Marxists in Washington we need them to ban summers in order to save our -precious bodily fluids- ice!
The real thing you’re going to miss is how much carbon tax money you pay out and how that money is actually used to improve the climate!
Because of the extreme values which are at risk at the sea fronts of Florida, the state government has decided to reject the fact of climate change related sea level rise. Politicians are really creative in finding solutions.
"Who's most at risk"? Obviously the prognosticators are more at risk because we won't put up with any more of their lies.
IMO, we're screwed. I'm not going to live to see the worst of it but my daughter and grand daughter will. We've failed them miserably.
You missed the story line. Your kids will all die, count on it.
Even the best scientists can't see all the twists and turns. We don't know what will happen, that's how the future works. All we can do is our best, teach our children and grandchildren to be analytical thinkers, involved in the political process and long term planners. They may build the world we dream of because, rather than despite off climate change.😉
@Older than dirt Don't have to worry about the climate.... Vladimir Putin is going to launch Global Thermo-Nuclear War soon... climate will be the least of your worries. I don't worry about climate or global warming at all anymore. Putin has cured me of worrying about climate and global warming.
@@robertwilliamson6121 Ha ha I've been saying this for years, these nitwit snowflakes obsess over .01 degree "perceived" temperature variations but are clueless as to the real "glow-ball" warming threat - 50 million degree fireballs the size of a city.
Presumably, however, we will kill each other with nuclear weapons beforehand.
I sold my house on a barrier island three years ago and the realtors thought I was nuts saying how glad I am no longr going to be a victim of sea level rise. I lived on a marsh for 15 years and by the time I sold my house the high tide water was on the edge of my property when at the time I bought my house it was 20 feet away.
And of course in addition to the rising seas, the increased heat levels are going to affect people who are very far away from any ocean. It may very well be that summers in some locations are going to get so hot that people will literally die, and if / when that happens, there will be significant migrations literally for survival from those places too.
@LoneRider perhaps, but the mass migrations will still need to happen. How will new land be appointed to dislocated people? Who will have the right to a new land and who won't? Huge potential for conflict here.
And we wonder what happened to the Mayans, the Incas, Anasazi pueblan natives & more. We are in stage 5 per Mayan Calendar.
@LoneRider People look to the past to much when it come to climate change but nobody is looking at where we are at today. During the previous climate shifts we did not have ticking timebombs located all over the planet. An example is the 450 nuclear power plants that will go into radioactive meltdown when they either get hit by tsunami or they no longer have trained humans to keep refrigerators running. Nuclear power plants are just one example there are many other toxic chemical plants etc.
It may be that temperatures will increase to where Siberia and antarctic regions become liveable; i wonder if that liveable land increase might he greater than the submerged coastlines?
@@rogerjohnson2562 It's not just the actual amounts of land that are important here, because we still require dock facilities along coastlines regardless. If these are overwhelmed by rising oceans then we're still in trouble. And I'm not sure how good the formerly frozen locations would be for growing crops either, for example.
I've been following the climate crisis for decades. I'm 68 yrs and live in Calgary, AB, and am grateful for that. I don't expect to live more than another 10-15 yrs, and will, therefore, miss the catastrophe that is unfolding. Is it possible that the human world will hold the rising temperature to 2 degrees celsius? The Economist proposes the prospect of a 3 degree rise by centuries end if we continue on the current trajectory. Electric vehicles aren't going to save us. Emissions continue to rise. I am skeptical and foresee the unimaginable happening. I bear witness.
On May 20th, 2024, an iceberg measuring 380 square kilometers (~147 mi2) broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This event (A-83) is this region’s third significant iceberg calving in the past four years.
“How bad are we willing to let it get?” Well climate deniers are not even acknowledging the problem so, sadly, there’s the answer.
Honestly, even if I did NOT believe in the contribution of mankind to the problem, I would have enough common sense to ask myself, “What if there is even the SLIGHTEST chance that it could be true?” At that point it becomes a gamble with the welfare of my children, not me. Selfish ignorance.
I'm not a climate denier, but my question is why would President Obama buy ocean front property. Why do I have to make drastic changes when elites have mcmansion and fly frequently. Society is a heat engine and climate change cannot be reversed
@@matthewm9261 : Because President Obama can afford to liquidate ocean front property as easily as he acquired it? I don't know but you seem certain enough about it to risk the welfare of your children. Good for you
@@pjesf I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and my carbon foot print is nowhere as big as others. I don't understand why there isn't a push to end to air travel and eliminating air conditioning. We know the eroi of solar panels are a joke and you can't run a modern economy on renewable power
@@matthewm9261 : "A push to end air travel". No one is talking about plunging mankind back into the stone ages. As long as fossil fuels are encouraged then there is no incentive to move away from them.
GOP would be happy with NO emissions standards and nothing along those lines. And it's not JUST fossil fuels - it's recycling and deforestation. I drove route 66 through the midwest and had to haul my recycling through 6 states who can't be bothered with it. It's attitude. Selfish attitude.
@@matthewm9261 : You don't want to be inconvenienced; I get it.
I do indeed live somewhere which is very vulnerable to a rise in sea levels. I live right on the South coast of England (UK) and cities such as Portsmouth and Southampton (UK) and the densely populated areas all along the South coast will be badly flooded if sea levels rise very far. There is already a problem with tidal surges, albeit normally on the East coast of England. Low lying cities such as Hull are vulnerable too. After a certain point the tidal defenses for London (known as the Thames Barrage) will no longer be able to cope, and London has a population of over 20 million people.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark are also vulnerable. These are low-lying countries and any significant sea level rise will be disastrous. Coastal cities in Spain and Portugal likewise - Lisboa (Lisbon), Malaga, Oporto, Barcelona etc.
Not to mention cities such as Santiago, Buenos Aires and Montevideo in South America.
Who's most at risk? No one
I had crazy dreams two months ago that north america was covered in water. As for mexico and south america im sure that water flooded that.. Scientist need to wake up all around the world and start making a change for a better future.
It’s the politicians not the scientists. And more importantly the corporations
@@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 yes which sucks
Even in places along the U.S. West coast where homes are high above sea level up on the cliffs, those cliffs are suffering sped up erosion as a result of sea level rise. It doesn't matter that they're significantly higher than sea level. They're sill going to be impacted by this phenomenon.
A few years ago I went to see singer Steve Lawrence's house up for sale in California beach front. Not that I could afford it. He had invested a million $$ building a sea barrier to keep the house from flooding. Still, it had a $10M price tag. I hope the price includes a snorkel.
Many houses are already falling into the ocean, some in Sonoma County, some in Pacifica and other places. Sea level rise and soil erosion mostly to blame. I remember a Geology professor in college saying that our society overbuilt on the coasts because of a sort of Goldilocks period where climate and weather near the coast was more stable and climate change had not yet made itself felt. He said watch and see what happens as more storms and weather events decimate cliffs and ocean moves farther inland. This was before we were even talking very much or knew very much about climate change
@@glendabarton45barton48 That 15mm yearly rise isn't doing jack shit to impact the coasts.
Pandemics viruses
@@glendabarton45barton48 and the reason coastal regions will loose ground only reason the coastline of all countries is highly populated was for the trade routes we don’t have to rely on that as much with our technology in transport but people still all gravitate to the coast it’ll just shrink for some and gain for others
So no one talks about drawing down consumption. If large numbers of people stop buying unnecessary things and taking the car out every day, less oil would be burned. Eat significantly less meat and cook at home. Will there be a rise in unemployment? Yes. We will need to shift the economy to reuse, repair and recycle; old skills might be needed again. My town doesn't have a shoe repair shop (Shoes are no longer manufactured to be re-soled. Anyone want a job?)
Businesses need to adapt by encouraging as much teleworking as possible. Our government needs to invest in public transportation and biking infrastructure, and repeal zoning laws that only allow for the construction of single family homes on the majority of the available land in. We need to immediately fund the construction of nuclear and geothermal power plants.
As has been pointed out to me on numerous occasions, it doesn’t matter what you do, someone has done it in the past. Having said that, some 13000 years ago, Noah or his Sumerian counterpart Ziasudra , had a very same problem that we are facing today. All we need now is for an extra terrestrial body to pass close to earth and the rest will be history.
Thank you David Holland keep up your fantastic work
Answer: #2 - We are doomed to a warmer world.
I used to make a living as a Ski Instructor. As recently as the 1990s I'd ski from Halloween till Independence Day in the Lake Tahoe area.
No we will not come together to prevent this. Big money says no, long term habits say no.
I think the community of Little Haiti needs to get proactive. Find somewhere else in the country that won't be as badly affected by climate change, preferably a rural area where land is relatively affordable, and move there as a whole community. Those who have money can buy the land and lease-to-sell it to their poorer family and neighbours so that eventually everyone owns their own home. With a whole community moving together, they can create the new businesses to employ everyone and build an economically successful settlement. Build good new houses to high performance standards, develop a reliable local water supply, sufficient renewable electricity supply, food grown within walking distance of every home, a solid science-based education for their kids ... with a whole community working together you can achieve anything.
One thing's for sure. The government and their current landlords are not going to help them. If they want any sort of future, they have to make it happen for themselves.
Is that glacier on land, or is it shelf ice? If it's shelf ice, the entire thing can melt tomorrow, and there won't be a millimeter rise in sea levels.
I expect that by 2050, there will be over a billion climate refugees around the world with nowhere to go.
What I didn't expect is that such troubles will also *already* be affecting poor people in our own country.
And there will be over 5 billion angry right wingers crying about those migrants, even though their own inaction and stupidity is what created their problem.
This is nonsense. Refugees from what? Rising sea levels? Just move back a few paces if the seas rise.
@@marksouthern7542 Sea level rise and temperatures that are too hot to survive. Think about what you just said though: over half of humanity lives near the coast.
What happens when all of them need to move. That billion I mentioned, which I can cite studies about, are the ones who don't simply have a place they can move to.
@@AvangionQ If the rate of sea level rise doesn't escalate, then the maximum height of sea level rise will be approximately 300mm over this century. Last Century it was about 150mm. No problem to deal with this amount of sea level rise. It is easier to manage heat than cold. The cold kills many more than the heat. Many places on earth will benefit from 1C of warming. Think of Canada and Russia for example. Over the last few centuries the world has been greening and crop yields are up due to more C02 in the atmosphere. However, the overall trend of temperatures has been downward since the Holocene high stand. If you want my prediction, I suspect we are now heading into a colder period until 2035 (ish).
@@marksouthern7542 300mm? Try six feet by 2100. Some places will have over ten feet sea level rise. Yes, it's not an equal distribution.
Only takes two feet of sea level rise before we start seeing migrations. No wonder you weren't worried. You didn't know how bad it's gonna get.
I don't think we have a chance of doing anything to slow it down. There are a lot of people that are doing their part to cut their footprint, but a lot more people that don't even try. The conversation has been going on for about 30 years or so now with very little action from most people. By the time those people figure it out the Oceans will have risen 30 feet. Then it will be too late to slow it down let alone reverse it.
You better check yourself in. You could have a mental problem!!
People will deny the unknown...which is synonymous with death.
@@kirstinstrand6292 there are things that occur around the world that change coastlines occasionally. what he's speaking about is not climate change. if you understand climate change you have to take a large area of country and check the the temperatures .because that's where they started .until they realize people were doing research .and then they had to make it be climate change .you see back in the seventies they had said we were going to be frozen over by now !!now!! they're saying it's climate change!! they need another narrative !the people behind it are world government !!they need your money!! They need you to think alike!!!! to support world government.. even the pope is behind it if you'd understand prophecy you wouldn't be confused about it !!!..the Bible tells us what these people are going to do!!!! notice they just passed a climate change tax on you and !!!you're paying for something that doesn't exist! that ought to please you!! if you check the records of a large area like lake Michigan from the 1800s when they first started keeping record ..of it.. the lake froze over once back in those days ..that let you know how cold a large area is.. it froze over four times or better after that since 1976 ..thats definitely not climate change.. based on temperature ..that's where they started.. so you can stay blind if you want.. to and get behind people that support it ,that ends up stealing your money ,from your pocket, and your freedom in the future, to bring you into a socialist world government system, because that's who's paying for it ,I've studied this for 30 years, they will not pay a climate scientist .if he says anything different ....wake up.
@@kirstinstrand6292 you got to remember what he's saying there they started that stuff in 1980 something and they said we would be flooded by now I checked the sea levels they haven't risen one inch on the coastlines anywhere if what happened that he says would happen we would all be dead by now since 1980 ..you see they got the chicken little story going here, in here believing it.
@John Like a real smooth brain, yeehaaa!
Here's a question that I've been wondering about all this concern about the ice melting and raising the seas.. what about all the millions of tons of silt , dirt, rocks, sand and all the other stuff that gets dumped and washed into the seas? It's got to have a impact. Maybe it's not as much as I think it does but I can't help but think it has a major helping factor ofbbthe seas rising. Take a 55 gal barrel, fill it half way with water. Dump a big shovel full of dirt and it raises the water level... just curious...
@@bradthompson5383 Google how much sediment the Mississippi river dumps into the gulf of Mexico. Then think about all the other rivers, creeks, stream and tributaries. Plus land slides, volcanoes and debris that goes in as well. I can't help to think it's got a huge impact on the levels .
@@destinationunknown7857 Yes, it does raise sea levels, look it up
Destined to be in a warmer and warmer world if without some earth saving scientific discovery that can make some humongous change. People as a whole, the 99% will continue living normally and only making the most basic minimal change possible as they are forced to cope with the environment.
Got to love how you immediately bring race into it when it's quiet literally people of all colors being displaced......
I'm already past concerning myself with rising sea levels, and have moved on to the best places to live to avoid nuclear war. Who's with me?
Move as close to ground zero as possible. You'll avoid all the horrific pain and suffering that will be visited over the entire earth, as a result of a nuclear war.
Switzerland 🇨🇭 is where you wanna be. ✔️
@@johnstone7697 You go first.
Doomsday Glacier: "I find the term 'doomsday', somewhat offensive. My name is actually Tim."
“First humans to see this” we weren’t the only ones here.
I'm a climate refugee. I moved from the CA Central valley which is getting hotter and dryer every year to the CA north coast. My new home has also been severely drought afflicted
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. Did you actually decide to move because it just got too hot and dry?
@@RyanWalshGuitar As I grew up we observed hotter and hotter temperatures and less and less rain. The main industry there is agriculture which is very water intensive. Tree nuts and fruits and dairy. Many people there are lobbying to import water from other regions but those places are also experiencing severe drought. So yes I moved because of not seeing a long time horizon of viability of agriculture as normal in the area.
@@misaelramos83 With the water levels at Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and most of the California reservoirs at very low levels, I think we are very close to a point where drastic changes to agricultural practices in the southwest and California will happen. It is already forcing governments to institute temporary programs that pay farmers to fallow fields, but I am betting that it will have to go much further into forcing changes to less water intensive crops in certain regions, and forcing changes in irrigation practices. With about 80% of water in the southwest going to agriculture, the farmers are going to be squarely in the bulls eye for changes in water use.
I live in CA central valley, and am afraid of the coming summer. This area will be forced into growing less water intensive crops. Almonds use too much water, and these almond orchards are everywhere.
@@cynthiacole6140 One thing I've observed as a Tulare County native is that the microclimates where citrus orchards are planted in the Sierra Nevada foothills were one of the first to change. This was like 10-15 years ago too. I remember Kevin Ramer on KMPH talking about how either it was gonna get too cold and destroy citrus as it formed or as it became later on, not enough cold enough nights for the fruit to set from buds. I've been away for years now so I no longer know the details.
Reminds me of the episode of Gilligan's Island where they thought the island was sinking and it turns out Gilligan was moving the professor's measuring stick so the professor's measurements were way off. Hahahaha.
The US department of Defence says that the impacts of climate change are its most serious concern over this decade.
War and bombs makes it even worst with burning oil and colums of dark smoke ....😢