Thanks to Dr Adam Levy and soon-to-be-Dr Simon Lee for their fact checking on this video! Go check them out, they're excellent sources of information on climate: - Dr Levy: th-cam.com/users/ClimateAdam - soon-to-be-Dr Lee: twitter.com/SimonLeeWx
Thank you very much, Simon. you cleared up a lot of my misconceptions, and I am very grateful for that! One phrase, that you hear a lot when talking to climate change sceptics, is that the average temperature is calculated mostly using data from stations near cities (Data is collected there because of weather forecasts etc), and that cities are getting warmer, because they are growing in population. Can you please debunk that (or link me to an article I could show them)? Thank you very much for your work -Jonathan
How about doing a video on the Weather Modification Programs that have been going on all over the world for many years. Exeter Universities involvement along with Bristol University in THE SPICE PROJECT .What about Stratospheric Aerosol Injection ? Cloud Seeding ? Solar Radiation Management ? Marine Cloud Whitening ? Ionospheric Heaters ? Ground Based Cloud seeding Generators ? Ship Tracks dumping Bunker Fuel ? Cloud Ionisation ? Steering Atmospheric Rivers with Antennas ? All the Universities , Private Companies , NASA , The Militaries and the United Nations who have been involved in these Programs for many years ?
What kind of an effect does all the water/steam we emit have? Seems to me much more impactful than CO2 alone, my *guess* is that we are seeing such an effect due to both, but more so water. And that CO2 effects are atleast slightly over blown, but still the overall warming still holds true and we need to stop as much as possible as quickly as possible
@@chrisgoodrich46 My interpretation of "beat you with experience" is an idiot knows how to derail a debate then alter the stage so the argument doesn't have anything to do with the topic anymore. Then since the new topic isn't your expertise anymore the outcome solely depends on who has more experience with...well just arguing which the idiot will have more experience with.
@@asdf8650 It's more about the Idiot has more experience in being an idiot. It's the fierce brave and child analogy, the brave is the toughest most experienced fierce and wise member of the tribe, everyone looks up to him and obeys everything he says because of his fierceness, wisdom and bravery. Everyone but the baby child who does what babies do, the brave uses his wisdom to command the baby, the baby smiles, the brave uses his bravery and fierceness to command the baby with almighty authority, the baby laughs, the brave gets frustrated and fierce, the baby falls asleep, the brave walks away defeated... make sure your opponent has the ability to understand your points, or it's pointless.
It must be so frustrating to devote your entire adult life to a certain area of study, then having people who haven't invested even 1% of that time, nevermind the context of university vs. google searching, talk down to you like this constantly. I really admire you, Simon.
Yt1mg excuse me but I did a 5 mins google search and misinterpreted a graph on Facebook this means I know more about the climate than your years of university education
It's incredibly frustrating. I'm a geologist and I've been dealing with it 25 yrs. It's gotten waaaaaay more ridiculous since trump has been in office... he really knows how to dumb down a crowd.
People are all like "You've been indoctrinated during your studies" 🤔 I guess *some* of that probably happens, but what about their indoctrination when they read super fast on a subject from ONE source that is unreliable in the first place? Is a literature teacher, I really want to teach young people to check facts and read different sources, and that includes people who disagree with you, much in fact like what Simon is doing in this video 😂
@K P sharma oli that's the nominal GDP measured in US$. This can range from being slightly accurate, to completely inaccurate, as in the case of India's GDP when measured in PPP terms. China's economy is already bigger than that of the USA, and India's GDP stands well above 10T in PPP terms.
@K P sharma oli mostly Americans use the nominal metric to show the world "that they're still number 1" when in fact, they are number 2, and under Modi, by the end of this decade, they will be number 3.
What India is doing the same thing western countries had did in (1900-1980) Industrial Revolution. But western countries fully exploits Natural resources (trees,water, people, wildlife....) Of colonial countries.... This is a process/cost of development....and every country has to go through it
Shutdown india and china ? Yup blame other countries for carbon emissions rather than doing what you can in your own country to reduce it. That's the laziest thing I ever heard 😅
@@96Champ994 it basically mean to stop all the growth of the country and depend on others country's for processed goods rather than being self efficient and make there own products. It's funny to hear a country like America or others say it when they are one of the country that heavily dependent on imported goods from other developing countries like India and China for everything 😅
Kinda weird seeing everyone defend China out of all of this, despite being one of the world contributors to the deteriorating global situation. I agree with the logical fallacy but honestly I would be down with shutting down the current China, regardless of the reason.
@@oskarhenriksen it’s hard to engage in a thought experiment of flat earth climates when one person refuses to comprehend any fundamentals of science and treats visual interpretations of actual data points as CGI lies. Any attempt to explore contradictions becomes a conflict of extremism so there’s no possibility to incorporate knowledge outside of their closed loop belief system. It’s sad but I had to cut my losses which made them feel justified they ‘won’ via the war of intellectual attrition.
@@darylingoteborg3178 Yeah, I keep ditching online discussions because I get so tired, which I'm sure is great for the self-confidence of many a troll and/or idiot and/or bully...
"shut down china and india" yes, let's just ignore the country who's actually been causing most of the problem and is stalwartly unwilling to work internationally in order to combat it.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli developed countries put their dirty factories in developing countries and have better quality of life indices, pollution and then virtue signal to other countries while throwing their garbage all around the world. It's truly amazing. Also check out historical emissions.
Total Carbon emissions since Industrial revolution - US accounts for 25% EU accounts for 22% (if Britain included then it jumps to 27%) China accounts for 13% India accounts for only 3% People (especially western people) usually forget to look at these kind of data and start blaming developing countries but hey if you look at current emission rankings (1. China, 2. US, 3. EU, 4. India) you may find that developed western countries still pollute this planet more than developing countries.
The reason that pressure must be put on developing nations is because soon they will be developed, and per capita emissions will increase. We can't allow all nations to be producing at the same rate of USA. USA must make drastic changes, but so does every other nation so that emissions can stay at a safe level.
@@zephyrsaurus8822 India is doing changes, India is making dams, solar energy parks,wind turbines on the coasts. most of the auto rickshaws or 'tuktuks' run on CNG instead of petrol or diesel, and there is an alternative to them 'e rickshaws' running on electricity.
Dr Clark, as someone from the 'developing world', can I just say thank you? I am so sick and tired of first worlders blaming climate change on relatively recent open economies enjoying their economic growth. Are there costs to that? Of course, but anyone from a firstworld country who says 'shut down China and India' need their head examined.
@Khushboo Kohli I guess not; I'm Indian and I find the prospect of such extremely long names, rather imprudent not because of the meaning, but perhaps because the real essence of what a name ought to be, is lost. A name is meant to be something meaningful that others can call you by, you don't expect people to call you by excruciatingly long names do you? But yes here the guy's name "Theena" is quite short so that does the job ig
@@ANDROLOMA lol as a fellow Tamil guy (he is too) we do have complex names that are complex sounding in English which only has 26 letters in it's alphabet compared to Tamil which has 247 letters in it's alphabet and being the the oldest language in the world doesn't really help the fact as we have complex pronunciations thus the inherent need to make our names inevitably a tongue twister for poor westerners lol in Tamil his name which is just "Theena" is considered short having only 2 letters compared to my name which has 6 Tamil letters and 13 English letters to spell it out XD
The problem is mindset ,they just write without studying or evaluating things ,don't focus on them . and for their lazy brains ,Indian population has most climate awareness then these so called developed world according to latest survey .
@@sebas8225 The topic was carbon emissions, but yes there is such a river....Actually the river in question here is considered a Goddess that purifies everything, so some people have mentality to dump all pollutants in the river.... Massive government effort ongoing now to clean the river..... (PS: the river actually has some mysterious properties that science is yet unable to explain)
I love how they say ""shut down ___" As if you can 'shut down' an entire country as if you're forclosing a business. like they know people live there right???
They don't know that it's people who live there. They probably think we are slaves who work for them and have no feelings. They are also probably flat earthers
honestly, the very notion that India contributes to climate change the most is a hint of casual racism. Indians are associated with poverty and waste because that's how the foreign media portrays us. And boom. that leads to racism in the mind of westerners and they think the climate change is our fault.
Our country is good in pollution handling and I am proud of that but they should do something about overpopulation too like passing 1child or 2 child policy
@Manas Gupta there will always be extremists who deny laws that harm their so called ideals or cultures . That is why education on these matters should provided to teens and youth so that they can be better than these riots and speak for the better
You're gonna get someone canceled, mentioning isms like that. Words have meaning. Well, until it's convenient for me that they don't, but for now they have meaning.
I agree there may be a hint of that …ism, but I think it is unintended in this particular argument. I think the argument is basically a paraphrase of…. “….. I know we are contributing to significant climate change, but CHINA, we can’t control China, so all we can’t do anything, so lets kick the can down the road again”. Standard 3 steps, denial, denial doesn’t work, distraction to different subject, that doesn’t work, stall the discussion. The oil industry tactic is not to win the climate change denial argument it is just to perpetually stall the debate. In fact winning is not desirable, it could mean they are then held legally responsible at some stage in the future. It is just delay.
I don't blame a person for not understanding science, but I do blame them for talking as though their opinion is just as valid as one who spent years studying the subject.
I would also blame the people who convinced them that their unsupported opinions were valid. They were given to believe that there are no wrong answers and that every opinion counts. And when coupled with the ever-growing scientific illiteracy (and outright science denial), has blossomed into this place where "my opinions are just as valid as your facts." "I don't understand it, therefore I can reject it."
@@CD_Character In the US, there is also a huge hate on pharma and doctors because of how expensive it is... that feed the hate they have over science in general and make them feel like science is just a way to exploit people...
Western countries are the most hypocrite in the world. That is why powerful developing countries don't care about them. One day we will show you your picture😄😄😄
The people commenting on "shutting down" developing countries including the one mentioned in the comment themselves own 2 cars and fly most of the times travelling putting very little effort and not realizing themselves that they produce more carbon emissions than an average person from a developing country
I swear I lived in a developing country and I saw what true recycling is. Not every product is enclosed with plastic, people are not as wasteful and reusing things were the norm. Then I went back to the US and got reminded of how much Americans use so much plastic for every little thing. Even when flying over through Japan I saw so much plastic use in the airports. It’s crazy
Being from a country (Bangladesh) which has been facing the severe impact of climate change for YEARS, I feel really angry at those who are privileged enough to say "there's only a few millimeters of rise in water level. What's the emergency?" Well, the problem is that countries like mine are at high risk of losing habitable land becuase of climate change. Cities near the port are already becoming flooded because of mid-level rainfall. I'd like to thank you for making videos on such a pertinent issue. ❤
@@dave-hp3rf As a person living in West Bengal,that is just across the border from Bangladesh,I assure you that cities and habitable land are indeed being flooded,increasingly every year. A major part of Bangladesh is a delta landform .... which is low lying...and more flooding is causing the land to become waterlogged and less farming can be done...
India emitting 1/3 carbon that of USA at present. Imagine Per capita. Additionally, top renewable energy projects are not from any developed world but from India and China who are responsible for 1/3 of total green cover increase.
@Kaleb Kurian dude stop crying and look at the stats and also what kind of a idiot you are to assume all 1.4 billion have cars ? you are telling info about india to an indian like wth?
And funny how almost all the flat earthers are mainly from america or western countries. I have never heard a flat earther who was indian or chinese or asian at that. 😂😂
This was a fun ass video, it's great seeing a slightly sassy scientist tear apart stupid arguments you hear and see time and time again, when the layman like me is no where near knowledgable or articulate enough to point out precisely why they are wrong, despite knowing that they most definitely are. So this was rather cathartic
@@jbw6823 Science is not a democratic process it's firmly based on the data, evidence and facts. Many of the AGW supporters on here believe that weather events are evidence of AGW!?
@@richardrussell5695 That's fine and fair enough if so If they're Nobel Laureates who are sceptical, they've done the research enough to earn their opinion. But us as the general populous can and should trust and follow the broader scientific consensus for this sort of issue. Shit would just get worse if the argument that has the most amount of scientific support and credibility is ignored.
Selfsustaining practices were as common as brushing, in India!!! It was amazing to watch people discard traditional practices to blindly follow 'West', in name of being cool!!! Thankfully things are changing!!! World is reinventing those things!!!! If you want examples!! Feel free to ask(keeping your ego aside). From an Indian 🙏
It's a different level of frustration when a phenomenon that has so much science behind it, is so urgent and is gonna affect us all, is so misunderstood
Zoe Skinner science has been misunderstood for most of our history. We didn’t really understand gravity (we only knew how to calculate and predict its effects) all that well until the 20th century. We didn’t know the design of our own solar system until the 16th century and it took us a full century to even accept it as fact. Hell we didn’t even know the a whole ass other content existed until the 15th century.
@@commondognut "Hell we didn’t even know the a whole ass other content existed until the 15th century.". I think the people who lived there knew all about it?
@@commondognut I doubt it. Just like the people in Autralia probably didn't know about Eurasia or the Americas. That doesn't make you or your tribe any 'better' than anyone else though. You are just trying to change the argument with this last question. My point was that your comment implies that the only people whose knowledge was important was the people from Europe who travelled to other parts of the globe. Your comment implied it is okay to dismiss whole nations of people just because you don't identify with them. That is an argument based on ignorance.
@@davidwebb2318 no, not really. I’ll admit it’s a western point of view because news flash you’re on the western side of TH-cam but that doesn’t somehow inherently mean all other points of view are invalid
I'd like to add one more thing about the comment to shut down China and India: What most of us tend to forget is that these countries produce quite a big portion of the cheap goods we buy in the Western World. If we shut them down, where do we get our cheap computer technology and toys from? 🤔
Bro what you're saying applies 90% on china , like we indians ourselves use products which are made in china , obviously they are not durable , we mostly supply spices , I don't know much about it but I don't think India has anything to do with this
@@user-uh5jv3qr7y increase in speed means eco-systems around the world won’t be able to evolve fast enough nor will the co2 kept in the inner atmosphere be able to be dispersed fast enough by trees because, yes, it is going faster
@@planetdesign4681 true…….. if you see like this then although increase in co2 is really helpful for trees its the deforestation which is causing problems……..otherwise trees have been adapted to intake more co2
@@user-uh5jv3qr7y Problem is the global warming caused by CO2 means more droughts and dry places, so forest fires start easier and trees will get less water. So even though they can breath a _little_ easier it's worse for them overall.
Every single person who says “but carbon emission total is more important than carbon emission per capita!” is saying the same thing as “Luxembourg is an extremely poor country. It has 6 times less GDP than Nigeria. We need to help Luxembourg prosper!”
3:00 In addition, I would highly recommend, to put CHINAAAA und India into perspective. A huge amount of the carbon emissions produced in those countries is used to make and build products with super low labour costs and then ship them to Europe and the US. This means in contrast nothing else as, that the so called "developed" world outsources - on top - a lot of their carbon emissions...
You are right to say developed world outsource carbon emissions, but still they fart more pollutants per capita than the world average and aren't changing their energy matrix nor supporting developing world's efforts
China is also switching to Thorium reactors over the next 10 years which will drastically cut their emissions. Something the US conveniently likes to ignore while they pump more carbon into the atmosphere every year. 🙄🙄
@@churchofplatinum9685 thorium reactors can 1 day throw us humans. Geothermal energy, natural gases all once dig out is very difficult or impossible to dispose back to earth. So better go for free energy and a time will come generation of electricity will become more natural than these conventional energies. We humans also have energy and magnetism, only how to utilize it is not yet in human grasp, but once is known, then we humans simply can charge through space itself. Let see
Send the climate to its room and only let it out to do its chores, like raining on fields. Too often we let the climate do its own thing, only for it to come home drunk and admit to flattening a few countries during a bender. It's time we instilled some discipline around here! :P
That thing about planting tropical fruit in places where it cannot currently survive misses a flipside of that same effect: The plants that currently thrive where you currently live may no longer be able to live there. Take the huge-ass pine forests of Canada, for example. The southern limit of their range is largely defined by the cold tolerance of the pine beetle, which cannot survive a cold winter but absolutely thrives in pine forests that no longer get cold enough to kill them off. This kills off the forest. And then there's a load of dead wood standing around. In increasingly dry summers.
Hey Simon just thought I'd throw it out there that the videos are really great and have influenced me to study physics in secondary school, one of the best decisions of my life. Thanks so much for putting in the hard work to make such great videos.
@Kent Horvath while i know that scientists has prediction of the average number of castastrophic weather events. And i know that scientists have prediction of a possibility of a massive hurricane hitting the US simply because there's a massive hurricane in the sea. And the fact that you has not cited any source of scientists continually make predictions that never come true mean mean that your statement is not a fact. Just a statement.
@Kent Horvath The national hurricane center does a pretty good job forecasting catastrophic weather events up to a week ahead of time - so what are you talking about? For comparison, the Bibles have been predicting the end of the world for 7000 years or 2000 years and "I will return soon" is getting a little tired.
Kent Horvath what..?😂😂 you cant really predict something as random as a wild fire just the probability that they’ll happen and they’ve been saying it’s becoming more likely.
TH-cam Commenters Today: "Desertification isn't real." TH-cam Commenters Tomorrow: "The Government is secretly sending millions of dump trucks filled with sand to fake the climate crisis."
@@ANDROLOMA That's how you think but the fact you don't know is he must have spent 25 years studying to be a scientist and still studying to survive as a worthy scientist by keeping ownself updated
i remember seeing a fast food resturant like KFC, saying they will not give out plastic straws so they can do their bit for the environment and then proceed to show figures of how much straws they have saved in a year and not thrown away. i just wonder, given how many outlets of KFC there are and how all of them are Air-conditioned.. Wont raising the aircon temp by 1 deg in all outlets do more, then not giving out straws? and also giving out paper cups for dine in and takeaways? why not use re-useable cups for dine in, and have diners return the cups to be washed and re-used, and only give paper cups for takeaways. i guess it has a "feel good" effect, that you remove 1 straw from a meal and you make a big statement out of it saying "LOOK our cooperation is doing our bit for the Planet Earth", a Pat on the Back. or "oh look ..Earth Day" lets turn off the lights for 1 hour.. (while leaving it ON for 365 days on the other days)..
"I want palm trees and coconuts and west nile and zika and yellow fever, dengue and ebola. And tsetse flies and anopheles mosquitoes to fill in the wildlife gaps."
I don’t know about scientists but I know many professors from my college who always used bicycles in campus with all those hilly roads given their age in 50-60s. Well they are kinda scientists in their respective fields but I saw that with age and maturity, patience comes and that’s more important in changing yourselves in favour of Mother Earth. Youngsters mostly would use cars even for few kms if they can afford to buy one…
What scientists do in their individual lifestyles is completely irrelevant to the questions at hand. It's an example of the well-known logical fallacy called “Tu Quoque”. It’s an ad hominem attempt to distract from the question. A father’s advice to his children not to smoke is good whether the father smokes or not.
How To Reduce Pollution 1. Many Production Companies Has To Be Stopped We manufacture so many products and it is creating pollution and pollution has increased to such an extent that it has become a threat to the world. So if we minimise our products, pollution would be less. We produce so many things which we do not need as a necessity, like cold drinks, leather products, potato wafers, chips, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. Cold drinks, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. should be cooked at home only. Instead of cold drinks people should drink natural drinks such as lime water, coconut water or just any fruit, not any fruit juice, just the whole fruit which can be served when a customer comes in a shop, hotel or a person selling this drinks on a street and serve it to him. If we stopped producing this things which are not required as a necessity for humans, so much pollution could be reduced. If we colour the clothes pollution occurs. So if we don't colour our clothes, the pollution resulting from colouring the clothes can be stopped. Let everything remain in white natural colour. 2. We Should Cook Foods In Its Natural Form We can cook rice and wheat in our homes and eat it. Rice and Wheat is produced in farms. Then it is packed and transported to big warehouses, then wholesalers buy from them and supply to retail shops. But if a manufacturing company makes bread from rice and wheat, then to make bread a manufacturing company has to be set up, machines and working staffs are needed. When a company is built many other things are also needed. Then at last a plastic pack is required to pack the breads. So if we start cooking eatable things in its natural form then we do not need many companies like bread manufacturing company, tomato ketchup, fruit jam, pizza, burger, etc., the things required for the company and the plastic pack, paper box pack and glass bottles. If done like this, so many companies will not be required and hence less pollution for the world. Humans have to do this before it is too late. If this is done, then many jobs would be lost. But human jobs or planet earth, which should we save, planet earth is more important. Humans have to take this step certainly instead of going on polluting the earth, making wildlife extinct and also mass extinctions of humans after 100 or 200 years. Prior to the industrial revolution or before that humans worked everything handmade. So if after shutting down many manufacturing companies which are not required as a necessity for humans, if we started doing many things handmade only then many people would not lose jobs. Many peoples should do farming and they should be given loans if they do not have enough money to start farming on their own. Is their any another solution, that humans won't lose jobs and also planet earth will be saved.
@@shivakoliar4846 Naturalistic fallacy, that the natural way is better to the artificial way. More importantly we don't need to change our lifestyles we need to change our society. In the US rather than spending trillions on an industrial military complex we should spend it on rapidly revamping the electrical grid so that all our primary pollution sources can use clean energy from nuclear, wind, solar, ect. Yes changing how we live could make a big difference but its not the only route or even a necessary route.
@@nocare How To Reduce Pollution 1. Many Production Companies Has To Be Stopped From global warming or climate change there is going to be mass extinctions of humans and wildlife, we do not know when, but from pollution also we are going to face mass extinction. We manufacture so many products and it is creating pollution and pollution has increased to such an extent that it has become a threat to the world. So if we minimise our products, pollution would be less. We produce so many things which we do not need as a necessity, like cold drinks, leather products, potato wafers, chips, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. Cold drinks, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. should be cooked at home only. Instead of cold drinks people should drink natural drinks such as lime water, coconut water or just any fruit, not any fruit juice, just the whole fruit which can be served when a customer comes in a shop, hotel or a person selling this fruits on a street and serve it to him. If we stopped producing this things which are not required as a necessity for humans, so much pollution could be reduced. What about the companies that are going to be shut down. They would have debts to pay, just excuse them. If we colour the clothes pollution occurs. So if we don't colour our clothes, the pollution resulting from colouring the clothes can be stopped. Let everything remain in white natural colour. 2. We Should Cook Foods In Its Natural Form We can cook rice and wheat in our homes and eat it. Rice and Wheat is produced in farms. Then it is packed and transported to big warehouses, then wholesalers buy from them and supply to retail shops. But if a manufacturing company makes bread from rice and wheat, then to make bread a manufacturing company has to be set up, machines and working staffs are needed. When a company is built many other things are also needed. Then at last a plastic pack is required to pack the breads. So if we start cooking eatable things in its natural form then we do not need many companies like bread manufacturing company, tomato ketchup, noodles, fruit jam, pizza, burger, etc., the things required for the company and the plastic pack, paper box pack and glass bottles. If done like this, so many companies will not be required and hence less pollution for the world. Also we could save our money like this. If you buy a packet of bread, it would cost you more money than if you cook wheat and rice in home. If so many companies are shut down, then transportations would be less needed and demand for petrol, diesel would go down, then price of petrol, diesel would go down. Then prices of other goods would also go down and goods would become cheap. Humans have to do this before it is too late. If this is done, then many jobs would be lost. For that many peoples should do farming and they should be given loans if they do not have enough money to start farming on their own. Many people should study botany subject so that they have knowledge of plants and they should do farming. Is their any another solution, that humans won't lose jobs and also planet earth will be saved. Industrial jobs or planet earth, which should we save, planet earth is more important. Humans have to take this step certainly instead of going on polluting the earth, making wildlife extinct and also mass extinctions of humans after 100 or 200 years. Humans should not want this to happen. 3. Electricity Pollution We create electricity from many types of sources like coal, water, etc., but it creates pollution. If electricity created from windmill and solar energy then no pollution occurs. But still to manufacture windmill and solar machines pollution would occur. As I previously said that if we shut down many manufacturing companies which are producing things which are not a necessity for humans, then the world would not require so much electricity. Then maybe we could provide electricity to the whole world from windmill and Solar panels which are not pollutant. If we stopped producing electricity from coal, water, etc., then the pollution resulting from them won't occur.
@@nocare if we shut down many companies which are not required as a necessity for humans then only we can reduce plastic and paper pack and glass bottles use. We cannot totally stop plastic use, but at least we could reduce it.
@@shivakoliar4846 The majority of our society is not a necessity. Still most of it increases the quality of life. Rather than stopping production of products we should improve our handling of our waste. For instance by removing recycle bins and instead just having machines and workers sort domestic garbage. By spending more resources on redesigning thing slike packaging solutions to be more environmentally sustainable. Many people are ok with changing their lifestyle I am not. Instead spend the resources of society on removing the harm a modern lifestyle causes.
The _tu quoque_ fallacy is one of my favourites. It's the: Doctor: your obesity is a health risk. Patient: You're not so trim yourself therefore I reject your argument. Or Climatologist: unchecked AGW will result in major negative ramifications globally. Internet commenter: you drive and fly planes, I'm not listening to you! Perceived hypocrisy has no bearing on the truth of a claim.
I think people resort to this because they feel attacked and guilty and they want to shift that feeling to someone else. It's a defence mechanism. One way to minimise it is to teach young people how to take criticism, for example by taking a step back when they criticise someone else and seeing if that criticism could apply to them. Humility should be a subject taught in class.
@@abigaelmacritchie1365 Yeah, I agree, fallacious arguments often come from an emotional response. They certainly don't come from a reasoned one. Tu quoque is a really interesting because it's nuanced. For example, if someone says "you must buy shares in Corp Inc! You'll make a killing!" then pointing out that they've just sold shares in the firm would not be the tu quoque fallacy.
@@Law9652 What can I say? I'm sorry you feel threatened by it. In my defence, that is what the fallacy is called. I'm not sure how I should refer to something without, you know, calling it by its name. As for putting foreign words in italics, that's a written convention to aid clarity. It really common. Tell you what, to make you feel better about yourself, let's call it the What About You Boo-Boo.
I like how instead of just replying to dumb comments with antagonism, but actually addressing the questions and misunderstood knowledge that that present. More scientists like this pliz
the only things we can do as someone who doesnt earn right now or is an adult are: 1) become vegetarian(or vegan) 2) avoid big brands that exploit the environment 3) never waste water 4) don't waste food 5) prioritize public transports or bicycle or walking for travelling 7) stop buying an abundant quantity of electronic items unless you absolutely need them 8) avoid plastic(keep a cloth/paper bag in all of your purses or bags that you carry around) 9) carry sustainable glass/paper cups so if you have to get a takeout from a cafe/restaurant you can use the ones you have by giving it to them. 10) do not buy too many of the skincare/bodycare products as they contain a large amount of chemicals which are very harmful for the environment.
I have a lot of respect for you Simon. You're videos attract a lot of climate deniers, it mustn't be easy facing the ignorance every time you post one of these and yet you continue to try and educate us. Good video as always!
I think going forward scientists need to really spend some time on working out how to get information across to a world where social media inspires people to only believe things that align with their core beliefs and confirmation bias. My view is that critical thinking skills should be taught very young in school to give people the tools to think for themselves.
It's a problem but I don't think it's the scientists' role to deal with it. They already have a job studying and monitoring the climate. The ones responsible for the information getting out are governments and media (including social media).
Scientists can't solve the problem. The rich corporations that are responsible for most of the environmental impact have invested millions to confuse the general population. The only solution is take away their power but there aren't any governments that would do that because the politicians have shares in their rich cronies companies.
I remember being in elementary school in the 80's, and climate change (global warming then) was talked about and not controversial at all. It was in textbooks. And if it was in public school textbooks in the 80's, then it was considered true in the 70's. The science they talked about is the exact same as the science now. It's interesting how it didn't become "controversial" until it was going to start costing businesses money, and inconveniencing science deniers.
Global warming causes climate change, they are not the same thing. It also isn't controversial in my country at least, the only political disagreements are on how we best can avoid doing anything about it
And I didn’t even know about climate change until I heard about it from trump when I was in middle school, then I looked into it and learned what was going on. I was horrified
I think this highlights one of the biggest problems with climate change denial: Many people can't see any further into the future than the end of their nose. When you tell them that sea level increase is measured in millimeters, they can't fathom (pun somewhat intended) how it would matter to them. Bummer for their great grandkids, but no worries, great grandpa won't be there to see it. Conversely, you see the argument, "the earth's climate is constantly changing, so everything just adapts" (interesting concept since many of these same people deny evolution). They can't conceive of the time that is involved with those changes. Even the "quick" events took millennia, not decades. If you are drowning, you can't really count on developing gills to save you. My hats off to you for keeping your cool and trudging through these types of comments. Your work is needed if our grandkids are going to have a future not filled with strife and "adaption".
china is the reason we have covid plus they are racist as fuck. Those guys literally censor black people in their movie posters or anyone who isnt white. They did that with star wars. so yes i feel no guilt blaming china
@@subject8332 There's literally tons of videos from asian boss on youtube asking random chinese citizens about black people. Watch it and try not to get mad. I can boldly say that America is not as racist as most Asian countries.
@@brockrock2359 tons of youtube videos doesnt really prove a point here, guy could be cutting the good chinese people part, while the bad ones doesnt because of views, you know, video editing is real. And by your logic, ive seen many videos by tons of asian creators that got mocked by Americans calling them like covid or something so Americans are racist to asian people
0:22 That whole lessening individual carbon footprint was from a 2005 BP ad campaign which diverted attention away from the fossil fuel corporations activity, as those corporations were responsible for the majority of emissions, towards individual responsibility ... and that's had a disastrous impact on environmentalism ever since.
I just hope more Nuclear plants are set up. When will governments and the media learn that Nuclear is the safest and most efficient power producing method?
@@bcharan6481 Safest? Almost. Renewables are slightly safer. That said, the newest nuclear molten salt reactor power plants are almost on par with renewables. PS, I'd link you to Our World In Data: What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy ... but then my comment would get autodeleted.
@@AvangionQ wind power and solar requires a ton more maintenance compared to Nuclear, but yeah, it's "almost" the safest. If we invest more in Nuclear, we can work towards a safer future
I’m an undergrad environmental studies student and I basically come here to increase my knowledge, but this video was depressingly funny. Sad to know such people exist and loved your responses to them.
Saying "I want climate change, I want to grow coconuts and tropical fruits in my garden" is just like saying "I want my house to burn down in the middle of winter, I want to be nice and warm".... and yes, please keep making videos. When it comes to the single biggest challenge facing our species' long term survival, he more voices of reason the better.
Governments* when the sea rising causes land loss everywhere: *I sleep* Governments* if a country were to steal 1 square millimeter of land: *No shit* * = Except the few that have actually made significant contributions against climate change
I'm watching this in the kitchen tv. My sis peeked in and said "oh he looks like what we expected William (Prince) to look like as an adult" and I cannot unsee it. Forgive us, we are old.
Subscribed purely because you cited throughout the video (and it’s nice to hear someone else whose become increasingly exasperated with Internet comments the last few years in particular) - It made my little scientists heart happy 👩🔬
I applaud you to being able to reply well to all of these comments, because on some of them I don’t know where to start. I spontaneously lose braincells reading them.
I worked on a climate science program for a few years and worked with the land station data from about 14 small countries in the Pacific. I went in thinking there might be some group-think, but left very impressed with the whole field and the practitioners. The main influence on air surface temps in the Pacific is sea surface temperatures, so the warming signal is quite obvious and directly linked to large-scale global heat transfer. Of more concern than the warming is the storms: Slightly less often but more likely to be destructive, and less predictable in their paths due to circulation changes. Migrations into cooler zones isn't so great either. Frost stops nematodes that can destroy crops, so be prepared for a lot more disruption in farming as frost lines and other subtle barriers shift. Ocean pH is a huge worry as it could initiate the collapse of some pretty huge ecosystems. Science has to be conservative, and rightly so, but I still came away with the impression that the horror of what is coming if we do not prepare is vastly underappreciated. Please keep it up, you are doing vital work.
Going from that to "climate change is manmade" is quite a leap, though. And yes, "climate change, because they decided climate warming is too specific and they needed a term that's more open to interpretation.
We as a resident of the Himalayas which is called the 3rd pole of the earth, experience global warming each year temperature spike to a high record. This year it was record-breaking in the Ladakh state of India. We as a conscious citizens of the world taking action by not over emission individually. Travelling very little and going vegan. Thank you for your channel feeding me the purpose of life on the earth.
As an Indian I do take an offence about this comment at 1:44 West is more prone towards carbon emissions, not calculating each one of them but for a quick reference- they use dryers to dry their wet clothes even sun is out wide and clear in the sky!
@@bobcowley9370 "Argumentum ad populum"? But it is Agent Orange who claims that climate change is "Chinese conspiracy" and that he was elected by the majority of Americans.So, citing _that_ in defense of one's position would be "argumentum ad populum". My statement could be called " argumentum ad verecundiam" if I was appealing to _irrelevant_ authority. But, I generally go to a physician when I am ill and let automotive engineers design and build my cars. So I assume that atmospheric physicists know more about atmospheric physics than I do (I trained as a particle physicist, 40+ years ago, but switched to computer science early on). Don't you have some area where your knowledge is deeper and more reliable than your neighbor's? Anyway, the question at hand: tell me, which criterion for judging "how much atmospheric CO2 is enough to cause such and such effects" is better, quantitative models constructed by climatologists and atmospheric physicists, or your (or my) "gut feeling"? Our gut feeling's reliability is usually restricted to matters of digestion. Earth (as any other planet) is in long-term thermal equilibrium between insolation (and a tiny bit of internal heat from radioactive decay and leftover from the days of formation) and radiation. The surface is heated by Sun and radiates that energy back, this time in the far longer spectrum, in far-infrared (look up black body radiation - the spectrum is not exactly the same since the surface is not black, but the phenomenon is the same). Now, CO2 has a property that the light in and around the visible part of the spectrum goes right through it (or, more precisely, right by its molecules). However, the energy of vibrational modes of the molecule is such that it readily absorbs photons in the far-infrared spectrum, the wavelengths at which Earth "cools". The molecule absorbs the photon, vibrates for a bit, then emits is again balling back to its ground state. The problem is that the photons that were going _out_ (or up, if you will) from the surface get re-emitted in all directions, including bach down. So, the surface gets a bit warmer, radiates more of this infrared radiation, and finally, the new equilibrium is reached, at a slightly higher temperature. (BTW, all molecules that are not "straight", to oversimplify, have this effect: ozone, methane, water. Both of the latter exacerbate the problem: methane by being released from the thawing permafrost, and water because its content in the atmosphere is determined solely by its temperature.) *Please* do an honest effort and avail yourself of some of the innumerable resources available online and larn what climatologists are actually talking about. It is quite fascinating. And, on the flip side, it is quite depressing how many people literate enough to dredge up a label for a fallacy in argument (although a wrong one) prefer _not_ to educate themselves. I suggest that you start your own exploration at this blog post, almost a decade old: scienceofdoom.com/2009/11/28/co2-an-insignificant-trace-gas-part-one/
@@bazoo513 Roy Spencer was a Nasa scientist who was tasked with running a planned experiment, on proving the Greenhouse effect using satellite data. When results revealed the effect to be neglible they criticized and now ignore him. I have listened to many highly credible scientists and researchers with more direct experience than this man, who adamantly believe climate change is predominantly natural and they have the proof to show it. They arent allowed, the media shuns then as well as academia. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary to the UN on climate change action said this, just prior to the Paris accord meetings. Figueres was being interviewed by "the daily business" and reported by the Gaurdian publication. Two other publications confirm the report and words spoken. "To be honest climate control is more about an over reaching effort to replace the economic system that has been in place for over 150 years, Capitalism." Climate change is just another political football being used to herd the masses towards another control system globally. Its simple, very rich and powerful people own almost everything, control everything and wish to ultimately thin the herd. I wish this was as ludicrous as it sounds. We have pandemics, climate change emergency, a worldwide refugee crisis, potential alien invasions, fires unheard of, failing crops, impending earthquakes and eruptions. Do you honestly believe these events are all just co-incidental?
@@lawrencesmith4960 claims to drive and fly less as many other scientists, but does not show how that's any different than the general population. when 25,000 scientists meet for a conference as they did a couple years ago in new orleans (i believe), brings me little hope.
It always amazes me the amount of people who begin sentences to actual experts with "You obviously don't know..." Do they not read these comments out loud and hear the ironic ignorance?
You have the patience of a saint! I have a recent MSc in Palaeoanthropology and am sometimes far less patient with pseudoscience in TH-cam comments. I start well but have to learn to step back
1:38 Man really? If that guy had actually visited India he would know how much we care about environment, trees and how good air we breathe here except a few major cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
I feel your pain. I've spent a long time dealing with largely the same crowd concerning their 'skepticism' in regard to natural selection, mutation, virology, vaccines, epidemiology, etc... I wish there were an easy way to get people to understand what Wolfgang Pauli meant when he called this kind of behavior, "not even wrong".
Thanks for addressing this topic. It’s always interesting to learn more about climate change and have someone explain common misconceptions. I’ve missed your “day in the life” style vlogs. I bet in would be interesting seeing you build upon your career as a scientist. You have a great talent for making life seem manageable- your vlogs during your PhD are what helped me get through my own degree! I don’t know why, but it’s so refreshing to see others successfully going through everyday life, especially when you too are trying to find growth, balance and success. Keep up the great work, Simon. 🙌🏻
Looking at percapita emmisons India and Africa are some of the lowest in the world. Russia with a population of 110 million emmits more CO2 than India with a population of 1.4 billion. Also India and China source more than a quarter of their electricity renewably. Europe and North America are responsible for more than 75% of the total emmisons since the 1700s. But yes go ahead and blame developing countries
Considering that China manufactures a lot of goods for other countries + there's a lot of people who also need food, electricity, transportation. It's actually doing pretty well
Thanks to Dr Adam Levy and soon-to-be-Dr Simon Lee for their fact checking on this video! Go check them out, they're excellent sources of information on climate:
- Dr Levy: th-cam.com/users/ClimateAdam
- soon-to-be-Dr Lee: twitter.com/SimonLeeWx
also thanks to Dr. Simon Clark.
Thank you very much, Simon. you cleared up a lot of my misconceptions, and I am very grateful for that!
One phrase, that you hear a lot when talking to climate change sceptics, is that the average temperature is calculated mostly using data from stations near cities (Data is collected there because of weather forecasts etc), and that cities are getting warmer, because they are growing in population.
Can you please debunk that (or link me to an article I could show them)?
Thank you very much for your work
-Jonathan
How about doing a video on the Weather Modification Programs that have been going on all over the world for many years. Exeter Universities involvement along with Bristol University in THE SPICE PROJECT .What about Stratospheric Aerosol Injection ? Cloud Seeding ? Solar Radiation Management ? Marine Cloud Whitening ? Ionospheric Heaters ? Ground Based Cloud seeding Generators ? Ship Tracks dumping Bunker Fuel ? Cloud Ionisation ? Steering Atmospheric Rivers with Antennas ? All the Universities , Private Companies , NASA , The Militaries and the United Nations who have been involved in these Programs for many years ?
What kind of an effect does all the water/steam we emit have? Seems to me much more impactful than CO2 alone, my *guess* is that we are seeing such an effect due to both, but more so water. And that CO2 effects are atleast slightly over blown, but still the overall warming still holds true and we need to stop as much as possible as quickly as possible
@@rustycobalt5072 youtube.be/EJgT8Hq3Lus NASA
How Humans Make Rain The Science Of Super Storms BBC TH-cam
*"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level, and beat you with experience"*
-Mark Twain (quoting Chanakya)
Thats why i dibate with both knolage and experience😆
I realize that makes me look dumb
That or you end up killing their will to live
Tbh I dont really understand that quote
@@chrisgoodrich46 My interpretation of "beat you with experience" is an idiot knows how to derail a debate then alter the stage so the argument doesn't have anything to do with the topic anymore. Then since the new topic isn't your expertise anymore the outcome solely depends on who has more experience with...well just arguing which the idiot will have more experience with.
@@asdf8650 It's more about the Idiot has more experience in being an idiot.
It's the fierce brave and child analogy, the brave is the toughest most experienced fierce and wise member of the tribe, everyone looks up to him and obeys everything he says because of his fierceness, wisdom and bravery. Everyone but the baby child who does what babies do, the brave uses his wisdom to command the baby, the baby smiles, the brave uses his bravery and fierceness to command the baby with almighty authority, the baby laughs, the brave gets frustrated and fierce, the baby falls asleep, the brave walks away defeated...
make sure your opponent has the ability to understand your points, or it's pointless.
It must be so frustrating to devote your entire adult life to a certain area of study, then having people who haven't invested even 1% of that time, nevermind the context of university vs. google searching, talk down to you like this constantly. I really admire you, Simon.
Yt1mg excuse me but I did a 5 mins google search and misinterpreted a graph on Facebook this means I know more about the climate than your years of university education
It's incredibly frustrating. I'm a geologist and I've been dealing with it 25 yrs. It's gotten waaaaaay more ridiculous since trump has been in office... he really knows how to dumb down a crowd.
People are all like "You've been indoctrinated during your studies" 🤔 I guess *some* of that probably happens, but what about their indoctrination when they read super fast on a subject from ONE source that is unreliable in the first place? Is a literature teacher, I really want to teach young people to check facts and read different sources, and that includes people who disagree with you, much in fact like what Simon is doing in this video 😂
Like every biologist, geneticist, and physician in the last few years.
@@MarkyMark1221 historians too 😂
India's carbon emission is way lower than developed country, according to per capita. Cope with it
You should not see per capita carbon emission when the population is huge
But it then differs when scaled with whole country.
Besides india is also one of the leaders in renewable energy production with a bigger output than Germany.
@@auctal4625 also 4 of the 10 largest solar farms and countless others..
@@auctal4625 You should, an average American or European emits a lot more CO2 than an average Indian
"Shut down China and India"
A typical saying of class topper who could see his future at 3rd place in class.
@K P sharma oli that's the nominal GDP measured in US$. This can range from being slightly accurate, to completely inaccurate, as in the case of India's GDP when measured in PPP terms. China's economy is already bigger than that of the USA, and India's GDP stands well above 10T in PPP terms.
@K P sharma oli mostly Americans use the nominal metric to show the world "that they're still number 1" when in fact, they are number 2, and under Modi, by the end of this decade, they will be number 3.
What India is doing the same thing western countries had did in (1900-1980) Industrial Revolution.
But western countries fully exploits Natural resources (trees,water, people, wildlife....) Of colonial countries....
This is a process/cost of development....and every country has to go through it
@@RatnaMaharaj what do you think about xi?
@@RatnaMaharaj what do you think about xi?
Shutdown india and china ?
Yup blame other countries for carbon emissions rather than doing what you can in your own country to reduce it. That's the laziest thing I ever heard 😅
What the feck does shutting down india and china even mean?!
@@96Champ994 it basically mean to stop all the growth of the country and depend on others country's for processed goods rather than being self efficient and make there own products.
It's funny to hear a country like America or others say it when they are one of the country that heavily dependent on imported goods from other developing countries like India and China for everything 😅
Its like the person who wrote that wants to shut down his/her father's shop
If someone shuts china and india . I don't think usa and other countries will sustain themselves 😂
Kinda weird seeing everyone defend China out of all of this, despite being one of the world contributors to the deteriorating global situation. I agree with the logical fallacy but honestly I would be down with shutting down the current China, regardless of the reason.
“There is no climate change because the earth is flat”
- the point where I realized logical discussion isn’t always worth the effort of participation
Couldn't a flat earth also see climate change, though? What's the point being made there?
@@oskarhenriksen What happens when the Antarctic ice wall melts and all the water on Earth drains into space?
@@anmolt3840051 You'd have to make huge dams to prevent the freshwater from escaping
@@oskarhenriksen it’s hard to engage in a thought experiment of flat earth climates when one person refuses to comprehend any fundamentals of science and treats visual interpretations of actual data points as CGI lies.
Any attempt to explore contradictions becomes a conflict of extremism so there’s no possibility to incorporate knowledge outside of their closed loop belief system.
It’s sad but I had to cut my losses which made them feel justified they ‘won’ via the war of intellectual attrition.
@@darylingoteborg3178 Yeah, I keep ditching online discussions because I get so tired, which I'm sure is great for the self-confidence of many a troll and/or idiot and/or bully...
"shut down china and india" yes, let's just ignore the country who's actually been causing most of the problem and is stalwartly unwilling to work internationally in order to combat it.
Australia
Which country r u pointing out to?
@@rishabhroy7740 they're talking about America only
@@adityanambiar1466 sirji! It’s a sarcastic comment. The OP is referring to USA 🇺🇸 Murica! Although it’s NOT been mentioned in the post.
@@adityanambiar1466 r/whoosh
"Shut India and China, problem solved"
World Economic Fail go brrrr
nope
@@ddmr6976 surely world economy will be totally fall if India and China shutdown.
Both are really important in their own way and contribute to the economy.
@@ddmr6976 bahaha stop being stupid!!
@@ddmr6976 it will fall.study some economics
Btw India and China are way more greener than the west, and have way less per capita emissions than the west
And, a large part of the emission in China is from Western factories in China.
As an indian I can confirm this.
Explosive populations packed into a country like sardines leads to lower per capita everything. It's truly amazing.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli and you preach to a poor person to make comprises in their necessary needs while not giving up your lavish life..
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli developed countries put their dirty factories in developing countries and have better quality of life indices, pollution and then virtue signal to other countries while throwing their garbage all around the world. It's truly amazing.
Also check out historical emissions.
Per capita pollution generated by USA is unparalleled in history. Even the historical pollution generated by USA and Europe is unparalleled.
No one will believe you
Norway has the most per capita emissions and waste production
@@shokiyapratik *Americans won't
@@shokiyapratik there's nothing to not believe. It's a fact. A simple search can debunk it. But school dropout Americans can't
But it's in the past friends now USA Is clean compared to India the transport in india causes so much air pollution take it from an indian
Total Carbon emissions since Industrial revolution -
US accounts for 25%
EU accounts for 22% (if Britain included then it jumps to 27%)
China accounts for 13%
India accounts for only 3%
People (especially western people) usually forget to look at these kind of data and start blaming developing countries but hey if you look at current emission rankings (1. China, 2. US, 3. EU, 4. India) you may find that developed western countries still pollute this planet more than developing countries.
The reason that pressure must be put on developing nations is because soon they will be developed, and per capita emissions will increase. We can't allow all nations to be producing at the same rate of USA. USA must make drastic changes, but so does every other nation so that emissions can stay at a safe level.
@@zephyrsaurus8822 India is doing changes, India is making dams, solar energy parks,wind turbines on the coasts. most of the auto rickshaws or 'tuktuks' run on CNG instead of petrol or diesel, and there is an alternative to them 'e rickshaws' running on electricity.
@@zephyrsaurus8822 put your house in order first. The day you can even fulfill your paris accords, then talk about india.
@@ScorpionKing-z8n No, nuking would harm the environment
@@BurnPerimeter well islamisation will Stop factories and madrasa and mosques will be built
"Shut down India and China"
Well how do you plan to achieve that?
An off switch?
@I killed that beard guy sounds like a solid idea
@I killed that beard guy 🤣🤣
You took the whole stage bro!
I believe the most efficient way to accomplish this is what the kids call warcrimes.
@@Gormathius just why you need to accomplish this. If it's a joke then I apologise!
Dr Clark, as someone from the 'developing world', can I just say thank you? I am so sick and tired of first worlders blaming climate change on relatively recent open economies enjoying their economic growth. Are there costs to that? Of course, but anyone from a firstworld country who says 'shut down China and India' need their head examined.
Why does it take an entire alphabet just to spell your last name? 😬
@@ANDROLOMA it didn't take the whole alphabet, unless yours is quite limited
@@ANDROLOMA yeah and your name is probably not as cool as his badass name he also has a cool pfp.
@Khushboo Kohli I guess not; I'm Indian and I find the prospect of such extremely long names, rather imprudent not because of the meaning, but perhaps because the real essence of what a name ought to be, is lost. A name is meant to be something meaningful that others can call you by, you don't expect people to call you by excruciatingly long names do you? But yes here the guy's name "Theena" is quite short so that does the job ig
@@ANDROLOMA lol as a fellow Tamil guy (he is too) we do have complex names that are complex sounding in English which only has 26 letters in it's alphabet compared to Tamil which has 247 letters in it's alphabet and being the the oldest language in the world doesn't really help the fact as we have complex pronunciations thus the inherent need to make our names inevitably a tongue twister for poor westerners lol in Tamil his name which is just "Theena" is considered short having only 2 letters compared to my name which has 6 Tamil letters and 13 English letters to spell it out XD
Looking buff Dr Clark. Also the sun isn't real.
real Dr talking
sun is cold
@@elliotgengler3185 Muss man wissen
and the earth is a velociraptor
Sun is Republican because it's color is similar to Trump's skin color
India accounts for some of the lowest per capita carbon emissions....
The problem is mindset ,they just write without studying or evaluating things ,don't focus on them . and for their lazy brains ,Indian population has most climate awareness then these so called developed world according to latest survey .
Even in absolute terms India is behind US and EU
@I killed that beard guy nice sarcasm bro 👍👍👍
@@markb6721 If they have so much climate awareness, they most not be looking into their water, dont they have a ton of highly polluted toxic rivers?
@@sebas8225 The topic was carbon emissions, but yes there is such a river....Actually the river in question here is considered a Goddess that purifies everything, so some people have mentality to dump all pollutants in the river.... Massive government effort ongoing now to clean the river..... (PS: the river actually has some mysterious properties that science is yet unable to explain)
You know, India has less emission than all countries of Asia, NA and Europe.
Meanwhile:-
Bhutan crying in corner
🤣🤣 What about nepal ,bhutan ....etc
@@someone-uc2jk they are small countries. India is a big country with big population. Bhutan and nepal are even smaller than most of the Indian states
Really? I'm seeing india is no.3 in CO2 emissions?
@@superblitz2274 He meant carbon emission per capita
I love how they say ""shut down ___" As if you can 'shut down' an entire country as if you're forclosing a business. like they know people live there right???
mindset of owning "people".
They don't know that it's people who live there. They probably think we are slaves who work for them and have no feelings. They are also probably flat earthers
They are kids who play fortnite only and use tiktok for 9 hours a day and weigh over 90kgs
I guess they only know to rule developing countries not knowing people actually work hard to live through
@@giornogiovanna9475 indians where tiktok is bannned looking at US *signature look of superiority*
Woke umrikan:-“shut down china and india"
*Meanwhile*Uses plastic boxes to sell peeled Oranges
Washes banana before eating it
They like to point out others instead of recognising their own mistakes 😑😑😒😒
honestly, the very notion that India contributes to climate change the most is a hint of casual racism. Indians are associated with poverty and waste because that's how the foreign media portrays us. And boom. that leads to racism in the mind of westerners and they think the climate change is our fault.
@@beentherelovedit9150 yeah and we can't afford to dump garbage to poor countries
That's why we're getting bullied
@@-ghost-8408 EXACTLY!!!!! WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT?!?!
Atleast india is expanding its renewable energy 🇮🇳❤️
They also have a much lower per capita emissions than the US and eu
@@karibrimacombe8710 ikr still they wanna ruin our country's image by calling it the most polluted country 🇮🇳❤️
Our country is good in pollution handling and I am proud of that but they should do something about overpopulation too like passing 1child or 2 child policy
@Manas Gupta there will always be extremists who deny laws that harm their so called ideals or cultures . That is why education on these matters should provided to teens and youth so that they can be better than these riots and speak for the better
@Manas Gupta yup
It's just thinly veiled racism, & of course ignorance go hand in hand. Thanks doc. Keep up the good work.
You're gonna get someone canceled, mentioning isms like that. Words have meaning. Well, until it's convenient for me that they don't, but for now they have meaning.
I agree there may be a hint of that …ism, but I think it is unintended in this particular argument. I think the argument is basically a paraphrase of…. “….. I know we are contributing to significant climate change, but CHINA, we can’t control China, so all we can’t do anything, so lets kick the can down the road again”. Standard 3 steps, denial, denial doesn’t work, distraction to different subject, that doesn’t work, stall the discussion. The oil industry tactic is not to win the climate change denial argument it is just to perpetually stall the debate. In fact winning is not desirable, it could mean they are then held legally responsible at some stage in the future. It is just delay.
I don't blame a person for not understanding science, but I do blame them for talking as though their opinion is just as valid as one who spent years studying the subject.
They think their opinion is just as valid as complete TEAMS of scientific WORLDWIDE...
I would also blame the people who convinced them that their unsupported opinions were valid. They were given to believe that there are no wrong answers and that every opinion counts.
And when coupled with the ever-growing scientific illiteracy (and outright science denial), has blossomed into this place where "my opinions are just as valid as your facts."
"I don't understand it, therefore I can reject it."
@@CD_Character
In the US, there is also a huge hate
on pharma and doctors because
of how expensive it is... that feed
the hate they have over science
in general and make them feel
like science is just a way to exploit
people...
Talk about Audacity..!!
Western countries are the most hypocrite in the world. That is why powerful developing countries don't care about them. One day we will show you your picture😄😄😄
The people commenting on "shutting down" developing countries including the one mentioned in the comment themselves own 2 cars and fly most of the times travelling putting very little effort and not realizing themselves that they produce more carbon emissions than an average person from a developing country
True an Average American produce 32 times the carbon footprint compared to an Average Indian
And one major factor being Automobiles and Meat Factories, India probably doesn't even have 2% of meat factory of US
Sensible human, we meet here 😎
I swear I lived in a developing country and I saw what true recycling is. Not every product is enclosed with plastic, people are not as wasteful and reusing things were the norm. Then I went back to the US and got reminded of how much Americans use so much plastic for every little thing. Even when flying over through Japan I saw so much plastic use in the airports. It’s crazy
@@bmona7550 exactly!
Being from a country (Bangladesh) which has been facing the severe impact of climate change for YEARS, I feel really angry at those who are privileged enough to say "there's only a few millimeters of rise in water level. What's the emergency?" Well, the problem is that countries like mine are at high risk of losing habitable land becuase of climate change. Cities near the port are already becoming flooded because of mid-level rainfall. I'd like to thank you for making videos on such a pertinent issue. ❤
@@dave-hp3rf As a person living in West Bengal,that is just across the border from Bangladesh,I assure you that cities and habitable land are indeed being flooded,increasingly every year. A major part of Bangladesh is a delta landform .... which is low lying...and more flooding is causing the land to become waterlogged and less farming can be done...
@@dave-hp3rf wc
Bangladesh... Isn't anyone talking riots here!! I know it's not related.. but..
Yes true . It's just so sad . I live in Bangladesh . And the world acts like Bangladesh & so many other countries that are in danger doesn't exist .
@@srajanverma9064 Did you like your own comment ? Just asking
India emitting 1/3 carbon that of USA at present. Imagine Per capita.
Additionally, top renewable energy projects are not from any developed world but from India and China who are responsible for 1/3 of total green cover increase.
Imagine blaming 2/5 of Earth's population for having a high total co2 output 🤦
india is still at #4 behind EU and USA they can both keep crying lul
If the developed world emitted at the levels of individual chinese and indian citizens we woukdnt have a problem
@@Damianweibler exactly , these cheese heads won’t get it tho
@Kaleb Kurian dude stop crying and look at the stats and also what kind of a idiot you are to assume all 1.4 billion have cars ? you are telling info about india to an indian like wth?
@Kaleb Kurian duude chill
"If there is a rise in sea level by few centimetres, then the water would spill sideways to the edge of earth, so no worries" - Flat Earthers..
And funny how almost all the flat earthers are mainly from america or western countries. I have never heard a flat earther who was indian or chinese or asian at that. 😂😂
@@Emperors_court true
@99 lmao wtf 😂
_" Logic has left the chat"_
🤣🤣 wow what an explanation ... Nice solution by flat earthers 😜
This was a fun ass video, it's great seeing a slightly sassy scientist tear apart stupid arguments you hear and see time and time again, when the layman like me is no where near knowledgable or articulate enough to point out precisely why they are wrong, despite knowing that they most definitely are.
So this was rather cathartic
Gregory Whatley nice point summed up for us.
Yes but there are extremely well qualified scientists, Nobel laureates who are skeptical of AGW.
@@richardrussell5695 not the majority of them.
@@jbw6823 Science is not a democratic process it's firmly based on the data, evidence and facts. Many of the AGW supporters on here believe that weather events are evidence of AGW!?
@@richardrussell5695 That's fine and fair enough if so
If they're Nobel Laureates who are sceptical, they've done the research enough to earn their opinion.
But us as the general populous can and should trust and follow the broader scientific consensus for this sort of issue.
Shit would just get worse if the argument that has the most amount of scientific support and credibility is ignored.
Selfsustaining practices were as common as brushing, in India!!! It was amazing to watch people discard traditional practices to blindly follow 'West', in name of being cool!!! Thankfully things are changing!!! World is reinventing those things!!!!
If you want examples!! Feel free to ask(keeping your ego aside).
From an Indian 🙏
It's a different level of frustration when a phenomenon that has so much science behind it, is so urgent and is gonna affect us all, is so misunderstood
Zoe Skinner science has been misunderstood for most of our history. We didn’t really understand gravity (we only knew how to calculate and predict its effects) all that well until the 20th century. We didn’t know the design of our own solar system until the 16th century and it took us a full century to even accept it as fact. Hell we didn’t even know the a whole ass other content existed until the 15th century.
@@commondognut "Hell we didn’t even know the a whole ass other content existed until the 15th century.". I think the people who lived there knew all about it?
@@davidwebb2318 you think they knew about Eurasia?
@@commondognut I doubt it. Just like the people in Autralia probably didn't know about Eurasia or the Americas. That doesn't make you or your tribe any 'better' than anyone else though.
You are just trying to change the argument with this last question. My point was that your comment implies that the only people whose knowledge was important was the people from Europe who travelled to other parts of the globe. Your comment implied it is okay to dismiss whole nations of people just because you don't identify with them. That is an argument based on ignorance.
@@davidwebb2318 no, not really. I’ll admit it’s a western point of view because news flash you’re on the western side of TH-cam but that doesn’t somehow inherently mean all other points of view are invalid
I'd like to add one more thing about the comment to shut down China and India: What most of us tend to forget is that these countries produce quite a big portion of the cheap goods we buy in the Western World. If we shut them down, where do we get our cheap computer technology and toys from? 🤔
At last ,a sensible person 😌
Thank you for understanding this .
Bro what you're saying applies 90% on china , like we indians ourselves use products which are made in china , obviously they are not durable , we mostly supply spices , I don't know much about it but I don't think India has anything to do with this
@@niggaslayer918 india supplies software for those products ....if i am not wrong....
Anyways how can USA ( or any country ur from) shut down india and china? and secondly we don't just export "cheap" computer tech and "toys"...😬
India ranks 4th in emissions after China, US and EU.
And we don't even manufacture much of the hardwares, we mostly make softwares.
"Climate change is caused by climate manipulation." The one comment that was spot on.
Right but probably for the wrong reasons.
Climate change is actually a natural process……..it is inevitable but we humans just increased its speed. Like a catalyst in a chemical reaction
@@user-uh5jv3qr7y increase in speed means eco-systems around the world won’t be able to evolve fast enough nor will the co2 kept in the inner atmosphere be able to be dispersed fast enough by trees because, yes, it is going faster
@@planetdesign4681 true…….. if you see like this then although increase in co2 is really helpful for trees its the deforestation which is causing problems……..otherwise trees have been adapted to intake more co2
@@user-uh5jv3qr7y Problem is the global warming caused by CO2 means more droughts and dry places, so forest fires start easier and trees will get less water. So even though they can breath a _little_ easier it's worse for them overall.
Every single person who says “but carbon emission total is more important than carbon emission per capita!” is saying the same thing as “Luxembourg is an extremely poor country. It has 6 times less GDP than Nigeria. We need to help Luxembourg prosper!”
3:00 In addition, I would highly recommend, to put CHINAAAA und India into perspective. A huge amount of the carbon emissions produced in those countries is used to make and build products with super low labour costs and then ship them to Europe and the US. This means in contrast nothing else as, that the so called "developed" world outsources - on top - a lot of their carbon emissions...
You are right to say developed world outsource carbon emissions, but still they fart more pollutants per capita than the world average and aren't changing their energy matrix nor supporting developing world's efforts
They are trying to offset their carbon emissions, but if we count in their consumerism, it will be wayyy more than what it is currently.
China is also switching to Thorium reactors over the next 10 years which will drastically cut their emissions. Something the US conveniently likes to ignore while they pump more carbon into the atmosphere every year. 🙄🙄
India has less per capita emission and total emissions than USA lmao
@@churchofplatinum9685 thorium reactors can 1 day throw us humans. Geothermal energy, natural gases all once dig out is very difficult or impossible to dispose back to earth. So better go for free energy and a time will come generation of electricity will become more natural than these conventional energies. We humans also have energy and magnetism, only how to utilize it is not yet in human grasp, but once is known, then we humans simply can charge through space itself. Let see
"it's trying to communicate" :'D
That got me pretty good hahaha
"Shut down climate , that would be good " 😂😂😂
For one's asking, 1:40👆
Depending on what is meant with it, it sound horrible actually. We depend on having the climate that we have.
😂 😂 😂 😂
@Barry Kelly who denies climate change 😂 😂 😂
Pretty sure he says "wouldn't"
Send the climate to its room and only let it out to do its chores, like raining on fields. Too often we let the climate do its own thing, only for it to come home drunk and admit to flattening a few countries during a bender.
It's time we instilled some discipline around here!
:P
That thing about planting tropical fruit in places where it cannot currently survive misses a flipside of that same effect: The plants that currently thrive where you currently live may no longer be able to live there. Take the huge-ass pine forests of Canada, for example. The southern limit of their range is largely defined by the cold tolerance of the pine beetle, which cannot survive a cold winter but absolutely thrives in pine forests that no longer get cold enough to kill them off. This kills off the forest. And then there's a load of dead wood standing around. In increasingly dry summers.
Hey Simon just thought I'd throw it out there that the videos are really great and have influenced me to study physics in secondary school, one of the best decisions of my life. Thanks so much for putting in the hard work to make such great videos.
No, thank *you* for taking the time to write this!
@Kent Horvath while i know that scientists has prediction of the average number of castastrophic weather events. And i know that scientists have prediction of a possibility of a massive hurricane hitting the US simply because there's a massive hurricane in the sea. And the fact that you has not cited any source of scientists continually make predictions that never come true mean mean that your statement is not a fact. Just a statement.
@Kent Horvath The national hurricane center does a pretty good job forecasting catastrophic weather events up to a week ahead of time - so what are you talking about? For comparison, the Bibles have been predicting the end of the world for 7000 years or 2000 years and "I will return soon" is getting a little tired.
Kent Horvath what..?😂😂 you cant really predict something as random as a wild fire just the probability that they’ll happen and they’ve been saying it’s becoming more likely.
Just make sure the school at which you choose to study isn't riddled with Jean Monnet indoctrination.
People who deny climate change and then call other people dumb is always quite fun to witness.
TH-cam Commenters Today: "Desertification isn't real."
TH-cam Commenters Tomorrow: "The Government is secretly sending millions of dump trucks filled with sand to fake the climate crisis."
Then the day after tomorrow: we always said it was a terrible thing what the OTHER GROUP did! THEY caused this! Not US!
Don't give them ideas
de-desertification is real
Like the so called chemtrails pollution our air XD
I'd never heard of dust storms in Brazil until very recently.
"shutdown INDIA"
that means NO CEO's for American companies
it must be infuriating as a scientist who spent years on studying the subject to read comments like these
At 30 years old, he can't have spent more than 10 years studying.
@@ANDROLOMA that’s still a decade of people will little to no knowledge of the subject making his life harder.
@@fireheart8878 No excuse for that, I do agree.
@@ANDROLOMA That's how you think but the fact you don't know is he must have spent 25 years studying to be a scientist and still studying to survive as a worthy scientist by keeping ownself updated
@@sayantanmaity9291 How does any 30 year old spend 25 years studying anything?
i remember seeing a fast food resturant like KFC, saying they will not give out plastic straws so they can do their bit for the environment and then proceed to show figures of how much straws they have saved in a year and not thrown away. i just wonder, given how many outlets of KFC there are and how all of them are Air-conditioned.. Wont raising the aircon temp by 1 deg in all outlets do more, then not giving out straws? and also giving out paper cups for dine in and takeaways?
why not use re-useable cups for dine in, and have diners return the cups to be washed and re-used, and only give paper cups for takeaways. i guess it has a "feel good" effect, that you remove 1 straw from a meal and you make a big statement out of it saying "LOOK our cooperation is doing our bit for the Planet Earth", a Pat on the Back.
or "oh look ..Earth Day" lets turn off the lights for 1 hour.. (while leaving it ON for 365 days on the other days)..
"I want palm trees and coconuts and west nile and zika and yellow fever, dengue and ebola. And tsetse flies and anopheles mosquitoes to fill in the wildlife gaps."
And the greatest immigration crisis ever known to man on top of that.
I don’t know about scientists but I know many professors from my college who always used bicycles in campus with all those hilly roads given their age in 50-60s. Well they are kinda scientists in their respective fields but I saw that with age and maturity, patience comes and that’s more important in changing yourselves in favour of Mother Earth.
Youngsters mostly would use cars even for few kms if they can afford to buy one…
What scientists do in their individual lifestyles is completely irrelevant to the questions at hand. It's an example of the well-known logical fallacy called “Tu Quoque”. It’s an ad hominem attempt to distract from the question.
A father’s advice to his children not to smoke is good whether the father smokes or not.
How To Reduce Pollution
1. Many Production Companies Has To Be Stopped
We manufacture so many products and it is creating pollution and pollution has increased to such an extent that it has become a threat to the world. So if we minimise our products, pollution would be less.
We produce so many things which we do not need as a necessity, like cold drinks, leather products, potato wafers, chips, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. Cold drinks, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. should be cooked at home only. Instead of cold drinks people should drink natural drinks such as lime water, coconut water or just any fruit, not any fruit juice, just the whole fruit which can be served when a customer comes in a shop, hotel or a person selling this drinks on a street and serve it to him. If we stopped producing this things which are not required as a necessity for humans, so much pollution could be reduced.
If we colour the clothes pollution occurs. So if we don't colour our clothes, the pollution resulting from colouring the clothes can be stopped. Let everything remain in white natural colour.
2. We Should Cook Foods In Its Natural Form
We can cook rice and wheat in our homes and eat it. Rice and Wheat is produced in farms. Then it is packed and transported to big warehouses, then wholesalers buy from them and supply to retail shops.
But if a manufacturing company makes bread from rice and wheat, then to make bread a manufacturing company has to be set up, machines and working staffs are needed. When a company is built many other things are also needed. Then at last a plastic pack is required to pack the breads.
So if we start cooking eatable things in its natural form then we do not need many companies like bread manufacturing company, tomato ketchup, fruit jam, pizza, burger, etc., the things required for the company and the plastic pack, paper box pack and glass bottles. If done like this, so many companies will not be required and hence less pollution for the world. Humans have to do this before it is too late.
If this is done, then many jobs would be lost. But human jobs or planet earth, which should we save, planet earth is more important. Humans have to take this step certainly instead of going on polluting the earth, making wildlife extinct and also mass extinctions of humans after 100 or 200 years.
Prior to the industrial revolution or before that humans worked everything handmade. So if after shutting down many manufacturing companies which are not required as a necessity for humans, if we started doing many things handmade only then many people would not lose jobs. Many peoples should do farming and they should be given loans if they do not have enough money to start farming on their own.
Is their any another solution, that humans won't lose jobs and also planet earth will be saved.
@@shivakoliar4846 Naturalistic fallacy, that the natural way is better to the artificial way.
More importantly we don't need to change our lifestyles we need to change our society.
In the US rather than spending trillions on an industrial military complex we should spend it on rapidly revamping the electrical grid so that all our primary pollution sources can use clean energy from nuclear, wind, solar, ect.
Yes changing how we live could make a big difference but its not the only route or even a necessary route.
@@nocare How To Reduce Pollution
1. Many Production Companies Has To Be Stopped
From global warming or climate change there is going to be mass extinctions of humans and wildlife, we do not know when, but from pollution also we are going to face mass extinction.
We manufacture so many products and it is creating pollution and pollution has increased to such an extent that it has become a threat to the world. So if we minimise our products, pollution would be less.
We produce so many things which we do not need as a necessity, like cold drinks, leather products, potato wafers, chips, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc.
Cold drinks, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. should be cooked at home only. Instead of cold drinks people should drink natural drinks such as lime water, coconut water or just any fruit, not any fruit juice, just the whole fruit which can be served when a customer comes in a shop, hotel or a person selling this fruits on a street and serve it to him. If we stopped producing this things which are not required as a necessity for humans, so much pollution could be reduced.
What about the companies that are going to be shut down. They would have debts to pay, just excuse them.
If we colour the clothes pollution occurs. So if we don't colour our clothes, the pollution resulting from colouring the clothes can be stopped. Let everything remain in white natural colour.
2. We Should Cook Foods In Its Natural Form
We can cook rice and wheat in our homes and eat it. Rice and Wheat is produced in farms. Then it is packed and transported to big warehouses, then wholesalers buy from them and supply to retail shops.
But if a manufacturing company makes bread from rice and wheat, then to make bread a manufacturing company has to be set up, machines and working staffs are needed. When a company is built many other things are also needed. Then at last a plastic pack is required to pack the breads.
So if we start cooking eatable things in its natural form then we do not need many companies like bread manufacturing company, tomato ketchup, noodles, fruit jam, pizza, burger, etc., the things required for the company and the plastic pack, paper box pack and glass bottles. If done like this, so many companies will not be required and hence less pollution for the world.
Also we could save our money like this. If you buy a packet of bread, it would cost you more money than if you cook wheat and rice in home. If so many companies are shut down, then transportations would be less needed and demand for petrol, diesel would go down, then price of petrol, diesel would go down. Then prices of other goods would also go down and goods would become cheap. Humans have to do this before it is too late.
If this is done, then many jobs would be lost. For that many peoples should do farming and they should be given loans if they do not have enough money to start farming on their own. Many people should study botany subject so that they have knowledge of plants and they should do farming.
Is their any another solution, that humans won't lose jobs and also planet earth will be saved.
Industrial jobs or planet earth, which should we save, planet earth is more important. Humans have to take this step certainly instead of going on polluting the earth, making wildlife extinct and also mass extinctions of humans after 100 or 200 years. Humans should not want this to happen.
3. Electricity Pollution
We create electricity from many types of sources like coal, water, etc., but it creates pollution. If electricity created from windmill and solar energy then no pollution occurs. But still to manufacture windmill and solar machines pollution would occur.
As I previously said that if we shut down many manufacturing companies which are producing things which are not a necessity for humans, then the world would not require so much electricity. Then maybe we could provide electricity to the whole world from windmill and Solar panels which are not pollutant. If we stopped producing electricity from coal, water, etc., then the pollution resulting from them won't occur.
@@nocare if we shut down many companies which are not required as a necessity for humans then only we can reduce plastic and paper pack and glass bottles use. We cannot totally stop plastic use, but at least we could reduce it.
@@shivakoliar4846 The majority of our society is not a necessity. Still most of it increases the quality of life.
Rather than stopping production of products we should improve our handling of our waste.
For instance by removing recycle bins and instead just having machines and workers sort domestic garbage.
By spending more resources on redesigning thing slike packaging solutions to be more environmentally sustainable.
Many people are ok with changing their lifestyle I am not. Instead spend the resources of society on removing the harm a modern lifestyle causes.
Thanks to Dr Simon Clark for turning some... tricky... comments into a genuinely witty and informative video!
The _tu quoque_ fallacy is one of my favourites. It's the:
Doctor: your obesity is a health risk.
Patient: You're not so trim yourself therefore I reject your argument.
Or
Climatologist: unchecked AGW will result in major negative ramifications globally.
Internet commenter: you drive and fly planes, I'm not listening to you!
Perceived hypocrisy has no bearing on the truth of a claim.
I think people resort to this because they feel attacked and guilty and they want to shift that feeling to someone else. It's a defence mechanism. One way to minimise it is to teach young people how to take criticism, for example by taking a step back when they criticise someone else and seeing if that criticism could apply to them. Humility should be a subject taught in class.
@@abigaelmacritchie1365 Yeah, I agree, fallacious arguments often come from an emotional response. They certainly don't come from a reasoned one.
Tu quoque is a really interesting because it's nuanced. For example, if someone says "you must buy shares in Corp Inc! You'll make a killing!" then pointing out that they've just sold shares in the firm would not be the tu quoque fallacy.
And using Latin and italicising stuff doesn't make you knowledgeable.
Me - *Foolish of you to assume I wouldn't do something that is bad for me!*
@@Law9652 What can I say? I'm sorry you feel threatened by it. In my defence, that is what the fallacy is called. I'm not sure how I should refer to something without, you know, calling it by its name.
As for putting foreign words in italics, that's a written convention to aid clarity. It really common.
Tell you what, to make you feel better about yourself, let's call it the What About You Boo-Boo.
There are a lot of people in these comments upset about the fact that you're smarter than us about the climate
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@@SimonClark mama
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"Shut down China and India"
You mean, the countries that are world's largest manufacturing sectors?
*Okay lmao*
I like how instead of just replying to dumb comments with antagonism, but actually addressing the questions and misunderstood knowledge that that present. More scientists like this pliz
the only things we can do as someone who doesnt earn right now or is an adult are:
1) become vegetarian(or vegan)
2) avoid big brands that exploit the environment
3) never waste water
4) don't waste food
5) prioritize public transports or bicycle or walking for travelling
7) stop buying an abundant quantity of electronic items unless you absolutely need them
8) avoid plastic(keep a cloth/paper bag in all of your purses or bags that you carry around)
9) carry sustainable glass/paper cups so if you have to get a takeout from a cafe/restaurant you can use the ones you have by giving it to them.
10) do not buy too many of the skincare/bodycare products as they contain a large amount of chemicals which are very harmful for the environment.
Thats gonna be hard to follow for western countries lmao (looking at you america)
@Yash Hengne yes sir
I can do nine out of ten lol
@@llarmstrong783 what's the one you would find hard?
@@Derek_Garnham vegan lol
Everyone gangsta till the sun says he wants his energy back.
Lol
🤣🤣
It's 2021. You can't just assume the sun's gender and not expect to be cancelled 😔
*CANCELLED*
@@dariuschong4574 now why didn't I think of that lol 😁😆
I have a lot of respect for you Simon. You're videos attract a lot of climate deniers, it mustn't be easy facing the ignorance every time you post one of these and yet you continue to try and educate us. Good video as always!
I think going forward scientists need to really spend some time on working out how to get information across to a world where social media inspires people to only believe things that align with their core beliefs and confirmation bias.
My view is that critical thinking skills should be taught very young in school to give people the tools to think for themselves.
And make the people able to question the politicians and their school taught doctrines? Naaah we'd like to keep our sheep
This is sarcasm btw
@@alifio2183 ....Picture a sheep going "Nahhhhhhhhh".
It's a problem but I don't think it's the scientists' role to deal with it. They already have a job studying and monitoring the climate. The ones responsible for the information getting out are governments and media (including social media).
@@n484l3iehugtil if no one listens what's the point.
Scientists can't solve the problem. The rich corporations that are responsible for most of the environmental impact have invested millions to confuse the general population. The only solution is take away their power but there aren't any governments that would do that because the politicians have shares in their rich cronies companies.
I remember being in elementary school in the 80's, and climate change (global warming then) was talked about and not controversial at all. It was in textbooks. And if it was in public school textbooks in the 80's, then it was considered true in the 70's. The science they talked about is the exact same as the science now.
It's interesting how it didn't become "controversial" until it was going to start costing businesses money, and inconveniencing science deniers.
Global warming causes climate change, they are not the same thing. It also isn't controversial in my country at least, the only political disagreements are on how we best can avoid doing anything about it
And I didn’t even know about climate change until I heard about it from trump when I was in middle school, then I looked into it and learned what was going on. I was horrified
I love youtubers who talk about science, they always share the original source from where they take their information
I think this highlights one of the biggest problems with climate change denial: Many people can't see any further into the future than the end of their nose. When you tell them that sea level increase is measured in millimeters, they can't fathom (pun somewhat intended) how it would matter to them. Bummer for their great grandkids, but no worries, great grandpa won't be there to see it. Conversely, you see the argument, "the earth's climate is constantly changing, so everything just adapts" (interesting concept since many of these same people deny evolution). They can't conceive of the time that is involved with those changes. Even the "quick" events took millennia, not decades. If you are drowning, you can't really count on developing gills to save you. My hats off to you for keeping your cool and trudging through these types of comments. Your work is needed if our grandkids are going to have a future not filled with strife and "adaption".
How to solve problems 101:
1. Claim that it doesn't exist and the researchers are lying.
2. Blame China or something
3. ???
4. Profit
china is the reason we have covid plus they are racist as fuck. Those guys literally censor black people in their movie posters or anyone who isnt white. They did that with star wars. so yes i feel no guilt blaming china
@@brockrock2359 "Blaming someone for the skin color they were born with is so disgusting that I blame everyone for the nation they were born in."
@@subject8332 There's literally tons of videos from asian boss on youtube asking random chinese citizens about black people. Watch it and try not to get mad. I can boldly say that America is not as racist as most Asian countries.
@@brockrock2359 tons of youtube videos doesnt really prove a point here, guy could be cutting the good chinese people part, while the bad ones doesnt because of views, you know, video editing is real.
And by your logic, ive seen many videos by tons of asian creators that got mocked by Americans calling them like covid or something so Americans are racist to asian people
0:22 That whole lessening individual carbon footprint was from a 2005 BP ad campaign which diverted attention away from the fossil fuel corporations activity, as those corporations were responsible for the majority of emissions, towards individual responsibility ... and that's had a disastrous impact on environmentalism ever since.
I just hope more Nuclear plants are set up. When will governments and the media learn that Nuclear is the safest and most efficient power producing method?
@@bcharan6481 Safest? Almost. Renewables are slightly safer. That said, the newest nuclear molten salt reactor power plants are almost on par with renewables.
PS, I'd link you to Our World In Data: What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy ... but then my comment would get autodeleted.
@@AvangionQ wind power and solar requires a ton more maintenance compared to Nuclear, but yeah, it's "almost" the safest. If we invest more in Nuclear, we can work towards a safer future
The sun is flat.
The chosen one
Nah it's a donut
I’m an undergrad environmental studies student and I basically come here to increase my knowledge, but this video was depressingly funny. Sad to know such people exist and loved your responses to them.
Saying "I want climate change, I want to grow coconuts and tropical fruits in my garden" is just like saying "I want my house to burn down in the middle of winter, I want to be nice and warm".... and yes, please keep making videos. When it comes to the single biggest challenge facing our species' long term survival, he more voices of reason the better.
nice rebuttal, maybe can use it in future.
Governments* when the sea rising causes land loss everywhere: *I sleep*
Governments* if a country were to steal 1 square millimeter of land: *No shit*
* = Except the few that have actually made significant contributions against climate change
I'm watching this in the kitchen tv. My sis peeked in and said "oh he looks like what we expected William (Prince) to look like as an adult" and I cannot unsee it. Forgive us, we are old.
Next up: "Scientist reacts to TH-cam climate change comments on Scientist reacts to TH-cam climate change comments video."
Damn, saw right through my plan
@@SimonClark Hah! Great video as usual Simon!
LOL
@@SimonClark Well, if it gets a real discussion going, and even 1% learn something, it's fine.
Subscribed purely because you cited throughout the video (and it’s nice to hear someone else whose become increasingly exasperated with Internet comments the last few years in particular) - It made my little scientists heart happy 👩🔬
The "India" in thumbnail was enough for me to click on this video.
you are not alone mate..
Me too
Me too
ok lets stop here before we make the 2nd wave of #metoo movement
@@nabeelnazer7103 haha
I applaud you to being able to reply well to all of these comments, because on some of them I don’t know where to start. I spontaneously lose braincells reading them.
I worked on a climate science program for a few years and worked with the land station data from about 14 small countries in the Pacific. I went in thinking there might be some group-think, but left very impressed with the whole field and the practitioners.
The main influence on air surface temps in the Pacific is sea surface temperatures, so the warming signal is quite obvious and directly linked to large-scale global heat transfer.
Of more concern than the warming is the storms: Slightly less often but more likely to be destructive, and less predictable in their paths due to circulation changes.
Migrations into cooler zones isn't so great either. Frost stops nematodes that can destroy crops, so be prepared for a lot more disruption in farming as frost lines and other subtle barriers shift. Ocean pH is a huge worry as it could initiate the collapse of some pretty huge ecosystems.
Science has to be conservative, and rightly so, but I still came away with the impression that the horror of what is coming if we do not prepare is vastly underappreciated.
Please keep it up, you are doing vital work.
Going from that to "climate change is manmade" is quite a leap, though. And yes, "climate change, because they decided climate warming is too specific and they needed a term that's more open to interpretation.
@@CristiNeagu clearly the people you called "they" does not include scientists like the person in this video
@@CristiNeagu .... WUT....
@@ANTSEMUT1 What do you find confusing?
@@chandy3859 Of course. The person in this video is simply going along with the flow, because of peer pressure.
We as a resident of the Himalayas which is called the 3rd pole of the earth, experience global warming each year temperature spike to a high record. This year it was record-breaking in the Ladakh state of India. We as a conscious citizens of the world taking action by not over emission individually. Travelling very little and going vegan. Thank you for your channel feeding me the purpose of life on the earth.
“Shut down India and China"
India and China: You guys say something?
The good natured non sneering approach you have taken is the best way to make people receptive to your argument.
Chris Russ lol you call that non sneering?
India in thumbnail
Indians : We have been summoned
As an Indian I do take an offence about this comment at 1:44
West is more prone towards carbon emissions, not calculating each one of them but for a quick reference- they use dryers to dry their wet clothes even sun is out wide and clear in the sky!
Carbon footprint of developed countries are way bigger than the counties they blame
Here we go again: an actual _scientist_ is trying to confuse us with facts! Who needs the facts when we have our yuuuge orange leader!
Why don't climate science deniers care about their own children? Weird.
@@bobcowley9370 "Argumentum ad populum"? But it is Agent Orange who claims that climate change is "Chinese conspiracy" and that he was elected by the majority of Americans.So, citing _that_ in defense of one's position would be "argumentum ad populum".
My statement could be called " argumentum ad verecundiam" if I was appealing to _irrelevant_ authority. But, I generally go to a physician when I am ill and let automotive engineers design and build my cars. So I assume that atmospheric physicists know more about atmospheric physics than I do (I trained as a particle physicist, 40+ years ago, but switched to computer science early on). Don't you have some area where your knowledge is deeper and more reliable than your neighbor's?
Anyway, the question at hand: tell me, which criterion for judging "how much atmospheric CO2 is enough to cause such and such effects" is better, quantitative models constructed by climatologists and atmospheric physicists, or your (or my) "gut feeling"? Our gut feeling's reliability is usually restricted to matters of digestion.
Earth (as any other planet) is in long-term thermal equilibrium between insolation (and a tiny bit of internal heat from radioactive decay and leftover from the days of formation) and radiation. The surface is heated by Sun and radiates that energy back, this time in the far longer spectrum, in far-infrared (look up black body radiation - the spectrum is not exactly the same since the surface is not black, but the phenomenon is the same). Now, CO2 has a property that the light in and around the visible part of the spectrum goes right through it (or, more precisely, right by its molecules). However, the energy of vibrational modes of the molecule is such that it readily absorbs photons in the far-infrared spectrum, the wavelengths at which Earth "cools". The molecule absorbs the photon, vibrates for a bit, then emits is again balling back to its ground state. The problem is that the photons that were going _out_ (or up, if you will) from the surface get re-emitted in all directions, including bach down.
So, the surface gets a bit warmer, radiates more of this infrared radiation, and finally, the new equilibrium is reached, at a slightly higher temperature.
(BTW, all molecules that are not "straight", to oversimplify, have this effect: ozone, methane, water. Both of the latter exacerbate the problem: methane by being released from the thawing permafrost, and water because its content in the atmosphere is determined solely by its temperature.)
*Please* do an honest effort and avail yourself of some of the innumerable resources available online and larn what climatologists are actually talking about. It is quite fascinating. And, on the flip side, it is quite depressing how many people literate enough to dredge up a label for a fallacy in argument (although a wrong one) prefer _not_ to educate themselves.
I suggest that you start your own exploration at this blog post, almost a decade old: scienceofdoom.com/2009/11/28/co2-an-insignificant-trace-gas-part-one/
@@bazoo513
Roy Spencer was a Nasa scientist who was tasked with running a planned experiment, on proving the Greenhouse effect using satellite data.
When results revealed the effect to be neglible they criticized and now ignore him.
I have listened to many highly credible scientists and researchers with more direct experience than this man, who adamantly believe climate change is predominantly natural and they have the proof to show it.
They arent allowed, the media shuns then as well as academia.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary to the UN on climate change action said this, just prior to the Paris accord meetings.
Figueres was being interviewed by "the daily business" and reported by the Gaurdian publication.
Two other publications confirm the report and words spoken.
"To be honest climate control is more about an over reaching effort to replace the economic system that has been in place for over 150 years, Capitalism."
Climate change is just another political football being used to herd the masses towards another control system globally.
Its simple, very rich and powerful people own almost everything, control everything and wish to ultimately thin the herd.
I wish this was as ludicrous as it sounds.
We have pandemics, climate change emergency, a worldwide refugee crisis, potential alien invasions, fires unheard of, failing crops, impending earthquakes and eruptions.
Do you honestly believe these events are all just co-incidental?
@@lawrencesmith4960 claims to drive and fly less as many other scientists, but does not show how that's any different than the general population. when 25,000 scientists meet for a conference as they did a couple years ago in new orleans (i believe), brings me little hope.
bazooka You would have a little more credibility if you didn't have TDS.
Is it strange how all of the scientist disagree with me?
How could they be so wrong?
Amen. I recommend watching Climate: The movie before it gets banned.
@@codydog1700stop trying to larp as a repressed group, you are literally being supported by the rich.
@@MouldMadeMind I agree not sure why he is doing that.
@@codydog1700 although you share the same head?
@@MouldMadeMind What?
I think the big problem is that these people have been told to hate anyone that accepts climate change as fact.
It always amazes me the amount of people who begin sentences to actual experts with "You obviously don't know..." Do they not read these comments out loud and hear the ironic ignorance?
As an Indian I feel extremely proud for having the power to change a planet's climate!
What! It's very bad
@@Shailendra077 more plants growing now
I'm a Christian conservative who believes in Angels and talking snakes but I need to see more data on climate change!
You have the patience of a saint! I have a recent MSc in Palaeoanthropology and am sometimes far less patient with pseudoscience in TH-cam comments. I start well but have to learn to step back
1:38 Man really? If that guy had actually visited India he would know how much we care about environment, trees and how good air we breathe here except a few major cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
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Thank you Simon for countering the detractors in a balanced way, and clarifying the science.
I couldn’t imagine having DK so bad that I try to correct a climate scientist about their own field after watching a Fox News segment.
I've been staring at this comment trying to figure out what DK means, can you please explain?😅
@@dyver123 Donkey Kong
Hi! Undergraduate student in environmental science here! ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! Thank you for publicizing this. Much appreciated.
I feel your pain. I've spent a long time dealing with largely the same crowd concerning their 'skepticism' in regard to natural selection, mutation, virology, vaccines, epidemiology, etc... I wish there were an easy way to get people to understand what Wolfgang Pauli meant when he called this kind of behavior, "not even wrong".
"He's trying to communicate" 🤣🤣
You cracked me up.
Thank you for your content. I am new, i like it, i subbed.
1:41 that just makes me sad that most people don’t know what they’re talking about
This is why people on the internet shouldn't be given a voice
Thanks for addressing this topic. It’s always interesting to learn more about climate change and have someone explain common misconceptions.
I’ve missed your “day in the life” style vlogs. I bet in would be interesting seeing you build upon your career as a scientist. You have a great talent for making life seem manageable- your vlogs during your PhD are what helped me get through my own degree! I don’t know why, but it’s so refreshing to see others successfully going through everyday life, especially when you too are trying to find growth, balance and success.
Keep up the great work, Simon. 🙌🏻
"shut down developing countries" said developed countries who used most of the resources in the past that caused present's climate change
Never thought that one thumbnail could bring china and india on one side.. 😂
China and India are on opposite side.
A year after this video was posted, now it's recommended to me... liking, subscribing, and commenting for the algorithm gods.
Great video!
More like the world banks but Gods is close enough.
Looking at percapita emmisons India and Africa are some of the lowest in the world. Russia with a population of 110 million emmits more CO2 than India with a population of 1.4 billion. Also India and China source more than a quarter of their electricity renewably. Europe and North America are responsible for more than 75% of the total emmisons since the 1700s. But yes go ahead and blame developing countries
I can't imagine trying to deal with these people. Thank you for taking the time to make this content for us.
Considering that China manufactures a lot of goods for other countries + there's a lot of people who also need food, electricity, transportation. It's actually doing pretty well
So there are 'Bots' that go around disliking videos? You learn something new everyday.