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Maybe you could tell people how much energy is in a tank of diesel, 636 kilowatts, maybe you could tell people to get out their power bill and see how much energy 636 kw is in their daily electricity consumption and that might stop them driving. A litre of fuel is more than my daily electrical consumption and I feel people watching your videos will still go for a drive for an ice cream. Where I am in summer with the air con going 24-7 that's 3.2 months of energy being imputed into the system, maybe you could tell people how cattle in this country are carbon neutral for the methane they emit because the herd size hasn't increased and methane doesn't build up unlike carbon which does for 10,000 years people could realise crops and all their sprays are what is killing the worlds insects, but you and your girlfriend dr glibz have pictures of hair dryers in front of ice shelfs or how do we protect ourselves from the storm... seems like obfuscation and no plan for action. Roger Hallam is in jail for being a public nuisance for five years and nothing of what you are saying, that I have seen, is worthwhile because you are just showing confusion. and dramatic fear mongering videos that achieve nothing, in my opinion, which is why you reach so few people.
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021] It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
I like to remind myself that because energy is proportional to velocity squared, a seemingly small increase in wind speed adds a lot more energy than people might think. Also applies to driving.
What did you get our of it as I find his videos to be a waste of time, much like your videos? They don't achieve anything overall, they don't call for direct action TODAY. All good for trying but nothing of his or your videos are driving positive action forward it's just business as usual while we listen to people pontificate. I don't believe either of you believe in climate change, not really, you just want to drive views, for profit. Is there anything in this video that shows how to reduce 50% of consumption emissions?
@@antonyjh1234 this video is working on public awareness, which is a primary driver of politics. Politicians hold the levers of change which they are only willing to pull they have public support. Look up the Overton Window, which is an adjacent concept re. public support for political extremes. Shifting the climate equivalent of the Overton Window is one of the most important tasks to do.
You only need to take direct action today, spreading the word and doing nothing is climate denialism. What direct action is being discussed or taken with these videos. Adam seem to be a climate denialist because it's always the same, polyester clothing and look how bad it will get, without any direct action being discussed. What direst action is being asked? 10% of our electricity emissions are supposedly from appliance left on at the wall, we could all do that from now on and it would achieve more than Adam does in any of his videos. I find all his videos are just obfuscation and fear.
@@rogerstarkey5390 You mean in the North? Yes. Nasty. First flood of this type since at least the romans. But what can i say, i've predicted this for decades. People build more and more buiuldings and think they can scam nature. And sometimes nature shows them who is the boss. Of course such floods and extreme weather situations will come more often to us. That is nature showing us how good it is to pump teratons of energy and CO2 into the atmosphere. But now its cleaned up and the weather is "normal" again.
Attention to those who comment for the algorithm. I've heard elsewhere that the algorithm counts a minimum of seven words as meaningful. So a little prolixity's a good thing.
I had looked at the NOA data for Hurricane that made landfall over the past 100 years. You're right, there isn't more of them, but they are stronger. Also the data shows that 3 times as many Cat 5 made landfall in the past 50 years compare to the first 50 years.
They are NOT stronger, the _means of measuring_ no longer rely on anemometers at ground level, same way temperatures now are created by climate model simulations.
@DementiaDon That is not true. Counting backward by decade from 2012-2023(yeh, not a decade) one finds major storms, cat 3,4, and 5's numbering 3,4,7,5,5,4,6,6,10,5,5,7,4,8,4... the last number represents 1901-1910. Do you see a rise in the number of major storms? These numbers are from the National Hurricane Center.
@DementiaDon OK, you quoted NOAA without providing any of their stats. Now, look up National Hurricane Center storms by decade charge. Just Google it in just like that, and a chart of storms, by decade since 1850 and intensity will pop up.
Great, unbiased video, as always! Any chance you can make a historical storm analysis video? I know it's probably difficult because of the difference in measuring techniques and warning systems/precautions (e.g., EF3 tornado in 1930 could have been way more deadly than an EF5 today). Still, would be useful to have some nice, balanced overview. You know, for anti-disinformation purposes.
that could be really interesting - I know there are research efforts to look at the damages caused by storms, in a way that controls for shifts in infrastructure, so that could be good to dive into!
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021] It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Really clear and compelling explanation of the link between cyclones/hurricances and global warming. One additional point is that I believe that Hurricane Milton was also the most intense late season storm on record, which makes sense in the context of the seas in the Gulf of Mexico staying super-heated for longer. Weirdly even though these dramatic events in the US tie into the climate change debate it appears that neither side in the US presidential campaigns considers it a vote-shifter and scarcely mention it, certainly not with the intensity of conviction that it merits.
If your house is rated to handle 100mph winds and CC buffs what would've been a 95mph storm to 105mph you go from having a house with minor damage to not having a house as the roof is torn off and the rain pours in. That's partly how a 'minor' increase to the strength of storms can cause so much more damage. Not quite as simple as that of course, but it's a good start.
Commenting on the damage of Hurricane Helene, occisoft8082 writes: "Water is heavy. Say you have 1000×1000 feet of surface area, and the region receives a foot [12 inches] of rain in a day, which is what North Carolina received, that's 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. At 63 lbs per cubic foot of water, that's 63 million pounds of water moving down the mountain. The mountains are sculpted to direct all that rain into those little creeks."
Or metric, a foot is supposed to be 30 cm or 300mm, a square metre of water is a ton, so a little over each 3 sq metres, got a ton of rain, extrapolate that to the whole area and it's thousands of tons all coming down into the rivers. Thats why river crossings can be so dangerous, if it's moving fast and has even a third, 350kg of weight it's how fast it is going that is can push your sideways.
For me as a Cambodian and our tropical cyclone basin is the Northwestern Pacific seeing many storms and also many strong ones is nothing out of the ordinary because this basin has always been the beast and record breaking like: 1. Of course the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth where most of it's season has more than 20 a year and it's most active season was the 1964 typhoon season where it has a record of 39 named storm (highest on record globally and still holds to this day), but in some rare occasions it can be inactive example like the 2010 season which was the most inactive season on record with only 14 named storms which is sounds a lot for those in the US, but here in the Northwestern Pacific basin 14 is very low. 2. Produce huge number of strong storms which is Cat 4+, example like the 1965 and 1997 typhoon season where both season have 11 CAT 4-5 in a single season, but the 1997 typhoon season is a legendary one because this season spawned a woping 10 CAT 5 which is a global record (still holds to this day), not only that this season has another record which is the higheat producing ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) season on record globally with 577 ACE, and one more thing one storm of this season Typhoon Winnie (C5) has the largest eye on record globally with a diameter of 370km or 230mile wide which tied with typhoon Carmen in 1960. 3. The sea surface temperature is very hot and the Ocean heat content is very deep into the Ocean thus give more energy for storms to rapidly intensify. 4. Little wind shear and probably dry air as well.
Fossil fueled storms. Not made, but upgraded with warmer waters, higher humidity, changed jet stream locations, higher sea levels and so on. Burning fossil fuels has worsened the ghg levels and that has made all these things much worse. Simply put fossil burning adds available energy for these storms.
8:30 remember that dynamic pressure of wind goes with the square of the speed, so an increase of 10% of speed is roughly 20% increase of force transmitted to the structures.
Hey Adam, are you aware of the letter "Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Reykjavik, October 2024" , if so please make a video explaining the serious risk and the time frame we are looking at. I really like watching your videos since it is easy for anyone to understand the risk we are facing regarding climate change. Thank you and keep up the good work 👍
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021] It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Very clear. Do you make transcripts available for edit? Some won't watch but will read. My takeaway is that CC is making a qualitative difference to the impact of the same quantitative phenomena of hurricanes
@@ClimateAdam I have read so many of the comments here and it is painful to comprehend the pain and ignorence you take to be your bread and butter income.
One question I have had for a long time is. Since sea surface temperature is the limit to storms forming, they can form over a larger area and time. How does the number of storms not change unless storm formation is suppressed in general? Is it just that new marginal storms won't do much?
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt the atmosphere warm up faster than the ocean surface? Wouldnt that make the effect of hot air rising actually weaker? Or is it just the area around the ocean surface heating up faster than layers of the atmosphere further up?
What's the sad about hurricanes is if we made a simple 6 km inflatable Mountain the hurricane couldn't get above the inflatable Mountain cuz hurricanes only can reach a kilometer and a half in height before they lose their strength
Loved this episode. Couldn't see anything I disagreed with and the use of all the characters was brilliant, you hired some really great actors. The only thing I'd like to add is that hurricanes are like engines; they feed off of higher ocean temps, the atmosphere's also warmer which means it can hold more moisture and adds to the fuel. It's also worth noting that there’s been an abrupt rise in ocean and atmospheric temps, the last 2 years have been anomalous and the trend seems like it’ll continue to accelerate on average. Some theories of why this is happening are: -Carbon sinks, notably the Amazon, have gone from sinks to net emitters. -Permafrost melt is also another biggy. -Forest fires and deforestation in general are unprecedently widespread due to myriad reasons. -Higher libido due to ice melt. -Wetlands drying out. -The list goes on... All of the above are knowns and sadly there're almost certainly unknowns too. They're positive feedback loops which means they are accelerating the heating process and the more heat we have, the more it amplifies these changes (hence 'feedback loop.') Another phenomenon is the cascading effect; these increasing temps trigger the aforementioned feedback loops, due to these, the temperature rises faster and triggers *more* (previously dormant) feedback loops, which in turn causes more heating and triggers *even* *more* loops in a cascading effect. Not looking good.
So 12:56 , seeing as the strength of the storms is increasing, the area of the earth within the "tropical" region is getting larger, that is to say, the heat build up is expanding beyond what we've long considered "tropical" regions to include formerly "temperate" regions, and by extension increasing the number of coastal cities within the tropical cyclones new "hunting grounds"....
I am not a climatologist. However, I do know that weather patterns are dominated by atmospheric temperature and pressure gradients. Knowing that the atmosphere is getting warmer, it's not difficult to answer the question: If those gradients increase, will the results of those gradients also increase?
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021] It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Can you talk about how if we reduce the amount of parking lot space and go up not out and plant native plants and trees were the parking lot use to be. You can also add more parking in the parking garage and reduce land use at the same time. Like parking lots take up 25 to 35% of the cities total land space like let's reduce that by 40 or 60% and mybe just mybe we can reinforce the roof for plants or a community garden.
Another significant area where we need to be reducing our impact is agriculture, eat more local produce and use less chemical inputs and pesticides, avoid ploughing and get the carbon back into the soil. Great videos, thanks
BS. Industrialised agrigulture is infinetly less energy intensive than localised produce. Chemicals can improve the shelf life of most food items, ensuring less food waste. Also nitrate fertilisers double land utility, thus nearly half the cost per acre. Avoid ploughing - ffs . .. . . . .. . . . also biodegrading celulose, i.e. plantlife in soil helps release CO2 into the air, not the soil. have you been suckered or what?
If you look at the research on the climate impacts of food, what matters to an overwhelming degree is whether you eat more animal foods or more plant foods, with meat being worse, and beef and mutton being absolutely terrible for emissions. Other than air-freighted produce, where food comes from is only about 5% of that food's carbon footprint. On average, vegan and vegetarian diets only have about 50% or less of the carbon footprint of a typical omnivorous diet.
@@conormcmenemie5126 "BS. Industrialised agrigulture is infinitely less energy intensive than ..." Factory farming uses about 10 units of energy for every unit it produces, so it's laughably unsustainable in the long run, and this will become more and more obvious are EROI keeps dropping. And all the fertilizers and pesticides you are talking about are steadily destroying the Earth's ability to support life, including human life. Killing the planet in the name of a phony type of "efficiency." *smh*
Do you think it's plausible that shipping industry regulation that slashed SO2 emissions and accidentally led to a sharp spike in Atlantic sea surface temperature starting last year could have any role in the severity of this year's hurricane season? Like it's a sobering thought is that perhaps the effect of climate change on tropical storm geophysics has been being masked this whole time by SO2 pollution, and this year is the first year where we've actually sampled its baseline
The aerosol masking paradox states clearly that reducing the reflective aerosols in fossil fuels such as the sulphates in shipping fuel will drastically increase temps. We're damned if we do & damned if we don't at this point!
Eliminating climate change would not stop these storms from happening it will just make them maybe a fraction weaker than they would have been. Take the flooding in North Carolina for example. That flooding was still going to happen how it did because the area had gotten almost a foot of rain a few days saturating the ground before Helene had formed and moved north while it fused with the upper level low system that was stalled over the eastern US. That rain event was never going to be prevented but maybe would have had a few inches less of rain overall if climate change effects weren't occurring worldwide.
Part of the problem is that some of the weather-focused influencers that have sprung up over the past few seasons are prioritizing profit and not addressing the misinformation around the topic. Anyway, nice video, but if it could contain less acting and more factuality, it would be even better.
Very correct and accurate info for 15 minutes, well done. Should be required learning for those who are confused about climate change. And trust me, that is a very real problem on planet earth, especially in the US. Would also add that there was a Cat 6 that made landfall in Mexico last year, and there was very little reporting. There are some news clips on this, and the whole scene is very horrific. Think wind speeds were above 187mph, which in future, could be borderline for Cat 5 and Cat 6.
The truth is that climate change worsens natural disasters and storms by intensifying them exponentially, but if we stop climate change and prevent the climate from changing, we would get rid of hurricanes, floods and other disasters. But if we continue fueling climate change with fossils and do not stop climate change, the disasters will continue to intensify, being several times worse than previous years. For example, it has been reported in the news that this year's hurricanes were the worst, strongest, most destructive and most expensive in the entire history of the Earth and the history of the US, so that, for example, Hurricane Milton would make Hurricane Katrina jealous.
Dude - 'climate' is an intilectual franchise. Like the various relegions claiming they were the mouthpiece of creators of the universe. Such franchises censor the flow of information, use threat and fear to manipulate the population with a particular emphasis on the young, chastise and denegrate anybody who critises them and their hocus-pocus, and lastly their doctrine is the only hope you have.. . . . . . .. . . .as long as you keep giving them money and status.
the thing is, as we get hotter summers year by year and thus, people needing for cooling devices such as air conditioners and the like, the more it will harm the planet bc devices like air conditioners also emit CFC's, one of greenhouse gas types what we need is to plant more trees and lessen usage of vehicles that are powered by gas in order to cool down a city bit by bit.
The real trick is rather than using (as much) "conditioning", use "management" in the form of insulation and airflow, designing structures that prevent heat from entering with low level ventilation causing an upward flow... (The irony of the same effect which causes a hurricane used to reduce use of the energy which causes them?) . There are plenty of exams of *Ancient* structures which employ the "thick wall, floor vent" system to maintain a comfortable temperature with little, or zero fuel.
Unfortunately "we as a society" are not still feeling the urgency of the matter. You do great work to convey it, and I also appreciate that you believe in "we as a society". Trust and cooperation are the way to go.
Have you noticed everytime a starship fills up with our oxygen there is a deep depression in the gulf of Mexico leading to damaging storms! Some study is needed here on the impact globaly of these fuel farms that take huge quantities of our atmosphere and convert it into Rocket fuel....
Fun fact: The strongest storm to ever hit Florida was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. It was a Category 5 with 185 mph. Hurricane Hazel was a Category 4 that struck North Carolina in October 1954, causing severe damage across multiple states. Hurricane Connie was another cat 4 that hit the same areas just a year later, in 1955, causing major flooding across multiple states. I'm not sure if anyone remembers Hurricane Camille or not. I'm not bringing up old historical hurricanes to deny what is going on today, but I think people need to know that major hurricanes have been causing catastrophic damage for a long time. I don't want people to think that these natural disasters will stop or be weak if we stop using fossil fuels.
Well, climate change make natural disasters more severe and turn some natural almost-disasters into small disasters. So it’s not really an either-or, it’s a human-made intensity increase of what would have happen naturally in a less severe way.
A better question might be, can you get insurance cover in Florida? And if so, how much are the premiums? And will they have enough money to pay your claim? It would appear insurance companies believe climate change is happening.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 you have never been able to get hurricane insurance in Florida. Just like you cannot get flood insurance in many other states.
@avenue8822 Well I just googled that claim and found you are incorrect. Home owners are required to have a policy before any bank will provide a housing loan. Which makes perfect sense. Average policy costs $5500 per year.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 I’m actually glad to hear that. I haven’t lived in Florida for 25 years. When I lived there, we had a hurricane come through the Tampa area and several people I knew weren’t covered because they could not get insurance, or the rates were so unreasonable that they couldn’t afford it.
I don't think this is getting much publicity, it seems to be a positive example of being better at being prepared - there is a Florida community called Hunters Point that has safely "sailed thru" the last 3 hurricanes.
this year has definitely received a boost due to the el niño southern oscilation but the heat (above the long term pre-industrial average) is mostly down to human-caused warming. on top of that, the year is hotter than these two factors alone would seem to explain, and researchers are still working to explain why that might be. I discuss this for example in these videos: th-cam.com/video/DqJpQ_UUmWM/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/7p0HdzZsdII/w-d-xo.html
A recent paper gave me an unpleasant surprise. The article, "A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature", is in the 20 Sep 2024 issue of the journal "Science", Volume 385, Issue 6715. The surprise is that based on Earth's history, quadrupling the current amount of CO2 will apparently add about 15 degrees Celsius to Earth's equilibrium temperature. So far, that amount of temperature increase appears plausible under reasonable assumptions. The surprise is that I did not expect that high of a temperature increase to be plausible from a quadrupling of atmospheric CO2 occuring within the temperature range that the ancestors of humans could survive. The geologists who wrote that paper might actually be right.
it's something I've discussed on this channel for sure - most recently in this response to Hank Green: th-cam.com/video/71jlEyIc1Pk/w-d-xo.html and then this in depth discussion on his channel: th-cam.com/video/Gs-ed1CEokc/w-d-xo.html
Think of those storms as a curry, you have a selection, but the chef who is sponsored by the fossil fuel industry, adds a bit extra chilli, sometimes not as much as the previous visit. Over time the chef is adding increased amounts, with negative results for your digestive system!
Great Video, but doesn't this highlight humans can control the weather? After-all the less CO2 emission, the less extreme these storms become? The fact is we can generate more clean energy than needed for every human on the planet? Active Kinetic 1.
By 6.38 you finally ventured an opinion about how hurricanes were energised. But you still got it wrong. The reduced marine stratocumulus cloud mass over the north equitorial Atlantic has ensured higher Sea Surface Temperatures in the area where these events germinate. It can be firther shown that the warming is exclusive to this area and not dependent upon importing warmth from ealse where. So, you have to look to why has the AEW system crashed to such an extent. ALSO please explain how industrial emissions in the northern hemisphere is heating the equitorial oceans........
@@rogerstarkey5390 Check out Viste and Sorteberg 2013 where they catelogue Moisture Import ot the Ethiopian Highalnds. There is one major factor missing, the 4,000 m3/s atmospheric river which formed between July to October for millions of years. This being the 10 to 15mm/m2/day evapotransportation from the lower Nile flood plains. Yet since 1902 humans had inadvertently interfered with this major moisture flux in an arid desert by regulaitng the flood through dam construction and it's subsequent enlargements at Aswan. The +- 4,000 ton per secong every few days pulled onto the Ethiopian Highlands would incept the easterly monsoon to create a 'Keremt' storm there, which carried west by the tradewinds became organised into African Easterly Waves which travelled westwards for 5 days bring rain and cloud cover to the Sub Saharan continent. Form the west African coast these AEWs created USA sized marine stratocumulus cloud scapes which reflected incoming solar heat back out to space. This same region subject to this specific AEW cloud cover is also the specific area from which Atlantic hurricanes germinate. Thus the sea surface temperature, which energises these events, is dictated ultimatly by the meteorological chain reaction which starts over the Ethiopian Highlands. The same naturally occuring events, which unwittingly we altered........ unless you ar eprepared toactully breakdown the relevant rainfall, riverflow and SST data please do not preten that in the last few minutes you have attained a vast knowledge of equitorial weather systems and particloe physics. This has already been peer reviewed and calssed as a masterpiece and absolute Nobel Prize winner, but for clowns and pretenders like the authour of this video pushing other peoples theiries and sound butes as proven facts .
@@rogerstarkey5390 Four points. Point 1: My origninal response in no longer here. Point 2: It is not an opinion, it is what we used to call scientifically proven and peer reviewed research. point 3: Humans reduced then removed one of the atmospheric rivers which every few days between july and October of millions of years created the Keremt atmospheric disturbences within the easterly monsoon to create an AEW. The AEW events travelled west fo 5 days before creating USA sized marine stratocumuluc cloud scapes which reflected incoming solar heat out to space. Humans reducing then removing the original evapotransportation vector reduced the frequency of this whole system, ensuring greater equitorial Atlantic insolation, inturn increasing SSTs in the location from which hurricanes germinate. Point 4: See point 2
Thanks for your TH-cam channel, one thing ive seen climate scientist. Hold back on saying in many of the books I've read and noaa is we know its fossil fuels because you have the carbon isotopes of carbon from fossil fuels tested in the greenhouse, i mean thats pretty much undeniable evidence.
@@ClimateAdam Well, I was... PS Are you optimistic or pessimistic about climate change amelioration? My guess is that you'll say it's not as simple as that PPS Which part of Oxford were you at? I'm just off Iffley Rd.
The cause of these mega cyclonic climate events( and wild fires) and that is having a climate destabilising quantity of atmospheric CO2!. The climate stabalised at approx 270ppm, now we have deforested 1/3 of the Earth transferring that Carbon to the atmosphere.Raising atmospheric CO2 to the current 427ppm. Also lost that massive Carbon Sink, the last time the Earth had the current 427ppm the Seas were approx 80 feet higher so we are only at the beginning of what 427ppm will do. Plus there is an approx 20 year time lag between increased atmospheric CO2 and it’s impacts on the climate, so the apocalyptic climate events we are now getting are from atmospheric CO2 levels of approx 20 years ago!. ‘’At the end of the day the only number that matters is 404’’ ( David Attenborough ) although his figure was/is out of date his point is spot on!. ✊🏽🌎✊🏽🌻
Hi Climate Adam, the caption on this video asks if mega storms are fuelled by climate change, the short answer is of course it is!. This however does not help us much, climate always changes, the fact that it has been relatively stable for the last few hundred years ignores the reality in which the climate of the planet has been going between radically different extremes, periodic ice ages involve considerable variation in average temperatures and sea levels. At this time in history we appear to be nearing the end of a glacial period which once all permanent ice is gone becomes an interglacial period where average temperatures can be expected to increase by about ten degrees and sea levels to rise by several metres. This happens regardless of what we try to do although the current rate of change seems to be accelerated by what we have been doing with fossil fuels it is only a minor contributor. When it comes to the damage that is 'caused' by these storms all of it is the consequence of human activity!, none of the structures that get damaged exist in nature, the land that gets flooded in storm surges is still there after the water drains away, neither the climate nor nature demands that so many people must be there at the time!. The choice of descriptor for these storms has nothing to do with their inherent nature but only how they impact on human affairs, good/bad, mild or severe are entirely subjective judgements. Cheers, Richard.
There's potentially an even WORSE scenario (which miight make a great "what if" video?) . "What if" the abnormally high temperatures in certain areas cause a block in the AMOC? (Atlantic meridional overturning current) . THAT could cause a sudden *and widespread* "flip" which would literally devastate not just communities, but Continents. Imagine a sudden flip to a temperature 15°C below "normal"? "GREAT!" the "deniers" say..... But "15°C" reduction means failed crops, or at very best, a complete shift in WHERE they grow. Youre talking famine and geopolitical upheaval, with many "Rich" countries suddenly unable to support the population. If you are "concerned" about "immigration" TO your country, wait until the home country of those immigrants is suddenly temperate, producing excess food, meaning YOU want to migrate THERE..... . The same applies to the fishing industry.... etc. . And then i looked at your video history.... And its there
Literally read thousands of academic papers and met hundreds of climate scientists over the years, and seen concrete evidence that the sun can't explain these changes. So I think my homework is going OK.
But it's being impossible because according to Marjorie Taylors Greene is something about spacelasers and democratic party of the USA somehow controlling hurricanes? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Most of the long lasting hurricane damage is from flooding, which is increasingly supercharged by the extra moisture held in today's warmer air temperatures.
@@conormcmenemie5126 Uhh, I'm pretty sure Mike was talking about how warm the air is: Air that is 1 degree C warmer can hold 7% more moisture, so man-made global warming is making droughts worse in some places and floods more intense in others.
I find your videos a complete waste of time along with your syntax, it's like you like to listen to yourself while you push the idea of global warming backwards. Roger Hallam is in jail for a public nuisance and your videos are just obfuscation for any direct action people can take today. You don't look as though you live without oil but at least it doesn't look as though you are on drugs anymore. You are being a climate denier because you aren't real or calling for any real action people can take today. Soften the blow? I think all the actors in this video considering the platform they have should be ashamed of themselves for not really believing that we have to reduce emissions starting today by 50% in the next 5 years, videos like these are adding to the noise. If you really believed everything we have known is gone in 10 or 20 years how are these videos helping, they are too high brow for personal action and because of that zero change is being asked here what progress do you think they make?
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Maybe you could tell people how much energy is in a tank of diesel, 636 kilowatts, maybe you could tell people to get out their power bill and see how much energy 636 kw is in their daily electricity consumption and that might stop them driving. A litre of fuel is more than my daily electrical consumption and I feel people watching your videos will still go for a drive for an ice cream.
Where I am in summer with the air con going 24-7 that's 3.2 months of energy being imputed into the system, maybe you could tell people how cattle in this country are carbon neutral for the methane they emit because the herd size hasn't increased and methane doesn't build up unlike carbon which does for 10,000 years people could realise crops and all their sprays are what is killing the worlds insects, but you and your girlfriend dr glibz have pictures of hair dryers in front of ice shelfs or how do we protect ourselves from the storm... seems like obfuscation and no plan for action.
Roger Hallam is in jail for being a public nuisance for five years and nothing of what you are saying, that I have seen, is worthwhile because you are just showing confusion. and dramatic fear mongering videos that achieve nothing, in my opinion, which is why you reach so few people.
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021]
It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
I like to remind myself that because energy is proportional to velocity squared, a seemingly small increase in wind speed adds a lot more energy than people might think. Also applies to driving.
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Do you remind yourself also, what is the energy needed to increase Earth's temp +1C?
@@nyali2 An incomprehensible amount. And we've managed to do it! Go us! 🎉🏆🎊
@@SamWilkinsonn no we haven’t, not even close
Oh silly me. What's the truth then nyali?
Thanks for another great vid, Adam! Appreciate you dissecting the complexities and nuances in such a clear and timely way !
What did you get our of it as I find his videos to be a waste of time, much like your videos? They don't achieve anything overall, they don't call for direct action TODAY. All good for trying but nothing of his or your videos are driving positive action forward it's just business as usual while we listen to people pontificate. I don't believe either of you believe in climate change, not really, you just want to drive views, for profit. Is there anything in this video that shows how to reduce 50% of consumption emissions?
@@antonyjh1234 this video is working on public awareness, which is a primary driver of politics. Politicians hold the levers of change which they are only willing to pull they have public support.
Look up the Overton Window, which is an adjacent concept re. public support for political extremes.
Shifting the climate equivalent of the Overton Window is one of the most important tasks to do.
wishing there truly were more clones of you available to help us spread the word and create change. thanks for all that you do!
Ahah that'd be either a dream or a nightmare..!
You only need to take direct action today, spreading the word and doing nothing is climate denialism. What direct action is being discussed or taken with these videos. Adam seem to be a climate denialist because it's always the same, polyester clothing and look how bad it will get, without any direct action being discussed.
What direst action is being asked? 10% of our electricity emissions are supposedly from appliance left on at the wall, we could all do that from now on and it would achieve more than Adam does in any of his videos. I find all his videos are just obfuscation and fear.
great timing, there's a really strong typhoon in my country rn ;---;
hope you can stay safe 💚
Be alright!
Calm friendly automn weather, sometimes a bit foggy. Nothing unusual here in middle Europe.
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About those flash floods in the summer?
@@rogerstarkey5390 You mean in the North?
Yes. Nasty.
First flood of this type since at least the romans. But what can i say, i've predicted this for decades.
People build more and more buiuldings and think they can scam nature.
And sometimes nature shows them who is the boss.
Of course such floods and extreme weather situations will come more often to us. That is nature showing us how good it is to pump teratons of energy and CO2 into the atmosphere.
But now its cleaned up and the weather is "normal" again.
great relationship advice about not burning fossil fuels with my next partner. I'm gonna try that with my next relationship lol
I think it might be time to finally launch my dating tips channel!
Also: how to get along with -- earth.
We really don't want HER to break up with us!
@@ClimateAdam Patreon tier maybe? lol
@@vernfeufel1462 I do not want to breake it up with my grand kids. We can not change anything anymore in our generation.
Yep, shouldn't be burning the midnight oil.
Here for the algorithm
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Attention to those who comment for the algorithm.
I've heard elsewhere that the algorithm counts a minimum of seven words as meaningful.
So a little prolixity's a good thing.
Thanks, Climate Adam, as always.
Thank you for watching, as always!
This is a great video addressing all sides in an engaging manner! Very satisfied subscriber :)
Great to have you here!
I had looked at the NOA data for Hurricane that made landfall over the past 100 years. You're right, there isn't more of them, but they are stronger. Also the data shows that 3 times as many Cat 5 made landfall in the past 50 years compare to the first 50 years.
They are NOT stronger, the _means of measuring_ no longer rely on anemometers at ground level, same way temperatures now are created by climate model simulations.
The National Hurricane Centers' storms by decade stats do not back up your point.
@DementiaDon That is not true. Counting backward by decade from 2012-2023(yeh, not a decade) one finds major storms, cat 3,4, and 5's numbering 3,4,7,5,5,4,6,6,10,5,5,7,4,8,4... the last number represents 1901-1910. Do you see a rise in the number of major storms? These numbers are from the National Hurricane Center.
@DementiaDon OK, you quoted NOAA without providing any of their stats. Now, look up National Hurricane Center storms by decade charge. Just Google it in just like that, and a chart of storms, by decade since 1850 and intensity will pop up.
I was watching this in the future but now I'm stuck in the past.
But I'm reading this in the present......?
Jethro Tull says hi!
(Ian Anderson)
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If you know, you know.
i actually laughed out loud at the relationship joke lmao
Can't believe my love life is a joke to you 😭
Great, unbiased video, as always! Any chance you can make a historical storm analysis video? I know it's probably difficult because of the difference in measuring techniques and warning systems/precautions (e.g., EF3 tornado in 1930 could have been way more deadly than an EF5 today).
Still, would be useful to have some nice, balanced overview. You know, for anti-disinformation purposes.
that could be really interesting - I know there are research efforts to look at the damages caused by storms, in a way that controls for shifts in infrastructure, so that could be good to dive into!
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021]
It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Really clear and compelling explanation of the link between cyclones/hurricances and global warming. One additional point is that I believe that Hurricane Milton was also the most intense late season storm on record, which makes sense in the context of the seas in the Gulf of Mexico staying super-heated for longer. Weirdly even though these dramatic events in the US tie into the climate change debate it appears that neither side in the US presidential campaigns considers it a vote-shifter and scarcely mention it, certainly not with the intensity of conviction that it merits.
If your house is rated to handle 100mph winds and CC buffs what would've been a 95mph storm to 105mph you go from having a house with minor damage to not having a house as the roof is torn off and the rain pours in. That's partly how a 'minor' increase to the strength of storms can cause so much more damage.
Not quite as simple as that of course, but it's a good start.
Thanks for your videos, they are truly apolitical and science based. It's hard to find nowadays.
really glad you value my approach!
Commenting on the damage of Hurricane Helene, occisoft8082 writes: "Water is heavy. Say you have 1000×1000 feet of surface area, and the region receives a foot [12 inches] of rain in a day, which is what North Carolina received, that's 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. At 63 lbs per cubic foot of water, that's 63 million pounds of water moving down the mountain. The mountains are sculpted to direct all that rain into those little creeks."
This is a neat and helpful (while also being awful) calculation and adds texture to my understanding. Thanks a lot!
Or metric, a foot is supposed to be 30 cm or 300mm, a square metre of water is a ton, so a little over each 3 sq metres, got a ton of rain, extrapolate that to the whole area and it's thousands of tons all coming down into the rivers. Thats why river crossings can be so dangerous, if it's moving fast and has even a third, 350kg of weight it's how fast it is going that is can push your sideways.
For me as a Cambodian and our tropical cyclone basin is the Northwestern Pacific seeing many storms and also many strong ones is nothing out of the ordinary because this basin has always been the beast and record breaking like:
1. Of course the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth where most of it's season has more than 20 a year and it's most active season was the 1964 typhoon season where it has a record of 39 named storm (highest on record globally and still holds to this day), but in some rare occasions it can be inactive example like the 2010 season which was the most inactive season on record with only 14 named storms which is sounds a lot for those in the US, but here in the Northwestern Pacific basin 14 is very low.
2. Produce huge number of strong storms which is Cat 4+, example like the 1965 and 1997 typhoon season where both season have 11 CAT 4-5 in a single season, but the 1997 typhoon season is a legendary one because this season spawned a woping 10 CAT 5 which is a global record (still holds to this day), not only that this season has another record which is the higheat producing ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) season on record globally with 577 ACE, and one more thing one storm of this season Typhoon Winnie (C5) has the largest eye on record globally with a diameter of 370km or 230mile wide which tied with typhoon Carmen in 1960.
3. The sea surface temperature is very hot and the Ocean heat content is very deep into the Ocean thus give more energy for storms to rapidly intensify.
4. Little wind shear and probably dry air as well.
Fossil fueled storms.
Not made, but upgraded with warmer waters, higher humidity, changed jet stream locations, higher sea levels and so on. Burning fossil fuels has worsened the ghg levels and that has made all these things much worse.
Simply put fossil burning adds available energy for these storms.
great video!
thank you!
8:30 remember that dynamic pressure of wind goes with the square of the speed, so an increase of 10% of speed is roughly 20% increase of force transmitted to the structures.
Hey Adam, are you aware of the letter "Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Reykjavik, October 2024" , if so please make a video explaining the serious risk and the time frame we are looking at.
I really like watching your videos since it is easy for anyone to understand the risk we are facing regarding climate change. Thank you and keep up the good work 👍
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021]
It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Very clear. Do you make transcripts available for edit? Some won't watch but will read. My takeaway is that CC is making a qualitative difference to the impact of the same quantitative phenomena of hurricanes
I subtitle all my vids and I think this downloadable using third party websites!
@@ClimateAdam I have read so many of the comments here and it is painful to comprehend the pain and ignorence you take to be your bread and butter income.
It would also help if we stop building stuff on FLOOD PLAINS.
Great vid!
One question I have had for a long time is. Since sea surface temperature is the limit to storms forming, they can form over a larger area and time. How does the number of storms not change unless storm formation is suppressed in general? Is it just that new marginal storms won't do much?
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt the atmosphere warm up faster than the ocean surface? Wouldnt that make the effect of hot air rising actually weaker? Or is it just the area around the ocean surface heating up faster than layers of the atmosphere further up?
What's the sad about hurricanes is if we made a simple 6 km inflatable Mountain the hurricane couldn't get above the inflatable Mountain cuz hurricanes only can reach a kilometer and a half in height before they lose their strength
Loved this episode. Couldn't see anything I disagreed with and the use of all the characters was brilliant, you hired some really great actors.
The only thing I'd like to add is that hurricanes are like engines; they feed off of higher ocean temps, the atmosphere's also warmer which means it can hold more moisture and adds to the fuel. It's also worth noting that there’s been an abrupt rise in ocean and atmospheric temps, the last 2 years have been anomalous and the trend seems like it’ll continue to accelerate on average.
Some theories of why this is happening are:
-Carbon sinks, notably the Amazon, have gone from sinks to net emitters.
-Permafrost melt is also another biggy.
-Forest fires and deforestation in general are unprecedently widespread due to myriad reasons.
-Higher libido due to ice melt.
-Wetlands drying out.
-The list goes on...
All of the above are knowns and sadly there're almost certainly unknowns too. They're positive feedback loops which means they are accelerating the heating process and the more heat we have, the more it amplifies these changes (hence 'feedback loop.')
Another phenomenon is the cascading effect; these increasing temps trigger the aforementioned feedback loops, due to these, the temperature rises faster and triggers *more* (previously dormant) feedback loops, which in turn causes more heating and triggers *even* *more* loops in a cascading effect. Not looking good.
So 12:56 , seeing as the strength of the storms is increasing, the area of the earth within the "tropical" region is getting larger, that is to say, the heat build up is expanding beyond what we've long considered "tropical" regions to include formerly "temperate" regions, and by extension increasing the number of coastal cities within the tropical cyclones new "hunting grounds"....
Thanks for this!
I am not a climatologist. However, I do know that weather patterns are dominated by atmospheric temperature and pressure gradients. Knowing that the atmosphere is getting warmer, it's not difficult to answer the question: If those gradients increase, will the results of those gradients also increase?
Great informative video!
UTTER RUBBISH. Humans reducing the African Easterly Wave (AWE) marine stratocumulus cloud over the north equitorial Atlantic is why the ocean surface is recieving much more solar heat to energise these storm events. Humans inadvertently interfering with one of the precursors to the Keremt storms over the Ethiopian Highlands which become organised into the AEWs is how we have managed to degrade one of the planet's largest weather systems, ensuring the increase in ouir solar heat budget in the region of 250 TWs. [Goode et al 2021]
It is frightening to see the level of ignorence and manipulation being spoon fed to generations who are going to have to inherit the wasteland which you are helping to create.
Can you talk about how if we reduce the amount of parking lot space and go up not out and plant native plants and trees were the parking lot use to be.
You can also add more parking in the parking garage and reduce land use at the same time.
Like parking lots take up 25 to 35% of the cities total land space like let's reduce that by 40 or 60% and mybe just mybe we can reinforce the roof for plants or a community garden.
Another significant area where we need to be reducing our impact is agriculture, eat more local produce and use less chemical inputs and pesticides, avoid ploughing and get the carbon back into the soil. Great videos, thanks
BS. Industrialised agrigulture is infinetly less energy intensive than localised produce. Chemicals can improve the shelf life of most food items, ensuring less food waste. Also nitrate fertilisers double land utility, thus nearly half the cost per acre. Avoid ploughing - ffs . .. . . . .. . . . also biodegrading celulose, i.e. plantlife in soil helps release CO2 into the air, not the soil. have you been suckered or what?
If you look at the research on the climate impacts of food, what matters to an overwhelming degree is whether you eat more animal foods or more plant foods, with meat being worse, and beef and mutton being absolutely terrible for emissions. Other than air-freighted produce, where food comes from is only about 5% of that food's carbon footprint.
On average, vegan and vegetarian diets only have about 50% or less of the carbon footprint of a typical omnivorous diet.
@@conormcmenemie5126 "BS. Industrialised agrigulture is infinitely less energy intensive than ..." Factory farming uses about 10 units of energy for every unit it produces, so it's laughably unsustainable in the long run, and this will become more and more obvious are EROI keeps dropping. And all the fertilizers and pesticides you are talking about are steadily destroying the Earth's ability to support life, including human life.
Killing the planet in the name of a phony type of "efficiency." *smh*
Do you think it's plausible that shipping industry regulation that slashed SO2 emissions and accidentally led to a sharp spike in Atlantic sea surface temperature starting last year could have any role in the severity of this year's hurricane season? Like it's a sobering thought is that perhaps the effect of climate change on tropical storm geophysics has been being masked this whole time by SO2 pollution, and this year is the first year where we've actually sampled its baseline
The aerosol masking paradox states clearly that reducing the reflective aerosols in fossil fuels such as the sulphates in shipping fuel will drastically increase temps. We're damned if we do & damned if we don't at this point!
Hey Adam, do the different shirts signify anything? Did you choose green or orange for a particular reason for that character?
Mostly just to differentiate!
Eliminating climate change would not stop these storms from happening it will just make them maybe a fraction weaker than they would have been. Take the flooding in North Carolina for example. That flooding was still going to happen how it did because the area had gotten almost a foot of rain a few days saturating the ground before Helene had formed and moved north while it fused with the upper level low system that was stalled over the eastern US. That rain event was never going to be prevented but maybe would have had a few inches less of rain overall if climate change effects weren't occurring worldwide.
Part of the problem is that some of the weather-focused influencers that have sprung up over the past few seasons are prioritizing profit and not addressing the misinformation around the topic. Anyway, nice video, but if it could contain less acting and more factuality, it would be even better.
Tropical also describes where it comes from 😅
No joke, your acting skills improve with every new video.
That's lovely to hear!
Very correct and accurate info for 15 minutes, well done. Should be required learning for those who are confused about climate change. And trust me, that is a very real problem on planet earth, especially in the US. Would also add that there was a Cat 6 that made landfall in Mexico last year, and there was very little reporting. There are some news clips on this, and the whole scene is very horrific. Think wind speeds were above 187mph, which in future, could be borderline for Cat 5 and Cat 6.
thanx for the reminder of impending doom... great breakdown of cause and effect...
Soon a video titled "Does the moon exist?" will become necessary...
Cat 6 and Cat 7 are needed. We have already had cat 6 storms, but under cat 5 lable.
The truth is that climate change worsens natural disasters and storms by intensifying them exponentially, but if we stop climate change and prevent the climate from changing, we would get rid of hurricanes, floods and other disasters. But if we continue fueling climate change with fossils and do not stop climate change, the disasters will continue to intensify, being several times worse than previous years. For example, it has been reported in the news that this year's hurricanes were the worst, strongest, most destructive and most expensive in the entire history of the Earth and the history of the US, so that, for example, Hurricane Milton would make Hurricane Katrina jealous.
Dude - 'climate' is an intilectual franchise. Like the various relegions claiming they were the mouthpiece of creators of the universe. Such franchises censor the flow of information, use threat and fear to manipulate the population with a particular emphasis on the young, chastise and denegrate anybody who critises them and their hocus-pocus, and lastly their doctrine is the only hope you have.. . . . . . .. . . .as long as you keep giving them money and status.
the thing is, as we get hotter summers year by year and thus, people needing for cooling devices such as air conditioners and the like, the more it will harm the planet bc devices like air conditioners also emit CFC's, one of greenhouse gas types
what we need is to plant more trees and lessen usage of vehicles that are powered by gas in order to cool down a city bit by bit.
Air conditioners only emit CFCs when they break down or get disposed of improperly. Also, modern refrigerants are less potent than ever.
@@General12th ohh. thanks for the correction
The real trick is rather than using (as much) "conditioning", use "management" in the form of insulation and airflow, designing structures that prevent heat from entering with low level ventilation causing an upward flow...
(The irony of the same effect which causes a hurricane used to reduce use of the energy which causes them?)
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There are plenty of exams of *Ancient* structures which employ the "thick wall, floor vent" system to maintain a comfortable temperature with little, or zero fuel.
Proper planning is the only way.
Unfortunately "we as a society" are not still feeling the urgency of the matter. You do great work to convey it, and I also appreciate that you believe in "we as a society". Trust and cooperation are the way to go.
as ever, that depends who "we" define as "we"..!
I bet you Florida and NC are feeling it.
Have you noticed everytime a starship fills up with our oxygen there is a deep depression in the gulf of Mexico leading to damaging storms! Some study is needed here on the impact globaly of these fuel farms that take huge quantities of our atmosphere and convert it into Rocket fuel....
Errrrrrr... That's a "No"
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Just work out the relative volume of "The Atmosphere"
@@rogerstarkey5390 And how much is that exactly? It's not infinite...
Hi Adam!
I hope there's hope for us. I don't want to see human civilization collapsing.
"Human civilization"
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@@rogerstarkey5390 Yeah? Global human civilization? It's the thing that spans from Alaska to New Zealand, and from Argentina to Kamchatka Krai.
Oceans in the Caribbean are pretty warm. That's by climate change.
Sea surface temp and Ocean heat content are the main fuel for hurricanes.
Do these storms cause more damage to the world than we do?
Not using the word climate change anymore, using the word human caused carbon and methane pollution.
Fun fact: The strongest storm to ever hit Florida was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. It was a Category 5 with 185 mph. Hurricane Hazel was a Category 4 that struck North Carolina in October 1954, causing severe damage across multiple states. Hurricane Connie was another cat 4 that hit the same areas just a year later, in 1955, causing major flooding across multiple states. I'm not sure if anyone remembers Hurricane Camille or not. I'm not bringing up old historical hurricanes to deny what is going on today, but I think people need to know that major hurricanes have been causing catastrophic damage for a long time. I don't want people to think that these natural disasters will stop or be weak if we stop using fossil fuels.
It's telling that things are so bad people aren't even trying to deny the climate crisis anymore.
Sadly if you read comments under most of my vids, you'll still find lots of people denying basic science 😢
ARE YOU FEELING THE PANIC OF THE US ELECTIONS ?, i am, ANOTHER BRILLIANT PIECE OF WORK. Thankyou j.
National Hurricane Center disagrees with you on both number of storms, and intensity.
Well, climate change make natural disasters more severe and turn some natural almost-disasters into small disasters. So it’s not really an either-or, it’s a human-made intensity increase of what would have happen naturally in a less severe way.
Florida did not experience a direct hurricane hit for 10 years in a row, from 2005 to 2016. Climate change responsible for that also?
A better question might be, can you get insurance cover in Florida? And if so, how much are the premiums? And will they have enough money to pay your claim? It would appear insurance companies believe climate change is happening.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 you have never been able to get hurricane insurance in Florida. Just like you cannot get flood insurance in many other states.
@avenue8822 Well I just googled that claim and found you are incorrect. Home owners are required to have a policy before any bank will provide a housing loan. Which makes perfect sense. Average policy costs $5500 per year.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 I’m actually glad to hear that. I haven’t lived in Florida for 25 years. When I lived there, we had a hurricane come through the Tampa area and several people I knew weren’t covered because they could not get insurance, or the rates were so unreasonable that they couldn’t afford it.
The short answer is "no".
My moneys on this current solar maximum we’re partway into, ramping up entropy on the climate system
It's all ok... my American coworker said it's actually global cooling so no need to worry
Oh phewph (thows out mountain of research)
I don't think this is getting much publicity, it seems to be a positive example of being better at being prepared - there is a Florida community called Hunters Point that has safely "sailed thru" the last 3 hurricanes.
Heat is energy warmer water fuels storms
Handsome Loki talks climate science
Oh snap!
i thought the 2024 extremes were due to el nino/la nina .
this year has definitely received a boost due to the el niño southern oscilation but the heat (above the long term pre-industrial average) is mostly down to human-caused warming. on top of that, the year is hotter than these two factors alone would seem to explain, and researchers are still working to explain why that might be. I discuss this for example in these videos:
th-cam.com/video/DqJpQ_UUmWM/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/7p0HdzZsdII/w-d-xo.html
@@ClimateAdam thank you 🫡
A recent paper gave me an unpleasant surprise. The article, "A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature", is in the 20 Sep 2024 issue of the journal "Science", Volume 385, Issue 6715.
The surprise is that based on Earth's history, quadrupling the current amount of CO2 will apparently add about 15 degrees Celsius to Earth's equilibrium temperature.
So far, that amount of temperature increase appears plausible under reasonable assumptions. The surprise is that I did not expect that high of a temperature increase to be plausible from a quadrupling of atmospheric CO2 occuring within the temperature range that the ancestors of humans could survive. The geologists who wrote that paper might actually be right.
I'm actually planning a vid in that paper and why we have to be a little careful with its conclusion. But either way it's incredible, important stuff!
I imagine Saturn's red spot on earth.
…sounds like fun😁
For the algo ✌️
Are you educated on geo engineering? Thoughts?
it's something I've discussed on this channel for sure - most recently in this response to Hank Green:
th-cam.com/video/71jlEyIc1Pk/w-d-xo.html
and then this in depth discussion on his channel:
th-cam.com/video/Gs-ed1CEokc/w-d-xo.html
@@ClimateAdam the proverbial treason list just got a little bigger.
11:48 Story of my Life.🤣🤣🤣
Think of those storms as a curry, you have a selection, but the chef who is sponsored by the fossil fuel industry, adds a bit extra chilli, sometimes not as much as the previous visit. Over time the chef is adding increased amounts, with negative results for your digestive system!
Great Video, but doesn't this highlight humans can control the weather? After-all the less CO2 emission, the less extreme these storms become? The fact is we can generate more clean energy than needed for every human on the planet? Active Kinetic 1.
we can put things back in balance or nature will do it for us
Hello I am wondering can trump undo all enviromental improvment and deals the usa have done with leaveing the paris agreement etc?
working on a video for next week about exactly this topic
By 6.38 you finally ventured an opinion about how hurricanes were energised. But you still got it wrong. The reduced marine stratocumulus cloud mass over the north equitorial Atlantic has ensured higher Sea Surface Temperatures in the area where these events germinate. It can be firther shown that the warming is exclusive to this area and not dependent upon importing warmth from ealse where. So, you have to look to why has the AEW system crashed to such an extent.
ALSO please explain how industrial emissions in the northern hemisphere is heating the equitorial oceans........
So give us YOUR "expert opinion" of the cause?
@@rogerstarkey5390 Check out Viste and Sorteberg 2013 where they catelogue Moisture Import ot the Ethiopian Highalnds. There is one major factor missing, the 4,000 m3/s atmospheric river which formed between July to October for millions of years. This being the 10 to 15mm/m2/day evapotransportation from the lower Nile flood plains. Yet since 1902 humans had inadvertently interfered with this major moisture flux in an arid desert by regulaitng the flood through dam construction and it's subsequent enlargements at Aswan. The +- 4,000 ton per secong every few days pulled onto the Ethiopian Highlands would incept the easterly monsoon to create a 'Keremt' storm there, which carried west by the tradewinds became organised into African Easterly Waves which travelled westwards for 5 days bring rain and cloud cover to the Sub Saharan continent. Form the west African coast these AEWs created USA sized marine stratocumulus cloud scapes which reflected incoming solar heat back out to space. This same region subject to this specific AEW cloud cover is also the specific area from which Atlantic hurricanes germinate. Thus the sea surface temperature, which energises these events, is dictated ultimatly by the meteorological chain reaction which starts over the Ethiopian Highlands. The same naturally occuring events, which unwittingly we altered........ unless you ar eprepared toactully breakdown the relevant rainfall, riverflow and SST data please do not preten that in the last few minutes you have attained a vast knowledge of equitorial weather systems and particloe physics. This has already been peer reviewed and calssed as a masterpiece and absolute Nobel Prize winner, but for clowns and pretenders like the authour of this video pushing other peoples theiries and sound butes as proven facts .
@@rogerstarkey5390 Four points.
Point 1: My origninal response in no longer here.
Point 2: It is not an opinion, it is what we used to call scientifically proven and peer reviewed research.
point 3: Humans reduced then removed one of the atmospheric rivers which every few days between july and October of millions of years created the Keremt atmospheric disturbences within the easterly monsoon to create an AEW. The AEW events travelled west fo 5 days before creating USA sized marine stratocumuluc cloud scapes which reflected incoming solar heat out to space. Humans reducing then removing the original evapotransportation vector reduced the frequency of this whole system, ensuring greater equitorial Atlantic insolation, inturn increasing SSTs in the location from which hurricanes germinate.
Point 4: See point 2
Thanks for your TH-cam channel, one thing ive seen climate scientist. Hold back on saying in many of the books I've read and noaa is we know its fossil fuels because you have the carbon isotopes of carbon from fossil fuels tested in the greenhouse, i mean thats pretty much undeniable evidence.
I'm not watching this in the future, I'm watching it now.
that's strange because your comment says "1 minute ago" when I read it, so it seems like you're watching it in the past..!??!
@@ClimateAdam Well, I was... PS Are you optimistic or pessimistic about climate change amelioration? My guess is that you'll say it's not as simple as that PPS Which part of Oxford were you at? I'm just off Iffley Rd.
Its over, all but the dying...
Florida finally has hills! Sadly it's giant hills of garbage
Then there’s the folks blaming nefarious weather control technology for every damaging storm… 🙄
Hurricanes are a hoax.
For da algorithm
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Algorithm boosting comment.
Appreciative response.
The cause of these mega cyclonic climate events( and wild fires) and that is having a climate destabilising quantity of atmospheric CO2!. The climate stabalised at approx 270ppm, now we have deforested 1/3 of the Earth transferring that Carbon to the atmosphere.Raising atmospheric CO2 to the current 427ppm. Also lost that massive Carbon Sink, the last time the Earth had the current 427ppm the Seas were approx 80 feet higher so we are only at the beginning of what 427ppm will do. Plus there is an approx 20 year time lag between increased atmospheric CO2 and it’s impacts on the climate, so the apocalyptic climate events we are now getting are from atmospheric CO2 levels of approx 20 years ago!. ‘’At the end of the day the only number that matters is 404’’ ( David Attenborough ) although his figure was/is out of date his point is spot on!. ✊🏽🌎✊🏽🌻
Re the title, I don't know.
But climate change denial is certainly fuelling MAGA storms.
Hi Climate Adam, the caption on this video asks if mega storms are fuelled by climate change, the short answer is of course it is!. This however does not help us much, climate always changes, the fact that it has been relatively stable for the last few hundred years ignores the reality in which the climate of the planet has been going between radically different extremes, periodic ice ages involve considerable variation in average temperatures and sea levels.
At this time in history we appear to be nearing the end of a glacial period which once all permanent ice is gone becomes an interglacial period where average temperatures can be expected to increase by about ten degrees and sea levels to rise by several metres. This happens regardless of what we try to do although the current rate of change seems to be accelerated by what we have been doing with fossil fuels it is only a minor contributor.
When it comes to the damage that is 'caused' by these storms all of it is the consequence of human activity!, none of the structures that get damaged exist in nature, the land that gets flooded in storm surges is still there after the water drains away, neither the climate nor nature demands that so many people must be there at the time!.
The choice of descriptor for these storms has nothing to do with their inherent nature but only how they impact on human affairs, good/bad, mild or severe are entirely subjective judgements.
Cheers, Richard.
Maybe you can go take a real geology class. Also take a real physics class.
If I can control hurricane, I'll send one to Trump mar-a-lago lol
There's potentially an even WORSE scenario (which miight make a great "what if" video?)
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"What if" the abnormally high temperatures in certain areas cause a block in the AMOC? (Atlantic meridional overturning current)
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THAT could cause a sudden *and widespread* "flip" which would literally devastate not just communities, but Continents.
Imagine a sudden flip to a temperature 15°C below "normal"?
"GREAT!" the "deniers" say.....
But "15°C" reduction means failed crops, or at very best, a complete shift in WHERE they grow.
Youre talking famine and geopolitical upheaval, with many "Rich" countries suddenly unable to support the population.
If you are "concerned" about "immigration" TO your country, wait until the home country of those immigrants is suddenly temperate, producing excess food, meaning YOU want to migrate THERE.....
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The same applies to the fishing industry.... etc.
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And then i looked at your video history.... And its there
The sun bruh, do your homework, please do, you'll be able to share some big facts
Literally read thousands of academic papers and met hundreds of climate scientists over the years, and seen concrete evidence that the sun can't explain these changes. So I think my homework is going OK.
But it's being impossible because according to Marjorie Taylors Greene is something about spacelasers and democratic party of the USA somehow controlling hurricanes?
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Watched for some minutes and so far he has not said anything.
Did you have the volume up?
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 😂 I was hoping your comment wasn’t that, I wanted to write the same thing.
@SamWilkinsonn Was gonna ask if he actually listened.
Do you really need to ask? Proof is in the pudding ...it IS quite obvious
Earths pole flip .lol ..going to get a lot worse ....
Is the Pope catholic?
Most of the long lasting hurricane damage is from flooding, which is increasingly supercharged by the extra moisture held in today's warmer air temperatures.
Check out HadSLP2 dataset. It will show that global air pressure has been dropping for decades. Don't mistake popular fiction for facts.
@@conormcmenemie5126 Uhh, I'm pretty sure Mike was talking about how warm the air is: Air that is 1 degree C warmer can hold 7% more moisture, so man-made global warming is making droughts worse in some places and floods more intense in others.
It would be worth the effort to post if 'Climate Adam' would _stop erasing the posts_ in this useless echo chamber.
This is the THIRD post of yours that I've had the dubious "pleasure" to encounter, so your assumption seems incorrect?
I find your videos a complete waste of time along with your syntax, it's like you like to listen to yourself while you push the idea of global warming backwards.
Roger Hallam is in jail for a public nuisance and your videos are just obfuscation for any direct action people can take today. You don't look as though you live without oil but at least it doesn't look as though you are on drugs anymore. You are being a climate denier because you aren't real or calling for any real action people can take today.
Soften the blow?
I think all the actors in this video considering the platform they have should be ashamed of themselves for not really believing that we have to reduce emissions starting today by 50% in the next 5 years, videos like these are adding to the noise.
If you really believed everything we have known is gone in 10 or 20 years how are these videos helping, they are too high brow for personal action and because of that zero change is being asked here what progress do you think they make?
I don't know,& quite frankly I don't give a stuff.
Weird that you clicked on this video then 🤷
@@ClimateAdam because it came into my feed & out of curiosity I had a look @ it.
Something wrong with that then?
No comment.