Will New York Be Underwater by 2050?
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This wouldn’t happen if it was still called new Amsterdam
Why did they change it?
@@StephenHarperRaptagon I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
Victors usually are tasked with the job of writing history. “Until lions 🦁 learn to read and write, all fables will glorify the hunter.”
@@StephenHarperRaptagon It was called "New Amsterdam" when the Dutch controlled it. After the British took over, they renamed the city "New York."
@@KelemKelem That's actually not entirely accurate all the time (though I suppose its close enough in this context) I would recommend Ptotential History's video on "History is written by the victors". Also consider this examples of history being written by the victim: the Lost Cause of the South idea which remained dominant for almost a century after the US Civil War and is still somewhat prominent. I can think of others (some even more interesting) but this comment is getting too long.
New Amsterdam -> New York -> New Venice -> New Atlantis
Underrated
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I wanna like this but you already have 69 likes :/
@@lodbldbol best to leave it
@@lodbldbol not any more, you can now
The Netherlands called, they wanted their New Amsterdam back.
Sorry, they traded it for a supply of nutmeg.
They would love it on paper, but the people are some of the worst to have to deal with if you arent one of them.
*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
*The Netherlands wants to know your location*
The Netherlands called, they wanted their New Amsterdam back.
South East Florida
Why would The Netherlands wanna know? What am I missin'?
@@yengsabio5315 because water management like it is talked about in this video is our expertise. Halve our country exist do to and is dependent on good water defence system.
We have been managing water safety collectively even back in the early middle ages.
so if there are floods anywhere on the world people tend to call the Dutch because of it.
Yeng Sabio New York used to be a Dutch colony
Better solution: We give the city back to the netherlands, call it "New Amsterdam" again and let them figure it out. They know what they're doing.
Bonus: the east coast finally get their legal weed game going
Lol. That would certainly be an interesting turn of events...
Expect to see flood defenses and tons of resources poured into dedicated cycling lanes. ;p
The rest of New York agrees, trust me.
@@connorutegg2486
I just want a circumcision ban and foreskin regeneration for the victims.
Tyler Hendrix You really should read into the Netherlands. The fight with water of the netherlands is constant. But no one knows that because it’s made that it won’t fail. There are no flooding because they watch everything 24/7. Fun fact most of the netherlands is below sea level.
So what you're saying is we just need to make rational, smart political compromises?
We're all going to die.
Oh we're doomed for sure.
lol pretty much
the time for compromise is past, honestly, nothing aside from major, sweeping economic reforms had any hope of stopping us before the tipping point
so yeah, we're doomed
Yep. This has been a long time in the making, and we've done very little to stop it. We deserve what's coming.
Personally, I'm hoping Corona wipes out a billion or so people and brings the world's economy to a standstill. That should help.
@@normang3668 we? who's we? the people who did this aren't gonna be affected by the flooding cities and islands, by the desertification of the Sahel and other regions, or by the riding prices of food and water
so who's we? who deserves this? it's not the people affected by it, I assure you
My prediction for the future: "while these barriers were effective for their designed use, they were never intended as a permanent walls. They were destined to fail from the start."
Nothing lasts forever, you should not be very of what will be, your decendants will build new walls if the ones they inherited form us no longer work for their enviroment.
Nah. Anyone that believes NY will end up underwater doesn't realize how easy it would be to build a seawall. And they have a hundred years to do it.
@@vincentconti3633 It only has to break once. Americans think they can solve everything with a wall.
@@ElectronicCalifornia Oh, you're right. Let's do nothing.
The most sustainable option is to slowly retreat the city inland as the water rises. We need to flow with nature instead of fighting against it, wasting time and effort building and maintaining sea walls.
We Dutch got 99 problems, but water ain't one. Maybe because we build our stuff to withstand a once-in-ten-thousand-years flood.
David Schaftenaar well if another flood occurs like the one that happened 12,800 years ago or the one that happened 11,600 years ago then you’re fucked
Yeh...but you got other more serious problems...your welfare system is bankrupting your country .
@@markanthony3275 Yeah, no. It's fine, has been for decades. No need to adjust any debt ceilings over here. No government shutdowns or anything of the sort.
@@davidschaftenaar6530 What about the protests over the gov't talk of reducing old age pensions a little while ago ? I know about this because I have friends in Europe...they tell me everything. That's how I know that a while ago, the entire cabinet of the Finnish gov't resigned because they knew that Finland's welfare system was bankrupting the country, and they couldn't agree where to start the cuts , so they all resigned. Now they elected a young woman as leader...and she's accelerating the looming bankruptcy by doling out even more generous welfare provisions.
@@markanthony3275 I don't live in Finnland bro.
Brian as an engineering student I've watched your videos for research for various different reports I've had to do at university, think all your videos are great quality and really enjoy watching them. I've seen your tweets about your videos getting screwed by the algorithm, just wanted to say I appreciate what you do and hope you keep doing what you do!
Could you please start using the metric system! 😅
Imperial is fine
@@finanboneham-hill2374 Imperial is a completely fine as a system of measurement but it is only used by a fraction of people on Earth. Metric is also more modern and easier to use.
@@ize7821 sometimes easier things can be too lazy...
@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN depends on what you are talking about. In this case, it's more efficient to use the metric system. Just because you are using the metric system doesn't mean you are lazy.
@@nestyie3835 true
Thank you for finally acknowledging nuclear power as one of our zero carbon energy sources. Would love to see you break down Fluid Fueled Reactors. Both the Fast neutron U238/Pu239 breeder and the Thermal neutron Th232/U233 breeder. Being fluid fueled they do not make long lasting unburned fuel waste. Only small amounts fission products that decay much much much rapidly and then are non-radioactive.
Nuclear isnt the only option, Salt and or Deuterium (in large amounts) will be useful. Thorium is a lil' bit away. With very little waste. I wish hed dig into this subjects and get his opinion on them.
Then why is China going unpunished?
The problem is we don’t know how to dispose of nuclear and the severity of accidents. It’s a possible option but needs so much more research done.
Hydro, hemp, win, & solar. The biggest issue with solar was how to dispose of the panels but France is building the first recycling center for them. They just haven’t been needed yet Bc there wasn’t enough panels that were trashed.
New York: Hellow
Netherlands: May I help you, sir
New York:
I see New Amsterdam has come crawling back asking for our help again...
What HAVE the British done to you, hmmh? XD
xDDD
We would love to help New York here in the Netherlands but the US does not allow us. it was similar back with the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina. We even offered it to them but the US didn't allow it. on fear of competition in there internal marked on dredging and water management.
ton be fair it would be no competition we are the best in this kind of work. (we have to in order to keep alive)
@@sirBrouwer lmaoo whatever makes you feel better
Climate change reaction: 2000 to 2050: nothing nothing worry nothing nothing PANIC.
So-called "climate change" has been so thoroughly debunked that the only adherents to the alarmism of the crackpot theory are radical femiNazi extremists who want a communist demagogue as a world leader.
@@thBrilliantFool i am embarrassed for you
@@thBrilliantFool wut. I'd like to see *one* reasonable paper debunking it.
@@thBrilliantFool I hope your trolling.
For your sake
@@thBrilliantFool I can't tell for sure if you are an idiot who doesn't get out or read or you are a troll.
Brooklyn resident here, I watched Manhattan loose power from the safety of my home. Brooklyn Bridge Park worked beautifully!❤
"Humans have been measuring sea level for a long time. It's a simple task of placing a ruler by the water." 😂😆
We have an Orange RULER by the water.
Getting him AWAY from water, and into prison,.. will help this problem Tremendously 😂
@@My-Pal-Hal Deporter in Chief first. Every president since the gilded years of the late 1800s would be in jail.
@@Triplehdd
Yeah. aa ... what Ever that means 🤔
@@My-Pal-Hal every president has committed something deemed a crimed worth jailing for. Orange man is no different than those before him. Is what that meant. If you're referring to my "deporter in Chief" reference that's pertaining to Obama.
@@Triplehdd
Yeah... You got it.
Now. All you need is a Chinese Phone,..
To speak Correct English above a 2nd grade level for you.
...fn trolls 🤤...
People who lives in mountains:
*HIGH GROUND INTENSIFY*
Climate Change: *YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!*
DON'T TRY IT
Mountain explode's
@@tukangpempek5390 hahaha could not stop laughing imagening moutain getting exploded
*earthquake noises*
I live near the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, we had a lot of flooding when Sandy hit. It's been interesting to see how different solutions have shaped the neighborhoods in the peninsula, and we have a strong appreciation for the damage these storms can cause. A lot of the neighborhood burnt down, and nearly every house was flooded. We had about 3 feet of flood damage, and the house was unusable for about a year during repairs. My aunt's house was hit especially hard, all of her art was ruined along with years of photos and important family items. It's a shame what these storms do, and any cost is worth it to same people's possessions and lives.
3:10, the main problem is that even if most people accept the data, there many who think that it's not affected by humans and whatever we try to do wont affect it. There's also other's who agree with the data and understand we have an affect but choose to inaction. Even then if people as are willing to improve, they're stopped by the situation they're in, wether it be the government, their job situation, or even the very infrastructure their country is running on etc. Really difficult problem to solve because of the human element.
People who are "choosing inaction" may be balking at the enormous price tags.
@@stephenpowstinger733 Not having the ability to, are the people who fall in the 3rd category, people who cannot act because of the situation they're in, not being able to afford a clean and green lifestyle is a problem of the situation they're in. Hence they're entirely unable to choose that option.
Kabir Basu 👏 👏
If climate change is real, then explain the ice in my freezer
Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
I see you’re running for Congress.
lohphat yes, vote for me to own the libs with facts and logic
Climate change IS real. Try adjusting your thermostat.
@@stephenpowstinger733 it's a joke
Lol
Build a drainage system to embarrass the one in Tokyo, or become food for fish. Your choice, New York
Even a drainage system will not be enough to save people. Failing crops, dying oceans, the list of problems is extensive.
We wish that only the rise of sealevels is a problem.
@@Fastbikkel at least the biggest polluters like new York city are the ones in most danger. There's some impetus.
@@Fastbikkel That isn’t an accurate representation of the climate science; the things you described are attributed to low confidence, whereas milder changes as reported with higher confidence
Even in the video right here, it proposes solutions to break up storms using barriers, which have invariably grown more effective than in comparison to before. This only creates demand for newer forms of engineering and markets for such solutions.
For crops, the locations at which optimal conditions for crops exists will change, and people will adapt accordingly as they have numerous times before. Potatoes weren’t grown in India more than 700 years ago, they were introduced and people gradually concentrated the production in climates best suited for it. Nowadays, you can simulate conditions to grow crops anywhere. The world has literally never been a better place in any phase of human history than the present when considering the livability for people.
The “dying Oceans” aren’t dying. Specific locations of the oceans are prone to acidification, and oceans, as bodies of water, follow currents that are predictable. Solutions to dilute the acidification are under development.
Climate change is not the end of the world, and the solution to climate change is the intellectual prowess of engineers. It is no where near the emergency it is made out to be
@@ahampurushahasmi6040 "It is no where near the emergency it is made out to be"
I hope so, but we have no chance to fix it if your claim is wrong.
Why put all our eggs in one basket? It makes no sense to me.
@@Fastbikkel Well we aren’t putting our eggs in one basket; there is a multifaceted approach towards fixing the border issue of climate change, right?
I mean, climate issues are something that are a result of the negative output of multiple different industries. There are different incentives for companies in different markets to aid in climate issues. For example, the aviation industry does not necessarily care for the climate, but wants to reduce production costs, and fuel efficiency incentive that coincides with reducing emissions. It’s why the 787 was so successful, and still remains the most fuel efficient plane, as well as one of the most preferred plane in the market as of now. Similarly, other industries are now looking at what profitability exists in this new outlook to protect the environment.
It’s a slow change as of now, but in the larger scale, the sheer developments in renewable energy and the rise in demand for electric products within just 10 years should give us hope.
NYC: "We have a plan!" Reality: "Do you have the money?" NYC: "Errrrrr...no....But we got a plan!"
Mark H. Agreed now let’s make NYC like Atlantis and sink it
Nikkity If it sinks just be prepared for a significant tax hike. NY is one of the few states that gives the federal government more money than it takes.
We do have the money. We just give it away to people who shouldn’t be getting it t
Reality: What have you been doing with that $1,400,000,000 GDP?
NYC: making everyone else poor
Ehh, of course the money is there. It's just that we rather spend it on eating out and shopping for worthless things.
poor guy, when he starts talking about climate change, he just sounds so sick of having to deal with all the denialists every single time
edit: changed 'deniers' to 'denialists'
Probably not as tired as people are of having every prediction being exaggerated. If we're going to convince people that climate change is real we have to at least get the numbers close to right.
yeah .. sometimes I wish you could just put all those people on another earth and look how long they will survive
Fx arts ah yes kill or get rid of all people who disagree with your opinion what a perfect world
@@fxarts9755 They would probably be fine. Science is not about fearmongering and having a superiority complex... labeling people "deniers". That's what cults do. If you want to reach people provide evidence supporting your theory and let people learn for themselves. When you talk down to people they are more likely to not accept new information.
Fionn Moules never said kill just look how they will deal with the problems they created
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Being dyslexic is great. I meant to write "first"
@@RealEngineering but I like your videos ^_^
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@@RealEngineering still amazing, good job working past things that hinder you and helping so much of us with educational videos.
fadeAway jokes are created from chaos
An excellent suggestion!
Oh wait we are supposed to prevent that
edit: The title used to be something like "will NY be underwater?".
Probably required to understand the joke. Its supposed to play on the misinterpretation that we put NY underwater by 2050.
at this point the changes required to prevent that damned 2°C tipping point would be absurd, and capitalism doesn't seem to really want to stop it
@@demonbot6617 Why would it want to stop? The people making all the money are gonna be dead before it impacts them severely.
@@IrishAnonymous01 that's what I'm saying, we need to get them out of power and get their money off of our "democracies" right now
@@demonbot6617 Or we could just riot and overtake their companies by force
@@IrishAnonymous01 same result
Engineers are always eager to spend money building stuff, because that's what they're trained to do. But they need to realize that every major project is a complicated mess of economics and politics.
Water also expands when it freezes. Just for clarity's sake. This is why ice floats. As the hydrogen bonds gain space between them as the crystallization process advances, the same mass of water gains volume and decreases its density.
Sea level rises not only due to heat expansion, but also due to less mass and gravity pulling water toward north and south pole
If New York will be underwater, imagine all the other places that will also be flooded like Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and several of the eastern seaboard states. Ocean water doesn't just rise in one place.
if the Atlantic warms up enough, monsoons might start in the Sahara
The wind doesn't blow from the Atlantic to Africa.
@@erasmusguy8289 Sahara was almost green millennia ago. With temp wind patterns change
@@Super-verse the Sahara hasn't been green for 10000 years
It already snowed there recently
@@jbw6823 it rains there as well.
4:50 As someone who lives in Rockaway that would be terrible. The only thing that makes Rockaway interesting is the beach and losing that would be detrimental to the local economy. And we got wrecked by Sandy, many houses and half my block burned down too. One of the restaurants that burned down is just opening last month. Sorry about my little rant.
That's why I think the new solution is so great. This way the local areas retain their character, while still being protected against storm surges. I just hope that they're effective enough for the job
I didn't know you're a Galway man! Class. Thankfully it seems to not have gotten battered quite as badly recently, it seemed a few years back there were going to be 4 or 5 major floods every year.
Housemates car was parked down by salt hill the other day, got flooded and written off. He should do a video like this for the city council, could help with the flooding we're guaranteed every winter.
@@mattwinfield2843 Parking down Salthill for any extended period is a rookie mistake to be fair. Also I don't think ideas are the problem for Galway, they just don't have money to throw at the problem
that sounds really to bad. here in the Netherlands we have had the same storms coming over but it did way less damage.
But then we really trow millions of euros on water safety for just he regular maintenance. But then we just can't afford not to. our incentive is much higher. Pay or drown is our option.
Water expands when it gets warmer. You are the first guy that I heard that from. Everyone else just talked about melting icebergs.
@@oldmanx1234
Yes.
Satellite imaging that can show waters Movement, Depth, Temperature, Storms and erosion created by same.
Only a Jerk would think that's of lesser importance somehow.
Why spend money on your own infrastructure, when you could send it to Israel?
- Murica
Anti-Israel gang
#OpenBordersForIsrael
Oy vey
Just build a beach out further from the walls and current beaches. It will trick the waves into thinking they’re coming inland.
I was under the impression that sea level rise due to heat was a function of ice melting at the poles rather than the thermal expansion of water.
Both are significant contributors.
Some places the land sinks, some places the land rises, it's been doing this forever. When they take the ocean measurements, i assume this is taken into consideration?
Speaking as someone who works in lower Manhattan I would like to point out that although you did mention the environmental impacts of blocking off the ocean from the estuary they were put well behind the costs. For myself and the most vocal of those opposed to that plan, the environmental costs of it far outweigh the financial costs. W have spent the last five decades recovering the severely damaged ecosystem of the entire Hudson River Valley and we are not going to throw that away unless no other option is available.
The purpose of our plans here in New York City is not to avoid flooding completely, but to make sure the flooding isn’t so horribly destructive. It’s not just a financial issue, it’s an environmental issue. Flooding is natural.
New York would have the money for projects like this if they actually taxed large corporations & the ultra-wealthy properly, instead of middle-class individuals.
Why would they do that when they've carefully prepared your mind to accept that man made climate change is real and to save yourself you need to agree that radical action must be taken...things like giving the state total control over your possessions, mind and body. Besides , the wealthy elite have a vested interest in pushing this nonsense...because they get to own you...so why would they give up anything?
In all these predictions, no-one has been able to tell us when the climate was not changing. In the last thousand years, nothing in geological terms, it has been both significantly warmer and cooler than now.
Never underestimate the high ground
Else you'll end up limbless and in a suit that causes you nothing but agonizing pain. Until your son comes and shows you the way, and you defeat the evil space wizard.
Imagine if only we took this stuff more serious 20 years earlier. Like the UK in the past 10 years when we kinddd of paying attention to it a little bit went from 3% of our electricity from renewables to 25% today, if we started 30 years ago instead of 10 years we'd be at pretty much fully renewables or nuclear. In turn we would have started switching people from gas for heating and cooking a long time ago. Maybe even electric cars would have come along and be viable much sooner because we'd have lots of left over clean energy to use. Hate that its the younger generations who have to sacrifice things to deal with many issues today, while at the same time get hated on for it.
Wishful thinking.
Inventions come about to save costs and make life easier. If you can invent an alternative you could make alot of money and help people. No use thinking about what could have been.
I know the views might be discouraging, but there are a lot of us who enjoy and appreciate your educational content. Thank you for what you do!
As someone from New Jersey I would like to hear a little bit of more about how NJ would be apart of New York’s plan(s). Great video nonetheless, keep up the good work
There are recent complaints on Staten Island that the local government (probably the state) is allowing development of lands that were sold to the government, after Superstorm Sandy, that were supposed to be allowed to revert to wild, or have dunes built on them to discourage future flooding. Instead the state is allowing it to be devloped with parking lots & strip malls.
How much has the subway sunk since it was built? The sea isn't the only thing moving. The ground moves all the time. Areas here in Florida have dropped something like 6 inches due to pumping fresh water out of the ground.
$25 billion to protect a city is "too much", $700 billion for military "defense" is NOT too much.
so people dont want to solve climate change,they want to protect themselves from the conciquences...
@Jonathan Cruz69 Proof?
The climate does change naturally, but the rate at which it's changing at now surpasses the normal changes.
climate.nasa.gov/
@Jonathan Cruz69 no we can,i know people who do things to save the planet,just because you are naive and stupid its your own lie
But the city in 5:37 isn’t New York, it’s somewhere in Russia))
P.s. love the channel, keep up the great work!
Love the confidence when discussing sea level rise. Exactly what we need
Another great documentary, thank you.
To my understanding, if all you do is raise the shorelines on an island, what you are essencially creating is... a pool.
It might stop water from invading from outside, but it also stops water from draining throught the same route, so if flooding comes from some other source, what you end up with is a ton of water that has nowhere to flow. So while I understand that many of those projects are needed, they have to go with something else for long term.
Manhattan in particular seems in dire need of some way to drain water, more than ways to stop it from entering, specially if we're talking long term. By 2050 I expect Manhattan to be facing something like a Venice situation... and Venice will either be radically transformed or underwater ruins.
Do a video on why california has shut down all their nuclear power plant and nuclear waste disposal
Don’t need a video for that, they are a bunch of idiots who react with fear because they don’t understand the real issues.
I assume its because of earthquake threat?
Probably because of earthquakes and what happened in Japan in 2011. Nuclear power over all is relatively safe now, countries like France generate the majority of their electricty through nuclear power.
They should try something like Louisiana did after Katrina If your wondering just look up The Great Wall of Louisiana
Interesting plan... it’s always better to work with nature than vs
1:36 not sure where you see a "clear increase in frequency" on your diagram. I see four events in 12 years 1950 - 1962 and five events in 21 years 1991 - 2012.
Cherry picking to support a forgone conclusion
You know how we kinda waited too long to react to COVID?
jim williamson it’s going to take two to four months before it’s normal again since treatment is about six months out and then production for next year. It’s likely nearly everyone is going to get it. Best to just get it over with and be immune till it mutates.
Humans are reactive rather than proactive.
@@uK8cvPAq damn straight
@@jbw6823 It's rather unfortunate, but even those who try to be proactive often find themselves falling under the reactive category in the end. It's just human nature and up until now a survival instinct which has served us well.
@@uK8cvPAqYep... read "thiinking fast and slow". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Perhaps you could make a video explaining the pressure / forces that water barrages / dams must endure, and how large they have to be to withstand them?
Why are some dams / barrages tens of metres thick when the relatively thin sides of a submarine can withstand pressure hundreds of metres deep?
Why can't we just make thin roll-up / collapsible barrages that are extended when a storm surge is forecast?
Because submarines are pressurized from the inside which keeps outward pressure matching or exceeding pressure on the outside of the walls.
@@JustinL614 If the air pressure inside matched the water pressure outside, the wall could be paper thin, and the inhabitants would suffer pressurisation sickness like divers.
www.quora.com/What-is-the-air-pressure-in-a-submarine?share=1
Love your stuff, but reliable sea-level measuring requires more than "a ruler by the water" There are tons of variables to consider, you don't want to give any leeway into dismembering your argument which is overall objectively true.
New york: it's over I have the high ground
Ocean: Are you sure about that?!
Huh... I was expecting Americans to go: _We're gonna BUILD A WALL and the hurricanes are gonna pay for it!1!_
Video posted about climate change. Takes full two minutes til someone criticizes Americans.
@@lovebaja Americans have earned it.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 you're only saying that because we're on top right now. Before us it was the British, the French, the Russians, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the Turks. Guess what? Most of us are proud of our accomplishments as a country. Of course, if you don't like it you could petition your government to refuse our protection.
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 "OUR accomplishments"? HAHAHA!! You cannot brag about OTHER PEOPLE'S accomplishments as if they were yours.
But don't worry. You may have the right to do it if you also take full responsibility of the countless fuck ups your nation has done over the decades.
Considering what a dirty corrupt system they have, I will not shed even a tear drop
I get so excited when I see a new video posted by you!
I'm afraid I am sceptical of the positive light put on the due restoration. Its better than beach replenishment, but the use of non-biodegradable bag materials means that with time and erosion, the bags break and can wind up contributing to pollution. They need to use biodegradable materials and even then, erosion happens in high energy systems.
Nuclear is way more efficient and even less footprint than renewables if you think how all your renewables are actually made. Renewables is not efficient at all and still not that eco friendly
But they're only not that eco friendly if you include the externality of outsourcing much of our manufacturing to China.
@@josefkooper8573 that's why Trump trying to bring it back.
@@josefkooper8573 Well producing batteries and other chemicals needed for example solar panels is still very bad. Nuclear only needs water and uranium and some electricity that it creates itself. So it's also self sustainable.
@@ultravioletxrays125 - [Citation Needed], especially when the US is a net exporter of energy thanks to fracking, which has reduced our CO2 output more than any other Paris Accord signee.
@@Extile00 - I was agreeing with you - I want to see more Gen3/4 reactors and research into even more advanced fission, fusion and thorium reactors - my point was to support your claim with economic data.
New York City has tall skyscraper to pervert itself from rising seas
@Real Engineering May I suggest making a video with solid facts about Global warming (now rebranded as climate change) solution strategies? Because so far all the people talking about how "we should do more" never bother giving solid numbers or specifics about proposed solutions and the results of said solutions. For instance:
- How reducing specific substances in the atmosphere will affect the planet with verifiable data.
- How much time it will require to take effect. (We need solid numbers on emissions vs effect on temperature so we can track progress and effectiveness of the measures taken.)
- Explanation on the effect having negative CO2 emissions would have on the planet.
- Also, please explain in your video why CO2 concentration doesn't affect temperature as much as "experts" said it would for decades. If predictions from the past 30 years were to be believed with how much CO2 concentration has increased the temperature should be much, much higher.
- Heck we should literally be in Water World by now according to the "experts" (I mean, just look at your thumbnail.) Yet when none of that happened instead of addressing the issues the "experts" just rebranded it as "Climate change" to make it more ambiguous. Please explain why.
Now, I'm not saying cities like NY don't require preventive measures to minimize damage due to natural disasters, because they obviously do. However trying to link one thing to the other without providing solid answers makes it look very dishonest to me.
Anyone who puts climate change and experts in quotes can safely be ignored.
@@matchrocket1702 That's a great argument right there. How many people have you convinced that way?
@@RaydeusMX I don't have to convince anybody. Anyone with half a brain knows, climate change is real, we are the primary contributors and a proactive approach is needed immediately if we are to have any hope to mitigate the worst effects of it.
@@matchrocket1702 Everyone repeats the same thing, but when asking for specifics it's all listen and believe.
@@RaydeusMX Believe anything you want. But be careful looking into climate change, you may be crushed by the overwhelming evidence for it.
I stopped worrying about sea levels rising when Al Gore bought a house on the coast, if the world's greatest authority on all things climate change isn't concerned about his home being consumed by the ocean then I see no reason why us plebs should lose sleep over it.
WHY do we have to wait till 2050? Isn't there ANYTHING we can do to speed things up?
Well we can drop nukes on the poles to melt the ice faster
@baby bean _ Hey...GREAT idea!
Can we get a video about Miami's water defence strategy? This topic is very very interesting.
Can you show the amount of storms every year and how much it has increased?
The number of storms has remained somewhat steady, IIRC. The issue is that each storm that forms is more powerful, and so the storms do more damage.
@@cgunugc True, there are gaps of decades on that graph he presented. I believe an average of that graph with the decades he excluded would reveal a more accurate trend.
@@davidcerullo7976 the graph shows only extreme events and only in NYC, the trend is up
@@demonbot6617 That's the point! Decades of trends have been omitted from that graph. They should show the graph though out those omitted decades. That that graph could be an anomaly.
@@davidcerullo7976 it's always something with this topic and the statistics. Omissions coupled with definitive statements have contributed to the distrust that skeptics have.
Of course the word skeptic has become a dirty word because it gives with the confirmation bias of many. Specifically those who are equally willing to be very selective of datasets to ensure their point is correct. Ugh....I want some genuine middle ground and for skeptics to be open minded as well as those who are "it's settled -- shut up and take my money."
Politicians with an excuse to spend a lot of money are a menace to society. A legislative bill with a name usually has all kinds of pork provisions that have little or nothing to do with the name of the vill itself.
Where do we go from here...?
This video didn't show in my subscriptions. None of your new ones have. TH-cam is a jerk
So...some people have objections to it, and "it's easy to write them off as just climate change deniers."
...meanwhile not even mentioning any objections in passing.d
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I agree. It's not good to label people deniers. That is not part of the scientific method.
It's settled science. Now go write your lawmakers and tell them "shut up and take my money." /s
I'm all for rising go deal with an engineering problem due to rising sea levels. I'm not crazy about using a storm from seven years ago to lazily support the premise.
Bottom line, my city should have consulted engineers years ago on how to harden vulnerable areas.
All of Lowe Manhattan a precariously placed near the water. After 9/11 the slurry wall nearly broke and woulde flooded shit but luckily, it was well-engineered.
Now who lives and runs businesses in Lowe Manhattan? Yes, those who can afford to foot the bill for protecting their area. However I'm not against local and federal government funding projects for the greater good but I could do without the suspicious stasticial ranges to make the data more convincing.
Just say, "flood happens 7 years ago and similar will happen again sooner than later." If it's cheaper to protect than to rebuild it's an easy decision.
If not, well the can gets kicked down the road. Either way, sowing further distrust isn't gonna win skeptics over. Yes, some will call it bs no matter how proven but when the evidence is derived from cherry-picked data, it's not helpful.
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@@TheCompleteGuitarist
Well. It IS SETTLED SCIENCE.
Unless things are different,.. On Your FLAT EARTH 😂
www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
"The intensity, frequency, and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the strongest hurricanes, have all increased since the early 1980s. Hurricane intensity and rainfall are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/changes-hurricanes
Not sure why people would be in denial about sea level rise, especially since during the ice age the sea level was much lower, archeologists have been finding the remains of buildings and other artifacts from the ice age under the ocean near coast lines.
The entire east coast has been experiencing subsidence since the end of the last ice age.
Here's a good article that explains the subsidence in some detail. Note; it's not an either/or situation - the long term subsidence is on top of observed and projected sea level rise.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/study-of-sea-level-rise-finds-land-sinking-along-east-coast/
Last ice age?
We are still in ice age.
When all the ice melts that's when the ice age is over.
yup its sinking land there is no overall global sea level rise anywhere coz it has to be every where and at the same rate, its only land movement, shit some place sea level is going down or is neutral...
@@bencoad8492 as some places sink others rise. It's legitimate to talk about the effects of future sea level rise due to climate change, but to state current flooding issues have anything to do with climate change is ingenuous.
@@bencoad8492 'it has to be every where and at the same rate' - it's actually a bit more complex than what you might expect. For example, sea level changes at different rates around the globe. For instance, the absolute water level height is higher along the West Coast of the United States than the East Coast.
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/globalsl.html
Likewise sea level rise is a bit more complex than 'everywhere and at the same rate'.
Of course, we could just build a massive wall off the coast to block or at least greatly reduce water surges. If you are concerned about the ruining of water flow, just make it a deployable or flip-like system.
RealEngineering: uses foot instead of meter... my dissapointment is immeasurable. Atleast display both please.
It's a video about New York...he has to :P
It's reasonable to use the Imperial system when talking about an American city, but it would be good to display the conversion. Maybe also display the metric conversion when he's talking about anywhere else in the world
The riddler sees this as an opportunity. Hope Batman is up to the challenge.
The term "Climate Science Denier" has more of a punch to it if you ask me.
But is that "punch" worth it if it's not true?
The funny part is that the people using terms like "Climate Science Denier" to label other people, are the very people who are denying actual science. You probably think Vaccines are evil too, don't you?
@@HelpFromAbove1 Well, just like your ideas about anthropogenic climate change, your accusation of me being an anti-vaxxer is completely false. Vaccines are the reason why viral diseases like polio and smallpox have just about disappeared after the adoption of vaccines. Your display of prejudice is quite telling.
Could you do a video demonstrating what earthquake resistance means in buildings? Explaining things like pendulums, flex foundations, etc?
You should do a April Fools episode about "Reel Engine Earring" where you talk about a newly invented motorized fishing reel's quest to pierce every single human ear on earth.
So don't Put Tiny Houses on Trailers, build it on Pontons.
And a few good anchors with Long chains.
New York state / New York City is the financial capital of The U.S.A.
I'm sure they can afford any engineering solution to their coastal problems.
It may not be so simple. We could get sea-level rise of over 5 meters, the way we're going. NYC is a rich city, but if sea-levels rise enough, it may not be enough.
@@charliedoyle7824 5 Meters! LOL!
Who is telling you this scare mongering bull? Don't believe everything you are told.
@@thedave7760 It's very possible over 100 years or more; not in the near-term. You should check the science of the last inter-glacial, where the sea-levels rose that much on less than 400 ppm. We're very likely to go up to 600 ppm by the end of the century, which exceeds the highest co2 level of the last 3 million years, the entire ice age. Sea levels have gone up over 10 meters many times naturally with much less co2 in the air.
Don't forget, the fed somehow found 1.5 trillion for the stock market to burn through in a half hour. So yes, the money to save NY could be found.
@@Oddman1980 what
I don't think you understand how sea-level rise works, mate. The sea-level rise doesn't happen because of thermal expansion of the ocean, that is a minor contribution. The real reason sea-level rises, is because glaciers are melting! All glaciers on land are made of fresh water. If all Greenland and Antarctica glaciers melt, the water will rise about 70 meters (230 feet). Even these surge walls will be completely useless to that kind of water-level rise. But fortunately, this will happen slowly and the surge walls and barriers will buy some precious time.
thermal expansion is a contribution even for very small temperature rises, though. not huge but it is significant
Imagine using 20 billion to protect you from climate change instead of using 20 billion to reduce it
Team trees 20 billion trees instead of 20 million lol
CeeTox because 20 billion will do literally nothing. Climate change is pretty much set in stone. Even if all countries and all people stopped producing greenhouse gases, the world would still continue to warm. The world is so massive that using 20 billion to try and fix climate change is like trying to fix a car air conditioning with 20 cents. Not gonna do anything.
That's how the stupid thinks:
Why go daily to the gym now when you can pay for a lipo later?
Why take care of your health now when you can pay for expensive meds later?
Why save money now when you can leech off welfare later?
*Steel Beam* except it’s basically impossible to counteract climate change. Let’s be real here. The earth would continue to warm even without humans. You’d need an insane amount of money, time, and research to do anything. 20 billion is much better spent on precautions rather than “fixing” climate change. Refer to a chart of climate change over the last few million years. The earth gets hot, then freezes, then gets hot, then freezes. It’s arrogant of us to think we can control that.
@@DonVigaDeFierro yes, we should have petitioned our policy makers a long time ago when we and our fore bearers were complacent in civilization as they knew it.
Some of the loudest politicians have given this topic a bad name and others gave up on finding common ground and empathy for their intellectual opponents. I kinda get it.... because I feel a strong sense of intolerance when I speak to somebody who denies what we know about our local celestial objects, space and astrophysics in general. I hate when I have to stop mid topic just to verbally walk someone though the foundational knowledge which supports what they call bs. Still, I fight and I try and I've converted two people away from believing in a flat Earth. Likely could not have been done without courtesy and humility on my end.
Many years ago things wouldn't be as that are now if we embraced decentralized power generating capabilities. I like windmills but precious little has been done to develop small-scale versions. Not enough batteries can be built but surely we could collect rain water and pump it from lower tank to a higher with renewables... then turbines and gravity at would allow that stored potential energy to be used at night.
So many clever ideas never saw the same widespread adoption as the larger scale methods. I really wish we could generate more energy than we do now through multiple alternatives to the current methodology.
As it turns out, money is made into profit by charging us a little something for every mile that electricity is transmitted across. This reduces the incentive for reducing the centealizafion. Also, the markets would have a shit-fit if energy prices dropped. It sucks being boxed-in from all these angles.
@@cane870 true but we make this process faster alot faster
The same type of climate alarmists said back in the 70s that New York would be 10’ underwater by the year 2000. Then in the 80s, another similar, and completely wrong prediction. But there have always been people saying the sky is falling, just like the earths climate has ALWAYS changed. In the Middle Ages, the global temperature temporarily increased which dramatically helped farming, and prevented many famines.
A refreshing video, with all the corona news spaming my feed
3mm per year is the current rate of sea level rise.
Can you please show me the evidence. Not a "scientist" saying that, but the real, hard evidence? I'd like to see it.
@@lovebaja here's a study: www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-level
Yes, the great Netherlands!
All the best from the Netherlands! We accepteren je compliment met groot genoegen!
Mika de Grote lol
God, I remember watching from down here on the Gulf and hearing Sandy had turned. All of us just thought, “Oh, shit, they’re not ready. They have no idea.”
Well, it's already under-serviced, so why not?
Why are people always trying to build such costly endeavors to save New York City when you could easily block off the entire Bay Area and California Central Valley with a single dam at the Golden Gate Bridge?
there's no way this one gets demonetized, right?
Not our concern
You underestimate how utterly braindead TH-cam and its management is
This video isn't brought to you by Brilliant, it's brought to you by global warming.
if new york was made in the 1600's why the heck is it not called old york
Maybe for the same reason we call them "buffalos" rather than bisons.
Because old york would be referring to a town in England, UK
Because regular york is older
Because York is old York.
best thing to do is build tall buildings and have the lower floors for car parking or gardens.
Conservatives: Preventing Climate Change is too expensive!
*loses billions of dollars in damages and lost lives*
Boone Keller no, we just do research and know facts.
@@davidschneider9264 state your "facts" then
Jttv for starters, hurricanes have nothing to do with climate change
@@bignades1 lol it is all related.
@@bignades1 While Climate Change may not *cause* hurricanes, it is proven to make them worse.
Not only that, it is still better to invest in defenses than to repair damages.
We can only hope along with Chicago, LA, San Fran and some new ones we are adding now
*"Will New York Be Underwater by 2050?"*
Who cares?
bruh people are going to die like stfu and leave
Yes and buildings will collaspe
And All of Florida will be underwater
@@backdoorlolxd Firstly, unless you expect one big flood that puts the whole shithole underwater, na... people aren't gonna die. They're gonna slowly be convinced to leave as they start needing Wellington boots to go outside; then eventually everyone will be gone and the trash and human waste littering that city will be neatly washed away.
Secondly, why don't you stfu and leave, just like half the population in NY are already doing: in droves.
@@Pax.Britannica We cant predicate when a tsumani..
Need this solutions in Mumbai its kinda ridiculous how often we get flooded considering we are the richest city in india