I live in Los Angeles and it's honestly pretty infuriating knowing I will have to live through 4 years of this insanity again. I just helped a husband and wife who are clients of mine and a bit older to evacuate their home in this area and watching these a-holes politicize this and threaten to not provide federal aid to California for this and only being willing to do so with some strings attached (no idea what that actually means - probably in return for willingly helping their brutal immigration crackdown) is insanity.
Thank you for this phone-in. I thought it would be too difficult for me to listen to, but actually I found it useful hearing people with similar stories. It is possible to be in genuine fear for your life without the other person ever laying a finger on you.
@@andrewstevenson118 But to do something fundamentally constructive you need to know who to listen to. And listen hard. Listening is essential even if in itself it is not nearly enough.
@kojofour4328 There is a human element in that. Various levels of competence and experience. I have come across expert contradictions. I still have not seen an answer. On a climate science website, I came across an article detailing the hole in the ozone layer. It causes some extreme weather apparently by disruption of atmospheric air circulation. The lack of ozone creates insufficient heat inversion. There is more to it all explained if you look it up. They say it is not climate change related.
We not long ago had Cop Out 29 where far more deals were done for anything other than the environment. If China, USA, India and Russia don't sign up and implement serious reforms (by the way they are not going to as it's all about money and profits) then it will only make a tiny difference what the rest do. Look at the world tables on pollution and those for the developed countries they are all available online it's quite eye opening in how much the top 4 pollute. I came across a proverb which goes - "Societies grow stronger when old men plant trees, the shade of which they will never sit under". It's about taking care of and looking after the environment for future generations, unfortunately at this point in time that's not happening. Remember we can't exist without planet earth, but planet earth can without us. As Mark Twain observed a long time ago “Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason” How could Mark Twain have forecasted most politicians so well?
'...Heads in the sand. Under the duvet, warm and safe we all curl... "just the way things are." We forever abide, here in our modern world.' -The Cost Of Apathy
First thing I’d do is introduce a limit on military testing. I find it weird how military if never spoken about when it comes to climate change measures yet one single missile being tested will emit more greenhouse gasses than me and my Ford focus ever will.
It's not about what "you" would do, but what I do do. I use my petrol-fueled car less often, I don't iron all my clothes, I generally use less, and less often, fueled "comforts" such as hot water, fridge, lights. If "we" all did that ... lessened the burden on supplies, over time ... "we" could "buy time" for the "experts" to find and develop alternatives. This is not nebulous!
That wouldn't even scratch the surface. Big industries consumption absolutely dwarfs the general publics. Stop buying anything made in another country, anything made with plastic, anything new at all, any imported foods. Carve your furniture from fallen trees, weave your own wool, wicker baskets make a great replacement for shopping bags. Candles can be made from pig fat and beeswax and boycotting entertainment would save a huge amount of carbon. It costs a fortune to keep the lights on at LBC
There are scientists who think it's really far too late to do anything about climate change now anyway..we are in the self feedback loops and in the not too distant future this planet will not support human life. The worst thing is that I tend to think they are probably right.
@@johnrussell3961 As Jeff Bezos once cleverly stated, if you want to live on Mars, start practicing on the top of Mount Everest for a year, and you're half way prepared. It's a very hostile planet.
There might be some oligarch/plutocrats who have bunkers that will extend their lives by a few years or even decades, but the rest of us peasants are hosed.
They’ve been saying it for decades and still people won’t accept the science. It’s like a smoker, drinker or obese person denying cigarettes, alcohol or sugar are the cause of respective health problems.
@@oldsunshine1505 I feel quite sorry for young people. So many challenges we didn't face at their age. Or at least the challenges were easier to deal with.
the Santa Ana winds are the most ferocious speeds in decades. The winds are a natural phenomenon as exchange of weather patterns across the Pacific. California is constantly in drought - similar to Australia.
I think the answer is higher taxes for ordinary people. Stop them wasting money on heating, water, transport, clothes and stuff like that. I would propose a pre tax based on what the government believes you will spend rather than your actual spend, this will create a "climate buffer" that we can use to ensure our politicians are getting a fair wage for having to make these tough decisions. I would also be in favour of government subsidies for James O'Brien. He is only on £365,000 year at most and for a millionaire man of the people thats really not that much at all. I'm donating all my carbon credits to James this year and welcoming the long, dark winter nights as a time to reflect on my past consumption.
C’mon James! You know by now the Tan of La Mancha is, “A VERY STABLE GENIUS”! I mean, how many times does he have to keep saying that about himself (NYT counts six, starting in 2018).
Can we not as a country just give companies and start ups that will remove greenhouse gases tax breaks which will encourage them to stay here and grow employing more citizens and making us a central hub for cleaning the planets air?
14:40 --> The only thing we can do now to save the Planet is Degrowth and stop overbuy. For start, Organized Degrowth and stop overbuy to avoid a future collapse... Collapse will be an unorganized Degrowth. James if you really want to make the difference, if you want want to inform the people about the real threat of Climate Change, then dedicate 3 of your shows and bring near to you the 3 top Scientists Climatologists to talk about the sequences of Climate Change the next years. Thank you!
Dragging water from beneath earth to put in plastic bottles and industry isn’t helpful, happening in Australia, causing manmade arid conditions, a tinder box for bush fires.😢
@@CT-vm4gf Occasionally we get Aussie beef in the supermarkets (NZ) and it's usually when you're having a drought somewhere and the farmers need to cull. Wars have been fought over oil, and I wonder if water will be fought over soon.
If you want concrete answers to everything you've asked - talk to George Monbiot, author and environmentalist. He's written about everything possibly related to this.
34:40 in Australia we call it "fugitive emissions". This accounts for around 10% of Australia's greenhouse emissions. Passenger vehicles account for around 9%. So, the burps from coal and gas mines create higher emissions than the entire fleet of cars on our roads.
Meanwhile, in order to prevent flooding we should get rid of concrete so that rain can sink into the ground and not form flash floods by racing off 1000s of m² of concrete. 🤷
59 timestamp. The feeling of what to do when you have no power besides what you can do on your own resources and knowledge it won't effect anything is what's the hardest part
Really appreciating your way of doing this utterly important work. And to alle the thousands watching stuff like this: you need to at least start hitting that thumbs up and the subscribe button - which is absolutely not costing or doing anything what so ever for you, BUT is helping the creators and their content and in the end the information to be spread to new people, who are otherwise stuck in their information bubble believing all the lies und BS, shows like this try to counter. So please do at least that minimum amount of action on platforms like YT and all the others. It really helps out so much for this important content!
There have been some theories about deploying aerosols into the atmosphere is capable of dropping global temperatures bsck to normal or whatever temperature you like but of course that is a temporary fix not permanent. There have been some studies on the matter suggesting it would be successful but it hasn’t seeped into the possible solutions yet
There are a great many other proven things we could do first that might not have unforeseen side effects before we start spraying aerosolized particles in the atmosphere to block out the sun or otherwise interfere with the global climate.
@ the only perverse consequences I have seen is that you might actually overdo it and the planet might get too cold so it would be learning to strike a balance. I believe the movie Snow piercer is an apocalyptic version of this where it gets too cold. But all studies I have seen say that’s highly unlikely
James, the first step is that a vast majority of human beings on this planet recognise that climate warming is a real thing and that we must try to fix it. In ordre to fix it, we will have to make a civilisation change in a very short time. If it does not happen we will ultimately face de desintegration of society and chaos.
The holes in the ozone layer at the poles is a factor in extreme weather. It affects atmospheric circulation. It is not the cause of climate change. Just weather. The info is on official climate government websites. Just read up about the hole in the ozone layer holes and weather. You can check yourself. Basically polar vortexes at the poles etc.
While big biz, fossile fuels & agri-business, is the major vector, I am quite angry at US podcasters & pundits (mostly never trumpers) who fly like we take the bus or subway to promote their books & participate in conférences to say same thing as in podcasts. Also, all the gadgets with electronics, including kitchen appliances, etc.
What could we do tomorrow? Yesterday we discussed people working from home. For those who ‘could’ work from home - that’s one step that would help. I’ve worked from home for years now and my 2016 car has a whopping 15k miles on it. Btw the US bank’s alliance with NZBA ending is more political than anything. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan is as liberal as they come. I think they’ll still do what they set out to do. Just not publicly. For the next 4 years anyway.
George Monbiot's monologue on Frankie Boyle's show is still the most meaningful summary of what could be done. Stop flying Leave fossil fuels in the ground Stop eating meat Most importantly, stop p*ssing around at the margins of the problem.
Resictict car use is an immediate measure, but there'd be such an outcry about even especially this! I speak as someone who has never owned a car, but it seems to me there is some hypocrisy if you drive a car and protest at climate change though I hate being self righteous. I don't want to ban cars, which would be unrealistic but some reduction, and encourage meant to cycle, would Public transport could need to be much improved and receive investment, of course. At present there's now much talk as well as Right wing denial it's hard not to feel very pessimistic - more money for the rich over survival of humanity, seems to be the prevailing ideology!
FYI - On Jan 13, Times Radio had on an "expert" who blamed "wasted" spending on trains & public transportation and argued that political incompetence is preventing a vast expansion of "autonomous vehicles" and spending on roads. The expert also suggested that all vegetation in the hills above LA be destroyed every year.
so, for the question of what you can do if you were king of the world. you loosen some of the ridiculous hurdles for nuclear power and immediately start construction on nuclear power plants. this lets you phase out coal and replace it with nuclear. build out more solar and hydro and tidal power. you put a carbon tax on the point of extraction. subsidies to help people make their homes more efficient (aka more efficient windows). change the laws for cars, so giant cars are no longer allowed. the only trucks allowed are work trucks to be made. do japanese style smaller trucks for farmers etc. only semi trucks are allowed for transport not personal use. the giant american pick up trucks being gotten rid of would drop the co2 emissions overnight by 5%. a wealth tax to fund a lot of this. billionaires have profitted off this excess for centuries. edit: the biggest thing is the carbon tax at point of extraction. this will indeed make things much more expensive, but it will also mean that only essential things that use fossil fuels will be left viable. edit edit: also it would only work if you wer eking of the WORLD not just a few countries. climate change is a global problem and it requires the entire globe doing what's needed. the lions share of what needs to be done is gonna have to come from the western countries along with china, india, and russia.
You should also mandate some kind of global population control for a generation or two, my liege. There are way too many people using way too many resources.
Nuclear power? Fission power stations do have accidents, and we're still living with the consequences of Chernobyl. Wind, wave, solar power and the quest for fusion would be a much better investment. Vehicle emissions are an obvious issue, but what about the co2 released by cement production? Global warming is also accelerated vastly more by methane from agriculture than co2 emissions, another thing we gloss over.
No thanks, creating tones of lethal waste that will remain lethal for 100,000 years (some of which needs constant monitoring) isn't my idea of a viable alternative. I'd rather go back to the middle ages
This was an incredibly powerful show from James, and it was very humbling and emotional to watch James go throght the motion's of hhis initial point and opinions on the matter throughout the calls. I think it was handled very gracefully and admirably with class ans care. And having a madia representative show such empathy in tackling that issue
1:40:49 of course he was frightened that she was out with someone else. These pathetic creeps know how little they have to offer their women who have so much to offer to a man he knows he cannot compete with. This will usually come with the degrading of any of the woman’s self esteem. Pushing how lucky she is to have him and what she would be without him. A single mother of four?…Jackpot!! Pathetic! This can lead to the tears from him and “Look what you made me do!”
Difficult to laugh at the most successful economy in the world, child. Our gilts are now at record levels pushing up our debt repayments. You should be asking why Reeves hasn’t been sacked. Keep up.👍
Grow up. Think about other people are going through instead of your own backwards ideology for a change. You’re right, he is going to be president. The planet is heating up at an accelerated rate. There is something he can do about it. Will he? We already know the answer. Also - being president means opening to widespread scrutiny. People aren’t going to ‘pipe down’ and ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’s. Sounds like something the 7 year olds I work with would say. Actually, that’s not fair on them.
I do have to say that perhaps the UK in general should stop obsessing about the US. Just looking at the BBC news TH-cam page and 8 out of the last 10 uploaded videos are about US topics. Even the LA fires, as bad as they are, are like watching a reality soap... Natural disasters like that happen all over the world all the time unfortunately. And most of them are much worse and get only a fraction of the attention. And yes, global warming is a much broader topic, sure, but I would like to see the UK worry more about the consequenses of that for places like Bangladesh, its former colony, where many millions are at risk, rather than some millionaire celebrities over in the LA hills. So sure, the US is an important country, but to see it dominate UK news like it does today, is just very awkward.
I'd say the government should invest in cooperative type companies in which every member is an equal shareholder. Therefore the profits the companies do make are used by the company to pay for staff wages / improvements (any income made would return to the members as equal bonus for paying into the company, or to pay back government for the loan for setting up companies (in this case they would basically be business partners with government)). Subsidies will only be paid out to these types of companies (if they are utility companies or have a societal benefit but not particularly lucrative companies) and if they are doing bad then the government will intervine to review, but they will be independent, which would reduce the amount of government bloat/bureaucracy and mean the companies would be run by the experts in their fields.
Any country that attempts to do that will quickly find themselves under sanction and perhaps attack by the USA, especially under the new administration.
Start building self sufficient sustainable homes. I can only think of one reason this isn't mandated! Mass production of the components to enable this to happen would make it affordable / standard and remove the necessity to be drawing on largely carbon burnt energy. But then who'd profit from that?.... not the energy big boys... thats for certain.
In the 70s the "experts" told us there would be an iceage by 2020. Then we had, hole in the ozone, acid rain, the sky is falling down, followed by global warming, and the UK would be as hot as Spain by 2020. When none of that worked it was rebranded to Climate Change. An we're now being told this is mainly down to cows farting. 😂😂😂
We have the Methane erupting in the Arctic -that will be the death of us all - lets not forget this fact - Trouble is.... some people do not even know what Methane is - so we have a problem .And we are running out of time - -
1:56:38 When pregnant the mother of my children was at her most beautiful. I know for sure this Lady was as beautiful. That muppet was a nasty piece of work
What has James O'Brien done in his own life to mitigate against pontentially human made climate change. That's the ultimate queation behind all this pontificating. Moved away from Chiswick, stopped eating farmed animals, stopped taking airliners every half term holiday? No
Anyone can go online and whinge about government inaction to look compassionate. Change your own life. What do you expect a politican to do if you can't be bothered to change your own habits. Have you personally decided not to eat farm bred animals anymore....I presume not. If not ask yourself why. You cant be bothered.
But this is exactly why governments need to take action! No matter how much people aspire to a more sustainable lifestyle , it won’t really happen when the system continues to allow it.
I would rather be a kind caring 'liberal' than an environment denier and basically a t.... Well actually I have lost my train of thought and forgotten what I was going to say.. answers on a post card if you could continue my thought train!! 😹
Other climate scientists are not allowed to debate against climate change and give their options just like other experts who were gagged by MSM about the covid jabs 😢😢
I live in Southern California and just came across your channel and show. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your conversations. Thank you.
I live in Los Angeles and it's honestly pretty infuriating knowing I will have to live through 4 years of this insanity again. I just helped a husband and wife who are clients of mine and a bit older to evacuate their home in this area and watching these a-holes politicize this and threaten to not provide federal aid to California for this and only being willing to do so with some strings attached (no idea what that actually means - probably in return for willingly helping their brutal immigration crackdown) is insanity.
Thank you for this phone-in. I thought it would be too difficult for me to listen to, but actually I found it useful hearing people with similar stories. It is possible to be in genuine fear for your life without the other person ever laying a finger on you.
James O Brian you are my favourite person.
Please keep telling your stories.❤❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Start listening to the experts.
May I suggest "listening" achieves nothing. "Doing" is what counts. 🙂
@@andrewstevenson118 But to do something fundamentally constructive you need to know who to listen to. And listen hard. Listening is essential even if in itself it is not nearly enough.
@@richardrickford3028 True.
Define “expert”
MAGA believes Trump is an expert at everything.
@kojofour4328 There is a human element in that. Various levels of competence and experience. I have come across expert contradictions. I still have not seen an answer. On a climate science website, I came across an article detailing the hole in the ozone layer. It causes some extreme weather apparently by disruption of atmospheric air circulation. The lack of ozone creates insufficient heat inversion. There is more to it all explained if you look it up. They say it is not climate change related.
We not long ago had Cop Out 29 where far more deals were done for anything other than the environment. If China, USA, India and Russia don't sign up and implement serious reforms (by the way they are not going to as it's all about money and profits) then it will only make a tiny difference what the rest do. Look at the world tables on pollution and those for the developed countries they are all available online it's quite eye opening in how much the top 4 pollute. I came across a proverb which goes - "Societies grow stronger when old men plant trees, the shade of which they will never sit under". It's about taking care of and looking after the environment for future generations, unfortunately at this point in time that's not happening. Remember we can't exist without planet earth, but planet earth can without us. As Mark Twain observed a long time ago “Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason” How could Mark Twain have forecasted most politicians so well?
The cop 29 get together was just oil manufacturers continuing to pretend they aren't 90% of the problem of climate change
Love from Norway! Wish I could call in from time to time. Have some stuff to say about all about this and a lot more.
Love Norway. Was there in 2015. Did the train trip from Oslo to Bergen. Beautiful.
@@andrewstevenson118 Yeah that is a nide trip. Used to work on that train in 2015 :) You should visit my hometome Tromsø one day :)
Norway does well because you Drill Baby Drill.
FACT :Trump Knows how to put out fires he has blown out Birthday Candles many times
We have always had psychopaths, but the problem now is that they can/will destroy the planet/ humanity. And for what?
How else are you going to support Zelenskyy without fossil fuels?
Line must go up!
@adambinnie1332 What are you talking about. What a ridiculous thing to say
@royconestoga7326 absolutely
@@adambinnie1332 Pretty sure if we stop buying fossil fuels, Russia ends up badly.
'...Heads in the sand. Under the duvet, warm and safe we all curl... "just the way things are." We forever abide, here in our modern world.' -The Cost Of Apathy
First thing I’d do is introduce a limit on military testing.
I find it weird how military if never spoken about when it comes to climate change measures yet one single missile being tested will emit more greenhouse gasses than me and my Ford focus ever will.
It's not about what "you" would do, but what I do do. I use my petrol-fueled car less often, I don't iron all my clothes, I generally use less, and less often, fueled "comforts" such as hot water, fridge, lights. If "we" all did that ... lessened the burden on supplies, over time ... "we" could "buy time" for the "experts" to find and develop alternatives. This is not nebulous!
That wouldn't even scratch the surface. Big industries consumption absolutely dwarfs the general publics. Stop buying anything made in another country, anything made with plastic, anything new at all, any imported foods. Carve your furniture from fallen trees, weave your own wool, wicker baskets make a great replacement for shopping bags. Candles can be made from pig fat and beeswax and boycotting entertainment would save a huge amount of carbon. It costs a fortune to keep the lights on at LBC
There are scientists who think it's really far too late to do anything about climate change now anyway..we are in the self feedback loops and in the not too distant future this planet will not support human life. The worst thing is that I tend to think they are probably right.
Musk is drumming up customers to go to Mars.
Do the same scientists support the war in
Ukraine?
@@johnrussell3961 As Jeff Bezos once cleverly stated, if you want to live on Mars, start practicing on the top of Mount Everest for a year, and you're half way prepared. It's a very hostile planet.
There might be some oligarch/plutocrats who have bunkers that will extend their lives by a few years or even decades, but the rest of us peasants are hosed.
They’ve been saying it for decades and still people won’t accept the science. It’s like a smoker, drinker or obese person denying cigarettes, alcohol or sugar are the cause of respective health problems.
James Obrien must be protected at all costs
He needs to be sent to Ukraine
He is protected at all costs, unlike Sanghita Myska.
He's a msm talking head 😂
... while LA burns,... and just been announced that 2024 was the hottest year on record
Utter B.S
Yeah, glad that I won't be around to see (most of) what's coming
So are the most respected scientific institutions in the world wrong?@@adambinnie1332
@@andrewstevenson118 you and I both
@@oldsunshine1505 I feel quite sorry for young people. So many challenges we didn't face at their age. Or at least the challenges were easier to deal with.
"There are facts, and there are alternative facts" Kellyanne Conway.
Queen of Liars 😅
Also the wind driving it which is part of the climate. Virtually impossible to extinguish.💯
the Santa Ana winds are the most ferocious speeds in decades. The winds are a natural phenomenon as exchange of weather patterns across the Pacific. California is constantly in drought - similar to Australia.
I think the answer is higher taxes for ordinary people. Stop them wasting money on heating, water, transport, clothes and stuff like that. I would propose a pre tax based on what the government believes you will spend rather than your actual spend, this will create a "climate buffer" that we can use to ensure our politicians are getting a fair wage for having to make these tough decisions. I would also be in favour of government subsidies for James O'Brien. He is only on £365,000 year at most and for a millionaire man of the people thats really not that much at all. I'm donating all my carbon credits to James this year and welcoming the long, dark winter nights as a time to reflect on my past consumption.
C’mon James! You know by now the Tan of La Mancha is, “A VERY STABLE GENIUS”! I mean, how many times does he have to keep saying that about himself (NYT counts six, starting in 2018).
Can we not as a country just give companies and start ups that will remove greenhouse gases tax breaks which will encourage them to stay here and grow employing more citizens and making us a central hub for cleaning the planets air?
14:40 --> The only thing we can do now to
save the Planet is Degrowth and stop overbuy.
For start, Organized Degrowth and stop overbuy
to avoid a future collapse...
Collapse will be an unorganized Degrowth.
James if you really want to make the difference,
if you want want to inform the people about the real
threat of Climate Change, then dedicate 3 of your shows
and bring near to you the 3 top Scientists Climatologists
to talk about the sequences of Climate Change the next years.
Thank you!
Dragging water from beneath earth to put in plastic bottles and industry isn’t helpful, happening in Australia, causing manmade arid conditions, a tinder box for bush fires.😢
We pump water out of the ground here in Australia, robbing the native trees of their water source. It’s absolutely crazy.
@@CT-vm4gf Occasionally we get Aussie beef in the supermarkets (NZ) and it's usually when you're having a drought somewhere and the farmers need to cull. Wars have been fought over oil, and I wonder if water will be fought over soon.
Wars aren't helping, which is more like it.
Everyone's gangster till climate change shows up.
If you want concrete answers to everything you've asked - talk to George Monbiot, author and environmentalist.
He's written about everything possibly related to this.
34:40 in Australia we call it "fugitive emissions". This accounts for around 10% of Australia's greenhouse emissions. Passenger vehicles account for around 9%. So, the burps from coal and gas mines create higher emissions than the entire fleet of cars on our roads.
Meanwhile, in order to prevent flooding we should get rid of concrete so that rain can sink into the ground and not form flash floods by racing off 1000s of m² of concrete. 🤷
59 timestamp. The feeling of what to do when you have no power besides what you can do on your own resources and knowledge it won't effect anything is what's the hardest part
Really appreciating your way of doing this utterly important work.
And to alle the thousands watching stuff like this: you need to at least start hitting that thumbs up and the subscribe button - which is absolutely not costing or doing anything what so ever for you, BUT is helping the creators and their content and in the end the information to be spread to new people, who are otherwise stuck in their information bubble believing all the lies und BS, shows like this try to counter.
So please do at least that minimum amount of action on platforms like YT and all the others. It really helps out so much for this important content!
Saving earth is not up for discussion
It should not be, you mean…
Whether it needs "saving" or indeed whether mankind is even capable of "saving" it IS however up for discussion.
It’s hopeless. 2020 marked the global swing into insanity, our species is done.
Millennials asked that question for 10 years, and the shame of not having answer and ignoring the issue is why boomers bullied us into silence...😅
31:49 Correct me if I'm wrong, but methane degrades/oxidizes to CO2 at the end of its natural 12-15 year lifespan, and that lifespan is
There have been some theories about deploying aerosols into the atmosphere is capable of dropping global temperatures bsck to normal or whatever temperature you like but of course that is a temporary fix not permanent. There have been some studies on the matter suggesting it would be successful but it hasn’t seeped into the possible solutions yet
Interesting. Would that have perverse consequences? Like, increase the "greenhouse effect"?
There are a great many other proven things we could do first that might not have unforeseen side effects before we start spraying aerosolized particles in the atmosphere to block out the sun or otherwise interfere with the global climate.
@ the only perverse consequences I have seen is that you might actually overdo it and the planet might get too cold so it would be learning to strike a balance. I believe the movie Snow piercer is an apocalyptic version of this where it gets too cold. But all studies I have seen say that’s highly unlikely
Sticke and stones may break your bones, but words do permanent damage
This year will probably be hotter than last year. They might be drilling and hit fire whilst they are doing it
💯% agree.
Elon has lost his mind. 😊
It must sting to see him having such an effect.
Not much there in the first place
Can't lose what you never had.
James, the first step is that a vast majority of human beings on this planet recognise that climate warming is a real thing and that we must try to fix it. In ordre to fix it, we will have to make a civilisation change in a very short time. If it does not happen we will ultimately face de desintegration of society and chaos.
The holes in the ozone layer at the poles is a factor in extreme weather. It affects atmospheric circulation. It is not the cause of climate change. Just weather. The info is on official climate government websites. Just read up about the hole in the ozone layer holes and weather. You can check yourself. Basically polar vortexes at the poles etc.
@@gillesouellet2131 nothing to do with climate, LA built on the san Andreas fault what could go wrong.
@weeweebaws Ummm, this wasn’t an earthquake. It was a fire. Multiple fires.
Why are progressing well in our change to green energy. Unfortunately we are now all bankrupt.
While big biz, fossile fuels & agri-business, is the major vector, I am quite angry at US podcasters & pundits (mostly never trumpers) who fly like we take the bus or subway to promote their books & participate in conférences to say same thing as in podcasts.
Also, all the gadgets with electronics, including kitchen appliances, etc.
That's on you who watched theses under-educated podcasters and click on "subscribe ".stop watching and I promise they will disappear.
What could we do tomorrow?
Yesterday we discussed people working from home. For those who ‘could’ work from home - that’s one step that would help. I’ve worked from home for years now and my 2016 car has a whopping 15k miles on it.
Btw the US bank’s alliance with NZBA ending is more political than anything. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan is as liberal as they come. I think they’ll still do what they set out to do. Just not publicly. For the next 4 years anyway.
George Monbiot's monologue on Frankie Boyle's show is still the most meaningful summary of what could be done.
Stop flying
Leave fossil fuels in the ground
Stop eating meat
Most importantly, stop p*ssing around at the margins of the problem.
Resictict car use is an immediate measure, but there'd be such an outcry about even especially this! I speak as someone who has never owned a car, but it seems to me there is some hypocrisy if you drive a car and protest at climate change though I hate being self righteous. I don't want to ban cars, which would be unrealistic but some reduction, and encourage meant to cycle, would Public transport could need to be much improved and receive investment, of course. At present there's now much talk as well as Right wing denial it's hard not to feel very pessimistic - more money for the rich over survival of humanity, seems to be the prevailing ideology!
How do you reduce car use? Taxation? Prohibition?
Love my EV, the lack of noise in built up areas is under estimated for people’s well being
FYI - On Jan 13, Times Radio had on an "expert" who blamed "wasted" spending on trains & public transportation and argued that political incompetence is preventing a vast expansion of "autonomous vehicles" and spending on roads. The expert also suggested that all vegetation in the hills above LA be destroyed every year.
so, for the question of what you can do if you were king of the world. you loosen some of the ridiculous hurdles for nuclear power and immediately start construction on nuclear power plants. this lets you phase out coal and replace it with nuclear. build out more solar and hydro and tidal power. you put a carbon tax on the point of extraction. subsidies to help people make their homes more efficient (aka more efficient windows). change the laws for cars, so giant cars are no longer allowed. the only trucks allowed are work trucks to be made. do japanese style smaller trucks for farmers etc. only semi trucks are allowed for transport not personal use. the giant american pick up trucks being gotten rid of would drop the co2 emissions overnight by 5%. a wealth tax to fund a lot of this. billionaires have profitted off this excess for centuries.
edit: the biggest thing is the carbon tax at point of extraction. this will indeed make things much more expensive, but it will also mean that only essential things that use fossil fuels will be left viable.
edit edit: also it would only work if you wer eking of the WORLD not just a few countries. climate change is a global problem and it requires the entire globe doing what's needed. the lions share of what needs to be done is gonna have to come from the western countries along with china, india, and russia.
You should also mandate some kind of global population control for a generation or two, my liege. There are way too many people using way too many resources.
Nuclear power? Fission power stations do have accidents, and we're still living with the consequences of Chernobyl.
Wind, wave, solar power and the quest for fusion would be a much better investment. Vehicle emissions are an obvious issue, but what about the co2 released by cement production?
Global warming is also accelerated vastly more by methane from agriculture than co2 emissions, another thing we gloss over.
No thanks, creating tones of lethal waste that will remain lethal for 100,000 years (some of which needs constant monitoring) isn't my idea of a viable alternative. I'd rather go back to the middle ages
California friends driving away from the inferno in their SUVs
This was an incredibly powerful show from James, and it was very humbling and emotional to watch James go throght the motion's of hhis initial point and opinions on the matter throughout the calls. I think it was handled very gracefully and admirably with class ans care. And having a madia representative show such empathy in tackling that issue
OMG, this is malevolent, willful ignorance. Decades and decades of research and this ignorant fool says "nobody knows"?
1:40:49 of course he was frightened that she was out with someone else. These pathetic creeps know how little they have to offer their women who have so much to offer to a man he knows he cannot compete with. This will usually come with the degrading of any of the woman’s self esteem. Pushing how lucky she is to have him and what she would be without him. A single mother of four?…Jackpot!! Pathetic! This can lead to the tears from him and “Look what you made me do!”
1:24:46 made me cry now. That poor woman
If you allow the political winds to direct your personal or company policies, we are most certainly doomed.
I didn't know 10,000 piles of ash that used to be houses were political.
Grow up
One of the best questions you have asked
No clean air in Ukraine
Difficult to laugh at the most successful economy in the world, child.
Our gilts are now at record levels pushing up our debt repayments.
You should be asking why Reeves hasn’t been sacked.
Keep up.👍
Pipe down James , he's president again and there's nothing you can do about it.
Grow up. Think about other people are going through instead of your own backwards ideology for a change. You’re right, he is going to be president. The planet is heating up at an accelerated rate. There is something he can do about it. Will he? We already know the answer.
Also - being president means opening to widespread scrutiny. People aren’t going to ‘pipe down’ and ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’s.
Sounds like something the 7 year olds I work with would say. Actually, that’s not fair on them.
Pray baby Pray. Rain baby rain?
I do have to say that perhaps the UK in general should stop obsessing about the US. Just looking at the BBC news TH-cam page and 8 out of the last 10 uploaded videos are about US topics. Even the LA fires, as bad as they are, are like watching a reality soap... Natural disasters like that happen all over the world all the time unfortunately. And most of them are much worse and get only a fraction of the attention. And yes, global warming is a much broader topic, sure, but I would like to see the UK worry more about the consequenses of that for places like Bangladesh, its former colony, where many millions are at risk, rather than some millionaire celebrities over in the LA hills. So sure, the US is an important country, but to see it dominate UK news like it does today, is just very awkward.
Not awkward…..ridiculous.
You wake up tomorrow telling folks they have a choice to participate in change, by making personal choices.
Ban crypto and AI. LOL
Hope??????? Is there hope, then? Has James asked the most important question and got the best possible answer?
Of course not! we will never get rid of fossil fuels with wars happening around the world.
It would only benefit big oil. It’s would be priced at global prices influenced by a global,shortage..
Expropriate private companies and make them public it's been done before it can be done again
It worked for the USSR and CUBA it can work for the UK
I'd say the government should invest in cooperative type companies in which every member is an equal shareholder. Therefore the profits the companies do make are used by the company to pay for staff wages / improvements (any income made would return to the members as equal bonus for paying into the company, or to pay back government for the loan for setting up companies (in this case they would basically be business partners with government)). Subsidies will only be paid out to these types of companies (if they are utility companies or have a societal benefit but not particularly lucrative companies) and if they are doing bad then the government will intervine to review, but they will be independent, which would reduce the amount of government bloat/bureaucracy and mean the companies would be run by the experts in their fields.
Any country that attempts to do that will quickly find themselves under sanction and perhaps attack by the USA, especially under the new administration.
"My brain is a funny place at the best of times" - Man, can I relate to that.
not climate change just windy.
Start building self sufficient sustainable homes. I can only think of one reason this isn't mandated! Mass production of the components to enable this to happen would make it affordable / standard and remove the necessity to be drawing on largely carbon burnt energy. But then who'd profit from that?.... not the energy big boys... thats for certain.
James, there is no reversal!
1:16:51 You can get lock'd up just for sending a message these days it's too tear pallising they should be catching proper crimmenew's innit.
In the 70s the "experts" told us there would be an iceage by 2020.
Then we had, hole in the ozone, acid rain, the sky is falling down, followed by global warming, and the UK would be as hot as Spain by 2020.
When none of that worked it was rebranded to Climate Change. An we're now being told this is mainly down to cows farting. 😂😂😂
We have the Methane erupting in the Arctic -that will be the death of us all - lets not forget this fact - Trouble is.... some people do not even know what Methane is - so we have a problem .And we are running out of time - -
October 23 to March 24 was the wettest on record, 2024 the 2nd wettest on record as predicted by the climate models.
1:56:38 When pregnant the mother of my children was at her most beautiful. I know for sure this Lady was as beautiful. That muppet was a nasty piece of work
Climate change causes fires 😂😂😂😂 okay
At last i just been liking talk to make em read truth
Just a thought if we run out electric and gas that power the power station will James O'Brien out of job no power no LBC
What has James O'Brien done in his own life to mitigate against pontentially human made climate change. That's the ultimate queation behind all this pontificating. Moved away from Chiswick, stopped eating farmed animals, stopped taking airliners every half term holiday? No
Individual actions will not solve the climate crisis, we need systematic change.
Anyone can go online and whinge about government inaction to look compassionate. Change your own life. What do you expect a politican to do if you can't be bothered to change your own habits. Have you personally decided not to eat farm bred animals anymore....I presume not. If not ask yourself why. You cant be bothered.
But this is exactly why governments need to take action! No matter how much people aspire to a more sustainable lifestyle , it won’t really happen when the system continues to allow it.
Whinge on about what ever floats your boat and maybe find a better way of protesting.
Jordan Peterson said it best. How can you go about changing the world if your own house isn't in order. In other words... Tidy your room first...
Cows farting causes climate change. Not even Monty Python could have come up with that one.
I would rather be a kind caring 'liberal' than an environment denier and basically a t.... Well actually I have lost my train of thought and forgotten what I was going to say.. answers on a post card if you could continue my thought train!! 😹
1:04:16 but wait, wasn’t if Jewish space lasers this time?
Solar farms in Africa wind farms at sea. Easy. Let oil company pwn it. Generate electric by cars
2:01:34 bless you
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Other climate scientists are not allowed to debate against climate change and give their options just like other experts who were gagged by MSM about the covid jabs
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Time to take off the tin foil hat.
You don't know how science works.
Because they have a responsibility to tell truths, not conspiracies just bc you don’t like it. Sorry, “alternative facts”
California's leadership is responsible.
How?
Richardhead
Nothing to do with the wind and heat, at all. Of course...
As long as the definition of "responsible" you're using is the one for being capable of being trusted. Otherwise, not so much.
@@DennisMoore664 There's a Young Ones bit, where someone asks "okay, who's responsible?!" and Rick replies, "well, I think I'm pretty responsible."
😂First😂
nothing to brag about . its like being first to watch a 80 year old do a number 2
Plonker!
Get a sense of humour man dont take words so seriously and dont imform me that words have conseuquenses
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Useless tool: James O'Braindead
Kinda funny but a little bit argumentum ad hominem.
This man is pathetic
James O'Gammon
Blame the dems for incompetence In governance