The INSANE numbers of a global climate conference!
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- What a super Christmas gift! Our global leaders all gathered in one of the biggest oil producing nations on the planet to discuss with more than two thousand oil industry lobbyists exactly how they should legislate to protect our children and grandchildren from the worst effects of global warming in the coming decades. What could possibly go wrong?
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NEVER FORGET : EXXON KNEW..!
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Research Links
COP28 Global Stocktake FINAL DRAFT
unfccc.int/sites/default/file...
Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance
beyondoilandgasalliance.org/
Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation treaty
fossilfueltreaty.org/
This Wikipedia page contains clickable links to more than 100 climate activism groups around the world, in regional, then alphabetical, order -
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Nairobi Declaration
www.un.org/africarenewal/maga...
COP28 Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action
unfccc.int/event/implementing...
COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health
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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at COP28
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-rele...
Guardian article about Loss and Damage Fund
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UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2023
www.unep.org/resources/adapta...
Centre for Climate Reporting
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Channel 4 News Special Report
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C4 News report on TH-cam -
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Carbon Capture : The oil lobby's Trojan horse at COP28
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OPEC's leaked letter to petrostates
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UUSC
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Sounds like the 'musician' is basically a scammer.
Dave,
I did not get an advertisement.
Thank you for your hard work constructing these presentations. You're the highest quality consistent content regarding climate change I've found on TH-cam in my ~16 years of using it. If that isn't the biggest compliment I could ever give a channel, I don't know what is.
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No adverts here. Thank you Dave.
You should just use crab rave in all of your videos lol
No ads seen here (Manchester, UK)
Could you give us an update sometime of the outcome of that copyright claim: was there a mistake in the "royalty free" source you used, or is some scammer just being cheeky?
Holding cop 28 in the Middle East was the most epic example trolling ever.
As Simon Clark pointed out very precisely: fossil producers wants CCS to happen not just because they can keep selling their stuff, but for the simple reason that the responsibility is deflected to the buyer! Because the buyer has to implement the CCS strategies, meaning the buyer now has to add another (rather large) expense to the oil purchase, while the oil producer just keeps the sweet sweet profit.
Also because CCS would require insane amounts of energy, since it is extremely inefficient. And they would love to provide us with that energy in the form of increased oil production.
I don't care who has to pay for it as long as somebody does. It would make the cost of using fossil fuels so insanely expensive that economic forces would guarantee that maximum effort would be expended on generating energy a different way. If it were to actually happen, it would kill the market for most petroleum products.
@@skeptibleiyam1093The buyer would just not get any CCS 😐
@@Campaigner82 Well, sure, just like the seller won't stop selling to willing buyers. My point was that CCS that won't happen is just as practical a way to achieve the desired effect as ... voluntary cessation of pumping oil that won't happen.
They know it won't work, it's just a way to kick the can down the road a bit further. Of course, when we do that it makes the consequences even more severe.
It’s like Pablo Escobar hosting a drug prevention workshop 🙄
The children’s story structure is absolutely brilliant! Well done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@JustHaveaThink First rate stuff! 😃
@@JustHaveaThink Dave, find and check this full f interesting data page
THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI)
For one, we are at 523 PPM of CO2eq, excluding water vapor of course.
Please have a look 😉It leads to a BIG re-think.
neat, really!
@byronbaybarrels better than bluey 😂
All future COP meetings should have no air conditioning; no free water or food - and no lobbyists! That would concentrate minds a little :)
Right on! You would instantly get rid of the freeloaders and industry softies.
@@J03Nelson it's not that. It's to give the delegates an appreciation of what the world is going through
It's nice to watch someone like Mr. Borlace who speaks clearly, with humor, while telling the truth.
What's shocking to me is that so many people are only now recognizing how urgent it is that we quit emitting slow-cycle CO2 immediately.
Did you know that in 1998, the Pentagon identified climate change as the biggest risk to US national security?
The children of the billionaires will be so sad when they study history.
To what climate change are you referring? The World Meteorological Organization hasn't acknowledged one in its history, dating back to1873. What has CO2/fossil fuels got to do with meteorology, and by extension, climatology? Neither played a role during my 44-year career. Answer by all means, but stick to science, not propaganda from the corrupt, illegitimate IPCC.
@@tombradshaw5164 What evidence do you have of the IPCC's corruption?
Mr. Bradshaw, why is it that we don't freeze to death, every night? Is it perhaps the result of the atmospheres ability to capture earth's radiative energy? I assume your "44 year career" was in meteorology? So then you must understand that warmer air can hold more moisture.
I'll let you take it from there.
The Pentagon ? Lol you see them Scuttling ships and closing bases worldwide ? Quit listening to these tyrants. People got rich by using lots of energy ? You see them giving up their riches ? Sharing ? No they want us to live as serfs while they keep living rhe high life. As if an increase from .04% will change the world yhat much. The sun is the main climate driver.
Yes, did know the Pentagon had identified climate change as such a threat. Thanks for naming the year. If I recall, primarily instability from mass migration and wars over resources.
Your growing despair is getting more pronounced in your very enjoyable and informative videos.
So say we all.
Thank you. In reality, my position is the same as it was when I made the very first video on the channel nearly 6 years ago, but it is true to say that I am letting it out a bit more now.
@@JustHaveaThink Dave, perhaps you could do a retrospective of some sort sometime, looking back on your thoughts then & now and what (useful things!) you've learnt along the way?
Absolutely brilliant and first rate children's story. Kudos to Dave for it and for the adult version of the truth! High time to just have a think!
700 million dollars? You could almost buy a house in the UK for that.
Looking forward to the videos on Carbon Capture and Storage.
Sadly I live in a Canadian (petro state) province who's premier took 100 delegates at a cost of about $2M+ to this conference (I think this is the first one they showed up to) in order to throw their wrench in the works of coming to even reasonable solutions. They saw a receptive audience and thought what a great opportunity to sell our extra dirty bitumen. Embarrassing doesn't doesn't do my feelings justice. Irresponsible and selfish, which unfortunately is what dominates this part of the globe despite droughts that are severely impacting our agricultural sector, summers with smoke filled skies because of worsening forest fire seasons, billions lost to communities damaged by said fires, some in the locations that make the offensive bitumen earlier referred to, and a diminishing watershed because of disappearing glaciers in the mountains west of us that provide our water. I guess decades of denial and sticking our head in the preverbal oil sands will do that. Our premier returned from the conference and quickly proclaimed victory. It really is all so infuriating. Have a good Christmas.
She is a disgrace in many ways.
You are rightly infuriated, just remember somehow Aussies managed to kick out their outrageous Premier Morrison. Someday you will manage to achieve change too:)
@@rolandpetit2279 Not in Alberta
Visited the Tar Sands (that you haven't, safe in your fossil-fuel heated home and fossil-fuel car and fossil-fuel iPhone) because wind, and solar and biofuels are forever out of reach, only for the Lower 48, not for Alberta.
So rode from Edmonton for hours through the frozen tioga and tundra where nobody lives, and as we got close to the Tar Sands, suddenly we are surrounded in forest!
My host pointed and said 'That used to be permafrost tundra. We restored it as sandy soil, then reforested it, and now the Tribes have firewood harvest, berry harvest, game harvest and laborer jobs, if they want them." Tar Sands also provides over half of Canada's real GDP.
Soon years from now north of Edmonton will be restored as deep forest with herds of big game, where once was lifeless frozen wasteland clear to the Arctic Ocean for 20,000 years.
But you'll march for Stop Oil! claptrap and PETA Eat Bugs! lunscy, then pay massive energy tithes to the New Climate Catholic in Ottawa, wondering why there are so many damn curry shops!😂🎉
@@robertmarmaduke9721 oh ffs
From now on I imagine this kind of conferences always as a Disney villain get-together 😂👍🏻
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Dave. I'm a retired middle school science teacher, so I have to keep an eye on expenses, but I just couldn't go on any longer without giving a little bit of support to your efforts. You do great work. So important. Thank you.
The Gold Medal in the Olympic Sarcasm Championships goes too...... Mr Dave Borlace for his narration of the Fairy Tale of COP28. I salute you Dave, you really went above and beyond with this one!
All joking aside, you really couldn't make it up could you? It reads like the beginning of a dystopian future novel, WTF are they doing?
As always, massive thanks Dave for the supreme effort and research that goes into making these quality and informative videos.
Great comment! I only wish Monty Python were still around to give Dave a decent challenge in said Championships.
Humour and comedians are one of our best weapons, I think, and something that helps just that little bits with keeping our sanity..
*_"Just Think"_* is enough of a call, in itself, for the source of modern problems, but, HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!
I am constantly amazed, mind boggled, by the human primate’s ability to deny reality.
As the psychologist Maslow said, “Children avoid reality as it frightens them.”
It's more planned ignorance, people live in a media bubble, thinking they have been educated
It's part of our nature.
@@theotherandrew5540he also married his cousin
Ecocide, pure and simple, thank you for putting this together, as always.
Brilliant as always 😊 thank you
You’re welcome 😊
Your video is one of the best in years. The news, not so much.
You should have had a page where all the billionaires go into their multimillion-dollar bunkers while the earth burns up.
Can they stay there for thousands of years?
That's how long it will take to return to anything like what we have today.
An oldster now, it is so wild to have so quickly moved from an idealistic, adolescent-level utopian idealist thinking a Star Trek type of future utopia was inevitable. Only to be faced with the very real possibility of actual extinction. And most definitely social collapse. And all of it "Faster Than Expected".
You lucky bugger. I never had the Star Trek ideal. At eight I was already convinced we were screwed. I chose not to have kids and spent years fighting regret. Not anymore. 56 and not even expecting to get to retire.
Extinction is not in the cards. Not for humans, anyway. Maybe for a few million other species.
Both of you were lucky. I was just noticing at age 8 that life with a dysfunctional family was bizarre - I did realize years later that our world would not be a safe place for new borns to live long term, so I nixed that dream. Females naturally pass through those "must have a baby" years by 42. middle age, almost. @@ValiantGarton
@@ValiantGarton Chris Hedges-- an impressive person of good character-- points out how in the US only the White men have a mid-life crises. The Black men do not because they knew from the start it was a scam. The White boys believed the myth, and then have to deal with the reality.
Don't forget, in several episodes of the original Star Trek, there are references to a very dark period in human history between the 20th century and the idyllic 23rd century.
So, even from that point of view, there is a ray of hope.
A fantastic summary of the COP28 outcome. Fully agreed, this Oil & gas industry has revealed it's very nature during this special moment. And it is now very clear none of the false hopes they put forward will happen: not green hydrogen, not carbon capture & storage.
Nor green energy or ESG until 2050? Yikes, how will we stay cool enough to survive wet bulb temperatures?
Sooner or later we need to have some green hydrogen. There are several chemical processes that cant be done without hydrogen. And any industry which is using now fossile fuels to heat up their high temperature ovens do so, by using hydrogen instead, e.g. the steel industry. But it is clear, green hydrogen will be expensive due to high energy demand and will be/should be used only in cases it can not be avoided otherwise. That is different to CSS, any known process can be substituted with an carbon reduced process.
I gotta love your sense of sarcasm. Needed venting in a gloomy world.
🐐🐐🐐🐐 you have earned my patreon subscription sir. This is my tiny part to help that effort. Thank you for your work!!!
Thank you Johnny. Much appreciated!
You got to wonder if Prager-U was consulted for the booklet
I am very proud of Mary Robinson. She has led by example if every role she has had her entire life. What a role model!
In every
Al Jaber is concerned we may end up living in caves. That's actually a good idea given the way global temperatures are going - caves are cooool.
I love your videos, but this one is amazing 🇧🇷
Thank you :-)
@@JustHaveaThink I thank you 😊, if you need any information from Brazil , it will
be a pleasure to contribute.
👍Brilliant job, Dave, and btw red is definitely your color! Wishing you and everyone watching a pleasant and peaceful as possible holiday season🎄🎀
Thanks Janet. Much appreciated. Have a good Christmas
Brilliant! One of your best. Keep it up young man.
They need to drop the numeric portion of the COP get togethers and just stick with letters so it would look like this : COPOUT
Or just change the name to KOP (Keep on Polluting) which would have been a more accurate description of the first 28 meetings and most probably at least the next 5 or 6.
I know that we hate to be reminded but the customers for all these fossil fuels is YOU and ME! What happens when our greedy consumerism goes away? (The recent pandemic gave us a glimpse.) WE need to buy less, encourage de-growth, and be happy with all the non-material blessings that are ours. For Christmas, save your money and give IOU's for your time and services.
From memory our annual co2 allowance (the amount natural processes can sustainably absorb) is 2 tonnes per person per annum. I'm retired live modestly and don't drive but when I calculated my annual contribution it was 3.2 tonnes. The UK average is 6 (I think) and for the US 11 tonnes per person. I agree with degrowrh but I suspect we'll still be over budget. Industrial society isn't kind to the environment in other was too. Major change starting with fundamental honesty is needed but, sadly, I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Thanks for all you do! I, too, am a minimalist. Except for orthopedic shoes (to avoid knee surgery,) I buy all my clothes from second-hand stores, grow 20-50% of my food, and take the car out once-a-week. So, I'm considered quite weird here in the USA. We can only slow down the destruction and maybe give future generations more time to adapt.@@johnpritchard8946
Pretty damn awesome video. Congratulations. Brilliant work!
Excellent episode, thanks 👍
Cheers.Much appreciated
Good one Dave..thank you
"Don't look up" feeling...
Thanks for the Christmas present Dave...your mix of clear analysis and blistering sarcasm is a total winner. A great gift for all of us 👍👍
I have a children's book, too. Published around the time I was born in 1950, it had page after page of happy little cartoon atomic particles running around explaining how atomic energy would solve all the world's problems and "make everything wonderful immediately". 73 years later, I'm still waiting for the "wonderful" part. The blithering insanity of holding a climate change conference in an OPEC couintry guarantees that humans will get what they deserve. Not to mention all other life forms on this planet. Advanced aliens from elsewhere in the Universe who are aware of us probably can't stop laughing.
If we had seriously embraced nuclear energy, climate change wouldn't be as bad and the air would have been cleaner.
My Dad wrote to his MP about Nuclear Power in the 1950s. The reply claimed that electricity would become so cheap they wouldn't have to charge for its use...
Don't oppose nuclear, it's significantly better than natural gas and coal.
We should push the renewables as much as possible, and nuclear to thoroughly stamp out fossil fuels.
I am not anti-nuclear, but its costs are prohibitive, and it is not without its own issues. The UK exported 14TWh of electricity to France last year because of maintenance issues with their nuclear fleet.
@@jeremyradford5103 What are you looking at for costs?
In reality, nuclear just has to take up the slack from wind, solar, geo, hydro, so I'm not keen on the argument that nuclear is more expensive and takes longer to build than wind - it is a good source of clean reliable energy, and we would have had sufficient nuclear energy if we had started a decade ago. We should not expect the UK to be fully renewable by 2030 given how politicians flip flop, so we should still focus on nuclear and we could have new plants in the next decade. It is not in competition with renewables, but in competition with fossil fuels which are expensive now, and will only increase in price.
You have to give them that they are getting more and more creative at finding new ways to not change the status quo.
You should actually publish that book (with tweaks) for children so they know what happened from a young age 🤔🙂
Absolutely fantastic video! Really impressive. well done. Loved the storybook!
Thank you. I appreciate your feedback :-0
WOW 😢 Brilliant as always but wow so sad... what's wrong with some people!! let's hope! Have a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁♻️
Good work man.
Appreciate it!
Fossil fuel lawyers and lobbyists have always been involved in COP and the IPCC..And the goal or function of these organizations is to give the world's ruling class control over the process, and make sure that nothing changes for as long as possible to protect privilege, power and wealth..
Great stuff as ever DB. What you say about OPEC is interesting as any other industry or group of countries on the planet colluding to control supply and set prices for any other commodity or product would be immediately banned by the WTO. You can tell that the oil producing countries are panicking, they have already cut production twice this year and oil prices continue to fall. Watch out for another cut soon. Meanwhile, every million EVs sold displaces 20,000 bpd of oil demand and the current run-rate for EV sales is 1.4 million a month globally. OK, it's only chipping away at demand but by end decade electrification of transport will be raking 5 million bpd of demand out of the system. This will make the exploitation of new oil resources uneconomic. Given that KSA, UAE and others in the Middle East can produce oil at the lowest cost it would make sense for them to propose a 'no more exploration and exploitation' clause at the COP meetings. This would leave them as 'last men standing' as oil demand declines and keep prices at levels they need to prop up their economies and keep their populations quiet.
Thanks
The lobbyists should be put on trial.
That book is brilliant. You should create a ebook out of it
Hi Dave Thanks for another interesting video with its usual high production standards. 👏👏
Thank you for evil story time. Happy Holidays to all!
Cheers Scott
Dave, I can’t thank you enough for such an outstanding and useful video and message. Thank you for exposing the truth.
Love your Christmas story dave
The sad, sick, pathetic outcome of COPout28. Sorry, Sultan Jabber, but I for the last 12 years my rooftop solar has powered my "cave" and car just fine.
They have to rebuild trust, for their trust funds I assume.
The children’s book is absolutely brilliant!
Thank you Dave and have a happy Christmas too.
Once again a brilliant clip, and even a great piece of animation. Excellent stuff, thanks!
Love your style this time Dave. Great use of sarcasm.
Also love the strong feelings shed here. I feel that anger and desperation are very appropriate feelings in the time we live on
1:01 The perfect description of the WEF
Is gaslighting fueled by hydrocarbon methane?
No, they use coal gas.
@@trueriver1950 Coal gas is methane FYI.
@@a.randomjack6661 I knew it! It's a conspiracy 😉
@@TennesseeJed Methane hydrates are ice crystals surrounding a CH4 molecule.
It's still the CH4 molecules that causes the warming of methane hydrates. 🤷♂
Every gas molecule made of 3 or more atoms is a greenhouse gas that acts like a heating blanket.
Where we say we measure "global warming" of... lets say a mild 1,5°C , we only measure 2,3% of the actual "global warming", since 93,4% first goes into the oceans and the rest goes in land masses (also thaws permafrost) and the melting of ice.
It keeps accumulating by hundreds of zettajoules per second before releasing it to the troposphere.
If we'd live in the oceans, we,d be talking a lot more about global warming and about ocean acidification.
You'd be in an ER if your body had acidified that much. It has really serious effects on the basis of the food chain. But why care about 71% of the planets surface...
Happy Holidays Dave!
Cheers. You too.
Okay Dave, you're not the missing Grimm brother but we like you anyway.
Can't really say we didn't see this coming. Great video, I really liked the children's book, my kids really enjoyed it as well. Your videos are brilliant, thank you.
Have a good Xmas Dave.
Thanks. You too.
Great story time! Nobody needed a crystal ball for the COP28 outcome, and I'm not surprised, other feelings tho come to the top, that I can't express here
With the COP's pace, we will get a text that push fossil fuel transition in 2050 if we are lucky.
Great video as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video! The truth, delivered with thinly veiled anger, totally reflecting my own sentiment. I look forward to the upcoming vids from the channel.
Ahh mate, you summed it up so well, 'You could not make it up' :D
We moved to AU half a year ago, and we are amazed of the amount of oil propaganda everywhere. Cannot be compared to the UK/EU level
Well... ALLEGED actual grownups...
Hi Dave. Happy to give you a piece of my mind on your great work. I don’t mind the advertising appearing periodically on TH-cam. It reminds me to get off my bum and go live my life. These COP meetings are degenerating into a public disgrace.
How can something degenerate from always been degenerate?
@@ceeemm1901 Good point.
Merry Christmas to you to. Keep pedaling.
Thanks Dave, you've done sterling work this year, very much appreciated. Nice to see u doing Fully Charged stuff too, another excellent TH-cam channel. Warm wishes
Dave, you should publish Children's Books on Climate Truth. Narrate them too. It's the only way some of these _Parents_ are going to learn the facts with OPEC around. 👍
Some brand new gaslighting emerging from the most lucrative business in human history
Oh and they have lots of gas to do said lighting.
Happy Christmas, Dave🎄
Was the theme for COP28 drill baby drill? Asking for a friend.
Happy Christmas.
Excellent content (as always) and superb production values. This is a masterpiece of communication Dave. Thank you very much! Keep up the good work.
Amazing amount of work put into this. Thank you Dave.
I hope that by now people in global south countries realized that no meaningful help will come from developed nations. It would require sacrifices that we are not ready to make... or for sure our political representatives are not ready to make. They will have to find a way to help themselves.
At least the global south can get the advantage of the clean energy technology that the global north has developed, and thereby have a decent quality of life without having to resort to filthy carbon fuels.
Absolutely. I wonder if they're willing to wait until 2050?@@incognitotorpedo42
And the issue is with this is they are going to follow....give poor people an extra five dollars a day and they have a 100% increase in consumption.
The next 100 years could look like the last 200.
@@incognitotorpedo42 I am not sure this is the case. It is usually a matter of power. Like when the west could have provided vaccines or release patent protection but as far as I recall they simply did not do that because it would cost too much... contrary to popular belief, lives are not as important as dollars to people like Bill Gates.
@@antonyjh1234 Pulling people out of poverty should be a no brainer but we are not a very smart species.
Absolutely amazing
Thank you :-)
Unbelievable this, even the adds in between. I'm not use to this on your channel. But keep up the good work. 👍
@justhaveathink, thanks for including our IEEFA summary piece in your video. Greatly appreciate the work you are doing in conveying fact-based information and critical thinking on this.
Thank you for such a clear analysis. It seems that the only way the world pivots quickly from fossil fuels is the simple economics of sustainable energy production,storage and use, in comparison with burning stuff. That is subject to the same interference from FF lobby as is occurring presently and which will be massively ramped up in the next (multiple election) year.
Simple economics don't answer the question of all money is debt and is reliant on the same amount of energy that we use now to be paid.
I think they’ve reached agreements and made commitments that will save us all. With $0.09 per person dedicated to solving this issue what could possibly go wrong?
Thank you so much for all the work you put in to bring this vital information to us. I wish you and yours a peaceful and joyful Christmas.
Hi Dave, I saw 2 ads for 5 seconds. Keep up the good work. Public knowledge is the best tool we have to force change.
Caves are cool.
There is a basic reality that those making a vast amount of money from doing X will alway be willing to spend a small part of that money in order to keep doing X (cost of business). However, once that "small part" gets to be not so small, denial of X will happen, followed by active gaslighting about X, followed by "national defense" against the many who must suffer so that the few can keep making vast amounts of money from doing X.
Haven't you just described Capitalism?
Remove all oil products from your life and see how easy it is. No plastics, no synthetic threads, half our food is fertilised from a fossil fuel source.
it would be any ism that was able to access the huge amounts of energy that we did after ww2 and with the same ignorance, would have done the same.
Thank you for the commentary.
Love it love it love it✌🏼👍🏼🫶🏼 happy holidays!
No problem if this COP was a bit weak in its conclusions... the next one will be held in an open, democratic and renewable-powered country like Azerbaijan... oh wait
I have just passed my sixty-second birthday. So if I give myself another eight years to seventy. That will do. Nothing I can do beyond being extremely careful to minimise electricity usage to help, and nothing I can do to influence those who are in the position where they could start to cause a a reduction in annual CO2 emissions.
So I shall continue to enjoy small pleasure such as walking my Terrier [Paterdale bitch, who is three], smoking a few roll-ups, and enjoying a glass or two of red wine. No interest in surviving till I am seventy-five or eighty, so long as I outlive the little dog.
I feel very sorry for those younger than me. It is going to be horrible for millions and billions of people in decades to come. It already is already for some.
Thanks for the video. Informative and nicely presented as ever. George
There is something you can do. Vote correctly and put pressure on your political representatives. Those things actually matter.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Quite right. Currently my MP is Conservative with a rather large majority. As polling goes it seems the Greens are now neck and neck with the Labour Party and Liberals in single figures. The choice of candidate therefore is rather simple. The most likely to win, who is not Conservative.
But for a properly managed election, we absolutely need Proportional Representation.
I have had a couple of replies from my sitting MP, which were wordy, but ultimately useless word salad platitudes. No points of substance made, just rambling repetitions of intentions to improve things rather than any concrete proposals for "how" this might be managed! It was clearly a pro-forma type email, because a friend of mine also had the same - word for word -except for the name of the addressees! Sent the same day as well.
I am very much looking forward to the General Election!
Best wishes from George
Right there with you..out at 70.
@@TobinMiller-wt6yf 🙂
Bravo Dave for this insightful report!! Happy Christmas!!
A brilliant…exceptional synopsis…setting a new standard…thx
"Earth Overshoot day" was August 2,d this year. It,s exactly like going through your yearly budget and having to borrow from the future (the essence of debt) to make it till January first.
"Earth Overshoot day" is about renewable resources, like forest and fisheries. It is calculated for every year since the 1970's but the Corporatocracy Empire does not want you to know, so we rarely hear about it and much less about what it means.
All the more reason to stop wasting money on the climate clap trap, and put it where its actually needed.
@@manoo422 Most nuclear power plants (3900 approx.) are built at sea level and the Artic circle is melting and producing methane at increasing rate. When sea levels rises or falls the consequence to all inhabitants of the Earth should not be underestimated.
@@Rustea314 Sea levels have been rising at a constant rate since measurements began, well over 100 years ago.
Methane is irrelevant for 2 reasons, its concentration is so low and any tiny effect it has is replicated by water vapour anyway.
@@manoo422 Greenhouse gases are gas molecules made up of 3 or more atoms.
In any physics lab equipped with a white light source and a spectroscope, can mesure how much heat (IR) they each can trap.
The rest is maths, much less complicated than General Relativity equations.
Global warming is not measured by temperature, but in watts per square meter measured by satellites on the surface of the tropopause, a thin layer between the troposphere (where al the climate/weather happens and only about 13 km thin on average).
It was 1,7 watts per square meter in 1979 and at 3,4 watts er square meter in 2022.
The troposphere is only 2,3% of where the warming gets trapped, 93,4% gets trapped in the oceans. The little that's left warms land masses and melts ice.
So, when they say 1.5 ;C, it represent only 2,3% of the actual "global warming".
CO2 also acidifies the oceans, which in itself is worrying enough for the future of life on this planet.
@@a.randomjack6661 @manoo is not the type to understand science. He believes what the right wing fossil shills tell him.
I think it’s important to not just point out how opac is really spending cash but how the global financial market is set to make this happen
It took me until 50 to get that capitalism is killing us - I got the oil is bad part ages ago I just didn’t make the connection- yes I’m Neuro divergent so if you don’t make stuff clear I don’t always get it - but so are lots of people- not to mention that the education system (in the US at least) doesn’t teach critical thinking or research until university
I’m very worried unless we the people can’t act globally we’re all f’d 😢
Absolutely brilliant work! Thank you!
The children book idea appears to me like the maximum brainpower level at which these things are understandable for average governments, media people and ... other people.
Thanks for another great video and for letting us know about the advert issue. I did not see one. The story book was great. I didn’t like the music, no one should get paid for that. Will the beneficiary donate the proceeds to fighting climate change?
Thanks for your feedback. Sadly it is unlikely the recipient will donate their money (if they make any)