Europe is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?
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- Europe is now the fastest warming continent on the planet. The European Environment Agency has just published it's first ever Climate Risk Assessment, which finds that EU policies are nothing like robust enough to cope with what's coming our way. So, what's the plan??
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Unfortunately, it just isn't cost effective to save civilization.
Should I PANIC !!!
@@weldonyoung1013 You should learn to grow your own food! Might come in real handy...
@@kated3165 ... And make sure you are at least 200 miles from your nearest neighbour, or they'll come, with their guns, to take your home-grown food!
@@gamingtonight1526it takes a minimum of 12 people to protect a small area (building/home/property). Guaranteed that those wanting what you have will be willing to risk life & limb …either yours or theirs and travel without boundary to get it
@@gamingtonight1526 Depends where you live and how resourceful the people are. You just know that if the big food corps can't get the usual they are going to find SOME crazy alternatives to continue making profits. Perhaps not very nutritional nor palatable but if they have to mix sawdust with 10 carcinogens and some unusual grain flour, you know they will...
Wouldn't want to be in a mega metropolis that's for sure... but towns, suburbs and even some smaller cities have land to spare that could be converted for home grown food. There are lawns galore, parks... heck there's probably some way of converting those endless parking lots. Maybe not in places like Texas where the heat is going to dry the land to a crisp though...
North East England here. Apologies southern Europe, we seem to have all your rain. Please feel free to take it back at your earliest convenience.
Well, if you've got some of southern Europe's rain we must have got the rest of it! (southern Scotland here!)
Don't forget though that England also had a drought and record temperature highs as recently as 2021
@@maszlagmaEngland has also had virtually no investment in reservoir capacity for decades while population has continued to grow
@@ricardosmythe2548 and while water companies have continued to get nice shareholder payouts
@@diceman199 true and worse still most of those dividend payouts were made by endebting the water companies to the point that today they have little capacity to improve infrastructure. Something like 30% of Thames bills go to paying interest on debt took out to pay dividends. They should be taken under public ownership without compensation.
The problem is that the entire global financial system absolutely demands infinite growth on a finite planet in order to 'work'...and the only possible way out (apart from the nightmare of system collapse and a mad max world) would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would almost unanimously AGREE we definitely NEED to have done and work much less. It would then no longer be an infinite growth system. It would no longer demand 'growth' in order for the system to 'work' and collapse couldn't happen because we would be doing everything we NEED to do.
Spot on!!
People will share money with people who dont when people with wives share them with people who dont
Exactly. Why does there always need to be growth and competition.
Or , we could just dismantle the idea of capitalism of infinite growth , because for those who are unaware , stop growing does not cause a crisis , is what the capitalists do to keep growing ( massive lay offs, pressure on goverments for bail outs and neoliberalism practices as a hole) that cause a crisis.
@@RestWithinBecause it is greatly preferable to stagnation and depression--financial and psychological.
In Ireland farmers are looking for the government to bail them out. Cattle that were wintered in September last year are still in sheds, with farmers running out of silage to feed them. The fields are saturated and won't support the weight of machine used to cut the silage!
Tillage farmer have the same problem of equipment sinking into the wet ground, prevent the sewing of crops.
It's reported that it has rained somewhere in Ireland every day since last July!
Look to where the WEATHER is coming from. It's tropical evaporation driven by the sustained El Nino. What part the massive Hunga Tonga volcano is playing no-one seems to know with any certainty.
It's WEATHER and weather doesn't come with guarantees that it will be :"average" or close to it.
@@johnm838
Weather takes it's cues from climate, so as the climate heats up that tells the atmosphere to suck up more water, the winds, and the rotation of the Earth decide where that water comes down. That's weather. Being able to differentiate the two, and understanding that they influence each other in very complex ways, is very important to understanding that it isn't business as usual anymore.
@@jimthain8777well said 👏 the lack of insight of some can be scary to read 😏
"In Ireland farmers are looking for the government to bail ..."
Out their Paddy fields?
I'll get my coat.
It’s annEl Niño year.. we have had wet winters before.. don’t make the childish mistake Olof think that you understand climate change by looking observations based on one winter.. please. Open your eye.. It was warmer in the medieval period and the Roman period and there was no co2 being emitted. Open your eyes people and research the facts. Look at the Dansgaurd oeschger oscillations and the beryllium 10 isotope proxy data that coincides perfectly with the mini ice age.. it’s the sun that controls it all and it co2.. in fact the co2 on the atmosphere is natural, being out gassed green the thousands of thermal vents in the ocean.. the keeling graph in Hawaii measures co2 in isolation from humanity this it gives good responsiveness to base line change’s without suffer fluctuations yet in 2000 it didn’t see a spike in co2 up ramping when china and India suffer led massive growth l not did the keelings graph see and reduction in co2 output when the world wide lock downs started.. co2 is a scam.. cop on..
Agri business lobbies in Ireland are scratching their domes over why rain and water saturation in soil has been so consistently bad from Sept 2023 up to April 2024. It's not like anyone was warned about a record warming Arctic bringing more precipitation wreaking havoc on tillage and livestock farms?
Ireland needs a nuclear power plant but I think Ireland should focus on economic growth because realistically Irelands action will have no significant impact on climate no matter what we do, if we can afford to import food we will survive if we can't we wont
@@domista123with all due respect, you're talking bollocks. Ireland's economy has been focusing on nothing but growth - a growth in wealth inequality
I was talking about how lobbyists of wealthy Agri business lobbies with a direct line to our media this week called for government help despite years of backlashing against the Nature Restoration Law in which restoring hedgerows and ponds would have helped against waterlogged soils in massive barren fields, particularly those owned by wealthy farmers/landlords with +700 cattle in a herd swamping fields in E-Coli. They contributed handsomely to the demonisation of nature protection and emissions reduction for their own gain and now are acting cute and surprised at the miserable growing conditions affecting their yields and CAP incomes. (70%of the EU CAP budget goes to 20% of farms, the largest and most "productive"). That doesn't help the fact that vast majority of Ireland's domestically grown food by the tonne is exported while fruit and veg is mostly imported. It's a deeply unbalanced pro-market economy and Irish farmers for decades have been pushed into famine, debt, destitution, addiction and suicides while the big and successful farmers buy everything up.
And about Nuclear - we're grid tied to France a nuclear juggernaut we don't need our own necessarily. We're still running gas and coal plants that are perfectly convertible to an array of different energy types Just Have A Think have covered for years.
We have more than enough potential with wind a solar, we just have near zero grid storage and inflexible grid management held back further by private for profit energy traders.
Some near retirement farmers are giving up the farm this year. Mostly sheep farming but the continually rain, never been a dry 24hrs since October 23 to April 24. Just worn down by depression.
@@caterthun4853that's the terrible thing since the intensification of farming. It destroyed the social fabric in rural Ireland all because supermarkets and traders can squeeze that extra bit of profit in and manipulate CAP rules and regulations in their favour
They just didn't get the memo.
Lots of folks still encouraging traveling even though planes, cars, and cruise ships are horribly polluting. Food waste, meat production, and plastics use are all done without any thought. No one wants to change anything until they are starving or drowning and then they'll blame the govrnment.
Almost everyone seems to think cheaper air fares are a good thing. Surely prices need to be increased as a disincentive for people to travel.
I'm 68 and we have been extolling the virtues of renewables for nearly 20 years. Our house more-or-less pwoers itself and the car. We aren't affected by the skyhigh price of energy. And yet, when I talk to a lot of my peer group about solar and heatpumps etc, the usual question is "how long will it take to get my money back." They don't appear to care about the prospects for thier children and grandchildren. I just don't get it 🤔
These are pretty expensive though. Solar panels and heat pumps will not be subsidized meaningfully by the government, unless it's a radical one.
@@efthimios1917 There should be more financial help for those willing to have them installed and more effort directed at training the electricians and plumbers who are needed to carry out the work !
Ditto. I have solar+storage, and generate more energy than I use each day. This is when the sun is shining, which is most days of the year. (Winter is kind of rough.) That's why I don't think one can completely get rid of fossil fuels. (And they won't let me put a nuclear generator in my back yard.). Still, it's a great way to reduce one's need for fossil fuels, have some degree of energy independence.
The clean energy sector is severe need of its own version of "firm power". It has to be low carbon. The other big problem is that it is hard to beat the convenience, energy, and power density of fossil fuels. And nuclear takes forever to build.
And while I think one can go a long way to individual self sufficiency (or close to it), with solar+storage, one has to take into account large manufacturing economies, with power intensive industries, such as China. Also, some of Europe. And increasingly the US as more manufacturing (which includes chips, battery plants, ...). And the whole situation has gotten worse, with the advent of AI, data centers that essentially have to run 24/7.
In the US, one can theoretically address this with renewables and transmission lines. But getting permitting and interconnects have been roadblocks to IRA's full potential. This seems almost intractable. I see a lot of possibilities with technology. The weakest link, seem to be getting human beings to agree. The more that this is required, the less likely it will happen. It seems we are our own worse enemy.
Only humans in the top 0.5% of the worldwide income distribution can afford stuff like that if they are to have money left over to buy food & pay their mortgage.
I too am off grid , totally independent from the Pocos greedy grasp, I am continually asked about the "payback" period , why oh why is that the criteria ? We need to focus on self reliance not profit .
I'm so sorry. I made a joke when meeting you at the everything electric show on Saturday. I said your video is the highlight of my Sunday, and the low point of my wife's. It was a terrible joke and your face told me it didn't come across as I meant it. I'm so embarrassed and sorry. She's not as into TH-cam videos on the climate crisis as I am, and that is no reflection on you personally. I was just trying to make a joke by comparison, but it was bad. Your videos are incredible, thank you for making them.
Did you call him Arsehead
It was a good joke, don't expect everyone to get your jokes however.
Don't worry about, it's all a hoax anyway.
Sounds like a good joke!
Lolz, reminds me of my socially akward moments. I know how u feel 😊
Our governments aren't going to do anything. It's not producing maximum value for their shareholders. We're screwed.
Lol they're already doing something - it's called "demand destruction", C19 (and vaccing) etc. 😂
They're reducing but people just aren't picking up on some of it
They are, you just dont know it 😂
blame the idiots who keep voting for those obstructing and denying.
@@ThatOpalGuy why blame people that have been manipulated?
@@gulaschnikov5335It’s really insulting to someone when you say they have been manipulated. How do you know that you’re not being manipulated?
By the way: if you want to see the wonders of green tech: take a look on Germany & how it runs it’s industry into the ground
Yeah, look at it. Really, do. Very closely. The data is telling - the impact is almost non-existent. It's just CEOs crying about not being able to exploit even more, and trying to get more government money and tax breaks.
On the other hand... Germany, despite its tons of "green" legislation, sucks at being green. It's still way above European average at per capita emissions (including accounting for imports/exports). Sure, there are European countries that are even worse (usually oil & gas producers or resellers, or countries with very small populations like Luxembourg or Estonia), but... Germans still live large. And while the electricity production is now almost entirely covered with renewables (letting other countries on the grid pick up the slack when renewables are down, so not exactly sustainable yet at that)... there's still the _massive_ consumption of natural gas. And still a lot of car-centric design, and car use, and the huge chunk of the economy propped up by car and fossil fuel industries.
yeah, Germany has really nice demos. but nothing up to scale required. And the demos are what they are - demos. not cost-effective. Actually they harm the situation as they do overselling and market their tech as functional while it's not.
I work remotely 4 out of 5 days a week, avoiding the 60 km one-way commute to work. My small contribution to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.
Thanks, it's a bigger contribution than you think it is.
Every little bit helps a lot more than certain industries would have us believe.
If only it could be possible for more people, or to live closer to your place of work...
@@squa_81
It can and it will be the norm, but it will require a new economic model.
Eternal growth is not physically possible, so we will have to produce stuff that lasts.
The good news is that this is possible and will require a lot less work. We will therefore have less stress and more free time.
The future will be less bling and more living if we do it right.
Or not at all if we screw up.
At the same time 10 humans in China and Indea etc., transitioned from poor to relatively wealthy state, and now use more cars, eat more food and purchase much more goods. So it's like you reduced your effects on Earth by -1, but everyone else added +10. And this transition only started.
@@squa_81By the way, I'm planning to build my first house closer to work. At the moment, I have decided on a frame house with hempcrete walls, which, due to the amount of CO2 absorbed by hemp, will have a negative carbon footprint. Also I want to heat it with summer heat using a technique called AGS (Annualized Geo Solar), which stores heat for winter.
I wish I could say that my country, Canada, has anything constructive to contribute to the climate crisis, but it looks like we are going in the opposite direction.
Our largest oil producing province outlawed any new renewable energy projects for months, and now are limiting them based on some very dubious criteria, while oil projects can proceed as always.
Several provinces have banded together to challenge the carbon tax and, along with the anticipated next federal government, will eliminate any consequences for the damage done by carbon emitters and leave the cost of climate change to the average tax-payer.
We have long been among the world's worst carbon emitters on a per-capita basis, and there seems to be no change in that fact on the horizon.
Yep, we're fucked.
I weep for our children's future here in Canada. Saskatchewan and Alberta are keeping their heads firmly in the oil sand. It's an embarrassment, but it's my home. The ridiculous conservative base here makes it difficult to have a voice. Climate denial on tap everywhere you look.
Mass immigration is an even larger contributor to our emissions increase than the oil sands. The current immigrant stream sees its per capita ghg emissions increase by a factor of 4 when they come and live in this extreme climate. Add that with the oil sands production increase and also include the stunning forest fire emissions (which we actually can't do much about) and Canada almost qualifies as a planet killer. - at least on a per capita basis. We have no strategy to achieve sustainability or ghg reductions as the oil and immigration lobbies basically own the media corps and call the shots.
@@devons2381Yeah, this is where EVs are going to be fun. As oil prices crash, the fossil fools will be left with stranded assets. Ideally, you should ensure that this hits the investors.
Would you mind mentioning the fact that the mining sector and other related industries and going to need to 10x in order to move away from fossil fuels? Apart from the increased pollution in producing renewables its just not feasible when its hard to keep up with the mines demand as is.
Never underestimate the need of an American to need someone with a funny British accent to tell them what's going on in front of their eyes, or the futility of it.
Climate change is the most over-exaggerated problem in history. These self-serving reports are a joke. What a coincidence, they find the EU needs more bureaucracies.
What a load of propaganda garbage! Love the way your graphs only go back to a point thats suits the EU. What about the Roman times when it was 1.5 degrees hotter than today.
@@designtime3469citation plz
@@designtime3469 Please enlighten us how the average global temperatures in late Antiquity invalidate the need to adapt to the rapidly progressing climate change we are experiencing right now.
@@nukkuminen simple we are not! Your being brainwashed! Just remember if this climate hoax fails then everything NETZERO falls apart!
The real risk is continental famine across the globe.
I about spit my coffee out laughing @ 1:38. I do appreciate you switching between existential dread and hope. However, my favorite part is the humor in your presentations. Between the terrific British accent - Yank here - and the humor, it's a great start to many a Sunday.
BE afraid 😱
You said it, Brian, thanks!👏
True - although I'm mostly here for the knowledge the humor helps and let's admit that we Yanks do love a British accent.
Sorry, I prefer the british accent over the north american accent.
@@derkeniry2008 Could not agree more! I like Kiwi, then Brit, then Aus. accents for English. Can't say I'm a fan of my own accent, but way too much work to fix after so many decades ;-) Cheers!
Of course we are cooking at double speed in Europe. We have thousands of highly trained french Michelin star restaurant chefs.
When John Kerry resigned his position after COP 28 we had to know that solving the Global Warming problem was politically impossible under the current world political environment !
You mean the fuctitious global warming problem.
The tiny bit of warming we've had is 80% positive and 20% negative.
I'll take that any day.
@@jamesgreig5168 and you're just getting started - enjoy.
I am from India and we are used to hot weather and getting hotter as we speak, but what surprised me was how hotter European summers have become, I lived in Germany for a while and saw how summers have become prolonged and hotter and drier. Heatwaves are common, my friends from Germany tell me how snowfall is reduced and snow season is shorter than ever. What surprised me personally was how the landscape looked dry and brown like dry straw when I visited last October which is Autumn season. This phenomenon we see in India outside of monsoon season, everything is green in monsoon and then couple of months later plants get dried out because of evaporation due to heat, I couldn’t believe I would see that in country like Germany so farther up north months after summer was over. It is going to be rough for Europe especially when people and ecology is not used to hot weather like us in tropical parts of the world
Yeah, it's getting worse and worse. Meanwhile, I was feeling really bad for you people in India, when I saw that temperatures were up to 37 degrees Celsius this Easter. That's about as hot as it gets here in Germany mid summer. When it's that hot in India now, how are you going to survive the hot summer months? Must be like 50 degrees Celsius in the warmest cities! How do you even breathe in that? How do you get any work done? People with illnesses, injuries and old age must be dying so fast in such awful temperatures. I'm really worried about you!
As an European, the short answer is a resounding NO ;(
Not to confuse weather with climate but I live in Latvia - today I there was 20+ degrees outside and now a night it is +14 degrees and I am sitting with window fully open. The normal temperature for us at this time of the year is barely positive and it is normal to have snow here in march..
All the monthly national temperature records got smashed today and tomorrow it is forecasted that there will be even more records together with powerful thunderstorms which normally can happen only in summer..
I have to report to you Dave and the current audience that I've just remarked to my wife what late / early night temperature she would expect here in Belarus on the last day of March! I've lived here for 15 years and usually it's still freezing but getting warmer! This evening it's still 20C outside at 11:15 and forecast to be 24C tomorrow too! Unbelievably warm! 🥵
WOW! Scary stuff :-(
Thats the weather for you, unreliable.
IT was 30C today here in my town in central Serbia .In 80s when i was teen we would always had 2-3 months off snow every winter,this year 0 ,none .But i not complaine the more i get older the more i hate cold weather
Thank you for real world reporting!
@@JustHaveaThinkwhy is that scary?? If it happened all the time, perhaps. Anomalies in weather are something we expect.
Thanks Dave!
I'm always happy when I receive notifications of a new upload. Sometimes not so happy after watching the video.
I suspect that if we were happy after watching one of Dave's videos we would have missed the point.
We need the concern and perhaps some fear to motivate us out of apathy and into action.
Sadly I notice that even our green politicians are more concerned about the use of pronouns than our abuse of this planet.
@@aoc8548 Well, some of his videos are about promising solutions and technologies.
But I agree with the NEED to be concerned.
Aren't you easily amused by this "children's science" series!
@@johnm838 Please explain.
@@johnm838 ... waiting
Interesting that the IPCC cant find any trends on extreme weather events, let alone a connection to man made global warming
"Interesting that the IPCC cant find any trends on extreme weather events, let alone a connection to man made global warming" That's simply false: The 6th IPCC report lists plenty of such trends and effects. Try Table 12.2.
@@karlwheatley1244 But if you look at chart 12.12, there are no entries for the current time period for anything relating to Drought, Flood or Wind, they do predict what may happen post 2050. When it categorises historic changes in temperature in the tropics, there has been little to no accurate measurement in those area, because they don't have the same amount of weather stations that exist in the USA/Europe. Many of our weather stations were built in the early 20th century and located just outside towns, to avoid human activity, yet be close enough to travel to, in order to take readings. As our towns have expanded, since the early 1900's, those same weather stations are now well within our towns. Major cities such as London or Paris, etc can be 5ºC warmer in the centre than the outskirts, therefore that data is no longer reliable. Satellite data, that we have had since 1979 shows little global warming since they have been gathering data.
The Global Warming industry has become a multi trillion dollar industry, creating millions of jobs, if CO2 were found no to be the main cause of climate change, they would all be out of a job, so it is in their interest to perpetuate the theory.
Literally just turned nearly twenty degrees Celsius yesterday in ireland with torrential rains. This is unheard of in april. The rain has been non stop all spring, last winter and last autumn. My area is flooding month after month and we dont have the infrastructure or homes to do ANYTHING. Im just watching my area fill with water, it’s pooling around our ankles while we’re twiddling our thumbs. And it’s not like it’s isolated, this is happening the whole way across the county and the surrounding counties along the coast. And yet they’re STILL BUILDING in my area. This is a floodplain!?! It’s actively filling with water and theyre not doing anything but build people who can clearly afford it new fancy houses.
In 1947 it snowed for three months. The European "Little Ice Age" happened between the 15th and 18th centuries approx. and even the climate "experts" cannot agree to what caused it . Extreme weather events are not unusual!
Too many live in fantasyland. And there are several varieties that fit different kinds of illusion.
I was definitely not expecting the f-bomb from someone seemingly so level-headed. Not complaining, though.
Contour ditches and hedges, ponds, lakes, a Europe wide landscaping project to catch all those extreme weather events...that would help
And Beavers.. do a lot of that stuff but they were removed from our isles centuries ago.
Intensive Poultry and overstocking pasture land also causes problems .. this last year being a classic example.
It's not enough, but a very good start, i think we need a thousand small solutions, instead of searching for one cure
@@d.p.2680we already have "the one cure" but politicians are making too much money to implement it - stop burning stuff.
@@d.p.2680probably closer to 8 billion small solutions. The more of us who choose not to have kids, the better the planet will be.
I live near the Ebro river in Catalonia in Spain.
Local people describe the disappearance of the regular autumnal and spring rains which they relied on for crops.
A local reservoir is completely dry.
Yet when the hydroelectric dam has to open its bypass due to heavy rains here and upriver, that water is just allowed to flow into the Med. There is no infrastructure to divert it to divert high volumes to that nearby reservoir.
We do need a million smaller projects.
In North America our zombie forest fires also aren't being out out over the winter because there isn't enough precipitation to get deep enough into the ground to put them out so they will simply continue to burn and reignite the surface in spring. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened fairly soon.
If we were to go straight to carbon capture technology, it would cost almost 18 trillion dollars to simply hold us at +2C.
Of course, we *do* give the fossil fuel industry $6 trillion per year in subsidies so... (and that's ignoring one off events like the wars for oil that cost 2 trillion and 4000 US Soldier's lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and citizens) at the turn of the century.
We can't hold at 2C.
There's 170 billion tonnes of carbon in the permafrost, and as mentioned at 0:30, it's already thawing. That's equivalent to 170-17,000 years worth of current emissions depending on what proportion comes out as CO2 or Methane.
We either get back to near pre-industrial temperatures, or we shoot up to over 12C.
Money won't matter if we are over 12C.
Plenty of billionaires out there, they just need to cough up rather than buying bigger yachts.
@jean-pierredeclemy7032 no this is beyond billionaires. Sure, they need to pay their share of taxes. But this is on the scale of national governments.
We don't see a backfall in general precipitation in Western Europe during this warmest winter on record, it was also the wettest winter and as I'm writing this it pisses down again!
My pessimism says things are so bad they can not get worse, but optimism says YES they CAN.
I have liked this video, although I can't say I like what you are telling us here.
I live in an old council estate housing project in the Netherlands and I have to get increasingly creative to keep the house cool in summer. From planting beans on the south facing wall to reflective window foil to alufoil wrapped pieces of styrofoam and chalk paint on the flat roof. I don't have money for sunscreens or letting the AC run all summer (neither do I want to) and as long as the temperature drops during nighttime I can keep it below 26. But many old people suffer due to the heat in these old, badly insulated houses with huge windows and often flat roofs. They're like literal ovens!
Cheers up, the Germans have it worse.
Meanwhile most Americans have central AC and have their thermostat set at about 21C.
Once you become accustomed to central AC, you never want to go back to roughing it.
My first thought was - if he has flat roof, use solarcells and run AC on that.
But "Most americans" is NOT who we need to be inspired by when it comes to the climate crisis.
First of all, if the power for the AC is somehow renewable, it is most likely by coincident because they live close to a nuclear plant or hydro.
Secondly, with how widespread AC is becoming now, we have to realize they themself contribute to the problem. The heat doesn't dissapear, it is just moved, it is moved outside. And in cities, more and more heat are moved, to a point where it is now measurable that cities is hotter. This leads to more people getting AC, and the ac having to run even more to combat all the heat your neighbours (and yourself) are pumping out.
Just running a lot of AC and setting it to cold is not a good idea. We are most likely going to need heatpumps. but we might need to rethink them, and we might not want to go quite so hard on the cooling. Just like we don't go too hard on the heating in winter. @@stevenverrall4527
@@stevenverrall4527 I don't want to drive a SUV and I don't want to use AC all summer. In winter I have the thermostat at 16 most of the day, 14 or 13 at night. And I still pay €300 a month for heating. How the @#€& do you expect me to pay for running an AC all summer and use even more fossil fuels probably? American solutions are expensive and short sighted.
I've got freezing cold temps here in Northeastern USA. Come take your cold air back Europe!
It’s unseasonably cold here in UK at the moment, many people telling me they still have their heating on which is unusual hereabouts.
It's raining here (Ireland) and hasn't stopped raining since I can remember. Some might envy us but it means animals can't be put out to grass and potatoes can't be planted. Food is going to be expensive. Thanks and God bless (there's no other hope).
Action is better than hope.
Those animals are one of the problems obviously.
If we'd use the plants to feed humans directly instead to feed cows, we would need much less plants. More expensive meat wouldn't be a bad thing.
Ask Netherlands for solution, drain water to tankers and export to Spain
@@piotrd.4850 Are you serious? Is that a thing now? Exporting water in a tanker?
Thankyou for giving overall talks that break down complex issues in such a clear and engaging way 👏
I just love all this! I mean... not this news of course, mr. Messenger of Doom. But the way you dig in these papers and technologies and provide us with quality material to understand the depth of this crisis and ways to cope with it.
Thank you so much!
I multiply the reach of some of your content using it to prepare physics classes for my hundreds of high school students.
Cheers from Brazil!
P.S.: TH-cam is allowing dual audio or something. I haven't checked the details, but I'd be willing to help translating stuff to Brazilian Portuguese. I don't think we have material or such quality around here. And it's useful in classrooms: the youngling need to be aware of what's coming up...
The young need to be taught how to think, people like you are teaching them how to panic and voice opinion instead.
@@user-li2tj3ev2x hello! I don't know if I expressed myself properly. Usually I use the videos to get into the latest news and technologies myself. Then I am more prepared to inspire the students towards innovative solutions, and to show them possibilities on how to help cope with the crisis. I expect them to feel confident to pursue careers in engineering and research, for instance.
That in the classroom.
On TH-cam... I see your point there, indeed. Maybe focusing on the innovative initiatives is the better approach, instead of the critically alarming ones.
You gave me something to think about, thanks.
I appreciate the offer. You can find me on LinkedIn to chat about that.
The temperatures we're experiencing in SE Transylvania (25-28 C) were typical for end of June, when I was a kid.
Never ever have I seen such high values at the end of March.
In the '80, snow used to melt in mid March. April's temps rarely reached 20 C.
Remember that big undersea volcano explosion in 2022 that increased global atmospheric water vapour by around 10% according to NASA? I'm just wondering why this is hardly mentioned in any global warming related video , as water vapour is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.
@@philipwright6617 It is not mentioned, just like how the Sun was in a grand solar maximum cycle from the 1950's to around 2000 and that most climate scientists only factor in Solar irradiance as a warming mechanism from the Sun, because it doesn't conveniently support the mainstream narrative of humans equal bad, we need much less humans on the planet, as believed and touted by folks like Bill Gates who come from wealthy families with a very long and powerful involvement in eugenics. (You better believe that those beliefs 1. didn't die 2. just went underground. 3. and definitely got passed down to Gates generation).
@@philipwright6617 that's an interesting fact that I never heard of (did check today).
But it does not cancel the truth about the past 100+ years of artificial CO2 and methane rise.
@@AcvaristulLenesCo2 is a minuscule component of the atmosphere and our contribution to its production is minuscule.
@@thisisnumber0 The fact that it's a miniscule component of the atmosphere is exactly why our emissions are so important. If there was 5% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, our emissions would have no measurable effect. But we actually managed to significantly increase the concentration, which is bad for _so many reasons_ , not just warming.
Thanks Dave for the 20% discount on my Everything Electric Show ticket. Saw one of your hosted sessions as well as lots of other good stuff. Highly recommend
Awesome, thank you!
No mention of the benefits of a warming climate. The planet is greening and crop yields are booming
Really well done, accessibly and very easy to follow and yet robustly researched! Glad to support you on patreon!
Tx for the update. There are 9 planetary boundaries for a liveable planet - the globe has surpassed 6 and nearing the other 3.
We've more- or- less known about the global warming since the late 1800s; the odd brainy scientist been warning us about it since the 1970s / 80s: the first international sustainable development conference was held in 1992; and there was an economist report in 2006 (the Stern Report). Several international agreements were signed in 2016 (including 2030 Agenda & 17 SDGs & Sendai Framework on Hazard Risk Reduction awa urban development via the New Urban Agenda (75 - 80% of people will live in cities by 2050'ish)) to plan a collective sustainable way forward into the next century.
Progress made? Well no - we're going backwards in terms of human rights (esp for women), fossil fuel expansion (which is accelerating), decreasing democracies with more plutocracies, increasing incidence of extreme weather, food & water insecurity, awa more waste & pollution etc. Yet the enviro & climate crisis hardly registers on anyone's urgency list - being more worried about the economy & immigration etc - not realizing its all connected.
And we wonder why scientists are increasingly frantic with their warnings and the fertility rate is plummeting just about everywhere (this is a complex issue with other socio-cultural, developmental, economic & political issues at play).
While developed countries have the technical & financial resources to respond (rather choosing profit over people & planet), those in the developing world are getting left further & further behind. Humans are pretty resourceful, but many strategies, policies, plans & tech need a few years to implement. As the world kicks enviro & climate action further & further down the road, implementation gets more difficult & much more expensive.
The next decade is certainly going to be "interesting" - good luck everyone!
You are very astute in your assessment , can I summarise ? People before profit !
@@gramos9115 Very very very succint! That's it in a nutshell unfortunately.
No, in the 70s they warned us about a new ice age. You know why? Because they know a shit. That´s why. ;-)
After seeing a video about how the EU is watering down climate policies in light of the farmer protests, this report hits even harder.
Given, farmers are going to be effected most by weather changes. It is kind of funny that the farmer protests are stopping governments from enacting the few climate policies they were trying to.
Exactly, Im watching it being completly terrified. Green deal was one and only think giving me hope...
Because farmers need to make a living to be able to feed people? Or would you rather people starve?
@Moskuito2222 are you serious?
@@MarkRose1337Helping out farmers is a great idea. Watering down emissions standards is not.
The two things are mutually incompatible, as the emissions impact farmers, on the whole, more quickly and more deeply than anyone.
Hi, I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, I majored in sylviculture. Nope I'm up to speed how dire things in EU are, good luck to us all!
Yesterday was 30 degrees Celsius here in Serbia. Today will go up to 31. I don't wanna know how summer will look like.
Europe just had 2023-4 coldest winter in 50 years.
"Europe just had 2023-4 coldest winter in 50 years." Hmm, Germany had it's third mildest winter on record on average. Plus, chunks of North America barely had winter at all.
i felt absolutely no cold this winter lmao
Love Just having a think with you. Have an award for outstanding info.
Thank you Julie. Much appreciated :-)
I have been listening to and reading about the changing climate and global warming for 30 years or so.
I cannot think of any of my peers who consider the facts and predictions to be a problem, let alone take any steps to alleviate the issues. Newer bigger cars, multiple holidays by flying, bigger houses ……………. It’s a nightmare.
The single worst problem is the organisation with the best information at their fingertips don’t even pay lip service to the climate nightmare. The British government.
This should be shared with everyone, though sadly, most will probably ignore it and say they have "no choice" but to use their cars 7 days a week and fly off on holidays 4 times per year, plus several week-ends! The message just doesn't get through to so many people.
Thanks for making these vital videos man!
Yeah, 🥳 I’m ecstatic that Europe has come first in something for a change! Well done Europe 👍🥳🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🌈♥️
Thank you for the work you do each week. It's needed.
Thanks, Dave. I hate telling bad news, as well, but we can't change our fate until we see the truth.
I'm alarmed at how little crop production scored. What will all those heat stressed people eat?
Might not be big news in Europe, but the example of the MV Dali collision in Baltimore is an excellent metaphor for the climate: when you're underway like a large sea vessel, you have to take action long before you can see your trajectory on the horizon. The pilot of the Dali had the discipline to call a mayday when he knew he had lost control, which mitigated the loss of life. The brutal truth is there is nothing you can do once you have lost control. The only way the Dali found "balance," was being stopped by a large artificial pier and 4000 tons of concrete and steel pushing it to the bottom.
We knew about the CO2 issue 50 years ago, and even further back than that in very limited circles. There is so much momentum behind the actions we've already taken that catastrophic consequences are inevitable at this point. The food production subject is very worrying. Much of the world depends on a global food supply chain, and we already observed how fragile this system is during the pandemic from simple labour issues. How much worse will it be with water and temperature issues?
So...certainly. We can take action. Just expect that even if the rudder is turned fully, we won't see positive effects for years. I think the super wealthy have not properly considered what happens when the social fabric (based on people being able to meet their basic needs) begins to unravel. Wealth means nothing if the government behind the money they have topples.
They haven't because it is not how they function. They never think about the future. Never. Hoarding wealth means someone is inclined to get fucking rich NOW.
Why people insist elite thinks about future or well being of man kind is beyond me. These people are mostly sociopaths. They don't care.
Just had a givenergy all in one fitted, to add to my solar PV and thermal, and my EV I'm trying if the bureaucrats aren't
I constantly remind people that Svalbard average yearly temperature increased 2.75 degrees in a century
Pennsylvania has only increased 1.8 Fahrenheit
Whoa Canada has increased by 3.1° Fahrenheit since 1948.
They just shrug off such statistics
Depends much on the time of year you talk to them. In January (in the northern hemisphere) you get “climate change can’t happen soon enough”. You have to familiarize them of the statistic during a heatwave in July or August… at the risk of “yeah, the weather gets warm in summer”.
Where I am in Canada we’re bracing for another terrible wildfire season. Next to no snow in the winter, smouldering fires left over from last year’s terrible fire season. Most exasperating: a populist political movement to kill the already-weak GHG-limiting measure, the carbon tax. Most in Canada have the attention span of a cat in a room full of catnip and laser pointers.
@@CarFreeSegnitz I was born in Canada. My daughter lives in Vancouver. I believe that the oil industry culture and the general mindset of the prospect of a warmer Canada glee is pervasive. Just kiln me now
Yes!!! That's exactly her name ( Ms Olivia Palermo): so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her from Canada🇨🇦
She's mostly on Telegrams, using the user name.
@Olivpal77💯.. that's it
Cheers to another episode of Just Have a Drink™ 🍻
Meanwhile Sunak and the Tories continue to be bribed by Shell... A good start would be to nationalise Shell with no compensation to shareholders.
& re-nationalize British Petroleum (BP)??
No. Good start would be taking it to court. If he wants to be co-responsible with his wealth for the damages - leave the dude alone.
@@piotrcurious1131 You've obviously never had business dealings with him. I have.
The world already has the technology it needs to produce all of its energy without fossil fuels and nuclear, and do it more affordably! Sadly, it seems to be taking a long time to convince many people that we don't have to burn stuff to have energy for a healthy economy and to stay warm. Thanks to you and your channel for helping to turn that tide.
I fully agree Tom. Thanks for your support.
Nuclear is the only reliable way until fusion is solved, You are kidding yourself if you think solar will save the planet!
400,000 panels were just recently damaged or destroyed in Texas in one hail storm, Those damaged panels are now polluting the soil and water, That used to be good farmland.
What is your best advice to keep a house heated in a sea climate? Not too cold in the winter and not too hot in the summer. Yet, temperatures do fall below zero degrees Celsius.
For studies of drought patterns in Europe:
Vincente-Serrano et al. 2020 “Our study stresses that from the long-term (1851-2018) perspective there are no generally consistent trends in droughts across Western Europe.”
Oikonomou et al. 2020 “One of the central outcomes of this research is that there is little change in drought characteristics for 1969-2018. It also seems, no particular tendencies for more or less frequent droughts in the two major geographical domains of Europe are present.”
What you're worried about are localised weather events, which is fine, but their is no crisis when it comes to the global climate.
Thank you for informing us so well !!
I'm french. The heat is scary. In some town in south they need to be supplied with tanker...like in California.
The ski season was delay and not very good at start even in 1500m stations.
Isn't it ironic that farmers, whose livelihood will be impacted the most from climate change spent last months protesting and limiting the EU regulations targeting the climate change
The farmers were protesting of big organizations buying up there farms and not being allowed to use nitrogen as a fertilizer.
tbh they are abused by many political actors, both local and foreign. But it also is a problem that farming has been protected for almost century.
In the Netherlands the same thing, let say, all over Europe, farmers on steroïden, using fertilizers to keep up the profit....they don't want to stop...we need a fundimental change there as well....
No just a fairly easy disinfo campaign that who guessed it, leads back to the fossil fuel lobby... again.
The issues with the farmers protests span so many subjects. The EU farmers support originally was created to avoid hunger due to lack of food after the second World War. But since then the prices farmers get from their produce is based on world prices and a whole host of other issues has come on top. But the policies has not kept up that well. And they have mostly been adapted in such a way to prevent higher food prices and general population complaints from that.
Now that all has to change. Their world is being turned upside down into something that is hard to make sense of. The farmers do not feel they are being heard or understood. So protests are inevitable. I am mostly surprised that they have had such an effect on the EU has a whole.
Its cold in the east of Canada and we could use a bit of global warming to cheer us up. Temps are well DOWN the last two years.
The way we humans live our lives needs to change radically. However, any government implementing radical changes to people's lifestyles wouldn't stay in power very long. If wealthy countries stopped spending trillions on blowing things up maybe there would be more hope of a climate solution.
Right? I mean look at the US - southern border crisis with thousands of migrants a day flooding over, being shipped indiscriminately up to safe haven cities like Chicago and the city is being *completely* run into the ground because they can't afford everything, meanwhile the government won't take even 1% of their hundreds of billions allocated for war to just build a series of huge intake facilities across the border and humanely deal with the issue instead of using migrants as political pawns. Or the rampant over consumerism with having like 6+ tv's and 2 vehicles each adult in many houses. I hate that people look at me when I say I don't need "stuff" in my life to feel happy. I don't get it.
Deliberative Democracy Citizens Assemblies etc . Start a political party and campaign. 150 in the UK
@@EdSurridgein England & Wales the Green Party are offering that. I suspect it will take conscription on the lines of Jury Service to make it work after a couple of years though.
@@alanhat5252 you lie. The green party wants proportional representation because that's more Green and Reform party political electable. Hippies & Fascists in parliament. Not quite but..
@@alanhat5252 Greens Libs and Reform want proportional representation.
Hippies, Fence Siters and Fascists United
Frankly, I think we're doomed. These kinds of videos always make me think of that Matt Damon movie, Elysium. The earth where you and I live is dry, barren and worn out. People are hungry always and scrabble for the bits and bobs of junk that they can recycle into stuff to keep them surviving, while the top 1% live on some space station that is top shelf technology with ample food and a wonderful environment to live in.
Might take a couple hundred years, to get there, but like one of my grand babies once said to his mom, "It's a doom mummy!" (He was talking about a cartoon by the way, not what we're talking about here)
Agree. That movie will become a documentary
I very much appreciate you bringing the financial side of the equation into the discussion. More and more, I think money is the only thing our governments and corporations care about.
The biggest problem is, that those capital and asset owners who decide policy, use these events to transfer even more wealth from the bottom to the top of the pyramid...it's called 'disaster capitalism'. Whenever there is a major catastrophe, whether environmental, financial, political or medical, these parasites find a way to turn it to their advantage. Take Covid, for instance. When the lockdowns happened, people were told to stay at home, and governments borrowed trillions from rich people to give to their populations. Those populations spent their furlough payments on rent, mortgages, food, etc. Now the governments are paying back the loans, with interest. So now, for ordinary people, costs have gone up, taxes are increasing, services are being slashed...and the rich get richer.
The same will happen with the climate crisis, as it starts to bite.
Check out the big brain on Brad over here, can't wait for the next brilliant thought you are cooking up in that massive nugget of yours. Do you have a social media where you share your wisdom?
Yes and Europe is very welthy, where a lot of money can be taken from by subsidy ..
I thought they also cared about being re elected .
The majority of global warming from CO2 has already occurred because CO2 is a very poor greenhouse gas. As you double its concentration in any given atmosphere you halve its ability to absorb heat. The hi gher CO2 goes the quicker and more abundant plants grow, pulling C02 out of the atmosphere at an ever increasing rate. So the hi gher CO2 goes the harder it gets to increase as the C02 sink is also increasing and you have to put double the amount of CO2 for every further increase in temperature so another 400ppm for a further 1 degrees C rise, then 800ppm for another 1 degree rise and so on.
This was once basic knowledge easily understood by non-educated illegal cannabis growers over 30 years ago!
When the Beaufort Gyre fully releases and powerfully impacts the AMOC to slowing down greatly, folks in Europe, especially northern Europe, will be begging for it to be warmer again, especially during the cold season (and even more especially so after awhile after the sun enters a grand solar minimum). Not so far off.
I presume this heating etc will continue until the AMOC slows enought to let the freezing polar climate head South to take over Europe. Complex earth!
Nope
That's certainly one of the predictions I've seen.
I'm not a climatologist so I'm not going to guess which of the predictions are most likely.
Sorry but it doesn't work like this. The AMOC has already slowed down in the last decade and we didn't see ice advancing towards the South. So in a full stop neither. Too much trapping heat gasses and heat in the system.
It will have other climatic consequences like maybe colder winters in Western Europe. I say maybe because polar cold air is losing ground year after year in front of the overall warming increase. And this is already seen in Eastern Europe where winters are already shorter and very warm. Precipitation in low altitudes in the last winters was mostly rainy. Snow only at high altitudes over 1500m.
chaotic systems have simple solutions they converge into but during their transition states their state cannot be predicted. that's why ALL scientists RAGE. They try to explain this over and over - taking the climate out of the metastable state will cause it to be unpredictable.
Predictability is what species on this earth rely on and that's what another group of scientists RAGE about. Murphy's law says " if you fix something long enough, you will break it" .
The significant statement in this video is at 0:30 where almost in passing, "thawing permafrost" gets a mention.
There's 1700 billion tonnes of carbon in the permafrost. If it all comes out as CO2 that's equal to 170 years of current emissions. If it comes out as methane, that's equivalent to 17,000 years of current emissions.
Against that backdrop, the idea that warming will follow the IPCC's most pessimistic scenario seems laughable.
There's no way that European warming will be "just" 8 degrees. Nowhere with a continental climate will be habitable. It just won't. Even if we stopped emissions tomorrow, as it's pointed out at the beginning of the video, the permafrost is *already* thawing.
We need to get the CO2 below 300 ppm equivalent and we need to do that *right now* to have the slightest chance. If we don't stop the permafrost thawing it's really all over.
It's still going to be released over decades, but yeah, it's a massive problem we should be doing a lot more to avoid. It's one of the killer bullets we're playing with.
But hey, what is that compared with the convenience of spending your time stuck in a car, right? :D
@@LuaanTi love sitting in a car!
But yeah, even over decades is not super comforting. Say it was over 10 decades, then that's 10% per decade, 1% per year. If it comes out as methane that's equal to 170 years of current emissions every year. If it comes out as CO2 then 1.7 years worth of emissions every year. It's going to be a mix of those two.
@@gasdive Yeah, it will still be more than enough to sustain itself even if we stopped all our emissions (fat chance)... and probably more than enough to trigger a few more positive feedback loops during that to boot.
And then the denialists can comfort themselves with "See? It's not _humans_ doing this (anymore)." :D
Really glad you keep exposing this information. Thbnk-you
Trusted site … thx so much for your continued efforts
Share this everywhere.
Perhaps the heat sinks of the oceans & the ice, are filling up, so much more heat goes into the atmosphere? Post 1980 saw a sudden jump, by a 1.3 C rise.
look around you, massively more energy is in use compared with 1980.
4:22
It‘s not some politicians that are managing the climate in one or the other direction: it is the consumer, our consumption and our votes.
Our way of living needs to adjust - even without rules and regulations, but with our own understanding of our actions.
Absolutely true. But we're spoiled, entitled, and consumed with consumption. We'll never change without incentives and mandates from government.
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 The incentive "survival" might be too abstract...
@@hanswinkler4976 It's the ultimate incentive, isnt it? But yes, most of us will do nothing until we're severely impacted ourselves.
The intro was brilliant, keep it up ❤
Welcome to another existential dread caused by 2-D models episode.
Thanks for another great video
Cheers Dave
The accelerating rate of global heating indicates a serious flaw in the mindset of human beings. The inability to actually do something about the seriousness of our climate crises is very shocking to me. If you don't do anything the outcome is going to be catastrophic for all life on this planet.
Look at all the extreme weather events and understand what I'm talking about.
This year is 2024 is going to be the straw that broke the camels back in the climate catastrophe. Climate change is happening at a very accelerated rate and accelerating faster and faster. Im positive we have reached numerous tipping points in this climate catastrophe and there isn't any time left to try to reverse the impact of global heating.How is it possible to undo all the decades of using fossil fuels? We are unable to stop using fossil fuels because everything depends on fossil fuel production. I'm positive we are using more fossil fuels now than ever before. We should have dealt with this climate crisis at least 40 years ago and found alternatives to fossil fuels.
Really informative. Thank You.
I estimate Western Australia just lost 10% of all flora and possibly 50% of all fauna in the south west this summer. The rain still hasn’t come to most of this region.
These figures are almost certainly available from reliable & open sources if you look, you don't need to guess.
yep, a very quick web search brings up results worse than you're suggesting.
Not looking far enough back in history, It's normal!
Stop with he BS please, We have had far worse in the past, But it doesn't fit the narrative.
Australia is subject to the Indian Ocean dipole. One year it is rainy in East Africa and dry in Australia, a few years later it is dry in East Africa and rainy in Australia. A few years later this reverses again, etc.
Of course ignoring the massive flooding in some arias, (but that's not climate change?)
In St. Louis, a new ordinance requires all new construction or renovation projects to include a specific number of electric car charging stations relative to parking capacity. I've been involved in designing installations for Level 1-3 EV chargers. This undertaking presents significant challenges and expenses for property owners in terms of financial investment, project timeline, and power requirements. However, as the industry evolves, we're discovering more cost-effective solutions and methods. Despite the progress, it's crucial to acknowledge the considerable burden these requirements place on owners, emphasizing the need for thoughtful consideration.
It's a seemingly necessary Big Ask.
As usual, it is boiled down to econimics… The planet doesn’t give a f**k about economics. It is this way of reasoning that has brought us to this point. Economics will be rather meaningless, when the basis for life for hundreds of millions are destroyed!! To think that economics are more important than having a planet that supports its habitants, are nothing but BS. Sorry for the language
First direction should be providing sustainable electricity , not charging points .
@@gramos9115building owners have limited capacity for providing sustainable energy, this is a need which should be met by energy suppliers.
@@gramos9115 We need both at the same time.
1st World Problems eh? Poor old us :-(
Here in North Europe we only cut fossile use for others. It don't effect us. North will still have cold winters and rainy summers even after global warming. In the north it will actually be a bit nicer after global warming.
In a generalised way there is nowhere in the World that has taken the change in the weather seriously,nowhere.Its not as though there are those that will escape to Nars or down a big hole somewhere.Until a few years ago you never heard El Ninio being mentioned anywhere apart from Australasia and it was there because EN affected the weather there so radically.
A Ocean Current off the coast of Peru changes temperature,hot and cold and its knock on effect changes weather all over the World.But the kicker is that human environmental behaviour makes this natural event even worse.For those simple folk the analogy is,if your house is burning don’t throw petrol on it to put out the flames.So that means when the Planet is under stress don’t make it worse.Have been saying this for 30yrs but most people are too stupid or too busy to understand…..
The "beep" got me hooked. ;-)
Living in the Netherlands, I have this existential dread about how long our vaunted sea walls will protect us. It only takes one catastrophic failure, and sea levels only goes up for the next few decades. Not to mention more portion our GDP needs to go into keepin the water out.
It looks like "atmospheric rivers" are just as big a problem for the Netherlands as rising sea levels. The water comes in that way, "atmospheric rivers", and then the sea walls hold it in, like a bathtub.
Good point , your government should be introducing radical sea defences NOW , and take a broader view , stopping piddling politics and act now to save the countries future .
@@gramos9115looking from the outside it does seem that the Netherlands _are_ taking sea defences seriously though they may be being quiet about it because it doesn't appeal to their voter base.
Sea level change will be the least of your problems if the permafrost starts to thaw.
get a life
the insidious irony here is how expensive it will be to deal with damages caused by climate change in the long and short term, rather than bearing the upfront monetary costs of rapid renewable installation now.
Yeah. Also if you ever had the luxury of using, setting up and servicing of renewables you probably know that all this tech is really modern, really comfortable, often fully automated and computerized.
So the resistance to using renewables is totally weird , and in itself will cause people to suffer.
the people making a fortune out of refusing to do anything about the situation will mostly be dead by the time the consequences really hit home - what we're seeing now is just a light teaser.
It's a pity the profiteers seem to want to take down civilisation and a few billion lives with them as their tombstone.
Thanks Dave.
Too painful, I could only listen to half of it. People aren't going to do anything, they haven't done much. My friends just bought a big gas van one person drives most of the time. If you ask them if they are concerned about the environment they'll swear they are! That's the thinking here in the states.
Permafrost methane gas release - my top agent !
Its been cold and wet up in northern England for the last 6 months, bring on the summer and stop panicking about things you cannot change, its nature, plus EVs are rubbish and don't work.
EVs outperform traditional ICE cars in almost every category.
what we are no talking about are political parties that are against doing anything and increase the amount of CO2
brilliant as always. well done
You never use the 'F' word - that got my attention! Brilliant as always - thank you
Would that be Fart or maybe Fastidious?? 😀
fahrenheit?
As an Australian I endorse the use of all the swear words.
He's used the 'F' word a couple of times recently.
@@everettbr I don’t see the celsius in that…
Change your browser to Ecosia, at least then there’s some trees planted for doom scrolling.
NorthEast US here. Weather is normal, no sign of supposedly increased catastrophic weather events as compared to previous decade.
Are you sure about that? It's definitely been raining much more and harder than normal the last few years here in nyc
Excellent summary again, thank you🙏
Can someone explain to me if there is a weather event that cannot be pinned to climate change? Hence climate change is an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
Scientists don't attribute every weather event to climate change. They do, however, point out how these events are increasing statistically. And it's that INCREASE that we can pin on climate change.
Small temperature changes result in counterintuitively large effects. A one degree rise in temperature alone can increase atmospheric moisture by 7%. Even a slightly warmer ocean temperature results in stronger hurricane winds. A one degree C rise also increases lightning strikes by 12% (Romps/Seeley et al, 2014) That in turn causes more wildfires, which in turn releases more CO2 into the atmosphere.
A NASA study found that for every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) that sea surface temperature increases, the number of extreme storms in the tropics rises by 21 percent.
A heat-dried landscape itself contributes to drought conditions, as it did in the American Dust Bowl years, as no further moisture is available to rise up from the biosphere. The extra solar radiation the ground absorbs with diminished plant cover in turn produces yet more rising heat, encouraging high pressure systems that suppress rainfall further.
(The increased evaporation that warmer air causes also dries out tinder and brush and makes it much more likely to ignite and spread. )
As the climate warms up, dry areas become drier and already wet areas become wetter.
Meanwhile, the high latitudes of the Arctic warm three times faster than the mid latitudes. This is because sun-reflecting ice melts, exposing darker ocean or land which absorbs more heat than it reflects. As more ice melts, reducing earth's albedo, temperature rises more than it would at mid latitudes.
As temperature between mid latitudes and high latitudes come closer together, the jet stream reacts by slowing. (It's the mix of temperature extremes that create powerful wind currents.) An Omega Block is what happens when the Jet Stream stops moving in its predominant west to east pattern and instead moves in big, blocky waves. This can lock in weather patterns, like heatwaves or droughts, for days or weeks at a time over the same area.
The polar vortex is also disturbed by warming air. It too will sometimes collapse into blocky waves that drop far down over the United States to send it into a deep freeze in winter.
All small changes but together, working synergistically, they create big climate variations.
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481
"these events are increasing statistically" WRONG
@@bfbf3342 Here's the data. This site won't allow links, so you'll have to google these:
EPA CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS: HEATWAVES
STUDY SAYS SINCE 1979 CLIMATE CHANGE HAS MADE HEAT WAVES LAST LONGER, SPIKE HOTTER, AND HURT MORE PEOPLE
EPA CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS: HEAVY PRECIPITATION
HEAVY DOWNPOURS INCREASING
WARMING MAKES DROUGHTS, EXTREME WET EVENTS MORE FREQUENT, INTENSE
HURRICANE INTENSITY, FASTER, STRONGER
HURRICANES ARE GETTING STRONGER
HURRICANE EXTREME CHARTS
WARMING SEAS MAY INCREASE FREQUENCY OF EXTREME STORMS
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 the climate has always been been changing always will. Models are not evidence because they are almost always over fitted. Hence we end up with articles stating “East Africa to get less rain” and then someone else saying “East Africa to get more rain”.
Source: A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa
Source: African climate change: 1900-2100
Your optimism is greater than my own, in my 40 years of paying attention to this I note governments consistently take minimal action to abate climate change and maximum effort to protect and expand the profits of the fossil fuel industry. Sadly my own government in Australia plays this game consistently, whichever major party holds power they both continue to subsidise and expand fossil fuels without even having the sence to tax the activities. Meanwhile limiting funding of renewable energy and support for consumer change they ensure the profitability and survival of the planetary pirates.
Thankyou very well said from a dedicated protestor in WA .... woodside ecocide
It seems that the main thing the fossil fuel producers have learned is that eventually, people will get fed up with fossil fuels, yeah... so until then SELL SELL SELL PUSH PUSH PUSH!
well thought out & balanced presentation
im disabled and watching humanity walking into the fire is the most aggravating and sad thing I can think of. People, do something for the ones that can't stick up, stop being DOCILE.