Climate Change Debate | Sir David King | Proposition (7/8)
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Thursday 2nd November 2017
The Motion: This House Believes Individual Apathy is the Greatest Threat to our Climate.
Sir David King closes the case for the proposition, as the seventh speaker of eight in the debate.
Motion Defeated.
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“Those of us who understand the science, those of use who understand statistics, are being disempowered…”
Fascinating talk but this line basically explains the issue. It’s become about power. Who has the power to disseminate information. It’s not to suggest that false information should be given any credence, but when the public who aren’t university educated (the often silent majority) feel that the government are ignoring their needs (jobs/infrastructure etc) in favour of expert opinions guiding policy, which comes at a cost to them through taxation, they will push back. In this case, through ignoring science.
The solution would be (and this is hugely condescending), to make the public think that THEY have come up with the solutions. To make them feel their taxes are actually benefitting them through policy that they want. It would require a HUGE sleight of hand, and misdirection to fool so many people.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. That is it both absorbs and releases infrared photons. Once released, there is one chance in 41,253 that infrared photon will continue within one degree in the same direction. This basically gives that photon a 50/50 chance of going either up or down. Since the oceans cover about 71% of the Earth, this gives that photon about a 35% chance of hitting a body of water. Infrared photons will not penetrate the surface, but will instead excite an H2O molecule causing evaporation. H2O is the primary greenhouse gas which prevents the Earth from having a climate like our moon. Consequently the more CO2 we put into the atmosphere, the more H2O gets into the atmosphere, the warmer the planet gets. This is how a 40% increase in CO2 caused a 7% increase in absolute humidity. The present increase in temperature due to this combination of additional H2O and CO2 into the atmosphere is approximately .9C at present. Because it takes a tremendous amount of time for the oceans to heat, it will take centuries for the Earth to reach temperature equilibrium. If we continue to inject CO2 into the atmosphere, that heating process will continue to accelerate.
CO2 make water vapour bcs CO2 traps heat. Too much co2 and watervapour is bad, trapping more heat then the cycle continues, but each time a cycle is completed, it gets faster. The planet is unable to adapt and reach the equilibrium it once had before so, it makes things worse cuz even if we stop, getting back from this point to the way the earth was before could take decades. that rite?
@@naifayasmin8259 Water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas. It takes CO2 to keep water vapor in atmospheric solution. No CO2 and the planet becomes an ice ball. Too much CO2 and Earth becomes Venus. It will take several thousand years for CO2 to weather back out of the atmosphere.
CO2 is weak greenhouse gas with the only greenhouse gas of significance being water vapor always holding earth's greenhouse effect in saturation absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth within 20 meters of the radiating surface. Global warming has been stalled at about 1°C since 1992 with there being no known cause for global warming in 2024. Earth's atmosphere is too cold to radiate heat energy its heat transfer is by convection i.e. gas molecules bumping into each other.
This is the man who claimed that Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked.
Any idea why Elon Musk wasn’t at COP26, (maybe the spaceX thing?) regardless he would be a valuable head to help pick through the best green doable inventions.
God is PUNISHING YOU.
Hurricanes are a normal weather event,
wow glad you could share your insight,now go boil your head
@Yutoob Isranby WS put down the Crack pipe genius, New York has had Tornadoes before, don't get your thong in a wad...
@Yutoob Isranby WS you aren't paying attention to history, New York has had lots of tornadoes....history didn't begin the day you were born...
@Yutoob Isranby WS new York has had tornadoes for a long time, you're just an idiot.