Gavin McCormick: Tracking the whole world's carbon emissions -- with satellites & AI | TED Countdown
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- What we know today about global greenhouse gas emissions is mostly self-reported by countries, and those numbers (sometimes tallied manually on paper!) are often inaccurate and prone to manipulation. If we really want to get serious about fighting climate change, we need a way to track carbon pollution in real-time and identify the worst culprits, says high-tech environmental activist Gavin McCormick. Enter Climate TRACE: a coalition of scientists, activists and tech companies using satellite imagery, big data and AI to monitor and transparently report on all of the world's emissions as they happen -- and speed up meaningful climate action. A powerful, free, global tool to match the scale of a civilization-threatening crisis.
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Only heard up to 2:30 so far. Paused to type. I love what this person is doing. We need this. Real time GHG emissions measured per emitter is needed. Thank you so much!
I love what this person is doing - you are politically correct.
The other interesting side of this is being able to monitor areas that we didn’t think were polluting before.
An example might be an oil well that we capped and moved on from, but then it started leaking later. This could help our alarm bells go off so that we go fix it before it creates too much of an issue.
Sure it might sound silly no when most of our emissions is coming from stuff that we’re actively doing, but eventually that won’t be the case.
Just checked out the website. Gotta say, the stats and sources are super clear. This is going to help so many students for their assignments. I hope it pushes the politicians to do the right thing
this is very cool. thanks for all the hard work!
we dont ask polluters about their emissions
we know how much CO2 per tonn of fuel is released. and we know how much coal oil gass ect is sold each year.
we can quite easily extrapolate from that
You get a list of who is selling, but you won't know who is buying all that for commercial purposes. With that level of detail, you can regulate better.
@@robobrain10000 there is a fixed amount of CO2 released per unit of fuel.
it is reasonable to assume that all fuel bought in a year is also burnt (the real number will be so close as to not be worth adjusting for)
there for you know CO2 emissions
Ears. This is about making non-manual calculations and resulting data available to people who otherwise do not have that data. People who are policy makers, businesses, mayors, everyone.
Amazing! Great info!
This is very important problem.Thanks for all to eradicate this type of issues.Good luck,✊
this is great speech...and its help to human being....
I've been on the solar industry 15 years and most still don't recognise the importance of showing people their power consumption profile and give them real time monitoring so they can work out how best to use their power during the day! So this is brilliant, but long over due.... Now the next big question is to ask, why does the economy NEED to grow? Because that's why we burn fossil fuels
Amazing achievements! This is the kind of innovation that truly inspire the world.
I suspect many were surprised that, by and large, the "nasty" big corporate polluters were reporting their emissions responsibly and accurately. That should help reassure people that there are many good, honest people working in the corporate sector. They have to be a big part of the solution.
This is AMAZING. I'm really excited about computer vision for environmental evalation. One small detail that caught me off guard was that there "are software engineers volunteering their time nights and weekends." For something this important, I'm surprised it's still just running on volunteers with no permanent staff, usually high tech projects like this are able to attract grant funding. I'm a little over the idea of highly skilled people not getting paid to do important environmental work like this, even from NGOs. People volunteering on this project must be incredibly passionate, I hope they have day jobs.
Bravo!
Sounds very promising. Let's check the website :)
Does that make any sense in comparison to ESA's Tropomi, GeoCarb, GHGSat or Copernicus? It's nice to have a machine learning solution that find a powerplant and scores it based on chimney vapor plume. But if 86 times more potent (colourless) methane is escaping from abandon wells at breakneck pace somewhere, something crucial is missing. It's always good to have a consolidated database, that's for sure.
P.S.: I'm in awe that we don't already have a space and ground segment to basically do accounting and just publish precise values for every country. After that, we can think how we should adjust custom systems accordingly, so that goods from countries that would try to avoid investments into green tech would be appropriately priced, including these externalities. That would be only fair to those who are willing to go green. There's a huge fear of investing into green, because then you have to compete with countries that didn't and are thus cheaper.
Add to that methane escaping from permafrost that is melting in northern Asia.
and Ice cap melt 🇦🇶
I hope that this will evolve to identify more sources of pollution, like illegal release of bilge water, leaking pipes, or other things that we didn't knew about.
Thank you coz mention Malaysia ❤
@TED why is comments on your video on Titled "Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges?". turned off? This is unacceptable.
TED is an establishment propaganda channel that's why
Thank you
Please 🙏🙏 make English subtitles in videos
Thanks
WOW!!! Totally awesome!
really really good!!!!!!
How can I get contact of Gavin McCormick?
So impressive!
The subtitles are 2-3 seconds back than the voice coming.... Please check it out 👍
Do you look at giant ships in international waters that are unregulated? I heard they use the dirt cheap fuel that is usually illegal in most countries because of how dirty it is.
Its called bunker fuel, its got geoengineering components in it like calcium carbonate. A few years back they wanted to put scrubbers on the smoke stacks, but Goldman Sachs stepped in and put the smack-down on that because they use it for geoengineering.
These tasks can be easily implemented by big tech players like Google, Meta, and others. But unfortunately they don't seem to care. Or government has chained them.
subtitles are out of sync. just leave the automatically generated ones.
Now you're talking about.
These videos is the thing we need
Does that mean we can start taxing those responsible instead?
Surely it would be easier to track oil, gas and coal sales. Are they not the source or the emissions? Perhaps with the exception of wood fires as long as the wood is from a sustained forest? Am I missing something here?
There’s issues with unreported things such as methane leaks from wells which we though we’re capped properly.
Your suggestions is what we need for 80% of emissions, but we’ll eventually need something like this.
@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet I suppose, but it seems they were focussing on things like electricity production and car emissions which is all burning fossil fuels. Seems like they have wasted their time? I mean I know exactly how much of a carbon footprint I leave when I drive my car and heat my house. And factories know how much they are as well. They just need to look at their energy bills.
So it looks like the only thing this is good for is leaks from the fossil fuel business? And maybe cows emitting methane? Just seems like a wasted effort in the wrong place which is why I want to know what I'm missing here?
Yeah, but the way they are doing is permissionless, you can track anyone anywhere easily. Tracking cash flows is harder.
@@Kaslor1000 Additionally, some countries are incentivized to underreport their numbers. Russia for example will benefit from climate change as it frees up/creates a lot of farmland and resources in Siberia.
9:07 You’re going to be able to get emissions information for rice production in Malaysia by tracking oil and gas sales? Good luck tracking oil and gas sales to thousands of individual rice farmers..
Good to see these advancements... but never be so arrogant saying that it will be impossible to hide emissions... that's is so simple, that I will not give you any hint on how do it...
Lol, it's easy to Google this stuff. Any person who has taken a CV/DL class would know how to cheat.
Kenny?
Who will be in control of these systems?
Wow... ❤️
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Beyond the fact that this is fantastic and would have been unthinkable even 5 years ago, I can only say that the number of comments here representing delusion & denial would be truly disheartening were it not that true genius occasionally pops out of the froth of intellectual regurgitation found at the edges of the societal bell curve. Damn tho. Not a one here.
What is it, so much money is going to fight, and the garbage patch in the ocean is only growing.
It’s funny we learn so much on the internet now that teachers just assign these videos for class lol
Teach them scams
How can I turn this into an nft
Excellent producer generated emission tracker. No one can hide. Now goods & services are produced for consumption. So the next job is to quantitively track these goods & services to who is consuming these? Then we can assign the respective quantities of emission to those consumers. Then we can correctly identify the entities responsible for the emission. Then take socio-political action to reduce consumption at the appropriate demand points instead of just ask India or China to reduce emission. Emissions to produce steel in China for USA should be assigned to USA's account. Emission to produce BMWs in Germany for China should be assigned to China. Well, such equitable assessment of emission will take time & may be too late, and the mother mature may not wait. Better to pray for Lake Toba to help us once again so that we can start all over again.
When are climate scientists going to ask how much CO2 is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence?
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CO2 is not pollution 😱
To bad it’s too late
Who's making money?
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Hah. Some country is like "Well according to our reports, we've got the lowest emissions on the planet, you all suck!". Meanwhile their reports are written on papyrus and needed 2 historians and a half dozen translators just to get it figured out.
Watch kurzgesagt's vid about the same topic. We're aleady fcked. No one really wants to lose profit or live a lifestyle that's less comfortable for less gas emissions.
Great project. But will you lobby the current administration to build nuclear power plants to replace all those coal fired plants? Because solar will not be near enough power to keep the northern half of the country warm in winter when it’s cloudy and snowing for weeks at a time.
Some people measure, some people report, some people plan, some people do. Nobody does all of it. This is an incredible project that wasn’t even possible 5 years ago.
@@greggary7217 So what you’re saying is no. He’s the one person that can go to Congress and report his findings of where we can make the most impact. Which we know is coal fired plants. But you give me some poetic answer and expect things to change. Whatever dreamer.
Well yeah but what about chemtrails?
Chemtrails 🤣🤣🤣 yeah righto mate
@@Dez083 look buddy I ain't your mate pal
awesome
I think you scientists have done enough damage already
Wait what? Please explain your thought process
@@Dez083 how about adding lead into petrol.
How about drugs like vioxx.
How about ddt
How about pesticides
And if they're wrong about this, they're going to cause the price of fuel to Rocket causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. Africa will be plunged into darkness if not already
@@jimmyzoom1143 omg what are you on about? Im not sure what part of the world you live in but in Australia we phased out leaded petrol years ago.
@@jimmyzoom1143 and yet its scientists who discovered medical scientific advances that give longevity. Yes i get it, its a double edge sword, but as we learn WHAT NOT TO DO we advance as a species improving on all things.
@@Dez083 by your logic, with no medium/long term data on the, you know what, we should needle everyone on the planet and see what happens decades later. So we can get better and advance once we know about it properly....
You're not great at winning arguments.
“We actually exist as a society spending more resources on monitoring funny cat videos on the Internet than a civilization-threatening crisis.”
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An enlightening video, thanks..All of these new technological tools are great, no doubt..It would seem however that they're immediate purpose is for simple observation.. Unfortunately I can't see how simply identifying these super polluters will enable any expedient and effective control, especially in countries like China, India, Russia, and a great many more.. Fortunately there ARE concrete actions we CAN and should begin to seriously consider.. Ideas that have the potential to eventually give us a sort of thermostatic control over the Earth's atmospheric temperatures..All forms of affirmative action LIKE those presented here, are of continuing importantance though..Peace.
There is an axiom in business “what get measured gets done” - the point here is that entity A now knows what entity B - a competitor, a neighbour, an ally - is doing and vice versa. And so so the rest of us.
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From now on, may we please have this terse TED intro instead of that long, somewhat irritating clappy one?
This guy 😂😂😂
I listen for jast improve my English
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Everyones missile testing is creating emissions. Make peace stop pollution 🤣😂
Have you ever considered the sun.
What about the sun? Oh this should be good
@@Dez083 look at all the heat the sun puts out. An incredible amount.
@@Oregon123 Yes, the sun is obviously considered.
No scientist would answer his own question with "we know it's THIS, of course!" The first step is for "activists" to stop emitting hot air in heated, lighted and air-conditioned rooms, and consuming less soy. Oh, and zooming around the world in private jets to lecture others.🙄😒
@@kevindimauro3937 Just don't trust anything about biological science.
@@Backstromgroup what does that mean?
This guy should monitor his food intake.
At least he's not faking his voice like Elizabeth Holmes...
Cringyest TED talk I've ever seen. This guy is trying too hard to sound smart. Get to the point dude...
guys who look and sound like this need to stop talking so much
That's right - if more and more attractive and smart sounding people start making appearances in videos like these the increased traffic might make TH-cam crash, and that would be a loss.
did you just assume his gender? reee
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🌎TED | maybe you're right!
Yes,
maybe you're right 👍
Yes 😀
👍
# Cop 26
SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!
👍
'' we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to '' -why?
😀
Thank you.
Yes
😀
👍
🌎TED | maybe you're right!
Yes,
maybe you're right 👍
Yes 😀
👍
# Cop 26
SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!
👍
'' we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to '' -why?
😀
Thank you.