Climate Change Will Be Different for Everyone || Peter Zeihan

[@apc9714]

Peter Zehian average video: so there is this problem, but because of geography and demographic America will do good and everyone else is screwed

[@mm-hq4qh]

And he is on point if there is no civil war in usa ..

[@turtle-frogs]

There's been good rain in the Sahara. Australians' 50-year rain average is up. There is too much in Spain, tho.

[@user-McGiver]

@@turtle-frogs water is a bless...

[@GeorgePapadopolous]

​@turtle-frogs Nope. The North of Australia is wetter the South of Australia is drier, much drier. Drought Statement Bureau of Meteorology.

[@GeorgePapadopolous]

​@user-McGiver Floods are increasing, and intense rainfall events are increasing due to Climate Change.

[@mikegoodie7905]

US military budget: $850 billion US green energy budget: $20 billion The nuclear power plant 20 miles from my house has been producing carbon free energy 24/7 for 50 years. Build 7 new ones, please.

[@PendulumCancel]

When they closed one in NY a few years ago I was cringing so hard. We are moving backwards instead of forwards. Can't believe we're going to cede that ground to the Russians, French (to a lesser degree) and Chinese (who are ramping up like crazy).

[@rangerdoc1029]

Once again government was the greatest barrier to progress

[@jasper-cg]

Umm think more like $600 million, as a WHOLE, looking at DOE annual R&D budget. And nuclear isn't the only option when sun is shining at us. Just that we need to move past PV for goodness and think more pragmatically.

[@naghanass2430]

I know a factor is the processing of the spent material by the private sector as Peter said and it makes sense but I’m sure if the government was more concerned with prosperity instead of ruling we would have solutions

[@naghanass2430]

I spell corrected

[@dunwitch]

As a biologist, the factor I don't see being covered is what's standing behind Peter: an intact functioning ecosystem providing innumerable ecosystem services like water infiltration and free carbon sequestration. At 3-4 degrees C warmer, how many of earth's ecosystems stop functioning at 100% efficiency compared to their historical value? And at what percent? We're talking everything from the deep ocean sediments to the tundra and taiga, rainforests, etc. Each one is currently pulling in gigatons of carbon every year. And we really do not know at what point each one will either collapse or be reduced in efficiency. If we lose even 5-10% of that capacity, the climate change problem is going to snowball very rapidly and unpredictably. At that point, the earth itself is going to be outgassing more and more, regardless of what humans do.

[@thunderstorm6630]

this year was the first that forrests did not store more co2 than they release. so the breaking points you assume are in the future have already been past

[@march8482]

The biggest danger of global warming may not be what we know can go wrong, it's what we DON'T KNOW can go wrong. Because if we know what can go wrong, we can adapt. If something stops functioning overnight for example and we haven't had the chance to adapt, we will have a problem.

[@erikkovacs3097]

Most carbon dioxide is taken in by the oceans. The oceans are the major driver of CO2 uptake. What makes you think this system will become less "efficient". Why do you assume this system will break down and how would that even look like?

[@savageinstitute9569]

The last 100 years has been filled with alarmist drivel like this. There is a reason we went from fearing the next ice age to global warming to climate change to climate justice. It is a profitable industry. People like you are the reason we are doing ridiculous things like storing carbon underground in a vast infrastructure of waste.

[@SuperRobertByrne]

Only 33% of human carbon output goes to the oceans, and they lose the ability to keep doing that around year 2100 on current trends

[@davidhoban364]

oh this comment section is going to get UGLY

[@jimmy160680]

Already has *sigh*

[@shannonmcstormy5021]

Well, the largest "news" company is owed by a man whose billions are in oil. The oil industry has been in a full court press regarding propaganda around climate change. Thus, Faux "news" viewers have been fed anti-climate change propaganda for over a decade, such that they don't believe it exists. However, what they really are is victims of a billionaire protecting his profit stream......and he has been profoundly successful.....

[@britcom1]

As it should.

[@rangerdoc1029]

Yes, because ultimately everyone believes what they want to believe

[@yoyoma17]

@@britcom1 Exactly. The guy throws around ideas as if they are absolute facts and questioning them is outrageous.

[@JamesR1986]

Wait what? 6 degrees centigrade is beyond any projection i have seen and would probably make life inhospitable for humans anywhere outside the poles.

[@march8482]

There are models that predict this. It is just very unlikely.

[@JamesR1986]

@@march8482 That makes sense considering how varied the models are. How much conscious do you think there is towards the 3 degrees Celsius projection, which is what I see most in the media.

[@march8482]

@@JamesR1986 "How much conscious do you think there is towards the 3 degrees Celsius projection" What do you mean? People in general don't have to concern themselves with these numbers. That's for policymakers. People just need to accept that society needs to change.

[@JamesR1986]

@@march8482 "change" is doing a lot of lifting here. Driving an electric cars is a change. So is accepting a totalitarian regime that dramatically rations the amount of fossil fuel energy we can use. The amount of change we will need to accept is dependent on the scale of problem. And as we live in a democratic system we will have a say as to how much change we want.

[@march8482]

@@JamesR1986 "The amount of change we will need to accept is dependent on the scale of problem." Exactly, but like I said, that's for policymakers to determine. It's a matter of risk management and weighing social and economic impacts against each other.

[@TheSaltyAdmiral]

What worries me most about this is all the climate refugees this is going to create. Not because I have a problem with refugees, but because there are going to be way too many to handle, and how that is going to influence politics. *People are gonna get scared, and scared people vote for dangerous politicians.*

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[@mayor-o1w]

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[@patrickcronin6829]

My father was a meteorologist for the national weather service. I remember him talking about this in the 1970s when I was a little kid sitting around the kitchen table talking to my mom and aunt and uncle who were visiting. They didn’t call it global warming or anything, just that the temperature was slowly rising and that was going to change the amplitude of the jet streams causing greater shifts in weather patterns.

[@Buran01]

From the 70s to now we have lost 75% of the insects and most of the coral reefs. There was a thing called Aral Sea in the 70s, it changed. Is called "progress", they told us.

[@jkmarshall3553]

@@Buran01 Yes, I have seen fewer insects in my house over time.

[@markrutledge5855]

We have not lost 75% of the coral reefs. That is simply false. In fact coral reefs are on the rebound at the moment and are flourishing in many places.

[@morrisse0_088]

@@markrutledge5855and in many other regions they are not. Because the climate IS changing

[@sonneh86]

There were articles from 1920's newspapers warning about the effect of industrial carbon dioxide in the global temperature

[@SonnyBubba]

New Orleans resident here. He’s right about the people transforming the city into an aquarium. It is the rare building (usually a slum lord’s apartments) that still doesn’t have air conditioning. Growing up in the 70’s, the typical summer weather growing up was June: highs in the low 90’s (33C) and lows in the mid 70’s (24C). In August back then it was highs in the mid 90s (35C) with lows near 80 (27C). These days, the June weather is similar to last century’s August weather, and August now sees hi 90s (37C) and lows in the low 80s (28C). The one constant through all this is lots of subtropical humidity, with dew points close to the low temperatures. June, July, August, and early September are when the locals stay inside their air conditioned everything.

[@cheryllee81]

i know I do.

[@ssssaa2]

It's worth noting that the 1970s was an uncharacteristically cool period for Louisiana and much of the gulf and deep south region of the US. The temperatures in the early 20th century were higher.

[@shannonmcstormy5021]

When I tell people I live in Minnesota, they typically think of the movie, "Fargo," and look at me with pity. However, the state motto is, "The land of 10,000 lakes," so drought is not usually a problem. The weather here over the last decade has seemed to improve, from a human viewpoint. It used to be that we had to endure bitter cold and gray for months, while our summers were plagued with brutal humidity. However, the last half-a-decade, we have had sunny winters with lots of snow and the summer humidity has dramatically lessened. In other words, from a single anecdotal perspective, we are winning the climate change lottery.

[@crosslink1493]

But hasn't the mosquito population in summer increased, and for longer periods of time? They're not as big as Alaska's mosquitos (aka the 'Alaskan state bird'), but I'll bet they are just as ravenous for a blood meal.

[@paulfinneran4244]

In 70-100 years that’ll be one of the best places to live on earth

[@jbrandonf]

You won’t be winning long when everyone realizes this and moves there.

[@SigFigNewton]

@@jbrandonf😐when the people who deny that there will be enormous numbers of climate refugees are the same hate immigrants

[@Migolcow]

Also Minnesotan here. Last Winter was actually insane for the state (in an arguably good way). We had very little snow, the temperatures only went really low for brief bits of January ish. Otherwise it was light coat or even just sweater territory for most of the "winter", which involved mostly looking at brown-yellow grass/fields on the morning commute. People with icehouses for fishing and snowmobiles were not happy though.

[@peterwarner553]

An interesting thing about Australia, the South Eastern corner is indeed getting dryer, however the northern and central desert areas seem to gradually getting wetter, the last time the earth went through a warmer period with the continents in basically the same position they're currently in Australia had rainforest ove much of the northern areas of the continent and most of the central and southern areas were dry woodlands to desert, overall the continent received much more rainfall and was much greener.

[@gidsinveenhuizenpuntnl]

@@peterwarner553 With a bit of luck we can double crop potatoes in a couple of years in the Netherlands

[@ProfDrEarth]

Peter Z sums up yet another big problem that isn't getting solved. .

[@sumdude4281]

It's 11/1/24 and two days ago it was 80F off Lake Michigan. I'm 50. This is not normal.

[@thezfunk]

Had to turn my AC back on at the end of October. Not normal at all. Haven't even had a hard freeze yet.

[@daniellarson3068]

When you begin to see it with your own eyes, you've got to really wonder about these climate change deniers. I talk to old timers that have lived where I live their entire lives. They say Winters are milder. Maybe you even like it, but to pretend it isn't there is just weird.

[@thunbergmartin]

I wish the AC was never invented, so that all the climate change deniers could actually FEEL the effect of the world warming up!

[@danielmcguire7344]

Yeah, I'm 30 and live in Wisconsin and we definitely have way more mild winters with way less snow than we did when I was a kid. We went from 100" of snow a winter to mowing your lawn on Christmas and wearing shorts.

[@willieb.hardigan5780]

Did you happen to notice the previous record was set in 1896? Is that climate change?

[@glenchilada]

Growing zones have already started being adjusted. It's very obvious here in Houston that we're shifting from subtropical to tropical.

[@vuchaser99]

Peter, meterologist here... I dont know where you got your intel on climate information, but if it is similar for other geopolitical intel... then you have just become HIGHLY unreliable. Your geopolitical and infrastructure commentary are correct based on this doomsday scenario. But, and this is a HUGE BUT... you are following climate model information from RCP 8.5 (actually sounds worse) which is a GARBAGE scenario. Observational trends are below the 10th percentile scenario runs and the scenario you espouse here is 99th. It is dooms mongering like this that emboldens the "other side" because these scenarios do NOT come true... Yet climate warms and effects slowly build and it has become 100% political and science dies. I have seen it in my career, I have seen it with good and bad scientists just trying to keep jobs. Start RATIONAL discourse now. Leverage off human engineering ingenuity! Nuclear is a great start... but NIMBY fear rules the political space and stops us feom getting what we both want. High energy and reduced CO2

[@Syntaxstic]

So you're saying we have a chance?

[@sw97058]

Absolutely insane to see Peter quoting RCP 8.5, with his justification being that deglobalization will cause most economies to use fossil fuels. Doesn't he understand that RCP 8.5 not only relies on all countries using fossil fuels, but also massive economic and population growth? How is that happening in his deglobalization scenario?

[@breadbread4226]

Could you elaborate what the problem with the model is? All criticism I found in the last 20 minutes was either void of any specifics or so technical I spent more time looking up terms than reading.

[@rowdyhoo]

@@Syntaxstic🤣🤣

[@britcom1]

Science is already dead, discredited, and unreliable. It has become a kind of shamanism, and in some cases, such as "climate change", it has become outright charlatanism.

[@carinwiseman4309]

1.5 is already gone.

[@bill.368]

Excellent video but Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. Building wealth involves developing good habits regularly putting money away in intervals for solid investments. Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future.., I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life!!

[@Valdesana]

You're correct!! I make a lot of money without relying on the government, Investing in stocks and digital currencies is beneficial at this moment.

[@atomicgeisha]

In order to sleep in heat like that you have to wrap your body in a wet sheet.

[@WillieBloom]

From a Swedish perspective, I can tell you that we have definitely noticed climate change. This is definitely climate, not weather. In Sweden by law, everyone is allowed to have three consecutive weeks of vacation between the months of June and August. Everyone’s fear was that the week they chose for their vacation would get rained out. It was a really genuine fear because it happened a lot. Since 2018 every summer has been very dry. Some summers have been drought like while others have been just enough rain for the farmers. Barely. We now get our rain in the autumn. Silver lining is that no one worries about getting their summer vacations rained out. On the other hand, the farmers are finding it very hard to get the amount of water they need for their crops. Because this country always had reliable rain, we don’t have much of an irrigation infrastructure. If mother nature sees fit to fill the lakes and the water tables in the autumn, then irrigation, it must be.

[@TimothyGasser]

Willie you should stop and reread what you just wrote. By definition the minimum period of time to evaluate climate is 30 yrs. To claim you have "noticed" a change in climate is idiotic. I'll bet you can't remember what the weather was like on a specific day from 2 months ago.

[@denniszakowicz3273]

@@TimothyGasserBS, I have many family members who say similar stories. We have not had real winter weather in 🇵🇱 for years, and when I ask how they spent their Christmas 30-40 years ago the response is always several degrees colder temperatures and several centimeters more snow.

[@davidwilson4190]

Nature is not motherly, nature is not a deity. Nature operates on a scale larger than our finite scope of understanding.

[@thezfunk]

I was just in Sweden for a week in September. It was warm and sunny every day. Everyone I talked to said I was very lucky and that is NOT normal Swedish September weather.

[@thafunktapus]

Swedish perspective isnt any better than anybody else's.

[@benprovan]

Glaring omissions - sea level rise and the associated mitigation costs and migration, ocean acidification and the associated collapse in most fisheries. But I appreciate him being real about it and not avoiding climate change as a topic.

[@rangerdoc1029]

Except sea levels have not risen in recorded history. Quite the opposite, they've been dropping for the last 100,000 years

[@Charlie-id4tv]

​@@rangerdoc1029you must work in the oil & gas industry eh?

[@jamesharkins6799]

​@@rangerdoc1029 you are mistaken, many ruins of cities and human habitation are found underwater.

[@Mrfoo2002]

@@rangerdoc1029 Tempuraters have started rising out of the norm for the past 100 years.

[@SonnyBubba]

You can’t do a comprehensive dissertation on all aspects of a topic in a nine minute KZbin video.

[@GHMRoding]

Actually, the Mediterranean is warming fast and this is impacting weather patterns in Southern Europe dramatically. Precipitation increases 12 percent, but alas, so do monster floodings. Seems Spain needs more trees in the uplands. Much more.

[@Buran01]

Oh, is only getting warm here; as I oftenly joke "this will be the coldest year of the rest of our lives". Some of the tipping points in the climate mechanisms, as the AMOC slown/collapse, Greenland glaciers melting down, permafrost melting and tundra releasing methane are just only starting to converge, so we can expect a speed up in the extreme of the conditions, the amount of catastrophic events and the severity of the episodes.

[@SigFigNewton]

@@Buran01European weather might look like Canadian weather in a hundred years. FAR colder due to the collapse of the AMOC

[@ursodermatt8809]

@@SigFigNewton but then also sunnier

[@Egilhelmson]

Morocco has been experiencing floods, too. Of course, they can be refilling their aquifers from this rain, too.

[@agaragar21]

And you can die just by going for a walk....300 years of increasing heat until we control CO2 emissions!.....but nobody is doing anything today !

[@martian9999]

6 Degrees? That is way, way beyond anything the IPCC is forecasting. In other words, real doomerism. Very odd.

[@justmenotyou3151]

Actually, it's not. It follows one of the IPCC pathway models for the worst case.

[@martian9999]

@@justmenotyou3151 OK, correct. But what it entails is basically no decarbonization and massive amounts of new coal-burning plants. What likelihood does the IPCC attribute to 6C? 2%?

[@alphared4655]

Jim Skea of the IPCC is going to shake a lot up with their new reports. He seems like a closet skeptic

[@SigFigNewton]

Extreme predictions is his whole shtick. China will “collapse,” he says. Inflation will be super high for a decade, he says. Of course he says six degrees.

[@martian9999]

@@alphared4655 what's his take?

[@planesandbikes7353]

Already Canada this year became the globe's 2nd largest Wheat producer behind only Russia. We're seeing enlargement of warm climate zones opening up more crop opportunities.

[@NimbleBard48]

And other zones closing or costs of holding them stable going up.

[@kevinjohnson8220]

Correct

[@travisallen857]

Wrong. I switched from wheat to cotton. Warm climate grows more than cold climate. Simple

[@Billy-ke7dk]

on the other hand, that's a sad predictor of the future

[@ssssaa2]

What are you talking about? The largest wheat producer easily is China globally, India second, typically also above Russia. Exports I guess? The US also I'm sure produces more than Canada despite Wheat being a crop only grown in marginal regions in the US.

[@MicaelSG23]

Peter Zeihan: "since I hate humidity, if you get temperatures over 90ºF for too long with high humidity you will die". Here in Brazil, summer has temperatures over 100ºF through out the summer with over 90% humidity since the beginning of time and we are still here

[@salamandiusbraveheart4183]

Bet the average life expectancy is not above 70 tho. That humidity is a killer for the elderly

[@ursodermatt8809]

@@salamandiusbraveheart4183 so is -40C

[@sanesociety-oo2ym]

Your mistake is trusting your experience. Trust the men in white coats with the hockey stick and it will all make sense.

[@vuchaser99]

@MicaelSG23 100 degrees with a RH of 90%!!!!! That is a dew point of 96.4F! Congrats on breaking the world record by a solid degree and a half. I think the RH% was 90% in the morning when temps were in the 80s. Not pleasant... but I declare BS.

[@pringlw]

I sit here in Boston at 6am on November 1st drinking my coffee outside in shorts and a t shirt because it is 65 degrees - shaking my head that there are still people that think none of this is real.

[@benjackson8103]

Enjoy it while it lasts! Boston has been in the 80’s in November in the early 20th century. Eventually it’s gonna get miserable cold which is good for what purpose??

[@legacypt1963]

@pringlw Everyday the weather changes. If you go back into the known climate record which at the most is only a couple hundred years old and not very good due to instruments of various types, there is a small increase in temps. The disputes are on what causes the warming as there are millions of factors.

[@karo2090]

@pringlw this year is the year of maximum solar activity, which is why it is so warm. Enjoy the beautiful weather because now it will get cooler every year

[@CowHorace]

Pay more taxes to change the weather. Lol

[@jkmarshall3553]

Wow, sounds amazing!

[@researchreality7932]

Also love how granular Peter's assessments are. He's a wealth of knowledge for anything geopolitical, and I find his perspectives useful both in day-to-day conversation, or when making my own videos on similar topics.

[@blein8988]

You’re extremely optimistic here.

[@GaryStark]

I think for some people it’s going to take more time to sink in. Time we obviously do not have.

[@yoyoma17]

@@GaryStark For some people they'll be eating crow in 5-10 years when the data suddenly changes... or when they admit they didn't really know what they were talking about.

[@yoyoleafs2237]

Here's what's missing: Photosynthesis operates in a temperature range for the 4 major crops: Wheat, Soy, Rice and Corn...Corn has the highest threshold for heat, the others not so much...if it gets too hot, it doesn't matter how much Water or CO2 the plant has available, it will not process those inputs. Therefore, heat will cap yields or start reducing yields over time. THank you for addressing the topic tho!

[@ushiefreebird7470]

Have a look at the tropics. Plenty of foods. Plenty of water.

[@tallowturq]

I have noticed this. I live on a property in the Hunter Valley, south eastern Australia, and once the temperature gets up around 38 or 40c, (?100F) things just stop growing. And some plants just die. They cook. Doesn’t matter how much water you give them. Mulching helps but obviously there are very finite limits.

[@Mr.Zen_73]

Another cheery Zeihan update! I need a stiff drink or 10 😂

[@Corny80]

Thank goodness you can always run away from reality.

[@rustyheyman214]

Climate change is not about saving the planet, it is about saving the people on the planet.

[@mattheww.6232]

It's about filling evil men's wallets teaching commoners a nuReligion. Think about all middle east oil and American ammo involved in turning rocks mined by near slaves in Africa into Chinese solar panels mounted on some European or American neo-lib's house.

[@LTVoyager]

It isn’t even about that. It is about controlling the people on the planet. Global warming has been blown all out of proportion to reality and those behind the narrative have done this intentionally. Thankfully, the narrative is slowly unraveling and I hope within another 10 years we will get back to real science.

[@KYPopskull]

Impoverishing the people & consolidating power to those who impoverish the people.

[@Uzeil21]

Sure it is champ, you're not crazy alarmists, you're hero's, not delusional at all.

[@antoncarmoducchi6057]

Australian farmer here. Wrong on the food growing areas of Australia. Food is produced on almost the entire length of the East coast. We've had less severe weather events and milder temperatures. Data modelling is great for selling things.

[@JohnHenrySMH]

We go from record bushfires to record flooding depending on if there's an El Nino or La Nina weather system. But I'm glad your farm is unaffected.

[@ivan-xt]

@@antoncarmoducchi6057 thanks for this input, this climate mania is crazy

[@SigFigNewton]

@@ivan-xthundreds of millions of climate refugees. They’ll be coming to a decade near you

[@xannonshirley3805]

Sydney resident here...I couldn't breath the air in 2019 due to the bushfires that killed over a billion animals. Ski seasons are getting shorter due to Australia experiencing the hottest winter on record in 2023...."less severe weather"? You aren't looking very hard mate

[@Paul-cu9lu]

Remember, climate and data models are a product to be sold as well.

[@JohnStea7]

Look to 1. 4 degrees 2. Collapse of West Antartica in 2028 3. Flooding of entire Eastern Seaboard by 2029. Peter: this is a good analysis and I shared it on FB.

[@lowkeylikeLoki]

Fully on board your analysis. But I'd recommend you apply this analysis to all of your other videos which don't seem to acknowledge this reality.

[@GaryStark]

Exactly. You can’t just keep burning fossil fuels without accelerating climate change.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

If it gets anywhere near that hot, we'll start adding 1.5% sulfurized hydrocarbons back to the jet fuel.

[@ivancho5854]

Why?

[@friedrichjunzt]

Easy peasy. And who is going to pay for that? How are you going to compensate people who get more clouds and rain because of your geo engineering?

[@paulsondj]

@@ivancho5854 To reflect more sunlight back into space.

[@ivancho5854]

@@paulsondj Ah. Thanks. 👍

[@journeyman291]

Governments have been for decades and still are using aluminum oxide, barium salts to create those chemtrails to reflect the sun's heat. Think back decades ago. Those jet trails didn't last all day and night like they do today. Then spread across the sky creatingva temporary reflective shield. I have noticed on long, all day car trips or working outside all day and noticing this phenom. And if the theory is false, then why does our governments spend so much time and money to deny it? They believe the poisoning of our ecosystem is outweighed by the benefits in the long term, until hopefully, a new safe energy technology is created to end the use of fossil fuels.

[@pserflin]

I moved to the Phoenix, AZ area in 1977. Back then, we were guaranteed to get 7-10 nights of freezing weather every winter. Now it's more like a hard freeze every 7-10 years. There are trees (ficus nitidia) here that are 30-40 feet tall that if you go back to a gardening book written in the 70s, it says these trees won't survive a winter in this zone. The summers are a bit warmer as well, but the main feature is the number of days when the temperature is, say, above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Climate change is here. You need to have your head in the sand to think otherwise.

[@Egilhelmson]

Climate change was here, starting at the end of the glacial max, about 11,600 BC.

[@jonathanpuigvert7468]

​@@Egilhelmson *face palm*

[@mommachupacabra]

This past summer Kingman, normally about 10*F less hot than Phoenix, had Phoenix level temps, and in Phoenix, Bullhead City, Havasu, and Yuma it was.... nothing I ever want to visit. I did ok with a small mobile swamp cooler and a ceiling fan until this summer, when I had to actually get a small AC unit (I'm in a small tiny house, half my roof is shaded by a large pine thank goodness.)

[@JMo268]

One word--- Fire.

[@jasonneugebauer5310]

Great video, dealing with the changes in regional climate will be a big issue this century.

[@RichardWagenknecht]

Minnesotan here. Our climate seems to be moderating. Summers haven’t been as sweltering either. Winters have definitely been warmer. And we have lots of water.

[@sacredgeometry]

"The poles are warming faster than the equator and when you have big temperature differentials" Wouldn't that reduce the temperature differential?

[@dalehill6127]

Yes it would and so everything that Mr Zeihan said which was consequent upon that was wrong.

[@TimRobertsen]

You want a temperature difference ;) Just look at the 2021 Texas cold-snap ;)

[@adventureinc517]

Indeed. That's why the frequency and intensity of hurricanes have been decreasing since the 1890s. See University of Colorado meta-study by Pielke et al that says exactly this. Tropical storms are driven NOT by high temperatures but by high temperature differentials between the equator and the poles, and thus Climate Change is in fact decreasing tropical storm activity. On the other hand, it will dramatically increase precipitation and we will see a lot more rain and flooding combined with a lot less wind and "storminess".

[@hartunstart]

A good point. Puerto Rico is no garbage; climate models are.

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Good point

[@Mac-el6rm]

FINALLY! I've complained in comments before about how Peter prognosticates about geopolitics, specifically about demographics and growth (or not) for a variety of countries, while never factoring in climate change in his presentations-- that we see. This video showed that he is aware of the coming catastrophe, that is already underway, and that he is being realistic about it, not trying to deny or minimize the problem. Now, I'd like to see him integrate this aspect into more of his videos about long term prospects for the various countries he focuses on. In my YT feed column to the right, there is a video about how the collapse of the AMOC is being hugely underestimated-- this phenomenon is relatively immediate. As the meridional oceanic overturn collapses, which is happening remarkably fast, it will DRASTICALLY change weather patterns GLOBALLY-- we're talking the span of four to seven years, not decades. He mentioned whole regions becoming uninhabitable virtually overnight, and he didn't even mention how many major world rivers are drying up as we speak (google it!), though he has mentioned in past videos that potable water scarcity will be one of the biggest drivers of war and migration patterns globally. Most of the icebergs that have held the Thwaites glacier in place have fallen away while warm water is melting the anchors under it, so that the glacier, which is bigger than many US states, could slide down the mountainous slopes into the ocean in the VERY near future, raising sea levels and wiping out thousands of coastal cities around the globe, and it's obviously only one of many huge glaciers at risk. Of course it's tricky, if not impossible, to predict how fast and how much these things will alter our world, but in his business, he needs to explain the risks and probabilities along with the demographics and resource patterns.

[@SuperMassman]

EXCELLENT 👌 video today,,, please do more on this subject,, focus on the places in the US that will do well..

[@Policesamuri77717]

I have been reading a lot about this for years. I will mention only two things. 1. Historically it has been much warmer in the past, as the glaciers melt back in Europe towns and human habitat are revealed. 2. CO2 has been much higher across the globe in the past. Today we are at 420 PPM but researchers say that it has been as high as 1600 PPM in the past. If it gets as low as 180 PPM all plant life dies.

[@5anjuro]

I have lived in Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand over the past six years and unfortunately i am seeing all this happening with my own eyes.

[@TimRobertsen]

Watching formula1-drivers drive the singapore race (or the Qatar race) is almost uncomfortable. Drivers throwing up while driving, asking for the pits crews to just dump buckets of water over them during pitstops. After the races drivers are stumbling away from the cars, some going directly to paramedics. High dew-point is not fun for the human body

[@rangerdoc1029]

I'm sorry but you can't discern climate change in 6 years. This is a phenomena measuring hundreds of years. And this is the problem with people, they latch on to any thing that reinforces their belief

[@BERZERKERSV4]

​@@TimRobertsen That is to funny.....and total BS..

[@TimRobertsen]

@@BERZERKERSV4 Just watch the 2023 Qatar GP ;)

[@BERZERKERSV4]

@@TimRobertsen I live in central Florida where 100% humidity is a daily occurrence..stop being a poosie and grow up..

[@wizzyno1566]

If its 6 degrees we're all dead, so the rest of the video is just noise.

[@friedrichjunzt]

Not all, but the casualties will be unprecedented.

[@Jay-vt1mw]

I’m not worried, it’s frustrating atm because it seems like every one doesn’t care but it’s more that the technology isn’t there. Soon it will be, in what ever form it takes. There’s nothing much countries can really do right as nothing is viable large scale.

[@gutstompenrocker]

I would think that learning to live with our own species would be more important, because if we can't, it won't be climate that kills us off.

[@Jay-vt1mw]

@ the only way this happens is we invent more distracting tech. Biology wants us to to join a group and fight the other group as keeps happening over and over.

[@philipbanks7730]

The IPCC revised their estimate to 2.5 degrees C as the worst case. 6 degrees is pretty much scaremongering and not supported by the current climate science.

[@RandoPandaSmiles]

Bring on nuclear energy!

[@freeheeler09]

Nuclear, wind, solar, batteries, insulation in homes, and research into other, non-carbon ways to produce and save money. Next, we are going to have to address overpopulation. The population will drop below a billion within the next century through wars for food and water and migration, starvation, etc.

[@petershaw6346]

​@@freeheeler09 you won't save money when it comes to nuclear

[@SigFigNewton]

@@petershaw6346doesn’t damage the future economy nearly as much as burning fossil fuels does

[@thunderstorm6630]

there is not enough uranium for this stupid solution, think again.

[@petershaw6346]

@@SigFigNewton you're right but nuclear isn't even needed as other renewables are cheaper, cleaner and safer

[@victorkunin2333]

Peter: I expect temperatures to raise 6 degrees C by the end of the century. Also Peter: proceeds to describe climate in cities that will be deep underwater in this scenario.

[@patriot5526]

I remember as a child growing up in Montana, the extremely cold weather and incredible amounts of snow we used to get in the winter. We still get that same weather, I just remember that.

[@jkmarshall3553]

Nice

[@JimPfarr]

You and me brother. I grew up in Plains over on the west side of the state, the weather has remained pretty much the same

[@Taber01]

Northern Ontario here, it is definitely getting warmer. I had about 15 50ft tall american elms around the house and they had been there for 60-70 years, started 8 years ago, they all died because the winter didn't get cold enough to kill the beetles that prey on them. After some research, found out the same was happening in MN

[@SigFigNewton]

Ah, yes, the human memory. Long known to be the most reliable source on how present values differ (or don’t) from those of the past.

[@jkmarshall3553]

@@Taber01 Get ready for palms to replace.

[@dhickey5919]

Great coverage of a big topic. It's early days but we're all seeing changes that we don't want to see. We're reaching the time where someone is going to say it: "Coastal areas within 5-10 miles of the water are unsafe to build on". Risks in other areas, like mountains or mountain valleys, are right behind coastal zones in terms of risk. Obviously, there are more areas. We probably have time but we need to start getting honest with our future living space and those in other parts of the world.

[@jasonneugebauer5310]

I'm not sure Peter is right saying the midwest will get more moisture as the poles heat up. The temperature diforential between the gulf of Mexico and the north pole is what drives the moisture from the gulf to the Midwest. Without a sufficient temperature difference that moisture will just stay in the gulf and reak havoc as anual rainfall doubles and intencity of storms triple. Right now rainfall in the Midwest has been low the last three years. This is jus my thoughts, but I am concerned.

[@ssssaa2]

The movement of the air masses (and their moisture) to the poles is the reason why the poles are warming though. Because more tropical(Moist) air is being thrown towards them. It is also the case that the upper midwest of the US has gotten wetter over the past several decades.

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Excellent and Outstanding Analysis of What We Face!!!!

[@docjaramillo]

Appreciate more focus on this topic

[@stevencole7331]

Well whats worrisome is many of the deniers have left the room as they now know their is a problem . Now they feel their is nothing that can be done so you just have to live with it and accept its fate.

[@lowrads3653]

The Permian basin may be rapidly running dry, but there is still enough to boil the frog.

[@staciej2580]

What?

[@aegaeon117]

The vast majority of crops cannot achieve photosynthesis at 4° C.

[@cheryllee81]

Great point!

[@bill8985]

If the Earth gets to +6 degrees Centigrade (+10.8 Fahrenheit) we will not need to worry about infrastructure or agriculture. Most of the Earth's animal population (not just human) will have died off. Arthropods will rule the world! Yes, the Earth has been about this hot in the last 65 million years (e.g. PETM)... but it never reached this temperature in such a short time span. The issue is not absolute temperature, the issue is the rate of change. GLTA

[@friedrichjunzt]

And 65 mn years ago, we mammals lived in holes in the ground because at certain wet bulb temperatures we just die.

[@yt.damian]

There are inhabited places on the planet that experience 70C change across the year. Many places change 25C in a day.

[@markbrock8662]

Humans have experienced this rate of change before. We have experienced sea level rise over 100 meters during our time. We will deal.

[@friedrichjunzt]

@@yt.damian are they growing food there? How many people live in extreme environments like that? Billions?

[@pazitor]

@@markbrock8662 No, we have never done so. And without animals and sustainable crops, we are dead.

[@nouveausocratic1884]

Peter's excellent ability to rapidly form an opinion about complex multi-factor situations is an eloquent opinion rather than expertise. His own confidence is conveyed by to composure and tone of voice when you compare other videos dealing with topics for which he has acquired greater depth of knowledge over longer periods of time (demographics for instance)

[@Lazarus1095]

It sounds like we need- really, really need- fusion, room temperature superconductors, and a cheap alternative to copper- and quick. Then we need to parlay that into something that sucks carbon out of the atmosphere and puts it right back into the ground. Or else it's going to be a very, very painful century.

[@clivedoe9674]

We call them trees.

[@Dontreadthis0]

We needed that like 40 years ago. Even in best case scenario it's going to cause millions of deaths and mass migration

[@davidtrammel]

Why not add some herds of unicorns too. Both are as likely to happen given the capture by the Rich of governments. As the Gulf States show, the Rich and their families will have air conditioning while the other 99% will fight to work in the heat so they don't starve.

[@pringlw]

I agree. The only way through this that people are going to like is through technology. Conservation needs to play a role but all it is doing is delaying things by a very small amount.

[@chrisjackson1215]

@@pringlw Patently wrong. Plating sea grass, for instance has shown drastic changes in affected areas. Conservation isn't ineffective because it doesn't work, it's ineffective because no one wants to put their politics aside and fund it. When things get bad enough that may change.

[@oldmike4190]

In the US, agriculture in much of the Western Plains (Nebraska to Texas) will also face the loss of irrigation water from the Ogalla Aquifer, which has been depleted to less than 50% reserves by continuous over-pumping since WW II. The reversion to dry land farming will reduce yields regardless of climate change.

[@Mikell-h2c]

I live in upstate New York 42° north the weather has improved immensely shorter winters longer growing seasons, summers are nice, everything’s coming up roses here😊

[@sayrerowan734]

I live in Louisiana and the weather has worsened immensely. But it doesn't matter as long as you're happy, right? Screw everyone else?

[@Matthew-li7we]

I know I am an American because my reaction was, "Were going to kick climate changes ASS! BRING IT ON!" Like it was some sort of enemy I could shoot.

[@dagda101]

I've stopped needeing more reasons to prepare a few years ago. If anything is painfully obvious, it's that at least the climate and demographic issues will hit us like a brick, since nobody is even seriously talking about it, let alone try and deal with it. Call me pesimistic all you want, but my intuition sees a "perfect storm" forming over us. The two things mentioned above are just a part of it and it's about to break this century 100%. The question is not if, but when.

[@TimRobertsen]

Some years ago people jokingly asked if we were living in Idiocracy, the movie. In some decades, people will be jokingly asking if we are living in 2012, the movie:p

[@BERZERKERSV4]

Got any extra aluminum foil?....I'd like to make a hat too .

[@dagda101]

@BERZERKERSV4 the current approach to the demographic issue is literally "fingers crossed and hope for the best". No alu foil, but I have something better: history books. This is far from being our first rodeo. It happens roughly once in 250 years. Also, what the internet has shown us is that access to information was never the real issue.

[@BERZERKERSV4]

@dagda101 then why are the banks still lending on ocean front property ? Business over your half baked science any day

[@thunderstorm6630]

you are not a pesimist, your brain ist just functioning properly. question is: can you prepare for the end of civilisation?

[@xannonshirley3805]

Once the crops fail, we all die. How much heat can be added to the atmosphere before that happens? 3 degrees? 4 degrees? And obviously once it hits 4 degrees, it won't stop or reverse. I'd be surprised if we have 20 good years left...but on the plus side- at least you don't worry too much about your 30 year mortgage.

[@michaeldowson6988]

There would likely be some serious depopulation going on simultaneously, so demand for energy will drop also. Transport of fertilizers won't likely match the increased rainfall in the US Midwest, so don't count on double-cropping.

[@user-ej1yi4lv9v]

depopulation=mass human die off...... think about that process for a bit... climate models are NOT predicting increased rainfall in the US Mid west during the summer growing period... google it!

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Chuffed that you've gotten to this topic Peter, bravo, bravo. You are a respected and prolific content producer and information disseminator. You are the right person, at the right time talking the right topic. Hopefully you'll be doing many more on this gargantuan topic, as the problem of climate change will be accelerating for the fore-coming 200 years (give or take), at least. For example: - spreading wet-bulb temperature (great coverage in this video Peter) - abrupt halting of the Gulf Stream's big brother, the AMOC, sending Northern Europe (and possibly the NE coast of Nth America) into a mini-ice-age whilst the rest of the planet swelters - global concurrent wildfires - methane release from thawing permafrost and (especially in the Arctic Seas) shallow sub-marine clathrates (methane hydrates) [ps. 4 Gg carbon in the atmosphere, 250 Gg carbon in the permafrost alone] - global sea-level rise and accompanying displacement - equatorial desertification - agricultural decimation (excellent coverage here) - displacement and migration of hundreds of millions to billions of climate refugees, forcing conflict. You're the best presenter I've seen at joining the dots of cause and effect. Good luck on this one Peter. Michael Barrett, Sydney ps. An excellent resource for peer-review journal articles focusing on the cutting edge of this is "Paul Beckwith" -- YT channel.

[@manwiththeredface7821]

Surprised you didn't mention the soon to be shipping routes around the North Pole, providing alternative to the Suez Canal and the Strait of Malacca, radically changing geopolitics.

[@hillockfarm8404]

No infrastructure i.e. harbours along that route, so you'd be on your own if your ship develops a problem. Also there are serious worries about the AMOC collapsing and that would make things a lot colder again over there, due to stopping the heat redistribution from equator to northpole area.

[@Josephus_vanDenElzen]

Peter has that "I am so sorry about that discovered blackface picture of me in high school 30 years ago" thumbnail.

[@mayoite160]

I'm in Bangladesh where my extended family is trying to convince me to stay. in case I do the first order of business is my vasectomy. no way in hell am I giving my kids a death sentence before they're even born

[@eze2190]

Sad you bought into the biggest grift in history. The de-growth movement is behind the climate change lie. Please read about the 2 times the IPCC had their email servers hacked. Both times showed coordinated worldwide data manipulation and that if they didn’t come out with the pre-determined government narrative, they would lose their funding. And, it was first called global cooling, then global warming and now climate change. Please, use your brain and not their lies.

[@jager6863]

Good - Please encourage everyone in Bangladesh to get a vasectomy. The Planet thanks you.

[@Normalguymf]

Be safe bro, bangladesh area is already facing climate change problem.

[@jarrah580]

this is so dumb. but go ahead, we need less dumb people in the world anyway.

[@samlair3342]

When I see families with young children I think the parents are either very brave or naive - I grieve.

[@brazidas58]

I moved to southern ontario in 1970, and almost every fall we had a so called Indian summer , "Indian Summer, popular expression for a period of mild, summerlike weather which occurs in the autumn, usually after the first frost. The origins of the name are obscure, but it was in use early in the 19th century in Canada and even earlier in the US" What I was able to find that this phrase was mentioned going back to 1778.

[@harryburleigh8358]

Some information makes an old man think that it would be nice to be younger, to have the expectation that one might live to see the future and to benefit from improvements. Other stories bring up a certain gratitude that one is unlikely to live long enough to suffer through the impending disintegration and collapse. While Mr. Zeihan’s effectiveness as a thoughtful information synthesizer and story teller is noteworthy, this particular story is a paving stone on the path of inter-generational schadenfreude.

[@T.R.75]

too many people, fighting over too few resources, living unsustainably. ten years, give or take, of topsoil left. theres no techno fix for this. people arent going to give up their modern conveniences. wars are usually about resources, wait till theyre about potable water. rip modern society.

[@GeorgeStar]

Cue the Trump University climatologists.

[@GratefulPrimate]

Here in Texas, I get FREQUENT power outages. No power=no air conditioning=HOT ASS living conditions. Hurricane Beryl in 2024 was a category one (weakest rating) and we had no electricity for SEVEN DAYS.

[@janejohndoe348]

Even at current CO2 emissions, we'll have 4-5 C by 2100, and emissions are still rising. If there is a widespread shift to coal as Peter suggests, 6 C is fully possible. Like it or not, but you can't argue with data.

[@mountainmanmike1014]

what data model did he use

[@darenm617]

I know you probably won’t read this, but I have a great book recommendation for you. It’s called losing our cool by Stan Cox. Great info on the history of AC and the issues with it.

[@inzhener2007]

Please 🙏 Americans don't allow Putin's client Trump in the W.H.

[@brokenaura23]

Trump will know defeat once again. 😊

[@gups4963]

Meanwhile the Biden's made million off the mayor of Moscow

[@barryladerman179]

I proudly voted TRUMP yesterday 🎉 He's our next POTUS.

[@AnointedOne4God]

Yes, let’s vote commie Kamala in 🤦‍♂️

[@brokenaura23]

Trump will know defeat. Again. 😊

[@paulcunneen3519]

Oh, Peter, You're such an optimist! (note sarcasm!) Ah well, it's been fun,. Last civilization alive, turn out the lights- if there are any left!

[@liamr194]

Well, at least Southern Spain isn't facing 3 years of chronic drought anymore.

[@Buran01]

It will alteranate severe droughts and frequent violent storms with massive floods, and this is only the coldest year of the rest of our lives...

[@liamr194]

@@AtheismScientism A joke? It's an observation, not a joke

[@friedrichjunzt]

Actually that is totally possible. Biblical Floods one week and then draughts for the rest of the year.

[@liamr194]

@@friedrichjunzt It's not; at least in the short to medium term. Since regional reservoirs and the infrastructure are actually quite good given how prepared for drought southern Spain is becoming. Local reservoirs and reserves have retained a significant amount of the short term rainfall. La Vinuela supplies the cities of Malaga and Ronda and has increased from 9% to 25% within 7 days. Those communities have survived on below 10% for 6 years.

[@vuchaser99]

If it doesn't soak into the soil... it doesn't relieve a drought.

[@matthewgaudet8001]

the problem with climate science is that is it dependent on government grants which brings politics into it.

[@skiguru99]

It isn’t a debate though. It’s clear reality

[@_goobs]

Doomsday climate models depend on slight warming from carbon to increase the water capacity of the air, with water vapor being the primary driver of the greenhouse effect. The assumption they make is that this capacity for water vapor is always maxed out, but real world data doesn't back that assumption up.

[@SigFigNewton]

The models have been underestimating the effects, not overestimating

[@jonley2738]

There is a good book which explores this topic in great detail called "The Heat Will Kill you First". . .

[@turtle.wrangler]

Once again the burden will be placed on the working class while the politicians who pass environmental law are unaffected

[@tecwzrd]

They aren't unaffected, they profit off it greatly.

[@camilleruggiero3098]

@@turtle.wrangler once again, the end of the world. Women and minorities are the first to feel the pain.

[@RobertSweatman]

SophisitiCrats like Deep State Peter and his Neo Con Cheney friends just cause more Wars and make huge profits!

[@ronagoodwell2709]

... and people who own the politicians will remain insulated from the worst of it. For a while.

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

I love how KZbin insets the link to the approved view 😅. Maybe we all want to hear Peter’s opinion and that’s why we clicked on the video.

[@chriswilkerson4074]

6 degrees C is HUGE!

[@cheryllee81]

6 degrees C, we're toast!

[@skiguru99]

6c is a dystopia

[@slamtilt01]

Those old ads on Robocop where you will need SPF5000 is starting to sound like not a joke anymore

[@JP-iq7pu]

First, we will NOT see full deglobalization. Second, many, if not all, of these predictions NEVER take into account innovation and adaptation.

[@dalehill6127]

Re your second point: no, they don't, for the simple reason that it's impossible to predict those things and so if you try to then all you can say is that clever humans will solve it all therefore there's nothing to worry about. Taking *that* line puts you on the side of those who deny that climate change matters. Which you might say is the ultimate gamble.

[@i1pro]

I love running when it's hot over 90F. Sounds like I should be dead. Sorry no one sent me the memo.

[@gareth4457]

You'll be fine running in 90F until the relative humidity goes over 85%. At that point your body is unable to cool itself through sweating. With vigourous activity like running, after about 20-30 mins you'll start experiencing hyperthermia. If you don't cool down by going into airconditioning or using icepacks to lower your temp, you'll die in a matter of a few hours.

[@kanu88kanu88kanu88]

You are so disrecpectful towards the Emirates and saudis . saying they live in fish bowls and work slaves to the ground . I love it !

[@friedrichjunzt]

You spelled "honest" wrong.

[@blueskies1237]

Peter whispering so everyone driving their monster trucks to the woods don’t lose their minds.

[@marcusnichols5595]

I've ~20 years experience in SG. Most new or upgrade homes are part of the modern 'air-conditioned nation'. Older

[@Mike80528]

"The breeze cools." not when nighttime temperatures don't drop below 80 degrees.

[@WillieBloom]

Get your solar power while you can folks. I live at 60° north and I just had 11 kW of solar panels install installed. Today it’s cool and windy but sunny so my panels are generating near 2 kW of power. The solar panels charge a battery stack, which is also recharged in the middle of the night when the spot price is at the lowest. Since we do experience about four months of dunkelflaute up here I have a wood-burning stove and a pinch. In the summer when I am generating crazy amounts of electricity and selling it back to the grid, I use that as a credit for the winter time when the prices are higher in, my production is lower. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn good.

[@10001000101]

The lack of political movement on climate change since COVID is atrocious.

[@adriancioroianu1704]

It's in vain, we are incapable of doing something like this at scale. Mainly due to the inertia of how the economy works. I went through all mindsets regarding climate change and landed on cynicism because i acknowledged reality after all these years. Everything about us currently is not made and thought of for this scale of projects which affect us disproportionally. Only something like the imminent cataclysmic asteroid impact (an example) would move that kind of global needle drastically because it's urgent and affects everybody. Climate change is not like this, it won't do it, so just cope basically.

[@LayneRose-gr1hq]

Hey we have electric battle tanks on the way😅

[@jimthain8777]

There is the Green Party, but since no one gives them money, they aren't very competitive in elections.

[@MrNicoJac]

1:04 If anyone expects we're gonna go to +6°C by 2100, they must think humanity is doomed. At that high an increase, wine is made in Scandinavia. India and China and most of the US become unlivable. You'd be able to start farming on Antarctica... We'd see _massive_ migrations and civil wars and droughts/famines. As in, the best-case scenario is that 10% of the world population survives... For all intents and purposes, it would not just be the end of every country we know today, but probably civilization itself. You can forget about multinationals, international trade, stock markets, consumerism, or anything resembling the current grind of education in youth and work in adulthood. All of it will simply collapse and cease to exist... And tipping points move from a scary nightmare to almost certainty. A 90% drop in global spieces (from all the add-on effects) would be well within the cards. There is no government or military or solo survivalist guru who can cope with that much change in such a short time period... Seriously, if Peter truly thought 6°C was more-plausible, the best thing he can hope for is that he dies before 2050. And if he has kids, oof....

[@Buran01]

I think you're quite wrong in this topic. I'll be very surprised if before 2060 the current climate apocallypsis in which we are involved doesn't wipe out at least 1/3 of the popultation. I mean, fertility rate is already well below 2.1 for 75% of the counties, most of low height regions as much of indo-pacific islands and places like Florida will just be flooded constanly, the AMOC is already collapsing and probably will break the rain cycles crippling our capacity to grow crops while turning Europe in a place constantly leveled by storms, etc, etc. Fortunately, survivors will have plenty of rich people to eat...

[@jonathanpuigvert7468]

I just pray that you are wrong...

[@agaragar21]

The science says Billions will die and great wars will break out over diminishing resources.......next year half of my province of Alberta is expected to Burn ?????...the premier has Banned Renewable Energy Plants as a visual Eyesore......in the land of a million Oil Derricks !!!

[@pgsmith22]

Given the (geologically) brief snapshot of this planet, we as a species has been able to observe (and even less, been able to record), all of the planet's ecosystems have persisted on a knife's edge. It seems apparent our efforts / negligence, has pushed it from this edge. With myriad, intertwined, and highly dynamic systems being involved, what comes next will be difficult to accurately predict. Might as well forecast the location and severity of the 'big one' earthquake. But i think what shall come, will benefit the planet as a whole; that being, a significant population correction of us, as a species. We are part of nature and thus, are not immune to its ill-effects.

[@seanc6754]

Oh peter u just know how to start my day.. with dread lol

[@johncahill3644]

I listen to this guy a lot, just to hear his perspective. Little things strike me odd though...besides what I would argue are simplistic arguments (in other words, taking a broad view but ignoring the many possibilities that might crop up unforeseen, at least factoring in the likelihood of such events) but then saying “nucular” and “centigrade” for example really puts a pin to the “I see things clearer” balloon.

[@sardoniclysane]

6 centigrade? Permian extinction level event

[@RachelCunningham-ut9ks]

regardless of where you go: food prices go up

[@benjackson8103]

Making predictions is very difficult. Especially when you’re talking about the future.

[@ivancho5854]

Don't rain on his doom parade. 🤫

[@ivarstorvold3545]

I lived for four years in Egypt. The temperature was above 100 every summer, and the population increased with 8 millions. Its not the end of the world.