Climate leaders discuss extreme heat crisis and the possible solutions

NBC News’ Liz Kreutz moderates a panel with climate officers and journalists to discuss how climate change has affected extreme heat and solutions on how to solve it. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of Aspen Ideas Festival.
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#aspenideas #climatechange #extremeweather

[@jayvincent1865]

Gotta love how the answer is ( All of us need to change) not the laws allowing emissions from large corporations... Or how about Deciding not to live on the coast or Tornado Alley... Can't expect to get insurance coverage.. Or get federal aid because you chose to live in a High risk area... I can't walk into traffic then sue whoever hits me...

[@williamshaw5388]

I don’t even bother to recycle anymore.

[@jayvincent1865]

So.. Is it okay if I move to Mexico and demand the local government provides English speaking resources? C'mon people.... You want our benefits you can at least try to learn the local dialect...

[@TheMahayanist]

Or... you could grow up.

[@jayvincent1865]

Go figure, paying people a living wage cuts your profits.. Too bad... Might have to skip 1 of your 15 vacations this year... Poor baby...

[@TheMahayanist]

First, we need a Presidential administration that will actually do something about the problem.

[@deanvoss7098]

Something else that's never talked about is the Earth is getting over populated..

[@beautifulfouse]

I had never heard of "Heat Officers" before, an actual city position. This just tells me more about our Finale. Sorry, so sorry but we waited to long, because if it really is CO2 that is causing the warming, its to late for us because the CO2 that is in the atmosphere cannot be reduced for DECADES, its there permanently as far as todays population is concerned. CO2 does not dissipate for at least 30 years,,,and we are putting much more in the air now than we ever had.

[@mrcookies409]

We could, but we won't.

[@dianebundy712]

Thank you for your service!

[@ericbaese3038]

My career is to tell people Sumer is hot

[@nicolatesla5786]

My training was senior climate scientist is to tell the population that planet Earth is sliding into another greenhouse gas mass extinction event. This time it's not caused by volcanic CO2 emissions which killed off between 60 to 90 percent of all life on Earth create it this time it's human activity that's releasing upwards of 34 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, plus increasing methane. The destabilization of the planet occurred how about 200 years ago when the glaciers started to recede if humans did not exist Glacier Retreat would never occur. Humans broke the climate cycle and the planet is heading into a Hothouse Earth condition with accelerating frequency of global flooding events, heat waves that are often deadly, droughts and if it continues eventual Global famine

[@markhasenour12]

I'm a farmer and this is absolute BS

[@heavymetalhomesteading]

I'm a farmer too, and everything they said would happen in 9th grade and college biology is happening, but worse. They never mentioned we'd be drinking forever chemicals, breathing microplastics and having RoundUp fall in rain drops.

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[@EdwardJonesSilas]

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[@GeorgeWilliamsGreg]

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[@jeffcohen9246]

Yeah it's hot in the summer, happens every year

[@beyondfossil]

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

There you are again...

[@gsnyder2007]

True, it's hotter in the summer than other seasons, but that's not what this is about. It's about having extreme heat and extreme weather in higher frequency, and higher intensity and these changes are irreversible. The extreme changes to our weather puts huge stress on our food production, on water supplies, and our emergency relief management. We are setting records for the amount and size of the disasters we need to address. This will itself result in rising property insurance costs, disaster relieve outlays that could exacerbate inflation and government budgets being balanced.

[@stevensmith-rb9if]

GET RID OF GAS VEHICLES AND CLEAN FUEL FOR PLANES

[@kingslayya6876]

it's not caused by higher co2 haha

[@nicolatesla5786]

I have a strong understanding are the climate and climate crisis. Co2, methane, water vapor, sulfur dioxide oxides of nitrogen combined together plus deforestation is driving the climate crisis of planet Earth. Humans are pushing planet Earth into another greenhouse gas mass extinction event

[@LadieKadie]

We won’t be complying. Thanks.

[@sandorski56]

Why?

[@LadieKadie]

@@sandorski56 I won’t be dining on bugs or living in a 15 minutes city without a car. NO WAY!!!!!

[@sandorski56]

@@LadieKadie lol, ok....stop listening/watching garbage. Please.

[@LadieKadie]

@@sandorski56 The carbon taxes are real there Einstein.

[@sandorski56]

@@LadieKadie Yes, and?

[@kimberlylorange3717]

What we consume affects our enviroment

[@cesarpaulinho2824]

Cesarpaulin❤❤up

[@stevesmith-sb2df]

Weather guys need to communicate the wetbulb temperature and the dangers it represents.

[@o1badmofo763]

“Possible solutions” 😆😝🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s hilarious

[@beyondfossil]

Why?

[@redbaron977]

Real and scary 😅

[@TheDoomWizard]

We're in a predicament. There is no solution. Only an outcome.

[@user-vk7cp1op9p]

Good point! Not before an issue!

[@chicagogal]

😂 it was in the 100s in the 1800s

[@gsnyder2007]

And your point would be? Are you trying to claim that human-driven climate change is not a thing? The science on climate change is well established and all you need to do is go outside to see it. I live in the northeast and the heat, and extreme weather (including tornadoes), is very noticeable from what it was like just 20 or 30 years ago. I was riding my bicycle across Florida in Jan/Feb and the amount of rain that dropped while I was there, according to the locals, was extreme - lots of flooding especially up around the panhandle - at a time that would normally be drier. One local said he had lived there since 1980 and had never seen anything like it. In May, I was back in Miami and the ocean water was like bath water, in the mid- to upper 80's (F). Corals are dying all around Florida due to the hot water. The ocean ecosystems cannot adapt quickly to the higher temperatures and this, in turn, impacts our seafood supply. We are taking enormous risks by continuing the GHG emissions / pollution.

[@chicagogal]

@gsnyder2007 no human driven climate change via chemtrails is a thing. Who said otherwise??

[@samstone1138]

I wouldn't want to hear anything about the public having to cut back on electricity or water use until all casinos, amusement parks, , water parks, and the many other unnecessary major users of both, are shut down.

[@josephtpg2205]

Wet lands should be wet. They cool planet, hold carbon, clean water

[@itzhakbentov6572]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[@catmom23]

As a biologist, I believe this is how it's going to go down: We will have a global foodshortage by the end of the year, the civilization will collapse in 2 to 3 years (net zero is reached;)), followed by a long time of turmoil and fight for surival, humans will radiate into multiple new human subspecies, because selection pressure is really high. However, I'm sorry to tell you there is no guarantee, humans will survive at all. There are many possible scenarios

[@carlathomas2901]

Stopped chem trails and cloud seeding

[@Silks-]

You’re on the wrong video; these are experts, you’ve strayed from Fox News or whatever similar sources you’re getting your info from.

[@dtaylor939]

@@Silks- "experts" LOL

[@Silks-]

@@dtaylor939 yes. People who are highly educated, specialising in their field of expertise rather than scientifically illiterate, corrupt, politically bias sellouts. You wouldn’t understand.

[@Silks-]

I understand why scientists hate trying to communicate with the general public.

[@chicagogal]

​@@Silks-yeah it's because we call them out on their bull

[@teresasmith4145]

🙆 HEY 👋 I have been living in my 1985 Dodge Van for 🗣️📢 10 years without any heater or air-conditioning and I'm 70 years alive 😮😢 I know and understand a whole lot more than any of you people🙆 I know many many things that are happening and no one notices or cares😢 Spoiled, fat, lazy and especially NO DISCIPLINE 🗽

[@robertmikes619]

I was a Broward Mayor and the leader of an Environmental group for 10 years . I was invited to be a member of one of the first Resilience Comm in Broward made up of about 15 PHDS and a few politicians mainly concerned about Port Everglades most of these PHDS were fairly young even though they were some of the best from the State,County and Federal govt! ! I had probably 40 years experience in Env issues in Broward . I! Our family came to Broward in the 50"s and I was the only member to see the Env Impacts over this period ! I have a wall full of awards but althogh we saved thousands of acres o coastalf wetlands from being turned into condos ,only the lower land values at the time allowed this to happen ! Unless some genius comes up with a form of Geoengineering on a huge scale I would have tp place myself in the large DOOMER camp of scientists and our current candidates for President is NOT encouraging !

[@nicolatesla5786]

I don't have any words or degrees in environmental science but as a self-taught 1st or 2nd year atmospheric physics student, I have a monitoring Global Land and Sea surface temperatures thanks to remote satellites. I consult with senior climate scientists, basically planet Earth is plunging into another hot house greenhouse gas mass extinction event. All of the charts that I have all the documents all the studies point to a planet that is heading in that direction. Global annual CO2 emissions continue to rise unabated add a rate that is significantly faster then CO2 emissions prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution. Before the start of the Industrial Revolution CO2 levels are rising at one part per million every 1,000 years carried in the 2020s, CO2 levels are rising at one part per million every 18 months period of methane levels are also on the rise. But the big news story started 18 months ago when Global sulfur dioxide levels were dropping in the atmosphere. They're dropping based on the reduction of global burning of fossil fuels but specifically the international Maritime organization had mandated that all Container shipping companies worldwide or at least within their jurisdiction switch from a bunker crew that contains 4.5% sulfur to a sulfur content. The properties of sulfur dioxide, have some outstanding solar reflectivity values. So basically sulfur dioxide is settling out of the atmosphere and allowing more thermal radiation from the Sun restart the world's oceans and land and this has increased the global average temperatures much much faster then has been recorded over the last 40 years

[@FigsForYou]

Why are other planets in our solar system heating up as well? Is fossil fuels to blame there too?...

[@jeremybode3129]

Extreme heat? It's 60s in Michigan

[@AngelEagle44]

The OCEAN is warming up and it is so big and deep, it takes a long time to cool down!!!!!

[@gsnyder2007]

Vote for Joe, not the Psycho, so we can continue to work on addressing climate change.

[@dtaylor939]

"Climate Leaders" LOL

[@robertnewberry7799]

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[@sallymclain1600]

People could use help setting up growing some food inside also.

[@NashHinton]

Smart people who know the science know WASF.

[@jayvincent1865]

If people in Florida want disaster relief... Start paying state taxes.... The rest of the country shouldn't be responsible...

[@FredXTribeJudah]

It’s nice and cool in Florida

[@johndoe-cb1id]

they all got a gift card to outback stack house and 40 gas cards

[@kkartha]

All Humans across the Globe stay home and eat Bugs for the rest of their lives?

[@jdcc8657]

It usnt here its happening all through the galaxy. Mars has melting ice caps.uts nibiru. Wake up

[@DT__1]

U understand that we are exactly 50 years too late to come up with the change. Now all we can do is try to adapt. Because the whole world was laughing when first warnings came out 50 years ago. And it was said we have only up to 20 years. After 20 years it was reminded we got little to nun time left. So 50 years of ignorance REALY ain’t gonna fix nothing…. None of their solutions will be effective.

[@sallymclain1600]

Community funding and/or addressing solutions.

[@sallymclain1600]

After hospitalization for heat you may still die days later.

[@sallymclain1600]

With covid we had a death count daily. We could really use that again for heat..flood..etc.

[@LadieKadie]

Too many people you say? You leave first.

[@sallymclain1600]

@LadieKadie We had a visible accounting of how many had died. It was not enjoyable but it was accurate.

[@filibertocaceresbetancur-yn7mq]

Today there are 8 billones of population around the world wide but only the peoples than we have been studied know it formula CO2 and so is formaded with the oxygen Latin America City iquitos Peru

[@karsdoow]

You can get paid to be a “chief of heat”? Can I get a paid position for being a “chief of windy”?

[@catsmeow4264]

Do you blow?"

[@sangmok72]

결국, 다 죽을꺼야! 어리석은 인간들.

[@LadyLeda2]

True we all die in the end. But while we are alive what kind of quality of life do you want? Do you want to sit in your home day and night and watch the birds fall out of the trees from extreme heat? And watch the trees wither and die? The river across the street lose its water from evaporation? Or do you want to be able to go outside and hear the birds singing? Walk under the shade of a tree and feel the coolness under its shade? Or hear the trickle of water as it moves around the rocks in a stream? That's the difference between a good life and a life that is poor quality. We have to choose for the generations that are coming up after us. Your children, your grandchildren will want to know how you helped solve the problem of climate change. They will want to know how you escaped that extreme heat. They will look up at you with there big dark eyes and curious faces waiting to hear your stories. Grandpa ,tell us, tell us.

[@sallymclain1600]

Stop cruise

[@Scarletohellno]

Go away and pander your taxing schemes elsewhere.

[@SilverSkies1994]

Keep saying that when you and you’re loved ones are struggling to survive on a burning planet. The ONLY planet we live on. Maybe you’ll finally “uncover” some bs conspiracy theory when the tinfoil on your head is hotter to the touch under the sun.

[@catsmeow4264]

"Let me tell you how it will be1 for you 19 for me" "If you get too cold, I'll tax your heat" CLUE: I hope I don't get a copyright strike! Times of statements! Without 'autotune" :CLUE!

[@Scarletohellno]

@@catsmeow4264Exactly.. Amazing how prescient Harrison’s lyrics were. Thx.

[@kolbybeautymakeupartist]

The over exaggerated bug zapper metaphor is why people aren’t taking the climate change seriously, so I guess the guy in black is gonna die he said.

[@claudegarneau666]

Where did they find these guys? Clueless and unscientific.

[@catsmeow4264]

Where is your PHD?

[@chicagogal]

You need a PhD in meteorology to know it's hot outside😂😂 or that it's raining🌧😂

[@catsmeow4264]

@@chicagogalNo, only go outside, come back in and let me know what the weather is like and repeat every half hour so I stay informed. Thank you!

[@chicagogal]

@catsmeow4264 figures you're too lazy and don't address my brilliant point. You lose. AGAIN

[@catsmeow4264]

@@chicagogal This is a comment place. Not a contest place! OK, you win! I commented this: @catsmeow4264 18 hours ago Where is your PHD? On this comment: @claudegarneau666 19 hours ago Where did they find these guys? Clueless and unscientific. Then you commented this to my comment: @chicagogal 1 hour ago You need a PhD in meteorology to know it's hot outside or that it's raining My new comment to u is: Only if you want to PREDICT the weather! Ok! Don't worry, you still win! (the contest?)

[@Agislife1960]

Ya know, Ive been listening to this crap since 1970, and these doom sayers haven't been right yet

[@JohnPeter-yf5jf]

Guess you don’t live in the North east, we haven’t had a good snow pack in the 90, can’t snowmobile on any of the trails. The lake I grew up on doesn’t freeze over anymore, use to be ice shacks before Christmas.

[@donguess4332]

Yeah there is No climate crisis.

[@nicolatesla5786]

Well guess what climate change that started in 1850. That was the time when the intro glacial Ice Age maximum should have started to extend the arctic ice sheets because planet Earth was now sliding into an ice age but it would take another 10,000 years before a full Ice Age would occur Carrie you have to understand that Earth has had three greenhouse gas mass extinction events. The last one was 55 million years ago. The CO2 emission duration was 20,000 years. The rate of emissions was 2 GB per y e a r. Humans are releasing 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year. So the lower latitudes of Earth in other words between the Equator and the 30th degree latitude are experiencing the most brutal heat waves, flooding events, droughts and now famine will expand Global grain crops are decreasing starting an India and possibly spreading to other countries

[@albertcorreia2579]

What do you want, more money? You are friggin liers.