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[@avd-wd9581]

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” - Kurt Vonnegut

[@Bordo26]

" history " is a concept that matters only when there are humans around...

[@servvo]

​@@Bordo26 society ≠ humanity

[@jaybird210]

that we KNOW of ... 🕵

[@squaretriangle9208]

Vonnegut🎉

[@scottsutoob]

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Also Kurt Vonnegut

[@Hawkwinter01]

My favorite part is where he is asked what we can do to stop climate change, and his primary answer is to petition the government to address it. Why? Because big industry will have to be forced to address climate change, they'll not voluntarily do so, and they are the primary source of carbon dioxide. Big industry puts forward that illusion, to avoid compliance themselves. Much like recycling, it's a smoke screen, the creators of plastic items should be responsible for funding recycling, not the consumers.

[@batustone8742]

Exactly. Just watched a video on carbon footprint and learned that the term is used to represent consumers' fuel consumption, making us acutely aware of how we are impacting the environment through our routines, all the while ignoring the actual industry that needs to be held accountable for polluting the world at such a worrying pace.

[@aelinwhitehorn3526]

Let’s be honest petitioning and protesting does nothing.

[@nebraskaninkansas347]

Until big industry lobbies government to help them. Until lobbying is outlawed rich entrepreneurs will easily buy their way to stay up top.

[@stevena105]

I'm with Aelin. The people who want to do something about it have no power. And the people with power don't want to do something about it. The rest of us just have to adapt; to live in the world left for us.

[@aelinwhitehorn3526]

@@stevena105 this notion is rather pathetic and shows that most people dont have the spine or simply are too lazy to actually study to help to fix the world.

[@greenredblue]

I enjoy when people say we should terraform other planets because fixing the earth is too hard. Like, our sprinter caught a cold, so we should swap her out for a dude in a coma.

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

They must not realize how difficult, or how long it would take to do such a thing.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

"Fixing the Earth" The Earth doesn't need help fixing itself, and "climate change" is a load of horseshit. If every country followed the Paris Accord, to the letter, it wouldn't even begin to have a noticeable impact on the climate.

[@Apelles42069]

Our sprinter got long-haul covid, actually.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Swap her out for a mummy is more like it. Mars is a dead rock.

[@BlueFrenzy]

Who said such a thing?

[@dasutin]

"On average, this is the hottest summer you've ever experienced. It's also the coolest summer for the rest of your life." Just gotta sit with that for a while...

[@gardnmi]

You sit there until you look at actual data and realize your comment is wrong. www.weather.gov/media/slc/ClimateBook/Annual%20Average%20Temperature%20By%20Year.pdf

[@DioneN]

It's frightening. I am seriously afraid of every summer now. I keep saying I need to get central AC and this spring I may have to finally do it.

[@silvervixen007]

@@DioneN yeah same, so depressing

[@pnut3844able]

Basically they have zero idea wtf they're talking about. Climate change has happened as long as the earth has been around. Stop acting like we do ANYTHING at all smh. Y'all morons buying into the biggest scam ever

[@edwartvonfectonia4362]

4 years ago summer was hotter than this year. I dunno about your place.

[@fal_pal_]

I love his emphasis on mitigating suffering. That needs to be our priority, to have compassion and empathy for each other and our planet, not to buy our way out of a crisis.

[@RobertMJohnson]

sure, falpal. you know--you're conducted the experiments and run the numbers for the world.

[@VAVORiAL]

The absolute best way to reduce suffering in general, is by not reproducing.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@VAVORiALno one is suffering you uneducated donkey

[@chrisprilloisebola]

@@VAVORiAL lol ur doing your part i see

[@MariusViken]

@Mark Aspen Why? None of us chose to be part of this.

[@moniker2804]

Always amazing to me that some people really think "big climate research" has more influence than companies that have been ultra wealthy for over a century.

[@datamore2653]

I'm a PhD candidate in pharmacology/toxicology. The people complaining that scientists are fixing data/interpretations to get multimillion dollar grants have no clue what those grants pay for. Those grants generally pay for: the professor's salary over the course of the grant (which tends to be $80-120k/year), post-doc salaries (which tend to be $45-65k a year), graduate student salaries/tuition (which tend to come in at $25-35k/$25-65k a year), lab manager/tech salaries (which tend to come in around $30-60k a year depending on experience), research associate/scientist salaries (which tend to come in around $40-70k a year depending on experience), and then on top of that, the reagents/equipment/animals/etc have to be paid for using that grant money. If a lab has one of each of the personnel that I mentioned, a $1 million dollar grant funded for 4 years would only pay for the salaries of those personnel, if all those personnel were at the minimum of the estimates I mentioned (and half of those personnel either have bachelor's/master's degrees with multiple years of experience and the other half have PhD's). Science is expensive, but not because the people doing the science. Single experiments often cost thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to run. Equipment needs to be purchased and maintained, which can cost tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's incredibly frustrating that people are so sure of themselves about topics they know absolutely nothing about.

[@ACAB-GAYCRAB]

Yeah all the companies are paying scientists to lie about global warming lol. I think it’s almost the exact opposite. Companies are paying to propagandize global warming as a construct so they can still go about burning the world to the ground for personal gain.

[@Arthur-fz5dw]

@@datamore2653 I'm also an academic researcher. You both don't understand the point. The issue is that, if you're a researcher discussing anything against catastrophic AGW (or frankly anything going against woke culture in general), or your data shows patterns that goes against it and you attempt to publish it (you can't anyway because journals won't accept the manuscript), you won't be able to get any more grants to fund your research, and you'll probably be smeared by your pears, school and university, and fired. Then good luck with this on your resume to find any research job in the future. This creates an echo chamber where everyone either agrees, or is excluded, and most published data and conclusions go in the same direction.

[@datamore2653]

@@Arthur-fz5dw The problem isn't that researchers are presenting data/discussing alternative hypotheses that run counter to consensus; the problem is that the data/hypotheses that run counter to the consensus don't stand up to scrutiny.

[@Arthur-fz5dw]

@@datamore2653 It's so weird to hear/read academics saying/writing statements like this. It's like all their scientific education goes down the toilet when AGW is the topic of interest. The earth climate is such a complex system and there is so much data out there, obviously there is plenty of evidence going both ways. Some of it has been published. If at least you said something like "the data/hypotheses that run counter to the consensus [more often than not] don't stand up to scrutiny", that would sound coherent (even tho it's untrue), but saying they don't stand up to scrutiny at all is, I'm sorry to say, completely nuts. It really reveals this echo chamber I mentionned in my previous comment.

[@GoofballLOL]

I was arrested next to Peter on the 4/6 action with 2 other scientists. It was part of a global effort known as Scientists Rebellion, and over 1000 total scientists got arrested. We were very surprised by the coverage it got in some areas, and not in others.

[@bh5817]

Gauche

[@MsMorganThorne]

I wish it had gotten more coverage - I was also surprised at how little it got in some parts of the media. It was so inspiring to see scientists out there on the front lines. I've been an activist for a long time, been arrested for it a few times too. It made quite the image, to see you guys in your lab coats being arrested and led away by the police. Please do it again, and again, until the world listens! A lot of us non-sientists will be standing with you when you do.

[@martavalsania8812]

If you can, do you want to write more about: "We were very surprised by the coverage it got in some areas, and not in others."

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Surprised, thank you for that. I must state we cannot go down like Galileo. We must teach, learn to up-fall mass, to lift water while generating electricity. Combating climate change will happen, best prepare the world for victory!

[@charliewinterss]

Didn’t hear about any of this in Australia

[@strange_charm_x]

As a PhD candidate who just started this year, working in cloud physics, it relieves me to hear him say that it's complicated... because it is!

[@billyalarie929]

Is this a rare sentiment?

[@woodenplant7202]

Second to woman *ba dum tss*

[@c-3vo]

He helped alleviate some imposter syndrome/imposterism there. :)

[@FlabbyPigLegs]

Wait so you passed your a comprehensive exams? Or you just started as a PhD student?

[@reydefuego34525]

And your credentials are?

[@jacquelynecarrillo2990]

I'm just commenting for the algorithm. This needs to be seen by a wider audience.

[@charlizebriana3648]

absolutely agree. it’s heart wrenching to witness the breakdown of our planet and not be able to do anything substantial as one person to reverse it

[@hugorezende199]

i agree, true

[@devinward461]

Same

[@1SSJA]

I

[@tahaymvids1631]

When he said “On average, this is the hottest summer you’ve ever experienced, it’s also the coolest summer for the rest of your life”, that really truly hit me.

[@nyoodmono4681]

fun fact: This is just wrong, the hottest year was 2016

[@tahaymvids1631]

@@nyoodmono4681 fun fact: you didnt read the quote

[@ChuckisNorrish]

@@tahaymvids1631 he did read the quote, and he proved it wrong. it is not the hottest summer we’ve ever experienced, this was years afo

[@tahaymvids1631]

@@ChuckisNorrish Do you know what "on average" means?

[@ChuckisNorrish]

@@tahaymvids1631 this average is still wrong. how dense are you? did you not pass highschool?

[@andreaperez7812]

This what the internet should be used for. Thank you Wired for always bringing such awesome specialists♥

[@EjaBe23]

Fantastic information that even I can understand-I’m not another scientist!

[@Polymathically]

During the pandemic lockdown, I went back to college remotely and earned my 2nd and 3rd degrees, this time in Environmental Science and Geography. While everyone was focused on diseases and politics, I wanted to focus on what's coming next. One of the aspects that haunted me was the decline of fish populations. 3 billion people rely on the ocean for a dwindling supply of food and commerce _right now._ Just imagine what a nightmare it'll be in a few decades. So enjoy that seafood while you can now, because your grandkids probably won't.

[@noahlarson5358]

Probably a better suggestion is to avoid seafood if you can for the benefit of communities reliant on fishing. Commercial fishing is by far more responsible for overfishing in our oceans & loss of marine biodiversity

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

You climate alarmists are hilarious.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

@@noahlarson5358 Dude...that seafood is harvest and shipped everywhere. You avoiding it is like not taking a paper bag at the grocery and saying "Save a tree". The tree has already been killed, might as well enjoy it, right?

[@noahlarson5358]

@@SmokeymcJoint420 Us buying these products drive demand, signaling fisheries to kill more fish. If we stopped buying seafood, producers would stop selling it.

[@mehere8038]

It takes 3 fish of the same size to grow a salmon, tuna, prawn or shrimp, cause they're carnivores, so the easiest option is just to switch to eating the fish currently being caught to be used as food on fish farms. Plenty of them have good flavours & they have less toxic build up too, so more healthy

[@joaomarcosjunqueira4965]

Here we can see that he has, pretty much, lost all hope, and is just trying his best to warn and educate people in like a last desperate cry for help. But at the same time he delivers the information with so much eloquence and in a controlled way that I think he could reach some people. Well, I lost all hope too, and I don't have 1/1000000 of his knowledge about the subject, but I hope he keeps trying to reach people like this.

[@roseCatcher_]

He cannot lose all hope, he won't get research funding that way.

[@jayyy4491]

There isn’t any hope, maybe out of the billions on this planet one bright mind will have answers for us but why rush to this terrible future and also let’s give the new generations a slim amount of hope if not just the tiniest bit of doubt because we’re all in this together.

[@iemand2612]

There is hope! That's why we need to take action. So join your local activist groups!

[@JAG8691]

@@iemand2612 I am in .I will get the Tomatoe soup if you get the super glue and one of the others gets the paint sprayer. Then we go to Martha's Vineyard.

[@mikelouis9389]

@@JAG8691 Why not Mar a Whacko?

[@callanrose]

i love peter for being so vocal this past couple years, gives me hope

[@jrallday]

Yeah!

[@Winslinator]

As a coastal engineer in Florida, the question everyone always asks me is "how long until Florida's underwater" and I really like the way he answered. It's basically impossible to know for sure, and all we have are probabilistic projections by NOAA and the IPCC to go off of.

[@robertdouglas8895]

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.” ― Michael Crichton

[@mumabird]

@@robertdouglas8895 that's one of the stupidest things I've ever read, congrats

[@robertdouglas8895]

@@mumabird I have my doubts whether you would be open to new information, but I'll give two scientists that will tell you that the great majority of scientists on climate change are wrong. ..John Christy...Tony Hiller muma left with no comment

[@laughs150]

Florida has been going under water for the past 50 years if you listen to them. Eventually they may be right in a hundred 200 hundred or a thousand years. I predict that there'll be an earthquake thatll happen in California some time in the future. I would be able to predict this if you all gave me your money cars and electronics.

[@masonjohnson4310]

Some East Coast states actually banned the usage of climate prediction and sea level rise models in the development of coastal infrastructure, real estate, and other projects. If they didn't, probably nobody would want to build anything of any scale in those states.

[@zg4705]

Bring this guy Back!!!! we need MORE of him

[@DKong1026]

yeah this dude was great

[@rillest75]

I like him. He looks like the dude when I first realized I was built a little different way

[@icevariable9600]

Where did he go?

[@DracowolfieDen]

It is very empowering to see someone brought on who actually got arrested for this emergency, and to see validation of that being very necessary

[@martinsolomon5500]

Greta Thunberg Leo di Caprio Al Gore Joe Biden and the British Royal family are doing more to “save the planet” than the rest of the world put together. They are explaining the science. The Bible is thousands of years old and talks about the deserts in the Middle East it talks about droughts and famine. But thanks to Greta and King Charles we now know the Bible was talking about NOW and climate change. We know that droughts are new, floods are new, earthquakes are new, hurricanes in Florida are all new, shrinking rainforest is new. It’s all due to CO2 emissions of normal working class people. Before 2020 there has never been an illness that could wipe out millions of people. Before 2020 all vaccines were wrong, we now know you are supposed to take vaccines every year. Before 2020 volcanoes earthquakes hurricanes blizzards melting ice floating icebergs that could sink a ship never happened. We all need to get vaccinated against climate change now. CO2 is required by plants and trees. We need to stop CO2 we need stop plants NOW. THE UNITED NATIONS says so. They have all worked together and now we need to do our bit and send world leaders on private planes to all the capital cities to stay at all the luxury hotels to tell us what need to do. There are problems with food supplies and prices are going up. But this is because the war in the Ukraine, so if Ukraine has a democracy there will be universal peace in the Middle East and every commodity will be 100 per cent cheaper so world hunger will cease and energy will be free. Facts.

[@robertdouglas8895]

Getting arrested doesn't mean he is correct. Check Tony Hiller.

[@DracowolfieDen]

​@@robertdouglas8895 Also doesn't mean it makes someone not correct, so that seems irrelevant. (and googling that name doesn't give me anything relating to arrests)

[@robertdouglas8895]

@@DracowolfieDen Right. This guy, Dr. Peter Kalmut got arrested. I was replying to the comment above. Tony Hiller goes over the data that climate scientists have been getting wrong so they can keep getting their grants and salaries and fame that they need more than the facts.

[@NobleUnclean]

@@robertdouglas8895 Awe, look at you making friends.

[@Jnadki]

Excellent answers. As a scientist who answers questions in on-line forums, I am amazed at the level of AGW denial that persists today. To the extent that anything is ever "settled science", the fundamentals of global warming are known and accepted by virtually all researchers. There are differences over the mechanistic details and the timing, but there is no question that it is occurring at an increasing rate and that human activity is the major driver. No other model adequately explains the data.

[@Arthur-fz5dw]

Since it's as settled science as it can be, how much is it due to human activities vs natural causes in %? Typically in serious science, we are able to give specific estimates with standard errors and/or confidence intervals. If there is no estimates or the confidence intervals are very large, we typically just admit that the question is not settled at all, and further investigation is needed to draw any conclusion.

[@solsol1624]

Wow. Never heard such sobering news delivered in such a pleasant manner. Actually, very effective.

[@commanderiosifstalin4938]

I think it is already too late to save the Earth. I mean, come on, how many people will agree to go full-on vegetarian to save the Earth by ending the animal agriculture industries? Can we all stop flying to stop emiting CO2? This is more than impossible and even impractical.

[@benmckinley1940]

@@commanderiosifstalin4938 I wish folks would view meat reduction as an effort to reduce the total number of animals processed by the agricultural industry, rather than eliminating meat consumption on a individual basis. If you convince 10 people to reduce meat intake, it'll have a bigger impact than convincing 1 person to go full vegan. It's also a much easier/persuasive argument (to reduce meat intake) than demanding folks cut out meat altogether.

[@apotheosisofarose1425]

@@commanderiosifstalin4938 the meat industry isn't the biggest problem by a long shot. The problem is this absolute distraction of fear mongering poisoning the minds of the youth and making them unwilling to participate in life. Concrete leaches CO2 1000xs pound for pound what cows can burp, but there is a new method of mixing that traps CO2 rather than releasing it! Cities that are integrating more green spaces have recorded on average a drop of 20°f in the summertime in those spaces and this guy here is telling you that plants won't help. The world can be inspiring but good news rarely gets views

[@vancoverdeduction9032]

​@@commanderiosifstalin4938 there isnt a point of no return, it will just get worse the more the powers that be ignore it. individual actions matter but no where near the part of direct action. get those in power scared of the people, make them bend to our demands instead of the other way. its true no one is going to stop flying or eating meat, but you have to understand those arent problems in it of themselves. humans have always traveled- we can find better ways to do so. take europes trains for example! you can travel across a lot of europe by train and its way better than plane. eating meat is something humans have done forever and the action in it of itself should not be the focus- but agricultural industries being evil. the most popular climate change news is gloomy, but there are solutions and we can fix this. keep your chin up

[@benmckinley1940]

@boss sauce Earth will become uninhabitable well before the sun explodes. Even mars is going to be fried by the sun eventually FYI. Regardless... Those timelines are well beyond the lifespans of human civilization. Not a single species has lasted that long. If we do exist, it won't be "us" as we think of ourselves today. Much the same way were no longer the barely amphibious tetrapods of the Mid-Paleozoic. If our line does survive (big if) we'll be the ancestor of whatever does exist.

[@allthingstoallmen8912]

You know what, I respect this man for getting out there and getting arrested for change

[@darshiniikrishnan615]

Ahh...no wonder he looked familiar.

[@ArsenGaming]

Except getting arrested solves nothing. The only way to stop this is to forcibly stop it. The parasites doing it will never voluntarily give up their power and money. It must be taken by force.

[@blixten2928]

Like, serious respect!!

[@Gizziiusa]

Hey Pete, why all the continued doom alarmism? Same-o crap spewed out just like "inconvenient truth" per Al Gore.

[@blixten2928]

@@Gizziiusa Your children will know. They'll experience the consequences of our generation's head-in-the-sand-ism.

[@Gormbauer]

“DIRECT ACTION IS MORE IMPORTANT…” is arguably the most important thing he says here. The individual acts you personally do, are based on marketing tricks. The actual responsible parties are listed in the S&P 500. We need to radically course correct, and the change must start at the top!

[@Electroshk]

S&P 500 are producing services for consumers.

[@jeroendebruyne2165]

Didn't know so many Chinese enterprises are on the s&p 500

[@Electroshk]

@@jeroendebruyne2165 I know what you are trying to say but 1. The original comment I'm replying to explicitly mentioned the S&P 500. 2. China's biggest export is the US, and is a net exporter, so its footprint is extremely inflated by manufacturing for other countries. 3. Even if you take the raw emissions per capita at face value, China is still significantly lower than the US. 4. The US has had decades of time to fund solar panels and green energy but due to oil and gas lobbying, has not. China meanwhile has reduced the cost of solar panels by an order of magnitude in the last few years, and installed more solar panels in the last year than the US has in its entire history. Chinese EV's are way cheaper and are used worldwide. The only reason Tesla sells a single car in the US is because of the 100% tariff on Chinese EV's in the US. Anything more you'd like to know?

[@jeroendebruyne2165]

@yifanruan192 I knew all of that. And you are quite right with all your numbers (wonder how much the disparity of CO2 emissions per capita would be if we had the actual numbers of emissions and population by China though). Fact remains the biggest poluter is China. Fact is nobody is pointing fingers at the very rich and ppolluting Gulf States. And it's a fact there is a big elephant in the room: if you want a CO2 neutral economy, the wealth and prosperity woumd not be enough to offer everybody on the planet a lifestyle even remotely looking like nowadays western. It would be a humble, simple, local life with less possibilities of leisure, travel, health care, consumer products and foods. It would be a marginal step up for most of the world, while they admire much more. It would be a big step down for everybody in the advanced economies. Be fair about it.

[@Electroshk]

@@jeroendebruyne2165 No I believe we have the tech to maintain the average american liftestyle - it would just require a lot of government investment to get there. Renewable sources should be able to cover our entire energy budget.

[@cthomas025]

Thinking about how the planet will regulate itself again at some point even if there is an extinction event, our civilization could be one of those "ancient advanced civilizations" that is uncovered by future species that is such a frequent trope in sci-fi.

[@jarrahkron9]

Yeah maybe we should try to not go extinct and take the majority of species alive on earth with us

[@jiblitin1520]

Change could and will and you're right.

[@Alirian2]

The only problem being that we might pump so much CO2 and methane into the atmosphere that it becomes a runaway greenhouse effect and then earth becomes the next Venus

[@roblarssen249]

"A small group of archaeologists now contend that the Human civilization was much more advanced than previously believed, and was in fact aware climate change was happening, their actions were causing it, and how to stop it. However, the majority of scholars have dismissed this assertion, as it would lead to the preposterous conclusion that an advanced civilization knew their extinction was imminent and had the tools to stop it, yet instead chose to do nothing."

[@BHNative]

@@roblarssen249 LOL considering Rome, Babylon, Greece, ancient China, Ethiopia etc., I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be surprised that another one bit the dust. It's nothing new. Additionally, it's unlikely our History will be wiped like others were, our ways of preserving information for the long run have gotten much better than past materials. They'll know exactly what happened.

[@stikeMedia]

So great to see Dr Kalmus getting traction on Wired. Direct Action is essential, join a climate protest! Make noise!

[@01Elvi]

He's amazing!!

[@CWHolleman]

So there's the truth! Man is a climate activist.

[@glidercoach]

There is no climate crisis. He said there isn't enough biofuels to battle climate change. Bio fuels are carbon based and when burned create Co2. He is a hack.

[@mehere8038]

we just vote in Australia

[@ronnieayo985]

Lol

[@TwistedLi401]

I have become very pessimistic. My dad worked on climate science for JPL back in the 60's, and he explained back then what was happening. And here we are today, 60 years later and still moving full speed ahead to self-destruct.

[@matthew_thefallen]

Yeah I feel like I'm getting more pessimistic too. I've noticed the difference in weather and average temperatures in my area in the arc of 5/10 years and it's insane... We are doomed.

[@mitsuki1388]

Pessimism is exactly what the big corps want you to feel cause if you get dominated by it you don't fight for a change. We need to understand the gravity of the situation and use that as fuel to push for change cause industry will never sacrifice profits for anything

[@carljames5260]

Self destruction is such a vague and alarmist term. Would prefer we stick to the science or we're no better than Fox News

[@CuteCatsofIstanbul]

I totally relate. Even here in developing Turkiye, I remember watching Unicef funded ‘recycle’ ads on our single TV channel. It was the first diffucult English word I ever learnt! But now I look around, 95% of people here have ZERO knowledge of climate crisis. They think it’s a Western thing. I gave up on humans years ago, but I really feel bad for nature and all non-human animals. 😢

[@charlotteyork7074]

And yet still there you wouldn’t believe the amount of people I run to everyday who don’t believe the climate change is real. There’s a large segment of the population who claims the government is purposely altering the climate with top secret technology. We are doomed is an understatement. I fear poor people and the vulnerable population is going to suffer the most old people and kids 😢

[@kittimcconnell2633]

Since Climate Change is making the weather go berserk, one scientist calls it "global weirding." That is what it feels like to us wondering why we got a 60 degree drop in temperature in 1 day's time last month. And why Winter kind of feels like Spring, Autumn feels like Summer, and Summer feels like Venus.

[@ffxim]

The climate has constantly changed throughout the history of the earth and yet, here we are... But this time the rate of change gives me chills. I studied environmental science. I watched many system simulations. Most complex systems seem resilient with slow changes over thousands of years or short glitches, but they tend to collapse in unpredictable ways given fast parameters changes.. A bit like braking or accelerating too quickly on a bicycle, even if there is no problem riding at slow or high speed, on the long run.

[@joaomarcosjunqueira4965]

EXACTLY! People who deny global warming (or heating) saying it always happened simply forgot about the accelerate rate we are experiencing right now cause of human intervention. And even the slow changes have been known to cause massive extinctions (let alone the absurd rate right now) wich affect heavily the environment as a whole, making our life way harder, since we depend on a ballanced environment to thrive

[@Brianpeckin]

We only assume the past but no accurate recordings of it period. We didn't even start recording, we only starting predicting weather in the late 1800s

[@Brianpeckin]

@@joaomarcosjunqueira4965 no not exactly we barely even be predicting the weather in the late 1800. The past weather events are all assumptions with no actually fact behind it period

[@joaomarcosjunqueira4965]

@@Brianpeckin no, we actually know a great deal about past climate through studies of the ancient atmosfere in bubbles of air traped in ice. And we know quite a lot about the climate in the post industrial revolution. So it is factual that we are increasing the temperature exponecialy, faster than it should be happaning.

[@Brianpeckin]

@@joaomarcosjunqueira4965 no we do not all theories just like the dude saying well Florida could be underwater in 2300 or sooner idk. 🤔🤔 Just like group of ppl saying universe is expanding but can't see the end of the universe but it's expanding trust me bro 🙄

[@emmahardesty4330]

I think we're excellently documenting our demise.

[@___.51]

That’s how I feel too.

[@Gerald-i2d]

People are Great at That 😂💛

[@TheGooglySmoog]

The thing that infuriates me is when people say, "Hey, look at the weather! Its cold one day and hot the next. This is crazy." Then jump into their diesel trucks and belch exhaust into the air. Its like they don't understand that there is some cause and effect involved. These sudden temperature changes are going to lead to a drought that is going to affect us on a global scale. Food will be harder to grow and people will fight over clean fresh water.

[@britch7286]

It’s already happening. I’m just regulating my life now to get used to much less water

[@TheGooglySmoog]

@@britch7286 Soon we will all have to get used to the idea of drinking our own recycled water.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

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[@chrisprilloisebola]

lol mald

[@veemie8148]

@@chrisprilloisebola You'd have to be inhuman to not be angered by the death of prosperity for future generations

[@connor4582]

So glad to see people finally talking about the impact of animal agriculture! While this industry does emit less emissions overall than the fossil fuel industry, it is so incredibly important to note that these emissions can be 27x more harmful than CO2 for methane and 273x more harmful for nitrous oxide which make up 73% of the industries total emissions.

[@Iwetbeds]

So you have stated the problem, what is the solution? human beings will NEVER agree to just stop or slow their consumption of meat....the solution is just to have less people but once again, humans will NEVER agree to global de-population.

[@connor4582]

@@JillWhitcomb1966 Exactly. I think that’s the same reason why it’s not reported on. People don’t want to admit they’re part of the problem. Most would rather push the blame onto corporations rather than take personal ownership.

[@michaelrch]

And that's not even a tenth of it. Search for this study in PLOS "Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century" Cutting out fossil fuels stops emissions which is vital. But phasing out animal ag doesn't just stop emissions - the land it frees up can sequester hundreds of Gigatonnes of carbon, for next to no money.

[@connor4582]

@@michaelrch the amount of land used in this country (and across the world) solely for the purpose of animal agriculture is insane

[@lrhurst3033]

I was disappointed at the point where he was explaining what we could do as individuals and he was not brave enough to just say "go vegan". You figure he knows those facts because he sights animal agriculture as a cause but doesn't feel he should just say the words? Why?

[@gahaylongplays7033]

100% necessary for these videos to come out.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

Agreed, so we can look back at how silly these government paid, climate alarmists we're/are.

[@thebossbaby7402]

@Smokey McJoint people like you make me lose faith in humanity 🖕

[@Heffey02]

@@SmokeymcJoint420 Did you even watch the video?

[@antiantiderivative]

@@SmokeymcJoint420 Meanwhile the climate deniers have been proven wrong for decades. Still waiting for them to apologize for lying.

[@nineteen8486]

Total propaganda that will be used to lock you down … research you Twit

[@billyalarie929]

I LOVE how this man specifically recommends (almost directs) folks to use nonviolent civil disobedience.

[@awalker8534]

Respectfully, of course.

[@robertdouglas8895]

I recommend education because he's not correct. See Tony Hiller's stuff.

[@missionsanhaenger]

@@robertdouglas8895 can you elaborate on that please?

[@32BitJunkie]

That guy lies constantly, he's been debunked by scientists many times. Try looking for the truth instead of what you want to hear

[@siliconsulfide8]

what specifically does nonviolent civil disobedience mean tho 😅

[@EGeorgev]

Heating up the planet also leads ironically to harsher winters, too.

[@robertdouglas8895]

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.” ― Michael Crichton

[@mehere8038]

It's snowing in Australia this summer, so not only the winters

[@venom6848]

@@mehere8038But the climate cultists are claiming CO2 is “warming up the planet”. Explain why a planet that’s supposed to be warming up would create “more severe winter conditions”? Common sense suggests we should have milder winters with the planet warming up right?🤔

[@mehere8038]

@@venom6848 we have had milder winters here in Oz for many years. There's stuff around melting polar caps & how that impacts winds. Australia's current situation is being caused by the Tonga volcano, the crap it put into the air messed with the rain & sunlight getting through, which in turn messed with the polar winds & now there's no winds flowing around Antarctica, keeping the cold there, so it keeps blowing straight up to us, bringing snow with it, even in the middle of summer!

[@loopertrooper6671]

Here in South east Texas, we have had exactly 4 days of winter so far as of Jan 10th, 23. Summer continued into October and we’ve had fall/spring like weather and temps. I think this year will be the first year without a real winter, at least in my part of TX.

[@melsop54]

One of my favorite things is how flat earthers deny the existence of satellites, but never question how the weather channel does literally anything...

[@davemccombs]

They do, though. They claim it's all fake/CGI lol

[@melsop54]

@@maskogorzakmaskogorzak5052 Ah yes. And are you of the opinion that a proof of flat earth is that the horizon always looks straight?

[@dutyrover946]

weather channel literally predicts weather, nothing on the weather is factual its all prediction using statistics and data. Also the universe is flat not earth. when data enters the event horizon of a black hole it gets copied into the event horizon and the data then travels through the black hole into an exact parallel universe. Essentially the universe is a 2 dimensional hologram. look it up it's actually backed by real science.

[@melsop54]

@@dutyrover946 Wait, so you are saying when they track a hurricane and estimate where it's gonna make landfall (within a given area) they are purely using past information and making utterly and complete guesses the whole time? They make up the satellite images, they make up the wind measurements, they make up the path? All of it?

[@dutyrover946]

@@melsop54 yea dumbass. Computers gather information to predict temperature and rain. Literally how else would it be possible. Smooth brain.

[@kryptonitewhale]

Thank you for talking about the climate impact of animal agriculture! I feel it is often conveniently overlooked by climate scientists.

[@mehere8038]

cause the science doesn't support it, not in well managed operations anyway. If you think it's such a problem, just feed the animals seaweed as 1% of their diet since that's scientifically proven to remove 98% of methane emissions

[@Wuginess]

However, he didn't have time to talk about the difference between industrial monoculture agriculture and small diverse regenerative agriculture, like permaculture and agroforestry technics. Those have the potential to save local breeds/subtypes of food related organisms, while regenerating the soil, improving local access to clean water and increasing the diversity of local wildlife ( that you weren't planning on harvesting) including native bees! The idea is to mimic indigenous farming technics and encourage natural ecosystems roles. A lot of farming can also be done around wind turbines and solar panels too.

[@Nikkiflausch]

I appreciate this guy prioritizing activism over personal action because the former has much MUCH more of a measurable effect on climate change than the latter.

[@bh5817]

Wow you’re such an authority thank you for your validation

[@reuireuiop0]

Well, we al can say same to you with your worthwhile contribution today, BH. You can stay in bed for the rest of the day then.

[@Dios7518]

Gains > saving climate

[@RobertMJohnson]

i'm prioritizing increasing my carbon footprint

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

Still waiting to see the effects

[@milkwithice6156]

I applaud this man, he is a proper scientist who acknowledges the good, the bad, and the ugly, while remaining unbiased and honest when presenting information all the while maintaining an optimistic attitude.

[@FORDboy357]

There's gonna be a LOT of really dumb comments on this one

[@gourabasis]

Ah the judgemental intellectuals are here already I see.

[@dianagoenaga7263]

@FORDboy357 Starting with yours I assume?

[@Demigodking]

@@dianagoenaga7263 idiot

[@thatfishguy4991]

Because people who barely passed high school earth science know more than a scientist.

[@deadmo1]

@@thatfishguy4991 A scientist? You mean a paid charlatan? nice try kid. You really outdid urself this time with ur classic go to fallacious arguments (appeal to authority). Like you know you are dumb, you even said it urself, you are not a scientist. why do you even talk to people, there is LITERALLY ZERO difference between you and a middle age zealot preaching the word of god ordering them to listen to power hungry psychoes that JUST HAPPEN to also be the authority.

[@CharlF932]

man I love when things are said this clear and concise. Now that we are more connected than ever, let's all fix this for good

[@martinsolomon5500]

Yes let’s fix the weather Greta Thunberg Leo di Caprio Al Gore Joe Biden and the British Royal family are doing more to “save the planet” than the rest of the world put together. They are explaining the science. The Bible is thousands of years old and talks about the deserts in the Middle East it talks about droughts and famine. But thanks to Greta and King Charles we now know the Bible was talking about NOW and climate change. We know that droughts are new, floods are new, earthquakes are new, hurricanes in Florida are all new, shrinking rainforest is new. It’s all due to CO2 emissions of normal working class people. Before 2020 there has never been an illness that could wipe out millions of people. Before 2020 all vaccines were wrong, we now know you are supposed to take vaccines every year. Before 2020 volcanoes earthquakes hurricanes blizzards melting ice floating icebergs that could sink a ship never happened. We all need to get vaccinated against climate change now. CO2 is required by plants and trees. We need to stop CO2 we need stop plants NOW. THE UNITED NATIONS says so. They have all worked together and now we need to do our bit and send world leaders on private planes to all the capital cities to stay at all the luxury hotels to tell us what need to do. There are problems with food supplies and prices are going up. But this is because the war in the Ukraine, so if Ukraine has a democracy there will be universal peace in the Middle East and every commodity will be 100 per cent cheaper so world hunger will cease and energy will be free.

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

This is a lot of essential information squeezed into a fifteen-minute video. Thanks very much.

[@robertdouglas8895]

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.” ― Michael Crichton

[@mehere8038]

@@robertdouglas8895 In this case I agree with you! Total nonsense what he's ranting about with impossible to capture carbon etc, plants do it VERY effectively on mass scale already, we can easily enhance that, but no profit in it, so that's hidden/denied This video's full of BS!

[@EmDaMo]

⁠@@robertdouglas8895how are you being had?

[@kaspermickos6000]

13:40 He actually forgot to mention one crucial aspect of methane in the atmosphere: while it is true that methane only lasts there on average for ten years, the reaction that breaks down methane sees it reacting with oxygen to produce water and ...carbon dioxide. So after spending ten years being 50 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than the most important one, it then reacts to become it.

[@RobertMJohnson]

so it reacts to be the giver of all life, carbon and water?

[@rorycannon7295]

@@RobertMJohnson are you stupid?

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@rorycannon7295 so carbon and water aren't the givers of all life on earth? you must have gone to the leftists' school of biochemistry.

[@sprucedude]

Thank you for bringing these facts to a wider audience. We need more of these.

[@martinsolomon5500]

Yea we do Greta Thunberg Leo di Caprio Al Gore Joe Biden and the British Royal family are doing more to “save the planet” than the rest of the world put together. They are explaining the science. The Bible is thousands of years old and talks about the deserts in the Middle East it talks about droughts and famine. But thanks to Greta and King Charles we now know the Bible was talking about NOW and climate change. We know that droughts are new, floods are new, earthquakes are new, hurricanes in Florida are all new, shrinking rainforest is new. It’s all due to CO2 emissions of normal working class people. Before 2020 there has never been an illness that could wipe out millions of people. Before 2020 all vaccines were wrong, we now know you are supposed to take vaccines every year. Before 2020 volcanoes earthquakes hurricanes blizzards melting ice floating icebergs that could sink a ship never happened. We all need to get vaccinated against climate change now. CO2 is required by plants and trees. We need to stop CO2 we need stop plants NOW. THE UNITED NATIONS says so. They have all worked together and now we need to do our bit and send world leaders on private planes to all the capital cities to stay at all the luxury hotels to tell us what need to do. There are problems with food supplies and prices are going up. But this is because the war in the Ukraine, so if Ukraine has a democracy there will be universal peace in the Middle East and every commodity will be 100 per cent cheaper so world hunger will cease and energy will be free. Facts.

[@seansosaSosa]

“Facts” you’re funny

[@Dragonwing16]

@@seansosaSosa look man when you spend 10 + years becoming an expert climate scientist sure you can say what you want. But people don't get a phd in something like this doing nothing

[@cornuco_plaza]

Can't wait to tell my grandkids stories about when there were 4 seasons per year, not 2

[@MiserMalicious]

Optimistic you'll live long enough to have grandkids

[@adamolsen6411]

Peter does a good job explaining things! Well done

[@KristenRowenPliske]

I hate that last line. I live on the Texas Gulf Coast. Hurricane Harvey flooded my house 5 years ago. I’ve been here for 45 years & I’ve never seen a flood like that. (Yeah, yeah, it’s called a “ thousand-year flood” for that reason.) Summers are humid & disgustingly hot already, have always been. We have 9 months of summer & 3 months of fall. The thought that 110deg F (43 deg C) 100% humidity, sticky weather will probably be the coolest summer I’ve ever experienced horrifies me.

[@alex_montoya]

This was great. Here's to hoping that it sparks some change.

[@Krystal109]

It really puts it into perspective when he says "this is the coolest summer of the rest of your life"

[@f104G]

Does he read tea leaves, or use a crystal ball?

[@skyscraperfan]

That is an example of a typical activist lei though. A scientist would never say that. It is true that on average summers will get hotter, but the random part of how hot a specific summer gets is still multiple time bigger than the impact of climate change. While one summer can randomly be a few degrees warmer or colder than the summer before, climate change is less than 0.1 degrees per year. So a record summer will not be the coldest for the rest of your life.

[@Boochachiii]

Definitely want to see more earth support videos 🌏🍃💚

[@andrewrankin1443]

The CO2 molecule in video looks more like representation of water. CO2 consists of 2 double bonds, one for each oxygen to carbon. Thus, resulting in a linear geometry, not bent as shown.

[@figz6]

We all need to take note of his “we are in the 6th mass extinction rn” statement.

[@That1GuyOnYoutube]

This is pretty well understood. its called the anthropocene extinction

[@Jc-ms5vv]

People don’t care and won’t care till there’s no food on the shelves or water coming out of the tap. Millions are a being affected by abrupt climate change and yet there’s still people that think it’s a hoax

[@RobertMJohnson]

as predators expand all over the north american continent right now

[@RobertShippey]

Love Dr Kalmus so much. He’s an expert, activist, and overall badass.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

...Hope EVERYONE here knows the Best Cilmate-Coverage? Hbomberguy, UpisnotJump, CC, Climate-Town, Some More News, and ST?

[@CWHolleman]

Ladies and Gentlemen...I present you.. The Modern "Man" 🤣

[@RobertMJohnson]

and completely full of shite

[@f104G]

@@loturzelrestaurant People will find far more accurate and balanced information on Watts Up With That.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@f104G Haha, if you say so. I wont fight that if this is how you feel; i just wanna mention that we all know and can agree on the universally-known fact how massively-embarassing it would be if someone said what you just said WITHOUT having actually watched the videos. Right?

[@losttyrant7482]

As a mechanical engineer who studied energy, I'm glad he mentioned that there are categories where renewables simply cannot replace fossil fuels, at least at this present moment.

[@Dbb27]

The expectations are much higher than the progress.

[@carlfns8578]

that doesn't mean we should just keep using it in expectation of the emergence of a miraculous invention! Every Kg of CO2 we are currently emitting is eventually having to be removed by someone. We are essentially burdening our decendents to deal with costs of our comforts wich we were not willing to foot ourselfes. I am ready for CO2 pricing at the rate it costs to be removed by current CC technoligies. that way we could at least start saving for one day invest in (hopefully) every better CC tech.

[@mbbm96]

I am studying EarthSystemSciences and he briefly covers a lot of the things we went through in the first few Semesters. This Video is extremely informative, accurate and to the point. Great content

[@samiraperi467]

6:53 Correction: carbon doesn't have 12 protons and 12 electrons. It's the 6th element, and carbon-12 has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. An atom with an atomic mass of ~12 would fly apart *very* fast if it was just protons in the nucleus. Think of the charge density.

[@Dbb27]

He just wanted to make sure you were truly listening. 🥰

[@drosera8943]

Major respect to everyone who works toward our understanding and repairing our relationship with the earth. I would be super depressed af in this field.

[@Missmethinksalot1]

He explained ocean currents bit so well! Tbh he was very eloquent throughout

[@jazwhoaskedforthis]

PLEASE do more with Peter Kalmus, I will watch every single one

[@CrazyxCactus]

Louisiana is mostly under sea level. Major weather disasters hit them much harder than it ever could Florida because of this fact alone.

[@pattybaselines]

Hundreds of millions of people already live beneath sea level

[@rickknight1810]

Nicely done, Peter. I was pleased to chat with you a few years ago when you were visiting your folks here in the Chicago area. These Q&A videos are a great idea.

[@kkuwura]

The problem is not even within the individual. Only the top 100 corporations cause 71% of the greenhouse emissions in the world. Addressing the impact of the biggest corporations is the only shot at realistically improving our situation.

[@worldlinkk]

True, hopefully we can cause green energy to become cheaper than natural gas and oil so companies start using more renewable energy

[@nicknuar]

Absolutely great explanations that are correct without being verbose. One small correction -- Carbon 12 has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. Really great exposition. Learned some new things and see some great ways to explain some things kind of knew. Thank you.

[@utkarshgupta137]

Thank you, I thought I had lost my mind.

[@martinsolomon5500]

Thank you so much for Carbon Greta Thunberg Leo di Caprio Al Gore Joe Biden and the British Royal family are doing more to “save the planet” than the rest of the world put together. They are explaining the science. The Bible is thousands of years old and talks about the deserts in the Middle East it talks about droughts and famine. But thanks to Greta and King Charles we now know the Bible was talking about NOW and climate change. We know that droughts are new, floods are new, earthquakes are new, hurricanes in Florida are all new, shrinking rainforest is new. It’s all due to CO2 emissions of normal working class people. Before 2020 there has never been an illness that could wipe out millions of people. Before 2020 all vaccines were wrong, we now know you are supposed to take vaccines every year. Before 2020 volcanoes earthquakes hurricanes blizzards melting ice floating icebergs that could sink a ship never happened. We all need to get vaccinated against climate change now. CO2 is required by plants and trees. We need to stop CO2 we need stop plants NOW. THE UNITED NATIONS says so. They have all worked together and now we need to do our bit and send world leaders on private planes to all the capital cities to stay at all the luxury hotels to tell us what need to do. There are problems with food supplies and prices are going up. But this is because the war in the Ukraine, so if Ukraine has a democracy there will be universal peace in the Middle East and every commodity will be 100 per cent cheaper so world hunger will cease and energy will be free.

[@TimeAttack2003]

Hottest summer you've ever experienced and the coolest summer you ever will......tingles up my spine

[@Jc-ms5vv]

People are in for a rude awakening when we lose the arctic ice

[@MerlinsFiles]

14:45 "On average, this is the hottest summer you've ever experienced. It's also the coolest summer for the rest of your life." hooooo. Well said. Thank you for staring this existential horror in its face to bring us truth. It's not an easy job, but I imagine it would be even harder not to do it, in a way. Your answers were super succinct and illuminated so much that had previously been mysterious to me!

[@jonathansantiago5327]

Regarding Hurricane Season: in theory, the season can expand as the years go by and the weather increases in heat. So, it can be even earlier and even latter.

[@tuhinsarkar8099]

Climate Breakdown and Global Heating.... those lines hit me hard

[@incontroversyistherekindne6683]

Thank you for this.

[@nata3467]

I will never forgive the conservatives for making global climate change a political Hot potato instead of actually dealing with it.

[@ADarnSmore]

it's not really conservatives, but corporations that are using their money to make climate change a political issue through the republican party. conservatives are just currently falling for the brainwashing.

[@n484l3iehugtil]

That's their whole purpose: prioritise short-term narrow-view policies that are the most emotionally soothing and tangible for people - none of these global wide-range numbers and statistics "crap" that institutions much larger than the individual came up with. They have a place in politics so long as it's part of overall human nature to be simple-minded chimpanzees.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

@@n484l3iehugtil Subscription earned!

[@M.O.M.I]

you've bought the two party system ticket eh? problems way higher then your left bs right issue

[@yy-sf1xq]

@@M.O.M.I which conservative party on the planet does not do exactly this?

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

They call themselves conservative but don't even wanna conservate the planet 😭😭😭

[@decay6516]

Best Wired video yet!

[@marczwander893]

"Its the hottest summer you ever experienced - also, the coolest summer for the rest of your life" - uff

[@werdwerdus]

"this is the hottest it's ever been, bit it's also the coolest it will ever be for the rest of our lives" wow you blew my mind

[@aus3492]

It's not really the hottest it's ever been though.

[@gibenameplox]

@@aus3492 Excepit it is if you average the temperature over the entire planet. It's useless to measure only your room or street.

[@aus3492]

@@gibenameplox so right now is the hottest it's EVER been?

[@deltaz3362]

@@aus3492 On average, yes. Barring literally billions of years ago when the Earth had lava oceans, generally speaking the Earth as a whole is on average reaching the highest temperatures ever recorded.

[@aus3492]

@@deltaz3362 reciently the medevel warm period was warmer that wasn't just a blip it was a 3 hundred year period, there has been many spikes in temperature since the earth was a ball of lava.

[@mattcastellanos2178]

Great set of Q & A. If you look back at congressional testimony by Carl Sagan in the mid-80's present day conditions were roughly predicted with poorer models. We had 40 years to get our act together on this issue, and we still can't do it! Believe the science.

[@robertmarmaduke186]

Carl Eagan was hustling Fed funds, that's all he was after. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵

[@zackakai5173]

@@robertmarmaduke186 how much does BP pay you to shill for them? Or was it Exxon?

[@VforVodka]

That arrest vid was a sick flex lmao

[@beachie]

"It's also the coolest summer for the rest of your life." That hit hard.

[@daisydog388]

Why is that a bad thing, warmer temps brings prosperity and excess food.

[@beachie]

@@daisydog388 You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding. Record-breaking high temperatures, coupled with a crippling drought, does not lead to excess food or prosperity.

[@daisydog388]

@@beachie if you say so

[@chrisraczak6931]

@beachie this is borderline incoherent and not true

[@chrisraczak6931]

We don’t live in the 19th century anymore.

[@EnviroScienceStudent]

Please post more of this content! Great video!

[@Silv3rDragon]

4:13 How much could be caused by farming tillage? Watched "Kiss the Ground" with Woody Harrelson and having grown up on a farm it makes a lot of sense that breaking down the organic matter in the soil could cause a lot of CO2 to be released into the atmosphere. If so it feels like it really could be the fastest immediate way to counter climate change. Would love to hear the thoughts of climate specialists on it.

[@chrisadimitriadou]

Became vegan 12 years ago, when the scientists declared that we only have 10 years to reverse the trashing of the planet. Stopped using planes for travelling and now I'm learning about planting stuff for eating. Given that this video is 2 years old I believe that the damage cannot be undone, but I'm here commenting for the algorithm

[@Maxinfamilyy]

Everyone should watch this video... Thank you!

[@l.gabrielgarcia4937]

6:50 Carbon atomic number is 6. Therefore the atom of Carbon has 6 protons and 6 electrons.

[@amiranouji7708]

He obviously hates carbon, so he has started to ignore it😄

[@feynstein1004]

Yeah probably got confused and meant to say 12 nucleons, as in 6 protons and 6 neutrons, as in Carbon-12, the most common isotope found on earth.

[@annettemeyer1393]

The last time I looked at the Periodic Table, carbon still had 6 protons and 6 electrons and not 12 of each as reported by Dr Kalmus.

[@deltalima6703]

One isotope does sure, carbon-12. He also failed to point out that the earth will no longer be colder at the poles than at the equator soon. (This means caucasians are doomed, but other races will do better). He is correct about the mass extinction though. Dinosaur extinction was a joke compared to this one

[@deltalima6703]

Edit: got me, lol. You never mentioned neutrons, you are 100% correct.

[@n484l3iehugtil]

You can forgive him for a little slip-up, man. 12 is the atomic mass of carbon and we hear "carbon-12" a lot more than 6.

[@discobones]

Well this just filled me with even more existential dread than I already was filled with.

[@nickkemp4979]

There's lots of groups out there. Maybe consider contacting them to see what you can do to help? Sunrise Movement, Indivisible, MoveOn, Sierra Club, etc.

[@chrisraczak6931]

That’s the problem with climate activism, it’s all predicated upon doomerism. Climate change is real, climate alarmism gives people unnecessary anxiety.

[@nickkemp4979]

@@chrisraczak6931 It's based on fact and the facts are scary. There's no "doomerism" here

[@dreamstever]

@@nickkemp4979 there is alarmism, however, and that isn’t a helpful approach, overall. Fear doesn’t bring effective, or efficient change in life.

[@nickkemp4979]

@@dreamstever Telling people the facts isn't "alarmism." The facts are that if we don't address climate change now there might not be a planet left in the next 50 years or so. The termination of the species is scary.

[@daniellepomeroy120]

you seem so enthusiastic which makes me want to learn more!

[@f104G]

Pol Pot was enthusiastic.

[@garretttergerson774]

Please share this, it is ridiculous that no one is talking about this. It should be the most important thing on our minds

[@LOTUG98]

Florida underwater sounds like an improvement 🙊

[@AveragePicker]

Short term...but then you have to remember all those florida people have to go somewhere. It's all fun and games until your state is the next florida.

[@LOTUG98]

@@AveragePicker You're right ☹️

[@reuireuiop0]

2300 diving spot

[@BPS298]

@@AveragePicker not if it happens fast enough...

[@chrisprilloisebola]

hopefully california

[@zubayeerahmed3801]

"Sunny day flooding" A word I did not know existed :)

[@audreybossman8369]

I find the coorelation between the graph @09:35 and large wars to be quite interesting. Maybe we should all stop trying to beat each other up and chill the planet.

[@brogscuhbuhduh]

Fun fact: One of the places on Earth that most closely resemble Mars is Arizona. Fits every descriptive except cold.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

and atmosphere

[@mehere8038]

@@Memento_Mori_Morals this! plus gravity too

[@pocketsand76]

I'd appreciate an honest "how f***ed are we" question.

[@isydoyle]

You already know the answer

[@BBB20B]

I hope they'll bring this guy back soon! such important topic and message

[@lk7496]

Saving the world is easy. All I need is your money, and your obedience.

[@mathboy8188]

An iota of common sense would do.

[@jpt7342]

You got yours, screw everyone else. How Republican/Libertarian of you.

[@joowwwllllll666]

We should stop burning fossils

[@okaybenji]

“This is the hottest summer you have ever experienced. It’s also the coolest summer for the rest of your life.”

[@missdeadite9696]

he kinda looks like Ashton Kutcher and sounds a bit like Mark Ruffalo. this neither a good or bad thing, just something I thought was interesting.

[@RobertShippey]

He’s like a real life Bruce Banner Avenger hero

[@WOK-YT-handle]

So glad he brought up animal agriculture industries (even though way too briefly) stopping eating animal products is one of the biggest individual impacts we can have.

[@Rucnas]

Lmao! That's a good one. We should be eating bugs to survive.

[@tadferd4340]

​@@RucnasThey are correct. Agricultural is massively inefficient in energy, land use, water use, and other resources. It's also a major greenhouse gases emitter.

[@Rucnas]

@@tadferd4340 Then we should be focusing on improving the industry instead of telling people to stop eating animal products like OP.

[@nekhumonta]

But not using planes is even more important. One long flight can produce more greenhouse gasses than eating meat for multiple years will.

[@tadferd4340]

@@nekhumonta Incorrect. Raising livestock is far more greenhouse gas emitting than a long distance flight.

[@rorycannon7295]

the dunning kruger of the climate deniers in this comment section is absolutely incredible. like, there are literally droves of them who dont even have the correct basic global temperature data.

[@rorycannon7295]

@grindupBaker nono like 30% of americans dont think its happening at all.

[@elihinze3161]

I want more content with this man

[@jrallday]

Same!

[@AKennethNolan]

@6:45- Carbon has 6 protons and 6 electrons (atomic number), not 12. Element 12 is magnesium! I am guessing he was thinking of atomic mass, which is 12 for most carbon atoms. Great video! Helpfully summarizes the answers to many good (and not as good) questions about climate change.

[@leftyfourguns]

We as a collective species especially all of our brightest scientists, engineers, and Nobel laureates need to come together and figure out the pressing need of how we get Florida to sink much sooner than 2300

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

Lol, that is so inappropriate but still lolol

[@davemccombs]

hahahahahaha

[@robertdouglas8895]

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.” ― Michael Crichton

[@mehere8038]

What we did with our version of Florida in Australia (Melbourne) was just to put the army on it's borders & just lock them all in. Not as effective as sinking it I know, but gets them out of the way of everyone else, so we can all live more normal lives :)) People don't seem to realise that outside Melbourne, life was normal all pandemic in Australia, cause of how we just locked them all in out of our way :)

[@chelseashurmantine8153]

8:00 yes we should see this more. Media should be reporting on this everyday, all day

[@nayananair6727]

Thank you for this great information. I was feeling really hopeless in regards to how things are moving, especially because we can see the effects very directly where i live near the coast. Im going to try my best to do things that will drive change

[@marcusj7278]

Can we wait until Florida is underwater first ?

[@tigermelissa]

This guy is a king.