Global Covenant of Mayors and C40 Cities

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Just Have a Think

Just Have a Think

4 жыл бұрын

Our governments are failing us on Climate Change mitigation, and our own individual efforts can seem pointless in the face of the overwhelming global scale of the problem. But our City Mayors, with help from Google's Environmental Insights Explorer, are fighting back. Could they be our unlikely Climate Heroes?
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@jthadcast
@jthadcast 4 жыл бұрын
thank you for my weekly dose of "slim chance", as always better than no chance.
@pietersteenkamp5241
@pietersteenkamp5241 4 жыл бұрын
You could also just read history and consider the disaster that it was. How the dark ages happened ( european temperatures dropped) and how civilization survived despite very very meager resources indeed. I will keep telling people that rising temperatures doesn't threaten humanity/society nearly as much cooling will but people seem happy to be scared to death of what might happen half a century from now... History is long disaster but even massive storms and rainfall will never threaten us again with our engineering and human resources.
@coppice2778
@coppice2778 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many of those cities which have reached peak carbon output have done so by exporting most of their high energy using industry to Asia, and importing the finished products?
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
your name could save the planet. coppice the M1 from leeds to london and turn it to charcoal every November the 5th.
@earthgirl8917
@earthgirl8917 4 жыл бұрын
Love humans who don't ask for donations at the end of their videos; he's one of few.
@tobiaszb
@tobiaszb 4 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@franklinrussell4750
@franklinrussell4750 4 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant!
@mayflowerlash11
@mayflowerlash11 4 жыл бұрын
Nice map at the end showing Land lost due to sea level rise. Pity I can't see Australia, because you're standing in front of it. from Queensland, Australia
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
Here is "increasing sea level" in Australia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b57NgKCppq6cmM0
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Good point Gary. Sorry about that. It's an image I've used several times in past videos, so I may possibly be guilty of complacently assuming everyone had already seen it (which is daft of me, I admit). Having said that I may have been doing you a favour because Australia mostly becomes an uninhabitable dust bowl only suitable for mining Uranium. Again, sorry about that. By way of some sort of compensation, here's the link to the original image which was created by Parag Khanna - Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/3/9/the-world-4-degrees-warmer
@mayflowerlash11
@mayflowerlash11 4 жыл бұрын
@@WadcaWymiaru Thanks, I will check it out
@mayflowerlash11
@mayflowerlash11 4 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink LOL. It's no biggie. Thanks for the link. btw I can't think how to avoid blotting out part of the Earth. Either make the map smaller or make yourself smaller and stand in the South Pacific, both of which are counter intuitive,
@webchimp
@webchimp 4 жыл бұрын
Here's a map you can play with flood.firetree.net/?ll=-27.8390,138.1640&z=13&m=7
@lopezb
@lopezb 4 жыл бұрын
Could you please post a link for that last global map with the disastrous predictions? thanks!
@MrGonzonator
@MrGonzonator 4 жыл бұрын
Depressing.
@RichBurris2
@RichBurris2 4 жыл бұрын
We can't wait or worry about what the climate change deniers think or have to say. We need to move on and make the necessary changes now. Thanks for the work you do to educate people on this important issue.
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
As mentioned earlier in the video on the issue of accelerating inequality through climate mitigation. If we convince the climate deniers that the world is shrinking if we don't act and they believe it. They'll just go buy property and build bunkers in that shrunk world while everyone else suffers. I'm already hearing the rhetoric from right-wingers that never believed me when I said the world is burning until now they say there's simply to many people and we have to do something about that.
@kondradlundstrom5741
@kondradlundstrom5741 4 жыл бұрын
@@Furiends Sad and true...!!!!...
@ElliottBradenS
@ElliottBradenS 11 ай бұрын
Friends, just the opposite is happening on earth. Understand that "climate change" is the universes default state and the sun drives a great deal of it. Then there's weather modification Dews etc. Some useful resources are the Decouple podcast and a channel called Cdn.
@rthibaux
@rthibaux 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Great summary as usual. I regularly bring what I learn here to my company to inform our sustainability efforts.
@ElazarusWills
@ElazarusWills 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent as always. The takeaway is that we all need to lobby our local governments to take action as we do the same ourselves within local organizations and as individuals.
@abyssmanur3965
@abyssmanur3965 4 жыл бұрын
A lot of talk about EV's, not a mention of the humble bicycle.
@lopezb
@lopezb 4 жыл бұрын
Electric bikes may be more practical as rentals, since they can be sturdy and also used by people who aren't in such great shape....regular bikes are great when it's flat like in Holland. Lightweight hi-tech bikes are likely too fragile or expensive for rentals....
@incognitotorpedo42
@incognitotorpedo42 4 жыл бұрын
A lot of people commute too far for bicycles to be practical, or live in areas with weather extremes that make biking difficult. Bikes make a lot of sense in flat cities with mild weather, and tend to already be widely used in such areas.
@ricksmall5240
@ricksmall5240 4 жыл бұрын
Watch on utube, "Solarized It ", that's what I use to get around
@abyssmanur3965
@abyssmanur3965 4 жыл бұрын
@@biglynt2 Congratulations on buying a home close to work....I know it's unrealistic to think everyone could do the same, but if we all did then traffic congestion would hardly exist.
@jeffharmed1616
@jeffharmed1616 4 жыл бұрын
Putting aside our differences, have you considered what will happen if climate activists (XR) are right or wrong? Assuming XR are right, they still have to convince the big nations such as USA, China, Russia etc to adopt IPCC recommendations which isn’t going to be anytime soon and certainly not within the time frames set. Considering the the majority of Kyoto signatories did not meet their obligations, the same is expected for the Paris Accord members. So we are all doomed whichever side of the fence we stand on. Considering the “wrong” scenario, certain people and nations that would have heavily invested money to lower their carbon emissions will have been severely disadvantaged compared with those that made few or no changes. Humanity will have to acknowledge its vulnerability to the might of the universal forces. In summary whatever the scenario, XR efforts are futile and even dangerous. If they are right we all die. If they are wrong our longevity depends on forces beyond our control and we need to get off earth before fate makes a radical turn which means we need to become an interplanetary species, to take advantage of every opportunity to colonise other heavenly bodies. So “vive l'industrie pétrolière”. “Vive de dioxyde de carbone”. “Vive SpaceX”
@satatik21
@satatik21 4 жыл бұрын
I love the work you do, don't ever stop. You are doing a service to the world and humanity, and someone needs to figure out how to get you more subscribers. But... you realize we are all dead right?
@christinearmington
@christinearmington 4 жыл бұрын
Geovanni D. 😉😊💀
@MattAngiono
@MattAngiono 4 жыл бұрын
The plans by governments are comical... we're far beyond transforming society gradually, time to brace for impact. Hard to imagine a nice end to this...
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Geovanni. Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated. We're all going to die, that's for sure. Climate Change does not affect that ultimate reality. But I cannot help but respond to the relentless human instinct of trying to do whatever I can to stay alive right up until the point at which I take my terminal breath. I sort of subscribe to the Eric Idle school of thought on that one - watch the scene with him on a cross at the end of Life of Brian by Monty Python in case you're wondering what I'm talking about :-)
@satatik21
@satatik21 4 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink ​ Just Have a Think I 100% agree! Actually, every bit of fight we put up makes the outcome a little less worse. I don't believe that humanity will become extinct, and I do believe that we will eventually recover in a totally different form, but I think based on the data and trends, global civilization is done, and we will enter into an era of famine, warfare, and destruction. A global reset if you will... I'll share a personal perspective on how I deal with this situation (you don't have to agree, I'm just sharing): Before you disagree with anything I say, ask yourself "do I know for sure?" or "have I investigated this myself"? Thankfully I am Buddhist, and this allows me some perspective that diehard scientific materialists don't have, as well as perspectives not shared by any other spiritual path(a super-heavy focus on meditation) which allows me to deal with this without as much suffering as others. Buddhists believe that mind is the primary constituent of the universe. They have something called the "clear light nature of mind" which is a formless aware void or expanse that permeates all phenomena. You can directly perceive this through meditation, and work with it. It's like an infinite field and it is said to be our primordial mind. People have equated it to the quantum field because all phenomenon are said to be created and destroyed every moment arising and returning to this field creating the illusion of discrete solid objects. Almost everything about this subject matches with quantum theory like the double-slit experiment, quantum Bayesian theory, and the reverse quantum eraser experiment. Most in the west do not know about this, since it is rarely studied or discussed in academia. Anyways, this is how awareness can transmigrate from life to life and karma functions. It is described in great detail. This is why I am not so freaked out. Unlike faith based religions, this can be explored with extremely technical mediation and analysis. We are talking instructions spanning thousands and thousands of books and treatises spanning thousands of years. They even have a form of quantum theory that describes there can be no partless particles. Once I asked a great master what would happen if this planet was destroyed... he said "well I guess we would just be reborn to another planet.". So, for me this event is just another blip on the radar in the infinite cycle of life, death, and rebirth that spans trillions of world systems throughout time and space. It's bad but, it's small scale in the bigger picture. Very sad though... we are in for the fight of our lives.
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
@@satatik21 You will not go far wrong with that philosophy Geovanni. Good for you :-)
@deanwhite9386
@deanwhite9386 4 жыл бұрын
Please connect with Chris Boyd in Dallas Texas USA. She is a radio talk show host and I would love to hear you on her program. Oh ya, the name of her program is "Think" so you would fit right in. She is on our public radio 90.1 KERA and has a podcast for your review if you desire.
@antonlee0
@antonlee0 4 жыл бұрын
why busses on batteries and not trams?
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
If they were trains they wouldn't even need batteries.
@antonlee0
@antonlee0 4 жыл бұрын
@@Furiends Exactly. Plus they need less maintenance cost.
@colecampagna6302
@colecampagna6302 4 жыл бұрын
We’re on track for 4 degree Celsius of warming?? Jesus and it seemed like 1.5 Celsius is the lowest amount of warming with the given state of the planet. Correct me if I’m wrong. Halloween isn’t until next week but I’m already scared! 😫
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
Yes. Note that we are in a critical moment. Waiting even a year to reduce emissions hamstrings us decades of time in the feature to do something. That's why keeping it below 2 degrees Celsius is such an important number. it's not like this number means anything specific about what will happen it simply suggests we will have some wiggle room over the rest of the century. In fact if we do nothing major by 2030 we are already doomed. People get confused about exponential curves and delayed onsets.
@sc20910
@sc20910 4 жыл бұрын
OMG, every new video you do keeps amazing me and teaching me more about things that are incredibly important and yet not known widely. I never heard of the C40, and didn’t know anything about what google is making possible in their new online tool. Really like the inclusion of the audio with the footage of Al Gore and google earth director.
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
Video contain DECEPTIVE content!
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve. Thanks for the positive feedback. Much appreciated. All the best. Dave
@weldonyoung1013
@weldonyoung1013 4 жыл бұрын
To paraphrase Just Have a Think, "if it ain't measured, nothing is going to get done about it". Good thing there are some dedicated people trying to popularise the issue. I believe you've got it right Steve C.
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Cheers Steve. Glad it was useful. All the best. Dave
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
@JHAT would you be up for giving a shout out for people to quench their bonfires in november when they are a bed of embers to produce charcoal that can be put into a compost bin as biochar? every gram of charcoal made this way was 4 grams of CO2 in the atmosphere not long ago.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
thanks again. always a pleasure, always a worry but bang on the science and the facts as we know them.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 we are past the point where austerity will work. we have to sequester millions of tonnes of carbon very very quickly. to do that we need everything that industry and science has to offer. imposing limits on people and society won't do that and probably is quite impractical. the guilty parties are the mega corporations that have hijacked the political and financial system. it is them who need challenging not civilisation, industry and scientific progress. we are, after all, doomed to extinction without space travel.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 you are wrong. there are very good ways to sequester carbon. i myself have sequestered more than my transport emissions this year so wind your neck in you arrogant fool.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
and we can mitigate the effects of global warming with water also by simply regenerating the soils. we can go a long way to tackling this problem using scientific understanding and industrial scale practices. what you suggest doesn't do anything but make us listen to your idiocy.
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
The problem is CO2 can't even rise the temperature by ONE degree! Two ways of calculate "heating" effect shows only 0.06 degree! This is NOT the GHG gas...
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
@@WadcaWymiaru that is not a problem because that is not true. maybe your methods are flawed.
@milesclarke1614
@milesclarke1614 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that last comment about personal and local involvement, as I was beginning to think, Google, Mayors, Musk et alia had nailed it. So, my day sitting in Whitehall was small, but my part.
@mabersold
@mabersold 4 жыл бұрын
10:11 Woo-hoo for King County Metro!
@mattw9764
@mattw9764 4 жыл бұрын
This development has a message for the future. If we want democracy, government and governance fit for purpose, it needs to be local and driven from the bottom up. It needs to be in touch with, and accountable to, the masses of real ordinary people so that their lives and needs are its priority.
@douggoodman3914
@douggoodman3914 3 жыл бұрын
Al Gore was exhorting, not exulting.
@LEDewey_MD
@LEDewey_MD 4 жыл бұрын
Love your program! Thanks!
@ElkoJohn
@ElkoJohn 4 жыл бұрын
The paradox in California is that it has more day-time, solar panel electricity than the power grid can use. So, until there is a large scale, economic way to store the excess solar generated electricity, all the new solar panels in CA won't be allowed to add power to the grid. There needs to be a technology break-thru in large-scale electricity storage (i.e. batteries, flywheels, molten salt systems, etc.) to catch up with all the new solar panels.
@weldonyoung1013
@weldonyoung1013 4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering, if 50% of the planet's landmasses becomes uninhabitable? How many Chernihiv/Chernobyl nuclear disasters is that?
@frederik7338
@frederik7338 4 жыл бұрын
great video. so heres some more fodder for the algorithm
@Jorge_Pronto
@Jorge_Pronto 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe there's a way to incentive people to join the discussion in the comment section more? This makes the algorithm more prone to suggest more people in here!
@Peter-nv3wu
@Peter-nv3wu 4 жыл бұрын
The biggest boost renewable energy could get would be for governments to stop or gradually work towards stopping the huge subsidies that are paid to the fossil fuel industries, in view of the huge profits they make ! After that they should look at sectors that pay zero tax on their fossil fuels, obviously some sectors should get zero or minimal tax on their fuel such as farmers, food producers and so on
@9squares
@9squares 4 жыл бұрын
You seem to be using increasingly conservative numbers. For example, 4.0° by 2100. Given the amount of data you have digested, I know, you know this is a pipe dream. The scientific community as a whole does the same thing in regards to quoting overly conservative data. I suppose this minimizes the trolling and lends credibility to your message but are you really doing society a favor?
@LightSearch
@LightSearch 4 жыл бұрын
With the arctic ice on a route to collapse in the next few years, I find all these discussions surreal. The main discussion should be how to quickly develop alternative food sources. There was an article on forbes where someone did the calculations of the cost of decarbonization. We would need to build 2 nuclear power plants every 3 days, or set up 1500 x 2.5 MW wind turbines everyday. And that would have no impact on the arctic in the next decade.
@9squares
@9squares 4 жыл бұрын
@@LightSearch Yes, as I understand the science, our future is pretty daunting. If we are going to have any chance at mitigation, we are going to have to throw everything we have at the issue. We are going to have to do it now and we are going to have to do it on a grand scale the likes never seen before. That battle requires an honest assessment of where we are in terms of the numbers to measure progress.
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
GHG effect proven WRONG people wake up!
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Tim. Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure about 'increasingly conservative' numbers...I've pretty much always stuck to the IPCC RCP 8.5 projection which puts 2100 projected temps between 3.2 and 5.4 degrees Celsius, so 4 degrees is simply an easily understandable round number somewhere in between the two. I do take your point about the amount of extra data now flooding out of most parts of the globe, and in particular the two poles, both of which are of course warming far more rapidly than any IPCC scenario has ever predicted, plus the methane emissions we considered a couple of weeks back. So, yes, it could well be argued that the 4 degree number may prove to be too low, but my main objective for the channel is to get folks to take some sort of action while we still have any chance of affecting change. And even though some sort of global carnage is pretty much locked in now, I still believe that keeping a rational outlook and a relentlessly optimistic approach is the only way forward.
@LightSearch
@LightSearch 4 жыл бұрын
@@biglynt2 Degrowth will happen, it just won't be in any remotely controlled way. So a planned degrowth where the poorest still suffer the most would be much better than the uncontrolled degrowth, even for the poorest.
@kdf525
@kdf525 Жыл бұрын
I'm all for taking care of the environment but not at the expense of freedom!
@philipbrown9006
@philipbrown9006 5 ай бұрын
There is little evidence that man-made CO2 will destroy the planet. Many people believe that the whole point of net zero is to remove our freedoms and facilitate the WEF's One World Government.
@n1mbusmusic606
@n1mbusmusic606 4 жыл бұрын
molten salt nuclear. the only option on the table.
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
The second is charcoal as biochar fertilizer.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
biochar will sequester carbon and produce carbon neutral fuel for existing combustion engines. the nuclear option does not fix the problem, it halts the damage.
@n1mbusmusic606
@n1mbusmusic606 4 жыл бұрын
@@daroniussubdeviant3869 no your'e wrong. i am absolutely with you much love biochar is most certainly a big part of the solution. the soil will save us indeed. china has advanced automated kiln/tractor setups that are pretty dope. believe it or not, robotics has a large part to play in sustainability especially agriculture as well....synthetic ammonia fertilizers evaporate into the atmosphere. nitrous dioxide is 297 time more powerful than merthane, and unlike methane, is not short lived because(owing to the fact that the atmosphere if primarily nitrogen) it doesn't have anything to react with to neutralize it. the average joe driving their kid to soccer practice is not responsible for global warming, i agree the food system and land resource mismanagement is to blame. you are sorely mistaken about nuclear generally and just how grave our situation is.i not only do we have to go nuclear immediately like singapore is, but we have to do multi trillion dollar geo-engineering projects just to buy us enough time to even GO nuclear, thats how BAD our situation is. If we don't go nuclear, we all die son, I'm sorry but please pick up a fucking book and read. 90% of my info comes from books i read, not just youtube videos, books are still THE best way to learn. Molten salt nuclear reactors could make dimethyl ether low impact liquid fuels for shipping freight and commercial aircraft, desalinate ocean water easily(although graphene membranes are wonderful for that as well) and provide round the slock safe reliable abundant affordable energy(thorium msr's would be cheaper than coal). Africa india and china could flourish and develop without guilt or shame and we'd stop being neurotic about energy usage generally. god loves you.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
@@n1mbusmusic606 nuclear reactors do not sequester carbon. it is the carbon dioxide that is causing this. we can mitigate it by soil amendment to make use of the water cycle but we need to sequester billions of tonnes of carbon. more than we've produced through the use of fossil fuels over the last 300 years. banning the plough might help. but charcoal is simple and cheap and we can all do it.
@daroniussubdeviant3869
@daroniussubdeviant3869 4 жыл бұрын
it isn't our emissions that are the problem any more. we've melted siberia. the amount of carbon we have to bury makes our annual transport emissions a drop in the ocean. so, no, nuclear won't fix the problem because it does not sequester carbon. but our crop waste already has and it can be made a permanent sequestration by turning it to char rather than letting it go to rot and back to co2. jah blessed.
@lilbaz8073
@lilbaz8073 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks dave.
@kofManKan
@kofManKan 4 жыл бұрын
Another conference. Triffic! Sorted so :-D Forgive me for being cynical, it's logical/inevitable.
@Nmethyltransferase
@Nmethyltransferase 4 жыл бұрын
John Bolton dives underwater and used his mustache to vaccum up clams. Change my mind.
@peterdollins3610
@peterdollins3610 4 жыл бұрын
A less polarising figure than Al Gore is needed. A non-politician who puts nobody against him. Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nigh or you, Dave?
@pietersteenkamp5241
@pietersteenkamp5241 4 жыл бұрын
Al Gore; the man who gave us Bush.
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
I thought that was the Governor of Florida? ;-)
@pietersteenkamp5241
@pietersteenkamp5241 4 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink Edit : Love your channel! Well to be sure i think Jeb would do whatever Mama told him to do and since we can expect to Bushes to cheat as much as they can we can hardly blame them. We can blame Gore for conceding the fight to finish the recount when he could have taken it to congress or did any of ten other things even if the recount went against him. The democratic party/al Gore made massive concessions ( like when he conceded on election night and withdrew it later) at every step in the recount and court proceedings and basically showed a great many left leaning voters that the party simply wasn't interested in standing up to their new found wall street donors by seriously damaging the integrity of American election processes and would from now on fight within very specific parameters that kept the Republican party viable and the whole circus going.
@djbrettell
@djbrettell 4 жыл бұрын
No. 9: 25% of all people to go vegan by 2025, 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050. I do think it will be from the ground up, by people, (rather than government top down - which you summarized at the end.) which will make a difference, so C40 seems to be a great help.
@incognitotorpedo42
@incognitotorpedo42 4 жыл бұрын
You're dreaming if you think the whole world will go vegan.
@djbrettell
@djbrettell 4 жыл бұрын
@@incognitotorpedo42 You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one
@ajr993
@ajr993 4 жыл бұрын
Why the obsession with solar? Solar is a lame power source since you need batteries to go with it, and it doesn't work on cloudy days or nights. The best bet is tax credits and subsidies for nuclear, as well as establishing a free federal radioactive waste dumping grounds. What ends up happening with solar is that on a bad day, you don't get enough power and then you need coal plants to fill the gap. With nuclear you can get power nearly 24/7.
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
This formulation is hasty at best. It takes time, a lot of time to bring a nuclear power plants online. You do not need batteries with solar. No one is actually suggesting 100% solar energy thus batteries are not required. In reality though there's likely some amount of batteries that are needed that would be some fraction of energy consumed. For households you just tie into the grid and exchange power on it. While for example industrial and commercial uses mostly use power when the sun is up. All transportation energy could be on batteries. Much of the household power could be stored in the air and water if the home was well insulated. In colder climates reserve energy can be stored in bio fuels. In most applications solar has the best chance of providing while some places wind, tidal or dams would be more appropriate. In the immediate future even a diesel generating station + solar for 1/3rd the day would be an improvement. Not to mention extending that with say running appliances during the day, running the water heater a head of time and charging an EV which might extend that to more like half of all energy used in a day and thats doable for any middle class family today with existing technology. Finally since the nuclear people like to go on about the magic of nuclear I can say its entirely possible we could have super conducting power conduits within the next few decades which would solve the cloudiness and to some degree offside sun hours with solar.
@donfields1234
@donfields1234 4 жыл бұрын
You keep knocking it out of the park, excellent information. Humanity is indebted to you...even though some dont know it yet. Keep up the awesome work it truly helps the world, every little bit helps.
@JustHaveaThink
@JustHaveaThink 4 жыл бұрын
Cheers Don. Much appreciated as always. All the best. Dave
@earthgirl8917
@earthgirl8917 4 жыл бұрын
Too late, too little but a good try before the civilization collapse.
@trendyasdabbers
@trendyasdabbers 4 жыл бұрын
Hes mentioned his patreon you just dont watch enough.
@christinearmington
@christinearmington 4 жыл бұрын
32d? 👍😊😎
@climateclimateclimate-kend2017
@climateclimateclimate-kend2017 4 жыл бұрын
Climate is cyclical & planet driven example:- Neptune has a 41 year cycle.
@incognitotorpedo42
@incognitotorpedo42 4 жыл бұрын
What is this, Ken, some sort of denialist argument? You've come to the wrong place, if so.
@climateclimateclimate-kend2017
@climateclimateclimate-kend2017 4 жыл бұрын
1/= 2018 2/= 1977 3/= 1936 4/= 1895 5/= 1854 6/= 1813 7/= 1772 Pre -Indurilastion 8/= 1731 DROUGHT episodes w/pampas Argentina S/America. 9/= 1690 DROUGHT clusters S/W/Canada' 10/= Global crisis war - climate change catastrophe. 10/= Jonestown tragedy - 600 year tree rings.
@buddha1736
@buddha1736 4 жыл бұрын
Until the 12 families that have 95% of the worlds wealth give up some cash we’re all doomed, capitalism has failed.😉
@luminositymusicbrianpricka6357
@luminositymusicbrianpricka6357 4 жыл бұрын
Alan Watts I think it’s been said losing Hope is not an option.
@buddha1736
@buddha1736 4 жыл бұрын
luminositymusic BrianPRickard Not losing hope just stating facts. 😉
@MattAngiono
@MattAngiono 4 жыл бұрын
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 great article! Couldn't agree more!
@MattAngiono
@MattAngiono 4 жыл бұрын
@@biglynt2 how do you get this idea? The climate crisis is the proof that de-growth is necessary, but so is bringing down the elites. These are separate issues. They're connected, but de-growth isn't a suggestion it's a fact of what is happening because we are in overshoot. It's not some plan by the elite to gain power. They will try to do what you say, but that's after the fact of dealing with chaos in the environment. Plus, when most (sane) people say de-growth they are focused on the rich, high emitting societies, not poor people.
@MattAngiono
@MattAngiono 4 жыл бұрын
@@biglynt2 btw I would separate austerity and de-growth, because I completely agree about austerity as a terrible option
@ArthursHD
@ArthursHD 4 жыл бұрын
Unless people take drastic action, literally just stop producing cars today, use the existing ones together until it's unecomical to repair or it hits 2050 and do basically the same in many other sectors or plan more than 35 billion trees a year we are simply not going to reach net zero emissions globaly by 2050. It simply isn't feasible in current social economic system that quickly!
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
Because emissions of CO2 are good for plants and green the Sahel.
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
Its only political will.
@Furiends
@Furiends 4 жыл бұрын
Its only political will.
@fireofenergy
@fireofenergy 4 жыл бұрын
Why did you mention plastic? That has almost nought to do with global warming (don't deter REAL solutions with trivial nonsense).
@fireofenergy
@fireofenergy 4 жыл бұрын
@Knut Farestveit Plastic is not as bad as causing more radiative forcing which causes even more heating effects, such as ... just look up global warming feedback effects. Why should we make a big tiffy over banning the little plastic straws when that is like not even a drop in the bucket compared to all the trash whole countries dump into the ocean. Solution: plasma gasification (ya, science and lots and lots of clean energy and whatever clean energy storage).
@sabofx
@sabofx 4 жыл бұрын
*Informative presentation 👌, DECEPTIVE TITLE 👿* With less than 15% of the time in the video spent on Google's involvement, I find your title to be click bait. I bet that it has earned you the majority of the 22 thumbs down. Keep up the good work though!
@brettmoore3194
@brettmoore3194 4 жыл бұрын
Those big cities need to be junked. Buy cheap desert land but install state of the art sustainable cities. Then go back and rebuild those old decayed cities even better through learned mistakes in the prior cities.
@noelsharpe5970
@noelsharpe5970 4 жыл бұрын
How much Money does the Queen of England make from Mining ?
@acdcat9693
@acdcat9693 4 жыл бұрын
umm yawn...
@jrob9656
@jrob9656 4 жыл бұрын
hail trump- best leader in the world !
@WadcaWymiaru
@WadcaWymiaru 4 жыл бұрын
@Co Ragoo Oh you said so: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYbOZWial9ippZI Trump speech in congress
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