Global Glacier Collapse. Will YOU have fresh water in 2050?

[@cabanford]

I've lived in Zermatt for the last 41 years and watching the glaciers absolutely disintegrate, especially since 2000.

[@janebrown7231]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket You absolute numbskull. What did you do to stop the glaciers melting? Take over the world as a dictator, or become some sort of god? Because if you did either of those you were extremely unsuccessful at it. Even a global pandemic was unable to reduce human overshoot by any significant extent, yet you think one randomer could have reduced the global population by about 6 billion? Because that's what it would take. Humans could have had some impact by making changes before the 1970s. If you think ANYONE could have made a significant impact in the last two decades, you really know nothing about the science.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket In fairness Exxon and company knew full well this would happen in the 1970's, and did everything they could to make sure individuals: 1) Didn't know the truth, and 2) Would not have the power to stop it. In the 1970's, we could have made very small changes and avoided this entire mess. Exxon et. al. saw to it that didn't happen, because "profits".

[@rimbusjift7575]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket What a fkn braindead comment.

[@janebrown7231]

@cabanford It must have been distressing for you to have to witness unstoppable climate change so closely, and to know there is so much more to come.

[@cabanford]

@@janebrown7231 Sad that humans aren't nearly as clever as we make ourselves out to be. Expanding past known limits (in pursuit of short term greed) will lead to some serious pain in the future. Have a sneaky feeling that our grandkids will curse our names...

[@polanve]

The most disturbing fact is that 2 billion humans depend on glaciers for survival. I think this merits an entire episode of it's own. Compare this number to the numbers killed in the world wars, or in historical plagues and famines. I think it's bigger than the total of all of these combined. This guy-wrenching number should be front and center of our efforts to get the world's attention.

[@jimmoses6617]

The Ganges and Indus Rivers get less than 1.5% of their flow from glacial melt. The rest comes from seasonal snow melt and rainfall. Don't spread fear. Thank you.

[@garywalls5181]

Those people won’t die they will simply migrate which will place the burden on other countries and their water supplies.

[@DrSmooth2000]

​@@jimmoses6617huh I'll have to verify but a good lead Will say regardless... dams can serve function of glaciers for irrigation. And also offer hydropower and fish/recreation

[@gryph01]

We are experiencing a dry and mild winter here in Southern Ontario. Other than a multi-day storm around Christmas, the snow has melted and temperatures hover around 0°C. This will impact water levels in the area.

[@NickyMitchell85]

Not unless we deploy a huge phalanx of high-flying planes ✈️ with nozzles that blast out trillions (1,000,000,000,000,000,000s) of white calcium carbonate particles that would reflect incoming sunlight back into space creating a global cooling ❄️ effect. Volcanoes 🌋 like 👍 that of 1,991’s Mount Pinatubo eruption 🌋 in the Philippines 🇵🇭 eject vast quantities of sulphur dioxide into the upper layers of the atmosphere (namely the stratosphere). Sulphur dioxide, not carbon dioxide is a refrigerant that forms sulphuric acid droplets 💧 acting as tiny little mirrors 🪞 that reflect incoming sunlight back into space whereas calcium carbonate could have a greater efficacy in reflecting sunlight back into space. Just Have a Think 💭 about how much we could cool down the planet 🌎 if we sprayed Calcium Carbonate into the upper layers of the atmosphere (namely the stratosphere) year on year on year?! That’d give global heating one helluva beating, wouldn’t it?!

[@johnjohnson3390]

I am here. Love it so much!

[@JRattheranch]

Same here in Belarus too! Very unusual. Every year it seems to get warmer in both winter and summer too!

[@jamescollins3647]

That's because we are having all of the bloody rain here in the UK!

[@chrisg1234fly]

Here in the Pretoria area in South Africa its summer, the wet season. We've had no rain in almost 3 weeks. Normally every other daythere is something!!

[@RobbieCec]

Plenty of attention is quite rightly given to land based temperatures; the oceans however had their hottest yr on record in 2022 😬

[@kimwelch4652]

Much of the land based measurement is done in industrial and civil areas where particulates shield the sunlight. So, the land based measurements are probably inaccurate and increases over land are probably much higher than measured in the city.

[@marutanray]

I agree. I am a fish living in the ocean and the ocean just warmed up since this morning!!

[@AuJohnM]

The records are poor quality. Global coverage has varied greatly since 1850. Much of the temperature data has no indication of how it was collected so people are forced to guess, and then they adjust most of the data to bring it in line with temperatures having been measured by one technique, so it's guesses modified according to dubious conversions.

[@kimwelch4652]

@@AuJohnM The exact numbers are fuzzy, but the direction is clear. It is going up, and accelerating.

[@kayakMike1000]

Where is your source. I could probably cite a source that disagrees with you.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

There is also the little matter of the loss of solar reflectivity that happens when glaciers melt. That is another one of those positive feed back loops.

[@ross6343]

I've been watching the rate of global ice melt speed up over the last 15 years. About four years ago I experienced 'tears' when I saw a pregnant women - a 'first' for me and very unsettling. After some thought, it dawned on me I was suffering from a mild form of depression based on how sad I felt watching, not only the rate of ice melt speed up, but how fast the 7th mass extinction is happening. I'm 70+ years old and I yearn for the climate of my 'lad days' but knowing full well those days are forever gone. Being a 'treehugger' all my life, I can now relate to Sisyphus in a bittersweet fashion.

[@philipm3173]

Aniccā vata sankhārā Uppādavayadhammino Uppajjituvā nirujjhamti Tesam vūpasamo sukho

[@schmitzkatzewupper]

@koekoek your brain got to hot too. huh!

[@chrislilliannorton177]

"Solostalgia".

[@GregQchi]

@koekoek well you really are dim.

[@judebrown4103]

@@philipm3173 what a shame Google isn't translating this for me and it seems to be structured so poetically too... Edit: and now I see what looks like a translation by @J G, thank you. It was indeed poetic and prophetic....so very true, this world will survive long after we've gone. It is just a shame that those who suffer the most during our demise will be those least responsible for it. To put it more bitterly: it is a shame that those who are most responsible may suffer the least. Though I like to think that karma will catch up with them!

[@hypergraphic]

This is sad and scary. Even if we get our act together our grandkids won't ever experience what we did growing up. What a terrible legacy to leave.

[@leax_Flame]

As someone in Florida, I’m worried about the possibility of sea level rise causing parts of the aquifer system getting contaminated with excess salt water.

[@davidwatson2399]

Don't be worried. Its already happening 👍

[@MichaelSwagulski-ml8zw]

In the zodiac a great loss of water takes place unlike the last sign we had concerning water and fish in abundance. Then the streaks in the sky had it's start about 1990 and today we have no good drinking water.

[@laletemanolete]

I live near 4 volcanoes. When I was a kid, all four of them had ice all year long on their tops, but for the last 10ish years, only one of them keeps some ice all year long, the other three only get some snowfall every now and then.

[@rwargo1647]

I’ve lived by the same mountain range for over 65 years and it still gets snow every year and the last 5 years there’s been more snow than others

[@rosskirkwood8411]

The Cow at the top of the world. Her waters feed all annals and people.

[@rosskirkwood8411]

Himla is her name

[@hidesbehindpseudonym1920]

You live near more volcanoes than any man I've ever heard of

[@laletemanolete]

@@hidesbehindpseudonym1920 haha yeah, only one is active. I live in central México.

[@kimwelch4652]

I think we need to stop talking about this as something that is going to happen "some time in the future," and admit that it is happening now and been happening for a few years. Water levels in rivers world wide have experienced unprecedented lows and this is accelerating. We don't have 10 years. We are already in societal collapse with crisis hitting faster than we can recover. Yes, its a process not an event, but it is an accelerating process and currently very out of control.

[@duanepomrenke2073]

Very true, i agree, we don't have 10 years. 1.2C is here now. 1.5C = too late. At retirement age, i've done my share of damage. 30 years ago this was a non issue. I have a some solar plus heat pumps. Jumping on a plane and flying south to Arizona for the winter just to warm up the planet is not on my bucket list anymore.

[@FullCircleTravis]

What should we do? Release a biological agent and use the subsequent panic to push poisonous pharmaceuticals to reduce the population.

[@kennedy6971]

We (the USA) should be leading the planet in green everything. The world needs us to be leaders! We have the world's top colleges. I'm sure there are ideas we havnt even heard of yet. If we don't remember that we are the world's innovators soon I fear it will be too late to change the coming cataclysm. No snow pack means no food or water! Also means Cleveland would be valuable because it's on the great lakes. We can't have that happen. Lol

[@kimwelch4652]

@@FullCircleTravis Wouldn't work. It is extremely hard even for nature to reduce a population of 8 billion anything. Even a GTNW would only dent the population a little. The pandemic, a major war in Europe and on going famines have only reduced the amount of increase. No, under any circumstance, it will take hundreds if not thousands of years for nature and human nature to whittle us down to extinction. It's going to be very painful. People really do not grasp the scale of the problem we face.

[@kimwelch4652]

@@kennedy6971 The limiting factor is social capacity. We have a lot of technical knowledge and the system that produces that knowledge is damaged but still functioning. However, knowledge is only good if you can deploy it at scale. The scale required takes a great deal of social capacity to organize it's deployment. Our current social energy is tangled up in our current adaptations and power structures. There is none to do anything without giving up everything else maintaining our society. In short, the society itself is taking up all our time and energy.

[@marcdefaoite]

20 years ago I worked for a few seasons at a mountain hut for hikers at the foot of a glacier in the French Pyrenees. I watched a crevasse widen into a pond. Now that glacier is completely gone.

[@DrSmooth2000]

🐟 prefer it now

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

In 1978 my family and I visited Portage Glacier in Alaska. The ice at that time was out in the lake, with big chunks calved off and floating near the visitor's center. Now, the glacier sits way up on the mountainside, not even reaching the lake's water.

[@kmoses582]

Portage has retreated since 1978, however it still reaches the lake. I walked to it last winter and the ice would shake as it moved and there were a handfull of icebergs frozen in the ice. Even though it has retreated a little over the past decade, the retreat is not that rapid.

[@jimmoses6617]

Glacier Bay, Alaska saw massive glacier retreat from 1780 to around 1900. It has slowed since.

[@user990077]

When I was a kid we could drive down to Portage Glacier in Alaska and see the glacier from the parking lot. Now tourist have to get on a boat and 15 - 20 minutes later get to see the receding glacier.

[@OutThereLearning]

The scale of the climate emergency that is now looming is so hard to comprehend, it is easy to look the other way and just carry on with business as usual. I fear that humanity will progressively wake up and regret that we should have been much more intelligent about it. As Thomas Hobbes said - "Hell is truth seen too late"

[@jimmoses6617]

The Ganges and Indus Rivers get less than 1.5% of their flow from glacial melt. The rest comes from seasonal snow melt and rainfall. Don't spread fear. Thank you.

[@stunningsalman]

I live in Pakistan. More than 50% of all the world glaciers are located in Pakistan. Now due to global warming, we are facing devastating floods every 3 or 4 years. Pakistan has nothing to do with this global warming as we contribute only 0.4% of global green house gas emissions, but we are paying the price for the industrial revolution of the west. These flood scenarios will repeat itself every 4 to 5 years. It is time for the west to stop spending lavishly on your luxuries and contribute to save us, and also to save our planet.

[@sephiroth127]

Thanks as usual for your videos. One thing that I would have mentioned is that glaciers also help reflecting the sun radiation back to space, reducing the warming. Their loss is just another of the tipping point that we are about to trigger.

[@jrrurrj]

We need more of such videos. Over the past years I have read many articles on climate change, but for some reason nothing specific ever comes out than '4 degrees is bad, there will be extreme weather events and sea level rise'. This video makes things much more concrete. And we need to come with concrete examples to make people feel the urgency.

[@SzymczykProductions]

It's all a lie. Go to work and be happy.

[@RobertMJohnson]

It’s concrete because you read some articles and listened to a video? Wow. You really do your homework

[@Encephalitisify]

It will be 4 to 5 degrees no doubt.

[@samjohnston4945]

But for one glorious moment, we made extraordinary shareholder value …

[@Halli50]

I live in a country with LOTS of glaciers (Iceland) and have always found this Glacier water vs. Fresh water argument a bit ridiculous. In my country we have abundant fresh drinking water that comes from rain. Our glacier water is muddy and unappetizing and we only use it for hydro-electrical power. Gullfoss, our "Golden Waterfall" is named so because it is moderately muddy, i.e. yellow. Another massive waterfall, Dettifoss, is really dark and muddy. The water is not strictly "undrinkable", the ground-up basalt in the water is actually sterile and harmless, but very unappetizing. When our main glaciers are gone (some centuries in the future) we will lose considerable hydro-electrical power capacity, but being an island in the middle of the North Atlantic we are destined to have plenty of rain, providing far more drinking water than we will ever need for ourselves.

[@jimmoses6617]

Thank you. This guy is a Climate Change Alarmist and is causing panic and fear in order to earn youtube "clicks" and money.

[@briken2539]

Can you approach the question of Sahara dust and it's relationship to the glacier collapse. On first look, it appears that the dust would dim the sun's rays, but then it would also coat the glacier surface to be less reflective. Thank you for the work you do on this corner of KZbin!

[@OwnGrid]

yes the Sahara dust also feeds rainforests with nutrition, especially the amazon. They also seed sotrms that reminds Americans every year that they are just humans nothing special

[@bilgyno1]

Yes, it will decrease the albedo, meaning more energy is absorbed. However, the sand will either be covered with new snow or drain away with melt water. I think overall Sahara sand is just a minor factor in the yearly function of "ice volume(y1) = ice volume(y0) plus snowfall(y1) minus melt(y1)". The main problem are the rising temperatures, which are way above average in alpine and polar regions. More of the precipitation is rain instead of snow (and to higher elevation), so less snow is added in winter. And melt is stronger in summer, so glaciers lose more ice mass.

[@stevewilliams2498]

@@bilgyno1 My observation .. Melting snow leaves behind the accumulated dirt. It doesn't flow with the water. So the surface gradually gets darker and I assume less reflective

[@jimmoses6617]

There is no glacial "collapse". We have been entering an interglacial period (one of several over the past 500,000 years) for the past 10,000 years or so. Glaciers in Glacier National Park, U.S. lost massive amounts of ice between 1860 (when records began) to around 1935. Newspaper articles from 100 years ago talk about this melting.

[@h.e.hazelhorst9838]

Europe should build tens of thousands of small ponds in moutaineous areas all over the continent, to hold precipitation in the wet season. Not to make snow or generate energy, but solely to serve as a buffer to replenish water shortages in the dry season (and also to hold water that comes down on occasional downpours such as in Germany and Belgium).

[@RobertMJohnson]

Or we could simply desalinate the Ocean water which we can’t even fathom the supply of

[@simonpannett8810]

This summer promises to blow away the fossil fuel fed hesitation line swallowed by politicians around the world. Need to press the transition accelerator and help those with little infrastructure to move direct to renewables. We have the solutions just need to do it!!!

[@jimgraham6722]

Globally, agriculture is finely strung. The big risk is that changes in rainfall and snow patterns could exceed the rate at which agricultural systems can adjust.

[@alanmcrae8594]

Thanks for mentioning my smirk. I mean, the irony of 1st world winter vacationers who paid good money for a round trip flight & ski vacation package only to find the snow pack mostly melted. It is so heart wrenching...

[@cynicalpenguin]

Reminds me of being invited to fly to the opposite side of the world to visit the Great barrier reef "while I still can". It put flight and long distance travel into perspective for me.

[@justinmaitland7335]

I have been wondering about the rivers that rely on glacial melt water. The world is in for some interesting times indeed.

[@assortedmountainlife]

Here in NW Montana we started the season very early with more than 50" of snow by Christmas and temps as low as -30F... and then it has been 30-40F and without snow for the past few weeks.

[@alangardner8596]

One thing I learned when I made a study of geology is that once a glacier is gone it's gone and it would take a large drop in temperatures and large amounts of snowfall for the glacier to regenerate again?

[@Rnankn]

It is not only humans that will suffer. The rate of change exceeds the speed at which animals and plants can adapt through evolution which takes many generations. The organisms currently on earth are adapted largely from the Pleistocene, a glaciation of various degrees. Animals have fur, and cannot sweat like humans. I can just imagine the panic when a wild animal experiences heat to which it has no recourse. And human adaptability is a hinderance, because our perceptions of change normalizes over a period of about 10 years, while memory lasts no more than a single generation. Our perception of normal is based on a shifting baseline, leaving us totally ignorant to the degree of change. This subdues discontent with the difference between past conditions and our eroding quality of life. Yet, as markets have become globally dominant, people rationally connect well-being with prices and wages. The economy is a poor mediator of natural systems, and basically conceals scarcity until there is total depletion. Until the shelves are bare or the water runs out, none of our short-term survival instincts will be triggered. Public opinion won’t change until it is too late. Add in psychological defences like denial, and cognitive distortions like optimism bias and we are happily cooking ourselves, and many other species, to death.

[@robertmelius2025]

Excellent video, as always.

[@martiansoon9092]

I have already send a warning to Germany... Do you remember what happened during last summer? Rhein watertable was so low that shipping was impossible and Ruhr area had partial shutdowns. This year could become even worse when snowpack does not exist and glaciers has been melting during winter. This means there is high probability for record low water levels in all central Europe rivers. This does not only effect on factories, but specially to the farmlands too. Yet another additional layer is the Ukraine war, where grain shipments are likely impossible causing even worse food crisis. Another issue about the lost snowpacks and glaciers is the rising likelihood for flash floods. When temperature balance is lost by reduced stored cold in the area, the warmer temperature creeps further. Rising temperature holds more moisture (7%/1C), so any rain could bring more rain to the area. A mountain without a glacier does not hold any rain back and it all runs downhill as soon as the rain starts. Even worse the temperature raise dries up the hillsides, so there is less vegetation that could hold water. Also the soil itself holds less water when it is dry. Overall this means there is lots more water running down after a heavier rain. Also jet streams have shifted too and that may mean more heavy rains in the areas where these events were rare. And the rain may even stay longer over one area. All these together makes flash floods stronger and more likely.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Same with the Mississippi in 2022 in the U.S.

[@martiansoon9092]

Under a mountain glacier is often a layer of permafrost. Permafrost is ground that is frozen and holds tens of persentages of water. When glacier melts from the top then these permafrost layers starts to thaw. And that may lead to entire mountain tops to slide down the hill. The local area chances forever. And this will also alter the wind patterns, because of less stored cold in the area and the mountain peaks are not altering the winds as they used to. This kind of changes will make mostly unpredictable changes to our weather patterns. And predictable weather is part of the food system where all human life depends on.

[@toddjones5742]

the irony of these excellent videos is the calm presentation... a truly rational person would be running around in circles shouting that the world is ending and we need to try to do something about it...

[@cg986]

Bad news for power plants that use this water...

[@anon6056]

According to now this earth (haven't done any further research) we may enter el Niño this year/within 5 years. So the likelihood of reaching 1.5° increases a lot really soon. Not good news. I think the best way to handle it is by always believing the most optimistic future is always still possible. So i do that. i just kind of wish we had more of a tangible momentum moving towards those futures after i learned about what's happening in the arctic, i decided to emotionally detatch from the whole thing. I'm still worried about what future we're headinl towards, how little time we have to prepare, how much we have to prepare for. I don't know what will happen but it already feels like the dominoes are falling. so i appreciate the tone you take in these videos. I do appreciate it a lot

[@darthmaul216]

50/50 chance

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Thanks for highlighting this aspect of glacier melt Dave: flooding in Pakistan, loss of the euro alpine glaciers and more problematically, the loss of the Himalayan glaciers with catastrophic consequences for billions of people in flooding and loss of drinking water supply. Let's remember the North American and Andean glaciers too with similar consequences. Even New Zealand lost around 3 billion tons of glacial ice between 2015 and 2019. It concerns me greatly that we remain on the RCP8.5 pathway with pledges unfulfilled. The reality of this is the looming 'fat-tail'. as highlighted by leading ice and climate scientists such as Jason Box, somewhere over the rainbow... Except It isn't the Wizard of Oz, it isn't 4 degrees Centigrade by 2100, it's 5+. The 'Tipping Points - Phase Changes are self reinforcing and mutually cascading. This is the urgency that requires we act now systemically to change course in as many countries as possible. Thanks enormously for putting out this recent batch of videos Dave, it's important.

[@davidlawrenson2103]

David said that if the glaciers disappear they will be gone forever. I thought glaciers disappear, or at least recede a very long way at the end of every ice age and then miraculously reappear in the next. It's a bit like Christmas really or piles. You think they have gone forever, then bugger! More cards to send and suppositories to apply. Perhaps David doesn't believe in Christmas or heameroids.

[@davidlawrenson2103]

And another thing. The water in the Himalayas will still run down to Pakistan wether they freeze first and then thaw, won't they?

[@AJPemberton]

@@davidlawrenson2103 Assuming rainfall patterns do not change ( which appears not to be the case), you are right in saying the rain will run down either way. It's just if they freeze over winter, you get a slow release through the rest of the year as it melts. A huge pulse of water then nothing is much harder to deal with than a steady flow.

[@davidlawrenson2103]

@@AJPemberton Yes Anthony I see that. They may have to construct dams or make other adaptations. Man is often ingenious at coping with new situations and now with better technology, education and wealth such adaptations will be deployed I think. Being realistic, I don't think two billion people's lives are at risk at all. We mustn't over egg the pudding too much or we risk ridicule. There are always problems in life and always people who think the end of the world is nigh. The thoughtfulness if your reply shows me that you are a realist. I hope I am also. Best wishes David

[@jimmoses6617]

The predicted increase in temperatures your cite are all based on models. Models have proven themselves useless in predicting things and are simply another format to present a researcher's theory. They hold no magic, no ability to predict the future (nothing can). They are then used to "prove" the theory being proposed in the first place: "In conclusion, you can see from the graphs extending 80 years into the future, that the models clearly show temperatures rising by 4-5 degrees C. This proves our theory correct that temperatures WILL rise 4-5 degrees C by 2100." And, people take this stuff seriously?! It gets funding, but nothing more. The EPA doesn't give money to researchers who show NO disaster on the horizon. Therefore, the peer-reviewed papers are heavily weighted to doomsday narratives, which have created and supported this climate change alarmism world we now live in.

[@davidoff7312]

Oh those good old days when you talked about a revolutionary battery breakthrough every week.....

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

This year I doubled my rainwater storage capacity. I have been drinking rainwater for about 4 years. Not as convenient as tapwater, not as toxic either. I pre-filter and fine filter so I have extra filters. I started it because our community well water killed my aquarium fish and houseplants.

[@duanepomrenke2073]

A couple of years ago i started melting snow and storing the water in a dark cool place, best tasting water ever. The big water delivery companies with the diesel powered trucks can park em.

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

@@duanepomrenke2073 I rarely get enough snow for that and it melts quickly. I scoop as much as I can onto my raised beds.

[@_Daio_]

Damn you for knowing I was smirking. I'm watching it alone, so no suppression was needed, and it was more of an unadulterated ear-to-ear smirk.

[@Jesus.the.Christ]

If you're interested in something of a model for how things will go in southern Asia, consider the early cultures in Peru. They built their civilizations in the verdant river valleys streaming from the Andes. These valleys stretched across extremely harsh desert to outflow into the ocean. Multiple civilizations, dating back more than 5000 years, rose and fell in these valleys, like the Supe, Paracas, and Nazca. All of these civilizations were devastated by extreme La Nina and El Nino cycles that would generate huge floods from the mountains that would wash away the farms in the river valleys, followed by even harsher droughts. When these cycles were bad, the effects would last years and the people would flee to the mountains to scrape out a subsistence level existence.

[@jimmoses6617]

So, what was driving these "extreme" La Nina/El Nino weather event years during those past centuries that stressed these civilizations? It clearly was not an increase in CO2 levels. So, what was it?

[@davidlawrenson2103]

Respectfully, may I ask how on earth could we possibly know with such certainty what happened so long ago? The trouble with speculation about the past is that because it can never be disproved it becomes accepted as gospel, even though the gospels themselves are sneered at or revered equally, depending upon religious views. It reminds me of the corono virus period. . Governments, everywhere introduced very strict restrictions on the "best" scientific advice. Thousands of people have been punished and had a fear of every one around the. The world economy has been very badly affected. It now appears to have been a gross overreaction . Even this is very controversial and all of us who have lived through have different views, even of the so called facts. Plausible stories about the past are rather like television novels or films. They require us to suspend disbelief too often. Best wishes David

[@Jesus.the.Christ]

@@davidlawrenson2103 We know what those people and civilizations went through because of the vast amount of material that was left behind. The Supe, Peracas, and the Nazca (and many other cultures in that area) all left behind enormous temple complexes and occasionally entire cities. I'm not talking about ruins that were eventually consumed by jungle, but intact cities and temples that were INTENTIONALLY buried before the people left. The Supe "mysteriously" disappeared, but took the time and effort to bury Caral, all of it, under tons of earth and rock. Caral is a candidate for the first true city in the New World. Caral is at least five thousand years old. Even in places where the people didn't bury their structures, those structures remain because they LIVED IN A DESERT. The trouble with stupid, unimaginative people mouthing off about shit they don't understand is that they think that because they don't understand it that no one does. You're side saddle on the very invention that can teach you all of this, but you're stupid and lazy to even try. This is for words big and small: www.dictionary.com/ This is where to start to investigate stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page You're not at the level to use the second link to full effect, but with a little practice I'm sure you will continue to spread your stupid, thoughtless opinions. Get smart or go home.

[@davidlawrenson2103]

@@Jesus.the.Christ Dear Sir. I can't imagine your name is really Jesus Christ but why must you be so rude and unkind. Surely someone who takes on the name of Jesus wouldn't resort to that! I'm always surprised how easily people can insult people at a distance and make scathing remarks about their fellow humans intelligence or education. You have no idea of my academic history, yet you make firm enough decisions enough to dismiss me as a fool. That is exactly the same problems we have in inferring about the past. You have decided that you believe without studying the problems of interpreting the evidence. We have more evidence of any single minute of the 21st century than of any ten thousand years before the time of that man whose name you adopt. Yet we still have very little certainty. Historians speculate about the Black Death yet we have no real grasp of the facts of the latest Coronovirus. Of course, you might think you know the details of both matters to the full but I know I don't know everything. You might at heart be a very nice man. You are just not helping me to see it by being so rude. Let us be friends who can debate without being insulting. If we met face to face I might be cleverer or bigger than you think. Best wishes David

[@Kenneth-ts7bp]

Climate change?

[@dewiz9596]

Ottawa’s Rideau Canal, “The World’s Longest Skating Rink” is still non-skatable. Ottawa’s Winterlude, usually started first week of February, is at risk of not having its Prime attraction.

[@rwargo1647]

Yeah, and my water trough for the cattle is frozen more solid than ever. It’s cold here like every year 😂😂😂

[@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039]

The last time I skated outdoors on natural ice in the UK was I 1997. Also the last time the famous ""Elfstedentocht" in the Netherlands was held. Sorry to see it go. Used to love skating in winter en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

[@EmeraldView]

I like the optimistic outlook of the title. Implying people will be around to need fresh water in 2050.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

I enjoy watching your shows, But i enjoy it even more on 100% solar power. (If anyone is wondering: YES, the rewards do outweigh the slight initial inconvenience. There isn't just one way to live, and you CAN make changes. In fact, it's never been easier with all the available solar products and informational guides. You CAN do it if you want to, and the fossil fuel industry can't stop you (although they will try... but that's what your 2 middle fingers are for.)).

[@natkingcol909]

Where do you live?

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@natkingcol909 If you are expecting "the sunny desert of...", you may be disappointed ;). It's currently snowing heavily, covering my pv panels. Yet i am still charging my computer, writing responses, and cooking food. And off good-ole lead-acid batteries purchased over 5 years ago (highly recyclable and commonly available materials. And they charge below 0 C / 32 degrees F, where lithium cannot. No biggie if you add a resistive heater, but there ARE other chemistries than Lithium for stationary energy storage.). I will admit I've developed tricks and tips for off-grid living, but isn't that just the journey through life we all make? So even in the North Country, in winter, above the 45th parallel, it works. In fact, i get the nightly news where they tell me about the latest power outages and all the people struggling through winter without power. So i try to stay informed about folks still hooked to the Great Umbilical Cord. People would be surprised how easy some of the tricks are. Two tips i would start with, even if you are NOT on solar power i will recomend to anyone are: 1) Boiling 1 litre of H20, and pouring that into a Nalgene bottle. You can sleep comfortably in a t-shirt even in winter, and turn the heat off in rooms you simply cannot use while sleeping. 2). Put a couple gallon (4 litre) jugs outside filled with water. Take one in with you when you come home, and put it in the refrigerator. Cycle between the 2 jugs, you walk im and out anyways, right? Result: no electricity needed for your refrigerator (or very little). Bonus tip: DIY Solar hot water heater. Not that hard; stores energy in a heat battery. A little boost a few degrees and you have piping hot H20. You can easily store and transport this massive weight of "thermal mass" with a 12v pump running 50 watts. I would start there, and add solar electric after that. You get more energy from direct thermal panels like solar hot water, plus already likely have the basic infrastructure in your home. Solar air heaters also work great if you live anywhere you can put a box facing the Sun. You can also get a solar pv kit, 100w or so, and keep it for power outages. Some camping power stations and folding pv panels may be a good way to dip a toe into solar electric for some folks. (LiFePO4 batteries are more desirable if buying a commercial unit than Li-ion because the cycle life is 3000x vs 500x). Essentially, my advice is: to start small but start NOW! Don't wait untill you organize a "dream system". Start now and grow forward. You will end -up with reliable back-up power, at worst case. (More than you asked, but some folks may find it useful information).

[@natkingcol909]

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 My 12 year old daughter would use all your solar energy you collect in a month in about 2 hours. You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think normal people would entertain your lifestyle. But good luck to you.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@natkingcol909 Sounds like maybe you should have a conversation with your daughter about reality and responsibility for her actions... That's is indeed one cookoo lifestyle as you say, if she wastes that much of Earth's resources. Where does she think that all comes from? Some people are just divorced from reality, and oblivious to facts. She has an excuse: She's young. Hope you can talk some sense into her before she has to deal with the consequences of her behaviors. Starting with the facts is always a good place. Good lock with it.

[@natkingcol909]

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 The reality is we have tens of thousands of years of energy in the form of nuclear. And it's fairly likely over the course of the next few hundred years we will crack fusion. The idea that the human race should use less is unrealistic considering the developing world wants what we have and to deny them it is immoral. And you try and tell a 12 year old girl to stop using a hair dryer or a TV. And considering types like you want us all in electric cars and to stop using gas means our electricity demand is going to sky rocket.

[@anon6056]

Just want to stop by to say i honestly appreciate you and what you're doing so much. you and now this earth are my sources nowadays. You give honest info in a very calm way which i appreciate because it can be a heavy topic(i was definitely a doomscroller at one point). Climate change is my main interest too so i'm glad to have a pleasant way to regularly learn more about it. You always keep things calm and collected no matter what. So we can all head into the future more well informed my dad and i are both fans so we get to chat about things you bring up which is SO COOL. And you are so up to date too

[@lrvogt1257]

@nickschroeder9358 "badder physics" Really? GHGs trap heat and less albedo means instead of being reflected, more heat is absorbed on the ground and re-radiated in the infrared. "Carbon dioxide absorbs energy at a variety of wavelengths between 2,000 and 15,000 nanometers - a range that overlaps with that of infrared energy. As CO2 soaks up this infrared energy, it vibrates and re-emits the infrared energy back in all directions. About half of that energy goes out into space, and about half of it returns to Earth as heat, contributing to the ‘greenhouse effect.’" Columbia U Climate School.

[@lrvogt1257]

@nickschroeder9358 : Did you make that nonsense up all by yourself?

[@lrvogt1257]

@nickschroeder9358 : You're Gish-gallops are uninformative gobbledygook and lack citation. You blatantly misrepresented the intent of the authors you were so keen to cite. You have demonstrated no interest in real science.

[@lrvogt1257]

@nickschroeder9358 : I have know idea who you think you're fooling.

[@rethinkscience8454]

The warming event in 2022 was directly caused by the massive Tonga volcano eruption it also caused immediate heat wave in Australia followed by the wettest year in 50 years, a very warm winter and the massive snow falls in America.

[@petewright4640]

The vast majority of the climate science community does not agree with you.

[@Tasmantor]

@@petewright4640 yeah but they are stuck under an immense weight of evidence where as this numpty is "rethinking" science.

[@ronkirk5099]

The last time I paddled the inside passage from Seattle, WA to Skagway, AK, I made three side trips up fjords to watch icebergs calve off the tidewater glaciers. It was a pretty amazing sight from a kayak, but sadly the younger generation may not be able to witness it. In just a few more years at current rates of melting, we'll probably have to rename Glacier National Park.

[@saimapitafi7906]

I live in the most hardly hit area by the climate change. That is Pakistan. The heat waves in Great Thar Desert produce 52 Degrees Celsius temperatures here, which are fatal by minimum. The floods in monsoon season are devastating. The lower Himalayan region where people are drowned by glacial lake bursts have problems of their own. Only few places are safe in mountains where your homes will not be washed away by hill torrents and rivers..

[@johnfowler4820]

Any chance of looking into regenerative agriculture and gardening for us. It's carbon sequestration and increased water holding capabilities could well be our only way out of this mess.

[@robmcilroy2911]

Definitely one system that is needed to not only sequester carbon but also help feed us planet eaters. Futures so bright😎

[@JustHaveaThink]

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[@adampope5107]

Unfortunately farming doesn't sequester carbon unless you bury whatever you grow deep underground. Food ends up back as carbon dioxide as we exhale it back out.

[@davekenyon3978]

Unfortunately, this channel's presentation of Walter Jehne's position wasn't able to interrogate his claims fully. It seems the bolder claims for regenerative agriculture are over-optimistic? A key problem is bovine methane production and the claims that wetter soil will cancel this out. However, deprioritising meat from the global middle class diet is a good thing, regardless in my book. On balance, regenerative agriculture seems a good approach, but much less of a silver bullet than first claimed.

[@johnfowler4820]

@@davekenyon3978 sorry I should have mentioned that vegan organic agriculture is probably our best option for not destroying the human race.

[@wlhgmk]

This points up a deeper truth. It is not bad in itself that we will have a climate that is 1.5 or 2 or 3 degrees above what we have had for thousands of years. The problem is that we have built our societies during the present temperature regime right up to the limit of what the world will bear and we are changing the conditions. For instance, if the temperature had been 2 degrees warmer over the past thousands of years, sea level would have been at a different level and we would have built our cities in different locations.

[@RussCR5187]

And maybe there would have been fewer people.

[@rimbusjift7575]

Sigh... If the sea was 2 feet higher, and cities were built 2 feet higher, IT WOULDN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

[@wlhgmk]

@@rimbusjift7575 exactly

[@niconico3907]

@@rimbusjift7575 sea level rise is just one problem of many that the climate change bring. There are bigger problems than sea level rise.

[@skygge1006]

It is bad because it will cause all of the problems you mentioned… it will damage ecosystems and yes is because we built this way but that doesn’t make it a good thing.

[@Beatsy]

It's taken so long for this to become obviously noticeable to the masses, I have to wonder how much "inertia" there is in this warming. That is, even if we stopped all CO2 emissions tomorrow (assuming that's the only cause), would the glaciers continue to melt for decades to come? I wonder if we have already passed several critical tipping points - such that it's unstoppable already.

[@ms-fk6eb]

20 yrs or so I've heard...

[@rimbusjift7575]

Rapid vegetation growth will strip most of the carbon from the atmosphere, bringing the onset of an ice age. Or not. Whatever.

[@alindmay]

2 billion asians without enough fresh water in 2050. How many will emigrate to Europe? Maybe 100 million... be prepared, the game starts soon.

[@paulhaynes8045]

Too late to stop it now. The more the Earth warms, the worse it will get. Less ice means less sun reflected, more absorbed. Warming permafrost means massive releases of methame - a much worse global warming gas than CO2. I think what we're seeing now is the beginning of those tipping points.

[@Beatsy]

@@paulhaynes8045 Agreed. That's what I was alluding to in my post. Climate is a coupled chaotic system and like you, I think it's reached or passed serious tipping points. You can see change happening, almost yearly now, it seems.

[@cowboyyoga]

Thank you for this video ))) Another good one! )))

[@stephentroake7155]

I was shocked when I went to the Mèr de Glace above Chamonix. There are signs denoting the year when the margin of the glacier was at a particular level and the retreat is very dramatic.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

When my father was a young man in Germany they would ski between villages every winter.

[@TheDoomWizard]

We won't have anything by 2050.

[@andrewb5743]

300 billion tons????? I can't even comprehend the size of that

[@kevinhaggerty3643]

11:41 I’m afraid we’re all royally screwed. I’m seeing more and evidence of other tipping points across the globe. The planet has never seen this rate of change.

[@EmeraldView]

It will be exponential

[@matthewtrow5698]

... I'm not even suppressing an ironic smirk... To _fly_ to one of these skiing locations and to enjoy an experience only available to the wealthy, should I get the world's smallest violin out, when they find there's no skiing to be done? Then again, I bought some bottled water at a gig this weekend - so who am I to smirk?

[@matthewtrow5698]

I love this channel, because it presents the problems we are encountering in a way that means something to me. But I am absurdly wealthy as a human on this planet. No, not one of _those_ absurdly wealthy people, that we call the one percent, but an average "Joe" living in what we call "The West". I guess I'm in some kind of top 5%, I don't really know. Many years back, I would spend hours chatting to my brother about how in our lifetimes, we would likely see a time where our lives take a turn for the worst. This was in the 1990's, when climate change wasn't really on the radar - instead, it was the decimation of life on the planet due to over consumption. We have now added climate change - which was very much well underway back then - onto a list of calamity. To be more factual, we have added anthropogenically induced climate change - the change is baked into the incredibly complex system well beyond the understanding of most of us... I am selfish. I said it. I truly hope, at age 55, I have another 20 years of being "comfortable" - but I hold little hope that this will come to pass. I was a glass half full individual, but I'm not anymore. I now believe I won't reach 75. I may be lucky to hit 65. And I would consider myself incredibly lucky to do that. The next decade is going to be ... not very nice. End times? I don't know. There's only _one_ thing that keeps me positive and it goes beyond my lifespan. Our planet is very resilient. It has seen far worse and moved on. We have fossil record evidence of a 90% loss of all life on the planet, yet it bounced back. The sun in our solar system has enough power to endure for billions of years and I'm sure, should our small episode, our tiny little human interlude, end, something else will arise and start that spark again. It's tenuous, isn't it? Kinda makes you wish you were religious ... but I'm not. Can't be fooling myself.

[@marknelson2073]

I may have missed it, but many hydroelectric projects also rely on meltwater for glaciers. That could make it more difficult to decarbonize. (Also in Canada, but in a city where the river water comes from glaciers in the eastern Rocky Mountains. Steve C, below, doesn't represent the whole country.)

[@robertmarmaduke9721]

If you want to 'decarbonize' you should sit in the dark by lard oil candle, then eat your pets, built a cell phone from papyrus and wear hemp sandals. *But you won't!*

[@PhattGreg]

Regarding the floods in Pakistan, that is mentioned at the 8 minute mark. The floods are directly related to Global Warming, but not quite in the way you might think. As the Hymerlayers, form the planet’s 3rd antarctic region, and whilst it’s been assumed by organisations like the IPCC (Owned by the Fossil fuel industry, specifically Exxon), that the north and south polar regions including Greenland, Alaska, Siberia etc, would melt the quickest. The Hymerlayers, has been affected most, melting at an increased speed, that potentially, may not recover even during an ice age. If your in any doubt, look at past worlds coldest temperatures places, with a valley in the Hymerlayers, topping the list for being the coldest place on earth, outside of a lab environment!

[@moxiesaint-clare4257]

"After all has been said and done. There is a lot more said than done" Aesop. Time is the factor. This generation of politicians believe that in 50 or more years' time, it is the next generations problem.

[@nickkacures2304]

It was the adults in the 60’s that got this wrong they needed to act way back then it’s too late for probably half or more of the global population the extreme weather events of the last two decades show we have crossed a few major tipping points. Spend every moment getting your family to a safe climate area or southern hemisphere destination because it’s the human nature go to war and destroy the economy way before we even have a chance of mitigating the climate crisis.

[@glacieractivity]

As a dude who co-authored a paper based on my research back around 25 years ago just to say that ", most glaciers are gone by 2100 due to logic of mass balance) it is important to remind everyone that "lack of glaciers" is not equal to lack of fresh water (just ask any rain-forest that store a LOT of water) A glacier is not some "bank". A healthy glacier is just en body of water that is in balance with the annual snowfall and melting cycle it has throughout the year (before we discuss very detailed physics). We do not get freshwater from glaciers (even here in Norway). We get freshwater from evaporation from the oceans and the precipitation that rains (or snow) down on us, You are correct - the cyclic melting of ice from the Himalayan monsoon climate does balance the "dry season" - but it is mostly taken care of by snow not yet being made into multiyear ages of local ice. I love glaciers - I have worked for money on them since I was 16 and enjoyed them since I was a kid and studied them as a scientist as an adult. But they are a minority when it comes to large-scale systems of hydrology. Look at Norway running energy by 99% hydro during the time when glaciers grew back in the 1990s - the freshwater came from the snow and rain into the hydro-systems. As I discovered back in the 90s - glaciers are cute and they will go away as they are "sensitive entities" - but they do not really play too much of a role when it comes to "hydrology" unless we invoke the two big boys that have sea-level stored in them (the sheets). (And we have been pondering sea levels 120k years old for more than half a century because of the two MOFOs) I have found peace with us killing glaciers over the past 3 decades. It is a tourist industry issue (because everything is economics). But it does not make a lack of water for people either - glaciers are just a natural resting point for hydrology where the sum in equals sum out in more or less a balanced way

[@PeppoMusic]

So are you saying the map at 2:32 showing a high demand/use for the glacial runoff (irrigation/hydropower) in Asia, is wrong or misrepresentative? But disregarding that let's not forget the effect of change in albedo would have to further aggravate the temperature issue.

[@Tasmantor]

@@PeppoMusic It's just an odd cope. Their argument is that the amount of precipitation won't change and therefore it wont be a problem. This is akin to pretending that taking someone water tank wont affect them because it will still rain as much, they are ignoring the role of water storage in biological (and societal) systems. They looked so hard at one tree they willing to hand wave the bushfire alerts away.

[@yosmith1]

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout

[@paulhaynes8045]

Excellent! First laugh I've ever had on this channel...

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Just add music, and you have the beginning to a fantastic song about the zealous followers of this religion.

[@DJquatermass]

It's been happening the last 10,000 years. Ice aged come and go.

[@geistlos333]

I really like the work you do on this channel. I would love to see a video on the unequal projected effects of climate change. The geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan, for example, once famously said: "With global warming - Australia will burn, Wisconsin will be double cropping." - to reflect the radically different kinds of impact that can (and will) occur.

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

Peter Zeihan is a confidence man, he'll speak with absolute authority on all manner of subjects yet is an expert in none. You're best off disregarding him over the words of actual climate scientists, hydrologists, engineers etc.

[@rwargo1647]

You need to do a little more research my friend.

[@lyndonbarsten393]

Always great information!!!

[@robfer5370]

Thanks for another good video Dave and as you say, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" damn right!!👍

[@rwargo1647]

What a flipping joke bro.

[@markanthony3275]

Scientists have now modelled a different scenario for melting glacial ice at the poles. They have now realized that the increase in global temperatures will cause faster melting...but the melt water will mostly evaporate so sea levels will not increase. With the change in ocean current patterns, this moisture laden air will be drawn up to North Africa and the middle east where it will precipitate out and cause those drought stricken areas to green up with trees and vegetation. This is good news for the planet!

[@TheLRider]

Getting perilously close to that half a million followers. It should ofcourse be in the billions by now. . Thank you for your excellent factual series. Best on you tube definitely.. Why folks don't listen? Try a program on that, could be very interesting and useful for us all.

[@JustHaveaThink]

Cheers Brian. I share your frustration!

[@ironDsteele]

Folks aren't listening because corporate CEO's, politicians, bureaucrats, and DAVOS autocrats have pushed this climate change hysteria for decades raking the tax-pares over the coals for Trillions, ripping them off and causing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Laundering the money and lining their own pockets all while failing to hit one single solitary climate target since the very beginning. People are fed up with being screwed and they aren't biting.

[@firedplay]

The idea that Western nations' agreements are legitimate is farcical.

[@jeanleveille5319]

I'm from Montréal, it feels like March.

[@duanepomrenke2073]

@sourav jaiswal insult to injury, we've had 3 years of la ninia ( colder northern hemishphere ). a couple of years of el ninio will, in my guestimation bring very little snow in canada. it'll be a sad day not to have snow in manitoba as well.

[@punboleh7081]

Wow. I like the experience of receiving doomsday news with such a calm and soothing voice.

[@thesilentone4024]

Using thirsty concrete in are roads can reduce flooding and sand mining helping cities and ecosystems. Lining the sides of roads with native plants and trees can reduce flooding heat air pollution wind damage and co2.

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Can I be in the middle where I'm not an outdoors person but don't think poorly of those who are?

[@pomodorino1766]

Thanks for the update! Sad and bleak, but necessary to remember that we have to take action.

[@gentlebear21713]

Fossil fuel burning is not the only cause of climate Change. No one is talking about the solar forcing due to the maunder minimum, combined with the decreasing magnetic field that the earth is experiencing currently. This decreasing magnetic field is allowing more solar particles and galactic cosmic rays into our atmosphere. These have profound effect on the process. Man is not wholly to blame for the situation we currently find ourselves in. Even if we were to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 100%, the earth would still continue to warm.

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Eyes open, no fear.

[@1TrueGem]

I don't know about the Alps, but, FTR, the Sierra Nevada Mountains had more snow this year than they did the last 2 or 3 winters. The warmer Winters have already become more commonplace here. We were lucky to have a colder winter this year then has become the new norm.

[@mycount64]

The social commentary on the hard science is entertaining. I would like to see more on the ability of a species to stop consuming a resource in its environment. In our case the need for energy of any type has increased from the discovery of fire to now. It is not fossil fuels that are the problem it is the need for more and more energy as every energy source will bring with it unintended negative consequences.

[@chuckkottke]

Hm.. methane releases increase, regardless of emissions.. so are these predictions truly accurate? Seems more likely we'll be heading towards the higher temperature scenarios... Glaciers melting fast enough to make Niagara falls look like a tap left on.

[@BenVost]

In the graph at about 6 minutes, shouldn't the scale be inverted if we're talking about loss? So, in the 4° pathway, nearly 100 % of glaciers would go? Love the channel, Dave. I wish I had some cash to support your work.

[@harriehausenman8623]

Think about that: What if I am an outdoor-type and still think touristic skiing is pure entitlement? ps: "tourisitc", because if you live in the alps, it's a very different story 😉. I mean the troves of people driving with their cars to the resort and back and all the insane infrastructure needed to keep these artificial winter-towns running (even without the snow cannons).

[@natkingcol909]

It provides jobs and boosts the economy of the area. You could say the same thing about any leisure activity.

[@harriehausenman8623]

@@natkingcol909 Until there is nor more area 😆

[@natkingcol909]

@@harriehausenman8623 There's still lots to do in the mountains other than snow sports.

[@Chimel31]

This video has some good points, like mentioning Toulouse, but the rest is quite incoherent. For instance, isn't "Well, it's a very good question" supposed to be followed by "and I am glad that you asked it"? This totally discombobulated me. 😄

[@Edgar-Friendly]

OMG! I better start eating bugs, freezing in winter and owning nothing. After all, making me individually poorer is the only solution. 🎉

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Can't forget that you also need to feel helpless and terrified.

[@Flumstead]

We don't rely on glaciers for water these days. There are far better ways of storing water.

[@radiophone3965]

Thank you for your journalism

[@rwargo1647]

It’s incredibly poor actually.

[@radiophone3965]

@@rwargo1647 yeah, he's fantastic.. You're beautiful.. I love your participation, you encourage and strength me... Thank you so much 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

I have a rainwater catchment system so no dependence on glaciers. Near record mild January here in southern Ohio, USA.

[@davidwatson2399]

Good for you Jack. And when you have a mega drought ?

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

@@davidwatson2399 I could stretch the water in my tank to last at least a year. If it goes a year without rain in OH, we’re all dead anyway.

[@davidwatson2399]

@@anabolicamaranth7140 Its all about you isnt it.

[@kayakMike1000]

They always talk about how much ice the glaciers lose, but not how much they gain.

[@radman8321]

The loss that is talked about is a net loss. i.e. ice added minus ice lost.

[@TheMrRHEO]

Hi Dave, thanks for keeping us updated. Cheers from Spain

[@martincotterill823]

Thanks, Dave, for a very thouht provoking video.

[@KateeAngel]

As someone who hated skiing at school, and still was forced to do it, I am smirking in fact when I see these guys ski on barely any snow. When we had warmer winters when I was at school I wasn't forced to ski 😄

[@Aegis23]

Please tell me this not the only thing you got out of this. Seriously now, we will have huge population migration caused by lack of water and food, wars over dwindling resources and you are happy skiers son't have snow???

[@-LightningRod-]

heheheheh

[@-LightningRod-]

I Win !

[@bonza167]

may have to build dams in valleys where glaciers are disappearing

[@ichigokurosaki2725]

Barack Obama said we will not have any Glaciers by 2018.

[@TStark-vj2wo]

Sight sources on this comment, Ichigo.

[@ichigokurosaki2725]

@@TStark-vj2wo Obama when he was president. Look it up.

[@ichigokurosaki2725]

@@TStark-vj2wo you also have Al Gore, the person who invented the internet also said Maimi will be coved in two feet of water in 2016.

[@davidwatson2399]

@@ichigokurosaki2725 Citations and references required for your assertions. Who is Al Gore? Is he a scientist?

[@rimbusjift7575]

@@ichigokurosaki2725 Quick IQ test... Solve: 4, 5, 14, 185, ...

[@NGC-catseye]

Hey❕ That December snow fell in Australia ❄ during summer🤷‍♀

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Just like politics all climate alarmism is local and even varies daily🥴

[@gryph01]

Climate change is based on trends. The problem of melting glaciers is not just related to drinking water supplies. It is also related to changes in climate patterns. We also do not understand what the impact will be on the oceans salinity.

[@johnsanborn9548]

This is a matter of the local averages staying above the freezing point, limiting the seasonal water reserve that most localities rely on. Mountain snow/ice being the literal peak of a watershed

[@davidwatson2399]

Learn the difference between Climate and weather.

[@rimbusjift7575]

Quick IQ test... Solve: 4, 5, 14, 185, ...

[@DeathValleyDazed]

@@davidwatson2399 Thanks for making my point which mainstream news editors exploit to sell advertising by hyping “extreme and unprecedented”.

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

Yeah, and the Arctic was supposed to be ice free by 2014.

[@davidwatson2399]

Nope

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

And 2010, and 2018, and iirc 2020 as well.

[@davidwatson2399]

@@Eyes0penNoFear Bollocks

[@s.kanesan1054]

Climate scam?

[@glenmccarthy8482]

There is so much suffering coming our way , we will eventually forget what pleasure was.

[@danielmadar9938]

Thank you. Black carbon emitted from solid and liquid (wood, coal, petroleum, trash...) inciniration has a substantial part in glacial meltdown, as it sticks to the glaciers, turns them black and heats them locally on top of the temperature rise.

[@danburnes722]

Dave, the graphic with the inflection point at 2050 for all scenarios doesn’t make any sense, unless all scenarios follow the same trajectory to that point.

[@RR-us2kp]

Looks like Saudi Arabia isn't the only country who'll be needing massive desalination plants.

[@deadwingdomain]

Is the lack of glaciers the reason the Mississippi dried up?...

[@anon6056]

Likely