How Does Climate Change Affect Gardening?

[@wmpx34]

I like how you try to consider all variables, like the environmental and financial costs of the green bins and their accompanying infrastructure. So many people gloss over such details to arrive at a faulty conclusion.

[@karlschwartz7933]

Unfortunately, the details on the role of the sun are not correct. NASA: One of the “smoking guns” that tells us the Sun is not causing global warming comes from looking at the amount of solar energy that hits the top of the atmosphere. Another is the unprecedented rapid rate of warming. Citation from NASA: science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/

[@wynnelee1810]

Very disappointed. Usually science is accurate, but much misinformation in this video. Almost everything said about modeling is, minimally, misleading. Quality drop is alarming, makes me worry for the future of this channel, including choice of short time frame relied on. Negative implications are totally ignored, eg problem of ornamentals flowering at different times is big problem for insects and birds that need them for reliable raising of next generation.

[@daviddawson1718]

This is a descrace and a misleading. Scientists overwhelmingly agree about the causes of climate change. Scientists have been using the term climate change since I was in college studying geology in the '90s.

[@Hapotecario]

Don't cry. Everything is goings to be alright.

[@johngault8688]

This is such a complex subject. Good presentation.

[@jerryclark5725]

In south central Connecticut, our winters have been warmer, springs cloudy and damp longer, and nice falls longer. Here gardens adjust well.

[@MrTonybonez]

Southern CT shoreline has had noticably much more temperate seasons. I remember far more snow in winter, for example, as a kid than I do now.

[@keithmccormack6248]

The NW Corner gets plenty of snow and temps are typically 3 to 5 degrees cooler than areas south of I84. For instance, there will be snow in Torrington while there is only rain or ice in Waterbury just 20 miles south. Winters have been more mild with less frigid temperatures, but the flip side is summers have not been as scorching. Keep in mind that there was a snow storm just two weeks ago at the beginning of April this year, which has happened in the past. There was also a blizzard that hit Connecticut 10 - 15 years ago on October 31.

[@xuyahfish]

I bought a trailer so I could source mulch & compost for free or cheap. I go to a tree cutting place & local ranches w/ horses for manure/compost. I know it still has a Carbon footprint, but it's less & cheaper. The tree cutters gonna cut & the ranchers gonna ranch.

[@woodchipgardens9084]

Last year in SF Bay my plums ripened 30 days late, I have never seen this happen in past 20 years, Napa Valley had a very late Grape harvest 2023, i messaged with a farmer in another state who said his crops were late 2023 also. The last time we had extreme rain and winter was like 1992, 1997, 2017.

[@markcarruthers3313]

You mentioned that your last frost date for the K/W & Guelph area is now closer to the end of April. However, despite being SW of you (West of London), there is this nice little “thumb” area coming of L.Huron and our last frost date is still May 15h. What I am also finding is that, not only is the last frost date important, but the 3+ inches of rain we just got in a system coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, is just the current year’s deluge of rain that restricts our ability to get into gardens. Last frost dates & soil temperature are not the only factors which determine when we can start planting in gardens in SW Ontario.

[@jeil5676]

we had frost and snowcover around may 10 last spring in T.O. So dont plant out too early. I'm planting my broadbeans now though. Theyre tough.

[@sophiamountain9966]

You have to drive to places to buy stuff for your home garden. True, but you also have to drive to the grocery store to buy food produced by big agriculture. Also a lot less toxins on home produced food.

[@tammytamz3046]

I’m a new follower and in love! I’m behind but can’t wait to see this one!

[@gasoline10head]

..YIKES...climate change deniers isnt the company I wish to keep. I gave it a day to think on, but all these comments make it clear: Unsubscribed!

[@99suspects]

Ya, see that pointed fence post? Go climb it and sit down hard

[@sterlinguini]

We got a frost warning a week later than normal this year. On longer time lines this variance isn't much of anything.

[@ericscott3194]

Well done. Good information

[@caren4671]

Thanks for all the tips, tricks, and lessons. Just found your vlog recently, playing catch up as you are one of few in zone 5. And we aren't even in the same country

[@segapena5033]

The amazon was on fire only 2-3 yrs ago. Bad management...come on dude.

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Mr. P. 🪻🌷💚🙃

[@Richardofdanbury]

You are absolutely correct on the false marketing of fertilizer, giffengoods, etc. for gardeners. Just as in sport fishing all the marketing for gadgets is designed to catch fishermen and not fish.

[@michamikulski686]

Jestem bardzo zmieszany wiadomościami z Pana filmów. Ma Pan inne spojrzenie na uprawę roślin. Słucham z ciekawością i zastanawiam się kto jest bliżej rzeczywistości. Dziękuję. Pozdrawiam.

[@incanada83]

@michamikulski686, on jest.

[@keithmccormack6248]

He reports on what works for the plants he grows in the particular locale and climate in which he grows them.

[@incanada83]

@@keithmccormack6248 Sure, but some of it applies regardless where on the planet one lives 🙂

[@jerryclark5725]

80 percent of anthropomorphic carbon is from 57 companies.

[@michaelcooney7687]

Which ones?

[@jerryclark5725]

Smithsonian Magazine search will get you your answer.

[@GerryMantha]

@@michaelcooney7687 Canada is #11th on the list of the top highest.

[@dovh49]

The guys over on waterstories talk about "planting" the water in India and growing trees and how one area was able to lower its temperature by 2 degrees (I think celcius) and increase the amount of rain because of the increase in number of trees. So, the world is complex and deforestation is part of the issue.

[@TheFixIsIn-fe1jy]

my lawn is centipede grass, never have to mow it, it doesn't have many weeds, if you just water the edges it spreads so you don't have to seed it ever, it fine in cold or hot weather very little water, it just grows without care.

[@c.vonsohn9566]

Can you make a video about sandy soils? What soil mix for potted plants do you recommend if the garden soil is sandy?

[@necrosis9222]

You ask for experiment result but you still spew misinformation without any experiment 😅

[@jakemelinko]

What, exactly IS the misinformation? And what is your experiment?

[@jeil5676]

I heard from a farmer that methane put into the atmosphere degrades almost completely (well, into co2, I presume) after 7 years. Are you aware of any of that chemistry that you can confirm? This was in regards to raising beef originally.

[@jfabiani]

Methane dissipates faster than C02 so the loading effect on warming is shorter in duration.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

That is true - that is why there are different numbers floating around for how it compares to CO2.

[@jeil5676]

@@Gardenfundamentals1 ok. Ty.

[@wynnelee1810]

Without references we can read ourselves, many of the assertions shouldn't be believed uncritically. I agree with comments about minimizing stuff we buy, that are useless & inherently carbon intensive. Very mixed info. intensive

[@kenhickford6581]

Like you Gardening stuff, but I think you are in over your head regarding 'Climate Change'! Too many variables to make a prediction, the only prediction you can state with any certainty is:- Regardless of any accusations of the 'Anthropogenic' causes, (At term that they wanted to include after the Holocene, but was thrown out,...Thankfully) the Global shift in Climate will ALWAYS happen. But, you are entitled to your opinion, because that what is in reality, an 'Opinion', as the multi sciences/disciplines involved are outside of your ability!

[@mariaimre5199]

Oh, one more thing, you did not mentioned that all vegetation not just release CO2 but also oxygen, and to do that need CO2. Without CO2 we would not have any green living in this planet, and consequently any living thing would not exist.

[@Mastadex]

Finally! The video I was waiting for. One note, Canada uses numerous models to create our Hardiness zone map. US only uses temperature, so their hardiness map needs an update. The Gardening In Canada channel did a good video on this. So I doubt it'll change much.

[@GARDENER42]

My take is that by increasing the amount of compost I apply to my garden, I'm increasing the amount of organic matter in my soil, thus increasing the amount of carbon temporarily locked away from the environment. It's certainly better than than buying vegetables from far away, covering my garden in decking & driving around to find some green space. I'll stick with 'no till', growing as much of my own food as possible & ignoring studies which make assumptions: I've no raised beds, don't buy gadgets, paths are made from wood chips from hedge clippings, no fertiliser applied, keep my beds full of plants...

[@keithmccormack6248]

How can you draw any conclusions based on global averages temperature? The the temperature of the earth varies from one place to another-some places never go below a certain temperature, others never go above.

[@BNOBLE.]

WELL SAID SIR!!!

[@TheLingrush]

Lets also remember that the Ice Sheet froze over more that we have ever recorded. The climate changes. 1 degree up or down means very little.

[@mylesfalconer9183]

Problem i have is that climate change is observable in long term data sets but hard to observe a difference just based on anecdotal observations. Everyone i talk to seems to think because they have seen some recent years with different weather, its an example of what climate change is doing... look at the weather data from your nearest weather station. Here in delhi, ontario, we are getting much warmer falls especially December, also warmer in march and may. All other months there is no significant change since 1933

[@Nocare89]

What I've noticed is people simply don't remember anything that long but they always want an explanation and its become an easy catch-all. It's kinda like the stock market where people try to give reason to chaos. Like in my area there wasn't a snowy christmas in 20+ years. We got one recently and people go "oh its global warming changing climate!". But then we should have had much more snow around Dec/Jan than we've had. All my argument is, is that the weather 'mode' changes drastically year to year and in a way that is more measurable than any climate change influence. So one year may be dryer. Another colder. We just have to adapt our garden strategies to whatever lands that year :)

[@shake_shells11]

I love co2

[@Ms.Merotica]

There is actual evidence that this year (2024) is going to be a HIGH mosquito season, in addition to ticks, which can bring mosquito born illnesses, like dengue and malaria. IMO, this can be more devastating than ticks for countries that are not used to this.

[@Maczust63]

Look up the bucket of death. Bt dunk in a bucket with still water and straw or hay in it.

[@johnkoval1898]

How about a video on how the Norse settlers farmed Greenland in the 15th century? Greenland is a permanent ice sheet today.

[@segapena5033]

How about a video on how the Amazon was on fire 2-3 yrs ago? Siberia having 100 degree heat waves?

[@johnkoval1898]

@@segapena5033 The Arctic sea ice is greater now than it was 20 years ago on the same date.

[@segapena5033]

@@johnkoval1898 the Amazon was on fire and is nearing runaway savannah stage.

[@segapena5033]

@@johnkoval1898 also you're just making things up at this point

[@johnkoval1898]

@@segapena5033 It is a fact that the Arctic sea ice is greater now, and it is a fact that Greenland was warm enough to farm in the 15th century. It is you who is falling for the lies. Remember how the liars at East Anglia Univ. got busted for falsifying climate data.

[@srantoniomatos]

Robert, i admire your patient and courage on bringing topics and trying to discuss them in a scientific way, in a world more and more polarized and fanatic, and anti scientific, politicaly and culturaly. Saw the comments and its full of "climate change" belivers and deniers (like if we are in the cruzades, and talking about faith), both mad at you! This is even more divise then talking about herbicides or fertilizers! Or compostea! One have to laugh...or go crazy! Tanks anyway.

[@robertreznik9330]

Out west in Texas My farm soil has a soil potassium test of 1000 ppm and 25-30 CEC. Robert I would think your area soil has 150 ppm of K. For some adding K is simply not needed. Robert you think more like an educated farmer than a Gardner. You have a lot of the knowledge I learned from farming and starting with a Soil Science degree in the 1960's.

[@plantsnrockies]

Thankyou for the wealth of information . Mindful gardening can reduce CO2 though. Getting rid of raised bed fad surely will reduce CO2. Can't v grow on ground its much better.Use things available at your home instead of buying.Seeds most people order online, why? Get it locally, from friends, collect your own seeds. Same with home made fertilizer helps. Buy less, be frugal helps yourself& everybody else.

[@jerrybessetteDIY]

CO2 is great for plants. Some greenhouses add it to their air. It also allows plants to need less water because their stoma do not need to open as long. If CO2 has an effect, it should reduce early and late nighttime frosts when dry Arctic air moves in.

[@nickklassen6962]

A comprehensive unpoliticized video on understanding climate effects, carbon cycles, and pragmatic solutions to the variable and changing seasonal weather patterns. A plethora of information presented with data and brilliant as always!

[@rollomartins6224]

Look, you should read about a problem before you make a video about it. About tipping effects, for instance. And stop spreading layman's ideas you picked up on the Internet just because your fans like them. I wanted to give you another chance after the bs you recently spread about mineral fertilizers (they were not more harmul than organic, you told your audience). You seemed to have overlooked that too much mineral fertilizers destroy lakes and rivers. That most private garden's soil is heavily polluted because people have no idea about the stuff they are using. As you now seem to overlook that the problem is not 0.5 or 1 degrees slow temlerature rise, its the 4 degrees more that we get within 20 years due to tipping of some natural regulation mechanisms, if we are in bad luck. Desertification, wildfires, hunger, migrants, war. There is scientific consensus about the climate catastrophe since the 1970ies, just in case you did not notice. And the guys who tell you the contrary are about as trustorthy as your flat-earthers friends. Talk to your conservative midwest U.S. farmer friends what it means for their lifes and businesses to suddenly run out of water. And extrapolate this to the whole planet. Within a few decades. This is why it is called climate catastrophe. Bye. This contrafactory conservative bs on this channel goes too much on my nerves. It makes the whole channel content implausible as you never know where ideology beats facts.

[@srantoniomatos]

You didnt saw the video...he acept that "climate change" is real, humans are responsabible for at least part, and is discussing how what we do in the garden correlates, affects and is affected by it. If you follow his work for a while its clear he is completly far away from a conservative... Independent of what you think about this topic is clear you are a science denier, by your statements regarding fertilizers. He actually advocates to use less or no fertilizers... Its sad to see the radicalization and polarization going on in politics and culture, on both sides. The " belivers" and the "deniers"...religious language. Seems we are talking of the cruzades. Crazy.

[@gasoline10head]

Agreed. So disappointing, but it surely brings in the clicks; as the comments would attest. Climate change deniers IS NOT the company I wish to keep. Unsubbed

[@GerryMantha]

@@gasoline10head Sadly me too.

[@PolygonSwan]

@@gasoline10head Anyone who thinks they can stop the climate from changing is a reality denier.

[@gasoline10head]

@@PolygonSwan How lazy, and very defeatist of you to say.

[@alish5417]

We need to increase producing co2 not decreasing it ,co2 must be generated everywhere .

[@icsouls]

Awesome video, 😀

[@tobruz]

Why is the Canadian carbon tax and rebate based on family size and not on just adults? Children don’t buy carbon fuels?

[@keithmccormack6248]

It’s not about carbon, it’s about fleecing the public of their money and property-it’s a racket.

[@keithmccormack6248]

Look people, stop gardening, eat zee bugz, own nothing and be happy!

[@keithmccormack6248]

How are they measuring how much carbon or CO2 is produced by a garden or by a farm? Seem like a lot of conclusions are based on assumptions.

[@stigsrnning6459]

Soil store more CO2 than the CO2 is respired into the air. Microbes in healthy soil multiply and grow all the time, while using carbon a lot. Only rotten wood, leaves... decompose while releasing a minor surplus of CO2, but the microbes feast on that and then use much carbon.

[@diegonegreb3948]

The amount of CO2 in every breath you take is 0.04%. Not 4%; but point zero 4. They picked a nearly immeasurable component so that if it changes even slightly the percentage change would sound far more significant. (ie, say it rose from .04 to .08, it doubled by a 200% increase even thought as a percent of each breath it’s still under 1%.) We’ll never know if climate change/global warming is actually real because of those who have fallen so deeply in love with it will do and say anything to justify its existence.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

" amount of CO2 in every breath you take is 0.04%" - that is what I said.

[@tobruz]

Environmental issues are big $ opportunities for the rich

[@classicrocklover5615]

Always follow the money

[@GerryMantha]

@@classicrocklover5615 Oddly that always leads me to the oil & gas industry rather than the scientists.

[@jfabiani]

The sun variation isn't causing the lions share of warming, its c02. Your assertion that scientist dont agree on this is problematic.

[@jfabiani]

Its not the sun. Its not volcanoes. Its not shipping lane smoke. The lions share is c02. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming

[@Nik.No.K]

Yes! I’ve been saying the same thing. Saying that scientists don’t agree is misleading at best.

[@jfabiani]

@@Nik.No.K Maybe robert doesn't want to lose the C02 deniers, but I dont think giving them an inch is healthy.

[@mikedaily6999]

What do you mean. They don't agree on this

[@jfabiani]

I get so caught upon on minor details, I forget to say THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO WORK!

[@tobruz]

Canada has more than enough trees and plants to out produce our carbon output. What about the rest of the world especially Asia. Shouldn’t the worst offenders be dealt with first?

[@kristinwohlschlagel8922]

Canadian boreal forests are suffering in many areas with greatly increased heat, drying then burn on a massive scale... Scientists had hoped this would not happen so soon, but the heating increases are estimated to be at least 4 times faster in arctic region. Carbon emissions from last years Canadian fires, some of which are still burning this spring, were massively record-setting. We can't afford to wait until others act fast enough. Big challenges ahead but if we can all face the truth and decide to work together we can really reduce the damage to our children's futures. But it means coming to grip with evidence and learning to detect the deceptive methods used by the fossil fuel propagandists and those who can't yet accept how big a deal this is and what it means.

[@Broken_robot1986]

Lol, yeah right bro. You have to count your carbon exports my man so don't play. Local action means local results. You'll help the planet and yourself so it's a win win.

[@corymcleod2728]

In 2011 I bought 4.42 acres of land in Cochise County, Arizona the USDA zone was 9B, elevation is 4,889’ above sea level, high desert. Seven years ago we moved out here it was still 9B. However two years ago we suddenly became an 8B. I found it quite interesting that during all this “Global Warming” we are getting cooler. The Earths quickening Magnetic Pole Shift has a tremendous effect on our climate along with the Sun and more Cosmic Radiation reaching the Earth.

[@ericblumer8234]

Yeah people don't really understand that CO2 is just one minor Factor.. There are many positive and negative feedbacks coming from several forces. Higher CO2 levels really only have a real* effect in the absence of water vapor in the air. Because they absorb the same frequency of long wave radiation, so it really doesn't have a chance to offset other forcings.

[@jfabiani]

Those forces do provide a small effect but compared to C02 effect, its minor.

[@jfabiani]

The main driver of the warming we are experiencing is the greenhouse effect.

[@marnie8007]

In 2020 I moved to zone 6a. We are 6b now. During all of this "global warming" we are getting warmer. Does each of our anecdotal evidence cancel out?

[@dinmavric5504]

you do realize in certain places its gonna be cooler, in many it'll be catastrophic temperature increases

[@Papawcanner]

I have never seen a successful community garden . Just a bunch of virtue signalers that couldn’t grow a dandelion . Because I heat my house with a wood burning stove and compost with leaves and forest duff I’m an environmental disaster . My neighbors give me horse manure in exchange for vegetables . My ancestors gardened much the same way . If I could buy a decent tomato or cantaloupe in the store gardening wouldn’t be as important . This guy is the bomb .

[@PolygonSwan]

Mass produced food is weak tasteless can't say anything about community gardens but my private garden has had the same infrastructure and self sustaining cycle for 20 yrs fk all resources maximum return. Generalized blanket statements are BS.

[@PolygonSwan]

Dunno but more co2 wouldn't hurt .... smirk

[@Nik.No.K]

Yes it does actually, as all scientific evidence for decades has clearly shown.

[@jfabiani]

Acapulco was hit by a cat5 that formed in 24 hours and hit the shoreline with 200mph winds stripping 20 story hotels down to the framing. Never happened before. If you truly believe everyone is paniced, then invest in rebuilding Acapulco.

[@PolygonSwan]

@@Nik.No.K Actually no the science says otherwise co2 follows heating, your tiny timescale of a life is too small a window, Co2 scaremongering is a scam. Other functions affect climate far more.

[@PolygonSwan]

​@@jfabiani Sounds good to me goodbye ugly hotel. Less people travel less Co2 win win.

[@PolygonSwan]

Btw I'm in historic building restoration flint /plaster / brick we use lime mortar exclusively it absorbs Co2 and locks it in I also grow my own veg have no car and cycle everywhere rarely travel otherwise so my Co2 footprint is no existent can any of you say that?

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

No need to watch, you already answered this in your increased CO2 experiment video

[@Nik.No.K]

That is just one, small, rather insignificant aspect of climate change. A slightly higher amount of CO2 in the atmosphere alone, has very little impact on plants. It’s everything else that comes as a result of that CO2 that matters.

[@jfabiani]

Okay edgelord.

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

@@jfabiani LMAO triggered much?

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

@@Nik.No.K Thanks but it was a joke about his april fools prank, cheers

[@tobruz]

3/1/2 is the optimal ratio for all plants!

[@carolesea]

I am really disappointed! You are something of a climate denier……….SAD. Now I don’t really trust you anymore as a scientific thinker.

[@nickklassen6962]

The entire video is full of data! I hope that you have not been influenced by political media to dismiss others when they present science and data that dispels your own preconceptions. Have a nice day.

[@PolygonSwan]

Oh dear at your age you should know better, that climate change is being used as a political tool. It would be unnatural for the climate to stagnate?

[@PolygonSwan]

@@nickklassen6962 Correct.

[@PolygonSwan]

Science deniers exist too.

[@marktapley7571]

The temperature measurements have been rigged to make it look like the temp. is going up. It all depends on where the measurements are taken to get averages. They can take them in hotter or colder places to get whatever they want. There is only ap. 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere which is close to a minimum for plant life. CO2 does not cause a warming effect but actually has a slight cooling effect in the atmosphere and is even used in some industrial applications as a refrigerant. The earth has been in a slight cooling phase for ap. the last 18 years. A few years ago N.E. had the coldest temperatures on record and it snowed in Cairo for the first time in 112 years. The climate change fraud (formerly global warming0 was concocted by the Rockefeller’s “Club of Rome” in the 1960’s and was launched with “earth day” and “overpopulation in order to generate fear among the herd and instal agenda 21.

[@GerryMantha]

Plants survived fine throughout several glacial periods in southern latitudes at 190 ppm of CO2.

[@RunsCool1]

This channel is a joke. I used to send friends here to get what I thought was scientific based info on gardening. If this guy doesn’t understand the basics of climate change, then obviously untrustworthy for any other so called science. Stay away from this channel and his books. Bad science. Stay far away.

[@PolygonSwan]

Did you say anything?

[@GerryMantha]

I agree. I'm a long term subscriber because of his science-based information on gardening. Obviously radiative physics is not his forte. Now the disinformation presented in this video sheds new doubt on every other video he's ever produced. Unsubscribed now because of it.

[@PolygonSwan]

If the climate didn't change ...........?

[@wmpx34]

Then we wouldn’t be here. Gigantic climate shifts in the past caused mass extinctions that directly led to new lines of evolution and eventually the species you see today, including us.

[@loug2414]

"CLIMATE CHANGE"? There goes your credibility, UNSUBSCRIBE.

[@mikemcconnell4935]

That's what is was called before the media got ahold of scaring you.

[@Wilk853]

God is in control of the climate

[@PolygonSwan]

Yup "god" the collective result of the interaction between humans and the environment at least that's my definition of the word god.