How to visualise Climate Change (ft. Katharine Hayhoe)

[@ClimateAdam]

for more from Katharine, check our Global Weirding! kzbin.info and for outtakes and bloopers from this vid (and sneak peeks of all my vids!) become a patron over here: www.patreon.com/climateadam/

[@HiLasse]

"Sure peeing in the pool ruins it for all of us, but everyone else is doing it. Why should I stop? It won't make a difference, and going to the bathroom is a lot of work." Is my latest analogy, I think it's better because it refers to antisocial, og gross behaviour, that is universally looked down upon

[@ClimateAdam]

I'm not gunna act that one out!

[@HiLasse]

@@ClimateAdam probably a good idea

[@l.marcel7283]

@@ClimateAdam or use the pool idea with chlorine. Humans need CO2, but not to much. Pools need chlorine but not to much. The big five states do extra chlorine in the pool (current and historical), but when the chlorine level in the pool water is to high no human can use the pool without health damage. And the natural cut of CO2 is analogue to normal using the pool. BG Marcel

[@antonyjh1234]

The assumption that everybody else is peeing in the pool is wrong, there are people who of course think the walk is worth it. What is the next step, down on the behaviour model or up?

[@Think-dont-believe]

@@HiLasseexcept its not the size of pool it's the size of ocean..

[@tommclean7410]

My take on the China rationalization: China emits 35% of global greenhouse gases (GHGs) but 40% of global emissions come from countries which individually emit less than 2%. Giving each of those countries a free pass means that 40% of global GHGs are not being addressed. We all, including China, need to get to zero.

[@ClimateAdam]

no holes located in that logic!

[@fromnorway643]

We also need to remember that the western countries due to their much earlier industrial development are responsible for a larger share of the _cumulative_ emissions than indicated by their rate of emissions right now. Here are some examples (CO₂ only): *Emissions 2022 Cumulative 1751-2022* US 12.9 % 23.9 % UK+Germ.+Jap. 5.1 % 13.5 % China 29.6 % 14.7 % India 7.5 % 3.5 %

[@oleonard7319]

@@ClimateAdam and will start emitting more in the next 50 years

[@oleonard7319]

@@fromnorway643 and that is not really relevant at this point

[@_yonas]

@@oleonard7319 Of course it is. It gives you a sense of historical responsibility, because these countries have already caused a disproportionate amount of the warming and reaped a lot of the benefits. It's like eating half the cookies with your small group of friends and then complaining that the other - much larger - group of people people want one too.

[@petewright4640]

My analogy as to why a small change in av temperature is significant: Imagine gently shaking a small tree (you can do this in real life! ) preferably without leaves on. If you maintain a steady frequency and amplitude you'll notice all the branches and twigs settle into complex rhythms. Now change the frequency very slightly and see how the ocillations of the branches and twigs radically change. This shows how a small change in one parameter of a complex system can have a big impact - aka temperature and global climate patterns.

[@petewright4640]

​@@jamesgreig5168It's not about "belief". Its a fact and what's more you can verify it yourself. All you need is a small tree to shake! The analogy between the complex oscillations of the tree to other complex systems, i.e. climate patterns, is valid. In response to a small change in the frequency of the shaking the patterns of oscillation of the twigs and branches change dramatically. What's not clear about that?

[@BobQuigley]

We live by lake Erie. Only need to look out window in winter there's no ice last few years

[@fromnorway643]

The average duration of ice cover on my local lake has decreased by three weeks over the last 40 years according to my own observations.

[@hongkongphooey-kw4nd]

The climate is always changing,it has nothing to do with mankind,how did the ice melt in the last ice age fgs.

[@DrSmooth2000]

​@@fromnorway643how is the ecology doing?

[@fromnorway643]

@@DrSmooth2000 I'm not a scientist and don't know about any thorough studies of the climate impact on the local biodiversity. However, some birds and many insects have become much rarer than they used to be, and the deciduous trees grow back their leaves 1-2 weeks earlier than they used to do (that started in full just a few days ago).

[@MattieAMiller]

Here in Minne'snow'ta, we usually have snow from november to march (sometimes even april). This winter we basically only a couple weeks even below freezing.

[@nathanhallisey441]

House insurance is going up like crazy and in some places in Australia you can't get insurance anymore.

[@compostjohn]

The 'emissions from China' thing - a whole bunch of those emissions are bound up in the goods they produce for the rest of the world to buy - the computer or phone you're looking at now has Chinese carbon emissions 'embodied' into it. Do these 'belong' to China, or you, developed country person?

[@klaushoegerl1187]

You are right. However, this issue is overrated. In 2021 CO2 emission per capita in China was 8 tons. I f you include product import/export, it was 7.2 tons. For Europe and US it is roughly the same proportion, but inverse.

[@sandramaki7819]

Love Katharine Hayhoe! ❤❤❤ she explains everything very simply. I use her analogies at work to explain climate change to people….

[@tonygoodchild1730]

I can't help heaping praise on the production of values of CimateAdam's videos. They are short enough to fit into the few spare minutes that we have from time to time, and long enough to be memorable. They may be "entry-level" science, but that is just what we need, either to "inform educate and entertain" the many, or as examples of how activists can communicate with the people they meet. Thank you!

[@ClimateAdam]

thank you so much for your kind words - I'm so glad my videos make an impact!

[@dahnoied6893]

One of the issues that my climate ignorant friends don't seem to grasp is just how shallow our atmosphere is. Thus they can't conceive of our ability to "pollute" enough for it to matter, especially when they walk outside, look up and everything to their senses seems fine. I think a good point to include when trying to simplify this issue is maybe a graphic that illustrates that.

[@MarcPagan]

If atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting? Per MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel. Please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture, of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have any impact.

[@TheOriginalSnial]

@@MarcPagan there's no net CO2 change from natural processes, the +CO2 from decaying leaves is the -CO2 from building new plants 6 months later. There is a net +CO2 from burning fossil fuels. This is clearly shown by the Scripps Institute CO2 graph, which is a yearly wave that goes up and down, but each peak is higher than the last, because of the extra CO2 we've added from burning fossil fuels.

[@antonyjh1234]

I like the fact that 99.97% of the mass of the atmosphere is only 100 kilometres / 62 mile high. Everything we emit goes into this. Parts per million is a good graphic, we need to tell people it's trillions of molecules per kg of air that we are adding to this atmosphere.

[@kameron1834]

The thickness of the atmosphere of our world is like the thickness of the skin of an apple.

[@dahnoied6893]

@@MarcPagan Why didn't you provide a link to that MIT info?

[@konstantrinak1324]

Perfect video, great job! (commenting to boost and get more people to watch this)

[@ClimateAdam]

replying to show that I really value comments like these!! 💚

[@asthmatictuna]

I think I'll contribute to this comment thread also if that's okay

[@jamielondon6436]

@@asthmatictuna May I second that.

[@michaelschiessl8357]

A climate record warming scarf how brilliant..Great Job Climate Adam and Katherine.

[@ordan787]

Great video Adam! On a side note, I've really enjoyed watching you grow as a youtuber! From the perspective of a simple layperson, I think you've really developed and honed your craft - even in the small details of your presentation, comedic delivery and timing, your fun and silly cut-aways! You bring ideas and nuances to the discussion which, from my personal perspective, seem to be unique and very important. I'm excited to watch you continue this fantastic work!

[@ClimateAdam]

oh my gosh thank you so much! comments like this really remind me that I'm so incredibly lucky that I get to do this. thanks a lot for sticking around as a CliMate and I hope you continue to enjoy whatever comes next on the channel!

[@HaldaneSmith]

8:39 I love the face punching analogy. Thanks for introducing me to Katherine Hayhoe and her channel, Global Weirding.

[@ClimateAdam]

ah she's just the best! I remember when I was just starting out on my communication journey looking up to her with awe (and I still do tbh)

[@GlenConcernedCitizen]

Dr. Levy, one of the facts that would be helpful is to share data on the difference between a sapling and its sequestration value and a mature tree. In our area, there is an unfortunate propensity to let developers come in, eviscerate lands and small mature forests. Asserting that a new subdivision with a sapling in every yard will replace the sequestration value of the existing trees is ....challenging trust. Would be appreciated.

[@ClareSlater-rf9lu]

Excellent! Some great analogies that I will definitely use. I think my favourite is the hole in all the buckets (trying to avoid a spoiler 😂)

[@ReesCatOphuls]

No space for aerosols in the analogy? No space for lags, feedback and tipping points? I continue to find KH understates how bad things are. Also continues to treat climate change as the main thing to tackle, rather than one symptom of wider dynamics.

[@TheOriginalSnial]

But I think she does explain this in the video: Climate change is the hole in everyone's bucket. It's like, if you think it's primarily a resource issue, then you can tackle resources, but that doesn't stop us burning fossil fuels for the far fewer resources we'd use (e.g. we all use public transport, but it's still FF, because we cut back on EV R&D and deployment). On the other hand, if you see it as a fossil fuel issue, then tackling that forces a reduction in resource usage (e.g. we switch rapidly to EVs, but to do this we need to share more resources including ramping up public transport).

[@ReesCatOphuls]

Nope. You are restating what KH said. Climate change affects lots of things, which is of course true. I prefer the table analogy: politics, culture, economics, etc .. are the items on the table. Climate change (and planetary boundaries, ecological overshoot, meta crisis, etc) are the table legs being sawn off. Also the over simplification of the issue means people will think that "just" stopping fossil fuels will be enough. The aerosol masking loss, the incoming albedo loss, the lags, feedbacks and tipping points mean we can't just continue until enough people want the degradation to stop, and hope that will work. A lot of pain is now baked in.

[@yiorgosh4739]

@@ReesCatOphuls KH knows exactly what she's doing. The oversimplification is on purpose because she understands the challenge of science communication to the masses and she is being mindful of getting a message across in a short video. She has dedicated her career to this sort of stuff. She has refined her message over the years because of her experiences trying to educate people and also what research in communications and psychology have demonstrated. What motivates (most) people to act is also a priority for her. It's easy to overwhelm people and discourage them. For people that want a more detailed take on her perspective, she wrote a book called "Saving Us". She is an atmospheric scientist. She fully understands the science of aerosols, lags, feedbacks, etc. but also doesn't want to put people to sleep with jargon or scare them to the point of them wanting to stick their heads in the sand. And further on that point, she is not an expert on other aspects of the environment, on politics, etc. She wants to make sure she can speak with scientific authority because there is no shortage of people out there waiting to pounce on anything slightly wrong. Anyway, having said all that, different kinds of messages can appeal to different kinds of people. So, if a different analogy works better for you, great. I'm sure there will be some other people out there that will prefer your analogy, too. There is no one perfect communication style for everyone.

[@peterdollins3610]

Such extreme changes in my short 82 years on this planet. So many creatures destroyed as 90% of all birds 97% of all insects 80% of all fish 85% of all wild places & animals--it is terrifying. I support the environmental groups I can etc.

[@andriesbisschoff4968]

Your figures have very little to do with reality.

[@fromnorway643]

@@andriesbisschoff4968 I guess he was referring to the size of animal _populations,_ not the number of species going _extinct._ If the population of some animal has been reduced by 95 %, it will probably be at risk of going extinct, but it hasn't done that _yet._

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

Global average temperate is *only an average.* On land it is between *1.5 and 2.0 times as much so between * 2.1 and 2.8 Celsius warmer.* In large continental areas it is around *2 to 4 times as much or more.* So around 2.8 to 5.6 Celsius warmer. In large cities in continental areas that temperature increase will be even greater. These are only averages, *'severe heat waves means it is even hotter with nights providing no relief.* Beware of averages: they do not tell you the full picture.

[@MarcPagan]

If temps increase 1C..how much more of Canada and Russia will be livable?

[@Kalevala87]

​@@MarcPagan Define "livable". Both countries have pretty low average population densities even in areas that are currently amenable to habitation, so they're not exactly starved for space. However, around 60% of both countries is taiga and almost 20% is tundra. Neither biome is good for farming, and global warming isn't going to change that. Taiga can have small pockets of fertile soil, but it is generally very nutrient-poor soil. Tundra is worse, with a very thin layer of topsoil under the permafrost that is even poorer in nutrients and even more acidic. You won't be growing much of anything there even if the permafrost melts completely, especially not in the quantities you would need to sustain all the people who would have to migrate there to escape the sweltering heat and droughts at lower latitudes. But it gets worse. Permafrost is a ticking biological time bomb, full of frozen pathogens waiting to wake up and do some damage, but the limited biological activity in the frozen soil has also led to significant accumulation of mercury, much higher than in the oceans and other biomes. Oh, also radon, a radioactive gas. So yeah, anyone forced to move to those regions due to climate change would be at a significant risk of new epidemics we likely have no treatment for, neurological damage due to mercury exposure, and lung cancer due to radon exposure. Can you survive there if it gets warmer? Technically, yeah. For a while. While wishing you were dead.

[@janetrussell3288]

Here’s my analogy about why we need to act now and not later: when we eat we get to enjoy the food at that moment in time, but digestion occurs over time. Some foods digest faster others take longer. But sometimes our foods contain toxins that we can handle in small amounts but if we keep on eating them then those toxins are going to gradually overwhelm our bodies defence systems until they start causing harm. Even then it is going to take a while before you feel the symptoms. Once the symptoms show up you’ve already set in place not just the level of harm you are feeling now, but also the worsening of your condition from the toxins your body still has to process. The amount of damage caused by the toxin is cumulative: it gets worse the more you eat it and it builds up in your body. Logically the thing to do at this point is to try to stop eating the toxic food or to eat as little as possible of the toxic food, to look for alternative foods and to try to treat the harm that has already occurred and that will continue to occur as the body tries to process the toxin already consumed.

[@TheDisproof]

Good analogy for CO2 is caffeine in coffee. Small amount but BIG effect

[@dugenoudupoitou3865]

These analogies will come in handy ! I already used some but you have great ideas !!!

[@TomMuir-ed4cx]

Noticed the "squirel" or the "squirrel", Adam?

[@TheOriginalSnial]

Red squirrel too, I think!

[@DiamondKing-em7oc]

Is so cool that we are born at this age, I can't wait for what society will look like 50 years from now

[@sandramaki7819]

Would you please talk about protecting and expanding the tree network as a way to drain the sink full of water? I am fighting to save a forest in my town and the municipal councillors are surprisingly ignorant saying 100 year old trees don’t in fact absorb more CO2 than new ones… help me stop the removal of this forest!

[@dennismurray703]

That was a really great double act. The analogies were spot on and I like the upbeat vibe you give off. But until the data shows signs of even marginal change towards lower emissions then the mountain we have to climb just keeps getting bigger.

[@leokaloper4132]

Such a great idea for the scarf. Just a pitty it's useless in Ethiopia and Oman, for instance.

[@sapientisessevolo4364]

Sorry, but I have to say it: if you want to visualize climate change, look at the last year and (nostalgically) remember what things used to be like. And if you're too young for that... well just wait a few years! We could also try a money analogy. Like pre-industrial, what came into your account came out of your account. But starting from the Industrial Revolution, you started spending more and got into debt, with high interest rates. And it just compounded year after year

[@buscseik]

Just some ideas to these videos. The climate change presented as a big mystery that nobody really understand. I recommend showing small specific impact rather than generalisation. E.g. just a few of them. The avg daily max temperature during summer months raised by 4 degrees in Hungary during the last 30 years. There is much more rain in Ireland now, and it impact on crop. There are hundreds of small rivers in Hungary which dried up completely in the last 30 years. The air pollution is number one biggest factor for cancer. You can even make a series of vid on similar topics.

[@gigabane7357]

How to visualise climate change.... Global warming is currently undergoing a doubling of around 14 years. our current estimates are that we hit 1.7. this is 1.2 from global warming and the difference is split between an average el nino we thought might become suoer and a reduction of diming from lockdowns and clean fuel for cruise ships act pt1 What they do not tell you is that on top of that, our sulphur pollution is actually preventing an additional immediate warming of a further 2c from incoming energy levels. The climate forcing is worse than any IPCC projection. Alarm was raised by James Hansen, not some you tube puppy. Now there are subsequent papers verifying his results including from quantum physics who now understand exactly why co2 is so good at holding energy due to its very molecular shape (some flywheel on a string type stuff going on). If we MAINTAIN that sulphur shield. we are still, right now, even if we went carbon zero tomorrow, going to +8c at a exponentially growing rate that is currently at 11 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per second. But also. the amoc IS collapsing. the warnings have been going off for 120 years and it has taken almost a 45degree nose dive in strength on the graphs for 90 years. The north is going to suffer a mini ice age and the equator is going to boil to uninhabitiability. and the rate the sinks are filling and tipping, we will be in food shocks before most of us reading these words will die of natural old age. These tv scientists need to vastly up their game and ability to keep up with the data or they are in serious danger of being accused of being 'managed opposition'...

[@davestagner]

“Climate change is the hole in every bucket”. YES!! As I keep saying, climate change is the worst problem we have, because no matter what you think the worst problem is, climate change is making it even worse.

[@krastan]

Something that people sometimes forget is that temperature is energy so as the global temperature goes up so does the energy of the system which will cause more powerful and frequent weather disasters. An analogy i can think of is boiling water. Initially the water is still then after some time it starts having small perturbations on the surface. These small perturbations are like the weather events in preindustrial times. But as we keep adding heat and energy to the pot, the bubbles become bigger, more frequent and destructive.

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

Where does the increased energy of the system come from?

[@Tasmantor]

​@@TheDalaiLamaConyou're joking right?

[@fromnorway643]

@@TheDalaiLamaCon It comes from the energy _not_ escaping to space!

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

@@fromnorway643 That makes no sense. CO2 back radiation cannot heat the surface which heated it in the first place. Extra energy is needed. Also, how does CO2 warm the oceans?

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

@@Tasmantor Humour is something you are patently an allergic to. Do you have a punchline?

[@DrGilbz]

Two of my fave climate communicators in one video! 😍 p.s. loved the swimming pool wading ;)

[@ClimateAdam]

I really.... splashed out on that one!

[@DrGilbz]

@@ClimateAdam 👏👏👏

[@MarcPagan]

Serious and non-sarcastic question: If atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting? Per MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel. Please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture, of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have any impact.

[@HaldaneSmith]

​@MarcPagan Rotting leaves are offset by spring growth. That's why CO2 levels were nearly constant for thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution. If you look at a graph of rising CO2 levels, you'll see the rising line is actually a sawtooth pattern. The levels decline each spring with spring growth then rise in the fall when plants drop their leaves. But the CO2 from fossil fuels have pushed total CO2 levels higher each year.

[@thehermitscove7942]

I really, really appreciate this video. You guys provided some good analogies that I can use in my daily life to explain climate change. I appreciate that you share the same enthusiasm for the planet that we live on and finding ways to ensure we can continue enjoying it for years to come. Thank you, your team, and Katherine for all the hard work that went into this. ❤

[@ClimateAdam]

thanks so much! but fyi my team is... me..! well and occasionally some pals who I rope into some of the extra complicated filming!

[@noelburke9845]

How about integrating climate change into the larger problem of human overreach aka the Great Simplification podcast? I love your science approach. Thank you for the great work you do.

[@rapauli]

Great analogies !!

[@timbushell8640]

TWo of the best voices, together... more collabs please.

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

These are such great ways to explain things!

[@steve67339]

Comment for the algorithm. Keep up the good work.

[@ClimateAdam]

thank you!

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Love the scarf! I totally want one. Seems like it would be a good fundraiser. And at the same time, similar to folks wearing a pride flag, it would be a way for others who identity as people who care about climate change, to be able to recognize one another.

[@ClimateAdam]

check out showyourstripes.info/ to learn more about the pattern behind it!

[@critiqueofthegothgf]

you have no idea how. awesome this is. Katherine Hayhoe is someone I look up to immensely. id love to see more climate scientist interviews here if possible, with people like Hansen, hausfather, Kevin Anderson, rockstrom, Leon Simons etc.

[@ClimateAdam]

sitting down for conversations with my favourite scientists / communicators / etc is definitely high up on my todo list!

[@acard1985]

The analogy that should be stressed is that while we're impaired, we still do not have lung cancer. We need to remember that when we act, both individually and as a society.

[@UC241]

What about the Military Industrial Corporate Oligarchy?

[@jenniferlevine5406]

Thank you for another wonderful video!

[@ClimateAdam]

thanks for comments like these!!

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

lol, don't worry about the visualizing it, just watch the news, it already visualized all over the world.

[@humhallelujah]

hey adam! great video! here's an idea for another one (if u don't mind): how can we shop for fashion sustainably? ive heard a lot about fast fashion but not much about practical ways to help. thanks!

[@ClimateAdam]

ah the reason I've not made videos on that topic is because there are some great ones out there. www.youtube.com/@Gittemary is a great person to check out for this kind of discussion!

[@D-Pants]

Great discussion

[@leobard]

Alcohol blood level is also a good comparison. 250ppm = 0.000250 = 0.250 promille. Assume a body only able to reduce alcohol by 0.001 promille each year ... And you keep drinking, high on the energy it gives you, while you should stop drinking and eat carbs for energy

[@mafarmerga]

A 22 caliber bullet is a VERY small bit of lead. But have you ever seen what one of these bullets can do to a human being?

[@katherineallen4239]

Great video - love your nails! 💙

[@ClimateAdam]

💅!

[@maxmorimoto6481]

The world would be 1,000,000,000X better if people like you were in charge

[@albin4323]

Climate change for me means a cooling trend of swedish springs, the once reliable and hot springs of the 00's are long gone, now it's warm for a maximum of several days or just a week then back to below average and bad strawberry harvests.

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice video.

[@kcaa3953]

It's not "too many things to care about", it's "This one requires I make changes to my life, and therefore I want to avoid thinking about it. It's easier to blame companies, politicians, rich people." Those groups/people do/should bear more of the blame, but when people try to pass the buck to them, they can then pretend it's not their problem at all. Which goes along with their not wanting to change at all anyway.

[@mafarmerga]

I too use the blanket analogy, but I add that typically we need some blanket when we sleep, otherwise we get too cold. But for 10,000+ years things have been (as Goldilocks might say) 'just right' But over the past 200 years we have added a wool blanket, a duvet, and someone wrapped us in a Snuggi. What would YOU do if someone then said "Is it OK if I put this vintage quilt on your bed?"

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

Your blanket could not raise the temperature beneath it above your body temperature.

[@mafarmerga]

@@TheDalaiLamaCon "Your blanket could not raise the temperature beneath it above your body temperature." You want to live on a planet where it is 98.6 F day and night with 100% humidity?? Be my guest. Let me know how that works out for you.

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

@@mafarmerga Hyperbolic strawman.

[@mafarmerga]

@@TheDalaiLamaCon "Hyperbolic strawman." Hyperbolic? Strawman? OK, I'll give you the opportunity to shut me up. Other than the period 1800 to the present name a SINGLE time in Earth's history that atmospheric CO2 levels have increased by more than 125 ppm in less than 250 years. ONE SINGLE TIME. If you can do that I will shut up. If you can NOT do that then grow a pair and admit to yourself that we have really screwed things up for the planet and that we had better act quickly to stop making things worse.

[@fromnorway643]

@@TheDalaiLamaCon "Your blanket could not raise the temperature beneath it above your body temperature." Yes, it could! Your body temperature isn't just the temperature of some lifeless object with zero heat generation, but a result of the balance between the heat added by your metabolism and your heat loss to your surroundings. If your heat loss is constrained while your metabolism stays the same, you will definitely heat up.

[@DobrinWorld]

Thank you!

[@deemisquadis9437]

It snowed today, that is a change, it is supposed to be spring. But this happens here, e wry year. Sometimes we get snow in July.

[@fromnorway643]

We had this year's first day with above 20°C yesterday.

[@jeffreywright3499]

"Squirrel" Nice touch, that really got me. I enjoy your videos. I hope they entertain, inform, and more importantly influence lots of people.

[@ClimateAdam]

I only noticed it after I'd already been editing for quite a few hours!

[@PeggyEscobar-v8j]

Great video

[@joseenoel8093]

I'm a chick forest technician, majored in sylviculture, scrapped my car yrs ago, how I hate hearing we make no diff, my daughter's a biologist into organic farming my son's a nurse and arborist! My husband went to Applebee College, love from Montreal, Pointe Claire, English Guetto!

[@TheOriginalSnial]

At 10:05, it's a *red* squirrel isn't it? (hint 2 'r's ;-) ). Brilliant and friendly video! My Big China vs Little Us response is usually: " “My little emissions don't matter” said 8 billion people." [ & yes I know it's not mostly about individual emissions, but the inner assumption is a false approximation to 0].

[@billyjoesmo8251]

Does anyone on this line really think we're going to be here in 2030🤔

[@PrecariousPorcupine]

Obligatory comment for the algorithm 😊

[@ClimateAdam]

beep boop!

[@tvuser9529]

Some great analogies in this video! By the way, I have reduced how much I'm punching this person you're talking about, I'm punching them far less than I used to, so I'm clearly morally righteous.

[@jamielondon6436]

Lovely energy, some great analogies - and of course the effects are top notch! :-)

[@ClimateAdam]

that patreon budget is really enabling me to splash out on cutting edge graphics!

[@jamielondon6436]

@@ClimateAdam It shows.

[@joseenoel8093]

🎉 hope is the next generation, prior ones often too mean and self-serving to care, next generations see not caring won't work!

[@slchilds100]

How about a video on getting carbon out of Ocean water?

[@thevip8837]

nice vid. btw looking good!

[@prairiedogs8296]

Keep up the Great work - pls 🙏🏼

[@paulh1862]

Thanks for the analogies Adam! The fever, the pool, they put climate change into perspective

[@blupblup24]

Great Video and love you reenacting all the analogies in such a fun way :) Thanks for educating 🫶

[@pushpakkolhe9081]

You inspire me everyday. The problem is definitely way more pressing than what people think. And videos like these which present the analogies to understand the extreme effects and causes of Climate change will take us a long way. Great work sir!

[@ClimateAdam]

ah that's so lovely to hear - thank you so much for being part of the CliMate community!

[@ChipJam]

If you want to raise awareness,market those scarves! (not kidding)

[@ClimateAdam]

this way of presenting temperatures was first used by scientist Ed Hawkins (who's come up with loads of amazing visuals in his time). you can learn more about the "warming stripes" here: showyourstripes.info/

[@jandraelune1]

As a nation China is leading in pollution, but per capita, the US is leading in pollution. It's that per captia that is worse.

[@oleonard7319]

dealing with climate change has always partially been a psychological and greed problem and now is almost entirely one.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

It'd definitely no one size fits all for each nation as the variables and geological territory is very different. A quick history is in order , I can remember when we thought we had rebuilt Europe and drew new borders for new nations and was righting wrongs of the past and reagan & thatcher said let's extend this temporary waivers of self sacrifice helping industrialize China and 3rd world nations so they could produce items for trade in resources instead of warring for them . Well we liberated all common sense transfered wealth and industrialized it all now . In all this we've charged the family cell forced everyone off the land into city's to meet factory demands of large gathering labor. This turned into office occupation sky scrappers and 12 year college degree that removed 18 -30 years old from our workforce and with highly specialized training you can only reach a profit around 50 years old in our most prestigious feilds. So now we can gain a by product of more spread out medium density better quality of life infrastructure in places like America Is we all agree to utilize interactive educational reforms that do use computation to train majority as machinest on universal operating systems what tool and applications do we need. Quadruple logistics,thin city's move back into nature more spread out medium density younger 18 -30 entering workforce marrying raising kids as governers of nature once again. We can take education to pupils ,operating business in the middle of nowhere America deserts that was only possible in major city's. We can break down colleges into close nit smaller groups more engaged with local industry. We can merge unions & publishers into online coops putting buyers, sellers, investors under one roof in one domain where like farming or trucking industry we can sub contract out skill & trade to take everything door to door. Local ownership of new paradigm infrastructure can be restored to our bottom up ai safety grid fuse like breaker box infrastructure. This would return us to our more pragmatic common sense socio-political & economic order invented by our early founders. It would in fact challenge the stepping stone anomalous time period of 1900s structuralism expansionism of agencies and institutions & the more European political scale we adopted. The neo liberal control mechanisms and stress on many who never faced innovation before. City's with perks and benefits are facing things they havnt known for 150 years already so all we would do is support the organic existing flow technology is already creating on these antiquated old world control systems

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

The west grandfathered in many obstacles it picked up along the way through many phases like the stream engine era,hydraulic to nuemadics. Unions to tree hugging in the mid 1900s . Most of the world just industrialized in my lifetime after the transitor age began so they don't carry as much economic dead weight middle men energy vampires as we do. We have so much fat we can trim in the west and many won't like how easy and cheaply we can streamline much of these energy vampires. Millions of people only know how to live the way they have been forced over the past 150 years. But it truly Is a better quality of life to be had if we repay the native family cell to once again be fruitful and multiple in a more mixed into nature while maintaining all the modern benefits and more

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Does unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence put more CO2 into the atmosphere? Doesn't manufacturing require energy plus shipping replacements for things that should not have worn out? Why should we take climate scientists seriously as long as they do not talk about the planned obsolescence of consumer products?

[@BruceDuncan]

Where we're going, we won't need scarves :(

[@galactic-beys]

Great analogies and enactments. Thank you for your efforts!! i believe, with the help and unenslaved cooperation of AI and biotechnology we can clean the air and oceans. there are solutions, i just hope we get there before the poor have no where to go and no resources to survive. i think we need to stop building boxes for homes and start building Earthships on a large community scale. but nothing will change until greed and political monopolies change. no more ads to buy things we don't need and replace the ads with information that directs society towards a habitable earth. we foretell our lives from screens just to be washed into what we don't need, a fake future that separates us from nature and reality.

[@jett7891]

Things are worsening all the time. Except for you climate Adam. You’re just getting better and better looking. So gorgeous. 🤤 Thanks for making climate change sexy 🙏🏼💓

[@camilleodonoghue3322]

🤣

[@EvanForbesIF]

Great nails and great content. The biggest problem I have with climate change is how do I engage with people who so vehemently disregard the issue. How do we shift the perception of climate change from something that's a partisan political issue to a humanitarian one. It's exhausting to engage with people who don't take it seriously or dismiss it as uncertainty or worse conspiracy.

[@ClimateAdam]

one of the things Katharine emphasises is that we should prioritise activating the people who already accept the science and care about it, rather than investing energy in the uphill struggle you describe!

[@MarcPagan]

Serious and non-sarcastic question: If atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting? Per MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel. Please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture, of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have any impact.

[@raybod1775]

@@MarcPagan Plant store carbon when growing and release the same carbon like a closed loop. Problem is fossil carbon that’s simply released by burning and not recycled.

[@oleonard7319]

The fundmental issue has never been. That we couldnt do anything about climate change. The fundamental issue has been the lack of willingness to do anything about it because of vested interst profiting from the actives. That cause it and a general public. That is easy to manipulate by those industries

[@MrMcMuggel]

A lot of Buckets were hurt A LOT for the production of this video :/

[@ClimateAdam]

actually to waste as little as possible, I just used three holes in one single bucket!

[@davestagner]

Not an analogy, but I like to point out that every kg of fossil fuel creates around 3kg of CO2. This shocks a lot of people - they don’t realize that all that carbon combines with oxygen that’s not in the fossil fuel originally.

[@ClimateAdam]

ah that's interesting - as someone with my head in the science so much, I never think of that fact as noteworthy, but reminds me of how much I can sometimes take for granted

[@davestagner]

@@ClimateAdam Expertise is its own kind of trap! It’s really easy to take things for granted, and not realize what isn’t obvious to people not in the know.

[@suolainenomena7631]

Can we talk about the incoming famines?

[@ronimmi]

all the incompetent around the world have no problem becoz, they have money and power to live a life they want. we are the ordinary people and our extraordinary nature suffering since last 70 years. do they care ? NOPE.

[@lukashansen8184]

Great thumbnail!!

[@yiorgosh4739]

Squirrel!

[@ClimateAdam]

the most important thing in this video imo (don't tell Katharine I said that)

[@Wind-oh-Wishp]

algo comment

[@tomkarnes69]

Change of seasons, year in year out, 4.5 billion years old, 4.5 billion times the climate has changed, now can I please get a cheeseburger, no cheeseburger for you, only Roach bars because the climate changed and Kill Bill sends best wishes

[@boxodrive]

Analogies suck, next time you think it's a good idea to use one just remember all the good "we should run government like a business" has done for the world.

[@InternetDarkLord]

The amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water in the USA is 4 parts per million. And smaller doses are good for your teeth.

[@DeathsGarden-oz9gg]

Cups shouldn't be made of plastic water bottles same use glass aluminum or bamboo. For homes stop logging the forests go to a rock mine use rocks or use aluminum or steel frames. Mines shouldn't have waste rock we should make use of it in some way none toxic metals why not put in homes the toxic ones crush into sand and use metal plants to reduce waste or use the sand for well sand batteries. Lol toxic sand batteries from a toxic mine 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@raybod1775]

Leave a senseless comment for AI to sweep up.

[@ClimateAdam]

beep boop!

[@Enhancedlies]

it's really quite insane, fossil fuels are the reason you are sitting here today. And the total failure to acknowledge any benefits shows your ideology coming through. I would love to hear many points you speak on, but I cannot in good conscience feel you are being entirely genuine. Also I am a subscriber.

[@ClimateAdam]

who on Earth denies that fossil fuels built the society we live in today? but the logical leap to assume that's what tomorrow's future should be built on - given how much we understand of the devastation they are already causing - is pretty magnificent!

[@Enhancedlies]

@@ClimateAdam alright I apologise for being brash, it is unfair to decry you for the crowd's ideals. However, this is very much the case for many if not all of the climate activists I hear. They paint it as if it is the worst, most destructive disease that we must snuff out with every ounce of energy we have. I also didn't say that fossil fuels must be 'tomorrows future' but they will be a part of it. I also find it impossible that the discussion that if the UK stopped everything overnight we wouldn't even make a 1% dent in the global carbon emissions. China is building 200/300 coal plants annually and is not slowing down. The idea we must cripple the UK whilst other dictatorial regimes carry on being the largest generators of carbon emissions is not only laughable, it is dangerous. I also don't belive that CO2 is this dangerous climate killer, I actively think the opposite. The more carbon in the atmosphere the better, we will have more flora and food than ever. The world is greening, more people die every year from cold than heat by orders of magnitude. (Globally, 5.08 million deaths per year can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures between 2000-2019. This accounts for 9.43% of all global deaths, of these 5.08 million annual deaths:4.59 million deaths were cold-related, 0.49 million deaths were heat-related)

[@MarcPagan]

Dear Climate Activist, a serious and non-sarcastic question: If atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting? Per MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel. Please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture, of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have any impact.

[@TheOriginalSnial]

there's no net CO2 change from natural processes, the +CO2 from decaying leaves is the -CO2 from building new plants 6 months later. There is a net +CO2 from burning fossil fuels. This is clearly shown by the Scripps Institute CO2 graph, which is a yearly wave that goes up and down, but each peak is higher than the last, because of the extra CO2 we've added from burning fossil fuels.

[@fromnorway643]

We have emitted at least _twice_ as much CO₂ as the _net_ increase in the atmosphere over the last 150 years, proving that nature itself have been a net _sink,_ not a net source of CO₂ to the atmosphere. If nature was a net source (emitting more than it absorbs), the surplus CO₂ would have been _added_ to _our_ emissions, causing the atmospheric concentration to increase at least _twice as fast_ as it actually has (5 rather than 2.5 ppm/year in recent years).

[@ukwerna]

what did i miss, I dont understand the hair magic?

[@andrewedlin6207]

Adam, you are getting a bit dark with your beating up and arsenic analagies…😅

[@johnthomasriley2741]

Where does AI fit in all this? Wild claims are being made. Is this just pie in the sky?

[@raybod1775]

AI is a talking encyclopedia that’s right 90% of the time. AI is also statistical computations which is great for analysis of things like medical diagnosis, design, etc. Combined, AI can come up with most probably correct answers to do things like creating programs, outlines, designs, driving cars, answering help lines, etc. These are great tools to assist someone do any field in which a person doesn’t know everything, but know what they want end results to be. It really works well when AI is programmed to hand off to a human when answer is questionable or AI doesn’t have a good answer. Most help desk jobs and programming jobs will likely disappear. Employers will expect workers who use AI to be more efficient at doing their jobs. AI will work well when techniques to accomplish something are well established based on precedence. AI is not ‘intelligent’ and not ‘creative’.

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

There's nothing I can do, Noone wanted to listen. I don't have the money to spread the word, or fix it myself. So I just stopped caring...This is for all those parents to figure out, i have no kids or a home or land, im just some random

[@ClimateAdam]

I feel you - it can make us feel really powerless. but you're here, which suggests to me that you do still care. my best advice is to find community - it not only helps empower us to take action, but supports us in the complex feelings we deal with, when grappling with this enormous issue.