Significant Head-Spinning Climate Change Stories Hitting us Fast and Furious: A Recap

[@PaulHBeckwith]

Significant Head-Spinning Climate Change Stories Hitting us Fast and Furious: A Recap Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem. China’s CO2 emissions have peaked or will in 2025, say 44% of experts in survey. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/27/chinas-co2-emissions-have-peaked-or-will-in-2025-say-44-of-experts-in-survey Four killed and flights cancelled as heavy snowfall blankets Seoul. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/28/south-korea-weather-seoul-snow-death-toll-flights-cancelled New powder that captures carbon could be ‘quantum leap’ for industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/29/covalent-organic-framework-carbon-capture-powder Suck carbon from the air? US facility launches novel climate solution. www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/carbon-dioxide-direct-air-capture Record-low Antarctic sea ice can be explained and forecast months out by patterns in winds. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241206161926.htm Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in Australia winter 2023. www.researchgate.net/journal/Communications-Earth-Environment-2662-4435/publication/385982394_Understanding_the_drivers_and_predictability_of_record_low_Antarctic_sea_ice_in_austral_winter_2023/links/673eb3edb94c451c116e5554/Understanding-the-drivers-and-predictability-of-record-low-Antarctic-sea-ice-in-austral-winter-2023.pdf?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ Abstract Since the start of the satellite record in 1978, the three lowest summertime minima in Antarctic sea ice area all occurred within the last seven years and culminated in record low sea ice in austral winter 2023. During this period sea ice area was over 2 million km2 below climatology, a 5 sigma anomaly and 0.9 million km2 below the previous largest seasonal anomaly. Here we show that a fully-coupled Earth System Model nudged to observed winds reproduces the record low, and that the 2023 transition from La Niña to El Niño had minimal impact. Using an ensemble, we demonstrate that ~ 70% of the anomaly was predictable six months in advance and driven by warm Southern Ocean conditions that developed prior to 2023, with the remaining ~ 30% attributable to 2023 atmospheric circulation. An ensemble forecast correctly predicted that near record low sea ice would persist in austral winter 2024, due to persistent warm Southern Ocean conditions. Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Became a permanently Drier in Last Three Decades: UN. www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2024/12/press-release-three-quarters-of-earths-land-became-permanently-drier-in-last-three-decades-un/ Read the full press release with in depth facts and figures here: www.unccd.int/news-stories/press-releases/three-quarters-earths-land-became-permanently-drier-last-three-decades Full Report: www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2024-12/aridity_report.pdf 2024 Arctic Report Card: The Arctic tundra is now a net source of carbon dioxide. globalocean.noaa.gov/arctic-tundra-becoming-source-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-2024-arctic-report-card-released/ Arctic Report Card: NOAA. arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/ arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2024/ Full Report PDF: arctic.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ArcticReportCard_full_report2024.pdf Atlantic Circulation Collapse? New clues on the fate of a crucial conveyer belt. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atlantic-circulation-collapse-new-clues-on-the-fate-of-a-crucial-conveyor-belt/ Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

[@timothyjohnson1511]

Mass production of the e-cat zero-point energy generator, and shipments to the public begin when We The People place 100MW of pre-orders. Governments and corporations will not do this. It must be US.

[@johnjakson444]

@@timothyjohnson1511 e-cat is a total scam, if you believe that then you will fall for any scammer,

[@KathyWhiplash]

If you told a jack, "I'm gonna burn fuel and collect the co2 with this powder I made by burning fuel. You jagoffs are really STIMULATING!

[@violetquinnlaw]

when they investigated that Romanian electoral interference it turned out to be their liberal party running it lol so yeah will be interesting what they do now its easy enough to take carbon out of air u just have to grow enough algae or similar flora, stopping clearing what we have left would be a good start. life scales if u give it space u can scale up trees or similar quite a bit and precision fermentation reaching price parity for milk solids gives us the option to turn much of the land back into trees swamps ext

[@russtaylor2122]

This 'positive news' that technology is going to save us, represents stage three in the five stages of grief: Bargaining. We've moved through Denial and Anger, then after Bargaining we have Depression, and finally Acceptance. I recommend a realisation that we're running ever faster down a cul-de-sac. It doesn't matter how we power ourselves, we're just delaying the collapse.

[@roberthornack1692]

Finally a sane accepting voice. Thank- you

[@kukkaFeatures]

Unliveable heat, food and water scarcity = in the next 30 years. Complete economic collapse in all 1st world countries 🌏

[@urduib]

Save us ? there is already baked 3.5 degree into the Ocean water mass. If we stop all Co2 today, and reverse to year 1910 levels, we will still lose ALL ice on the planet and spin into a 1000 year of horrible weather system with floods heat waves heavy rain and draught. 1 Hiroshima bomb of heat is trapped every second now 24/7

[@Deebz270]

Paul's been hovering at 'Stage Three' for the last decade.... We keep trying to bring him to *enlightenment* (acceptance) but like so many humans, blinkered by their innate anthropocentrism, or faith in either ficticious deities or human resourcefulness - refuse to believe that the hominids are just another failed branch of Earth's biospheric, evolutionary history.

[@emceegreen8864]

Keep in mind that not the whole world is defeatist. There’s young and smart people ready to get to work on global problems. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way”!

[@panpsychism_]

The United States will stop climate change by passing policies to remove any references to climate change or global warming in official documents. That should help.

[@roberthornack1692]

Does anyone realize that it is the rapid exponential rate of change that dooms us all!

[@Interglacial_optimist]

I'm growing drought tolerant perennial flowers.

[@kmoses582]

The sky is falling!

[@Jc-ms5vv]

@@kmoses582enjoy denial while it last :)

[@evilryutaropro]

We are going to hit 2 then 3 then 4 faster than people realize. When, I don’t know, but it’s going to catch people off guard

[@roberthornack1692]

@evilryutaropro well, we already hit 2c, so hold on to your #$!@&!!! It's gonna be a toasty ride!

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

The dissing china's products is an economic cold war. Buisness' will tell you not to buy "cheap chinnese knockoffs". yet they import same products, from the same factory, and sell it as "quality north american products"

[@RjbigIamMe]

AI and Crypto will expedite our demise🤗

[@preimer22]

No end in sight to our hubris, and the anti-science, anti-fact insanity in the US at least, continues to climb. We're reduced, I fear, to simply watching as this now inexorable disaster unfolds.

[@bunsw2070]

Trump is the greatest president since Moses.

[@vegasflyboy67]

​@bunsw2070 This is why the ruling class wants people to blend their politics with religion. It becomes their identity, and when the science or facts contradict what they are being told by their leaders, it's an attack on their identity. It's a very effective way to control and subjugate the masses.

[@Zelp789]

Trump is the second coming.

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

@@preimer22 Let's face it: there is no hope. All we have in front of us is calamity.

[@panpsychism_]

@@bunsw2070Speaking of burning bushes…

[@ulrichschonhardt6796]

State of the climate report lists 28 amplifying feedback loops. The human empire will fall.

[@nickNicholasccc]

@@ulrichschonhardt6796 The empire has already fallen, we don't require God's all the Climates assistance. The climate isn't bothered, it will survive.

[@mme.jeaniewu5535]

No apologies needed about "going on so long", you are personally delivering to us vital news about the fate of our planet. Only gratitude from this viewer!

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

60 mm of rain and 50°F in Eastern Quebec. Winter is effectively cancelled for a second year in a row. I'm about to witness my second snowless Christmas in my entire life. The first time was last Christmas. This is bad. Really bad. At this rate, we'll be able to grow date palms by 2050.

[@atombased-m3d]

@Dan___R4 WHEW thank God global warming is a myth, thanks so much for convincing me with a few sentences.

[@coleorum]

@Dan___R4 Yes....take a look at the geologic time scale and realise you've just made a clueless comment.

[@mikesteen-l1i]

I assume that is good news, no winter great !

[@russmarkham2197]

@Dan___R4 This is definitely not "All normal Earth stuff" as you so mistakenly claim. Human CO2 emissions are causing rapid and accelerating temperature increases, ice melting, sea level rise and methane emissions that are not "normal" at all. Do you live in Australia? I'm asking because you say "No worries". Australia is in for a very unpleasant surprise in the next 5 to 10 years. Australia is on the front line of the massive damage caused by human induced climate change. The forest fires in the last two years should be a wake up call. And a few million years ago, when CO2 was higher, the sea level was over 200 feet higher. That would now flood most of our cities.

[@louishennick6883]

@Dan___R4every time climate does shift there is a reason though. No condition exists without an action (natural or otherwise) which causes that condition. If we know our actions are the cause of the present extreme condition of the climate and if we know the conditions will become more extreme if we do not change our current actions do you think it would be a good idea to change those current actions?

[@mattockman]

Co2 is 426ppm today. Current rate of increase 3.8ppm per annum. 450ppm is 6.3 years from today.

[@WindingDownNow]

Wow! I've not been keeping an eye on the Co2 - I'm kind of speechless. 😥

[@JnMast]

8 billion and adding, no problem there 😮

[@ollie2052000]

The average billionaire uses the lower 50% lifetime CO2 budget in 60 seconds.

[@lonihollenbeck4654]

In my humble, poorly educated opinion, it's a race if we can save this world in a hospitable condition. However, if we want to be contenders, we MUST STOP THESE FRIGGIN' WARS!!!

[@lacha608]

But psychopathic oligarchs rake in profits from war, plus they use to war to attempt to pillage the resources of other nations, and they control the planet...

[@jholm7607]

Thanks Paul

[@steventhomas6071]

Sudden Inevitable Global Heatwave #SIGH

[@LK-pc4sq]

that happened last summer killing over 640 in Phoenix and many other countries.

[@emceegreen8864]

Let’s start talking about doing something substantial ABOUT climate change? Talk about what needs to be done and who’s going to do it? That’s normally how a problem is solved and if it can’t be solved at least mitigating it.

[@trinity6993]

Hi, Paul. Thanks for all you do..and for sharing!

[@roberthornack1692]

Hopium for a deep freeze from an overheated ocean, wow, can you say deep denial!!!

[@torsteinholen14]

All this about the "green" transition and solar, wind etc. It`s like(not quite) having a cut in your thigh and thinking the problem is that your trousers are getting bloody. We "have" to grow the economy every year, and to do that we have to use about 2% more minerals and energy every year, so all these "solutions" are not the answer. It might be a bit more complicated than this of course...

[@Tasmantor]

Any% per year is an exponential curve. It's not more complicated than advertised, it's very simple economic growth is at odds with sustained civilisation in this planet. Good news though we already do way more than we need to, to make life good for everyone just the rich hoard the gains. The "west" (probably you and definitely me) need to get rid of some of the things they think they deserve (new phone every year, jet setting holidays when they like, house big enough for 12 that only has 4 in it and the cars required to make that life "work") and then do what they can to bring those with less up to the same standard. No more millionaires, no more fake meritocracy just people working together to make life worth living.

[@kimwelch4652]

Yes, market economies have to grow or they collapse. This means any market economy will exponentially increase its energy usage every year (think compounding interest). However, market economies are unstable, and they have a tendency to occasionally collapse all by themselves. Well, it probably has to do with resource distribution and supply issues as there's really nothing to stop kinks in the system which restrict growth and produce a collapse. We are in the beginning of a global deflationary recession which is likely to get a lot worse. It might not ever have a recovery because there is currently no solution to the resource and environmental issues causing the problem. Those issues are exacerbated by global warming so it all circles back. The process of collapse will reduce industrial emissions, but will it reduce it fast enough to provide any relief? It's doubtful, and it probably will not stop the tipping point emissions already in the environmental system. Methane continued to rise even as industry shutdown during the pandemic.

[@roberthornack1692]

Exactly! & renewables also need fossil fuels, just ask China, who is increasing their coal production!

[@roberthornack1692]

Correct, however, collapse will not bring relief, only increased heating, due to lack of aerosols! We are effed!

[@auntiebelle27]

Thank you for all your hard work in keeping all of us informed with this complex climate change. You make it easier to understand what is happening. Happy holidays and really appreciate you.

[@ronkirk5099]

With so much skin in the game, you'd think the younger generation would make decisions using a little more long range thinking, but by the results of the 2024 election where self-serving political leaders were elected in the U.S., this doesn't seem to be the case. I'm an old guy who won't be around for the worst effects of climate change, but even I'm concerned and vote accordingly. I'm beginning to think humanity won't save itself from MAJOR disruptions in the near future.

[@FrankWhite437]

The "long range thinking decisions" had to be made when you were young..

[@Homer1e2]

​@@FrankWhite437 Yep

[@dermotmeuchner2416]

I’m in the same age group and I’m disgusted with politics and capitalism as a whole. We’ve dug ourselves such a hole it’s not possible to avoid a major collapse.

[@jonathonpotts5666]

does the coriolis effect apply to civilizations circling the plughole?

[@-LightningRod-]

Just a QUESTION,... "IF", the AMOC were to collapse suddenly,say, to less than 25% of what it is currently...what do you estimate the timeline to be for Significant and undeniable effects to propogate onto the continents/. Like the next year,. the next decade, or do you think that catstrophic change would be more immediate? Thanks MrBeckwith for all of your efforts.

[@ulrichschonhardt6796]

I watched Stefan Rahmstorf, a leading expert on AMOC, he said the collapse will play out over many decades, up to 100 years. But collapse has already started.

[@-LightningRod-]

@@ulrichschonhardt6796 Yes! i listened toStefans TEDtalk ,..i think it was. I am inclined to think if the AMOC reaches 25% of what it was in the 1950's, ...We will see thing IMMEDIATELY and not in decades or centuries, plus the many unforeseen "trickledown" effects we have not even thought of yet. Thanks for Responding !

[@AGWUK]

@@ulrichschonhardt6796I think you’ll find he has said there’s evidence that the effects can play out over little more than a decade. The AMOC is a colossal heat transfer and even a small change means a substantial loss of that heat. Then add in the positive feedbacks, such as increased snowfall causing more outgoing radiation, leading to more cooling. If or when it happens it will not be pretty.

[@jimmyrichardson67]

Out of interest, how much of China’s ‘peaking’ got to do with their industry shrinking and it going elsewhere. That’s what’s happened in the former workshop of the world here in the UK?

[@sea2959]

the UK is irrelevant now. Thanks for participating

[@ulrichschonhardt6796]

China has a huge problem with shrinking population indeed. Only Africa is still growing rapidly.

[@44point5]

@@ulrichschonhardt6796 A shrinking population is a solution, not a problem.

[@44point5]

China's industry is not shrinking. The rate at which it is growing is declining.

[@frinoffrobis]

Paul looks down? he needs his puppers 🐶

[@menuki95]

I mean yes but to be fair I reckon this is also a normal response to imminent climate collapse lmao

[@waynebollman]

Could someone summarize this for me please. I love this channel but too busy to watch all of this today.

[@kimwelch4652]

China's economy is collapsing along with (or leading) the rest of the global economy. So, it is not a surprise that their coal usage is peaking, but it would be a surprise if they were doing it on purpose. As China's economy goes down, they will have less incentive to build solar panels, and the rest of the world will have less incentive to buy those panels as the global economy goes down. Gas prices keep dropping even as the oil producers have reduced their pumping because with the slowing economy less is being shipped. As the globally synchronized deflationary recession (depression?) grows our global energy use goes down, which will slow global warming, but again, you'd be mistaken to assume that drop in emissions is on purpose. "The central problem of the market economy [, any market economy, is] if it does not sustain its growth, it collapses…and, yet, if it does sustain its growth, it will collapse even more dramatically (David Fleming)."

[@christinearmington]

Yep ✅

[@TennesseeJed]

Paul tells it squarely, but our system ain't able to hear it.

[@juliebarks3195]

A rooster-free zone.🐓

[@atombased-m3d]

@@juliebarks3195 They got umbrella ears, everything they don't like bounces right off

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

I don’t know, I hear a lot of techno-utopian hopium in this one.

[@TennesseeJed]

@anabolicamaranth7140 He is always somewhat optimistic since no one knows an exact future, but the data ain't looking very good for Homo-Colossus.

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Watching paul scroll through screens reminds me of watching television in the 1960s when the TV would lose its horizontal control.😂

[@robertforsythe3280]

Thank you Professor Paul, 'Human types of infrastructure' comes in many forms. The US is almost money driven & has been that way all the way back to its creation. In recent years the political system has been drifting back to a non democratic system due to greed. Money in both politics & medicine is a BIG PROBLEM. Perhaps the observation of the Orange factor will wake up the voting public. This will help the worlds situation along with checks & Balances within our beautiful blue home we live. I am optimistic of the outcome will be as at the least some will survive. There are lots variables. Humans are addicted to cheap energy, no way to change what lay within the permafrost. Civilization as we know it will end. How fast is the most important variable. I wish you well in all respects.

[@roberthornack1692]

Are you kidding me, Western civilizations were built on exploitation of the world's resources until there is nothing left!

[@susane945]

Thank you Paul, and I wish you a Merry Christmas, and a hopeful and healthy New Year. 🙏🌱🌿🌈

[@mikesteen-l1i]

Nice to hear you being positive for a change, lets air on the optimism for 2025.

[@thearaucariafarmer556]

Wow, how are we going to get out of this mess? I think we will eventually get out of it, but if we keep doing nothing this is going to be a centuries long, millenia long crisis, this is absurd, this needs ro stop!

[@roberthornack1692]

Denial, denial, denial!

[@armandbarbe1812]

How much energy is used to create the yellow powder?

[@iancraig6891]

... i am still watching it mate ... from here in oz ... love your work ...

[@atombased-m3d]

There is an OZ? How can I get there, I'd love to meet the good witch of the North. Is there somewhere I can catch a tornado/twister to the yellow brick road?

[@justmenotyou3151]

Thanks paul.

[@annabbott1963]

Where do we grow our food? The land. That might be a problem 😂

[@sumiland6445]

😕 thanks, Paul.

[@storytimebuffet]

We have a lot of plans for new energy generation but none for updating/expanding our grid. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this in a video!

[@kated3165]

I'm planting a peach tree next spring. Always wanted one but our growing zone was just a bit too low for them. These past years winters have been getting much milder, and last spring came a month earlier so.... I feel confident peaches will grow nicely here now. Our growing degree days has also increased by a good 410 since 2005. When life gives you lemons! Though hopefully we won't be able to grow actual lemons soon...

[@PinataOblongata]

Wait, we're HOPING the AMOC shuts down, now, because we need that to refreeze tundra?

[@TheUAoB]

We'll see regarding China emissions peak. It doesn't make sense to me. I can understand if they've increased nuclear use over coal, but producing "green" energy is energy and resource intensive. Certainly, electric vehicles are no panacea.

[@TheUAoB]

To emphasise, a build out of renewables is necessarily energy and resource intensive, and will not result in an emissions reduction over the short term. Even the concrete use alone during turbine construction offsets emissions reductions over short time scales. Whether a sustainable energy infrastructure is actually a thing is another matter entirely. I just think the narrative is off, and the coal usage is the big story, and more likely reflects a reduction in economic activity than a switch to green tech.

[@coweatsman]

China being the largest creator of green energy is simply a function of being the largest energy generator. Solar and wind does not replace fossil fuel energy. It is simply added to the general energy use. The really interesting part will be when the current generation of green energy using steel and concrete will have to be replace in 30 years or so and doing without using fossil fuel energy. It will be so much more expensive and will see a contraction of the economy. I am a fan of a contracting energy because I am a fan of lower emission. I do not have a problem with a resulting economic contraction but almost all economists and almost all environmentalists WILL have a problem with this. I know the quantity of solar and wind energy produced in China despite the oft repeat chant that China is emitting while everyone else is reducing emissions. Not true. I have seen the solar farms and wind farms in Xinjiang Province stretching to the horizon with my own eyes. Will it save the world or allow china to use less fossil fuel energy? No because no one is going to want a diminishing of the economy or the human growth paradigm in China or anywhere else. It's a case of reduce or perish and I believe it will be a case of perishing by our own hand.

[@TheUAoB]

​@@coweatsmanIndeed. A wind-based industrial society would look quite different. A simple thought experiment demonstrates this: How would the 19th C. have unfolded if the developments in materials science and fluid dynamics had created a wind-based industrial revolution instead of the steam engine..?

[@roberthornack1692]

China has dramatically increased it's coal production! so check your info.

[@coweatsman]

@@roberthornack1692 The example of China demonstrates that solar, wind or any other green source of energy will add displace other energy sources but will only add to them. Only a decrease in the economic, population and energy use and a willingness to suffer grief associated with losing a way of life and a whole techno paradigm including capitalism (which can only exist in a growth environment) will do this. But alas it's not going to happen. Anything else will be a disappointment. I know China is a prodigious producer of green energy. I have seen solar farms stretching to the horizon in Xinjiang Province myself/

[@RescueDogTreats]

Hi Paul…could you do a video on the gold mining in Alaska/Canada and how it affects climate change if anyone has done any research? Thanks and enjoy learning from your videos.

[@greggrant4614]

How much of the drying out of our land is due to its deforestation by us humans?

[@Thorny_Misanthrope]

My Tesla model Y is a flip phone compared to the BYD iPhone equivalent.

[@robertcox14]

I would like to set up a solar power system in my apartment, but battery fires are concerning me, and I am not sure if I can arrange "safe" indoor batteries, worth considering before leaping into a solar set up. I have obtained a small 12 volt (probably for autos) fan and heating assembly that could be run on a battery, but a lot of juice, even at 12 volts. My most desired battery power would be something that can get an ordinary fridge started, so I can use a charging system without a larger generator that I can't have in my apartment. The spot for my fridge in the kitchen would be excellent for a wood-burning stove, with good space for a chimney up the wall outside. Paul, have you got any info that could convince my landlord to install 8 wood stoves at my end of the building, 8 floors all stacked up? To be truly prepared, I should probably have a wood stove AND solar.

[@abody499]

That's just FUD. Candles cause more fires. Faulty electrical appliances cause more fires. There are plenty of current practices that cause way more fires yet you've probably not even thought about them. Then there are safety standards to meet, like there are with all energy installations, the avoidance of which is by far the biggest cause of problems like fires.

[@braeburn2333]

It's not hard to take C02 out of the air. We don't need expensive, energy intensive machines, or chemicals to sequester carbon. Rebuilding destroyed soils is a zero input method which has sequestered 10 tons of CO2 per acre per year when re generative ag techniques are used. Large areas of desert have been regreened such as the Lus valley in China. What was yellow sand there, is now black gold because of their permaculture design and the efforts of locals employed to make that design a reality. Check out the documentary called, Green Gold by John Liu, it documents this transformation. Soil that had zero percent carbon before it was regreened , now has 10 percent carbon. That carbon came from the air. That is a lot of carbon stored there in the soil which wasn't there before. Green areas are more fertile too. All the local communities have flourished since the desert was regreened. I think you will be excited to go down this rabbit hole of information. I know I was. Geoff Lawton said, All the world's problems can be solved in a garden. I agree with him.

[@karavi2000]

I'll say the same with India in terms of moving into new three.. there is so much enthusiasm on these here too..

[@louishennick6883]

Thanks Paul for the updates

[@leokaloper4132]

Haha, Paul, those of us interested TRULY on (whether "you" want it or not) what awaits us all regardless of race and skin colour, we certainly will watch your videos till the end cause you're great.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Good times.

[@pedrolopes3542]

So, in order to save the planet (partially) the amoc needs to collapse... What a mess our recent ancestors got us into...

[@antonyjh1234]

Half the CO2 was released in the last 40ish years

[@LK-pc4sq]

@@antonyjh1234 yup alot! lots of news and articles and evidence on facebook #CLIMEAWARE

[@arcanondrum6543]

I'm tired of tht narrative when everyone ignores the biggest reason of all; capitalism.

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

Seems to be some kind of inbuilt fail-safe, doesn't it? It would increase the albedo of the planet, as ice sheets expand, but it would also probably induce some kind of major social collapse. All roads lead to calamity, death, disease, loss, misery and suffering this century. No matter what we do, we will lose. The future is relentlessly bleak. I've always been a pessimist, but even I have failed to predict how bad thing would turn out this decade. I think the coming decades are going to be far worse than we can even begin to imagine. Expecting anything other than excruciating misery for Humanity this century is psychotically delusional. I don't know if Humanity is fucked, but we're definitely gonna hit rock bottom before thing get better - if they ever get better.

[@antonyjh1234]

@@arcanondrum6543 Unless you are saying the alternative is strict regulation on every product then there is no ism that wouldn't have consumed as much in the same situation. edit our debt based system is the reason, this is different to capitalism but would be used in other systems

[@noelwilson7128]

You look stressed, Paul. Get some rest.

[@juliebarks3195]

No amount of rest can remove the concern on his face. Once you know what he knows it's a look many of us wear. 😓

[@atombased-m3d]

Beckwith is our champion!

[@nickNicholasccc]

@@juliebarks3195 I don't, I have no concerns for the climate, the climate will always change. However, I do have other concerns that don't come parcelled up in fear.

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Great post Paul

[@kingkanute]

I did not expect good news from Material advancements. No doubt AI helped model likely candidates to find this catalyst. Will be interesting if it's feasible, but could slow the push to move away from fossil fuels.

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Southern Ocean Swirley (SOS) will flush coastal populations out to sea... 😢

[@hobartspitz1029]

Great stuff!! Glad to see you mentioned beavers previously. Here's a topic you might want to cover. There is a lot of misinformation about PHEVs. According to ChatCPT, and 6 years with my 81 MPH 2017, PHEVs are the fastest path to decarbonize road transport. (Presuming a distinction between electrification vs. decarbonization.) The advantages of PHEVs: - Versus BEVs, PHEVs have greater potential market penetration. BEVs don't work for everybody due to cost, range anxiety, charging time, battery degradation, consumer acceptance, charging station availability and compatibility, etc. Even though PHEVs have some emissions, greater market penetration could mean faster decarbonization. - Versus HEV (hybrids) which can become stranded assets as more and more gas stations close. PHEVs don't have that problem. My first 2001 hybrid lasted 17 years. If we are going to save the planet, we need to do the most possible to decarbonize as fast a possible. Will the ICE vehicle market peak in 17 years? IMHO, yes. - The fossil fuel and ICE vehicle industries will fight tooth and nail against full electrification. The might do less so (if only slightly) if hybrid and PHEVs were a greater part of the mix. They could be convinced that their industries could have a softer landing than the crash that full vehicle electrification would cause. - Electric utilities are having the reverse problem. Time-of-use discounts, home charging, peak loads shifting, solar panels on roofs, etc. are changing when peak loads occur and how high those peaks get. Peak loads are what these utilities have to build for. Charging BEVs could represent a time and/or quantity problem for electricity generaton. What are better minds than mine saying about this subject?

[@gerhardgroen]

Thank you for all this information! I hope many people all around the world will see this too!

[@christill]

It’s not about solar! It’s about reducing overall energy demand! We already have enough renewables! This is insufferable.

[@Thorny_Misanthrope]

Population is the source of energy demand. There’s no appetite for getting a handle on human population growth.

[@johnjakson444]

using renewables to replace all primary energy use would require most of the land in the EU to be covered with panels or turbines with nothing to back it up because the RE people cannot utter the word Nuclear which needs 1000 times less land. Quality of life is about energy, using less energy really means colder building if not well insulated, less travel, etc Without the hot air, by Dr David mackay explains the case for the UK, Bill Gates rewrote the book for the US audience.

[@christill]

@@Thorny_Misanthrope It’s both consumption and population.

[@greenftechn]

@@Thorny_Misanthrope This belies the huge difference in energy "demand" between the categories of people occupying space on the planet.

[@williamwallis6915]

It's about time they release free energy so we can all move on , not fake elaborate light shows in the sky

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

Renewables are increasing exponentially, just like CO2 atmospheric concentration levels.

[@Edo9River]

Paul you need to back up your remarks about China’s EV leadership 😮😮😮

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Jim Massa had a recent video about what could happen to Europe. Paul should watch it since it might change what he says about the AMOC. And Paul should get up to speed about Syria, the US and ISIS have been allies.

[@lacha608]

What's the gist of Jim's report on amoc?

[@Loel-ep5wx]

I'm interested about this compound that was developed to absorb and then release C02

[@lobee4393]

“What happens in a Antarctic doesn’t stay in Antarctic” Thanks always for the education.

[@charlesvt2010]

Thanks Paul , I always say amoc is our only hope , let's hope it slows a bit faster the heat is starting to rocket.

[@Livingthewild]

There is a reason hope is a 4 letter word. Hope is just clinging to a lie. AMOC might bail us out. Really? My God.

[@antonyjh1234]

Accelerated climate change is possibly 10,000 years in one tenth of that, if the Amoc slowing is the precursor to an ice age it might be a case of be careful of what you wish for.

[@armandbarbe1812]

Carbon sequestering yellow powder is probably too "cold" for Texas, Arizona.

[@jonathonpotts5666]

I read about that, there was no mention if it could be produced at any meaningful scale. Might be better of snorting it.

[@lacha608]

I've been trying to picture the logistics of using this powder on a planetary scale. Can't quite picture it...

[@jonathonpotts5666]

@lacha608 Maybe we could shut down the Internet, data centres, and all the crypto. Then, with the power saved, use it to grind rocks to dust and put it in the ocean. I know people were happier before big tech it could be win,win.

[@Edo9River]

Paul you look healthier than I’ve seen you in recent memory 😮😮😢😢😢

[@RjbigIamMe]

Now that perma frost is thawing, will reducing our emissions even be significant in comparison to the emmision from the release of methane in permafrost? It seems like that might just be a wasted effort? Seems like our effort would be better spent refreezing the arctic🤠

[@roberthornack1692]

Decreasing CO2 will increase heating due to the loss of cooling aerosols & increase the melting of permafrost & the release of methane.

[@vincentkosik403]

Thank you, Paul, too much to absorb, no pun intended

[@benbashore8561]

Does releasing the carbon put it back into the atmosphere? What do they do with the released carbon?

[@nicevideomancanada]

9:08 Well that is nice to hear while I'm living in Alberta where the UCP Government is restricting Renewable Energy Technologies and restricting where Renewable Energy projects can be built. I'm not on their side.

[@lacha608]

What is their justification?

[@nicevideomancanada]

@@lacha608 They say they don't look nice. I don't like pollution in the air.

[@lacha608]

@@nicevideomancanada wow. What a bizarre rationale. Do you think it's political corruption related to fossil fuels?

[@nicevideomancanada]

@@lacha608 Yes, definitely.

[@BrianBetron]

Nice job

[@JonathanLoganPDX]

China has three primary reasons for going all in on solar and wind and now nuclear. First is that they are primarily energy dependent on oil from the Middle East and Africa which means that if they engage in a war with Taiwan they will lose that energy, second is that they know that by going all in on solar and electric vehicles they will dominate the global market so they are owning the future in terms of transition energy to green, and third is that people are dying and choking in their cities and they need to be able to relieve some of the social pressure and political pressure that is generated by their own internal ecological environmental collapse.

[@kmoses582]

I think the country that burns 56% of the worlds coal should be praised for being green

[@JonathanLoganPDX]

@kmoses582 I think the country that both produces the most fossil fuels in history and is also the #1 historic GHG emitter should be praised for electing a global heating denier for president .. 🤣

[@kmoses582]

@@JonathanLoganPDX I find it strange that people who are so concerned with CO2 heap so much praise on the current #1 GHG emitter

[@JonathanLoganPDX]

@kmoses582 they're getting praise for making the change in the shift, which we foolishly are not making.

[@kmoses582]

@@JonathanLoganPDX In 2023 China produced 9.37% from wind 6.18% solar 4.6% Nuclear 12.96% from Hydro and 60% from coal. The US in 2023 10.2% from wind, 3.9% from solar, 5.7% from Hydro, 19% from nuclear and only 16.2% from coal. The US went from coal being about 50% of electricity to 16.2%, but you can only find praise for China?

[@A3Kr0n]

KZbin doesn't want me to watch this video

[@RjbigIamMe]

YT doesn't care what you watch or don't watch, as long as you show up😉

[@lacha608]

And as long as you don't make any comments about war, human rights or political corruption.

[@A3Kr0n]

@@lacha608 Just puppies and kittens?

[@lacha608]

@@A3Kr0n when I'm not signed in and just look at my own subscription feed, and see what they serve up to the public at large I find it pretty shocking. A lot of s*x work-ish stuff. Really gross. They want to occupy people's minds with trash, not important information that could cause them to unite to change the very destructive status quo.

[@Akio-fy7ep]

There is a gas that many ships have added equipment to release that catalyzes breakdown of methane.

[@bebo2781]

So if the AMOC collapses the Arctic will refreeze? Does that mean global temperatures will go back down, or will global warming continue with the exception of the North Atlantic and parts (or all) of the Arctic?

[@atticustay1]

The video is too bright. I think it’s a setting on your iPhone

[@goodenough22]

Do you ever wonder if none of us know a damn thing at all 😂

[@gpaw-z6e]

Yes. Let's hope the AMOC shuts down... Such humor! (Crying)

[@jimmyrichardson67]

What about India?

[@nickNicholasccc]

Why do the depressed fear everything as if it's the end?

[@lifewriter7455]

Not the bipolar ones. 😂

[@lacha608]

Maybe they're depressed because they're realistic.

[@lifewriter7455]

@@nickNicholasccc because it really is the End. That's why they're so Depressed.

[@nickNicholasccc]

@@lacha608 I have had many clients who inform me of their story, what is real according to them. A few have been depressed that are realistic, they have suffered loss, or about to suffer loss, in some instances their own life, the story collaborated with life. However, many are victims of their own ideas, that are often someone else's... What are they being realistic about? If not their own fear!

[@nickNicholasccc]

@@lifewriter7455 Why not bipolar, why are they not anxious? They have a depressive stage in the structure of observable thoughts and expressed behaviour.

[@mikefa7234]

I commend you, sir

[@hello-sz7hp]

“Let it snow let it snow let it snow” NO I WON’T! EVEN IF IT TAKES NEEDING TO MAKE IT RAIN GERMX FOR NOW ON!!

[@fabiolaribeiro1969]

It seems as you are lokking foward to the amoc colapse because it will cool the artic. Do you know that the amoc colapse will warm antarrica, which will increase sea level mainly in north america?

[@johnthomasriley2741]

Please do a climate crisis review of Tally Ho’s sail from West Coast to England. Will the ice be clear for a north passage? Will Panama be restricted by drought? Will the Drake Passage be just storms ? 🎉

[@ZER0--]

The world has an addiction problem and is in denial about it. I know this because I too am addicted to the dark brown stuff, but my addiction doesn't screw over the rest of the planet. I personally find climate change delicious.

[@ErwinTeunissen]

Tea with honey, or some good old liquor helps for your throat ❤

[@Edo9River]

Can we consider that Ukraine has helped dramatically reduce Russia’s CO2 emissions😮😮😮😮

[@googoo7750]

Really? What do you think all that explosives and rocket fuels are made of not to mention the steel industry. Plus all the burning oil depots. And consider all that co2 that will be released with the restoration of Ukraine, entire cities and road infrastructure needs to be built from scratch. Just have a think

[@Naheenmather]

🙏😣🌎

[@sonnyeastham]

Anthropogenic Jet-Lag scam 😢

[@sonnyeastham]

😊

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

🌡🌡

[@elixir2687]

Hey Paul do you know about Culebra event?? I just heard that a megaquake is coming.

[@abody499]

The wind doesn't relate to seismic activity. There's no known way to predict seismic activity, including your crystals.

[@elixir2687]

@abody499 your words says a lot about your upbringing.

[@abody499]

A reductionist mindset is one of the main markers of the intellectually lazy who think the complexity of life can be read in the "vibrations" of rocks they paid money for.

[@BrianBetron]

Nice job