Texas on Fire

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2 ай бұрын

Join the Climate Emergency Forum as it discusses the devastating impact of wildfires, particularly focusing on the more recent fire in Texas and broader implications for the environment and society.
This video was recorded on March 12th, 2024, and published on March 17th, 2024, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
Regina, the program host, highlights the severity of the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas, emphasizing how climate change has exacerbated wildfire risks. The dialogue delves into the extensive damage caused by the fires, including loss of lives, destruction of homes, and the profound impact on both human and non-human populations.
The conversation also touches on the economic repercussions of wildfires, especially in states like Texas where industries like agriculture, aerospace, defense, energy, and healthcare are significantly affected. The loss of cattle and agricultural resources due to fires poses a substantial economic challenge for Texas, impacting various sectors that rely on these resources for revenue and funding. Additionally, there is a discussion on the environmental consequences of wildfires, such as carbon release from burning vegetation and the loss of vital ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.
Furthermore, the dialogues shed light on the global scale of wildfires and their correlation with climate change-induced heatwaves and droughts. The participants express concerns about the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires worldwide, emphasizing the urgent need for governments to take decisive action to mitigate climate change effects. The dialogue underscores the critical importance of reducing global emissions immediately to address the escalating climate crisis and prevent further catastrophic events like unprecedented wildfires and ecosystem destruction.
Links:
- Smokehouse Creek Fire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeho...
- Texas Smokehouse Creek Wildfire: Over 1 Million Acres Burned in Second-Largest Fire in U.S. History
www.forbes.com/sites/brianbus...
- List of U.S. states and territories by GDP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
- Top Texas Commodities
www.texasagriculture.gov/Abou...
- FIRMS US/Canada
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/...
- No 1.5 Without Intervention - CEF Video
• No 1.5 Without Interve...
- Canada on Fire - CEF Video
• Canada on Fire
- Climate Disaster Looks Like Thousands of Boiled-Alive Mussels on a Beach in Vancouver
www.eater.com/22585145/climat...
- Rampant Wildfires are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
www.wired.com/story/rampant-w...
- Vapor pressure deficit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour-...
- Performance of Fire Danger Indices and Their Utility in Predicting Future Wildfire Danger Over the Conterminous United States
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
- Climate Change Will Increase Wildfire Risk and Lengthen Fire Seasons, Study Confirms
www.dri.edu/climate-change-wi...
Regular Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate
Video Production and Panelists:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP Team Lead for the Climate Emergency Forum and Facing Future; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
climateemergencyforum.org/
Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Image and Video: climateemergencyforum.org/ass...
#wildfires #extremeheat #Texas

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@endlessadventure541 2 ай бұрын

This is one of the most informative channels on KZbin. What a shame they have so few subscribers. It goes to show how humans have their heads buried deep in the sand.

@heidibrault1313 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support - very much appreciated!

@J.M.-nb4gw 2 ай бұрын

Exactly 💯 there's a couple thousand people watching videos like this while pop stars, professional athletes and dumbass celebrities get MILLIONS of views to watch whatever bulshit they are doing 😢

@taurusgal75 2 ай бұрын

As a volunteer firefighter in rural Maine, let me just say that we struggle, like most states, with getting volunteers. There is a tremendous amount of training involved and every year, there seems to be more that we need to know. It is difficult to get folks to find time to work full-time, be home for their families and pets, and volunteer. The pager goes off at all hours. It is a big ask - no doubt. However, it is rewarding to help your neighbors and community. Also, I am of the mind that no one will show up to save us except ourselves. If you have a local volunteer fire department, please consider volunteering in some capacity. There is a lot to be done beyond fighting fires. Folks, the government is not going to save us (obvious by their lack of movement on this issue and other issues) - we need to save ourselves and each other.

@carynmartin6053 2 ай бұрын

🎉❤BEST COMMENT EVER 🎉❤😊

@OldJackWolf 2 ай бұрын

We need the Red Cross more involved too. We have to be able to adequately respond within our state and counties, because help many not come as climate impacts accelerate.

@Deep.Development 2 ай бұрын

100% I’m 53 and as you say incredibly busy but after talking to local sheriff office to be a volunteer / reserve deputy I’m leaning towards fire dept. Thanks for all you do!

@thefeelingbelief3904 2 ай бұрын

I just happened upon this channel. Many years ago I predicted that a pandemic would come out of China and affect the global population of humans. Then this came true. I predicted other events that came true. Many years ago I predicted that people would mock climate change scientists and disbelieve their claims. I predicted that climate change is far worse that the models are showing. I predicted an Ice Age is coming to the northern hemispheres, drought in the southern hemispheres. The collapse of the jet stream and amoc. I also predicted that a horrible regime is coming globally, with a tyrannical dictator, and a compelled religion. The religion will say that God will save us all from climate change so we don't have to bother. But I also predicted that some meteors are coming. Not huge ones but enough to cause massive tsunamis. Those waves will put an end to the way humans are locked into inflexible climate destroying paradigms. In other words natural disasters will have their say about how to save the Amazon and so on. Meteors chuck up lots of dust, as do volcanoes, some of the unwanted aspects of climate change might lead to solutions to climate change. So although I agree that the outlook looks dire indeed, I hold out for the unexpected that can arise. I believe there is a future ultimately and that humans will adapt. The Neanderthals faced an Ice Age, their genes are continuing on through us. I will leave this comment up for a while.

@endlessadventure541 2 ай бұрын

Down here in South America we are burning up. I have never felt heat like this. And it gets worse each year.

@dinyhotmail 2 ай бұрын

I am so sorry for you. I know that it is my country, the United States, that caused this. All major oil company executives were warned about this in 1959. Edward teller, an associate to J. Robert Oppenheimer, told them at a meeting. They hid the fact that they knew because their only concern was money. They still lie about this. Our capitalist system in the United States has affected the entire world. There were even university studies that found that one in five business leaders are psychopaths. They don't care about anyone or anything, just their own desires. They didn't even care about the effect that this would have on their own family members. They just wanted more money than they could ever use in their lifetimes. That is psychopathy.

@carynmartin6053 2 ай бұрын

Globalists are thrilled their plan is working...😮

@syphonunfiltered 2 ай бұрын

Where in SA are you and how hot is it

@Spacemonkeymojo 2 ай бұрын

Where in South America?

@davidrathbone4029 2 ай бұрын

That's billions of tons of carbon going straight into the atmosphere in a few days.

@kated3165 2 ай бұрын

In Eastern Canada we are already starting to see small local farmers giving up on the trade. Our growing season has become so unstable, and unpredictable, that they don't know how to adapt anymore. One failed crop after the other doesn't exactly pay the bills...

@carynmartin6053 2 ай бұрын

So, it's all going accordingly for the globalist elites agenda!🎉😮

@mamapretz 2 ай бұрын

Im sure other viewers can agree, we appreciate the effort that goes into these videos. You all have a passion for delivering the information despite the global insanity and lack of response on our devastating predicament. Thank you for another informative video. May we all learn to enjoy the present moment because who knows how much longer we have.

@ClimateEmergencyForum 2 ай бұрын

Thank-you.

@heidibrault1313 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support!

@J.M.-nb4gw 2 ай бұрын

Exactly 💯 live in the present moment cuz there ain't no future 😢

@LithaMoonSong 2 ай бұрын

Interesting that indigenous people in Ontario call this time the 8th fire. Cattle herds should not be rebuilt as farmers and ranchers are planning, the land should be rewilded.

@Silks- 2 ай бұрын

$$$$$$

@dinyhotmail 2 ай бұрын

The Native people understand many things that those of European descent don't. They had a perfectly balanced environment until the Europeans came and destroyed it.

@grimrowntree910 2 ай бұрын

no one ever listens to Natives then after all the sadness and tribulation, they go "oh you all were right, we shouldn't have done that"

@JayTator 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but what about fast food? We gotta eat right?

@lynnhicks997 2 ай бұрын

Hunger coming. You will eat zee bugs.

@cityofwelland634 2 ай бұрын

Very good episode. It is amazing what we get used to and we simply move on. As long as our house isn't on fire we don't care. Like the difference between a recession and a depression, which is a recession is when your neighbor gets laid off and a depression is when you get laid off. So you are right the news needs to speak about this daily and I am convinced nothing will happen until Miami or another major US city gets flooded consistently. Then the news will start to carry this and then perhaps we will begin moving on this disaster. In Canada there have been many disasters like floods and fires and we are still not alarmed. Unfortunately, you will have to keep sending the message that the Climate Emergency Forum needs to keep sending the message. Keep up the great work. Don from Niagara in Canada

@heidibrault1313 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support!

@mrrecluse7002 2 ай бұрын

I quit at 19 minutes in. Heard enough, and know enough. Human nature is our downfall. We are intellectually, and emotionally unable to change horses midstream. We are too addicted to established patterns of consumption. Rather than struggle en mass to embrace less and less, in our compulsion for more and more we would rather go down with the ship, to confront our destiny as an evolutionary dead end. We are at least one living example, in the universe, of a species demonstrating the idea referred to as the "Great Filter."

@Toastcat890 2 ай бұрын

Yep and it's not like we'd have to go back to the stone age we could develop technology that works with nature we'd just have to slowly ditch mass manufacturing and switch to things being made locally and get rid of mass consumption and instead only buy what you really need and find happiness in serving your neighborhood and in simple hobbies. But I'm not stupid enough to believe this will happen unfortunately our best bet is total societal collapse maybe we'll see the change we need if we're forced to make it.

@jaydinledford6990 2 ай бұрын

We shall see

@Zeitgeistboxee 2 ай бұрын

Human nature would be the scapegoat. That's the easy one to lean on. The reality is that human conditioning and its accompanying egos are our downfall. Our human belief in way too many unnatural things is what's killing the planet. Every human spends every waking moment of their lives destroying the planet and trying to scapegoat themselves out of it. You probably put up a Christmas tree right? Celebrated that wonderful unnatural season? A season that goes against absolutely everything natural? You probably are proud to be a member of your country? Proud of your flag? You probably do a really good job at your job too don't you? Just putting in 100% for that paycheck? You have a favorite team that you're cheering on? All of it is fake. Everybody needs to change. Everything. We've moved from deniers to scapegoaters. We don't have a climate change problem. Climate change is an end result of an outrageous human ego system problem. Like floating garbage in the ocean, and plastic in our food etc etc We don't need to fix climate. We've never needed to fix the climate. The climate is simply a reaction to the human disease we've let loose on this planet. Not only the climate but every other living species is at risk of our fake egos and unnatural lives. Keep believing the dream! Keep shopping! Don't look up!

@BradleyWinter-ih7ns 2 ай бұрын

8 billion going on 9

@nsbd90now 2 ай бұрын

Hooray for Newton making an appearance!

@katiepelland-mcdonald2787 2 ай бұрын

This isn’t the scientists fault. Our senators and representatives are smart enough to understand the scientists messages. Money and power desires have taken politicians over. Thanks Supreme Court and Citizens United.

@austinp.5024 2 ай бұрын

We need to address the U.S. Empire. Please do a show discussing the U.S. military's carbon emmissions. It is the single largest polluting entity on Earth.

@daviribeiro8846 2 ай бұрын

We I having a heat wave at São Paulo ...it is almosy 35 dtgrees in April ....

@personalkelly11 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for another great episode. Regina, Love that backdrop today.

@ClimateEmergencyForum 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kelly, and also for helping to spread the word.

@carinwiseman4309 2 ай бұрын

We are already over 1.5. What are people thinking? I guess they are not thinking.

@robertlussier2944 2 ай бұрын

When information such as presented here is continually ridiculed as "woke" rhetoric, the uneducated voice is often louder than the studied voice due to the easy access to the amplifier of unfiltered social media. We won't get those folks agreeing about the issue until it is right upon us, then they will complain, "why weren't we warned?" 😢

@mamapretz 2 ай бұрын

So true. Recently watched a video of ppl in Salisbury Mass that had 600k worth of sand dunes washed away in 1 day and they spoke with a resident there who STILL didn’t believe in climate change. “I’m not a climate change guy” he said.

@ronaldturner4849 2 ай бұрын

The question that keeps reverberating is: "What will it take?" There's a scene in that Monty Python comedy about the quest for the Holy Grail wherein the crew are battling a stubborn Knight. One limb after another gets chopped off until he has none left but keeps on resisting anyway, with only bloody stumps remaining. Climate deniers exhibit the same degree of stubborn tenacity.

@volkerengels5298 2 ай бұрын

OUR woke excuse is like *_'cause deniers didn't get it'_* ....That's the better lie?

@jayleeper1512 2 ай бұрын

They will simply blame what ever political party they didn’t vote for and deny any responsibility themselves.

@JMW-ci2pq 2 ай бұрын

“This channel “ is vastly understating what is happening. It is also supportive of false narrative “solutions”.

@davidwalker2942 2 ай бұрын

I saw an analysis several years ago which indicated that it was questionable whether areas burned (or clear cut) in western and southwestern U.S. would be able to regenerate when drought is combined with temperatures significantly higher than historical norms. Are there any scientific papers mentioning this?

@freeheeler09 2 ай бұрын

Yes, those papers exist though I don’t have any that I can remember without looking them up. You can see old clear cuts and burn scars where the forests are replaced with grass and shrubland. A well documented example is the Foresta area of Yosemite National Park, chaparral now after1969 and 2010 fires. I may e off by a year. A concurrent issue is the spread of early season, annual grasses like cheatgrass and smooth brome, which take spring water from seedlings and spread fire along the lower elevations of Western forests. Add cattle overgrazing and development and oaks, conifers, etc. throughout North America are not coming back.

@timeenoughforart 2 ай бұрын

I have been watching burn areas for decades hoping to see sagebrush return. No luck yet. I have seen "experts" suggesting 100 years for the sage brush to return. This is particularly concerning because sagebrush should be thriving in a dryer warmer period.

@markfrancis5164 2 ай бұрын

In London, UK, we’ve had T-shirt weather in February, 2024. No frosts, no snow, more rain than 130 years of records but very mild. Hello to Newton!

@dalek7804 2 ай бұрын

Alberta’s forest fires started in February this year.

@alexi2460 2 ай бұрын

Heart breaking, such a beautiful area of north America.

@KellyRae.. 2 ай бұрын

Succulents fire breaks especially surrounding power lines and borders of protection. Thanks for all your do. Godspeed 🫶🎼🌎

@nonearlylove 2 ай бұрын

Thank You Paul Beckwith..! My 'go to' guy. Gallows Humor and all..! He does his homework..!

@sumiland6445 2 ай бұрын

We just had heavy rain go through the panhandle of Texas yesterday. Hope it put out ... at least some of it 🥺

@sumiland6445 2 ай бұрын

Any possibility these fires are being set in the south-east states of USA? Russia? Saudis? Who benefits from the southeastern states being destroyed by fires?

@brockshen 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love genuine humans and well presented content. Subscribed.

@heidibrault1313 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support!

@TheDoomWizard 2 ай бұрын

My home state. So glad I left.

@emmaprophet2881 2 ай бұрын

First off, I want to say I always enjoy watching your programs and gain information from each one that I watched. I really do appreciate the effort that you put into these programs. My perspective is different because of the fact that I live in northwestern Oklahoma. Though I don’t disagree with what you are saying I do see the situation differently.. I have experience with prairie fires and they are much worse than when I was younger. It is a crisis that we are having to face that is not going to get easier. The problem is you cannot just remove the cattle from the prairie and expected to survive in a viable ecosystem. Prairie land has to be grazed. The vertically,integrated industrialized beef production in the United States is not sustainable system, but we will have to find something to replace it. Rewilding the prairies is a noble idea, but is not possible with the way the world is today. We will never see 20 million buffalo roaming this prairie along with elk and antelope. It is a much more complicated issue than what you are putting forth where everyone just becomes vegan and the problem will be solved. I would appreciate you to address the carbon footprint of the industrial production that row crops including usage of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides with the transport, storage and application of them all and the huge requirement of diesel fuel in all industrial farming.

@danielfaben5838 2 ай бұрын

Complicated indeed. As long as we seem to require transport of goods (food) then someone will come up with ways to make it less labor intensive and more power intensive. That includes creation and distribution of chemicals and machines that take the natural perspective away from those things that ought to be life giving. Nothing can replace those things that are not sustainable. Thinking otherwise appears foolish in the extreme. So the real problem is not eating meat but being humans in such great numbers so as to imbalance everything we touch.

@OldJackWolf 2 ай бұрын

Prairies were maintained through time with natural wildfires and buffalos. Not sure how you can replace that, but know just like other landscapes, there's no going back now. CO2 is too long lived a molecule to allow the return to the original state. And I believe that ag contributes about a third of the greenhouse gases.

@JMW-ci2pq 2 ай бұрын

@@OldJackWolf It takes @least 3square miles of healthy wild-lands to support one one kg hawk. It takes x square miles of healthy: tropics; reef; glaciers; etc to support each and every 3square miles of healthy wild-lands for each and every 1kg Hawk and so on... For each and every volume of healthy wild-land & for each and every 1kg hawk a minimum volume of healthy reef; varied types of forest; grass-lands (like savannah); glacier; potable water;etc . Is needed This ratio holds for nearly if not ALL vertebrates (yes this includes ALL monkeys, even the hairless ones). Ergo the number of any apex species is limited to the benefit of all others which promotes bio-complexity. This obeys thermodynamics and gravitational harmonics. ~90% of All anthropogenic thermal mass since slash & burn (including heat and CO2) is in the oceans. Ocean Temperatures for Last 700000 Years kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4quloZ_Z8xmsJY There is no mistake as to temp increase overall b/c of humans. For each added milligram of any thermal-mass: mined; drilled; burned Earth's rate of heating accelerates continually. Earth's Atmosphere&Oceans experience an increase in avg pressure. Earth's Oceans experience an increase in avg rate of expansion. Earth's rate of out-gassing H2 increases Earth's rate of Bio - Complexity Loss increases continuously. Earth's rate of Extinctions of Species and Life Viable Eco-Systems Accelerates.

@mikapeltokorpi7671 2 ай бұрын

This was the first time, I heard about Texas fires.

@tornadoclips2022 2 ай бұрын

It’s not looking good…

@katehartley2333 2 ай бұрын

I have been living in BC for the last 15 years and even in that short time I've seen a difference in the seasons here and several "Once in a millennia events". When the first heat dome happened here a few years ago I was working as a janitor in a highrise and as a housekeeper and having to do labor in those conditions was horrifying enough for me but, who I truly felt bad for was the outdoor laborers. Inside was hot too because many didn't have A/C due to the normally temperate climate. We need to quit designing out cities as concrete slabs and our buildings and outdoor spaces with cooling in mind as well.

@concerned_2023 2 ай бұрын

I'm in Canada and our carbon tax, the tax we pay to protect the climate is increasing 23 percent yet it doesn't seem to be making a difference. Many Canadians also get a rebate to buy more fossil fuel. It's so confusing. Personally I planted over 100 emerald trees on my half acre. Canadians are threatened with Climate change as if we were solely responsible.

@daviribeiro8846 2 ай бұрын

It had resch 50, fifties degree at Argentina .....image that 50

@nsbd90now 2 ай бұрын

The song "Baby's On Fire" by Brian Eno comes to mind for some reason.

@gregwilvert 2 ай бұрын

Or how about Burn in Hell by Sammy Hagar

@BROWNDIRTWARRIOR 2 ай бұрын

I suppose the big irony here is cattle and oil -- two staples of the Texas economy -- are big greenhouse gas contributors.

@freeheeler09 2 ай бұрын

What is wild is that most countries (80%) are increasingly dependent upon food imports for some or most of their food. Some of the highest food import rates are in regions like the Middle East that grow the lowest percentage of their own food. The North American countries are some of the few that are still net food importers. The fires in the primary cattle growing region of Texas have impacted cattle production. And food production In general in Texas has been reduced by heat and drought in recent years. Meanwhile, as our ability to feed ourselves rapidly decreases, our population is still increasing.

@freeheeler09 2 ай бұрын

Mistyped, highest population growth rates in regions like the Middle East that grow the lowest percentage of their food.

@brownwhale5518 2 ай бұрын

I’m not so sure our population is on a trajectory to even replace itself. Some researchers are saying we are experiencing a net decline in population over the next several decades.

@voltrevolt8731 2 ай бұрын

Such a fascinating and excellent episode, thanks so much. And I thought I had a dark sense of humor -- Paul's got me beat with the charbroiled burgers. I also think Regina's point about the feedback effects of fire on the economy of Texas is critical to consider. These types of feedback loops don't get examined as much, because we're always trying to understand the feedback loops and tipping points between various climate phenomena that are developing. It sort of goes without saying that the effects on human civilization will be devastating, but it's worthwhile to spend some time understanding specifically how this happens in a larger sense, beyond the immediate destructive effects of a flood or a fire. And understanding how indigenous people managed the land for thousands of years is so, so critical -- one reason I advocate strongly for the return of stolen lands to its original inhabitants. Thanks to Peter for the tip about the AGU paper too, looks like very interesting reading.

@heidibrault1313 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support - much appreciated!

@SkepticalTeacher 2 ай бұрын

Please look at issues around climate and crop failure. Very few people have gone into detail about this, at least that I can find.

@vthilton 2 ай бұрын

Save Our Planet Now!

@JeffHiemstra 2 ай бұрын

Vegan 🌱 ten years now. Born 1973

@user-kv7bs7ug8u 2 ай бұрын

Newton is adorable ❤

@donze52 2 ай бұрын

that 200 billion given to other nations around the world could sure been spent on fire equipment including fleet of water hauling planes--

@bringhomethebasil8729 2 ай бұрын

One day we aren’t going to have any water to fight the fires.

@neverrl3379 2 ай бұрын

Some friends of my parents pre ordered a vacation to a ski resort. But all they could do there in February was take long walks through the mountains at 12 degrees Celsius.

@danielfaben5838 2 ай бұрын

Very good analysis of the issues. Actually dealing with the predicament is another thing. The "natural" method that cannot be discussed in public is to have human numbers reduced, especially those in industrialized countries. It appears too late for birth control to act in a meaningful time frame as essential as that may be. The natural outcome of overshoot is collapse. This is not really a controversial topic for those who witness the flux of animal populations. Are we so radically different and special? Delay of the inevitable is not a cure. Waiting for research/tech/government to enable continuance of the issue created by research/tech/government seems absurd.

@concerned_2023 2 ай бұрын

When researching CO2 contributions we're told is from fossil fuels and cow farts but we don't discuss the human element because we are natural and are not included in the calculations. Yet the population has more than doubled in the last 50 years.

@sparkybob1023 2 ай бұрын

So. The privileged academic class, consumes so much. So the working class might just eat the rich.

@anandasmom 2 ай бұрын

You're dangerous

@lindarose2327 2 ай бұрын

Saying to stop the fossil industry without explaining about the aerosol masking effect (global dimming) and dealing with that problem is avoiding really doing anything. AND There is a ten year time lag between the actions of today and when those effects will be felt.

@daviribeiro8846 2 ай бұрын

Sorrow

@michaelschiessl8357 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Regina ,Paul,and Peter for another great presentation..Nothing is going to get done from all the world's countries.. they all depend far too much on their GDP from mining of coal and production of oil and natural gas there needs to be financial incentives for them to stop and reverse all of the damage, reverse the amount of pollution and carbon and methane going into the atmosphere..I dont know how much of Canada's Gross National Product is coming from sale of these resources but the US is over 10% combined from oil,gas,and coal..Russia's is over 20% and Saudi Arabia's is also over 20%..these countries are using the profit from all this on war mongering and producing and selling weapons of war..This money could go into cleaning up our atmosphere and our planet but these countries are more interested in starting wars around the world instead..Until that changes..if it ever does..we arent going to see any change..Very unfortunate and very sad indeed!! Thanks Paul for including Newton great to see him!!

@Lyra0966 2 ай бұрын

"We need to do....." is always the question asked by experts such as Peter and Paul. "We are not doing....." remains the reality. Tragically, I really can't see much changing over the coming years. The capitalist juggernaut will keep on hurtling forward until it drags most of us over the cliff.

@unbiasedthoughts7875 2 ай бұрын

100% correct

@davidwischer3684 2 ай бұрын

What about aerosols dropping out of the atmosphere with reduction of CO2 emissions (estimate is of every 35% reduction of CO2 emissions that will cause abrupt 1C heating)

@Toastcat890 2 ай бұрын

Who didn't see this coming though Texas has always been hot it was only a matter of time before wildfires became a problem there.

@EmeraldView 2 ай бұрын

Love Newton

@waynesutherland-rs6ct 2 ай бұрын

fellow the money!!!!

@grahamkearnon6682 2 ай бұрын

Have you guys ever heard of British Columbia, take a look, it's fires dwarf anything in the states.

@OldJackWolf 2 ай бұрын

Of course! Its just that the US population is so much bigger than yours. Good luck.

@reverands571 2 ай бұрын

I expect that the soils in Texas were really dry to start with, and the fires only make it worse. Dry soil heats up quickly, in the Sun, leading to a higher temperature, in the Almanac, day after day (or the sayttelite reading).

@stevefitt9538 2 ай бұрын

I have been saying for about 7 mon. now, that the only hope now is a program of rationing in developed nations to reduce carbon emissions, combined with some geoengineering projects to reflect sunlight to buy time to reduce CO2 in the air. We had rationing in WWII, why not now? Geoengineering will be a problem for some regions. I have no idea which ones, and I'd oppose research to predict which regions. As long as policy setters do not know which ones will be more damaged, they can't aim the damage on places they don't live. Frankly, it is way too late. This is the only hope. Anything less has no chance of keeping us under +3 deg. C. BTW --- Prof. Steve Keen, an economist, has been saying this for about 1,5 years now.

@alexi2460 2 ай бұрын

Agriculture cultivation and community building with infrastructure needs to be science driven not greedy real estate or industrial animal breeding

@b43xoit 2 ай бұрын

Changes in forms of government are necessary. Each nation's legislature should include a chamber of women elected by women, to decide human fertility and the means to achieve it.

@pierrechildress8875 2 ай бұрын

The idea that vlounteer firefighters are going to fight these rapidly intensifying wildfires (even in their nascent states) is a recipe for disaster and serious loss of life.

@dchapero6929 2 ай бұрын

It’s over. In the US, if any of the requisite measures to even slow temp rise result in a declining standard of living, there is little possibility it will happen.

@davidalexanderlourie4371 2 ай бұрын

Texas would have numerous large volume methane lesks from all of those wells and fracking. Surely those are likely sources of volitile material increasing the chance of interfacing points of ignition.

@user-dm3ok7rf6l 2 ай бұрын

As our forests burn {James Hansen said that many moons ago

@michaelrichie5 2 ай бұрын

Greed and selfishness has and will continue to drive humanity. The environment comes in last as it has from the beginning of time. I am extremely disappointed in our species.

@Zeitgeistboxee 2 ай бұрын

Don't look up.

@eonoe11 2 ай бұрын

How bad is it gonna get? Try uninhabitable.

@ppetal1 2 ай бұрын

What i am getting from USA social media is the ecological benefits of wildfires. For example, beneficial to carbon fixing, deep-rooted, native prairie species. Any thoughts?

@SkepticalTeacher 2 ай бұрын

I'm sure that this would be true under normal circumstances because you have a natural life cycle. However, what is happening now is clearly way beyond that.

@timeenoughforart 2 ай бұрын

It is important to remember the ecological benefits happen in a healthy environment. In an unhealthy environment fires remove native species and replace them with invasive ones. Combine the fires with cattle grazing and these ecosystems are decimated.

@jaydinledford6990 2 ай бұрын

The US is led by Christian fascists that deeply desire the end of the world

@russmarkham2197 2 ай бұрын

Texas will be unlivable by humans quite soon. want another thought?

@MyKharli 2 ай бұрын

Less climate coverage than ever imo , just the usual irrelevant good news stories peppered about .Constant bad news does not sell apparently and as the message never gets taken to the top nothing happens . Its field improvement grants leading to excessively deep drainage ditches that allow neighboring damp woods to now dry up in dry spells and are now a fire hazard here in Scotland .

@proudchristian77 Ай бұрын

Awe, cute puppy, 🐾💝

@woodchipgardens9084 Ай бұрын

Have you heard of Pine Needles and Grass Seed in Canada.

@nicholashamilton-do2dw 2 ай бұрын

Seed burned public land with endangered open pollinated grains, fruits, nuts,beans, berries ect. Permaculture at the landscape level is the best food security for our collective future.

@bobbresnahan8397 2 ай бұрын

We must stop burning things in our everyday life. We have to build solar and wind generation fast and huge, build large storage farms for electricity, and strengthen and expand our grid. We have to debunk the myths about EVs and accelerate the transition to all-electric homes. We have to accelerate the transition in agriculture. Every little thing we can each do individually and every big thing that needs to be done bv government.

@jimgraham6722 2 ай бұрын

It will ruin the ski resorts

@daviribeiro8846 2 ай бұрын

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@daviribeiro8846 2 ай бұрын

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@elizabethpears307 2 ай бұрын

And regarding the torrential rainfall - learn from Africa’s green wall that is in progress. There are solutions, we always just think we are smarter for some insane reason.

@justmenotyou3151 2 ай бұрын

Volunteers for fighting wildfires. Ya, no. In the US, the states pull in professional wildfire firefighters from all over. Every now and then, they get killed. They are the professionals, and you want volunteers.

@b43xoit 2 ай бұрын

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