Ummm, Climate Change Is Right Behind Me Isn't it

[@mathewkelly9968]

I live in rural Australia even the most dyed in the wool farmer who votes Nationals acknowledges climate change by this stage , although the party they vote for doesn't

[@Jaq2Jack]

I wish we could better educate our rural citizens (from Tassie myself). It's so frustrating that the less educated you are, the more likely you'll vote for leopards

[@keyboardoracle1044]

@@Jaq2JackI still encounter a lot of farmers in denial.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

I'm in Canada and after a hurricane hit part of The Maritimes doesn't matter how socially conservative and rural people are in that region they all recognize the reality of climate change now.

[@JPH1138]

Nah, there was some guy on Facebook telling people that talking about summers in Canada or the US that 'we had a very mild Summer here in Australia', by which he apparently meant 'the third-hottest since records began'. I suppose he could be a Russian troll pretending, or maybe he lives somewhere in Tasmania and never reads anything about the rest of the country.

[@keyboardoracle1044]

@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot half my state burnt and people still wanted to blame the “greens” for not letting authorities do forest management. Ignoring the record dry and hot winters that pre set conditions for these fires.

[@QT5656]

"Climate is an ill-tempered beast, and we are poking it with sticks" Wally Broecker

[@langdons2848]

"Poking it with sticks?" more like we're on its back, slamming our spurs into its flanks, assuming that it's going to meekly take us to the shops...

[@QT5656]

@@langdons2848 Wally did say that over 25 years ago. I've more recently used the phrase "hitting it with a baseball bat"

[@langdons2848]

@@QT5656 fair enough for the time then.

[@RealTalkWithRickyPaquiot]

*YIKES.* This is *NOT* livable.

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

Global Warming Personified as a Villian: "Who said anything about living?"

[@dynamicworlds1]

Nuremberg fossil fuel executives when?

[@Power_to_the_people567]

@@dynamicworlds1There is currently an investigation similar to what happened to the tobacco industry being done by some democrats in the US congress. Unfortunately the fossil fuels industry provided thousands of documents but their filled them up with reductions hiding most of the key information required to form a definitive report of what they have been doing to exploit the planet and the people. Sadly its a bit too late imo.

[@arcturionblade1077]

You'll be happy to hear that the wealthiest billionaires will be cozy and comfortable in their bunker compounds while the world melts and burns.

[@Maya_Ruinz]

As someone who lived in Kuwait and Iraq for a few years, it’s livable but it takes time to get used to. Without water availability then yeah it’s pretty much impossible.

[@barnesmultimedia2725]

Our planet is like the Titanic. After the ship hit the iceberg, it took 3 hours to sink. Everything seemed fine. All holy hell broke out in the last 15 minutes.

[@Forcoy]

The earth won't die from climate change, no matter how scarred. Humanity has suffered through much worse than this before we even had civilization. We can survive.

[@friedrichjunzt]

​@@Forcoy Yeah, there have been much higher Temperatures on earth Millions of years ago. The question is, how many of us will survive. There will be wars, billions will die.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Earth isn't Titanic. This planet went through much worse than what we are doing. It's not a planet that is in danger. It is us.

[@smolmoru]

​@@Forcoy you missed the point. this won't make humanity go extinct. everyone knows that, but same as the captain and crew who ignored the ice warnings, sped up instead and rammed into an iceberg, humanity did this by ignoring the warnings for decades. even now many people still shut their eyes and ears, pretending everything's alright and fixable, while there is a giant gashing hole in the side of this ship and it's taking in water faster and faster. doesn't mean everyone will die. not every person on the titanic died, but only barely 1/3 survived. if we keep on pretending that everything's fine and no big changes need to be done we might see less than 1/3 of humanity survive this worldwide catastrophe. with some 8,1 billion being around that's 5,4 billion potential deaths. just because it's slow doesn't mean it's not dangerous. and I haven't even mentioned all the flora and fauna that we humans have doomed to go extinct indefinitely, because of our own selfish and ignorant actions.

[@QT5656]

@@Forcoy Humans will survive but civilization will not unless more action is taken. Enjoy coffee and chocolate while you can they will be some of the first food to increase in price.

[@thaenaa]

If you've found it hard to convince a boomer of climate change, just ask them why we don't have problems with insects hitting our windshields anymore

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

Boomers have known the entire time...who do you think taught Gen X in 9th grade biology?

[@justinokraski3796]

What?

[@Bagel920]

I mean I’ve been hitting more bugs with my windshield, so it’s really a regional thing. This won’t work on every boomer

[@Karlswebb]

@@Sc4recrow44If anything there’s more insects now lol

[@maroonmaroonmaroon2985]

Not true

[@Lilitha11]

These are like the temps we used to get(pre global warming) in Death Valley, you know the place called Death Valley because of the heat.

[@LowStuff]

And Death Valley is a dry place. These temps are now happening in tropics and subtropics. Those places can become unsustainable for human life.

[@Trace-l7k]

Wet bulb temperature is the real deal. Killer heat is REAL.

[@Trace-l7k]

Wet bulb temperature is the real deal. Killer heat is REAL.

[@aguspuig6615]

i thought it was because of the death

[@Lilitha11]

@@aguspuig6615 Yeah, death caused by the heat.

[@QT5656]

Venezuela has now lost its glaciers. Official this week.

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

Venezuela? Don't you mean Argentina or Chile?

[@seanbeadles7421]

@@InfiniteDeckhandnah the ones in Argentina and Chile are going strong, but on the northern side of mountain peaks in Venezuela had small glaciers in the shadow.

[@kiwi_2_official]

its*

[@QT5656]

@@kiwi_2_official 🏆

[@duskpede5146]

@@seanbeadles7421 oh lol i thought this was a meme at first

[@kayvee256]

The wet bulb temperature is the local temperature taken with a thermometer that is covered with a wet cloth. It's typically contrasted to the dry bulb temperature which is taken in shade. The wet bulb temperature is typically lower, with the degree to which it is lower depending on things like ambient temperature, air pressure, wind, and humidity. The wet bulb temperature represents the theoretical minimum temperature down to which sweating alone can bring a person's body temperature. If that temperature gets close to or higher than human resting body temperature, this means that the human body cannot cool itself down to survivable levels in those environments, so unaided survival in such environments is typically measurable in hours. That cutover point where unaided human survivle becomes impossible is often referred to as the "critical wet bulb temperature".

[@friedrichjunzt]

Yeah there are camculators on the Web, so you can calculate whether the current heat wave is going to [unalive] you.

[@Trace-l7k]

Just wait till the a/c stops working.

[@GreenJalapenjo]

Thank you. I was so confused by this when I first heard the term a few years ago. Media talked about places reaching "the wet bulb temperature", I googled what the wet bulb temperature was, the answer was that it's a way to measure the temperature where the thermometer is wet. ??? wet thermometers can be at any temperature I wish more people were specific and used the term "critical wet bulb temperature" when that's what they mean.

[@kayvee256]

@@GreenJalapenjo Yep. It's a side effect of people just reading the headline and *maybe* skimming an article or two. I wish people did more reading too but they won't.

[@GreenJalapenjo]

@@kayvee256 When the headline is wrong, that's a problem with the headline, not with people reading it.

[@brunohommerding3416]

I dont know how aware the rest of the world is, but here in the south of Brazil we are currently having the worst flood season in recorded history. There are thousands of people losing homes and if you watch the videos its unbelievable, half of cities underwater, huge bridges that have never been flooded before are now completely covered. People stuck on the roof of their homes waiting rescue by helicopter because its impossible to leave or get to them otherwise, its apocalyptic

[@donnerrizza5104]

In México we are losing lakes and having droughts, although we are not enteringly sure if cok colá and others are part of the problem or if they are the only problem

[@rainbowkrampus]

I've seen a bit of coverage. Not much though. And I tend to actively follow climate change news. Like a lot of these things, most people aren't paying attention to the writing on the wall.

[@brunohommerding3416]

@@rainbowkrampus Try to look into it if you are interested in climate chaneg news. Its absolutely insane, there are places completely flooded that i have never in my life pictured it would be possible for the water to reach. For instance in Porto Alegre, the capital of the southernmost state here in Brazil we have water reaching far into the city where it has never reached before in history. There were police cars patrolling the streets and broadcasting messages for people to leave the area because the water could reach there any moment.

[@pllpsy665]

First time I hear about it. Up North the press is too busy covering the "death of comedy" and how cool is that Elon is taking photos with Milei.

[@walexander8378]

There are plenty of one in 500 year natural disaster events happening every year. Everybody is aware. Maybe not of specifics but yeah we're all aware even if some of us deny it.

[@Hubba404]

A cruel fate await billions: escaping stifling heat along the coastal lowlands for the relative relief of the highland plateaus only to be gunned down by fucking Lara Croft!

[@Demagora]

At least the butler won't have to worry about wet bulb temps while he's stuck in the freezer.

[@rainbowkrampus]

The Brits are gonna have to go hard on the whole CRISPR thing if they ever want to succeed at producing an army of Lara Crofts.

[@DaxBruce-kv4vf]

Coastal landlords gonna be filling insurance claims when their assets are LITERALLY under water 😂😂😂

[@theboyisnotright6312]

I certainly hope so 🙂

[@avelhabolachuda]

I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and nonstop rain is literally destroying my state as we speak. And some idiots still say it's all coincidence

[@kevinthecat9704]

The main problem is that most of the Carbon in the atmosphere was deposited underground during the Carboniferous period as coal. Before the Carboniferous there was only small coastal forests while the inland was essentially barren. The global forest that emerged during the Carboniferous sucked huge amounts of Carbon out of the atmosphere without anything to put it back in. The forest spread extremely suddenly, and since animals had little time to adapt to the inland yet and didn't their cycling was completely outmatched by plants. Once plants died, their carbon would either be used by other plants or get decomposed by fungi to become pete which becomes coal. But once enough CO2 was sucked out the climate cooled, water levels dropped from the expanding glaciers and the world became dryer. Less water=less plants, and the end of the global forest. Since then it's been more balanced. And that's the problem. There's no global forest to keep it in and animals have spread around the world helping keep carbon in the atmosphere through their waste. The Carboniferous coal that would have been trapped in the crust is suddenly burned and stays in the atmosphere. oops.

[@Cryo_Gen]

this isnt entirely correct. fungi hadnt evolved yet so all the dead trees literally just sat there until it was covered in sediment. We will never get coal again

[@page8301]

Rejoice then, because corporations are now planning to ruin marine eco systems in their brain dead enterprise of ever increasing profits!

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

It's because bacteria and fungi didn't immediately adopt to break down plant matters.

[@tomlxyz]

​@@Cryo_Gen not from wood but a new type of plant material might form

[@kevinthecat9704]

@@Cryo_Gen fungi did exist back then. They have existed since the mesoproterozoic. In fact, fungi are the main reason we have land plants today because they broke down rocks into soil that plants could grow from.

[@ApexEater]

Was 114° and 107 daily average high for 3 weeks here in east TX last year with humidity between 40-50% middle of the day last year. It was rolling record temps day after day and 20-30 year old trees just dropped dead. Magnolias, water oaks, sweetleaf by the thousands dead and people just shrugged it off by saying texas gets hot.

[@aegisfate117]

Rip to the flora and fauna of Texas

[@ApexEater]

@@aegisfate117 Might as well just water them with crude oil when it gets dry.

[@Power_to_the_people567]

Texans are going to have the realization of the generation when they find out Texas will be one of the first states to be uninhabitable due to climate change in the future. Canadians are going to treat Texans how Texans treat South American immigrants. Canada so far it is positioned to survive a lot of the climate change due to its geological location

[@ApexEater]

@@Power_to_the_people567 I think the theocratic fascists will just invade Canada under some anti-woke rationalizations or maybe they'll say they have to denazify a province or 2. Be hard for the poor Canucks to defend all that almost empty territory. Fascism is a b1+ch. My advice is for EU and Canada to invest some effort in fighting right wing and chinese/russian propaganda to destroy this deeply flawed democracy from within. It's gonna be unhealthy for every human alive if it falls to fascism.

[@renawhitlock6752]

texas could literally be fully submerged underwater from sea levels rising and texans would still try to convince you that it was always like that

[@jonathancampbell6619]

But... But... But.. Fox News told me climate change isn't real.

[@chromie6571]

If we simply turn up the AC, don’t go outside and watch Fox all day it’ll almost be like it’s not real

[@friedrichjunzt]

Later they will tell us that jewish space lasers heated up the atmosphere. 😵‍💫

[@Nahid-125]

​@@friedrichjunztNo, They will say it’s bible prophecy.

[@Cholesterol-w1j]

The more the earth heats the more whitey gets sunburned

[@xthelegend89]

They don’t say it’s not real, they say it’s not caused by humans. What a fun way to avoid accountability AND doom us all.

[@AUG_XZABER]

Can we just start calling "Natural Gas" for what it really is, which is mostly methane.

[@pllpsy665]

It's beautiful organic free range gas. CH4 Is love. CH4 is life.

[@QT5656]

​@@pllpsy665 You are a fool.

[@Cholesterol-w1j]

Fart

[@QT5656]

@@pllpsy665 Fool.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Fossil gas

[@camelidnt]

I swear, the only thing that kind of offsets the incredible sadness of knowing how much damage climate change is doing on so many fronts is that I can sequester all of my frustration into one big "I told you so" I can say to my conservative family members which only gets stronger the more I delay it.

[@rainbowkrampus]

Yesssssss The key to combating doomerism is pure, unmitigated spite. More people need to understand this.

[@QT5656]

It hurts to type this but I have a similar feeling. I studied climate change at university in 2001 and anthropogenic climate change is happening just as warned. For years few of my friends and family wanted to hear the warnings.

[@Trace-l7k]

No one listens to facts anymore. Just look at ‘Merican politics. Alternative facts are all some know.

[@DaxBruce-kv4vf]

Take solace: when modern civilization falls, there will be large numbers of humans who won’t even notice. 👍🤗

[@DaxBruce-kv4vf]

@@rainbowkrampusnahhhh. Be happy, no more modern civilization problems 🤗🤗🤗

[@dolphineshong7913]

7 am here in Philippines feels like 12 noon from 5 years ago😑

[@axelfoley133]

I live in Australia but have friends in the Philippines. They're sharing weather forecasts showing heat index of 45-50 degrees (in sensible units... Vaush! Lol)

[@aegisfate117]

Look up "AMOC Collapse" if that happens then it could actually get really cold suddenly. Or it could keep getting hotter if all the ice melts and we get a BOE

[@Alex_the_Dad]

Michigan has started posting articles about how winter has started to go missing, we feel it too even if our summers don't often go past 100⁰f

[@QT5656]

@@aegisfate117 If the AMOC collapses it could get much colder in Europe but other parts of the world like the Carribbean will cook.

[@QT5656]

@@Alex_the_Dad Winters warming faster than summers is one of Jim Hansen's famous and accurate predictions related to warming by CO2.

[@dragonicdoom3772]

The problem with any method of countering climate change is its like planting a tree: the best time to start was 50 years ago

[@pioneershark2230]

Most of these are things that would have an effect immediately

[@raspberrybitch4299]

Best time to start was 50 years ago. Second best time is right now.

[@TheSolarWolf]

What’s preventing you from planting trees now?

[@dragonicdoom3772]

@@TheSolarWolf Nothing, my point was that we should have been taking more action against climate change earlier. Because as we're trying to come up with methods to tackle it, convince politicians to approve them and then actually put them into effect, the situation is only getting worse. I don't mean to be doomery, just saying things will probably get worse before they get better.

[@SigFigNewton]

@@pioneershark2230carbon capture and storage usually fails and where it succeeds in modest quantities, it actually makes things worse. Companies use one unit of carbon stored as an excuse to emit four more units. Rather than simply investing in accelerating the rate of battery development so we can power cities at night on solar, which is the actual future

[@nevaladder]

Remember, the forecast may say 114°, bit that doesn't account for the humidity which makes it actually feel way hotter.

[@ranbummerz729]

Yep. My bf is in south Asia in a city that is 95 F on paper, but the high humidity makes it feel like 110 F

[@Metallijosh100]

I checked the weather in an Indian city some colleagues of mine live in today and it said "35, feels like 48" I couldn't believe my eyes... imagine the places where it's actually 43+, must feel like 55+, genuinely insane.

[@impartialthrone2097]

Sounds like we need to be doing all of the things simultaneously. Swtiching to nuclear and green energy, reflecting sunlight back out, cloud seeding, and carbon capture on the condition that there's actually a safe and sustainable way to store it. But getting the whole world to agree to do this isn't exactly likely to happen.

[@dynamicworlds1]

Storing CO2 is functionally impossible. Sequestering hydrocarbons is possible.

[@Power_to_the_people567]

Carbon capture tech is a proxy used by the Fossil fuel industry to justify their continued existence

[@impartialthrone2097]

@@dynamicworlds1 I saw someone mention that carbon is used in turning iron into steel in electronic furnaces, but I don't know how much carbon that would actually use up

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@impartialthrone2097 Probably not enough to even offset the heating of the furnace

[@ayaa9076]

Putting plants everywhere and restoring destroyed habitat

[@Argumemnon]

Well, the industrial age was fun. I say we welcome this oven age with open arms.

[@raspberrybitch4299]

Was it tho? I liked some things but this age sucked.

[@abramfedorov4483]

I wish the world cared about stuff other than money, old rivalries and hate for humanity. It'd be nice if we cared about life and people.

[@CoinsBand]

Thanks for talking about this. I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out how to communicate what’s going on without literally trying to become an influencer myself. We need information saturation, everyone needs to be talking about this. Sea-ice melting and massive ocean level rising isn’t far away and everything needs to change.

[@CoinsBand]

Also yeah carbon capture is absolutely not going to work. Lots of expensive, failed projects. It doesn’t begin to touch the sides of the issue and takes so much power just to run when we should just stop producing that carbon in the first place. AND the promise of the tech is more frequently used as a reason to escape the responsibility of reducing emissions.

[@SigFigNewton]

@@CoinsBanddefinitely more harm than good from carbon capture so far. Money diverted away from the real solutions into this thing that gives greenhouse gas emitters excuses and talking points while extending their time increasing greenhouse gas concentrations

[@caoisekamay1175]

Yeah this is awful. I'm from the Philippines and I've known 2 people already who have died from heatstroke

[@agentzapdos4960]

Sweet, my daily dose of doomerism.

[@anupamsen200]

cringe doomer bad

[@theatheistpaladin]

No, it's bitter. 🤢

[@scottvelez3154]

I take my daily dose of coomerism

[@knights-armo]

@@anupamsen200to be fair i would bet money that most people in this comment section are depressed or have severe anxiety

[@kimwelch4652]

We've been talking about this for decades (COP 3 was in 1997 ), and you still have to explain it everybody. Unfortunately, while we sort-of have the technology, all our resources are invested in the global economy so there is no money to do geo-engineering (unless you have a few quadrillion Euros or Dollars laying around.) As long as we measure our survival in monetary terms, we cannot afford to survive.

[@sentryion3106]

As long as geo engineering can’t generate profit it will never be taken seriously. Honestly government entities are the only one that will it to power, but that’s difficult since government also go where profit is

[@kimwelch4652]

@@sentryion3106 In most western countries, all the profit is in private business while the government is in heavy debt. Businesses only care about increasing wealth not survival of the species. There is less cost and more profit in extinction. Humans are not rational animals.

[@recurrenTopology]

It's not cheap, but the projected cost of stratospheric aerosol injection sufficient to counteract global warming is several orders of magnitude less then what you are suggesting. The cost of halting global warming under the pessimistic RCP 8.5 scenario through 2100 has been estimated at $58 billion/year (Smith 2020). This is less then the US Federal Government's annual transportation budget, and less then a 1/12 its defense budget. I think the more pressing issues with such global engineering solutions are the potential for unintended consequences from global dimming, particularly with regards to changes in precipitation patterns, and the difficulty of forming a geo-political consensus (who gets to control the world's thermostat?).

[@kimwelch4652]

@@recurrenTopology I think you are missing the guns or butter issue. Until the governments and the people realize that climate action is more important than transportation, national security, or food for that matter, then nothing will be done. And, since there will be no profit in it, there will be lots of people arguing to use the money in a different way, like blue hydrogen, electric cars, and drilling more oil wells so they can keep the non-existent carbon extraction systems running on the power plant smoke stacks. This is not a pessimistic view, but a realistic one based on past human behavior. Civilizations collapse because there is no immediately profitable incentive to those in charge for drastic change. The whole point of a civilization is social stability and change is destabilizing. Remember the last COP was used as a venue for selling oil contracts.

[@yautl1]

What recurrenTopology said; geoengineering wouldn't actually be that difficult or expensive, the bigger danger is the potential for disastrous results if something goes wrong, or even if everything goes right but we don't fully anticipate and prepare for the consequences beforehand. That is why, in large part, climate scientists have avoided promoting it as a solution to climate change so far.

[@roxycauldwell544]

*clicking on this knowing it's going to give me indefinite anxiety for the unforeseeable future*

[@gilly_axolotl]

These types of videos I open, immediately pause, read the comments to see if there's any actual useful/informative discussion, and then leave. I don't like being out of the know but I absolutely can't sit thru any length of climate doomering

[@markburns2621]

It's Vaush, why ya even checking the comments?

[@AlexS-pv4rn]

Weird mention - parking garages seem to have an easier time staying cool, probably due to so little sunlight exposure based on the nature of their construction.

[@kissingerfanpage]

Good to know that I can hide in my parking garage when the 113°F weather eventually hits North America :)

[@andreja9425]

what’s your proposal? Solar paneled parking lots? or build the whole world like a parking lot

[@betawolfhd]

​@@andreja9425well actually I had an idea a year or so ago myself. Never looked into, doubt it's original. But why not artificially create shaded buildings using heavy uv resistant tarps or sheets stretched above buildings. You can have a lot of creative liberty and have an aesthetic design cause you don't need to shade the whole building. Having a large air gap allows any heat build up that does occur from the building to be whisked away in the air current outside. You drop energy needs for cooling, energy production needs for consuming, and overall lessening the acceleration of the curve. Possibly buying some time to get actual reversal solutions. Do this at scale for buildings under a certain height. This would mimic the top level of parking garages shading the rest of the levels while also using those air currents to keep a healthy ventilated environment in the lower levels. Additionally, our destruction of trees and forests are incredibly harmful to a local environment's ability to self regulate. I'd propose we take all our corner lots and businesses at the corners of intersections and replace them with 4 cornered recreation areas with natural fauna to help rebuild the self regulation of pockets of communal areas. This would also reduce traffic issues directly linked to corner businesses.

[@AlexS-pv4rn]

@@andreja9425 Not a proposal of any kind - just a weird factoid about a place that is cooler than normal even in high heat days

[@renawhitlock6752]

so its true. we DO need more walmarts and mega parking lots built in the serene locations around the globe

[@weird_autumn42]

it'd be nice to not fear we're going to experience the end of the world

[@pessimisticnihilist3691]

Just be born in the good timeline. It's not hard.

[@Sashitoge]

Haha, that's the fun part; the world will not end, it will continue on, despite the millions dead piling up and up, a mountain of dead rivaling several plagues, and yet the world will insist on not ending, a waking nightmare we can't stop

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

Komm Susser Todd

[@zZGzHD]

@@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo cum sussy todd

[@zenbear9952]

We are the frogs aware of the pot slowly heating up.

[@MrChristianDT]

People are worried that the geoengineering might also have long lasting negative effects that won't be noticed until its too late.

[@gh0stcassette]

I mean, obviously the best solution is to just burn less fossil fuel, but that's not happening nearly fast enough. So I'd prefer a possible chance of long term environmental consequences to the certainty of a mass extinction event if we do nothing.

[@CoinsBand]

I think what folks that are worried about geoengineering should consider is that we’ve already been doing it, for decades, without realising. The cloud-seeding from shipping and land pollution has been drastically changing the climate the whole time. Sure, we don’t know what large scale intentional geoengineering will do regarding downsides, but at this stage, I don’t think we have a choice.

[@dynamicworlds1]

​@@CoinsBandwe _really_ don't have a choice.

[@PlaCerHooD]

Primarily the relatively unpredictable shift in rain patterns it very likely will cause. Yes.

[@juliebarks3195]

Dane was right.

[@QT5656]

Extreme flooding in Brazil too...

[@phillipanselmo8540]

that's because they keep on building cities 2 meters away from the nearest river

[@QT5656]

@@phillipanselmo8540 You keep telling yourself that but physics doesn't care about your cope.

[@emilchan5379]

Yeah another consequence of climate change is there is more water in the atmosphere, which equates to heavier rains and storms and more flooding. It is why with climate change we are going to start seeing more powerful hurricanes and search. It is all linked.

[@emilchan5379]

@@phillipanselmo8540 You mean like most people throughout human civilization?

[@QT5656]

@@emilchan5379 Exactly.

[@ShrigmaBrineset]

I sure do hope we get our shit together soon!

[@KoewlBag]

Definitely gonna happen don’t worry

[@Enlightened_Ape78]

Ain't gonna happen.

[@knights-armo]

@@Enlightened_Ape78the worlds green revolution is currently happening you must not be paying attention to the record rollout of solar energy

[@PainCausingSamurai]

Last summer, my province suffered some of the worst wildfires in living memory, followed shortly by unprecedented flooding. This spring is even drier than it was last year.

[@jamesprivet]

Where is your province?

[@LordZeebee]

We've had 26C+ here in sweden just a few days ago. That is FUCKING INSANE temps for beginning of May. Not even your average high-summer mid-day was that hot when i grew up.

[@jamesprivet]

Thanks for the data point.

[@fez-._.-zik]

I hate carbon capture scams with such a burning passion. Outside of academics/r&d it servers literally no purpose. You're burning electricity to capture carbon that was released burning fossil fuels somewhere else for electricity. It's nothing more than a way to enable fossil fuel plants to remain in operation and mass deforestation to continue. We don't need to invest in capturing the carbon that we continue to emit from burning fossil fuels, we need to invest in SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE so we don't have to continue emitting carbon. And yes, that includes paying for developing countries to do so. That includes paying for our enemies to do so. Because it's in OUR best interest that they do so, as well as theirs.

[@QT5656]

If you're interested in this topic please listen to Drilled by Amy Westervelt. 👍

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

It is important to develop the tech though. You are right there's no point building it at scale until the grid is fossil free because you could just turn power plants off instead, but quite soon many countries grids may be fossil free most of the time. People need elecricty when they need it so the grid has to support different loads at different times of year. The cheapest way to provide enough elecricty for the highest demand time is to just overbuild renewables. That's cheaper than trying to build gigantic amounts of storage to transfer energy from summer too winter. So that means that during the lower demand times of year there will be spare electricity. You could use that electricity to power DAC, then turn it off when there isn't spare electricity. The UK currently has a target of 2035 for non fossil grid and Labour say they want to bring that forward to 2030. So within about 7 years we could be at the point where using DAC makes sense. Given you need time to build it and maybe to build the factories to build the machines, we're not very far away from the time to get started on that.

[@fez-._.-zik]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 I can't find anything to substantiate the claim that the UK is aiming for or on track for full decarbonization of their grid, only "net zero" goals. And besides, it's the UK. I don't trust them to remain in any union they exist in right now. That also only accounts for the energy grid, not the immense amount of fossil fuels burnt off-grid. From what I can tell, the grid only accounts for about 1/2 of their energy consumption. So there are plenty of other fossil fuel problems for them to invest in solving before they start wasting energy.

[@astraenomine]

I was thinking of what words from engllish roots could work and came up with: Feuchttod - This term uses the Germanic root "feucht" (moist, damp) and the German word "Tod" (death), literally translating to "moist death."

[@NihilusAeturnum]

Oh boy I sure love being able to live on a habitable planet, don't you?

[@wet-g452]

By definition, you can only live on a habitable planet.😉

[@emilchan5379]

Am from Southeast Asia and yes the heat is unbearable. And while the temperatures might not seem high compared with some parts of the world, the humidity is what makes it terrible. Wet bulb temperature was already brought up and yes, sweat evaporation is how the human body stays cool. But in areas with high humidity, your sweat can't evaporate efficiently, so your body can't cool down. A truly apocalyptic scenario would be people outdoors collapsing en masse from the heat, even in the shade.

[@YourXavier]

And the only way for people to survive is artificial cooling, like air conditioning. This means even more CO2 emissions, resulting in even faster warming, leading to more need for air conditioning, leading... etc.

[@crunkers_]

Colorado is becoming a windy nightmare. It was never like this when I was growing up. Things are changing.

[@ayaa9076]

I noticed it's been getting increasingly windy over the last decade here in nor cal mountains too

[@theelephantintheroom8016]

Up here in Alberta, we are blanketed in smoke already and some towns in northern Alberta are being told to be prepared to evacuate. Just a normal summer now blanketed in smoke and towns burning down.

[@jonc67uk]

Increasing albedo using micro foggers on the back of ships for white cloud formation is feasible,to reflect heat before the ocean has a chance to absorb it but has it's drawbacks. The academic who came up with the idea died recently.

[@Darkloid21]

I'd call the "wet bulb temp" the burst point, since you basically get so hot you explode (in a manner).

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Wet bulb temperature is just a different way to measure any temperature. What vaush means is a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius at which the human body cannot cool anymore with sweating and nobody can survive more than six hours of it. So I agree we should come up with a different name for this specific threshold.

[@Judgewrath1]

The problem with carbon capture is that every bit of green energy used on carbon capture could also be used toward powering houses, reducing demand on forms of energy that produce CO2

[@dynamicworlds1]

That's a HUGE part of why the only carbon capture ideas worth considering capture via photosynthesis. Everything else is a scam.

[@andydrew224]

Dude… We need to deal with capitalism like fast…

[@technatezin]

Agreed, but sadly most people can imagine the end of the world rather than think of a world without capitalism

[@07Flash11MRC]

You can't deal with it, you have to overcome it.

[@mattfedjur9840]

We need more communist coal power plants in China.

[@ekrenz5268]

This needs to a public works project twenty times bigger than the Hoover Dam.

[@rdallas81]

That's not that big. China has much bigger and more efficient projects

[@ekrenz5268]

@@rdallas81 that's true, but you understood my point.

[@dynamicworlds1]

We need a public works project on the scale of the military mobilization of WW2.

[@WASDLeftClick]

Maybe we could farm algae to capture carbon, compost the algae, and turn it into methane gas for heating and cooking? Idk how the numbers would work out but if done at scale could maybe put a dent in the carbon emissions.

[@gh0stcassette]

Natural flora are only a few times more efficient than artificial carbon capture tech, I'm skeptical whether that would be very effective. Maybe if you started genetically modifying the algae to suck more carbon from the atmosphere? Idk

[@WASDLeftClick]

@@gh0stcassette I guess so? I'm a chef, not a scientist. However I do like my algae theory because it mitigates storage. You turn some of the algae into methane and capture all that for fuel, so it gets released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide which is actually less harmful than methane. Meanwhile the compost produced from the methane production can be used on commercial farms and home gardens as fertilizer. Maybe if you were to modify algae to produce more fats you could get more carbon capture out of them? Idk, speculation.

[@dynamicworlds1]

@gh0stcassette if you want to store carbon you basically HAVE to turn it into hydrocarbons first, and there's no more efficient way to do that than photosynthesis. Artificial carbon capture is a dead-end.

[@iwiffitthitotonacc4673]

You could eat the algae directly, especially in the face of crops failing - people would gladly add a bit of green powder to their food over starving.

[@WASDLeftClick]

@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 Kelp and seaweed is better for this afik.

[@Danny-mp8dq]

Record rain in Hong Kong. Flooding in China. Heavy rains in the Middle East. Japan just recorded their hottest summer in 2023. Yeah I'm talking that we're fucked.

[@07Flash11MRC]

Also the biggest flooding in Brazil's history.

[@IvyANguyen]

The real show is the humidity on top of that. Air temperatures out there in southeast Asia are having minimums in the 80s °F / 27 °C anf highs in the uppers 90s °F / 36 °C but with high humidity.

[@sonicblackhole3559]

Climate scientist, this is bad

[@nickfindsgold9788]

Australian here. Sat down with my partner late last year (following our most recent bushfure threat) and we decided to answer the questions ... What will life here look like when Summer hits 50⁰Celcius Energy prices double (fuel, electricity, gas,water) Services are unreliable or overwhelmed (Police, Firefighting,Medical, Supermarket, Energy) I guess we are preppers now because the reality we are facing scared the shit out of us

[@prageruwu69]

erm, what the scallops?

[@Daniel-wr9ql]

Erm what the spruce

[@lzmunch]

Begging vaush’s to editors to leave more than 10 seconds at the end of a video so i can actually click on one of the suggested vaush videos before youtube throws up its own suggestions

[@comedyman4896]

Carbon capture is like if you were dying of diabetes and to combat it you develop the exercise regime of lifting a single finger off the couch once a week. Except carbon capture is really expensive, so actually it would be like if you then also bought an entire gym set for your once a week finger lifting.

[@appa609]

A few years ago my job was making bikes that are ten times more efficient. This is possible but not through optimizing the drivetrain. Mostly we focus on eliminating aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance. The result is the world's fastest bike Eta which reached nearly 90 mph under only pedal power.

[@saxy42]

Insane Arizona/Saudi tier temps in SE Asia humidity I can't image

[@alexanderson4497]

That's like almost half the world's population lol. At this point I'm done trying to convince people about it, cause they will experience it themselves regardless of what I say.

[@QT5656]

Also please listen to Drilled by Amy Westervelt.

[@icelusthefish]

People made fun of obama for suggesting painting roads parking lots and roofs white but it would increase albedo soooooo

[@Power_to_the_people567]

And it is a scientifically proven method of reflecting heat. A house with a white roof has less heat on it than a house with a black roof.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

There is now a new kind of "paint" which reflects light almost as well as snow while radiating heat in an infrared frequency that passes through the atmosphere, so in total it cools down its surface a couple degrees below ambient even at night. It's not being mass produced yet though a channel called nighthawkinlight developed a variation that can be produced outside a lab.

[@Power_to_the_people567]

@@SaHaRaSquad Yes, some places already use such types of white paint on the rooftops. And the heat difference is noticeable

[@Metallijosh100]

Wouldn't the risk of white roads simply be light blinding drivers? Idk I love white rooftops and all but I feel like white roads which just make them insanely deadly in evenings lmao

[@Power_to_the_people567]

@@Metallijosh100 Not necessarily. Ive seem some white pavement on parking lots and their do not reflect light to that blinding level. They only feel blinding if you are inside of a building and suddenly walk out to the parking lots. The change of light is what feels blinding but the eyes adjust fast enough.

[@syddlinden8966]

Yeah the issue with carbon capture IS the distraction issue. We can't just do capture, we NEED to do capture ALONGSIDE reduction. But the corps selling is mostly garbage don't want that reduction part at all. So they push capture as "the solution" TM. Climate change is a multifaceted problem with multifaceted solutions in return.

[@sentientfartcloudofdoomdor2085]

We're so cooked man. Maybe even broiled.

[@rainbowkrampus]

More like placed in a dehydrator.

[@chow-chihuang4903]

Or steamed, depending on where you are.

[@the3dluxe53]

We’re actually getting to that point where we’re going to recreate the end of the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs aren’t we?

[@otakugamer616]

I live in india and i am Dying And my water is literally Hot in my tank 😭 i cant even shower 🚿 with cold water i am surviving 🥶 on my fridge water

[@thegamerboytgb4350]

Oh boy...

[@FNLNFNLN]

A wet bulb temperature is simply the temperature taken by a thermometer with a wet cloth over the bulb of the thermometer, aka, the reservoir at the bottom where the mercury usually sits, hence the name. It's intended to provide a more accurate representation as to how hot it actually feels to a person, since the bulb can be cooled evaporatively, like how a person sweats. The actual dangerous temperature doesn't have a specific term as far as I'm aware, but at ~35C wet bulb, the body is no longer able to shed excess heat, and you die from overheating, even if you're completely healthy.

[@NeonNijahn]

Get ready to become the Dune sequel in reality.

[@pllpsy665]

Were going to go more along the lines of Waterworld sequel for a bit.

[@OctyabrAprelya]

Yeah, but think about all that ✨spice✨

[@xchopp]

Recently landed here. How the hell are you so well-informed on these issues. I'm impressed.

[@WWH_develoments]

In the 40s god damn. That kind of weather is unheard of, at least from a U.K. perspective.

[@andrewmandrona7891]

Direct carbon capture like Orca is STAGGERINGLY hopeless. Orca offsets about 200 American citizens in terms of emissions, or 1,000 global average citizens. All direct capture plants in the ENTIRE WORLD offset about 650 Americans. Worse yet, the technology is very mature: it's been around for over 100 years (no one used it because why would they), and it's not going to get much more cost effective over time. The largest cost is energy, and those plants already operate close to the theoretical limit in terms of efficiency. The carbon fixed this way is still regular C02, so it's not worth selling (due to market saturation) and can't be made into anything interesting. "Made into super-materials" is insane cope. It's C02. It's already everywhere. We should prioritize everything else, and once we've cleaned up literally everything, we should prioritize other methods of carbon capture instead of this. Then, in 3229 or whenever, we can take a look at this again. Coming from a mechanical engineer, this technology is nothing but a distraction.

[@seanbeadles7421]

2:14 the whole geeen area *is* Tibet Tibet is huge. Tibet autonomous region isn’t all of Tibet. Parts of Sichuan, Xinjiang, and Gansu are filled with Tibetan people. The Chinese government’s borders aren’t the cultural borders.

[@gh0stcassette]

Yeah, but that's not what people mean when they say Tibet. No one says Germany and means it to include Austria just because they're culturally similar and share a common language

[@xavierreichel8254]

@@gh0stcassette Actually, it is what people mean when they say Tibet. For a simple example, look at the Wikipedia article 'Tibet'. Vaush looked at the Chinese TAR, which is often also referred to as Tibet, but is not Tibet. It is one political division of Tibet. It has nothing to do with 'oh, this whole area is culturally similar and shares a common language!!1!' - no, the whole area is Tibet. It's very simple: Vaush was smug and wrong.

[@bobjones2959]

@@xavierreichel8254 People mean different things when they say the word. Instead of trying to delineate one universal definition for it, it's a lot more reasonable to just infer based on context. The first map on the wikipedia article also includes Bhutan and parts of Nepal and India, but I'm pretty sure most people don't mean to include those places when when they say "Tibet." The first line in the article itself even clarifies what they're talking about as "Tibet, or Greater Tibet." I guess the lesson here is that borders are fluid and so are words. The definition of "Tibet" differs among people because even though the name in a vacuum refers to a geographical region (as if those aren't vague), people also commonly use it as a shorthand to refer to several different things. The SAR within the PRC that shares the name, a sovereign state of the Tibetan people, the territory that seceded from the ROC after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, a cultural region, etc.

[@sub-harmonik]

​@@gh0stcassette difference is 'germany' isn't a cultural region. You could say 'germanic countries'. at one point austria was part of the german confederation.

[@xavierreichel8254]

@@bobjones2959 That's all true! Nothing you said is wrong. It's certainly true that 'Tibet' can refer to smaller or even larger regions in certain contexts; in this context (geographical) it would most naturally refer to the whole plateau, as chat used it and as Vaush mocked. The most important point is that it's wrong to ridicule the idea that Tibet can/does refer to a region larger than the TAR, like Vaush did here.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

I really hate that KZbin thinks we need context.

[@John-gq7vt]

The other (potential) problem with geo-engineering is unanticipated adverse side effects. These are never known until after the actions are taken and are sometimes worse than the problems they solve. Dams have had these effects in some areas. All rivers supplying India are fed by Himalaya glaciers that are disappearing, India will have severe water shortages soon. The total weight of carbon we have put in the atmosphere is more than the weight of all structures built on earth's surface - buildings, roads, infrastructure, etc. That is mind-boggling, seems impossible but true.

[@dantenarede]

Last summer parts of Brazil hit 60ºC (140 F) can't wait for this year's...

[@fooraapkotjakker8131]

If you would use the metric system you would understand why people use celsius 😂

[@Katharoni]

Hm.... no.

[@fooraapkotjakker8131]

1 liter water weighs 1 kilo, water boils at 100 degrees Celcius and it freezes just below 0 degrees.​@@Katharoni

[@GerBessa]

But how many galleons of blood is one wedding drone strike ? How many oil barrels is one spread of democracy ?​@@fooraapkotjakker8131

[@Aeivious]

to me, Fahrenheit makes the most sense in the day to day temp for weather as temperature varies more under Fahrenheit scale than Celsius, other than that Celsius all the way

[@dynamicworlds1]

​@@Aeiviousmakes sense as fahrenheit was made to measure weather temperatures.

[@TheHiddenMarty]

To throw something good for change. In 2023 Poland reduced co2 emmisions by 38% compared to 2022. EU average was about 15 percent if I member correctly. It's just 1 year and so much changed!

[@MrCharles7994]

Literally the only hope for sequestered carbon with current tech is fusion. We'd need giga generators pumping out petawatts of power to fix this on human time scales. It's unironically easier to imagine a giant space mirror solution if we're really stuck using current processes.

[@dynamicworlds1]

There's an argument for using photosynthesis driven carbon capture (though even that is difficult enough). Artificial carbon capture is just a scam, though, I agree.

[@dessieangel1021]

And this is just MAY

[@recognizesealand572]

Also wouldn't geo engineering ruin crop yeilds

[@dynamicworlds1]

Depends on how it's done. It's definitely going to change which areas of the world are more agriculturally productive, though.

[@theatheistpaladin]

DAC is so power hungry because it has to process so much atmosphere. To improve capture you have to get it from a pure source. Gasoline refinery is pure 100% co2 from the stack but the same problematic logic still holds. Its better not to produce Gasoline than DAC the stack. One way to reduce is to do it in the oceans. Basically you help the formation of limestone. With that you also help ocean acidification.

[@T3hZiggy]

Yeah carbon capture is a goose chase, literally doesn't work.

[@dynamicworlds1]

If we switch from making plastics from plants rather than oil and then bury that rather than trying to recycle it, that's really the only viable path to capture carbon.

[@T3hZiggy]

@@dynamicworlds1 we should switch to plant based plastics, but you literally can't just bury all the carbon, you basically need to bury 100 million world trade centers towers worth of carbon every year plus all the excess carbon already in the air, it's just not feasible, and plants don't sequester carbon, because when they die that carbon goes right back into the air

[@dynamicworlds1]

@@T3hZiggy not if you turn them into plastics. Plastics are literally mostly carbon.

[@07Flash11MRC]

@dynamicworlds1 : Have you lost your mind? We already have plastic dumps all over the world, including entire islands of nithing but plastic swimming in the ocean, and you want *even more plastic*?

[@zacheryeckard3051]

​@@07Flash11MRCNot all plastics are the same. Bit turning it into a building material is an obvious win, yes.

[@jamesharkins6799]

I find it curious that one of our oldest books, the enuma elish describes extraterrestrial beings harvesting gold from the earth and powderizing it to spread in the atmosphere of their planet to combat climate change on another world. I wonder how much gold it would take to cool earth.

[@markgresch9944]

18:12 - What you would do is use it in steel manufacturing, via electric furnaces. A huge problem of why Steel is a dirty industry is you have to produce coke to make it (basically you burn coal to refine it) to get your heat and carbon for the steel. Electric furnaces however produce the heat side of it, but need carbon for the steel. That said, Vaush is completely correct, the scale of this operation is a drop in the bucket, at best, and the economics here, just don't work. Your best way (and most economic) way to capture Co2 remains trees and plankton, but far more important is simply reducing emissions, and the best way to do that with maintaining a functional society is more and better rail, both for shipping and day to day transport.

[@neferiusnexus]

the problem the would be it takes a ton of energy to separate the carbon from the oxygen. especially when coal is just cheaper

[@southof.nowhere6096]

19:13 The collected carbon would be a base material for dirt. Quite literally we could use it as soil additives, soil stabilizers, ground cover, or we could dump it all into death valley and make the largest farm the world has ever seen. Hell, we could make steel with it, or saturate it with hydrogen to make a billion tons of methane rocket fuel. Having an excess of pure, solid carbon wouldn't be a question of what to do, but rather what not to.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Yes it is

[@jamesprivet]

Thank you for this report.

[@raingulfdrengot195]

The Climate battle is lost. Our best bet is orderly retreat to buy us some time but damn it, when I see how we act, im afraid that retreat will turn into rout.

[@markocrni1200]

Bad thing about 48C is that at that temperatures protein starts collapsing

[@haydenmcwhorter6363]

Maybe greens should grow some balls instead of thinking peaceful change could happen.

[@sangwaraumo]

Yes, we have all seen the success shenanigans have in UK. A majoriry of voters will always choose to curb the enthusiasm of people annoying them today over sacrificing their income to avert a catastrophe all the way down in the future. Remember when all people were talking about was the price of fuel? Yeah, good luck with all that.

[@rainbowkrampus]

Ehh, we're already cooked. At a civilizational level if not necessarily a species level. There aren't enough environmentalists on the planet to take over, by whatever means, the instruments of our downfall. Let alone do anything to reverse them.

[@arizenation3188]

​@sangwaraumo I mean the green plan for UK is just to use the poor people as fuel. I think he means we need more eco-terrorism not torys

[@Trace-l7k]

Revolution has to start somewhere. This may be the spark. Especially if we have a mass die off from wet bulb temperatures.

[@randomthings1293]

@@sangwaraumo We have also seen the "success" of peaceful protesting. I'd pick people angry over people not knowing anything and going on with their lives completely unbothered. Because then, at least, there's a chance to talk about the problem.

[@Rossy167]

Here in Chiang Mai (just south of Myanmar) it’s unbearable. It’s 40 degrees, we just have to stay indoors blasting the AC all day. Usually when you ride a scooter the wind might cool you down a bit, but right now going literally anywhere makes me feel like I’m being cooked.

[@WiiSpords]

Man bear pig is real you guys

[@mikhailryzhov9419]

But the real question is if women will prefer meeting him in the woods to meeting men.

[@markburns2621]

Yup, it's on screen.

[@Montesama314]

114 degrees sounds bad... AND THEN THERE'S HUMIDITY.

[@qwbanana]

BRO THIS IS LITERALLY FIRE BRO 🔥🔥🔥 LET US LITERALLY COOK🔥🔥🔥

[@janekbrat6951]

Im a director of a pretty young NGO called "Envirokids". We are mostly German/Tanzanian and currently mostly active in Tanzania. We do environmental education at local schools around the city of Mwanza. We create school clubs and raise tree nurseries with the students as a practical approach to environmental conservation. What I want to get at is the astounding change in weather patterns we have experienced over the last years. Even the farmers in the surrounding villages, who haven't even heared about the concept of climate in their entire life are telling me that. The rainfall patterns are changing dramatically. We are at least one month behind with the next batch of new trees in our nurseries because, believe it or not, there was actually way too much rain last april. Nothern Tanzania and Kenya have experienced devestating floods this spring. Shit's getting real guys.

[@anthonymorris5084]

This is not new phenomenon and history didn't begin the day you were born. You'd do these people a greater service by helping them with wealth creation and family planning along with conservation. The logic of complaining that it's dry where it used to rain, and raining where it used to be dry is not rational.

[@janekbrat6951]

@@anthonymorris5084 My friend have you ever been outside a city? Changing weather patterns have huge repercussions for farmers. How are you supposed to know when to put out your seeds on the field, or when to harvest? That is extremely important if you are doing agriculture. It completely depends on it. Changing weather patterns can whipe out entire harvests, if you don't have the means to predict them. And wealth creation? There are many other organisations and private people who help with that.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@janekbrat6951 My partner grew up on a farm. Her family still runs the farm. I'm fully aware of the issues and challenges with farming. Stop pretending that the weather used to be stable.

[@janekbrat6951]

@@anthonymorris5084 Dude, it WAS more stable in east africa. Have you ever been to africa?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@janekbrat6951 There is no evidence whatsoever to claim that weather or climate have ever been stable. There is no evidence that weather or climate have become unstable. The only thing that has changed in Africa are skyrocketing population levels that put tremendous strain on resources. Africa is plagued by totalitarian dictators, nepotism, superstition, religious extremism, tribalism, corruption, bribery, poverty, misogyny, homophobia, human rights abuses and are being destroyed by endless aid. When this is your foundation, you are set up for failure.

[@ChanakyanStudent7971]

Vaush's knowledge about china is hilariously low.

[@chow-chihuang4903]

CO2 pipelines can also spring leaks. Look up what happened to people in Satartia, Mississippi when one burst nearby in 2019. Internal combustion engine vehicles, including emergency response vehicles, stalled (guess that’s one reason to switch to a BEV). People passed out. CO2 is denser than oxygen (O2), so it pushes it out and up until winds can dissipate the concentrated CO2. Some people have lasting health effects from breathing in such high concentrations of CO2. That’s a little-discussed hazard posed by transporting CO2 from carbon capture. Ditto with any high pressure storage tanks, surface or subterranean.

[@marlutteyestrelt3441]

It is quite hilarious how Vaush's climate catastrophe despair is interrupted by chat's annoying reminder of his lack of geographic knowledge.

[@TheNeoLoneWolf]

You could theoretically use the co2 in air conditioning systems keeping it mostly contained, but it would require a huge government mandated shift in how air conditioners are made, and probably doubling (or more) the cost of new air conditioning units. The only other use for co2 I've heard of is fracking which would just put the co2 back in the air while producing more oil making emissions way worse.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

CELSIUS SUPREMACY >>>>>

[@thegamerboytgb4350]

Fahrenheit is best temperature unit.

[@FatalAlcatraz]

​@@thegamerboytgb4350 good joke

[@بوحميدةمحمدبنأحمد]

- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago and the cancer will go away - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us 1000 years to the past of the universe. Today May 16, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 120 thousand years ago. On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past. On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million years in the past. On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past. On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past. The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago. Anyone who does not believe that the climate changed for the reason I mentioned should wait for cancer to disappear very soon because of this reverse movement, I will explain: the human body's immune system will be stimulated, activated and stronger as a result of this reverse process, which results in the disappearance of the cancer. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA, teacher of mathematics and a researcher in number theory.

[@allergiccookies6735]

we already have excellent carbon capture machines, theyre called trees. our life is carbon based, wood actually is storing carbon. but mostly in terms of planting enough trees to cool the planet back down, we have more than enough room for them, and we should anyway because we need them to breathe and everything.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

No, we don't have enough room for enough trees to fix this. But it can't hurt to plant trees.

[@07Flash11MRC]

True, but reefs in the ocean combine with algae are much more efficient than trees.

[@deadrottenbird]

we should do all 3, we have enough people to focus on all 3

[@pdjinne65]

But Jordan Peterson said there's no such thing as climate. Because what is climate? What is environment if not everything (or nothing) Who is Jordan Peterson?

[@cuac232]

0:47 Here to comment that I am triggered by that diss on Celsius degrees

[@axelfoley133]

Just remember, he lives in a country that has yet to join the modern world.

[@peterjohansson1828]

the fundamental problem that make carbon capture so dumb is that humanity dug up and burnt all this carbon for energy. capturing carbon would require atleast as much energy as was originally released. Meaning it would take such an absurd amount of energy that humanity is better off doing geo engineering as that would have better results for the same effort.