What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?

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A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing.
The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related tipping points that scientists have grown increasingly worried we are getting close to crossing due to global warming. In this episode of Weathered, we look at 6 of the major candidates, how they are all interconnected and influence each other, and what it would mean if they were triggered. These tipping points or tipping elements are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, global monsoons, the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) and the earth’s permafrost and coral reefs.
The consequences for any of these systems being pushed over the edge would be truly catastrophic and would encompass everything from massive droughts, loss of biodiversity, increased flooding, heat waves, large scale climate migration, food shortages, and much more.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
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[@lyndaschroeder8117]

AS an outdoor person and an organic farmer 80 years old I have seen the loss of many insect, and bird species that we need to pollinate our food...so sad, scary.

[@gort4166]

Stop it!😆

[@dolmarf411]

1 word: MONSANTO

[@mrman1536]

@@dolmarf411 Monsanto - weeds.

[@sandikennelly1357]

As a 72 year old that loves gardening in Oregon. I have noticed a dramatic drop in bees that are needed to pollenate some plants.

[@msandersen]

Research in Europe and elsewhere has seen a 70-80% drop in insect populations across the world in the past few decades. We replaced DDT with equally potent insecticides with predictable outcomes, while DDT is still being used in poorer parts of the world.

[@shaunhall960]

The tipping point happened 40 years ago when we didn't make the changes we should have. We love talking about the doom but we never did anything about it.

[@Jonus_Grumby]

40 years ago Leonard Nemoy was making a documentary warning of the pending ice age.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

Alarmist

[@user-sn7un7wm5u]

Hi. I am writing a book. Would you mind if I quote this?

[@michaelwalsh9145]

So by your logic we should be all underwater by now, 40 years of failed doom mongering predictions more like.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

@@michaelwalsh9145 exactly doom mongerers , alarmists

[@debbiehenri345]

And here we are, 10 months later, and some climate experts are starting to admit that the climate is changing faster than they had expected. This is because we humans talk and talk, but precious few will do much to really change their lifestyle.

[@kenhammscousin4716]

the easiest thing to help would be to stop ordering shit on amazon so much, but most arent even willing to do that. Half the people dont give a shit, the other half are spoiled with modern convenience that they wont give up

[@Thisnotmysandwich]

This polar shift happens regardless of C02 emissions. What wiped out ancestors out over and over again.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

Wake up, it’s all fake to push the globalists agenda and that’s what you’ve to worry about their end goal while they have you crying over the climate.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

And some think its all a load of tripe , which it is

[@michaelwalsh9145]

What do you want to do? Going by your so called experts we need to go back to the Stone Age.

[@gijbuis]

I remember as a child in the UK how I used to catch salamanders in wild pools. Nobody told me not to! But how many kids today have ever seen salamanders in their natural habitat?

[@rb9580]

You may have caught newts in UK, but there are no native Salamander species in UK.

[@gijbuis]

thnks for the info... yes indeed, they were probably newts! Btw, according to Google, the skin of a newt contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a chemical that's 1,000 times more toxic to humans than cyanide - so beware of dropping tasty newts into your breakfast cereal 😄

[@timelsen2236]

"WE STILL HAVE TIME" , is the phrase of procrastination and feeds into denial. Discovered 140 years ago, to have the alarm bell rung repeatedly over the years as nothing changed enough, always ending with , "WE STILL HAVE TIME," clearly didn't work. No one in a movie theater fire would ever say such a thing.

[@beezybeez4207]

So I am on the opposite spectrum of you …….. ​​I’m 40 and when I was in grammar school I was told by 2020 I would only see snow on mountain tops, Polar bears would be extinct, ice caps would be ice free and the coast line would be under water and everyone would have to move. And it was the same message you are giving… “we don’t have time “ fear mongering… Well here we are in 2024. I went sledding with my kids last week at the local forest preserve, polar bear populations have increased by 5 times, the polar ice caps are the same size and the most expensive/desired real estate is coastal properties… Honest question, how much longer will it take when no climate disasters to happen for you to realize you have been fooled? What if another 30 years goes by and everything is the same? Will you question it then ?

[@J4Zonian]

@@beezybeez4207 All of that is false. I believe you’re exaggerating wildly. I believe no one told you any of those things. Certainly no scientist ever said any of it, so we’re talking about climate science saying true things vs. rumors, folklore, or intentional disinterpretation. lying-by-strawperson to delay the solutions to climate catastrophe & preserve the profits, power & position of the rich & the right. Since science is what we’re talking about, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers written over a century & a half, & every single scientific organization in the world agree that Earth is warming, it’s caused by human greenhouse gases, & it threatens civilization & nature, that’s the only thing that matters. As I’ve said before, if you have evidence anyone said those things please post it-names, dates, quotes, recordings. No, there aren’t 5x the polar bears. There are ever fewer & they’re in peril. "Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?" Carbon Brief, December 7, 2022 No, the icecaps are a lot smaller & shrinking faster all the time. “Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract” video, James Hansen "Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years" ‘Stunned’ scientists say there is little doubt global heating is to blame for the loss The Guardian, August 23, 2020 No scientist has ever said snow would disappear any time soon. Coastal property owners all over are having trouble getting insurance, & Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, & other places are experiencing insurance meltdowns. Floods & storms are getting worse, along with droughts, fires, heat waves, crop failures, ecological disruptions, & dozens of other effects of global heating. Failed states are multiplying. The increase in disasters is obvious & scientifically determined to be caused or in some cases exacerbated by human-caused climate catastrophe & the larger ecological crisis.

[@J4Zonian]

@beez “Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)” All about climate W Rosh “How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video “Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures” Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann... 'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023 “Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?” The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017 "James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?” Yale Climate Connections 30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony “BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic” Climate Crocks June 24, 2018 Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress. ”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.” ““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions” Climate Crocks June 25, 2018 “At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?” Skeptical Science 20 June 2023 IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022 “What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with. My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained. google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to ever hold another position of responsibility.

[@markholtdorf56]

Fools believe their tvs especially PBS.

[@J4Zonian]

Yes, absolutely. “Are climate models wrong? (Naomi Seibt & Christopher Monckton Debunked)” All about climate W Rosh “How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?” Potholer54 video “Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures” Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann... 'Absolutely Devastating News': Antarctica Warming Quicker Than Models Projected The new study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” The journal Nature Climate Change study's lead author said that "it is extremely concerning to see such significant warming in Antarctica, beyond natural variability.” Common Dreams, Sep 08, 2023 “Checkmate: how do climate deniers' predictions stack up?” The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2017 "James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. How did he do?” Yale Climate Connections 30th anniversary of Hansen’s testimony “BBC Spot-on in 1988 - Warming will be Greatest in the Arctic” Climate Crocks June 24, 2018 Pat Michaels cherry picked 1 scenario from Hansen’s 3-scenario study and lied to Congress. ”Deleting inconvenient data in order to fool his audience became a habit for Patrick Michaels, who quickly earned a reputation of dishonesty in the climate science world, but has nevertheless remained a favorite of oil industry and conservative media.” ““If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions” Climate Crocks June 25, 2018 “At a Glance-Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?” Skeptical Science 20 June 2023 IPCC Reviews Climate Models. Turns Out They’ve Been Spot On Climate Crock of the Week, May 7, 2022 “What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk.” David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red I have about 40 more of those citations for people who can still learn, but only slowly. For climate-denying delayalist trolls, bots, shills, dupes, shdullps, etc. like beez who were wrong about every single thing they said, I very extremely strongly recommend psychotherapy because of the serious delusions, paranoia, anger issues, anti-social impulses, & other problems they’re having trouble with. My factual & accurate responses have repeatedly been disappeared while beezy’s & other comments filled with false statements have remained. google/youtube is being grossly negligent in encouraging such treason & should be broken up or nationalized & turned to useful purposes, while the executives should be tried, convicted & imprisoned unless they choose a truth & reconciliation process: confess, turn over all documents & all money made during the time of the crime, & agree to never hold another position of responsibility.

[@deepashtray5605]

There are too many powerful greedy people in the world who could watch this and say "I can live with that."

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

Silliness. The Illuminati? Freemasons? The Trilateral Commission? Fabian Society?

[@Shavenhamster]

There is many powerful greedy people paying for this kind of nonsense to be swallowed as facts by the gullible masses.

[@amberallen7809]

I had a biology professor in university who looked us all square in the face when talking about potential climate change scenarios and said, "I don't care. My generation wrote the check, but you and your kids will be cashing. I'll be dead. Best of luck to you. 🤷‍♀️"

[@deepashtray5605]

@@scottslotterbeck3796 Donald Trump.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@Shavenhamster Really? I've been wondering why it is that companies like Koch Industries, BNSF and ExxonMobile have pumped literally hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns, lobbyists, lawyers, public relations and advertising on every level, just about anything to make sure no meaningful legislation gets passed yet have not spent so much as a single dime on research that proves beyond question their end products are not the cause of the climate upheavals we are currently experiencing. Texas has some of the finest petroleum engineering and science research programs on the planet, seems that a $50 million or even $100 million grant specifically to clear them would produce bullet proof results and shut up naysayers for good. $100 million is a rounding error for them. An oil giant like Shell or BP doesn't think twice about dropping a billion dollars into just trying to find out if an oil field is worth drilling, but nothing to save their very livelihoods? Why do you suppose that's the case? Why do you think a global industry that generates trillions of dollars annually doesn't prove the science that would keep their revenue streams and even their very industry from collapsing? Of course back in the 1980s Mobile Oil researchers did look into it, and when they concluded that hydrocarbons pose a very real and significant threat to the planet's biosphere corporate executives made sure those findings were promptly buried.

[@peterroland6258]

Have you noticed that there are hardly any bugs on the windshield any more when driving down the highway? We have known about the issues of pollution, heat islands et al since the 1970s but humans don't do anything until a situation is critical. In 2015 when I saw the Mendenhall glacier near Juneau, Alaska which had retreated eight kilometres (five miles) my thought was that it was too late; we had already hit the tipping point.

[@westho7314]

The insect pesticides and repellants that people are consuming in mass amounts is the main reason for insect, bird reptile and fish loss on such a scale in recent decades. Demanding consumers prefer the unnatural growth and color mutations with that perfect and polished consistanty in their choices of unblemished fruits and veggies, And the profits from those perfect consumables must be protected, If insects are repelled or die off after eating from the garden, that's a red flag for me, Imagine how much DDT was consumed by the children's- children of the corn in the 1950's & 60's before it was banned in the US Just the consequences of storm water runoff through crop fields and pig farms inyo our drinking water, alone makes me cringe.

[@sandersson2813]

What a ridiculous thing to bring up. You are comparing apples and oranges.

[@top1cat01]

Bill gates probably vaccinated the insects! Lol 😅

[@georgepoitras3502]

I have news for you............Your bugs moved here to Western NY in the summer! 😂😂 There are plenty up here. Must have a healthier ecosystem but it is rural.

[@peterroland6258]

@@sandersson2813 They were just two examples and I did say "et al". What I am pointing out is that we have known for at least 50 years man's impact on our environment in many areas of human activity and done nothing but talk about it. Perhaps we have done some things like removing CFCs but the hole in the ozone layer still exists and with the lag time from implementation it is estimated that it will take up to 100 years for it to repair. Implementation and lag time are going to be crucial issues. This is a very complex but extremely important matter but a forum like this is too limited to have a full on discussion. I wish you all well.

[@deborahjeffress3292]

I’m an American living in southern Mexico. I’ve been here 13 years. The rainy season used to start in mid May. Now it starts mid July. We are receiving less that half the rain than previous years. It’s really scary to me. Scariest of all are the climate deniers who really just want to get as rich as they can. They don’t believe the science. They choose not to believe! God help us.

[@timnray99]

I was in San Francisco in the early 80's when i was called by Greenpeace to work on their ship the Rainbow Warrior, which was sunk by the French in Aukland. behind my desk is a poster of the ship signed by the crew thanking for the work that was done. my job was to ready the ship for campaigns against French atmospheric testing and grey whaling in Siberia. it was while working that i saw the change. the crew is made up of trust fund babies and emotionally charged individuals with a self-righteous divine call to save the world from the evildoers seeking to destroy Mother Gaia. with the mentality rivaling the Spanish Inquisition the new enemy was oil and humans

[@J4Zonian]

@@timnray99 Unfortunately in our increasingly desperate & unequal world, the rich are the only ones who can afford to work for months for nothing. The larger change in the world has been by the right wing rulers, who have become increasingly disturbed in denying science & reality & embracing horrific racism, misogyny, anti-ecological fanaticism, & intolerance & hatred for all who disagree. So yes, they actually are evil-doers who in fact are not just seeking but actually destroying civilization & worsening the ongoing mass extinction. Save your scorn for those who deserve it.

[@grahamlindsay1263]

Thought about what you wrote, and then my question is what about effects of trust fund recipients and irrevocable trust money on the opposite side of the spectrum? Doing all they can selfishly do to allow the human race to self- destruct.

[@ShabanAjeti]

No one Denise climat Chang, we denie that humans are changing the climat, becaus humans can not Chang the climat.

[@J4Zonian]

@DeniseChang Well, Denise, you should stop that shit because it’s insane to keep denying climate catastrophe 40 years after all scientific debate about the essentials was ended. And don’t tell me you don’t know what it means. It’s so childish & pointless to try to win a gunfight with semantics. After nearly 2 centuries of scientific debate, performed in the realm of science, by doing science, the conclusions are clear, & 99.9% of hundreds of thousands of scientists from a hundred countries & scores of scientific specialties, 99.9% of more than 300,000 peer-reviewed papers, & every single major & national scientific organization agree: Earth is warming. It’s caused entirely by human greenhouse gases. It’s an imminent threat to civilization & nature.

[@peterhughes8699]

As a scientist/ ecologist this video was an under statement imo. We're already hitting several tipping points and the impacts of plus 5m sea level rise were glossed over with rose coloured glasses. Not stated were the loss of 1000s of other ecosystems such as peat lands, alpine and sub alpine areas, cool temperate rainforests, wetlands, the sub arctic etc. The impact on human populations is also glossed over imo. Societies will increasingly fall into economic collapse and chaos and we can see that starting already in 2022.

[@nxgrs74]

Fact 1: Remove the Earth’s atmosphere or even just the GreenHouse Gases and the Earth becomes much like the Moon, no water vapor or clouds, no ice or snow, no oceans, no vegetation, no 30% albedo becoming a barren rock ball, hot^3 (400 K) on the lit side, cold^3 (100 K) on the dark. At our distance from the Sun space is hot (394 K) not cold (5 K). That’s NOT what the Radiative GreenHouse Effect theory says. EVIDENCE: RGHE theory “288 K w - 255 K w/o = a 33 C colder ice ball Earth” 255 K assumes w/o keeps 30% albedo, an assumption akin to criminal fraud. Nikolov “Airless Celestial Bodies” Kramm “Moon as test bed for Earth” UCLA Diviner lunar mission data Int’l Space Station HVAC design for lit side of 250 F. (ISS web site) Astronaut backpack life support w/ AC and cool water tubing underwear. (Space Discovery Center) Fact 2: The GHGs require “extra” energy upwelling from a surface radiating as a black body. EVIDENCE: According to the K-T atmospheric power flux balance, numerous clones and SURFRAD the GHGs must absorb an “extra” 396/333/63 W/m^2 LWIR energy upwelling from the surface allegedly radiating as a black body. These graphics contain egregious arithmetic and thermodynamic errors. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnvMm6ptYr56Y7c Fact 3: Because of the significant non-radiative, i.e. kinetic, heat transfer processes of the contiguous participating atmospheric molecules the surface cannot upwell “extra” energy as a black body. EVIDENCE: As demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science. For the experimental write up see: principia-scientific.org/debunking-the-greenhouse-gas-theory-with-a-boiling-water-pot/ CONCLUSION: No RGHE, no GHG warming, no CAGW or mankind/CO2 driven climate change.

[@bacilluscereus1299]

Hitting the limits to growth, we are.

[@adammorgan1776]

I agree with you Peter, as a trainee scientist (at university now) and a person who takes great interest in such things, the video did keave lots out, but I would hazard a guess that that was a deliberate choice so not so to overwhelm the average person with information and the more complex issues. Not to mention this video would significantly increase in length if they included more and as we know, the average persons attention span to such information doesn't tend to extend beyond 30 minutes (if not less). In terns if social and economic effects from climate change, there will be conflicts and wars as food/water resources become more scarce due to less fresh water availability, crop failures and loss of habitats/farming land. There's also the issue of carbon sinks and oxygen production as acidification of the oceans kills of O2 producing plankton and photosynthetic trees/plants due off due desertification and other changes to the environments causing die offs. The feedback loops will intensify and worsen climate change impacts/consequences. I'd argue that we'll be lucky to stop a 3°C global average temperature rise tbh. What many people don't understand is, the biggest issue with climate change isn't the fact the climate is warming, but the speed at which climate change is occuring. Instead of changing over 10s to 100s of 1000s of years, it's happening over a few 100 years at most and that is the biggest issue with it, because life simply can't adapt to changes that quickly and as a result starts dying off and potentially going extinct. After all, we are now in a (anthropogenic caused) mass extinction events based on the number of species going extinct.

[@veramae4098]

I think Larry Niven, scifi writer, might be right. We're going to let this get so bad the planet is almost uninhabitable. Then, we'll fix it, fast. In the meantime 100s of millions will die. And don't think they'll go peacefully. The upside? We'll know how to terraform, cause we've just terraformed Terra.

[@byrd7633]

How does this climate, Compare to the climate when dinosaurs roamed the earth?

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

I have already made massive changes, I relocated away from the coast, downsized and created a 5 acre native edible food forest for my family and wildlife. I now have apex predators visiting from a wildlife corridor behind my land. I built 2 ft high hugelkultur beds around my house to berm and moderate indoor temps and grow food without irrigation. I compost and do not use pesticides or fertilizers. I switched electric appliances for manual. Every year my heating bill has dropped, in part due to better passive solar use. My old truck gets 33 mpg and I doubt I will change it. I am looking at an ebike, but only drive once a week into town. If a collapse shut off my electricity (community solar), I have a partially underground shed that maintains better temperatures. Takes a lot more than me, though.

[@mrmustangman]

nice.!!!!!

[@keyisme1356]

There are a lot of people doing this and many more who would like the opportunity to. You're not alone.

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

@@keyisme1356 I read recently that US gardens increased from about 22 million to 76 million in the last couple years. Hopeful. I am reading Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee. In the middle of Agriculture's Mixed Blessings chapter. Paleopatholology shows that hunter-gatherers were taller, healthier, and lived longer than farmers. Modern hunter-gatherers eat about 85 plants, but the rest of humanity consumes about 50 percent of our calories as wheat, rice, corn. Our diets are atrocious. I both forage and grow native plants, no wonder my health is so good at 69. I do eat about 3 cups of vegetables every day and anything else I want, so I'm no purist. Still, 50 years of gardening and foraging is a lot of free food, a blessing in inflationary times. Before I bought a house, I grew food in an elderly neighbor's yard. We shared the produce and I kept my toddler with me.

[@user-wg8bs8do1c]

Very good. Trouble is though, when climate disaster really kicks in, some climate change denier with a gun will come and take all that from you.

[@keyisme1356]

@@user-wg8bs8do1c maybe... But not necessarily. All those things require knowledge and maintenance, which a dude with a gun won't have.

[@bryguysays2948]

I remember being a child in the 1980's Across the street from our house in town was a large empty lot/yard filled with grass, dandelions, flowers, etc. In mid-afternoon one day I walked over to check it out. There were so many bees, butterflies, dragonflys and other insects flying around. I felt like I was a kid on Heaven exploring the world outside. Yet since the mid-90's to today, all these critters disappeared or are so rare to see.

[@patrickcummins79]

I barely see fireflies in summer anymore.. I used to see them all the time, as a child in the 1990s…. Too much fvxking round up I’d guess..

[@raw7504]

@@patrickcummins79 my parents dont use fertilizer or pesticides in our yard and havent cut the grass in along time and i started to see butterflies, fireflies, dragonflies etc this summer

[@debbyhutchinson3225]

People spray their YARDS for unwanted pest ever single day and bet you spray for Mosquito`s which kills them and flying creatures too.

[@sandersson2813]

Your anecdotal evidence is absurdly stupid. That's not how you determine whether things are declining.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

Pesticides not warming

[@nightfall-8891]

Only thing I have to say about this as a 2000s kid is "Well, we're fucked."

[@normzemke7824]

Dear PBS Terra, you REALLY need to talk about "overshoot". Climate change isn't the only environmental disaster we are facing. We (the humans) simply can't keep "overshooting" Mother Nature's ability to heal the planet. Dumping toxins in the rivers, cutting down rain forests, sucking all the water out of the ground, overfishing, plastic in the ocean, spraying pesticides on everything, etc. We have got to spot over-exploiting the planet. To put it bluntly, capitalism needs to be scaled back. Even if electric vehicles and solar panels keep us below 1.5c, it won't make any difference if the Earth is a burned out wreck.

[@TheNinjakat2010]

It's happening on every planet in the solar system not just earth. We are in for a magnetic flip and possible crust displacement, worst of all is the potential micronova from the sun(estimated around late 2030s-2040s) we don't help but this change has happened many times in the past. What we are dealing with human wise is all distraction for the elites, will the info cause chaos? Maybe but chaos is here already

[@samihanski4086]

Exactly. There can not be infinite economic growth on a finite planet and everyday we are losing something that is going to be lost forever. De-growth is the only sustainable solution.

[@JasonS42]

It may not be the only environmental crisis we face but climate change is the most pressing. Maintaining global increases in temperatures would make a huge difference. You're not wrong that capitalism needs to be scaled back though.

[@jilljohnson9310]

We're all going to get out of this dead no matter what we do & or descendants.

[@jilljohnson9310]

To some we are worse than cattle and useless eaters anyway.

[@johnmcnulty4425]

The Thwaits glacier alone will cause chaos because even a few feet of ocean rise will cause millions upon millions of people to move farther inland and we have seen just recently how horribly humans react to immigrants moving into other people's region. And make no mistake, Thwaits is going now in real time.. And yet, I know many people who've had babies this year. Wow, good luck, babies.

[@lindsay6518]

Seriously I'm way too scared to ever consider subjecting a child to this future.

[@shutupimstilltalking]

@@lindsay6518 idiocracy nailed it.

[@ronaldturner4849]

As an older person I feel heartbreak for this generation of children. As a young person I read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Civilization did not heed her dire warning about the environment. Back then there was possibly still time to take some necessary drastic action.....but now? The heartbreak is overwhelmingly painful.

[@yingfortheking]

@@lindsay6518 and thats if you can even afford it!

[@ryancox5097]

My baby son is due next month. His brother was born 16 months ago. I am terrified.

[@ianhenk]

You could add what this means for worldwide crop yield. Like, in numbers of people who no longer have something to eat.

[@ufosrus]

I went last year to Hawaii, the Big Island which I have visited four times the last thirty years and all of my favorite snorkeling spots are now 90% devoid of marine life. I saw the destruction gradually happening in each visit. Last time we went was last spring and I'm never going back again. Its heartbreaking. People don't care to wear sunscreen and bug juice that is less damaging to reefs plus they touch the corals which just kills them. Shame on these people that don't give a damn!

[@foto21]

I snorkelled in Oahu in 1980 or so and it was a wonderland. I snorkelled in Kauai in 2015 and there were still fish, but it was less than I expected, and only in Poipu. The north part of the island essentially had no tropical fish, and I thought it would have something, though it always depends how busy an area is of course.

[@vickijohnson9367]

Key Largo coral reef the water temperature yesterday was 98 degrees Fahrenheit. That says it all. Industries need to wind it all down, the population needs to go back to 3 billion stability, everything that can be produced locally needs to be, to reduce all shipping (now just a source of extra revenue). Travel needs to be minimized. You see?, this is about globalized finance and a ravenous type of capital that hordes at the top. None of that will take place, so the planet will stop us, plain and simple, it cannot support capitalism and over population unbridled. Expect 80% of all ocean life to die off, soon, there is the beginning of the end of the planet as we knew it. Look straight at finance & industry unregulated as the most greedy of the most destructive species to ever exists laments it’s hubris and arrogance, in mass. This is no longer Edgar Cayce prophecy, it is our reality, playing out before our eyes.

[@kimweaver1252]

@@foto21 I'm on Oahu, been here for over 60 years. I have sadly watched the steady death of the sea. And the heating of the land. Food fish are rarer and rarer. I used to buy a block of ahi belly (yellow fin tuna) for New Year's celebration. Made a big plate of sashimi, with wasabi and shoyu. Some thin sliced green onion. Used the less primo parts for poke.... cubes of raw fish in a sauce with chili peppers, oyster sauce, and thin sliced red onion. It was 5 dollars a pound most years. If the catch was bad, or demand was unusually high, it could go to 7 or 8 dollars a pound. Now, you had better make a RESERVATION for the best cuts and it may go for over 100 dollars a pound. And you may not get really good fish, you might have to take a lesser quality or another fish entirely, like bluefin or big eye.

[@SugerSprinkledFun]

The primary killer of coral reefs is not sunscreen it's the acidification of the ocean water. As we pump ever increasing amount of CO2 into the air the oceans are forced to absorb more and more of it which causes a decrease in the pH of the water making it unlivable for coral reefs which can only survive within certain pH levels. When it becomes too acidic the polyps that live in the coral reefs leave which means death for the coral. These animals are what give life to the reefs and without them they die, leaving behind lifeless rock.

[@donaldkasper8346]

@@kimweaver1252 Japanese overfish for the tuna. $1 million a fish.

[@glampirexo]

Imagine building a machine in your home. There's a side effect of the mechanics that causes a fire, but otherwise works fine. So you just keep working it while it burns more and more of your home, yet you still have that machine going. We're insane as a people.

[@tylerwilliams3229]

Now imagine a world without machines. There would be no solar panels no wind turbines. No electricity, no medical care, no way to even see an upcoming event such as this! You would be dead at a young age. I challenge you to try not using ANY technology for one week! I bet you can't!

[@manmaje3596]

No one forces you to turn your lights on child.

[@glampirexo]

@@manmaje3596 do you think all of anthropogenic climate change is from turning on lights?

[@davidsalo8397]

As a people, many of us deny the house is on fire. Those people are called politicians, not scientists.

[@NoName-ic7ur]

So I'm guessing you use a candle and bath in a rain barrel then.

[@RICKONORATO]

I was scuba diving in the Maldives and they actually gave us colored filters to put over our goggles to make all the dead, white coral look livelier and more colorful. I could not believe it.

[@WeighedWilson]

Didn't they predict the Maldives to be under water 20 years ago?

[@glennlee6987]

Wow, let's just pretend the problem doesn't exist! "Don't the corals look amazing? No no! Put your colour filter back on!" Ugh... 🙄🙁

[@stephenporter3209]

Coral bleaching event was caused by larger el Nino effects in 1990s.

[@J4Zonian]

@@WeighedWilson No.

[@WeighedWilson]

@@J4Zonian they predicted that in the late 1980s. Sorry to disappoint you.

[@stephenrobinson8244]

Sky news released a video yesterday talking about record temperatures yesterday. The thing that shocked me, was how many people commented they didn't care but most didn't believe it.

[@Think-dont-believe]

The sun melted the ice in my cooler .. the water is coming out the plug and getting my blanket all wet. Pretty soon I’m gonna be wet. It’s so hot My dogs water bowl is empty and my hands are sticky. My friends went to buy chairs since blanket wet and bottle water for my dogs wipes for my hands and a new blanket and Ice and cooler ., expensive and drag have to go store.,

[@Think-dont-believe]

Haha no of course fill up dog bowl . Wash hands and close plug. 🤣🤣 Funny buying a chair hah that wld be like letting sea levels rise. Haha build a damn and use the water of course . Yes of course this show is ridiculous.., plug it and use it .. duh

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

maybe because its not record temps , it only covers the last 200 years , and barely 100 in other places , record temps should cover since the dawn of time not a measly 200 years and then you will realize what record temps means

[@rockyluan]

Suggestion: maybe promote public transportation and stop estimating consumerism

[@nekoeko500]

When I was a kid, I would come up in the morning and see the frost in every patch of grass; this would go on for at least two weeks straight during the winter. My last year on my old city, about three years ago, I did not see the same a single day. Also populations of birds and insects have dramatically decreased since I was a kid, which had decreased since my parents were kids. Now, I'm south-american, my wife is eastern-european and says simillar things have happenned there too. My point is it's real, it's worldwide and it's bad.

[@nekoeko500]

@Adriel Tzu every generation sees a trend in climate change, don't be manipulated so easy

[@peterjones4180]

Really well YOU will be surprised to learn that temperature, weather AND climate are ALL totally within NORMAL long term variability for our current interglacial !

[@A.G.P.115]

@Adriel Tzu you try it first

[@nekoeko500]

@Adriel Tzu try not to be indoctrinated into denialism

[@nekoeko500]

@@peterjones4180 sure, it's the exact same as fish industrial revolution, and almost as hot as dinosaurs industrial revolution. It's the same picture.

[@laurierounds7102]

As an avid amateur gardener nearing 70, I have seen dramatic changes in the garden. Where I live went from a zone 5 to a zone 6. Some of my annuals, like snapdragons have gone from annuals to perennials. I can now grow plants & shrubs that couldn’t take the winter temps in the past. Nothing will change in the US until we do reach a tipping point (flooding in Houston for example). When someone’s income (fossil fuel industry) is on the line, they will continue to fund anti-climate research & dissemination. Just like the tobacco industry did starting in the 60s. I’m hoping our leaders recognize this eminent threat, but I fear it is already too late. Don’t invest in coastal properties for now, especially in FL. Or lower Manhattan & Long Island for that matter. Phoenix will become unlivable. Potable water problems in the west will continue to worsen.

[@johngrundowski3632]

I live in Pennsylvania / I am62- and the zone changed here 10years ago. I agree with your assessment. We are getting 40° changes on a regular basis.

[@NicoleM2108]

@@johngrundowski3632 I grew up in NE PA. I remember hip deep snow and severe cold for days on end. Now it seems it barely reaches freezing before it shoots up to 50 again mid January! That was unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

Agreed! My mom had a gardening book from 1954 saying my garden was zone 5. Today it is officially zone 7, but I only had zone 8 winters for the last 9 years. I collect rainwater, and just added 200 gallons storage. I moved away from Seattle-under-water 9 years ago. No mortgage and no regrets.

[@mehere8038]

yup, same story in Sydney Australia, I planted sugarcane, reading that there was potential to get it to 1 metre in height with winter protection, when growing outside it's range (which Sydney absolutely is for a tropical plant), anyway, it went straight to 4 metres high & about 1 litre of juice per cane, which is impressive even in tropical climates. My sweet potato thrives too, as does my coffee plant. I only moved to where I live now, with a good garden space, a decade ago & originally planted as per the "correct" zone, but I've learnt to ignore that now & treat it as one to 2 zones warmer than the official zoning. No potential to grow crops like iceberg lettuce, just too hot for it, even in winter, it just bolts straight to seed! Lots of others that seem similar too, but I can't say for sure with some as to if it's a climate change thing or was always the case in this area, or if it's my gardening to blame, but no question it's warmer than it used to be! (exception being the last year, due to the Tongan volcano eruption & the significant cooling that caused in the southern hemisphere, impact of that seems to have subsided though, after snow here in December, we're now experiencing over a month of "heat wave" conditions, high 20's to 30's everyday, high 30's everyday in parts of the country, in what should be coming into Autumn & cooling temps)

[@aaronbaker2186]

In Seattle the South Park neighborhood just flooded due to climate change. We thought we had 10 more years...

[@annerigby4400]

The only way anything will ever be done to slow down disastrous climate change is if people start voting en masse for politicians who will do something about it. Unfortunately, it seems most people vote for politicians they agree with on matters of "foreign invasions" (for or against), tax reduction/increase, more jobs, more roads, etc... all of which have nothing to do with helping slow down climate change but everything to do with the people's perceived benefits to their own personal little lives. Find politicians willing to do what is necessary and vote for them and then make sure they do what they said they would do. Seeing that my suggestion is unlikely to get enough people to vote for the right politicians, then I suggest we all look forward to a very much more complicated life, with less 'stuff' available or workable, with having to move to safer ground, with getting used to certain foods being no longer available.... all bit by bit. Our poor children will be the true victims of our failure to act when it was still possible to slow things down. And for those who 'don't believe in climate change', don't worry, you will soon enough.

[@samreh6156]

I live in deep south Texas, where 20 years ago, mosquitoes reigned in the summer. Now there are hardly any mosquitoes around anymore, even after hard rains, and I don't hear the toads/frogs anymore.

[@Namari12]

10 meters of sea level rise?! I feel like that really got glossed over here, that was not given the weight it deserved to people who aren't familiar with metric. That's saying we're currently locked in to 32 feet of rise!!

[@maudepotvin8660]

American and their imperial thingy 😆

[@christianmartin5854]

conclusion: don't buy a car, buy a submarine!

[@ronaldturner4849]

Looks like we need another planet.... Unfortunately, only the sci-fi writers can formulate that fantasy utilizing their fertile imaginations.

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@ronaldturner4849 what we need is for idiots to stop getting their information from social media, and actually think a little bit.

[@ronrothrock7116]

Seriously? You believe taht??? She said she was using the I{PCC data. If you look at the IPCC report they say 1-3 feet rise by the end of the century. This lady is simply scaring you into believing her. Stop being the fool!

[@dianemitchell1717]

One of my saddest underwater experiences was to view the extensive destruction of the coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over ten years ago or more. It was devoid of the once brilliant colors and fish. I was shocked to see the damage of global warming.

[@johnnywhatthefuck1626]

have you looked at it lately? its bigger than ever now. damn that global warming, right?

[@jerryw6699]

More BS, It's thriving.

[@rain1956]

jerryw66 reported for misinformation.

[@johnnywhatthefuck1626]

@@rain1956 by "misinformation", you mean "truth that i dont agree with" right?

[@Kitty_Demonix]

In 2003 I was lucky enough to see Hawaii's coral reef, I was hoping some day to bring my husband who has a degree in adventure recreation, concentration in diving to see it. 20 years later I doubt he will ever be able to see the beauty I once saw. It breaks my heart. Its sad that he has never seen a reef.

[@anastoyanova6932]

Today it is 21 degrees Celsius in my city. It is supposed to be a middle the winter right now. The last time we had a record in February was 2009 with 16 degrees.

[@kemjohnson6644]

I was "lucky" enough to help measure the movement of the WAIS in 1995/6. The ice streams within the sheet were moving rapidly. I heard recently the the tipping point for the WAIS has been passed...game over. Living in Aotearoa (NZ), we here all aware of the threat to the populations of the small atolls in the South Pacific near us.

[@MrCaiobrz]

Let's face it, we won't only reach 1.5C very fast, we will get past it. We are nowhere near what should be done to prevent 1.5C. And with the tipping points (and the fact I don't believe we would stop at 1.5C anyway) I can easily see we getting to 2C way before the end of the century. Buckle up guys, this is going to hurt.

[@J4Zonian]

@Caio Lima Netto Yes, way, way before. We’re already at 1.2°C, adding about .5°C/decade, so doing the math that’s...let’s see, 14, carry the 1, we’re likely to hit 1.5 by 2028. Except since we’ve already seen some tipping points have been breached, we know climate change is accelerating, so 2027 is also likely. 2°C is likely between 2035 & 2040. Not a damn thing we can do about that, especially with so many people in charge telling the 2050 not zero lie.

[@MrCaiobrz]

@@J4Zonian lol the 2050 net zero is completely delusional when we are still ramping up emissions, not even peaked. There is no way we can get from accelerating to zero in 30 years. I bet we won't see net zero by 2100. Only hope (which is most of these lies are based upon) is some dream tech-miracle that will be able to do carbon capture on a planetary level in record time. I am 44 and I think I will still be alive when we get to 2C and I will probably die before net zero.

[@TheCharleseye]

It's already too late. I say we speed up the process, so the earth can heal - once all of the people are gone. Whadaya say? Join me in a diesel truck race and a nice used tire bonfire? I feel like we should at least get to enjoy the end of mankind.

[@tinoyb9294]

It's already higher than that. The scientists changed the starting year for temperature rise to a later date making the rise look better.

[@slrsouth64]

Thoughts and prayers 🙏

[@OwnGrid]

Nothing will stop it. It’s adapt or die. Unfortunately the people who contributed the least will suffer the most. Life is just not fair

[@minellechevalier1748]

This thinking is precisely the problem, because it means you can sit back and do nothing. And: humans can no longer adapt to 3 degrees of warming. The planet and some species can. But not us.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

What exactly do you believe will happen?

[@northerniltree]

I have worked on northern Illinois trees for 45 years. It used to be in the late 1970's that a dead oak was fairly unusual to encounter, usually oak wilt. Today, nearly every oak and many other trees are under attack by an array of insect and fungal borne diseases. These diseases are attributable to warmer winters, and warmer and wetter growing seasons. Colder winters used to kill off many insect pests. It is likely that in 50 years, all Midwest native oaks will be gone. The changes have been increasingly rapid, and profound.

[@jamesgreig5168]

What makes you certain that it's not other factors?

[@karencansler7127]

@@jamesgreig5168 Read Scientific American instead of posting dumb.

[@herb369nichols]

In 50 years, your northern Illinois trees will be of the Palm variety.🌴

[@northerniltree]

@@jamesgreig5168 Such as?

[@DrSmooth2000]

Fortunately the tropics are full of trees used to 12month insect pressure. Archaeobotany shows the Wyoming jungles had plants constantly being bitten by insects. Wyoming jungles didn't collapse from insects. They collapsed from cold/drought (same thing)

[@thomasellis8586]

Excellent documentary. To your question, "What can we do?" My short answer is this: collectively, nothing that will matter much. Many of these tipping points are already happening, and our global climate has gone into a self-accelerating runaway heating and destabilization whose symptoms are everywhere. We're in for a rough ride that will only get rougher. Not much of a legacy for our children, I'm afraid. Individually is a different matter, however. We can grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness, forming garden guilds within our own neighborhoods where we learn and teach how to grow our own food, share our equipment and skills, and steadily reduce our dependence on the larger infrastructures that are destroying our planet (e.g. fossil fuels, the money economy, rampant consumerism, etc.) And we can devote these skills to healing our landscapes and each other, practicing permaculture design, managing and recycling water, etc. This may not save us from the fate we have already locked in through our arrogance and greed, but it will make the remaining years less stressful and more convivial, and may even result in some of us actually surviving to start the long healing process thereafter.

[@richardcowley4087]

Bullshit written in bollocks

[@richardcowley4087]

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[@richardcowley4087]

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[@samuelguy1838]

God is the one that will recreate a New World free from sin, sickness and death for those who will be saved because of their Faith in God the Creator.

[@thomasellis8586]

@@samuelguy1838 That would be nice, if you believe it. But for me and others with their feet firmly planted in the realities disclosed by scientific inquiry, all of that is balderdash, appealing only to the credulous.

[@brianarnold3250]

You have missed the disappearance of the mountain glaciers. Causing the drying up of the major rivers, the denudation of the mountains, increased warming, failure of most croplands.

[@daisy8luke]

Yeah, except that's not actually happening. The earth is like a terrarium. It has a finite amount of water that goes through lots of changes but comes right back to being water somewhere else on the planet. Sorry you slept through the part of science class that would have kept you from buying in to this bullshit.

[@brianarnold3250]

@@daisy8luke perhaps you are thinking of the hydrological cycle. Assuming you listened to your terrarium teacher! Without the freezing conditions the precipitation flows down as flash floods rather than a slower continuous stream. Then after flood drought occurs when the rivers dry up. Did you watch any news this year and see the effect in the northern hemisphere. Good gotcha try, keep believing GOP.

[@justincase5272]

Just as happened during the other four Interglacial Warming Periods over the last half million years! I've read through each and every one of the IPCC Assessment reports from 1990 to present. My undergrad was in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, wherein we studied ocean currents both current as well as how they have changed over the eons. I have three degrees total, including two in Science, summa cum laude for my two graduate degrees, each with its own respective concentration. What I am NOT, however, is climate scientist, and THANK GOD, as it allows myself and many thousands of other scientists to SEE CLEARLY the forest through the trees instead of perpetuating this damned MYTH. Look it up: Interglacial Warming Period. They occur roughly every 105,000 years and last for 10,000 to 30,000 years before Earth cools back into her usual "snowball Earth" mode where the temperatures drop by upwards of 8 deg C (nearly 15 deg F) for 60,000 to 70,000. Geologists have used the Vostok and other ice core samples dating back to more than 1.5 million years ago to learn Earth has experienced precisely the SAME effects of even higher temperatures, CO2, CH4 (methane), permafrost melt, methane release, and sea level rises during the other Interglacial Warming Periods over the eons as we're seeing today, but without human involvement or cause. The climate scientist in this video remains so hyperfocused on upon the last 20,000 years he can't see the bigger picture AT ALL. Either that, or he's IGNORING the fact Earth is nearing the peak of her FIFTH Interglacial Warming Period of the last 420,000 years. Earth spends 2/3 to 4/5 of its time about 6 to 8 deg C colder than its Interglacial Warming Periods, which occur roughly every 105,000 years. It's a NORMAL and NATURAL CYCLE, people. Humans certainly didn't cause the last four, nor the thirteen before that, and, at best, humanity's contributions to our current Interglacial Warming Period are around 15%. The remaining 85% are ALL Mother Nature's. This is actual, factual, science-based reality, people, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE. Do we need to take care of our planet? Absolutely! Stop dumping plastics and organic toxins into our rivers and oceans! Yank Monsanto's/Bayer's glyphosate license forever! Stop building crappy or hyper-expensive construction when the real problem involves stopping IR, conduction and convection while employing proper amounts of INTERNAL thermal mass. Great homes DO NOT cost half a million dollars or more! Try $50,000. THAT is reality, but I seriously doubt climate scientists want to you know this as it pulls the rug out from beneath their "We're going to solve the climate crisis!" FALSE NARRATIVE. STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.

[@haberdasherrykr8886]

What mountain range is in contention in your comment? Tibet is stable afaik although uttrakhand has seen some dry seasons

[@brianarnold3250]

@@haberdasherrykr8886 All major orogenies. The same problems are occurring at all of them.

[@eduardomartinlopez162]

We already witnessed what we need to do during the first months of the pandemic: reducing dramatically overall planet consumption and human mobility. During the first 3 months of the pandemic, when we all were locked down at home to avoid the spreading of covid19, we observed how rapidly nature was able to restore the environment: the skies became clearer than ever seen before (remember those skies in Delhi, Tokyo or New York as a few examples); wildlife came back to our towns and cities to recover what once belonged to them; raise on global temperatures stopped for those few months; and on and on. But let’s be clear: reducing human consumption and mobility carries consequences, such as a reduction in global demand of products and servicies, which involves less production, which inevitable lead to an increase of unemployment and the consequences associated to that. The key question here is: are we open to radically change our lifestyle, away from capitalism and the commodities that come with it?

[@sandersson2813]

You're a capitalist, you wouldn't last five minutes without oil and gas and your demand drives supply.

[@sandersson2813]

The temperature DIDN'T go down during covid lockdowns.

[@DrSmooth2000]

Clear skies are very bad for climate. You are behind the times. The more haze the better. Canadian wildfires were a brilliant stroke of luck this year.

[@kathlake4009]

I'm 83 now. I had had 2 children before hearing of global warming. At that point I determined to have no more children. I later married 2 childless men (not at the same time 🤓), and had no more children. Being so close to the end of my life, I hope to miss the worst of the looming disaster. Unfortunately, my great-grandaughter will live it. 😢

[@anthonymorris5084]

If you're 83 you lived through the mass hysteria of Armageddon in the 1950's. You also lived through the 1973 energy crisis, the predictions of global starvation by the 1990's, the impending ice age and Y2K. All of these fairy tales began with "scientists say" and the media ran with their hyperbole and sensationalism. Have you learned nothing? Your great granddaughter will be fine and experience a life that you and I could only dream about. She'll likely be working on Mars and vacationing on the moon. Cheers.

[@Roger-go6jc]

@@anthonymorris5084You regurgitate 50 years of Petrochemical Industry media disinformation and lies. The pitiful truth is that you believe the trash, even when the industry scientists knew it to be a whitewash of the truth.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

dont worry please see the bigger picture its all lies

[@meridien52681]

Trouble is, we've already blown past some tipping points we didn't know we had.

[@anglosaxonmike8325]

where? Name them with evidence,

[@doctorbigsmiles]

@@anglosaxonmike8325 the principle is, by the time you are aware of many tipping points, you're already past them. There's no list, and people with their head in the sand won't be convinced, even with more evidence

[@dentonfender6492]

@@anglosaxonmike8325 Greenland, the world’s biggest island, appears to have hit a tipping point around 2002-2003 when the ice loss rapidly accelerated, said lead author Michael Bevis, a geoscientist at Ohio State University. By 2012 the annual ice loss was “unprecedented” at nearly four times the rate in 2003. But we know you think Donald Trump knows more about the weather than a climate scientist. So no matter how many scientists say disaster is imminent, you will believe a stupid corrupt politician over a scientific expert.

[@trentcook8021]

Who's we?

[@meridien52681]

@@anglosaxonmike8325 We don't know what they are. Reading comprehension is an essential tool.

[@thesilentone4024]

Fun fact if you go off 1750 to today its 1.7c more not 1.1 like they say now. Parking lots take up 25 to 30% and sometimes more of the land in cities why cant we just go up. Make parking garages for stores with big parking lots like Walmart Costco malls reduce your parking lots size by 80% go up loss none and probably gane more parking spaces. The freed up land can be used for trees and the parking garages can be covered in solar to reduce energy demand and have batteries on bottom floor of the parking garage where cars can't park of course so tada energy storage for when the gride needs it.

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

Plural for City is Cities. Really? Yes. 🤣

[@avinashreji60]

No, cars really just need to go and cities should be more compact not sprawly

[@aussieintexas61]

Do solar panels cause heat island effect? Large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a solar heat island effect that, though much smaller, is similar to that created by urban or industrial areas, according to a new study.Nov 7, 2016

[@shasmi93]

Give up dude. The real issue is TOO MANY HUMANS! You know how every life I’m this planet has checks and balances… except us. Ya that’s the real issue. If there was less of us we would be just fine with the systems we have now. It’s too many humans… that’s the only solution.

[@karenrasmussen1505]

Or plant food forests on the tops of every parking, local food without extra transport and focus on perennial food plants means less soil disturbance, more carbon storage, less water usage, less need for tractors or similar equipment.

[@evadd2]

Not only is it too late, it's accelerating at an alarming rate. It's going to be terrifying for the next ten years fighting to get action as disasters become hourly issues. Not daily, hourly. And only when it is entirely too late and everyone can see and experience it, will we finally call for real change. And cry and and cast sullen, sombre and sorry about the inaction. Remember this: when the devastation have been weekly crises, the govts have nearly doubled fossil fuel subsidies. Hard to change when the politicians sold out.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

yes you got it climate science is trash and childlike alarmist science

[@SavannahBurris]

Planting living shorelines in favor of sea walls could help reduce flooding caused by sea level rise. I’m starting to see that pop up near my old hometown in towns right on the water. It breaks my heart to know that so many places I loved growing up will likely be gone in the future because of our actions. I’m uncertain about having kids nowadays because I don’t want them to grow up on a planet that we’re actively destroying.

[@spicykittyh1]

1:50 Props to the guy who seems to have genuinely fallen ass over tincan for this shot

[@lindajonesartist]

What you didn't mention is that rising sea levels changes the weight on the tectonic plates under the oceans, and Greenland and Antarctica would weigh less, which could lead to more powerful earthquakes along the tectonic plates around the rim of the oceans, including the ring of fire, and with it, more volcanic activity, which could add even more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Or, it could result in super volcanoes erupting, leading to an ice age like a nuclear winter around the entire planet. Or it could change the convection layers in the mantle, destabilizing our planets geomagnetic field. Destabilizing tectonic plates could be the most catastrophic of the climate change issues.

[@sylfix2680]

Cheers from Ontario Canada where the climate has warmed over 1.5 degree's in FIFTY years

[@joylarson9040]

BS!

[@2pintsofcremedementh]

Or it could all be sweet

[@latoyamatson6197]

@@joylarson9040 it's true...do some research

[@latoyamatson6197]

@@2pintsofcremedementh well you must be smoking 2 pints of cremede"meth"....cuz it is not sweet at all. The proof is killing people as we speak.

[@charlenebeck8543]

A planetary tipping point warning system just might help extend the planet's ability to support complex life...

[@saywhatyouwill405]

Adding rooftop solar panels and buying an EV has drastically reduced my carbon footprint, power and travel expenses. I pay about $600 a year to power my house and my car which I drive about 15k per year. I am no environmental hero, but these kinds of changes need to be adopted by the masses. We can think differently, save money and preserve the environment through our consumption choices.

[@Traumbewusstsein]

I guess we lose the amazon rainforest not because of global warming, but just because of deforestation, much much earlier (like in the next years the tipping point might be reached)

[@Littlebigbot]

Never let a good dying rainforest go to waste. Blame it on fossil fuels.

[@Bee_Bill287]

go watch eating our way to extinction narrated by Kate Winslet. real eye opener

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

@@Littlebigbot How does that make sense? The rainforest is being leveled for farmland not oil.

[@michellegouin3007]

The new president has a major reforestation program going on. That at least I would say is something.

[@ufosrus]

@@Littlebigbot Know the difference between deforestation and climate change. 🙄

[@holeshothunter5544]

I watched in 2003 when we passed the most critical tipping point; CO2 became unrecoverable. 230 ppb. Now we're well over 400. Then the gov't started 'moving the goalposts', changing the labels until no one knew what was happening. We are now truly screwed no matter what goes right.

[@sandrakisch3600]

China doesn't have to cut CO2 just north America. Duh.

[@saturationstation1446]

like how they changed the definition of vaccine to include things that function solely in a therapeutic way with the human body instead of preventing infection like every vaccine was before 2020. just so they could do the "most lucrative business opportunity in the history of capitalism"

[@Diana1000Smiles]

@@sandrakisch3600 Blaming China so you're innocent? 🙄 Lack of personal responsibility is how Humans failed as a species.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

[@kjelle5350]

The industrial greenhouses, have far higher CO2. That make plants grow faster.

[@__Wanderer]

AMOC collapse within several decades is terrifying.

[@Jennifer-do8cm]

Very depressing. I don't see our world leaders doing anything to minimize or avoid our total destruction.

[@AyaJuni]

Then you simply become a world leading role model! :)

[@1silverwhisper8]

I just switched my major to Environmental Science and I have to say that it is encouraging to see many other people doing the same thing. My school just opened up the Environmental Science major and we had our first graduate last year. Hopefully, more people start to do the same thing so we can figure out how to navigate all of this together.

[@richardcowley4087]

deluded

[@richardcowley4087]

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[@richardcowley4087]

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[@pamelag7553]

I wish you the best when it comes to looking for a job after school, but you may find yourself in the political science nightmare" that graduates found themselves in about 10+ years ago. Hope not. Stay informed and diversify with your minor.

[@richardcowley4087]

@@pamelag7553 maybe she should be a minor

[@darrylcook2845]

I have always wondered about the black asphalt on all the roads and parking lots would it help if they could be white or silver to cool the temperature in the atmosphere. Maybe some scientist should study the effects of this.could be very worthwhile. I changed the color of my garage roof from brown to white.around 20 degrees cooler instantly. Just my 2cents worth.

[@rridderbusch518]

Painting black asphalt to a particular shade of light gray is starting to be done already. Not in too many places, but it does help people in cities.

[@jerryw6699]

@@rridderbusch518 The heat still goes somewhere, not really an answer to the problem at all.

[@rridderbusch518]

@@jerryw6699 Yes, the heat rises. Doing this keeps people without AC from dying, tho.

[@kimweaver1252]

@@jerryw6699 But it radiates back to space and can escape the planet. At least it's passive cooling not requiring the expenditure of even more energy to cool living spaces. It works. When I had my house re-roofed, I chose the lightest color shingles available. It made a noticeable difference.

[@mmmaxxx__]

The color of the asphalt will not produce any significant change if it's STILL ASPHALT

[@tobih3940]

Wow - under the title "What Will Earth Look Like" I expected scenarios of mass migration, widespread hunger, deadly heatwaves, costs of "adaption" to natural desasters that eat up the budget of even the richest countries, not to mention the conflicts over land, ressources, but most importantly over water, the wars of the future are already in the making after all. Looking at these prospects realisitcally is a cause for depression and anxiety, so much so that there is whole new field of psychology around the hopelessness, depression and fear, that are spreading like wildfire in the younger generations. I was stoked to see how PBS Terra would handle the chellange to communicate all this. Instead, this was a feelgood description of some of most important tipping points with only a hint of the consequences (displacement, mass migration, food insecurity). Society cannot react approprietly, if the media doesnt paint the full picture.

[@dep7311]

Now, the world has recently reached world record breaking temperatures globally... Congrats🎉

[@mitarravilic2025]

My biggest concern is that the delay of reasonable measures will just lead to some stupid and extreme solutions when the catastrophe is visible even to the most ignorant. Like detonating a nuke in yellowstone, or pumping some weird chemical in the atmosphere, or dropping a bilion tons of reflective white balls onto ocean surface.

[@FalconWing1813]

Yea those will just create more problems in other areas of our lives. Best to just do the right thing first and do it now.

[@VerenicruzX]

Nah the most ignorant in America will still deny

[@jamescollier3]

inflation, recession and rolling blackouts aren't enough?

[@roberthicks1612]

My biggest concern is that people will actually listen to you maniacs and completely wipe out civilization so that your precious leaders can become dictators of the world.

[@peterjones4180]

WHY take ANY actions when temperature, weather AND climate are TOTALLY within normal long term variability for our current interglacial. Nothing unusual is going on.

[@benrudolph5582]

In situations like this, I remember what Canada did. When a river flooded a town that had grown around it, the river flooding killed animals, destroyed property, and killed people. But, they learned from the experience. When they rebuilt, all areas that had been flooded were off limits, and instead were turned into a public park with no permanent structures allowed. There are summer music and art concerts, and a walk / bike trail along the river. 50 years later, the river flooded again, but because they had learned, no lives and no property was lost. We need to do the same everywhere. Places that flood from rivers and hurricanes should be turned into parks, as should places like "Tornado Alley". People who want to build in fire prone areas need a psych evaluation, not a condo that will "need" to be saved. We've "paved over paradise and put in a parking lot", and need to undo our mistakes.

[@FronosElectronics]

Just so you know by not being able to put buildings in fire prone area youve completely eliminated the western half of the usa , basically all of australia , and so much more

[@FronosElectronics]

Oh yeah , also the east coast is prone to hurricanes. Eliminate that too?

[@benrudolph5582]

@@FronosElectronics Yes. Getting a tiny minority of people out of harm's way, and "future proofing" civilization, is somehow synonymous with depopulating the entire US east coast. 🙄

[@J4Zonian]

@@benrudolph5582 Yes, it is. There is no place on Earth not subject to climate-change caused disasters now. A billion refugees are likely by 2050, the year the insane people pretend we can solve this by by doing practically nothing at all. Welcome to Denier World.

[@J4Zonian]

@ben I agree, but between places prone to floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, deadly heat waves, droughts, ecological collapses, crop failures, dire endemic diseases, & other disasters, that are some mighty big chunksa territory. The parts of California alone that apply are home to tens of millions of people. It probably involves most of the inhabited area of the planet, a national & international crisis we will have to face. Unless we continue to ignore & “bungle”* it & in the process kill billions of people & destroy most nations on Earth along with the coherence of global civilization. I’m guessing we’ll continue to choose the latter. Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, wrote Bring Back the Buffalo, about establishing the mostly empty Great Plains as essentially a wilderness area & haven for free herds of bison as there were before 1800. *the ultimate feature-not-bug problem.

[@debracraig-chugg7205]

Over 50 years ago, the scientific community voiced their theory about "global warming" or the expression of "the greenhouse effect" and they were ridiculed for predicting the impact of excessively using "fossil fuels ". It wasn't until the catastrophic impact of several years of devistating droughts, then the catastrophic bushfires in 2020 - which were then followed by the unprecedented floods, then plagues of mice, then more floods, more fires and the choking smoke that caused health issues for anybody that had respiratory problems. To top all these repedative disasters * Covid19 had soon spread and was declared a pandemic* with catastrophic death tolls being recorded globally. To think that these absolutely devastating events are only the beginning of the impact of climate change, really makes me worry about the future that is coming for my children and granddaughter. They are going to inherit the earth, in an unstable and unpredictable and unfriendly condition, as the combined impact is set to be extremely hostile planet. We are witnessing the worst climatic conditions, which have already been contributing to crop and stock losses and it is no secret that famine is spreading * either due to financial poverty or crop losses and there is also cases of wars disrupting crop production. With all the "gloom and doom" being thrown into our faces each day * it is no wonder our children and grandchildren are experiencing depression and are suicidal.

[@dnaromance6389]

Brilliant journalism, I love this episode, it's so well explained thank you.

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

Seeing these tipping points laid out bare doesn’t actually scare me that much. What does scare me is how many people I STILL see who want to take the exact opposite actions of the defined solutions. For instance, I was just reading an opinion piece in an LA newspaper where someone was saying that in response to the heat wave we need to mine more coal and drill for more oil! That’s literally the action that’s creating these horrible heat waves in the first place!

[@nickosmond]

No but replacing the Mining for coal and drilling for oil with the Mining for the materials for electric batteries isn’t much better either on top of that regular car batteries are terrible for the environment and had to be recycled in specific ways so can you imagine one 100 if not 1000 times more powerful made to move 4 to 5000 pound vehicles around yeah they’re gonna be a lot more harder on the environment so you’re also gonna have to think of places to store these batteries and that’s Just a simple observation I’ve made out of just common sense. Let’s also not forget rechargeable batteries seem to lose their ability to be recharged after two months of use anyway so I don’t think we have the technological ability to make rechargeable electric car batteries that last a long time. But again that’s just my own observation and experience with rechargeable batteries.

[@williamtomkiel8215]

china is firing up more coal energy plants as hydro-electric shuts down due to drought- yeah- that's going to help

[@A3Kr0n]

I'm more scared by the people who say "we can save ourselves if we act now". We're not acting now and I think it's too late.

[@JacobDegenaro]

@@nickosmond sounds like the problem in your scenario is cars, not whether they’re powered by gas or electric since both options end up being environmentally unsustainable if you draw the timeline out long enough

[@nickosmond]

@@JacobDegenaro That is kind of my point but I can only imagine that the chemicals and materials use for electric car batteries are more harmful than a car rusting away in the woods. on top of that doesn’t the idea of taking land away from the native population for wind farms also seem like another form of colonization to where they have to conform to our rules and our way of life just a simple observation because we’re not supposed to be colonizers in 2022 at least that’s what the world teaches us

[@LeRoiJojo]

Your director's putting his body on the line, I respect that. 😁

[@gibbieraven]

I believe there would need to be a shift in business people, corporate shareholders, people with instant gratification of money, etc... to actually realize that they are alive and going to die one day. To really appreciate the only beautiful home (Earth) we have and and all the other life that we are neighbors with.

[@wesblood3620]

Sad that people only looking at Glaciers. Permafrost is a major problem too. Permafrost is disappearing faster.

[@christill]

I was born in 1987 and looking back at what was happening around that time, it seemed as if humanity was going to get everything under control. Sensible people would act back then, but they stopped, and humanity got stupider and stupider, and stupider from there. The fact that we haven’t done anything really, even until now despite how much worse everything has got; and the fact that we are still making basically no progress politically, or in terms of reducing consumption shows that so clearly. Realistically, I can’t say I have much faith in humans. But I am an idealist, and I’d love to see us all wake up tomorrow, basically remove the capitalists from mainstream society and any political power somehow (because they’ll never change) and save ourselves. I hope so, but every day we keep going on like this, the hope goes down another notch. That’s the unfortunate truth, that every day matters and we’re doing nothing at all relatively speaking.

[@pisces031372aj]

Humans are not going to fix this. There's is too much money and power behind polluting. And the people making the money will be dead long before the really bad sh!t happens or will have the money to insulate themselves from the worst of it. There are so many benefits to moving to renewables but it's not going to happen. Too much greed being propped up by the ignorant uninformed masses.

[@christill]

@@pisces031372aj I wouldn’t say the people making the money are necessarily going to escape. I mean if the crops really fail catastrophically soon, then theoretically they’d be able to pay for the food that’s left. But they’re not going to be left alone by the starving masses if that happens.

[@saxmanphd]

I wish I shared your sense of optimism but nothing right now gives me much of a positive outlook.

[@christill]

@@saxmanphd I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic at all. Just that the idealistic part of my nature makes me consider scenarios that most people would flat out dismiss as impossible, because things generally don’t turn around in a relative instant. Which is what they will have to do if we’re to continue on this planet in a way that we would consider fun.

[@lindsay6518]

You can thank capitalism!

[@vernonbrechin4207]

Thank you for sharing these perspectives that are rarely mentioned. I loved the analogy of the tipping over chair. Many people reject the concepts of tipping points because they prefer to believe that humans are so clever, inventive and resourceful that we can overcome any problem that we have created. Such perspectives often come from those who have little understanding of human dependence upon a healthy surrounding biosphere. In my view we've already crossed many tipping points and most of them interact with the others to accelerate our plunge into darkness. I urge readers to search for the following warning articles that most people seem to have displaced from their consciousness. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 4-years ago.

[@kmoses582]

Many people reject tipping points because they are bull crap

[@peterjones4180]

I note how you quote two highly unreliable socialist media outlets as proof of your perspective both of which blatantly pursue information as a propaganda tool. The U.N IPCC has demonstrated for its whole existence that nothing they say can be taken seriously. Their own scientific report data never supports what they say publically. The U.N has been saying we only have two, or ten or five years for DECADES and NOTHING ever happens to climate that is unusual. I just bet YOU dont even know what climate is ! Q. Define what climate is and how it is measured ? You are just another gullible socialist, who knows nothing about the science, demonstrate some tipping points you think exist and have been crossed, this should be good for a laugh.

[@vernonbrechin4207]

- Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority. They have been convinced that socialism is evil and have learned to condemn anything associated with socialism and liberalism. They share a package of values and charismatic leadership that provided them with a sense of community and personal identity. It brings them joy, the same sort of joy I've noticed in some cult beliefs. Climate science deniers tend to now brand themselves as simply being 'skeptics.' Interestingly these so-called 'skeptics' take great pride in their capacity to reject mountains of scientific evidence that clashes with their deeply entrenched worldview. This is similar to their pride in rejecting all the mounting evidence that Donald Trump has engaged in multiple criminal activities and it is reflected in their support of all the Republican leadership who lack the backbone to admit that their party has been taken over by seditionist forces. The numerous United Nations (UN) IPCC reports contain a summery of the peer reviewed research results of many thousands of scientists around the planet, working in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines for the last half-century. Conservatives have no problem rejecting those findings with claims that its driven by personal greed, or a vast globalists conspiracy campaign. The meaning of climate and climate change can be found in the following Wikipedia articles. I'm listing just the titles since the KZbin algorithms reject my comments when I include the URL links. Climate change (Wikipedia) Greenhouse gas (Wikipedia) Radiative forcing (Wikipedia) --- Climate change: How do we know (NASA) The GISTEMP climate spiral 1880-2021 (NASA) What's Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg) More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change (Cornell University) Over 200 health journals call on world leaders to address 'catastrophic harm to health' from climate change (ScienceDaily) Climate: What did We Know and When Did We Know it? (KZbin) Scientists warned the US president about global warming 50 years ago today (TheGuardian) Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) (TheGuardian) Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation system (Yale University) A Horrifying New Study Found that the Ocean is on its Way to Suffocating by 2030 Seafloor Discovery Shows The Ocean's Undergoing a Change Not Seen in 10,000 Years (ScienceAlert) Satellite data confirms globe is warming rapidly (Axios) CO2 Concentration - Last 800,000 years University of California, Scripps Institute) Climate change 'tipping points' too close for comfort (PhysOrg) World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (TheGuardian) Almost 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970, report reveals (TheGuardian) World’s largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate (Nature) Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm (TheConversation) Insects are dying off at record rates - an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction (BusinessInsider) Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (Stanford University - PNAS) Humanity is ‘cutting down the tree of life’, warn scientists (TheGuardian) Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis (Mnogabay) New study undercuts favorite climate myth ‘more CO2 is good for plants’ (SkepticalScience) Experts explain how rising carbon dioxide depletes nutrients in our food (Accuweather) Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn (TheIndependent) Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns (TheGuardian) Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions (PhysOrg) There's No Science Behind Denying Climate Change (Forbes) Heartland's '6 Reasons To Be A Climate-Change Skeptic' Are Six Demonstrable Falsehoods (Forbes) Skeptical Science (SkepticalScience)

[@peterjones4180]

@@vernonbrechin4207 I asked YOU for the definition of what climate is and how it is measured NOT a link . That you did not answer this simple question demonstrates YOU dont know. You should have been able to offer the correct answer from memory. That you did not reply with that information demonstrates you probably have no idea. Q. What is climate and how is it measured ? Answer the question ! Most U.S. people, who proudly proclaim themselves to be 'conservatives,' tend to immerse themselves in eco-chambers of like-minded people to reinforce their deeply entrenched worldview. Most have been convinced that they should reject all information sources that their favored sources claim to be 'FAKE NEWS,' or unreliable, based upon their own criteria. They have developed a multitude of ways to create a 'us vs them' atmosphere that reinforces their sense of superiority. Your post reproduced above describes SOCIALISTS very well, after all socialism is a RELIGION and you have made a religious response devoid of facts but simply referencing segments of your new bible. Had you any understandng of the physics involved you would have explained them to justify your position. That you have NOT indicates strongly that you do not understand them at all. Most of the sources you cite are still left wing media sources and are NOT a scientific argument. You even quote the skeptical science propaganda website run by the notorious fraud John Cook who produced the most famous stastical fraud study 99% of scientists say...... When replicated properly that study was ACTUALLY .3% of scientists say. Most of what you have cited are long discredited, we are NOT for example n a sixth major extinction that has been formally falsified and was always based on very dodgy statistics and most animal species counted were NOT known to exist but were simply assumed to exist. If you want to have any credibility, for right now you have none. Then you need to justify YOUR position with an explanation of the physics. NOT well this on line article says.........

[@kmoses582]

@@vernonbrechin4207 One problem I have with the word denier is that you guys throw everybody in there who is not alarmist. For example Michael Schellenberger and Steve Koonin are both labeled as deniers even though both want action on climate, they just don't believe in catestrophic climate change.

[@BROWNDIRTWARRIOR]

This show was a year ago. We have topped 1.5 and the climate is becoming unravelled.

[@ndbmiller]

Step 1. Dismantle capitalism and destroy the billionaires.

[@TheNecessaryEvil]

Step 1: get a job and don’t look like Pedro Pascal ordered from Wish.

[@captainalex157]

because commies are so great for the environment, hrm soviet union hrm China(even before it turned state capitalist)....

[@stevep4131]

Step 1. Harness capitalism and charge for emissions of greenhouse gases. Step 2. Tax the super wealthy at a level that reverses the growth of inequality.

[@Jonus_Grumby]

Capitalism has raised many people out of poverty. 3rd world countries are ready for their kids to live like Americans or western Europeans. They are not in the mood to kill economic progress.

[@PipinhoSnow]

Even if you do not believe in global warming (I do not know how it is possible in 2022...) we have to change radically to have a cleaner and greener planet earth.

[@daleviker5884]

You don't know how someone can not believe in global warming in 2022? Well, for the same reason as five years ago or ten years ago. It's called having a brain, having some life experience, and knowing marxist propaganda when you see it. Reading a handful of comments on this thread is like being taken back in time to Woodstock. A bunch of spaced out hippies dutifully parroting the "anti-establishment" propaganda they're fed. At least Woodstock offered great music, climate change threads offer nothing but despair at how gullible people are.

[@zl1David]

Sadly, that is all too possible amongst the Conservative voters in the U.S. apparently they're put stock in the theory that global warming is propaganda devised by the government for political purposes😢

[@DrSmooth2000]

Separate issues

[@kilovwdude6457]

Can't wait to tell my grandchildren about the before times when the coast citys that are underwater were fun tourist spots instead of habitat for fish full of plastic

[@freyathewanderer6359]

To say nothing of the sports teams that will have to move - not that this is a major concern, of course. St. Louis Saints? Oklahoma Marlins?

[@NickBoston]

Are you actually implying there will be fish?

[@daisy8luke]

One day you'll be sitting there with your grandchildren telling them about this monumental hoax that was perpetrated against the People by governments who wanted to control them. And you'll be doing it in a cave because the entire world's economy will have collapsed from these useless ineffective green policies.

[@kilovwdude6457]

@@daisy8luke either way sounds like we're fucked

[@gnoxybluestack4874]

They are going to be fun scuba spots in the future.

[@r4awastemanagement840]

Hi Eco Folks, we need action now and not when the tipping points are upon us. Having done business in the waste management industry, and knowing its affects on the planet, we need to collectively change our methods of living, before it is to late. Politicians need to be held accountable for the decisions on fossil fuels, and we need to run in the streets and petition the government where we can. To change the world from fossil to alternative fuels. Debs

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

they are not alarmist

[@shandellmansion7579]

I live near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Rising sea levels is a huge concern. Reducing carbon emissions worldwide is a step in the right direction. Renewable clean energy that is affordable for everyone would be a way to stop these big issues. Then we have got to find a way to clean the atmosphere of these toxins. It will take a worldwide effort and right now we are still very divided. I only wish people could put aside their differences so we can solve this problem.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Then Climate-Town, OCC, Some More News, they are all there for you.

[@craigsavarese4554]

Surprised you did not mention the risk that as oceans warm, the vast amounts of frozen methane hydrate would melt and be released. This would also greatly increase the global green house gas effects.

[@PeachesCourage]

Well this is awfully strange because only a few months ago science was saying there is no global warming I wonder why? They were saying anyway that every million years or so the earth does a different orbit with the moon and it does this always They also stated that we are in this orbit now and this is why it seems as though this is global warming Not that people aren't capable of destroying our plant though which lately we have been seeing War etc no real recycling being done lies lies and more lies

[@Blarsfengard]

Earth atmosphere would become toxic to humans

[@mariannebradley6905]

We must all do what we can. What kind of world will we leave? Science doesn't lie...

[@organics4you]

Science tells us what serves the elite agenda

[@drewthatsme6212]

It seems every cause, or effect, of warming just accelerates it more. I’m positive it’s way under predicted, 😩

[@saraloking5993]

Just think: scientists tried to warn everyone back in the 1970's, but their message was ridiculed and undermined by big industry and many government officials around the world. How would things be now, if everyone had listened, and acted on their advice, back in the 1970's?

[@aegaeon117]

Just think; if we never practiced science, we wouldn't be in this predicament.

[@johnnywhatthefuck1626]

no, they have tried to scam everyone since the 19th century. things are about the same now as they were then.

[@mvalthegamer2450]

@@aegaeon117 Wishful thinking. We have been driving megafauna extinct since the stone age

[@Crypto666]

Just think, we would be trying to prevent global cooling...cuz that's what the "consensus" was in the 1970s. Then someone figured they could get rich on warming, because they could make carbon a boogey man and control everything. Nearly everything tangible contains carbon.

[@mvalthegamer2450]

@@Crypto666 No, the scientific consensus, even back in the 1970s, was global warming. Examining peer-reviewed research articles on the climate from the 1970s, we find that almost 70% agree that the globe is warming overall, and all articles with global cooling relied on scenarios for increasing concentrations of Sulphur dioxide and other aerosols, while CO2 concentration in the air remained constant. By the mid-1970s, it was already clear that CO2 levels were rising faster than aerosol, and the consensus was that the Globe was warming. However, Media independence is a sham. In total, by 1979, there were 6 papers discussing the possibility of cooling as contrasted to 43 papers on global warming. However, due to the weakening polar vortex, north American winters were (and still are) getting colder, as cold arctic winds are able to more easily move southwards. Hence, the media gave all the attention to people saying global cooling instead of global warming until the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, most news magnates are also heavily invested in oil and coal. Here is a great video explaining Global Cooling. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3aafGpmeat_gLM

[@JamesMarcosChocolate]

I’m surprised that you did not include the massive wildfires burning in Canada and Siberia. Some of these fires start to burn underground due to the amount of peat in the permafrost. All the heat causes a negative feedback loop. Many areas will become unsuitable for growing crops - think the bread baskets of N America and Europe. Places that are already experiencing long term droughts will get worse. That mini-ice age means no farming. The amount of animal and plant extinctions are already increasing and will get worse - the climate is changing too fast for animal and plant life to adapt. Human migrations and starvation will increase. There are so many factors that bode ill for us humans and the planet. Please note that the US DOD considers the changes caused by the climate crisis to be the greatest threat to the US and humans. Please do an update to what the reality is now and where it looks like things are heading.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

one word ... nope

[@LivingMidnight]

Somewhat of a morbid fascination of mine is seeing people witness climate chaos unfold right in front of them, impact them and being told it will get worse, then brush it off and go back to making the same long-term plans as if its all a fever dream they're trying to forget.

[@atemass]

please talk about how losing coral reefs can make nutrition cycling difficult for some parts of the world. losing diversity is not only sad, it is physically dangerous

[@Mrbfgray]

That's a myth. Turns out coral reefs are cyclical, Great Barrier Reef is doing fine.

[@bobbart4198]

@@Mrbfgray " The greatest threat to reefs is the rise in oceanic carbon dioxide levels. When carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, the water becomes more acidic and the ocean’s pH (a measure of how acidic or basic the ocean is) drops. Even though the ocean is immense, enough carbon dioxide can have a major impact. In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic-faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years. Calcium carbonate, the building block of a coral's skeleton, forms only if the water pH sits in a specific range. The more acidic seawater makes it more difficult for corals to build their calcium carbonate skeletons. And if acidification gets severe enough, it could even break apart the existing skeletons that already provide the structure for reefs. Scientists predict that by 2085 ocean conditions will be acidic enough for corals around the globe to begin to dissolve. For one reef in Hawaii this is already a reality. " ... Source: ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-coral-reefs

[@Mrbfgray]

@@bobbart4198 So you are saying the oceans are getting colder, that's the only way they can hold more CO2. In any case, the corals are doing fine.

[@Yourmom-tc4rn]

"Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, though the reef is still vulnerable to climate change and mass bleaching, a monitoring group said Thursday." CNBC August, 2022 All while CO2 has been rising! Next

[@peter.a.langan5872]

The Great Barrier Reef was supposed to be bleaching….it’s doing fine better than normal. Models are not reality.

[@PyckledNyk]

“There’s still time.” Maybe, but it doesn’t matter much if the people in charge are still doing nothing. I think we’re gonna suffer through this regardless what we do.

[@shalizzle793]

doomer trash

[@PyckledNyk]

@@shalizzle793 no, it’s the truth that many refuse to accept. The amount of carbon in our atmosphere will be there for the next several thousand years without some kind of way to remove it, and current removal methods add more carbon to the atmosphere than is removed. That’s also not keeping in mind that many many places on Earth have no desire to stop using carbon because even if there are alternatives, they don’t want to use them because carbon is quicker and cheaper. So, yeah. That’s not being a doomer, those are just the facts. Sorry you can’t accept them.

[@kx7500]

We need a legit bottom up worldwide revolution

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Our politicians (in basically every first world nation at least) have already basically told us they don't care and won't do anything. I don't see any kind of meaningful action on Climate Change until Millennials are in control of politics, and even then? I question my generation's willingness to challenge corporations - cuz we're not going to get any meaningful movement on Climate Change until we do.

[@kx7500]

@@SadisticSenpai61 you’re spitting some truth here. Appreciated that

[@AliceinWonderlandzz]

Newsflash. We are at 1.4 and will hit 1.5 with the El Nino of 23,24. Expect massive melting in Greenland/Antarctica and fires that blot the sun. It's here now! If this releases the Thwaites glacier - say goodbye to your favorite beaches and sell your beach houses at a loss.

[@da80]

Its not about if, but when we're hitting the tipping point.

[@tracetamiah1597]

It would take us to see each other as connected to this planet.

[@backlash660]

I am afraid that we are dooming our children and grandchildren . It's like we are in our house and it's on fire but we just keep saying " Oh it's only a small fire I'm sure it will go out in time . I'll just sit here and watch the Kardashians " . I am beginning to feel that not only are humans not the smartest creature , we may be the dumbest .

[@Me-lb8nd]

Humans are evolution's greatest mistake.

[@oaklanddba]

What a difference when you mix. 1.5 C seemed out in the far distance last year, and now it is here. At this accelerated rate of change most most of these tipping points will be reached by the end of this decade.

[@_skud]

So we're incredibly close to many tipping points that self perpetuate. Dear God

[@robertceliberti7175]

I'm old enough to remember when November was a winter month. It rarely snows in the New York City area and the fall colors are less intense and later. Being aware is the first step. Otherwise I'm not sure what the answer is.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

@Buck Rothschild having known people from, and visited Wyoming fairly recently, I can understand this for sure. A closed minded bunch, most of who I met. It's interesting to see how geography and isolation comparative to larger, more populated areas affects mindset of residents.

[@bobjones2041]

@Buck Rothschild there are tens of thousands of nomads who live in the Sahel of the Sahara all without much water. And when you listen to their songs they endlessly bicker about not being left alone to live in sand with camels

[@michaelbarry8373]

November not being a "winter" month is a good thing. That's an improvement. right?

[@robertceliberti7175]

@@michaelbarry8373 I agree lol. I don't like walking in slippery ice and snow.

[@jeffgold3091]

@@goosenotmaverick1156 spoken like a true narrow minded elitist

[@susanyoung6579]

"a third of the things in the oceans which have life, a third of the trees and all the green grass" If only someone had warned us a long time ago...

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Like in 1905?

[@addielyd4102]

Yup. Many ignore the fact that all of this was written in the Bible thousands of years ago. This is just the beginning. Bible says mens hearts would fail them when they hear what’s coming for the earth. 100pound hails stones + more…. I hope I’m not alive to see that happen.

[@obbiebeal3060]

@@addielyd4102 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@barbaralindhjem2488]

We're way, way passed a third. We're at least into three quarters. God's late

[@user-gj8wv2lv2t]

Swallows nested in our garage (once part of a 16c cottage) since we moved here 52 yrs ago. Perhaps they’ve been inhabiting for centuries. Two years ago they didn’t come. The sky is no longer filled with the lovey cries and reeling acrobatics of these birds. Their nest remains empty…no dipping in and out from overhead, no fledglings…….no more. The sky is dead, our Spring is so quiet. (From the U.K.)

[@petervick4775]

By the time Governments take any really effective action it will be 20 years too late.

[@dannewth7149]

The most dynamic tipping point is the release of methane hydrates in the eastern Siberian shelf of the artic ocean. It's already starting to bubble.

[@Mrbfgray]

Yesterday in geologic time--there were 12 deg C changes in a matter of decades, only 12.5k yrs ago, yet humanity survived. This is all total bullshit, we've been hearing this alarmism for 30 yrs, Al Gore predicted ice free artic for a decade ago. Learn some darn history.

[@parrsnipps4495]

Yes, & most reports on climate tipping points miss that one.

[@davidsalo8397]

Like farts in a bathtub. Another feedback mechanism. How many have we missed?

[@Mrbfgray]

​@@parrsnipps4495 If any such tipping points were available they had hundreds of opportunities in just the last half million yrs. Yesterday in geologic time, 12.5k YA, Younger Dryas witnessed not 1 or 2 deg. C but *12 C in a matter of decades* swings in temp. Tipping points are a fabrication invented to distract from the fact that climate models and predictions have completely failed.

[@dannewth7149]

@@davidsalo8397 this one can spell extinction. Much more hazardous than bathtub farts

[@Dahrenhorst]

There may be still some time to stop this, but it awfully looks like that the people who actually have the power to stop that have no inclination to invoke truly effective measures to accomplish that. Our political, industrial and commercial leaders don't want to do what is necessary, and in the end simply won't do enough to stop the catastrophe.

[@aluisious]

But that would hurt this quarter's numbers! We are screwed.

[@elcid5033]

@@aluisious yes we are and in 30 years you will still have those people "how the F did this happen" i tell you people in power did little to stop it wich is far worse genocide then hitler or stalin did

[@frankb3347]

Too late to stop it. Too many people are making too much money as it is. What we can do is work to limit the damage and save as much as we possibly still can.

[@nobodynowhere21]

That's why the class war is being fought using eco-genocide of the global lower classes. Our destruction is assured, and honestly, I think it's warranted. Human beings were too stupid to accept the reality they could clearly see -- we collectively deserve to die in this mouse trap. Sad, but true.

[@peterjones4180]

There is NOTHING to stop, !, nothing unusual is going on !, weather temperature and climate are ALL totally within normal long term variability for our current inter glacial, the data is VERY clear.

[@cgdimension]

Keep an eye on the deserts too, with plant life dying from lack of water and increased heat, there's nothing to stop the growth of deserts, the sahara growing several metres a year, its already gigantic

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

did god give you a brain? , do you think theres a mystery wall surrounding the Sahara to keep it in place dude the Sahara is the size of the USA nothing can stop the sands , you think farting camels will blow away the sand or something , utter climate alarmist

[@chrisholdren2495]

We're only a super volcano rupture away from a ice age.

[@chrisalex001]

It would suck if apocalyptic future humans find this video in a historical file from when climate destabilization was yet preventable.

[@jillybe1873]

Future humans?????😂optimistic

[@garywjensen1]

I doubt if they will pretty much everything will be destroyed as it has been in the previous five pole reversals.

[@paulgray2794]

Preventable? Not while big business can make a dollar. Seeing as though big business OWNS politics, absolutely nothing effective will be done.

[@AKu-xs5vg]

We are those humans, you just have to look at the stone structures all over the earth (and mars)

[@jamigaither]

We can't stop this process without learning to love the earth... and seems we cannot even figure out how to love each other.

[@daisy8luke]

Your acquiescence to their ideologies is exactly what they need you to be doing. This entire video is based on flawed models built by flawed men.

[@thewildcardperson]

@@daisy8luke yep exactly everyone love the cool aid around d here

[@jamigaither]

@@daisy8luke explain my acquiescence?

[@mechellekingman7833]

They don't tell you that Antarctica was 5.2 below average a few weeks ago .

[@richardcowley4087]

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[@peterallman8474]

I like the idea of Greenland becoming available for agriculture. I'm sure there's plenty of fertile soil under the vanished glaciers, not!

[@loturzelrestaurant]

!

[@ufosrus]

Unless my local wine industry is eyeing it for more vineyards!

[@danrynazewski4151]

You just call Monsanto up problem solved...

[@AKu-xs5vg]

There isn't, tundra soils are extremely shallow It will basically be smaller and worse version of most African soils, with the added con of not being able to grow anything during winter. It will only support small scale farming like Siberia does today.

[@mikep1556]

As far as I know, the soil under once melted glaciers is quite fertile. The glaciers crush, break up, turn over and move the rocks etc under it and this contributes to the resultant soils fertility.

[@DumpTrump4TRE45ON]

I live in Alaska. The largest sea mammal, polar bears, are now living on land. People's homes are sinking into the earth. Salmon are dying before spawning. Its completely human caused.

[@grogery1570]

Since we have a third consecutive La Nina weather cycle, I think we have reached a tipping point. If the La Nina weather pattern becomes permanent Australia will need to get used to a lot more rain, California will be in a permanent drought. I have a bad feeling that this is our new reality.

[@NoNo-qd2rm]

Well if it is current, yes it is new.

[@eclipsey999]

The last time Australia had 3 consecutive years of La Niña was 1998 - 2001, so it’s not unheard of. Following that was the millennium drought (2001 - 2008) with people back then predicting the drought would be permanent. There’s no way of predicting that La Niña will become permanent. There are also other weather systems (SAM, IOD) that influence Australia’s weather. Let’s wait and see if there’s a 4th consecutive year of La Niña before deciding whether a tipping point has been reached.

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

All conjecture. Global warming is not an existential threat. This is all about CONTROL. Scaring everyone to give up power to the government.

[@mikeekim1101]

One point regarding La Nina. From what I understand, La Nina cools the planet slightly and despite this 3 year La Nina we are seeing record breaking heatwaves all over the northern hemisphere from China to Europe to the USA. So it may be masking some of the warming thats already happening and we wont realize it until El Nino hits at some point and we go further into uncharted territory.

[@eclipsey999]

@@mikeekim1101 La Nina has the biggest impact on North American weather in winter (according to NOAA). It can cause warmer & drier winters in the south, cooler & wetter in the north & Canada. But it's not the only driver of weather so other systems can cause different outcomes. We're not currently in La Ninã (it became neutral in June) but there's a 70% likelihood of it returning soon.

[@nh5264]

Ha, this is a fluffy rosy outlook. Such a surface level dive into what the Earth would actually look like. You have to think of 2nd and 3rd order effects from these. Massive migrations of people mean massive conflicts and wars. Food scarcity means more wars. Massive amounts of animals and humans dying out. We are about to dive into all of this. No one is going to be living in the relative comfort we have now.

[@Healitnow]

On Ted Talks, a scientist just stated that if the currents stop circulating the earths oceans, the difference in temperature from the equator to the poles will change from 30 degrees C to 110 degrees C. Not good.

[@jamesmichael7448]

pretty sure we have passed many of these thresholds. Humanity is in deep sh!t.

[@user-vf2mi7sz5f]

Alarmist

[@clsclearlightsound5594]

The first and most important thing that has to occur, is for humanity to come out of its schizophrenic fragmentatation, and come together as one unified species, with a similarly unified directive to address climate change full force and according to what's needed in every locale on the planet. Without that unity of purpose and applied action, climate change will accelerate and overwhelm human efforts at mitigation and any hope of stopping it. These efforts should have begun 20 years ago, but due to the misfortune of human greed, stupidity and complacency, we are all in a much more precarious and critical situation. It's time for the world to consciously act now, as if our survival depends on it - because it does.

[@richardwards7713]

could have written that myself except change 20 years to 40, Joni Mitchell Big yellow Taxi.

[@kirkdillon1733]

Permaculture, Permaculture, Permaculture

[@johnnywhatthefuck1626]

the climate changes no matter what we do. we have no measurable effect on climate.

[@izzytoons]

@@johnnywhatthefuck1626 with half the people like you pulling in the wrong direction, it sure makes it more difficult.

[@johnnywhatthefuck1626]

@@izzytoons good. genocide should be difficult.

[@r.1599]

Just two months later, we now know we're actually closer to 3°C warming than 1.1°C.

[@michaelstreeter3125]

Please link to a source for that claim.

[@r.1599]

@@michaelstreeter3125 I'm trying to let you know the source. YT isn't letting me pass it along to you. I've tried 8 times now. YT is removing all my replies because (I'm guessing here) they contain news article headings, or partial headings. YT also doesn't allow direct links any longer.

[@r.1599]

@@michaelstreeter3125 Article by Reuters, October 27, 2022, partially headed every fraction of a degree counts.

[@r.1599]

@@michaelstreeter3125 Science Daily article partially headed the world will miss climate goals.

[@edtremblay6694]

What's going to happen when the ice at the north and south poles melts and all that mass isn't there but distributed in the oceans instead? That's going to possibly have some impact on how the earth spins on its axis. I don't think too many scientists thought about that scenario.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Isnt it kindaaa sad that little children having watched a single tutorial by UpisnotJump and then another by Hbomberguy litrally know more about your Planet's Issues than you?

[@DrSmooth2000]

Glaciers melting can cause tectonic events like earthquake and volcano Should be gradual as far as spin. Not heard of that aspect

[@diannadima7082]

Terra i don't believe that the population is listening or understanding what is happening. I lived through a California Drought in the 70's. Our lakes where puddles, our produce farms were nill. Our well dired up. This was a frightening time. I don't think people are listening. The gas emissions keep coming. In my little mountain town the air is so polluted that I can't walk more than a block. People are not listening or they don't believe what is happening. I so appreciate your videos. I listen. I have gone electric.

[@liti1554]

Great summary of tipping points and how they relate! But for obvious reasons -fear & social conformity - they left us with the impression of something distant & abstract - 10 meters sea rise, bigger area for food production - with pros & cons. If we consider the immediate effect on migration, food prices and social stability makes it so much more concrete. A22 network