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Simple u end capitalism
tom black woah there pal you’re entering dangerous waters
True capitalism is good but that’s not what we have now.
Few people dying because of climate < billions in poverty because of socialism
1 view 15 likes?
Still 15 views but now 21 likes.
Ah yes, i feel we lacked some global warming ted talks
Gathering money.
True, they should stop talking about it, people understood, right ? And they’re acting accordingly, right ?
I didn’t watch the video yet, but the answer is yes. Yes we can.
Humanity can achieve anything. Don’t get cynical, stay realistic, and be optimistic.
Not everything but certainly a lot especially if you put 5 generations of humans towards it a lot gets done.
So you are saying that humans can and should stop the earth from going through its natural changes?
+Phil Neubauer
Natural changes may occur but wouldn’t be on this scale without releasing all methane in the see floor… one of the tings predicted to occur if we keep compounding, what I believe is a problem.
Since we can and do terraform it’s quite pointless to decide whether we should, I say keeping weather in a comfortable range will avoid one of the worst possible scenarios.
PS. I was thinking back to the industrial revolution, that happened no 2 centuries ago and assuming 25+ years per generation and most of the globe taking time to industrialise that’s how much effort I see, has been put towards carbon realise.
+Richard Wu CO2 is plant food. We exhale CO2 and plants breathe it in, then they exhale oxygen which we need, it’s called a intrinsic reciprocal relationship. CO2 takes up 0.04% to 0.06% of the atmosphere. To claim CO2 is a pollutant is indisputable scientific fraud. Claiming CO2 is causing “global warning/climate change” is a clear United Nations Agenda 21 Green Communist Propaganda Agenda and immense arrogant fraudulent claim that man instead of the ferocious blazing star we call the sun that is immensely large compared to earth, can affect the warming and cooling of the earth.
■brighteon.com/5820639339001■ – Why Carbon Dioxide is the “Miracle Molecule of Life” for GREENING our planet
■ youtube . com/watch?v=OAufet0D0Ns ■ — Published on Jun 1, 2017 — The very same people who think carbon is a “pollutant” are, themselves, made of carbon. Everything they eat is made of carbon, and their blood, skin, hormones and organs are all made of carbon! If you think carbon is bad, you must hate yourself. YOU are made of carbon.
thenewamerican . com/tech/environment/item/24980-new-report-exposes-rockefeller-dynasty-s-role-in-climate-scam
watch?v=TCy_UOjEir0 – Nobel Laureate Smashes the Global Warming Hoax – Ivar Giaever’s speech at the Nobel Laureates July 1st, 2015
watch?v=iEPW_P7GVB8 — Climate Change HOAX exposed by Geologist straight to the UK Govt
canadafreepress . com/index.php/article/17270
forbes . com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/
watch?v=pT9ZeEFDVyM
watch?v=P2qVNK6zFgE – 2 plants – CO2 increases plant growth.
watch?v=hGZKMbDlnso
dailymail . co . uk/news/article-2592992/Britains-secret-bid-fix-UN-climate-report-Impact-economy-ramped-up . html
telegraph . co . uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever . html
watch?v=IcrNilVolew
data . myworld2015 . org/ — united nations graph showing where ‘climatechange’ appears on the list of importance.
youtube . com/watch?v=6v66SPTYqF0 — *”The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity….”*
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples.” – Alexander King & Betrand Schneider, _The First Global Revolution_ *(New York: Pantheon Books, 1991),* 115. Club of Rome, UN.
Christ’s Cocksucker, “these phenomena do constitute a common threat” The Club of Rome suggested them *because* they are real.
SHOULD we solve it? The world is at the lowest carbon in the air for thousands of years. Plants thrive with carbon… So, I say less let’s save the trees…. Give them more co2….
Actually too much Co2 can kill them .
You’re so wrong I don’t know where to start
Co2 is good for plant life but too much will kill them. I grow weed indoors and I dose my plants with 1400 ppm of co2.
+caitgems1 you young guys are scientifically illiterate.
I love this channel is so educative thumbs up guys.
While we have a president that jokes about it every time it’s cold or there’s a lot of snow probably not.
Well “we” doesn’t mean the US
+AJ Welsh CO2 is plant food. We exhale CO2 and plants breathe it in, then they exhale oxygen which we need, it’s called a intrinsic reciprocal relationship. CO2 takes up 0.04% to 0.06% of the atmosphere. To claim CO2 is a pollutant is indisputable scientific fraud. Claiming CO2 is causing “global warning/climate change” is a clear United Nations Agenda 21 Green Communist Propaganda Agenda and immense arrogant fraudulent claim that man instead of the ferocious blazing star we call the sun that is immensely large compared to earth, can affect the warming and cooling of the earth.
■brighteon.com/5820639339001■ – Why Carbon Dioxide is the “Miracle Molecule of Life” for GREENING our planet
■ youtube . com/watch?v=OAufet0D0Ns ■ — Published on Jun 1, 2017 — The very same people who think carbon is a “pollutant” are, themselves, made of carbon. Everything they eat is made of carbon, and their blood, skin, hormones and organs are all made of carbon! If you think carbon is bad, you must hate yourself. YOU are made of carbon.
thenewamerican . com/tech/environment/item/24980-new-report-exposes-rockefeller-dynasty-s-role-in-climate-scam
watch?v=TCy_UOjEir0 – Nobel Laureate Smashes the Global Warming Hoax – Ivar Giaever’s speech at the Nobel Laureates July 1st, 2015
watch?v=iEPW_P7GVB8 — Climate Change HOAX exposed by Geologist straight to the UK Govt
canadafreepress . com/index.php/article/17270
forbes . com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/
watch?v=pT9ZeEFDVyM
watch?v=P2qVNK6zFgE – 2 plants – CO2 increases plant growth.
watch?v=hGZKMbDlnso
dailymail . co . uk/news/article-2592992/Britains-secret-bid-fix-UN-climate-report-Impact-economy-ramped-up . html
telegraph . co . uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever . html
watch?v=IcrNilVolew
data . myworld2015 . org/ — united nations graph showing where ‘climatechange’ appears on the list of importance.
youtube . com/watch?v=6v66SPTYqF0 — *”The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity….”*
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples.” – Alexander King & Betrand Schneider, _The First Global Revolution_ *(New York: Pantheon Books, 1991),* 115. Club of Rome, UN.
Stop falling trees for technology. Stop killing living things for greedy gain.
Love one another.
Even though it’s completely unnecessary to kills dogs or pigs for food (since there are a lot of alternatives available), the fact that their meat tastes good to me is perfect justification for killing them. Even though it’s unnecessary.
Man if only the whole world was perfect huh
Yes,
stop putting idiots in charge,
and the driving force of as long as we can make money off of it – (oil coal) for cleaner technology, we will .
Someone needs to have a word with China, the biggest polluter. Any positive change the rest of the world makes is negated by their impact.
And India
Can you tell me where their pollution comes from ? At which purpose ? And who is the final consumer of service/good they produced ?
Easier to point at chinese people half way across the world than to stop buying a new iPhone every time a new one comes out.
I was happy to hear Chinese government made some big plans lately about that, but then is the question if China decides to live a clean life more like the West does, then who will sacrifice their resources to become World’s production factory? We all need a change of mindset that’s for sure!
Yes, but we don’t care to.
An ice age is on the way. No global warming.
Says who?
Prove it
Dumb people: *Make absurd claim with no evidence cited.*
Everyone else: Source?
Dumb people: LOOK IT UP, THERE IS EVIDENCE SOMEWHERE MADE UP BY SOME BLOG!
I wanna be playing apex legends rn
*Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you. ◇*
Stop cow farts now!!!
Back in the 70’s the Republican Party believed in facts and science. Now they only believe in profits of their owners and donors.
Facts don’t matter. Science doesn’t matter.
Money is the only thing which matters. Short-term, quarterly money.
As someone who covers news and gives political commentary on my channel its always good to get the perspective of actual climate scientist. that said i don’t think this was a great speech. We are way beyond the point of trying to give simplified explanations on the history of climate change. Scientist continue to publish dire reports warning that if we don’t get to 0 emissions in 10 years we’ll pass the tipping point and the most cataclysmic events will become inevitable. We need to be talking about serious solutions and raise awareness that there’s a real possibility that we’re going to wipe out all life on the planet not wasting informative talks giving grade school analysis on the history of climate change
Analysis of plant stoma from the start of the industrial revolution has shown that the co2 ppm started off much higher than ice core surveys first predicted.
This means that our co2 today hasn’t risen as dramatically as we first thought and is not a problem. Analyzing oxygen isotopes from marine sediments has confirmed this explanation.
Yes.
Ozone/CFC isn’t a great comparison. Once you stop producing ozone depleting chemicals, there are no more ozone depleting chemicals being emitted. That’s in stark contrast to CO2 where human emissions stimulate natural emissions.
+Unapologetic CO2 is plant food. We exhale CO2 and plants breathe it in, then they exhale oxygen which we need, it’s called a intrinsic reciprocal relationship. CO2 takes up 0.04% to 0.06% of the atmosphere. To claim CO2 is a pollutant is indisputable scientific fraud. Claiming CO2 is causing “global warning/climate change” is a clear United Nations Agenda 21 Green Communist Propaganda Agenda and immense arrogant fraudulent claim that man instead of the ferocious blazing star we call the sun that is immensely large compared to earth, can affect the warming and cooling of the earth.
■brighteon.com/5820639339001■ – Why Carbon Dioxide is the “Miracle Molecule of Life” for GREENING our planet
■ youtube . com/watch?v=OAufet0D0Ns ■ — Published on Jun 1, 2017 — The very same people who think carbon is a “pollutant” are, themselves, made of carbon. Everything they eat is made of carbon, and their blood, skin, hormones and organs are all made of carbon! If you think carbon is bad, you must hate yourself. YOU are made of carbon.
thenewamerican . com/tech/environment/item/24980-new-report-exposes-rockefeller-dynasty-s-role-in-climate-scam
watch?v=TCy_UOjEir0 – Nobel Laureate Smashes the Global Warming Hoax – Ivar Giaever’s speech at the Nobel Laureates July 1st, 2015
watch?v=iEPW_P7GVB8 — Climate Change HOAX exposed by Geologist straight to the UK Govt
canadafreepress . com/index.php/article/17270
forbes . com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/
watch?v=pT9ZeEFDVyM
watch?v=P2qVNK6zFgE – 2 plants – CO2 increases plant growth.
watch?v=hGZKMbDlnso
dailymail . co . uk/news/article-2592992/Britains-secret-bid-fix-UN-climate-report-Impact-economy-ramped-up . html
telegraph . co . uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever . html
watch?v=IcrNilVolew
data . myworld2015 . org/ — united nations graph showing where ‘climatechange’ appears on the list of importance.
youtube . com/watch?v=6v66SPTYqF0 — *”The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity….”*
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples.” – Alexander King & Betrand Schneider, _The First Global Revolution_ *(New York: Pantheon Books, 1991),* 115. Club of Rome, UN.
i cant tell if the comments denying climate change are trolling or not. its gotten to the point where those who ironically made statements made those who actually believe the stuff they say more extreme
Look up, “Poe’s Law”
Or, we can imagine they are all joking and everyone understands ! Less depressing ahah
Analysis of plant stoma from the start of the industrial revolution has shown that the co2 ppm started off much higher than ice core surveys first predicted.
This means that our co2 today hasn’t risen as dramatically as we first thought and is not a problem. Analyzing oxygen isotopes from marine sediments has confirmed this explanation.
GO VEGAN.
Animal agriculture is the either the leading cause of, or one of the leading causes of:
1) Climate change through CO2 emission
2) Deforestation (including the cutting down of rainforests)
3) Desertification due to soil erosion
4) Unprecedented species extinction (insects, fish, land animals)
5) A public heath emergency (almost 1 in 2 Americans have some form of heart disease)
6) Catastrophic amounts of suffering
We need to stop rearing animals for meat, and support alternatives. We are teetering on the edge of a cataclysm. Please go vegan. Please.
Sean Lumly Unless lab-grown meat becomes viable I ain’t giving up my steak! But the meat industry certainly does cause issues. I don’t think that it is the largest producer of greenhouse gases, however. That honour still goes to industrial and energy production.
I just want to say if you’re not a climate scientist like the man in the video your opinion doesn’t matter.