That didn't age well. Arctic Sea ice is the same in 2022 as it was back in the 1980's. And 6 billion tons of new snow fell on Greenland. No climate crisis.
Climate change is infringing on ma freedom! What about my freedom to drive a car and own as many guns as I want? I need an AR-15 to shoot gophers and squirrels. All this climate change talk is the fault of blacks and mexicans taking away jobs I'm too stupid to get.
16 years after this TV program, wow, global warming catastrophe is upon us. Really hot these last few days. Oh, yea it is summer. And these past winters have really been warm, NOT. Anthropogenic GW is nonsense.
In a car crash, even a microsecond before the impact, everything is fine.... If you think that continuously rising temps and large shifts in precipitation patterns are not a problem then blame your own ignorance
Here in South Texas I don't even use the a/c, I felt chilled last night. The Texas power grid almost went to load shedding yesterday because the wind in West Texas was too little. I don't believe in global warming, I live with the weather , whatever it may be. James Hansen and his tribe want tax payer money to enrich themselves - same as always.
@@theobserver9131 Depends on the country. In Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, and many others, religion has a much sronger impact on politics than in the West. Even in nations like the US, there's a large minority of voters for which politics and religion are inseparable.
@@Jake-rs9nq Oof. That's a shame. Religions are so focused on the end of the world. Seems they're doing a good job on bringing that about. Where-as, corporations just don't care.
@@Jake-rs9nq I have wondered though, if religion is just a tool that the very wealthy have developed and used overtime to control the masses for their purposes.
@@colemarie9262 no you can't. What you have is confirmation bias based only on weather cycles AND memory limited to your lifetime, and biased by your belief. No actual data backs up anything.
6000 years ago was warmer than now , probably due to milankovitch cycles , the medieval warm period had warm temps at least on par with today , then came the little ice age a few centuries ago with disastrously low global temps . the little ice age didn’t end until the nineteenth century . we are coming out of the little ice age . how much of current warming is due to co2 and how much is due to natural variability is the question .
@@richardcowley4087 None of the accredited universities with the relevant subject matter knowledge agrees with your opinion. The scientific consensus - that is the peer reviewed body of scientific research - also disagrees with you. Where do you base your opinion on? Google search and cherry-picked internet websites perhaps?
Instead of sarcasm, be _grateful_ his _estimate_ is running a little late. But we _are_ absolutely seeing consequences now. It’s obvious to anybody who’s been around a while.
@@Me97202 it is not sarcasm. Climate change apocalypse will happen not today or this year but around 2028 and thereafter. That is why i said let us prepare to adapt and survive.
If we are governed by immoral monsters it’s because the majority of the people vote for those they feel akin to, on both a moral and intellectual level. Once they are voted for and carried by power and money, we are thus responsible for the monsters we’ve created. We, the people, should get educated, otherwise we are doomed to becoming indifferent on every possible level.
Here’s some truth. NASA and NOAA have been rewriting temperature history and current temperature data. The reasons given strain credulity. Science requires experimentation against data. When it doesn’t match expectations, scientists alter their theories. The corrupt and political scientific bureaucracy in the US alter the data. Totally immoral and anti science. Hanson and others in government have been pushing to censor dissenting voices in the community. How rich. Scientists don’t use consensus and authority as evidence for their theories. Government attracts politicians and scientists who can’t make it doing real science. Those are all facts. Except for the rich comment.
We are past some tipping points. We are locked into at least 4 feet of sea level rise by 2100. We are locked into at least 1.5 °C of warming, but realistically we're not going to avoid 2 °C. But we aren't past the tipping point for things like 4 °C of warming, so we can still mitigate the effects.
@@Jake-rs9nq we should try, though I don't blame anyone for losing faith or hope that we will considering 50 years of research and warnings being brushed off by the corporations who have taken over our government and most of the world.
when the earth is warmer the ice caps actually become larger. This is simply because warm air rises and cold air falls. On average the Warm air will be pushed to the equator, being the highest and the cold to the caps. Life would become more abundant because this would on average increase the rate of the water cycle which is basically more breathing for plants. The real problem is the leaching of chemicals and plastics into the environment
No. We don't. Because: a) it is local b) a significant part is either unusable weeds or at inconvenient locations c) You ignore the negative consequences by cherry picking your potentially only positive consequence.
I think so too. I think people are underestimating certain elements such as methane releases, and others. Certain things have been set into motion that probably will be very difficult to stop even if we stop producing carbon dioxide.
same here. For that I am glad I am already at such an age that I'll be dead before the worst effects show and glad that I don't have children who otherwise would experience the catastrophic effects.
@@carltonbauer2779 The tipping point doesn't mean the world will end. It just means accelerated warming will continue without our input due to feedback loops. This will mean more severe droughts, stronger storms, rising sea levels, and food will be much harder to grow. Crossing the tipping point right now doesn't mean we immediately feel these effects, but they will grow exponentially.
Lol people are so uninformed yet so vocal. Isto is correct. China and India are the worst polluters. The US has come so far in terms of being green yet the majority of people believe the opposite. You can see the data clear as day because the scientific community made a map of the world and the pollution each country emits. China and India are the worst offenders. Don’t believe me? Look it up yourself
@@LlamaLineIsto slash and burn of the Indonesian rain forest for palm oil plantations was the single biggest source of co2 just a couple of years ago. Virgin rainforest soils are full of carbon.
@@robertcohen8554 If I read everything printed on this subject I would be much less informed than I am. Mr. Gore said there would be massive coastline loss before 2020. I don’t doubt climate change is real. I doubt the timing and hysteria behind it all.
You can’t pick and choose freedom of speech. If you want to hear pro climate change and pro covid things, you should allow for the other side to voice their side too.
Completely wrong,our CDC is being run and being co opted by the crooked Washington establishment, your on the wrong side!! You just haven't figured it out yet...
You have to consider the fact that Life spent Billions of years separating the Oxygen we breath from CO2 ( the majority gas in the early atmosphere) and locking away the Carbon forever until Humans started to put some back. There is now just 0.04% of CO2 in the atmosphere, if Life reduces this to 0.02% then most plant life processes will end.
This vid is misleading. The report is administration report to Congress. They can write what they want. If Congress want to know what this scientist has to say, they can ask him themselves.
I'm pretty sure, the industrial revolution was a big factor. Also, every war, since World war 1 caused some damage. As far as the US is concerned in this matter, we pretty much are doing our part. Other countries, like China, need to step up.
COVID taught me that scientists lie. Sorry but the weather is fine, but these politicians and now scientists (both should tell the truth and help good people's lives) just can't help but tell me I need them... Weird as I get poorer and they get richer
@@bennichols561 I agree, the planet is fine and will always be fine. Whether it will be as cozy and livable for us humans is a different matter. AGW will have many negative consequences for us humans within our generation and the generations to come (assuming business as usual). The planet does not care about us human beings. The question is whether or not we care about our next generation(s).
Why is everyone always only look at the negative side of global warming? Millions of us live in cold climates around the planet. For us global warming means shorter, milder winters, we can go outside more, we can open windows more often, less wood to chop to heat the house, I can ride my motorcycle more instead of using my 4WD costly to operate vehicle (average car costs 10 times more to operate than average motorcycle!). Billions of animals and insects around the colder parts of the world don't have to suffer as much because of the long harsh winters, more food available for them, less are frozen and starved to death, trees live longer and survive easier - trees even grow better all around the wold with the additional CO2 as it's a vital gas for them to breathe. Our growing seasons for fruits, vegetables and crops are longer, we don't have to select specific short growing plants that only yield smaller amounts of food. Siberia, a large part of Russia, Northern Europe, Canada even northern US - especially Alaska - that are uninhabitable to humans and most animals and plants because of the cold would be more habitable and usable. Polar bears are starving and dying because of global warming? Millions of other animals don't starve or freeze to death because of global warming, why those are not mentioned anywhere? All media all the time depict global warming as 'world catastrophe' and completely ignore a very large number of human population and nature that are positively affected by it. For us/them global warming is a blessing all around, why is that never mentioned anywhere?
There’s more ice in the Arctic this winter than there has been in 20 years. There’s also not been a significant trend in the Antarctic in that same period. Don’t just believe. Do the research. You lost me after you let Hansen misstate the facts in the first minute
What "research" are you looking at? Fox News commentators, such as Mark Lavin, Joe Pags and other's with politically biased "research" ? You better take a deep look at true climate science research by legit climate scientists that have devoted their lives and education to the study of such. As for the Arctic, YOU ARE WRONG! The sea ice is thinner and lesser than it has been in the past 20 or 30 years. And don't leave out Greenland that has been shown this year to have lost extensive ice DUE TO HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING! And lets not forget the Antarctic where there are very legitimate concerns that one of the largest glaciers, the Thwaites Glacier is at the verge of collapse. You need to get your head out of bogus politically infested "science" (which is not true science) and seek the truth. You certainly will not find it on the bogus sources that have given you nothing more than misinformation.
@@colemarie9262 Start your Climate Science education typing in to your subject line: ( Evidence | Facts - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet ). And that is just a start to your Climate Science education. I have studied the data for over 40 years, and Global Warming caused by human activity is a FACT.
@@SRSchoner wait, so human caused climate change is a law?. Like ohms law, Boyles law, or the laws of thermodynamics? I think not. Climate Change (anthropogenic global warming) is a hypothesis at best. A hypothesis is not fact. They can’t make a model that predicts the actual observations, but it’s a law? Que? General relativity is still a theory even cuz just a few things don’t quite check out.
@@emack76 A "law, like ohams laws, Boyles law or the laws of thermodynamics?" I never stated that which is out of your deluded mind. BTW: The only thing you stated as being correct is the Law of Thermodynamics, the first and second laws of apply to what we are seeing now with regards to progressive Global Warming. Global Warming is scientifically proven by direct observation, reality unfolding over the years. It is happening right before our eyes. And those that study this have very much proven that it is NOT caused by natural forces, but by human activity from the start of the Industrial Revolution to now. Simply stated. Pump more CO2 into the atmosphere than natural forces can sequester and atmospheric heating will result. The problem with those in the Cult of Climate Change Denial is that they, and YOU, are too blind to open their eyes to see what is occurring in our world. Science is the process to discover reality as it is. Not reality as one thinks it should be. And such is the mental flaw of those, and apparently YOU in the Cult of Climate Change Denial. Lastly, you need to also understand the term "theory" as used in science. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is constantly being tested and proven the closer scientists look at it. To a scientist a "theory" is a established explanation for scientific data. And that is not the way you seem to understand the meaning of the word "theory" in scientific context.
He wasn't wrong. Many scientists do believe we may well already be past a tipping point where no matter what we do now, the effects are compounding like dominoes. Doesn't mean we should give up. In fact, knowing exactly when that tipping point occurs does not matter at all, we don't want to be anywhere near it regardless.
He's not wrong. Antarctica is about to loose a huge shelf. A shelf scientist thought would take way longer to break but turns out it's breaking soon. It's pretty much too late
4 th quarter of 2023 here - amazing how critical 60 mins is on gov interference on sci work when there's a gov in charge they are against, im sure they dont take that tack now.
at 1:15, there is a good reason why the preferred term is climate change.! 'temperature' is NOT the only metric.! since this report was made, we know that variations in the polar ice caps are less-than consistent with a theory of steady warming, in those regions.
The preferred term is "climate disaster." Remember. We're selling disaster here! If truth were told, "pretty normal, nothing much to see" people wouldn't click on it Remember the little ice age? It ended in 1860, which is where thermometers kicked in. Before that the medieval warm period; for 200 years wine grapes were grown in Britain. Grapes don't grow there now, because it isn't as warm as it once was.
Actually, the more scientific term is anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Climate change is the result/consequence of AGW. People often confuse these terms and use them interchangeably. The term "climate disaster" is mostly used, if not exclusively used, by ignorant laypersons that don't understand the science of AGW nor understand the real life practical mostly negative consequences of AGW.
It starts with common sense. Turn the light off when you leave a room. Recycle metals. Use reusable bottles. Food shop at farmers markets. Compost your food waste. Use logistical common sense when you run errands to put less miles on your car.
@@kipwonder2233 millions of micros= a macro. Change of consumer demand/habits is a start. I see more teslas everyday. More household solar, gardens, farmers markets etc.
@@kipwonder2233 amount of electricity generated is based on demand. Oil is drilled based on demand. Etc etc.. so on and so on... worked in the fossil fuel industry off and on for 10 years. Main issue is outdated transmission lines where half our power that is generated is lost through transmission and most green energy sources can't provide significant baseload on our transmission lines/ grid. Also studied agriculture in college. Our soils are vastly degraded especially the organic matter content which is
@@carltonbauer2779 I really hope you're trolling in this comment section. If you're not, you are misinformed about climate change or are not viewing it from a large enough viewpoint.
The climate is fine!? Have you asked Pakistan, Iraq, Europe, East Africa etc... I.e all the areas already suffering from climate change!? Do you live in a bubble or a vacuum!?!?!?
My brother in law, a public policy professor, rode a bike from his home in Philadelphia to one train station, took the train, and then road another bike to his university to teach. He did this for several years before he and my sister bought a Tesla. Now they both work at the same university. I drive a Prius have done this for many years. Think about what you drive my friends. If I could afford to not drive I would.
And what is the source that powers these electric vehicles? Could it be a coal powered plant? More than likely since wind and solar make up less than 10% of the power grid.
66 degrees in Alaska today, Sibera hit over 100F this summer. 2021 has not been a record-high year for ice at either pole. Take your nonsense back to Facebook.
@@iGame3D Alaska was over 100 degrees north of the Arctic circle at Fort Yukon back on June 27th 1915. The new record tied the existing record back when carbon was lower. Check your facts before you criticize others with bogus claims.
@@jakejackson6730 His point was building on my response, that has been deleted for whatever reason where I made the exact point you just did. There was warming from 1910 to 1940, actually most extreme state records are from the 1930s and then from 1940 to 1980 there was considerable cooling to the point they were crying out "coming ice age." I supported my post with links showing current Arctic Ice is greater than it's been since the 80s and an article declaring Antarctica just hit its all time record low with a record cold winter.
Does this really shock anyone money over truth and fact that's what the world revolves around money money money that's all that matters to the people in power
Instead of complaining you can install your very own Planetary Air Conditioner, which cools by ejecting heat directly into space. Mine provides enough cooling to stop 250 tons of ice from melting per year. That cooling shows up in my house. For a total cost of $200 it's been running for seven years (with no government money or red tape). Needs no electricity. No moving parts. If everybody did it, we'd kick-start an iceage.
That's not it. But Earth has been for 10-12,000 yrs in a climate era very favorable for the development of human civilization. And it's not so much the absolute climate changes but the extremely rapid speed relative to past climate fluctuations that is problem with the extent humans have expanded across the planet and hence very vulnerable.
@@Madonnalitta1 don't be so dense my friend. Get educated on earth cycles. Humans have altered the earth which contributes to what we are experiencing. We in the 80s warned of these weather extremes and adults didn't heed the warning and people like yourself is apart of the problem not the solution. WAKE UP
OMG !!!! I had never seen this before now, but he said the exact same thing I said, in regards to our ability to, " Not Just Slow Down Climate ", but, his, " Tipping Point ", is my, " Reversal of Climate " !!!! It is " Imperative ", because we are way behind !!!! A-PRECIOUS-MEN 🙏❤️🙏❤️
Nope 👎🏽 The planets are aligning and shifting changing our climate. It was Already Written. The ‘Scientists’ have been changing the weather with chemicals for Decades then they Sell You Fear. Spoon fed through your Programming Box. Aka Tell A Vision 🙄
I live in the Heart of California and I see lot's of chemical trails being released.I video recorded two Jets last week side by side releasing the most chemicals into the atmosphere that I've ever witnessed. I'm going to post it on RU-vid.
Yeah but James Hansen is promoting nuclear energy. Even as countries are shutting down there nuclear power plants. With the crazy weather flooding and droughts extreme tornadoes and hurricanes. It's not a safe bet
@@haroldgretzky8757 solid state thorium reactors would be. As much time and investment as possible needs to be invested in them to get them to production scale. It's a shame that the US built a working thorium reactor prototype in the 60s but did not work on it any further because the tech could not be used to make bombs.
😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣🤣😂😅. You go Hansen, how is that ice free shipping lanes over the North Pole, going? “Warmest on record” - except the temperatures in the 1930’s ooops.
We need to learn how to live with climate change with amoung other changing building structures. Example build structures that can defeat flooding etc. This is the only way, given the fact that the rich world doesnt want to pay poorer nations to make a transition to cleaner energies. India should take a lead in this together with at least one permanent member of the security council. This will create new industries. Australia puts for example on restrictions on reprossessing of uranium related to civilan nuclear reactors which is an enomical and sustainable way of using uranoum. This proves without a dout that the world and IAEA are not serious about climate change.
