"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money". ~Chief Seattle
There is NOTHING we could possibly do to destroy all life on this earth, not even if we tried REALLY hard.. No amount of pollution, deforestation, or nuclear weapons will ever do more damage that what this planet has already experienced in 4b years. And life found a way, rebounding numerous times. Sleep easy, we are not as powerful as you think we are. Life will outlive us.
There is more trees on the planet now than 60 years ago. Where I live they have cleaned up all the rivers, they don't allow mining where native fish live. They also stock fish in most waterways so the fishing is always excellent.
@@DoctorTurdmidgetOverpopulation is a capitalist myth. The problem isn't how many people there are , the problem is the capitalist system which requires infinite growth on a finite planet
No, but corporations do. Factory farming, manufacturing jobs, etc all do this much damage. Also, a lot of damage was exacerbated from ignoring it in the first place.
I used to live in a very cold, winter climate-- now I live in a warm winter climate. That change happened VERY rapidly. Here, up north, you can see the change with your own eyes.
@@karlwithak. _"Greenland getting green again...just like it has *a dozen times in the last few thousand years*..."_ Nope. The last time Greenland was green was about 416,000 years ago and the previous green period ended about 1.1 million years ago.
Here too, same thing. There used to be four seasons, now we have three, and soon enough there will only be one. Hopefully I won't live long enough to see the catastrophic consequences of mans greed and ignorance destroy our planet. Godspeed.
I’m surprised Bill is still alive. I used to watch him in elementary school with my teachers on PBS. Wish him to live a long and happy life. Man, he brings back nostalgia 😞.
Well I'm glad to see you still support Bill and don't hate him like all these other idiots out there who keep bashing him but why are you surprised he's still alive?
I like Bill Nye! The trouble with people who don't know any better than to doubt him is that they _don't know any better!_ Some of them just don't have the capacity. Others have it but, you know... don't choose to use it.
If Washington DC would Stop polluting the air with heavy metals in chemtrails and blowing holes in the ozone with HARP. That would help. Washington DC is the enemy.
I am an older research physicist and have been following the science of climate change carefully since the early 1980s. The seriousness of the problem has been obvious and certain for at least 20 and perhaps 30 years, yet many in the public have been led to believe that there is significant uncertainty in the reality and seriousness of the problem. As the rate of change increases, there will be shifts in agricultural production areas that will disrupt food production and water use. Migration away from areas made uninhabitable by climate change will create huge immigration problems in Europe and the US, politically destabilizing both. And acidification of the oceans by dissolved CO2 will make life increasingly difficult for shellfish, among other things. Finally, sea level rise over the next century or two will inundate much of the coastal infrastructure in the world, an area encompassing much of the investment of our civilization. This is a serious problem, and must be dealt with. As a scientist, I always say that the most charming thing about Nature is that she doesn't care what you believe or what you want. We have to deal with it as it is presented to us, and it is not pretty.
And the reality is, we aren't going to change for exactly the reasons you state. Some people understand the science but don't want their tax dollars spent. They just expect others to solve the problems and to do all the work.
If you're a scientist you will know that climate change is a natural part of the Earth's process and has been occurring for millions of years before humans arrived on earth.
Totally agree but probably conclude differently. We can't stop it. Just can't. And won't. So now is the time to forecast and triage the coming problems and start early mitigation. We're going to need upgraded food production technology. We're going to have to relocate people away from low laying areas. Identify the coming problems and get to work on them. But we won't. We will stick with the fantasy that discouraging fossil fuels and pushing CO2-eating machines is going to solve what's coming. Ain't going to happen.
Tell us you haven't seen Japan's love affair with single use disposable (only 22% gets recycled) plastic, without telling us. And - 81% of the fantastic plastic in the world's oceans....comes from Asia. 60% of the global population is also in Asia.
@@BackJackJohnnyDebt5708 it's not like I'm going to reach Chinese factory owners in these comments, but why would you act personally offended? God takes account of what we choose to do, if you pick a gas guzzler over something more sensible, you'll be working that much harder for forgiveness
I disagree, he should say "you are going to have floods, extreme heat, freezing temperatures in your daily life". Maga people don't care about science until it impacts them.
I understand it fine. What I don't understand is what you want me to do about it. I've heard everything from don't travel, don't fly, don't drive, don't have a heater, don't have an air conditioner, don't have a washer, don't have a dryer, don't use plastic straws, don't take showers, don't buy greeting cards, don't use plastic knives/forks/spoons, don't use plastic bags, don't eat meat, don't eat fish, don't let the water run while brushing my teeth, don't eat dairy products, don't have a lawn mower, don't have a leaf blower and spend all of my money buying carbon offsets. None of these are possible.
We all know how we as a people have been f*cking up the planet but those with the money that can the most good wont because it wont make them money it will cost them that money. It all comes down to greed.
Thanks for having Bill on. So many more need this explanation in their heads. Once delivered then it is up to each of us to act accordingly. Sadly, there are many who can no longer care.
care about.......ocean goes up ocean goes down. nothing remains the same. the earth has cycles we will never understand. we pollute. we do not create change on mass scale. only the earth does that. the math does not lie. scuba dive archeologists are proving this on weekly to monthly discovery. take a dive. realize the old continental shelf was there for a reason. when earth was icy the ocean was lower. now earth is green and the ocean taller. how tall....not maximum but close. desserts dry. desserts wet. some sandy for a thousand years some green . look at Africa. whales bones in the sand. why because it was once and ocean. wonder what the Egyptians did for carbon credit social scoring back then.......or did they not.....remember their whole world changed for the worse......well if it had not we would not be here. be thankful for warmth. how cold do you want it to be in Edmonton anyway. more than this years record minus 5o plus. global warming. yes please. double time if you could. i want palm trees.
i live in central Canada, a place during the winters that usually would get LOTS of snow Lots of snow, and bitter cold, insanely cold. this year we've had almost no snow. Temperatures so warm most days you could wear sweaters outside. I'm 45 years old. Never have i ever experienced this here ever. its going to be one smokey summer.
Yes here in Seattle basically all of winter was above average. We had many days in December and January in the high 50s and a day that even reached 60 (breaking a 2018 record), when it should have been mid low to mid 40s. It only snowed during that deep freeze and hasn’t since.
@@louisleblanc2972 So….I should throw away decades of climate research and just go to the library and study Viking history until i’ll inevitably comes across a piece of knowledge that makes me go “aha, the scientists have all got it wrong”? Exactly how does this work, Louis?
The media keeps treating this issue as if it's a result of not enough people being warned about the global warming crisis to resolve it. We're collectively already so desensitized to scientists sounding the alarm that this achieves nothing. We need to come up with ways of disassembling the oil industry so that this planet can move on. That's our only path forward to liberate this plant from fossil fuels.
At 68 I'm on the verge of elderly and could never have kids. In some ways I'm grateful for that. But I've done my part. I still ride a bicycle most places and keep the heat to a minimum, wearing a winter coat in the house. I try not to eat beef. Besides voting, I'm not sure what else to do. Sit back and watch the show I guess.
Do you remember what caused the famines in Europe a long time ago? Didn't we have a massive volcanic eruption recently? Based on our studies don't we know that that impacts weather for years to come? It's not one thing, it's a combination. Winter has been warm. For a reason. It's not cars and cow farts.
@@robertbolzicco9995 The heat waves this past summer were unnaturally bad, there were wildfires so bad in canada that here in michigan the smoke blocked the sun and hurt to breathe. Hurricanes are travelling further than they usually can and are happening more frequently as well as getting more intense. Coral reefs are dying in mass. Flooding is becoming a more and more common problem across the world. Thunderstorms this past summer were more intense than I've ever seen them. Don't tell people this is fucking natural. WE are speeding it up. If you don't believe it then at least shut up about a subject you clearly know very little about.
I live in New Jersey and the ground doesn't freeze in the winter like it did back in the 60's and 70's hell most of the lakes don't freeze enough to skate on.
@@AndrewBurbo-zw6pfIn the 30s we could mitigate the effect of land mismanagement by planting cover crops and adding wind break rows. There was a desire to actually do something. This is a much bigger (global) issue. Requires agreements with multiple governments. Affects the deep currents of the worlds oceans, and the atmospheric currents created/affected by those. It will have a profound effect on coastal and oceanic areas throughout the world, as well as inland land masses where the rainfall patterns will change significantly. No one will be unaffected. Ignoring the issue will not make it to away.
@KingSkrap The ice is melting and?.... See its not just saying the ice is melting. You have to elaborate in depth while also making it easy to comprehend to the audience. Anyone can go on camera and say "the ice is melting"
@@Prymistic all he’s doing it following libs . “The ice caps are melting and this is bad”= more elaborate to you. We have bigger problems than climate change, which is normal. ie: nuclear war threats, declining birth rates, mass shootings, economic collapse. I can assure you, if there was another Great Depression you wouldn’t give two fucks about the ice caps. Yet everyone here has a stick stuck up their ass about some ice melting and it affecting the environment
It’s snowed twice in Canada. It didn’t even snow the first time until after Christmas. Normally we’d have snow as early as October or as late as mid December. Fires were so bad last year… worst year ever… it’s going to be 10x worse this year with no snow melt
Great Lakes never froze this year. Ground really never froze much either. We have yet to understand how that will effect plants, trees, insects, fish and wildlife. If people and industry do not change quickly, Mother Nature will do it for them over night.
I'm from Minnesota and I was shocked to see no snow ( aside from one storm but it all melted away in a couple of days ). Many rejoiced at the fact that they didn't have to shovel but I was alarmed at how many other upper region states had no snow either. Even other countries like Italy had problems with no snow. I fear we are heading towards an apocalypse-like setting for humanity in the future.
Actually we DO KNOW how it will affect plants. Search "Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth" for an article on the NASA website explaining that a major international study found that over a 35-year period, vegetated areas of the earth got 11% greener. Of the causes for the greening, 70% was attributed to increased CO2 and 8% of increased greening was due to climate change. It turns out plants like more CO2 (look up the chemical equation for photosynthesis) and milder climate. Yes, I said MILDER climate. LOW temperatures are increasing (primarily at night, in winter, at higher latitudes), NOT HIGH temperatures. That's why the average temperature is increasing. Violent weather is NOT increasing. Global climate disaster related deaths have DECREASED 97% from 1925 to 2020. At the current rate of Greenland ice melting, it will take at least 14,300 years to melt. Maybe the Vikings could resettle it like they did in the Medieval Warm Period. This video is just fear porn.
@@patrickhang5974100% agree. If people think inflation for commodities and agriculture is bad now, climate change is going to make it exponentially worse.
Do you think the earth ever changes on its own? The land around Egypt was once a lush forest and now a desert? Man caused global warming or the changing cycles of mother earth? Stop listing to the BS
We didn't run anything.. they've been running everything, so now they're butt hurt most don't care, but realistically, it's their industries causing this issue.
If the vast majority of the world's population hasn't figured this out yet, it never will. Mr. Nye and MANY others have been screaming for decades. And, for ANYONE who has any sense of awareness, the evidence has been in our faces for a VERY long time. But...most people in power and an unfortunate percentage of the general population simply don't care, and...never will. Enjoy it all while it's possible.
To be aware find out what the aware, engaged people are doing. Building wind, solar farms, geothermal heating , energy plants, EV fleets , LEED buildings . Litigating for climate justice, appealing to the Int Court of Justice, calling for the Int Criminal Court to prosecute env atrocities acts of ecocide And that is a very very short list. Stop Ecocide International
Correct. We can't make a huge portion of the world's population intelligent. From crying out loud, even my own brother want to be in that camp. He sends this meme which is basically, "Al Gore's House is poorly insulated, therefore climate change is a hoax". He actually thinks that repeating rhight-wing rhetoric is a valid debate tactic. No, It's a valid way to shown me that my own family members can't think logically.
I'm in my 30's and I already feel like this is an ancient topic we've known forever. Can't even imagine how laughable it must be to everyone even older, hearing it talked about even longer, and nothing ever getting done. It's no wonder no one cares about anything or anyone anymore and has zero optimism about anything. Kind of a vicious cycle, because even the people who used to care about climate change don't anymore because they see the futility in caring. So you have the stupid people in denial still (yes, hilariously stupid people), but here's the real crisis: even the smart people who always understood the reality... just don't care. We're all just hoping to die soon. What else can be said. It's a new level of jaded. This is why these natural disaster documentaries are so very popular. Praying for an asteroid. Or Yellowstone. 100% fatality plague. Gamma ray burst. Put us out of our misery... ASAP.
The albedo effect is one of the feedback loops yeah, one of many. The methane trapped underneath the snow in parts of Siberia and Canada is another one. Millennia old corpses of animals that carry viruses we don’t have immunity against is another one.
I hadn't heard about the ancient viruses hypothesis before. Can you point me to a scientific paper on that? (Although one could argue that a nice pandemic would be beneficial for the climate). @@teddybearroosevelt1847
Bill Nye is a fascinating person. Comments on here that he’s not a scientist led me to deep dive. *A scientist is someone who systematically gathers and uses research and evidence, to make hypotheses and test them, to gain and share understanding and knowledge*. Definition by Science Council. He has an Engineering Degree & fits the definition of a Scientist.
Thank Bill Nye for a safe ride whenever you ride on a 757 or 767, as he helped engineer the horizontal stabilizer and elevators on the back of those planes. Hell yes, he is a scientist, engineer, and educator.
Thank you for defining a scientist. I'm serious, no one ever talks about the fact that anyone can observe, hypothesize, test, publish, other people test and if everyone agrees, a theory is born. Thank you.
He educated us in the 90s and we failed him... He is such a nice grandpa who wants to yell at us but doesn't... Instead he tries to explain it to us like we are 10... Cuz we act like we are 5. I'm sorry Bill 😢
We have known this for quite some time. Talk to us more about potential solutions. Americans need at least as much education about solutions as we do about the effects and impacts of climate change. This news is important, but it’s 1 side of a multifaceted approach to education, for which we’ve loved Bill for decades. ❤️
@@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958You're burning gas to charge your phone, watch your TV, charge an EV, basically everything you do, cool your food in a freezer/fridge. The list goes on and on.
So temporary solution. We do what volcanoes do to cause global cooling. We launch a bunch of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. But there are side effects. Like acidic rain in locations, and we have to continually do it. To keep the cooling effect.
No, those of us that listened then, still listen now. It's our parents, politicians and our classmates that failed 9th grade science that are the ones calling it all a hoax.
In Switzerland our glaciers are melting too. The Maldives islands are disappearing because the ocean levels are rising. It’s terrible how we humans are killing our planet.
the good news is, we're not killing the planet. the planet will be fine, and finding a new balance at some point. life... will find a way. humans on the other hand are bleeped.
Good point. We can and will switch to low carbon emission lifestyles and low carbon emission transportation and manufacturing! Solar power is now cheaper than any other type of electrical generation in many areas!
So if adding freshwater to the ocean doesn’t sink but gets evaporated- won’t the issue be more about severe weather patterns not the ocean level rising?
Here are the top ten natural causes and the top ten man-made causes of climate change: **Top Ten Natural Causes of Climate Change:** 1. Variations in solar radiation 2. Volcanic eruptions 3. Earth's orbital changes 4. Ocean currents 5. Natural greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., from wetlands) 6. Albedo changes (reflectivity of Earth's surface) 7. Oceanic circulation patterns 8. Natural variability in Earth's climate system 9. Milankovitch cycles (changes in Earth's orbit and tilt) 10. Biological processes (e.g., methane emissions from livestock) **Top Ten Man-Made Causes of Climate Change:** 1. Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) 2. Deforestation and land use change 3. Industrial processes (e.g., cement production) 4. Agricultural practices (e.g., livestock farming, fertilizer use) 5. Transportation emissions (cars, trucks, airplanes, ships) 6. Waste management (landfills, incineration) 7. Use of synthetic greenhouse gases (e.g., HFCs in refrigeration) 8. Construction and urbanization 9. Energy production (power plants) 10. Mining and extraction activities Now, here are 50 things people can do to help save and prolong the health and well-being of Earth: 1. Reduce energy consumption by using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs. 2. Opt for renewable energy sources like solar or wind power. 3. Drive less by carpooling, biking, walking, or using public transportation. 4. Reduce, reuse, and recycle to minimize waste generation. 5. Plant trees and support reforestation efforts. 6. Eat less meat and dairy or choose sustainably sourced options. 7. Conserve water by fixing leaks and using water-saving appliances. 8. Support policies and initiatives that promote environmental protection. 9. Reduce plastic use by opting for reusable bags, bottles, and containers. 10. Compost organic waste to reduce methane emissions from landfills. 11. Advocate for climate-friendly policies and legislation. 12. Support companies and products with eco-friendly practices. 13. Practice water and energy conservation at home. 14. Educate others about climate change and its impacts. 15. Support local farmers and markets to reduce food miles. 16. Minimize air travel or offset carbon emissions from flights. 17. Volunteer for environmental organizations and initiatives. 18. Practice sustainable landscaping and gardening techniques. 19. Use environmentally friendly cleaning products. 20. Reduce paper usage by going digital and printing less. 21. Support sustainable fisheries and seafood choices. 22. Reduce food waste by planning meals and composting leftovers. 23. Advocate for wildlife conservation and habitat protection. 24. Participate in community clean-up efforts. 25. Support and engage in sustainable tourism practices. 26. Use public green spaces and advocate for their preservation. 27. Install energy-efficient insulation and windows in homes. 28. Support initiatives to protect and restore wetlands and ecosystems. 29. Invest in green technologies and sustainable businesses. 30. Reduce meat consumption by participating in meatless Mondays. 31. Choose eco-friendly modes of transportation for vacations. 32. Encourage local governments to invest in renewable energy infrastructure. 33. Support sustainable fashion brands or choose second-hand clothing. 34. Participate in citizen science projects to monitor environmental changes. 35. Practice responsible pet ownership to minimize environmental impact. 36. Reduce food packaging waste by buying in bulk or choosing products with minimal packaging. 37. Support policies that promote sustainable agriculture and land management. 38. Choose eco-friendly household products and personal care items. 39. Support initiatives to reduce plastic pollution in oceans and waterways. 40. Advocate for green building standards and certifications. 41. Use rain barrels to collect water for gardening. 42. Support indigenous land rights and conservation efforts. 43. Reduce meat and dairy consumption by experimenting with plant-based recipes. 44. Support initiatives to protect and restore coral reefs. 45. Practice mindful consumption and avoid impulse purchases. 46. Encourage businesses and institutions to implement sustainable practices. 47. Support and participate in community gardening projects. 48. Advocate for sustainable urban planning and development. 49. Support initiatives to reduce food deserts and increase access to healthy, sustainable food options. 50. Lead by example and inspire others to take action for the planet. These actions, when taken collectively, can make a significant impact on mitigating climate change and preserving the health and well-being of Earth for future generations.
@@delphi-moochymaker62 Yeah, we do....but we're in the minority. The min ority that's heard of the frog analogy, no more, no less. We'll all boil sooner or later 😕
Bill Nye has been taking us to school for over 30 years. That is rare in this world. I wish we had more like him, but am damn proud to have him in this timeline.
We are already past a tipping point where we can easily do something about this, and on to the permafrost releasing huge amounts of methane every year. Sorry people all the electric cars in the world are not gonna save you on this one.
It’s already “too late”, we passed the tipping point some where in 1998. However there are things we could be doing to mitigate and stave off some of the effects, and cap the felt effects. 1). Plant costal kelp, 2). Halt all logging and clear cutting rainforests 3). Free public transit and expand our systems. Buy Amtrak and expand it then make it free for everyone. I could go on for some time here. But yeah tipping point has come and gone we’re in disaster mitigation phase.
I live in America and can't leave because I have a bedridden mother. I'm also terrified of the orange cult leader. I wonder which of his followers will kill me and my family. Someone already tried to kill my dogs with a deer hunting arrow. My dogs are fine and happy. They love all people. I wish all people were more like dogs. I hope you and your loved ones are well.
For improved understanding, the metric ought not be 'square miles', but in cubic measure, since we're talking volume, or else, perhaps in mass. The prophetic suggestion for me was a scientist of Indian background on PBS about 20 years ago, advising that the melting of ice was sustaining our fragile, collapsing equilibrium. Since then, multiple studies have found that Greenland and Antarctic glaciers have been melted from the underside via warm water contact, resulting in accelerating rates of seaward movement of the glaciers.
Normally these changes occur naturally over the span of a few or more thousands of years. This "time to adapt" moment is being accelerated by us, not nature.
@@user-ey2xp2ge9y there is NOT 1 single thing humanity can do. The climate has been changing since the very beginning. Read some books and not follow people who want power and control. Sheep be sheepin again.
Feels like an Insult when they keep having Bill nye come and talk about climate I'm not in 5th grade no more I'm an adult like can we get an actual climate change expert?!?!?
At the moment water temperatures are up 5-8 degrees at the cape point/Cape Town South Africa. Normal 11-13 degrees celcius now recent days up to 21 degrees. Local weather patterns are changing by this.
For point of reference. The earth has been heating since the end of last mini ice age. Yep must have been Columbus and his buddies sailing In his gas guzzling SUvs that caused the trend.
Thanks for that data, @Go2, the ocean surface South of L.I. (by NYC) has trended much warmer the last decade; the system of Argo floats indicates the heat has penetrated the oceans some thousand feet (or meters).
What we forget is that is constantly in motion and has natural defenses against these things such as tropical cyclones.they will continue to increase in size and intensity as the water Temps increase. Volcanic ash would also strike me as a likely natural defense the earth may let loose.
The insurance industry is a for profit sector. So, politics does not come into picture. They are pulling out of coastal states or raising home insurance rates drastically. That is why home insurance prices are going to the roof in some states. Very soon half of Florida will be under water.
Exactly. We all need to band together at this point and put a stop to the government subsidizing the rich rebuilding their beachfront properties. All that money needs to go into preparing for what's coming.
@@tw8464 The money comes from Underwriters that payout on claims according to contract. You expect the guys with actuarial tables to subsidize the Climate Hoax? Paint chips and Indoctrination harm the brain. 🙂🌴
When is "very soon"? Will FL be flooded next week? Next month? In a year? In 30 years? Every global prediction so far with a date attached has failed. 100% of the predictions to date have been wrong. So why should I put any value at all on the notion that "Very soon half of Florida will be under water"?
hahahhaha very sooon half of florida....omg. really. please. stand at the ocean tomorrow....any spot. with a 100 year old photo and wait for hightide. compare. see ....no issue. now go have tea
Sad that people think things are ok now so why worry about the future. I have a 4 year old grandson and I worry for him, things are going to be so much more complicated for him. It breaks my heart. I often wonder if any of the politicians have children, or grand children. And I always wonder why people really want to keep polluting instead of trying to be more green and do less harmful things to our world sad
This is the main issue, the selfishness of young and soon to be parents is astounding. I mean how can they be so ignorant to what's coming in the near future ? With all evidence and research studies already warning us practically every day.
It's happened before and it'll happen again. Our magnetic field is weakening, allowing more radiation to penetrate. Our poles are shifting, getting ready to flip. Greed is the downfall to society. Overpopulation contributes to nothing that greed does. No one would be starving or homeless. I'm thankful we are living in the times of change. I can about guarantee you rent bnbs and drive EVs. Take a long look at what you contribute to before blaming folks for having children. I'm sure you keep your personal needs to yourself as well. You see, a woman can get pregnant once maybe twice in a year. A man can get hundreds pregnant in a year. Where is the emphasis on this? Birth control for women and abortions...does that sound right?
@@bat_hanna You cannot deny that more and more people on this planet means more resources being used, more space taken up for living, less nature for other species to thrive in. Floods and droughts are increasing, extreme weather events around the globe becoming more devastating. Mass migration because of unlivable conditions. And humans polluting the atmosphere cause the ice to melt, causing more heating due to the loss of albedo. Sea levels are rising, so floods will become disastrous in the near future. These are the results of climate change. We are simply too many, and we keep adding more mouths to feed each year. The bubble will burst soon.
@@basketballman1854 Correct. Second step - Learn the Scientific Method. Third step - Apply the Scientific Method to global warming and realize that it fails every step of the Scientific Method. Fourth step - Conclude that if global warming fails the Scientific Method, it must not be real science.
Check out Dr. Stephan Rahmstorfs talks about the AMOC. The AMOC weakening effecting larger ocean circulation and upwelling points iis very concerning, one reason being it's effects on tropic levels. Phytoplankton give us more than half of the oxygen we breath (mainly Diatoms), more than lamd plants (contrary to popular belief) and ocean warmth highly effects the photosynthesizing cyanobacteria in phytoplankton, coral, and plants (chloroplasts are symbiotic cyanobacteria, cyanobacteria are the ONLY group to of even done photosynthesis). Coral bleaching is where the cyanobacteria just leave because of warming of the water or when sea level rises so not as many photons from the sun aee reaching them and the coral. Algal blooms caused by excess nutrient runoff (and sometimes increased warming) is also related to cyanobacteria. These photosynthesizers are ABSOLUTELY important because they are the foundation of the food chain (the tropic levels) and are the reason "primary producers" like plants do photosynthesis. I haven't found the answer by I am curious about how the weaking of the AMOC will effect overall global ocean circulation and therefore effect ocean primary producers or other aspects of feeding from upwelling, and how it will effect the Antarctic circulation. It's not lack of salinity that's the issue. It's that south of Greenland is a critical downwelling point and the melting cold water from the north pushes the warm water going north from the south back, essentially breaking the "pump", the downwelling point. Dr. Stephan Rahmstorf emphasizes that salinity is not the issue. Check out Dr. Stephan Rahmstorfs talks on the AMOC
@@protorhinocerator142 If you watched CNN more and FOX less, you might be less misinformed about science. Your grasp of science is entirely nonexistent. In fact, it's the opposite of nonexistent- you think you know the opposite of what science has shown.
@user-wm4kb7gg4r What Bill is saying is fully consistent with all physical law, Earth Sciences, Chemistry etc, Anyone who espouses a view that is inconsistent with these things is a propagandist. Whether paid or not, that's propaganda. You stand corrected.
Everyone shouldn't worry, we Canadians pay a tax called the carbon tax on our fuel at 14 cents a litre. The 38 million people here will prevent this from happening any further and the government will stop the ice melt any farther.
Antarctica just lost a piece of ice a month ago bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Also, they are finding Viking artifacts under the ice in Greenland. There wasn't much ice when the Viking were there.
It's a natural process that people are only noticing because we have the equipment to measure it, unlike in the past when we didn't really have anything. It is science, I just don't think that we understand it to the fullest extent at the moment.
It is literally snowing right now in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Don't try to lie to everyone here, we have access to the internet and people will actually fact-check your claims.
@@cheetos3269 I can tell a starving person, “I gave you a couple French fries what do you mean you’re starving?” When they haven’t ate in a week. See how that works
@shrimpanzee8510 There was a foot and a half that fell. Your analogy is terrible, and it doesn't make any sense. Starving is a spectrum. Snow either happened or it didn't. Stop trying to prove me wrong when something actually happened.
Personal cars represent a small percentage of global co2 emissions - focusing resources there is stupid. But, hey, everybody can easily relate to cars, so no better way to fuel (pun intended) a mass guilt trip to the hallowee halls of electrical utopia. Delusional as that may be…
Why isn’t this covered every evening on network national news? They cover individual storms, but never show the big picture. It’s like covering the sinking of the Titanic by saying “huh, now another stateroom has flooded, but nothing to worry about folks”
I grew up in Pennsylvania in the 70s and 80s. There are so many examples of climate change that I have personally experienced. My hometown had a major interstate fair the first week of September every year. My mother always had to bundle me up to go to the fair, and we always left when it started getting dark because it got too cold. I took my kids there once (in September of 2015), and we wore shorts and t-shirts and ended up leaving mid-afternoon because it was too hot for us to enjoy ourselves. When I was a kid, our Halloween costumes were always ruined because we had to wear winter coats and gloves to go trick-or-treating. When my kids went trick-or-treating (they grew up near my hometown), they wore light-weight costumes with no winter gear. We don't have real winter anymore. Forty years ago it got cold in September and stayed that way until March, and there was snow on the ground for most of the winter. Now, in the same area, most of the "winter" is in the 40s and 50s, and there is very little snow. Every once in a while there's a big snowstorm, or a few days of cold weather, and then all the denier idiots say "SEE!!!" Never mind that the snow always melts in a day or two. For two of the last five Thanksgivings, I've had to turn on my AC. Most of the past week it's been in the 50s here (western central Pennsylvania) which is absurd for mid-February. I'm mainly right-leaning and this is not a political issue for me. Anyone who doesn't believe in climate change is purposely ignoring evidence.
So happy to hear that your climate has been improving. God bless. Personally, I don’t really miss the long, brutally cold frozen winters and outrageous high heating bills. So nice not to spend early frozen bitter morning shoveling my car out and scraping ice and slipping and sliding on the snow. As a matter of fact…I love the hot summer so much, I’m permanently retiring to the tropics. Flying out again in 2024, and this time, I won’t be back. 🌴🌴🌴 ✈️ 😃 Yea..I do believe climate changes. It’s been changing ever since the planet got an atmosphere and water. Have you looked at graphs showing temperature over the last 600 million years? We are actually living in one of the coldest periods of time. We are living in a relatively mild Interglacial Period, between Glacial Periods, during our current Ice Age. We live in the Quaternay/Pleistocene Glaciation. I hope you’re enjoying the Ice Age.
@Sara17783 We’ve warmed no more than 2° C since about 1850. 174 years…. You seriously think that’s a lot? And fast ? And don’t forget….we only came out of the LIA about 1850….following about 550 years of a colder nastier time. Longer, colder more bitter winters, shorter cooler summers, shorter growing seasons, failed harvests and famine. You think we should go back to that? I see you know little or nothing of History, and little or nothing of Paleoclimatology.
@Sara17783 Failure to answer my questions: Noted ! Failure to know anything about the history of the planet for the last 600 million years: Noted! Thinks a change of 2° C since the end of the L.I.A. is unnaturally fast: Noted! You should come to southern Canada where I live. We change climate by about 40° C in just six months…twice a year. LOL You couldn’t step outside one day… and then step outside another day two weeks later and notice a 2° increase or decrease in temperature without using an accurate thermometer. You need at least a thirty five year set of data to determine a trend in climate. A change every few years is not climate, it’s weather. Our climate is actually improving. You should be thankful . But we are STILL living in one of the coldest ever periods of history over the last 600 million years. We’re living in an Ice Age…..and you and your leftist global boiling alarmist pals are getting your shorts all in knots…. We went into and out of the Minoan, Roman, and Medieval Warm periods and intervening colder periods… in just a matter of years. Not centuries….not thousands of years. And mankind and civilization has always done best in the warmer periods…..NOT the colder periods. Oh….and just to let you know….this current Interglacial Period is cooler than the last four or five Interglacial Periods. Try studying the subjects. Ha, ha. 😆😄
@Sara17783 Nope! It did not take hundreds or thousands of years to enter and exit the Minoan Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, and the Medieval Warm Period. We entered and exited each of them in mere years or a few decades. Are you enjoying the Ice Age we are living in right now?
@Sara17783 Huh? The “…hot part” of the ice age? You’re joking. Tell me…..looking at the whole past 600 million years….is the Earth unusually cold now? Or unusually hot now? Is our current climate well within the normal range of natural variability or not? Are we lucky to be this warm? Or unlucky? Would it be better if the world was colder? I know you have a difficult time answering my questions..for some reason. Please give these questions a try.. thank you.
We already see this in Northern California every time it rains. Imagine the future. What future? This world is need of a rebirth. All we do is destroy. We just can’t stop destroying. We did this.
In Minnesota we're currently experiencing the warmest winter on record. Whole industries that depend on winter for their income are in serious financial trouble.
I am in Wisconsin neighbor. Our winter has been one for the books as well. I have never in my 43 years (Lifetime in WI) heard of a Tornado in February (which we had down by Madison a few weeks ago).
Ive lived in montan for 30 years, the change had been noticeable for a decade, and the last few years have been drastically different over the winter. It was 55 degrees at 2 am in February last year in montana at one point. Thats not normal
food was harder to produce in the past. thats why we hunted mammoth and lived in caves or igloos. warm earth today is why we have food production in the areas they exist. or else it would still be frozen.
Extreme floods or droughts, not to mention shipping, also agricultural pests overcoming insecticides, pollinators waning in their numbers, oh almost forgot one of the main components of fertilizer is slowly being completely used up, phosphorus, only one location left to mine for it, Morocco.
@annettemack To much snow, to much heat, same result either way. That's why God made the planet to fluctuate it's weather. This has been going on since the creation of the earth and there is nothing we can do about except adapt. All the money on the planet won't change a thing. Money can't buy happiness, and money can't buy global change. Green energy is a governmental ripoff. Soon the governments won't allow wood, gas, electric appliances. They won't allow a home to be over 800 sq.ft. Businesses will shutter by the millions and street people in the future will make the problem we face today look like a two person campout. But never fear, those with the mega millions or billions of dollars will control the masses, not to mention they will still live in luxury. We're already seeing the beginning of this. Look around, open your eyes and your mind and you will know it's true. Pray that you won't be around when it happens.
@@david4096And every other big corporation which relies on oil. This is a multi-faceted problem and the biggest problem is misinformation and disinformation campaigns paid for by these corporations.
It's unpopular to speak about the weather, let alone the climate. Politicians won't broach the subject because they are paid by the petro industry to keep silent. It's going to be a very, "Silent Spring". Read the book by Rachal Carson.
@Chinookvalley Actually it is quite the opposite. We hear about the climate all the time because governments control the narrative and the press. It's ALL ABOUT MONEY AND WHO CONTROLS IT. GOVERNMENTS MAKE THE LAWS AND THEY CAN CLOSE DOWN PETRO BUSINESSES WITH THE POINT OF A PEN ON PAPER. THOU SHALL NOT "PUMP FOR OIL UNLESS WE CONTROL IT" THIS LAW IS BY DECREE OF NATO. ITS CALLED " A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT You've been duped!
The politicians are the ones who can actually change things, a president who acknowledges climate change will have a much bigger impact than leaving your lights off when you leave your home.
I used to fly airplanes from the U.S. to Europe in the early 2000s. I made a total of 13 trips ferrying airliner aircraft overflying Greenland prior to a refueling stop in Keflavik in Iceland. Over a period of three years, the loss of Greenland pack ice was very noticeable from year to year even then. It is surprising that it’s taken twenty years for the problem to start seeing the effects on our lives today. To become such a politicized matter instead seeing as a definitive issue. In my view, it doesn’t really matter what is causing the world climate to change. What’s most important is that a series of irrevocable changes is beginning to affect how and where humans can live. The changes in the weather patterns that humanity can predictively deal with will not be the same as we are all used to are becom8ng more widespread and significant. This should be much more of a concern because of habitats and economic changes we are facing all over our planet. Yes, change is inevitable. The types of changes we are facing now because the end of the age of ice is ending. And the cycle of fresh water circulation globally has been disrupted enough a much hotter climate is now a certainty in the future. This reality needs to be taken seriously by political decision makers everywhere. Because this type of global weather change is something unseen in the past tens of thousands of years. A new chronological epoch is upon us. One that will present us with warmer temperatures, more weather extremes, and changes to what is considered habitable landmass. To avoid another cause of conflict, it is time to make the necessary adaptations that will ease he transition to a much warmer Plant Earth.
Why? Why do they need "Cleaner" Water? Is not Clean enough? Do they not have Anti-Biotics? We've been with the SAME Water Systems for almost 100yrs. Have people in Other Places, stopped having Babies because the "water is bad"?? Has it Killed Millions of them?? I think the rest of the world is doing JUST FINE, at 8+ BILLION Population. Clearly, they're still Breeding, they're FINE.
It’s not like we’re anything special dude. All civilizations collapse eventually, it’s unavoidable. Look at the Romans. They were one of the largest and most powerful civilizations in history , and it still eventually collapsed.
All individual civilizations collapse. This is the natural cycle, but civilization itself should continue forever, in one form or another. And you say we are nothing special, this is humble but untrue. We are biological supercomputers that appeared out of an eternity of nothingness, into an infinitely complex system of variables. That is pretty spectacular! We are made of matter, yet we have consciousness. How is that possible? We are collectively algorithmic, yet each of us are independent. How can that happen? The odds of any of this happening are literally less than 0%. This existence is a negative possibility, one that should uncreate it self into a vacuum if it ever came to be. Yet we exist, and we exist with continuity and order. Humanity should be protected at all costs, and made to reside with the eternal things.
@@chaytonhurlow840I agree with what you say. Sadly I’m sure we’ll be dealing with constant wildfires, nasty air, and massive floods to say the least, for decades to come. We won’t switch to sustainable means until we’re deep in it.
Add to that oceanic acidification and arctic temperature amplification all due to a surge in greenhouse gas that tragically goes beyond anything in history where species survived.
Great interview, Brianna, and Professor Nye keeps filling us in on what is going on in the world. Tipping points are being, well, tipped for lack of a better way to describe it. The jet stream looks like spagetti and the oceans are rising; we have to accept that we are going to have a 2024 that will make all the other years look like a walk in the park as far as the weather is concerned. Nature needs to be rescued...
the last few years the summer temperature in the capital of greenland has hit up to 93 degrees fahrenheit. new studies from the unversity of copengagen this year also shows the dry ground in the ice free areas in greenland obsords more methane than is releaced by the ice. Further more the ground under the ice is a tundra, so when the ice melts it will form a huge lake. ps. im inuk from greenland living in denmark
More disturbing is post glacial rebound of Antarctica. As Antarctica looses ice it’s rising vertically from the mantle. Thats dragging the southern edge of the Scotia plate with it while causing the northwestren corner to go down. The problem is that the NW corner of the plate is where the South American and Pacific plates come together, it’s the beginning point of the “Ring of Fire”. It works like this, an ef’n huge chunk of ice breaks off Antarctica, Antarctica rises triggering a quake, then that pressure moves up through the America’s triggering anything from tremors and quakes, land slides volcanic eruptions, to a release of Helium which is something that we measure. I’m trying to find you a link but I can’t find it, it was a study that linked ice cleaving off the southern continent to atmospheric Helium spikes that n North America. Talk about the butterfly effect, ice cleaving off the southern most continent causes seismic activity on the other side of the planet. The scary part is this, the release of helium is coming from deep within the Earth and in areas far from the Pacific fault. In a nutshell, Ice melt could be what triggers some of our “doomsday” volcanoes. 😮💨😞 Some times long for the days before college, I’d love to un-know the things I learned. Ignorance was truly bliss.
I am not a geologist, meteorologist, oceanographer or scientist in general. I did hear in a documentary about the creation of the Great Lakes that the earth’s crust is rising up against the pressure from the glaciers that once pressed upon it. I did learn from a geologist while I was in college that the earth is thawing from an ice age. I do care about the environment, which is why I try to learn about it.
earth is thawing.....its not done. your smartest person here today. everyone should read this fact. earth is thawing. we are living in a wonderful time. enjoy the beauty and growing seasons while you can. she wont last forever like this. she will heat and freeze again.
8000 years ago the Antarctic ice sheet melted 1200 ft in 200 years. Between 80000 years and 10000 years ago the ocean rose by over 1000 ft. In fact the ocean is rising slower now than it has for 100000 years. No human caused that. It’s just because we live by the sea and there are now billions of us that it’s suddenly a problem now.
oh man an actual brain with real comments based on fact. the most exciting part of all this. ....ocean archeology. we are finding our past at this depth. its wonderfully pleasing and calming to know the natural world meant for us.
problem is manmade climate change acts on a much faster time scale than natural geologic events. We are talking about huge disruptions in human life within the span of decades , not millenia.
