Climate Emergency: Australia on the frontline of climate change | 7.30 

8 billion people on earth today. This will lead to 10 billion, then to 12 billion, then 15 billion, then 20 billion. We are heading into a population nightmare we will not be able to control.

The LNP Morrison government is aware and cares about the Torres Strait Islanders? 😆 That’s too funny. The LNP don’t give a stuff. If they did, they wouldn’t ridicule EVs, renewable energy, etc.

No one cares about the truth anymore, it's all about entertainment

So please explain how we have cities and man made structures sunken below sea level centuries ago before Al Gore?

At 9:45 did Sir David say "4-5 years" or "45 years"?

This culture war/political polarization getting involved in climate science is insane the video is up for 20 min and there's people disputing with Torres straight islanders that the sea level is rising.

Australia, the only developed country that does nothing for the environment.

Meanwhile, Maldives are doing just fine!

If people truly cared about their children and grandchildren, they would care about the climate/ environment.

If other countries can build islands why aren't we rebuild the ones that we have before they're gone ?

You really think we have a decade. Lol. 10 yrs from now we,ll have 3 to 4 meter sea rise, no one is going to stop burning oil period. Big oil is too greedy

Food security ? What are we doing as a nation to secure it as world wide food insecurity is a growing and an alarming trend. ABC could research it and make a program about it and add this threat to the public narrative. Please before it’s too late.

What’s so hard about planting trees

Neoliberal capitalist corporations don’t pay the true cost of their carbon foot prints. It’s time for corporations to pay for their carbon footprints.

The washing machine is no longer usable someone put an oily teatowel in it

What is the solution. I still can't buy a fuel that won't pollute the atmosphere. Blame the oil companies. We all need a serious shift in thinking. I live in a hilly area on an acre. It takes 2 hours to walk to the shops one way. But there is this thought in my head" is this true about cc". In the last 15 years the spring weather pattern has definitely changed. The hills are green to the end of December. Whereas b4 by the end of October the green grass was dying off. So will this extra rain in spring extend the growing season and make the trees grow taller or thicker trunks.

Well surely this isn't an emergency if nobody is doing anything

Where is the tide gauge data? Look at the tide gauge data for the longest records in Australia....Fort Deninson, Fremantle, Port Adelaide....there is an increase since 1990, but this is similar to rises experienced in 1920 to 1940. Overall, there is no escalation in the rate of sea level rise. The same can be said about temperature data. This video is nothing but emotional fluff. I can guarantee you if they are losing land, it is probably related to island sinking rather than sea level rise.

Himalayan glaciers melting at tremendous pace.

Warming will be fine and similar to a period 5000 years ago. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is greening the planet, the world grain production is increasing. It's about time someone put a stop to this nonsense and quoting ffrom a few obscure people living in obscure places..

Australia on the front line? We are one of the worst countries in the world on fighting climate change we standing on the front line doing nothing

We must all pull our heads in. Nothing is done because it is always about money and laziness. As I keep telling people, it will be the 90s generation that will have to deal with the major effects of climate change, along with some people who are younger.

Not going to attempt to watch this but i hope everyone realises we are about to have a sudden iceage due to weakening magnetic field and many other space weather reasons. If anyone doubts what iam saying, then ask yourself why is the weather changing on all the planets.

Too late. We will blow past 2 degrees and then it's out of human control.

The game is OVER... time to start talking about CLIMATE MITIGATION. Nothing can stop this change. NOTHING.

CO2 has negligible effecr, The world is now cooling, 2021 much colder. We need more CO2 not less to help further green the world.

How to change Planets without leaving home.

The ABC just doesn’t learn from their mistakes. That Grata Iceberg clip at the start was edited to make her sound intelligent. “How dare you” was edited and the other part of the speech was editing in quickly. Didn’t the ABC just apologise for editing footage🤦🏻‍♂️.

Anthropogenic Climate change is grossly exaggerated. Let's reduce emissions sure but over a sustained period, not in way that results in energy poverty leading to far greater problems and deaths than a degree or 2 of global temperate increase

The dingoes and Brumbies are starving and dying of thirst How do we think the environment is Its a killer No ac equals death

WOW my people

The people will need help to relocate. So what's happening to their island? sea rise? or is the land subsiding? Small islands such as this (and sinking atolls) one never remain exactly the same, as one of the Islanders states, that he must go out further to harvest shellfish. This indicates that the island may be building on one side, and eroding on the other? Climate change is not "invading" these people, completely errant thinking, and misleading propaganda to instill fear amongst people everywhere.

Let's take a level-headed look at Sea-levels: As far as I can fathom these are the factors that can play with our Seven Seas! First, the ice is melting and moving water from ice-covered land to the seas. This is only natural in a "INTER-GLACIAL", just as you expect the snow melt in spring and flooding creeks and rivers. We are not yet approaching the next inevitable ICE-AGE so all is cool (sorry...) with melting ice-caps. That's what ice must do in a inter-glacial! If the ice keep growing year by year, we are soon in deep kaka! Deep in ice and in another ... you guessed it! Second, the land in many places like Northern Europe were of course covered by massive ice during the last ice-age! In fact, a five kilometres thick ice covered the land for thousands of years and that load has consequences! Such amount of ice drained the oceans so a few foolish humans could take a walk from Wilson's Prom to Tasmania without getting their feet wet. Then as our blessed inter-glacial period started about 10K years ago they found themselves trapped and marooned on the Island of Tasmania due to rising seas. Poor buggers! But as the ice melted in the North of Europe all that weight got off Scandinavia and other cold places and still today 2021, the land is "bouncing back" slowly and surely. So if you for some reason have an urge to prove that the Seven Seas rises, then you will stay way away from Scandinavia because the LAND IS RISING when relieved of its massive glacier weight. You cant have it both ways. Thirdly, it is a undisputed fact that all continents have split from the singular mega-continent Gondwanaland and then drifted around to form separate continents like in the popular A-League: Africa, Antarctica, America, Asia, Australia and some more. Some "continents" smashed into others like India went right into Asia and the Tectonic energy forced to rise up the Himalayas with Mt Everest the highest peek on the planet! Very impressive and intimidating sights, but when areas go UP and away, some areas go DOWN DOWN as the TECTONIC PLATES keep moving and grinding against each other with one slipping under. This is when we get the opposite where land slowly drops down under a relatively approaching opposing upper Tectonic plate, never to be seen again. Eaten by Mother Earth! Finally, there are of course more factors at play such as Vulcanic eruptions creating tall island chains like the Hawaiian Islands, and the building and erosion of flat atolls and coral islands and shallow reefs. I say that a simple statement indicating that "the spot of ocean around Tuvalu is hell bent on drowning the island and everything on it" is simply not true. It is a dumb probably deliberate lie! Reality is far more complicated than that, and one thing is certain, anthropogenic Carbon dioxide CO2 levels have nothing at all to do with pelagic water levels. It is just political propaganda to scare Pacific islanders to go looking for other countries they can blame for Mother Earths work, and of course lower the prices for desirable beach-side estate. In short, CO2 driven sea-level change is B.S.

I have been hearing this stuff for 50 years, not much has changed. We do however need to get rid of scotty from marketing!

Find me 1 factual news story that actually shows this?

the torries have been there for a long time shared around Australian citizens , praying for over in years the areas mostly in Australia can't get washed away by big waters of that , all over the private entities individually must be possible be responsible in the issue of climate change a way with money i mean not beg in streets among ordinary consumers or labor.

Scotty from marketing is onto it.

Sea rise has been occurring since the end of the last ice age, and at a consistent rate for well over 5,000 years.

Relocation of peoples that is terrible taking people away from there home, obviously that girl doesn't know what that ACTUALLY means

OMG that’s devastating to know this is happening already in our own country, these islanders are part of our community and we all have to take responsibility for what we do and especially for what we don’t do.

More dams immediately

Obsesed younge women...but the goverment love her as she's a great reason for them to push through money making contracts that they and there friends love...I suppose the covid gravy train is comming to a end so need another outlet...

If you cant afford to live close to the beach, sea level rise sounds good. It wont be 80cm by 2100.....it will be 3 metres. This has happened before in this timeframe with much slowerl CO2 increases so its nothing new. Citys getting trashed is new however. Whose excited?

Water melting from the poles will migrate to the equatorial region because liquid is thrown to the outermost edge of centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation.

How does the sea level rise?. Melted ice caps?.. water level still the same

Heartbreaking to think communities like these will no longer exist due to the impact of climate change.

Sorry, not convinced that it is climate change that is the cause.

Wellcome to Waterworld

I'm staying in Canada, I'm from Toowoomba Queensland. Toowoomba when I was a kid I remember it being a rainy place. When I came home to see it so dry like I'd never seen in my life. And trees were dying from lack of rain. The reality of Australians are in Danger. We putting our heads in the sand.. I've told my family one-day I think I'll have to get them to move here to Canada, they think it will be okay, i really dont. Australia is an amazing country. But things are changing, you can see it. The climate was so different as a kid. We get one cold winter and everyone wants put their heads back in the sand.

Pollution by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil has been increasing over the years and the reason is advances in technology. Technology is good but we pay the price for the extra pollution it produces. A large 2020 four-wheel-drive vehicle creates twice the pollution to manufacture it than the 2000 model. The vehicle is better than the 2000 model but all the extra gizmos in the vehicle have to be produces which means burning fossil fuel to produce them. Added to this the manufacture of robots and other items to produce the modern vehicle, all create extra pollution. Technology has produced a better mobile phone and we all want one. In 2000 worldwide there were 10 million mobile phones. In 2020 there are close to 5 billion mobile phones, all produced by burning coal and oil. Included in this, is producing 5 billion boxes to place the phones in, all the boxes produced by burning fossil fuel. Internet Shopping. Perhaps the worst polluter in the world today is purchasing items on the internet. People surf the internet for items to buy which they would not bother buying normally. One company, Amazon, sells an average of 584 million items per year, all items manufactured by burning fossil fuel. Add to this 584 million cardboard boxes, paper, and padding, also produced by burning fossil fuel. Add to this the thousands of Vans manufactured and the fuel burnt to deliver the items. Another bad Poulter coming our way is the big electric four-wheel drive. These vehicles have big batteries and as their number increases, it's doubtful if solar or wind power can produce enough power to recharge their large batteries, which means they turn to coal power to charge the batteries which means they are really a coal burning vehicle. Then there are the big polluters like Cadburys Chocolate …… the list goes on and on

Ignore the circuses and the abundant clowns, and look up Peter Temple and the last 10,000 years of weather records.

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Show this to Sky News Australia, would you...?

Very important

Dont blame Australia about rising sea levels, get your head around taking on major polluters.

We have a saying here in Queensland "Is it true or did you see it on the ABC ?"

Go the MM

so proud of myself, I got as far as 1.09. Clickbait got me. It seems a little bit like "the boy who cried wolf". When we see or here words like... EMERGENCY which is generally referenced with police, fire or ambulance, the meaning somehow withers away and the sirens aren't so loud when your driving on a road. When you lot put it alongside of "climate" you take the meaning away from two important words!

Follow the money the shows being run buy old money

Ice free arctic in September 2023

no such thing just a load of hippies

Please loose the dramatic padding. It makes these stories so painful and time wasting to watch. Great coverage otherwise.

High on emotion but light on facts. Sea levels have been rising for centuries and records from tide gauges show there has been no acceleration in rising sea level. Some islands are growing while some are sinking. The pseudo scientific models predicting a climate catastrophe have been hilariously inaccurate over the past 3o years and all credibility of the alarmist calls has been lost. Time to focus on real environmental issues like overfishing and plastic entering the ocean’s food chain.

It is not so much Sea Level Rise as this is occurring slowly but still of great concern. What is more important and immediate is to realize the Temperature of the Ocean rising which lowers the viscosity of the water and this means bigger much more powerful waves eroding the coastlines. Also not covered is the fact that we are in the middle of the Sixth Mass Extinction which is accelerating because of our impacts on the environment @ 200 species becoming extinct every day.

Ha ha ha hahaha ha

Could erosion contribute to rising sea?

I bet house prices are cheap. lol

We should learn to live with 1.5c + then fight it, it would be cheaper

This is all lies. We can't do anything to fix this.

Oi its no where near as hot in Australia anymore and lots of rain i remember when i was a kid it didnt rain for 10 years. Climate change is god damn awesome i love climate change. All aussie should support climate change for a cooler tomorrow.

Well why are we as a race not doing something about it .???? We new about this 40 years ago but economics were more important , what now a dying planet for our smartest animals this planet has produced YOU

The only thing that's warming up is the cold war.

BS

It's over folks. Just enjoy the time that is left before all hell breaks lose.

Scot morrisons needs to act on climate change now not in 2050. Imagine the disasters and what Australia will look like from the ripple in 2050. From these life threatening disaters. Scientists were wrong about the Arctic demise and how itll be much sooner. Homes are lost from rising sea levels and the cost of it adds up hugely to the government organizations If only acting on climate change in the next 10 years would happen but its unlikely to see it occur. These poor islanders are losing homes and the tiny islands are dissappearing slowly😱

To any of the hacks in the comments section who think it's all a big joke, consider what would be the likely outcome of experiencing back to back years of extreme heat and drought as was the case in 2019. If they came back to back, how many years do you think we'd actually be able to get through without environmental, economic and eventually, social collapse? I'd estimate we could probably get through about three 2019s back to back with our existing infrastructure, agriculture etc, five of them would probably be enough to do us in. Not really worth the gamble in continually dragging our heels.

Typical ABC alarmism. We are all going to die 😂 just bought a big yacht so hopefully we will be able to sail to work....

What a load of crap.

Prayers for Gods Grace for you all. Shalom.

Global government here we come

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Michael Mann's lies are ones of OVER-OPTIMISM.