How is Climate Change Affecting The Weather Now? - Myles Allen 

To add to the metaphor. Building a dam or levee may effect the economy and conveniences of the people that live there ( especially during construction) but much less than what would happen if no action is taken.

lol

Dude planet is fine and it has been for billions of years, we have been here for just 200k years or so, we are the ones who are going away

Climate is the average of weather

I **love** Gresham College lectures but agree with some of the above - it’s just annoying. Do it at the start.. ppl more likely to see it than at the end. There might be rationale to put it where it is at the moment… feel free to advise what that is so we understand :) Either way, I’ll still share these lectures

Or maybe it's the message you don't like!

The climate changes for reasons.

Unless you understand why that's as meaningless as saying people have always died.

Nobody denies that. What is your point?

@@budawang77 Sho what's the big deal with the climate change?

​@thegroove2000 it's just about the longevity, the survival of our species and most other species and little things like that. Did you like that dude?

Thanks for that insight... pronounced "ignorance"

And your facts or evidence for this?

And your qualifications in climate science are - zero, I'm guessing.

Scary truths are hard to swallow huh

Let's be real mate, all the science in the world wouldn't convince you of anything. That's not a problem with them, that's a problem with you. Every single scientific body in the world is in a unanimous consensus on recognizing climate change. You should really start paying attention in class.

You would soon get bored 😴

He is assuming an elementary level of background knowledge in the viewer.

Just science.

Answers are seldom final in science. If you want certainty, study religion.

Of course there isn’t. It’s a religion though and can’t miss the next dinner party

But that is not because the planet is warmer but due to better technology. Doesn’t change the effects of climate change

​@PremierCCGuyMMXVI But in the wibbly wobbly world of climate change shouldn't the rising temperatures have had disastrous effects on humanity? It's almost like it doesn't matter.

​@@PremierCCGuyMMXVIAnd what effects of climate change would that be? The UN's IPCC AR6 report, chapter 11 'Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate' summarises the fact that severe weather events cannot be detected as increasing, nor attributed to human caused climate change: Increased Flooding: not detected, no attribution. Increased Meteorological Drought: not detected, no attribution. Increased Hydrological Drought: not detected, no attribution. Increased Tropical Cyclones: not detected, no attribution. Increased Winter Storms: not detected, no attribution. Increased Thunderstorms: not detected, no attribution. Increased Hail: not detected, no attribution. increased lightning: not detected, no attribution. Increased Extreme Winds: not detected, no attribution. There is no climate crisis. The UN's IPCC AR6 report, chapter 11 'Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate' summarises the fact that certain severe weather events cannot be detected as increasing, nor attributed to human caused climate change: Pages 1761 - 1765, Table 11.A.2 Synthesis table summarising assessments Heavy Precipitation: 24 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend (12 medium confidence), 43 out 45 low confidence in human attribution. Agricultural Drought: 31 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend (14 medium confidence. No high confidence assessment). 42 out 45 low confidence in human attribution (3 medium, no high confidence). Ecological Drought as above. Hydrological Drought: 38 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend. 43 out 45 low confidence in human attribution (2 medium confidence, no high confidence). So the IPCC are saying we didn't cause droughts and we didn't make it rain. How surprising! There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis. The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed: Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions), Aridity, Avalanche (snow), Average precipitation, Average Wind Speed, Coastal Flood, Agricultural drought, Hydrological drought, Erosion of Coastlines, Fire Weather (hot and windy), Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods), Frost, Hail, Heavy Rain, Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms, Landslides, Marine Heatwaves, Ocean Acidity, Radiation at the Earth’s Surface, River/Lake Floods, Sand and Dust Storms, Sea Level, Severe Wind Storms, Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets, Tropical Cyclones. How about some quotes from the UN's IPCC AR6? "There is low confidence in the emergence of heavy precipitation and pluvial and river flood frequency in observations, despite trends that have been found in a few regions." "There is low confidence in the emergence of drought frequency in observations, for any type of drought, in all regions." "Observed mean surface wind speed trends are present in many areas, but the emergence of these trends from the interannual natural variability and their attribution to human-induced climate change remains of low confidence due to various factors such as changes in the type and exposure of recording instruments, and their relation to climate change is not established. . . The same limitation also holds for wind extremes (severe storms, tropical cyclones, sand and dust storms)." There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.

@@OldScientist you are only looking at extreme weather. You are ignoring rising sea levels, ocean acidification, melting glaciers, habitat destruction has climate change effects ecosystems that evolved in an intermission of an ice age and not a hot house, etc.

It's not really about statistics it's about physics and chemistry.Climate change is a reality heat atmosphere absorb more moisture more humidity more rain.

@@frederickbowdler8169 How is Climate Change Affecting The Weather Now? - Myles Allen 23.1.24 as much as it's tiresome to have someone echo one's ideas cuz i can't be arsed speaking out or cuz i am stifled....i dont deny the climate might be effed up. but that ball began to roll during the onset of mass forest clearance many thousands of years ago...that might suggest thousands of years of raping and pillaging vast "resources" set our seasons, as we have come to nostalgically know them, in motion. a catch 22 situation. it's too late. far too late. though i aint suggesting being clean and green is pointless. go to it... i wanna overcome a fear of flying so i aint against travel etc etc etc....

LOL

@@frederickbowdler8169 It might be science if we measured heat, but instead we measure temperatures, which mean different things in the atmosphere and in the sea surface temperatures. The sea holds onto heat, and loses it much less easily than the atmosphere which is much more mobile, has adiabatic changes, and varies over minutes. Gridding the oceans and land and using the sea and air temperatures, averaging them together over time, correcting them and comparing them year on year does not bear any relationship to the energy in the earth's climate system, and hence the models that climatologists produce to try to predict climate over decadal, centennial and millenium terms are as much mumbo-jumbo as palmistry and phrenology. History will show this is a failed political ploy to introduce the meme of changing energy use from cheap and reliable fossil fuelsfrom declining resources to more expensive and chancy generation depending on weather conditions, such as wind and solar. Eventually the only viable method on global terms will be nuclear energy, preferably using controlled fusion, but alternatively using cleaner fission alternatives such as thorium reactors. Climate will pale into insignificance compared with the eventual threat of human waste of all sorts from continued growth, as demographic decline reduces fertility, productivity, and GDP with the inevitable wars that will ensue.

Whose politics?

Science is not political. But in times like these when politicians are telling more lies than usual, telling the truth can indeed become a political act.

Who thinks that kiddo?

Not weather, climate. We already controlled it without knowing, so it's established that we can affect it.

What's completely insane is thinking there is no anthropogenic.😊

Claimed no one ever in climate science.

@@subcitizen2012 Influenced it more so than controlled. Science moves on from well established conclusions to areas of less certainty such as quantifying AGW in the presence of large feedbacks like clouds and water vapour. Anthropogenic global warming is hardly the most important or interesting area of climate research because it is occurring and is settled. i.e., it’s a baseline. Just as evolution is the baseline for evolutionary biology.

You mean as new evidence is uncovered our understanding of the past changes? Shocking! Absolutely shocking!!

No. That is not the problem.

@@ppetal1 yes, it is the problem. The earth is 3 billion years old. We didn’t destroy it in 150 years. Please reread: 3 billion years. For context, imagine having the amounts in pounds:

@@MyRU-vid-xs4tu it's broadly accepted that Earth is 3.6 billion yo. I have heard nobody propose that we destroyed it in 150 years, until you mentioned it. The fossil fuels we have burned in under two hundred years took at least a billion years of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic, to be formed from our then carbon saturated atmosphere. I suspect you have got a little caught up in political conspiracy ideas.

​@@MyRU-vid-xs4tu in fact we managed to destroy the very foundations of our existence we're adapted to in these last 150 years by digging and burning millions of years of storage efforts of nature. We didn't destroy earth itself, but the earth we can live on. The earth can exist just fine without us. Most of the time we waren't around actually.