Fighting climate change is much like long-distance running: a complex journey filled with obstacles, fast-changing conditions and the need for constant adaptation. Drawing on his own experience as an ultramarathon runner, energy expert Greg de Temmerman charts a path for climate action that balances difficult choices and imperfect solutions with the need for urgent progress. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on October 29, 2024)
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@DefunctYompelvert
February 11, 2025 at 7:18 am
PLASTIC STRAWS ARE SO BACK 🗣🗣
@importantname
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 am
We are learning to build habitable structures on in-hositable planets, one for inter planetary travel, and more importantly for when we loose the race this marathon. Billionairres have accepted this fate and are preparing, soon the rest of us had better start building more suitable structures.
@sirchadiusmaximusiii
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 am
Propaganda for increasing taxes. There are patents for hydrogen fuel cells that governments don’t release. They want money for issues already solved 50 years ago.
@SamWilkinsonn
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 am
Climate progress is a myth (meaning we’re not making progress). Our fate’s sealed at this point and it won’t be ling until my statement’s proven beyond any doubt to the deniers. The scientists all know this to be true already, as do the ruling class.
@Shaun-lll
February 11, 2025 at 7:49 am
工业革命以前，地球上的CO2浓度是不是应该越来越低呢，植物吸收CO2的速度大于人类生产CO2的速度😂
@BrolaireThebright
February 11, 2025 at 8:16 am
You need to read a bit more on deforestation and all types of greenhouse gases we produc, not just with fossil fuels
@Shaun-lll
February 11, 2025 at 8:24 am
@BrolaireThebright 所以化石能源排放的温室气体占比并不高？
@ribbrascal
February 11, 2025 at 8:30 am
@@BrolaireThebrightYou might learn about volcanos.
@BrolaireThebright
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 am
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@ribbrascal
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 am
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@ribbrascal
February 11, 2025 at 7:53 am
Authoritarian globalism
@hansolowe19
February 11, 2025 at 8:22 am
It’s too late, is what it is.
@FJano12
February 11, 2025 at 8:25 am
Nobody cares
@theinfinityspiral
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 am
So they’re suicidal?
@dialecticalmonist3405
February 11, 2025 at 8:34 am
Pure psychopathy.
Amazing how people like this still exist.
@Texan_De_Facto
February 11, 2025 at 10:17 am
Probably ulterior motives
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February 11, 2025 at 9:48 am
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@Texan_De_Facto
February 11, 2025 at 10:15 am
How come he didn’t mention carbon is around 400 parts per million and life could be in danger if it gets lower?
@youtubewatcher1555
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 am
Because that’s not the trend that’s happening… as per paleoclimate records, it’s higher than at any point in at least the last few hundred thousand years
@leviefrauim1425
February 11, 2025 at 10:26 am
How many more times does this ridiculous claim of climate change have to be refuted? Oh, I forgot- this is TED, a wing of the left, and they have an agenda to push.
@user_user1337
February 11, 2025 at 10:27 am
well, in the meantime it is both: a marathon run as a very long sprint.
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February 11, 2025 at 11:36 am
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@lorincze2020
February 11, 2025 at 11:41 am
When talking about climate change, we should first discuss HAARP, because the atmosphere has been warming since HAARP experiments began. The HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) antenna system can emit up to 3.6 megawatts (MW) of power in the form of high-frequency (HF) radio waves. Think about that. HAARP experiments began in 1993, when the United States built the HAARP facility in Alaska. The rate of global warming has accelerated in recent decades. More specifically:
1880-1970: Approximately 0.08°C increase per decade.
1970-2020: Approximately 0.20°C increase per decade
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February 11, 2025 at 12:12 pm
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February 11, 2025 at 12:16 pm
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February 11, 2025 at 12:21 pm
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@charleswilson9480
February 11, 2025 at 12:43 pm
It’s Fake , the way he’s teaching / talking about Climate Change … the Real Climate Change it’s in the KJV Bible and that my Friends is the truth . Satan has tricked man kind into believing that Climate Change is real 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV
@BonnieShadow33
February 11, 2025 at 2:03 pm
Thank you for being real about the challenges and trade-offs necessary to make progress. I appreciate that you’re not a total idealist.
@dalewolver8739
February 11, 2025 at 4:26 pm
ummm, i believe the race has been cancelled.
@uaps28
February 11, 2025 at 9:26 pm
Not this climate change agenda nonsense again. It’s probably all a con, guys.
@AmericatheBeautiful-p4z
February 11, 2025 at 11:04 pm
Am agnostic about this Ted Spirit Cooking, even as an environmental scientist formerly with EPA, everyone has a ‘right’ to 1A and a ‘gig’. But these anti-Science End of Days monsters have caused $TRILLIONs of structural mal-investment and MILLIONS of workers to go homeless. I view them like Leon Trotsky, _as Green UniBombers who should be Gitmo’d,_ not trumpeted by Gore Media.
After a 2024 brief, only 85-Day Summer of No Summer in PacNW, COLDEST IN DECADES the City of Seattle launched a Women Minority Urban *Heat* Equity Reparations Fund. BRILLIANT!! Tonight and all this week, as RECORD COLD covers the whole state. Seattle is still paying Women Minority Urban *Heat* Equity Reparations. Uhhh folks, _that’s Ted Spirit Cookers for you!!_ It’s never been about ‘The Science(c)’ It’s been one climate model simulation after another. *Magic CO2!*
@BillyTheKidCENTURION
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 am
When you’re given a map with made up obstacles, it will make your path seem insurmountable. Doomers have replaced “Climate Crisis” with “Climate Change”, but the facts are that there has been no increase in extreme weather events, no mass extinctions, no runaway warming, and no runaway sea levels rising. There is no “Climate Crisis”. Depriving poorer countries of cheap hydro-carbons, only creates more misery, disease, malnutrition, starvation, and death. This is what these “Elites” want for all of us, they hate us and want the world for themselves. There is no “Climate Crisis”