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“Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term,” says atmospheric scientist Ilissa Ocko. That’s because, unlike carbon dioxide, methane’s warming power doesn’t come from a gradual buildup over time but is almost entirely from recent emissions. Ocko identifies three main sources of methane pollution which,…
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Deno Keller
January 15, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Propaganda BS !
Another big lie – Climate change 🖕🏻😡🖕🏻
熟肉CookedMeat（にく）
January 15, 2022 at 7:17 pm
Summary of tge video: Cut methane emissions. No actual examples of methods, no data and no evidence.
Feels like a 13-year-old trying to write an educational essay, oversimplified and sometimes over exaggerated. It’s very difficult to address an issue so complicated with so less time. Could’ve made the entire talk into a 5 minutes slideshow video and save the energy comsumed for hosting such event.
Elvy Tan
January 15, 2022 at 8:18 pm
Well, do you know more about climate change mitigation than this scientist? It’s made simple so that many people can understand and be aware.
熟肉CookedMeat（にく）
January 15, 2022 at 8:52 pm
@Elvy Tan Very true. Any idea or theory has to simplified before introducing to non specialist, but this speech feels more like educating children, which isn’t a bad thing but it could be more informative.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 9:52 pm
The carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?
Solsun
January 15, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Incredible. And what is big oil trying to promote as an eco-friendly alternative? “natural” gas
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 8:06 pm
Greenwashing is the new norm. Even the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex is working on eco-friendly bombs. Remember “surgical strikes”?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein.
Nathan Hearn
January 15, 2022 at 7:27 pm
By your own words, Methane emissions are a problem the United States and Europe have by far the least amount of control over or ability to mitigate. The largest methane producers are rice growing, agricultural countries, countries that process a lot of natural gas and poorer industrial countries with lax environmental standards and limited resources to try any of the mitigation projects mentioned here. You can lecture China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil etc all you want but odds are they’re going to keep doing what they’re doing for a long time before they change their behavior. This does illustrate that electric cars, solar panels and wind farms are not gonna get the job done in tackling climate change.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 8:34 pm
According to Investopedia :
The U.S. is the top producing country of natural gas in the world, followed by Russia, Iran, Qatar, China and Canada.
The top ten natural gas companies in the world are from the U.S, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, China, the UK and France.
Btw, the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?
Steven Hill
January 15, 2022 at 8:53 pm
“”This does illustrate that electric cars, solar panels and wind farms are not gonna get the job done in tackling climate change””
The scientist mentioned methane is released “extracting oil, gas and coal.” Gas cars run on oil so electric cars are clearly part of the solution
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 8:57 pm
@Steven Hill only ETHICS can get the job done. Btw, the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex Steven?
Nathan Hearn
January 15, 2022 at 10:55 pm
@Steven Hill Respectfully, Solar and Wind power are intermittent power supplies – meaning you need a backup power source for when the sun isn’t shining/wind isn’t blowing. That backup power source is almost always a natural gas generator – so in essence, solar and wind ARE natural gas power sources. As for EV’s their shortcomings for powering larger vehicles means at best they can replace the ICE passenger car fleets but heavy polluting larger trucks, aircraft and ships will continue to run on oil or maybe gas. All of this says nothing about how and where these products are made and what they are made out of. These are realities that need to be confronted.
Steven Hill
January 15, 2022 at 11:35 pm
@Nathan Hearn Intermittent power confronted with battery storage NOW over the globe and cheaper than fossil fuels. Larger trucks Tesla and BYD disrupting those industries and boats and planes just a matter of time
Gaasuba Meskhenet
January 15, 2022 at 7:36 pm
wrong.
the fastest way is to allow people to rest.
rent is extortion.
fear of eviction is killing the planet
bla blup
January 15, 2022 at 7:40 pm
We could forbid having pets. alltogether 😀 -Just think about it how much meat a dog of a cat needs per day. And we have so many millions of them …
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 10:02 pm
Eat your pet. 🤣🤣🤣
bla blup
January 15, 2022 at 10:14 pm
@Lorenzo Blum Thats clever. 😀
Sydney D'Argenio
January 15, 2022 at 7:48 pm
no no no…with regards to the agriculture portion: we don’t cut methane emissions by improving livestock feed. We must stop eating animals and animal products. Animal agriculture is horrendous for a number of environmental reasons that go far beyond methane emissions. That includes deforestation, water pollution and ocean dead zones, excessive water usage, species extinction. And this doesn’t even touch upon animal rights, to live lives free from suffering. Her point spreads the wrong message. Not everyone will go vegan overnight, or in five years, but the more we shrink the industry, the sooner it will collapse.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 9:43 pm
More damaging than cow farts, the elephant in the room farts aka the military industrial complex.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Yes, let’s tighten the valves and keep ignoring the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex. Nice job TED talks. Can I say nice “gaslighting”?
NoWhacko
January 15, 2022 at 11:35 pm
Wrong, we acually need more military. The worst polluters are humans themselves, less people means less pollution. The military kills people, thus the military is good for the enviroment.
The only problem, they don’t kill enough.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 11:51 pm
@NoWhacko overpopulation is a myth. The real problem is everyone doing the same thing at the same time in the same place. The military is very good at that. And at brainwashing too obviously. If you enjoy being a puppet after all it is your choice but killing will not bring you happiness. Even if you have been indoctrinated to do so you might enjoy killing for a while but at some point you will get the PTSD.
Home Wall
January 15, 2022 at 8:40 pm
The fastest way would be a big war that killed of 7 billion people so we’re down just roughly 2 billion people. Each person emits methane and CO2 just by being alive, much less their modern lives. Biden is working on it…
Angel Gamaliel 369
January 15, 2022 at 8:48 pm
You can’t slow down a natural cycle of the planet, it’s like saying we’re going to get rid of winter because we don’t like it beyond the tropic lines. The answer is magnetic energy and Tesla coils, true clean infinite free energy not the solar panels and wind mill crap the billionaires want the world to buy
Hosni Mubarak
January 15, 2022 at 10:25 pm
There is nothing natural about the rapid warming we are seeing.
Angel Gamaliel 369
January 15, 2022 at 10:30 pm
@Hosni Mubarak it’s actually a cooling if you actually look at the models and not at the news. We are headed towards the grand solar minimum and the earths magnetic field is weakening as a result of that. Are you aware of the polar movement?
Hosni Mubarak
January 15, 2022 at 11:20 pm
@Angel Gamaliel 369
Too funny. Tell us where you got this nonsense from.
It's not looking good
January 16, 2022 at 12:32 am
@Angel Gamaliel 369 cite the sources
Keith Shelley
January 15, 2022 at 9:00 pm
Climate Change has become a religion and very soon it will be the very least of your worries. It doesn`t matter how green your grass is if you don`t have a country to grow it in or a yard to sow it. Loosen up, it will be okay. This is probably the least greatest threat to the world on a list of at least ten problems. The Democratic Party has simply seized it as another way to divide and conquer!
ailingfanatic
January 15, 2022 at 9:58 pm
The world is bigger than the US democratic party
Leon Estello
January 15, 2022 at 9:06 pm
This is next level Genius 💯… If you can’t fix the problem, go to the the next doable thing and see if you can work around it… NEXT LEVEL GENIUS! 🧠
Thank you🙏
Kim Rodgers
January 15, 2022 at 9:23 pm
We could stop forcibly breeding livestock and stop consuming them and their milk. No technology required, just a little thought and discipline.
Fernando toledo piza
January 15, 2022 at 9:24 pm
It’s impressive how many environmentalists when addressing cutting methane from agriculture don’t even consider the possibility to reduce meat consumption rather than creating advanced technologies to change the cow’s fart or cover the manure. The solution is simpler than that, just create policies to reduce meat consumption, such as over-taxation and so on
Stéphane Champon
January 15, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Or just stop subsidizing it !
ARRW
January 15, 2022 at 10:04 pm
Yep. That’s true. Though, I’m not sure over-taxation is the answer. California has the highest gas rates in the country due to over taxation aimed to make people drive less while gaining money for the state to fix roads. It failed to make people drive less, and just proved to make it more difficult for poor people to drive to work. The problem is, people don’t want to change their behaviors. We want the world to stop getting hotter and being destroyed by this stuff, but very few are willing to stop eating meat, stop drinking milk, stop driving their car, stop getting amazon delivered ridiculously quickly, stop heating and cooling down their home, etc. I don’t think major change will come without major upheaval of something many have come accustomed to. Although, the blame doesn’t fall on the individual completely, like many fossil fuel companies would like you to think. They spend a tremendous amount of money trying to make us think that carpooling and recycling will save us, when it wont. Anyway, I agree with you.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 10:26 pm
Greed, corruption, consumerism and lack of ethics… Btw, the carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 10:28 pm
Through taxes, we’re already funding the biggest polluter on Earth, the military industrial complex. No need for more taxes. We need ETHICS.
N/A
January 15, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Because environmentalists are realists. They know reducing meat consumption simply won’t happen without a fundamental shift in behaviour. It’s not economically viable in the short term to do that, and humans are incredibly short sighted about short term cost and long term gain, hence the presenting the next best thing that can literally start working overnight
s0m3cunt
January 15, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Throw ice cubes at the Sun….Who’s with Me?
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Would dry ice be more effective? Let’s give more money to the Pentagon for that project . Btw, the carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?
andtrix r
January 15, 2022 at 10:01 pm
And the EU right now is saying, gas is sustainable source of energy … i could cry.
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 10:19 pm
You could also cry over the carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex.
Big Dee
January 15, 2022 at 10:16 pm
The fastest way to stop global warming would be to sew up that blow hole
Mohamed Esam
January 15, 2022 at 10:17 pm
Is humanity ready enough to overcome these problems? I think no cuz we are stupid 😂
Lorenzo Blum
January 15, 2022 at 11:05 pm
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule ~ Nietzsche.
Btw, the carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex Mohamed?
Mohamed Esam
January 16, 2022 at 12:10 am
@Lorenzo Blum yeah, I agree with you Lorenzo that military industries are one of the biggest reasons for this issue it may also be the biggest. one
MarkMcDBoston
January 15, 2022 at 10:57 pm
We could eliminate almost ALL the methane produced by agriculture by going vegan and do it virtually overnight!
Harri
January 15, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Yay, more useless solutions. You just won’t. The world population is not going to go vegan or even vegetarian. Its not an implementable or functional solution and it keeps making people hostile to even the idea, to keep suggesting it like it is.
Lorenzo Blum
January 16, 2022 at 12:08 am
Stinker than cows’ farts, the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex’s farts.
MarkMcDBoston
January 16, 2022 at 1:01 am
@Harri Most people in the world can do it with very little effort IF they actually want to do something about climate change.
MarkMcDBoston
January 16, 2022 at 1:04 am
@Lorenzo Blum That may be, but cutting out meat, dairy, and eggs is something ordinary people can do immediately. Individuals can’t change the M-I complex from one day to the next.
PokerMakyo
January 15, 2022 at 11:11 pm
Let’s consume this planet and take another one.
Raytheon Nublinski
January 16, 2022 at 12:07 am
Accept your fate. It’s over.
Gato 008
January 16, 2022 at 12:21 am
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NoWhacko
January 16, 2022 at 12:25 am
I’m so looking forward to buying a first gen suzuki sv650 without a cat.
Harmon Muffey
January 16, 2022 at 12:37 am
Very inspirational ideas and presentation. With regard to cutting down emissions in cattle production, do you think using airtight indoor farms were the excreted air could be directed to algae production for example (where methane can be a source of food) could be a viable solution? Not really sure how would be the cost of such a farm and if a farmer economically would benefit from it but because meat consumption as it goes will not be able to reduce emissions as we want, so then at least the meat we produce comes from a production system which handles the ch4 responsibly and of course also its cows (the cows do not need to be the whole day within an air tight barn as C02 and methane production follow specific patterns within day and night meaning parts of the day were cows emit most methane needs to be indoors).
On Purpose
January 16, 2022 at 1:10 am
LOL
Like are there like any like figures on like how much is cycled by plants or like absorbed by the oceans?
Like did van jones buy the patent to measure methane too?
Like you know does like the earths magnetic depletion and pole flipping cause like climate change?
Like that sun sure like feels hotter these days?
Thank you for your wonderful fantasy land like sooo much fun!
TheShorterboy
January 16, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Easy stop buying and building things, the end.
h4tt0ri
January 16, 2022 at 12:22 pm
yet you don’t say how can we produce energy from methane.
the guy who never uploads anything
January 16, 2022 at 12:47 pm
I think this was a better speech than a lot of the commenters here seem to think. She talked about the different sources and the solutions for those sources though I have to say I’m surprised to not hear a word about just consuming less or no beef when talking about the methane cows produce.
CASSANDRA DARWINIANA FATHER KNOWS BEST
January 16, 2022 at 7:04 pm
It was implied (by hers) that some strongly bonded options are impossible to change.
Brazil without translator.
Daniel shoop
January 16, 2022 at 12:49 pm
Anthropogenic climate change is a crock.
h4tt0ri
January 16, 2022 at 1:02 pm
you say 0 specifics and a lot of big words.
Gregory Byrne
January 16, 2022 at 1:05 pm
You can’t stop the increase in EM energy due to crossing the galaxies double torus electromagnetic gravitational plane.
We need an END TIMES marshal plan.
Build that WALL like the CARNAC stones using half buried sea containers to divert NOAH’S EAST TO WEST FLOODS To come due to crossing the galaxies electromagnetic gravitational plane for the next millenia.
Build more Ezekiel Musk’s VTVL rockets.
Build underground cities like the people of Karahan and Gobekli Tepe did with Derenkuyu and capadoccia.
Build take back control of Gideon’s Znamya solar sail laser spotlight satellites and build more.
Unless your speaking the inconvenient truths which the comfortable LIES are built upon your not speaking the truth.
Covid baby boomer bust
Climate Cycles caused by 240,000 year rotation of the galactic bulge with precession causing END TIMES every 12,000 years for the 1,000 years it takes to cross the Galaxies Electromagnetic gravitational plane.
Blm/alm divide and conquer to control humanity.
Jesus loved all races because there is only one race,the HUMAN race with only one minority the INDIVIDUAL human.
Praise Jesus because the New COVENANT which he died to deliver is the only ideology that unites all of humanity.
Greg Gary
January 16, 2022 at 1:14 pm
This HAS to a beef industry sponsored “scientist”.
First, the problem with beef is not only the methane production but the near catastrophic depletion of the world’s aquifers for crops to feed the critters. Higher quality feed? It’s purpose grown already.
I would like to see one (1) legit peer reviewed study identifying quantifiable methane reductions from “new technology”. The only ones I known of are focused on growing quality protein in the lab.
The absolute fastest way to reduce methane emissions, aside from tightening some bolts?
Stop eating beef. Choose another meat source. Cattle kills. It’s that simple.
Patrik Boström
January 16, 2022 at 6:34 pm
And cut down on meat generally. Producing meat, regardless of type, uses much more energy than producing plants.
Rod Zilla
January 16, 2022 at 2:17 pm
I’m glad to hear some SOLUTIONS!!
Ian Kinnebrew
January 16, 2022 at 2:18 pm
For rice patties in Southeast Asia. I think it would take a few generations and modern thinking and management to change what is currently a tradition and proven method of outputting raw rice.
Change can be scary for them.
Nickie McNichols
January 16, 2022 at 2:33 pm
Boycott beef! Its production is extremely cruel and polluting. I sure don’t miss it.
Olivia O
January 16, 2022 at 3:03 pm
I think the world may be too far gone in innovating, and the Pandemic is the icing on the cake. Countries do not trust each other, which won’t change, so in theory, the world won’t stop climate change.
Dustin Gliko
January 16, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Stop ignoring water vapor
Dustin Gliko
January 16, 2022 at 3:41 pm
Include solar and cloud forcing to climate models.
Andrejs BOKA
January 16, 2022 at 3:42 pm
isn’t methane equivalent is x25 not x99 to CO2
Dustin Gliko
January 16, 2022 at 3:43 pm
Derp education robots hear the word contrail and snap to the chemtrail conspiracy theory. Derps watch the water vapor blanket the sky.
ken234ize
January 16, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Great speech that introduce an effective and possible way to reduce climate change. Hope them could discover more methods.
Audrey P
January 16, 2022 at 6:23 pm
Cows are the biggest problem we have to stop eating cows
BondiAV
January 16, 2022 at 8:14 pm
This video makes excellent points. Also shows how off-base politicians are in their climate change rhetoric. All we hear is “cut CO2 emissions”; while nobody mentions methane or … the solution that Mother Nature already has in place for recycling CO2. Yes, I am talking about forests, a topic that seems to be “taboo”. Throughout the entire history of Earth, every time there was a higher CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, luxuriant forests developed, bringing the environment back to balance. But nobody seems to acknowledge that and while CO2 emissions are growing, forests are also being cut at increasing rates. Why? Well … could it be because politicians want money and power more than we all need oxygen?
l0gic23
January 16, 2022 at 8:23 pm
Lost me at putting more unnatural stuff in my food.
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January 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm
🕛
Rob Nova
January 16, 2022 at 8:47 pm
This is pretty interesting plan but Doesnt sound easy… but she does give a lot of ideas…
C. Kottman
January 16, 2022 at 11:59 pm
So instead of putting this on all of us to change the way we live our lives, we can just put it on some poor farmers. Genius! With the added benefit that the rich get off free! Let’s not blame the oil, gas, and industrial companies that have lots of money. Let’s blame it on the poorer agriculturalists that’s industry has existed long before the oil and gas companies.
Vickielindstrander
January 17, 2022 at 12:50 am
There is a risk of global cooling due to the explosion in Tonga.
Josh Keirsey
January 17, 2022 at 1:17 am
OMG THE COW FARTS!!!!
Hylan Eric
January 17, 2022 at 11:19 am
I need to present about ways to combat climate change and my team choose to, saving energy at home, 3R and diminishing greenhouse gases release.. after watching this speech i feel like theb point we going to tell is useless 😂 anyone can give me the idea on how can i present?
Jim Myers
January 18, 2022 at 12:47 am
Depends entirely upon what it is your team does and the environment you work in. Food service would have one set of answers, a team of coders would have another.
Fabien Girard
January 17, 2022 at 11:42 am
She says good things about everything! But to put chemicals into the cows to reduce methane production rather than reduce meat consumption… This is dumb, sorry
Kay Kay
January 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm
The problem is big businesses, and this joke comes out here defending them and changes nothing. Your a joke love. Empathy is what is needed, not more of the same. Sick
Maybe You're Right😀
January 17, 2022 at 1:36 pm
🌎TED | yes 👍
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# Cop 26
SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!
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” we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to ” -why?
Thank you.
sonia julie
January 17, 2022 at 1:43 pm
How about STOP LAUNCHING CRAP INTO SPACE FOR 1 MONTH and if MOTHER NATURE doesn’t calm down with all the climate changes
Abraham Vivas
January 17, 2022 at 1:43 pm
So, if I understood It well, The solution is to prevent Methane to escape to the atmosphere by efficiently turning It into CO2…
sonia julie
January 17, 2022 at 1:44 pm
anyone notice that our climate gets more volatile with each ROCKET SHIP LAUNCHED INTO SPACE??????
Tim DS
January 17, 2022 at 2:59 pm
What a way to undersell the importance of animal agriculture in this, stop being a shill for the industry and greenwashing their nonsensical solutions. Just be change to plant based, ffs.
aSHTEBALA
January 17, 2022 at 6:33 pm
Is that Pauline from Super Mario Odyssey?
Mohsen M. Amrei
January 17, 2022 at 10:56 pm
save the planet from humans by doing nothing 😀
Bear Bones
January 17, 2022 at 11:55 pm
Stop spraying super heated Chem trails stupid. Stop nlamming us while the usa with holds free energy. False this woman is delusional
T Willey
January 18, 2022 at 3:56 am
PSA the earth’s temp is always changing. Plot twist AOC says we’re dead in 11 years. Gore said we should have already been dead
Miroslav Houdek
January 18, 2022 at 7:56 am
This video was completely correct, until she said that we can change it and that we are already acting on it. So was someone made responsible for the abandoned wells leaking methane? Was someone forced to invest a penny into their leaking well? Was some fined? Did someone at least propose a fine? Hard nope. Please, let’s just drop this optimism.
Zoltán Tóth
January 18, 2022 at 11:32 am
Abandoned rigs yes, but also trials and probes. Those are not “plugged back”, just left behind leaking.
Miroslav Houdek
January 18, 2022 at 12:23 pm
@Zoltán Tóth indeed. And these could be fixed really cheaply. At least in comparison to inventing electric planes and all that. Yet, nobody cares
Jakob
January 18, 2022 at 8:47 am
Uh duuuh, abolish animal agriculture already!
Trần Đức Tiên
January 18, 2022 at 8:54 am
3:00
Big Gav 74
January 18, 2022 at 10:28 am
Planets fkd. Stop pretending we can just a eat a vege burger, drive an electric car, and everything will be OK.
Emmanuel Mleschnitza
January 18, 2022 at 11:54 am
Climate change cant exsist due to the nature flat shape of the world. Most of the co2 that goes into the atmosfere just goes off the side.
Michael
January 18, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Eh, humans aren’t built to fix catastrophes around them. We’ll close our eyes, plug our ears and give a thumbs up to the next generation, who will also do nothing.
Rick Jones
January 18, 2022 at 11:18 pm
Humans trying to fix problems? What a joke! You can’t change the will of God. Good luck!
T_ Rat
January 19, 2022 at 1:06 am
The speaker is a scientist so I can’t believe she is saying what she is saying. I suspect she is overly simplifying and twisting the facts to make the topic understandable. But what she ends up saying is simply NOT TRUE
Regarding “we need to reach net zero to stabilize our climate” – NOT TRUE. Since the arctic and permafrost are both melting at CURRENT atmospheric CO2 levels, achieving net zero will only MAINTAIN current (or some future higher) atmospheric CO2 level. This means the arctic and permafrost will continue to melt, and climate change will continue to worsen.
Regarding: “when we reduce methane, we can reduce a lot of warming right away…” – NOT TRUE. Consider that CO2 is being emitted at 33-35 BILLION tonnes per year while methane is about 570 MILLION tonnes. In the atmosphere CO2 has been rising about 2-3 Parts Per MILLION per year. Methane increased last year about 14 Parts Per BILLION or 0.014 Parts Per MILLION. (1/74’th of CO2 – notice the unit of measure for methane is PPB which is 1/1000 that of CO2’s PPM)
Methane has an atmospheric half life of about 10 years while CO2 has an atmospheric half life of about 120 years.There is no denying that methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 (about 70 times greater over those first 10-12 years). But, considering the tiny amount of methane emitted compared to CO2 (about 1/60th of Co2), and the vastly shorter half life of methane compared to CO2 (about 1/12th), and the lower yearly atmospheric rise of methane compared to CO2 (1/74’th of Co2), a reduction of methane alone will have only a TINY reduction in climate heating.
Regarding “if we succeed in cutting methane… we can… hit the breaks on worsening extreme events.” NOT TRUE – those events will continue because they are driven by CURRENT greenhouse gas emissions which remain in the atmosphere for over a century. Thus simply slowing (rather than reversing) atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions will NOT change the fact those extreme weather events will continue to happen. (Similarly, just slowing the speed of a car pointed at a cliff, will not change the fact that the car will sooner or later go off the cliff.)
In summary, this is one of those pseudo-scientific talks meant to make people feel good. But it is of little actual informational value. Are TED talks becoming “feel-good” talks?
Scenic Hwys
January 19, 2022 at 4:07 am
Yes our planet is going through a climate change. The planet is getting warmer. However, all the people on our planet is cause for a small percentage. Our Earth over its lifetime has gone through a lot worse than this and survived. If you do your homework you will find out that our planet’s magnetic poles are in the very early stages of a flip. The Earth is long overdue for this event. It will probably take 1000 to 10000 years to complete. During this period of time it has been estimated that 90 percent of the life on Earth will die. The Earth will survive and when the flip is complete our planet will will look like a teenage again. The big question is why would this happen. The answer is quite simple. Our Earth and everything on it is a digital copy of the real planet Earth. We are living in a computer simulation. Right now a few people on our planet have been visited by the alien human race on the real planet Earth.
cronoklee
January 19, 2022 at 10:35 am
Stop eating beef!
Awaken Acres
January 19, 2022 at 7:02 pm
Easiest solution: stop eating beef and dairy.
Mike Ash worth
January 19, 2022 at 9:31 pm
How about reducing our consumption of meat? This also has the massive advantage that trees can be planted on the land that is freed up when we stop feeding the soya and corn to animals. Trees will take huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, giving a double benefit.
Four Mares
January 21, 2022 at 2:42 pm
When she didn’t include any of that important and tangible information, I switched it off. You cannot have recovery without sacrifice.
Sarthak Joshi
January 20, 2022 at 6:22 am
Why not reduce meat eating habit instead of making efficient cattle farming.
Gerald Merkowitz
January 20, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Finally talking about something other than CO2!
Francesco Paci
January 20, 2022 at 9:40 pm
Why methane last only a decade in atmosphere? What destroy it?
Yahseq Gookler
January 21, 2022 at 3:49 am
Stop farting.
Beta
January 21, 2022 at 6:40 am
This was a good talk. Whoever, everyone wants to solve the “symptoms”, but no one wants to address the “cause”: overpopulation.
Noukz
January 21, 2022 at 3:55 pm
I think that speeches like this are more dangerous than the speeches made by climate deniers. We can’t TECH OUR WAY OUT of the climate crisis people! That’s what led us here, not just the technology itself, but the lazy, profit driven motivation behind it. We need to start valuing ECOlogy over ECOnomy and start changing our habits, starting today. That’s more like yesterday, for us the in the “advanced” countries.
ynsane2000
January 22, 2022 at 9:34 am
We couldn’t “tech our way out” of many situations where that’s just what we did. What led us here was not technology, it was wealth accumulation, overpopulation, waste, commercial production and industrial lobbying including fossil fuels which are at this point fully replaceable. Instead of kicking strops in the comments that “we” need to do something, let the world “leaders” and the many assorted corporate monsters take heed instead of copping out and blaming us for the pollution they make.
billboybryant
January 21, 2022 at 6:17 pm
We weren’t even able to study worldwide weather until 1888. That’s 124 years. The earth has been around since what, 6 to 13 billion years. The arrogance of little men and women knows no bounds.
Philip Stafford
January 21, 2022 at 8:12 pm
Well gee I don’t know uh the media is saying the southeast is gonna have a once in a decade ice storm. That must be because the earth is warming up right? Yeah right. This is all just part of the woketard movement. These scientists get here he government grants as long as they keep the global warming alarm going. Kind of like Howard Stern. He use to be someone the average man could identify with buy now that the deep state has given him millions of dollars he’s a vaccine promoter. Now he says if you aren’t vaccinated you should be in jail or dead. Some of these days the deep state, woketard and paid liars will have to answer for their sins and I’ll be there to see that. 😂
Philippe Rat
January 22, 2022 at 11:19 am
very interesting levers which are presented on this TED in a methodological way. but I’m afraid of the permaftost melt that will be a most important effect and the question is what we can do ?
Memes for everyone!
January 22, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Nice
Casey Atwater
January 22, 2022 at 6:47 pm
This reeks of capitalistic intent and the eco-modernism ideology.
Technology isn’t going to save us despite our bad habits. Gov’t needs to step up with legislation, people in wealthy nations need to reduce their energy consumption. And I’m fully aware of the irony(or hypocrisy, if you prefer) of being plugged in to write this comment.
63micham
January 23, 2022 at 4:03 am
😴
Zortron
January 23, 2022 at 10:20 am
How could she identify cattle as the single largest cause of methane emissions, then completely fail to recommend reducing or eliminating meat from our diets?
At the precipice of climate catastrophe, we know the meat industry is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity. And yet so many still find it unpalatable to propose the single simplest solution: stop eating meat. Insanity writ large.
kruiff
January 23, 2022 at 3:11 pm
🌎🌎⌚🌐
I remember in the 80’s and everybody being afraid of the Ozone layer, they told us we’d all die from that then as I got older, it became Global Warming, everyday you heard about the greenhouse affect and people needed to walk instead of driving cars or we’d all die from that now in the past 10 years it’s all about climate change – the narrative has shifted three times in my life…
The sun is entering a cooling cycle and we can not do anything about it.
I think the Earth is better at healing itself than any money you can throw at it.
Thomas Clark
January 23, 2022 at 4:31 pm
The root cause of “climate change” is too many humans.
Pavel Kushnirchuk
January 23, 2022 at 10:19 pm
Climate change is not related to human activity. It’s a cyclic process. Ask geologists. Many so-called “scientists” try to persuade us that human activity is the cause of climate change, but it is simply the way to start a new, VERY BIG business. These “scientists” have been “fighting” with CO2 for about 40 years, spending billions of dollars every year, but we don’t see any results. And now they say that they should spend again billion dollars for “fighting” with methane. Guess who pays for all this s…t ? We pay for that. Buy the way. Do you know that there are CO2 quotes that can be sold and bought, like currency?
If you want to know the truth about climate change you can watch the conference “Global Crisis. Time for Truth”
Harshraj Rathore
January 23, 2022 at 11:10 pm
Methane? Who’d have thought?
daniel qu
January 24, 2022 at 12:59 am
good talk, am i the only one hear Janice in my head? the resemblance is just uncanny, “ohhhh myyy god! “