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@Welcome-421
February 2, 2024 at 11:25 am
“I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I’ve been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can’t tell the children that there is no hope.” *— James Baldwin*
@joeythechin8870
February 2, 2024 at 11:25 am
Since ONLY GOD controls the Climate, Call Him and ask him for His permission to spend MORE MONEY ON YOUR HOAX!!!
@jonathanedwardgibson
February 2, 2024 at 11:26 am
Judging by middle-ages vineyards found in Iceland, it’s easy to say we have no actual control over Hot + Cold and never did. Maybe this person can finally define the spectrum that goes from Weather on one side and Climate on the end: what is the tipping point defining Climate Change? They never do it. They cannot define it. It’s made-up.
The growing costs of her floods is both failed-economy costs with relaxed flood-plain rules and other marginal lands built up since the ‘good’ land was taken. Yawn.
@brmadden895
February 2, 2024 at 8:08 pm
“Weather” is what is happening right now. “Climate” refers to average weather conditions over many (typically 15 +) years. “What was the average temperature today in New York City?” is a weather question. “What is the average temperature in February in New York City?” is a climate question. Another climate question would be “What is the average temperature of the planet Earth?” It’s around 59 degrees Fahrenheit, or 15 degrees Celsius, and it has been remarkably consistent for the last ~11,000 years according to geologic records. That average global temperature is what’s increasing.
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 2, 2024 at 11:29 am
“لم نواجه أبدا المجاعة أو الجوع.
لدينا نظام دعم رائع بيننا. كانت والدتي تطهو لجيراننا قبل إطعامنا.
لم نر من قبل ما نمر به في غزة. المسؤولون عن هذا الوضع يجب أن يواجهوا العدالة”.
السفير الفلسطيني رياض منصور يغالب دموعه وهو يتحدث أمام لجنة أممية عن غزة.
😊
🙏🏻
@Ruby_Villain
February 2, 2024 at 6:17 pm
I feel for the people, but their government created this for their own people, their own government is responsible
@Ghostburn70
February 2, 2024 at 11:29 am
Don’t buy or build real estate in places that are subject to natures wrath ….
Is it clinate change or population growth ?
Midwest is looking real good 😂🎉
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 2, 2024 at 11:30 am
المندوب الإسرائيلي يؤكد أمام مجلس الأمن الالتزام بسيادة القانون.
وحول القضية المطروحة أمام محكمة_العدل_الدولية قال:
“القضية مازالت قيد النظر. في هذه المرحلة الحالية لم تؤكد المحكمة أن إسرائيل انتهكت أيا من التزاماتها بموجب اتفاقية الإبادة الجماعية”.
😊
🙏🏻
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 2, 2024 at 11:30 am
“محاولة توجيه تهمة الإبادة الجماعية ضد إسرائيل هي تشويه شائن لاتفاقية الإبادة الجماعية ومحاولة لتفريغ الكلمة من قوتها الفريدة ومعناها الخاص وتحويل الاتفاقية إلى أداة للإرهابيين الذين يزدرون الحياة والقانون”.
بريت جوناثان ميللر نائب السفير الإسرائيلي.
😊
🙏🏻
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 2, 2024 at 11:31 am
فلسطين 🇵🇸
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“الموت والدمار والتشريد والجوع في غزة على مدى الأيام الـ120 يوما الماضية، ندبة على إنسانيتنا وضميرنا المشتركين”.
— أمين عام الأمم المتحدة يبدي القلق إزاء الظروف غير الإنسانية التي يواجهها سكان غزة ويؤكد أن الأونروا هي العمود الفقري للجهود الإنسانية
😊
🙏🏻
@rich6485
February 2, 2024 at 11:32 am
We need to stop worrying about racism and controlling the weather and focus on the micro plastics in the food supply.
@dj.h7424
February 2, 2024 at 11:45 am
It is possible to be concerned about more than one issue at once!
@rich6485
February 2, 2024 at 11:54 am
@dj.h7424 muh racism is taking us backwards.
@jordanvaughn4113
February 3, 2024 at 9:25 am
@@rich6485talking about racism brings awareness to people who don’t realize how much it impacts us.
@Kismet-1001Nights
February 2, 2024 at 11:33 am
“يجب أن يكون 2024 عاما لإعادة بناء الثقة واستعادة الأمل. يجب أن نمد جسور التلاقي فوق الانقسامات للتوصل إلى حلول مشتركة. ستواصل الأمم المتحدة حشد العالم من أجل السلام والتنمية المستدامة وحقوق الإنسان”.
— الأمين العام يوجه رسالة مصورة بمناسبة العام الجديد
😊
🙏🏻
@BodhiJack
February 2, 2024 at 11:33 am
A hundred year flood? And what about the thousands of years prior when records were not kept? Climate change fanatics, especially social workers pretending to be experts, are laughable.
@zakw4540
February 2, 2024 at 11:34 am
Today’s the hottest sea surface temperatures ever recorded. Business as usual ecomodernism, like the kind promoted by Laprisha are enabling the end of the human race.
@tacsquirrel
February 3, 2024 at 3:49 am
“Ever recorded”. We don’t have enough data to make a determination.
@jordanvaughn4113
February 3, 2024 at 9:23 am
Business that promote saving the Earth and stoping big business like marathon and other industry are killing the Earth???? 🤔 hmmm
@maxhi88
February 2, 2024 at 11:35 am
The climate is cyclical.
@samuelzev4076
February 3, 2024 at 7:52 am
True but it’s cyclically normal if it occurs between 10,000 to 100,000 years and not less than a century or decade. I think you slept through science class 🤨
@maxhi88
February 3, 2024 at 8:24 am
@@samuelzev4076 🤦♂️🤡
@AyuCell-Intan
February 2, 2024 at 11:36 am
❤smile like you’ve never cried, re-open your heart and mind like you’ve never been hurt, and live the rest of your life like you’re running out of time…😊
@AyuCell-Intan
February 2, 2024 at 11:36 am
The Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality. ‘He sees too deep and too much,’ and what he sees is essentially chaos. He is the one man who knows he is sick in a civilization that doesn’t know it is sick. —Colin Wilson
*• Book:* The Outsider
@BillyTheKidCENTURION
February 3, 2024 at 4:50 am
What you wrote or quoted, is nether profound, nor inspirational, there is no “Climate Crisis”
@meanderinoranges
February 2, 2024 at 11:54 am
Weather is not climate.
@Ruby_Villain
February 2, 2024 at 6:13 pm
But climate is power, apparently
@305dave
February 2, 2024 at 11:58 am
I always enjoy good stand up comedy 🤣👍🏾
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:09 pm
TED😅
_Our world far too important_
_and the time to ACT is NOW_ 😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:10 pm
TED…😅
Save our planet🌍
”we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to” -why?😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
*😅Why the Paris agreement is so vital?*
After decades of torturous negotiations and bitter disappointment at the UN COP climate talks, the hard-won 2015 Paris agreement was a major diplomatic breakthrough. Achieved with rare consensus, it has huge legitimacy. That’s what makes it powerful. It sets the standard for all nations to follow …😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:13 pm
*😅So what did it do?*
It introduced a new global norm: achieving net-zero. Countries agreed to keep the world’s heating “well below 2℃ […] and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5℃”.
To get there, the globe must achieve net zero emissions by around mid-century. All countries need to set national targets to cut emissions and strengthen them every five years. Since 2015, well over 100 countries have pledged to achieve net zero. These countries represent more than 90% of the global economy …😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:14 pm
😅The pledges made in Paris and afterwards are beginning to drive faster change. In the five years to 2020, global clean energy investment grew by 2%. Since 2020, the pace of growth has accelerated significantly to 12% a year. The International Energy Agency (IEA) now expects global fossil fuel use to peak this decade, before the world economy switches irreversibly to clean energy.
At present, the transition is not happening fast enough. But it is happening. And there’s no turning back …😅
Here are six encouraging trends to watch in 2023 …😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:15 pm
1— G7 economies will form a ‘climate club’
In December, the G7 grouping of the world’s richest democracies agreed to form a “climate club”. Conceived by Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus, the club is an arrangement where countries develop common standards for climate ambition and share benefits among club members. The club will focus first on decarbonisation of industries such as steelmaking …😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:16 pm
2— New carbon tariffs will be introduced in the EU
To avoid the problem of European companies becoming less competitive with companies from nations without a carbon price, EU nations agreed in December to bring in carbon tariffs.
That means imports from countries without an adequate carbon price will be taxed. It also means European companies can’t offshore production to avoid the carbon price.
This is just the tip of the spear, with other rich nations like Canada looking to follow suit. Over time, these tariffs will have a ripple effect, forcing countries reliant on exporting to these markets to move faster toward decarbonisation …😅
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:16 pm
3— The Ukraine war boosted renewables, as nations focus on energy security
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Western nations slapped sanctions on Moscow and cut imports of Russian gas. Fossil fuel prices spiked. Bad news, right? Not so fast. The IEA says the war has actually supercharged clean energy investment by making clean energy a matter of security.
In response to Putin’s invasion, major European economies increased renewable energy targets as they moved to end reliance on Russian gas. With renewables ramping up, the EU now intends to set a stronger 2030 emissions target before the COP28 climate summit later this year …😅
@vthilton
February 2, 2024 at 12:16 pm
Save Our Planet
@MaybeYoureRight-1234
February 2, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Yes😅
@Ruby_Villain
February 2, 2024 at 6:11 pm
Save our Faith
@PT-hr2fw
February 2, 2024 at 12:43 pm
Wow! At this point, who really cares? We’re all in serious trouble. Demons are in power, imo.
@AmandaMarieBrinkley
February 2, 2024 at 1:31 pm
Don’t you think full disclosure, and our fall ETA disclosure would lead to conversations with extraterrestrials that are remarkably human that have their own planet that they take care of back somewhere else in the universe and that perhaps if they figured out how to reverse space-time moving beyond the speed of light to get here and actually be alive. Upon arrival probably means they have teleportation technology and there’s a triangle craft on the space force flag so it’s probably time that we talk about how extraterrestrials could benefit us on earth taking care of our planet better why is this not the question? How is this not obvious thought to everyone
@Ruby_Villain
February 2, 2024 at 6:10 pm
TED and it’s speakers didn’t used to worship “climate” like a golden calf. It used to be self-improvement, instead of self-flagellation over our failure to properly worship the weather gods who will sustain us and our genetically modified babies. You have regressed backwards, you’re on a downward spiral. I am disappointed, but not surprised. Everyone is doing it, so you should too, right?
@Ruby_Villain
February 2, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Anyone who says, “You know where I’m going with this,” has no business being on a TED stage. We don’t know where you are going with this… that’s why you are up there talking, so we can hear where you are going with this
@jordanvaughn4113
February 3, 2024 at 9:28 am
Welp anyone who does know where she was going with this didn’t listen to the talk all the way through.
@leviefrauim1425
February 2, 2024 at 6:34 pm
So a public health social worker is going to lecture us on climate change. Right. Another looney lefty worried about something out of the control of mankind. But don’t worry, demand that the government respond and take more of our tax dollars. That’ll help.
Not so long ago, TED actually posted good stuff- very diverse- but all they post now is this crazy leftist, victimology-based, identity politics, climate change, socialist, CRT/ BLM/ESG, woke nonsense.
@villagecpa
February 2, 2024 at 9:28 pm
I’m sorry your “media” has lied to you. Good luck controlling Earth’s climate.
@ZedGames
February 2, 2024 at 11:30 pm
community and bitcoin mining… Bitcoin mining is incentivizing and subsidizing renewable energy on top of reducing Co2 output by negating flared gas from oil companies as well as mitigating methane pollution from landfills. Bitcoin mining literally incentivizes saving the earth and not enough people are talking about it.
@TechnicalShivam-bh1hv
February 3, 2024 at 1:21 am
Absolutely Right Mam❤️❤️❤️. We have to prepare climate change. Please save the Earth🙏🙏🙏
@georgeorwellsghost3833
February 3, 2024 at 7:10 am
They are building bridges/highways through the Darien Gap…..we don’t care about saving Jungles anymore. It’s all a CON
@user-px1wd4ji6q
February 3, 2024 at 5:18 am
A word “Woking on climate change!”is very untrustworthy,cuz they do not reveal how we should do about this serious problem.
@alekseysemerenko6829
February 3, 2024 at 6:52 am
Grandmother came and told everyone the obvious things
@georgeorwellsghost3833
February 3, 2024 at 7:10 am
They are building bridges/highways through the Darien Gap…..we don’t care about saving Jungles anymore????
@GSPeacepipe
February 4, 2024 at 9:52 am
climate change” is all about power and control—dictating what people can do and micromanaging every aspect of their lives,
@user-su6qb6gx9h
February 6, 2024 at 12:02 pm
Don’t eat real blood meat = anahata ( all plant based )
@andycordy5190
February 8, 2024 at 9:12 am
Thank heavens!!!
Wonderful to hear this spelled out “Denial”
To quote Geoff Berner, responding to the floods “The rich folks are moving to the high ground.”
I think that without explicitly saying self help is better than no help, this presentation hits the nail right on the head. Prevailing economic conditions will be blamed by government, prevailing social conditions of discrimination and division by race, class, gender, physical ability (old uncle Tom Cobley and all…)
Governmental collusion with Big Oil and King Coal is not about to change, we are in denial if we don’t accept that they will drive straight on into the train wreck.
Here in the UK, pledges of funds for environmental action from ministers in government and in opposition alike have been withdrawn. Today, the news that the 1.5° threshold has been reached across the globe for a full 12 months for the first time. What does that say about governmental help in a crisis.
@gmancolo
February 9, 2024 at 11:55 pm
Grifter.