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@Mr38thstreet
May 9, 2025 at 11:35 am
I thought the problem was not so much detecting methane leaks from the earth but actually plugging the leaks. There are so many sources of methane coming out of old wells etc. that that to physically stop all or most of the leaks is simply mind boggling! I hope I’m wrong on this. The estimate cost of plugging orphan wells in the US alone is estimated 271 billion dollars. In todays political climate who will pay for this? That’s the hold up, not detection. i’m very pessimistic that this will happen.
@rickymead5282
May 9, 2025 at 11:39 am
We don’t need to lower the temperature. We need a warmer earth
@brownmims2311
May 9, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Sounds like something an alien reptile man from the hollow earth would say.
@chocomalk
May 9, 2025 at 11:44 am
So the solution is to hold corporations accountable?
Who would have thought????
@miguel5785
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 pm
How to account for externalities is not easy, though. Fortunately we increasingly have more data.
@benchang1022
May 9, 2025 at 11:44 am
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your cloths.
@NirvanaFan5000
May 9, 2025 at 12:24 pm
all industries with potential to pollute should have to put a down payment and regular payments toward clean-up funds.
@marcoguerra2453
May 9, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Noooooo, they should shut down immediately.
@Chud-p2t
May 9, 2025 at 4:41 pm
@@marcoguerra2453Right but then there’s reality
@m10h30T4Beoeo-v
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 pm
After this video, we decided that laughter was the best way to start the evening. Now we have a tradition👅
@m10h30T4Chieueu-k
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Thank you for the variety of topics in your videos. Your ideas are always relevant and interesting.🍻🚕🖕
@AnotherGlenn
May 9, 2025 at 12:47 pm
The concern of the elites is population growth, not climate. We need to make your lives as difficult as possible because CLIMATE. This is the same BS that past civilizations had to deal with from the top family. The gods are angry, the sky is falling, the volcano needs your baby.
@pter518
May 9, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let’s get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta’aurc. From what I can gather, he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank just outside of Rubicon. He’s well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.
@andycordy5190
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 pm
This sounds very hopeful in principle but with industry a millions of domestic users depending on gas for the foreseeable future, a crisis of supply can upset anything. Any reduction is welcome but experience shows that the fossil fuel suppliers and their stakeholders are not to be trusted.
@kurtilein3
May 9, 2025 at 3:09 pm
This is about unburned methane.
@peterdollins3610
May 9, 2025 at 1:53 pm
Pretty neat. Keep on such paths.
@vipstarizm6990
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 pm
Now stop 9 billion people from farting
@Kobe-yf7so
May 9, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Leave all the fridge doors open
@AztekM1
May 9, 2025 at 3:58 pm
Bien dicho!
@d3j4v00
May 9, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Now that we’ve made our money gaming carbon credits, let’s make methane credits!
@HakuCell
May 9, 2025 at 5:14 pm
why did he not talk about the beef and dairy industries? i think they emit a lot of methane.
@rickrys2729
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Great talk. Satellite monitoring from TROPOMI, GHGSat, and MethaneSAT have dramatically pinpointed examples of leaks, flaring, and intentional venting.
@prasanthimatharu6150
May 9, 2025 at 6:54 pm
Gees… I was enjoying the onset of summer and a few slightly warmer and sunnier days. That video title is very off putting after enduring several months of cold winter 😂.
@stevenwilgus5422
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 pm
This is a super presentation. However, the single fly in the ointment has always been the same bug. There are some among us that love to cause trouble and create drama for their simple entertainment. They don’t enjoy harmony. They want to break things, for the thrill of having been heard. That is the Shadow in Carl Jung’s analysis of the human condition.
@THEOneAndOnlyDOCTORofHUMANICS
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm
TED is all about “business-as-usual” shallow ecology…OK.
At least I can take that goal (TED-talk) OFF of my limited list of honourable goals now!
TED, let me know when you have the courage to EXPLAIN why THIS TITLE was chosen!
Shame on YOU!
Professor-Marty.
@THEOneAndOnlyDOCTORofHUMANICS
May 9, 2025 at 8:04 pm
Indeed, what this dude (and obviously TED) does not get, is that to REALLY lower the Earth’s temperature, he/they would not move their family for applying his scientific knowledge for capitalistic aspiration in another part of the world, but he/they, should not even have families in the first place!
Professor-Marty.
@robertducharme1573
May 9, 2025 at 8:51 pm
The following describes a possible solution to global warming and ocean acidification caused by CO2A Climate Remediation Suggestion to reduce global warming and reduce ocean acidification. Interestingly it would cost so little that it could easily be undertaken by Mexico itself,
There is a lot of discussion and no full agreement about Global Warming, whether it really exists, how serious a threat and the role of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. However, the following is generally agreed. Namely that a lot of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution and a lot of it has ended up in solution in sea waters. There is at least 150 times as much CO2 in a cubic meter of sea water as there is in a cubic meter of atmosphere at STP. This is acidifying the sea waters and possibly harming Coral Reefs and other fauna. There has also been some agreement that the Temperature of the Earth has warmed somewhat.
The Earth’s rotation and the Coriolis Effect has formed several Tropical/Semi-Tropical Oceanic Gyres,(google “Oceanic Currents” and “Oceanic Gyres”} within which the mass of sea water is rotating, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anything floating, i.e., less dense than sea water tends to float towards the center of the Gyre. There are five main Gyres all of which are Tropical/Semitropical. They are the North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, North Atlantic, and South Atlantic Oceans. Together they form a very large proportion of the 70% of the Earth’s surface which is covered by water.
The North Pacific Gyre has a lot of floating debris, “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, some of it being debris washed off Japan by tsunamis following the recent Fukushima Earthquake. The Southern Hemisphere Gyres do not appear to contain much floating debris.
The North Atlantic Gyre is unique. It contains the Sargasso Sea which is characterized by the presence of two species of Sargassum which float by virtue of oxygen-filled follicles. It was discovered (first documented) by Columbus from his voyage in 1492. There is a Sargasso Sea Commission, with an Office in Washington DC, which is charged with protecting the Sargasso Sea from pollution etc. There is a website that basically describes all of the positive ecological values of the Sea.
Since 2011 the Sargassum appears to be overflowing from the Sargasso Sea and moving via the west bound currents across the north coast of South America into the Caribbean and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico. This has been attributed to agricultural run off from the USA or Brazil but might be due to the increased levels of CO2 in solution in the sea water.
It has been washing up on beaches through out this region, as one might expect to happen. When it dies and rots it emits H2S. Since a lot of these beaches have tourism as their main industry, the weed has to be removed manually which has given Sargassum a bad name. There are several Facebook entities that keep track of Sargassum landings and there are frequent postings enquiring about Sargassum occurrence on specific tourist areas.
The occurrence of Sargassum in the Caribbean would, however, make it very easy to put live Sargassum into the Pacific off the west coast of Mexico. Modify a few shipping containers, catch live Sargassum from the Caribbean, truck it across Mexico, and place it in the west bound currents of the Pacific Ocean. From there the currents would carry it all the way across the Pacific, photosynthesizing and growing all the way absorbing a lot of CO2 and heat energy, (photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction). Absorbing CO2 from the Ocean would allow more CO2 from the Atmosphere to dissolve in the sea as well as reducing the amount of acidification. The Sargassum would probably stay in the North Pacific Gyre but some might drift into the South Pacific.
One might balk at the idea of covering a lot of the Oceans with Sargassum but it does have uses. It can be used to make ethanol, paper or cardboard. Some one in the Caribbean is making construction bricks from it and others are feeding it to goats.
If there appears to be some benefit from Pacific Sargassum we could easily add Sargassum to the other Gyres using ships that are transiting the Panama Canal. It seems likely that some Sargassum will eventually get into the South Atlantic Gyre, but that may take a while.
Robert O Ducharme PhD, MSc, BA (Oxon)
(rodincus@aol.com).
@GuyLakeman
May 9, 2025 at 9:22 pm
OBVIOUS !!! TURN OFF THE HEATING !!!! IT IS NOT THE BLANKET
@anonablous
May 9, 2025 at 9:28 pm
and MEANWHILE, the maga clowns are stopping all monitoring of climate related disaster costs in the u.s. ….. good luck !
@DustinTisid
May 9, 2025 at 11:39 pm
Wow, another Al Gore, telling the world to cut methane instead of CO2, but providing no practical method to provide continued support for our way of life. The answer to global warming is to address every part of the system that traps excess heat and stopping unnecessary energy use every way we can. To do that we need to shut down the high voltage transmission part of the grid and use local energy generators fuelled with biogas and renewables like wind and solar. This addresses methane emissions from agriculture and landfill, fugitive emissions from mining, and will cut the steam and other emissions from all the mass power generators. Utilising the car engine as a DC generator that can power any modern type of home, makes the entire system of renewables reliable, as it solves the problem of intermittency and the cost of rare earth minerals, and only uses fuel where and when it is needed. This is how we reduce energy use to .2 of 1 percent as you quoted, but I don’t think you have a clue how that figure was derived.
@Newstatejournal1
May 10, 2025 at 12:32 am
Bring it to Southern California!
@Adrian53058
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 am
And….what’s going to be done of the potential gigatons of greenhouse gases that could find itself in the atmosphere with the thawing of permafrost?
@mikeharrington5593
May 10, 2025 at 2:21 am
True, but permafrost GHgas emissions can be limited if we can halt the rise in global warming – and by drastically reducing human generated industrial methane emissions this will be a significant contribution to achieving this.
@someguy2135
May 10, 2025 at 3:04 am
All the more reason to follow the advice of the speaker for the video we just watched. He briefly mentioned agriculture and landfills as a source of methane. Agriculture is the number one source of methane in the United States according to the EPA. The number one source of methane within the agricultural category is animal agriculture, especially raising cows and sheep. They not only produce methane but they also produce an even more powerful greenhouse gas. Nitrous oxide is almost 300 times more powerful than CO2!
@Adrian53058
May 10, 2025 at 3:08 am
@mikeharrington5593 Even if the human race becomes carbon neutral ( net emissions as 0), the additional heat absorbed due to already emitted ghg will still continue affecting the global climate system. The permafrost and ice cover has already startes thawing/melting, the former could trigger a feedback mechanism that makes it’s effect even more worse. The latter too, will trigger a feedback loop due to decreased albedo.
I’m not saying it won’t help, but it’s like providing humanitarian aid in a conflict zone without addressing the cause of the conflict itself.
I view it more as a social issue, than anything else. The current system we have has always run on the presumption that it can continue externalizing the harmful effects while extracting “profits” and that’s the system’s raison d’être, to keep extracting and funneling capital.
@andrewpaterson5192
May 10, 2025 at 1:39 am
Agricultural methane should also be observed using using MethaneSAT. There are also natural methane seeps.
@someguy2135
May 10, 2025 at 2:56 am
Methane from agriculture is almost completely due to raising cattle. Simply ending that aspect of animal agriculture would make a huge difference in terms of methane as well as an even more powerful greenhouse gas that they produce. Nitrous oxide is almost 300 times more powerful!
@sharonyoxall7553
May 10, 2025 at 1:43 am
I have been waiting for this! In Australia’s North West, massive extraction of gas & permits to drill in pristine environments goes on unabated, with associated emissions. There is greenwashing going with carbon capture & storage, & our governments are addicted to the revenues – so they let it slide. Meanwhile we are sorting our rubbish like it achieves something, & also paying for that! 👏👏👏👏
@mikeharrington5593
May 10, 2025 at 2:15 am
Reducing methane emissions is certainly the “low hanging fruit” in combating the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions.
@someguy2135
May 10, 2025 at 2:58 am
And the low hanging fruit of reducing methane would be to end the practice of raising cows for food. Cows not only produce methane but also nitrous oxide which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas compared to methane!
@someguy2135
May 10, 2025 at 3:07 am
According to the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States, the number one source of methane emissions in the US is agriculture. That methane is almost completely due to raising ruminants like cows and sheep.
@someguy2135
May 10, 2025 at 3:08 am
Cows and sheep produce not only methane but a much more powerful greenhouse gas as well. Nitrous oxide is close to 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide!
@zeroviro
May 10, 2025 at 4:23 am
A brilliant call from a Chemical Engineer — science, policy, and technology aligning to make a real dent in climate change. Let’s hope the world listens and work together to reduce the global consumption of fossil fuels! High time to work on Hydrogen economy
@phyliciajoykloes
May 10, 2025 at 4:51 am
That’s a step in the right rirection! Thank you for sharing
@urbanstrencan
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 am
Great video and interesting topic covered so Important for our future
@ronkirk5099
May 10, 2025 at 10:43 am
I was raised in So. Cal. during the 50s and 60s when we had some of the worst air pollution in the country. Thankfully the state took the lead in setting air quality standards and helped to get the lead out of gasoline and establish much tougher pollution standards for vehicles and industries. Fun fact – If methane leakage from wellhead to end user is > than ~4%, it is worse than coal in its effect on greenhouse warming and actual measured leakage is much higher than that.
@LWRC
May 10, 2025 at 10:58 am
@2:20 solutons are extremely simple and not expensive at all once you know where the leaks are coming from!
Unfortunately, methane leaks from oil refineries are insignificant compared to methane from melting of the permafrost around the globe!
So the EU will not buy any consumer products if their insane methane emissions regulatiins are not met by manufacturers of consumer products??!! Good, let’s see when all of Europe spiral back into the dark ages and make their lives worse than 100 yrars ago! Does anyone think the production of battery cars is emissions free?!! Even from methane??!!!
@LWRC
May 10, 2025 at 11:03 am
Cutting methane emissions is important but by building battery cars and trucks is not green and will not help!
Human activity require fossil fuels and that’s not going to change in the next 100 years! So what you are proposing, via the EU standard of methane emissions, is to make lives more difficult and 100X more expensive! That’s not going to happen!
@LWRC
May 10, 2025 at 11:05 am
Here in the US there is already tremendous blowback against battery cars, which is not green, as they are being forced down everyone’s throats whether we want them or not. The cost of living will be astronomical if this is implemented globally!
@EcoKiwiMagazine
May 10, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Many more people live beyond the bullshit mediasphere you’re suffocating within while trapped there in the USA.
We pity you.
No one else believes the lies you’re fed by your own fossil fuel industry funded media.
You’re a fly trapped within a local spider web and you’d never flown much further afield so now you think the world is only what you can see there.
Sad.
@LWRC
May 10, 2025 at 11:07 am
The biggest contributor to global warming is methane hydrates which he completely missed!!!
@JimmyD806
May 10, 2025 at 2:26 pm
There’s methane hydrates on the sun? GASP!
@bartroberts1514
May 10, 2025 at 11:23 am
Before we can understand which of the high impact Geologically-sourced GHGs (GeoghG) reductions are priorities, it’s best to understand the faulty structure of GWP-100 vs. GWP-20 vs. GWP-10 analyses. GWP-100, the standard measure of GeoghG Warming Potential, pretends emissions stop on Day Zero, and looks at the impact for 100 years. GWP-20 does the same for a two decade period. However, only at GWP-10 do we see the maximum cumulative contribution of all GeoghGs, and that’s where we see the benefit of reducing CH4 first.
But that’s faulty, too. When the timeframe moves from ten years to ten weeks, we see N2O comes to dominate, and by far. N2O is emitted somewhere in the world more frequently than every ten weeks. This makes N2O our priority, then CH4, then CO2. There are a host of other GHGs, from H2 to NOx to PM2.5s and HFCs, also candidates for such analyses.
@zaido2823
May 10, 2025 at 2:10 pm
yep we must stop methane leakages in oil and gas production (so we must stop shale gas production which makes uncontrolable leakages along cracks made do extract the methane…),
But he avoids a lot of things :
– First, CO2 is emitted in quantities important enough to warm the climate way more than CH4, even if the proportion of methane emissions is really significant.
– Secondly, Methane reacts in the atmosphere in several decades, so its global warming power is 30 times the one of CO2 over 100 years, but it is lower than that over a longer period (and higher over a shorter period).
– Third, methane emissions come for a greater part from breeding, especially cows and sheeps. Deforestation is also caused by breeding, directly or indirectly. So I let you know what we can do to lower methane emissions.
@drdjnorg
May 10, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Lower the earth’s temperature not discussed or quantified, just vague assertions that monitoring methane will help. Just bollox.
@seanrodgers1839
May 10, 2025 at 3:34 pm
The half-life of methane is 12 years. So stop producing it, and it quickly disappears.
In the long run CO2 _is_ more significant because it lasts forever, or until removed by plants.
@JimmyD806
May 10, 2025 at 4:49 pm
What does ACTUAL physics say about methane?
Methane has 4 IR peaks:
7.65um (1306 cm-1)
6.51um (1534 cm-1)
3.42um (2917 cm-1)
3.31um (3019 cm-1)
All of those modes are Raman active while only the 7.65um and 3.31um modes are IR active. Those 2 modes are also triply degenerate. The 6.51um mode is doubly degenerate, while the 3.42um mode is a single.
Since all the modes are Raman active, the molecule is a very poor emitter of IR.
What does Boltzmann say about energy levels at 288K?
For the 7.65um transition,
exp(-15623/288 * 8.3145) x 3 = 0.44%
For the 6.51um transition,
exp(-18350/288 * 8.3145) x 2 = 0.094%
For the 3.42um transition,
exp(-34895/288 * 8.3145) = 0.000047%
For the 3.31um transition,
exp(-36115/288 * 8.3145) x 3 = 0.000084%
So, the most populated band is the 7.65um band with only 0.44% of the molecules above vibrational ground state at 288K. ( Average surface temp)
Looking at the 3.42um transition which is only Raman active and comparing it to the 3.31um transition, you notice they have similar energy levels even though the 3.42um transition isn’t gaining any energy from IR absorption. Using nonlinear interpolation, you find that only 0.00002% of the molecules are above vibrational ground state from IR absorption. The majority of the energy is being gained via collisional excitation.
So, not only is the molecule a very poor emitter of IR, it’s also a very poor absorber of IR. In conclusion, methane IS NOT a powerful greenhouse gas.
@christoffussenegger9377
May 10, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Very good approach to slow global warming!
@JimmyD806
May 10, 2025 at 6:19 pm
😂😅
@rand_longevity
May 10, 2025 at 8:24 pm
sounds like an awful idea
@tintinmars4661
May 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Are you people INSANE !!! Whats wrong with Earths climate ? NOTHING. Nothing at all. We live in the best of time in an interglacial period following a cool Little Ice Age that ended around 1850. It will get cooler again around 2050. Nothing unsual here, its always been like that. So enjoy this little moment of warm times while its here.
Oh …Co2 is NOT a pollutant, its plant food .we need more of it. The Earth as been greening a lot in the last 40 years thanks to an increased in Co2. WHats wrong with that ? Nothing, nothing at all .
@bradmiller6507
May 10, 2025 at 9:22 pm
And the big corporations will just buy up politicians and ensure that no actual solution is ever acted on.
@SW-dq1nd
May 11, 2025 at 11:30 am
i’m embarrassed for my nation, USA. EU putting their foot down and refusing to import oil and gas from those not reducing emissions took, for lack of a better word, gumption. And dedication. If our 2 political parties which own our political landscape ever become reasonable again, as they have both gone utterly over the edge of sanity, we might be able to catch up to the rest of the world.
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:18 pm
You want to see a truly Mad Max world? Just end fossil fuels.
@robertkat
May 11, 2025 at 12:02 pm
Start with India. Now it is 42 degrees Celsius there. One of the worst polluting countries.
@seandalton2580
May 11, 2025 at 12:43 pm
This is just pissing into the wind now. The game is already lost. Most people with children are just incapable of accepting this reality.
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:17 pm
The game isn’t even close to being lost. Data proves that humanity has never been safer, healthier or more prosperous than at any time in history, by any metric you care to examine.
@pkendall3
May 11, 2025 at 12:45 pm
👍We also should be addressing nitrous oxide emissions within agricultural industries
@jpelton9919
May 11, 2025 at 12:49 pm
Click bait title. Downvoted.
@pawelkrol6547
May 11, 2025 at 12:54 pm
Animal agriculture is the real elephant in the room when talking about methane emissions and its impact on the climate change. Speaking of the methane pollution from the oil and gas industry while completely ignoring methane coming from animal agriculture is an ultimate hypocrisy of this kind of people who pretend to solve problems when in reality they do more harm than good.
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:16 pm
So when we stop eating cows should we slaughter them all? Just because we’re not eating them, doesn’t mean they won’t produce methane.
@CleanTitans
May 11, 2025 at 12:55 pm
Happy Mothers Day to all mothers including our ultimate mother Earth 🌎🌍🌏🌐
@Bob-p2q9q
May 11, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Where i live we had record snow fall,we sometimes when get a dusting every 10 years or so,this year we got 10inches
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:14 pm
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” —Dr. David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, The Independent, Mar. 20, 2000. These “children” are now adults.
@ThePapawhisky
May 11, 2025 at 1:49 pm
Sadly we can expect the tRump misadministration to cut funding to UN agencies that detect and report on greenhouse gases.
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:12 pm
These UN “agencies” are nothing but billion dollar bureaucratic entities. The IPCC is in a conflict of interest. It is virtually paid to spew catastrophic climate rhetoric. All of it’s funding is predicated on shrieking about a climate “crisis”. No crisis, no funding and no IPCC.
@anthonymorris5084
May 11, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Absurd. The best way to keep people safe from all aspects of climate, or any kind of disaster is to lift people out of poverty. This is vastly easier than the ridiculous notion of lowering the Earth’s temp..
@SharonWilson-zn7ym
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 pm
The sad truth is that so far there has been no accountability due to the satellites. Even when they alert the US about repeat offenders, not action is taken.
@gcvrsa
May 11, 2025 at 2:38 pm
No one is going to be shocked when all those companies fail to meet their “pledges”. What is wrong with this world is that we regard profit as a valid reason not to invest in emissions reductions. If you can’t make the case that monitoring pollution is a net cost savings to petroleum producers, they are simply going to ignore these problems, and because petroleum equals power, governments will simply look the other way.
@procurement3681
May 11, 2025 at 2:48 pm
Lower temperatures? Surely slowing the temp increase is what’s actually on the table.
@rolandgo6744
May 11, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Another pathetic speech to stop a burning planet. It’s like tossing a glass of water to a burning house.
@XAirForcedotcom
May 11, 2025 at 4:28 pm
I’ve got it covered. I just ordered 2 trillion glasses of ice through DoorDash and I’m having it delivered to the poles 😂
@XAirForcedotcom
May 11, 2025 at 4:31 pm
Since I don’t really have to guess if you’ve ever met Claudia, tell her I said hello
@XAirForcedotcom
May 11, 2025 at 4:34 pm
We need to write a universal constitution and then unify the world. I just asked AI about our trajectory and it said we go more than likely not be here by 2070 for multiple reasons to include the environment. This is within your children’s lifetime.
@jasonmudge5027
May 11, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Cattle for the beef and dairy industry are huge producers of methane, reducing that should be low hanging fruit, you just need a plant-based diet
@rogerzimmerman304
May 11, 2025 at 5:09 pm
This is a misleading video, methane breaks down in the atmosphere in 12 years while CO2 stays stable in the atmosphere for centuries contributing to GHGs. Replacing coal power with natural gas power will reduce GHGs by 50%. EVs are replacing ICE vehicles rapidly. We just need policies to support clean energy and it will be better in all ways, rather than crippling the oil industry prematurely.
@malc.s.5373
May 11, 2025 at 5:41 pm
What a bizzarre tedx.. thank you wef.
@ThatOneScienceGuy
May 11, 2025 at 6:26 pm
“Smart policy and data.” Two things MAGA doesn’t believe in, sadly.
@aquejuegas
May 11, 2025 at 7:37 pm
During these 9min you haven’t explained a basic thing to the general public: oil & gas companies can trade their products with and without methane emissions, right? So what’s the difference between one way and the other? How easy is it to accomplish? That’s the main thing missing from this speech for me.
@samirayassamani300
May 11, 2025 at 8:31 pm
This was super interesting and well conveyed!
@peterclark6290
May 11, 2025 at 8:36 pm
To stabilise Earth’s ‘temperature’ (whatever that even means) what has to happen is every Government has to adopt a land-management policy based on Regenerative Agriculture to restore the natural hydrological cycles, a key component of regulating heat. It has to be Agriculture-based to be self-funding but it is also of use in publicly-owned lands. Eliminating every hot desert is the primary goal as each of these is a result of human ignorance, Nature does not make them. Regen has 5 easy to understand basic principles, works anywhere plants can grow, and its Scientists have a suite of augmentations for the ambitious or the impatient to accelerate the recovery of the soil, then the plants.
@donkorte80
May 11, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Most efficient way to lower the earths temperature is above ground testing…something short of a nuclear winter…
@cht2162
May 11, 2025 at 9:13 pm
COWS – COWS – Anything that farts, even people………Methane
@julianengel492
May 12, 2025 at 4:00 am
The title is not really matching the talk
@reality-cheque
May 12, 2025 at 4:15 am
Why would you want to LOWER the Earth’s temperature?
“Today we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on Earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial to humans and the majority of other species…a warmer temperature than today’s would be far better than a cooler one”
“We had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times than they are today. There is no scientific proof that human emissions of CO2 are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years [and this] fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming”.
Dr Patrick Moore, Environmental Scientist and Co-founder of Greenpeace
@TheBostricano
May 12, 2025 at 6:33 am
Sure😂
@tofu6433
May 12, 2025 at 4:24 am
Even simplistic. Stop eating cows and drinking milk. It also reduces land clearing. SIMPLE and every individual person can make that change and not wait for government or business to change first.
@reality-cheque
May 12, 2025 at 4:25 am
These guys need to catch up with the science and established data. In the last 200 years, the Earth’s air temperature has seen a measured increase of 1.8C (0.09C per decade – Oxford Radcliffe Observatory).
A recent AI analysis of measured climate data has concluded that this has been caused by the Earth’s slightly closer (+3%) orbit to the Sun which will continue for 200 to 300 years. The AI conclusion is that human emissions have zero affect on the climate.
@schrbtschtaeter3367
May 12, 2025 at 4:32 am
Another reason why Trump and other fascists want to weaken the EU. Stay strong, Europe! ✊️
@glennhowlett2082
May 12, 2025 at 4:45 am
Why are and is lowering temperatures a good thing?
@radueftodie4774
May 12, 2025 at 4:59 am
Its not best way to lower t.°, its an way to stop fast up t. Best way is to make forests
@surajpoudel3215
May 12, 2025 at 5:05 am
talks about methane and doesn’t talk about animal agriculture which makes no sense.
@THG_101
May 12, 2025 at 7:19 am
I’m concerned that all of this action will pale in comparison to massive methane releases due to melting permafrost etc.
@joskoevoet9569
May 12, 2025 at 8:02 am
Thank you for your work !
@HarionDafar
May 12, 2025 at 8:03 am
We have to HURRY!!! It hasn’t rained in Germany for weeks and the forecast shows no rain at all. I mean, sure, we deserve it. We pushed climate change as much as possible and most people rather go by car to buy their fucking bread. But nature does not deserve it ;(
@EmanuelMartinezVazquez
May 12, 2025 at 8:39 am
Thanks for sharing, I do wish these videos could also share action items we can all do to make a difference as well.
@sloanNYC
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 am
Even if we cancel all methane emissions we ALSO need to address CO2. We have to do both. We have the technology to do it today, we just don’t have the political will.
@beaub152
May 12, 2025 at 10:24 am
Glad to see a fellow chem e able to make change and do what he wants! I hope that I can do something as impactful as him someday.
@curmudgeon-v9o
May 12, 2025 at 11:12 am
Reducing methane emissions is great and will help to slow down global warming as stated. BUT, overall emissions and warming are caused by consumption. As we continue to consume more and more, energy must be used to make and transport those goods and to transport us. Emissions will continue, bringing about continued warming, resource depletion, ecological destruction and species extinction. If we are going to reduce and reverse warming we must greatly reduce consumption. Will we do that?
@fiatprefect
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 pm
Hot air won’t solve global warming!
@danielnelson-2121
May 12, 2025 at 12:56 pm
8:19 says the guy who uses oil to shine up his hair.
@Renatus_Eruditus
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 pm
What a failure of a TED Talk 😫
Was this talk made 20 years ago? Because that’s how outdated it sounds. Old, tired, fruitless solutions that everyone watched fail miserably, one country at a time.
Second one in a row! I’m sad to see TED has fallen from the heights it once stood upon
@rudigereichler4112
May 12, 2025 at 1:41 pm
That will also lead to climate change, worse climate change because a colder climate has never been beneficial.
@Loraine2030
May 12, 2025 at 1:48 pm
This is great news, thank you! This talk needs go far and wide. Very inspiring. 👏👏🎉👍👌🕺💃🌿🍀🌷🍁🍄
@johngage5391
May 12, 2025 at 1:53 pm
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@believeinpeace
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Thank you
@NeilCebara
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 pm
Hopefully MethaneSat will also reveal the Methane from permafrost melting and Undersea clathrates too.
@Lord.Kiltridge
May 12, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Government should represent people and future generations. It should not be influenced mu capitalists whining about reduced profits. After all, what is the point of sacrificing a healthy environment for an economy that can’t exist without a healthy environment?
@MrAshuchauhan
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 pm
Sounds propaganda video