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A brief answer to one of the key questions about climate change: Why is 1.5 degrees such a big deal? (Written by Myles Allen, David Biello and George Zaidan)
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Grey Knight
October 13, 2020 at 4:29 pm
Now do entropy, Milankovitch cycles, orbital precession, the difference between high altitude and low altitude CO2, and why seasons occur because of a 23.5 degree axis tilt .
Bob Frog
October 13, 2020 at 4:31 pm
More noise from the Climate Cult of Rev. Al Bore.
James Humphries
October 13, 2020 at 4:41 pm
It’s not global warming is a scam. 50 thousand years ago the earth was 2 degrees warmer than it is today. The earth goes up and down all the time.
Arthur Fox-Aches
October 13, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Yes, but not at the current accelerated rate.
What previously happened over millennia is now happening in decades.
Ben der 2
October 13, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Hey, James. Yeah, you were right, the earth was warmer several thousand years ago. But ONLY IN SOME Parts and that means Greenland. But when you are analysing the temperature of the whole planet, then you will found out, that the earth was never this warm before, while humans lived on her
talljohn5350
October 13, 2020 at 4:58 pm
Typical alarmism that comes with no realistic solutions.
Paul
October 13, 2020 at 4:58 pm
Ya Basic!
AM Ambitious
October 13, 2020 at 5:04 pm
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John Bray
October 13, 2020 at 5:06 pm
Don’t pollute your 20 minute talk channel with these snippets
Rebecca Leeman
October 13, 2020 at 5:22 pm
Why are so many climate deniers religious fundamentalist ???
Za Az
October 13, 2020 at 6:32 pm
because they can do what they want, as long as they confess.. and that an invisible friend will save them. ::rolls eyes::
Aaron Oneal
October 13, 2020 at 5:27 pm
If you are looking for a way to help the environment you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees with their profits.
RAJPUROHITH RAGHU NADH
October 13, 2020 at 5:30 pm
Mumbai it’s true it’s hotter than delhi. The phrase is used to attract or get attention of Indian audience.
13ccasto
October 13, 2020 at 6:00 pm
#1.5ordie
C Tak
October 13, 2020 at 6:30 pm
this is such a non-science number. billionaires are purchasing islands, and people are suffering. great reset will trigger civil war and sunday observance, by roman pagan church, will be mandatory. dark ages ahead.
Za Az
October 13, 2020 at 6:33 pm
I feel like the palm tree.. with crazy off-kilter eyes (the coconuts).
the planet dies, we die
we die, the planet lives
SAW
October 13, 2020 at 6:48 pm
How can we get this up to 40 degrees? I want palm trees in Canada. That would be nice.
DDPWE
October 13, 2020 at 9:40 pm
lol 40 degree summer, but still -40 winters don’t forget
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:42 pm
+40 degrees Celsius, global mean temperatures would see the planet burning and humans unable to survive.
Let’s put it this way the earth right now is 14.74 degrees Celsius and if we added 40 to 14.74, this would give
Us 54.74 degrees Celsius.
This would make the earths average temperature 130.532 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mind you this is the average temperature and so highs and lows would vary by 60 to 80 degrees
That would make the highs 210 degrees Fahrenheit and lows at 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Not a planet you would want to live on when one considered the conditions of the climate.
The lack of plant and animal life and the oceans boiling away.
Even just 8 degrees of warming will likely destroy most life on the planet.
SAW
October 15, 2020 at 11:17 pm
@Mike C ok how about 39 degrees…
John
October 13, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Owner of the weather channel says global warming is a scam
YouFirst
October 13, 2020 at 7:34 pm
Trump will do it +5 promise, just vot le for him
Otopon
October 14, 2020 at 2:52 pm
+5 degrees?
cgmehring
October 13, 2020 at 7:42 pm
LOL Al Gore
For An Angel
October 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm
The problem is that the people who are able to do something to fix the climate won’t be affected
and the people who will be affected the most aren’t able to do anything to fix the climate.
Mahesh Narayanaswamy
October 13, 2020 at 9:37 pm
Everyone is able to do something to fix the climate… Just go vegan….
For An Angel
October 13, 2020 at 10:36 pm
@Mahesh Narayanaswamy That’s not going to be enough.
Mahesh Narayanaswamy
October 13, 2020 at 10:56 pm
@For An Angel a lot of raindrops make the rain… I hope u got it…
For An Angel
October 13, 2020 at 11:53 pm
@Mahesh Narayanaswamy Eating plants isn’t going to undo the decades of damage from pollution from factories, cars, deforestation etc.
Mahesh Narayanaswamy
October 14, 2020 at 12:00 am
@For An Angel is cattle a leading producer of greenhouse gas? Is deforestation done to make cropland to feed farm animals? What fraction of cropland is used to feed farm animals?Would we need more cropland if we all turn vegan?Can humans live a plant based diet? Find out the answers to these qns…
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:44 pm
@Mahesh Narayanaswamy
That is actually a fallacy.
Eating vegan will do nothing for the climate as it’s inconsequential.
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:48 pm
@Mahesh Narayanaswamy
Here are the figures.
Animal husbandry when all is said and done only contributes 13% to ACC.
I actually thought it was far more as well until I looked into it.
It’s actually energy and transportation that lead to ACC anthropogenic Climate Change.
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October 13, 2020 at 9:29 pm
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Amanda
October 13, 2020 at 9:48 pm
Could…might…maybe, none of these words indicate accuracy.
1.5° over how long a period? 20yrs? 100yrs? 5hrs?
How can such a complicated scientific process be explained accurately in a cartoon clip of less than 3min?
Global weather patterns and temps constanty change… lets talk about the pollution driving temps up… lets talk about nations most guilty of polluting our world… china and india. Lets address these 2 nations and what they can do to help protect the environment. Lets hit their polluting habits with hard core facts.
Sadly, these two nations are exempt from global warming accusations, I wondered why… until I noticed that socialism in the west is well supported by communism in the east. Could the finger pointing towards the west be a distraction from the pollution producers of the east? The west can and should do more I hear you say… what do you say about the east?
wquon2007
October 13, 2020 at 10:54 pm
and some of the most fertile and largest places to farm will also become available. humans have survived worse in global climate history. thats some pretty polite fear mongering ya got going there.
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Another dumb comment.,
Travis Lyons
October 13, 2020 at 10:59 pm
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Shane d
October 13, 2020 at 11:06 pm
Thisnis the same bs they tried back in then90 saying oh no global warming and I’m here looking at land in Alaska, but the warming hasn’t happend!
Bs science!
Addidy
October 14, 2020 at 3:23 pm
I think if you live in Alaska you probably won’t feel the affects all that much. You’ll probably end up being one of the big winners with the progressing changes 😛
Xeno Phon
October 13, 2020 at 11:50 pm
Everything in the universe relies on a delicate balance of forces. Now lets all continue acting like we own everything and it bends to our ego like that universal fact doesnt apply to our godly selves….
Łukasz Enki
October 14, 2020 at 1:04 am
what about that climat change every over 12 k yers ?
Jakob Dering
October 14, 2020 at 2:45 am
All objects on our planet may lean 1.5 degrees unless we act now
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October 14, 2020 at 3:53 am
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Becky Huang
October 14, 2020 at 4:18 am
thank you gossip girl
PW218
October 14, 2020 at 6:09 am
What a great solution. “Unless we act now.” Yes, keep on acting on TED and all will be good. For you.
fpwu
October 14, 2020 at 6:48 am
So, the climate has been stable for the last 10,000 years? No farming in Greenland in early medieval times? No little ice age when the Baltic Sea used to freeze over nearly every winter? Please, if you argue for the protection of the climate – do it properly.
Anonymous Dude
October 14, 2020 at 10:23 am
Examples of India is taken on many platforms shows that it has huge significance to climate change due to it’s population
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October 14, 2020 at 10:36 am
Sigh… why must we younger generations have to suffer the consequences of what our older generations have done? It’s sad how climate change is an incredibly real problem yet people still don’t give a damn. Imagine that: humans were a species that destroyed their own home planet!
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:08 pm
Because no one cares about the future, they just care about their future.
Travis Lyons
October 14, 2020 at 10:56 am
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Сохибжамол Солиева
October 14, 2020 at 2:31 pm
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chimps4gimps
October 14, 2020 at 9:54 pm
Keeping below the 1.5deg rise is not going to happen.
Resilience will be the word most used over the next few years.
Major changes to how we will live are required but the politicians won’t tell you this.
Erika Mants
October 15, 2020 at 11:11 am
Literally talking about this in my international relations class! It’s interesting how people put so much emphasis on saving the Earth but it’s the Earth and ourselves. This is super intertwined in every single aspect of our lives no matter who you are. So tired of talking about change, lets be the change, we need to seriously come together as a society and demand our leaders to take action! I really enjoy these little animations – a little simple but gets the message across well.
P.S. Let us thank Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) for making it 2% to 1.5% because yes it is that significant, this threshold is key to our survival.
6jamppa9
October 15, 2020 at 12:41 pm
“Over the past 10,000 yers, earth’s climate was stable.” hmmm….is this true??
Ryan Relford
October 15, 2020 at 1:42 pm
The same people pushing this cash cow agenda all own mansions on the coast or an island, huge mansions they don’t seem worried about being under water. The climate has always changed over time. Did humans create all previous ice ages? If not which we didn’t, then we won’t be the reason for the next one. But keep on your knees as they use this to take away your freedoms while charging you for it. I just love that America is the biggest target of these paid shills, when it is not the biggest polluter. Obvious foreign interests.
Mike C
October 15, 2020 at 8:09 pm
The dumbest retort on You Tube.