April 5, 2025

46 thoughts on “Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye | National Geographic

  1. I certainly admire anyone's passion, to clean up the planet, but it seems, that as some people's passions grow….their brains shrink. As a Power Engineer for 42 years, here is what I know. Roughly 75% of our Electrical demand (Our Lights/Heat/Air Cond./Phones/Internet/etc), that we take for granted, is supplied from Fossil Fuels. Roughly 25% comes from Nuclear Plants, Hydro Plants, Windmills & Solar Panels. Biden & Trudeau (for us Canadians), shutting down the Oil & Gas Industry, does NOT solve anything. If Fossil Fuels, still make up 75% of the supply, to fill the demand, if we're not drilling/processing the Oil & Gas……….the 75% of demand, has to come from somewhere, otherwise we'd all be sitting in the dark, with no Lights/Heat/Air Cond./Phones/Internet/etc….The fact is this: Biden & Trudeau are shutting down the Oil & Gas Industries here in the USofA & Canada, and spinning it, that they're doing it to clean up the Planet, but are actually still burning the Oil & Gas, to supply the 75% that we need……..but they're buying the Oil & Gas from Saudi Arabia/Middle East & Venezuela. Having typed all of that, the cure is NOT to stop burning Fossil Fuels………..it's to stop burning the BAD/TOXIC Fossil Fuels (i.e.: Coal, #6 Fuel/Bunker C, and Diesel Fuels). If the whole Planet could stop burning the BAD Fossil Fuels, I'm convinced that the Planet could heal itself. Don't be lazy. Look at photos online of smoke stacks burning Coal and then look at stacks burning Natural Gas…..you'll be amazed at the difference.

  2. Well how come the parts per million where much higher in pre historic time 20 times higher than today. Seems to me things grew a lot bigger and the earth was much much greener. Maybe we need to start planting millions and millions of trees. This is a hoax. Just look it up. This is not about climate change it's about they want to depopulate and only have millions of people instead of billions. You people need to read from what I read it was 20 times higher than today and 10 degrees warmer that does not sound like we have an emergency. We just have elites who want us gone and brainwashed people who believe this and don't read to find out the truth..

  3. As someone who has worked in the science industry this is pseudoscience. The Earth's climate is always changing. Besides within the last 150 years the temps have only changed.03 degrees the Earth constantly goes through periods of cooling and warming.

  4. Why was water vapor excluded from your pie chart? It is the largest green house gas in the atmosphere, no? Could this be propaganda? Here are a handful of failed predictions: Arctic ice cap melting by 2013, NYC west highway under water by 2000, polar bear extinction (they are flourishing), Mt. Kilimanjaro glaciers gone, Glacier National Park glaciers gone by 2030, Maldives uninhabitable by the year 2000. When do you start questioning the narrative? When do you change your predictions to match reality? Question the climate change industrial complex. They are wasting billions of dollars.

  5. Wt The higher the temperature, the more the oceans will evaporate, then there will be more humidity and more precipitation, the desert will decrease plants regarding moisture and carbon dioxide will grow faster, the history of the earth is such that if global warming was antiquity, then it was a paradise for the biosphere,. .and when global cooling was then the evaporation of the oceans would decrease and precipitation would decrease, the desert would increase, this would collapse for the biosphere, the largest desert Antarctica, the hottest place the rainforests.

  6. I dispute the hypothesis bc it violates basic laws of thermal dynamics. I dont need to count polar bears or tree rings if the model is fatally flawed. It's not at all political or emotional. It's just basic science. I don't care why people manipulate it. You can debate that. The fact is, it's poor science let's move on.

  7. After all this warning. the priority still is keeping the rich's wealth and keeping t economic classes as it is today.
    At the end, everybody dies. only a matter of how soon.
    Isn't that great?

  8. Analysis that proves anthropogenic emissions cannot possibly cause global warming!

    It is a stupidity to propagandize this fallacy!

    There are two largest contributors of what they call Green House Effect

    1.-Water Vapor (clouds)

    2.-Dust

    These two main Green House elements cannot (by now) be quantified with any degree of certainty due to their variability and massive dimensions. All models “prefer” no to include them or just assign a marginal incidence in order to validate their models on which they to begin with insert the resulting warming increment, this practice is aberrantly stupid in fact, a fraud.

    In top of these “perverse deliberated omissions” other very serios factors larger than anthropogenic emissions like: soils respiration (plants and biota like microbes, insects and animals) as well as earth mantel degassing and continental displacements, and oceans biota, all this many times larger when compared with human activity and emissions are either erased or manipulated to serve their propaganda a business worth trillion dollars plus.

    Ratios of the C-12 isotope compared to C-13

    Plant/animal matter is comprised of carbohydrate molecules with roughly 1 carbon for every 2 hydrogen atoms (Carbon : Hydrogen ratio around 1:2)

    Fossil Fuel Sources:

    Contain higher ratios of the C-13 isotope from being underground for millions of years

    Fossil fuels like coal, oil, natural gas have higher Carbon : Hydrogen ratios, ranging from around 1:1 to 1:1.5

    So, while the total carbon emissions were:

    400.35 Gt C/year

    We can break this down further in order to determine causation, and forcing from CO2 emitters:

    Natural Sources (soil, ocean, volcanic):

    367.35 Gt C/year (91.02%)

    Predominantly C-12 isotope

    C:H ratio around 1:2

    Vs Fossil Fuel Sources (Coal, Gas and Petroleum):

    33 Gt C/year (8.98%)

    Higher C-13 isotope

    C:H ratio 1:1 to 1:1.5

    This isotopic and molecular differentiation allows tracking the relative contribution of natural vs fossil fuel derived carbon sources.

    The very high level of natural carbon emissions from sources like soil respiration, volcanic/degassing activity, and ocean processes – totaling over 367 Gt C per year (clouds and dust not accounted for).

    The relatively small contribution of fossil fuel emissions at around 33 Gt C per year, is dwarfed by natural sources.

    The differentiation of carbon isotopes and molecular compositions, showing the natural sources are overwhelmingly comprised of C-12 and Carbon : Hydrogen ratios typical of natural processes and organic matter.

    Essentially, it is physically and thermodynamically impossible for the relatively minute anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions to be the driving force behind global temperature changes and climate fluctuations. The sheer magnitude of natural sun activity, carbon cycles, water vapor and dust processes and emissions utterly dwarf to near 0.0181% all human contributions.

    The real scientific logic mathematical evidence points to natural phenomena like sun cycles earth orbital changes, dust, water vapor, soil respiration, ocean dynamics, and geological activity being the principal drivers of temperature and always changing climate on earth, carbon flows and compositions in the atmosphere and oceans. Whilst human emissions definitely play a role, they are a small fraction compared to the Sun, Water Vapor, Dust, Biomass and Earth’s system sources.

    Based on the data analyzed, we must conclude that human fossil fuel use and its emissions cannot possibly be the overriding force dictating global climate and temperature trends. Natural processes and emissions cycles operating over centuries and millennia are the vastly predominant factors shaping the climate system.

    In summary, anthropogenic emissions as the lead climate change driver is absolutely, thermodynamically, physically, unsupportable based on the radiation, convection, emission, sources, volumes, isotopic compositions, and molecular signatures involved from all and any real scientific perspective.

  9. Carbon dioxide is present in our atmosphere. 400 parts per million. a million particles: 780k are nitrogen , 210K are oxygen , 9K are argon and 400 of these particles are carbon dioxide. Plants depend on CO2.

  10. But the PM of India Narendra Modi thinks that climate hasn't actually changed.. It is we who changed by ageing every year moving towards older and older..thats why we feel hotter and hotter.. This statement of PM needs to reach global stage and discuss..or else its too scary for a country who is also a major contributed in the cause of global warming and the Pm doesn't know about its cause and affects..

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