Matt Miltonberger 
My first full animated infographic and the largest project I have ever taken on—4 months of researching, calculating, writing, illustrating, animating, and editing.
Climate change is a real and serious issue. In this animated infographic, we dive into the science behind human-accelerated climate change, how it is affecting our planet, why we need to act on this issue, and how you as an individual can contribute to the solution.
References:
https://climate.nasa.gov/
https://epa.gov
https://thesolutionsproject.org
https://cei.org
https://climatechangeaustralia.gov.au
https://c2es.org
https://nrdc.org
Written/Illustrated/Animated/Created by Matt Miltonberger
SECTIONS:
0:00 Intro
0:15 What Is Climate Change?
1:16 Human Activity Emitting Greenhouse Gases
3:22 How Do We KNOW?
4:12 Natural Climate Cycle
4:45 Why Should We CARE?
6:16 How Do We Stop This?
7:15 How Can I Help?
8:22 We Are The Problem AND The Solution
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The carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere is 0.04%, and below 0.02% of carbon dioxide, plants die. Scientists have to work hard to find the root cause of climate change. 0.04% of carbon dioxide can't change the climate.
Who the hell do you think you are making all these predictions, Nostradamus? Your best weather man can barely get tomorrow's forecast right! Including Greta the snot.
IDEA TO SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE TO DO IT DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE PLANET.
An idea I had years ago, I put it on Facebook and they took it away without warning. This is something wrong on the part of the one who deleted it.
If it really is true that there is climate change, the solution is not for citizens to pay taxes. The solution may come from forcing the rich to pay, so that millions of trees are planted correctly. Apart from that I comment on a practical solution that ceilings are painted to reflect sunlight and can lower temperatures.
The idea is that years ago I found out that in the Alicante area of Spain, where there are thousands of greenhouses, the temperature is lower than normal. It was deduced that it was because the thousands and thousands of greenhouses act like a mirror, they reflect the sunlight and help to lower the temperature of the area somewhat.
Therefore I thought that if thousands or millions of car roofs were painted with reflective paint, distributed throughout the world. With the sums you all could lower the temperature of the planet.
When painting vehicle roofs there would be no aesthetic problem. You can take advantage of the ITV vehicle reviews that are carried out every year to paint the roofs. Thousands of roofs of official or unofficial buildings could also be painted with reflective paints. When painting the roofs of vehicles that could be cars, trucks, buses, above the planes… You can warn, force the manufacturers of solar panels to make all the panels in such a way that they reflect light.
When painting the ceilings, it will have to be done in a distributed way by zones up to a logical amount that more or less can go well, to lower the degrees in an ideal way. Once the stipulated amounts have been painted, we will wait for a while to find out if the temperature has dropped in the areas or not. If the temperature has not dropped enough, more ceilings will be painted, up to a higher determined quantity. Ceiling painting will increase until the desired degrees are achieved in all areas.
Climate change is a business at the expense of naive people
What caused the Medieval Warm Period? There were no gasoline cars back then. Tree ring data shows the worst drought in 700 years hit the VA area in 1607. There were no gas boilers back then.
Pls note, it takes less land to produce the same amount of food due to fertilizers and efficiencies in farming and irragation.
This is an excellent video, I learnt a lot from this experience, even though it is 6 years old, driving an electric car can make that same or more carbon emissions from manufacturing because of the mining of lithium and other rare and expensive materials such as cobalt and copper. Electric cars are also expensive and don't work well in colder climates. I wrote this to introduce the hydrogen car, so if you stumbled upon this, look for hydrogen and please support it. Hydrogen is two times more efficient the gasoline, and when burnt, produces water vapor, not carbon dioxide. It is also very easy to make, just by the electrolysis of salt water. Hydrogen should be our future.
0:00 Intro
This is Earth the planet in our solar system that we live on however our planet is not on a good path for continuing to sustain life, the Earth is facing the accelerating detrimental effect of climate change also referred to as global warming.
0:15 What Is Climate Change?
Climate change is defined as a long-term change in the Earth’s overall temperature with massive and permanent ramifications. Climate scientists believe that this isn’t caused naturally by the Earth but by human activity. Earth’s atmosphere consists of gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases known as greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane. When sunlight from the Sun hits the Earth’s surface, the Earth absorbs some of that energy, heating the surface of the planet, while the rest of the energy gets reflected. Some of that energy goes back out into space, but greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap the energy and send it right back to the Earth's surface, bringing it up even more. This is known as the greenhouse effect. Now, a little greenhouse effect is natural to the Earth and is a good thing to have, but a large greenhouse effect can be catastrophic, causing a lot of that energy to stay in our atmosphere and heat up the Earth at an accelerating rate.
1:16 Human Activity Emitting Greenhouse Gases
Some of the human activities that emit greenhouse gases are fossil fuel burning, animals agriculture, deforestation, waste, and recycling pollution. Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, natural gas, as well as gasoline, are some of the largest pollutants of carbon emissions. Not only that, but when fossil fuels are burnt and their gases mixed with heat, they create smog, a thick air pollutant that is highly toxic. For example, Beijing's smog is so thick and heavy that you can't go outside without some form of surgical mask or breathing filter. The massive amounts of excrement produced by livestock farms emit toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and methane into the air. Methane is 23 times more effective at trapping heat than CO2, and roughly 80% of these emissions in the US come from animal waste. Over 56 billion animals are globally raised every year for food purposes, that's eight times more than the human population, and eight times as much waste adding emissions to our atmosphere. Land used for growing animal feed and raising animals for food is staggering, covering 30% of the Earth's land mass in 2006, and the food production industry has only increased since. Seven football fields worth of land are bulldozed every minute to create more room for farmed animals and the crops that feed them. Bulldozing land and deforestation not only emit greenhouse gases but also eliminate plants, trees, and forests, the things on our planet that actually absorb carbon dioxide. The more we deforest our Earth, the less carbon dioxide it can absorb from our atmosphere. Solid waste landfills are some of the largest pollutants of methane gas in the United States. The average person produces 4.3 lbs of trash per day, that's 1,569 lbs of trash per year for one person. With the seven plus billion people that live on the globe, that's 11.6 trillion pounds of trash dumped into landfills every year.
3:22 How Do We KNOW?
How do we know that our human activity is the cause of accelerated climate change and not the Earth's natural process? Civilization produced a devastating 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide last year, which equals 700 trillion cubic feet of CO2. That's a little more than 100 Mount Everests of CO2. It's enough CO2 to fill the entire Grand Canyon five times, or it's the equivalence of 19 million Empire State Buildings. The largest natural pollutant of the Earth is volcanoes. If we take the largest scientific estimate of carbon emissions produced by volcanoes every year, that's 500 million tons of volcanic CO2. But that's not even close to the nearly 40 billion tons of CO2 that our civilization produced.
4:12 Natural Climate Cycle
Over the course of thousands of years, our climate goes through a natural climate cycle of carbon dioxide being absorbed and released into the atmosphere. But once the industrial revolution kicked in, burning fossil fuels became a necessity for manufacturing production plants, and the CO2 level shot up violently and has not slowed down since. The Earth has not seen this much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere for millions of years. Our planet, with a greenhouse effect, is like a bathtub being filled with more water than it can drain; eventually, it will fill up with more than it can handle.
4:45 Why Should We CARE?
But why should we care about global warming and climate change? The Earth's temperature has increased by about 1.5°F over the past century and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6°F over the next 100 years. Animal and plant life are struggling to adapt to these conditions for survival. If even one species goes extinct, it can create a domino effect within the food chain. Without living plants or animals, there would be no living humans.
Rising temperatures make the Earth's oceans warmer, leading to something known as ocean acidification, which raises the acid levels in the oceans due to carbon dioxide reacting with saltwater. Ocean acidification harms animal life and is contributing to the death of the Great Barrier Reef. This is a problem because about 1 billion people rely on ocean life as their main source of protein.
As the oceans become warmer, the polar ice caps are melting, with almost 65% of the polar ice caps melting since 1979. The Earth loses an average of 400 billion tons of ice each year, which is like a giant block of ice 4 miles long on each side, totaling 64 cubic miles, melting and adding to the ocean. As the oceans fill with too much water, coastal regions like in Louisiana can't hold all that water, leading to flooding and destruction.
Climate change also causes more frequent and intense natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, heat waves, and droughts.
6:16 How Do We Stop This?
So the question is, how do we stop this? Instead of burning fossil fuels, we need to convert to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, which emit zero carbon emissions when operating. Energy from the sun and the wind is infinite, unlike fossil fuels; we will never run out of them. More solar energy falls on the Earth in 1 hour than all the energy that our civilizations consume in one year. Civil engineers from the Solutions Project calculated that we could power most of the world with only renewable energy if we just decided to do it. If we cut back on deforestation, not only does that reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned, but there will also be more plants and forests actively absorbing carbon dioxide. If we use more reusable and renewable resources, this will reduce the amount of energy needed to create new products and also reduce the massive amount of landfill dumping that we do.
7:15 How Can I Help?
That all sounds like great, efficient, and healthy ideas, but how can I help personally? Right now, you can drive an electric or fuel-efficient car. By replacing your regular car with a Toyota Prius, the average person can prevent the emission of about one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Now, we all can't afford to just buy new and different cars, so to help, you can walk or bike places, take public transportation, or if driving, ease off the accelerator and make your car as efficient as possible. Use energy-efficient light bulbs like LED bulbs, which use only a fraction of the power of incandescent light bulbs. Air dry clothes instead of using power-guzzling machines like dryers. Turn off electronics or lights when you're not using them. Eat less meat or no meat at all; by replacing an omnivorous diet with a vegan diet, the average person can prevent the emission of about 1.5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and of course, spread your knowledge and concerns about climate change.
8:22 We Are The Problem AND The Solution
Remember, climate change is very real and drastically affects our planet Earth, our home. Although we are the problem, we can also be the solution.
so… we're cooked 🥲 literally
wow ! excellent superb video ! thanks !
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.
Yadda yadda, snake oil salesman uttering mumbo jumbo. Heard it all before, first it was global cooling and predictions of an iceage in the 1970s, then this was changed to global warming, then when the evidence did not support this, the term climate change was coined. Such a vague term. There are always doom mongers who seek to scare the populace. some one is making money from all of this. This dude does not cite where he gets his statistics from and he presents them in a scary way. No thank you.
A legal principle – he who makes the claim, bears the burden of proof. Where is your proof mr vid presenter? no evidence is cited, just vague references to statistics.
Stop blaming the masses blame the manufacturer
I watching this because I filled it's very important
low population
It is very helpful for me as I have a debate
I think you are saying right but people don't care about this
If this process continues no one of us will alive😱😱😱😢😢
It's the topic we are in
Those that shaped a world around you of which you suffer for, those that developed influences in order to punish you, those that lay paths for you to get lost trying to navigate, those that thought hate was an effective way for you to appreciate love, those that see all the things that make you absolutely awesome as a conflicting threat or problem to solve,,,,,,, ,you do not need to learn of others to truly understand yourself,,,, in that moment when you honestly desire to be the best possible element of someone else's life you create the necessary conditions to germinate a seed within you that will remain dormant unless those specific conditions arise…! recognise that evolution requires then most specific précised and rare conditions possible,,,,, so become!
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930 building at the height of the statue of liberty and the width of the Giza Pyramid would house every person in England with ample space for other functions and other applications this would leave 99.9621% of the total land area free for rewilding .industry and leisure and agriculture.. this would also increase the efficiency of all other infrastructure and the distribution of goods are services substantially….! The attempts will be mitigation the genuine solutions will come from a change in trajectory….!
I predicted that Climate Change will become more popular. It looks like I was right.
You’re burning coal to use a product made from mined plastic and lithium telling other people that they need to change.
Me
I have a question, sir.
We know that there are many governments taking action towards climate change in order to strengthen the response. Then why is climate change still happening and increasing if the roles of the different agencies, policies, and laws are implemented to help mitigate the effects of climate change? What's the government's purpose or the agencies action plans towards this issue if climate change is not going to stop? Are they really helping the world? Are the policies and laws effective enough?
Amazing video! Very interesting!🌎🌱
Awesome
DR. K.F. SOCCER S-P-C KNOWS WHEN CLIMATE WILL CHANGE AGAIN 2024 TO 2035 MAJOR COLD FREEZING HEAVY SNOW STORMS WINTERS IN A ROW TO CLOSE UP THE TECTONIC PLATES THAT HAVE BEEN OPEN SINCE 2012
ALL WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD IS OLD BAD SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF THE PLANET'S 50 YEAR CYCLE
WORSE EVERY 100 YEARS OUTCOME
WE ARE ABOUT TO HAVE THE ENTIRE WORLD AT THE SAME TIME COOL DOWN
2035 TO 2060
MINOR ERUPTIONS YEARLY
MINOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES OUTBREAKS
2060 TO 2085 THEY WILL EXPERIENCE WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH OCT 4 2024
Only the mind map is on one A3 sheet covering everything u taught. Essentially u covered 50% of my syllabus. Thank u so much