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Until a few hundred years ago there was a perfect balance of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Human activity has disrupted that balance. What can be done to restore it?
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5:37: direct air capture, why not put direct air capture on smoke stacks and capture the carbon dioxide before it gets into the air, makes more sense
Plant trees.
loving the beard
Interesting
why not show the graph of carbon dioxide parts per million back 700 million years hmmmmm
Lot of assumptions
"climate change" is just another tax scam
Dont be a sheep. Green solutions are being held hostage by capitalism and have been since the combustible engine was invented. That's why there are no affordable options. Climate projects are promises about an uncertain future built on speculation all rolled up in a sales pitch and used by people that made a career out of getting more sales for more money by any means necessary. Our brightest minds cant tell us the future…neither can the fat guy in sales. Every option is a gamble for the price of a guarantee. If it reduces your cost of fuel, energy, or anything else the price is hiked as much as possible and the consumer is financed with interest. A salesman takes the money you would free up from their project (unless theres uncertainty in our future) plus tax credits from the government, looks at your income, decides how much to charge per unit or project, and overwhelms you with details. Next you know you're FINANCING an uncertain future. Sure…the fat guy in sales is doing his job the best he can in hopes that someday it will pay off just like the rest of us. But allowing companies to use green tech and projects to benefit from exploiting the environment (and us) from a problem they caused and financing it to us is the ultimate insult. I guarantee industry would change everything about the way they impact the environment if they got the bill for it. Of course they would just add it to the consumers bill. But at least that way green projects wouldnt be a new industry with the demand to charge who knows what… it would be one thing that every business also does to pay for their mess while minimizing current contributions to the mess and waving money around to anyone offering commercial equipment that can end the mess just to stay in business instead of…this. ill take death by climate over death by poverty any day. There is no motivation to resolve this from businesses because it instantly puts their "green" business out of business . There'll never be a cure for cancer for the same reason. This is why industry can never serve man because it has tricked man into serving industry with blind faith. Stop allowing your government to tell you that there's nothing they can do about your government. My apologies to the guy in sales…im aware that you have to feed an even fatter guy than you. Just using you to make a point. You've trimmed up nicely though…
Carbon Cycles are not the same as Climate Change Problems ! Sea level has been stable over the last 100 years .None of the PREDICTIONS by the Alarmists were proven correct . Climate of Planet Earth has been related to Sun's Activities, Earth's Orbit and Tilts which are and were Not Constant ……from ~20 to 24.5 degree with a 41,000 Cycle ! We had GREEN SAHARA in the past ! CO2 levels in Air are relatively Stable so far. But Earth and Climate Will Change in the long term . ( BBC has documentary on Orbit and Tilts etc. )
Deforestation must also stop. We need fast-growing timber plantations, with a global prohibition on cutting wild forests, with sanctions on COuntries that do not police them, and incentive=s for them to fund Indigenous First Nations for being the entities that do the policing
dear economist team, can you please look into and add Regenerative agriculture and holistic land management to the list. modern industrialized agriculture has been causing massive damage not only to carbon cycle but also in soil degradation and loss of diverse habitat which over time has massive negative consequences. Soil more than anything els is the biggest carbon sequestration footprint, if only we let and intensive soil do it and keep it in the soil. not only that, carbon heavy soil is a richer much more productive soil. so much to talk on this subject. comment section is not enough to explain the complexity and massive potential and need of moving to regenerative ag. please do further research on this. I am subsirber of yours. i have researched your archives and got virtually nothing on this subject. thank you
Amazing Documentary ❤️❤️❤️. (Please save the Earth🙏🙏🙏) (कृपया पृथ्वी को बचाएं🙏🙏🙏).
I asked the climate scientist, why has not shaved completely, said: because of the power use of the razor. Real climate scientist dude.
CO2 is heavier than air and half any heat in it will go into space.
we burn wood, no problem, coal is black wood.
Wow, humans can change Earth's climate cycles more than volcanic activity and solar cycles combined? Problem solved once AI controls human's population. 😢
im sure WSJ and CNBC can do a better explanation
wow this guy's eyebrows go AROUND the eyes… impressive
all this is lie, human CO2 emission is fraction of 1 % of carbon cycle, all this is a complete scam, carbon is life, 60 years ago carbon in soil was over 20% in north america now less than 3%, tilllage, chemical fertilisation transfered massively carbon to atmosphere, humans activities generate about 7 billions tons CO2 a year, just fungi activity in the soil generate 88 billions tons CO2 a years and all this is less thant 1%, and try to imagine the oceans…so medias must stop all those lies to desinform us we are tired of it…Time to rebuilt carbon in soil to face sun cycle who manage climate onm earth, nopt human being, 1 % of carbon retain 20,000 gallons of water per acre…We need more carbon back in the soil and remineralise and bring back biology in the coil to bring back health to this world…our health is directly related to food we eat, and micro nutrient in our food are essential to our health…
So basically it has increased from 0.03% to 0.04%. A 1/10,000 increase. Ok……
Tf is up with this beard
it is incredible that we have destroyed a balance that had stayed for a very long time in 100 years. I hope that it will change!
reverse wolverine.
It's scientifically impossible for greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. All the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth is completely absorbed in earth's greenhouse effect by greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the radiating surface that is always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor. This video has the United Nations Climate Change disclaimer. Global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming.
The back of the United Nation's IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution. The IPCC has been transparent with its data acknowledging it is not dealing with active greenhouse gases.
Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the radiating surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth’s greenhouse effect is from water vapor. Water vapor would hold earth's greenhouse effect in saturation if it were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. That warmer water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice coverage resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface.
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet.
0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2.
The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.