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Original source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
DECEMBER 10, 1985
“Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
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Great man Sir Sagan 🌐💙
ITS TOO LATE NOW! 💯👀🚩
Wow the senator was so condescending right off the bat
Did you notice how intently Al Gore was listening above everyone else
I am 63 years old now, and back in 1979 and beyond, my siblings and I used to watch the great Dr. Carl Sagan’s TV shows on Dhahran’s Channel 2 in Saudi Arabia. His ability to break down complex scientific concepts into captivating, easy-to-understand narratives was remarkable. His unique and tantalizing way of explaining kept viewers of all ages, including us, glued to his episodes. Even decades later, his passion for exploring the universe and sharing knowledge continues to inspire curiosity and wonder.
People deny climate change because it would risk them not getting a new car and new phone every six months, it would risk taking away their luxury capitalism, it would risk taking away their instant gratification dopamine, they might actually have to wait a reasonable amount of time for a new product and not have 10,000 choices to pick from, they would have to actually have to enjoy things around them instead of what's on the shiny screen right in front of them for once. Denying it and turning a blind eye to it while looking at all the pretty pictures and videos edited with filters and in key locations, let's them ignore the world as it dies around them. One day they will be in petting zoos, petting their own egos while surrounded by electric cages of information edited and censored just for them so they never have to realize what they have done to their own planet and people.
False scientific theories are a dime a dozen. If there were global warming, why haven't we seen it? We heard about an ice age coming decades ago.
So-called intellectuals have been misleading the entire planet with their false theories time and time again. People listen to these charlatans just because they are considered intellectuals. Carl Sagan is NOT infallible just because he is a famous scientist. He is nothing more than a human being just like you and me. No one understands the complexity of earth and its climate. If anyone says anything about it, it is nothing more than a guess.
Fast foward 40y and a banana that grown in South America go to India to be packed to then be sold in England.
Excellent to listen to this man speak so eloquently
People will be choking in their own faecalis, and still blame someone else: scientists, governments, corporations, God, Nature… you name it. Ⓒ
People don't realise that even in 1985 it was too late because our entire civilisation and how everything works DEPENDS on burning fossil fuels. We use fossil fuels to make fertiliser, we use fossil fuels to harvest food, we use fossil fuels to transport food, we use fossil fuels to keep that food fresh in supermarkets, we use it to manufacture, we use it to travel, FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE BEDROCK OF OUR ENTIRE CIVILISATION. You CANNOT build renewable energy like solar panels or wind turbines WITHOUT fossil fuels. You cannot assemble them WITHOUT fossil fuels. We live in a time that is a complete anomaly in the history of mankind, everything we have is not natural and only exists because we found HUGE AMOUNTS OF CHEAP ENERGY. One day it will become too expensive to extract fossil fuels, then eventually renewables will break down, then people will go back to living like in pre-industrial era. The future is BLEAK and ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS JUST IN DENIAL.
The worst part of all is that even though we've been essentially gifted with this planet AND abundant cheap energy there are PSYCHOS in charge who use that energy to murder other people and conquer lands. It is pure evil and disgusting. F this world. This talk was so pointless. You can't have a scientist talking to non-scientist career politicians who don't know their butts from their elbows and expect what they're saying to actually be understood to any degree. The future is bleak.
Notice how most of the congressmen he is talking to back then are still in power now.
gamer posture
In 2012, we would learn that Egypt and, indeed, the entirety of the northern portion of the continent of Africa (with few exceptions) would oscillate between the scorching desert (its current expression) and a temperate zone (something like you might find in a lush American forest) at a frequency of about 12,000 years (like clockwork) due to axial precession (the wobble or second axis on which our planet rotates that causes it to tilt either toward or away from the sun) and its effect on the jet stream. Nothing to say for "overgrazing."
Isn't that amazing?
ot some kind of anthro centric generative effect
I wonder what we'll know tomorrow or the next day…
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Genius still lives now, together we will take our power back #unity
Was Al Gore already a climate advocate in 1985, or was that long close-up of him just some amusing foreshadowing? It almost looks like hearing Carl Sagan speaking is what gave him the idea for "Earth in the Balance."
Slash and burn agriculture had been contributing to the greenhouse effect for tens of thousands of years. It’s not just this generations fault.
I appreciate Dr. Sagan's definition of "Community" , Rev. James S. David
I wonder …. WHO may have the audacity, then,to make "the claim" that the "soviets" (if any still exist) RAPED "mother venus"? , Rev. James S. David , Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
Nobody listened then and nobody is now
The puzzled look on some of the more dim senators reminds me of the look on my dogs when I try to explain basic math.
This was 1985?!? And here in 2024 and we're all basically f*&ked.
nearly 40 years later and the clowns we elect into office are still arguing over whether reality is real.
politics is a farce
With Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida at the moment Sagan's words about "if you don't worry about climate change now (1985) it will be too late later." Welcome to later climate denialists. Does your political ideology make you feel any better?
Well according to the modern Conservatives climate change is just a scam.
Why didn't someone warn us earlier….it's very discouraging seeing this from so long ago and nothing was done. Carl Sagan was one of a kind.
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