Simon Clark 
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In this video I talk about the biggest climate news stories of 2023, covering the big climate news of the year: new scientific papers, temperature records being broken, COP28, human impacts of climate change, and the progress made this year to decarbonise the global economy.
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Climate scientists don't believe James Hansen… Suddenly faith is a valid argument again :d :d :d
Hi Simon, I've just subscribed to your channel and am enjoying your content! I just wondered whether you could give your thoughts on Hansen's upcoming paper on aerosol emissions and climate sensitivity? It has a lot of people very worried but clearly the scientific mainstream disagree with the paper's findings; why?
May I request a video on James Hansen’s paper? You mentioned that most climate scientists do not believe it to be accurate, but in this very video you attribute changes in ocean temperature to changes in shipping habits. Sulfur emissions from bunker fuel are one of the primary issues that Hansen speaks on.
Well feck
I hate penguins.
We are screwed not because of the current state of the climate but because the inertia and trajectory of human activity in capitalist democratic societies makes it impossible to change without massive social upheaval which humanity will not intentionally choose to do. We have to upend the system now, but democracy will not allow that. The will of the majority only allows slightly better than average decisions to succeed. We need incredibly intelligent and far-sighted decision-making; democracy by definition forbids that.
This video is hopium at best.
Such a quick dismissal of the paper by Hansen and his colleagues. Can you do a more in depth video on it?
and mention livestock farming and their warming contributions
Great work as always
Thanks for this summary
Chinese talk about going over north pole, not that they called it that, during periods when there was no ice, that was warmer than now. So you started your talk with a lie. Good work.
Antarctica is land, Penguins give pebbles to attract a mate. You are lying again?
Algo boost comment
Let's add 2024 to the list as well, and until we change our ways of doing business on earth.
Deuteronomy 28.
__________2024________
Deadly occurrences
_____of natural catastrophe__
Proud my ancestors aren't responsible for destroying the world.
LOL
Sure dude, we're totally on top of it.
Btw 1.46 is rounded to 1.5, not 1.4. And it's certainly 1.5 average in real life.
What if global warming is because the sun is getting hotter? Why aren't we talking about that?
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Birth pains not climate change God said after the Passover Evening of Mon, 22 Apr 2024 – Tue, 30 Apr 2024 America upper east weather accelerating. This the birth pains.
Why should I comment here if my opinion is different than yours and you'll just delete it? Why bother?
You should show more rage toward inaction and its consequences. I'm old enough to have lived through the oil embargo of the 1970s and see the tragedy of our future. I don't see any ship turning around with so many captains fighting each other.
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Due to displacement of the core in 1998 according to Medicin Italian center ., the planet's rotation accelarates , and its centrifugal force is growing.
For this reason magma sources in the mantle began to sharply rise to the surface ( imagine the washing machine) undermining and heating the lithosphere from the inside.
Consequently , magma rising in the area of lower pressure expands in volume and boils up. Its pressure on the earth's crust increases. The expansion of magma pushes apart the tectonic plates, increases volcanic and seismic activity across the planet and causes the number of cracks in the crust to grow rapidly.
Through these cracks , water from the surface escapes deep into the crust. The thin oceanic crust is ruptured by magma causing the ocean to heat up at the bottom. Rising magma leads to an increase in geothermal flow from the earth's bowels beneath the glaciers of West Antarctica and Central Greenland which melts glaciers from the bottom up.
Numerous facts of increasing geothermal anomalies : cases of water boiling in wells, permafrost melting at great depths, and methane explosions have been recorded. Further prediction of the trends of rapid geodynamic and climatic changes indicates that in the coming decades due to the rise of magma, a massive melting of glaciers will begin along with the rise in sea level. Increasing the number and the power of disastrous earthquakes, typhoons and hurricane winds, stratovolcanoes will erupt, which will lead to a long volcanic winter and disappearance of most life forms including humans. Based on objective forecast, we have only five or ten years at most. Changes similar to what we now see occured before the peak of the crushing disaster just about 12,000 years ago. Those events are called The Allerød oscillation and the Younger Dryas glaciation that followed.
12,800 years ago global temperatures rose as much as 15 degrees Celcius within just a few years. Most of the ice sheets suddenly melted. And the earth emerged from a full Ice Age. At that time, there were extreme floods and other natural disasters along with an intense sea level rise. The Gulf Stream stopped at that time just as it is happening nowadays. Scientists from the university of Kansas have proven that about 12,800 years ago there was a giant fire on earth that covered a tenth of the entire planet's surface. Other researchers have also found that large fires raged in Siberia 12,000 years ago. Similarly, nowadays, there are more and more large scale fires that cannot be extinguished. ( for example Lahaina , Hawaii, August 2023) Based on an analysis of satellite images , scientists have discovered that 10,000 to 13,000 years ago the largest known dunes formed in the Sahara Desert and other regions indicating the enormous strength of winds during the Younger Dryas. A short term intensification of winds during that period has also been documented from Greenland ice cores data and research in Alaska. Nowadays, the same phenomena are happening on earth as during the Younger Dryas. We see winds, hurricanes , typhoons and tornadoes intensifying and destroying entire cities razing them to the ground.
Right at the cycle change, 12,000 years ago, there was a very intensive seismic activity. This is indicated by radio carbon data as well as paleographic reconstructions of the Younger Dryas. During the same time period, more than 12,000 years ago as well as now, there was a drastic weakening of the magnetic field and a pole shift , which was called The Gothenburg Excursion.
The reason for all these abrupt changes was an abnormal magmatic activity caused by changes in the core. This was expressed in large scale volcanic eruptions that scientists recorded in the Younger Dryas by dust and traces of acid rain in glacial cores. Analysis of sediments found in Hauls cave points to voclanic eruptions that caused a volcanic winter about 13,000 years ago and glaciation across the globe.
After the sudden warming in the Younger Dryas an equally abrupt cooling occured. This event caused a mass extinction of megafauna. Thousands of frozen mammoths and other mammals were found in the ice on the northern slopes of Siberia. There happened a drastic decline in the human population including extinction of the Cro-Magnon.
All of those catastrophic events occured within just a few decades.
The same catastrophic events occured on the planet not only 12,000 years ago but also earlier. Taking into account errors in dating , this cycle is very well traced in the geological data. Catastophists among scientists wrote about it independently of each other in their books and works.
How do you measure the temperature of an entire ocean? And why are these recorded temperatures reliable?
Also I blame China.
Temperature logs only go back 160 yrs, how do scientists know every 500 or 1000yrs say, we get a spike in Temperature as the natural rhythm of the sun? Just so happens to correlate with human industry….maybe!?
if you seriously believe China's data in rolling out more solar panels then you're deluded.
2023 was the hottest year on record (so far)
If 40,000 tons of space dust settles to earth every year . This means our gravitational pull towards the sun will increase. Thus causing what they used to call global warming, now called climate change. Think about it! Maybe the answer to the apperent problem is to start start shooting some of that extra weight towards the sun to be burnt up. Not to eliminate cow farts.
Like my poem on climate change to support rewilding urban areas https://youtu.be/jJ0aT-7-PX8?si=qdy7m63GaJY4phdm
"There is allot of climate exaggeration. Climate is not the end of the planet, the planet's going to be fine." ~Bill Gates, 11/2023
When it rains = climate change. When the sun shine on clear sky and cause heat = climate change. When the winter becomes cold and there is allot of snow = climate change. And ofc all of this is because of humans who did this .. crazy lies.. NASA GIS database say things very different than what you lie on here.
Seeing solar power takeover is so satisfying
I love oil. I love fossil fuels. I love polluting the environment
Question(or bad joke): a climate scientist, economist and urban planner/civil engineer walk into a study and are made to discuss 2023
Just how stupid can you allow yourself to become?
This channel is sadistically the epitome of stupĭdus, ignorance and Sinicism!
Like ALL top-level appointed secretaries, activists, scientists, propagandists of the chief stupid Biden!!
The ideal average (is a notion a mathematical artifice result of premediating diverse location temperatures of the entire planet calculating an esoteric non-physical average temperature) on this proxy data the optimum temperature for life on planet Earth is between 19 and 21 degrees Celsius the averaged over billions of years thru geological eras since life has existed on Earth.
6.765% emisiones del petróleo corresponden al automóvil este porcentaje es falso debido a que no se consideran las emisiones mas importantes producidas por la respiración de tierras continentales insectos biota planta, arboles, flora fauna, océanos biota, volcanes etc.
At the time there were no humans, no oil, no industry, no agriculture, no anthropogenic emissions still the CO2 levels reached 7,000 ppmv
Today, the average temperature of the planet fluctuates between 14 and 15 degrees Celsius! In other words, we would need to increase the global average temperature by 5 to 6 degrees Celsius to achieve the fullness of planetary life and health.
Without any logical reasoning analysis and physical data, where do they get the idea that we should limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius? when it has been proved, it takes millions of years to return to the ideal temperature of 19 degrees Celsius? How stupid do you have to be not to know this and not understand it?
In a home the ideal range for CO2 is from 450 – 1,000 ppmv is an acceptable level of CO2 outdoor air levels vary from 700 – 1,000 ppmv typical levels found in occupied spaces with good air exchange.
The appointment of individuals lacking expertise to pivotal governmental positions, especially concerning energy, ecology, and atmospheric emissions, has profound global repercussions. This practice, often characterized by hasty and ill-considered decisions, neglects due diligence and fails to consider potential consequences. Such appointees frequently lack the necessary understanding of the complexities inherent in these critical areas.
Their decision-making, labeled as "policies," often lacks coherence and scientific support. This leads to the imposition of unfounded laws and regulations with significant implications for energy production, environmental conservation, and climate management. The absence of accountability exacerbates the situation, as these individuals are not held responsible for the adverse effects of their actions.
Furthermore, the perverse practice of evoking consensus as a substitution for methodical science and empirical data compounds the problem. Decision-makers may prioritize political expediency or aligning with prevailing opinions over rigorous scientific analysis. This approach undermines the integrity of policy formulation and inhibits progress towards evidence-based solutions.
Soil respiration is a critical process in the carbon cycle, where organic carbon stored in soil is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO₂) through microbial activity. Let’s explore the global significance of soil respiration:
Magnitude of Soil Respiration:
Total Soil Respiration: Soil respiration is the key source of CO₂ on Earth, and its magnitude is substantial. The amount of CO₂ that passes from the soil to the air is almost an order of magnitude greater than human emissions.
Comparison with Anthropogenic Emissions: The total soil respiration exceeds anthropogenic emissions (such as industrial and land use changes) by one order of magnitude. Specifically, over the period from 2012 to 2021, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions accounted for only 5% of the natural CO₂ emissions annually from terrestrial ecosystems and the ocean.
Global Carbon Budget and Soil Organic Carbon:
The global pool of soil organic carbon (SOM) varies based on different estimates.
Top 0–100 cm layer of soil: 1,500 Gt C
Now summarizing from surface 0-meters to 2-meter stratus CO2 emissions add to a total of ~2,376 Gt to 2,456 Gt of CO2
For many years, the international IPCC expert team accepted that the global SOM pool amounts to 1,500 Gt C for the top 0–100 cm layer of soil.
However, deeper studies published data indicate a wider range, with SOM estimates ranging from 1,220 Gt to 1,576 Gt in the 0–100 cm layer and 2,376 Gt to 2,456 Gt in the 0–200 cm layer1.
Soil organic carbon plays a crucial role in soil respiration, as it serves as a substrate for microbial decomposition. The balance between soil heterotrophic respiration (HR) and the net biome production (NBP) resistant to mineralization determines the level of carbon sequestration in soils
Global Energy-Related CO₂ Emissions:
In 2022, global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions reached an all-time high of 41.3 Gt CO₂-eq (carbon dioxide equivalent) 1.
Specifically, CO₂ emissions from energy combustion and industrial processes accounted for 89% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in that year 1.
Historical Trends: soils biota, volcanos and oceans not considered
Before the Industrial Revolution, human’s global emissions were very low.
By 1950, the world emitted 6 billion tons of CO₂.
By 1990, this had almost quadrupled, reaching more than 20 billion tons.
Currently, we emit over 35 billion tons of CO₂ each year 2.
Vital data:
global population and average life expectancy for the specified years:
1780:
Global Population: Unfortunately, reliable global population estimates for the year 1780 are scarce. However, it is estimated that the world population was around 800 million during this period.
Life Expectancy: Life expectancy at birth in 1780 was significantly lower than today. It is estimated to have been around 30 to 40 years globally.
1950:
Global Population: In 1950, the world population reached approximately 2.5 billion people.
Life Expectancy: The average life expectancy at birth in 1950 was around 46.5 years globally.
1990:
Global Population: By 1990, the world population had grown to approximately 5.3 billion.
Life Expectancy: The average life expectancy at birth in 1990 had increased to around 64 years globally.
2023:
Global Population: As of 2023, the estimated global population stands at approximately 7.9 billion people.
Life Expectancy: The average life expectancy at birth in 2023 has further improved to around 73.4 years globally.
Boreal forest in North America in EUR Asia in one-year 2021 release double the amount of all Global CO2 produced in 2001 and three times as much as the “stupidisimo” Inflation Reduction Act (that it really is the opposite) is projected to reduce by 2030
My point is the inflation reduction Act is going to end up costing about $1.3 TO 3. WHATEVER trillion to solve AN INEXISTENT CRISIS A NOTHING SANDWICH
From the report on energy mining emissions and resurces eleborated by: Belisario Hernandez Romo PE PhD PTOE
World war 3😂😂😂
Love your vids! I truly appreciate the work you’re doing!
How are we not screwing ourselves?…🤦🏽
it’s 48f in mi right now lol i’ve never ran my heat in june…ever since ive been alive
Phase out humans. Replace humans with robots. 😃😃
thank you, it will change soon, there are other source of energy that with international cooperation in coastline we can reduce global warming, sea is huge source of energy, further more we can prevent these phenomena like cyclone and flood and wildfire by using this hot seasonal atmospheric condition, recent years in summer, geothermal energy happens in surface of coastline, there are many countries in coastline with seasonal hot weather and water condition, in sum-up, by using this energy not only is economical but also reduce global warming in countries like Japan, China, India, Mediterranean countries, Iran, Mexico, Us, Canada, (Africa and Arabian countries….) . I invented new method base on air pressure rules and quantum physics ionization sea water minerals in strong dynamic magnet and electrical field and electric chemical reactions for producing electricity and fresh water and fertilizer. 7 methods for reducing global warming I mentioned in my profile.
Yup, 2023 was definitely a year, Climate Change whilst in my opinion is very real isn’t so universally agreed on…..
Ok, I admit it, I’m bored…..