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For decades, Antarctic sea ice trends seemed to defy climate change, until…they didn’t. In just two years, Antarctica lost as much sea ice as the Arctic lost in three decades. Statistics say that the record low sea ice in 2023 was a 1 in 700 BILLION year event, suggesting that the models in this case may be broken, or that this anomaly was caused by climate change. And a new study asked the question: does this represent a STATE CHANGE? And what would that mean for one of our most iconic species, the emperor penguin? And what does reduced sea ice mean for Thwaites, the Doomsday Glacier? With summer sea ice hitting the third-lowest extent in recorded history, it’s time to check-in. Watch this episode to find out.
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Statistical analysis says the chance of the observed low sea ice in 2023 was 1 in 700 BILLION (yes you read that right!), indicating that in this case, the statistics were broken. So, either the limited sea ice records aren't sufficient to model the natural variability, OR it's climate change. What do you think?
Humanity sez…..”hold my beer”…….
I thought that it spread horizontally but the depth was much shallower. As in it had less mass overall- and was spread thinner.
So the theoretical predictive models made a few years ago based on a tiny amount of information aren't accurate? …. yep.. most people k ow this
700,000,000,000 years? how old is this planet fact check required.
700 billion years. 😂😂😂 We are in an ice. The earth isn't always. It wasn't in the Jurassic. That was The long time ago but far less than 700 billion years ago.
700 billion years!! We are told the universe is approximately 13 billion years old. If you can’t get basic facts correct the credibility of the video is shot.
Thanks for throwing a bone to climate change deniers. It gets a little worn out when you idiots can't explain how ridiculously bad you are at telling the truth…
So we really out here drowning 80% of emperor penguins? Jesus Christ. We are vermin on this planet.
Oeps 2024 record low again……
For thousands of years, humans have been evolving through periods of pretty good weather. Since the Industrial Revolution, we've been adding carbon to the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is inevitable. Climate migration is the real problem. It's estimated that about 2 billion people will need to relocate, mainly from South and Central Asia and Africa. We already have xenophobic and irrational resistance to immigrants now. I'm not optimistic.
My first reaction is, 700 BILLION years? The universe began with the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago, and the earth began at about that same time. The figure of 700 billion years is derived from the standard deviation of the chance of the 2023 event occurring in any given year.
However, I can see a climate change denier, firmly grounded in scientific illiteracy and innumerate, saying that this means we need not be concerned about climate change, because it won't happen for another 686 billion years. A once-in-700 billion year event is a good hook for this video, but it can lead to the same little-boy logic as in the witch burning scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." A bit too risky.
If Emperor Penguins co-existed with the dinosaurs, they have experience far, far greater warming than they have seen or will see due to AGW. There was 10c of warming during the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Carbondioxide levels reached over 18,000 ppm. That's FORTY FIVE TIMES the levels of today. This 10c of warming released all the methane tied up in methane hydrates which caused another massive spike in temp.
NODES OF TEMPERATURE ARE MOVING AROUND.
5:49 "west Antarctic alone could add over 7" of sea level by 2100."
i'll take the under on that.
Price is Right style, I start the bet: 2030.
Check how many tonnes of CO2 have been released by human activities since the Industrial Revolution began a few centuries ago in England.
Check how long it would take you to count to this amount of tonnes of CO2 , one second per tonne. Then remember that at the same time to the present time, humans were cutting down HUGE AREAS of forests for all the relentless human economic activities that were going on, the trees of which would have absorbed large amounts of CO2, had these forests not been cut down. Also for all of human history, several hundreds of thousands of years, the first 1 billion humans occurred approximately in the 1800's .
Then in the next approximately 175 years the human population reached 8 billion humans. Look at images of the planet Earth taken from space that clearly shows the thin blue line around the planet that is the Earth's atmosphere, and you will see why the Earth is experiencing such extreme global warming due to the emissions of CO2 due to human activities around planet Earth.
HAR BIN JUR
Not Har BING ER
Hello, may I borrow some part of this clip to use in a project about the problem of global ice melt? This is a project of the GCF Fund that helps develop Thailand. This clip is not commercial in any way.
Given that the earth is “Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years” your use of years instead of odds are….pretty odd.
Try to warm a coffee with an ice cube….you can not? Yes, due to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, the same one that makes impossible to accept the well known pseudo-scientific statement: "The earth is warming due to the GEI, mainly CO2, produced by the anthropocentric action". Climate change? stupid name, because the climate EVER has implicit the CHANGE. Now, go to your actual politician and ask him for a new crisis to be scared. He will invent some in a few minutes…and then he will imposes new taxes to you, to "save you". There are not too many people over the world, but there is too much idiots and intellectual slaves, that is the problem.
What warming world
Right😂
earth and the universe is 14 billion years old.
That's noise due to a bad model. That's a clear sign that your model is overfit or built upon inaccuracies.
The biggest lié we have at this moment is we are not admitting this planet os alive and will defend itself through changes to stop are shit
That's not how you say Harbinger ma'am.
Yhis is utter complete bullshit all of it there is not a warming world eff u all!!!!!
Thankfully, Obama's estate on Martha's Vineyard will be underwater soon.
https://youtu.be/OLV0HGfYPnM?si=A_DglP94JXnlF8vM
Get a life, everyone! For the last more than 30 years at almost every world climate conference some world leader (sic!) has banged the table and said something to the following effect: "Things are not looking good. We are almost at the tipping point of runaway climate change. It's not too late, even now, BUT we must ACT NOW!!" And then somebody else says the exact same thing at the next conference. Here we are 32 years after the Rio Conference and no catastrophe has even come remotely close to happening. One has to wonder when the falsifiability criterion will be considered to have made its mark.
Climate scientist in the 60s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 70s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 80s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 90s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 2000s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 2010s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Climate scientist in the 2020s: world will be ice free in 10yrs
Politicians during these times: Im gonna buy a house by the beach
Theres a trend somewhere in there
WOW Gen Z is being introduced to Mother Nature. and the earth will be here long after Gen Z and their climate monkey's
Its over guys. Good bye
5:17 @pbsterra those cold salty waters also carry oxygen throughout the abyss right?
Humans should want MORE ice.
We can't stop the warming, but, at either pole, mankind has the wherewithal to create artificial habitat for threatened species.
Stop all the bullshit and just let the universe and mother nature do what she has been doing for a long, long time and stop listening to these alarmists, scientists and governments, they are all liars and decievers.
Solar Maximus!!! It is all related People.
I love your content can you make a retro bowl tutorial?
I think that humans, by their very nature, are too greedy to stop or even significantly slow the impending disaster. It's probably a long standing cycle. Mankind crawls out of the cave, masters agriculture, forms tribes, or clans, and eventually nations, nations are greedy for territory and resources, and eventually go to war over same. War fuels industrial development, industrialization disrupts society and facilitates the unequal distribution of wealth, which leads to unrest, which leads to division, and divided we fall and fade from the historical and even largely from the archaeological record. Rinse and repeat. Some culture's creation myths acknowledge a series of such cycles — the periodic death and rebirth of the whole of mankind. Some such beliefs hold that we are now nearing the end of the last of those cycles, and after this collapse, some entirely other situation will arise. We (humans) have not been very good stewards for our little blue marble.
Gaslighting guess work stop wasting everyone’s time.
White rooftops.