ClimateAdam 
Climate change is everywhere. And when something’s everywhere it can feel like it’s nowhere. So how do we get our heads around something so huge and abstract – whether it’s thinking about extreme weather, or the fossil fuels producing CO2 and driving the problem? I’m joined by one of my all time climate heroes – Katharine Hayhoe – to share some of our favourite ways of thinking about the climate crisis
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Global warming from Nasa Climate Change
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for more from Katharine, check our Global Weirding! https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobalWeirdingwithKatharineHayhoe/
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hey adam! great video! here's an idea for another one (if u don't mind): how can we shop for fashion sustainably? ive heard a lot about fast fashion but not much about practical ways to help. thanks!
It snowed today, that is a change, it is supposed to be spring. But this happens here, e wry year. Sometimes we get snow in July.
Where we're going, we won't need scarves đ
My analogy as to why a small change in av temperature is significant: Imagine gently shaking a small tree (you can do this in real life! ) preferably without leaves on. If you maintain a steady frequency and amplitude you'll notice all the branches and twigs settle into complex rhythms. Now change the frequency very slightly and see how the ocillations of the branches and twigs radically change. This shows how a small change in one parameter of a complex system can have a big impact – aka temperature and global climate patterns.
Some great analogies in this video! By the way, I have reduced how much I'm punching this person you're talking about, I'm punching them far less than I used to, so I'm clearly morally righteous.
Great video – love your nails! đ
I can't help heaping praise on the production of values of CimateAdam's videos. They are short enough to fit into the few spare minutes that we have from time to time, and long enough to be memorable. They may be "entry-level" science, but that is just what we need, either to "inform educate and entertain" the many, or as examples of how activists can communicate with the people they meet. Thank you!
Adam, you are getting a bit dark with your beating up and arsenic analagiesâĻđ
Climate Change is a farce! I did the math.
Per EPA, US total carbon emissions were 6.3×10^9 (billion) metric tons which equals 2.857×10^6 (million) lbs. (divide by 2205 as 1 metric ton = 2205 lbs). If the US has 228×10^9 (Billion) trees each consumed 48 lbs of carbon, then the total is 10.9×10^12 (TRILLION) lbs of carbon are removed by trees alone? So if we make 2.857×10^6 (million) lbs of carbon & trees removed 10.9×10^12 (TRILLION) lbs, whatâs the problem??? The math donât work!!!
Maybe the problem originates from the biggest polluters whoâve been exempted from the Climate Change agenda, eh? Like China & India??? Just a thought that these fools havenât used??? The US has contributed more to the Climate Change agenda than any other country, yet we continue to get pummeled economically? Time for other countries to step up to the plate, eh??? Food for thought đ
I visualize it by looking at the moon. When the moon was forming, Earth was a ball of molten lava, far too hot to have liquid water. It's been slowly cooling off ever since. Earth has been experiencing Moon made climate change for the last four and a half billion years.
The world would be 1,000,000,000X better if people like you were in charge
I donât thereâs anyone who matters who doesnât understand climate change at this point. Thereâs a group trying to save the public from it with collective action, a group who wants it to be this evolutionary purge, and they control the group to be purged, to argue for their own demise through denial. As advocates for the survival of the public, I wish these scientists would focus more on predicting survival threats and means of surviving without contributing.
Adam, I see that you have a profile on all social media platforms except LinkedIn! Educating those corporate greedy arseholes is probably the most important task because they are either totally oblivious to climate issues or simply don't care as long as they can keep their positions and accumulate money. Loads of greenwashing there as well…
Does anyone on this line really think we're going to be here in 2030đ¤
It's not "too many things to care about", it's "This one requires I make changes to my life, and therefore I want to avoid thinking about it. It's easier to blame companies, politicians, rich people." Those groups/people do/should bear more of the blame, but when people try to pass the buck to them, they can then pretend it's not their problem at all. Which goes along with their not wanting to change at all anyway.
Would you please talk about protecting and expanding the tree network as a way to drain the sink full of water? I am fighting to save a forest in my town and the municipal councillors are surprisingly ignorant saying 100 year old trees donât in fact absorb more CO2 than new onesâĻ help me stop the removal of this forest!
Love Katharine Hayhoe! â¤â¤â¤ she explains everything very simply. I use her analogies at work to explain climate change to peopleâĻ.
lol, don't worry about the visualizing it, just watch the news, it already visualized all over the world.
It'd definitely no one size fits all for each nation as the variables and geological territory is very different.
A quick history is in order ,
I can remember when we thought we had rebuilt Europe and drew new borders for new nations and was righting wrongs of the past and reagan & thatcher said let's extend this temporary waivers of self sacrifice helping industrialize China and 3rd world nations so they could produce items for trade in resources instead of warring for them .
Well we liberated all common sense transfered wealth and industrialized it all now .
In all this we've charged the family cell forced everyone off the land into city's to meet factory demands of large gathering labor. This turned into office occupation sky scrappers and 12 year college degree that removed 18 -30 years old from our workforce and with highly specialized training you can only reach a profit around 50 years old in our most prestigious feilds.
So now we can gain a by product of more spread out medium density better quality of life infrastructure in places like America Is we all agree to utilize interactive educational reforms that do use computation to train majority as machinest on universal operating systems what tool and applications do we need. Quadruple logistics,thin city's move back into nature more spread out medium density younger 18 -30 entering workforce marrying raising kids as governers of nature once again. We can take education to pupils ,operating business in the middle of nowhere America deserts that was only possible in major city's.
We can break down colleges into close nit smaller groups more engaged with local industry.
We can merge unions & publishers into online coops putting buyers, sellers, investors under one roof in one domain where like farming or trucking industry we can sub contract out skill & trade to take everything door to door.
Local ownership of new paradigm infrastructure can be restored to our bottom up ai safety grid fuse like breaker box infrastructure.
This would return us to our more pragmatic common sense socio-political & economic order invented by our early founders.
It would in fact challenge the stepping stone anomalous time period of 1900s structuralism expansionism of agencies and institutions & the more European political scale we adopted. The neo liberal control mechanisms and stress on many who never faced innovation before. City's with perks and benefits are facing things they havnt known for 150 years already so all we would do is support the organic existing flow technology is already creating on these antiquated old world control systems
Excellent! Some great analogies that I will definitely use. I think my favourite is the hole in all the buckets (trying to avoid a spoiler đ)
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Hereâs my analogy about why we need to act now and not later: when we eat we get to enjoy the food at that moment in time, but digestion occurs over time. Some foods digest faster others take longer. But sometimes our foods contain toxins that we can handle in small amounts but if we keep on eating them then those toxins are going to gradually overwhelm our bodies defence systems until they start causing harm. Even then it is going to take a while before you feel the symptoms. Once the symptoms show up youâve already set in place not just the level of harm you are feeling now, but also the worsening of your condition from the toxins your body still has to process. The amount of damage caused by the toxin is cumulative: it gets worse the more you eat it and it builds up in your body. Logically the thing to do at this point is to try to stop eating the toxic food or to eat as little as possible of the toxic food, to look for alternative foods and to try to treat the harm that has already occurred and that will continue to occur as the body tries to process the toxin already consumed.
How about integrating climate change into the larger problem of human overreach aka the Great Simplification podcast? I love your science approach. Thank you for the great work you do.
These analogies will come in handy ! I already used some but you have great ideas !!!
Such a great idea for the scarf. Just a pitty it's useless in Ethiopia and Oman, for instance.
Change of seasons, year in year out, 4.5 billion years old, 4.5 billion times the climate has changed, now can I please get a cheeseburger, no cheeseburger for you, only Roach bars because the climate changed and Kill Bill sends best wishes
How about a video on getting carbon out of Ocean water?
With the oceans being a huge carbon sink we need to get rid of Marine Carbonic Acid.
These are such great ways to explain things!
The amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water in the USA is 4 parts per million. And smaller doses are good for your teeth.
A climate record warming scarf how brilliant..Great Job Climate Adam and Katherine.