ClimateAdam 
As the world heats, we face the consequences from rising seas, extreme weather, and the spread of disease. But what can we do to turn the tide? New research is revealing the climate actions that are actually working, and how we can all help build unstoppable momentum towards a climate tipping point to halt global warming.
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==MORE INFO==
Climate policies are successful https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl6547
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02717-7
Social tipping points https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900577117#sec-1
Likely climate projections https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-024-07335-7
==CREDITS==
World warming by Nasa Goddard
Climate protest footage from Green Left and 350 dot org
Pope footage from Narendra Modi
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About The Author
help push climate education to its tipping point here: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateAdam
and a special shout out to the CliMate who said came to say hello while I was busy editing this on the train to Switzerland!
I love your videos
Prof Jim Hansen's study & paper projects a continuing rise in global mean temperatures of at least 0.25°C per decade which would get us to +3°C by 2084 – way off track indeed. That is perhaps conservative because I dont think we can eliminate the self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms without either 1) LOWERING the total cumulation of GH gases, or 2) gambling with untried geoengineering interventions.
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Seeing Some ecology rebound at the start of the pandemic, when exports and businesses largely shut down (Such as the dolphins In Venice) Gives me a positive Memory to think back on. More importantly, it tells me how Quickly natural systems can rebound if we stopped our toxic systems. Give nature credit for how we can rebound if we change, For it may surprise us in regeneration and new forms could take
We need to get you on real time with bill maher! Last night they had some rando who was saying that climate change isn't that bad and technology will magically save us. And of course, no one there knew enough to combat it and it was just me yelling at my tv!
Who remembers reading their “Weekly Readers” (newspaper for elementary students) in the late 60’s and they were trying to scare us with cartoons portraying how life would be for us after acid rain and the ozone hole had overtaken the earth. Images of children playing outside in spacesuits, ala NASA, complete with helmets and the life support backpack.
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Lol. These copium climate pundits are so funny. He's worried we might hit three "by the end of the century". Also… The fundamental reason why nothing has, or will, get meaningfully done is that the US has tied it's currency to these resources. They aren't the only country to do this but they ARE the global reserve currency. So like… you going to change that? And every single system reliant on it. I wish you luck, friend.
Adam, please address the root problem: Growth.
All else is details.
We can't expect a system geared for eternal growth to implement policies meant to stop growth.
Therefore we must change the economic model first.
And please look into Deep Warming.
Eaon Newsletter has a good summary.
Deep Warming sounds like a problem far into the future, until you realise that a 3% growth double energy consumption in 25 years.
If we double our energy consumption 5 times the waste heat will match the heat retained by CO2.
And there is no way to export waste heat in a vacuum, other than raising temperature.
That is basic thermodynamics.
The fossile industry spends millions of dollars so we don't reach the social tipping point where people realize it's cheaper and healthier to end fossile emissions. As all right wing extremists on our earth they wheaponize social media, using bots and trollfarms. THIS is where politics has to make a big change. Social media has to abide by rules – if it doesn't, sites have to be shut down, just like X/twitter in brazil.
Us humans will die out some day, Earth doesn't care: next species please!
Nuclear is much more reliable than renewable,and it will be much more appealing to investors
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This is a large and possibly terminal. It will take the world to come together to change it. Even if we cut emissions we will still have yo remove it from the atmosphere. You aren’t talking about the ozone hole getting worse because of the heating then by cutting the co2 could throw us into other issues. This is a big dynamic issue. And you guys always take a conservative look at it. The heat is going to kill us off long before the rest of it will. There solutions that will work in a ten year period. Sodium reactors. Stop all fossil fuels go to sodium and other green sources.
Hi Adam, thanks for the awesome content! I often hear "we already have the solutions we need to stop climate change" so it's great to see them actually listed in a political context. Can I ask where/how you discover these articles? I want to get better at science communication, especially "solutions journalism", and resources like these would be super helpful! P.s. Your self-talks are getting very compelling. 🙂
There’s no future that includes a livable planet for Holocene adapted organisms, including humans. Trump is going to lose the majority of votes, but he’s almost definitely going to win the electoral college. Even if he loses the electoral college, a highly unlikely scenario, the Supreme Court will find a way. “But that’s only the USA”, right? Wrong! The USA is big enough to bring everyone else down. Think about it.
You mentioned that the Amazon switching from a carbon sink to ancarbon source was a tipping point…but i heard a few months ago that it had already happened. : (
Wow. Good luck! Cutesy. I think this is a disingenuous presentation. Our predicament is much worse than that presented.
I.d recommend to enable YouTube memberships. The entry hurdle to support is much lower so i.d expect it to be be in efficial even though i guess youtube will get a cut ot it
Your hair is cool! what are you talking about!
We're not going to stop burning fossil fuels until they're all gone, sorry to burst the bubble.
Yeah sure, let me know when we will reduce emissions below for example year 2000 when we emitted 25.5 billion mertric tons acc. to statista com. In 2023 we emitted 37.55 billion, record high. If we start reducing this number from now on, we will still add co2 to the system every year for next couple of decades. But we probably wont start reducing it
Hi Adam, great video as always. However, since you are mentioning Norways electric car policy: isn’t it in fact a “bad” example? (or a „great“ example for the larger problems of our modern societies and their political system)
One the one hand the government is implementing “green” policies; on the other hand they still export gas and oil on a huge scale. But maybe these policies only serve the goal of appeasing the public, letting them think their government is actually addressing the problem and are less incentivised to protest against fossil fuel exports. Changing to electric cars may seem to be a “good” policy and reduces the amount of emitted CO² on paper. But one also has to keep in mind, that these new cars need to be produced; and the environmental impact of the production is huge. But this is “hidden” to the Norwegian public (and in the statistics), because it doesn’t happen in Norway itself.
This policy represents a substitute, not real change, which is urgently needed. A really effective policy would be to stop exporting fossil fuels.
I am 100% expecting to find out in a few years that there was a active collusion to slow down rollout of charging stations in the US. More people are switching back to ICE or sticking with hybrids than ever before and I can understand why, charging if you rent or go on long trips is a nightmare. If you own your home and just use them to get around town they are great. We NEED to get charging stations to roll out faster or we will see a reverse in the progress we are making for at least a few years.
I am a climate activist. I will not talk about abolishing capitalism. Because I don't want to solve this problem
Well pointed out ! Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. All renewables are great however most people are unaware that electromagnetic induction is still the cheaper form of generating electricity compared to solar. Electromagnetic induction is less impacting on the environment and a far more sustainable form of harvesting energy. Kinetic energy is available 24 hours whereas solar only has energy for 5 hours a day. Undertaking an LCOE has proven Active Kinetic 1, may well be the cheapest method to generate electricity !
Why would you want to try to stop a runaway train? Ride the tiger baby! Practice wu-wei
No amount of optimism is going to mine the insane amount of lithium we will need. We produce 100,000 tons a year but will need 5 million tons in 25 years in order to reach net 0. See the problem? So unless society flips on its head so we all turn into patrons of the planet and magically mines that insane amount of lithium at scales never seen, we cooked. Especially when our carbon debt runs out in 5 years not 25.
Be positive, it will change china, ruSSia, usa, india, etc. 😃
We won't stop anything. We're done.
Thanks for the video!!
Also want to be sure to mention that we can do a better job at sourcing the matériels for energy fuel. We’ve got to get the kids out of the mines.
Right now poor folks and people of color are both impacted by climate change and are harmed by the “solutions.” Children crawling into cobalt mines for our EV and phone batteries is one example.
We can slow, and perhaps reverse climate change and we can do so by Not causing harm to humans if we choose not to.
We have ADDED green energy and not slowed greenhouse gasses overall. As more countries move up the developing chain or/and move to more developing countries used more resources. In addition, trading fossil fuels or mining doesn't really change many problems, just the way the problems affect us.
Not to mention that it is NOT ONLY climate change that is having a negative effect on us. Biodiversity is down!! Pollution is growing. …
Palm trees in Antartica, three dimensional check mate, whales in the Egyptian desert, three dimensional check mate, did humans cause this or were we still just little monkeys at this time.
THE CLIMATE-CHANGER GOD-ROCK
WHAT YOU ARE MISSING IS THE FACTS
1. FACT 2012 THE TECTONIC PLATES STARTED TO EXPAND OPEN
2. FACT THAT WHEN THE TECTONIC PLATES OPEN UP IT CAUSES MAJOR VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKES. CAUSES
3. FACT THEY CAUSE MAJOR VOLCANIC SMOG ERUPTIONS DAILY EVERY 50 YEARS CAUSING
4. FACT MAJOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS AROUND THE ENTIRE WORLD TILL IT TURNS INTO A PANDEMIC
5. ALSO OCCURING IS MAJOR EXTREME WEATHER PATTERNS THAT CAUSES
MAJOR DRY DROUGHTS
MAJOR RAINFALLS
MAJOR FLOODING
MAJOR MUNSLIDES
MAJOR NATURAL DISASTERS
6. NEXT IS THIS –WHEN THIS EARTH HEATED UP IT WAS BECAUSE WHEN THE PLATES TECTONIC WERE CLOSED UP FROM 1985 TO 2011 IT RETAINED CLOSE TO 30 KILOTONS OF SURFACE WATER TO THE CORE OF THE EARTH AND THAT NOT ONLY HEATED UP THE EARTH IT HEATED UP THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE FIRST ONE TO COOL DOWN WILL BE THE ATMOSPHERE
7. THAT MEANS THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL COOL DOWN AT THE SAME TIME. LIKE AN ICEAGE
8. THIS HAPPENS EVERY 50 YEARS
2012 TO 2035
1960 TO 1985
1910 TO 1935
1860 TO 1885
1810 TO 1835
1760 TO 1785
1710 TO 1735
EVERY 50 YEARS THE EARTH OPENS UP WITH HEAT AND CLOSES BY MEANS OF COLD COLD COLD WINTERS IN A ROW 2024 TO 2035
THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD WAKE UP AND GET READY =IGNORANCE
Well, getting rid of fossil fuels can only work by making renewables cheap enough so using fossil fuels doesn’t provide a competitive advantage. Because as long as using fossil fuels provides a competitive advantage, somebody will do it, the global capitalist system makes sure that there are always enough people desperate enough to use any competitive advantage to survive.
As long as we don’t understand this, we will not be able to actually stop the climate warming.
Speaking of education – have you heard about "Climate Fresk"?
Very interesting education idea – perhaps worth doing video about it?
Overpopulation is the ultimate cause of all forms of pollution. Until it is under control, humans are headed to extinction.
Im very sorry but I don’t think changing our mindset and social values towards climate change is gonna solve the problem. Because in my experience policy makers don’t allways value the public opinion or what might be the best for earth as much as what is good for business. The only thing that’s happening is that people feel guilty for something that they are not in control of.
If 69 out of 1.5K climate policies have worked, it's actually quite the achievement that indicates just how little can be done to achieve something. Is there a list that details what policies have worked, where and why?
Donald Trump has the PERFECT solution for combating Climate Change….he plans to ELIMINATE all green energy initiatives, end the EPA, and bury everybody's heads in the sand!!
Vote BLUE, and vote EARLY!!
I really enjoy your battle with your pesky doppelganger. It seems to me that it's now a race between social awareness tipping points and nature's climate induced tipping points. I am not so sure nature will let us off the hook easily. I hate being negative like this and certainly I appreciate the hope and good news that you and the wonderful Engineering with Rosie are able to reveal. Australia under a Labor Government is making progress, but it needs to ramp up its ambition and cut out giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries that give them the let-off of the dubious and underwhelming carbon sequestration projects.
Industrial civilization is not possible without the massive energy inputs made possible with fossil fuels. A human population of 8 billion people is not possible without industrial civilization. As in the past, human civilization is possible without fossil fuels, but not this civilization.
We just had our first 110F day in October since they started recording Phoenix temps in 1896
When I talked about my climate anxiety with my friend, he ended up questioning my anxiety. Utterly unbelievable.
Eat mostly plant based with a lot less animal profucts, is the best thing we can all do to save the planet and our health