2022 was another catastrophic year of extreme weather events fueled by climate change. NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff takes a look back at the impacts of those events and looks forward as the world rallies to fight climate change.
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Give her the dungeon
Climate change has become a religion for so many irrational and easily manipulated people. Even if one believes that a microscopic amount of CO2 is controlling the climate (CO2 makes up .0004% of the atmosphere) there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. A few people with means can buy an electric car so they can pretend they are doing their part for climate change. Although the mining for the minerals needed to produce the batteries for electric vehicles cause some of the most severe environmental damage on the planet along with producing gigantic amounts of CO2 by the heavy vehicles used to extract those minerals.
The religious zealots like to pretend that solar panels and windmills are the cure. But those only produce electricity and electricity is only 20% of the energy used by the world. And both of these "green/renewable" sources aren't even close to being either green or renewable as again the fossil fuels needed to mine the minerals necessary to produce solar and wind make them anything but clean, plus they only have a life span of 15-25 years and then you have to replace them. And then there is the inconvenient fact that both of these energy sources have to be fully backed up for those times when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. So for every solar or wind farm you also need a coal fired power plant to back them up. Paying twice for energy. Now there's an efficient plan.
It doesn't matter how hard one tries to pretend, the world in its current form runs on fossil fuels, and even more specifically it runs on diesel. The ships, trains, trucks, construction vehicles, planes, etc. etc. all run on diesel and jet fuel. No amount of self delusion is going to change that. So unless you are prepared to return to life as it was in the 18th century when the average life span was about 35 years, then all of this nonsense is nothing more than a ridiculous form of virtue signaling.
How many of you climate change true believers are prepared to walk or ride a bike to work everyday? How many of you are prepared to eat cold meals everyday? Take cold showers? Grow your own food, as without diesel and natural gas based fertilizer there won't be any food on the shelves in your local grocery store. Freeze in the winter and sweat in the summer? No vacations for you as planes will have to become a thing of the past as will diesel powered ships. So no trips to Hawaii unless you can endure a multi week ride in a sail boat. Virtually every aspect of modern life has a fossil fuel component to it. How many of you are prepared to radically reduce your standard of living?
So ask yourself, are you personally ready to make this kind of gigantic sacrifice in your quality of life to try and reduce the CO2 level from .0004% to .0003%? And if you aren't willing to do what's necessary, then why would you think anyone else is? And if you are capable of rationalizing that none of these climate change goals are even remotely feasible you might start to wonder why we keep pushing this drivel like you are watching in this ridiculous video? Why do the politicians espousing this nonsense fly all over the world in private planes spews tons of CO2, buy estates on the coast, spends 10's of thousands of dollars heating and cooling their mansions etc.? And if the religion isn't so deeply entrenched that you can contemplate the answer to these questions you might make the leap to the truth that this is all about money. We've spent 10 trillion dollars to lower the CO2 output in the US from 20% of global to 14%. It hasn't reduced total global CO2 by one bit though as the rest of the world continues to increase it's fossil fuel usage year after year as third world countries continue to emerge from abject poverty. So realistically we've spent 10 trillion dollars and accomplished …. nothing. Is it time to wake up or shall we waste another 10 trillion with the same result?
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲
The two weeks of climate discussions at the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, ended in disappointment. As CNN wrote, “The world has failed to reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels … an attempt to address the biggest source of the planet warming emissions that are causing the climate crisis ended in a fiasco after a number of nations, including China and Saudi Arabia, blocked a key proposal to phase out all fossil fuels, not just coal.” While the members reached an agreement “to set up a ‘loss and damage’ fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters,” it will not reverse climate change or solve our major problems.
We may be able to assist with local climate crises, but we cannot change the global climate with our current attitude. If we want to change the climate, we must change it on all levels, and first and foremost the social climate we have created. As long as it is negative, aggressive, and heating up, the global climate will reflect it.
The reason we hold global climate conferences is that the climate is a global issue. Everything we do, in any country, affects the global climate. Therefore, without global mutual consideration, humanity will not be able to resolve the climate crisis.
Regrettably, to work in global mutual consideration, we must develop empathy toward all of humanity and rise above the narrow interests of each country. We are nowhere near such an attitude. On the contrary, each country tries to impose decisions that serve its own interests on the rest of the world, and the result is a climate world war where everyone loses.
As is the case with every war, the rich and powerful countries set the tone. They continue to burn fuels that pollute the air and accelerate climate change, and nothing will stop them unless natural disasters become so extreme that they will force all of humanity to change. In the meantime, as lip service, or perhaps to buy the world’s consent, they set up “loss and damage” funds to “repair” the damage. Such funds do not solve anything, and everyone realizes this.
Besides extreme weather and climate disasters, the climate crisis has another adverse impact: Icebergs that have been frozen for thousands of years, and often far longer, are thawing. And buried in the ice are countless viruses that have been reawakened, and for which our bodies have no immunity. Scientists are already warning that the next pandemic may actually come not from wild animals or human errors, but from melting icebergs. A paper published two years ago aptly named it the “permafrost pandemic,” and warned of “the risk that deadly diseases from the distant past may return.”
Indeed, if you look at all the crises plaguing the world today, you will find that none of them are local. Covid is a global issue, climate change is affecting the entire planet, rising energy prices and interrupted supply chains are affecting all of humanity, and even a local crisis such as the war in Ukraine has serious consequences for the entire world. The interdependence already affecting all of humanity will only intensify until we are unable to make a single movement, to take a breath, without affecting the entire world.
On the positive side, none of our problems are insurmountable. In every single crisis, if we only work together rather than against each other, it will disappear as though it never existed.
All that is needed in order to fix our every plight is to change our attitude and put humanity first. Since reality is global, so should be our order of priorities. Prioritizing humanity will not only help the entire world, but every single individual, precisely because we are irrevocably interdependent. If we continue to impose a narrow vision on an expansive reality, we will continue to collide with one another and with all of nature. If we change our attitude, we will change the climate, and we will change the world.
We have 5 years to prevent anymore soil erosion
Together through global connectivity and the billionaires of the world we can achieve complete bioremediation and leave a future for the generations ahead
Oh we can reverse easily!!!
The trillions if not more, invested in the production and consumption.of oil worldwide.
Tell that to the homeless among us🐺🇺🇸🕊️
Tell what you say to homeless people 🐺🇺🇸
There are two aspects to the way we work that are mutually exclusive.
Work in the concrete sense of the term could be viewed in a general way as the material exchanges between man and nature. It is the one area of human activity that directly brings us into contact with the material elements of the earth in more than one of millions of profound ways. What our work in industry combines are the material elements from and of nature shaped to meet human needs. This is an ongoing process of interaction,– changing human societies as societies change nature.
Work in the abstract sense of the term is expressed in the significance of the clock that measures in hours, days, weeks and years, the value nature of work as a part of the total working time of society. More of that total working time is stored up in work averages in non-factory based industries and less of that total working time is stored up in work averages in non-handicraft based industries. Abstract value inputs come from varying levels of values per unit is how work is measured in the value relation products of labor have as things of use for sale.
There are the double aspects of work that currently splits our country into two mutually exclusive sides. One side is expressed in a history of social classes in work conflicts and the other side lets loose a ferocious struggle for its existence. There is not one society on earth since 1980 that has taken on itself the mission of eradicating their internal histories of class struggle so that they can freely enter a stage where everything they produce for their existence is done without the curse of the sin befalling the human race the day Eve tempted Adam to bite the Apple, the scourge of the relation of man exploiting man and blaming women and children for that scourge from time immemorial.
We r fossil fuel addicts with greed ruling. Mercury in fish & plastics in everything. We were warned we were heating planet so long ago. West has no water but sea is rising & climate chg gobbles up homes & buis. Then Putin is faster with Ukraine bc?? Addiction means its NEVER THE DRUG/ FOSSIL FUEL!💜🙏💜
Don't care for the distracting animation in the bottom right of the video.
A viewer friendly video would show "NBC News Now " and " Today Climate " for 1 or 2 minutes and then be gone. Plus it is a spinning kaleidoscope action. omg, what's next animated fireworks.
Lmao
$370 billion dollars is not enough to clean up the pollutants in the ocean, the destruction of sea eco systems, and other.
The economic model and its system of perpetual consumption and overshoot is the problem. Not the individual, it is a systemic issue. WHEN OH WHEN WILL WE JUST SAY IT, IT ISNT THE HUMAN SPECIES, IT IS NOT HUMAN NATURE, IT IS THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT CONDITIONS INEFFICIENT OUTCOMES.
Pure rubbish.
CO2 did not create the sensational conditions depicted in this propaganda piece.
AGW has never been verified by any measurable empirical observations in the real world. Anyone who says it has been proven is either ignorant or a liar. No scientific body has ever claimed it has been proved, not even the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) would make such a claim without credible evidence.
Despite this fact, the alarmist community takes the position that we're dealing with settled science. The implied thesis of their arguments is that the burden of proof has already been met, when it hasn't.
AGW hypothesis is not a foregone conclusion or basic operating principle. Many alarmists behave like the obligation is now on the public to prove the narrative is wrong.
They act like the forecasts of environmental collapse are based on unquestionable truths and only 'whining tinfoil haters' ask annoying questions because they don't understand the science or cannot accept an unpleasant universal truth.
Meanwhile the bold claims about a scientific consensus have been discredited.
Clintel.org alone proves that ridiculous claim.
World Climate Declaration
'There is No Climate Emergency'
https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/
There are many other declarations signed by tens of the thousands of scientists.
This is another piece that disagrees with the crisis narrative,
While the Climate Always Has and Always Will Change, There Is no Climate Crisis
https://co2coalition.org/2022/09/09/while-the-climate-always-has-and-always-will-change-there-is-no-climate-crisis/
Alarmist are the pushing implausible, counter-intuitive ideas, and rarely make a case without obnoxious hyperbole, drama, and ridicule.
Alarmist won't even acknowledge the simple historical fact that the arctic has gone through ice melting warming periods before CO2 emissions were a factor. We know that in 1903-06, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's navigated the Northwest Passage, and between 1940-1944 the St. Roch RCMP sailing schooner, made the voyage twice. CO2 levels were lower at the time.
This fact alone disproves the 'climate emergency' mantra. Not to mention the fact that half of the recent natural warming took place years before fossil fuel usage was a factor. Furthermore, ice core sample showed that warming causes CO2 to rise not the other way around, due to ocean off-gassing.
The hypothesis about a concerning rise in atmospheric temperature is contradicted by a paper published by The Global Warming Policy Foundation in 2019 where scientist measured how many units of energy are being collected and accumulated in the atmosphere. They found there was one quarter of the level predicted by IPCC climate models and the warming was having a minor impact on global temperature.
It also looks like the green house effect is probably TEMPORARY.
Professor Nasif Nahle at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Nuevo Leon (Mexico) estimated the rate at which heat is retained by CO2 molecules, which may only last about 0.0001 of a second. If heat-loss is slowed down at a rate of 0.0001 of a second by CO2 molecules, the atmospheric CO2 concentration – whether it's 300 PPM or 400 PPM – effectively doesn't matter.
Furthermore, a research paper written by Happer and Van Wijngaarden concluded that all GHGs are saturated and adding to the current concentrations will make very little difference. The results suggest we have little to worry about regarding increasing GHGs.
The greenhouse effect, summary of the Happer and Van Wijngaarden paper
https://clintel.org/the-greenhouse-effect-summary-of-the-happer-and-van-wijngaarden-paper/
The MSM condescending certainty smacks of blind faith and narcissistic hubris.
There is plenty of room for doubt, the burden of proof has not been met. CO2 does not harm the environment.
The fear of CO2 is irrational. Everything we consume and emit is carbon-based. Everything we make or purchase causes carbon emissions. It is not possible to control and regulate carbon without controlling and regulating every aspect of human existence. To be anti-carbon is to be anti-human freedom. Growing numbers of people see the war on carbon is an ill-disguised war on humanity, and a war on human freedom.
Carbon and carbon emissions are simply a proxy for human activity.
This whole movement to demonize carbon is driven by a world-denying, man-hating worldview.
The ruthless, unscientific green tyranny unfolding in the Canada, Australia, New Zealand, U.S, EU and elsewhere is undeniable.
Water security first must address conservation and reduction of waste
Climate Change is BS. Human interaction cannot change or effect weather conditions 🤔
There is no hope as long as a man like Putin lives he will push the button
both global warming and higher levels of CO₂ would be good for life
the Earth is too cold
and CO₂ is a nutrient
All we do is talk, whos taking the action? We just had 20cm snow in a region thats not normal to have…
I am seeing a lot of natural disasters around the world in about last 4 years
We haven't had a hurricane worth a blow since 2014. It's still 80° all year round in Hawaii. That 14K foot mountain makes storms go around us. Best spot on the planet.
'Climate Warming: Fact or Fiction.' Physicists explain why the data points are too narrow for the "big lie to be true".
https://youtu.be/1zrejG-WI3U
We sending people to space but can't solve snow problems 😂
20 Below wind chill in the south,😂
2001 – According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia ,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
We badly need population control
What a Sham! Hot, cold, wet, dry it's due to fossil fuel CO2. If not for fossil fuel CO2 we would be in the Garden of Eden.
EVERYONE needs to do their part to combat global warming. I run my AC with the windows open to combat global warming.
This is garbage news from the demonic globalist
But things have always been this way right? /s
It's too late to save our planet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The damage is irreversible at this point
The rapidly changing climate is just one symptom of a much bigger issue,… that which is called "overshoot", by men like William Rees ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQdVCwOZ1Y&list=WL&index=25&t=400s ) . Unlimited growth on a finite planet. Way too many human beings on this earth, and we are making life difficult for all of the other species that we share the environment with.
Idiocy! We have long since passed the tipping point. Overshoot was 40 years ago. And yet these bird-brained news organizations keep preaching this nonsense. Where's the definitive evidence to prove that it can all be fixed? Besides, Climate Change is not the direct problem; it's a symptom of a much broader and infinitely more complicated world-wide dynamic.
Sounds like false opinion after opinion after opinion…..is there any real news facts at NBC anymore.
We can't combat climate change, but we can run from it… oh wait…. right… yeahhh
Got to love the hurt the illegals are doing on the border hospitals. Can’t wait for legal Americans to get denied cause they’re too busy with illegals.🤣🤣