Excellent montage but from the perspective of someone who lives outside the US you’ve missed out the rest of the world. The UK has been experiencing the most extreme flooding in recorded history right after the six months of extreme drought. We’ve had hosepipe bans and deadly floods within the space of half a year, rain and hailstorms described as biblical and even tornadoes. All of this is directly attributable to changes to the Jet Stream, which has happened because the Arctic is warmer.
And we are not the only ones. Other parts of Europe have experienced the same. Outside of Europe, southern Russia has had floods that have killed over 170 people. Fiji and Kenya and Australia too. There are record-breaking droughts in North Korea and East Africa.
It is important to describe to the people of the US what is happening due to climate change as for many years it has been the hub of denial. I also understand how it may be difficult to obtain clips from outside the US due to access issues and copyright (I don’t know how I could help with this but I’d be happy to try). I don’t know if you realise how widely respected your videos are and how important they are to a global audience. Perhaps seeing this as a truly global issue may help some people in the US too.
Well, he did show the Munich Re clip which covered worldwide data.
Nevertheless, agreed on the worldwide aspect, but time is a factor in these videos too.
Maybe a rapid-fire montage at some point during a video? It would show events that are a certain amount more costly than average or events that are odd or record breaking in some way.
Thanks Otter. Yes, I take your point, there is a good section towards the end of the video about global changes.
I’m not suggesting this video be changed – it is (as usual) brilliant. I’m suggesting that in future videos more could reflect events elsewhere in the world such as this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18758895
Apologies to other peoples around the world, but right now my country is one of the biggest problems, and one that could fix itself the fastest due to access to capital and a rich blend of green energy sources to make a major impact on global GHG emissions.
One of the political parties in our country has made a figurative “pact with the devil”. And the brand XX oil company (CEO is featured in this video) is one of the most powerful forces that can block action on climate change. Greenman has centered this video on the most important targets… Also please recognize some of the interviews from the video are from Texas, the home state of the some of the most powerful politicians, and also the corporate HQ of brand XX oil. People who live in the other states understand what he is doing.
Yeah, Potholer is wonderful but he is an expat, born in the UK living and reporting from Aus. We do have David Attenbourgh, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking on the side of rational science, but we also have the irrationalists like Dellingbole, Durkin and Monkton with their obsessive cult followers. After the horrendous weather we’ve been experiencing I wonder how much credence they still hold – but I still think we need a Youtube champion. Any offers?
These days there’s good video editing software that’s open source and free. Stop waiting for someone else – get making. Don’t aim for perfection, just get something made and out there. Then make the next one.
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I would like to be a UK version of Greenman but have not quite ‘broken through’ yet. This may have something to do with being unemployed and (as much as I would like to do it) being unable to make blogging work financially…
In the UK, we have a government that claims to be Green; and yet only 43% of the population seem to accept the nature of reality! I blame the non-scientific, supposedly sceptical, journalists myself; but I cannot get them to talk to me – I am either considered irrelevant or they know they could not win an argument with me (not sure which it is).
Last I heard, Delingpole was ridiculing the idea of global warming on the basis that it has been so cold and wet here these last few months… Short-term memory loss and tunnel vision strike again. However, even though it is cold and wet here not hot and dry, our food prices are now going to go skywards too… All just as was predicted by people dismissed decades ago as doomsayers…
Garrett Hardin, Paul Ehrlich, Dennis Meadows, E.F. Schumacher, William Ophuls, Mathis Wackernagel, Ernest Callenbach, Lester Brown… It looks like that darn ‘wolf’ finally showed up…
We will adapt. Some of us with the money & power. Others who are poor & powerless? They will die in droves. We will adapt giving our children and grandchildren a world far pooerer, harsher and worse than we’ve enjoyed. We will adapt for a while. A time while feedbacks keep kicking in and the planet continues getting ever hotter, stormier and crueller. But if this goes on, we won’t be able to adapt enough. No adapatation could be enough to live on Venus for long. Or even a world half that bad.
I think before the poor die in droves, they will turn on the rich and powerful demanding change. If not, I don’t see how the rich will survive in a way where they get off scott free.
I was surprised to hear the words ‘climate change’ on US TV. If it’s on the lips of the average American, you can bet something will be done soon.
Winston Churchill once said in reference to the US that it can be eventually counted on doing the right thing once it has exhausted all other possibilities.
Googe Drive’s WeVideo looks like an interesting way to collaborate on this sort of thing. Might be an idea to try for some UK people (myself included?) Though, er, I seem to be having one of those weeks where I’m massively over-committing myself to things I’ll never have time for…!
Whilst it correctly makes all the links between the recent exteme weather and climate change and even asks “what sort of extreme events will we have to endure by 2060, when the planet could already be 4 °C hotter and counting?”
It then goes and ruins it all by saying that it’l be possible to adapt to such changes….almost like their an Exon Mobil exec I could mention.
“We need to start planning for a future of much wilder weather now, to prepare for ever more ferocious heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts…. Those who offer blithe reassurances of our ability to adapt need to start putting their money where their mouths are.”
It doesn’t mention the need to increase mitigation efforts at all!
I find this incredibly irresposible. There is no adapting to 4 degrees C, the fact that the current extremes are already far beyond what scientists expected for this level of warming should make that blatently clear.
A whole journal issue was published in the proceedings of the royal society highlighting the hellish future that awaits if we don’t tke action now to stop climate change. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/conte9/1934.toc
As John Holdren pointed out :
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
Great production values. Certainly a juxtaposition of scenes compared to Rex Tillerson’s take on the issue.
Excellent montage but from the perspective of someone who lives outside the US you’ve missed out the rest of the world. The UK has been experiencing the most extreme flooding in recorded history right after the six months of extreme drought. We’ve had hosepipe bans and deadly floods within the space of half a year, rain and hailstorms described as biblical and even tornadoes. All of this is directly attributable to changes to the Jet Stream, which has happened because the Arctic is warmer.
And we are not the only ones. Other parts of Europe have experienced the same. Outside of Europe, southern Russia has had floods that have killed over 170 people. Fiji and Kenya and Australia too. There are record-breaking droughts in North Korea and East Africa.
It is important to describe to the people of the US what is happening due to climate change as for many years it has been the hub of denial. I also understand how it may be difficult to obtain clips from outside the US due to access issues and copyright (I don’t know how I could help with this but I’d be happy to try). I don’t know if you realise how widely respected your videos are and how important they are to a global audience. Perhaps seeing this as a truly global issue may help some people in the US too.
Keep up the brilliant work.
Well, he did show the Munich Re clip which covered worldwide data.
Nevertheless, agreed on the worldwide aspect, but time is a factor in these videos too.
Maybe a rapid-fire montage at some point during a video? It would show events that are a certain amount more costly than average or events that are odd or record breaking in some way.
Thanks Otter. Yes, I take your point, there is a good section towards the end of the video about global changes.
I’m not suggesting this video be changed – it is (as usual) brilliant. I’m suggesting that in future videos more could reflect events elsewhere in the world such as this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18758895
Apologies to other peoples around the world, but right now my country is one of the biggest problems, and one that could fix itself the fastest due to access to capital and a rich blend of green energy sources to make a major impact on global GHG emissions.
One of the political parties in our country has made a figurative “pact with the devil”. And the brand XX oil company (CEO is featured in this video) is one of the most powerful forces that can block action on climate change. Greenman has centered this video on the most important targets… Also please recognize some of the interviews from the video are from Texas, the home state of the some of the most powerful politicians, and also the corporate HQ of brand XX oil. People who live in the other states understand what he is doing.
He’s going straight to the heart of the beast.
Paul
“He’s going straight to the heart of the beast.”
You are right. Perhaps I’m just frustrated that the UK doesn’t have it’s own Greenman. 🙂
You guys have potholer54, also a big asset with a very good youtube channel…
Yeah, Potholer is wonderful but he is an expat, born in the UK living and reporting from Aus. We do have David Attenbourgh, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking on the side of rational science, but we also have the irrationalists like Dellingbole, Durkin and Monkton with their obsessive cult followers. After the horrendous weather we’ve been experiencing I wonder how much credence they still hold – but I still think we need a Youtube champion. Any offers?
These days there’s good video editing software that’s open source and free. Stop waiting for someone else – get making. Don’t aim for perfection, just get something made and out there. Then make the next one.
I would like to be a UK version of Greenman but have not quite ‘broken through’ yet. This may have something to do with being unemployed and (as much as I would like to do it) being unable to make blogging work financially…
In the UK, we have a government that claims to be Green; and yet only 43% of the population seem to accept the nature of reality! I blame the non-scientific, supposedly sceptical, journalists myself; but I cannot get them to talk to me – I am either considered irrelevant or they know they could not win an argument with me (not sure which it is).
Last I heard, Delingpole was ridiculing the idea of global warming on the basis that it has been so cold and wet here these last few months… Short-term memory loss and tunnel vision strike again. However, even though it is cold and wet here not hot and dry, our food prices are now going to go skywards too… All just as was predicted by people dismissed decades ago as doomsayers…
Garrett Hardin, Paul Ehrlich, Dennis Meadows, E.F. Schumacher, William Ophuls, Mathis Wackernagel, Ernest Callenbach, Lester Brown… It looks like that darn ‘wolf’ finally showed up…
We will adapt. Some of us with the money & power. Others who are poor & powerless? They will die in droves. We will adapt giving our children and grandchildren a world far pooerer, harsher and worse than we’ve enjoyed. We will adapt for a while. A time while feedbacks keep kicking in and the planet continues getting ever hotter, stormier and crueller. But if this goes on, we won’t be able to adapt enough. No adapatation could be enough to live on Venus for long. Or even a world half that bad.
(Venus has a surface temperature of 500 degrees.)
I think before the poor die in droves, they will turn on the rich and powerful demanding change. If not, I don’t see how the rich will survive in a way where they get off scott free.
I was surprised to hear the words ‘climate change’ on US TV. If it’s on the lips of the average American, you can bet something will be done soon.
Winston Churchill once said in reference to the US that it can be eventually counted on doing the right thing once it has exhausted all other possibilities.
On video-making: I wonder if Peter could make a DIY post? What software, some ideas on technique etc. I’d be interested in giving it a go.
Googe Drive’s WeVideo looks like an interesting way to collaborate on this sort of thing. Might be an idea to try for some UK people (myself included?) Though, er, I seem to be having one of those weeks where I’m massively over-committing myself to things I’ll never have time for…!
Count me in. I’ve also just discovered Martin Lack’s blog – well worth publicising to fellow Limeys: http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com
That looks super awesome \o/
Did anyone here see the editorial in the new scientist this week?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528723.500-as-freak-weather-becomes-the-norm-we-need-to-adapt.html
Whilst it correctly makes all the links between the recent exteme weather and climate change and even asks “what sort of extreme events will we have to endure by 2060, when the planet could already be 4 °C hotter and counting?”
It then goes and ruins it all by saying that it’l be possible to adapt to such changes….almost like their an Exon Mobil exec I could mention.
“We need to start planning for a future of much wilder weather now, to prepare for ever more ferocious heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts…. Those who offer blithe reassurances of our ability to adapt need to start putting their money where their mouths are.”
It doesn’t mention the need to increase mitigation efforts at all!
I find this incredibly irresposible. There is no adapting to 4 degrees C, the fact that the current extremes are already far beyond what scientists expected for this level of warming should make that blatently clear.
A whole journal issue was published in the proceedings of the royal society highlighting the hellish future that awaits if we don’t tke action now to stop climate change.
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/conte9/1934.toc
As John Holdren pointed out :
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
http://grist.org/climate-change/adapting-to-climate-change-necessary-but-difficult-and-expensive/
I love the juxtaposition, simply brilliant.
However, you aint seen nothin yet. This is but a little taster of what is to come.