This is a very good video, thank you for putting it together.
I think that it is very necessary to keep piling up the evidence and the documentation to show people who are willing to see what is in front of them that changes in our behavior are vitally necessary right now. I like to believe there are many people out there (A plurality? A majority?) who are willing to see what is happening and believe it is reasonable to reconsider their energy consumption.
As for the rest, I can only shrug my shoulders. People keep insisting that this is just some sort of normal phase in the Earth’s climate cycle that really doesn’t have any serious implications for life on Earth. Of course, if they actually read up on previous climatic changes they would see that it takes very little to make the world difficult to inhabit. Yet somehow they either forget this or think it is simply, I don’t know, ho-hum?
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I highly recommend checking this video out. I was in the “Derecho” they describe. I have never experienced anything like it.
Question: the Munich Re graph used around 6’20” (and also used here at desdemonadespair): what’s the source? I can’t find it. It’s very compelling on the face of it, but I want to be absolutely clear on what it’s showing before bandying it around in a horrified manner…
That said, another question: I can’t find Munich Re’s definition of natural catastrophes for that graph. Only for “great natural catastrophes“, which appears to be different data. Any ideas on the direct Munich Re source and definition?
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This video, and it’s companion at the Yale forum deserve awards! Please visit Peter’s site and have a look at the entire video!
A great example of the chaos that reigns when systems drift away from Lorenz attractors (stable points in complex non-linear multivariate systems) and what lies between those points.
It drives me crazy the amount of unwillingness to look at this problem objectively. The climate IS changing (yes, it always does, but not always like this) and we must figure out what to do. But we cannot afford to exacerbate the situation. We are recovering from an ice age in an unusual time, orbitally we are in conditions prime for an extended ice age, but we are emerging from one, rather than being enmeshed within an ice age. This suggests that we are in a sensitive weather/climate situation, and here we are jabbing at the biggest mastodon in the herd with a sharp stick ignoring everyone who’s advising that we pursue a more cautious approach.
The Exxon fellow had it nearly right, but fundamentally wrong in his statement. “We will HAVE to adapt,” is more accurate a statement, but what will the cost of that adaptation be?
Make no mistake, if this is a “natural change” as anthropogenic climate change deniers are wont to claim, then we are in for it even worse that it looks like we are.
Very well done, even by your standards. I have watched it repeatedly, and several times found myself crying. It was also a great resource for this piece I recently put together, which takes a look at regional, local, and personal effects of climate change.
outstandiing.
thank you very much.
This is a very good video, thank you for putting it together.
I think that it is very necessary to keep piling up the evidence and the documentation to show people who are willing to see what is in front of them that changes in our behavior are vitally necessary right now. I like to believe there are many people out there (A plurality? A majority?) who are willing to see what is happening and believe it is reasonable to reconsider their energy consumption.
As for the rest, I can only shrug my shoulders. People keep insisting that this is just some sort of normal phase in the Earth’s climate cycle that really doesn’t have any serious implications for life on Earth. Of course, if they actually read up on previous climatic changes they would see that it takes very little to make the world difficult to inhabit. Yet somehow they either forget this or think it is simply, I don’t know, ho-hum?
Reblogged this on The Sand County and commented:
I highly recommend checking this video out. I was in the “Derecho” they describe. I have never experienced anything like it.
Question: the Munich Re graph used around 6’20” (and also used here at desdemonadespair): what’s the source? I can’t find it. It’s very compelling on the face of it, but I want to be absolutely clear on what it’s showing before bandying it around in a horrified manner…
Doh, scratch that – it’s linked to in my previous link, one of the first pages in the e-book. Sorry!
That said, another question: I can’t find Munich Re’s definition of natural catastrophes for that graph. Only for “great natural catastrophes“, which appears to be different data. Any ideas on the direct Munich Re source and definition?
found it.
have that link on my desktop machine – will post when I get home, for some reason google is not coughing it up.
Reblogged this on Echos from a Pale Blue Dot and commented:
This video, and it’s companion at the Yale forum deserve awards! Please visit Peter’s site and have a look at the entire video!
A great example of the chaos that reigns when systems drift away from Lorenz attractors (stable points in complex non-linear multivariate systems) and what lies between those points.
It drives me crazy the amount of unwillingness to look at this problem objectively. The climate IS changing (yes, it always does, but not always like this) and we must figure out what to do. But we cannot afford to exacerbate the situation. We are recovering from an ice age in an unusual time, orbitally we are in conditions prime for an extended ice age, but we are emerging from one, rather than being enmeshed within an ice age. This suggests that we are in a sensitive weather/climate situation, and here we are jabbing at the biggest mastodon in the herd with a sharp stick ignoring everyone who’s advising that we pursue a more cautious approach.
The Exxon fellow had it nearly right, but fundamentally wrong in his statement. “We will HAVE to adapt,” is more accurate a statement, but what will the cost of that adaptation be?
Make no mistake, if this is a “natural change” as anthropogenic climate change deniers are wont to claim, then we are in for it even worse that it looks like we are.
Very well done, even by your standards. I have watched it repeatedly, and several times found myself crying. It was also a great resource for this piece I recently put together, which takes a look at regional, local, and personal effects of climate change.
http://topologicoceans.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/global-warming-killed-my-friends-dog/
take care and keep cool!