If this was 1960 I would, with my current medical problems , have died from heat. This wasn't because of the climate so much as it was because there was not any readily available air conditioning. I likely would have died from the major heart attack I had 9 years ago but now I am heat sensitive due to medications. I have lethal reactions when I get into temps over 80 degrees F or below 60 degrees F. Without technology I would be dead. It would be very sad for my family, not so much for the world in general.

The fact that this video has only 30 k views is really sad.

The moderator says three times how “uncomfortable” this talk is. Thanks for reminding me of how we have a deathgrip on Doomsday. It’s hard to let go, especially The End of The World is the only thing that gives life meaning.

Thanks for the upload. Note to the camera operator: the shot is too wide. There is no need to see above to top of the projector screen, and if you want to include the audience just the first row of heads is enough. This way the viewer can focus on and see the the important stuff more clearly, like Bjorn and the information in the slides.

Same perspective on clima change as German Prof.Dr. G. Gantefoer of the University of Konstanz. Education and adaptation.

Reducing dependence on hydrocarbons for energy won't come from Banning oil but from having effective substitutes. If we're serious about reducing dependence on hydrocarbons, we need to get cracking building a buttload of nuclear power plants.

The guy with the question at the end obviously didn’t listen to the talk

Vastly exaggerated? Bjorn, i think you're a master of understatement.

Who can control the sun? The sun shines in cycles. Some cycles hotter some cycles not so hot. The amount of heat we humans cause is tiny compared to how much more heat the sun gives us when it is at its maximum. So why are we spending any money to try and “fix”the climate?

Perhaps it would be cognizant to mention that there are 3 X the buildings and people along the seaboard since 1960. Ergo the same force Hurricane will do 2or 3 times as much property damage as in 1960. Deaths are down though,because of much better forecasting that allows advanced evacuation and other preparations. Cheers from Sunny Alberta!

If people read wg1 IPCC last report, instead of the executive summary, they would understand that there is no evidence that human action have impact on extreme phenomena. The executive summary is written by politicians, contrary to the report that is mainly written by experts.

Problem with the theory that we are x times as rich as now. Think of the money which get's wasted for measures takes right now. Politicians, climate scientists, and people making money with that ideas might be hundred times as rich but surely not the rest of the world.

There are always people in the crowd with closed minds who don’t listen, then say the speaker didn’t address the “real” concern or used shoddy science. I think Bjorn is brilliant and appropriately concerned for the have-nots of the world.

Great presentation..... We need more rational advisors like you.

GPI, the genuine progress indicator, is a much more fundamentally sound metric to track with climate change decisions and moves.

look at what the CO2 levels were when the dinosaurs were alive and what the predicted average temperature of the Earth was during that time period. we're going to be fine

Hate when they project more and stronger hurricanes. Storms form as a result temperature differences. All the climate models as well as real world data predict a more significant increase in temp at the mid to upper latitudes. That means there is a reduced temp differential between the tropics (where hurricanes form) and the mid latitudes. Hurricane strengths may well be reduced over time.

We know what countries that have lifted themselves out of poverty have done to get rich. We don't have any idea how to make a country rich from the outside. Corruption and poor governance can only be fixed by the country's polity and that's not a normal thing to do. You can pour cheap energy on all the poor countries in the world and not necessarily help most of their people at all.

Love it the truth

After I read all news around world, I understand all the storms make all worlds falling the part, I don’t blame on you. You did right decisions.