The Guardian just surveyed 380 climate scientists to get their views on our climate future, and the results are very sobering. www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair The UN echoes the despair of the climate scientists, and says we are on the brink of catastrophe… ‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns… www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/world-is-on-verge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns Meanwhile, Trump promises fossil fuel executives, that if they fund his campaign with a billion dollars, he will scrap all Biden’s climate policies: www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation Meanwhile, we had a record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere; 4.7 ppm rise over last year… www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-record?CMP=share_btn_url Shite is getting very real, faster than expected… Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

@onlineadvertisingnet

26 күн бұрын

By 2100, LMAO! We'll be long gone by then.

@casperjohansson7499

26 күн бұрын

Maybe try and get Simon Michaux on?

@peterbelanger4094

26 күн бұрын

Us 'deniers' will never comply, this is....

@peterbelanger4094

26 күн бұрын

WAR!

@sookendestroy1

26 күн бұрын

@@onlineadvertisingnet think of the children... but actually though

When Paul Beckwith asks "What the fuck..." you know it's getting real

World governments: “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”

@sertandoom4693

26 күн бұрын

Here in the U.S. it's more that the trying part is being opposed - lawsuits to stop these efforts have been and are being made.

@bluegold21

24 күн бұрын

@@sertandoom4693 Ikr. Whenever the oil comp reps are called to testify at congressional hearings they lie through their teeth. The evidence that can be used to hold them accountable is always pre-redacted after the myriad court cases the oil comps have been through and won thanks to their literal floor's worth of lawyers. paid for by their egregious profiteering The legal process is, as we have seen with Trumps' faux immunity plea to SCOTUS, stifled by private interests and blatant corruption. And it's always the usual suspects that are corrupting the judges.

I recently turned 75 and I feel so much sadness and despair when I reflect on what we have destroyed over the course of my lifetime.

@billr1129

26 күн бұрын

Ditto

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

As a High School graduate in the mid '70s, I was already thoroughly convinced that the environment was being destroyed at such a rate that we would not have one by the 2030's. Limiting human reproduction and winding down the insane economic system of unlimited growth on a finite resource planet was the only sensible path forward-OBVIOUSLY. Yet I never heard this from governments or business. In the ensuing decades, I could see that government and business were desperately trying to steer all of us sheeple away from anything that made sense in dealing with the huge environmental catastrophes unfolding at an accelerating rate. By 2000, it was obvious that nothing would be done to counter the existential threats of our system of living as humans. The only option was acceptance. Staying informed became my focus, and planning my life decisions around that knowledge was the only form of control left to the me and the common man. Now, the exponential function is becoming evident to all, and yet we are still being treated like sheeple. We find ourselves with NO leadership, and have put the most incompetent and sociopathic individuals in charge of EVERYTHING. Isn't that the most obvious sign of impending extinction for Humans out there?

@markschuette3770

26 күн бұрын

and then there is the other tragic event ocurring- the 6th great extinction! anyone but trump!

@lifewriter7455

26 күн бұрын

Don't be sad. Humanity created environmental catastrophy. God created humans. So it's actually God's own fault. But God is dead. So, whatever. Life on planet earth will survive one way or another. At least the surviving animals will experience a world without human society. Just like in paradise. Before God created humans who destroyed their own sivilization. So in the end it will all be ok. That's all. 😎👍

@dogdude4897

25 күн бұрын

Me too, and I'm 75 also...

It’s a pretty remarkable thing to wake everyday and go to work for a system that has no future.

@stephentrueman4843

23 күн бұрын

As ecologist William Rees remarked: "It's the most abnormal period in human history"

@jonanlsh

20 күн бұрын

i feel like im LARPing as an adult, just waiting for when the big wet bulb takes me out

@reuireuiop0

19 күн бұрын

Nothing to worry then, as Johnny Rotten made a whole career out of "no future" ! Pretty vacant, really

@gregorymalchuk272

5 күн бұрын

It's pretty remarkable to wake up every day and claim that a system "has no future" when the global standard of living keeps rising.

Nothing is going to change except for the global temperature average. It's going up up and up.

@wolfgangpreier9160

7 күн бұрын

When the temperatures are high enough that 70% of earth becomes too hot for humans the big wars for northern ressources will start. I predict 1 billion people will survive until 2100. Then economy will be broken, CO2 will reduce slowly and the climate starts its long way to the next ice age.

It’s sobering to realize that Paul Ehrlich and Guy McPherson have been optimists

@wandererstraining

25 күн бұрын

Well, not quite, lol. We're very likely to outlast all of McPherson's predictions. Unless you mean that thinking we'd be fully extinct by 2026 is optimism? Doesn't mean we won't go extinct in the near-ish future, but that's not a foregone conclusion yet.

@GaseousStranger

25 күн бұрын

@@wandererstraining People act like Guy was outlandish with his estimations, yet is a decade or two really that far off when talking about ecological timelines?

@wandererstraining

25 күн бұрын

@@GaseousStranger I don't disagree with that, but it's always a mistake to give a really precise time. I could see us going extinct in the near future, but it's not a given either, and he definitely made a lot of very early predictions.

@reuireuiop0

19 күн бұрын

As a species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens may disappear, only to be replaced by _Homo Resiliencis Resourcefullys_

@chaz0matic

13 күн бұрын

Perhaps the EEI is a better measure? 12 HB per second!!! 1 Million Hiroshima Bombs (HB) DAILY!!! 365 Million Yearly EEI! 3,650 Million HB after 10 years!!! What temperature will 3650 Million HB raise the temperature to?

Its over

@drtootsi

26 күн бұрын

It's SO fucking over. But according to Paul we should do our best to fuck it up even further with solar geoengineering :)

@abody499

26 күн бұрын

@@drtootsi the only way in theory to stop it is by solar geoengineering. not sure what form paul advocates, but as far as i see, solar reflection management is the only theoretically sound solution. trouble is the practicalities of implementing that are staggering. nonetheless, there's no other way to fix the energy imbalance in the system

@dion8962

26 күн бұрын

Yep.. tik tok, tik tok.. get out n enjoy it while you still can

@reuploadboi

26 күн бұрын

it's over industrialbros...

@delburnwalter2024

26 күн бұрын

@@abody499 Which system are you talking about, industrial civilization or the biosphere? If we give up on the first there's still a chance to save some semblance of the latter.

Politicians and the plutocracy are very much short term thinkers, none of them have a long view. We are so screwed

@PaulaTourville-po7fg

26 күн бұрын

$$$$ and staying in political power is the focus .

@TruthAndFreedom.

26 күн бұрын

Why don't y'all know about the milan,_kovitch cycle eh? 😂😂😂 Carbon is a scam you hyperbolic fools 😂😂😂

@TruthAndFreedom.

26 күн бұрын

It's a scam you gullible Muppets

@ketsi3079

26 күн бұрын

@@PaulaTourville-po7fg not money, if everything would be cheap people would start consuming more so companies making everything more expensive lower carbon footprint and ready people to live without the luxury

@DarthVagen

26 күн бұрын

@@ketsi3079 the politicians, lobbyists, owners and shareholders are getting rich and richer, not the population in general. The population in general has been getting poorer since the 1970s. Having a place to live, fresh food, clean water etc should not be considered a luxury. To think that politicians and companies are making things more expensive to save the environment is beyond delusional.

Mr Beckwith, thank you for doing this work so faithfully and without unnecessary bluster. You are a rare and indispensible gem.

I think they're all underestimating how fast things are heating up.

@LinuxUser00

25 күн бұрын

No shit, how can this not-very-intelligent species not underestimate the effects of hundreds of years of pollution and population growth?

You scrolled past this quote but I had to rewind to catch it. “I find it infuriating, distressing, overwhelming. I’m relieved that I do not have children, knowing what the future holds.” Wow.

@LinuxUser00

25 күн бұрын

The fertility cult has no idea what it's gotten itself into.

I'm of a different opinion on timing of rise in global temperature. If ocean temps keep rising like they did in 2023 & 2024 it will be about 2.5C in 2028-2030, not 2100. There are 2 numbers that drive me batty: One is the baseless claim we're still at 1.2C & the other is don't worry about climate change until 2100. It's not 1.2C anymore, it was 1.58C in April 2024, the 11th straight record breaking month in a row! Repeating 2100 a million times has lulled people into a sense of complacency that we don't need to act quickly regarding climate change. It's done a huge disservice much like us supposedly having a carbon allowance of X billions of tons we can still spew, which is a joke. Why do we live in a world trying to kid itself about the urgency of this situation? It's palpable, but the response is muted by a great concern for childish political theatre. I could scream but It wouldn't do any good. Like the scientists, I throw up my hands. It's like trying to drive a nail thru a plate of tungsten steel. No one can get thru.

@cr2lives

26 күн бұрын

Don't Look Up

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

We have put Vlad, Jeff and Elon in charge of EVERYTHING. What could possibly go wrong?

@dieterkonig5588

25 күн бұрын

You speak directly from my heart... could not said it better! 👍

@TheRealSnakePlisken

24 күн бұрын

Finally, someone speaks the truth. You just need to look around, and maybe get out of your own area, and maybe listen to outside sources of world news, and maybe pay attention. No way humans will stop this.

@chaz0matic

13 күн бұрын

Perhaps the EEI is a better measure? 12 HB per second! 1 Million Hiroshima Bombs (HB) DAILY!!! 365 Million Yearly EEI! 3,650 Million HB after 10 years!!! What temperature will 3650 Million HB raise the temperature to?

I don't think any major emergency change will happen until wealthy countries start to experience serious food shortages...

@MyKharli

21 күн бұрын

they think they can just buy from the market assuming there's always something at the market .On the other hand when all consumers spare cash goes into food purchases then thats a huge incentive for farming everynook and cranny .So hard to predict , look at the fat left if no animals eaten ! We can feed shelter and slaughter 100`s billions animals a year with a 70..90% calorie /energy production loss rate .

@wolfgangpreier9160

7 күн бұрын

Why food shortages? Someone will get the idea and produce Soylent Green. But wait, the US has already started…

@kated3165

7 күн бұрын

@@wolfgangpreier9160 The majority of the world agriculture depends on a stable climate with predictable seasons. Something that is about to go *poof*. Something like 80% of the global food chain is this way. Many countries can't grow enough food regardless and rely on other countries. Much of the current mega monocultures focus on only 5 main crops ... and is completely dependent on fossil fuel based fertilizers and pesticides. Modern agriculture is actually a major cause for climate change. Especially once you include the absurd transportation chains it uses. Those food chains are already starting to get tested and are failing. Massive crop failures are going to become increasingly common, and countries that export a lot are likely to start hoarding when things go south.

@wolfgangpreier9160

7 күн бұрын

@@kated3165 ""Something that is about to go *poof* No it is not going "poof". Many areas will observe a change in crops like we do. Some will have no crops anymore like in most parts of Africa, South America an Asia. You coulkd y the majority goes poof. But not all. The rest in currently moderate climates and more northern parts will be able to support about 20% of the people. All other will die either at home or and trying to migrate to us in the North where they will be genocized of course. Food chains for those countries that can not support their people are failing. That is correct. They will die first. Such is called nature, survival of the fittest, Darwin's law. Take your pick.

you know shit is serious when the video does not start with a "hello". i'm also curious why folks are not connecting the dots with last year's wildfires to the extreme increase in atmospheric CO2

@rdallas81

26 күн бұрын

Or the increase in storms and tornadoes due to increased heat which increased the ability for atmospheric energy

@Knifymoloko

26 күн бұрын

We are in the Grim Beckwith Arc. What a time to be alive

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

26 күн бұрын

The masses don't see dots.

@kti5682

26 күн бұрын

Because the high cost of living you can blame on green politics affects you daily whereas being hit by a climate catastrophe is still more like a win in the lottery.

@Iroxinping

25 күн бұрын

wild fires put more soot in the air also which kinda disguises their effect in the short term...kinda like airplanes during the pandemic....no planes flying meant less upper air pollution so temps went higher cause there wasn't that cooling from the pollution creation itself...

When water conservation measures were mandated in Southern California a few years ago, every city met the goal of reduced consumption(about 15% - 25% reduction, I think) with one exception: Beverly Hills. The West is the global village's Beverly Hills.

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

Yes, they made a conscious decision to pay the penalty instead of following the conservation of the resource for their children. They traded their children's future for a few bucks! At no time should anyone with more than $10,000,000 be allowed near any decision making process.

@lokijordan

26 күн бұрын

@@sedonars1 Yep. Just like the carbon swaps. And the crazy part is these people think they can drop piles of toxicity in one place as they buy up home bases in "safe zones". There are no safe zones in ecosystems work. We're all in this fishbowl together.

@gregorymalchuk272

5 күн бұрын

California wouldn't have any water restrictions if they had built out the planned dam and reservoir infrastructure and kept water levels high at their existing dams.

@user-uo7fw5bo1o

3 күн бұрын

​@@gregorymalchuk272 You seem to have forgot that dam in California's Sierra Nevada that had its spillway fail.

I think acceptance is called for . enjoy civilization while you can because it and we are toast .

@mikeridgeview9557

26 күн бұрын

I think this too. We're in the hospice stage of civilization. There's no way to karma Houdini our way out of what we've done.

Santa in the sky will send himself via air-mail to magically fix everything, I don't know why you're so worried. It's clear that nothing bad ever happens to people who believe in Sky Santa as long as they believe hard enough.

@chrismoore5571

26 күн бұрын

Sky Santa's watching mate, so u be good, or I'll melt my poles, cos it's too cold, and I'm sick of winter. Oh don't get confused about my mode of transport. SLAY is referring to my hobbies. And I don't play guitar....😊

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

26 күн бұрын

Ha ha 😅

@skekze

25 күн бұрын

@uswilkbr Religion is about belief. The details of the faith doesn't matter, belief does. Our species has shaped this planet with a vision of greatness, but it resulted in narcissism. Like Icarus, we fly to oclose to the sun. Our intellect is not tempered by wisdom. That wisdom is that there are things greater than us. Some picture them as gods. I see nature & life as that entity & we are far out of harmony with this world that birthed us. We forgot our place in the scheme of things. Prayers to gods or the stock market won't fix anything. Faith that we can all make it better must be breathed into life by will turned to action.

@thepolycerateblacksheep

25 күн бұрын

I LOVE THIS!

@chrismoore5571

13 күн бұрын

@@skekze beautiful 😍

It's not just our leaders who are the problem. The apathy from the average person is astounding. The majority of people don't seem to care what's happening. We don't have an educational issue to overcome, as much as a cultural issue.

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

26 күн бұрын

I would say it's a species issue. Evolution sure ain't perfect.

“The world has always been held together by the love and passion of a very few people!!” Baldwin

The solution: Don't do children. Why do I need to worry about our children's future when I don't have any? So long as I can live my youth well, climate change won't be something to bother me

@carlamcewen2361

26 күн бұрын

how very me me me you are.

@DiamondKing-em7oc

26 күн бұрын

@@carlamcewen2361 So what can I do? Even if I go vegan, live a very minimalist life, and scream to everybody to protect the environment and crap, will make any difference? No

@Praylak

26 күн бұрын

Accurate advice, but I think todays young people are in the crosshairs of when this all goes Mad Max. Besides none of this will matter after World War III erupts, which is likely much sooner.

@roo3515

25 күн бұрын

your both right.

@GaseousStranger

25 күн бұрын

Yep, #1 thing you can do, people aren't ready to hear that though. Someone saying "me me me" to you, like having children in a dying world isn't the most selfish thing you could do

Wah...hay! ''... We need to throw all the government ministers into prison...'' Now you're talking Paul! One of the most honest and logical things you've ever said. Bravo! Tovarisch.

How climate relates to ecology is key. Why not survey ecologists? Too scary?

@lovisakaffe

26 күн бұрын

It's a good idea actually. Can you provide link to something similar as IPCC? They surveyed 843 scientists. So in order to make similar survey to other group the other group need to exist first. I bet there are a lot of groups, but which one is comparable?

@freeheeler09

26 күн бұрын

YM, good point! We ecologists see the existential catastrophes of human overpopulation, habitat fragmentation and loss, invasive species, pollution, and the catastrophe of climate change. I’m guessing that ecologists are a lot less hopeful about our future than climate scientists.

@gehwissen3975

26 күн бұрын

Sociologists would be the first to tell us how close we are to collapse. Psychologists could estimate how long individual brains can withstand the stress. The way our interests are distributed shows what we deny: Physics gets the most attention: Bad weather. Sometimes we also talk about biology: ecosystems, biosphere..... We prefer not to talk about the weakness of our relations.

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

26 күн бұрын

@lovisakaffe I'm leery of "groups". The IPCC was not only designed to control the narrative, it is designed to fail. Besides, abrupt, nonlinear climate disruption doesn't seem willing to wait around for consensus or the peer review process.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

26 күн бұрын

there's hardly any ecologists because there's no funding for conservation biology. Still just googlescholar "biological annihilation."

That thumbnail scared the hell out of me 😂

@PirateOfTheWastes

26 күн бұрын

DARK BECKWITH

@Knifymoloko

26 күн бұрын

The right amount of grim

@kevindrone

26 күн бұрын

Was expecting a ‘bye KZread’ video title. Grim beckwith indeed.

Yeah we're done. Very doomer thumbnail.

I think most everyone has accepted we will not take the necessary steps to avoid the worst. Its the curse of immediate interests. Far more people are concerned with nuclear war and economic catastrophe. In some ways, rightly so.

@christinavuyk2026

26 күн бұрын

They’re also more concerned with losing their comfortable modern lives 😐

@sookendestroy1

26 күн бұрын

​@@christinavuyk2026comfort breeds complacency, it's the same for authoritarian leadership as it is for corruption and systemic issues ad nauseam.

@SatipatthanaSakuraDragona

26 күн бұрын

No, they haven't. They firmly believe that someone else somewhere else is working night and day to avert the crisis. They're inventing a technology that will save us all. They're going to figure it out. That is what the media is feeding them, if the media is even telling them the truth at all.

It’s amazing… the term “catastrophic for humanity” has got to be one of the most unnerving term I’ve heard yet.

We were warned but few listened !In 1958 Bell Labs warned about global warming on their nationally broadcast TV show ! I started working for them a few years later designing transatlantic undersea cable systems and working with probably the best group of scientists in the country ,yet few listened ! I later moved to Fla and became a mayor and led an environmental group at the same time but being an enviironmental leader was liitle help in getting elected,cleaning up the corruption in the city was what the people wanted !

@cyberfunk3793

26 күн бұрын

They warned about global cooling in the 1970s also, should they have listened? How do you expect anyone to listen, when most of the time scientist either don't have a consensus, change their mind every decade or get every prediction wrong like they did 20 years ago when they said all ice would be gone by now?

Humans turned out to be as smart as lemmings

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

Lemmings are much smarter, as they have been on the planet for over 2,000,000 years, while Homo Sapiens clock in at 300,000 max, and probably only 65,000. We've managed to destroy it all in less than 12,000 years of becoming "civilized"! The only real comparison is to being as "smart" as a slime mold!

@jayleeper1512

22 күн бұрын

Do not disrespect lemmings!

I really appreciate these videos where you let loose and let is know how you not only tell us the facts bit also how you feel about things.

And everything they needed to do they didn't do. And everything they should not have done, they continued to do. For they feared their own inner ego-death more than the destruction of the whole world. One could truly say that they were afflicted with the worst form of madness.

@beefandbarley

26 күн бұрын

👍

@DRpokeme

4 күн бұрын

Yes, it's not the climate as such. IT'S us.! WE are not able to work out the problem because we are the problem. 😢 I am sad for children for my grandson 😢. But no one is going to escape. It's been one hell of a ride, but it's time pay-up.!!

I told my shrink if someone isn't depressed, they aren't paying attention.

I have known for many years there was something wrong with climate - in the ‘70s and ‘80s here in Eastern NC there was freezing of the ground and shallow waters like puddles to ponds during the winter - that hasn’t happened in many years now - we now have invasive creatures from Southern regions like giant spiders with 20’ webs (golden orb weavers?) among other changes - we can now have citrus and avocado trees here also. I am familiar with Club of Rome’s predictions from around 1970 - they say we have until 2040 but I don’t think we have that long. So long and thanks for all the fish! (Going with the dolphins)

It's like on Titanic when they know it's too late. They just keep on playing the music. Even louder now. 🖤😎👍

Why is it necessary to get this from KZread instead of the mainstream media?

@jennysteves7226

23 күн бұрын

I think The Guardian is considered mainstream media but you’re right, this should be getting wider coverage.

Profits are all the matter.

@freeheeler09

26 күн бұрын

Short term profits at that!

I read this article the other day and was confused by it. I believe we are somewhere between 2.1-2.4 today, with the feedback loops on full blast. The IPCC does not even factor Methane into their analysis. I see 3.0 by 2035, just 11 years from now, and 4.0 by 2050. I don't see how professional Climate Scientists can be so CONSERVATIVE in their thinking.

@DeaconG1959

26 күн бұрын

The IPCC doesn't cop to global dimming either.

It is clear that a reduction in harmful emissions, especially sulphates, decreases the atmospheric masking effect, leading to even faster heating up. So it means there is no solution, anyway. Why bother then?

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

Yes, the time for climate action has passed, probably in the early 90's. The solutions would have to have been completed by 2010. Instead, we turned our futures over to the FF industry, with the promise that we would be "very comfortable till the end of the century"! Only a few people in academia knew this to be a lie, but they were quickly railroaded out of public awareness. Now, SHTF is becoming evident to even the most obtuse, yet we cling even tighter to the system that got us here. Homo Idioticus reigns supreme!

@gregorymalchuk272

5 күн бұрын

The solution is to put sulfur back into Jet A. That will buy a lot of time.

we had 3.c / 5.c above todays temp in Scotland 8 thousand years ago and life was thriving. now many parts are a cold wet artic desert

Entrenched economic interests in the capitalist class who are the primary campaign financiers of basically the vast majority of people up for election in almost every party in every ""democracy"" (really oligarchy) in capitalist countries (which are the vast majority of countries) makes every election fundamentally a non-issue. Electoralism won't save us, at this point. Which means probably nothing will because there won't be a time (before it's far too late, anyway) when enough people will turn to the kind of eco-terrorism and class warfare necessary to keep us under 2.5 C (and I think it would be far too optimistic to limit us to 2 C even if that mass action happened tomorrow). We're at the point where violent action is necessary, as there are no peaceful and non-violent levers that aren't completely bought and sold by the very people who ignore and even obstruct all efforts to prevent an anthropogenic mass extinction event, and sadly (in a kind of beautiful way, I guess, though it won't seem so beautiful soon) the majority of regular people around the world desire peace and abhor violence too much to act meaningfully.

@velisvideos6208

26 күн бұрын

At least China doesn't have this problem. Or North Korea. Or Cuba.

@cyberfunk3793

26 күн бұрын

What is the "capitalist class" ? And how are we an oligarchy when we have elections were we elect our leaders? Nobody is stopping you from running and it's not an oligarchy just because people you don't like win the elections. You can do any action you like and nothing will stop the temperatures eventually returning to +15 degrees higher than we have now. We had that millions of years before first humans and will return to it sooner or later. The idea of 2 degrees is silly, in the long run temperatures are going to get much hotter here even if we are not around at that point.

@YouTubdotCub

26 күн бұрын

@@velisvideos6208 I know you're being ironic but I'm an anarchist lol I don't think "state capitalist" (Lenin's term not mine) countries are truly anti-capitalist kinda by definition, they're transitional states if you believe the hype but they've yet to transition away from state capitalism lol

@YouTubdotCub

26 күн бұрын

@@cyberfunk3793 not wasting my breath on some parroting climate change denial talking points with no political education lol

@justusmoore4188

26 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠@@cyberfunk3793your ignorance on systemic affairs is understandable. What is the capitalist class? Not sure I can make this very simple but here goes nothing. The capitalist class is a class of indivduals based on the ownership of private property, the exploitation of workers through surplus value, and accumulating capital to constantly increase their productive capabilities, political influence, and general control of society. In Marxist terminology, the term “bourgeoise” would more accurately define this class of indivduals. A capitalist would just refer to an individual who owns the “means of production”. What is the means of production? Where commodities are produced and value is created, think a factory, a farm, an office, etc. private property that generates revenue. What is a commodity? A product or service that has both a use value (how useful is it to the user) and an exchange value (how well it sells on a marketplace). The primary, global system of production that is used today is capitalism, which among other things, focuses predominately on the production of commodities and the ownership of private property. Essentially, if it doesn’t make money, it ain’t useful and takes last priority in regards to societal production time. Many politicians (especially in the US) have openly declared their support of capitalism and proudly called themselves capitalist. While others are more indirect in their support. With most of those same politicians already coming from wealthy backgrounds (usually slightly below the bourgeoise class, such as petite bourgeoise who are basically smaller capitalists), it makes perfect sense that they would work to retain the system as they have plenty to lose if it was dismantled. As these individuals work to maintain their place in politics as career politicians, they also work to stop any “outsiders” from entering the political apparatus and challenging the reign of capital. This can come in the form of political misinformation campaigns, oppositional campaigns with higher funding, blocking bills from getting passed, and in the case of the presidential election, the electoral college. And those are just a few of the many roadblocks that an anti-capitalist electorate would have to contend with if they even attempted to run for political office. It is borderline impossible to run against the capitalist class and the capitalist system because you would have to work within said system and work with said class-neither of which will allow you to change it because it is against their interests. I won’t even go into the fact that the founders of the US themselves were extremely wealthy and of course would design a governance system that mainly benefited them, or that originally you could only vote in elections if you were a land owner (who accounted for a very small minority of the population even back then). I missed a few more details but none of this is simple to explain and just trying to type all of this was a headache in itself lol But basically, the US is an oligarchy because the ownership class has always decided the course of the country since day 1. The US does not have “free elections”, elections require an informed populace and an informed populace-most americans are not. They are subjected to 24/7 political misinformation (among other things) that creates an alternative worldview that benefits and justifies the interests and rule of the owning class. On top of that, the ownership class dictates policy through the direct entrance of political office under the guise of helping the working class and the use of political lobbying to influence politicians toward their individual private interests. So running against them isn’t an option unless you conform to their class interests, which would obviously not be running against them lol

A friend of mine who is fully invested in fossil fuels both in his personal life and his business Is absolutely convinced that human caused climate change is overhyped or just plain wrong. Every once in a while he'll try to bait me into a conversation but I know it's pointless because he's just looking to score points rather than explore the realities of the subject. There are a lot of people like this. They vote conservative and they don't want change.

anyone that does not say over 5 is an ostrich

@billr1129

26 күн бұрын

2c by 2030 or so

@LinuxUser00

25 күн бұрын

@@billr1129 Could be even sooner, given how ocean warming is accelerating.

@billr1129

25 күн бұрын

@@LinuxUser00 I agree.

We must keep searching for intelligent lifeform in the universe. 🌍 Is devoid of such.

@klaatu368

26 күн бұрын

Kbmblizz, as long as humanity doesn’t escape this planet or the solar system…

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

@@klaatu368 Yes, "THEY" fully understand that this planet is done for, so containing the virus is paramount. THEY know that containment is so much simpler than vaccination! I doubt they perceive us as "intelligent" life form anyway; especially as we have Elon and Jeff as our emissaries!

Humans are reactive not proactive. They will react when it's too late. Alot of suffering will take place sadly. The most upsetting part is the birds animals.

Yep it's a fair cop at the very least we're marching into a very serious situation probably catastrophic. Could be very different if we worked together as a race but barring a miracle we wont. I think that this jump in CO2 of 4.7 ppm is in some ways scarier than the ocean temperatures just published. This system is beginning to spiral out of control.

@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce

26 күн бұрын

Seeing the general refusal to change the most resource intensive lifestyles, and the cartoonish hostility to climate refugees, it's more likely people will become more tribal and kill each other as environmental collapse ramps up everywhere. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I don't see a better future.

Paul goes OFF. Good emotion and mentions jail. These are the conversations we need.

I live in an "democrati" but I doent have any influence on what happens ore whats been done.

When the food starts to become scarce is when the poor will overwhelm the rich and take everything

@reuireuiop0

15 күн бұрын

Those Rich that let themselves be caught, just aren't wealthy enough, or plain stupid. The Real One Percent will fly their private jet to whatever sliver of an island they own ... I've even read about a scheme by newly immigrated one percent types in New Zealand, to overthrow the local govt should the tide turn against them. Most likely an urban myth, but illustrative all the same. One percent will buy up food shippings by the tanker when the need arrives. Sure you can't eat money, but you can pretty well d buy every tonne on the market. Every crisis breeds its crooks.

We need to connect climate anxiety to climate action as a source of energy for change. (Easier said than done.)

@donniemoder1466

26 күн бұрын

There is no energy for change, literally.

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

26 күн бұрын

Change is coming. For sure

Hello. I'm Paul Beckwith. CLASSIC!..

I think we can agree that in relation to climate developments, the politicians have proven in every conceivable way that they have too much in the pockets of big capital to be able to make any change towards a healthier environment. so all that remains is that all of us as individuals on this planet must each contribute with a will to reduce our individual contribution to the accelerating warming.

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

Yes, but the only way to do that is to quit work, stop shopping, stay in your own neighborhood, and eat only what you can cultivate. That is a recipe to save the planet, but, it means certain short term death for 7.2 Billion people over the next few months. In other words, 9 out of 10 people you know must go! Where to start?

Nothing the Guardian or the Observer produces can be taken seriously.

That graph is much more freighting than it appears. It conveys the idea that within a decade the temperature will be rising a degree every 5 years and a decade after that it will be a degree every 2.5 years. I think it will level off after that because most of the planet will be dead.

As soone who's been earning a living with making risk assesments and trying to model CASs (complex adaptive systems) I came to believe that humans have created a system that cannot be really controled as it is not truly adaptive (systems that are simultaneously ordered and disordered) but more of a system that operates somewhere between order and chaos and thus being more prone to randomness as we'd all like to believe. I still remember Der Bundeskanzler Merkel describing the multiple crisis situation we're currently in by saying that some people believe in conspiracy theories others that policy makers and big money is in control, but the truth is there is no pilot in an airplane that is approaching the ground.

Only when they loose their home to flood, tornado, fire or hurricane will they realize it’s here!!!

Evening Paul

I'm not a pessimistic person but who tf thinks below 1.5 is doable? 😂

@ketsi3079

26 күн бұрын

you know who

@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce

26 күн бұрын

The endless hope and rainbows types.

Was Paul in Game Of Thrones? Great thumbnail.

Excellent information from The Guardian. Thank you for sharing, Paul.

I regularly talk with people I encounter about the looming climatic catastrophe. The one thing I notice most people have in common is "an unwillingness to change their life in any significant way". The sooner people realize that their life of consumption, fast food, disposable products and fossil fuels have us on the fast track to extinction and MUST end, the sooner we MAY have a chance at limiting the damage and giving our species a fighting chance. I have little faith in people to do the right thing given how little time is left. My best prediction moving forward is that agriculture will begin to fail in spectacular fashion planet wide within the next few years. Plants don't like change, and don't thrive in a whiplashing environment. Perhaps a little famine will ignite the fire under our heavy ass to get something done. People, like all plants and animals, don't like change. Change is a comin' for everyone,. whether you believe in climate change or not.

@cyberfunk3793

26 күн бұрын

Temperatures have been 15 degrees higher on the planet and life survived, people will suffer but the race will not come even close to extinction this time either. The only thing we might be able to do is slow down the rise, but the temperatures will rise anyway so everyone can decide how important it is to try to slow it down, or instead spend resources on something impactful like building inland instead of the shores.

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

@@cyberfunk3793 You have a very grandiose understanding of history and humans. At one time, our ancestors entered a bottleneck that killed all but 1280 breeding individuals. Our species is very fragile, and for the good of the planet must go extinct; VERY SOON! Don't worry, NATURE will see to it in a blink of an eye (about 2,000,000 years from the emergence of humans: e.g. NOW)

@justusmoore4188

26 күн бұрын

@@cyberfunk3793You made the same mistake everyone does when talking about climate and mass extinctions. Its not about the fact that the climate has been hotter, or that life has died before, or any of that. Its about the SPEED in which the climate is heating up and its about the SPEED in which life is dying. The anthropocene is likely to be the fastest mass extinction in ages if not longer.

@cyberfunk3793

26 күн бұрын

@@justusmoore4188 Did you not even read my comment? "The only thing we might be able to do is slow down the rise"

@TheRealSnakePlisken

24 күн бұрын

The comments to this very intelligent human prove nothing will change. If you see IT, then you see the dilemma. If you don’t see IT, then you make irrational statements like cyberpunk. Don’t look up…please don’t look up. Good luck.

Thanks, Dr. Beckwith.

It's actually worse because none of the models account for non-rebounding radiation that's getting dumped into the atmosphere. CO2 is a red herring because that math doesn't work. IF CO2 were 100x more radiative (it's actually less) than N2 and O2 and constitutes only 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere, then at best CO2 would only account for 4% of the atmosphere's radiative retention. Especially in NIR, N2 and O2 are radiative but, moreover, all matter is radiative - some basic physics climate scientists aren't trained in. Our waste heat, a hard metric to measure, is non-rebounding, it scatters throughout the atmosphere, we are producing more than ever and it's only going to increase. The CO2 models suggest we have ~200 years to course correct but those models are very inaccurate. I estimate we have at most two decades before we begin to experience persistent crop failures Y-O-Y in the Tropics. That will lead to mass migration into the Subtropics, straining those systems until, shortly thereafter, they collapse in sequence. Humanity has experienced and written about these sequences before. What each culture fails to record is the "fifth horseman" - mass migration. Are your kids/grandkids going to go to college? No, they aren't. But there is one tiny bit of hope...

Paul im hesitant in going to the Twister sequel in July..lol..We've already seen the real life version..The past 2 weeks-15 states midwest- south and East..130 Tornadoes!! Yes thats right 130..much more then usual folks..Climate people know whats wrong..politicians and governments in denial as they dont want any money leaving their bank accounts..Their fates are sealed! There are countries doing carbon capture.. And Iceland is doing marvelous on using geo- thermal energy..It boils down to doing something at a community individual level..things that individuals can do to help our planet..Paul i know youve already talked about it..Please talk about things in another report that individuals can do to help our planet out..Solar, geothermal,rain catchment,conservation,plastics,growing our own food..etc and yes Paul agreed we need to build a prison to hold all the corrupt and crooked people in politics and government..Maybe instead shackle them to a floating barge in the ocean and give them No escape from the rising sea level and humidity and heat that is here and going to get worse. We need to find the climate ( gems) in the world and vote with our feet..if at all possible..Many thanks to you Paul for covering this sobering info..We very much appreciate your honesty and everything you stand for!!

Thanks Paul, I read the Guardian article but it was great to get your take. I am so tired of gas lighting around 1.5, we are past it and we have plenty more heating in the pipeline as Hansen states. CO2 goes up every year and what is there will push us past 2 already(Tipping points kicking in) so why do they keep the BS up around 1.5?

@beefandbarley

26 күн бұрын

Because they are in denial and too cowardly to speak truthfully. Our society is run by lying cowards.

Fitting thumbnail.

the only possible way this could be stopped as an infinite growth system on a finite planet would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would agree we NEED to have done and work much less. It's this system of infinite growth that prevents any useful changes.

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

26 күн бұрын

Shhhhh. There's an elephant in the room.

@davida.bishop4024

23 күн бұрын

You mean communism 😅. They'd never do it sadly

The kind of geo-engineering we need to be doing: - teach people to grow their own food even if it's only a few tomato plants, and donate the resources for people to do this - reduce consumption of meat to 1-2 days per week (physical labourers can be excepted) - eliminate the morning commute by car: bicycles, transit, walking, and telecommuting - everyone plants new trees, bushes, gardens and received tax breaks for the work doing so - kiss consumerism goodbye, close unnecessary industries such as fast food outlets - end luxury travel, cruises, vacations (holiday in your neighborhood and get to know your local folks) - yes some industry will need to remain during the transition - stop promoting EV's, and geoengineering as the "solution" because these will only encourage more consumerism - in earnest, we need to learn to tolerate each other's differences, and this is really the crux of the issue because if we were able to get along as a species nice if these problems would be insurmountable Life is going to change drastically either way. We either voluntarily give up this way of life and BAU, or have it ripped violently out of our control with devastating results.

@philwilson609

26 күн бұрын

Why do physical laborers need meat? Kyrie Irving is a vegan and he works harder than any construction worker. No one needs meat to work hard.

Given warming is based on the pollution we put in the atmosphere we think we know roughly what amount of carbon etc can be emitted by sector. The Danish have done the research for construction and say we have to reduce building and construction emissions by 96% world wide in 7-10 years to keep the planet at 1.5C. When you consider all sectors of the economy will need cuts of emissions of 50% or more to hit 3C it hard to think that even millions of humans will be left on the planet soon. I imagine most of that 6% are factoring nuclear winter or the die off of half of humanity this decade somehow to stay at 1.5C.

The world is a torch that must be passed on. Life is a relay race & palsied hands are strangling the future of mankind.

There is just too much money to be made in order for our societies to turn this ship around.

BAU and WASF! Thanks Paul for your diligence.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

26 күн бұрын

Phyllis Diller puts the extra ls in diligence. Paul could consider Phyllis to be a godmother at least.

Exponentially- last year 1.5, this year 3.0, next year 9.0…etc

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

No life on the planet can survive the exponential function. Just ask venus!

Hemp for victory! Also military has hidden physics and tech we are not allowed to know about. Scarla technology for example. Help us AI you're our only hope!

@dion8962

26 күн бұрын

AI only covers the smell of crap, doesnt actually clean it up.

Interesting that modern climate scientists, even with all the advances recently, I agree with what I have believed since I was in my teens about 30 years ago. And many more much earlier than I. Not saying this to inflate my ego. My point is that it's not a surprise by any stretch of the imagination. So nothing will happen. Well nothing will happen until peoples. Individual lives are severely threatened. Be much too late to save our current way of living. We all know this. But it's fine. This is nature. Don't stress. Use your understanding for good.

There was a mini age that ended around 1850 so the climate will have gotten a bit warmer since then anyway.

Appreciate the book recommendations. And THANK YOU for addressing Eco anxiety. While we've had ongoing general discussion in my online Covid conscious plus community, mm, yeah... it's just ignored in mainstream society. Just as climate change is ignored. I've had some success bouying people up when being optimistic and giving people ideas of actions they can take (gardening, farms, & homesteads are the most popular), rather than sticking to information dumps. It's giving them their agency back - and we're damn well not getting that elsewhere. I loved your mention in a recent interview video, about how you've been coping by pivoting to new/different topics so you can calm enough to go back to this mess. Good technique. Builds a great knowledge base, too. 😉

@AllergicToMakeBelieve

15 күн бұрын

A great KZread channel for that is called American Resilience. Dr Emily, lives in Iowa. She does state by state analysis of coming changes with a tone of extreme realism tempered with being as positive as possible. Highly recommend it.

Quite some good timing for that movie "twisters" a buddy of mine is in oklahoma and just the other day they had something crazy like 22 twisters at once in the region including a supercell that acted more like a hurricane, then the last couple days the tornados have been sweeping across the gulf coast and even as far as michigan and ontario with much stronger storms than expected.

Hey Paul. To date, I haven't heard yourself or other climatologists really discuss the massive issue of sand dredging and the damage caused by global consumption of sand for roads and building materials on a massively destructive global scale. It just seems that everything is happening so rapidly that the pieces are not coming together to paint the picture in its entirety. It seems our insatiable appetite for sand plays a large role in oceanic changes that none of the models include in the scheme of things. Hmmmm, add that to the already long list and let's get some quantifiable data out.

Sobering BUT remember...this is the same Guardian that said that the Indians were better off under the British. Soooo....yeah. Capitalism...clownworld.

@shizuokaBLUES

26 күн бұрын

The guardian didn’t say it. Climate scientists filled out the survey and it was reported.

Thumbnail matches content perfectly 👍

Even today, the financial markets continue to promote and back oil and gas companies as the easy route to riches for the average investor. The pension companies are complicit in this as well. Many governments around the world are dependent on oil revenue. And for good reason. Oil and gas generate significant profits. At the end of 2023, ExxonMobile made profits of $36bn lower than 2022 because of the Ukraine war. Oil drilling in the US and Guyana increased by 18%. "Our consistent strategy and execution excellence across the business delivered industry-leading earnings and enabled us to return more cash to shareholders than our peers in 2023" said Darren Woods, chairman and CEO. BP, Chevron, Shell and TotalEnergies also did fantastically well getting rich as they destroyed the planet by wrecking the climate.

They keep saying "by 2100." What about AFTER 2100? It's not going to magically stop at 2100. Anyway, who cares about the people of the future , right?

As this unfolds, I’d rather be at the front of the line than fighting over the last can of dog food in a bunker with some former oligarch.

@sedonars1

26 күн бұрын

Right? Who wants to be anywhere near Vlad, Elon, of Jeff? Not even for a minute.

-10C drop thanks to nuclear winter.

Devastating.

Well we have dengue fever and west nile virus all over europe now and mosquitos living in the UK so there is that angle to think about as well

We aren't ready to save the ecosystem, we're still Americans. What genocide? What native? Whatever. We accept this.😊

Paul, what I fail to understand in your presentation is why people do not see this situation as showing an urgent need to increase planetary albedo, given that addressing carbon is not feasible on a relevant timescale.

If we get 3 degrees hotter, an avalanche of tipping points will have been tripped too. So, it will just KEEP GETTING HOTTER HENCEFORTH.

What is confusing to me with the forecasts of 1.5, 2.5, or other; does the baseline remain the same, and is it a fixed numbers of years. Does 1.5 mean the average worldwide temp in next 100 years, will be 1.5 C hotter than the previous 100.

@Matt.Hurley

26 күн бұрын

It's based on the temperature levels of the previous century and the baseline doesn't move/shift. Some people say the baseline should be based on an even earlier worldwide temperature though.

Devastating😢

The F bombs clearly indicate the temperature of the climate scientists. Every time I hear 1.5 I drop one myself starting with What The ……..

But the quicker we heat up, the quicker we'll cool down! Yes? 🙂

Why are they saying by 2100? Is this consistent with the exponential function? Thanks for the truth Paul. Now back to the Trump trial.....

this is a bigger threat that most can't bare psychologically. like asking the dinosaurs to stop the asteroid. I didn't even want to comment that. sucks. but i appreciate you laying it out . Cheers.

Thank you for your work! (but I'm not joining X!)

thanks Paul

Thank u Paul for ur work/research n reporting on Climate Heating. It is too late to get unduly over-worked n excessive worrying. We hv passed the Tipping Point in polar n glacial ice melt. 🙏

Enlightenment Awaits !

@ReesCatOphuls

26 күн бұрын

William Rees talks about the endarkenment, with post modernism and post truth. Loss of belief in bio physical truth.

@Tsunseyu

26 күн бұрын

The Punk Monastery will be ready 🙏🏼❤️🧘

Paul, it would be a good time to talk about what each of these mean.