I chat about the recent surge of severe flooding around the planet, and the resulting eco-anxiety. At some location on Earth, a one-in-a-century torrential rainfall leading to widespread severe flooding is occurring just about every day. Now it’s Brazil. A few days ago Texas and Australia. Before then Kenya and China. Dubai before that. It seems to be never ending, and it’s only spring. Of course, when your home gets flooded out a tremendous amount of eco-anxiety follows. Even worse, many people are experiencing repetitive events, year to year or every few years. People that live next to forests that burned last summer suffered huge stress from the destruction and wildfire smoke. Now, with torrential rains and no forest to soak up the excess water, they are experiencing overland flooding and even landslides, as events spiral out of control with vicious feedback loops, causing cascading, domino falling impacts. Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

@steventhomas6071

Ай бұрын

Sydney, The lengthy soaking of eastern New South Wales, including Sydney, may have at least another week to run as a large high-pressure system all but stalls over Tasmania, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

@NathanWadePikeMessengerFromGod

Ай бұрын

*_You have been ordered by God, through Me, to cease your influence on His children. You continue to fail to Heed so you will spend Eternity in Hell. You chose poorly. Your Fates worsen._* 👁️👽⚡🕛 *_Nathan - Messenger from God_*

@rd264

4 күн бұрын

paul you'd be a good teacher of climate science for high school kids - are HS kids getting a decent science education?

Eco-anxiety ---> Collapse Acceptance

@A3Kr0n

Ай бұрын

If things are hopeless there's nothing left to worry about.

Germany here. I live in the north but visited my parents last week in the south west, i was really shocked. More than 50% of the trees are dead or are in the process of dying.

@meneedmorebrain

Ай бұрын

I noticed it last year, so many trees had sick crowns, it's a mix of drought years and pollution, it's like as if the trees capacity to deal with our shit has reached a tipping point.

@MagnaMater2

Ай бұрын

It's drying up. Most with flat roots can't get water any more. On the coasts it's different. Went to Northern italy/Venetian plain to visit relatives I asked a neighbour what happened to her trees she said: saltwater is seeping in; cousins of her had a vinyard and some fields northwest of Aquileia: The saltwater seeped into the groundwater and can be found in about 1,5/1,2m depth. That kills first the plants and then those that live of them. I travelled around a bit and it was the same everywhere, the Po delta is chaging rapidly, so are the plains adjacent to them: It's the italian grain-basket. Some old farm-houses I remembered had been torn down, and the new bungalos in the area are built on 1-2m high hills of building debris. They all know the flooding of the venetian lowland will come. Their greatgrandparents were farmers, their grandparents went to the cities for money, their parents ame back to fulfill childhood dreams of an idyllic country life, but noted it was getting worse than it had been in their childhood, and the actual generation decided to pull down the farms and build some bungalows, that might outlive them and keep their feet dry, and noone thinks past 2100, the last generation usually having one/no children.

Society will fall apart gradually as food prices increases over time.

@willhall4037

Ай бұрын

and staple foods etc go more and more "temporary out of stock".

I've had climate anxiety for the past decade, and it's justified.

@michaelschiessl8357

Ай бұрын

Yes..and there's nothing we can do but adopt..Everywhere that people live there are risks..but with extreme weather events continuing to get worse there are places that are less risky to live..You just have to find those places.

@Patrick_Ross

Ай бұрын

@@michaelschiessl8357 - why anyone buys property in flood zones is beyond me.

@michaelschiessl8357

Ай бұрын

@@Patrick_Ross or in places where multiple fires have gone though..And also now Tornadoes.. the city in Oklahoma that was just destroyed by an EF3 or 4 has been hit multiple times since 2008..Norman and Moore Oklahoma have been destroyed multiple times thru the years..You would think people would get sick of losing everything and move out..go somewhere else..The one thing is ...in these small towns are lots of poor families and individuals..They don't have the money to move so they find a way to stay in the same area..it doesn't sound like these folks have much of a choice..And those are the ones most getting hurt..People without insurance or the people that struggle even in the best of times..We just have to be smarter about where we build homes..And smarter in how they are constructed to better withstand the severe things that are going on now!

@proudchristian77

Ай бұрын

Between the rivers & the ocean & streams, just about all over is flood zone! & Good morning, ☕️🍯🍶💝

@EastWindCommunity1973

Ай бұрын

Going on fifteen years for me, just about half my life.

If you consider the earth as an unconscious planet that you can treat as a soulless machine. Then why should Gaia treat you differently?

@kirkha100

Ай бұрын

One of the wisest comments I’ve read in a long time. Agreed. Thank you so much!

I live in that flooded Brazilian city you showed in your video. I drove six hours to the neighbor state capital to escape the flood. Felt like in a cli-fi movie.

The 'climate anxious' will still have vacations, most using jet flights and cruise liners, a lot travel half way round the planet, some moan about climate change, but are not prepared to cut back on their activities that ultimately use fossil fuels. Kind of similar to a NIMBY attitude, one example I saw in passing was a large 4X4 queuing at the drive through at McDonalds sporting an 'extinction rebellion' sign in their rear window !🙄 Gaz UK.

Yep, we will accurately chronicle our demise whilst doing next to nothing about demand for resources, wastage, warfare, human population, aquifers, ocean acidification, soil erosion, fossil fuel use and many other 'stealthy' background issues... Humans, eh...? Thanks, Paul.

Lots of climate disasters happening, not good 😢 this is only the beginning. Exponential... I know this is going to get worse...

Man those braces are on another planet. Which many Humans would like to believe exists right now and will beg for as the years roll by.

Eastern Ontario here and we just basically had a frost free April, double digit nightly temps and I've planted out some cold hardy seedlings into veg garden a month early. This is a zone 4b and have frost into the first week of June usually.....I literally just cut the grass yesterday. Crazy times we live in now, we've had more rainy days then sunny ones so far this spring.

Wow Paul ive seen the charts on billion dollar disasters in the US year by year but i didnt know about Canada with 3 billion of damages the past 2 years each year in a row..Thank you for sharing that info..We all need to realize that if we havent been impacted by extreme weather events and disasters that we are lucky..But the odds in the climate casino as you and others have pointed out is not good long term..EVERYONE will deal with the cost or repairs or be misplaced out of their home or the high costs of insurance..or having your insurance cancelled..Sooner or later!! Many thanks Paul great information!!

Bob, the Builder I was thinking Red Green. Nice outfit. You can do whatever you want with climate change. Just don't ask me to change. 😑 Thanks for what you do

If insurance companies can gather enough information about each home and measure the risk precisely the logical conclusion would divide properties into two groups. One that has high risk so becomes uninsurable. The other is zero risk so insurance becomes unnecessary. Then the insurers create their own obsolescence.

@stephentrueman4843

Ай бұрын

Insurance is insane and a scam. 10:35 so much so the government is stepping in (like always) to maintain the industry

@Silks-

Ай бұрын

Silly

U know y people's hang out on utube , they don't have people's to be with , they a on utube , but they nice & they talk gentle & its to sweet to tune in , ty for being here, ☕️🍯🍶💝

@Knifymoloko

Ай бұрын

What a sweet comment. Good day to you 😊

@TheDoomWizard

Ай бұрын

Wtf

@proudchristian77

Ай бұрын

Thugs Iin Childhood gives a iffy I pression of thngs, u don't act like them , so your sweet, & appreciate that , like really ! 💝

Rio Grande do Sul at the southernmost Brazil is facing its most severe flooding in history. Something almost unbelieveble and the water level does not decrease...

If you look at the big numbers of the last time the world had CO2 at 450 PPM the sea was 20 metres higher and the temperature was 2.5C warmer. What we dont know is the time factor but it's quicker than the models tell us.

We are going to have to build better infrastructure that can deal with floodwaters. Developing ways to pump water from wet areas to dry areas and storing runoff water underground would be a good fix.

Im not anxious, ...I'm Excited, I'm prepared, i have accepted and i am grateful.

It's going to get increasingly "interesting" in the coming years. 😕

Hello from Novo Hamburgo, southern Brazil. One of the cities affected, although it was only 2 populous poorer neighborhood, not the city central area São Leopoldo, just next to us, and the cradle of German immigration to Brazil, starting in 1824, was mostly flooded including all the central area.

Thanks Paul

Yes, sitting on your hands while things go to hell around you is a high anxiety pass-time. I don't have climate anxiety because I'm doing the most I can to make my house, energy supply and food supply as climate-extreme resistant as possible. Also, it is important to make sure you are in a stable, cohesive and food/energy resilient community.

@unbiasedthoughts7875

Ай бұрын

Good job. Now you’ll have to defend all that with your life while the starving and desperate less fortunate try to take it from you. Bon Chance!

@johnm2879

Ай бұрын

@@unbiasedthoughts7875 Better to be a defensive self-sufficient producer than an offensive starving looter. Hence the need for community.

The Nine Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Heat, Drought, Fire, Flood, Disease, Infestation, Famine, War and Chaos. If you can expand the list, feel free.

Consequential sea level rise is already here... it's just falling out of the sky.

@user-ViralVid

Ай бұрын

Yep

Thank you for information #climatechange.

God grant me the serenity to accept the thing we cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I’m gonna live my life the best I can and not worry about what I cannot control. I live in south Florida. I sold my house. I know I’m at ground zero for sea level rise and hurricanes. I have a plan of action in place to get out of its way as I live in a turn key condo. other than that, I’m gonna enjoy my life.. I’m not gonna live in fear anxiety or worry. The rest is in God’s hands.

Do we have to re-think all the phylosophical concepts of the past ?

your hairs got a tipping point :)

@lauraarcher1730

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

O Bob the builder, sure, that's a good show for five minutes.

Hey Paul, thank you for all your videos. I have a question: in the next 20-50 years, what do you estimate the rise of sea level will be? Many sources say that it would be only centimeters. But with phenomenon like the doomsday glacier and the disappearance of ice near the north pole, could it actually be multiple meters? I'm scared for my family, who nearly all live barely over sea level or even below.

@russmarkham2197

Ай бұрын

I am no expert but I do estimates. The current rate is around 1 inch per decade but it is accelerating. A rough consensus is that it will be over 6 feet or around 2 meters by 2100. In 20 years I would expect around 3 to 4 inches. By 50 years however, that is 2074, it will have accelerated. Maybe just under 1 meter. A very crude forecasting technique would be to fit an exponential curve to the given data.

@russmarkham2197

Ай бұрын

I fitted a rough exponential curve and estimated about 5.5 inches in 20 years and 33.5 inches or 0.85 meters in 50 years. This assumes a smooth exponential rise of course.

@Storystein

Ай бұрын

@@russmarkham2197 Thank you for your estimated answer! I know my country is fucked in the future, but this takes away some worry for the shorter term.

@russmarkham2197

Ай бұрын

@@Storystein great. I think the 20 year forecast has a reasonable chance of being roughly right. The 50 year one though is subject to much uncertainty, including possible collapses of glaciers like Thwaites.

@russmarkham2197

Ай бұрын

@@Storystein I got interested and looked up more professional estimates. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA forecasts 10-14 inches by 2050 (i.e. in 26 years) for the US East Coast. But only 4-8 inches for West Coast. The East Coast forecast is actually quite close to my estimate of 9.2 inches in 26 years. Hawaii 6-8 inches

Noah Coming 😢

Suggested reading: On the Move by Abrahm Lustgarten. Released March 2024. Finished reading the book you recommended: Overshoot by William R. Catton 1980 , paperback 1982.

Seems remarkable that young people have eco anxiety when they don't even have the real benefit of hindsight. Boomers come from an era when climate was relatively stable and have seen the dramatic changes. Mind you, depends what you mean by young as the last 10 years have shown dramatic changes.

I think if we looked at the soil's genesis below their property before they buy, they'd be in better shape. The soil marks major events - even tornadoes. But unfortunately no scientist recommends the county soil survey as a reference. Every county in the USA and Canada has one. A simple look at a soil's taxonomic name will tell you much about that point in the landscape without even looking at the profile descriptions. If Paul could brush up on soil science then do some simple presentations on what to look for in the taxonomic names or even in the descriptions of the landforms, far fewer people would inadvertently buy a property prone to flooding. I think some lessons on geomorphology would help too.

What is it with all the religious takes and reassurances from God lately? This is a channel deeply rooted in Science & reality. Your sky fairy isn’t going to save you from collapse…

Manhattan is surrounded by 2 rivers?

It just seems logical that the more you heat up the oceans, the more evaporation will take place over a shorter period of time.......like a pot of hot water on your stove. As an older person I've never heard the term "atmospheric river" until a few years ago. Now I'm hearing it a lot.The occurrence of so many atmospheric rivers recently is something new to me. I can only conclude that this is a consequence of ocean heating. The increasing occurrence of global flooding, caused by these atmospheric rivers, is an obvious indication that climate change is speeding up exponentially.

Climate is the best clickbait ever! New study suggests! Click. Worse than we thought! Click. Scientists warn! Click. New evidence! Click.

Breaking news . "Trump was spanked with a newspaper."

All the Trees have disapeared , and now there is nothing left to sponge up the water . It is hotter and dryer because there are no Trees to hold water .

Good morning Paul, please check your email about Chile.

Message from Gaia (Mother Earth): Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling. Tell me baby where did I go wrong? I went to the doctor and guess what he told me. He said: "Girl you better try to have fun no matter what you do". But he's a fool. 'Cause nothing compares to you...

Maybe if here in the US we had massive floods... Maybe then we would take climate change more seriously? Meh idk maybe not.

@DC-xg7vn

Ай бұрын

Maybe not...in Brazil, the deniers are treating the floodings as just another "natural disaster". Unfortunately this whole thing became a Left vs Right ideological fight and won't be easy to get out of it until it's too late.

@Silks-

Ай бұрын

It doesn’t matter at this point

Siempre han habido Cambios del Clima y siempre los habrán, lo que ocurre que es muy interesante Atemorizar a la Población, mantenerlos en el miedo constante, para poder tomar Medidas de Control que de otra forma no serán aceptadas, ña Mentira es más rentable, y mientras hayan gente que les hacen el Juego, basta de mentiras, LA VERDAD NOS HACE HOMBRES Y MUJERES LIBRES.😊

In the Bible, natural disasters are often seen as precursors to significant prophetic events, and while specific predictions about increased flooding before the tribulation are not explicitly mentioned, they can be inferred. Scriptures like Luke 21:11 and Matthew 24:6-8 describe an increase in natural disturbances, including tumultuous sea conditions, as part of the end times "birth pains." These references, along with stories like Noah's flood, suggest that escalating natural calamities, including floods, might serve as divine signals of impending judgment and a call to repentance.

Then how come Obama beach front property isn't under water

@SouthCom1917

Ай бұрын

Sea level doesn't rise instantaneously, it's a gradual process. Wealthy people (like the Obamas) are counting on significant sea level rise being far enough in the future that they can buy and enjoy beachfront property in the meantime. We've already experienced a bit under a foot of sea level rise since preindustrial times. If you visit Louisiana, you'll see the marshlands are disappearing and being replaced by coastal waters. Outer Banks in North Carolina has also lost some land to the ocean. You can find tons of articles about coastal cities trying to bring in sand to replace their rapidly eroding beaches. All of this is connected to the ocean rising

@cuana2

Ай бұрын

The rise is not spread out evenly across Earth.

My fridge is full. So is my belly. How about everyone else? Talking about things you can't control seems to me a waste of energy. God controls the planet. We are just little bugs doing our thing. Don't worry, relax have some beef.

@dalewolver8739

Ай бұрын

You misspelled santa clause

@TheDoomWizard

Ай бұрын

Vomit

@Silks-

Ай бұрын

‘How about everyone else?’ Well many people are starving, and the amount’s going to rise rapidly. Are you that self-centred?

@unbiasedthoughts7875

Ай бұрын

We can control it. We chose not to. You are the epitome of this. Enjoy your beef and blissful ignorance. Consume as much as you can comrade.

@richardpowell1389

Ай бұрын

Guy calls himself the Doom Wizard and doesn't even use his magic for doom.

Eco anxiety. Yeah...everyone who truly understands abrupt climate change is now suffering from chronic eco anxiety. The realization of just how bad climate change actually is, is like getting a fatal diagnosis from the doctor. We are dying and so are all other life forms on the planet. I'd rather have eco anxiety than be a climate denying coward.