I had an amazing Clarkcon! I met so many wonderful, intelligent and talented people, a big thanks to you and everyone for organising it. Keep it Clarky!

It was incredible day. Thank you so much to Simon and his incredible team. I'm excited to hear that you might be doing more events like this, but by all means, recover from this one first!

Every time I see you having a conversation you’re always looking so happy. That energy is infectious and just what we all need.

Buzzing for the next Si Mon Sci Comm Con... if I can get tickets before they're snapped up 😅

And for sure one of the most incredible thumbnails I've ever seen

It was an amazing day, congratulations to you and all of the team!

Was a great day and a lot of fun, looking forward to the next one!

Just getting to sleep in Sydney and find it amazing that you and others read my comments and respond with better videos. Excellent work. 8.30pm here. 👍 👍 😊

Congratulations, Si Mon Sci Comm Con looks amazing! As a fellow mission-driven KZreadr it’s great to see that it’s possible to make a job out of this. :)

@bartroberts1514

8 ай бұрын

So.. when is SteeleCon? :) No, seriously, it would be amazing if more people with worthy missions had "Virtual KZread" events from time to time where they substituted face-to-face technology for their usual platform, to bring about action.

@DrAndrewSteele

8 ай бұрын

@@bartroberts1514 Haha thanks for the moral support! (Literally, perhaps?!) But yes, I completely agree, once I’ve got a few more subs I’ll definitely be thinking about how to use our collective powers for good. :) 1. Get more subs 2. ??? TBC 3. Change the world! (hopefully)

Oh my goodness, this is all so exciting! Congratulations all round and thank you for another great video - I was smiling from ear to ear pretty much the whole way through it!

Thank you once again for the unforgettable event! It was great fun and I learned a lot.

I totally support your pivot to improving people's climate literacy and thus helping them make informed decisions.

It was so much fun! Thank you for organising it! And we want to do it again next year! :D And some of us will come over from the continent again!

On my recent ski holiday, last week in the oz snow, Charlottes Pass, I learned that in the last 20 years the base snow line has risen 200m. This on averagecwill make the seasons shorter with less snow. The season was nearly cut short by 3 weeks due to warm weather. Luckily we had heavy snowfalls just in time to see my week out, at least. My guess itvwill be cut short by 2 weeks as Sydney is expected to have a 30c in a few days, its early spring. Plus we are in a el nino, warmest winter on record, very little rain, as a result a great fear of driught and fires looming. Farmers are planting less, selling off their livestock due to the predictions. You will not have heard any of this subtle news re how climate is affecting everyday lives due to the more dramtic fiotage re the climate events in the northern hemisphere this summer. These events build up, one is now building up in Oz. As I write the people of Tennant Creek north oz are getting ready to evacuate due to a fire, its early spring. Terrifying. We need more people with climate literacy, not climate lunacy as per our Tory Parties, who dominate our politics. That local Mp is the NSW State Liberal ( Tory) MP for the seat of Macquarie, Robyn Preston, deputy leader of the NSW Liberal (Tory) Party, arrogant and willfully ignorant, some say not much between the ears and lazy. It is a safe Tory seat. Jobs fir the insiders, was a staffer and the only qualification I know is, center fold lady for the Australian Penthouse, pornographic magazine in the 80s. However, that would not disqualify her from attempting to understand climate science or being a good politician. What matterscis, dies shecdoba giod job as a representative, answer in my experience, aa, no!

Congratulations Simon! I have that Simpsons book at 0.34 too! It’s basically a bible of when the Simpsons was great..the downslide begins not long after this book leaves off. *Buries lead* Your conference looks fantastic, and is a credit to you and your hard work.

i am fan, listening from Quebec Canada, thanks for what you do

Congrats! Sounds like a fun event.

In corporate world it's common to define "vision" and "mission" statements and you just organically defined your vision! Congrats, because in many companies setting these statements feels like a forced activity and the resulting statements are often useless. So, it's great that you've been intrinsically motivated to came up with what you're calling an "ethos".

Glad it went so well Simon, what a wonderful community.

Love the thumbnail 😊

That's so cool! I hope you get to a million subscribers soon.

What a great community you've grown 👏

I am glad your uni backs you up.

Please bring Clarkcon up north! (I want to see the Hawaiian Orks up close)

🎉 C L A R K C O N 🎉

You're going to need a much bigger venue nxt year fella 😁

@SimonClark

8 ай бұрын

EXCEL CENTRE BAYBEEE

It would have been great if something could have been streamed online for those who can't visit

@SimonClark

8 ай бұрын

We are hoping to do that for a future event!

That looks great! Would it be worth featuring any of the talks on your channel, or did you really need to be there (I don't think the emissions would be worth it from here in Oz - sorry!). That sounds like a good pivot - climate change can be a quite abstract concept at times.

@SimonClark

8 ай бұрын

I think the content this time round was really "in the room" stuff, but if/when we do this again, we're already considering making it a hybrid event!

This is what heaven looks like for me. Gawd Damn it! why was I born in India, It would be so fun to be able to go to such a place/ event.

CLARK CON!!!

@bartroberts1514

8 ай бұрын

Keep calm and

@darthmaul216

8 ай бұрын

Ok James may

Congratulations on the event. Also, would you consider posting the new podcast on KZread as well? Even as an audio-only version? (This is just a selfish question because I prefer to consume podcasts on KZread)

How long will the CERN toblerone stay there :D

Could you do one further north? It’s hard to get down there when you’re up Scotland way

@SimonClark

8 ай бұрын

We're eyeing up somewhere like Manchester for a possible future event!

@JKMeZmA

8 ай бұрын

@@SimonClark aw brilliant!

It was a super fun day, thank you! Excited to see where your journey leads next.

❤❤❤❤❤

So I watched this on Nebula. Where is the podcast, please?

There's a Discord?

Hi Simon, please cover 'deep adaptation'

Team up with Rollie Williams from Climate Town and Dave from JHAT. Others?

@janklaas6885

8 ай бұрын

yeahh, thegreatstory

Your camera collection on display?

You made the best climate science videos on the internet. Bar none.

Did you have people who flew there?

Alan?

What drivers are there to climate change other than co2?

@bartroberts1514

8 ай бұрын

IPCC AR6 has a pretty thorough list of forcings (drivers of change) for climate, as has every IPCC Assessment Report. Not CO2 generally, but specifically influx of fossil CO2 new to the natural carbon flux leading to positive feedbacks, is the strongest driver, estimated to be responsible for over 103% of measured global warming. (The world would be slightly cooler if not for AGW.) After that, an order of magnitude lower, are land use changes and terrestrial and ocean changes due other human agency. In the generally opposite direction, are aerosols that have some cooling effect and some lesser warming effect. After that, an order of magnitude lower again, are natural terrestrial forcings like volcanism, ENSO, dust, etc. After that, several orders of magnitude lower, are changes in the sun; these are so low that the signal of temperature associated with sunspots is no longer detectable (for the last six decades) due to being overwhelmed by fossil CO2's power. About par with that, orbital changes that make up Milankovitch Cycles, responsible for changes on the order of 23,000 to 40,000 to 100,000 years. We've overwhelmed that signal, too. And several orders of magnitude lower again is the solar system's progress relative to the galactic equator. There are also fictitious forcings, for example Richard Lindzen's "cloud iris" theory he spent a quarter century and millions of taxpayer funds on and failed to find, and the countless imitators of his wonky thinking who followed in his wake. Why do you ask?

@tibitzu365

8 ай бұрын

well, I'm wondering about how the great dying took place 250 million year ago. I know that the current orbit around the Milky Way will take 230 million years but we are in a spiral galaxy, slowly getting closer to the massive black hole. I would say that puts us in a similar position. We are also on the inner edge of the Orion Spur galactic arm and going by the work of Henrik Svensmark and Nir Shaviv as we leave this arm we will receive less cosmic rays and experience warmer climates. I know that climate scientists attribute the great dying to volcanic activity which released co2 into the atmosphere, but what caused the immediate freezing that followed. It makes more sense to me that increased temperatures cause volcanic activity and the debris that would have blocked the sun would have caused the freezing. Aerosols caused by cosmic rays entering our atmosphere causing cloud cover seem to have a net cooling effect. Couldn't we use this information to replicate these effects? I'm not trying to be contrary, we have to take responsibility for the change to our environment which we are doing, but it pales in comparison to what nature can do and if we are on the brink of a momentous natural change in climate, it needs to be addressed. @@bartroberts1514

@bartroberts1514

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for giving us more insight into the ulterior motives of your attempts to sow doubt and confusion. Milky Way's Orbit: While it's true that our solar system orbits the Milky Way, the timescales involved (hundreds of millions of years) are vastly different from the timescales of contemporary climate change (years to decades) caused by fossil trade. The influence of our galactic orbit on Earth's climate is negligible compared to any other forcing, especially the impact of fossil trade. Orion Spur Galactic Arm: Henrik Svensmark and Nir Shaviv's cosmic ray theory is still a topic of scientific debate. While their work suggests a correlation between cosmic rays, cloud cover, and climate, it's important to note that the scientific consensus leans toward greenhouse gases, primarily non-condensing, non-saturating, non-friable fossil CO2 new to the atmosphere, as the dominant driver of recent global warming by more than a factor of ten compared to all other forcings combined. The cosmic ray hypothesis has not gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. Great Dying: The Great Dying 250 million years ago was indeed linked to massive volcanic activity, which released large amounts of greenhouse gases new to the atmosphere of the time like CO2 and methane. This caused a rapid warming, but the subsequent cooling was likely due to the formation of sulfur aerosols, which blocked sunlight. It's a complex sequence of events involving both warming and cooling factors. It is also very different tectonically from the level of volcanism possible today, according to our geological understanding. Current tectonic emissions are less than 2% of the total of fossil trade, and variance in tectonic emissions is within 3% of that, or 0.06% of fossil trade. Aerosols and Cosmic Rays: Cosmic rays can influence cloud formation, but the net effect on global temperature remains uncertain and is a subject of ongoing research. While some studies suggest a cooling effect, others find limited to nil (in the case of cosmic ray impact). Replicating these effects intentionally is challenging and may have unintended consequences. And again, they are just part of a whole mix of forcings that themselves amount to only about 10% of the impact of fossil trade, and which as a whole average out to about zero. Human vs. Natural Climate Change: It's true that natural factors have influenced Earth's climate throughout its history. However, the rapid increase in greenhouse gas concentrations from human activities, particularly the fossil trade, is overwhelming natural variability by more than ten times, and is the primary driver of recent extreme weather fires, floods, cyclones, drought, heat wave, heat dome and so on. The scientific consensus reached across nations and outside of politics, supported by extensive research, points to fossil trade as the dominant and only significant cause of current climate change liabilities and losses of life. In summary, while natural factors do play a role in Earth's climate history, the current climate change is primarily driven by fossil trade greenhouse gas emissions. It's essential to rely on the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists who have extensively studied this issue and to consider the timescales and magnitudes involved when comparing natural and human-induced climate changes. Addressing fossil trade remains a critical global challenge best approached as gradual abolition of this existential danger by 2030. @@tibitzu365

@bartroberts1514

8 ай бұрын

@@tibitzu365 In short, this "momentous natural change in climate" you're flogging is frankly nonsense with nearly zero evidence for it; fossil trade causing events like Derna, Idalia, Yellowknife, Lahaina daily has mountains of evidence it has become urgent. Why water down the real crisis with fake ones like this Milky Way fable?

This comment acts as a pre-order for Sci mon Sci Comm Con Australia 🇦🇺

Disappointed at the apparent lack of masking in the footage at the event.

So the 3rd/4th Si.Mon.Con... climate tubers!!!!!

@timbushell8640

8 ай бұрын

And the core focus of the channel changes sounds interesting, good luck and 'we' will follow that journey.

"I will tell you in exact way how we're fucking doomed and we can't do much about it unless people at power that we can't change do something" is the vibe I get from this channel ;/

@MsRainingDays

8 ай бұрын

Wut

@briancrowther3272

8 ай бұрын

Well, you've misunderstood the channel. I think it shows that we need to get off ourcarses and get involved to take the power away from the arsehes that currently hold it, bar those honest ones who are fighting to get the changes Simon advocates, and determine our own futures, according to what the best science tells us, which Simon educates us on, we need to do. Wake up, get involved.

@xani666

8 ай бұрын

@@briancrowther3272 It just gives me depression

Hey quick question... why are all the comments sections disabled on your youtube shorts? I like your content but turning off comments isnt seen as a very respectable or credible thing to do when making fact based content... just curious why you do that.

@SimonClark

8 ай бұрын

A few reasons. Firstly, it's to avoid the comments becoming a billboard for misinformation. Try as I might there are simply too many comments for me to keep on top of the lies and misrepresentations, and given that the comments are almost as visible as the video I think it's irresponsible to allow these lies to spread. Secondly, I didn't want to do it. I would love to have feedback on how I do climate communication, but unfortunately that only works if people engage in good faith, and frankly the vast majority of people leaving comments on my shorts are not. They're lying. And lastly, for my mental health - having to deal with a tsunami of shit every time I opened KZread studio was really affecting me, and if I want to keep doing this job, I've got to make sure I can do it long term.

Why did you turn off your comments on your climate change video?