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Amazing how I could predict all of his talking points & claims about history before he even spoke. I wonder how I did that?
Sometimes I forget Scriabin is a niche composer in the west.
What an institutionalized waste of human potential!
Planet Earth is in an Ice Age & getting colder.
They isn't just one species human...stop with the rubbish!!
I don't think the Insect Apocalypse is real. I live in an urban area in the UK and it is absolutely swarming with bugs. I can't open the windows or take my shoes off (I even sleep wearing them). If you momentarily open the front door they pour in like a flood.
Like many others here, I'm in my 50's and awaiting a first diagnosis. It seems so obvious now that I have the facts and after i have doubted myself for most of my lifetime and been made to feel like a failure by society simply because I was never able to fit in. A diagnosis would be such a relief and allow me to accept my differences and make something of my life before its too late. I'm on a 45 month waiting list now, which is awful, but still a light at the end of the tunnel.
A lot of armchair intellectuals in this comment section who put way too much confidence in their own reasoning.
Newton was sorcerer. Gravity is a hoax.
As a retired military intelligence officer with a degrees in history and climatology, my worry is civil unrest and war stemming from climate change. They have already begun. Before the Syrian Civil War, there was a 10 year drought that devastated the Syrian agricultural sector throwing millions into the cities. When the displaced farmers demanded assistance, Assad suppressed the demonstrations leading to the war. Likewise as the Sahara has spread south into the Sahel, the Muslim herdsmen had come into conflict with the Christian farmers. What will happen as the Himalayan glaciers melt causing more seasonal variation in several major Asian rivers in China and India? It won't be pretty.
I think civil unrest due to climate policies are more likely. People don't like being poorer and colder and locked in 15 minute cities at all. I don't know anyone who takes climate change seriously anymore. Decades of predictions that never came true and political manipulations of Green created disasters. Fake fires and floods so they can kick people out of homes. I've also studied history and nothing unusual is happening to the climate.
@@grannyannie2948 Climate change itself hurts the poor. Wind and solar power are also the cheapest sources of energy on earth, and adding them to the grid isn't going to impoverish anyone, unless you believe the fossil fuel industry's relentless propaganda. Decades of predictions that never came true? What predictions? By who? Outliers? Crackpots? These do not represent a consensus of mainstream scientists. Super important to understand the difference. Fifty years ago, the scientists predicted that temperatures would continue to rise today. They predicted accelerating sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, expansion of wildfire seasons, and increases in heatwaves, marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, extreme precipitation events, droughts , and tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases. They were right about EVERYTHING. The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, endlessly circulating "predictions" by scientists that scientists never actually made. Among these fake predictions: the polar icecaps would be melted now; New York and Florida would be underwater; the world would descend into a new Ice Age. Don't be fooled. According to investigations by Drexel University, the fossil fuel industry funds nearly 100 climate change-denying front groups, think tanks and websites, all of which work seven days a week to spread misinformation and disinformation about climate science, including the "failed predictions of scientists."
Trump 2024, commies.
Which series of Brass Eye did this episode air? I must have missed it.
Climate fraud. According to NOAA NASA the earth has greened more than 20% since 1970 thanks to the miniscule rise in CO2 levels. Optimal CO2 levels for vegetation are 3-4 times higher than current levels. Temperature and CO2 have always risen after each periodical 'little ice age'. Usually 4-5 degrees. Previous little ice age ended around 1870. Did you know they were ice skating on the Thames river London in the 1800's? Also USA: Galveston Bay froze over from Houston to Galveston Island in the 1800s; the ground in Dallas was frozen on Mayday then too, the settlement "La Reunion" had to quit and move into town. Did you know these same 'scientists' were terrified of CO2 levels dropping below 300ppm and an imminent new 'ice age' in the 1970's? (e.g., Balling 1992, Giddens 1999, Schlesinger 2003, Inhofe 2003, Will 2004, Michaels 2004, Crichton 2004, Singer and Avery 2007, Horner 2007). These 'scientists' income is dependent on fear mongering. There are plenty of honest scientists exposing this fraud but the MSM can't make money if there's no 'drama' to report. Do a little research. I don't mean 'Google' research, or keep taking your boosters 🙄
Exactly. I have been saying this for decades. In the Mediaeval Warming (1000AD+) it was warmer than today. This was followed by the Little Ice Age which began in 1600AD and peaked in 1800. Which just happens to coincide with the industrial revolution. Having peaked ofcourse it's time to warm up again. Perhaps people will have agriculture in Greenland again like in the Middle Ages. I didn't take the vax either.
The Little Ice Age was neither global nor globally synchronous. Today's warming is both. Our temperature rise has nothing to do with "coming out of the LIA." That's simply more fossil fuel industry propaganda, not actual science. See NO EVIDENCE FOR GLOBALLY COHERENT WARM AND COLDS PERIODS OVER THE PREINDUSTRIAL COMMON ERA, Nature, Neukom et al, 2019. The increase in atmospheric CO2 came directly from combusted fossil fuels, which we know from isotopic analysis of the molecules themselves. Isotopic anaysis allows us to differentiate between natural CO2 and CO2 from fossil fuels. The consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving today's climate change is now 99.9%, according to the latest survey of the field by Cornell University. No consensus of mainstream climate scientists ever predicted an imminent new Ice Age in the 1970s. Outliers? Yes. But the mainstream? Absolutely not. The majority of climate scientists writing in the science journals of the day were in fact warning about global WARMING. See MYTH OF THE 1970S GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 89, No. 9, Sept, 2008; pp. 1325-1337 for a complete debunking of this internet folk tale. See also the ZOMBIE ICE AGE COOLING MYTH AND THE TRICKS SOME PEOPLE USE TO KEEP IT ALIVE, at the Skeptical Science website. You cite Robert Balling as a source, which doesn't help your cause, knowing that he received nearly a half million dollars frm the fossil fuel industry for his "research." Balling wasn't even trained in climate science. His degree was in GEOGRAPHY. Anthony Giddens isn't a climate scientist either. He's a sociologist. Ditto James Schlesinger, an economist. Ditto James Inhofe, who attended college for economics but never graduated. When he served in Congress, he took $2.5 million from the fossil fuel industry to do their bidding. Pat Michaels and Fred Singer were also regular recipients of oil industry money, and Michael Crichton was a NOVELIST, whose climate book, STATE OF FEAR, was thoroughly trashed by actual climate scientists. ELEVEN studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change, by the way. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's scientific institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the over 50,000 physicists of the American Physical Society publicly endorse the consensus position, which is precisely why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree.
Economists from various camps will differ, but we should ask them “What is the tipping point (percentage) of excessive dependence on FDI (foreign direct investment) and of government spending on debt service? How are these relative to GDP growth and GINI (income and wealth) distribution?” It seems that economic monopolization was driven both internally (large landowners, corporate and government elites) and externally (trade, processing/manufacturing firms and governments of Great Britain, Spain, US).
Despite finding this lecture so great, well done and interesting, I am finding myself unable to turn off default thinking 😂 hence commenting midway through
I'm more worried about the geopolitical consequences of Net Zero - handing power to the main CO2 emitter, communist China.
How would switching to renewable energy hand power to China? China leads the world in the development of renewable energy. In fact, they built more solar installations last year than the United States has done in all of its history. While Trump was in office and bashing clean energy, China doubled down on electric vehicles. Today Chinese EVs are cheaper than traditional gas cars, with some priced as low as $10,000. The CEO of Ford expressed his fear that if these were allowed into the U.S., our own auto industry would be destroyed.
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Net Zero is weakening western economies. China is still building large numbers of coal-fired power stations - that's what's driving their economy. Plus they've cornered the market in rare-earth minerals, needed for batteries, etc. Did you really not know all this?
@@andrewhotston983 Net Zero is not weakening western economies. The U.S. has the strongest economy in the world, with citizens who enjoy the highest disposable income in the world. In 2022 our GDP was 40% HIGHER than China, even though China has FOUR TIMES THE POPULATION. No other country's GDP even comes close. California's economy alone outranks the vast majority of countries in the world. Yes, China cornered the market on rare earth minerals. That's because we failed to see their importance like China did. That doesn't mean Net Zero is "weakening" us. It simply means they outplayed us in the minerals market. Coal-fired power stations are not "driving China's economy" either. Coal plants are more expensive to build and run than wind and solar facilities. You're being played by fossil fuel industry propaganda, Andrew.
This guy says ah way too much.
Argentina wanted Marxism. They got Marxism. Whats the problem? OK, they ate zoo animals and have a toilet paper shortage. Itts merely a dialectical retreat. The Garden of Eden is coming. Hang on!
It's really hard to try to listen when it sounds lite someone is smacking into the mic. Wish the audioengineer had cleaned up the recording in post production
What a condescending and contemptuous view of the popular American electorate from 2016 onwards. It is not the political extreme that support Trump - how are secure borders, law and order, anti-corruption, pro-peace policies politically extreme? Just because Trump is divisive, does not mean he represents the far right. Worth remembering that there were LESS foreign wars and conflicts under Trump than Biden. And he created the Abraham Accords - the single most effective peace effort of any American president in many decades.
The problem is that you have no understanding of what co2 does or it’s limitation. It’s not the cause of the alleged climate change nor is the increase in co2 as witness via the keelings graph all cause by human activity. Look at the Dansgaurd oeschger oscillations and the wild rose and fall of co2 before man’s intervention.. not that the co2 lead temp rises.. note that the DO oscillations show co2 pulses that go from 180-300ppm and back. Note that co2 isn’t fully locked into the ice until ye have 5000yaers worth of typical Antarctic sown layering at in uncompressed ice it’s free to move and release back into atmosphere.. This under standing equated to another 100ppm missing from ice that existed in the atmosphere thus we can assume that natural co2 rose in pulses over the last 700k yrs to 2”380ppm and the different of 40ppm to get to todays Keeling’s graphic read out is that which is man made.. The facts are that Keelings graph, which measure co2 in Hawaii is able to see seasonal fluctuations in co2 yet it couldn’t detect Covid lockdowns or industrial uptick in 2000 from china and India and when the technical person in charge of the data announced this the IPCC went wild and sacked him.
Yet isotopic analysis of atmospheric CO2 molecules today clearly shows that the 140ppm of increase since the industrial revolution has come from combusted fossil fuels, not nature. According to NASA, the Covid lockdown didn't change the CO2 reading because the absence of that extra CO2's weight on the ocean allowed the ocean to release more of its own CO2, which helped to balance out the loss.
the CIA thats what went wrong
Net Zero is a 100% Political Lie. We are still increasing CO2 emissions by 1.5% per year, as we were 40 years ago. I have been counting Governments that have A/ Falsified their Emission Figures and B/ Relaxing their Pledges, Breaking their Laws to combat Climate Change and C/ Project Growth through use of Fossil Fuels. No actual DATA supports the Falsely claimed Reductions in Emissions. With Highly Functioning Governments there could be Changes made from the Business as Usual. We do not have Highly Functioning Governments. We mainly have squabbling public school children putting all their effort into petty, pathetic name calling, point scoring, and having a NO1 maximum effort in getting elected so as they can have 4 or so more years to sort out absolutely nothing. Who actually runs Countries? The Political Donors ie Big Business Runs Countries, they pay for Policy, they pay for direction and they pay for influence. In Communist Countries it is "You all work and give us your earnings". The Kingdoms are the same, many billionaire princes and not much else. Where is the Change going to come from? Scientific communication has failed catastrophically, along with peaceful protest. Get real people. We are looking at SRM because we are not and will not meet any Net Zero emissions. The real option is War, abandon school, abandon colleges and burn the whole Fossil Fuel business system to the ground. Refineries, Storage Sites, Pipe Lines, Gasoline Stations and keep burning them until Governments get Serious. Because your Children and Grandchildren need a Habitable Planet to live on. The muppet talking in this presentation makes it clear "Whacky Useless Goofball Ideas that no body will fund or implement. This requires you fight for your Planet.
a simple, beautiful final thought. these lectures have been really great. thanks to all
Fetishism
The single biggest cause of CO2 is the Sun burning the world's oceans.
The ocean today is a net ABSORBER of CO2, not a net emitter. That dynamic is projected to reverse by 2100, which is when we'll be in much more trouble than we're in now.
I made it to 30 minutes in - oh dear.
Latin, principally being Spanish and Italian culture, are largely inferior in the modernity of the last three or four hundred years. So is Catholicism. Latin Americans must convert to Lutheranism or Presbyterianism and embrace the elements of it which made progress toward secular humanism possible.
The Iliad is one of the most beautiful POEMS...but the director got it WRONG... .
Started of as a loser buying into the illusion we have an effect on a bigger picture we are irrelevant and we aren’t messing with the climate we’re just a blink and not important so it’s hard to trust some one who is contradictory and can’t see the bigger picture our relevance makes us more relevant than Neighbour
Slacks on a woman was real fashion in 1948. Honeymoon gear.
Supporters of these clubs were only interested in the ill-health of the other team's supporters. No wonder it was called Bent Penny afterwards. Both sides claimed a victory.
Didn't talk about Singapore or Taiwan
Great talk which emphasizes the impairment and consequences of untreated ADHD. This is very important, in order to give the severe impact of ADHD some expression. Most talks really beat around the bushes when it comes to impairments. People with ADHD suffer. Many people try to downplay ADHD and fall short in offering effective treatment options. Medication is a must most of the time and this is a prerequisite for behavioral intervention. People with ADHD cannot will their troubles away. This is their very problem: executive functioning problems. How talks deal with medication as well as ADHD in adulthood is a sign of quality.
Why is such a wide array of traits placed under one label?
As soon as Myles talks about stopping climate change and tipping points, you just know he doesn't understand climate and he's following a set agenda. No need to listen any more.
What does he get wrong?
When you call someone out for "misunderstanding climate," you should defend your position and post data that supports your view. Otherwise, it's an empty accusation.
Rio Grande do Sul, a not very populous Brazilian state that produces 6.5% of Brazil's GDP, was devastated by an extreme weather event. Some municipalities were completely destroyed, the environmental deregulation carried out by the governor of that state increased the destructive potential of excessive rain. Brazil is in a position to care for the affected population and repair the damage. But if something similar happens in 2 or 3 larger, more populous and economically important states, Brazil will go bankrupt.
The worst, most futile and irrelevant conference ever held by the College....
Reparations? For what? Creating the modern world? Not sorry.
Your entire argument, the same argument for around 44 years is always about wild hyperbolic speculations of future events that never materialize. Maybe you should start examining the data from actual events that have transpired, proving that warming has been mostly benign, is easily managed and a net benefit for humanity. Your absurd predictions are tiresome nonsense.
I don't know anyone who takes it seriously anymore.
@@grannyannie2948 You should hang out with a better-educated crowd then. The scientific consensus is confirmed by eleven separate studies and publicly endorsed by over 80 academies of science and every scientific institution in the world. 61% of Americans in a Pew poll report that climate change has already affected their communities. 70% support becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Meanwhile 64% of those polled globally believe climate change is an emergency. Even a majority of Fox News viewers believe climate change is happening, despite the fact that Fox is a hub for climate misinformation and the bashing of renewable energy. (Fox boss Rupert Murdoch, incidentally, co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board.)
@@grannyannie2948 Well my friend there's a classic example of the lunatics that still exist in the comment posted directly below your post.
The only geopolitical risk or threat is from myopic climate policies that induce greater poverty and suffering for humanity.
Climate change itself is causing poverty. Odisha, India has already lost 16 villages to sea level rise inundation. The Maldives spends HALF of its national budget on climate change mitigation and holding back the rising tide, with over 95% of their fresh water sources lost to seawater infiltration. See THE CLIMATE CRISIS DISPROPORTIONATELY HITS THE POOR.
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Coastal erosion has been going on for millions of years. Net Zero will make everyone poorer.
100%
@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481Meanwhile Pacific Islands are growing larger. Nothing unusual about some countries shrinking.
@@andrewhotston983 What poppycock. How does land suffer inundation from the ocean if the ocean isn't rising? "Net Zero will make eveyone poorer" is fossil fuel industry propaganda. You're being played.
The oceans are always changing in temperature, depending on the El Niño or La Niña, the “ice” status, glacial or ice caps, is dependant on snow fall, right now there is more ice depth in both north and south, ice caps, the glacier on mount Kilimanjaro has expanded, the figures for warming are fallacious “curve fitting”, to suit the IPCC’s ££ Climate ££ Catastrophe ££ scam and grossly erroneous model reflecting incorrect data on earth’s outward radiation 😡 Follow the money ££, there is NO global warming 😡🇬🇧
The problem is historians, economists, political scientists, and the plague of infotainment news pundits, all keep intermixing and conjoining democracy with capitalism. They are not Siamese twins.
Also how is the average person supposed to afford going private at the cost of over £2000 for the dsm5 test & 350 per consultation. My doctor diagnosed me at 14 yrs old as being depressed, all my kids have autism Asperger's ADHD but my doctor told me stop looking for an excuse... Wow not been back since coz they scare me now so thanks uk health service
What's disgusting is how doctors stop the mother of 3 autistic Asperger's ADHD children being tested... Here in Blackpool England Mother is high masking because she's 50 and has learned all her life how she must fit in or possibly loose her kids to social services. That's an absolute travesty
MASSIVE FLOODING NOW OCCURING AROUND THE WORLD, DUE TO WARMER AIR
Abject lie without an ounce of evidence.
Easy low hanging fruit would be phase out cars emitting more than 100g/km and build all new built to passiv house standard. It really boils down to stop buying stop flying
It really boils down to having authoritarian climate zealots dictate to everyone else - "live the way we say. Adopt our values", always followed by threats.
@@anthonymorris5084 well that would be nice but it's not happening so we'll just carry on as usually
@@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 It's a matter of perspective. Rights and freedoms are more important than harmless warming.
@@anthonymorris5084 well, the floods in Brazil last years wildfires in Canada and the dying coral reefs don't sound harmless to me. We're all biological organisms depending entirely on our ecosystems for life support. Once it's destroyed life is going to be brutal for everyone
@@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 Floods in Brazil didn't begin the day you were born. The Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources has a web site. They have forest fire data and a graph. The graph clearly shows that forest fires have been in decline for 44 years. How do you reconcile this with your statements? The American forestry department has data going back more than 75 years. Burn acreage and fires have been in consistent and precipitous decline for this entire duration. You are willfully ignoring data and getting your information from media which sensationalizes everything.
Hey SCHIT ... if it's all over , it's all over.
I went for a test to see if I had autism and the test was aimed more at children. I’m 49 and had the test 3 years ago. The rest said that I didn’t tick enough of the boxes to say I was autistic but had some of the behaviour traits. I know there are more thorough tests for adults out there but costs thousands! I will have to live through live not knowing for sure. I have always felt people don’t like or care about me and are not interested in my art so I feel that I am autistic