Well known climate system science educator; joining the dots on abrupt climate change. Occasional part-time professor (sessional/contract instructor) in Geography (on climatology, oceanography, environmental issues) at University of Ottawa. Physicist. Engineer. Master's Degree in Science in Laser Optics, Bachelors of Engineering, in Engineering Physics. Won Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario gold medal. Also interested in climate solutions, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Avid chess player, and likes restoring old homes. Married with three sons.
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The Nine Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Heat, Drought, Fire, Flood, Disease, Infestation, Famine, War and Chaos. If you can expand the list, feel free.
Paul, I just read that the Arctic sea ice is at 20 year maximum...is this true???
We are VERY close to falling off a Climate cliff and there is nothing we can do about it. Its all about microbes and Arctic sequestered CARBON. Radical atmospheric scrubbing might buy time only.
Paul, thank you so much for your work. I have just laid down my env ed (volunteer) work at the community ctr serving underresourced ppl near me. They so need ee but there's no space (mentally, physically or spiritually). Soil under the nails may help me cut time I spend thinking abt the skills those kids need.
How has every prediction gone from you idiots. ? Oh i know BADLY.
It definitely can't be anything to do with the sun.
No wonder my spidey-sence was tingling..
Our future is cold
Apparently, India is expected to have temperatures around 40 degrees C. this summer. I won't go there for a spiritual retreat when everyone there will be stressed with the heat.
Earth at risk ?!?! lol...NO, HUMANS AT RISK !
It's _almost_ comical... almost.
Here's a prediction for Texas, they are going to be in denial in the voting booth too, and vote for fascism? Thanks in advance, and when you look at the little ones, be sure and think of the debt Herr Drumpf tacked onto your tab the first time.
humans are overshooting. We are proving that collectively we are no wiser than reindeer or bacteria.
So it's like a strong sea breeze that wrecks homes...
Deniers and McPhersonists are the same ... they can't process slow change over decades. They just address their issue in different ways. One denies the change is happening, the other amplifies the change in their minds far beyond reality.
Yes, it is frustrating and infuriating, that nobody wants to listen. But. There is no point whatsoever to TALK about it anymore. Talk means procrastinating. Everyone, who WANTS, knows exactly whats going on. Nobody will be able to convince all those, who deliberately refuse to listen. We MUST take action right now, bottom up is the only way, and leave all those ignorants or malevolent denialists and profiteers of the catastrophy behind without any comment. Also, we can not drag everyone with us against their will. Each hour, each day of delay costs millions of lives.
IPCC AR7: "They keep doing the same despite nobody wants to listen and it doesn't work." platitude hint: We can't expect a different result if we always do the same. :/
With the vast majority of people living in cities by 2050 it makes sense that many enviro, socio- economic & political solutions start coming from cities - cities should start being a beacon of hope rather than a parasite on their hinterlands. An IPCC report on climate & cities is long overdue. Climate action in cities is also a good way to bypass climate inaction at gov level! Communities can work together to implement solutions (think global, act local) - the power of collective action. It's also time that the UN programmes start co- ordinating better re implementation of the 17 SDGs in cities - enviro care, food, water, energy, shelter, health, education, mobility, waste management, urban services, social services, emergency services etc If cities can be sustainable, then our world can be sustainable...
How about Nuclear Power? Could that fill the gap in energy needs? I mean, it's kind of 'dirty' power but contained? I also wonder if this there will be a new Space Race. There has been renewed interest in the Moon. I wonder if any kind of Asteroid mining will ever actually happen.
Global Warming has been very Mild since 1979...Meteorologist Dr. Roy Spencer has measured Global Troposphere Satellite Data since 1979. His data destroys most global warming models and alarmists narratives.
I do not believe the Guardian is independent at all , they comment ban anti war and climate posters . Also their politics is weird . They promote to much we can stick to 1.5 don`t worry posts next to fly somewhere adverts .
How high will it go ? that's not an opinion level , its directly workably out with the amount of GHG in atmosphere so are they predicting different levels of inaction ?
Okay, 6% of climate scientists are on crack.
Arctic free ice = Life free Planet
If the planet has reached the tipping point, and I believe it has, then any reductions in fossil fuel use, are pointless. Mother Nature will have the last laugh!
If you're worried about the effects of climate change -and you should be very worried to the point of panic - you need to understand what's causing it. It's the economic system and the way it's controlled by and works for a very few. Until it's democratic we won't be in a position to do anything that isn't decided by the interests of the people at the top. We either need to make it democratic or scare the living hell into the people who make the decisions. And that needs to be worldwide.
IPCC full reports are great for climate scientists as comprehensive literature reviews.of the science and its progress.
Since 2017, all of the pollinating insects have completely disappeared around my property and my trees no longer produce fruit because they are not getting pollinated. The bird population has dropped by at least 80% and many species have disappeared completely. I don’t know if this climatic in nature or the use of farm chemicals. A great number of chemicals used in US agriculture have been banned everywhere else in the world. It is like the book “Silent Spring “ has become reality.
Climate change is caused by forces far greater than the paltry human economy with its polluting greedy excesses and entitlements. Get with the science...not the mainstream media BS and see the climate is changing because we are into a magnetic pole shift. It was why the aurora this week was so incredible yet it came from a modest solar storm event. Previous aurora displays of similar intensity have required much larger solar storm flare activity. The evidence is there. This political and economic thing is delusional and larval stage consciousness. Awaken from the stupor of same and be enlivened rather than burdened by the BS of climate change according to a bunch of power mongering juveniles who through corporations drive science and its' peer review to skew information then through the media to control the people. Nothing new there...
Joan Baez commented in the 60's about the apathy among the general population. That hasn't changed. So, you better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I'm telling you why...
i saw recently that fossil fuel extraction will actually be net-energy-negative soon, because we are running out of fossil fuels and the extraction methods are not sustainable. so literally corporations are killing us all for profit.
well the research must be done- we need the data to convince the denyers. shit trump may be our next president!!!!!!! even if not read- eventually that study may be needed. keep it up Paul.
they should make use of AI to streamline reporting but yeah, what's the point when it all ends up making little if any difference
More jabber. Little to no action. These things are pointless.
Thanks for all you do Paul... I contribute what I can to the effort
Hmmm. The climate surely doesn't worsen incrementally, it declines exponentially....
Fukushima! Nuclear! Meltdowns! Uranium! Plutonium! In the Pacific Ocean. In the jet stream. 500,000+ Hiroshima bombs released into the environment. Put your big boy pants on Paul. Say the F word. Fukushima!!!!!! …if you want to be a real scientist…
When using numbers, we tend to think of heat rise as beginning and ending sharply. However, it is more like the difference between cooking with gas vs electricity. Once it warms up it stays that way.for a very long time. Rock is mass. Rocket mass heater, etc. Some humans survived by living underground or in great caves. The universe is not friendly, but neither is it unfriendly. It is.
yes, the universe does not have hostile intent, I believe. However about 99.99999999999999% of the universe is not suitable for life, and we are busy making the other 0.00000000001% also unsuitable for life. Tragic
Okaaaasy! Yeah! 👍😊🕊️
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities... what the world will look like after the clean fuels for cruise ships act pt 2 kicks in is more like it. we are already past 3c if we lose the sulphur. The precise problem Dr doom everyone is out to get me McPherson warned us about. I dont know why folks do not take momentum into account. If we went net zero tomorrow, we would still heat for a further 10 years just based on co2 lag, and we are now already at the point that if we lose the sulphur shield, tipping points will take over. Hothouse earth and death of billions is a forgone conclusion that frankly, the scientists are too pussy to acknowledge. someone has to say it. Mitigation is a joke. adaptation to the level of Noah's ark terrariums underground is the very least of it. but y'all just keep on doing things the same way and reporting every blow like the next one could be different. The fight is over, you lost ten moves ago. you just have not hit the deck yet.
All this reminds me of the crash of flight 401. All the crew was focused on whether the nose gear had extended for landing…meanwhile everyone forgot to fly the plane, and it crashed. Governments are all too busy doing studies, meanwhile they all forgot that they’re SUPPOSED to be the “leaders”. Are we all heading for the same fate as flight 401 my friends? God help us.
If you only knew then what you know now...
...and the band played on.
I don't want to minimize climate change, but is it not the case that the vast majority of people in the global south have much more immediate and pressing problems than to worry about the climate change to come? Various wars and famines in parts of Africa are real and present existential dangers. Should we not addressing those problems as well?
A very good point by pascalbercker.... When you are leading a hand-to-mouth existence (which is the case for maybe 2-3 billion people) then you can't lose sleep over what may happen 10 years down the road - or even 1 year from now.
Iti s frustrating that ice isn't understood as something that can suddenly fall apart. That sea level rise could go up catastrophically. 3' per season rises have been found by oceanic geology of European seas.
It is frustrating that methane isn't understood as the gift that will keep giving. Thusly, heat once started will not stop until it reaches a maximum based on the facts.
" Continue the fight " , What fight ? Where ?
One fight is that of people who have responsibly modified their consumptive lifestyles to gain the ability to share the techniques by which the do so… as it’s morally correct now and necessary soon- but this is nearly impossible because the conversation is controlled by affluent boomer doomers and green marketing hucksters. Viable pathways to a sustainable future aren’t even being meaningfully discussed.
I don't think anything truly serious will be put in place by governments until wealthy countries face their first serious food shortages...
And they still won’t do anything. Governments work for corporations, not their citizens.
@@beefandbarley The wealthy need a base of peasants in order to maintain their wealth and power though... they can't let most of the working class die.
Ultimately, it will actually be human arrogance and hubris that will be the cause of our demise. We, homo sapiens deem ourselves to be "masters of the world" with all of our technological accomplishments. The mind-numbing irony is that those "accomplishments" are the very things that are killing us. We should actually be afraid of ourselves.
Paranoia is just good thinking.
2°C by early 2030s. The world will be in full blown chaos by 2027. Go breath in the fresh air now.