Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 2°C?

Two degrees is the target for limiting the global temperature increase. But even that limit will have a dramatic effect on the world's climate.

[williamporter]

As George Carlin said, the earth is gonna be fine. It's humans that are going to be fucked.

[coisasnatv]

Congratulations!
According to NASA/GISS/GISTEMp v4 we just pass 2°C in October 2023. In 2022, nearly 62, 000 people died from heat-related illness in Europe (61, 672 deaths) according to journal Nature Medicine.

[MrZwartwit]

why don`t we hear these facts more often? because we are afraid of short term consequences?

[Khausneffect]

I love how people are only blaming the oil industry especially when considering animal agriculture is one of the major contributors to climate change.

[jxde]

And I thought the future would be great.

[tats]

The ignorance of climate change deniers is obscene.

[coltoncrain]

5 years later and... Nothing. 16 years to go.

[rosesarebue]

and we thought it would get better after 2020.

welp good news folks: its going to get better in 20 years








because we wont exist anymore

[ravenken]

This is an older video.. outcomes remain but past 1C already and well on our way to 2C... smh.

One thing our 'science' does not reflect is that heating in the past was relatively slow compared to our literal pedal to the metal exhaust of CO2. In the past, water would melt along with the slow release of CO2 and that increase in water would have a 'cooling' effect on the climate... right now, the ice is melting but is nowhere near what it will be based on current CO2 levels... BTW - our current CO2eq is probably 505ppm (May 2017).

[doneandbeyond]

Even a 4 degree increase is too optimistic now.

[gamingtonight]

It's now 5 years later and we are now 1.1C higher with 10% more C02 in the atmosphere. Basically, nothing is happening.

[sasirina]

It’s 2 am and i m crying bc
of humans

[nibius]

And here we are at 1.2 Celsius global temperature increase in 2021.. Hope the future watchers will have less of an increase

[jakelaslo]

We're already on that temperature range, won't be long until we go into the +2 celcius range.

[samanthaansell]

Hey all, does anyone know where this information was sourced? Would like to have a read :) Thanks!

[stevederp]

In the first 30 seconds this video is absolutely wrong.

In no way was North America a desert 6, 000 years ago. It was covered in glaciers which began to melt around 12, 000 years ago and created the Great Lakes which is the largest source of fresh water on the planet.

If they’re so incredibly wrong about that how can I believe anything else in this video?

[mikeharrington]

The biosphere of animals, plants and insects have survived previous ice ages because there have always been unaffected regional pockets to retreat to. Ice ages came about slowly in many hundreds of years giving the living creatures time to adapt or to relocate to other areas.

Conversely the modern era greenhouse gas induced climate change/crisis is happening very quickly in geologic scales. This means that creatures, flora and fauna don't have sufficient time to adjust to survive and there are fewer places for them to relocate which are not affected by global warming or the proliferation of humanity into their natural habitats.

Plus modern fossil burning pollution, artificial chemicals/plastics and pesticides/herbicides are destructive elements which they have not previously encountered in their long evolution. The rapid extinction of swathes of biodiversity is unprecedented in this era dominated by mammals.

The man-made alteration to the natural cycles is overriding the effects of Milankovich Cycles and is currently having devastating effects upon biodiversity and the living biosphere. This is a CLIMATE CRISIS.

[geraskatinas]

if we change now imagine how much our lives would turn around no electricity bill :(

[garyha]

Where's the list of 150 species that went extinct yesterday?

[roberthicks]

The US Midwest was a considered a desert TWO HUNDRED years ago, not 8000. Its only because of irrigation that its so green.