Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable

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45:33 - Start of Q & A

Rosina Bierbaum, formerly of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and an Adaptation Fellow at the World Bank, shows how climate change will affect all regions and sectors of the economy, and disproportionately affect the poorest people on the planet. Therefore, improving the resilience, adaptation, and preparedness of communities must be a high priority, equal to that of achieving deep greenhouse gas reductions,and rapid development and deployment of innovative technologies, as well as altered planning and management strategies, will be needed in the coming decades to achieve a sustainable world. Recorded on 05/08/2017. [7/2017] [Show ID: 32343]

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[AlexandreLollini]

This cristal clear presentation should get 8 billion views.

[rapauli]

This superb and wonderful presentation now goes to the top of my list of single videos to share with any person curious about the future. It is clear, very current, and speaks with a very positive voice. Rosina Bierbaum touches on all the important poings. If you plan to watch YouTube to learn more around this issue. This is the one to watch . Thank you and thanks goes to the University of California Television. Watch this one.

[camlinhall]

Appalling. To say it doesn't matter if the US is out of the Paris agreement is risible at best, terrifying at worst.

[lynadamson]

How can we get a photo image of the graph at 8:08 - it's very compelling and I would like to include it in a slide show for a Canadian audience

[GregoryJWalters]

Thank you Prof. Bierbaum. Your 2017 Keeling Lecture is empirically substantive, exceedingly comprehensive, and presented in clear and simple terms for the average person. Denialists remain, but they, too, shall Learn soon enough about the need to make a Turn About in modes of thinking and acting. Thank you, again, Super lecture! Love

[frankblack]

It's loss of habitat and loss of biodiversity that will see us off not climate change.

[awakenowful]

Ice free Arctic by 2030? More like 2018 or 2020. That means game over.a

[dontoews]

she's sugar coating, it's going to be much worse and quicker

[andrebalsa]

Great lecture! Very watchable and easy to understand.

[HotPinkst]

Water vapor is 20 times more powerful a green house gas than CO2. We can control climate change by building huge moisture condensers. The energy cost would be huge but building so much more green energy infrastructure would help the technology advance and bring the costs down. Allowing catastrophic climate change is costlier than building up this infrastructure. Water vapor turned into liquid water can be used for everything humans use freshwater for. Though this would be the most expensive water available to us it would allow us to halt the greenhouse effect to whatever extent we build the infrastructure for and is a sustainable water source. CO2 initiates climate change but water vapor traps most of the heat.

[johnweaver]

Lao Mark, you must be optimistic if you think anyone will be doing much other than running away from starving hordes in twenty years time. Check out Paul Beckwith's video on loss of Arctic sea ice or Peter Wadham's book, A Farewell to Ice. Wadham was asked politely to leave Oxford early (he's now at some Irish university) bc he mused over the loss of civilization (civilization defined as being able to grow grains at scale) once the Arctic was all slush, aka a blue ocean event on the top of the globe.   Already, crop and plant productivity are set to decrease in the tropics in just a few decades, aka how do people get enough to eat, let alone export to other countries to make money?  Today, Guatemalans (maybe a third of them) are suffering from kidney problems bc of water scarcity and perhaps exposure to crop pesticides. As the Arctic warms up, more permafrost thaws and adds more methane and carbon to the climate system. And it seems like every person on Earth wants a gd gas sucking car. Some Iranian just launched a video on a refurbished car that ran on water and not gasoline.  Not that he's the first to do it. Many of those inventors wind up falling down an open elevator. Good luck seeing that in the good ol' Exxon of America.

[bingobaggins]

She is an abrupt climate chaos denialist. Ignoring arctic amplification and the positive feedback loops are why the IPCC models fall short.

[billyjoesmo]

Tipping points?
Feedback loops?
Arctic methane +nitros oxide?
Please do a lecture, in reality, useing the above topics.

[laomark]

Being rational, realistic, scientist and having 37 years of multidisciplinary experience living and working in multiple countries around the globe, I have NO doubt that our civilization is colapsing in mostly all fronts....the financial markets are clearly manipulated; politically and diplomatically we are in a shameful garbage state; morally, ethically, respectfully, humanistically etc we are disgraced;

we exploited and destroyed our planet in every way we could; commercially it is all about making as much money as possible and stepping over others heads; militarily we are invading sovereign countries and slaughtering people left and right; eduucationally, agendas are manipulated for us to become "obedient servants/ workers"; religion faiths are

people almost every where became Orwellian robots semicousciouly twittering, chatting, facebooking, playing games and talking gossips and bullshit on their cel phones; our planet is in a increasingly climate chaos; businesses are closing and jobs mingling; our air, waters, junk and GMO foods are poisoning us; selfishness, egoism and egocentrism are rampant everywhere;

cost of health care are exploding; retirement and pension funds are doomed; states and countries are broken; famine and malnutition affect at least 1/4 of the global population; in the late 1800's our population exploded exponentially from 1.5 billion people to 7.1billion humans and soon we will reach 9 billion (and with their myriad growing demands, desires and necessities that with the lifestyle we live and/ or seek, it's obviously unsustainable); pollution is every where you look; ....

Pornography and sexual exploitation are at the peak; bullshit garbage egocentric celebrities are treated like demigods; crimes are spreading like virus; terrorist ( many financed by powers-at-be....Saudi Arabia, US, UK etc) is ticking at faster pace; innocent refugies who lost everything are flooding other countries; more powerful and mortíferos armaments are constantly being developed and sales are booming; mind control techniques are improving and becoming more effective at an alarming rate;...

news mídia are not trustable; cyber attacks are becoming daily events and more wide spread; lies and false appearences are all over the place; we have been bombarded by all types of undesirable advertises; we are extincting 200 species per day.; our fishes are almost all overfished; wild fires, heat waves and flash floods occur daily; virus and diseases and springing out more frequently; corruption spread like a tornado (see Brazil with the greatest government-big companies corruption in world history); multi billion money-making sports are maddening, blinding and manipulating masses (football, basketball, soccer, Coliseum-type brutal fights etc)

most doctors see you as a number on their insurance paystub; deforestation is taken as normal part of economic growth (maybe we only have 20-25% of the original global vegetation still standing); sea level is rising at faster pace; almost all years in at least the past decade is warmer than the previous one; arctic sea ice is rapidly mingling; oceans are becoming each time more acidic, warmer (expanding in volume) and the global main currents that help balancing the world's climate are shifting or slowing down; various types of drugs usage are worldwide spread; contrabands of goods and trafficking of people (or their organs) became I could go on and on.

It is obvious for any rational thinking mind that our civilization is rolling down the hill at faster speed. I am NOT a pessimist, only absolutely REALIST! OPEN YOUR EYES, BEWARE and PREPARED ( this if you want to survive thru the harshness of the unfolding global chaos)....behold and save my words!

[andregregoire]

It is as i predicted, survivalists vs profiteers.

[fractalnomics]

If I could prove the physics of 'greenhouse theory' is wrong: would that be a help?

[bobleclair]

With all the grafts you present, you leave out the grafts on deforestation and its correlation with climate change or the sequestering of co2, don’t feel bad, they’re all doing it

[andregregoire]

Debating the survival of humanity while rejecting the infallible laws of nature is absurd .

[robertfield]

Yes, and Libya hit 136 F on (drum roll please) ... 13 September 1922. Now I would call that EXTREME heat.

[brpawankumariyengar]

If all is lost then, why bother? The USA has pulled out of Paris agreement and there is no need for Indians to suffer for the sake of this planet. I swear that If I ever get a chance to cut down trees, I will and very happily. I do not care about the environment or planet earth. I am solely and exclusively concerned about India.