Scientist reacts to YouTube climate change comments #2

In this video I read through and react to comments on my YouTube videos about climate change. There's some interesting stuff...

Notes:
(2) Note that the timeseries here are artificially (stochastically) generated - this is just a figure to demonstrate the point!
(4) Data here is from ERA-Interim, 2m temperature, 3 degree grid, just south of London

As in the previous video, I use my training as a scientist and researcher in atmospheric physics to discuss and dissect YouTube climate change comments. Here we discuss CO2 saturation, how accurate climate models are, why scientists (don't actually) overestimate global warming, and Elon Musk for some reason I don't know smdh



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[eoghan.]

"this is an interesting argument because it is completely wrong"
I am using this.

[NoOneLt]

I can understand the confusion of climate and weather for people living in mild climates, but as someone who lives in a place where we used to have ice on lakes and rivers thick enough to drive cars around 20 years ago and now for the past 4 years the ice hasn't been thick enough to walk over by foot, can definitely tell you the climate has warmed up significantly.

[Sam-btjn]

I wanted to write something stupid and wrong about climate change and deny that it exists but I was slightly worried that the ironic nature would be lost on some people and they may have perpetuated whatever bollocks I said. Therefor I wrote this instead, love your work. :D

[chieftain]

“Generally wet and depressing”
Yeah that’s the UK

[neerkum]

it's actually pretty impressive how confident people are in their ignorance

[tonyparker]

I was at the grocery store and saw there was a FROZEN section. So much for global warming.

[determineddaaf]

This guy uses Kelvin in his videos as temperature measurement unit. Now that's professional.

[petelloyd]

The term "climate sceptics" gives them more credit than they are due - there's little scepticism on display there, just lots of contrarianism and denialism

[rohit]

I don't understand why common sense things like climate change or vaccines have become "controversial". What's wrong with some people? Best case scenario if you agree to take some action, You end up saving resources and energy for future generations. Worst care scenario, you are able to help future generations from mass extinction

[LittleMac]

Does the scientific community ever have serious discussions on how to introduce theories/findings to the masses? We see the resistance to Covid reality, Climate Change reality, politicians pretending to be experts cause they have common sense or in some cases taking science to ridiculous levels they don’t understand. How do we restore faith in those with knowledge?

[TheVergile]

to the difference in climate and weather:
you can ask yourself “is traffic becoming worse in my city?”. if you want to answer that question it doesnt help to go out at 2am, count the numbers of cars and then say “traffic seems fine to me” just bc no one in their right mind is awake at 2am. The same is true for the opposite: you cant look at a traffic jam and say “this is solely due to the new traffic laws”.
If you want to understand you need to look beyond these short time changes and instead turn to big datasets of measurements over months and years.

[petrairene]

As an all year round city cyclist in Munich who lived here for decades, I definitely directly perceive that winters are getting warmer and less snowy. The increased temperature and decreased rain is something every farmer in my country can directly observe.

[janmelantu]

That “Galactic Radiation” comment reads like a troll who was writing a sci-fi technobabble creative writing prompt

[XBRDa]

I'm impressed how you actually debunked their comments, as opposed to just getting angry and calling them wankers like I do

[johnecho]

I love your answer to the first question, " how much of climate change is caused by humans ? " . " Well we are not sure, but we are guessing its about 100% ! " .

[Timbo]

You mean the experts know what they're doing?
Huh....Who knew?
Oh, that's right.
EVERYONE!
We all need to listen and appreciate what these great minds have done [and are doing] for our planet.

[pietrobertini]

I love the calm rage vibe this man gives me

[gopisingh]

Im from india, and our prime minister believes that earth is not getting warmer but our ability to tolerate heat has decreased. Next level science!

[davidmurphy]

_"This is an interesting argument because it's completely wrong"_ Not my definition of an interesting argument!

[avalonyennefer]

Serious question, how do you stay sane when reading these comments? I find it upsetting