Climate Change and Our Future: A Dive Into Our Oceans

Learn how Smithsonian scientist Matthew Ogburn tracks sharks and their changing environments as he tells Francesca Cagnacci about his work in the Chesapeake Bay region. Then, hear NASA scientist Bridget Seegers, in conversation with Carlos Del Castillo, discuss what satellites and phytoplankton can teach us about the health of our waterways.

Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges of our time. In this three-part series of videos, we’ll hear from scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Smithsonian’s Movement of Life Initiative on their complementary expertise and the role of space and aviation technologies in studying our changing world.

This series is part of the Smithsonian Conservation Commons’ Earth Optimism initiative, a global movement which aims to further research and discussion of climate change through identifying, sharing, and promoting solutions to this global crisis.

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*Monthly Private Dividends:* Greenhouse gases went up 45% in 30 years. By 2025 66% of people will live in water stressed areas. Water stress will threaten 50% of thermal powered electricity. Water stress will threaten 30% of planned hydro electricty. Fossil fuels have been 80% of global energy for over 25 years. Electricity is 20% of global energy. Renewable electricity is 4% of global energy. Solar & wind electricity is 2% of global energy. North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time. North Euro onshore wind turbines work 22% of the time. North Euro offshore turbines work 30% of the time. The F-35 fighter jet works 11% of the time.

From 1971 - 2018 earth heating averaged 0.47 watts/m².
From 2010 - 2018 earth heating went up 46% to 0.87 watts/m².
This is rapid heat acceleration

By 2040 15% of global energy will be renewable. By 2050 only 30% of global energy will be renewable, assuming all goes well. We must stop burning 50% of fossil fuels in 10 years to survive. This cannot be done. Most solar solar panels will become un-recyclable garbage generating 6 million tons of waste per year by 2050.

*Green Energy Euro Fraud*
In the last 10 years the US cut emissions more switching from coal to gas than Europe did investing in renewable energy.
Europe gets 50% of its renewable energy burning stuff.
Europe burns 80% of the world’s wood pellets for renewable electricity
Europe burns 80% of its recycled plastic & paper for recycled electricity
Europe burns 50% of its palm oil shipments in cars & trucks
Out of earth's 1.2 billion vehicles only 6 million are electric
Electric cars and batteries will have no positive effect on climate whatsoever

Weather = flash floods + flash fires + flash mobs + flash infections
Climate = 30 years of weather

There are 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu
500 years ago there were so many cod fish John Cabot thought they would capsize his ship
400 years ago there were more Caribbean sea turtles by weight than buffalo on the plains
300 years ago Passenger pigeon migrations would block out the noon day sun
97% of great fresh water species gone since 1970 ( Guardian 2019 )
96% of mammals are livestock and human by weight ( Ecowatch 2018 )
96% of tigers gone in 100 years ( IFL Science 2019 )
90% of elephants gone in 100 years ( Hurriet 2019 )
90% of lions gone in 100 years ( African Impact 2019 )
90% of Leatherback sea turtles gone since 1980 ( Earth Watch undated )
90% of Monarch Butterflies gone in 20 years ( Inhabitat 2014 )
80% of Antarctic Krill gone in 30 years ( Research Gate 2005 )
77% of Eastern lowland gorillas gone since 1996 ( Treehugger 2020 )
68% of world’s wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 ( Mongabay 2020 )
50% of Marine vertebrates gone since 1970 ( WWF 2015 )
50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985 ( Live Science 2012 )
40% of Giraffes gone since 1990 ( NRDC 2019 )
40% less insects in next 30 years ( PNAS 2019 )
4% of mammals are wild ( Vegan News 2020 )

Sources for all these statements can be found at Loki's Revenge blog on wordpress.
You can also find a massive research library there on how pollution is affecting our youth

*support James Hansen's monthly private carbon dividends*
27 Nobel Prize winning economists support James Hansen's private monthly dividends, including:
3, 589 U.S. Economists, 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and ALL 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers

If I had a nickel for everytime I didn't know what was going on
I would wonder where all the nickels are coming from
-- Loki 2020

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