Climate Change : How to survive past 2050

Energy use in our homes, industry and transport accounts for two thirds of our total human induced carbon dioxide emissions. Far from dramatically reducing since the 'historic' Paris agreement in 2015, those emissions have actually started to creep back up. The world is now catastrophically off track to meet any of the lower pathways set out by the IPCC special report published in 2018. We know what we must do. So why aren't we doing it.? This week we look at a new report just out from the International Renewable Energy Agency, which provides a stark assessment of what's required.

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[castuyn]

To avoid city heat islands which cause people to install energy-guzzling airco systems, cities must promote greenroofs, trees in streets, and mini-forests inside the city. Doesn't consume energy once installed and makes the city look nicer and more natural too.

[brunobembi]

Give big tax breaks to put solar panels on every building in the USA

[Amuzic_Earth]

You are doing an amazing job educating people with hard facts.

[_pook_ie]

This video has helped me a lot. I'm 17 and have been reading/ watching reports on how humanity is basically screwed in 2050. This news has been really messing with me mentally because I was excited for my future and my little siblings as well, but after learning this, I wonder if life will be worth living in the future. I'll be around 40 in 2050 and my siblings will be around 30, I feel so bad that they'll have to live in this dying world. Right now I'm just trying to find my purpose in life so I can be happy in my later years. I've taken steps to help the world by recycling and by barely driving my car (I know it doesn't help a lot, but it helps me feel better.) Does anyone else feel like this?

[victoriaedge]

I would LOVE to be on one of those councils. I have SO very many ideas for ways to make things better and nobody listens. I am actually getting an engineering degree so that my ideas will have some oomph behind them and I would be able to show actual prototypes

[SylvainDuford]

What do you mean Electric Heat Pumps didn't exist in 2010? They were around at least 20 years before that. I had one installed for my house in 2000 and they were nothing new.

[outbiome]

I'm concerned about there being no mention of Carbon dioxide being REMOVED from the atmosphere or "Carbon sequestration". Carbon neutral isn't good enough as there is already above the biosphere balance in the environment!
Oh and is it just so difficult to reforest?
To be honest where not going to be here by 2050!

[odinsboss]

Great video Dave! I really like your channel. You have a very pragmatic approach to the mountain of issues we face with addressing climate change. Keep it up! The more that word gets out, the more likely we might just pull through this whole thing

[LandscaperGarry]

We're going to sail past 2 degrees C like there's no tomorrow.

[DiscipleOfHeavyMeta]

Why aren't we doing it? Because capitalism.

[Inertia]

I offer that we should think about eating little to no meat, especially beef. And the meat we do eat should be harvested not from giant ranches that are destroying rainforests, but hunted out of larger and free range areas. This would make the meat a healthier food. It would also make the cost of the meat go up quite a bit. It would start to become a once in a while, if ever luxury food.


I am open to ideas. I know this one is out there, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I believe this plan would not only help the Earth to heal but would also help many people to become healthier as well.

[samlair]

If someone is in denial about the physical science behind the greenhouse effect, then there’s nothing to be done for them. So, leave them be and move on without them. Continue your personal efforts towards raising the level of consciousness of yourself and those who are both self aware and cognizant of the situation.

[sookiebyun]

I'll be dead in 2050. Good luck, everybody!

[ronaldronald]

Some good ideas needed. How do we get the seriousness of what we are faced with into the minds of the people?
- Share this video
- Talk about it with your neighbours.
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[brentkn]

You seriously have no idea what is going to happen when the Arctic loses all of it's ice.

Right now the Arctic ice is very thin with most of it being 2 meters or less in thickness. The Arctic sea ice extent is at it's lowest on record. Only 85% needs to melt to qualify as a Blue Ocean Event (BOE).
Polar air is caused by ice so when the BOE happens that polar air will shift to Greenland where there still is ice. The jet streams will also shift and that will bring climate chaos since the jet streams dictate where the storms happen.
Warmer air will move in or be generated in the Arctic region which is surrounded by the already thawing permafrost. This will greatly speed up the thaw and the rise of greenhouse gases will escalate.
Sunlight which is normally reflected by the white ice back into space will instead be absorbed by the darker ocean waters. At the bottom of the ocean in the shallow seabed lies a vast reserve of methane hydrates. This is the stuff the US, China, Canada and Russia is after since the natural gas that warms your homes is in fact methane.
Methane is also a very powerful greenhouse gas 155 times more potent than CO2 in the first year it is released into the atmosphere. It traps heat immediately. There is no lag like there is with CO2.
These methane hydrates which is an icy mixture of water and methane will destabilize as the waters warm up and massive amounts will be released into the atmosphere.
Global temperature rise will take off.
We can expect to see global temperatures to rise one to two degrees or more each year after the BOE.
Since Global Average Temperatures is only an average of all global temperatures with the ocean covering 71% of the surface of the Earth most of that average will be felt on land. Oceans draw the heat into its depths but the land doesn't so a Global rise of even one degree can result in a rise of ten degrees on land.
Land temperatures are going to rise very quickly and the plants we need to survive will not survive that sort of temperature rise. Plants do more than just absorb CO2. They also provide us with oxygen and food.
After a BOE there are going to be massive wildfires far too many for any to be kept under control. The weather extremes will be unlike anything you have experienced so far. Coastal storms will be so strong that they will literally sweep cities into the oceans.
Crops world wide will be destroyed. There won't be a stable growing season anymore.
It's going to get worse and worse each year that passes.
None of us have 50 years to survive. Each of us needs habitat to survive. If we manage to live 5 years past a BOE I will be surprised.
That BOE is expected to happen in the next 4 months.

The President of Finland has stated in a previous address that if we lose the Arctic, we lose the world.

[jonovens]

It a pity that we don't have 30 years to work the problem (Like we did 30 years ago). 30 years ago the solutions would have caused social upheaval and unrest which governments wern't willing to do (helped by lots of lobbying by the fossil fuel sector). The solutions needed now are completely unworkable - we just ran out of time. The temp lag from the CO2 (et al.) means we will (if we haven't already) breached the bottom methane tipping point.

[catherinetaggart]

I can see lots of solutions for
Energy - renewables
transport - electric cars and electric public transport, cycle
Carbon absorption - plant trees etc etc
But it’d be good to explore how the average house in uk can be heated in winter. Most houses have gas boilers at the moment not many houses are suitable gor ground source heat pumps. How do we tackle this? I dont know the answer.
Thanks for all your informative videos

[humanperson]

1) Population
2) Population
3) Population
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50) Renewables, The Grid, Batteries
...
99, 999) Hydrogen, since this fuel is the fossil fuel's industry attempt to get us dependent on hydrogen through advocating the waste of precious renewables. However, losing 50% of energy to energy-conversion is never justifiable - not in hydrogen, not in tar sands.

[AT-vsho]

Why not use nuclear or MSR? its carbon neutral.

[Stereotypofficial]

2050 we are cooked .. ready to be served