I was a climate skeptic – the three things that changed my mind | Jacob Martin | TEDxKingsPark

[stdonowrong]

This is a remarkably vacuous TED talk. Jacob Martin does not give one iota of information. There are no references to any specific names of mentors who respectfully listened to his questions. There are no details about the "good information" he was directed to by his mentors.

[jimsangwine]

Thank you Jake! I remember you having this conversation with me at RHC as I was struggling to make sense of the overwhelming ocean of seemingly conflicting information. I’m so glad to see you’re reaching a much bigger audience now. Keep going my friend.

[americangirl]

I remain skeptical based on the dishonest behavior of those who claim to be "in the know"

[BenWorld]

In the first minute, we hear a logical blunder: The question is not whether there is climate change but whether we should worry about it. The rest of the talk had no useful fact along these lines, only the assertion that those facts are out there. Any global warming alarmist would say this. A useless talk.

[jackmehoff]

The atmosphere consists of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.03% CO2 and various other (xenon, neon, hydrogen, helium, krypton)
So to limit that CO2 content of the atmosphere by 4% the net result would be 0.00012%, less this even be measured?

[michaelmedeiros]

I agree with the basic premise of this video. I just think he talked about issues such as cherry picked data but didn't bring up any examples. Cherry picked data isn't attached to the skeptic side but also the climate believers as well. I am open to this topic and it is a complicated subject but when you have emails of climate scientist's caught red banded about how to hide the decline of global cooling it is hard to just believe what they are saying.

[SolvingTornadoes]

So, his mistake that caused him to originally become a skeptic involved looking at data? And, I suppose, be became a believer when he stopped looking at data. Did I get this right.

[maxtabmann]

He's a Climate Champion - not a scientist.

[OldScientist]

I am a climate sceptic. Here's why: Globally the ACE index (accumulated cyclone energy) 1980-2021 shows no increasing trend. Global Hurricane Landfalls 1970-2021 (updated from Weinkle et al, 2012) shows no trend. Satellite data since 1980 shows a slight downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers with 2021 being a record low year. The IPCC reports in AR6, chapter 11, "The total global frequency of TC [tropical cyclone] formation will decrease or remain unchanged with increasing global warming (medium confidence)." Multidecadal variability in Atlantic hurricaines is most probably related to the AMO (Vecchi et al, 2021). NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. What the data from NOAA SPC shows about tornados: EF1-EF5 (1954-2022) no trend; EF3-EF5 (most destructive) (1954-2022) 50% decline. No EF5s in US since 2013 (a record absence).
The Global Land Precipitation Anomaly from AR5 will disappoint with deviations from the average increasing by 0.2% per decade, but if you look at the actual data, it's just very variable over the decades.
Drought appears to be decreasing (Watts et al, 2018) measured by SPI 1901-2017.
Deaths from natural disasters are about 0.6% of what they were a century ago.
What else? Oh, deserts like the Sahara have shrunk considerably and the Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime (NASA).
On extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years. At that frequency it will take nearly 190, 000 years to reach 15% extinction i.e. a mass extinction.
There is no climate crisis.

[wg]

Three things which changed my mind: 1. Money 2. Money 3. $cience.

[samlair]

It’s irrational for anyone to think that temperatures can decrease as levels of greenhouse gases increase dramatically and consistently.

[lusun]

If glaciers can feel it, so can people.