The side of climate change we must debate: how do we adapt | Jessica Hellmann | TEDxMinneapolisWomen

[billcarter]

We decide nothing! No employer ever says we are going to produce less. The party line is economic growth not reduction. Economic growth is consumption of resources.

[ltaylor]

Why on earth would a scientific lecture on climate change use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius!

[NOTORIOUS]

The planet warms because of cosmic radiation aka the sun. It‘s completely out of your control poor human.

[markyoung]

Last month, in a budget briefing and in two different hearings before Congress, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz specifically mentioned the Department of Energy's supercritical carbon dioxide initiatives. The department's 2016 budget request allocates $44 million for research and development on this front, including a 10-megawatt supercritical turbine demonstration system. A simpler, smaller, cleaner machine. The term "supercritical" describes the state of carbon dioxide above its critical temperature and pressure, 31 degrees Celsius and 73 atmospheres. Under these conditions, carbon dioxide has a density similar to its liquid state and fills containers the way it would as a gas.

[ajjames]

Mediterranean migration is not climate related in the slightest but I like butterflies too

[davidramsay]

The monsoon is revered for bringing life not death.

[liftnd]

I love the arrogance of making the statement we can control the climate. Just by changing one variable in the complex system of the climate

[lilaclizard]

Yes we certainly should be talking more about "adaptions" or "mitigation" is the term I've heard used a lot & some of these strategies actually fight climate change at the same time as mitigating against it. Holistic grazing & mass use of bio-char being 2 of the biggest that are affordably available today. If we can retain the water in the soil through increasing it's carbon content & use perennial ground cover (such as drought tolerant grasses) to reduce evaporation, then just like the plant covered building, we can reduce temperatures & maintain eco-systems & farmland despite temps getting hotter & drought more frequent.

Everyone focuses on rainforests, despite grasslands sequestering more carbon than they do per hectare. We need to stop looking up at trees & start looking down at the soil everything is growing in & focus our attention on caring for it. That's where the carbon was removed from (& is still being removed from on mass) & so that's where we have to get the carbon back to!

Losing 10 tonnes of carbon rich soil per 1/2 a tonne of produce harvested, as is occurring in commercial cropping today, is NOT sustainable! Erosion HAS to be resolved & soils rebuilt!

[rmgwheelsspokeslab.]

Sure, always companies are the guilty ones. Did they force us to buy their products? Where is our will? We decide what we buy, what we eat, how we live, what we wear, childrens we have, the lights we switch on or off, where we go on vacations... were we only on the right to consume? I´m sorry, but what we need is not changing the energy sources, products sources and so on. What we have to do is to change our minds first. Do this and then change the rest. And time is passing by.

[raeberet]

wasn't the entire earth covered in tropical rain forrest before the last ice age?

[leebertie]

Has climate change caused anything good? Or is it ALL bad?

[LandscaperGarry]

One good nuclear war would make climate change a non issue.

[cogorecarbonconman]

The beginning of the industrial revolution was during the Little Ice Age. We need a site more than an extra 3 degrees for a pleasant climate....Polar Bears are doing very well BTW.

[edpiv]

Nice condescending attitude right out of the gate. I did not need to listen to anymore to know her position would be tainted with bias.

[lpiavelino]

climate change is a natural process and all those weather conditions have been experienced in the past.
look elsewhere for a career.

[monkeymanwasd]

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