Climate change – Averting catastrophe | DW Documentary
Climate change – Averting catastrophe | DW Documentary
In the last 30 years, CO2 emissions have increased by 60 percent worldwide. The most pressing problem facing our civilization is global warming. What solutions could there be? This documentary accompanies activists in their efforts to combat climate change.
According to scientists, if by the year 2100 the global temperature has risen more than…
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I used to think climate change was a myth. As a kid remembered the glaciers had way more ice. But its melting at a rapid pace.
We have to put it on hold for the next 4 years .Some big players are climate change deniers !!!
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I'm okay with government policy based on science, on fact. But I object to policies based on this climate change propaganda nonsense. The small changes happening over the last few hundred years are natural, not human caused. What we need to focus on, as we have, is pollution prevention, management of natural resources. CO2 is required for life on the planet, if you remember high school science. CO2 circulates between the ground, ocean and atmosphere. We are coming off a planet low of CO2 and would be better with more for higher plant food production. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas, basic science. Look in your car radiator, no CO2, but water for heat transfer and storage.
You can't even stop diesel vehicles production,and missle tezt
God help us
The biggest scam of the 21st century! LOL
Load of hot air. Climate change has been happening since the world existed. Minuscule (and unproven) rise in global temperatures of less than one degree in 100 years (with potentially 20 percent due to human influence) has more to do with cleaner air and lesss smoke. In any case, I wish it would heat up a bit more. I would burn more carbon to assist this process if I didn’t know it would have no effect whatsoever. At least the ISA will escape this nonsense when Trump puts a line through it. Europe will not be so lucky and will continue to pay for nothing and continue to ruin their own manufacturing and industry.
A Climate Remediation Suggestion
There is a lot of discussion about Global Warming, whether it really exists, how serious a threat and the role of Carbon Dioxide. However, the following is generally agreed. Namely that a lot of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution and a lot of it has ended up in solution in sea waters. There is at least 150 times as much CO2 in a cubic meter of sea water as there is in a cubic meter of atmosphere at NTP. This is acidifying the sea waters and possibly harming Coral Reefs and other fauna. There has also been some agreement that the Temperature of the Earth has warmed somewhat.
The Earth's rotation and the Coriolis Effect has formed a number of Tropical/Semi-Tropical Oceanic Gyres, within which the mass of sea water is rotating, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anything floating, i.e., less dense than sea water tends to float towards the center of the Gyre. There are five main Gyres all of which are Tropical/Semitropical. They are the North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, North Atlantic, and South Atlantic Oceans. Together they form a very large proportion of the 70% of the Earth's surface which is covered by water.
The North Pacific has a lot of floating debris, "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch", some of it being debris washed off Japan by tsunamis following the recent Fukishima Earth Quake. The Southern Hemisphere Gyres do not appear to contain much floating debris.
The North Atlantic Gyre is unique. It contains the Sargasso Sea which is characterized by the presence of two species of Sargassum which float by virtue of oxygen-filled follicles. It was discovered (first documented) by Columbus from his voyage in 1492. There is a Sargasso Sea Commission, with an Office in Washington DC, which is charged with protecting the Sargasso Sea from pollution etc. There is a website that basically describes all of the positive ecological values of the Sea.
Since 2011 the Sargassum appears to be overflowing from the Sargasso Sea and moving via the west bound currents across the north coast of South America into the Caribbean and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico. This has been attributed to agricultural run off from the USA or Brazil but might be due to the increased levels of CO2 in solution.
It has been washing up on beaches through out this region, as one might expect to happen. When it dies and rots it emits H2S. Since a lot of these beaches have tourism as their main industry, the weed has to be removed manually which has given Sargassum a bad name. There are several Facebook entities that keep track of Sargassum landings and there are frequent postings enquiring about Sargassum occurrence on specific tourist areas.
The occurrence of Sargassum in the Caribbean would, however, make it very easy to put live Sargassum into the Pacific off the west coast of Mexico. From there the currents would carry it all the way across the Pacific, photosynthesizing and growing all the way absorbing a lot of CO2 and heat energy, photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction. Absorbing CO2 from the Ocean would allow CO2 from the Atmosphere to dissolve in the sea. The Sargassum would probably stay in the North Pacific Gyre but some might drift into the South Pacific.
One might balk at the idea of covering a lot of the Oceans with Sargassum but it does have uses. It can be used to make ethanol, paper or cardboard. Some one in the Caribbean is making construction bricks from it and others are feeding it to goats..
If there appears to be some benefit from Pacific Sargassum we could easily add Sargassum to the other Gyres using ships that are transiting the Panama Canal. It seems likely that some Sargassum will eventually get into the South Atlantic Gyre, but that may take a while.
I would welcome any thoughts. Robert O Ducharme (rodincus@aol.com).
Climate change are man made n not important to the world organization if it was important the world organization must hire people to plant trees on desert
Over population. Over consumption. Ignorance. Don't want to be a doomer but am and it's rough on my mental well-being.
What if the earth is trying to wipe out humanity so it can have a fresh start away from the bs people have done
Climate change refers to significant and lasting changes in the Earth's climate, especially an increase in temperature and changes in weather patterns, primarily due to human activities like burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial processes.The primary greenhouse gases that are currently increasing in the atmosphere due to human activities are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O)
1. Burning fossil fuels
2. Cutting down forests
3. Farming livestock
are all increasingly influencing the climate and the earth's temperature. This adds enormous amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming.
Global South ,inhabited by poor, is facing the brunts of climate change created by luxury loving so-called developed countries.All the europeans ,americans ,Russians are climate criminals.
Global warming is the sign of the end times
Global warming is the sign of the end times
Could global warming wait 40 years more to make sure I am dead .
They just told a story about the California fires there was 100 trucks that were supposed to be repaired that we're not there was 20 million diverted from the fire prevention fund the water hydrants ran out of water because they rejected the bill to get millions of gallons of water per day and pushed it to the ocean instead. This is not climate change problem it's stupidity or just evil.
Isn't it strange how the wealthiest people that shout loudest about climate change (co2 damage, rising sea levels, etc) all fly around in private jets, own mega-yachts, have multiple homes, many of them on beach fronts…
Peace be upon you
This is my new mindset for 2025
The truth about life…
We would've not made it through if we weren't courageous…
Struggling to survive and reprocreate is what all creatures on the earth are trying to accomplish for which thoes two main tasks can give the sense of fulfillment throughout their lives…
There's no perfect moment but the present moment in which the future is its product. We will do our best in the moments of necessity as if the whole life is depended on how we act in that very moment. We can predict and prepare or we will be the victim. We can either choose the way of discipline or regrets. At the end, our life is what we give energy to.
We must try our best to save our world regardless of how successful or defeated our attampts are going to turn out
In the land where roots embrace the earth,
We plant with hope, for what's of worth.
Beyond the smoke, the sky we mend,
Where nature’s heart and us transcend.
With every seed, a life will grow,
A step toward peace, where winds will blow.
We in the third world country’s don’t give a rats ass about climate change!! We barely make a foot print while your steal our resources right under our noses!! Climate WILL CHANGE!! How are you going to reverse something that you said took 10,000 yrs to form?! You NOT!! It’s a cycle… let us enjoy life and let nature takes its course
What is Global warming? The sky not warming- up you say it's our emissions in the atmosphere and how that creating global warming?The moon rotate around Earth (pulling) from the south- pool out to space,
There is a lot of heat from transportation businesses homes but still not enough,It's
not liquid for fuel cause it already Burnt can't feed the Sun, Perhaps it's from removing the Oil when we remove the Oil we make room for the inner-core to grow since we been removing the Oil over 1000 Volcanoes don't work were does the Lava go?
Tornadoes Hurricanes tsunamis are fromed because We removing the Oil trapping Air drying out the land we live on and the Ocean floors are the thinnest think about it!!!
All circular in pattern (Proverbs 21 20)
Love the projects! It's fantastic that 90% of planted trees were still there at that visit.
I wonder if you couuld report on the contribution of animal agriculture which causes at least 87% of climate change counting the opportunity cost of grazing over nature.
Tell me next your heating time my junior said it is 12th i can take back things that you have lost.
Dreaming in techno colour.
Stop manufacturing weapons?
You need to stop volcanic eruptions witch is the problem. They dump way more carbon than man. They have been off the chart the last 80 years. So we are doomed even if we could do zero emissions.
Why are all the climate change ppl in the liberal ideology….i never see conservative or independent
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The greedy rich climate change deniers don't care as long as they make more money while they can. They won't be around to feel the devastation they caused. Everyone else is paying the price trying to slow down and maybe stop the destruction.
Al Gore's (US vise president 1992-2020) successful war on science and scientists maybe coming to an end. This video has the United Nation’s Climate Change disclaimer. Global warming was officially reported at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. There has been no climate change due to global warming. Global warming at 1.5°C was predicted to begin climate change with stronger observable hurricanes in the Gulf-of-Mexico. The cause of global warming is not know in 2024 despite decades of science studies going back to the 1970s.
It is scientifically impossible for greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. Before Al Gore became US vise president in 1992 earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect was taught in US public education.
All the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth is completely absorbed in earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect by greenhouse gases within a few meters of the radiating surface out to a maximum of 20 meters from the radiating surface adding 5.55°C (10°F) to earth’s average temperature. Its further heat transfer is by convection i.e. gas molecules bumping into to each other. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over a 99% share of earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect is from water vapor.
The back of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution. The IPCC has been transparent with its data acknowledging it is not dealing with active greenhouse gases.
Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the radiating surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases.
0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2.
Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. The warmer Arctic Ocean water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice surface cover resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface.
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet. C3 plants evolved over 100 million years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels were ten times those of today determined by plant fossils.
The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.
There has been no credible Climate Change due to global warming as of 2024. Climate Change was expected to start to take place when global warming reached 1.5°C causing observable stronger hurricanes in the Gulf-of-Mexico. The term Climate Change started being used at the beginning of the 1980s to cause alert to a broad audience of the long term effects of increasing average global temperatures.
The promotional term Climate Change in the early 1980s was grounded on actions already taken by Gulf-of-Mexico offshore crude oil drilling companies in the 1970s to build for stronger hurricanes due to warmer Gulf waters predicted to start when average global temperatures increased 1.5°C on track for 2010. That action was taken for a predicted long term change in weather patterns or climate that backed up the use of the term Climate Change.
The Planet is whirling as it is revolving around the Sun The Earth isn't being smashed in hard enough.
Poor people: we lost our homes, our lively hoods..
Rich people: we can’t do our extreme sports anymore 🥲
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This is only the current challenge. With the permafrost melt, many bacteria and virus that were sequestered during the mini-ice age, are now releasing from the stasis.
Begin to imagine pure methane leaking out from the underside of Antarctic ice shelves where they meet land. Virtually unreachable for the purpose of mitigation. 1°C. Will continue the erosion and widen the gap from which the methane exudes. Sequestering this source is beyond man's hand. Ask you local scientist how long you have before the … Inevitable🫥
What foolish lifestyle Europe has given to third world countries and they are following their high standards of life and now they are talking about climate changes.
Who made this industrial revolution?
Who is selling the boms and missile to third world,
Who used atom bomb in wars ?
Now you are talking about climate changes..
Could cloud seeding help where there isn’t enough rainfall? would this not increase water in river banks etc?
Good thing it’s just the environment!
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More doom and gloom 🙄
African we are suffer of global warming. But our countries do not produced high CO2 comparatively European and Asian countries. Each european and Asia country most pay us the tax of contamination, and climate change.
According to the " For Heaven's sake" report video! , nuclear power is being used to launch satellites it would be illigal on earth but because space is not regulated these corporation's are using this loophole which is damaging the O zone layer and accelerating climate change!
Also when all the satellites crash into each other it will create darkness and a toxic soup !
Co2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere and all plant life/trees die at 0.02%, how much lower do you want Co2 levels to be? One active volcano puts more Co2 in one week than the entire population in a year. Is this about climate change or carbon tax/control/scare mongering? Just stop with the lies.
not climate change is to fear ,but the establishment of the anthropogenic digitally surveilled climate-dictatorship society
Rich don,t suffer from climate.Agenda politics as much asd poor