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Greta Thunberg, climate- and environmental activist and my real life hero

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”Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature - we are nature protecting itself.” ”Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature - we are nature protecting itself.” Thank you @MercyForAnimals for sponsoring this film by @tommustill and me. #ForNature #BiodiversityDay pic.twitter.com/2tXPFaeqWq — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) May 22, 2021 Twitter.com/GretaThunberg

IPCC - How Bad Can It Be

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Dr. Peter Carter presents the major findings of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment report and discusses them with Regina Valdez. Peter succinctly summarizes it as follows: “The report finds unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.” This video was recorded on Aug 13th, 2021, and published on August 24th, 2021. Topics discussed include the following: - A presentation of the Working Group I report, which is the first instalment of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). - Peter mentions some of the websites he uses to help him keep track of Government action on Climate which include ‘Climate Action Tracker’ and ‘Energy Policy Tracker.’ - Despite the clarity of the information in the reports, governments are failing to take proportional action and are actually doing the opposite of what’s needed by providing billions of dollars in subsidies to Fossil Fuel Corporations. - How fossi...

A detailed look at future warming and remaining carbon budgets in the IPCC WG1 AR6 report

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Prof Malte Meinshausen and Zebedee Nicholls, 24 August 2021. The Physical Science (Working Group 1) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report was released on the 10th August 2021. This second of two seminars takes a closer look at two key areas in the report: future warming and remaining carbon budgets, presented by two authors that have been closely involved in this IPCC cycle. It builds on the broader overview provided by the first seminar. The seminar will present an assessment of future warming under a selection of different scenarios. We will discuss the assessments, their uncertainty and the methods used, including key methodological advancements compared to previous IPCC reports. To enhance the connection with other discussions on net zero, we will also place the scenarios considered in the context of other mitigation pathways from the scenario literature. We will also discuss new estimates of our remaining carbon budget i.e. the total amount of carbon dioxide we...

The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report

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Citations and Further Reading: Guardian coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/business/... CNBC coverage: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/ipcc-... IPCC Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celsius: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ Climate feedback loops: https://www.climaterealityproject.org... Military greenhouse gas emissions: https://theconversation.com/us-milita... 100 companies 71% of emissions: https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead... Blockade of Line 3 pipeline: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/indige... Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondth... It amazes me how I can order food delivery and get a paper straw for a drink that is in a plastic cup with a plastic lid. Yeah that straw is the back breaker here.

The IPCC's latest assessment on climate change - what does it tell us?

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In this event, we hear from leading Australian and international climate scientists who have contributed to writing this report. Opening statement: H.E. Vicki Treadell CMG MVO, British High Commissioner to Australia Speakers (in order of presentation): - Dr Jan Fuglestvedt, Vice-Chair, Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Dr Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Climate Science Centre; CLA, Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Moderator: Prof Mark Howden, Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, ANU; Vice-Chair, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change This event was co-hosted by the British High Commission to Australia, and the Australian National University Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions. On 9 August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 7-yearly assessment on the state of our climate. This report focuses on the physical science of cli...

IPCC Sixth Climate Assessment. Will this one make the blindest bit of difference?

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The IPCC has been publishing science based climate warning assessments since 1990 and in those 30 odd years human beings have released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we did in the previous two centuries. That has to go down as a fail. This latest report contains the starkest and bluntest language so far. So will this one make any difference? Upon analyzing the data we leave behind, the aliens will be amazed at the detailed manner in which we documented our demise. Judging from our collective response to the COVID Pandemic, I don’t expect an adequate response from our political leadership. Self interest is the biggest hurdle to implementing already proven solutions. I think the most important point is, that any step towards sustainability, even the smallest will be beneficial long term. Just because you don't achieve the goals set doesn't mean giving up is the same. If you are driving a car against the wall it is still useful to try and brake and reduce the impact ...

Good news and bad news from the IPCC report

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The latest report from the IPCC makes for grim reading, but I think hidden in the pages there are also some pieces of good news. I talk about both in this video. Professor Mat Collins: https://twitter.com/mat_collins LINKS (1) The report itself https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/do... (2) Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-... (3) Interactive tools from the IPCC https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/ (4) https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com... (5) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... In this video I talk about the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, the IPCC WG1 AR6. I interview a professor of climate change at the University of Exeter, Mat Collins, and talk through some of the findings of the IPCC report. These include the impact of ENSO on crop yields, drought, heatwaves, extreme weather, and other factors. Basically stop putting carbon into the atmosphere, it's that simple guys.

Things will become a lot worse before they get better: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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The latest IPCC report warns of devastating consequences from past and present emissions, stating that the 1.5 deg C threshold for rise in temperature will be breached by the year 2040. However, the report also says that things will become a lot worse before they get better. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains what the report outlines and what it asks countries to do. Supplementary reading: IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/do... Full report- IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/do... AR6 Fact Sheet https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa... The woman who predicted global warming in the 1800s https://theprint.in/science/the-woman... We are being a bit optimistic. The moment we say 2100, people become indifferent.The next 10-20 years are going to be rough . We are already seeing this happening. I am definitely not having children. Please remember Maldives is already under water

UN climate report warns of ‘code red for humanity’

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ABC News’ Maggie Rulli reports on the new U.N. climate report on the dire threat warming temperatures pose to the planet, as fires and extreme weather events spread globally.

India - Understanding IPCC report on climate change & its jargon, heatwaves, floods, catastrophe

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In the light of widely anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report Shekhar Gupta analyses the cause for alarm & simplifies issues related to climate change, its science & politics in episode 809 of #CutTheClutter Brought to you by @Kia India Read the IPCC report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/do...

Scenarios, carbon budgets and temperature projections in the new IPCC WG1 AR6 report

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Prof Malte Meinshausen and Zebedee Nicholls, 10 August 2021. The Physical Science (Working Group 1) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report was released on the 10th August 2021. This first of two seminars will provide an overview of some key results in the IPCC report, presented by two authors that have been closely involved in this IPCC cycle. The seminar will cover the new scenarios that underpin future projections, historical warming updates, the question around how these scenarios compare to 1.5C warming, a comparison of when peak warming levels could be reached under the low mitigation scenarios, the impact of COVID, techniques to provide assessed future temperature projections based on multiple lines of evidence, the usefulness of providing projections against warming levels, remaining carbon budgets in comparison to the SR.5 report, as well as the importance of CO2 versus other gases, both in terms of past and future warming as well as in terms of so-called metrics t...

The latest climate report is out... and it's scarier than ever before

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The IPCC's latest report about the physical science of climate change comes out today. And it's not bedtime reading. It contains the strongest evidence yet of the damage we are doing to the planet and the dramatic shifts we are causing in our climate system. It shows even more starkly what could happen if we continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - including irreversible changes that would reshape our world completely. And it reinforces the same message that climate scientists have been giving for decades: every tonne of CO2 matters.

Understanding The IPCC’s Climate Change 2021 Report And The Crisis Described in the Sixth Assessment

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The Physical Science Basis, which is the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Hundreds of climate scientists were tasked with providing a physical science basis for policymakers to understand the past, present, and future of global warming. In this video, we examine some of the major findings in the report, what it means for our future, and what is left to be done to combat the climate crisis. Featuring excerpts from an interview with Dr. Michael Mann in January 2021.

Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Armageddon? The IPCC Report Explained

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The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has just been published - and it's been described as "code red" for humanity. What does it say, what does it mean, how bad a mess are we in - and is there any hope? Climate expert Ketan Joshi joins us to break it all down - and explain what comes next. We are 8.4yrs away from 2030, economies and countries are built on growth, greed, and full throttle acceleration. Making drastic changes seems impossible to get through to the society’s.

NBC News - U.N. Report Warns Climate Change Is ‘Code Red For Humanity’

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According to a U.N. report, climate change is now “rapid, widespread and intensifying” and many of the human-caused effects are now “irreversible.” NBC News’ Josh Lederman breaks down the report’s findings the stark warnings from climate experts. 

WION News - UN's landmark climate report delivers starkest warning on climate change | Climate Emergency | IPCC

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The United Nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change panel has projected the global temperatures to shoot up over the next 20 years. The report has delivered the starkest warning yet about the deepening climate emergency. When 'code red' said in a movie: Everybody gets active running here and there to do their part. When said same in the real life: It means nothing. As usual the life goes on.

WION News - UN unveils landmark report on climate change | Global Warming | Climate Emergency

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A UN’s climate panel delivered their starkest warning yet about the deepening climate emergency, with some of the changes already set in motion thought to be “irreversible” for centuries to come.

IPCC reveals how we are changing the climate

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The first major IPCC report for seven years sheds light on the past, present and future of climate change. But what do we now know about global warming, and how will it reshape the path we choose over the next decades and centuries? I break down my key take aways from the IPCC AR6 WG1 (6th assessment report, working group 1). Everyone that the journalists have been interviewing says the report ends with optimism by saying we can still take action, that it is up to us to shape the future but they all side stepped around the fact that much of the damage is stated as already irreversible and the actions we can take would only avert even worse outcomes. That positive note is that it can and will be far worse than we've already seen if we don't take actions.Is really "it can and will be worse" really a positive note? and how sad is it that such a perspective is now considered optimistic. Sure although the best time to do something is yesterday, the second best is today but...

IPCC 2021 Report: Hottest Decades Coming, Extreme Weather, and Tipping Points with Dr. Ed Hawkins

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Dr. Ed Hawkins, one of the lead authors of the report, joins the show to explain some of the report's biggest findings, what it means for our climate future, and what we should learn to act now to avoid the worst consequences yet to come. Dr. Hawkins is a professor of climate science at the University of Reading and internationally known for the creation of the climate stripes, which are the visualization of warming over time.

Ch4 News - Some climate changes now irreversible, says stark UN report

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The warnings could hardly be more stark. Changes to the world's climate are inevitable and irreversible, and without immediate, radical action to reduce greenhouse gases the future is catastrophic. The UN's panel of climate change experts say global warming has been unequivocally caused by human activity, while the extent of the crisis means nobody is safe. Drought, rising sea levels, intense flooding and fires are already evident across the planet. When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money.

CBS News - U.N. climate change report warns of disaster if nations don't cut greenhouse gas emissions

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The world's leading climate scientists have issued a stark new warning about the growing impact of climate change and what needs to be done to stop it. CBS News foreign correspondent Roxana Saberi reports on the key findings, and Bloomberg Sustainability Editor Eric Roston joins CBSN to discuss.

New IPCC report: More heat, more extreme weather events | DW News

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The tipping points for climate crisis Carbon pollution has risen to such extremes that a key threshold in the fight to stop climate change — limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century — will be crossed within the next 15 years. That is one of the key findings from a landmark report approved by delegates from 195 countries and published Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The analysis, which comes amid record-breaking heat and rains that have rocked rich and poor countries alike, draws on more than 14,000 peer-reviewed studies to assess the physical science of climate change. It paints a sober picture of a planet warped beyond recognition by members of a single species in the space of just a few hundred years. "This report is a reality check," said Valérie Masson-Delmotte, co-chair of the IPCC working group that prepared it. In 2015, world leaders pledged to limit warming by the end of the centu...