Climate Change: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going? (Lecture by Prof James White)
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Professor James White reviews the basic science behind the Earth’s climate system and discusses how humans are impacting it and put the current climate situation into the context of natural variability. White is director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. http://learnmoreaboutclimate.colorado.edu/
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A balanced speach. I don't feel to put him in any "camp" (warmist or sceptic). He didn't use the hockystick, his graphs on warming were not accelerating. But I feel sorry he never mentioned the global greening.
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This is a good lecture. He made the point that if we control our population, we can build a good life for everybody. I have no idea if the U.S. is overpopulated, but hey.
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Expect 2 degrees C above base by 2018 and 3.5 degrees C above base by 2020. Have a nice day .
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James White ought to stop using so much energy, show us how to live, stop flying, stop driving, stop using electricity, stop heating the home.
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When immigrants come to the US their carbon footprint becomes far more significant as US citizens than in their country of origin.
They drive old cars and suburban sprawl grows as major cities get even more overcrowded. Pretty sure in their warm home country there is no AC, Heat (which require more power stations). More sewer lines, shrinking aquifers, jammed hwys, schools (w/ Chromebooks for each student , what happens to those when they get old?). The Colorado River is shrinking big time too. Have you seen the trash and plastic bottles in our nat'l parks along the border? I am pro-environment that is why I am anti-immigration. Humans cause Global Warming, immigrants are Human. Instead of hirings illegals, why not hire the 60% unemployed black men (aged 18-30) in this country instead? -
ahhhhh yes, the oversimplification argument never seems to die... it's simple physics.... what a joke
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Biosphere Collapse - how & why.
The result of the Western Antarctic ice sheet dislodging would exasperate the Earth's rotational wobble (Chandler’s Wobble). The Crust presents the earth with an unbalanced distribution of weight, even a small (10 centimeters) displacement of the crust would cause the earth to wobble more (which ironically could induce more crustal displacement, thus causing more wobble, thus causing more displacement, etc.) Added bulges from the expansion beneath the crust would worsen the imbalance. The diameter at the equator is 43 kilometres more than the rest of the Earth’s surface, due to centrifugal forces. "In a polar region, there is a continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth’s rotation acts on these asymmetrically deposited masses [of ice], and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s body, and this will displace the polar regions toward the equator.” A foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein in The Earth’s Shifting Crust by Prof. Charles Hapgood.
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Pole Shift by John White
What will happen during a pole shift? “The ultimate disaster! Enormous tidal waves will roll across the continents as oceans become displaced from their basins. Hurricane winds of hundreds of miles per hour will scour the planet. Earthquakes greater than any ever measured will change the shape of the continents. Volcanoes will pour out huge lava flows, along with poisonous gasses and choking ash. Climates will change instantly, and the geography of the globe will be radically altered. If the pole shift is less than a full 180 degrees, the polar ice caps will melt rapidly, raising sea levels, while new ice caps will begin to build. And large numbers of organisms, including the human race, will be decimated or even become extinct, with signs of their existence hidden under thick layers of sediment and debris or at the bottom of newly established seas…”
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Biosphere Collapse by John Berbatis
In the past ten years, there has been an exponential melting of the ice sheets and a noticeable disintegration of the ice shelves owing to ‘global warming’. The loss of mass from the underlying Tectonics Plates causes them to ascend (isostatic rebound), and this results in an increase in the intensification and frequency of global seismological activity. The seismic data of the past ten years confirm this conjecture. Furthermore, the ice shelves impede the flow of glaciers and ice sheets into to the oceans; and when the ‘polar regions’ are subjected to unprecedented seismic upheavals, these events will then cause the ice sheets and glaciers to be dislodged en masse into the ocean. This occurrence will then instantly destabilize the earth’s crust weight distribution (isostasy), and so precipitate a ‘crust displacement’ (Mag. 10+), that is, an axis change. The previous subterranean extraction of fossil fuels and water will greatly exacerbate this impending Apocalypse. Currently, the excessive amount of carbon and methane gasses in the atmosphere is causing catastrophic weather conditions, globally – and this situation will rapidly deteriorate into ‘a runaway climate’. -
Must have bought his credentials from liars are us.
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FACT: CO2 = plant food.
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The world needs to stop building any more coal or fossil fuel power plants....
They use lots of water to generate electricity (adding to drought problems)...they also add Climate Change gases to the atmosphere....................Wind and solar require little or no water to produce electricity (conserving water).........
Wind and solar also reduce emissions and do not add to Climate Changing gases in the atmosphere..
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20 years of globel warming , soft cocks call it climate change, BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
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so why upload a lecture from 2010 in 2015?
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Wealthy countries with social security for the aged and health care reduces the need for large families to care for us in our old age. Having money for machinery reduces the need to breed free family laborers. Because women in wealthy countries do not have to spend so many years caring for and raising many children they are free to participate in careers and self fulfillment. Wars, religions, and politics, including democracies have one thing in common, having the numbers wins the day. The answer is co-operation not competition. Security creates security; that's the way to reduce the population explosion. Australia reached zero population growth in 1979. All growth has been through immigration. Thank you for sharing this information.
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Goldilocks and the three bears. Yes, your porridge is more important than this BS.
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The temperature changes at my house 10 degree C day vs night.
The temperature changes at my house 15 degrees C summer vs winter
I would like all those temperatures increased by 30 degrees for a sub tropical lifestyle. I would like to eat outside. -
Wind and solar are safer, cleaner and cheaper forms of energy..............
Electric cars, bikes and mass transit are the future.....fossil fuel ICE cars are the past..............
Think teen agers vs your grand father...................... cell phones vs land lines.......
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How do you calculate "CO2e ?" The IPCC is using the definition you will find in Wikipedia.
My degree in Chem tells me different. We should multiply the ppmv CH4 by ~200 and then add that to the CO2 and other gasses. That gives us over 800 NOW! This explains the errors in the IPCC predictions. ? ? ?
A very small number of Climate Scientists are trying to point this out.
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This is a bunch of crock. Get off it man. The AGW plane has crashed already.
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Another sanctimonious little twerp snake oil vender.
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Nice Earth Sun ratio.
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