![Sir David King - Antarctic Warming and the #cop28 Nightmare [13 min summary version]](https://www.cfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1687757705_hqdefault.jpg "Sir David King – Antarctic Warming and the #cop28 Nightmare [13 min summary version]")
Full 26 min members version Contents:
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1. Antarctica Sea Ice Decline
2. Antarctic versus Arctic differences
3. Greenland can change the global map
4. Arctic methane release and potential warming
5. Have we crossed a global threshold?
6. Can we repair climate?
7. Interventions – climate repair?
8. Climate is only one of our challenges
9. We need new economic models
10. UN COPs and broken promises
11. Climate is a today problem from Bangladesh to Vietnam
12. Loss & Damage is the insurance of the future
13. Can we save Antarctic Ice Sheets?
14. COP28 nightmare
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Hansen et al 2023 Global Warming in the Pipeline says the equilibrium climate sensitivity for 4.1Watts/ square metre i(current energy imbalance) s …..10C and the rate of increase is about 0.27C per decade. Not possible now to stay under 2C. Positive feedbacks will accelerate this in particular reduced albedo with reduction in the cryosphere and the increase in water vapour.
Its runaway climate change. We're 90 seconds to midnight. Everyone will be dead, or wish they were, by 2040.
"Everything is going up a notch"
Maybe we should have cop29 over here in Australia, just to follow the new trend…..
Where is the full episode?
" On the edge of extinction, only love matters." McPherson
This YouTube posting is pretty good and talks about the choices of the government in China given the extreme conditions – including ramping up coal-fired plants (given the reduction in power from hydro) in order to meet needs. https://youtu.be/4eD9JD0Dx_k
It was already too late to reverse the Arctic warming when CO2 had reached 250ppm. One molecule of CH4 is equal to about 25 of CO2 and CH4 is now being released in massive amounts. It is impossible to state how much as the problem is now being exacerbated by forest fires across both Siberia and Canada. The 'heat domes' produced by these adds to the heating of the Arctic Circle and plays a dramatic role in changing the movement of air currents. The fires are also being accelerated by pockets of CH4 just beneath the surface which are igniting as they come into contact with the fires. The Arctic has heated relatively four times faster than any other region on Earth and this heating will continue. Last year record temperatures were registered all along the Siberian coast. The cold air is now being driven far southward which is why Eurasian nations were experiencing snow in May when they would normally be roasting. Southern Europe is now becoming 'equatorial' with more and more humidity, hence the massive storms that have ravaged southern Europe while northern Europe undergoes heatwaves. The damage is now irreversible, even if every carbon emission source was halted, the temperatures are now as such that a feedback loop has begun.
The Paris conference was a scam – it wasn't about ecology. It was about how governments could profit from carbon taxes and renewable technologies. But also it was to discuss the de-population agenda. if it was about saving the planet, how come the heads of all the ecology movements – Greenpeace, CND etc were under strict house arrest? How come when people put up stands calling for ecological change from saving trees to saving whales, they were attacked, beaten, flash bombed, tear-gassed and maimed by the French CRS?
A COP president who thinks technology would save us. How big and how many industrial plantations are required to capture all that carbon? Where would it be stored? How is it to be stored? Who's going to pay for it? Scratch the surface and you're going to find out that carbon capture and storage is impossible at the scale necessary.
As if there were any of us left in 20years 😂
Antarctica, is actually a bunch of islands, with East Antarctica being the largest. At a certain point, “warm” ocean water will begin to intrude under the ice mass through the areas that are under sea level. Rapid melt, will then be the result. Decades versus centuries, of expected melt will occur. Still, decades, remember, not overnight.
With our beloved Leaders wanting to feed conflict instead of Peace….
very good interview ,sobering
suicide of the hunan race & murder of our fellow species. organised. nothing has been learnt. it looks like nothing will be learnt no matter how bad it all gets. what is wrong with my fellow humans?
Without even havi g heard the answer: FANTASTIC! YOU ASKED ABOUT THE ANTARTCTIC! GREAT JOB❤
We humans continue to pour heat from fossil fuel burning into our dying seas as we burn 8B tons of coal annually and 100M barrels of oil a DAY. So, we are driving 27 ZJ of heat energy into the oceans and they are dying and we just generally don't give a shyte about anything else but our own short range materialistic selfish goals. We deserve to perish from the earth and that's exactly where we're headed.
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In the end, it is capitalism that has brought us to this brink and will take us over the edge.
The saddest part of humanity, is we believe are leaders care for us. That they will do the right thing.
The situation is dire.
The fossil fuel industry makes a profit over 6 billion dollars a day. That's the beast that eats everything
I cannot believe some people are stupid and selfish enough to hand kids. This is no World to be bringing kids into
Antarctic ocean is warmer than the ice that it supports😮
We ain’t getting out of this one alive, sadly!
Bomb COP 28
Capitalism is a death cult.
Exactly trDump was elected all the sheer STUPIDITY that he represents was given more weight.. there are channels where they are getting death threats for just reporting weather. Stupidly is proving to be an formidable threat to humanity
Paint your roofs white to reflect sunlight and it'll be alright global warming will become global cooling no fooling. Paint your roads white to reflect sunlight and it'll be alright global warming will become global cooling no fooling. Imatate the artic. White artic ice reflects sunlight dark blue ocean absorbs it oh shit. There's 5 percent old artic ice left to reflect sunlight. In 1970 there was 80 percent original artic ice left to reflect sunlight.
When CO2 levels raises we have more plant growth and at the same time plants require less water to grow. What is the problem?
Well, cheers Nick and David for a realistic analysis of the COLLECTIVE situation. The first world still thinks that it will only affect little brown countries, so no need to panic. A couple of dire climate emergencies in the US might make some sit up and take notice in private, but their message to the public is always keep calm and carry on (consuming)…..
Wish this had lasted an hour!
96 countries … ASK THIS KING PRICK HOW HE VI$i$TED visited 96 countries? BY JET PLANE!!! More PLANE FARTS!!!
Jason Box, in one of his lectures last year on the state of the Greenland ice sheet, summed up the state of humanities attitude towards ending fossil fuel use and tackling climate change: "We're not running for the hills yet, but we're definitely walking towards them."