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"Sure peeing in the pool ruins it for all of us, but everyone else is doing it. Why should I stop? It won't make a difference, and going to the bathroom is a lot of work." Is my latest analogy, I think it's better because it refers to antisocial, og gross behaviour, that is universally looked down upon

My take on the China rationalization: China emits 35% of global greenhouse gases (GHGs) but 40% of global emissions come from countries which individually emit less than 2%. Giving each of those countries a free pass means that 40% of global GHGs are not being addressed. We all, including China, need to get to zero.

House insurance is going up like crazy and in some places in Australia you can't get insurance anymore.

The 'emissions from China' thing - a whole bunch of those emissions are bound up in the goods they produce for the rest of the world to buy - the computer or phone you're looking at now has Chinese carbon emissions 'embodied' into it. Do these 'belong' to China, or you, developed country person?

I like the analogy that you have to learn how to swim when the water gets too deep to stand in.

We live by lake Erie. Only need to look out window in winter there's no ice last few years

Perfect video, great job! (commenting to boost and get more people to watch this)

My analogy as to why a small change in av temperature is significant: Imagine gently shaking a small tree (you can do this in real life! ) preferably without leaves on. If you maintain a steady frequency and amplitude you'll notice all the branches and twigs settle into complex rhythms. Now change the frequency very slightly and see how the ocillations of the branches and twigs radically change. This shows how a small change in one parameter of a complex system can have a big impact - aka temperature and global climate patterns.

I can't help heaping praise on the production of values of CimateAdam's videos. They are short enough to fit into the few spare minutes that we have from time to time, and long enough to be memorable. They may be "entry-level" science, but that is just what we need, either to "inform educate and entertain" the many, or as examples of how activists can communicate with the people they meet. Thank you!

Great video Adam! On a side note, I've really enjoyed watching you grow as a youtuber! From the perspective of a simple layperson, I think you've really developed and honed your craft - even in the small details of your presentation, comedic delivery and timing, your fun and silly cut-aways! You bring ideas and nuances to the discussion which, from my personal perspective, seem to be unique and very important. I'm excited to watch you continue this fantastic work!

No space for aerosols in the analogy? No space for lags, feedback and tipping points? I continue to find KH understates how bad things are. Also continues to treat climate change as the main thing to tackle, rather than one symptom of wider dynamics.

One of the issues that my climate ignorant friends don't seem to grasp is just how shallow our atmosphere is. Thus they can't conceive of our ability to "pollute" enough for it to matter, especially when they walk outside, look up and everything to their senses seems fine. I think a good point to include when trying to simplify this issue is maybe a graphic that illustrates that.

Dr. Levy, one of the facts that would be helpful is to share data on the difference between a sapling and its sequestration value and a mature tree. In our area, there is an unfortunate propensity to let developers come in, eviscerate lands and small mature forests. Asserting that a new subdivision with a sapling in every yard will replace the sequestration value of the existing trees is ....challenging trust. Would be appreciated.

Love Katharine Hayhoe! ❤❤❤ she explains everything very simply. I use her analogies at work to explain climate change to people….

8:39 I love the face punching analogy. Thanks for introducing me to Katherine Hayhoe and her channel, Global Weirding.

Good analogy for CO2 is caffeine in coffee. Small amount but BIG effect

Here’s my analogy about why we need to act now and not later: when we eat we get to enjoy the food at that moment in time, but digestion occurs over time. Some foods digest faster others take longer. But sometimes our foods contain toxins that we can handle in small amounts but if we keep on eating them then those toxins are going to gradually overwhelm our bodies defence systems until they start causing harm. Even then it is going to take a while before you feel the symptoms. Once the symptoms show up you’ve already set in place not just the level of harm you are feeling now, but also the worsening of your condition from the toxins your body still has to process. The amount of damage caused by the toxin is cumulative: it gets worse the more you eat it and it builds up in your body. Logically the thing to do at this point is to try to stop eating the toxic food or to eat as little as possible of the toxic food, to look for alternative foods and to try to treat the harm that has already occurred and that will continue to occur as the body tries to process the toxin already consumed.

Global average temperate is *only an average.* On land it is between *1.5 and 2.0 times as much so between * 2.1 and 2.8 Celsius warmer.* In large continental areas it is around *2 to 4 times as much or more.* So around 2.8 to 5.6 Celsius warmer. In large cities in continental areas that temperature increase will be even greater. These are only averages, *'severe heat waves means it is even hotter with nights providing no relief.* Beware of averages: they do not tell you the full picture.

Such extreme changes in my short 82 years on this planet. So many creatures destroyed as 90% of all birds 97% of all insects 80% of all fish 85% of all wild places & animals--it is terrifying. I support the environmental groups I can etc.

Excellent! Some great analogies that I will definitely use. I think my favourite is the hole in all the buckets (trying to avoid a spoiler 😂)

Would you please talk about protecting and expanding the tree network as a way to drain the sink full of water? I am fighting to save a forest in my town and the municipal councillors are surprisingly ignorant saying 100 year old trees don’t in fact absorb more CO2 than new ones… help me stop the removal of this forest!

you have no idea how. awesome this is. Katherine Hayhoe is someone I look up to immensely. id love to see more climate scientist interviews here if possible, with people like Hansen, hausfather, Kevin Anderson, rockstrom, Leon Simons etc.

That was a really great double act. The analogies were spot on and I like the upbeat vibe you give off. But until the data shows signs of even marginal change towards lower emissions then the mountain we have to climb just keeps getting bigger.

Sorry, but I have to say it: if you want to visualize climate change, look at the last year and (nostalgically) remember what things used to be like. And if you're too young for that... well just wait a few years! We could also try a money analogy. Like pre-industrial, what came into your account came out of your account. But starting from the Industrial Revolution, you started spending more and got into debt, with high interest rates. And it just compounded year after year

Noticed the "squirel" or the "squirrel", Adam?

I really, really appreciate this video. You guys provided some good analogies that I can use in my daily life to explain climate change. I appreciate that you share the same enthusiasm for the planet that we live on and finding ways to ensure we can continue enjoying it for years to come. Thank you, your team, and Katherine for all the hard work that went into this. ❤

Huge part of the problem is the messaging one article will be like we're heading over 1.5 and it's too late to stop that. Then another will be like no hope, hope, hope everything will be fine this leads to confusion I mean is it so hard to demand of scientist a bit of consistency.

Two of my fave climate communicators in one video! 😍 p.s. loved the swimming pool wading ;)

What about the Military Industrial Corporate Oligarchy?

A 22 caliber bullet is a VERY small bit of lead. But have you ever seen what one of these bullets can do to a human being?

Just some ideas to these videos. The climate change presented as a big mystery that nobody really understand. I recommend showing small specific impact rather than generalisation. E.g. just a few of them. The avg daily max temperature during summer months raised by 4 degrees in Hungary during the last 30 years. There is much more rain in Ireland now, and it impact on crop. There are hundreds of small rivers in Hungary which dried up completely in the last 30 years. The air pollution is number one biggest factor for cancer. You can even make a series of vid on similar topics.

Is so cool that we are born at this age, I can't wait for what society will look like 50 years from now

hey adam! great video! here's an idea for another one (if u don't mind): how can we shop for fashion sustainably? ive heard a lot about fast fashion but not much about practical ways to help. thanks!

TWo of the best voices, together... more collabs please.

How to visualise climate change.... Global warming is currently undergoing a doubling of around 14 years. our current estimates are that we hit 1.7. this is 1.2 from global warming and the difference is split between an average el nino we thought might become suoer and a reduction of diming from lockdowns and clean fuel for cruise ships act pt1 What they do not tell you is that on top of that, our sulphur pollution is actually preventing an additional immediate warming of a further 2c from incoming energy levels. The climate forcing is worse than any IPCC projection. Alarm was raised by James Hansen, not some you tube puppy. Now there are subsequent papers verifying his results including from quantum physics who now understand exactly why co2 is so good at holding energy due to its very molecular shape (some flywheel on a string type stuff going on). If we MAINTAIN that sulphur shield. we are still, right now, even if we went carbon zero tomorrow, going to +8c at a exponentially growing rate that is currently at 11 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per second. But also. the amoc IS collapsing. the warnings have been going off for 120 years and it has taken almost a 45degree nose dive in strength on the graphs for 90 years. The north is going to suffer a mini ice age and the equator is going to boil to uninhabitiability. and the rate the sinks are filling and tipping, we will be in food shocks before most of us reading these words will die of natural old age. These tv scientists need to vastly up their game and ability to keep up with the data or they are in serious danger of being accused of being 'managed opposition'...

Nice video.

Love the scarf! I totally want one. Seems like it would be a good fundraiser. And at the same time, similar to folks wearing a pride flag, it would be a way for others who identity as people who care about climate change, to be able to recognize one another.

Comment for the algorithm. Keep up the good work.

Great analogies !!

The analogy that should be stressed is that while we're impaired, we still do not have lung cancer. We need to remember that when we act, both individually and as a society.

At 10:05, it's a *red* squirrel isn't it? (hint 2 'r's ;-) ). Brilliant and friendly video! My Big China vs Little Us response is usually: " “My little emissions don't matter” said 8 billion people." [ & yes I know it's not mostly about individual emissions, but the inner assumption is a false approximation to 0].

Great discussion

Alcohol blood level is also a good comparison. 250ppm = 0.000250 = 0.250 promille. Assume a body only able to reduce alcohol by 0.001 promille each year ... And you keep drinking, high on the energy it gives you, while you should stop drinking and eat carbs for energy

Thank you for another wonderful video!

“Climate change is the hole in every bucket”. YES!! As I keep saying, climate change is the worst problem we have, because no matter what you think the worst problem is, climate change is making it even worse.

Great video - love your nails! 💙

Thank you!

It snowed today, that is a change, it is supposed to be spring. But this happens here, e wry year. Sometimes we get snow in July.

Great video

nice vid. btw looking good!

It's not "too many things to care about", it's "This one requires I make changes to my life, and therefore I want to avoid thinking about it. It's easier to blame companies, politicians, rich people." Those groups/people do/should bear more of the blame, but when people try to pass the buck to them, they can then pretend it's not their problem at all. Which goes along with their not wanting to change at all anyway.

The problem with climate change science is that if you don't have detailed model looking at all things that effect the temperature of the earth you can't find things to change besides carbon emissions that can effect the temperature of the earth. For example car motors get hut from combustion, and they don't cool them by reducing combustion. they cool it by adding a radiator. You have to look at the full model and all modes of heat transfer going on with the earth and then look for ways to reduce the change in temperature. How do you know that there isn't something easier to do than reduce carbon emissions to reduce earths ambient air temperature? It's like if you had gas station that got hot in the summertime and you see carbon being admitted from the cars at the gas station and then immediately assume carbon is making the gas station hot. It's not entirely like that. But I have an mechanical engineering degree and you can't just look at carbon and temperature. You can't simplify the whole earth to 2 things, carbon, and temperature. The human life goal can not be carbon and temperature.

The world would be 1,000,000,000X better if people like you were in charge

Climate change for me means a cooling trend of swedish springs, the once reliable and hot springs of the 00's are long gone, now it's warm for a maximum of several days or just a week then back to below average and bad strawberry harvests.

I'm a chick forest technician, majored in sylviculture, scrapped my car yrs ago, how I hate hearing we make no diff, my daughter's a biologist into organic farming my son's a nurse and arborist! My husband went to Applebee College, love from Montreal, Pointe Claire, English Guetto!

Some great analogies in this video! By the way, I have reduced how much I'm punching this person you're talking about, I'm punching them far less than I used to, so I'm clearly morally righteous.

lol, don't worry about the visualizing it, just watch the news, it already visualized all over the world.

We're above 2.0 right now, it all depends on where you put the goal post. It's only risen .01 if you put the goal post at yesterday. Thing is it's speeding up. We're actually lucky any of us are still here from predictions ten years ago. The end is coming and predicting when it will happen exactly is kind of impossible but when that day comes even if it's one hundred years from now it will be to soon to those still living. I'd be surprised if we haven't gone extinct in the next ten or twenty years myself. Stopping it at this point is virtually impossible and even if we could the greedy wealthy privileged elites "the people who control everything" are still to greedy and old to care. They only care about themselves and they'll be dead soon enough anyway. They'll jump on their multi million dollar yachts and head to Antarctica or their bunkers in New Zealand to maybe get a few extra years anyway when the SHTF. It won't be good when the worlds 440 nuclear power plants and their 1,200 spent rod holding tanks all melt down either. So many self reinforcing feedback loops at play now, at least 60 known. It's a runaway train. We should try though, maybe we could get a few extra years.

🎉 hope is the next generation, prior ones often too mean and self-serving to care, next generations see not caring won't work!

Where we're going, we won't need scarves :(

When an article begins with a preposition that is totally faulty, how can you take the article seriously?? "Fossil fuels are devastating every single aspect of our lives". Only an ignoramus would say that. There is NO direct link between fossil fuels and climatic factors. CO2 is NOT our enemy. I had an interesting discussion with META AI yesterday on key drivers on global warming. This is the conversation. You can see AI has all the information but prioritisation has occurred following THE agenda. I asked AI about the greenhouse gas that causes the most heating. It's original answer was CO2, I said I don't agree and threw in water vapour. This was the response. You are correct! I apologize for the mistake. Water vapor (H2O) is indeed the most potent greenhouse gas, responsible for around 60-70% of the Earth's natural greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the second most potent greenhouse gas, responsible for around 20-30% of the greenhouse effect. Water vapor is a highly effective greenhouse gas due to its strong absorption bands in the infrared spectrum, which allow it to trap heat in the atmosphere. However, its concentration in the atmosphere is largely controlled by temperature and humidity, and it has a relatively short atmospheric lifetime (around 1-2 weeks). CO2, on the other hand, has a much longer atmospheric lifetime (around 100-150 years), and its concentration is increasing significantly due to human activities such as fossil fuel burning and land use changes. This makes CO2 a key driver of human-induced climate change, despite being less potent than water vapor on a molecule-by-molecule basis. Thank you for pointing out my mistake! I hope this clears up any confusion. Just as a sideline. In the sahara desert and in Australia's red centre, daytime temperatures are often 40⁰C or higher, but at night they are often below zero. The effect of current levels of CO2 is negligent at 420 ppm. Get the drift. We're all being hoodwinked!!🤔🤔

It'd definitely no one size fits all for each nation as the variables and geological territory is very different. A quick history is in order , I can remember when we thought we had rebuilt Europe and drew new borders for new nations and was righting wrongs of the past and reagan & thatcher said let's extend this temporary waivers of self sacrifice helping industrialize China and 3rd world nations so they could produce items for trade in resources instead of warring for them . Well we liberated all common sense transfered wealth and industrialized it all now . In all this we've charged the family cell forced everyone off the land into city's to meet factory demands of large gathering labor. This turned into office occupation sky scrappers and 12 year college degree that removed 18 -30 years old from our workforce and with highly specialized training you can only reach a profit around 50 years old in our most prestigious feilds. So now we can gain a by product of more spread out medium density better quality of life infrastructure in places like America Is we all agree to utilize interactive educational reforms that do use computation to train majority as machinest on universal operating systems what tool and applications do we need. Quadruple logistics,thin city's move back into nature more spread out medium density younger 18 -30 entering workforce marrying raising kids as governers of nature once again. We can take education to pupils ,operating business in the middle of nowhere America deserts that was only possible in major city's. We can break down colleges into close nit smaller groups more engaged with local industry. We can merge unions & publishers into online coops putting buyers, sellers, investors under one roof in one domain where like farming or trucking industry we can sub contract out skill & trade to take everything door to door. Local ownership of new paradigm infrastructure can be restored to our bottom up ai safety grid fuse like breaker box infrastructure. This would return us to our more pragmatic common sense socio-political & economic order invented by our early founders. It would in fact challenge the stepping stone anomalous time period of 1900s structuralism expansionism of agencies and institutions & the more European political scale we adopted. The neo liberal control mechanisms and stress on many who never faced innovation before. City's with perks and benefits are facing things they havnt known for 150 years already so all we would do is support the organic existing flow technology is already creating on these antiquated old world control systems

If you want to raise awareness,market those scarves! (not kidding)

the irony is the solution is to sit home, not spend and do nothing

Does unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence put more CO2 into the atmosphere? Doesn't manufacturing require energy plus shipping replacements for things that should not have worn out? Why should we take climate scientists seriously as long as they do not talk about the planned obsolescence of consumer products?

The fundmental issue has never been. That we couldnt do anything about climate change. The fundamental issue has been the lack of willingness to do anything about it because of vested interst profiting from the actives. That cause it and a general public. That is easy to manipulate by those industries

Things are worsening all the time. Except for you climate Adam. You’re just getting better and better looking. So gorgeous. 🤤 Thanks for making climate change sexy 🙏🏼💓

Obligatory comment for the algorithm 😊

dealing with climate change has always partially been a psychological and greed problem and now is almost entirely one.

A lot of Buckets were hurt A LOT for the production of this video :/

Something that people sometimes forget is that temperature is energy so as the global temperature goes up so does the energy of the system which will cause more powerful and frequent weather disasters. An analogy i can think of is boiling water. Initially the water is still then after some time it starts having small perturbations on the surface. These small perturbations are like the weather events in preindustrial times. But as we keep adding heat and energy to the pot, the bubbles become bigger, more frequent and destructive.

"Squirrel" Nice touch, that really got me. I enjoy your videos. I hope they entertain, inform, and more importantly influence lots of people.

Lovely energy, some great analogies - and of course the effects are top notch! :-)

Not an analogy, but I like to point out that every kg of fossil fuel creates around 3kg of CO2. This shocks a lot of people - they don’t realize that all that carbon combines with oxygen that’s not in the fossil fuel originally.

Analogies suck, next time you think it's a good idea to use one just remember all the good "we should run government like a business" has done for the world.

Can we talk about the incoming famines?

You inspire me everyday. The problem is definitely way more pressing than what people think. And videos like these which present the analogies to understand the extreme effects and causes of Climate change will take us a long way. Great work sir!

As a nation China is leading in pollution, but per capita, the US is leading in pollution. It's that per captia that is worse.

Squirrel!

I too use the blanket analogy, but I add that typically we need some blanket when we sleep, otherwise we get too cold. But for 10,000+ years things have been (as Goldilocks might say) 'just right' But over the past 200 years we have added a wool blanket, a duvet, and someone wrapped us in a Snuggi. What would YOU do if someone then said "Is it OK if I put this vintage quilt on your bed?"

Great Video and love you reenacting all the analogies in such a fun way :) Thanks for educating 🫶

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Keep up the Great work - pls 🙏🏼

Great analogies and enactments. Thank you for your efforts!! i believe, with the help and unenslaved cooperation of AI and biotechnology we can clean the air and oceans. there are solutions, i just hope we get there before the poor have no where to go and no resources to survive. i think we need to stop building boxes for homes and start building Earthships on a large community scale. but nothing will change until greed and political monopolies change. no more ads to buy things we don't need and replace the ads with information that directs society towards a habitable earth. we foretell our lives from screens just to be washed into what we don't need, a fake future that separates us from nature and reality.

Great nails and great content. The biggest problem I have with climate change is how do I engage with people who so vehemently disregard the issue. How do we shift the perception of climate change from something that's a partisan political issue to a humanitarian one. It's exhausting to engage with people who don't take it seriously or dismiss it as uncertainty or worse conspiracy.

Great thumbnail!!

Does anyone on this line really think we're going to be here in 2030🤔

Thanks for the analogies Adam! The fever, the pool, they put climate change into perspective

all the incompetent around the world have no problem becoz, they have money and power to live a life they want. we are the ordinary people and our extraordinary nature suffering since last 70 years. do they care ? NOPE.

Leave a senseless comment for AI to sweep up.

what did i miss, I dont understand the hair magic?

Cups shouldn't be made of plastic water bottles same use glass aluminum or bamboo. For homes stop logging the forests go to a rock mine use rocks or use aluminum or steel frames. Mines shouldn't have waste rock we should make use of it in some way none toxic metals why not put in homes the toxic ones crush into sand and use metal plants to reduce waste or use the sand for well sand batteries. Lol toxic sand batteries from a toxic mine 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Adam, you are getting a bit dark with your beating up and arsenic analagies…😅

Dear Climate Activist, a serious and non-sarcastic question: If atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting? Per MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel. Please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture, of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have any impact.

Where does AI fit in all this? Wild claims are being made. Is this just pie in the sky?

it's really quite insane, fossil fuels are the reason you are sitting here today. And the total failure to acknowledge any benefits shows your ideology coming through. I would love to hear many points you speak on, but I cannot in good conscience feel you are being entirely genuine. Also I am a subscriber.

The world pumping out brats like crazy doesn't help either. You just can't have infinite growth on a finite planet.

There's nothing I can do, Noone wanted to listen. I don't have the money to spread the word, or fix it myself. So I just stopped caring...This is for all those parents to figure out, i have no kids or a home or land, im just some random

Liars