North East England here. Apologies southern Europe, we seem to have all your rain. Please feel free to take it back at your earliest convenience.

Unfortunately, it just isn't cost effective to save civilization.

In Ireland farmers are looking for the government to bail them out. Cattle that were wintered in September last year are still in sheds, with farmers running out of silage to feed them. The fields are saturated and won't support the weight of machine used to cut the silage! Tillage farmer have the same problem of equipment sinking into the wet ground, prevent the sewing of crops. It's reported that it has rained somewhere in Ireland every day since last July!

The problem is that the entire global financial system absolutely demands infinite growth on a finite planet in order to 'work'...and the only possible way out (apart from the nightmare of system collapse and a mad max world) would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would almost unanimously AGREE we definitely NEED to have done and work much less. It would then no longer be an infinite growth system. It would no longer demand 'growth' in order for the system to 'work' and collapse couldn't happen because we would be doing everything we NEED to do.

Lots of folks still encouraging traveling even though planes, cars, and cruise ships are horribly polluting. Food waste, meat production, and plastics use are all done without any thought. No one wants to change anything until they are starving or drowning and then they'll blame the govrnment.

I'm 68 and we have been extolling the virtues of renewables for nearly 20 years. Our house more-or-less pwoers itself and the car. We aren't affected by the skyhigh price of energy. And yet, when I talk to a lot of my peer group about solar and heatpumps etc, the usual question is "how long will it take to get my money back." They don't appear to care about the prospects for thier children and grandchildren. I just don't get it 🤔

I'm so sorry. I made a joke when meeting you at the everything electric show on Saturday. I said your video is the highlight of my Sunday, and the low point of my wife's. It was a terrible joke and your face told me it didn't come across as I meant it. I'm so embarrassed and sorry. She's not as into KZfaq videos on the climate crisis as I am, and that is no reflection on you personally. I was just trying to make a joke by comparison, but it was bad. Your videos are incredible, thank you for making them.

By the way: if you want to see the wonders of green tech: take a look on Germany & how it runs it’s industry into the ground

Agri business lobbies in Ireland are scratching their domes over why rain and water saturation in soil has been so consistently bad from Sept 2023 up to April 2024. It's not like anyone was warned about a record warming Arctic bringing more precipitation wreaking havoc on tillage and livestock farms?

I about spit my coffee out laughing @ 1:38. I do appreciate you switching between existential dread and hope. However, my favorite part is the humor in your presentations. Between the terrific British accent - Yank here - and the humor, it's a great start to many a Sunday.

When John Kerry resigned his position after COP 28 we had to know that solving the Global Warming problem was politically impossible under the current world political environment !

I work remotely 4 out of 5 days a week, avoiding the 60 km one-way commute to work. My small contribution to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

Our governments aren't going to do anything. It's not producing maximum value for their shareholders. We're screwed.

Never underestimate the need of an American to need someone with a funny British accent to tell them what's going on in front of their eyes, or the futility of it.

I wish I could say that my country, Canada, has anything constructive to contribute to the climate crisis, but it looks like we are going in the opposite direction. Our largest oil producing province outlawed any new renewable energy projects for months, and now are limiting them based on some very dubious criteria, while oil projects can proceed as always. Several provinces have banded together to challenge the carbon tax and, along with the anticipated next federal government, will eliminate any consequences for the damage done by carbon emitters and leave the cost of climate change to the average tax-payer. We have long been among the world's worst carbon emitters on a per-capita basis, and there seems to be no change in that fact on the horizon.

My pessimism says things are so bad they can not get worse, but optimism says YES they CAN.

Thanks Dave! I'm always happy when I receive notifications of a new upload. Sometimes not so happy after watching the video.

The real risk is continental famine across the globe.

Of course we are cooking at double speed in Europe. We have thousands of highly trained french Michelin star restaurant chefs.

I have liked this video, although I can't say I like what you are telling us here.

You never use the 'F' word - that got my attention! Brilliant as always - thank you

Contour ditches and hedges, ponds, lakes, a Europe wide landscaping project to catch all those extreme weather events...that would help

I am from India and we are used to hot weather and getting hotter as we speak, but what surprised me was how hotter European summers have become, I lived in Germany for a while and saw how summers have become prolonged and hotter and drier. Heatwaves are common, my friends from Germany tell me how snowfall is reduced and snow season is shorter than ever. What surprised me personally was how the landscape looked dry and brown like dry straw when I visited last October which is Autumn season. This phenomenon we see in India outside of monsoon season, everything is green in monsoon and then couple of months later plants get dried out because of evaporation due to heat, I couldn’t believe I would see that in country like Germany so farther up north months after summer was over. It is going to be rough for Europe especially when people and ecology is not used to hot weather like us in tropical parts of the world

I have to report to you Dave and the current audience that I've just remarked to my wife what late / early night temperature she would expect here in Belarus on the last day of March! I've lived here for 15 years and usually it's still freezing but getting warmer! This evening it's still 20C outside at 11:15 and forecast to be 24C tomorrow too! Unbelievably warm! 🥵

As an European, the short answer is a resounding NO ;(

Cheers to another episode of Just Have a Drink™ 🍻

Thankyou for giving overall talks that break down complex issues in such a clear and engaging way 👏

Really well done, accessibly and very easy to follow and yet robustly researched! Glad to support you on patreon!

Not to confuse weather with climate but I live in Latvia - today I there was 20+ degrees outside and now a night it is +14 degrees and I am sitting with window fully open. The normal temperature for us at this time of the year is barely positive and it is normal to have snow here in march.. All the monthly national temperature records got smashed today and tomorrow it is forecasted that there will be even more records together with powerful thunderstorms which normally can happen only in summer..

Thanks for making these vital videos man!

Thank you for the work you do each week. It's needed.

Thank you for informing us so well !!

I just love all this! I mean... not this news of course, mr. Messenger of Doom. But the way you dig in these papers and technologies and provide us with quality material to understand the depth of this crisis and ways to cope with it. Thank you so much! I multiply the reach of some of your content using it to prepare physics classes for my hundreds of high school students. Cheers from Brazil! P.S.: KZfaq is allowing dual audio or something. I haven't checked the details, but I'd be willing to help translating stuff to Brazilian Portuguese. I don't think we have material or such quality around here. And it's useful in classrooms: the youngling need to be aware of what's coming up...

The temperatures we're experiencing in SE Transylvania (25-28 C) were typical for end of June, when I was a kid. Never ever have I seen such high values at the end of March. In the '80, snow used to melt in mid March. April's temps rarely reached 20 C.

Share this everywhere.

Thanks Dave for the 20% discount on my Everything Electric Show ticket. Saw one of your hosted sessions as well as lots of other good stuff. Highly recommend

Love Just having a think with you. Have an award for outstanding info.

I was definitely not expecting the f-bomb from someone seemingly so level-headed. Not complaining, though.

Just had a givenergy all in one fitted, to add to my solar PV and thermal, and my EV I'm trying if the bureaucrats aren't

Literally just turned nearly twenty degrees Celsius yesterday in ireland with torrential rains. This is unheard of in april. The rain has been non stop all spring, last winter and last autumn. My area is flooding month after month and we dont have the infrastructure or homes to do ANYTHING. Im just watching my area fill with water, it’s pooling around our ankles while we’re twiddling our thumbs. And it’s not like it’s isolated, this is happening the whole way across the county and the surrounding counties along the coast. And yet they’re STILL BUILDING in my area. This is a floodplain!?! It’s actively filling with water and theyre not doing anything but build people who can clearly afford it new fancy houses.

Yesterday was 30 degrees Celsius here in Serbia. Today will go up to 31. I don't wanna know how summer will look like.

After seeing a video about how the EU is watering down climate policies in light of the farmer protests, this report hits even harder.

brilliant as always. well done

Really informative. Thank You.

The "beep" got me hooked. ;-)

I live in an old council estate housing project in the Netherlands and I have to get increasingly creative to keep the house cool in summer. From planting beans on the south facing wall to reflective window foil to alufoil wrapped pieces of styrofoam and chalk paint on the flat roof. I don't have money for sunscreens or letting the AC run all summer (neither do I want to) and as long as the temperature drops during nighttime I can keep it below 26. But many old people suffer due to the heat in these old, badly insulated houses with huge windows and often flat roofs. They're like literal ovens!

I have been listening to and reading about the changing climate and global warming for 30 years or so. I cannot think of any of my peers who consider the facts and predictions to be a problem, let alone take any steps to alleviate the issues. Newer bigger cars, multiple holidays by flying, bigger houses ……………. It’s a nightmare. The single worst problem is the organisation with the best information at their fingertips don’t even pay lip service to the climate nightmare. The British government.

The intro was brilliant, keep it up ❤

I very much appreciate you bringing the financial side of the equation into the discussion. More and more, I think money is the only thing our governments and corporations care about.

We don't see a backfall in general precipitation in Western Europe during this warmest winter on record, it was also the wettest winter and as I'm writing this it pisses down again!

Excellent summary again, thank you🙏

Really glad you keep exposing this information. Thbnk-you

It's raining here (Ireland) and hasn't stopped raining since I can remember. Some might envy us but it means animals can't be put out to grass and potatoes can't be planted. Food is going to be expensive. Thanks and God bless (there's no other hope).

Thanks for another great video

Europe just had 2023-4 coldest winter in 50 years.

Interesting that the IPCC cant find any trends on extreme weather events, let alone a connection to man made global warming

Isn't it ironic that farmers, whose livelihood will be impacted the most from climate change spent last months protesting and limiting the EU regulations targeting the climate change

If we were to go straight to carbon capture technology, it would cost almost 18 trillion dollars to simply hold us at +2C. Of course, we *do* give the fossil fuel industry $6 trillion per year in subsidies so... (and that's ignoring one off events like the wars for oil that cost 2 trillion and 4000 US Soldier's lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and citizens) at the turn of the century.

6:08 Just a shout out for that heroic little shed covered in solar holding out against the flood. 😀

Trusted site … thx so much for your continued efforts

Yeah, 🥳 I’m ecstatic that Europe has come first in something for a change! Well done Europe 👍🥳🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🌈♥️

I've got freezing cold temps here in Northeastern USA. Come take your cold air back Europe!

Sincerest thanks for the work you do researching, producing, editing and delivering these videos to whomever has the nerve to try and keep up. For my part, I have to be in the right mindset and it takes me several days to process (sometimes breathing into a paper bag) before returning for more. Nonetheless with your help I have started to get the first inkling of what settling into this new world view entails (but far from actually being settled, who could?). I keep returning to the old dictum “think globally and act locally” as I try to imagine local cooperatives mutually supporting each others basic needs as larger global, national or regional structures will likely buckle and collapse. The other part is the incremental nature of the experience which is clearly already upon us even though it seems many are expecting a stark dystopian shock in which the disruption reaches the wealthiest most insulated circles. Won’t that be fun, Crystal ball what say you in 2045?

My sister-in-law is an actuary at a company in Princeton. And indeed everything you’re stating is true. I’ve had several very deep dark conversations with her about this topic.

Beyond hope is acceptance. We can still ‘buy some time’ but the window to solve the problem closed decades ago.

In North America our zombie forest fires also aren't being out out over the winter because there isn't enough precipitation to get deep enough into the ground to put them out so they will simply continue to burn and reignite the surface in spring. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened fairly soon.

Excellent video, mate!

Hi nice to meet you at Everything Electric on Thursday 28th shook hand after stage about 13:30 pm. I always look forward to your presentations. Dave B

Permafrost methane gas release - my top agent !

Perhaps the heat sinks of the oceans & the ice, are filling up, so much more heat goes into the atmosphere? Post 1980 saw a sudden jump, by a 1.3 C rise.

Hi, I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, I majored in sylviculture. Nope I'm up to speed how dire things in EU are, good luck to us all!

well thought out & balanced presentation

I'm french. The heat is scary. In some town in south they need to be supplied with tanker...like in California. The ski season was delay and not very good at start even in 1500m stations.

Tx for the update. There are 9 planetary boundaries for a liveable planet - the globe has surpassed 6 and nearing the other 3. We've more- or- less known about the global warming since the late 1800s; the odd brainy scientist been warning us about it since the 1970s / 80s: the first international sustainable development conference was held in 1992; and there was an economist report in 2006 (the Stern Report). Several international agreements were signed in 2016 (including 2030 Agenda & 17 SDGs & Sendai Framework on Hazard Risk Reduction awa urban development via the New Urban Agenda (75 - 80% of people will live in cities by 2050'ish)) to plan a collective sustainable way forward into the next century. Progress made? Well no - we're going backwards in terms of human rights (esp for women), fossil fuel expansion (which is accelerating), decreasing democracies with more plutocracies, increasing incidence of extreme weather, food & water insecurity, awa more waste & pollution etc. Yet the enviro & climate crisis hardly registers on anyone's urgency list - being more worried about the economy & immigration etc - not realizing its all connected. And we wonder why scientists are increasingly frantic with their warnings and the fertility rate is plummeting just about everywhere (this is a complex issue with other socio-cultural, developmental, economic & political issues at play). While developed countries have the technical & financial resources to respond (rather choosing profit over people & planet), those in the developing world are getting left further & further behind. Humans are pretty resourceful, but many strategies, policies, plans & tech need a few years to implement. As the world kicks enviro & climate action further & further down the road, implementation gets more difficult & much more expensive. The next decade is certainly going to be "interesting" - good luck everyone!

Thanks.. for all you do.

Laughed My Head Off!! Appreciated Appreciated ✌🏽✌🏽💯💯🤣🤣

Meanwhile Sunak and the Tories continue to be bribed by Shell... A good start would be to nationalise Shell with no compensation to shareholders.

Love your style.

Shocking revelations…… Thank you!

Thank you for your videos. Always very well made and informative. It seems obvious we need to mobilise public and disrupt the state to the point the politicians start making sensible decisions. Would it be possible for Just Have a Think channel to make a video about what vital role protest plays and to call on people to get involved?

Its been cold and wet up in northern England for the last 6 months, bring on the summer and stop panicking about things you cannot change, its nature, plus EVs are rubbish and don't work.

The world already has the technology it needs to produce all of its energy without fossil fuels and nuclear, and do it more affordably! Sadly, it seems to be taking a long time to convince many people that we don't have to burn stuff to have energy for a healthy economy and to stay warm. Thanks to you and your channel for helping to turn that tide.

Thanks for this.

Brilliant episode. Scary, appropriately.

I presume this heating etc will continue until the AMOC slows enought to let the freezing polar climate head South to take over Europe. Complex earth!

another great video

Thank you for what you are doing - however depressing it may been it needs saying. Thanks for doing the saying so clearly.

Great to meet you at the electric show 😉⚡️👍

Welcome to another existential dread caused by 2-D models episode.

Living in the Netherlands, I have this existential dread about how long our vaunted sea walls will protect us. It only takes one catastrophic failure, and sea levels only goes up for the next few decades. Not to mention more portion our GDP needs to go into keepin the water out.

There's something ever-so-appropriate about the icon for 'Economy and Finance' section in that EU report looking like the Deathstar.

First video of yours out of the last 5 or 6 I find interesting. I wondered when the “Checking up on technology I talked about 2 years ago” would get a break.

Buckle up indeed! Thanks for the heads up, Dave!

Change your browser to Ecosia, at least then there’s some trees planted for doom scrolling.

This needs much more volume. Thanks

As a somewhat ironic kinda thing, I'm SO close to acquiring an AC unit. Summers got me west facing condo absolutely cooking. Mostly windows in the living room, making it 30c+ in the afternoon, and concrete/brick wall in the bedroom holds that heat till like 6 in the morning.

The way we humans live our lives needs to change radically. However, any government implementing radical changes to people's lifestyles wouldn't stay in power very long. If wealthy countries stopped spending trillions on blowing things up maybe there would be more hope of a climate solution.

I constantly remind people that Svalbard average yearly temperature increased 2.75 degrees in a century Pennsylvania has only increased 1.8 Fahrenheit Whoa Canada has increased by 3.1° Fahrenheit since 1948. They just shrug off such statistics

knowledge is power!

Thanks for another great explainer, as grim as it is. I feel that the inaction on government/policy level is because leaders generally prioritise stability. The issue is that to ensure longer term stability, we need disruptive policies now. I don't think the momentum will be there until it's already plainly obvious that we should've acted more drastically, sooner.