ABC’s chief meteorologist, Ginger Zee, talks with Gavin Schmidt, senior advisor on climate at NASA, about the science behind amplifying extreme weather events and why we all need to be paying attention.
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Listen folks, these "climate wizards have been predicting another "ice age" or claiming "the planet is going to burn up" for over 100 years. I'll start in 1967 because going back 100 years is way too much to cover. In 1967 scientists predicted a major famine by 1975. Never happened. Not even a slight food shortage. In 1969 they said "everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam within 20 years." Obviously that didn't happen. In 1970 they said there would be “water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.” Never happened. That same year they predicted "a new ice age by the 21st century." This was 11 years after they had said we were going to burn up "in a cloud of blue steam.” In 1971 they doubled down on the "new ice age" prediction. In 1974 they claimed "space satellites show new ice age coming fast." Still hasn't happened. In 1988 they changed their minds about the “new ice age” and claimed the heat was going to kill us. They predicted that “sea levels were going to rise from melting ice” and that “rising sea levels were going to swallow up many small islands within 20 to 30 years.” We haven't even come close to losing a single island ANYWHERE. They doubled down on that prediction in 1989 saying "Rising seas could obliterate nations by 2000." Never happened. There are hundreds of these "the world is going to end" predictions. Research it.
By the way, the "new green deal" is BS too. For example electric vehicles take 40 to 50 hours to fully charge. They need a minimum 3 to 4 hours to go even a short distance. Imagine everyone driving an electric vehicle and trying to use charging stations? Instead of a few gas pumps there will need to be hundreds of these charging stations in place of one gas station. No more 5 minute gas fill ups. That ought to be real fun especially if you are in a hurry. You'd better reserve a hotel and make restaurant reservations while your car charges, which will cost you another $150 dollars or more. Those who own electric vehicles with gasoline backup systems won’t be so inconvenienced but there are still major problems to consider. One of those problems is that the country already has major problems with our current power grid. Every summer cities call on people NOT to use their air conditioners 24/7. Many electric companies already shut down your AC during peak periods. So how do they propose to be able to charge hundreds of thousands, if not millions of electric vehicles? To deliver the electricity needed for these vehicles the government will confiscate, that means STEAL, thousands upon thousands of acres of land to build more power plants and more wind turbine and solar farms. Won't that make a beautiful scenic drive? Most of this land will be farm land as it is mostly level and already cleared of trees and stumps etc. This means families losing their property and their livelihoods. It also means less food grown to feed us! They will also have to increase coal and gas usage to backup the "clean energy" farms. The very fuels they say they want to get rid of. Remember what happened in Texas last winter when their "clean energy” grid froze up leaving people without power for days? That outage killed 69 people and caused 18 billion dollars in damages. They were very proud of that “green power” until then. Then you have the MASSIVE waste problem of wind turbines going bad, solar panels going bad and the cars battery systems going bad. These cars use 8 to 12 batteries that only last 6 to 10 years depending on usage, charging habits and extreme heat or extreme cold climates. Since the battery system is the most expensive part of the electric vehicle it will be like an appliance, cheaper to buy than to repair which means even more waste to manage and we will be forced into buying a new government mandated vehicle every 6 to 10 years. No more driving a good old gas vehicle for 20 plus years. Save your money folks because there is nothing cheap or green about the “new green deal”, err NIGHTMARE! And this is only the “electric vehicle” part of the bill, err NIGHTMARE!
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These claims of unprecedented warming, ice melt, sea level rise, storms more frequent and intense, wildfires, droughts, floods are totally baseless and bogus. How about the great climate change champion Obama buying a $15M property next to the sea on Martha's Vineyard.
This was the hottest year on record. Why isn’t all road asphalt white or light gray?
NASA…another government conspiracy, it’s sad to think America is the only one responsible the 1880’s didn’t have over zealous media to exploit misinformation.
FAKE NEWS
E l s p r o w e b. Is super helpful and reliable
The world has ignored the warnings of the bible. Psalms 82 says the world is out of course. Ie going crazy. Paul said that the earth will grow old and decay like a garment.This is to happen before Christ comes again. Please don't let the scientists of the world fool you. Human behaviour may be involved but God says there will be unprecedented natural disasters before that great and terrible day of the Lord. Get ready Jesus is coming
Greta the best puppet ….
GLOBALISTS all those soros organisations and lobbies behind you GRETA are burning the forests around the world
people behind you who put you on stage and the spotlights , while you give your blabla bla speech , they are burning all the forests around the world
to increase the temperature volontary ….and they use you as a puppet to bring attention to children …because if they target the children they will bring the parents.
GLOBALISTS BURN THE FORESTS , GRETA IS THEIR PUPPET……
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There were storms Long before the age of oil big storm s you tried this 50 years ago by the Year 2000 Cape Cod would be under water. Buy the year 2000 palm trees will be growing in New England by the Year 2000 FL southern parts will be under water. Perdictions 1980 1982 you never showed the counter view. Man made gobble warming is Bull crap out of the leftest comi agend false predictions decided after decades. You just want to tax the Gas stop personal transportation and control every aspect of your life fake News agenda proven fact.
Jehovah God's government in the hands of Christ Jesus will soon save the planet from ruination and restore it back to a paradise!! 😊😊Jeremiah 10 :23 man incapable
Selfish People Can’t Produce Unselfish Solutions
In Europe and elsewhere, governments are paying colossal sums to big corporations to help them avert bankruptcy. Whether they call it a “rescue package” or “quantitative easing,” in the end it’s all the same: the government pays companies to stay operative.
I don’t think it will work in the long run. It may keep companies afloat for another six months or a year, but as a rule, a government, any government, cannot sustain companies that cannot sustain themselves. In the end, the situation will blow up in a blast that will be worse than what it would have happened had the government let them fall naturally.
There is more to it than that. I don’t believe that a government can do anything good for its people. Civil servants, ministers, and deputy ministers always pull their own way and have their own interests in mind. Since everyone is inherently selfish, everyone has an ulterior motive that is not for the benefit of the public.
We cannot expect selfish people to do unselfish acts; it is like asking a tiger to become vegetarian. If it goes against nature and it won’t work. Therefore, asking people whose only focus is their own career to focus on other people’s well-being is unwise, unrealistic, and will invariably fail.
Socialists, capitalists, far right, or far left, they are all immersed in egoism. It is not their fault; it is human nature, and we should adjust our expectation from our leaders.
If we want a real and lasting positive change, we must transform human nature. Since our nature is selfish to the core, changing it is the only way out of the crises that the world is falling into nowadays. We will fall deeper and deeper until we realize that the problem is not the fuel we burn, the forests we cut, the water we pollute, or the people we kill. The problem is the cause of all those harms we are inflicting on nature and on each other: our inherent self-absorption. When we start working on changing ourselves rather than demanding everything and everyone else to change, we might be able to save ourselves before it is too late.
The only people that need convincing are the CEOs and owners of the companies doing most of the damage.
Anthropogenic Global Warming is real and an existential threat to human life on the Earth. Science doesn't care what you believe.
Oh please climate change! What about Afghanistan and cheating Joe? ABC SUCKS AS MUCH AS CNN!
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NASA never a straight answer
I have no weather issues, I live in Paradise.
There are dozens of different Climate Change computer models but if "the science is settled!" shouldn't there just be ONE??
Each different model contains hundreds of variables and assumptions and are funded by governments and agencies with a big government/regulatory/taxation agenda, searching for the magic formula that makes a 1 part in 8700 increase (.000285 to .0004) in CO2 as a part of the atmosphere the driving force behind warming that has been occurring naturally since the Little Ice Age ended around 1850, and responsible for every bad weather event. Past modeling predictions that vastly overestimated warming are buried, as are the dire warnings that didn't come to pass. It's a "Crisis!" yet they won't attempt to win over skeptics ("The Debate Is Over!") but like spoiled children insist we bow to their demands. Then there are the data revisions that always seem to go the Alarmists way – funny that.
YEP. AND. THE QOP REPUBLICONS. WILL ALWAYS BE DUMMIES
Maybe turn off H.A.R.P. instead of just complaining
What about all the manmade chemtrails and geoengineering??
Not one time do they ever mention the #1 driver of all weather on the planet and rarely ever do, there's a reason all clouds were reclassified several yrs ago and "new clouds" were named that never existed before and let's not forget about the moons wobble affect causing extreme tsunamis every tidal change coming soon to an ocean state near you..but I digress.
The climate change alarmists are welcome to go live in the woods with no products made of hydrocarbons, no plastics, etc.