@123321Francisco
I love that in the U.S., we’re ruled by people who won’t live long enough to be bothered by climate change.
@skreekarose3610
I’m 63 years old, and I live in Pennsylvania. I remember cold, snowy winters all through my childhood and teenage years. We were always sled riding down the hilly street we lived on! The winters here have been so mild for the past three decades, and we don’t really get much snow anymore.
@benedikTgd
I live in eastern austria, and I remember 20 years ago, we had to dig paths through the snow in our garden. 30-50cm of snow was not too uncommon. We got zero snow this winter.
@anderswallin3883
The winters here in Sweden are getting weird now. In the past we used to have pretty stable winters with temperatures around 5 degrees F and below and it did not change much for the entire winter. But now the temperatures are going up and down like a yo-yo each week. We get tons of snow and then it can suddenly melt and it feels like spring for a week and then it becomes winter again the next week with 5 degrees F or so. The climate is weird now for sure
@kooooons
There's only one thing I was missing from this talk: Climate Change is not something that happens one day and then everything is bad. It started happening a long time ago and will continue to happen for a long time to come. How it is today, is the best it's gonna be for a century. People in the 80s started arguing about how we should protect the climate to save our kids and we today still say that. But we are those kids, and our kids will have it worse. We only get to choose how much worse.
@jasonrodwell5316
Finally a climate change explanation which does not leave any room whatsoever for the simplistic argument of 'if it is global warming, why is it getting colder?' There is more energy in the system which gives rise to more extreme weather events within the scope of that climate.
@avouremusic
Watching these kinds of videos and seeing how many views they get compared to YouTube trends, I feel like Don't Look Up is kind of a documentary that must be shown in every school
@operatordeadpostabandoned
You have done well to describe the situation, no shock value, no outrageous claims, just common sense, backed by science and thought, thanks mate!!
@austins.2495
Literally every single person on Earth needs to sit down and watch this, maybe even twice. This is what is important, TO US ALL
@jimwoodard64
I used to fly in and out of DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) regularly. Once, I was sitting next to a pilot, and I asked him why it was so turbulent there. He said, "Look out the window and tell me what you see." I said, "Lots of houses." He responded, "And what's in the back yard of most of those houses?" I replied, "Pools." He said, "yes, and that's changing the humidity of the air, creating pockets of humidity that is effecting the density of the air." Now I was a weapons guy in the military, and relative humidity and air density are part of the fire control equation for guns and missiles, so I understood what he was saying. We are changing the Earth in small ways individually that are adding up to large ways as a collective.
@user-mad7max11dystopia
Food production is going to be a much more difficult task as weather fluctuations affect frosts, freezes, rainfall, damage from storms, etc. People freaking out about egg prices shows we aren’t really pull yourselves up by your bootstraps kinds of folks. There’s lots of things we take for granted that we shouldn’t.
@Yachtnerd
It is so sad. We knew in the 1970's everything we needed to know to keep the planet a good place for us to live. I have always felt that was our last good chance to choose a different economy, one that was not based on blind growth at any cost.
@timomeeuwisse4693
I'm Dutch, there is a famous tradition here that translates to "the eleven city tour". It was this major event take took place when our rivers froze over. A lot of people would ice-skate from city to city on those rivers as a part of this massive event. It has not happened in my entire life and i don't think it will. Luckily oil shareholders made profit in the meantime so that roughly evens out.
@leibmoshe
The Titanic tragedy illustrates human behavior. Many people continued to drink champagne and listen to the live band playing music right up until the ship started sinking as if nothing was really happening. This is like climate change.
@TomGarner99
Not just an excellent scientist, but an excellent communicator. The way you explain this is pretty much how I see it (I am a chemist), but there is so much disinformation out there people are naturally confused. Thanks!
@DarkChayse
It makes me sad that the people who need to understand these things the most wont even listen at all. We love you Neil.
@seth2854
one thing I've noticed in Denmark is that our winters with full day frosts and cold snowy days are practically gone. we barely have a month collectively anymore with night frosts. I remember as a kid having snow days and minus degrees (Celsius) in the middle of the day. This year so far I haven't seen a single full day frost. D:
@paineoftheworld
I served in the USCG and was a plankowner of Healy, the medium science ice breaker. During her shakedown cruise in '00 we made the Northwest Passage lickety split. Without much ice except north of Barrow. The scientists and the officers (all combined probably over a century or more of experience in the ice) were astonished, then morose when the realization set it. I knew beforehand what was happening, that trip crystalized it.
@OldShortyInCanada
One of the things that is always skipped over about the rising sea levels being caused by ice melting ... the physical property of warmer water. To oversimplify, it takes up more space. Even if you didn't add more water, heating up the oceans a couple of degrees would cause a rise in levels all by itself. Warmer waters are more active waters and all that activity takes up more room. THEN add the extra water to that, warm it up as well and you multiply the effects for the coastlines of the world. I live a little ways in from the coastline at only about 100 feet above "Sea Level" near a river flood plain. It looks like I might have an "Ocean View" a bit sooner than expected ...
@FuzzyWuzzy01