Finally some good news!

What’s he mean “young people”? I’m 50, I’ve felt that way since 1990 because I pay attention. We are addicts, addicts use until they die, they don’t quit because their health suffers.

At 3 degrees some developing countries won’t be able to feed their population!?! WTF?! That was the case before any climate changes, dummy. It’s bad now. It will be apocalyptic relatively soon…like decades, not centuries.

WILL cause trillions in damage!?….guess again, already happened. It WILL cause tens of trillions in damage per year, eventually outpacing global gdp.

What scientists are he counting when he says “most agree” we won’t see this kind of future? Certainly not climate scientists, they agree it’s happening, and none see it even slowing, much less getting better. From what I saw, they just went on strike because they’re sick of being ignored.

Leveled off, eh? Look at your own graph to see that China’s coal consumption went up by 5000 twh equivalents since 2010, and is insanely massive…it went up by more than the US used at its highest levels (in his timeline). But he calls that “leveled off”. Who is this guy? He’s insane or lying through his teeth.

Solar and wind have been better than coal economically for decades, but we haven’t switched over, have we?

Where does he get his statistics, because every time I see real numbers we’ve only slowed our increased emissions by 4%, we have not actually reduced them….like saying Obama reduced the military budget because he didn’t increase it as much as previous administrations. It’s asinine.

India isn’t building trillions in solar, they’re building fossil fuel power plants and hydro electric, also disastrous for the environment….and useless after their glaciers fail.

The CO2 in the atmosphere will be there for 300-1000 years, carbon capture is a ridiculous pipe dream that completely ignores the scope of the problem. Methalhydrate is already destabilized, and it’s 25 times as potent as CO2. The total global amount of methane carbon bound up in these hydrate deposits is in the order of 1000 to 5000 gigatonnes – i.e. about 100 to 500 times more carbon than is released annually into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). It’s melting now faster every day, and will surpass human carbon emissions.

None of his “requirements” are happening. What we need is less people….like 90% less.

Progress is being made, minor progress in small amounts on tiny scales…so are increases in emissions but on massive scales and unfathomable amounts….emissions that needed to be at zero decades ago to save civilization as we know it. Climate refugees exist today in huge numbers, think how difficult 1 million Syrians were for Europe to absorb, now multiply by 2000 or more when all equatorial nations become uninhabitable. Where will we grow food with refugees covering every bit of land? Get real.

He admits that stopping warming below 1.5 degrees is impossible, and 3 degrees before 2021 likely (many say by 2050). Did he forget that 1.5 degrees warming is where we lose control and feedback loops make our emissions moot?

Do you even science, dude?

He gave me zero hope, because I know most of his pie in the sky “hope” is utterly ridiculous and runs contrary to reality and human nature. I wanted some good news, I got pablum.
Booo Kurzgesagt. Try being honest and not ignoring the facts, please. BOOOOO!

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Your "refutations" are, for the most part, self-defeating, so I will allow others to do their own research and come to their own conclusions rather than addressing each one. Suffice it to say that gun-control, in the U.S. at least, starts as an anti-minority measure (not unlike the "war on drugs" and the "war on poverty") and spurs on a "dark economy" (or "underground economy"), not unlike what (eventually) felled the Soviet Union. It's not dissimilar to what's going on in Puerto Rico and, to some extent, the Bay Area (except NorCal doesn't have the feds all over them like Puerto Rico does, so violent crime is high in PR and low in Mendocino).

Is it purely a "coincidence" that Puerto Rico has a higher murder rate than almost anywhere else in the U.S, while citing as many as 50%+ of the people on "public assistance," is an epicenter on the "war on drugs" and has about the strictest gun control laws of anywhere in the U.S.?

But don't worry! Here's some good news!
"They found that a country like Luxembourg, which bans all guns has a murder rate that is 9 times higher than Germany, where there are 30,000 guns per 100,000 people. They also cited a study by the U.S.National Academy of Sciences, which studied 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and it failed to find one gun control initiative that worked. . . . The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, conceded that the results they found in their report was not what they expected to find."

I guess they didn't account for the fact that outlaws don't really care about laws! The nerve of some people...

I have some good news...

>> ^EMPIRE:

awww poor thing. And poor owner by the way. fucking assholes drunk driving.
I would have kept the dog. Seems such a nice boy.

the dog was returned to the grieving family.. at least they have some good news.

Well, if you want some good news, look at these statistics. A lot more here than soldiers adopting puppies, Farhad.

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/687260.html

Pretty much shows that in many respects (access to electricity and water) Iraqis are better off now than when Saddam was there. Baghdad unfortunately gets all the news coverage--things are worse there because the insurgency is primarily centered there (and targeting infrastructure as part of its campaign) but Baghdad is by no means indicative of the country as a whole. Gains are being made across the board. Iraq is getting better, not worse.

But like I said, most Sifters would rather ignore that. Rather than actually get info on what's going on over there, they'd rather sift videos completely out of context like these:

http://www.videosift.com/video/American-tank-crushes-Iraqi-cab#comment-455515

http://www.videosift.com/video/I-dont-support-the-troops-1

They are, apparently, unaware of the hypocrisy of lambasting Fox News for its taking clips out of context and spinning them for its own propaganda when they post such clips.

BTW, I was against the wars (both Iraq and Afganistan) from the start. But now that's what done is done and we've gone in and tore the places up, we have a responsibility to rebuild them. Whoever is to blame for the mess is irrelevant at this point, particulary since this administration is over and done with at the end of this year anyway. I'd rather people focus their attention on how we can get these two countries back on track again than sit around pointing fingers at one another.

Good luck finding some good news coming out of Iraq.

Sure Honkeytonk, I'll pray. What harm can it do? I like to think i can get the ear of the big magic man in the sky occasionally.

Here's some good news, the paypall account is closed. Hopefully it's because of this that I found on Kronosposeidon's link above...

** To date all of Alan's operation bills, amounting to almost $700,000 have been paid out entirely by the friends of Alan Doherty. We would like to thank everyone involved in fundraising and everyone who has kindly donated money so far and thank you all for your continued support, without which none of this would have been possible.**

Prayer's good. Cash kicks ass.

Some good news to lighten the mood.. good on ye!