Climate
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Deforestation changes the
climate
by changing the surface properties and how water is evaporated and moved around in the system.
Contrails change the
climate
by creating clouds where there were none before, and of course greenhouse gases change the system.
How do air pollution and
climate
coexist?
Can we change things that affect air pollution and
climate
at the same time?
We know that we're headed for
climate
change, which is going to change rainfall patterns, making some areas drier, as you can see in orange, and others wetter, in blue, causing droughts in our breadbaskets, in places like the Midwest and Central Europe, and floods in others.
You get into international agreements, and if any of you are tracking the
climate
change agreement, you know this can be a very slow, frustrating, tedious process.
So for example, this is one of probably thousands of letters and drawings that kids sent to the Bush administration, begging it to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, and these were sent back in the mid-2000s, when awareness of
climate
change was suddenly surging.
This one came from a kid named Fritz, and he's actually got a solution to
climate
change.
But look now how quickly that
climate
change has flipped the image of the animal in our minds.
But long-term
climate
stability is strange, if only because astronomical influences can push a planet towards freezing or frying.
Both factors influence
climate
and the suggestion is that they've helped moderate
climate
change.
The last two centuries brought tremendous technological progress, but they also brought the global risks of nuclear war and the possibility of extreme
climate
change.
Geoengineering might give us the power to dramatically alter the earth's
climate.
Every day we face issues like
climate
change or the safety of vaccines where we have to answer questions whose answers rely heavily on scientific information.
Public opinion polls consistently show that significant proportions of the American people don't believe the
climate
is warming due to human activities, don't think that there is evolution by natural selection, and aren't persuaded by the safety of vaccines.
So one of the big questions to do with
climate
change, we have tremendous amounts of evidence that the Earth is warming up.
So this diagram illustrates a computer simulation that has looked at all the different factors that we know can influence the Earth's climate, so sulfate particles from air pollution, volcanic dust from volcanic eruptions, changes in solar radiation, and, of course, greenhouse gases.
And so this is why
climate
scientists say it's not just that we know that
climate
change is happening, we know that greenhouse gases are a major part of the reason why.
All of the grand challenges that we face today, like
climate
change and human rights and demographics and terrorism and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss, I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.
In Boulder, Colorado, voters not too long ago approved a process to replace the private power company, literally the power company, the electric company Xcel, with a publicly owned utility that would forego profits and attend far more to
climate
change.
The equatorial region, in general, and the Amazon specifically, is extremely important for the world's
climate.
If we could establish forests in those other areas, we can reverse
climate
change, including global warming.
Having closed this quick introduction, we see the reality that we have out here, which is drought, this
climate
change, things that we already knew.
We started the pilot last year, and now we're pretty sure that we will encounter a lot of ignorance across the whole world, and the idea is really to scale it up to all domains or dimensions of global development, such as climate, endangered species, human rights, gender equality, energy, finance.
And more than that, the emissions of greenhouse gases would rise, with immense risks to our
climate.
Those are the stakes we're playing for, and that's why we have to make this second transformation, the
climate
transformation, and move to a low-carbon economy.
But the second of the transformations, the
climate
transformations, we have to decide to do.
You can see that the two transformations I've described, the structural and the climate, come very much together.
Again, you can see good decisions can bring quick results, and those two transformations, the economy and the structure and the
climate
and the low carbon, are intimately intertwined.
Do the first one well, the structural, the second one on the
climate
becomes much easier.
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