Published on YouTube Aug 20, 2013: About the Speaker: One of the world’s top climate diplomats, John Ashton is now an independent commentator and adviser on the politics of climate change. From 2006-12 he served as Special Representative for Climate Change to three successive UK Foreign Secretaries, spanning the current Coalition and the previous Labour Government. He was a cofounder and, from 2004-6, the first Chief Executive of the think tank E3G. From 1978-2002, after a brief period as a research astronomer, he was a career diplomat, with a particular focus on China. He is a visiting professor at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College.
About the Talk: If you are under 30 today, you are on track to find out in your lifetime what unmanageable climate change will be like. Business,politics and economics seem to have no response. What is going wrong and how can you use your voice if you want this fixed in time to fix your future?
Republicans over 65, with HS or less education from the south who are Biblical literalists = the most ignorant segment of US population. For them 97% of Climate Scientists and 12,720 of 12,744 peer reviewed scientific papers are some kind of fraud or hoax. Understanding why idiots like James Inhofe and paid shills of the fossil fuel industry make absurd HOAX statements is easy – they get paid for it by extremely wealthy oil companies. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old – Evolution IS – and climate deniers are mainly young Earth Creationists who “believe” dinosaurs lived with mankind.… Read more »
AGW-deniers = Holocaust deniers = 911truthers = Sandy Hook hoax theorists =
creationists = peak oil deniers = antivaxxars = antidrug terrorists =
pro-drug war fascists = fucking morons
Global warming is real. But what they are failing to remind everyone that the earth has been warming and cooling since it first formed. The notion that man has or can have any effect is pure fantasy. There are too many factors that govern our climate that are vastly more powerful then we are. If people would stop and think for a moment they might see this. The earths rotation, it’s orbit and the sun have the most effect and are mostly overlooked. We all know the earth wobbles on it’s axis and our orbit is not fixed. Then toss… Read more »
He’s got a problem which I don’t need.
Please don’t respond to the comments of climate change deniers,they are
creating a debate where none exists to confuse public who come here to
learn about climate change.
Many factors affect temp, co2 is one. Overall, will increase temp when
everything else is constant. So a circumstance when temp was higher but
there was lower co2 does not mean co2 has no effect. had it been higher
levels of co2, it would have been even warmer in that case.
And global warming can cause cooling as ice melts there will be more of
that ice surface area, now water, interacting with the oceans in energy
transfer, thus cooling the water.
The only thing this guy says that is true is it’s about politics and
politics are all about control.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t take some one who doesn’t understand the basic
function of a system seriously when they make “obverse”[sic]”false claims
about it. How do nuclear reactors of ALL types create electricty? The
nuclear reactions HEAT water, which converts to steam and pushes a turbine
(as part of the Rankine cycle). This water, along with water used to keep
graphite cores in LFTR cool gets easily contaminated, and by design is
released… causing serious problems
LFTR was developed in the 60’s/ 70’s. It failed. India is wasting money on
them now… why not cash in on the massive solar industry instead of
letting China take all the solar jobs?
Offending people to no end is not OK. However, sometimes it helps shke them
out of their complacency and ignorance. This obviously does not always
work. And if you think Christians have been offended, try thinking about
the offence caused by all religions to the biggest minority belief system
in history by hectoring, mudering, genocidal, bigotted people who believe
they know the truth but offer no evidence.
No, we can’t ‘deal’ with climate change, any more than we can ‘deal’ with
the moon’s orbit. we have no control over either and to think otherwise is
arrogant. The earth’s climate will change no matter what we do do to all
you tree-huggers I say “Deal with it!! Stop worrying about it and get on
with life!!” And stop being so damned negative. We live during a
fantastic time in human history where we have the technology, medicine etc
to live great lives, so stop worrying about nothing and enjoy life you
bunch of morons!
Pure hokum! Non sense. This fraud is propagating a lie and he knows it. He
just wants you to believe it too. Money to be made in the green business.
Selling carbon credits to themselves like that damn liar Al Gore. He buys
carbon credits from himself through acompany he created. Oh the lunacy of
these propagand peddelers.
I thought was going to learn something:-) lol a bunch of hoopla
These people want you to buy into the cleAn energy windfarms that kill
hundreds of bald eagles and other protected species, that you would be in
jail if you harmed one. However if you contributed to the Obama campaign,
you can kill them for free and no penalty. the wind turbines have
absolutely ruined the bautiful sierra nevadas. Now all you can see is ugly
friggin windmills. They take 20 years to pay for and they won’t last 15.
Great capital venture.
“I’ve been in the climate change business for fifteen years now”
That tells you right there everything you need to know about this fraud.
I have one single question:
Does this “iceholes” pretend that the planet Earth stops having Changes in
it’s climate?
The planet start having climate changes the very instant it came to be,
that’s a fact!
15 years in the business of “climate change”? ….and then?
What is it you propose to “stop the earth from having “climate changes”? ,
how, when, who ?
In sum: a huge planet size hot air balloon!
Solving? climate change? many words to say absolutely NOTHING!
15 years we got it…..and you DON’T HAVE ANY ANSWERS …..TO WHAT?????
Its long past time that idiots like this guy were jailed for spreading fear
and hysteria among our kids.
we need a population order….
WHAT ABOUT MY ‘INNOCENT PEOPLE’ OF SAMOA THAT WERE ‘SLAUGHTERED’ BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF SAMOA ‘CHINA NUCLEAR TEST SITE’ Five Year Plan By PM that he never told and let known to the ‘INNOCENT PEOPLE’ of my SAMOA. ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ BUSINESSES are ‘EVIL’. You are just trying to persuade people or the young generations to believe is good to ‘slaughter’ innocent people in their country for them to make money. My Innocent People of Samoa that were ‘murdered’ by the ‘China Nuclear Test Site’ Five Year Plan By PM that ‘created’ a MANUFACTURE TSUNAMI on Sept 29th, 2009 never… Read more »