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 »
Trying to use politics to change things in this matter still sounds like
someone whistling cheerfully from a cross..
Given the fact that land is being turned over to grow biofuels, at a time when millions of children are starving to death in their mothers arms. I can honestly say, without a science degree, or without doing too much research. Climate Change is complete and utter bollox, and the bullshit we are being fed is beyond laughable. Any solution that anyone comes up with, that doesn’t involve taxing people, is immediately dismissed. The solution to Climate Change is to shut down the NGO’s, shut down the Universities that are pumping out retards at great expense to themselves and society,… Read more »
Interesting, well supported and thoughtful presentation. The problem is the premise is 100% reversed from the real solution. Politics is not the answer. The real solution is to produce the renewable, technical and crowd-organized solutions in the following ways: Keep them local, debt free and sustainable. Keep them interesting to everyone – IOW, make them attractive to even the most materialistic. Keep them cost beneficial to both the customer and the workers. We already have proven solutions in every economic sector which follow these rules. They just need more support. The rest will take care of itself. People will prosper,… Read more »
What a load of bollocks. The human contribution to greenhouse gases is just 0.0009% of all greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Any warming there is or has been has nothing to do with anthropogenic carbon emissions, and everything to do with natural variability. CO2 in the atmosphere is barely above the all time low in the earth’s history, so we need more of it, not less. Cut the current levels by 50%, and all plant life would die, so would we. It is an imminent ice age we should be more concerned about, not global warming, because the next one… Read more »
Cold weather-global warming Hot weather-global warming Record Arctic ice-global warming Decrease in Arctic ice-global warming Increase in hurricans-global warming Decrease in hurricans-global warming Increase in tornados-global warming Decrease in tornados-global warming See a pattern here? It was 10 degrees warmer in the 1800’s than today, and Co2 levels were lower.. The “consensus” or the “settled science” they talk about, consists of 300 or so paid, nutball scientists who will fudge and cherry pick data for grant $$. Our government, who invade countries for resources, spy on its citizens and destroy the constitution should be our real cause for worry.. People… Read more »
The predictions on climate change were all wrong. The peer reviewed consensus predictions within 95% certainty of future temperature were WRONG. We need a Sociological study to find how most major scientific organizations all believe the same WRONG IDEA. I suspect many scientists were wrong because of GROUP THINK and intimidation. The data directly disagrees with idea that climate models can predict accurately and data does not even correlate to significant man-made global warming, which became “Climate Change” after all the predictions completely failed. All humans know the climate changes. It always has. No one has come even remotely close… Read more »
it MAY be doing this. It MAY be doing that. All of this climate change
business is total Fantasy. Thank God every Cop has Failed Miserably. Just
give it over, the Jigg is up.
He’s 100% correct. Just one thing: At 15minutes in, when he starts to tell the younger generation how to go about making change, he forgets to mention what every other speaker forgets to mention – that the “global corporation” cannot be stopped, and therefore global warming will not be stopped, period. Governments are corrupt, and that is not going to end. So lets talk about what will happen after the world goes to hell, rather than wasting our time talking about how we can make a real change, which is impossible. These fools have a whole lot of nerve to… Read more »
what he is saying here is the rotten world we created, deal with it please
cause its ur problem know, ooh and we will keep contributing 2 pollution
with our pensions, wich you ofcourse will not have
This guy says “we have to take oil and gas out of transport and heating.”
The technology of fuel systems that produce 100 mpg or better for the
average size car has been around for a long time. There’s quite a few
videos on YouTube of such inventions dating back to the 70’s.
If this technology were in use today then global CO2 emissions would be
lower. The reason it isn’t in use is because of corporate interference
within government, and perversion among its officials.
Don’t talk nonsense, of course the planet will be “liveable” Science
existed it just didn’t have the nomenclature we use for science today,
don’t be ridiculous. How did the Egyptians build the pyramids without
mathematics? Or the Romans their magnificent aqueducts. This is a bit of
guesswork based on flimsy correlations. You could also say there are more
bicycles now on the planet than 100 years ago. This is a media fuelled
propaganda story to tax you and me, that’s all it is.
every new technology has problems that get overcome with development saying
LFTR had serious problems that could never be overcome is another one of
your lies, there is no coolant water in LFTR so its obverse you don’t know
what your talking about, typical alarmist, avoiding any real solution like
the plague as long as that research money keeps coming in and the problem
never goes away, that’s all that alarmists like you care about, research
grants
Excellent talk: thank you.
Climate Change: Why you should be angry and why anger isn’t enough: John
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Climate Change: Why you should be angry and why anger isn’t enough: John
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Climate Change: Why you should be angry and why anger isn’t enough: John
Ashton at TEDxBedfordSchool http://buff.ly/19xLOlp
The definitive sign of a good climate would be falling food prices.
Makes me feel like dropping out of high school all over again, if only I could.
get the facts:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/
well said. I wish more people would listen to talks like this one.. thanks for the talk.