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. My grandchild may not survive their collective stupidity.
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 in the suns cycles and you have three forces that are vastly more
powerful the we are.
Global warming is a campaign cooked up by people that want to profit form
something that we have no control over.
I urge people to do some research and get the facts before coming to any
conclusion. Remember, these forces have been going on for billions of years
and have cycles of there own. I also urge people to keep an open mind.
If by chance we do have some effect on climate it most likely is extremely
small and good ol mother earth will fix itself.
Souring around the galaxy ship mother earth has always been a bumpy ride.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing this guy says that is true is it’s about politics and
politics are all about control.
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 look at us peasants like we are
supposed to solve this kind of government corruption madness. We can get
some wind mills and solar panels ready for the post-world to come, and
that’s about it. This is a reality we all have yet to face, just as we took
forever to face the fact that we are polluting our breathing air. And the
fact is, we are afraid to even talk about it, which only underscores how
screwed we all truly are. I’m disgusted to be on the same sinking ship as
my so-called government, who will still somehow manage to steal the better
seats.
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.
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,
when they could be doing something far more meaningful with their lives.
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.
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.
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.
AGW-deniers = Holocaust deniers = 911truthers = Sandy Hook hoax theorists =
creationists = peak oil deniers = antivaxxars = antidrug terrorists =
pro-drug war fascists = fucking morons
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 can
barely afford to heat their homes or buy food and they want more money??
GTFO!
we need a population order….