Atmospheric scientist reacts to Geostorm

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  • It turns out Geostorm might not be the most scientifically accurate movie. Keep track of the errors with a free Notion account! bit.ly/simonnotionaccount
    My geoengineering Notion page: www.notion.so/drsimonclark/Ge...
    So I set out with the intention of watching all of Geostorm to look for scientific errors, but I genuinely couldn't watch further than the intro. If this video does well then I might subject myself to watching the rest. With Greenland, also starring Gerard Butler and extreme weather, coming on the horizon perhaps I could film a sequel as well.
    References:
    (1) ourworldindata.org/co2-and-ot...
    (2) www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-...
    (3) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil...
    (4) This is an actual book by Mark Lynas on this subject
    (5) Video originally by Henrich Boell commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    (6) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
    (7) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
    (8) www.notion.so/drsimonclark/Ge...
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    In this video I use my experience as an atmospheric scientist to react to Geostorm, the truly awful movie starring Gerard Butler saving the world from a geoengineering project gone wrong. The movie has an interesting portrayal of geoengineering and climate change in general, and I found that I was reacting to the framing of global warming and geoengineering more than the scientific accuracy. I also go on to discuss the application of solar radiation management as a form of geoengineering, and talk about its significant disadvantages. I apologise for not making it past the intro, but bloody hell is this film bad. Let me know if I should soldier on and watch the rest!
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  • @SimonClark
    @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +135

    BTW if you enjoyed this then check out a more accurate (and more beautiful) portrayal of the atmosphere here! czcams.com/video/aiZ-ui0lK-U/video.html

    • @natleslie1103
      @natleslie1103 Před 3 lety

      You should review the first half of "Highlander 2: The quickening" where they replace the ozone layer with a dome :P

    • @mikeanco
      @mikeanco Před 3 lety

      I have a question, if we were able to somehow harvest the energy from a tornado's spin, and did so regularly, what would the effects (if any) be on the climate?

    • @oli_f
      @oli_f Před 3 lety +1

      With the theme of climate change and the kind of speed in which it can happen realistically; what are your thoughts on the events in The Day After Tomorrow? Would love to watch a video on that!

    • @bhuvaneshs.k638
      @bhuvaneshs.k638 Před 3 lety

      Do a video on ur thoughts on Geo engineering & Kardashev Type I civilization

    • @brazeiar9672
      @brazeiar9672 Před 3 lety

      This film is about as scientific as the average climate activist which is to say they are mostly there for the fun of the protest, to shout, to be seen doing something virtuous for instagram, and maybe to smash some stuff up. "The sea is rising at 1.5mm a year so we will all drown in 10 years".... err that's 1.5cm and you are 5'11? "Well in a hundred years though"... you'll be dead in 100 years though :s The amount of time it would take for climate change to have a meaningful effect is very long, and the pace of technological change is very high, a factor completely ignored by the activists who love to invoke science. Even if we disregard climate science and focus on the proposed solutions which is where the real controversial issue is, the activists seem to base their choices not on science, but on what "feels best". IF climate change were such a big deal, and you REALLY wanted to stop it, you would go with nuclear because that is what the science says. But the feelings, they say use the inefficient wind and solar which are optimal only for edge cases e.g rural. If climate change activists want the wider public to take their cause seriously they need to drop the hyperbolic crap, stick to the facts and follow the science not what they personally think the conclusions "should" be.

  • @user-xg5dw2gm8f
    @user-xg5dw2gm8f Před 3 lety +1179

    Blowing up a hurricane to destroy it HAS to be the most American idea ever

    • @bigboie3507
      @bigboie3507 Před 3 lety +27

      Sharknado baby!

    • @bigboie3507
      @bigboie3507 Před 3 lety +10

      @@benadians1769 I dont know, if he did I would try and impeach him on attempted murder

    • @mikeg9b
      @mikeg9b Před 3 lety +26

      www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-nuke-hurricanes/
      He denies he said it, but ... he probably said it.

    • @3DRiley_
      @3DRiley_ Před 3 lety +26

      A hurricane is probably as indifferent to any bomb known to mankind as it is to being shot at. And the idea of using nuclear weapons to stop or at least make a hurricane less intense has been around for as long as the public knows about them, it has been a recurring theme with politicians over the years, Trump isn't the only one guilty of suggesting such garbage.
      With a lot of nuclear weapons having a combined yield in the gigaton range it could maybe be feasible but at that point a hurricane approaching the coast is the smaller evil, especially if you don't actually stop it because it will bring the fallout of a few dozen nuclear weapons to the land.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI Před 3 lety +11

      Yup it is. As an American I agree

  • @filippogigliozzi
    @filippogigliozzi Před 3 lety +416

    Tornado? Zap!
    Blizzard? Zap!
    Logic? Zap!

  • @iainwmacintosh
    @iainwmacintosh Před 3 lety +556

    Dr Simon Clark: Nooo! Geoengineering doesn't work like that!
    Geostorm Producers: haha satellites go brrrrrr

    • @brazeiar9672
      @brazeiar9672 Před 3 lety +8

      Film about scientific topic. Contains no science. Lots of weapons though :s

    • @1BlessEdYou
      @1BlessEdYou Před 3 lety +2

      Xanax satellites go chillllll

  • @Jontman42
    @Jontman42 Před 3 lety +251

    I like that Simon cannot let his inner scientist down for a minute and has to say that a heatwave that kills 2 million people in a single day is merely "extremely unlikely to happen".

    • @vxicepickxv
      @vxicepickxv Před 2 lety +20

      There was the specification of Madrid. There are some places where it's more likely. Typically places with insufficient infrastructure, like India, or Texas.

    • @bestaround3323
      @bestaround3323 Před 2 lety +9

      @@vxicepickxv I thought Texas would be a cold wave?

    • @a.gmanish677
      @a.gmanish677 Před 2 lety +7

      @@vxicepickxv his point was, you're not going to wake up one day with 2 million dead people on your hands. More than 2 million people will die over the course of decades and years which will make us underestimate the effect because of how gradual the change is

    • @AceSpadeThePikachu
      @AceSpadeThePikachu Před rokem

      The firs could indicate that it wasn't just the heat wave that killed all those people in one day, but a combination of things that just happened to have a heat wave exacerbate it. War for example. Disease and famine could also play a part.

  • @_yonas
    @_yonas Před 3 lety +397

    "In Blender apparently." This cracked me up more than it should have. :D

  • @Seamus.Harper
    @Seamus.Harper Před 3 lety +321

    World: "Oh, no a Hurricane"
    Scientist: "Hehe, bombs go boom!"
    Real scientist: "What the f-...?"

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover Před 3 lety +9

      *Money printer go brrrrrr*
      *interviews go bla bla bla*
      *Nationalism go bang*

    • @brazeiar9672
      @brazeiar9672 Před 3 lety +2

      @@appleslover Sam goes bricks and aeroplanes

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY Před 3 lety +281

    "We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
    --Native American proverb

    • @curiosityzero2151
      @curiosityzero2151 Před 3 lety +9

      One of the best thing I read today. Ty

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 Před 2 lety +7

      Which indigenous people is this from, specifically? I'm not confident reproducing a quote with such a vague citation, as much as I agree with the sentiment.

  • @SCReconcile
    @SCReconcile Před 3 lety +183

    The Snowpiercer climate may be an interesting one to cover, they don't talk about the climate much other than the fact it's -120c outside. might be interesting to look at what the earth/atmosphere would actually look like at that temperature, and what would be required to happen get the temperature that low.

    • @jinjunliu2401
      @jinjunliu2401 Před 3 lety +4

      Some evil villain will reposition the sun :)

    • @esaedvik
      @esaedvik Před 3 lety +4

      @@jinjunliu2401 Or the moon.

    • @VuLamDang
      @VuLamDang Před 3 lety +1

      @@esaedvik or the Earth

    • @bindukopparapu2795
      @bindukopparapu2795 Před 3 lety

      Maybe a snowball Earth event? I'm pretty sure those take a long time to set in though.

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 Před 2 lety +3

      @@bindukopparapu2795 Also not sure whether temps would get that low estimates for the last snowball Earth event are more like -60C. That said I am not sure if that is the min temp or the global mean, if the latter then Antarctica would probably push that sort of temp. Especially since I would guess a snowball Earth would have a larger range between equatorial and polar temps. Having a thick layer of ice covering the oceans would basically take them out of the equation as a heat transfer mechanism and the thermohaline circulation is responsible for moving a lot of heat poleward from the equatorial regions.

  • @benjaminzerr6708
    @benjaminzerr6708 Před 3 lety +195

    Can I just comment on the trope of child narrator summarizing the apocalypse? Like...Why?

    • @mleah7409
      @mleah7409 Před 3 lety +33

      To make it more dramatic?

    • @granville7
      @granville7 Před 3 lety +26

      if you make a child feed us that notion of us against the Earth it sounds so much more innocent and loads of people will believe it

    • @LisaBeergutHolst
      @LisaBeergutHolst Před 3 lety +18

      'Cuz making children clean up their parents' mess is kind of a theme in society.

    • @LisaBeergutHolst
      @LisaBeergutHolst Před 3 lety +2

      @@grindupBaker Pretty sure we were all children at one point. I certainly don't remember trying to kill anyone when I got hungry lol

    • @ninjaartist1235
      @ninjaartist1235 Před 3 lety +3

      Don’t forget the dead beat dad trope

  • @rakshanraja4310
    @rakshanraja4310 Před 3 lety +329

    I hate how in this movie the humans are not putting an end to climate change by reducing carbon footprint and other stuff but rather develop a sophisticated technology (which in real life won't work ). This may lead to humans in real life be lethargic about climate change thinking humans in future could develop such technologies ( correct me if I'm wrong)

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +95

      100% correct - this is talked about at length in the Klein book, and I've expanded on the topic a little bit in the notion page

    • @blise518B
      @blise518B Před 3 lety +7

      The stuff shown in the movie obviously wont work but there are other solutions like orbital shades that very likely work. You would only need to block around 1% if the sunlight to offset the effect of the greenhouse gases.
      Of course a natural way is better but the world is run by capitalist that only want growth so maybe it’s the only way we can reduce global warming without having to somehow overthrow the whole system. It would allow growth without totally wrecking the temperature.

    • @cerberaodollam
      @cerberaodollam Před 3 lety +3

      lmao okay. technology never works and never does anything good. said the kid typing on a computer.

    • @imasiontist653
      @imasiontist653 Před 3 lety +29

      @@cerberaodollam literally no one said anything even close to that. They said this particular technology never works and you extended that to all technology being bad.

    • @nunofoo8620
      @nunofoo8620 Před 3 lety +15

      @@cerberaodollam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

  • @lad4694
    @lad4694 Před 3 lety +269

    Trump: Well, why don't we nuke the hurricane?
    Geostorm Producers: 👀👀👀

    • @rogerstarkey5390
      @rogerstarkey5390 Před 3 lety +34

      We can laugh, but that may not be so far from the truth.
      If "their" objective is:
      To divert / focus public attention by seeding an idea,
      To maintain the status quo, re lifestyle, energy, etc,
      To promote huge industrial projects from which they will no doubt profit......
      Maybe a film is the best way?

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +128

      Write that down! Write that down!

    • @briandillon8041
      @briandillon8041 Před 3 lety +3

      We already have done that. Remember how Dorian didn’t hit Florida at all? How much stood still for a week?

    • @addieqxeen8424
      @addieqxeen8424 Před 3 lety +3

      @@SimonClark Do you watch Charles the French?

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY Před 3 lety +141

    “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
    ― Carl Sagan

    • @toni4729
      @toni4729 Před 3 lety +4

      Well remembered.

    • @legolars5122
      @legolars5122 Před 3 lety +3

      The big filter theory, isnt it?

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion Před 2 lety +2

      And we've already proven to be exceptional. No species that has industrialized has ever gone extinct. You can't make a prediction on a sample size of one.

    • @uteriel282
      @uteriel282 Před 2 lety

      @@ObjectsInMotion
      were certainly doing our very best to prove to whatever comes after us that we were indeed ordinary.
      the dinosaurs did better than us existing for more than 100 million years compared to us homosapiens not even cracking the 300k mark.
      all simians roughly add to 1.2 million years and mamals in total come up to 70 million.
      on the grand scale were looking pretty average.

  • @spookus5430
    @spookus5430 Před 3 lety +42

    Narrator: ...worked tirelessly...
    Simon: In blender apparently.
    I lol'd so hard

  • @bobjohnson4557
    @bobjohnson4557 Před 3 lety +324

    Simon: “There’s not going to be a single year where we are suddenly in an apocalypse”
    2020: “Hold my beer”

    • @marietellez6021
      @marietellez6021 Před 3 lety

      So what do you call cv19 ???

    • @rhisands2063
      @rhisands2063 Před 3 lety

      Samsies.

    • @brazeiar9672
      @brazeiar9672 Před 3 lety +9

      @@marietellez6021 A virus which has nothing to do with 5G

    • @Epicchannelify
      @Epicchannelify Před 3 lety +4

      Definitely not an apocalypse yes a global pandemic and a problem but its not an extinction event@@marietellez6021

    • @PragmaticAntithesis
      @PragmaticAntithesis Před 2 lety +3

      2021 Hold my beer as well!

  • @matthewmcneany
    @matthewmcneany Před 3 lety +88

    Film: A heatwave killed 2 million people.
    Me: At least that's sort of vaguely more plausible
    Film: IN ONE CITY!! IN ONE DAY!!!!!
    Me: Oh...

    • @matthewmcneany
      @matthewmcneany Před 3 lety +10

      The population of Madrid is 6.6 million

    • @Azurath100
      @Azurath100 Před 2 lety

      probably in a wet bulb...maybe....like the mussels and clams in the northwest this year...

    • @disposabull
      @disposabull Před 2 lety +2

      @@matthewmcneany To put it in perspective, it would take multiple nuclear weapons to kill that many people in Madrid. One nuclear weapon dropped in the centre of Hiroshima only managed to kill about 100,000 people.

    • @matthewmcneany
      @matthewmcneany Před 2 lety

      @@disposabull Possibly the most dangerous thing about heat waves in the C21th will be how long they last. If you look at the SSP in climate modelling, particularly pathways 3-7 if sufficent progress isn't made on climate goals this can be really apparent. SSP7 (the realistic worst case senario) predicts as many as 100 or more 40 degrees Celsius days for Madrid, but even the best case senarios (SSP2) are something like 40 or more 40 Celsius days per year. With Europes aging population especially heat related excess deaths are going to become a huge problem. Although likely 10,000s or 100,000s in a bad year rather than millions even for the whole continent.

  • @prasadpawar7027
    @prasadpawar7027 Před 3 lety +55

    Dr. Simon: An apocalypse scenario in a single year is extremely unlikely.
    2020: Let me introduce myself.

  • @sevearka
    @sevearka Před 3 lety +74

    I'm not even close to a scientist but damn, this movie... Hahaha... That Man VS Nature mindset is actually quite annoying, at best.

    • @tyler1107
      @tyler1107 Před 2 lety +4

      Eh... but it ends up being sorta true. What we really are fighting is thermodynamics. We care because thermodynamics will affect nature, which will affect us. If nature didn't exist, thermodynamics would still be relevant, but very much less so. Realistically, this means we need to beat nature so that we can extend our timelines, but the best way to win against nature is to just leave it.
      Or, in summary: Fuck earth, let's live in space.

    • @kasjachrum
      @kasjachrum Před 2 lety +3

      @@tyler1107 sigma Asteromorph grindsed.

  • @ameebhatt3588
    @ameebhatt3588 Před 3 lety +49

    I just got a fleeting thought... if you are doing bad movies reactions thing then please do recommend some good sci-fi movies. I would love to know what movies Dr. Simon Clark likes😬

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +46

      I mean I already did the video on chicken run, what more is there to say?

    • @Radderss
      @Radderss Před 3 lety +7

      @@SimonClark Chicken Run is the greatest movie of all time

    • @ameebhatt3588
      @ameebhatt3588 Před 3 lety +3

      Ah!... i saw the movie just because you made the video 👌👌👍

    • @granville7
      @granville7 Před 3 lety +3

      Neil deGrasse Tyson was quite taken with 'The Martian' czcams.com/video/HzNyMUuQfmE/video.html

  • @AKidWithNoAttitude
    @AKidWithNoAttitude Před 3 lety +27

    Should you do a follow-up?
    In the words of Emperor Palpatine:
    "Dew It"

  • @TheShreyrooney
    @TheShreyrooney Před 3 lety +15

    "The day after tomorrow" is calling you. It's a movie btw.

    • @TheShreyrooney
      @TheShreyrooney Před 3 lety +2

      Also tell us if there's a movie involving atmospheric science that's really accurate.

  • @rorybutcher5909
    @rorybutcher5909 Před 3 lety +12

    Hollywood: Hurricane? Zap! Blizzard? Zap!
    Simon: Science? Zap!

  • @iury472
    @iury472 Před 3 lety +38

    "An apocalypse scenario in a single year is extremely unlike."
    2020: hum... Hold my beer

  • @rhisands2063
    @rhisands2063 Před 3 lety +20

    Simon: "It is not like in a single year the world will go NOW we are in the apocalypse".
    2020: Hold my beer!

  • @thefrozenfruit9658
    @thefrozenfruit9658 Před 3 lety +6

    I would love to hear you talk more about geoengineering! I wrote a paper on solar management for uni last year and it was a really interesting subject. I'd love to hear your opinions as an atmospheric physicist. I'll definitely be checking out your Notion page, but if you ever fancy making a video about it I'd love to see it

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 Před 2 lety

      Yeah , expecially considering how changing the albedo of a place is geoengineering tecnically ,
      Since it would alter local weater a bit

  • @aelinwhitehorn3526
    @aelinwhitehorn3526 Před 3 lety

    This channel has got me through so much. Thank You.

  • @BanAlMandalawi
    @BanAlMandalawi Před 3 lety

    Would like to know more about geoengineering.. hope to see a follow up on this video soon! Great content Simon

  • @faceofsarcasm4947
    @faceofsarcasm4947 Před 3 lety +11

    You underestimate the scientific illiteracy of Sci-fi writers. Geostorm is the rule, not the exception.

  • @Zymbo007
    @Zymbo007 Před 3 lety +4

    Excellent video! Glad to hear your introduction with the prefix "Doctor". I'm looking forward to starting my own PhD journey soon.

  • @silentdragon1555
    @silentdragon1555 Před 3 lety +9

    Out of Curiosity...Would you look at a game by the name of Frostpunk. Its basically steampunk, but the world is gone and only snow remains. I think you will be interested in it as me and other ppl have been trying to understand how something like that could happen on the scale it did and in the time frame that it did.
    Might peek your interest.

    • @Dragonoidalpha
      @Dragonoidalpha Před 2 lety

      Hate to be that guy, but I think the word you are looking for is "pique"

  • @bobthebuilder5112
    @bobthebuilder5112 Před 3 lety +1

    Great Video!
    Would love more content like this

  • @asdfghyter
    @asdfghyter Před rokem +1

    This mindset reminds me of the Futurama scene "and each year we drop a larger ice cube into the ocean, thus solving the problem forever"

  • @jeffhousen8968
    @jeffhousen8968 Před 2 lety +3

    LOL, picture a group of office workers fighting over the thermostat setting
    it will not end well

  • @359339
    @359339 Před 2 lety +2

    The intro literally explains how the system is equivalent to a kid sticking his finger in a dam. They make explicitly clear with the name Dutch Boy that this isn't addressing the problem, it's an imperfect and impractical temporary hold-off.

  • @ThomasRintoul
    @ThomasRintoul Před 3 lety +1

    Please more Geoengineering videos! Loved this one!!

  • @baxterclagmoar9333
    @baxterclagmoar9333 Před 3 lety

    Great video. Can't wait for more book videos! Love them.

  • @RanRayu
    @RanRayu Před 3 lety +1

    i would love to more of these videos, i watch a ton of movies and weather disaster films are often very flawed, but do get alot right sometimes in unexpected areas, so it would be fun to see your reaction about things movies get right and wrong.

  • @vxicepickxv
    @vxicepickxv Před 2 lety +3

    The geostorm video still didn't address what happens when CO2 levels get high enough to negatively effect land based creatures via intermingling in the rest of the air we breathe.

    • @iyanubanks100
      @iyanubanks100 Před 2 lety

      Ikr. The movie did not really express the main problems of global warming and certain storms

  • @Swiftraid
    @Swiftraid Před 3 lety +5

    Not going to lie, kind of wanted to see you finish it, but I understand the pain it caused.
    How about a charity stream? Every X amount raised means you stream watching another 5/10mins.

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +2

      Now there's an idea...

    • @AceSpadeThePikachu
      @AceSpadeThePikachu Před rokem

      @@SimonClark Maybe have a couple cans of beer next to you just to get you through it.

  • @granville7
    @granville7 Před 3 lety +20

    4:06 film intro: 'we are fighting back'. Simon: 'Because the Earth is not the problem. We are the problem!' Exactly. It's high time we get that into our thick skulls. Sadly the film is feeding the utterly ridiculous notion that it's us against the Earth when in fact it's more like the corporations and billionaires against the have nots.

  • @bilgyno1
    @bilgyno1 Před 3 lety +3

    Seems to me that by far the easiest way to engineer our climate back to 'normal' is to eliminate GHG emissions over the next 20-30 years and in the same time period do large scale reforestation to sequester more carbon.

  • @maarchalk2840
    @maarchalk2840 Před 3 lety

    I've been looking forward to this

  • @estivymonroe2758
    @estivymonroe2758 Před 3 lety

    It's a very interesting video, and a very interesting topic to talk about... I'd love to hear more about geoengineering... A lot of greetings from Argentina....

  • @jaredbezes7806
    @jaredbezes7806 Před 3 lety +4

    6:17 ok no those are legit bullets 😂😂😂 they decided to shoot the planet to get good weather.

  • @abdiiih6476
    @abdiiih6476 Před 3 lety +1

    Very good review .I actually enjoyed it.

  • @annesmith9642
    @annesmith9642 Před 3 lety +4

    I just read several of Naomi Klein's books, including "This Changes Everything" , "No is not Enough" and "On Fire". I recommend them all.

  • @chirag1764
    @chirag1764 Před 3 lety

    Awesome video!
    I actually found it to be a bit short.. didn't realise that 16 minutes are over!

  • @etherealsalad2698
    @etherealsalad2698 Před 3 lety +3

    I always get a weird feeling when people talk about how unrealistic it is to go 100% renewable then turn around and advocate geoengineering. I'd love to see a follow-up video, it seems interesting!

  • @valandhol9four680
    @valandhol9four680 Před 3 lety +14

    Am I seeing wrong or are there some minis on your shelf 😉

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +13

      oh yes there are ;) swing by my twitch on Fridays to see the painting stream

    • @schwarzesonne6529
      @schwarzesonne6529 Před 3 lety

      Blood for the blood god skulls for the skull throne

  • @ajithxyz7950
    @ajithxyz7950 Před 3 lety +9

    I did like to recommend 'Sharknado.'

  • @ketrakrelek2347
    @ketrakrelek2347 Před 3 lety

    please do a follow up, would be super interesting to hear what you think about the overall message from the whole film

  • @chickbowdrie4750
    @chickbowdrie4750 Před 3 lety

    Wow, excellent analysis, what you said made perfect sense

  • @Lucy-kq7cn
    @Lucy-kq7cn Před 3 lety +4

    Always enjoy your videos. Thank you Simon.
    I’m slightly disturbed by some of the comments which make reference to 2020/C19. Just to be clear.. C19 is a disease that is pandemic. It is NOT the apocalypse. 🤦🏽‍♀️
    Yes, it’s made for a crappy year. However, it is not the world’s worst year, and whilst to some it has felt like the end end of the world by the loss of loved ones, it is not the end of the world. Indeed, by each country dealing with the issue differently; it has provided a real life example of what Simon was saying about international agreement on the setting of the dial etc.

  • @Dracoriax
    @Dracoriax Před 3 lety +2

    As a budding Chemist who wishes to do a PhD and research into more economical methods of catalytic carbon capture, a video on geoengineering would be incredibly interesting!

  • @Deathington.
    @Deathington. Před 3 lety +2

    I like how casually it was stated that an individual could forever change the climate on their own. But, for real if someone was to do it they would probably be forced by regulations into doing it a certain way by the world super powers.

  • @ArtfulChaosX
    @ArtfulChaosX Před 3 lety +8

    I’m really interested to hear your take on Starlink!

  • @raphaelmarquez9650
    @raphaelmarquez9650 Před 3 lety +3

    Do you think every sci-fi movie should follow the scientific accuracies on technology if they're really trying to be as grounded as possible and avoid any supernatural elements you would see in a fantasy or horror movie?

    • @theaveragecomment1014
      @theaveragecomment1014 Před rokem

      That's a very interesting question worth discussion. I don't want to limit anyone's creativity to be fair but the mind set they used in this movie, while also not being accurate, is my real problem with it. He is right when they say they are just putting a plaster on the problem and pretending technology can fix it without actually addressing the root.
      The scientific inaccuracies are another issue I'd have with it but I'm not too fused over those when we have the mindset problem. I'm not really a climate scientist so I wouldn't know as much about the inaccuracies in the first place.

  • @asdfghyter
    @asdfghyter Před rokem +1

    How much extra greenhouse gasses would be put into the atmosphere as a consequence of this many satellite launches?

  • @nonchip
    @nonchip Před 2 lety +1

    i've seen the film before, and i thought (especially because of the fire and general warzone look) the madrid thing was probably due to fights/"civil war" over water or something. we've seen stuff like that already happen during massive droughts the last 2 years in india for example.

    • @adrianthoroughgood1191
      @adrianthoroughgood1191 Před 2 lety

      I recommend the book water knife. It's all about fighting over limited water supplies, set in the US.

  • @MrMysticphantom
    @MrMysticphantom Před 3 lety +4

    Can you actually do a video that goes into different types of geoengineering and the advantages/disadvantages and viability of each? with 40k memes

  • @MothsAreTheBest
    @MothsAreTheBest Před 3 lety +3

    Hey PLEASE watch the whole thing and react to it!! I love this sort of thing and it's so fun to hear your thoughts (and exasperation)

  • @mariamh8019
    @mariamh8019 Před 3 lety

    Estaré atenta al siguiente vídeo

  • @manasandmohit
    @manasandmohit Před 3 lety +1

    3:50
    ❤️ Loved this explanation

  • @mr.teacherguy
    @mr.teacherguy Před 3 lety +1

    Simon buddy pal guy friend... I live in California and we have 500 active wildfires some causing a phenomenon called "firenados". We live this movie every summer lol.

  • @cassidywagner4477
    @cassidywagner4477 Před 3 lety +1

    The moment the expectation graphic popped up I knew the reality one would be set over Nobody Speak by RTJ and DJ Shadow.

  • @Lambda_Ovine
    @Lambda_Ovine Před 2 lety +1

    This is the most exemplar combination of The Great Man myth, the god species myth and individualism ideology that I've ever seen. I think Slavoj Zizek would have a blast analyzing this one.

  • @muffigaming2787
    @muffigaming2787 Před 2 lety

    So, for the start of the movie: Would you say that it is ok if one assumes its several decades in the future and even for that time an extreme year?

  • @sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957

    I once was asked a question about dropping a nuke on a hurricane. I did the math on what I could find for an "average" cat 5 hurricane and like... That storm is outputting a nuclear weapon's worth of energy every second. I love the adorable, _incredible_ naïvete of the notion that you could disrupt an energy management cycle like a hurricane by...
    *Checks notes*
    Adding energy.
    I'm afraid I might have humiliated my interlocutor, but people came to that platform, sought me out, specifically to ask dumb questions about nuclear weapons, so the interlocutor knew what they were getting into...

  • @susim4503
    @susim4503 Před 3 lety +1

    It certainly felt like the apocalypse last summer in Australia.

  • @devashrikulkarni1337
    @devashrikulkarni1337 Před 3 lety +1

    4:13 You've said it so correctly. "The earth is not the problem. WE are the problem."

  • @hari7591
    @hari7591 Před 3 lety

    Such a good video!

  • @bazoo513
    @bazoo513 Před 3 lety

    Joe Scott recently had a video on a related geoengineering scheme: "shades" at L1 Sun-Earth Lagrange point. I don't remember details, but it would require millions of launches with the largest rocket we still don't have and would cost quadrillions of dollars. But that, some think, is better than weaning ourselves from 19th-century energy production technology.

  • @samjam8044
    @samjam8044 Před rokem

    I’m really sad it’s been two years. We still haven’t got it hard to do this video. I really want that more than anything right now. I don’t know why but I just do.😢😢😢

  • @rga1605
    @rga1605 Před 2 lety +3

    I thought this to be a quite interesting video, because it helped to understand geoengineering and its problems. I have a background in economics and let me tell the economics of climate change are terrible, because they are in denial of the fact that people will have to change their way of life to "weather the storm". Most economists, on the other hand, seem like they're fighting to preserve this exactly way of life that created this issue in first place. So, it does make sense to say that geoengineering is a very neoliberal solution (I can even imagine the rational choice theory models of cost-benefit used to create these scenarios), of treating nature as the enemy - which is something economic models have been doing for decades.

  • @hodor6951
    @hodor6951 Před 3 lety

    i love your videos!

  • @joshuaperkins2139
    @joshuaperkins2139 Před 3 lety +1

    Would be great to see how you use notion? 👍

  • @lachlantaylor1225
    @lachlantaylor1225 Před 3 lety +9

    ah yes... wide putin.. excellent subtle meme choice Simon

  • @ushalexa
    @ushalexa Před 3 lety +3

    Hi Simon. I've been enjoying your channel and was looking forward to seeing your reaction to this film, which I'd also made myself watch out of curiosity. Yes, the science is a joke and all your critical points about our dominant Western paradigm that presumes humans can control the planet (are outside of nature) are well taken. I couldn't agree more. I was, though, a bit sad that you didn't watch the entire film and so never got to respond on what the film is actually about. In watching it, I let go of the details of the science and considered the film like a fable to see what it's really about-the same way one might watch Star Wars or Mad Max or Interstellar. (Interstellar, in particular, frankly was so blindingly half-baked-I don't now about the physics of time, but everything else in it was pretty silly-and so committed to the idea that humans are above nature that it too was almost unwatchable).
    I'd say Geostorm turns out to be an (admittedly very poorly written) parable about the hubris of humankind. It shows us a world where it might seem like we've solved a huge problem by creating an overwhelming, godlike technology, but in the end, this technology only goes on to serve the unequal power dynamics of the globe, as the more powerful nations realize they can weaponize it. So I felt like your critique-although spot-on in its particulars-ended up kind of missing the point of the film. The film wasn't about the dangers of geoengineering, in terms of the chemistry and physics; it was about human society, our hubris, and the danger of our dependent and naive relationship to overwhelming technologies. Now, we can argue that the film did a poor job of exploring its themes, and was a bit of a mess, but I must give it credit for earnestly trying to show us something that is genuinely worth thinking about. And I think I would have enjoyed your commentary on that.
    The movie has a triumphant ending, of course; this is in accord with the Law of Hollywood that all disaster flicks must have Happy Heroic Endings. It is no work of great art. But it will surely make at least some part of its intended audience ask some questions that more people should be asking... and frankly, I don't hear a lot of people asking, not even those with more sophisticated taste in films. So I'm glad it got made. Cheers!

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Před 2 lety

      Gosh. The idea of weaponisation of geoengineering hadn't even crossed my mind... but I guess it should've!! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Particularly if climate-damage related conflict over scarce resources like water were to escalate...

    • @kukulurker
      @kukulurker Před rokem

      Totally agree, and indeed in the end they had to switch off Dutch Boy to fix the issues. The full was definitely about the hubris and greed of humans in power rather than humans triumphing over nature.

  • @Shahpo
    @Shahpo Před 3 lety

    Nuke the hurricane is exactly where I imagined this film the minute I heard it starred Gerard Butler.

  • @dsdy1205
    @dsdy1205 Před 3 lety +1

    Actually now I'm curious, what do you think of direct carbon capture?

  • @Hailfire08
    @Hailfire08 Před 2 lety

    "How many extra modules did you add???"
    *All of them.*

  • @ethanneuf3976
    @ethanneuf3976 Před 3 lety

    Yes plz do another video on geoengiqneeeing

  • @a.randomjack6661
    @a.randomjack6661 Před 2 lety +1

    There's a big market for geoengineering fear, specially but not only in the USA. I had people swear to me they get a headache 30 minutes after seeing contrails. Fear does that to people, that's how many get their confirmation bias, when it's not from the internet or corporate medias...

  • @Walkingcedar2006
    @Walkingcedar2006 Před rokem

    Yeah. 11:45. That "Lone Genius" thing came up in our work, too. It's so damned frustrating and antithetical to our entire pursuit.

  • @destructivforce2894
    @destructivforce2894 Před 2 lety +2

    I remember watching this movie once, at some point I was no longer able to take it seriously. I guess that may have been the point, but it was an absolute trainwreck at trying to justify its own science

  • @bigboie3507
    @bigboie3507 Před 3 lety +3

    A single year in which every type of natural disaster hit....
    Soooooo, we are living in a bad movies, bad year?

  • @BlackNinjaKicksAss
    @BlackNinjaKicksAss Před 3 lety +1

    Simon, I was wondering, have you watched the film Interstellar? If so, what are your thoughts on the “accurate” physics concepts used such as time dilation and the notion that the gravitational pull of a black hole could be used to propel a spacecraft from one end of a star system to another?

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +2

      oh I _loathe_ how that film does the science - it goes to such lengths to be accurate in the rendering of the black hole but completely messes up the gravitational time dilation!

    • @clf400
      @clf400 Před 3 lety

      @@SimonClark wait it messes it up?

    • @MothsAreTheBest
      @MothsAreTheBest Před 3 lety

      @@SimonClark really? They had Kip Thorne on board and everything. I have a book called the science of Interstellar which goes into detail about how it all works in the movie. Seems to check out, but hey, I dont have a PhD in physics xD

    • @frede1905
      @frede1905 Před 2 lety

      Late comment, but Simon is probably referring to the exaggerated extent of the gravitational time dilation depicted in the movie, not the concept of time dilation itself. The distance between the planet and the black hole is way too large to cause the kind of time dilation depicted in the movie (1 hour on the planet being 7 years back on earth, if I remember correctly). Doing the calculations, you find that you'd have to be 1,7 mm away from the event horizon of an earth-sized black hole for this kind of time dilation to happen. Don't even ask me how strong of a rocket you'd need to not be sucked into the hole at such a distance.

  • @JoeCreator
    @JoeCreator Před 3 lety +3

    "fix it without addressing the root cause", that's what we do all the time anyway 😂

  • @teodoras9611
    @teodoras9611 Před 3 lety

    YES. please. TEACH US MORE

  • @surya5077
    @surya5077 Před 3 lety +2

    "In blender apparently"
    I'm dead

  • @TheMetamutt
    @TheMetamutt Před 3 lety

    Please do a follow up video!

  • @gqsnowman
    @gqsnowman Před 3 lety

    Love the Nobody Speak video clip in there. This was a really cool video.

  • @lakdawalahusain6136
    @lakdawalahusain6136 Před 3 lety

    Please make a PDF or app of physics books which you have.please(request)🙏.It will help us more.thank you.

  • @AJ-lo5dr
    @AJ-lo5dr Před 2 lety

    I love the RTJ clip for international cooperation XD

  • @guidzoe6258
    @guidzoe6258 Před 3 lety

    Notion coming thru again!

  • @samiso5900
    @samiso5900 Před 3 lety

    Wow, great job 💚

  • @SI-fz1zv
    @SI-fz1zv Před 3 lety

    I am pretty sure that studies have been done that basically say that to stop a hurricane you would need to detonate multiple, just to clarify, MULTIPLE nuclear weapons to stop it. I think the exact math was something like three of the US's most powerful nukes per minute for potentially hours just to stop your average Hurricane.

  • @Ozymandias54
    @Ozymandias54 Před 10 měsíci +2

    You are correct that simply reducing our personal carbon footprint may not be sufficient to address climate change. But this does not mean developing new and more sophisticated technologies is a futile endeavor.
    While it may be true that humans could become lethargic about climate change due to the belief that future advancements will address the issue, this is not a viable option as it would ignore the real effects of climate change that are already happening today.
    Instead, we must act now to reduce our carbon emissions and develop technologies that will enable us to continue to innovate and thrive while living sustainably.

  • @sarahmp1016
    @sarahmp1016 Před 3 lety

    Follow-up video please! The subject is interesting.

  • @JoneKone
    @JoneKone Před 3 lety

    What would happen if we where to only dimm and play along here =D just the polar regions?