Arctic melting foreshadows America's climate future
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2023
- National environmental correspondent David Schechter traveled to the world’s northernmost and fastest-warming community of Svalbard, Norway, for this documentary in our "On the Dot" series. What scientists are learning there can help Americans understand how climate change is affecting our country too.
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I have actually been to Svalbard (back in 2018), and it is my favorite place I’ve ever been. Truly a remarkable place.
thank you for burning carbon so you can experience Svalbard
@@President_NotSure How else would you expect I get there
@@bisho1p normies have NPC conversations and forget most of their trips
a non-normie would have fun and remember every second of getting kicked out of Svalbard and everyone there will remember that time a non-normie somehow got onto a plane
basically vacations are wasted on normies just to fly home again
idiots forget everything
I've got automatics subtitles up, and it's a bit _peculiar_ what the algo comes up with when Svalbard is mentioned. Vfart, Fallard, Anything, but . .
Thank you for this very engaging and comprehensive report.
As a resident of the Gulf Coast of Florida with daily access to the shoreline for decades I have watched the ocean rise, take the beaches, invade properties and overtop sea walls built decades ago.
And you know that the ocean has never rose or topped those sea walls before?
@@HeavyMetal45 grass and palm trees are not aquatic plants. Salt water kills them.
I was there last winter, both coasts. The beaches were fine and still there.....lol
@@will7its stop lying, I was on Madeira Beach just an hour ago and it is nearly gone.
@@sentientflower7891 High tide??? you know I have the internet
and can look up stuff right?
Winters where I live, in New Zealand have also changed, I can remember when I was at age 8, in 1977 we used to have snow, I have not seen snow at all since then...
Anybody dying? Nope.
@@anthonymorris5084Not in NZ, no, ask around in Horn of Africa, five year drought ended by 10 feet plus floods.
You'll get that in the mid West too, if not by 2030, sure around 2050. From your kind words, I spose you won't be around by then ?
@@reuireuiop0 History didn't begin the day you were born. Floods and droughts are all within historical norms. Even the IPCC makes this claim. And if people are dying from these calamities today, the issue, as always is poverty, not climate. That's why people die in Africa and not New Zealand.
Data proves, easily verified, that deaths from natural disasters *including every single climate related disaster* has been in precipitous decline for the last hundred years. This is even more remarkable when one considers the population of the globe in the 1800s was only 1 billion and technology was seriously limited.
As far as 2030 or 2050 is concerned, it's aligned with the endless climate mantra: "Just you wait, it's going to be bad, you'll see, better be afraid". Repeat decade after decade in perpetuity.
Really? 77 was below avg in midlatitude South? Or picked that year for a personal memory reason?
@@anthonymorris5084 Your guys are just too impatient. No West Antarctica glaciers sliding into the ocean just yet, but lately an article been published the first small land glacier breaking (Hektoria on W.A. peninsula) That still be minute mm rise. Serious stuff will arrive when big ones like Thwaites or Pine start moving.
As for your history lesson, your don't look back far enough. Before Pleistocene Ice Age, Mid Pliocene warm period with similar (slight bit lower) carbon dioxide Atmos concentration, comparable ocean geography and plant life, sea levels were some 30-50 m higher than today. Better go watch them cryosphere videos instead of typing pre meditated
Thank you for sharing this documentary. When will the leaders and industry moguls start listening to this information?
They know this info..the question is when are they going to start caring about someone else besides themselves!!
@@michaelschiessl8357 Just because people disagree with you or have differing opinions doesn't mean they don't care. You are using invalidation as an argument.
We needed to seriously prepare for the future decades ago. Now all we can do is make peace with it...
Or, you can vote for authorities who understand science, don't deny reality, and act accordingly. You can also use your preferences as a consumer to effect change.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher LOL. I seriously understand science. There is NOTHING that can be done to prevent global collapse.
it's not that easy in the west. We have the illusion of choice and vote based on that. Truth is, we're very easily manipulated, now with all of the choices out of the GOP eliminated almost a full year before the elections based on speculative numbers. We have a cult whose leader will be the president again. I don't think the U.S. is in a very good state to be addressing climate change, considering we've lost our minds to some psychopathic entitled brat that loves listening to himself talk. I'm not very optimistic, but it is what it is. What can I do other than be at peace with myself? Humanity is just kind of stupid, imo.@@MariaMartinez-researcher
@@Mike80528 "LOL. I seriously understand science. There is NOTHING that can be done to prevent global collapse." OK, you are right, but you have oversimplified the issue. Yes, modern civilization will "collapse" as will the human population, but depending on our actions, we could still save far more or far less people and species. For example, if everyone switched to a vegan, vegetarian, or very low meat diet now, we would need far less land to feed the world, we could start sequestering CO2 (500-600+ billion tons of it eventually) on the land we no longer need to raise livestock (plant foods feed 5-8 times more people per acre). Also, we would use far less water for agriculture, thus reducing water shortages around the world, etc. This would but us some time to transition off of fossil fuels and shift towards simpler lifestyles and a less industrialized economy. The current civilization WILL disappear, but a planned transition will save billions of lives compared to a "What-the-hell-collapse."
Thanks for sharing this amazing doc
LofL
Really good documentary! Thanks for sharing this!
29:35 - We always take our shoes off when we are inside in the Nordic countries. It's not just a Svalbard phenomenon. We do the same thing in mainland Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. All year, not just in the winter. Keeps dirt outside where it belongs.
Remember the time when Trump tried to purchase Greenland from Denmark? 😂
Climate deniers should be kept as far away as possible from that zone.
Also... makes you rethink your sock game.
@@onthedotcbscould you elaborate?
Lol I forgot about that
You mean like your arab roots? And climate change means warming only??? Or cooling too???
Thanks for posting
David ..great excellent job on your reporting and on this documentary. Miss you being on WFAA ABC in North Dallas.
Thank You, Was Great 💯👍
Should do a special on prime time
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you
Thank you! Cars, factories, and from producing oil and gas -- yes, that's right. There are other sources, but they're minor compared to those (except buildings: that's the other really big single sector, along with steel and cement).
32:54 are they using pumped hydro? Or just the flow batteries (I assume those batteries are flow batteries)? Or producing hydrogen? There's got to be a way of storing the massive amounts of energy available in the summer months for us in the winter.
Uh, the snow height ONLY is not the main prediction.
Had 3 years of Soldier time at IT leader in the German Hill Soldier School I also was training avalanche rescue and so learn it depends on the kind of snow levels.
So on an older a bit melting and refrozen layer a fresh dry snow is dangerous = as there is no grip together.
Then you have the steep of the area ...
Our avalanche people had to dig inside the snow layers to see that.
Hope you get the change to take part of this 'education' I just have seen beside my main work, but as I ski walked up and waited that report in the morning I was aware of it well - for my own security been single. Beside I always dropped a tour plan onto them in my military post - if something happen.
And how do the avalanches they prevent effect sea ice?
The music bits.. like the nutcracker tip toe staccado lightheartedness… it should be more like hells fires type music.. doom… because we are gassing fullspeed for something you can’t even begin to imagine..
Ghg's from thawing permafrost will produce 100-1000Gt of CO2e emissions by 2100. The upper limit is roughly 30 years of our current emissions.
And recent studies says that similar lids that pushes methane from one place to another can be found in the oceans leading deep methane to the surface and to the atmosphere. If this happens in a large scale, then these emissions can be even bigger than permafrost thawing. If ocean floor methane is released in deep water, it hardly reaches surface due to soaking in the water column and due to bacterial eating. But in shallow areas, there is not enough volume nor time to act and most of the methane is released from the ocean to the atmosphere.
Some of these ocean methane layers can be released in a huge eruption that would ruin entire planers weather and climate. (Some extreme estimates says that one 50Gt release of methane could lead up to 16C warming with other forcings.)
If the Arctic ice cap melts completely during the summer time summers in the northern Hemisphere is going to get more intense with heatwaves.
The wonderful thing about the poles is that the very top atmosphere is full of gases that migrate from top towards the bottom around the whole world those are the ones that have heating and cooling affected but the currents of space shadowing the earth literally gets super shadow and then super light these waves have a lot to learn about how we are all affected by them sometimes space dust and multiple gravity practical information is collected from the beginning but impossible to complete the process of creating a model of orbital that is around us
Just think of the upside, all that multi million dollar beachfront property becomes fish habitat.
Imagine if Ancient diseases and viruses were to be reintroduced into the air after melting.
@@justiniswebb9 Yep, civilization reset. I wonder if that would be such a bad thing. All of mankind's petty squabbles would be rendered insignificant.
Ocean pollution
It's not right what's going down. Not right at all.
I know PLY love to condense, but I would advise, since not everything can be boiled-down to 30 sec, it's important that you go back and educate yourself on the 'Jet-stream', what you stated is misleading.
True power is... information, is knowledge and education, is about sharing informations in order to take decisions, only united we can change things, saving the balance that is the proper climat saving this paradise on earth before we lose everything 😢😢😢
Well,.... there is good news. The melting of the ice stopped about 17 years ago according to the IPCC!! The level it is now is probably the "normal" level. In 1979 there was an exceptionel amount of ice because a pretty cold period ended then! Antarctica has become significant colder the last 40 years. That's amazing, isn't it? Breaking record after record cold.
The neighborhood is going nowhere people just be assured, it's going to be here we aren't so assured to be here to see it though.
Climate change is a huge issue, and dealing with it is overwhelming. Humans will likely cope inadequately, and there will be much conflict due to resistance to climate refugee migration. It's estimated there will be 2 billion climate refugees. This is a number that is hard to grasp.
We should be using snow machines to slow down the melting of glaciers.
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Hello from 1 month in the future where the planet has warmed by 1.48 degrees Celsius 😵💫
Save the World for are kids!
5 milion subscribed with only 17k views seems to me climate change is really a hot topic to the general public
This is so ‘ old news’, the ice melt is exponential, jet stream has been wobbly and no longer stable for years!!
I better book that Arctic or Antarctic cruise before the ice disappears, but first I'll book a warm tropical holiday, drive my F350 truck to the airport & take a jet to my destination.
Despite our puny efforts to reduce energy consumption, it is put off by what we use. Battery cars! Okay, but where does the energy to charge them come from? why drive a huge car? Why a four to 7 passenger car for one person to go to work? Why TV are getting bigger and bigger. Why are we having more and more TV. We are a spoiled society that will not change until we have no choice to change.
Everything looks brand new. Is it wise to keep building all our human crap everywhere???
Too bad the people in charge (especially the GOPs) don't give a rats arse about the future of this country, as long as they get their campaign contributions from the oil & gas industry.
@@oldballtango3844 What you said made very little sense. Overdevelopment is a huge problem because of our continued and increasing use of fossil fuel energy, that there are not sufficient vegetation to cycle CO2 into oxygen.
There's no doubt fossil fuels need to be phased out as a primary form of energy. US already spends billions every single year on disaster response, exacerbated by climate change. It's only going to get worse.
@@oldballtango3844still doesn’t solve the issue of greenhouse gas emissions
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVIGHG emissions more than sufficiently curbed by Paris Accd. Half willed compliance should slow CO2 ppm fine.
If had won in 80s maybe have kept us a half frozen world.
As stands the methane of wetlands will continue even if we all go to bicycle like 1973 Beijing.
Thus Adaptation or the I say terribly dangerous Intervention.
Mitigation did what it could but it has effectively peaked. No use wagging fingers. Dishwasher manufacturers abide by SEG goals if want to be big players. Finger wagging is approaching useless.
Retool inventory of mind
Trouble isn't GOP its China and India and other 3rd world people who dont even consider CC
And just throw all their trash in the ocean. Poor people just want a meal every day......
Land around the U.S. is sinking. Here are some of the fastest areas.
Imagine Earth’s surface is like a stack of pancakes. The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy. Over time though, the stack can become compressed, thinner and shorter.
Scientists observe this downward motion of land, called land subsidence, across the planet. While some regions of land experience uplift, many parts of Earth’s surface are sinking - fast. Scientists are especially concerned for sinking locations near the coast, which are at a higher risk for flooding as sea levels rise in a warming world. Hurricanes and extreme rainfall events can also bring more damage to such low-lying areas.
But understanding this slumping land motion is not simple, scientists say. Even within the same city, some regions may be sinking at faster rates than other areas.
“If we look at the data, we don’t see a city as a whole, uniform society. We generally see regions of hot spots where you can see parts of cities subsiding depending on what is happening,” said NASA scientist David Bekaert, who has analyzed land subsidence in the United States and worldwide.
Some land subsidence, Bekaert said, is related to deep natural processes over long periods of time, such as responding to plate tectonic activity or to the retreating of the glaciers from the last Ice Age. Other sinking is linked to human activity, including extracting oil, water or minerals from underground. In cities, buildings can also add weight and push land down.
Many of the fastest sinking places in the world appear in populated areas in southeast Asia largely because of groundwater extraction, but the United States also faces substantial land subsidence. There, you may not notice land settling around you in your daily life, but scientists found that many places are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising - increasing flood risk in coastal cities. (Sea levels are rising at an average global rate of about 3.4 millimeters, or 0.13 inches, per year.)
Regions with the highest land subsidence in the United States are mainly located along the East and Gulf Coast.
The average person just saw the word pancakes, drove to IHOP in their F350 truck, & had a massive quantity of pancakes. Then they went snowmobiling, booked a cruise, & went back to IHOP for more pancakes...
I'd like to be optimistic, lime the woman at the end, but as of right now, all we have in the kit and the horizon is hopefully slowing things down. Which means there's inevitabilities. Reactive politics that want things to stay the same have a lot of literal and figurative purchasing power in the world. It's not that we're doomed, but some places in the world definitely will be before too long. Today it's "Oh but it's too expensive to transition at scale." Timorrow it will be, "it's too expensive to put in coastal defenses." And in basically 2 living generations, the year 2200, the people around at that time will be facing the imminent and global question of needing to migrate cities inland, and that could take up a huge portion of the economy. By 2300, 3 or 4 living generations from now, if we miss 2100 emissions targets, up to 6% of the global land area could be lost under the waves. From the loss of those cities alone, that's presently 1/3rd of the global economy. I'm sure they will move or figure something out, so the economy and economic outputs will move. But you're talking abijt a scale of impact that is akin to losing 1000 years of economic out put in the next 275 years, all hinging on the actions or inaction of the next 77 years. A lot at stake. It's a bit like Paul Revere alarming everyone that the British are coming, but not enough people listen or care. Or the scale of the destruction or disruption could be on the scale of the Mongol invasions and the black plague. In 200 or 300 years, it'll be the ancient underwater ruins of places like Miami, NYC, London, and the world over. 17 of our mega city regions and their economies today, gone. The people of the not too distant future are going to be rugged and going to have to deal with a lot, they're going to have to be very adaptive, whereas we have the luxury of our broader ignorance and complacency. Hopefully, optimistically, there's still time, especially for the foul and reactive politics to die off.
You need to research sea level rise since the last glacial event 25,000 years ago. Hint it's over 350 feet. And how did it melt without gas guzzlers driving around? Canada was completely covered in ice up to 2 miles thick. The northern US and Europe was too. Where did that go?
And when you change the wording from global warming to climate change, people get suspicious.
Save Our Planet Now!
No need. It's fine.
For years I drank the kool- aid.
Then one day I stopped.
The statement is so vague, you might as well not have bothered to post it at all.
People are not being truthful about what going to happen ? You see it and here it mother earth is about to let said it like this, every day is worth than the last !! We need to start thinking about growing are own food for Americans !? One half of the country will be flooded and tornado like f-15 f20 and the other side will be drought and wildfires earth quiets thousands !! I live in Comanche county all of my 63 winters on mother earth and I know it not good for man kind and all of the whole world sadly because of money !! So go home and be with family and stay safe God bless 😢!
I bet certain types have a real problem with the whole must have a gun thing when going out of town.
I would have cut out a lot of the boring fluff and just stuck with the science here
"one of them (that died) was a little girl".....was fricking difference does that make ?! are they trying to imply that a little girls life is somehow more precious than anyone else ?
The icecaps are melting because we are still in a mini iceage!
Precious little about America in here, but who gives a rat’s about America, America does not care what it is doing to the rest of the world.
A very good documentary nevertheless.
Where is coffee coming from if not from the south. So they are also participating in it.
Am I the only cranky person who finds irony in a piece about climate change, where the researchers are having fresh avocados and tomatoes delivered to the North Pole (by fossil fuel driven vehicles)!
Yes you are.
For a week, it was 3 degrees, were was the US warming?
It went to 'H'
Really don’t care anymore, ready for the madness
I seem to recall back in the mid 70s that we would all be frozen as a result of the coming Ice Age.
This indeed occurred. I have speculation delayed effect of all the smoke industrial and vehicle exhaust of the War. But regardless late 70s were one time the Alps grew since records started century plus before.
I'd say set up for the circa 1980 drought which lead to Live Aid concerts to relieve famines
Very few "scientists" predicted ice age.
Even the big oil companies has admitted that they knew about the heating.
That still not entirely out of the question. Unlikely,but possible.
@@iamme9138 with geoengineering is chance of Runaway Cooling if several freak occurrences pile up
If not read about Permian-Triassic Extinction Event you should. Gods wrath unending calamity upon calamity. Directed at mute dumb reptiles. No sense theologically speaking hah. Neon sky mutant fungus eating all biotic material in a valley.
If we put up big load of battery acid flakes (taxpayer expense) and then S:C heavy Volcano the next week... two years later 2nd lowest solar cycle starts. Add chunk of comet fragment gets torn between pull of us and moon...
By time it clears Canada is skeleton crew. Famines across Africa Sahel.
Will know pain. Yes.
We just assume can control every variable
@@oneshothunter9877 I just watched Leonard Nemoy's 1978 film "Ice Age" and they were talking about nuking the arctic ice to break it up and spreading coal and soot on the ice to melt it all......lol
Some of those peoples and places names are almost comedic, the way they DON'T just roll off the tongue....yes I know that's a little childish but still...
Were Americans, we will simply turn up the air conditioner. Yes im being sarcastic!
I just bought a new one, set on 68 f all summer
This is mostly anti-human. How would humanity have scaled to this size without fossil fuels?
warming is good for arctic countries actually, people is sick and tired of all those pesky ice and snow, so .......
I live in the arctic - because as most living here, I like it cold.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
@@oneshothunter9877 dude i just being sarcastic, because some greenlander think warm world is good for their health
@@bobsthea
How could I know you were being sarcastic. So many weird comments.
What a coincidence. I am actually from Greenland.
Now, take care.
*Are. "People ARE sick of their suicidal environment".
@@oneshothunter9877 So you don't wear clothes made from oil to keep warm??? You live in an igloo maybe??? Fly in planes??? etc. etc.....
The ice ages of America lakes are frozen in October in America ice age in America ice age in Canada ice age in Ireland ice age in Ireland ice age in England ice age in England ice age in Poland Poland ice age Bulgaria ice age Romania ice age Hungarian ice age Asian ice age Ukrainian ice age in Ukraine ice age in
Did you just press the middle button 😂 the predict text?
Liars are liars not buying it
Well, if you don't understand by now, you will never understand.
Stick to childs games.
Follow the money. It clearly leads to who is telling the lies.
It is not the scientists,
it is oil vs and gas, bankers, politicians,whose only goals is more money, more power, sad
@@oneshothunter9877 Yes only one possible outcome right??? Its been settled.....
Enjoy denial while it last. Soon we won’t be able to grow crops at scale
@@Jc-ms5vv huge farms with teeny tiny crops😥
Bawhahaha! Lies. Shouldn't NYC have been under water for the last ten years? As far as I know, it's still there. Also, wasn't the artic supposed to be ice free by 2015 or something? It's not.
It's the hysterical predictions of doom (which never transpired) along with the constant meltdowns over this issue that makes people just laugh at it.
If we're in a car and I'm driving you somewhere, I say it's going to take 30 minutes depending on traffic.. and it's been 30 minutes, you no longer think we're in a vehicle traveling? That's what you're saying?
@@Cyberpunk_Radio_PBSgood job using logic, but then it also may take 10,000 years. So that’s a different situation completely
@@Cyberpunk_Radio_PBS Depends how high you are.....
Well, we're looking forward to the melting of the Glaciers over land masses. We've been advised that this will raise the sea level about 60'. Well, is so happens that our home is about 60' above the level of a tidal waterway a 1/4 mile away. When the sea rises, we will have a highly desired waterfront lot. Keep the Global Warming (aka Climate Change) coming.
Well I wouldn't hold your breath m8
@@nickacelvn Damn! I want my waterfront!
GARBAGE there is more ice in Antarctica today than ten years ago.
Did you take a picture of it?
I want less ice. Globally.
That's what separates the big dogs
Where is your Scientific data to support that claim?
I think if it's between Scientists or CZcams commenters, People will believe the Scientists, fyi.
@@justiniswebb9 people believe a lot of dumb stuff. Scientists nailed covid.
Don't have link handy but confirm have heard Antca growing in volume of frozen water. Snow not ice tho
Antca is a desert. Issue is nothing that lands in this desert melts
Melting ice turns to water enters ocean evaporates up falls as rain or snow. Global precipitation is up. Thus Antca gets more precipitation and still cold enough it sticks ergo that is water removed from hydrologic cycle to replace the ice melting and joining hydrology
@@DrSmooth2000Brain researchers found that no matter how psychopathic or criminal someone is, when they started to suffocate they become pumped with fear and adrenaline. You think you want a world with no bees, no birds, no coral, no phytoplankton, no fish, no coffee, and with heat waves and wavy jet streams that bring arctic air to Texas.. like dude, that is the trajectory. The timeline is up for debate, absolutely, but the direction we are going is not. You're just wrong, you don't want that kind of world to live in.
Utter BS…..
I remember when we used to call this heat during the summer months summer That season comes around wants a year damn this thing