Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Oh, Look. Another Doomsday Scenario To Worry About. | Answers With Joe" video.

  1. I'm glad a company is cracking down on unions, they are everywhere, even when I say "No unions" they still put them in my burger.
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  2.  @tomgucwa7319  Everyone loves a good spoiler, eh?
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  3.  @azztopia  We are the middle children of history. Too late to explore the Earth, too early to explore the stars, but our era of nothing is coming to an end and the generations that come after us are going to have a lot of fun amongst the stars.
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  4. If it was doing it over a small area it would be an immense force, but it's doing it over several thousand square miles - that's a waterfall as long and wide as Britain.
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  5.  @JaydragonM  Yeah, they are huge numbers but when you consider that they are taking place over such a large area then it really slows down the flow rate. With regard to what you were thinking about though there was a bit in the video where Joe explained that the gyre (the undercurrent at the bottom of the ocean that carries cold water) has pinch points, or bottlenecks. Normally the gyre is exactly the same as the Denmark Falls, it moves absolutely enormous amounts of water but because it happens across huge spans of the ocean floor you would be hard-pressed to guess that it was even flowing - but in some areas such as where the gyre enters the Caribbean the flow is narrowed to such a degree that the rate increases by a lot. If a submarine ventured into that sort of area it would be like a canoe in rapids and the crew would be in for a wild ride. Before they were likely smashed into something and killed.
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  6. They would be fine, the fall is over such a vast area that the fact that the water is falling is difficult to perceive without instruments.
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  7. Do you mean can the Earth stop us killing ourselves? No, only we can, the Earth can repair itself over millennia, but we don't have that long. But once we're gone the Earth can easily offset anything we did by reducing CO2 back to a safe level and resuming it's usual drought and ice age cycles.
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  8. Dude, you're sitting on a vehicle, you're all ready for the Mad Max life.
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  9. Humans can adapt to toxins, pollutants, even radiation, we can't however adapt to living without food and that is what will happen when the Earth is too hot to grow food crops, we will starve in our billions and society will collapse.
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  10.  @__WJK__  Dude, we can't alter what volcanoes and nature does but we can alter what we do and it is we that have created the massive increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. There have been many enormous eruptions of volcanoes over the past 500 years and all have caused increases in CO2, but starting around 200 years ago CO2 concentration started to jump up in huge increments. Unless there is a super massive volcano somewhere that kicked in around the same time that the industrial revolution started and that volcano has somehow gone unnoticed for 200 years while belching out billions of tonnes of CO2 every week then we are clearly the cause of the increase. Tens of millions of chimneys, smokestacks, foundries and mills all over the planet pumping out carbon from coal 24/7 when just 50 or 100 years before there was absolutely no industry and humans really only burned wood to stay warm while a handful of blacksmiths used coal. That is an enormous change. The world went from white to black overnight, in some places literally - the midlands of the UK are known as "the black country" because starting around 1750 there was so much industry that everything from grass to trees turned black from the soot. This phenomenon quickly went around the world and every major nation developed similar industries that churned out carbon into th4e atmosphere every second of every day. That shit adds up and it overtakes any volcano.
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  11. I do love a good cloud burst!
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  12. No one wants to block anything, we want to stop the current block. Scientists want to lower CO2 to natural levels so that the planet can follow it's natural path, at the moment we actively ARE blocking that path because we are heating up a planet that is supposed to start cooling down in a few hundred years. That cooling is never going to happen if we keep flooding the atmosphere with CO2.
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  13.  @donaldcarey114  Time is exactly what we need though. Also we can't adapt to live without food. Climate danger is not about "Oooh, it'll be uncomfortable outdoors", climate danger is about the fact that every major food crop we rely on only grows in a small window, too cold and the harvest fails, too hot and likewise. If the planet heats up then the tropical band we call the equator will increase in size, this means the land that is perfect for growing our food (much of the northern hemisphere) will shrink as we are forced to plant crops closer to the arctic in order to harvest them in the right temperatures. Look at it this way, if much of the US, Europe and Russia (the world's three food bowls) were to become arid like north Africa then where do we find the land to grow food for a population of 9, 10 or 11 billion people? An ever increasing population requires more land to plant food, not less land, and if the world warms by more than a degree or so ambiently then our green and arable lands will become dustbowls and we will have to rely on the rocky, dead soil of Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia growing enough food for all XX billion of us in 2100. So far there is something like 7 billion humans and 20 billion livestock on Earth and between us we eat a lot of corn, wheat and soy every day. Three notoriously temperature-sensitive crops.
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  14. It is being offset by another effect of global warming - the actual warming. The huge CO2 levels in the atmosphere stop heat escaping into space which wards off any cooling that would be caused.
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  15. It does act as a heatsink, more so with every million cubic litres of CO2 that goes into it.
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  16. World Orifice 3?
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  17. The far-right and attacks on sovereign countries?
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  18. The sun is a constant that doesn't change so it could never be the reason for the enormous rise in CO2 levels over the past two centuries.
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  19.  @monkeynova2012  No one has ever said the climate never changed in the past, to do so would be idiotic. No one today is saying that climate change is an "unusual event", what we are saying is that we have turbo-charged it to the point that we are now the driving force behind it and we are altering it beyond what the planet can passively offset. The Earth can repair itself, easily, give it time and whatever statistic that rises will eventually fall and those that fall will eventually rise, but over the past 100 years the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by several magnitudes. Now I know how your lot like to say "volcanoes", but can you please explain to me that if volcanoes are what cause the increases in CO2 then where is this enormous secret volcano that has been erupting continuously for 100 years that could explain why CO2 levels suddenly started skyrocketing and have continued to do so ever since? I'm very eager to know where this volcano is that pumps several billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every single week. Conveniently this massive-yet-unnoticed volcano only started farting out gases at exactly the same time that humans started building factories, foundries and mills all over the planet that eat coal 24/7. Amazing coincidence, but I'll give up my beliefs and join your side if you can give me a logical explanation of why CO2 levels went from equilibrium to we-really-need-to-get-a-handle-on-this. Maybe it's aliens?
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  20. Warm water travels on the surface, cold water travels at depths, so one passes right over the other.
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  21. Thankfully channels like these that feature "science" rarely attract Neanderthals.
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  22. If it becomes a shipping lane then it will be lucrative for Canada and they would be foolish to oppose it.
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  23. It is.
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  24.  @danelynch7171  Nah, science is just better than ever.
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  25. Just a poorly done image, if you Google "gulf stream amoc" you can see most other images follow the correct route but some such as that one seem to just be showing the effect but without accuracy.
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  26. Are they Chopper's kids?
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  27. Your car found it's way home by itself?
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  28.  @justinaclayburn2248  🤣
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  29. The northwest Atlantic is an unforgiving place, the northeast Atlantic can be surprisingly toasty.
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  30. He does use the standard units, if you truly were a watcher of his videos you would know that, you would also notice the several standard units he used in this very video. But thank you for smugly pointing out the one he missed.
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