Comments by "Phillip Ellis" (@phil20_20) on "PBS Terra" channel.

  1. +2.7°C is only the new "conservative" estimate. James Hansen is predicting 4.5 to 4.8°C by 2100. He has been right so far. The IPCC is only giving the politically correct answer.
    82
  2. We definitely could have made better choices 20 years ago, but that was when the first wave of climate deniers really got started. Exxon was ready!
    32
  3. And clothesline poles
    15
  4. We are currently using resources at about 170%, or more, of the planet's sustainability levels. Have a nice day. 🙂
    14
  5. Piecemeal, we've been killing ourselves off. Now it's all coming together in one big crash. How can you have sympathy for deliberate stupidity?
    11
  6. Heat pumps still don't work below 40°F: The new models are just heating under the outside coils so that they keep working. This is actually no more efficient than just using auxilliary coils inside the air handler. The real difference is that the new heat pumps can air condition up to ~120+°F as opposed to ~105°F.
    9
  7. Methanol is even cheaper, if you use dispensible resources like switchgrass. Ethanol is not necessary.
    8
  8. Once Fusion breaks through, everything is going to change. You all can speculate all you want, but we absolutely must replant most of our forestlands. Everywhere we can, we must reintroduce biomass to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere. This will help cool the planet faster as well as facilitate long term viability for the human species.
    6
  9. Green Acres is the place for me! General Fusion will be able to get Helium from their reactors at the same time they are fusing heavy water molecules into tritium. That means lots of helium for derigibles. What if we put mirrors on the backs of solar panels on solar farms? Can that increase the growth of biomas underneath them? For that matter, white paint!
    5
  10. Good News! There will be plenty of new material in 4 years.
    4
  11. This is the decade we realize our scientists were way too conservative.
    4
  12. Wait for it! Trump will try to shut this whole program down. I guarantee ðŸ’Ŋ it!
    4
  13. Sure they will, that's why they're building new apartments there right now.
    4
  14. It's supposed to remind you of water 💧
    3
  15. They get water directly from the air! That's the secret. The logging is the reason for the draughts. It's all in this video. Redwoods bring water down to the area. ðŸĪ”ðŸĪ— So stop cutting them down. It ain't that hard. ðŸ˜Ū
    3
  16. It's coming. We might have fusion in the next decade or so. They're moving faster now.
    3
  17. We had heat bulb in El Paso a few days in basic. We had to go sit in the shade. That's one, quick solution. In White Sands, they had us all run under a big deluge shower. In that environment you were dry in 10 minutes. 😅
    3
  18. They can absorb moisture directly from the air. That's how they get water up so high. Yeah, it doesn't just drip down to the ground, it gets sucked right form 200 feet up! This is relatively new information, so not even all redwood experts' websites have it yet. Yes, the redwoods are the guardians of the atmosphere. Cutting them down is sort of like leaving your Mother stranded alone at the bus station and then wondering why there's no dinner. We're not the only ones to have evolved on this planet. Redwoods are literally at the apex of plant evolution.
    3
  19. Amen. I've been looking for a good one like this. Most people seem unaware of how much forest land has been taken from us, with no allowance for the greater good.
    3
  20. Nuclear and Trees. Trees and Nuclear... You can't even get the general population to pronounce nuclear properly. Some dictionaries are even giving the incorrect pronunciation. The outlook is seriously grim. I only hope our replacement species will be able to evolve quickly enough to survive the mess we just made.
    3
  21. And so we see the biggest cause of global warming is simple human greed. This, followed by laziness. Being two sides of the same coin.
    2
  22. Isn't the equator actually supposed to get 1°C cooler as the globe increases by 2°C?
    2
  23. 😉 One of the byproducts of deuterium fusion is helium.
    2
  24. Can we say, Mass Migration brought about by temperature change? The ocean is not the only place it is happening. 😒 I guess the Chinese and the Russians aren't the only ones interested in the Northwest Passage. Well, first come, first served, I say. This is a real shame that the native species are being moved out. We can only hope that some of the DNA of the vanishing species survives somehow.
    2
  25. Where will all the ice cream go? ðŸ˜Ē Nobody even wants to think about the effect of all the methane stored in the ice. Time to get ready global disaster.
    2
  26. The housing solution is rather stilted.
    2
  27. Sounds like, Project 1825. I'm loving that dual staircase at the plantation. It's like, how many people can we fit on this little balcony? 💃🕚
    2
  28. We should probably be creating a few DNA banks for everything. We've already lost millions of species forever.
    2
  29. "Someone I know" just signed a contract on a house that is beyond her means, on a property near the coast that has an elevation of 20 ft. Orange Jesus will protect her as long as she buys one of his Made in China Bibles!
    2
  30. The ice warmed up and expanded, melted from underneath, got lighter and raised up, making it look like there was more. 😉
    2
  31. I think they're afraid to think about it.
    2
  32. ðŸ˜ģ
    2
  33. Let's elect a bunch of authoritarian climate deniers. That way we can just ignore the problem and let the next generations deal with it.
    2
  34. I would love to know if there was redlining in Maryland. It seems a few rich people think that trees can be replaced by carbon capture machines. It's like, John Henry all over again. ðŸŒēðŸŒģðŸŠīðŸŒī
    2
  35. We almost moved there when I was a kid. We moved to D.C. instead. That's not a dry heat. They should use nuclear power to pump desalinated water all the way up to Lake Powell. Let that be the new trickle down economics. I see the biggest issue in this video is that people are having their A/C cut off in the middle of a heat wave. We don't allow power companies to do that in winter, we shouldn't allow them to do that during a heat wave either. That got passed right on by.
    2
  36. Hey! This is sort of like those ice cube air conditioners on YouTube! Are you sure Standard Oil wasn't paying for all those old Antarctic studies?
    2
  37. 💗💗💞💗💗 Hey Guys, let's not forget about Ice Bound Methane, including inside the Tundra!
    2
  38. ðŸĶ–ðŸ’ĐðŸŒī
    2
  39. 😒 Try 2002... I did a report based mostly on the NOAA webpages (there were a lot of them back then.) It was pretty obvious we were already reaching tipping points at the Poles, and we weren't going to do what was necessary to stop it. All the information was right there for the Bush administration to see. They just didn't want to.
    2
  40. It's going to happen. 1.5C was a hail Mary to begin with.
    2
  41. Well part of our part anyway. Probably more than two trees.
    2
  42. I live in a relatively inexpensive city near the Blue Ridge Mountains. It would be safe except for all the things man has done to it. We have a Superfund Site right here in the township, and Camp David just up the hill, not to mention some secret bases too. We're a very desirable target with a moderate climate protected by a mountain range, with plenty of access to polluted water. ðŸĪŠ Just as the report says, it's the people that access the available information that will survive. I think the Human Race is on its way to a massive culling in the next few centuries if we don't wake up and take real positive action about the environment as a whole. There is much that can still be done to mitigate the coming disaster, but it's too late to avoid it now.
    2
  43. Shhh ðŸĪŦ They'll cut them all down if they can get away with it. The Big Picture is that there is less and less because of Global Warming. We have to solve the problem now if we want to survive into the next century.
    2
  44. Politically right now we're still on track to hit 4°C increase in temperature, but many of us are starting to turn around. It is still going to be be rough in the coming years, but now it's a matter of survival, and the choices we make will be the deciding factor if we will. Do you want to live, or hide your head in the sand and let our own demise happen?
    2
  45. I just saw a report that the Earth and the Sun are moving closer together for the next three hundred years. Climate deniers are taking this to mean we don't need to reduce greenhouse gasses, but the truth is, if the planet will be warmed further by the Sun, then we should be doing everything we can to keep the planet as cool as possible. From now into the next century, it is critical that we keep carbon levels as low as possible so as to add our effects as little as possible. It is going to be a rough few centuries regardless of what we do, so why make it worse?
    2
  46. Very controversial and disagrees with the going theory. https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
    2
  47. Unless you are old MAGA farts.
    2
  48. Yes! Your intro brought a tear to my eye. Trees have been here for us all along, and we just keep cutting down forrest lands, paying no attention to the effects it's having on our own well being, the planet, and everything else. The trees have great power in this world, as do the mycelium. ðŸŒąðŸ„
    2
  49. 4.5, and that's only so far. It's going up exponentially.
    2
  50. NOAA, wherefore art thou? ðŸ›ķ
    1
  51. With Ostrich eggs?
    1
  52. Let's go switchgrass methanol!
    1
  53. Mankind has two traditional solutions to this kind of problem. Migration and war, and we are running out of places to go. "We need more cows." - Arrival
    1
  54. Have no fear. The pigs and iguanas will do just fine.
    1
  55. Where's all the Methane coming from? Where can we "regreen" the planet? GOOD WORK!
    1
  56. My daughter did anyway. ðŸĪ·ðŸžâ€â™€ïļðŸĪŠ
    1
  57. Yes, and more funding for Fusion research. We're getting closer, but we need to move along with it.
    1
  58. It's looking more now like When no If we reach 4 degrees Celsius. The Humans just can't grasp the situation they have put themselves in.
    1
  59. That's a grave statement. ☠ïļ
    1
  60. Big Yellow Taxi
    1
  61. And "Organic" farming, and peat bogs, and...
    1
  62. I saw most of this information on NOAA's website in 2002, right before Bush had it taken down. Denial won't get you across the Jordan.
    1
  63. At around 39 minutes... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SawIG4TNpHQ&t=22s
    1
  64. Water World! â›ĩïļ
    1
  65. Wet head gead helps. I used to put my T-shirt on my head like an Arab or a foreign legionaire. You get it wet from your water cooler and the evaporation does a pretty good job, at least so far.
    1
  66. 😀 It won't matter. Most of the voters can't read above 6th grade level anyway.
    1
  67. Others are waiting. 🐖ðŸŠģ ðŸĶ ðŸ„‍ðŸŸŦ
    1