Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "PBS Terra" channel.

That's a myth. Turns out coral reefs are cyclical, Great Barrier Reef is doing fine.
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This includes vilified but essential wild land fires. Many tree species including our beloved redwoods, Giant Sequoias, cannot exist without fire Devastating fires happen only after decades of the absence of cleansing fires, annually or every few yrs. 4th gen rancher in my area of farther N. California: "Smokey Bear was the cruelest joke ever played on the West."
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@bobbart4198 So you are saying the oceans are getting colder, that's the only way they can hold more CO2. In any case, the corals are doing fine.
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Climate has always been changing, I get anxiety over the tools sold on the myth that it's all anthropogenic, panicking and causing serious problems. They are the science deniers without even knowing what the actual science indicates.
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How about a seismic gas shutoff valve? If the structure shakes it automatically shuts off gas supply until manually reset.
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@sharky7665 HA! They have been used for at least a decade or so in Cali, I've installed a few for big institutional customers and have one for my own house yet to be installed. (called "Little Firefighter" gas shut off valve--available on Amazon for around $100 for 3/4" pipe, residential size)
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Climate "crisis" is a big part of the problem as it's blown WAY out of proportion by sensational media, the science doesn't support that, not even the scientific consensus. We have much bigger problems especially over fishing the oceans, all these other things are neglected due to climate panic which is going to be largely fixed just due to the economic favorability of renewables in coming decades anyway. It's likely that 600ppm CO2 is better than where we started at dangerously low 280ppm.
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Not hard to escape the mobs of tourists and walk alone among these spectacular giants, don't normally use the term but it's a 'spiritual' experience.
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@sharky7665 I'm not into construction much either but as a welding contractor I get called for all sorts of things including gas pipelines on occasion, only reason I knew of them. Seems like a real good idea with minimal cost and mine should be fairly easy to install.
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@vaevictis6990 The real wake up call was the fact that our response to the virus was completely ineffective and massively destructive. And that SO MANY are fine with authoritarian rule, individual liberties mean nothing to half the population.
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@VR_Wizard Based on what? CNN? I've studied the data and read at least one book on it. Have you?
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@VR_Wizard "....and I don't have to know what's going on." WOW, that's a scary attitude given you call me out with strong opinions. Don't pretend to know then.
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Look into history, it's always been that way. History deniers also pretend the West USA is in unusual drought which is total propaganda, just like this bullshit channel. California droughts have often lasted decades to even a century or more in recent millennia.
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Not keen on beaver hat but LOVE a warm beaver face mask....OH wait....I was thinking of girls I like to date.
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Why didn't that happen any number of other times in recent history like the Younger Dryass or Medieval Warm period? Don't be a tool of propaganda.
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NO problems? Ice sheets periodically bulldozed over half N. America and W. Euro, not just deforesting but scraping all the soil away to bare rock, massive ice melt lake release floods wiped out endless more South of the ice sheets. Climate swings up to 15 deg. C in a matter of decades, only 12k yrs ago, wrought havoc and megafauna extinctions. Big impacts from space cause Tsunamis a kilometer high around entire ocean basins leveling lowlands everywhere.....
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@susanfarley1332 Where you are wrong is to except humanity, we are just another animal species with a large impact both good and bad. Beavers, hippos, bison, caribou, whales, everything alters the landscape. Yes WE have to be much more deliberate and conscientious about it with our tech powers, but we will probably stop the next cosmic impactor which is hard to say is anything but a good result. From a Ghia Hypothesis perspective, humans may be here to protect the planet, to do vastly more good than harm. It's not popular belief but CO2 has become dangerously low in recent millions of yrs, near levels where mass plant extinctions would happen during glacial maximums. Plants can't exist much below 150ppm and 180 has happened geologically very recently. That is extremely dangerous territory for ALL life on Earth. CO2 is as essential as water. NO question plant life is benefiting from higher CO2 and more drought tolerant. That doesn't mean we want 1000ppm say, but I think 500 is better than 280 where we started. The rate of change may be alarming but the magnitude so far is not, life thrived at 10,000ppm. In a modern house you probably have some 2000 often. Meanwhile the obsolescence of fossil fuels is in sight, vast majority of remaining reserves will be left in the ground.
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MOST of USA wild lands must be burned to stay healthy. Smokey Bear mythology, indoctrination needs to be explicitly deliberately exterminated.
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It's all total bullshit, there is zero reason to expect anthropocentric climate change to have significant effects THIS CENTURY.
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@liuwang2201 It's not about "the richest ppl" controlling anything but it sure isn't based on the data or science. Ask them what is the ideal CO2 level? It can't be zero as that's the end of everything that matters and it would be an incredible coincidence if it happened to be 280ppm. Lower levels of climate alarmism go back at least 150 yrs, we had plenty of chat about the next "Ice Age" (actually next glacial maximum) during the 1960's and '70's and it was equally justified as the Yellow News driven nonsense of today, it just wasn't as pervasive and hysterical, it wasn't attributed to human activities.
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Same as it always was, climate models don't work and predictions have been laughably wrong for decades with excuses like this vid endlessly rolling out. "We've been wrong for half a century but we'll be right this century." Yeahuh?
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@VR_Wizard We are all effected by propaganda and simply "If it bleeds it leads." Can't tell you how many didn't believe that the serious crime rate in America was cut in half between 1980's and 2000. (may no longer be the case) Or how many are afraid to fly on airliners in the US when the fatality rate is near zero many yrs while 100/day die on the road. Most Chinese citizens actually believe Corona was a USA made weapon. Propaganda works. (trying to keep this brief) Steven Koonin has been a long time climate expert and science adviser for Obama, a few excerpts from his book "Unsettled?":::: "....both the research literature and government reports that summarize and assess the state of climate science say clearly that heat waves in the US are no no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past 50 yrs. When I tell people this, most are incredulous. Some gasp. And some get downright hostile." " * ---Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century. ---Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than 80 yrs ago. ---The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.* " " * --Humans exert a growing, but physically small warming influence on the climate. The deficiencies of climate data challenge our ability to untangle the response to human influences from poorly understood natural changes." * The above is drawn from most recent consensus of UN/climate accord agreement. It doesn't mean everything is rosy but it's not what we've been led to believe either.
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@VR_Wizard Wikipedia is often dominated by fanatics with an axe to grind, possibly the most unreliable source available unfortunately. Anyone who even challenges the dogma of the day, no matter how factual and reasonable is trashed so that you may know to dismiss them without consideration. That's the Leftist way today. Truth can be very hard to determine but it's all I care about in this context.
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@VR_Wizard I used to believe like you and for the same reasons, it took me a decade of study to gradually find something closer to the truth. You are correct, it's not easy but it is important. I'd urge you to look what we bought into over recent decades, as a substitute for doing the hard work I've done, compare what Al Gore predicted by now or any number of other catastrophe predictions 10 to 25 yrs back. There were signs in Glacier Park, MT, that said "These glaciers will be gone by 2020", only the signs are now gone. 2011: "Sever drought will be the new normal for Texas." Flooding has been a much bigger problem in recent yrs. The fact that extreme weather events have NOT increased is well known and anyone claiming otherwise should be immediately dismissed. One should be skeptical of everything but especially the dogma of the day. I've looked at the raw data, reams of it, and it supports what I've posted here. Natural climate drivers dwarf CO2 effects. (water vapor is by far the primary greenhouse gas on Earth BTW) The ice age for the last few million yrs that we are still in has been near all time low CO2 levels marked by devastating climate swings. IF CO2 was the driver we'd never escape a glacial maximum because that's when albedo is max (ice sheets reflect most solar energy and ice free oceans are minimized, liquid water is the best natural absorber of solar energy, much better than land) CLEARLY something much more powerful is responsible. Plant life is expected to enter mass extinction, which could be far worse than even the KT dino extinction event, at some 100 to 150ppm CO2. Recent glacial maximums have seen scary low CO2 levels of around 180ppm. It would be quite the coincidence if 280ppm, a random low value, happened to be best for us or life on Earth, hmmm? Certainly is not best for plant life or food production, also not controversial is the greening of Earth from higher CO2 levels. Commercial greenhouses typically use 2000ppm to accelerate production.
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@VR_Wizard Medieval Warm Period peaked nearly 1 deg C higher than today, 1100 yrs ago. Why? Lowest temps in several thousand yrs were around 1600 to 1800, typically the modern clock of climate change begins in 1800's, convenient to make the case for CO2. But this century has not cooperated so far with temps flatish. 60 MYA CO2 was at 800ppm. Are you getting your info from corporate media? 140 MYA it was 2200ppm. (wish I knew how to link the data charts but I don't)
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@VR_Wizard From 1600 to present solar irradiance very closely tracks temps, NOT CO2. Search this: CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles – Watts Up With That_
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@VR_Wizard If you get nothing else out of this conversation...just watch this short vid for some perspective, a real climate scientist(s) doing real climate science. 1:30 is revealing. My dad was a life long active geologist, Masters from Berkley and an environmentalist, geology was the origin of climate science. This guy resonates with me as a no nonsense let the data lead sort of guy just telling it like it is as best as he can discern it. (the channel it's posted on is rightly controversial, I don't agree or believe a LOT of it, but that has nothing to do with this particular vid, it stands on it's own merits) https://youtu.be/pW16LGVPfIc
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Climate models are a complete failure, why would I think they'll suddenly become accurate in the future?
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It's mostly about general awareness, nothing happens until we the ppl put pressure on authorities and representatives. Rarely do leaders lead, they follow their constituencies, fake news doesn't help such as anthropocentric climate panic which isn't scientifically justified and diverts from much bigger issues.
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@J4Zonian There has been no increase in serious storms, you are a victim of climate history deniers propaganda.
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@J4Zonian How about studding climate history and non-modified temp data? I have and it's very compelling that popular propaganda, as usual, is complete BULLSHIT.
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Why would magnetic polarity have anything to do with climate? It has flip endless times with no extinctions or anything else significant associated with it.
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@lrvogt1257 Radiation is NOT climate any more a meteor shower is. There doesn't appear to have been any effects on life in previous flips, one or two of which must have happened since hominins have walked on Earth.
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Thomas Paine Nah...it's a hollow shell held together by hopeium metal! And prayers of course.
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Worst heat waves in American history were in 1910's and 1930's.
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Tipping points are a fantasy, fabricated to manipulate us. Yes propaganda and fear mongering can drive folks crazy, this is not new. "'Those believing absurdities will cause atrocities.'"
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Highest temps for Montana (and the USA as a whole) were in the 1930's, remember the dust bowl? Far more land was burned early 20th century than since. What we have in this vid is just more propaganda, at least they admitted to being laughably wrong so far, chances are they will continue to be wrong and continue to propagate the same old fear mongering counting on our historical ignorance and short memories.
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Ask Al Gore--he predicted the artic would ice free by a decade ago This is total BULLSHIT. The IPCC explicitly states there will be minimal economic impact from anthropocentric climate change this century.
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Weather is not getting wilder NEXT.
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Yes and both are equally farcical, fabricated fear to control us with the cure vastly worse than the 'disease'. Why not make the most of it, surely we can get half the population to murder the other half, right? That's the Establishment Nazi's ultimate goal for you tools.
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Yesterday in geologic time--there were 12 deg C changes in a matter of decades, only 12.5k yrs ago, yet humanity survived. This is all total bullshit, we've been hearing this alarmism for 30 yrs, Al Gore predicted ice free artic for a decade ago. Learn some darn history.
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@parrsnipps4495 If any such tipping points were available they had hundreds of opportunities in just the last half million yrs. Yesterday in geologic time, 12.5k YA, Younger Dryas witnessed not 1 or 2 deg. C but 12 C in a matter of decades swings in temp. Tipping points are a fabrication invented to distract from the fact that climate models and predictions have completely failed.
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The models DON'T WORK, period.
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BULLSHIT. It was too late 30 yrs ago and the artic (according to Al Gore) was ice free a decade ago. Get some historical perspective. Even the IPCC expects 'minimal economic impact this century' from anthropocentric climate change.
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