Girl Asks ACTUAL Climate Expert: What Could Happen?

Girl Asks ACTUAL Climate Expert: What Could Happen?
Published on Nov 13, 2013
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FOR LINKS TO FURTHER RESEARCH, RESOURCES AND ACTION GROUPS LOOK BELOW THE DISCLAIMER.

DISCLAIMER:

Justin is expressing what scientists discuss around the very, very worst case scenarios for climate change. He is in no way suggesting that these things are 100% definitely going to happen, merely pointing out that these are legitimate possibilities that scientists seriously discuss.

The purpose of this video is to provoke discussion and engagement through highlighting aspects of the scientific discussion that are often glossed over for fear of disengaging a weary public. We believe its important for the community to realise exactly what the worst case scenarios considered are, because after all, the decision to act is ultimately in their hands.

Here are some sources that Justin refers to throughout the interview:

Hansen et al (2013) state: "Burning all fossil fuels would produce a different, practically uninhabitable, planet. ... Our calculated global warming in this case is 16 °C, with warming at the poles approximately 30 °C. Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20 °C. Such temperatures would eliminate grain production in almost all agricultural regions in the world. Increased stratospheric water vapour would diminish the stratospheric ozone layer. More ominously, global warming of that magnitude would make most of the planet uninhabitable by humans." And they go on to explain the 35 °C wet bulb temperature problem, which actually comes from Sherwood and Huber (2010) below.

Hansen, James, Makiko Sato, Gary Russell, and Pushker Kharecha. 2013. 'Climate Sensitivity, Sea Level and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 371 (2001) (October 28): 20120294. doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0294.

Sherwood, S. C., and M. Huber. 2010. 'An Adaptability Limit to Climate Change Due to Heat Stress'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May). doi:10.1073/pnas.0913352107.http://www.pnas.org/content/early/201....

In the claims about the nature of climate skepticism, Justin and I refer to these main sources:

Oreskes, N & Conway, E 2010, Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press.

Scholarly articles:

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8...

http://med.ucsd.edu/documents/Oreskes...

Oreskes, Naomi, 2007, "The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we're not wrong?" Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren, edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman, MIT Press, pp. 65-99.

Letter from the House of Lords to Christopher Monckton:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/new...

John Abraham discussing Lord Monckton's credentials:

http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/j...

RESOURCES ON THE SCIENCE:

WEBSITES:

http://www.climatecouncil.org.au

http://www.skepticalscience.com

http://www.ipcc.ch

http://theconversation.com/au

BOOKS:

The Weathermakers by Tim Flannery

Eaarth by Bill McKibben

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

TO JOIN THE MANY PEOPLE IN EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE STRATEGICALLY TRYING TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE:

350.org

http://aycc.org.au

http://www.lockthegate.org.au

KEVIN ANDERSON LECTURE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInrvS...