The climate lies you'll hear this year

It's almost comical how willing we are to destroy our enviroment when we, you know, live in it.

Not preventing climate change because its to expensive is like saying oil changes on your car are too expensive. But its a lot of less expensive than a new engine two or three years down the lane.

'it's just way too expensive to have breaks on this car' is SUCH an amazing line and I will be using it WHEREVER possible from now on

8:41 ''China actually added more solar power capacity in 2023 alone than any other nation in their full history'' not even 20 seconds later 9:00 ''To be clear they aren't doing nearly enough.'' DEFINITELY something I could expect to hear from an Asian parent XD

Saying heat pumps don't work when it's cold outside is like saying your fridge doesn't work when it gets hot inside ...

Saying heat pumps don't work when it's cold is like saying jackets can't keep you warm because they don't generate any thermal energy.

It’s not just the excellent content of Simon’s videos that deserve praise. (His video covering the hockey stick graph is easily the best internet content for debunking the “it’s normal, it’s not human activity” climate myth) Simons style of logic on these topics is well worth trying to emulate as well, if you want to avoid a pointless circular argument. Below is a reply I gave recently on a chat forum, with me trying to emulate Simon’s light touch with the humour. “It’s all a con to take away our freedom and make us live in a 15 minute city” reply “No, it’s a proposal for a safe cycle path for kids to get to school, and by the way you actually live in a town that takes less than 15 minutes to walk from one side to the other”

As an econ major I'd like to point out sonething about the solving climate change supposedly being expensive thing. This may sound morbid, but we have a mometary value for a human life (in terms of how valuable an average american will be to the economy throughout theor lifetime). Climate change, and the burning of fossil fuels which is part of its cause, kills people, between natural disasters, less hospitable environments, and in the short term probably most importantly, the truly terrible amount of dangerous air pollution that fossil fuels cause when they are burned. Living near a power plant is terrible for your health. All of those people who die, from an economist's perspective, cost money. If we were to save their lives it would benefit everyone. Another tangential way that reducing emissions would save lives is that if we get more people to use public transport (preferably by making it more attractive, not making cars less attractive) that would probably reduce car crashes. A significant number of people die every year in car crashes, and those are usually people who can drive cars, i.e. mostly working age adults. Their deaths cost money, and saving their lives saves money, from an economist's perspective. And not a single word of this includes the moral value of saving human lives, which probably could be quantified and would mean that in terms of what people value (the lives of their loved ones among those things), you're saving even more money. After all the entire purpose of an economy isn't to make as many dollar bills as possible, it's to get the most value according to the members of that economy. If someone values their loved one's life that matters just as much as if they value a commodity, and realistically speaking a human life, especially that of someone you care about, is worth much more than most items you can buy, so that's an especially valuable thing to save, especially when the solutions, like reducing fossil fuel use and increasing public transport, have other benefits like increasing energy independence in an increasingly turbulent geopolitical atmosphere and saving cold hard cash even from an accountant's perspective.

Hi. I am very happy to say that today is the day, that after years of just using YouTube and watching all of those great creators without supporting any of them I decided it's finally time. I can kind of afford it, I always promised myself I will eventually. So today I'm going with Simons link for yearly nebula, tomorrow who knows possibly patron. Like half of my feed advertises nebula, and all of them doing it very convincingly, but I think Simon needs it the most rn. I hope he will never give up!

0:30 Crazy you didn't use Rishi Sunak for the background joke

Great video and I love this team idea, very well done indeed !

Is that Craig's jacket? 🤔

The brakes on the car analogy is pretty good. I use a leaky roof as an analogy: no matter how much it's going to cost, you will lose the house if you don't fix it. You cannot affort to not fix it.

Everyone has incredibly crisp and beautiful audio... and then there's me walking around NYC with my headphones😅. A true pleasure to be a part of this great video! Combatting that misinfo one question at a time :)

One of the other ones I hear is it's not fair on all the 3rd world countries as they won't be able to develop: when in fact Ethiopia which has the (edit: 2nd) largest population in Africa and is aiming for 100% of the population with electricity does it all woth Hydro electricity and is one of the few countries on the planet that uses 99% renewable energy. That is because renewables are much better than transporting a resource to burn in a place. A solar panel is going to be much more useful for a village than someone going to the town 50 miles away every week for fuel for their generator.

You did so well until the end. It's true, we all need to do our part. However, even if all of us do our part except 1,200 people in the four dozen petrostates that just exploit more efficient economics from climate solutions to extract and emit more fossil carbon then all that will happen is GHGs go up. Permits, finance, and licenses for fossil trade must be curbed 2% of today's level, down to zero by 2030, to make all those other actions meaningful. Also, a quibble I know, but Australia, Brunei, India and South Africa are all in the global south, four of the top ten petrostates.

6:57 To further this point that Dave was making about heat pumps, here in Canada, where it famously gets cold during the winter, we have about a 6% adoption of heat pumps (my parents included) and they work perfectly well. Keeps the house nice and toasty during cold winters and nice and cool during the summers. It's expected that this percentage will rise over the next few years. My parents save about $1500 a year compared to when they had a fossil gas burner. It was really a no-brainer type move, especially with the Federal Government rebates and incentives to help. In one of our coldest territories, The Yukon did a test back in 2013 (report found either on the Yukon government website or by looking for An Evaluation of Air Source Heat Pump Technology in Yukon) that cold‐climate air‐source heat pumps should be included in the Government of Yukon’s suite of energy-efficient product promotion initiatives since they still save people money. If it can work in the Yukon where winters, on average are around -20–25 degrees Celcius, and can get to be below -50, then it certainly can work in the UK.

In facing the stressful hassle of trying to convert my American Driver's License over to Japan, then being told I can't unless I jump through several extra, expensive hoops or risk losing my work visa? I've decided to boycott ALL personal motorized vehicles for the rest of my life. I know it's extreme, but for me? It's been extremely freeing! Instead, I plan to recycle my current bicycle into a custom built, custom frame electronic assist tricycle with a cargo area in the back~ No need for a license! No polluting! Artistic! AND makes a statement! For long distance travel? There's reliable public transportation.

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Edit: I didn't realise it was a truth or lie guessing gameshow before posting: The "not" should not be in final lie "It's not too late for us to solve the climate problem"? (11:15) It is a true statement (with the "not") in the sense we can stop it from getting much worse. Removing the "not" would make it the lie that the responders seem to debunk. Edit: Thanks to kotor1357 who pointed that out.