Climate Change: What's So Alarming?
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Are droughts, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters getting stronger and more frequent? Are carbon dioxide emissions, global temperatures and sea levels putting us on a path for climate catastrophe? Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, breaks down the facts about the environment and shows why the reality of climate change may be very different from what you hear in the media. Donate today to PragerU: http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h Join PragerU's text list to have these videos, free merchandise giveaways and breaking announcements sent directly to your phone! https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageru You can support PragerU by clicking here: https://www.classy.org/checkout/donation?eid=60079. Free videos are great, but to continue producing high-quality content, contributions--even small ones--are a must! Do you shop on Amazon? Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. Same great products. Same low price. Shopping made meaningful. VISIT PragerU! http://www.prageru.com FOLLOW us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prageru Twitter: https://twitter.com/prageru Instagram: https://instagram.com/prageru/ JOIN PragerFORCE! For Students: http://l.prageru.com/2aozfkP Sponsor a Student: http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2ht JOIN our Educators Network! http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2y9 Script: Carbons emissions are rising—and faster than most scientists predicted. But many climate-change alarmists seem to claim that all climate change is worse than expected. This ignores that much of the data is actually more encouraging than expected. Yes, Arctic sea ice is melting faster than the models expected. But models also predicted that Antarctic sea ice would decrease, yet Antarctic sea ice is increasing. Yes, sea levels are rising, but the rise is not accelerating—if anything, two recent papers, one by Chinese scientists published in January 2014, and the other by U.S. scientists published in May 2013, have shown a small decline in the rate of sea-level increase. We are often being told that we’re seeing more and more droughts, but a study published in March 2014 in the journal Nature actually shows a decrease in the world’s surface that has been afflicted by droughts since 1982. Facts like these are important because a one-sided focus on worst-case stories is a poor foundation for sound policies. Hurricanes are likewise used as an example of things getting worse. But look at the U.S., where we have the best statistics: if we adjust for population and wealth, hurricane damage during the period of 1900-2013 actually decreased slightly. At the U.N. climate conference in Lima, Peru in December 2014 attendees were told that their countries should cut carbon emissions to avoid future damage from storms like Typhoon Hagupit, which hit the Philippines during the conference, killing at least 21 people and forcing more than a million into shelters. Yet the trend for strong typhoons around the Philippines have actually declined since 1950, according to a study published in 2012 by the Journal of Climate. Again, we’re told that all things are getting worse, but the facts don’t support this. This does not mean that global warming is not real, or a problem, but the one-sided story of alarmism makes us lose focus. If we want to help the world’s poor, who are the most threatened by natural disasters, it’s less about cutting carbon emissions than it is about pulling them out of poverty. The best way to see this is to look at the world’s deaths from natural disasters over time. In the Oxford University database for death rates from floods, extreme temperatures, droughts, and storms, the average in the first part of last century, was more than 130 dead every year per million people. Since then, the death rates have dropped 97 percent to a new low in the 2010s of less than 4 per million. The dramatic decline is mostly due to economic developments that help nations withstand catastrophes. If you’re rich like Florida, a major hurricane might cause plenty of damage to expensive buildings, but it kills few people and causes only a temporary dent in economic output. If a similar hurricane hits a poorer country like the Philippines or Guatemala, it kills many more people and can devastate the economy. So let’s be clear. Climate change is not “worse than we thought.” That doesn’t mean it’s not a reality or not a problem. It is. But the narrative that the world’s climate is changing from bad to worse is unhelpful alarmism that prevents us from focusing on smart solutions. A well-meaning environmentalist might argue that, because climate change is a reality, why not ramp up the rhetoric and focus on the bad news to make sure the public understands its importance? But that’s exactly what we’ve done for the past 20 years. Foe the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/environmental-science/climate-change-whats-so-alarming
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carbon emissions = excuse for carbon tax/carbon tax credits, it is a tax, but ultimately it is about control, once people realize this is about governments being able to better control it's population the game will be over for them. It is the same for gun control, we have laws already that criminals ignore, more laws/more restrictions will not make us safer from criminals that do not abide by laws, this is not about "gun control" it is about people control.
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sooooo what about all the different species of animals goin extinct because of their regions changed climate ...?
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Are you kidding me ? ok people, keep wasting everything and we will see.
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The only thing I am absolutely certain of is the globalist and elite classes dont give a shit about anyone but profits alone. If the laws are being changed in the name of climate, it's for profit... if anything is being brought in or kicked out... some bastard is getting rich. If your govt is giving you talking points and a narrative about end of the world shit... its about money. "If you don't read the papers you are uninformed, if you read the papers you are misinformed!" Denzel Washington.
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Well thats the left for you, they want to take away your cars and your jobs
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You are a friggin idiot. Bad examples, erroneous data. What big oil corporation is paying you?
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this was copied by reddit user slicedbread man i hope his words will help you guys start to question this corporation
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I have seen a few links on KiA to Prager University videos. While I have quite enjoyed a number of them, (especially the "Wrong Side of History") I can't help but feel they are ideologically driven in opposition to stongly-left media to the point that some of there talks become unreliable.
I strongly dislike ideologically or narratively driven content that is framed as empirical. While I may agree with them on a lot of issues, I would feel morally corrupt if I didn't extend that dislike to there content when it's relevant to there bias.
So my question to you is, do you think Prager University is ideologically driven? Also I would be very interested to know how others fight confirmation bias! -
Here is the thing, when you see peak oil, climate data & population numbers along with every other 100 year chart, you know this is the Titanic after hitting the burg & before it sinks. The First Class passengers are not going to give up their privileges just because the ship is sinking, not if they have any say in the matter. There would be no point, so why forgo the pleasures of the last hours as well as possible You tell the lower classes everything is under control & you order a nice meal from the galley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWtaackIJU
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Due to climate change, I can't ski any more.
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THORIUM!
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The world populations rises therefore we use more energy, we eat more food. we use more resources, we cut more trees. Many animals died out because of us, we have more livestock than wildlife. I can keep going and tell you the things us (humans) have been doing to this planet. Now you are criticizing environmentalist for alarming the world about the devastation of climate change?
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climate change is conspiracy to introduce worldwide population control and worldwide poverty because if enough people agree that climate change is real. people will accept a government that lets people die and keeps people from making money to buy carbon emitting machines
meanwhile the arabs are popping babies like insects and will take over the world by majority and sharia law will rain terror on the world
the only chance we have is if conservatives take action to destroy liberal voices with the same relentlessness they try to destroy conservative voices so much so that they are ashamed to speak up
because for the most part they don't have a leg to stand on -
How is China's carbon output higher than the the global carbon output. it's a part of the globe. WTF China
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Watch "An inconvenient truth" by Al Goore
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Solar is no longer more expensive. Just so you know. So, if you live in the Sun Belt it is more economical to start substituting solar for roofing.
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What they are not telling you is that:- YOUR ALL GOING TO F@CKING STARVE TO DEATH because when we have finished ruining our HABITAT the earth will no longer provide a habitat for life. WE DO F@CKING KNOW. MA BSC DR of Oceanography, The MEASUREMENTS. Corals world wide loss 50%. Clam, Crab & Lobster farming 50% loss world wide, usa loss 90%. Tuna, Swordfish & Billfish only depleated stocks remain. Ocean PH level 7.8 .6 more acidic. Phytoplankton 50% loss. The Ocean food chain is broke and will be gone within 10 years. The Land food chain is in similar decline. SW usa bread basket -80%. 10 years whole usa bread basket -95%. = No cattle food = no human food.
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PragerU, At 1:34 your studies are outdated in the Philippines we are experiencing less weaker typhoons, unfortunately since 2012 we are also experiencing at least one(1) super-typhoon a year. It actually gotten worst, thousands of lives were lost. Supertyphoons used to be centuries apart, now we expect it to arrive every year.
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climate is always changing
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Great video, but really inappropriate title
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