Can we adapt to climate change? (Hint: The answer begins with 'Y')

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Really good new #potholer54 video about the conflation of fact and opinion in journalism, particularly in the US.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=PBNtSUBYsqo

Making sure you're not a bot!

#potholer54 #skeptism 'Do your own research' and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
https://youtu.be/t54I6NKtr4k
REUPLOADED: 'Do your own research' and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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What the new “Climate Declaration” doesn't tell us (nudge nudge, wink wink) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpUe41EbHvQ

My favorite scientific skeptic #Potholer54 on a highly deceptive petition by climate deniers. By stringing vague claims together they hope the reader draws conclusions, the deniers can claim they never made when challenged.

Possible side effect is less push back from scientists who will see the petition as a nakedly political document (while the public may be fooled into thinking it is serious).

What the new “Climate Declaration” doesn't tell us (nudge nudge, wink wink)

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#Potholer54: Do volcanoes produce more CO2 than human activity -- a look at Ian Plimer's claim.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=q1c3IKqQ2Sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1c3IKqQ2Sc

Anyone who knows a bit about Ian Plimer or the carbon cycle, will be shouting the answer NO at their screens, but it is still an entertaining informative video.

#IanPlimer #volcano #CarbonCycle #CO2

Do volcanoes produce more CO2 than human activity -- a look at Ian Plimer's claim.

SOURCES: USGS info on volcanoes - https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate Reconstruction of past CO2 concentration from: "Geocarb III: A Revised Model of Atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic Time" https://www.ajsonline.org/content/301/2/182 Solar output rising during the Phanerozoic: https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_110A/Lectures/L5_Radiation-FaintSun.pdf My video "Are humans contributing only 3% of CO2 in the atmosphere?" https://youtu.be/CcmCBetoR18 (see video description for sources) My video "The story of the Earth in 33 minutes" https://youtu.be/MQWJbLTyDlc (see video description for sources)

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#Potholer54: Are prominent environmentalists buying beachside properties? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVkQB6jb7g
Are prominent environmentalists buying beachside properties?

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#Potholer54: If ocean levels are rising, why can't we see it?
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=WTRlSGKddJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTRlSGKddJE

Clearly an episode Potholer enjoyed making, which are the best.

As a scientist it is always nice to see where the bizarre claims of the bloggers come from, which is a field of study in itself completely detached from the scientific literature.

I had expected better from Anthony Watts than to compute that 1988 + 20 = 2018. How do you run a conspiracy business with those math skills?

If ocean levels are rising, why can't we see it?

Compare two photos 130 years apart and it looks as though sea levels haven't moved. So why all the fuss about rising sea levels and evacuating islands? This video closes the yawning gap between internet myths and science. CORRECTIONS: 10:58 -- The shades of blue on the map denote sea level falling, not rising at the lowest rate.. TO SUPPORT THE CHARITY AND KEEP MY CHANNEL GOING.... ...please dnate here: https://healthinharmony.org/donate/ You can see more on how this groundbreaking charity trades heath care for forest care in my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU See also https://psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work. SOURCES: 255 billion tonnes ice lost per year: "Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and recordloss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites" Sasgen et al 2019 Sea level rise up to 2008: http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ up to 2008 "More than half of the predicted rise in future sea level caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect is currently thought to be due to the thermal expansion of the oceans.” "Thermal expansion in ocean and coupled general circulation models" Jacket et al. 2000 "Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea level rise" Domingues et al 2008 “Rising sea level is one of the most serious consequences of global warming. In the past 50 years, sea level rose about 1.8 (plus or minus 0.3) millimeters a year. Satellite observations since 1993 indicate the pace has accelerated to about 3 millimeters per year.” -- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCooling/page5.php Rise now 3.6mm a year: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-14/ “A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise” -- Church and White, Geophysical Research letters, jan 2006 How sea level is measured: https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24732991-200-how-do-we-measure-sea-level-if-it-is-always-rising/#ixzz7BJgwYUAv Calculations for thermosteric and ice-melt sea level rise: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-016-9387-x#Sec2 "Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment" Mengel et al. "Transient response of the MOC and climate to potential melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 21st century" Hu et al 2009 "Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past 695 warm periods." Dutton et al 2015 " Evidence of marine ice-cliff instability in Pine Island Bay from iceberg-keel plough marks" Wise 2017 Nature Communications "Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated sea-level rise during the last deglaciation" Khanna 2017 5-19m higher for +3 deg C rise in temp: "Constraints on global mean sea level during Pleistocene warmth." Dimitriu, 2019 See also: "The Duplin Formation... was 35 ± 18 m above present." Dowset and Cronin, cited in "Paleo Constraints on Future Sea-Level Rise" Kemp 2015 "We project anthropogenic sea level rise of 28–56 cm, 37–77 cm, and 57–131cm cm in 2100 for the greenhouse gas concentration scenarios RCP26, RCP45, and RCP85" RCP45" "Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment" Mengel et al., 2016 https://www.salon.com/2001/10/23/weather/ E-mail from Bob Reiss: https://skepticalscience.com/Hansen-West-Side-Highway.htm Post from James Hansen: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110126_SingingInTheRain.pdf Sea level at time of CO2 doubling: I couldn't find any studies looking specifically at sea level when CO2 doubles in concentration. So I had to match predictions for when CO2 will double under RCP 4.5 (around 2065) with projections for sea level rise under RCP 4.5 at that time.

#Potholer54!! It is a good day. 🤓

The rise and fall of... (well, you find out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGj03pC2tY

I guess Potholer did not want to put #HCQ and #Ivermectin in the title not to be blocked again by the #YouTube algorithm.

The rise and fall of... (well, you find out)

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Fact-checking Nicholas Wade's claims about a 'man-made' virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjafLCvejQA

Every day a new #Potholer54 video is released is a good day. Although this one is a bit light on the British humor and more focused debunking the insanity.

Fact-checking Nicholas Wade's claims about a 'man-made' virus

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#Potholer54: More "man-made" #SARS Cov-2 lab-leak malarky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1EqRuVeU0

"Of course we do need to know where the virus came from, but a definitive answer will only come from solid evidence not misquotes, change documents, fake dossiers, exaggerations fabrications, misrepresentations and magical facts dreamed up in published papers that don't exist. It won't come from circumstantial
evidence, suspicions guesswork or possibilities either"

More "man-made" SARS Cov-2 lab-leak malarky

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