Am I wrong?

Ice melts due to warm waters. Are being serious? Trapped heat by greenhouse gases would crack the entire polar regions apart, which really isn’t happening. Why do you think ice glaciers fall apart only near water? That’s exactly the point is to demonstrate that the water on our planet is absorbing the heat from the sun and causing ice to melt. The less white ice the less reflectivity it can emit back into space.

Solar activity is decreasing because the sun goes into what we call “the solar cycle” but that doesn’t excuse the fact the there is a lot of water on our planet absorbing heat from the sun.

Climate change isn't real

*the morons come out of the woodwork!*

Can't we just use nuclear to fix it?

Wind and solar are fucked

They'll never be able to achieve the amount of power needed to supply a population that fossil fuels already have

I don't think wind and solar are "fucked" - but I agree that nuclear deserves far more attention

So get reckt because sustainable energy can’t sustain itself in the long run lol. Get educated.

if only we found perpetual energy

that would be nice

https://youtu.be/0YrOw9mXngo

Lmao how is this even a debate

it isnt

the entire world has accepted the science

its literally just the republican party that has a problem with delusions

I thought the argument was about whether humanity was behind global warming? @Green Syndicalism

i think Silver is just referring to the name of the channel

There is also an argument about the scope. The world ending in 12 years is ridiculous.

Or is it 11 now? It has been a while since she said it.

thats a pretty big strawman

she was referring to the UN's report on climate change

the literal gold standard

which stated that "we only have until 2030 to enact policies to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2050"

Sounds pretty tame in comparison to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHk8nn0nw18

So yes, it's not just the "republican party having a problem with delusions". It's democrat doomsayers going too far and receiving a pushback.

Progressives discredit the entire issue when they try to blow it out of proportion.

come on dude

shes clearly exaggerating for rhetorical purposes

anyone who references "12 years" is talking specifically about the IPCC report

which doesn't predict "the end of the world"

(for what its worth, i'm a fan of rhetorical exaggerations on climate change because being moderate clearly hasnt fucking worked to institute the change necessary)

also, just through introspection, i have found the arguments/speeches that affected me the most on climate change weren't the "matter-of-fact" rhetoric i was exposed to, but the more impassioned and probably exaggerated rhetorical points. That doesn't mean i base my opinions on those things, but rather they geared my emotions up in a way that drab autistic appeals wouldn't, and made me more engaged/alert to the climate change issue, far more, as a whole.

No.

Nuke the Icecaps.

Periodt.

now, im a student of mathematics and computer science, so im not a typically emotional person, but if their impassioned appeals can generate emotions in someone with as flat an affect as me, then its bound to be even more effective on normal people

Clevor mans