A new report by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggests the climate crisis could escalate in the next five years – which could include the warmest year on record. Lead author of the report, Leon Hermanson, says: “There is an El Niño predicted for the end of 2026, which increases the chances of the following year, 2027, being the next record-breaking year.” DW’s Ben Fajzullin speaks to Stanford University climate scientist, Rob Jackson – author of the book “Into the Clear Blue Sky.” They break down the data, talk about the risks of global warming and discuss solutions. Chapters: 0:00 Has the climate catastrophe already arrived? 1:03 Rob Jackson speaks on a possible super el nino 3:35 2027 already looking scary? 6:37 Progress being made on reducing methane emissions? 9:53 The Arctic sea ice situation 12:08 Might climate change rise again to the top of public awareness? 14:43 The latest on the AMOC For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social media: ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwnews ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dwnews ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwnews Für Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https://www.youtube.com/dwdeutsch Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1 #climatechange #elnino #heat #dwnews
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"there is a lot we can do" should probably be "we should stop doing a lot of things"
Will we be the first species that went extinct because saving ourselves wasn't economically profitable?
The definition of economic growth needs rethinking
Its just a warm up, guys! No need to panic. We just need to make AI better and make elites more money.
Surely this cant be true, Trumpstein said this is not true.
Its over ladies and gents🌎
Dr. Jackson sounds more despondent than any interviewee I've heard in years. "There are some who are optimistic", an admission that we should not hold out much hope. I'm gathering with some childhood friends this Sunday to celebrate a 59th birthday. In true GenX style, less than half of us are married and the reproduction rate among our extended gang is about 0.8. It brings to mind the final scene of "Don't Look Up" when the characters are all at the dinner table, talking about inanities, knowing that they are about a minute from obliteration.
It's not like anybody could have predicted this...
Maybe Ai data centers aren’t such a great idea
My honest opinion, There is no turning back. I am not a specialist I am not a scientist I am however a man with his eyes open and watching all the destruction man has descended upon this beautiful planet we live on. all for greed and power. They are now so determined to find an other planet to escape to. Now use reap what you have sowed and time is running out whether you like it or not.
Time to invest Trillions of dollars in renewables and not in Armaments, no shortage of money for weapons.
Don't look up...
The warm water is on the move.
So many people are going to die from heat strokes, its actually going to be horrific.
Once the permafrost starts to emit significant quantities of methane and CO2, we could (probably will) get a runaway climate change with virtually no way to stop it anymore. How do we prevent huge areas of land from melting? I think carbon release from permafrost is understudied.
The cheapest cleanest energy is the stuff we never dig up or burn. At this point in time I am simply irritated that the least expensive most direct way to build resilience and to decouple communities everywhere from the planet killing global economy is to build walkable communities and localized farming. If a community can sustain itself off of its own territory, it is by definition operating within planetary boundaries. Building walkable communities and greening them because the space taken up by cars is now available for something else results in a safer, quieter and healthier local environment, which is less expensive for the residence as well as municipality. We could save 90% of all the resources spent on vehicular infrastructure and on cars car fuel car maintenance, and local businesses would benefit as well as the people in the city. The next thing to realize is that there’s only about 60 years of economically feasible oil left. The transition will have to happen one way or another. But there’s one more twist to this process. In order to completely transition will take more resources, both in oil and other mineral resources then we really have known reserves of, and even if those reserves are proven to be economically feasible, we don’t have the extra extraction capacity and even if we had the extra extraction capacity, we don’t have the manufacturing capacity which has to expand enormously in order to provide this transition. More and more of the economic capacity of the global economy has to be given over to this transition, squeezing out other industrial output. But already the principal materials needed concrete, steel, and aluminum that output is beginning to decline. The upshot of all this is the global economy is going to experience a resource contraction in an energy contraction no matter what it does. The energy intensity and scale the global economy will draw down. If you want to live comfortably, I would make walkable communities and local farming a priority for many reasons.
It's very upsetting, to say the least, when you live in a very hot climate already- Phx, AZ- and temps have been steadily breaking records for number of days over 110 and where 115 - 118 is not at all unusual. The hardest aspect to deal with is that the nights don't cool off like they used to 20 years ago due to the heat island effect and very hard for the youngest or the oldest when body temp can't recuperate at night like normal. Many more people than used to, die here during summer and especially the homeless. I never thought I'd look back 50 years to when it was "cooler" here, but it was not nearly as extreme as now.
If you wanna experience a coral reef in your lifetime ....now is your last chance.
I think it's too late to worry about the methane. The natural release due to the already warmer atmosphere is going out strip anything we're putting in the atmosphere.
Well done gentlemen.