WATCH MORE GREAT SHOWS AT www.channelflip.com David discusses why tackling climate change is always presented to us by people who either tell us off or patronisingly try to convince us that tackling it is “cool” or “fun”, when actually it’s just something we have to do, because of facts.
David Mitchell deals with Climate Change
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@Euparockz
You are the one who has been swindled. There have been 5 edits of ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ due to the threat of lawsuits from scientists that were quoted out of context or who had their graphs fiddled with. Early versions still exist here on Youtube, helping to perpetuate myths like the medieval warming period and abundant volcanic CO2.
Try watch?v=G390gk3Y67c – an interview with Martin Durkin, the producer.
@fro7k
No one has changed the terms, global warming and climate change have different meanings. Global warming causes climate change. I thought that was GCSE science these days. Sigh.
@terramortim whats the matter dumb ass? getting tired of being bitch slapped all over the place? come back and troll, you obviously need the practice! x
@HaRaTiO4286 You’re right about one thing: my tone was abrupt and I apologize. But you said deforestation isn’t carbon emission. That’s like saying you can’t get AIDs from sharing needles. Tropical deforestation is responsible for 20-25% of anthropogenic carbon emissions. That matters. The tendency of “skeptics” on this issue to deny these findings without credible contrary evidence is irresponsible and pernicious and should be met with derision.
@meshzzizk yes but if you actually research before you type you will find that the contribution is so minute it doesn’t even matter. And by the way calm down, this is just a friendly debate we are having, nothing serious, so please refrain from ordering me to shut up, everyone is entitled to their opinion. i haven’t shut anyone down yet, neither have they to me, so your being rather abrupt. Thanks anyway though…
I didn’t say it was getting cooler, I said they’re covering their asses in case it does. They’ve guessed wrong before, so instead of calling it “global warming” they’re making the very concept “climate change” an dirty word, when it’s been happening since the birth of the planet. Reminds me of where they got people to sign a petition against water.
Take a look at the Great Global Warming Swindle website – real scientists on global warming as opposed to politicians.
@fro7k You want to offer some science to back up your ‘intuitive’ (and wrong) take on reality?
@fro7k
“it turns out the planet is getting cooler”
Does it?
watch?v=xvMmPtEt8dc
Climate change–is that what they’re calling it now? So they don’t get caught out for calling it global WARMING and then it turns out the planet is getting cooler instead. Man’s effect on climate is a flea on the back of the global ecosystem. Nothing is happening to global temperature that hasn’t happened before without us influencing it. Climate change is the normal and natural order of things.
@HaRaTiO4286 If you don’t know what you’re talking about, then please shut up. Forests are carbon sinks, while rotting vegetation, the byproduct of deforestation, does emit carbon.
@HaRaTiO4286
I’ll say again, why aren’t you building your bunker then?
Really, and pray tell where the statistics you are quoting can be found.
@Stanfordcounty You assume too much, not only is cutting down trees not carbon emission, but also blatant statistics show that human factors scarcely affect the climate of the earth. Mankind will not change it’s ways, but it doen’t even matter as the earth’s cycle is already changing as it has many times before and be it perhaps thousands of years before the world is in crysis
co2 is a natural thing but we are pumping far to mush into the atmosphere to fast wild life and eco systems can not deal with this.
@HaRaTiO4286
Thats rubbish, if we got rid of every man made source of carbon emissions possible, we’d have gotten rid of chain saws and we’d not be cutting down a football pitch of rainforest down everyday in Brazil alone. So not only would we not be hugely polluting the atmosphere, we’d not be killing the stuff that brought the atmoshpere to (and maintains) levels we are comfortable with.
If you think climate change is unavoidable, why aren’t you out working on your bunker?
thought he’d be more skeptical than that, bit disappointing.
@joeynessily
Half right. At several times during earth’s history CO2 has been significantly higher than it is now. During none of those times was the climate or atmosphere conducive to human life. Most studies are projecting an increase of 4C by 2100. That in itself will have a massive impact on growing patterns, weather and sea levels. At current emission rates temperatures will continue to rise after 2100.
There is a problem. We’ve just got to roll our sleeves up and deal with it.
I heard CO2 is good for the lawn.
Perfectly fine until the unnecessary ‘And I do mean man’.
@TeddyRuck Well thats not the point, even if humans got rid of every man made source of carbon emissions possible, the percentage contributing to climate change is so small it wouldn’t even begin to change the overall outcome. Climate change is unavoidable.
I have no problem with increased efficiency and less crap going into the atmosphere. I just dislike the fact that everyone is declaring the looming end of days. During the time of dinosaurs the CO2 in the air was 6 times what it is today. That resulted in 4C higher temperatures. It’s simply not possible to return to those levels and temperatures by human actions alone. Even if in 1000 years we get to half that, we’d be able to adapt to a 2C increase over that time. THERE IS NO PROBLEM.
@jessewaugh
Are you seriously suggesting that David Mitchell has tempered his opinion because he fears that the media would no longer be interested in him if he claimed that climate change doesn’t exist? The air-waves are rank with ‘celebrities’ getting a second wind from faded careers because of their controversial and anti-science opinions. But David Mitchell is a pragmatist, and his honesty is at the heart of his (frankly brilliant) sense of humour.
@HaRaTiO4286
Yes and how many people do you imagine survived that?
David do you really think the showbiz industrial complex is going to pull the plug on your relative fame if you counter “global warming” propaganda?
@terramortim I contest that. In the 1980s in my country the Conservative government de-nationalised almost everything that they could resulting in them all moving to other countries. They’ve never come back…