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Extreme weather events in Italy, Australia and Japan are believed by many to be linked to man-made climate change. In the Italian alps, at least seven people have been killed after being caught in an avalanche sparked by the collapse of the Marmolada glacier. Meanwhile, Australia’s largest city Sydney saw …

A straightforward explanation of Climate Change: the heat from human emissions is roughly equal to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs every day. Historically, every time carbon dioxide levels increase in Earth’s atmosphere, the average surface temperature increases, ice melts, and the seas rise. Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ The New York …

Swiss glaciers, which attract skiers and climbers and are essential to Europe’s water supply, have been disappearing at record speed. A new study shows that Switzerland’s glaciers have lost more than half their volume in less than 100 years. This year’s hot summer has accelerated the loss of ice. Please …

A tipping point is where even a slight amount of warming can move the climate into an irreversible state. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #ClimateChange #BBCEarth Watch more: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthPlaylist Blue Planet http://bit.ly/BluePlanetPlaylist Planet Earth II http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthIIPlaylist Planet Dinosaur https://bit.ly/PlanetDinosaurPlaylist Climate Change: The Facts We’re just two degrees away from a climate …

Africa has emitted 20x less CO2, but America and Europe are still reluctant to give aid for climate disasters like a drought that killed hundreds of kids in Somalia. Help keep VICE News’ fearless reporting free for millions by making a one time or ongoing contribution here. – https://vice.com/contribute Subscribe …

If the world is getting too hot, why not give it some shade? Solar geoengineering could halt global warming, but there are risks to this controversial technology. 00:00 – Is solar geoengineering worth the risks? 00:41 – On the frontline of climate change 01:40 – What is solar geoengineering? 02:05 …

The hard facts about global warming – a defining issue of our time. Climate change is happening now, and even world leaders meeting for climate talks at this year’s Cop25 know we aren’t doing enough to stop it. In fact, we’re going backwards. The UN says carbon dioxide levels in …

If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like. 00:00 – What will a 3°C world look like? 00:57 – Climate change is already having devastating effects 02:58 – …

From the moment we wake up to when we go to sleep we are all using energy, this emissions from this constant generation of energy has caused the world to warm by roughly 1℃. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #COP26 #ClimateChange Watch more: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthPlaylist Blue Planet http://bit.ly/BluePlanetPlaylist Planet Earth II http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthIIPlaylist …

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-can-we-fix-climate/ Visit https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway …