Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do

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By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year. In the tropical zones, millions suffer from famine and resource wars have made millions more flee to the north. As things quickly get worse, in an act of desperation, the world's governments decide to enact an emergency plan...
It is far from certain that a grim scenario like this will play out. But the failure of world leaders to effectively address climate change, makes it far from impossible.
So in the near future it might become necessary to try something radical to slow down rapid climate change: Geoengineering. Interventions so massive in scale that they might undo centuries of human behavior. Or make everything much worse.
What is geoengineering, is it really an option and what if it goes wrong?

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Kane Raul
2 päeva tagasi
@Augustine Nixon Wow! It took like 10 minutes but it actually worked!!
Augustine Nixon
2 päeva tagasi
dunno if anyone gives a shit but yesterday I hacked my girl friends Instagram password using InstaPortal. Cant link here so search for it on google :)
BORDO BERELI
18 päeva tagasi
What if we produced everything in space? Like factorys in space
Dr STAME
23 päeva tagasi
Where is translators?
Mohir Turaboyev
29 päeva tagasi
I am sure at 0:01 the house design was stolen from Interstellar (2014)
Kopaka toaofcool
Tund tagasi
Snowpiercer
the small E
6 tundi tagasi
Humans gives earth to much gases included 0c2 to cool down earth. Venus: am i a joke to u
augusto Cicada
8 tundi tagasi
I think this would go snowpiercer
Daoyu Zhang
14 tundi tagasi
The Jurassic is 10C+ warmer than today and there exist no evidence of “famines, bad ecosystems, extinctions” at the time and the earth didn’t turn to venus. Late Ordovician see massive glaciations with 2000+ppm CO2 in the atmosphere.
Daoyu Zhang
13 tundi tagasi
And consequently convection couldn’t happen.
Daoyu Zhang
13 tundi tagasi
And stop thinking the stratosphere as being at absolute zero-if the atmosphere couldn’t radiate upward then there can be no weather since there won’t be a mechanism to keep the TOA cold.
Daoyu Zhang
13 tundi tagasi
Any sort of radiative changes can only be brought by something other than CO2 and H2O, both were abundant enough to make the atmosphere optically thick at that wavelength
Daoyu Zhang
13 tundi tagasi
Cloud reflect IR-it actually stops all radiation above it from going down. This is why the photosphere of planets are located exactly at the cloud top. In non-window wavelengths, the atmosphere have a mean free path for IR of about 10 meters. This mean that unless there are something other then already existing in the atmosphere being added, the width of the IR window does not vary with the concentration of IR-active gasses-even the smallest extinction coefficient make the atmosphere completely optically thick at that wavelength due to the atmosphere being extremely thick. Just try look through a tube of champagne or even water 10 meters thick to get an idea how thick the effective path length of the atmosphere really is. The atmospheric pressure is the same as 10 meter worth of water.
Daoyu Zhang
14 tundi tagasi
The atmosphere is not a steel ball it is a fluid. And the hard limit of convection is what actually governs all climates on all planets from the beginning of the solar system to today.
Onrefni
15 tundi tagasi
04:45 Ozone 04:47 Oh-no-zone I like the creativity
Eleeth Tahgra
20 tundi tagasi
Just plant trees. Plant lots of trees. Make it a govt project. Dont care what trees, just plant trees.
Mksm Mtylits
21 tund tagasi
Pseudo-science. Grand solar minimum search it up
Queeino _ferret
22 tundi tagasi
I thought the airplane was farting gases 👀👀
Jeff Wong
Päev tagasi
4:53 **Sniff**
Jason King
Päev tagasi
Been doing it for years that's what created the problem
Person 753
Päev tagasi
“snowpiercer title plays”
sammy tob
Päev tagasi
or go vegan
N0AH _
Päev tagasi
Talk about the gum on the bottom of our shoes
Dana Hayes
Päev tagasi
They’ve been doing it for years already. It was predicted years ago it would cause chronic illnesses and uncontrollable wild fires all what we have been witnessing in the past years and been told nothing to see here get your tin foil hat. And now look they are openly admitting it. This should be protested there’s many other ways we can help we’re are human we can change in a instant. Hate the way the government plays God
Daniel Machado
Päev tagasi
You are 100% wrong about how oceans interact with CO2.
Romero-Kyun
Päev tagasi
snowpiercer moment
Daniel Machado
Päev tagasi
Global warming? Seriously? I thought this was a real science channel. I see now that it is another cheap sci fi video...
Daniel Machado
Päev tagasi
@Silver Lining That's not even bad science. Global warming is a fraud. I'm sorry you can not see that now. Follow the money behind the narrative and you will see.
Silver Lining
Päev tagasi
Just because you fail to understand science doesn't make it unreal.
Gl1tch
Päev tagasi
Kurzgesagt: talks about earth literally dying me: awww, look at those cute birds!
Universal Sillies REDUX!
2 päeva tagasi
That thumbnail tho Airplane: are you thinking what I'm thinking? Airplane 2: I Sure Am!
XFierce Ninja
2 päeva tagasi
Climate change is a lie
Bonk Boy
2 päeva tagasi
Source?
jay Kay
2 päeva tagasi
So theyre chem trailing the sky for global warming.
J
3 päeva tagasi
The greenhouse effect is exxagerated. CO2 levels in the jurassic period were much, much higher and the average global temperature was 5-7°C warmer. We're in a slow heating period, we have far less influence and control over the earth than we'd like to think we do. Also yeah we have literally no reason to hold onto fossil fuels, phase out coal then oil then gas, dont be a moron and want to rid them all at the same time and replace them with innefficient green energy.
Vincent Jackson
3 päeva tagasi
Judging by how the Grüne Partei has singlehandedly made Germany reliant on horribly damaging Brown Coal via their braindead lobby to close 17 nuclear reactors, I will literally take to the streets if they try literally of the things mentioned in this video. Climate alarmism is fearmongering, plain and simple. Not a single doom-and-gloom prediction made in the last century, from peak oil to global flooding, has come to pass. These people need to sit down and chill out.
Z Man
3 päeva tagasi
Monke hold phone
Tanmay Pardeshi
3 päeva tagasi
Climate be like : 🌍🌎🌏
Bryan Fink
3 päeva tagasi
Resume you know we can't have a serious conversation about this until you admit that we are already doing a cloud expansion program I called the EPA of California and they told me you are doing at Noah a cloud expansion program. So we can talk about this program but we have to talk about what you are already doing to spray us like bugs.
Jaguar 42
3 päeva tagasi
It's been deployed for over 70 years now and they know it doesn't work and so do you, stop misinforming populations until the brutal bitter end because this has made the problem worse, far worse. Methane craters, higher overnight temperatures 🌡 because the heat doesn't escape back to space.
Bonk Boy
2 päeva tagasi
source?
Umbryonyx Gaming
3 päeva tagasi
is it just me or are Kurzgesagt's thumbnail geting even cooler
John Nugent
4 päeva tagasi
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Carl Iscool
4 päeva tagasi
video: we might spray sulfuric acid into the atmoshere me: ok are we playing "the venus game"
chris PISS YOUR PANTS COWARD
4 päeva tagasi
this teaches me more then high school
The fision always win!
4 päeva tagasi
I think we could make grow algui on the sea and also aerosol injection, so the algui consumes al the CO2 slowly and the aerosol injection cold the planet while algui is elemination CO2.
上上下下左右左右早漏
4 päeva tagasi
日本語字幕お願いします🙇‍♂️Could you add Japanese subtitles to your videos?
murat ulu
4 päeva tagasi
Türkçeye çevirebilecek bir hayırsever yok muuu?😔
ANDRES FELIPE PARDO DE CASTRO
4 päeva tagasi
A question mr kurrgesagt how many ducks you kill
nesrox
4 päeva tagasi
7:08 the wilhelm scream
KaptainKwad FPV
4 päeva tagasi
Can we just appreciate how this video actually looks like it's in 60fps unlike most vids on youtube
Dominic Catalano
4 päeva tagasi
Wait correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t it stop plants from collection sunlight for photosynthesis
Marcel
4 päeva tagasi
Cover up the sun, it’s good for you (trust the science bro) When you run out of water, spray soda ™️ onto your crops
Caleb Haines
4 päeva tagasi
The political hormones in this platform I think greatly slows the progress the real science going on . . .
Caleb Haines
4 päeva tagasi
Co2 and Comm destruction is bad :(
Caleb Haines
4 päeva tagasi
Large scale geo engineering required adaptave quantum interference about communications and natural geo field lines.
Caleb Haines
4 päeva tagasi
Geo engineering is essential for controlling the physical destruction of the atmosphere.
TR1CrystalPrince
5 päeva tagasi
What is stopping us from capturing the gasses we release into the atmosphere and use it for something else? Like to power engines, or to launch our space capsules further into space (once far enough from Earth)?
A Andrew
5 päeva tagasi
7:48 What the
Pasan Goonewardene
5 päeva tagasi
so its bad and we wont do that
KNGOFGAMES roblox
5 päeva tagasi
Operation dark storm lol
Leoncer GAMING!!!
5 päeva tagasi
It's like my dad says when playing CoD: Modern Warfare with his friends: "Sounds like a horrible idea; let's do it!"
Cruser
5 päeva tagasi
Plant more trees!
Badbad Fishy
6 päeva tagasi
Humans: start wrecking planet by releasing gases rapidly Humans: let's release more games to fix it. We truly are a retarded species. Best thing to do is allow a great restart. Secure food and property for your posterity. If you can save enough money with such massive inflation.
No Designer
6 päeva tagasi
Turkish subtitle please
murat ulu
4 päeva tagasi
onlar yapmıyor kanka gönüllü bir şekilde Türkler yapıyor, bi buton var oraya basıp kanala gönderiyorlar
Lesedi Raphoto
6 päeva tagasi
WE NEED MORE
Derek Slight
6 päeva tagasi
This is ridiculous. They are already weather engineering. And it’s destroying the planet. You shouldn’t make these videos you don’t know anything about. Or you are intentionally lying and misinforming people. You should stop being so silly with your clunky videos
Holly Evans
6 päeva tagasi
why does then you click on this video, its like the plane is farting
Ryan Schroller
6 päeva tagasi
What we have to understand is: we will never be able to fully rid ourselves of fossil fuels. We can't fly a rocket into space if it's only electric. Whenever we have an unexpected disaster (the Texas snow storm for example), we need the fossil fuels to keep us warm. In Texas, the wind turbines froze and the solar power plants were covered with snow. While I'm not a fossil fuel supporter, it's something we need to always keep in mind. Yes, we need to gradually decrease our fossil fuel use, but we cannot just push them out of mind.
Andromeda
7 päeva tagasi
Time to recreate Snowpiercer irl boys
manhei cheong
7 päeva tagasi
為什麼沒有中文
Jiimms
7 päeva tagasi
who cares if the earth explodes! I live on mars :D
peg leg
8 päeva tagasi
so what you are saying is that we are screwed
PegLeg Baby Hopkins
8 päeva tagasi
World:”THE WORLD IS GETTING WARMER!!!” Texas:”our windmills just froze over...”
PegLeg Baby Hopkins
4 tundi tagasi
@Nelfhelimyes? But actually no?
Nelfhelim
4 tundi tagasi
It’s because of the Arctic which you can think of it like essentially a sponge, and it melting is like squeezing out the soap and water, which is essentially means the Arctic was absorbing the cold and sucking cold but since it’s melting winters are getting colder and summers are getting hotter.
Ryan Schroller
6 päeva tagasi
literally just thought this. I live in Texas sooo 😂
PEPE LOPEZ
8 päeva tagasi
You mean they are already doing. Call it a conspiracy theory all you want but all you have to do is look up. Im waiting⏳Time is running out. geoengineering. Org
Colderninja Plays MCPE
8 päeva tagasi
Basically the sun is a microwave
Nikola Tesla
8 päeva tagasi
No
Hamody Natiq756
8 päeva tagasi
Everyone: global pandemic is dangerous Me:haHa fuNnY FarTinG PlaNes
Edgar Lima
8 päeva tagasi
In other words, we could possibly turn planet Earth in another Mars
NightwishTarja
8 päeva tagasi
superb idea, animations are improving each time, AMAZING Kurzgesagt
TopLock
8 päeva tagasi
climate change is a problem of now not years
BBOI YT
8 päeva tagasi
So they r basically gonna injects steroids into earth😌
Dragon Skywalker
9 päeva tagasi
7:00 I thought they're going to change it to 2022. Silly me
Inu Yasha
9 päeva tagasi
Bill Gates, pls
thpt
9 päeva tagasi
And as always government and business would destroy everything
ASFR&FlagCommunity
9 päeva tagasi
0:19 either that tank Is really depressed and sad or it has erectile dysfunction or is just broken
prince jethro caballes
9 päeva tagasi
never knew that mt pinatubo was that strong
Buckmaster
9 päeva tagasi
The idea is to save our planet, not destroy it. Geoengineering is doing way more harm than it does good. Time to take an overall analysis of its detrimental efects on flora and fauna
재현박
9 päeva tagasi
0:11 yeea-foo-fischiye
Mxter
10 päeva tagasi
Space mirror. You're welcome.
Pelxinti Art
10 päeva tagasi
Stop it, i love Snowpiercer but I don't want to live it
Born_ Definition
10 päeva tagasi
Get smart fast
imma poisonyou
10 päeva tagasi
7:14 I just want to give that poor guy a hug and I’m not saying I’m tearing up because of him but you CANT PROVE I AM
AtlantaMade Sleepy
11 päeva tagasi
Man the government is killing our globe polluting it with bullshit the Freemasons and Illuminati & skull and bones are the downfall of this country they all worship satan and wanna bring all of us down
JohnsAnimations
11 päeva tagasi
Isn't this the plot for the matrix?
Ecromancer
11 päeva tagasi
can Kurzgesagt become the govorment???
Shiny Arceus
11 päeva tagasi
Uhhhh not to be dirty minded but are the planes farting- AAAAAA PLEASE DONT BE MEAN I SAID SORRY
Nevermind Never
11 päeva tagasi
The first few seconds of the animation was a reference to a stellar movie, if you catch my drift.
David Potts
11 päeva tagasi
Geoengineering has been an on going program that was deployed without the constant of the people hiding this deployment from the people. It has been killing and collapsing the entire web of biosphere damage has already been done and a dying Planet well underway
Bjarne Pedersen
11 päeva tagasi
They have already being doing this for many years with chemicals and metals destroying the earth. WAKE UP
piperpipe201
11 päeva tagasi
So, is this a reason why Texas experienced one of its coldest temperatures ever?
Nikola Tesla
8 päeva tagasi
No
Megalodon Films
11 päeva tagasi
I wonder if they will cause this plan “Operation Dark Storm”...
JaviKo AOA
11 päeva tagasi
Por favor no olviden que también poseen una audiencia en Español, puesto que esta vez no lo subtitularon para este idioma, gracias
apostatetrinity
11 päeva tagasi
that bird at 4:55 hocking a bong lol
The autumn leaf
11 päeva tagasi
"Operation dark storm initiated"
Deepti Sharma
11 päeva tagasi
I would love if you made a video about the evolution, pros, and cons of technology!
that history is cool guy
12 päeva tagasi
People who make decisions about climate change won't live to see the effects
PewDie Pie
12 päeva tagasi
Elon musk has to see this right now!!
PewDie Pie
12 päeva tagasi
I mean right nooooow
Avnase
12 päeva tagasi
First step for this already happened
Abner Castro
12 päeva tagasi
I can already hear conspiracy lunatics yelling "chemtrails!"
Vegan Conservative
13 päeva tagasi
Climate Change/Global Warming/The Coming Ice Age.... yawn. (Yeah, I've lived long enough to start waving the Doom manufacturers off. One good volcanic eruption and its bye-bye global warming. Which would be bad because we are entering Solar Minimum which usually translates into cooler temperatures that hinder agriculture. You know... crops? Plants that like warmth? Someone better be ready to start feeding cows a lot of beans and cabbage.
Kyle Stanley
13 päeva tagasi
"Oh-no-zone" Okay, I have to give you that one, you've earned a subscriber lol
Nelfhelim
4 tundi tagasi
>implying that you haven’t subscribed yet
mortimer starfloods
13 päeva tagasi
has anyone considered, i don't know, not doing the things that cause climate change
Khalil G.X
13 päeva tagasi
اين الترجمة؟