Scientist reacts to YouTube climate change comments

As a scientist who makes videos about climate change on YouTube, you get some very... interesting YouTube comments. In this video I react to some of them and try to clear up some climate misconceptions!

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Notes:
1. My video on global cooling with Adam: https://youtu.be/5E7K70DFLJQ
2. Solar change and climate change: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.2009.0519
3. Oxfam figures of emissions by income: https://oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf
4. Note that updated figures comparing emissions to income are available here, going beyond lifestyle emissions so are not directly comparable: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-by-income-region
5. CO2 emissions by region over time: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions
6. Distributed renewables: http://www.ren21.net/gsr-2018/chapters/chapter_04/chapter_04/
7. China is largest investor in solar energy: https://www.ren21.net/gsr-2019/chapters/chapter_03/chapter_03/#sub_5 and https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/unep/documents/global-trends-renewable-energy-investment-2018
8. Example of distinction between global warming and climate change: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change
9. Regional differences in warming: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/#cid_455
10. GISSTEMP temperature record: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/
11. See e.g. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2009rg000282
12. My video on sea level rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkVGiSgOM4
13. User-friendly analysis of Nature article on the subject: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50236882 where these figures are taken from
14. Areas flooded by storm surges in Shanghai: https://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-flooded-future-global-vulnerability-to-sea-level-rise-worse-than-previously-understood
15. Sea level rise projections: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapter13_FINAL.pdf NB several metres by the end of the century is a literal worst-case i.e. doomsday scenario! Most upper end estimates are around 1m of sea level rise by 2100.
16. This is a huge and complicated topic! Start here with sources therein: https://www.carbonbrief.org/expect-tens-of-millions-of-internal-climate-migrants-by-2050-says-world-bank

Scientist reacts in this video to YouTube climate change comments, a funny journey into the hive mind of the internet.

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