How science can combat climate change conspiracies - Whose Truth? The Documentary, BBC World Service

Published 2024-07-01
Nobel Prize laureate Sir Paul Nurse wants science, not politics, to guide the debate surrounding climate change. But how do you convince the denialists?

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Babita Sharma takes us through the evolving strategies of those who claim climate change isn’t real, and speaks to two young people who are trying to make a difference. UK climate activist Phoebe L Hanson founded Teach the Teacher, which gives school children the resources to engage with their teachers on climate change.

Ugandan Nyombi Morris set up a non-profit organisation, Earth Volunteers, to mobilise young people like him who wanted to promote the fight against the climate crisis.

00:00 Fleeing the floods
00:50 A climate crisis
02:20 Teach the Teacher
05:48 Climate change disinformation
09:16 Sir Paul Nurse on tackling conspiracy theories
12:41 Climate refugees taking action
15:08 Education is crucial to tackling climate change

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All Comments (21)
  • “GDP continues to grow by 8%”... Indian economy racing✨[Hello India]
  • What's weird is that NASA reports the earth as greening and clearly crop yields are up. How strange is that?
  • @ceeemm1901
    If you are a science teacher in school then you have to be clued up about CC. It's a science dilemma that is taking place right here, right now, as Norman Cook would say. So it should be the most relevant topic in the science class.
  • @Neekamhakane
    Your positive energy radiates through the screen!
  • In 1950, the population of Africa was estimated to be between 220 million and 240 million people. Today it’s almost 1.5 billion. The birthrate is over 4.3 children/woman; twice as high as the rest of the world.
  • @kevindruce8915
    If you could send out more details about teach the teacher then that would be good please. As I often have conversations with people on CC and it is useful to be as prepared as possible.
  • Countries are badly hit by climate disasters may aware the critical issue of climate change. On the contrary, country with little impact from climate change may take climate issue lightly . Therefore , the tropic of climate change may become a long-term issue for the world to overcome of it.
  • @OldScientist
    There is no climate crisis. The UN's IPCC AR6 report, chapter 11 'Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate' summarises the fact that certain severe weather events cannot be detected as increasing, nor attributed to human caused climate change: Pages 1761 - 1765, Table 11.A.2 Synthesis table summarising assessments Heavy Precipitation: 24 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend (12 medium confidence), 43 out of 45 low confidence in human attribution. Agricultural Drought: 31 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend (14 medium confidence. No high confidence assessment). 42 out 45 low confidence in human attribution (3 medium, no high confidence). Ecological Drought as above. Hydrological Drought: 38 out of 45 global regions low confidence in observed trend. 43 out 45 low confidence in human attribution (2 medium confidence, no high confidence). So the IPCC are saying we didn't cause droughts and we didn't make it rain. How surprising!
  • @OldScientist
    It is estimated that 5.1 million people annually die in association with non-optimal temperatures. 4.6 million are link to the cold, so over 90% (Zhao et al, 2021). And it is worst in the warmer parts of the world. 98% of temperature related deaths in SubSaharan Africa are due to the cold. Temperature events may be linked to upto 10% of human deaths annually. In a warming world there will be less death.
  • @gruber1650
    And what if the courts rule against your narrative 😮
  • @OldScientist
    There has been a 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000 (CRED). Normalised disaster losses have decreased since 1990 and human mortality due to extreme weather has decreased by more than 95% since 1920, so you're 50 times less likely to die from a climate-related disaster in a world that's 1°C warmer than 100 years ago (EM-DAT, CRED/UC). Deaths from drought have declined by 99%! As an example of good news, Climate Change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022).
  • @OldScientist
    "Heat-attributable mortality fractions have declined over time in most countries owing to general improvements in health care systems, increasing prevalence of residential air conditioning, and behavioural changes. These factors, which determine the susceptibility of the population to heat, have predominated over the influence of temperature change." IPCC
  • @cdes68
    Nature will cull humans.
  • I call all science sceptics flat earthers now. Some of them actually get quite stroppy . Hopefully, they will re-evaluate their daft attitude.
  • @bingpz
    The climate stats started at the end of the mini ice age. Do you think the planet would get colder when an Ice age finishes??
  • @peterjol
    Sadly The Many millions of people who work directly or indirectly in the fossil fuel industries simply don't want to believe in climate change (regardless of whether it's true or not) because they don't want to lose their 'jobs' and the only way you could quickly provide them with alternative jobs and incomes would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we NEED people to do and to work much less.
  • The truth? Industrialization was never the cause of the upsurge of fossil emissions from bitumen, coal, gas and oil: mechanization of warfare and colonization were. But warfare means defense, and defense is patriotic, so fossil trade gained the halo of patriotism for many. We knew the pollution was harmful, but fear of 'the enemy' was greater than fear of what we were doing to each other through tailpipes and smokestacks. Then, well-meaning thinkers like Vaclav Smil started preaching that poverty was worse than pollution, excusing any excess of emissions, as if there were no choice but fossil. Now, we know those views are simply wrong on technical grounds. Asymmetric warfare sees cardboard drones powered by batteries sinking warships fueled by heavy oil for less than a penny on the dollar. Fossil no longer guarantees defense: it guarantees defeat. Biochar soil amendment outperforms synthetic fertilizer from natural gas. Renewables are less costly than fossil across the board for energy. Net carbon negative geopolymers are better and less expensive than OPC for concrete. So not only are these opponents of action to solve climate change politicized and polemicized; they're also expensive. Try Project Drawdown's Climate Solutions 101 & Roadmap.
  • Students should be learning math, science, and languages. Not political agendas. Greta is a political activist; not a climate scientist. Alarmists usually use hysteria and hyperbole instead of facts and statistics.
  • @OldScientist
    The UN's IPCC AR6 report, chapter 11 'Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate' summarises the fact that severe weather events cannot be detected as increasing, nor attributed to human caused climate change: Increased Flooding: not detected, no attribution. Increased Meteorological Drought: not detected, no attribution. Increased Hydrological Drought: not detected, no attribution. Increased Tropical Cyclones: not detected, no attribution. Increased Winter Storms: not detected, no attribution. Increased Thunderstorms: not detected, no attribution. Increased Hail: not detected, no attribution. increased lightning: not detected, no attribution. Increased Extreme Winds: not detected, no attribution. There is no climate crisis.