Most terrifying video you'll ever see

It's long, but it's really good - clear, simple, very logical. Perhaps a tiny bit preachy at the end that gives away his beliefs on it, but still, a powerful argument.

This is great. So simple. Breakin' it down!

Very good. It is nice to see a well reasoned argument as opposed to the normal trash you might see on mainstream "news" channels. I like how you broke down the argument into rows and columns and made it a choice between risk. I like how you showed that column B's risk incorporates column A's risk and adds even more - I think you should have made that a larger point than you did.

Great job.

If we do nothing, I don't think our species and most other species will survive, chances are that unchecked, global warming will increase to the level that will transform our world into a planet like Venus.

This is off topic but....regardless, we will be forced off the planet within a few short million years anyhow, because our sun is dieing. We've got to find a way off the planet and then out of the solar system...and even THEN if we do make it out of Sol, the milky way is on a collision course with Andromeda (our sister galaxy) so we are pretty much screwed. Our species only hope of long term survival is black holes, and cybernetics.

This is VERY much along the lines of Einstein's argument about God and whether or not you should believe in him. Basically it boils down to, "better safe than sorry" -- which, with the human race's survival in question, how could you possibly NOT want to pick column A?

I think a lot of the problem is that there are too many people who are Now thinkers -- people who, for lack of a better word, are greedy and only see the immediate future and the cost of fixing such a potentially huge problem, people who either cannot or do not want to think about the future of a planet. People who care only about the Here and Now. "So what if the world is potentially doomed? It's not affecting my life right now, so why worry?"

Even if this problem will not affect you as an individual, it very well might affect your children, or your children's children, and as a human being you owe it to yourself (and to the rest of your species) to at least consider that there is indeed a problem and take steps to prevent it. Just imagine how column 2, row B would compare to column 1, row A.

As a side note, this video gave me nightmarish flashbacks of truth-tables from logic courses in college :P

omfg....why would you take TEN FREAKING MINUTES!!!!!!! ....to communicate such a simple logic matrix that could have been explained in under 2 minutes......I want to be compensated for that eight minutes of my life and sanity which are now lost forever......ugh

speaking of....where is the pod-sized version of
"An Inconvenient..."

The reason why we're in this mess to begin with is that people do not want to spend ten freaking minutes to understand the issue.

RE:somerandomdude

disagree....I will do a similar video to prove my point....give me a little time....i have a dozen other things taking priority this second....but I am serious...stay tuned....will have it up very shortly.


come on....we are talking about a population with an exponentially receding attention span. you gotta keep it short and sweet to reach the masses...top 100 youtube most viewed...hello

in the meantime...watch this video...it basically sums it all up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91-GMc3j7I

ive seen the exact same diagram years and years ago but applied to having faith in a religion...think about it

Pascal's Wager, that's it! I don't know why I said Einstein, thanks for the correction -- how embarrassing. :P

I would posit that charting out the max/min scenarios of ANY problem where an extreme negative is a potential possibility (global warming, nuclear war, going to hell for your disbelief, etc.) would almost always yield a "better safe than sorry" answer. IMHO, understanding that should be reflexive and intuitive and should not require a truth table or diagram to comprehend. I mean... it should be axiomatic that having a major problem and not doing anything about it is "worse" than not having the problem and taking unneeded steps anyways. So why are people so "on the fence" or ambivalent regarding problems like these?

Well, I do sort of agree in regards to the attention span thing. We are definitely more and more becoming an Instant Culture (if we aren't already), where we expect things and informations as close to immediately as possible. In my opinion, the only problem with this is that humanity's average "thinking speed" is not increasing along with our demand for faster information. I think this is kind of resulting in a dumbing down, in some ways -- and remember, I'm talking about attention span, not intelligent quotient. It seems like a lot of people -- or rather, a lot of people that I have talked to who are not the "type" of person to ever care to watch Current TV, for example -- don't want to take the time to understand things that aren't immediately necessary, so when they encounter a complex problem they shrug it off with the assumption that another party (e.g. the government) will attend to it, and they continue on to something that they feel is more accessible to them. I mean, after all global warming is a huge deal... what can Job Blow off the street really do about such a problem?

This, combined with some peoples' "selfish" propensity toward favoring the Here and Now, is compounding the problem. I'm sure there's a lot more reasons too! I guess anything that deals with the entire fate of our species is going to be inherently socially complex, if for no other reason than the fact that there's over 6.5 billion of us and we all have an opinion -- and even if only some of us voice that opinion, that's still a lot of people arguing over what to do or not to do, heh. It seems like it would make it easy to come to an argumentative stalemate, which is probably the worst possible thing that could happen when humanity's future is potentially at stake.

I hope the aliens come soon. ;(

PUT THIS ON TV! This is GREAT.

yes, of course, yes yes. well done!

The left needs to make the case that demanding innovation from U.S. industry always leads to prosperity through change.

Does the right wing really believe that American industry cannot rise to take on the challenges of climate change?

Does the right not believe in the power of US innovation? This is the argument I have never heard.

This is worth putting on air and a great argument for changing perspectives on the issue. Complacency will surely be the biggest hurdle to face those who are grey to which ever column is to come.

Fail to act, sure to fail.

smorrissey, something apparently turned you off from this video, and the 10 minutes seemed excruciating to you. maybe you didnt find the guy captivating. Maybe you didnt like his bunny teeth.

but I think he was very well spoken, conscise, dynamic, and made a great point that 2 minutes would not have honored. This is a case where the message and content of the video is too important to adorn with fancy distracting grfx etc. Slap this on the Tube!

If Al Gore is right, we'll save the lives of millions. If he is wrong, then Bill Murray goes to jail.

Right Morrisey?

I'll fix you Venkman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91-GMc3j7I

Fantastic! I will forward the link to others but, somehow, I do not ache or die if THEY do nothing it is up to them to decide what they do but I want to do my part; His argument is Convincing to me and flawless!

I had written a simpler version and I hope someone will recast it in their words and put it in a video.

If you take a risk with your money and buy a lottery ticket that is your choice with your money.

If you do nothing about Global Warming, it is your own children and all other children that will bake in an oven not too different than those in Auschwitz. Are you OK with that!
Do you believe you have the right to take the risk and put all children, humanity, to bake in an oven?

Remember, Venus is just a little closer to the sun and its atmosphere is mostly Carbon Dioxide, it reached the temperature at which it sends out, it radiates out as much energy as it receives from the sun by radiation. The temparature that it takes to reach that high level of energy radiation out is 846 Degrees Fahrenheit. Higher than most ovens in most homes.

Are you willing to protect your money at the risk your own children, that your are saving the money for, will be baked at 800 deg F? Does that make any sense to you?

I like that this guy detailed the potential horrors of global warming a bit..coastal cities washed away, major economic collapses due to disaster after disaster, crazy hurricanes as the norm, droughts then floods, aggressive warfare between humans over scarce resources...in 10 to 20 years possibly? That's so much scarier and vivid then "extreme weather changes". smorrisey--make a 2 minute crazy graphics madness pop version of this...with the bubble gum moral of warning at the end. like a mini sci-fi pod that inspires world-changing action and determination to overcome all odds! yeah! kudos to this guy's version too tho!

hey dayvidday, i like your comment and i agree. if there's necessary changes that need to be made in the way we live and work and play, i think they do have to spring up from consumer demand and innovative industry supply. problem-Solution-problem-Solution...save the world and get rich!! ready, set, go!!!

no matter what we choose, jesus will come and save us all so might as well save our money so we can give it to jesus when he saves us...
=P sarcasm