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"On average, this is the hottest summer you've ever experienced. It's also the coolest summer for the rest of your life." Just gotta sit with that for a while...

My favorite part is where he is asked what we can do to stop climate change, and his primary answer is to petition the government to address it. Why? Because big industry will have to be forced to address climate change, they'll not voluntarily do so, and they are the primary source of carbon dioxide. Big industry puts forward that illusion, to avoid compliance themselves. Much like recycling, it's a smoke screen, the creators of plastic items should be responsible for funding recycling, not the consumers.

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” – Kurt Vonnegut

I enjoy when people say we should terraform other planets because fixing the earth is too hard. Like, our sprinter caught a cold, so we should swap her out for a dude in a coma.

I was arrested next to Peter on the 4/6 action with 2 other scientists. It was part of a global effort known as Scientists Rebellion, and over 1000 total scientists got arrested. We were very surprised by the coverage it got in some areas, and not in others.

When he said “On average, this is the hottest summer you’ve ever experienced, it’s also the coolest summer for the rest of your life”, that really truly hit me.

I have become very pessimistic. My dad worked on climate science for JPL back in the 60's, and he explained back then what was happening. And here we are today, 60 years later and still moving full speed ahead to self-destruct.

Always amazing to me that some people really think "big climate research" has more influence than companies that have been ultra wealthy for over a century.

I love his emphasis on mitigating suffering. That needs to be our priority, to have compassion and empathy for each other and our planet, not to buy our way out of a crisis.

As a PhD candidate who just started this year, working in cloud physics, it relieves me to hear him say that it's complicated... because it is!

This what the internet should be used for. Thank you Wired for always bringing such awesome specialists♥

I'm just commenting for the algorithm. This needs to be seen by a wider audience.

It is very empowering to see someone brought on who actually got arrested for this emergency, and to see validation of that being very necessary

You know what, I respect this man for getting out there and getting arrested for change

I think we're excellently documenting our demise.

During the pandemic lockdown, I went back to college remotely and earned my 2nd and 3rd degrees, this time in Environmental Science and Geography. While everyone was focused on diseases and politics, I wanted to focus on what's coming next. One of the aspects that haunted me was the decline of fish populations. 3 billion people rely on the ocean for a dwindling supply of food and commerce right now. Just imagine what a nightmare it'll be in a few decades. So enjoy that seafood while you can now, because your grandkids probably won't.

Bring this guy Back!!!! we need MORE of him

Here we can see that he has, pretty much, lost all hope, and is just trying his best to warn and educate people in like a last desperate cry for help. But at the same time he delivers the information with so much eloquence and in a controlled way that I think he could reach some people. Well, I lost all hope too, and I don't have 1/1000000 of his knowledge about the subject, but I hope he keeps trying to reach people like this.

I will never forgive the conservatives for making global climate change a political Hot potato instead of actually dealing with it.

As a coastal engineer in Florida, the question everyone always asks me is "how long until Florida's underwater" and I really like the way he answered. It's basically impossible to know for sure, and all we have are probabilistic projections by NOAA and the IPCC to go off of.