PickVidsBest Climate policy, solutions & debate Videos
The 67 Climate policy, solutions & debate videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 3 intermediate, 64 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Climate Town, Engineering Explained, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.
Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
Real Engineering examines whether greening the Sahara could draw down carbon and slow climate change.
Cows, Carbon and Climate | Joel Salatin | TEDxCharlottesville
Farmer Joel Salatin gives a TEDx talk on how well-managed grass and rotational grazing support sustainable farming and affect the climate.
The Problem with Biofuels
Real Engineering explains why biofuels, especially corn ethanol, are a poor energy source, looking at energy inputs, efficiency and carbon cost.
Tom Chi: How to Address our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet
Tom Chi gives the opening talk of a Foresight Institute competition on clean energy and clean air, framing excess CO2 as a carbon debt to repay and discussing large-scale tree planting, including by drone.
Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie | Climate Town
Climate Town argues that the personal carbon footprint idea shifts blame to individuals and traces it to oil company marketing, urging collective and political action.
Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
Channel 4 News reports on undercover Greenpeace footage of an ExxonMobil lobbyist describing efforts to weaken climate legislation.
Space Shades: Humanity's Last Hope | Answers With Joe
Joe Scott takes a serious look at space sunshades as a climate fix, asking how big they would need to be, what they would cost and whether they would work.
Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates
Bill Gates' TED2010 talk on the energy future, arguing for zero global carbon emissions by 2050 and the need for energy miracles.
Dutch Cities are Better for the Environment (and my sanity)
Not Just Bikes explains why living in a dense, bikeable Dutch city sharply reduced his family's environmental footprint and improved quality of life.
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
Mark Nelson of Radiant Energy Group explains how France, a leader in decarbonization through nuclear power, mismanaged its fleet, and what policy and outages threaten its future.
A Century Of US Cooling - Erased By NOAA
Tony Heller argues that US thermometer data shows a century of cooling and that NOAA adjusts the record to produce a warming trend.
Elon Musk's Unbelievably Simple 12-minute Killer Break Down on Climate Change
Elon Musk gives students at the Sorbonne a short, simple explanation of climate change and carbon emissions shortly before the 2015 COP21 conference in Paris.
Futurama - Global Warming
A short Futurama clip about a ridiculous cartoon solution to global warming.
Milton Friedman on the free-market case for taxing pollution
A two-minute clip from a 1979 Phil Donahue interview in which Milton Friedman makes the free-market case for taxing pollution.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) Snowball in the Senate (C-SPAN)
A C-SPAN clip of Senator James Inhofe displaying and tossing a snowball on the Senate floor, used as an argument against global warming.
The Climate Change Debate Is Long Over And There Is Nothing We Can Do
A clip from The Newsroom season 3 in which characters argue that the climate change debate is over and only a technology to reverse emissions can help.
George Carlin on The Environment
An 8-minute clip of George Carlin's 1992 stand-up bit on the environment, arguing the planet will be fine and it is people who are in trouble.
TeamTrees vs REALITY!!
Thunderf00t critiques the TeamTrees campaign, doing the math on how little carbon 20 million trees would actually offset.
Thomas Sowell: Global Warming Manufactured by Intellectuals?
A short clip in which Thomas Sowell argues that demand for intellectuals is manufactured by intellectuals, using global warming predictions as an example.