Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline

http://www.ted.com In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.

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[belliebum12]

She went too fast. The impact would have been greater had she slowed down and further illustrated the topic. Otherwise It was a good speech.

[koneye]

the e-mails got out so gtfo

[u2kimbow]

so they put up towers in rainforests and fly around the world to test for some obscure molecule. Yeah, sounds like they are concerned about environmental impact.

[8DX]

@sakkurae You never read any of the "climategate" emails then. Go read some of them.

[ZarlanTheGreen]

She explained what work is behind what the IPCC publishes.

...what science, if any, is behind newspaper headlines however, is a completely different issue altogether.

This talk gives the impression, that newspaper headlines about science can actually be trusted ...which I wish were true.

Check watch?v=beihglYP5KQ for a better view of the science behind headlines.

...or potholer54's videos about climate change, for something more related.

[sakkurae]

actually exxon mobil, british petroleum and shell all fund climate change and they all supported copenhagen and they all wanted to get a climate treaty from it. climategate emails reveal how oil companies were in close friendship with the east anglia university and michael mann and other scammers.

but what you are tingting is an 80 iq lie repeater

[sakkurae]

well what is there to know about cliamte change.

that its funded by rockefeller and rothschild? that they want a global tax with the global warming scam and 1 child policy and a total eco police state like the new audi car advertisement?

i mean you can sum climate change in 3 words:

BIG FUCKKING SCAM

thats all you need to know about climate change. 3 words. not hard to remember

[tingtangs]

You are a fucking moron. This woman knows more about climate science than a thousand idiots like yourself.

[tingtangs]

Monckton is a fucking moron. He's a right-wing political demagogue who hates science.

[tingtangs]

If CO2 is so "life giving", why don't you volunteer to breathe pure CO2 for a few minutes? Then you can tell us about it. Oops, but you can't! Because you would be dead from CO2 poisoning!

[tingtangs]

What happens to skeptics, exactly? Richard Lindzen is a skeptic, and he's still working at MIT and doing research.

So what IS happening to skeptics, exactly?

As for "follow the money", that's an excellent suggestion. The money for the right-wing front groups points back to oil companies like ExxonMobil, which are terrified because people are realizing that burning too much carbon is hurting us.

[TheNEWBobDylan]

Little do you know...