 episode 20 of hashtag LNT with your man and your favorite host Ahmed Ali. Now hashtag LNT we try to to choose topics a variety of topics ranging from cultural social religious and of course scientific. Now tonight's topic is a scientific topic a topic that you know we have a major effect on that matter but that's I that that's all I can say so what you guys have to do is just continue watching to see what we're talking about today and how we're affecting the world but let's go and see what's trending on the bag very soon so do you stay tuned. Once again we do welcome everyone for joining us tonight now Guatemala's volcano one of the most violent eruptions over a century now the Fugo volcano killed 25 people 25 people and its lava and and the steam went 25 miles out from the capital city smooth rocks lava gas and ashes into the sky just yesterday just or the day before yesterday on Sunday it even killed people staying at their homes so people at home they were affected by and they died as a result of it and as you can see the kids right there they're terrified people are trying to help them are everyone is being evacuated from the city just in case anything does happen again and the president of Guatemala stated that it's a three-day morning for the country our prayers do go for the ones that are injured or that are lost their lives in that incident now what are what else is trending Jordan's Prime Minister has resigned after days of protest for the taxes and strike measures this is crazy the guy resigned and the protesters chanting anti-government slogans slashed with the police but you know at the end you can see the protests actually can result to something good I hope in Iraq if the electricity isn't isn't that good anymore we're gonna go protest hashtag Galentee is gonna go protest and we be sure that the mayor of Guatemala gets resigned or someone who is responsible gets resigned but anyways let's go and check out tonight's topic cuz it's very interesting don't you guys feel like every summer the weather is just getting hotter and hotter I mean I can't even and to tell you something for for a fact the afternoons here in Karbala I'm not trying to talk somewhere else the afternoon here's in Karbala the heat is just deadly you know for me when when when I leave to go home I leave during midday so to go home midday the car is steaming I hate myself when I get into the car because I was hot it is you know I tried to park it under shade or something but when the Sun reaches the middle of the sky that's it the car is heating up and I don't have a black car so you know it's it's crazy but the topic of climate change and global warming has been discussed by scientists including myself for decades now today is environment world environment day so hashtag gal and T is trying to celebrate that day and take it scientific with the fam tonight's question is very simple for you guys very simple in three two one three two one that's six seconds all right how are we responsible for global climate global climate change if yes what are we doing and how should we stop it the number to participate is plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and give us a call via WhatsApp you can send us a text message a voice message you can also go check us live on Facebook so you can go and and and check it out and comment like put that thumbs up share do all that good stuff cuz whoever participates in tonight show whether comments on Facebook or calls us or sends a message or voice message their names will be written down on these sticky notes right here placing this blessed fish bowl right here to have a chance to win a free trip to Karbala along with many many giveaways so let's go take a very short break come back talk about more on climate global climate change now according to 2014 Pew Research Center 40% of US public believe that yes we are responsible for global climate change human activity is responsible for climate change 35% believe that there's no solid evidence to this and 18% believe that there's no such thing actually exists this doesn't exist climate change is happening whether you like it or not and the earth is getting warmer and warmer by the year we'll get to talk about it because tens of thousands of scientists including myself from coming from more than a hundred nations have accumulated researchers and evidences and have concluded one thing that humans are the main cause for global climate change so what are the evidence that they've put forward number one simple chemistry when we burn carbon-based material right there we're making or recreating co2 aka carbon dioxide but we do have a call from Angela from the US Salamun alaykum Angela welcome to hashtag and tonight's question for you how are we responsible are we responsible for global for global climate change yes we are salam alaykum alaykum salam wa alaykum salam rahmatullah yes we are responsible for paper products and plastic product we cut down too many natural trees and everything wasteful the wastefulness pretty much the US he waste a lot of unnecessary item sorry the woods would stop using paper products like more electronic using so much plastic necessary on and filling our landmines stuff that's bio not bio yes yes so we wouldn't have issues if we would stop on over and that thing with all of our of course I mean of course if you think that's why or are responsible yes we are in that matter we are but thank you very much Angela for joining us tonight from the United States I believe your name has been placed in this fishbowl so inshallah thank you very much and we'll do give the chance to others to also participate now we were just mentioning how scientists are providing evidences to how humans are the cause are the main cause for global climate change global climate change now the second evidence that they've provided is basic accounts accounting what do we mean by that the more we burn of carbon dioxide the more the environment is influenced by that burning that we are doing now measuring CO2 in the atmosphere and trapped in ice this is the experiment that they've done they found out that it's increasing and the levels are higher than anything we've seen in hundreds of thousands of years this is crazy the levels of carbon dioxide are increasing huge huge now the fourth evidence that they provide is that the chemical analysis of the atmospheric CO2 that reveals the increase is coming by burning fossil fuels so thank you very much whoever's burning fossil fuels because the more you burn fossil fuels the more or the hotter Basra gets so next year we're trying to see 70 degrees but we do have another call from Hussain from Iraq Salam and alaykum Hussain welcome to hashtag galancy and tonight's question for you are we responsible for global climate change Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh this topic I'll first and foremost thank you so much for choosing this topic and talk about it in your show no problem at your service well 100% we are responsible and there is no doubt that's I would love to share with you something yeah the global warming is led by an excessive of all materials at a larger scale so what is required is that a pressure to adopt a tough anti-evolution regulations and every single country must be able to meet requirements of a climate change of protection everyone is responsible no yes okay and let me take you through the game of numbers we call it's okay in 2000 and sorry in 2013 global carbon dioxide emissions were 61% higher than they were in 1990s this was mentioned in a very well-known book called this changes everything for for a Naomi Klein like a climate expert yeah okay okay yeah and a climate scientist and I would like to share with you a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science yeah good the climate scientists agree that the climate change is happening here and now based on well-established evidence it is and about 97% of a climate scientist have can include that a human cost the climate change is happening this agreement is documented not just by a single study but about converging stream of evidence over the past two decades so there is no doubt in that we are responsible and we have afford that surprise thank you so much thank you very much Hussain from Iraq for joining us tonight I had one question if you're still on the line okay so he wanted I just want to ask him is Iraq helping a climate changer is it you know increasing pollution we just want to find out but anyways also let us know in your country if you're calling from a different country let us know if your country is helping to reduce climate change or is it increasing climate change but change to this camera now another scientific evidence that scientists have brought forth or brought forward that prove that humans are the reason behind Hussain from Iraq also mentioned a few points and few evidences how humans are responsible for global climate change but another one is the basic physics that show us that CO2 absorbs heat and it does because we'll get I'll leave you that for later on because we do have a few points left on but number six another evidence is that modern climate conditions to find that recent warming of the earth is correlated to and follows rising CO2's emissions okay so Hussain just just texted and says Iraq does increase climate change hopefully we can you know start recycling so we can get a better environment in Iraq but thank you very much Hussain another point that all of them have have concluded you know all the scientists they base their evidences and they base their researchers off of previous scientists and previous reach researchers they continue from where others left off all of them have come together and the points that we are going to mention as well and how we can avoid it they've came to the conclusion that through non-recycling through other points and other matters humans are increasing greenhouse gases and which is very dangerous for the earth because the wasteable gases are not leaving the earth they're staying within the earth and that's very dangerous that's why we see in Iraq and other cities you know just a few days ago I was talking to my friend in Canada and they said that this is the first day in May that we got 35 degrees in the UK they got I think 48 or 47 degrees which is crazy Pakistan people died because of the heat so we can see that the heat is increasing in every part of the world no one's immune no country is immune of this you know climate disease if you are in this environmental disease that we're creating the climate has nothing to do with it we're creating this disease now we just received a text message from Saadak from the UK Saadak says yes it begins with us leaving our phone charges plugged in even when unused to not recycling plastic bags and bottles we need to conserve our resources and move towards sustainable energy yes very true thank you very much Saadak from the UK well said your name has been placed in the fishbowl but thank you very much for participating in tonight's episode we are receiving new Facebook comments from viewers inshallah we'll get talk about them later on but all of the points that we mentioned what can we do what is the best thing in this situation to do right now we have a we have nine things for you guys to do that will reduce greenhouse gases and will make the environment better number one change a light you know these old lights that you have at home the cheap lights from dollar ammo or from wherever change them to eco fluorescent lights because honestly first of all the light looks better that brightens up the room you're consuming less energy which is in in return less carbon dioxide in the air and it's it's it's better for your eyesight it's better for your room when when you know and it saves you money the electricity bill is going to come less so in all ways you know you're paying extra like an extra dollar and a half or extra two dollars but at the end of the month that bill is going to be reduced a lot another one is drive less now someone if you don't understand why you should drive less and how that's not connected to global climate change then honestly I don't know where you're living because driving more you're wasting more gas which you know from the exhaust tips comes out carbon dioxide and sometimes if your engine is blown up it's carbon monoxide both of them are harmful for the environment and for humans for us humans another point is recycle more we got a few messages and Angela from the states did say that we need to recycle more you know in Iraq I've seen this there's no recycling bins and even when I was in Canada I saw people throwing bottles in the same garbage bin as where the rest of the things go separate between newspapers between paper water bottles cans whatever recycle bin is not a garbage bin and that's what we need to understand number four is check your tires what do I mean by that honestly when your tires are inflating or deflating sorry they consume more gas because the car needs to push itself to the right speed so when you do inflate your tires do it regularly so you're not and and plus it saves you money on gas 3% or more per gallon which is which is really really good for you as a consumer of gas or you can just drive less get a bike and you know exercise you're exercising and you're saving the environment number five use less hot water using less hot water in developed countries meaning using less heat using less electricity using less fire and in Iraq you're using less electricity and the second that you're using to boil up water is very bad for the environment so reduce the usage of hot water number six avoid products with a lot of packaging see this one we really can't avoid you know this one we really can't avoid this goes back to the company that makes the products you know for me as a consumer I want to get in a good product that sealed properly I don't want to get my iPhone 7 or iPhone X you know in like a plastic bag or one box no no no I wanted me so this goes back to how you know initiative the company is when they're sending me the bug that the phone when they're sending me headphones or whatever that I'm buying so it just goes back to Amazon or Ali Bob or Ali Express or whatever but number seven adjust your thermometer this is very important as well two degrees just make it two degrees less in in the winter and two degrees more in the summer how will that help it's gonna save you two thousand pounds of carbon dioxide a year two thousand pounds of carbon dioxide which is crazy that's a crazy number just two degrees two degrees that's it but let's go and ask the public before we continue off to the other two let's ask the public what they think about tonight's question are we responsible for climate change yes because we're using up the we're hitting up the system by the cars and the lifestyle is hitting up the globe are we responsible for global global climate change not really do you think we're responsible for global warming in certain respects yes why and because there's things like litter rubbish and pollution so yeah responsible for global global climate change yeah absolutely well if you look at the damage we've done to the planet over the last you know hundred years since the industrial revolution it's heating up massively the Great Barrier Reef has finally died we've wiped out millions hundreds of millions of acres of rainforest as a finite amount of resources and the population just keeps increasing so yeah we're doing some serious damage to the planet are we responsible for global climate change yes everyone's responsible and every human being has a duty to watch how they are polluting the planet so if you have the option to not pollute as much to look after this world better then yes we are responsible so from littering to cars to sound pollution that's all our duty of course welcome back the viewers and thank you very much for those who joined us from the UK now going back to the two points and they mentioned a few points as well and how you can reduce the climate change now another point which is very important for us I started this with myself not to brag or anything but I saw that nearing my how near my house the heat is crazy although you know people think this won't change a thing it will because I went to every neighbor I told them we have to plant trees from one end of the street to the end the end of the street and we actually did it it's it's a looks first of all looks beautiful you have trees in front of your house and second of all you're changing the climate because if you knew it already or if you didn't know it trees or any plant gives you oxygen and feeds off of the carbon dioxide now not saying that you know what burn more so the trees can feed no no no the trees is it's harmful for the trees as well but it takes in the garbage and it gives us oxygen so how beautiful trees are so go and plant a tree a simple tree in Iraq it's comes me which is like 40 cents just go plan a tree it's it's simple if you're living in Iraq plan a tree if you're living in the States I remember when we planted trees in our in our backyard it was like think a dollar and a half for a tree like a small tree plant that water it'll grow grass flowers whatever just plant plant anything the ninth point and the last point for tonight is turn off your electric your electric devices and this is very important as well a lot of people don't notice this when you consume more energy your the company the company is burning more gases it's it's burning more fossil fuel it's it's creating more carbon dioxide then it's gonna harm the environment so when you turn off your TV when you don't need it when you're going to sleep you know turn off the charger if you need your phone okay keep it on but if you're if you're going home if you're going to sleep turn off the charger turn off the lights if you can't sleep when you're you know in the dark area buy like those rechargeable lights turn them on and charge them during the day so it's it's not hard all you have to do is take care of the environment like you take care of yourself because the environment is taking care of you by giving you oxygen so if you want to live in more heat just keep on consuming electricity and consuming gas and all that stuff so you can burn carbon dioxide but let's read out the comments that we received on Facebook so we can continue with a special video that we have for you guys today now Ambrine Azgar says we can't plant or I think she means we can plant trees to control global warming okay Aiman Zahra says yes we are responsible for a climate change is happening because of over pollution, defrostation and industrialization okay these two have already participated thank you very much your names are already in the bowl Maryam Dawn Fleming she says we are responsible too much tree cutting and not replanting etc we need to get back to using less control our carbon footprint side notes okay it's only four degrees where I live in Canada right now crazy oh wow so okay okay so it's good now Maryam Dawn Fleming let's just write her name down AP 20 all right thank you very much Maryam from Canada for joining us tonight your name is going into the bowl once again we do thank you now let's go and check out this very nice video that we got for you guys today about and it summarizes everything that we've said so let's go and check it out this is earth the planet in our solar system that we live on however our planet is not on a good path for continuing to sustain life earth is facing the accelerating detrimental effect of climate change also referred to as global warming well what exactly is climate change climate change is defined as a long-term change in the earth's overall temperature with massive and permanent ramifications climate scientists believe that this isn't caused naturally by the earth but by human activity earth's atmosphere consists of gases such as oxygen and nitrogen and other gases known as greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide nitrous oxide and methane incoming light from the Sun hits the earth's surface the earth absorbs some of that energy heating the surface of the planet the rest of that energy gets reflected some of that energy goes back out into space but greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap the energy and send it right back to the earth's surface heating it up even more this is known as the greenhouse effect now a little greenhouse effect is natural to the earth and is a good thing to have but a large greenhouse effect can be catastrophic causing a lot of that energy to stay in our atmosphere and heat up the earth at an accelerating rate some of the main human activity that emits greenhouse gases are fossil fuel burning animals agriculture and deforestation and waste and recycle pollution but how do we know that our human activity is the cause of accelerated climate change and not the earth's natural process our civilizations produced a devastating 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide last year which equals 700 trillion cubic feet of CO2 that's a little more than 100 Mount Everest's of CO2 it's enough CO2 to fill the entire Grand Canyon five times or it's the equivalence of 19 million Empire State buildings the largest natural pollutant of the earth are volcanoes if we take the largest scientific estimate of carbon emissions produced by volcanoes every year that's 500 million tons of volcanic CO2 but that's not even 2% of the nearly 40 billion tons of CO2 that our civilizations produced over the course of thousands of years our climate goes through a natural climate cycle of carbon dioxide being absorbed and released into the atmosphere but once the industrial revolution kicked in burning fossil fuels became the necessity of manufacture and production plants and the CO2 level shot up violently have not slowed down since the earth has not seen this much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere for millions of years our planet with the greenhouse effect is like a bathtub being filled with more water than it can drain eventually it will fill up with more than it can handle but why should we care about global warming and climate increasing the earth's temperature has risen 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years animals and plant life are struggling to adapt to these conditions for survival if even one species goes extinct it can create a domino effect with the food chain no living plants or animals means no living humans question is how do we stop this instead of burning fossil fuels we need to convert to renewable energy such as solar and wind power which emit zero carbon emissions when operating energy from the sun and the wind are infinite unlike fossil fuels we will never run out of them more solar energy falls on the earth in one hour than all the energy that our civilizations consume in one year civil engineers from the solutions project calculated that we could power most of the world with only renewable energy if we just actually decided to do it remember climate change is very real and is drastically effective once again i'll end very informed of video but we did have to cut the video short because we're running out of time but big shout out to a few names that have constantly joined us in the show now alia rasumi from australia fazimoon from trinidad angel angela from the us hussain from iraq ismet mahdi from india sadaq from the uk maryam rana from pakistan fatima vakeel from india farhad azizi from kenra zaki anurazia from norway zaynab from pakistan mohammad m from india batul from the us we did promise you a shout out so there's your shout out and lastly we do thank everyone for joining us tonight beautiful night here in karbala yet sorrowful so at the end we do send our condolences to everyone on these very sorrowful nights which we mark the martyrdom of imam ali so in the name of imam ali go do something positive for the environment because environment needs us and we need it more so don't go go out and do something positive thank you very much wasramu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh