about trillions -- that’s another sign. Climate change, how can we solve for that?There needs to be, we've seen it in COP announcements and beyond, there needs to be unity.
a period again of global warming, a period where sea levels were moving around. And out of that came new types of dinosaurs. And the dinosaurs that were able to survive, that interval of climate change in the middle Cretaceous, they were the ones that then had the opportunity to take over in the late Cretaceous. But still, again, this is largely a mystery. By the latestCretaceous, and I'm talking between about 80 million years ago and about 66 million years ago, by that time, the continents had moved around so much that Pangaea was a distant memory, and a map
And again, you know, cuts differently depending on where you are and what you do. climate , it's like hard to have a nuanced discussion.
From the third to the first, cybersecurity was number three. Climate change number two and disinformation number one.In other words, the problem you're talking about.
there's an immediate danger when we see these big downpours come. But, I think as the time goes on, as we've seen in terms of the what the climate is now changing into, we're seeing wet winters, we're seeing dry summers. I think we can basically saythe same menu, perhaps not exactly the same every year, but certainly in terms of the general trend will remain
loss revenue according to the energy and climate intelligence unit a think tank. climate intelligence unit a think tank. That doesn't include wider That doesn't include wider costs of the costs of the heat wave like lostheat wave like lost vegetable crops and vegetable crops and livestock. There is livestock. There is a silver lining, but a silver lining, but it's not all that
that's all disruptible whether by climate itself or climate interacting climate itself or climate interacting with geopolitical needs and uh andwith geopolitical needs and uh and strategies. 2026 has been a a wakeup
country that might in turn be hit by country that might in turn be hit by climate change uh in a given year and so climate change uh in a given year and so on. So building a resilient food system on. So building a resilient food systemis not just about agriculture. It's is not just about agriculture. It's about reshaping the global economy and about reshaping the global economy and
You have to think about the adaptive reuse, the transformation of buildings into the future. Climate change is impacting Africa more than any other continent in the world, and we can take the practices around sustainability and really incorporate it there.
And if you say, hey, I'm about to invest, they'll be like my uncle's brother's son lost so much money in the share market. climate just this past couple years, I'd say, what's your stance on when your employer pays compensation,
And income inequality is a kind of pandemic. Climate change is a different kind of pandemic.And these things and the mental-health epidemic is a mental-health pandemic.
I I I have this example of a a product that is very important and very dear to France which is lavender lavender and lavender this used to grow wild you you never care about anything about the climate because the rains always came at this same season pretty much the same and then the lavender Bloom then everything was fine and all of a sudden Everything Changes drought comes the rains aretoo heavy they're too late they're too early and the consequence of that is that for most of the flowers we understand as an industry that it will only survive if we are able to do drip irrigation
So this is a complicated story. Climate change is the most complicated story of our time.It challenges the way we see the world.
So let's take climate as an example because it's the best known. Climate is weather patterns and weather systems.The way that we can affect climate is by pumping out, or hopefully capturing, huge amounts of carbon and other greenhouse gases
destroying these poor creatures and invasive species, parasites. I'm sure some of you have heard of veroa destructor, climate change. So, for example, these animals require that their plantspollinate at a certain time of year, but then sometimes they haven't even gone through their metamorphic changes to
So what are the biggest overall global environmental problems today? Climate change is, in terms of direct impact on humans, is really air pollution, not climate .Climate will be a much bigger impact over the century.
Climate change is, in terms of direct impact on humans, is really air pollution, not climate .Climate will be a much bigger impact over the century.And so it's worth really asking yourself if we're talking about adding additional sulfur to the atmosphere, what is the impact of that sulfur?
But there's nothing magic about halving it. climate wars, if you like.
And we have to address-- this is a picture from Katrina-- the way in which federal resilience and adaptation dollars are not going, right now, to the communities that climate change. And finally, we need a partner with real economic clout.
Climate change does not, cannot cause disasters, which means if we want to stop disasters emerging because of climate change, then we have to deal with
climate the Trump administration has declared war on the LGBTQ community and
Climate change, even slight shifts of climate can shove cultural development very quickly in a particular direction.
climate catastrophe. The IPCC, in their most recent report, said, even if we were to do everything that we're talking about with fossil fuels,
Climate change itself is not an event.
climate change, the burning of fossil fuels.
Climate change. OK, great.
Climate change, inequality. I'm told, actually, at the moment, Oxfam say that about 40 or so people-- it changes each year--
Climate is not in these five works.
Climate change we are just about at the point where we could stop the worst excesses-- just about.
Climate change, I think we probably agree, is the number one threat facing the ocean and the planet.
Climate change is real, the Earth is warming, this is a man-made disaster, our survival is under severe threat.
Climate now has such a lock on the liberal imagination that any attempt to change the conversation, even trying to change it to the epic extinction event
climate problem, would we but yet here we are worrying about nuclear waste no one's ever died from it so who benefits from
Climate change is--
Climate , we don't know.
Climate change, loss of natural habitat, soil erosion, flooding, greenhouse emissions-- those things have very negative effect on different commercial activities
Climate change is a great example.
Climate change, which luckily the governor of Florida assures us is not happening right after Irma.
climate change, the whole Midwest from Montana west is burning up right now.
Climate change is one of the major four issues of this century.
climate for their progressive uh, views.
climate change but can you bring that to that planet and alter it particularly when a life force has been on that
climate entropy accident heartbreak we're we're really fools to think that we're in in control of the universe any
climate change scenarios for example are going to impact that loss because the good news and there is some good news
climate change but in the past climate change caused humans. Um so what we seem
climate change and pandemics and things like that and before I started my talk and the auditorium was filled with
Climate change is really important to me and being energy independent.
Climate change is real.
Climate change communicators keep it positive.
Climate change or not, I make it hot.