Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate
Why Hacker News recommends it
Strongly recommended as a clear explanation of 50-60 million years of climate history that clears up confusion.
What it is
Dan Britt lectures on the history of climate, covering orbital cycles, ice ages and conditions millions of years ago. It frames current climate debate with deep-time context.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec baking · 2019-01 · on “Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates”
For anyone interested in finding out more about the last 50-60 million years of climate history I would strongly recommend this talk: [this video]
Strong rec stareatgoats · 2019-01 · on “How to give a great scientific talk”
Incidentally, yesterday I came across a great scientific talk that I think checked all the boxes here, and then some. 100k views+, but deserves an even larger audience IMO, could clear up some of the confusion about climate (the facts parts): Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate [this video] Obviously, I think this is a great talk since I find the topic interesting too. There is probably not much you can do if your audience is uninterested in the first place.
Recommends trymas · 2019-06 · on “Average Global Temperatures since 1850”
> <...> thing someone would do if they wanted to cherry pick their data to suit a case. <...> See for example the year without a summer (1816). _comes and cherry picks a single year to "prove" something_ > There are periods of human history where it was warmer than it is now. Yes, but you are talking about geologic time scale and extremely gradual changes compared to what we see now, which is just dozens of years. I recommend to watch this: [this video]
Cites mar77i · 2019-02 · on “Rising CO2 won't make trees grow more, study suggests”
Well as far as Dan Britt's talk goes, trees haven't noticeably been adjusting for thousands of years. [this video]