Brief overview of the Climate Future (and Past)

With all the wars, tariffs, airplane explosions and quarrels of the billionaires, we tend to forget about climate issues - while these issues will define our future a lot in the decades to come. This video is a brief overview of what our climate was like in the past, what it's going to be like in the future, some ideas about what can be done, and, traditionally for the channel - a scientific plausibility tierlist of climate apocalypse movies.

Chapters:
0:00 On modern ecology
3:06 Doomsday Thermometer
12:53 Doomsday Thermospeedometer
16:49 Human Factor
18:30 The Root of Evil
21:08 Crisping Revolution
22:44 Being Eco-friendly 101
27:31 Climate Apocalypse Movie Tierlist
30:40 Hardcore Sci-fi Climate Future

Internet sources referenced:

https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/press...
https://www.internetgeography.net/top...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map
https://climate.copernicus.eu/latest-...
https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temp...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/glo...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabilit...
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Ge...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...
https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/
https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-...
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https://www.politico.eu/article/europ...
https://www.worldfutureenergysummit.c...
https://theins.ru/en/politics/276609
https://www.businessinsider.com/russi...
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https://epi.yale.edu/measure/2024/EPI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcma...
https://climate.copernicus.eu/coperni...
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   • The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and...  
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Footage used from:

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (2013), Gravity Falls S1E14 (2012), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ice Age (2002), Idiocracy (2006), Interstellar (2014), Kung Fury (2015), Mad Max 2 (1981), Mad max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Mickey 17 (2025), Planet Dinosaur E6 (2011), Severance S2E9 (2025), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Snatch (2000), Snowpiercer (2013), Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Thing (1982), Watchmen (2009), Walking with monsters (2005), Waterworld (1995)

Gaming footage from:

Dinkum (2022), Disco Elysium (2019)

Idea, research, script, pixelart, voice and editing by Surge
Camera by Paula
AI artwork prompted by Surge via Flux
Background music by Heepothesys
Featuring lab rodents Jojo and Mushi
First time onscreen: stick insect Bobinsky

*some information given in the video is based on the knowledge of the author, who has no special education in most of the topics he speaks on, so please take it with a grain of salt and leave a comment if you disagree