The provided text seems to be a dialogue from a video or podcast discussing climate change, its causes, and its potential impacts on the world. Here is a summary:
The conversation begins with a character named Antoine who is asked to fetch a bottle of Moët. The world is described as ending, and there's a reference to a video about climate change. The character Antoine dismisses the video, criticizing it for promoting liberal agendas and lecturing about social justice. The speaker then introduces the concept of the "Angry Jack effect", a psychological response where people react negatively to information they perceive as a threat to their lifestyle or identity.
The speaker discusses Al Gore's work on climate change, including his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth". They criticize the media for ridiculing Gore's warnings about climate change. The speaker also discusses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on the impacts of climate change, arguing that even two degrees of warming could lead to catastrophic consequences.
The speaker then discusses the role of oil companies and politicians in denying climate change. They mention that a 2013 analysis found that 97% of climate change papers support the conclusion that humans caused global warming. The speaker criticizes the Western Fuels Association for promoting climate change denial and accuses Senator James Inhofe of using climate denial as a political strategy.
The speaker also discusses the psychological impact of climate change denial on climate scientists. They mention that Michael Mann, the creator of the "hockey stick graph", has received numerous threats due to his work on climate change.
The speaker then addresses the character Antoine's dismissive attitude towards climate change, arguing that even if the world doesn't end, the impacts of climate change will still have severe consequences for humanity. They argue that climate change is real and caused by human activity and that even major oil companies now acknowledge this.
In the end, the speaker concludes that while individuals can make lifestyle changes to reduce their carbon emissions, the primary responsibility for combating climate change lies with the companies and governments that are the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
Some possible facts extracted from the text are:
1. Scientists in South Korea's Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) facility have managed to sustain a nuclear fusion reaction running at temperatures in excess of 100 million°C for 30 seconds for the first time.
2. The core of the Sun has a temperature of 15 million degrees kelvins.
3. The global temperature has risen one degree Celsius above the pre-industrial average, which is on track with the projections presented in Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth".
4. A 2013 analysis of the scientific literature on climate change found that 97% of papers published on the subject supported the conclusion that humans caused global warming.
5. Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions, and the burden of stopping this can't really be placed on individual consumers.
6. The Paris Agreement established the goal of limiting the increase in global temperature to well below two degrees Celsius, but Donald Trump has begun withdrawing the United States from it.
7. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that even two degrees of warming could result in an iceless arctic summer at least once a decade, the destruction of nearly every coral reef, and a heightened frequency of tropical cyclones, droughts, and famines around the world.
8. Three degrees of warming will flood many of the world's major coastal cities, including Shanghai, Miami, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Alexandria, and Hong Kong.
9. Four degrees of warming will be close to the difference between early 20th century temperatures and the last ice age.
10. The IPCC report recommends we limit warming to 1.5 degrees, a goal that requires drastic and unprecedented reduction in emissions within the next 12 years and net zero emissions by 2050.