Piers Reacts to Greta Thunberg's UN Climate Summit Speech | Good Morning Britain

I wanna talk to you about climate change and Greta Donald Trump as you'd expect has responded into Donald Trump way he tweeted this little earlier today go to that we haven't go to that I cuz I saw we had it I'm sorry and we got it it's fine you'll be fine I don't forget guys his knee still hurts I mean too many people she's an inspiration because she is leading the charge for tackling climate change seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future so nice to see so here's my conflicted view of Greta which is that yeah she's highly impressive I mean to a sixteen-year-old girl he's so articulate so passionate you know I got no problem with that climate change climate change is a very serious issue I get it all it's something I felt very uncomfortable watching yesterday it was all a little melodramatic it was all end-of-the-world apocalyptic I don't want millions if not millions of young people watching Greta do that kind of speech and genuinely think the planet is literally about to end because it isn't so climate change is serious to be dealt with pressing it is it's an important issue but it's not into the world stuff in the way that she's portraying it in my opinion now Laura you are an expert so you'd be tweeting about it a lot climate change a series I mean it's happening it's real almost every scientist will say that this is a very real problem right nine point eight percent of scientists right so give us some simple language about climate change people you'd like yeah I hear a lot about this stuff what's the reality what is the reality the reality is I actually put on the climate course last week run by the raw meat illogical Society and we looked at everything that can make the earth get warmer and colder so there's lots and lots of people who think it's down to volcanic activity within warmer than this before is down to earth cycles down to the Sun we look to every single thing it could be and they all had a negligible change on the temperature rise the thing that had the biggest impact was the Rives in greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide which exactly tied in with the rising temperatures on earth and that has all happened since the Industrial Revolution and the US has never risen as quickly in temperatures although it's been warmer before and we've never seen carbon dioxide rise the earth has been warmer before inserted yep three billion three billion years ago see that's what the people who are skeptical about the apocalyptic stuff so we're looking the the the planet has gone through a lot of searing climactic changes is that true the temperature chain the temperature was higher three billion years ago but the rise in temperature was over tens of thousands of years now it's the rate is the rate of change now yeah this sum was developed by the professor at the University of Reading to show the global temperature every year what are we looking at here then so every single so every single one of these lines is a year from 1850 all the way through to 1900 and then the turn of the century here every single line is a year on earth showing how it's got cold warm cold warm cold warm cold warm and it's this rapid rise at the end and when does that start they still left where are we they're probably around about the 1980s right and then this is the one mm right and it's this here the the last 19 of the top 20 years have occurred in the last 19 years okay so what is he talking about a climate emergency yeah see quite clearly and they've got ice cores that go back you know hundreds of thousands of years we can look at air bubbles and see how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere from that we can infer how warm it was we've never warmed as quickly okay question then becomes what do we do about it what is actually the most effective thing to be doing about it because there's an australian commentator it's done the rounds virally about all this taking the complete opposite view and basically lambasting the youth of the world for less suing themselves to these protest marches and Greta and so on and then immediately going back to their laptops their iPads iPhones their air-conditioned school rooms their bathrooms yeah and so on and so their mums take to school in Nice gas-guzzling cars in other words people like to talk a good game about all this but in their daily lives we're now all buffed just plugged in our way to stuff which is actually damaging the environment this is the big thing we talked about on Friday we were in the ministers the only two countries in the world are actually gonna meet the Paris Accord agreements to try and limit global temperature rise to one and a half degrees but if everyone did a little who are they the Gambia and Morocco right so why are they doing it how are they they're developing countries and they're putting lots of em time into renewable energy sources and lots of solar panels because they're obviously in a very hot climate and they have a lot of sunshine but in the UK we historically have the most carbon emissions than any other country so we need to be leading why do we because we started the Industrial Revolution and we pumped out lots of carbon dioxide a long long time ago from the 1850s so we're quite a villainess country and cocci stays in the atmosphere for a hundred years methane is the other thing lots of people are saying we should reduce our meat consumption our stays in the atmosphere for about 28 years but it's this lag in the carbon dioxide we need to be cutting that down saying when Greta paints a picture that literally the world's about to end ecosystems collapsing blah blah blah all that very emotive language is it a little OTT have a point it really really isn't we've got a certain amount of carbon dioxide and if we emit that we're at this tipping point we'll never get back coral reefs we'll never get back the Arctic sea ice you know will ruin the jet stream the thermohaline circulation could be cut off we'll see lots and lots of the ice melting from the Himalayas and that could release more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we've got eight and a half years if we don't stop I'm looting like we do it might reduce to six years so if everybody did listen something now if the UK lead as one of the biggest nations of pollution we hope that obviously America and China will follow suit China or any one other country the owners who haven't signed up to the Paris Accord but if people if you could do one meat-free day a week if you could think about your food and buy locally and not throw so much away if you could have solar panels rather than a gas for your house you have electricity electric cars walk a little bit more as humans yet fewer flights business people are worried about going on holiday you could still go on holiday yeah but it's people who have business flights traveling you know to New York all the time traveling to Europe maybe just do once a week once a month trying we'll just cut back a little I'm actually having a meeting today with one of our bosses about how ITV we can be more economical and better with our recycling but if everybody just did a little bit we would stop this tipping point where that's it's Cataclysm I'll never go back what didn't seem to be isn't it I mean I just feel uncomfortable that she has got Asperger's so you know people who have I suppose old families who have people with us Burgess they don't like it being depicted as a mental illness she seems very young she seems very over emotional perhaps maybe rightly as Laura said for the right reasons that's why she's got every reason to be I mean she talks you know she's in tears though about the fact that she thinks that politicians are just wasting their words yeah and as a result her childhood has been thrown away she should be at school all those children out on the streets during the the climate strike should be at school but instead they're trying to do something which is saving the world and she's really really afraid that even if we all get on board to try and meet this limiting 1.5 to be temperature rise it is 50/50 whether we could do it a toss of a coin yeah and if we want to try and make the odds in our favor I mean the point are with me I've made this to to Donald Trump is it you don't really lose by doing something yeah if it turns out it's not the crisis that everyone is portraying in the scientific world and you've done a lot of stuff to try and combat it you don't lose money yes exactly as she points out is this kind of fantasy of continuing to make money and economic continual economic growth so actually business does lose I mean that's the problem isn't it and Lance Donald Trump's problem is that some stage business has to take a cut I mean you even saying you know people who travel for business after yeah the biggest I mean that to me is not thinkable compromise no thank you for you giving up meat well then as you said business and realize I never actually turn right the planes in fact okay what a super sick isn't it it's an interesting debate so what you think of Greta thumb though she's certainly an extraordinary character I mean she's got everybody talking everybody going she's fearless she's fearless yeah but there are I would say their archive got concerns she has to have a very thick skin because when you put yourself front and center like that unfortunately I mean if you look at the social media reaction to what she says sometimes she gets well a lot of people be honest a lot of people find it very annoying and they find her very hyperbolic and very hysterical and very over emotional that's the doubt that's the other side of her is that she's you know she's not everyone's cup of tea I'm not everyone agrees of course with the save the world and she's got to appeal to a roomful of people who she feels have broken their promises yeah and get them to change I get I get that I get that I don't I think it's an interesting conundrum when I watched her a lot yesterday I just felt uncomfortable you do wonder issue that might be because she's telling she has to very positive she's telling what just to very politically active parents but we all inherit views from parent yeah it's not that is it is she being exploited you know they are driving driving driving her as this kind of global figure is that healthy for her should she be she says back at school the way she speaks though is really authentic I mean the passion is is it is or maybe she's hamming it up a bit I mean that's not what you are getting it I wasn't getting I was yesterday you

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019