It looks like 2020 was Europe’s warmest year on record, going up 0.72F over the previous year. Well, that’s Europe, right? Sure. Worldwide, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year. Which puts us at 2.2F warmer on average than the planet was back in the pre-industrial period according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Now, I don’t care who you are, but that’s something that should get your attention.
How much should it get your attention? Well, sustained warmer temperatures mean more melting ice which could cause some problems for coastal areas in the near future. How long will that take? Perhaps the best answer to that question is, ‘why does that matter?’ Instead of asking whether we need to put up sandbags or the grandkids will, maybe the better question is, ‘what can we do about it?’
What indeed. After all, we’re just individuals who are trying to muddle through life as best as we can. We don’t set policy, most of us don’t control massive corporations that can make the necessary advances to minimize or even roll back pollution. However, we are still people who can influence all of that. How? By sharing our data. Sharing our behaviors, how much we produce and consume and exactly what it is that we produce and consume. That information can help organizations to see what policies are effective in incentivizing various behaviors and which are failing. It can also help guide companies concerned about the environment to see where there is a demand for different products that will help contribute to reducing carbon emissions.
A prime example is in transportation. Electric cars have been getting a lot of press lately, and not without reason. The advances in that realm have been significant. However, the process to produce the necessary batteries are not necessarily environmentally friendly. That process leads to a lot of heavy metal pollution, to say nothing of the fossil fuels needed to produce them. And of course, most of the power used to charge those batteries comes from either fossil fuel plants or inefficient wind farms. So, how can our data help drive alternatives?
If general dissatisfaction with the current situation is known, companies are more likely to research alternatives like hydrogen power. Already, it’s possible to add hydrogen power to a conventional vehicle as a supplement. Turning it into something that could power the whole vehicle is just a matter of scale.
Of course, city planners can also make use of data from the locals to change zoning laws, allowing for more small shops to exist in what are currently residential areas. Or more homes in shopping districts in the form of apartments above businesses or restored brownfield projects. These approaches incentivize people to drive less not through coercive penalties and burdensome taxes but by simply making it easier to walk to where you want to go. Instead of having to drive ten to twenty minutes to go to a grocery store or a coffee shop, a person could just walk out the front door for a ten-minute stroll.
Yes, those seem like small things that at best can make local life more pleasant. Yet, just like humanity is made of individuals, so the planet is made of particular places. If the environment improves in a number of those particular places, it will necessarily improve things for the planet as well.
So, what can you do? Sign up with TARTLE and make your data available to the policymakers and companies that are trying to improve the environment for you and your kids. Then, instead of taking the earnings, you can donate them back to the organization of your choice so they can get more quality data to make better decisions and recommendations. That’s how it works, one small action at a time.
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It looks like 2020 was Europe’s warmest year on record, going up 0.72F over the previous year. Well, that’s Europe, right? Sure. Worldwide, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year. Which puts us at 2.2F warmer on average than the planet was back in the pre-industrial period according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Now, I don’t care who you are, but that’s something that should get your attention.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to TARTLE Cast, with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby. Where humanity steps into the future and sourced data defines the path.
Alexander McCaig (00:24):
Welcome back to TARTLE Cast. Jason and I are going to have a little bit more focus this episode. We just got-
Jason Rigby (00:29):
Yeah. Last one was horrific.
Alexander McCaig (00:32):
The morning hangover. I can't even get my thoughts straight about it.
Jason Rigby (00:37):
No, it was just us ranting.
Alexander McCaig (00:39):
Yeah, I'm already distracted. All right. Next one.
Jason Rigby (00:41):
Data shows 2020 was Europe's warmest year on record, warmest year on record.
Alexander McCaig (00:49):
That bums me out. So they have records of weather from the pre-industrial era all the way up until now. And what was it? 2.2 degrees?
Jason Rigby (00:56):
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Alexander McCaig (00:57):
That's way too warm. So imagine that you live in a region in Northern Europe, Finland, Sweden, Norway, whatever it might be. And it's just sitting around 33 degrees in the spring, and you got all these fjords and everything else like that with all the glaciers, but then you have a two degree temperature increase. Now you're having floods of water come down because two degrees starts to melt these massive glaciers. That's a problem.
Jason Rigby (01:30):
That's a huge problem.
Alexander McCaig (01:31):
That's a huge problem. Two degrees. Yeah, two degrees, no big deal. Two degrees is like by Miami.
Jason Rigby (01:39):
Yeah, exactly.
Alexander McCaig (01:40):
In all seriousness.
Jason Rigby (01:41):
People don't realize the implications. You can look that up online. You can say what are one... Scientists have done that? What a one degree, what a two degree, what a three degree, and then all those different variables.
Alexander McCaig (01:51):
And they said here in this article that like, we would like to stay with the data. The data is showing that we need to stabilize this temperature right now and decrease it or stop it at 2.7.
Jason Rigby (02:04):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (02:06):
Because once we get to the 2.7 realm, it's only going to keep getting hotter.
Jason Rigby (02:09):
Yeah. And the scary part about it is that I think more than anything is 1850 to 1900 was the pre-industrial period. And when we look at 2020, we're up 1.25, which is the 2.2. So whenever I'm seeing from 1850 to 1900, and I'm just picturing all these factories blowing all the smoke, industrial revolution hits. And now look at where we're at. And it should be down our break even with everything... Especially in Europe, too. I mean, they're really good with climate.
Alexander McCaig (02:46):
But dude, we've had more people and we consume more. You'd think in a hundred years we would figure our shit out. But we've had more babies, we've consumed more stuff and we've had more carbon waste. What is industrious about what we're doing? That's not evolutionary. We've gone back in time.
Jason Rigby (03:14):
Yeah. And when we look at... And this is one I want to talk about for the rest of the time that we have. When we look at Tartle and we look at the seven biggest problems that we want to take, when people have this opportunity to donate to the seven biggest causes-
Alexander McCaig (03:30):
With their earnings?
Jason Rigby (03:31):
Yeah, with their earning from their data that they're already giving away for free anyways. So the amounts that use Tartle, sign up turtle.co. But climate stability, I know this article talks about it and this is data, but what does Tartle's view on climate stability and how can someone help? If they're concerned about the climate, how can they help?
Alexander McCaig (03:55):
You can help? Because this comes down to a function of resources and consumption. So, if you are worried about climate stability, you need to share your behaviors, habits, purchasing habits, all these things that go into creating some sort of carbon footprint. All of that data can be shared with people that are doing appropriate amount of research, so that they can put together the material to say, this is absolutely irrefutable. So not only can you share your data towards these people that want to do that analysis for the greater good of stabilizing the climate, preventing it from getting to a worst state, it's actually putting you back into a state of equilibrium, climate stability. You can also then, after they've purchased that data from you, you can give those earnings back to the researchers, whoever that data buyer might be or whatever non-profit. And then they can go out and reuse those earnings to buy more data for more people.
Alexander McCaig (04:51):
Think about that feedback loop back and forth. If our climate is a function of feedback loops, our data should be a function of that feedback loop, but for the positive. And you can do a lot of good by saying, I don't want that to hit the 2.7 mark. I want it to be at 2.2 this year, and then go down to 2.1 the next year. And then I want it to drop basis points every single year after that fact. And I want to know that I share my data along with 80 other countries, we focused on this cause and look at the effect that we've had and look at all the benefit. Miami's not going to be underwater. Congratulations. We've changed our consumption habits. We've built better products. We know exactly where clean energy needs to be in areas of high utilization. We know where people are demanding it. We can start making smart decisions that can prevent a very disruptive future for us.
Jason Rigby (05:37):
Why did you use the word stability? You say climate stability.
Alexander McCaig (05:43):
The thought process that I use and you use, Jason and I call it positive neutral equalization. So it's one thing to just think positive all the time, but you can live in a world of complete bias. You have to understand that there are things to be learned from the negative. So when we have a positive neutral equalization, what we say is if something negative is coming through, or if you talk about climate change, it's got a negative connotation, but there's something to be learned from it. So we take that in. We put a more positive touch to it after we've learned from it. Now how can we act positively on it? We've neutralized the negativity by learning from it. And we equalize the verbiage now that we talk about it. And that would be stability.
Alexander McCaig (06:25):
Stability is not a challenging thing. It's not combative. It doesn't disunify people. It brings things together. It gives a sense of peace and harmony. And that's sort of the focus that we need to maintain. That's why we choose the word climate stability, rather than climate change or global warming. It just feels combative. It feels negatively charged. So we need to figure out how to work with that because how our minds receive it is going to be a lot different, especially at a subconscious level.
Jason Rigby (06:49):
That makes sense. Because whenever I'm looking at the seven big causes that Tartle has, and I look at someone that is saying, yeah, I want to earn money and share my data. But at the same time I would like to take a percentage of that and help out climate stability. What is the process of somebody, if they want to sign up for Tartle, or if they want to help with climate stability?
Alexander McCaig (07:12):
Go to tartle.co. Click Get Started button, create your account. While you're doing the signup process, you're going to choose the topics that you're interested in. If you've done, so you can start populating your data for those topics. And then you can hit share, done. It goes right over to those people and you get paid. And then in the end of it, if you want to share those earnings back, you say, okay, I want to donate to this, this and this. It's that simple. Takes your earnings right out of your PayPal account or your Bitcoin wallet, whatever it might be, your choice. It goes right back over into the people that need it the most. Because they're trying to solve these problems for everybody's benefit.
Jason Rigby (07:50):
That's awesome. And then from there-
Alexander McCaig (07:53):
Oh, and then repeat that process over and over, and over-
Jason Rigby (07:57):
Repeat, rinse, wash, whatever it is.
Alexander McCaig (07:59):
Rinse, wash, repeat right? All the time. Or wash, rinse, repeat. I don't know.
Jason Rigby (08:04):
Because you're creating data daily.
Alexander McCaig (08:06):
All the time. So why not create data, earn from it, and then help other people really solve some big major things with?
Jason Rigby (08:13):
Yeah. And, it's exciting. And then as Tartle's platform grows, then you're going to be able to... If you like climate stability, you're going to be able to... Because this is my job to do, you're going to be able to get information about how Tartle is helping on climate stability. So it's just going to be a really... And I know right now everyone's early adopter, so I encourage everybody to sign up now. So you can be that early adopter. And then from there as the platform grows, as the market begins to boom, you're going to see magic. I mean, it's going to be amazing.
Alexander McCaig (08:44):
It's going to be a magic. It's going to be incredible.
Jason Rigby (08:46):
I'm using that word in a positive way.
Alexander McCaig (08:48):
Magic is cool.
Jason Rigby (08:48):
Yeah. With the CK. You can use that.
Alexander McCaig (08:50):
That's so chemical.
Jason Rigby (08:50):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (08:53):
All right. Sign up. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thank you for listening to TARTLE Cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby. Where humanity steps into the future, and sourced data defines the path. What's your data worth?
