Just Have a Think questions the point of COP31

Its climate-conference episode brings UN and Potsdam research into a question about whether international negotiations can deliver enough.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 180,014 views a day, 5.2 times a normal day (34,298).

COP31 - The most pointless Climate Conference EVER?

Just Have a Think has turned from what American voters can change to what world leaders can achieve together. Its latest upload, "COP31 - The most pointless Climate Conference EVER?", puts the climate summit itself under scrutiny.

The episode arrives alongside a sharp rise in viewing across the channel: roughly 180,000 views a day, more than five times its usual level. That is a channel-wide increase, not a count for the COP31 video alone.

The description sets out the tension behind that provocative title. As leaders prepare to gather, the channel brings together the UN Environment Programme's emissions-gap report, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's planetary-health assessment and warnings from the UK's National Emergency Briefing. Its question is whether negotiations can produce solutions on the scale those warnings demand.

That moves the focus away from the individual technologies familiar to the channel's audience. Geothermal energy and wind turbines feature among its most-watched uploads; its recent battery episode asks whether used EV batteries should store renewable electricity before being recycled. With COP31, Just Have a Think is asking about the political machinery meant to turn such possibilities into action.

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The numbers

Daily viewing across Just Have a Think is well above its usual pace. The channel-wide rise accompanies its new COP31 episode.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

34,298

now

180,014

subscribers

747,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

92,313,634

views per day

180,014

typical day: 34,298

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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827,000

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825,000

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751,000

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747,000

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726,000

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694,000

As of November 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.