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the, the people who died from the heat, the heat wave is being claimed on the l nino, where the problem a man made the climate change. according to the world meter, logical organization. temperatures in most land areas worldwide, will be above normal until at least may, when i mean you start to read. but it's may, i'll just do. like muslims, worldwide, millions and northern light julia celebrating the festival of ego fits. i am addressed to pull some from colorado state west centuries. old traditions follow rama down half a 1000000. little has changed in how the old kind of king set a break at the end of the most important it all starts with the religious rights at the time. oh, it's a combination of both culture and religion. and it predated even the islamic revolution of this month of, for you, at least by some,
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$300.00 to us here in kind of from here for us to reduce and coach sort of displays take over the traditional live average for these codes edition. make us a site, the click was of society lose its culture and tradition. the society is gone. so that's why it's important to look at the culture as see how we can maintain the to know what uh, what uh, things come with the changes in the world all about the amount of kind of supervisors, the traditions of people whose history dates. but over a 1000 years, pawsman dec inch in costumes. display writing skills in homage to the young princes also take part in the cult tampa, to the delight of hundreds of thousands people in town or the country may be going
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through a tough time when it comes to celebrations. menu say they don't let charlie just started their way. best friend to look that best. i told the traditional institutions, nor it's francis bag to make members last until the next person arrives. gun salutes may be in addition, but oil historians say they also been around for more than 100 years. the celebration continues all 4 days with both locals and visitors joining the dover for us to reduce my degrees. i'll just cut all of us it to full the but they'll be more news in the hall. so it's all the policy 5 in the news on you follow all stories on the website that the houses that don't come next along because it's diagnosed to stay with us. the often months of fight with thousands of people killed and
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millions from their homes. what does the future hold for, sit down and it's people to sit down conflict one year on out to 0. the the way on doing about on the land disappears. the even change the should to use home of the underwater
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on these coastal areas are going to be flooded over the i've lived here. my life over here is this louisiana. we phase many coastal problems because of the costly eroding lane. they're not going to be lane or have levies which are basically land masses that are formed in like a wall to keep high sea levels out. the might of some people still live outside the lock systems. they're starting to leave their land and they've been on for hundreds of use, literally as ancient land. whenever land goes,
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everything goes with the turn out to the dangers who storms right across the south tornado of human activities. global warming has ended due to a global binding. as of right the, the rate of temperature increase this without precedent, we're facing a future that we don't understand. we can predict fully a lot of places are simply not going to be comfortable to live in all human settlements. after face this problem, they grew up in, in climate, which is going to be much different from the climate. we're going to get the,
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you can see the intense rain storms. you can see the incredible heat waves where people are dying, large population. so we'll have to move all over the world because of sea level rise. we're going to see more categories, 4 and 5. hurricane, so maybe even categories we've never experienced before, we're about to get a brand new climate. the climate change means we have to live different now mediately, 10 years ago, 20 years ago for very late getting started the move somewhere else, a little bit higher elevation. the
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i was working in the early 19 seventy's as an astrophysicist, but it had very little direct connection with what was going on a nurse. and ultimately, that's where i wanted to focus. how could the science that i news be applied to solving problems that are really important to humanity as a whole? how warm the plan will get and whether the conditions under which human beings and other species drive will remain close to what they are today? or things just going to spin out of control. ok, so we start with driving forces. those are what are the emissions going to be? and it's not that easy. if you think about it,
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what are we going to be doing $3050.00, a 100 years from now? that's going to cause human beta emissions. how does the political system going to respond? how does the human psyche get a response? there you get in an area which is really impossible to predict. and the question then becomes, how do you fix up between these events? how do you recover from a hurricane before you have time to really fix the damage? the question, i guess we might, as of drake, that i'll pick up next time is why do we do nothing? thank you. the louisiana is for the one of the more climate sensitive places really on the planet . we are very vulnerable to climate change because this is
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a low lying area that is in the past of a lot of hurricane. as the ocean gets warmer, we are seeing an increase in the intensity of hurricane 2 of the 3 bar, just hurricanes to ship louisiana and the reported histories and have hit this decade in 20202021. the whenever a hurricane comes, it's only got so much time until it comes in during the hurricane. uh, as it was hitting, i was watching people's houses and breaking. and half the roofs getting torn off the the back fence has came down. trees started falling,
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the house was shaken and then uh, i could look outside my window and uh, watch my neighbors porch on the, i thought i was on uh, the next day everything was destroyed. we have seen a r v, a flipped over. and after going through a try, see if anybody was inside, it was one of my neighbors. i was old man, he had passed away, we didn't have no cell service. so we just had to wrap up the body and try to keep it as preserved as possible. and so then we could contact authorities and after they could contact the family makes me feel kind of sad. was kind of like last history. the everything was in balance or relatively so until we started burning so much fossil fuels. when you burn fossil fuels or
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releases carbon dioxide molecules, which stand out as here for a very long time and they reflect the outward radiation doc down to or there's more energy coming into the plan and that is going out of the planet into space. so the plan has no choice, but the more fossil fuels we burn, the higher the planet and look at that say the places that are now side and dry, you know, wind up being a side or dryer. places that now occasionally did heavy rainstorms most likely to be even heavier. if we don't get ahold of it now, get the problem under control. we'll just have health the
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as i began my work in the environmental community. and the 1st big issue i took on was air pollution. but while i was investigating it, i ran across to climate change problem in the literature. and then the p a report and the environmental impacts of cold. and i was so astonished that we, as human beings would be warming up the planet and it turned out nobody was working on. nobody's trying to make it a publication. the this frame is really use some significance because this was given to me with a nice inscription by senator 10 worth of colorado from july 28th 1988. the purpose of scale was to establish a national energy policy to reduce global warming. this was
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a leading edge. this bill to begin to address climate change. we ask people what climate change, so it's all about. they wouldn't have a clue. we're starting from scratch 0. i spent most of my time talking to scientists so that i could understand the problem on the one hand and asked them to come forward to be outspoken. i got a call from someone named grace palmer. it was a well known environmental activist who was looking for maybe companionship on the road to try to solve a very difficult problem. it was very good at working behind the scenes and convincing senator is a 2 fold congressional hearings on climate change. so michael became one of the prominent scientists to be outspoken on the issue. there
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are very few things in life that i ever get frightened about. this was one of how is it that human beings actually could come eventually to control? we are, as climate is going, the typical scientist was saying, i can just tell you information, but i'm not gonna talk politics or talk about what, what you change. and people like oppenheimer decided to speak out. this is really great. the i think if you look at some of my congressional testimony, you'll notice that i got it just about right. i would predict that we would see the effects of climate change relatively near in the future, perhaps in a couple of decades. i was very clear when i spoke to senator, is this going to be big problems unless we started cutting emissions that
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the moving the politics of climate change is a huge task because you have an enormous portion of the economy that is dependent on the use of fossil fuels, so all those interest created a fictional story about the issue in order to diminish any political chance of action that didn't one. 6 the average person to know what the truth was in that climate change of the exxon is now and why other than one of the largest oil producing companies in the world. we know that exxon scientists
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in the 1980s were fully aware of the gravity of the problem. their predictions were very good, very accurate. it was very well understood that c o 2 had a major role maintaining the atmospheric balance, the temperature. we knew where the temperature was going to go, was only portion of how fast it was going to get not yes, the but they method all out. they knew how it would affect their company if society wanted to do something about this. fossil fuels would have to go at some point they were not interested in, in long term presenting the plant. they're really enjoying the short term profits, the. they never published anything about what we found. so mobile is going to have 2 sided attitude towards climate. if you feel uncomfortable about mobiles position,
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let us know they were not only funding and saying it wasn't a problem. they were publishing reports saying this is not an urgent problem. don't drive the car, they say the big cars is safe or is there a global warming problem? thousands of scientists say no to this day, we suffer from that propaganda. it's something that many people still believe in the science is critical to understand that. but the politics of it are essential to solving the problem. but the politicians become dependent on all these interest companies for money to run their elections they really stopped us from taking action, keeping america competitive requires affordable, entered. how do you get a country that's an oil country to negotiate? not selling more oil. america is addicted to oil.
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the, the economy of that louisiana was industry is a very, very precious war. and most everybody worked for the oil industry. and if anything were to happen to be so many people going without jobs or does he live in louisiana? the young people like me have offered 36, signed on early to go into the military. mostly. or my plan for the future is to work for the oil industry filled bad, but there's nothing really much that we could really do to stop it as a single person. the everybody has other things to worry about. do i have enough money to send my
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children to college? try for the insurance on my house. climate change can see. well yeah, it's important. yeah. it's a big risk, but we don't have to deal with it right now. the day inevitably comes when you can push climate change drugs because it's starting to be such a big factor that you can see it in your own life. the is a traumatic because the areas that i once knew and was called home, i go and after all the families docs and everything for a shrimp boats and all that are down there and was the last thursday. either way
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the rows are going to eat away and after we're going to have to start moving further further up, the person that makes me happy is my girlfriend, carmen. she's one of the car and she's special. she lives us to me and she understands me. she knows that i've been through i, i got diagnosed with chronic things id earlier this year as posttraumatic stress disorder. sometimes i could just start the stair off. there's something called like a 1000 yard stare and then i'll start to flash the i've seen a lot and i've been through a lot. i kind of always get worries and ever something bad happens to miss rosa how you doing today? right? correct. okay, so grab know, yeah, i already got the boat to the wireless thing. we need to worry about
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my grandfather used to go and kids grab this tramps but because of out of her chains, nobody wants to live there. just as outside delivery system is not protected. so they get flooded off. okay, sounds too small. all the elders that live down the values. they live there the whole life, but they're just not going to be around or fully see it take effect. is the use that's going to be around whenever it happens the report. we're really here to talk to somebody. so please give
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a warm welcome to dr. rhodes. but i'm also a scientist. i was fired earlier this year for holding up a banner editor's science conference. the banner said, out of the lab and into the streets, and we have that banner for about 30 seconds and for that i was fired. the i'm telling you the story though to explain why more of a scientists aren't out here in the streets with you. is because we are by and large compelled by our institutions to remain neutral, even in the face of environmental devastation. and for over 40 years, most of us have so on behalf of the scientific community, i apologize for our cowardice. the
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somebody some time is going to have to grapple with big problems like climate change. and if we don't, we just push off the responsibility into the future on other generations, including our own children. and that isn't just a matter of science. that's a matter of what are your morals, what are your ethical standards? what do you think about your fail a human being, the quality on the pets. and so, 2 options await us in the immediate future. quite a crisis for climate revolution. let's choose revolution. needs that are good by drugs. no surprise. sure, i have 7 grandchildren and they will all be living on a much warmer planet with all the consequences the each generation is going to continue to
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experience more than 10 same backs and have to live with them. the bar of lifted with wave furniture that makes me very sad and upset that we we pushed about as hard as we could. we have a 100 year flood now occurring every 5 years. our air is polluted. our strides are on the you know, what i think i want to do whenever i get older than live culture and move can see the water pump into the front of the a legacy of bodies pumping up. that's all my say that back are those coming up to in the future? i imagine a pretty good future with
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a stable house living with carmen. but i most probably won't be living in southern louisiana. i might move up to like middle to northern louisiana. my home will be under water at least to through if not, i live in more areas. you like to maybe come the other one of those. i feel like i'll be good on the h, the human habit to create a mess and then move on to somewhere else. but humanity is going to make. it stands here. it's not gonna happen at escape or to some other place in the universe. these changes will be rapid, costly, and largely undesirable. the viability of many eco systems is at stake,
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as is perhaps the viability of civilization. as we know, the, since the consequences of ignoring climate change will be severe. it's time to act . now the most say it's so sad that people didn't listen. if i do this, the others cause they chose to ignore it. i feel a strong sense of disappointment. we tried our best to get people's attention. so i overestimated the potential for change it to the
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in the early days when i became aware of the climate issue, my wife lenore gave birth to our son ethan. and i just thought quite a bit about the world that she was going to be living in. and i remember walking on a bridge near our house back in those days, you know, sort of wondering what's going to be like for him, the room
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950 more years from now making 2081 is going to be almost up to one of these coastal areas are going to be flooded over. it's going to be a man in the front of water. now, some sad to think about big difference. so what do you think we're gonna do right now? on the account for risk 14 exclusive stories explosive results, which is 0 investigations. this is took, took years, the 1st country in the world to develop a comprehensive national, sustainable tourism program. in partnership with the global, sustainable tourism comes village life here retains its charles. every meal is like
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