That's roughly six times the size of the state of California. STEFFEN: Well, we actually started in 1990. While difficult to measure exactly how much, scientists believe part of the rise is due to melting glaciers and ice sheets, like the ones we saw in Greenland. And, in fact, I'm a good example of that, because when I first spoke out about this in 1981, I ended up losing my funding. Finally, we arrive at the Chari River. They call it the shigloo. COOPER: Health costs? MAN 3065 CHAPTER 9. But many don't want to go, and it's easy to see why. INHOFE: Well, if you do, then my time has expired. BILL WHITE, HOUSTON MAYOR: Nobody has the right to chemically alter the air that somebody else breathes without that person's consent. CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Anderson, the smoke still billowing from all of these fires. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They thought that killing her would end it. COOPER: Where endangered animals are bought and sold and killed. It's an easy, but destructive way small-time farmers do business here. The lake has dried up before. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. People also ask. I'm Anderson Cooper. Either I was in a different place or the place where I was had completely changed. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So here's the plan. Combined that with the fact that Carterets sit on top an ancient volcano, that over time collapses inward and they could be sinking naturally as well. I'm Anderson Cooper. This is the Running Springs fired. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When the ice melts in the summer, it used to be that it only withdrew from the Alaska coast a little ways. You can see some of the trees here. This isn't happening. Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power helps equip scientists working on environmental and sustainability challenges with new tactics for success. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Do you have some coffee? COOPER (on camera): So how far have we come? R. MARROQUIN: When you're sitting out there, when you're watching them play, you think, "Is it going to happen? We wondered, did something happen to the once-mighty river that feeds Lake Chad? Guide | Transcript Transcript PREVIOUSLY ON STARGATE SG-1 [Scenes from Summit where Yu objects to Anubis being made a System Lord. Reefs serve as natural barriers to heavy storm surges that can swamp low- lying lands. COOPER: She started a sustainable development program, teaching locals how to live off the forest and at the same time preserve it. For example, 20 percent of the world's water is locked up in rain forest habitat, specifically the Amazon Basin. It's a fact. COOPER (voice-over): And that adds up. CORWIN: It's just absolute, utter devastation and destruction. For one thing, weak laws. So we decided we would go out and put our tents outside. CORWIN: Our helicopter hugs the ground as we trace the footprints through the snowy expanse over the rubbled ice, until finally we spot them. Here's the latest on tonight's breaking news -- the wildfires. Brazil is the number one soy producer in the world. 22 terms. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, look at that! From the air, it's clear the lake is dropping. Unable to protect her little boy, Rosario Marroquin felt helpless, as she started looking for answers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) COOPER (on camera): There's a pattern here. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. She never makes it there. For Jim Hansen, that makes the situation all the more pressing. The carbon naturally stored in trees is released when they're cut down. COOPER (on camera): A different path, because we are destroying much of what remains of the natural world. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Why is it happening? While there's no clear-cut link. (on camera) On February 12, 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang was walking down a path in the Amazon jungle. COOPER (voice-over): The makeshift kitchen where the dinner table doubles as a work space. COOPER: Oh, nice. STEFFEN: No, I would not be surprised because we know the ice is retreating. What's going to happen to you? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is what it's all about right here. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Flying over the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific, the ocean and the sky melt together in a blue/green haze. COOPER: The Brazilian government responded by setting aside more than 30,000 square miles for protection. STEFFEN: It actually is a conduit through the ice -- the ice sheet. COOPER: Climate science is clearly complicated and often controversial. STEFFEN: We have several sensors at different levels. (on camera): It's so disturbing to see this. He agreed to sit down with us. It's that imbalance which concerns scientists the most. This journey around the globe is an investigation into the reasons our planet is changing. Northeast of here, in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead, thick smoke forcing a three hour stop for water aerial drops. He rejects nearly all of the skeptics' points, from moderate estimates HANSEN: We're talking about several meters of sea level rise if West Antarctica begins to go unstable. GUPTA: They say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island. In this decade, the urban environment is predicted to grow by nearly 30%. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It does, it does. SCHMIDT: They were continuous, yes. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CORWIN (voice-over): We are on the heels of a mother polar bear and her two cubs. Power companies have asked people, however, to conserve power. (on camera): So is this island an example of global warming? There are even cases of polar bears cannibalizing each other when the food runs short. COOPER: Not much. As Jeff mentioned earlier, the Amazon basin holds 20 percent of the world's water. She said she was drawn to the Amazon to work with the poor. Natural changes in the earth's orbit and the tilt of the sun 10,000 years ago caused the climate to shift, bringing out a long drought. On the horizon, a small cluster of islands rise up from the sea, a long coral reef wrapping around them. Some are harvested by small farmers eking out a meager living. Thank you. These small planes, they measure the wind velocity. He has seen the dramatic changes firsthand. I'm standing in Nigeria, what used to be the middle of Lake Chad. And we'll go into that in a second. more than 6,000 pages of transcriptsand a spellbinding and denitive portrait of a nation on the brink. He joins us from Spring Valley by the Harris fire -- Rick. They're an indigenous people here in the Amazon rain forest. CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. GUPTA: It looks like this upsets you? We stop at a fishing village called Duram Baga (ph) in Nigeria. Libby; Sora; Kanopy; Help; Markets Served. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The consensus among scientists is something is different. 1978 Topps Battlestar Galactica #24 Leveling a planet. His explorations have led to discovery. MICHAELS: The problem is, we have these things called computer models. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This island exists because of global warming. Hansen, with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was one of the first scientists to bring global warming into the public's consciousness in the 1980s. Anderson's inside look at "The Survivor Diaries". These four men have been taken into custody. MICHAELS: stunning. That's the last remnant of this thing, they hope, at least in terms of this side of the fire. (END VIDEOTAPE) COOPER: Investigating our PLANET IN PERIL has taken us to 13 countries on 4 continents. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? (voice-over): The vast ice sheet of Greenland -- 1,500 miles long and more than a mile deep, the world's largest island. (voice-over) For Valentin Marroquin, Manchester, Texas, seemed a fine place to grow up. 3 terms. STEFFEN: Be careful. CORWIN: That data is part of Amstrup's annual field study. (on camera): These officers from the federal police are teaming up with IBAMA agents, and they are about to go out on patrol. Oasis Earth: A Planet in Peril stands out as a vastly comprehensive story of humanity's Anthropocene journey, from the origin of our planet and species to their potential future. But those here in San Diego County are still raging out of control, threatening more than 8,000 homes right now. You were on a ship SCHMIDT: Yes. When we come back, the lessons learned. Thousands were killed. We gear up to rappel ourselves down inside. S01:E03 - Vultan - King of the Hawkmen. How is it that a forest covering nine countries, home to 200 indigenous tribes CORWIN: This is one of my most favorite creatures right here. Can that be lessened? It's not a theory. SISTER DOROTHY STANG, NUN/CONSERVATIONIST: The only thing they know is survival farming. As hunters, gatherers, and farmers, the Kraho rely on the rain forest for food, water, shelter, everything. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are starting to see some changes that may result in future concerns for this population. That's exactly what l was gonna tell you. We consume and grow more each passing year. So far, flames have burned almost 700 square miles. They are still burning and still dangerous, but they are moving more slowly. This is a small fire set by a man who is cutting down a couple of acres of land. COOPER (voice-over): If you thought the debate over what's causing the Earth to warm was settled, think again. (END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com. COOPER (voice-over): As more ice melts, more moulins appear. They're probably selling the meat, as well. (voice-over) They name Jeff Running Deer. Some say it's just sinking naturally because it was built on a volcano. COOPER: And that may be true. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR. CORWIN: So, basically, it's providing this layer of viscosity to the ice to slide on. (on camera): In 2005, you came here. Thank you. Just days later, these two men confess to the murder. But think about the other kind of costs associated with it, that add up. (on camera) Thank you very much. Free shipping. She was a powerhouse of decision. I can see the water from here, Rose, and they say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island within a few years. The unrest and scars, still visible today. Some estimates do have the Earth warming more than it currently is. There's at least a billion dollars in damage here in San Diego County alone. Fifteen fires are burning tonight. COOPER: More people are born, economies boom. CORWIN (voice-over) However, finding the tracks is only the beginning. Millions live near coastlines less than three feet above sea level. That's slash and burn. CORWIN: So now you feed the rope and it will just slide down like this. Death rates from tornadoes are going down, down, down, and down. COOPER: All right. You have to see it to believe it. quizlette5241082 Plus. 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