OK. CORWIN: With the bears safely sedated, Amstrup gets to work. She said she was drawn to the Amazon to work with the poor. When we come back, our investigation continues beneath the surface. (END VIDEO CLIP) COOPER: And that is the latest here in Southern California -- another update in about 15 minutes. HANSEN: We conclude that there is evidence that the greenhouse effect increases the likelihood of heat wave drought situations. Finding the roads made by the loggers is easy. (CROSSTALK) INHOFE: You, sir, had 30 minutes. A tribal elder tells us they fight hard to protect their land and keep their traditions alive. AMSTRUP: Boy, they did a 180-degree turn here. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) COOPER (on camera): There's a pattern here. In the distance, the agents spot something suspicious. COOPER (voice-over): And that adds up. COOPER (voice-over): Dr. Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado has spent 17 seasons here, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The cooler is stocked with deer meat poached from the rain forest. Our helicopter lowers just over the running sow. Castro Theatre plan in peril after S.F. There is an effort under way to get a law passed in Texas, but Professor McGarity (ph) says it's going to be an uphill battle, because when it comes to the oil industry here, old habits die hard. GUPTA: We're hearing people are getting cancer from drinking water. They're probably selling the meat, as well. COOPER (voice-over): In case you're wondering, there is a bathroom. A quick search turns up a small arsenal. But this has something to do with it. (on camera) For Ibama, these arrests are a sign of help: one small victory in the ongoing battle to save the forest. But I would like to (CROSSTALK) INHOFE: No, I have 15 minutes. NEW YORK: In Sweden and Norway, the treeline is marching northward and uphill as the snowline recedes. You're looking at the River Chari here. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One-third less pollution in the Houston Ship Channel this year compared to last year because of our approach of bringing companies in, telling them what we want and we're seeing those reductions. Unbelievable Washington landslide survival story. We actually just dove down. That is good planning on the part of local officials. This is a small fire set by a man who is cutting down a couple of acres of land. 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. What are we doing to our natural world? By 2100, we will be more likely one meter -- three feet -- instead of one-and-a-half feet. Chief Bernard (ph) takes us out by boat to the coral reef. Now, there was some evidence of live coral, but it was interesting that some of that appeared to be dying in the process as well. That's slash and burn. COOPER (on camera): A different path, because we are destroying much of what remains of the natural world. Authorities credit massive evacuations with savings lives. COOPER: He's been coming here for more than 40 years. CORWIN: That data is part of Amstrup's annual field study. Her future is at best uncertain. STEFFEN: Hi, Terrie. STEFFEN: The question is, how can we actually change it for the future? Thailand, Cambodia, Madagascar, Chad, Brazil. Ibama doesn't have nearly enough personnel to protect them all. Thanks. Then we can go over to the work tent. STEFFEN: Hey. News / By Pangambam S / January 21, 2021 2:15 am. The National Cancer Institute says that, of the 3,000 plants that fight cancer cells, 70 percent of them are found in the Amazon rain forest. It explains how they are in our hands now, and asks what we will decide. GUPTA: They say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island. Human beings are changing the climate. Over the past 30 years, the water has steadily receded. Tens of millions of people will have to be relocated. says FEMA -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- will send 950 firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service into California over the next few days. S01:E01 - A Planet In Peril. COOPER: Ted, we'll check in with you at the 11:00 East Coast time, with an hour long look at what has been happening here. Jeff Corwin's gone to track North America's largest carnivore, the polar bear -- to find out what some scientists believe the polar bear's very existence is under threat. Less water also means fewer and smaller fish and as a result, the people are getting smaller as well. In fact, we know where they are. SCHMIDT: This is a peninsula -- it's an isthmus connected to the mainland because of an ice shell. (on camera): What are these three -- these are tents? Genre: Documentary. COOPER (on camera): So how far have we come? It is not right. (on camera): Here's one of the best examples of what's happening to the water here. By 2050, there will be 50 percent more people on the planet than there are right now. The question is, why? It's not ready. If you look at the latest reports put together by all scientists that discuss the climate change, they estimate the sea level rise by 2100 to be about 50 centimeters -- one a-and-a-half foot. And you're about to see something absolutely incredible. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, OK. We're flying right over it now. CORWIN: Thank you. San Diego County came within moments of suffering a massive power blackout this afternoon, crews managing to clean ash and fire retardant off of lines strung across 70 towers and restore power just before the only other major power link to San Diego went offline -- a close call. A huge fire years ago killed 22, when not as many people were ordered to evacuate. COOPER (voice-over): Four-and-a-half degrees Celsius is eight degrees Fahrenheit. Skeptics, believers, liberals, conservatives; it all seems so theoretical. In recent years, we had a gap of sometimes as much as 200 miles north of the Alaska coast. The ice melts, the seas will rise. Are human beings responsible? And they are quickly depleting what water is left. Everywhere we've gone, we've been told the same thing. There will be others. I mean these actual trees, look what happened. STEFFEN: We have several sensors at different levels. The thickness of the ice in Greenland has been changing over the last few decades. They're agents with IBAMA, the Brazilian government's environmental protection agency. And it's unclear exactly why. This is the Running Springs fired. CORWIN: Absolutely. "Planet In Peril" continues after this break. COOPER: Already polar bears' behavior is changing. (voice-over) Their truck is broken down, and they say they need help. COOPER (voice-over): Adaptations, he says, like stronger buildings, better warning systems. Planet in Peril II. We all are. Some people say it's climate change. But then '94, '95, it started to warm steadily. Sand all around me. He worries that he may no be able to stay much longer. And now we're going to move in. CORWIN: His eyes are keenly trained to find what seems impossible. SCHMIDT: That's what you want to look at now. 8 deg Fahrenheit UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (DOGS BARKING) (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): In a wooden shack in a remote corner of the Amazon forest, armed men pore over maps and make last-minute plans. This is our work center, as we call it, the computing room. Then we lift up and she takes off, racing across the ice. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: "Planet In Peril" continues in a moment. CNN's Ted Rowlands is north of here in the San Bernardino Mountains, near Lake Arrowhead. We're going to travel to the east coast of Greenland, where a new island emerged because of the retreat of ice. Global warming, arctic ice melt and rising oceans will shrink nations and change world maps. David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It also has to continue to do a little bit of damage in that area just where I'm pointing right now. PLANET IN PERIL continues in a moment. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you get it? Something today -- you know, we find out today that something is not as safe as we thought it was or, well, something is safer than we thought it was. STEFFEN: We have fresh bread every day. Crews managed to clean ash and fire retardant off a line strung across 70 towers and restore power just before the only other major power link to San Diego went offline. COOPER: I've (INAUDIBLE). It's now the number one killer here. The first two or three years were actually colder than normal. That means they won't be out hunting today, killing untold numbers of wild animals. East Hill, N.Y. July 8, 2017 -- In East Hills, our 'hometown', there is a law entitled "Tree Preservation and Protection", an Architectural Review Board, zoning rules, and even a 'consulting arborist' to re-evaluate trees proposed to be destroyed by new residents and developers, but deforestation is as bad as the Amazon. BILL WHITE, HOUSTON MAYOR: Nobody has the right to chemically alter the air that somebody else breathes without that person's consent. RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, the Harris fire. But those in Qualcomm Stadium are still worrying about those homes. That, he and other skeptics like him say, is a fundamental problem. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper, Rancho Bernardo, California. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. CORWIN: You've got to lean back. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. This is actually Swiss Camp. COOPER: Right. Climate change is real, and is fast plummeting into "climate chaos" for the Philippines and for the rest of the world. COOPER: Crime? COOPER (voice-over): He records the changing ice sheet through a network of monitoring and GPS stations. Another update about the fire in 15 minutes. So, they quickly pile into their trucks. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The water just knocked them down. A worldwide investigation by Anderson Cooper and chief medical . UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's going to be reflected at the top among the political appointees, who are more a part of this -- shall we say -- wild west culture where anything goes. For example, 20 percent of the world's water is locked up in rain forest habitat, specifically the Amazon Basin. No kidding, you look great. Full text of President Joseph. When we talked to the companies in the ship channel, they pointed out that they've started voluntarily limiting their emissions, and they haven't broken any laws. I have 15. Planet Money looks into the recent financial troubles at First Republic Bank. PLANET IN PERIL continues after the break. Even if they had enough food in terms of quantity, the quality is decreasing. It's of great concern to scientists who are studying it. Their job is daunting, something you can only appreciate from the air. This mission in a remote corner of Brazil has been in the works for over a year. We've met literally hundreds of people along the way, some of whom you've been introduced to over the past two nights. CORWIN: It's just absolute, utter devastation and destruction. Support human-caused climate change, Inhofe's thinking goes, and you get more funding. GUPTA: And it's just a few grams now? But part of the Krahos' land has already been illegally clear- cut, and there's little to no law enforcement to stop it. These are the men bent on stopping that. Believe it or not, this is the rainy season. Polar bears are probably the most important symbol of the Arctic from the standpoint of a measure of the health of the Arctic ecosystem because they are entirely dependent on the surface of the sea ice on catching all of their food and the food that they eat, the seals and other marine mammals, are entirely dependent on the ecosystem below them. Sets found in the same folder. We should think for the next two, three generations. And what he's discovered is startling. And the people are stronger than ever, and we do not intend to leave here. 1978 Topps Battlestar Galactica Deep Inside The Planet Carillon #38. STEFFEN: Good. No birds, no buzzing insects. "Planet In Peril" continues after this break. This is basically the pathway for which the timber comes out. Unable to protect her little boy, Rosario Marroquin felt helpless, as she started looking for answers. After filtering, Salmon (v1.6.0) was used to map the reads to the transcriptome followed by transcript quantification for quality control. STEFFEN: But during the cold years, we had some water that froze in the middle tent, which was our sleep tent, which was not very comfortable. But think about the other kind of costs associated with it, that add up. "An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of envi . (on camera) On February 12, 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang was walking down a path in the Amazon jungle. Some statistics say that perhaps as much as 80 percent, to as little as 60 percent, is logged illegally. COOPER: The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality, chief toxicologist Michael Honeycut (ph), disputes the idea. GUPTA: As the wetlands manager, he spent the last four years working with the Lake Chad basing commission, a group that's trying to save the lake. But that's not what is happening today. STEFFEN: Yes. His mother, Rosario, was just happy she'd found somewhere free from the violence and drugs that plagued other low-income neighborhoods. No food for people. We need to give us some time to drop (INAUDIBLE) rather quickly. (on camera): Do you think climate change is a hoax? We are fighting for survival. And, by Friday, the winds actually blow back onshore, which means all of that smoke that's out there in the ocean will be pushed back into L.A., back into San Diego, and all the way through east and into the valleys, back through Twentynine Palms, maybe through Yuma. It's now a mosquito-infested swamp. It's happening right here in America. I'm Anderson Cooper. From the air, it's clear the lake is dropping. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper in Rancho Bernardo, California. COOPER (voice-over): Even the map of Greenland is changing. We set out to report, not be advocates, no agenda. At this hour many people are being allowed to return home. It's about the front lines, the. The consensus among scientists is something is different. Public Libraries; K-12 Schools; Business & Law; They hope to be able to get that thing out, at least, during the next couple of days, but they've got a ton of crews up there. And that is a wonderful, wonderful story. The Amazon is a vital resource for the world, as well. We have come here to meet the people of Carteret. Sister Dorothy came to Anapu from her native Ohio in 1983. But the debate is not just political. MAN 3065 CHAPTER 9. This buildup of gases prevents heat from escaping to space, acting like the panels of a greenhouse -- warming the entire planet. The Bush administration is proposing adding the polar bear to the endangered species list. Climate change is making a bad situation worse. PLANET IN PERIL: Battle Lines - 'Elephant Poaching' - Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs Kathy Griffin shares her memories of Joan Rivers How young is too young for shooting? So, I think we are running out of time. About the show. (on camera): The scientists who are warning of huge changes within our lifetime, are those just scare tactics? GUPTA: It looks like this upsets you? (on camera): It is politically correct to say you care about the rain forest, but why should someone actually care? And the diet of people is becoming less balanced. Some of these animals are actually drowning, trying to swim these new open waters. A once-in-a-century virus silently stalks the country. Heard on Morning Edition. COOPER: Where people are dying. Authorities say the Santiago Fire near Los Angeles had three points of origin. The risk is not just cancer. For IBAMA, secrecy is key. Why? (on camera) Every day Ibama agents go out on patrol and stop anyone they come across and question them about what they're doing in this biological preserve. CORWIN: These guys have all the classic tools of the trade when it comes to poaching wildlife. Anchorage Alaska USA 995071 907-360-4503 richard.g.steiner@gmail.com (on camera): It seems, though, the problem is, once you get out to these remote areas, you can do just about anything. But over the past 40 years, Lake Chad in central Africa has shrunk by 90 percent. Excellent. Millions live near coastlines less than three feet above sea level. STEFFEN: Yes. This worldwide investigation, which premiered October 23, 2007, looks at four key issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth. COOPER (on camera): It's all so surreal, I mean, as you look out at the horizon. Look on the United States, probably the most violent weather on Earth of any large civilized nature -- the number of tornadoes COOPER: Right. Free shipping. Power companies have asked people, however, to conserve power. Planets in Peril is a slim volume, yet it contains a great deal of insight into the mind of CS Lewis in regards to the writing and possible sources and meanings behind the Ransom trilogy, otherwise known as the Space Trilogy. But many of them will come back, unfortunately, to this -- Anderson. He's a native of Niger. COOPER: Dr. James Hansen does not believe scientists are simply chasing funding. Transcript Audio The United Nations has an alarming assessment of climate change and how countries around the world are not doing nearly enough to slow its damage before it becomes worse. The series will launch on Monday across the network's platforms, led by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, senior foreign correspondent Mark Phillips, foreign correspondent. If the entire ice sheet dissolved, sea levels would rise by 23 feet -- spurning a global catastrophe that would flood coastal cities and displace tens of millions of people. Northeast of here, in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead, thick smoke forcing a three hour stop for water aerial drops. The water is more shallow there and the seals are more plentiful. Eight degrees. It's not based on the fast flow that generates additional icebergs. Some people say it's damage to the coral. They will go out again tomorrow, however, trying to do whatever they can to stop their home and their way of life from disappearing. (on camera): It's so disturbing to see this. Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind - climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. He says they're angry and scared by what's happening. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, really. Much of it is siphoned off to irrigate crops. COOPER: Not much. AMSTRUP: The top of the shoulder. planet in peril transcript INTRO OFFER!!! I'm standing in Nigeria, what used to be the middle of Lake Chad. 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. You also see dramatic changes in the overall geography of the island, particularly on the coastal areas. (on camera): So is this island an example of global warming? And, even if we are, is it a crisis or just hype? We are stranded as it turns out right now. It looks good. The weather is another. We want to study this. Back on the muddy and rutted roads with Ibama, agents continue to comb the forest for anything that looks out of place. We're just on top of it. (on camera): We're in a fishing community here. None of what's happening is occurring in a vacuum. It's those types of numbers that have led to an unprecedented move. This is our office where we have the electronics and computers. The Lake Chad Basin Commission has a plan to divert water from the Congo River, but it remains controversial and unfunded. So once (INAUDIBLE) we'll get down and we'll actually physically capture these cubs, anesthetize them and gather data. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing, Konnie? The pressure on dwindling resources becomes clear. COOPER: Houston Mayor Bill White has pledged to reduce the level of air toxins for those communities, even if it means playing hardball. Moral Ground. Still, 12,000 people evacuated, waiting to find out the fate of their homes, hoping for the best. lt's the eye make-up. 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