COOPER (voice-over): Twenty percent of the jungle has been lost in the past 40 years. He worries that he may no be able to stay much longer. We have seen declines in the survival of cubs and we have seen adult males and cubs a little bit smaller in recent years than they used to be. That means the smoke is going to get thicker and not going to get blown way. Oasis Earth Environmental Sustainability Consulting Rick Steiner. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Flying over the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific, the ocean and the sky melt together in a blue/green haze. Planet in Peril Term 1 / 11 Greenland's temperature has risen by how many degrees? He agreed to sit down with us. They have resumed now. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LETICIA DECKERT, EVACUEE: It's stressful, very stressful. We'll show you the eastern edge of that fire. Here, oil refineries and petrochemical companies pump hazardous pollutants into the air. Thailand, Cambodia, Madagascar, Chad, Brazil. northpointe community church fresno archives. (on camera): Do you think climate change is a hoax? MICHAELS: You write a proposal and you tie it to climate change, you got a good chance. (on camera): It seems, though, the problem is, once you get out to these remote areas, you can do just about anything. This isn't happening. Support human-caused climate change, Inhofe's thinking goes, and you get more funding. (voice-over): You're looking at one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, the Amazon rain forest. COOPER: Houston Mayor Bill White has pledged to reduce the level of air toxins for those communities, even if it means playing hardball. l agree completely. It was once the sixth largest lake in the world, covering more than 10,000 square miles. For one thing, weak laws. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact is that a minimum of 20 percent of all global emissions are coming from destruction of tropical forests. Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. CORWIN (voice-over) However, finding the tracks is only the beginning. more than 6,000 pages of transcriptsand a spellbinding and denitive portrait of a nation on the brink. We actually saw entire sheets of coral that seemed to be completely dead and washed out. If the islands were uninhabited, it would simply be another mystery in the natural world. 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. A $70,000 reward has been announced for information leading to the arrest of whoever may have set that blaze. It's not based on the fast flow that generates additional icebergs. Anderson honors Flight 370's missing. COOPER: Climb back. V. MARROQUIN: To change the pollution to somewhere else. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's it, right there. (on camera): They have just found a truck with some people. (on camera): Tonight, we begin a place that's warming faster than just about any other place on Earth -- Greenland's ice sheet. The latest satellite picture showing still blowing offshore, although lightly now. The dry Santa Ana winds have let up. And that is a wonderful, wonderful story. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If these plants were emitting these kinds of levels in River Oaks, it wouldn't be happening, I promise. What we see is startling, a gray landscape with little marine life. As Lake Chad disappears, many have nowhere else to go. And it's unclear exactly why. 16 juin 2022 why do babies clap their feet. That's all -- the water that supplies the lake is all coming through here. They feed us, provide us medicine, and control our climate. Guide | Transcript Transcript PREVIOUSLY ON STARGATE SG-1 [Scenes from Summit where Yu objects to Anubis being made a System Lord. It's also the world's top beat exporter. role of forests in an ecosystem. Thank you. But it's just nerve wracking. It might be the only way to save an animal that, along with its habitat, could simply disappear. CORWIN: Not much. The co-pilot jumps out to test the snow pack. CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. COOPER (voice-over): The men are arrested and charged with possessing arms and hunting in the preserve, charges that could get them ten years in jail. JEFF CORWIN, HOST, "THE JEFF CORWIN EXPERIENCE": It is absolute, utter devastation. Encore: Planet In Peril: Battle Lines Aired December 14, 2008 - 20:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's 114 degrees, and we're stuck in Central Africa. Lakes are evaporating. It is possible. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They thought that killing her would end it. Scientists are generating data all the time. Anderson, Dr. Gupta, and Jeff Corwin, as well as the 360 staff and CNN in general, should be commended for their work on the Planet in Peril series! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, I think so. STEFFEN: Even if you reduce CO2 output at the current level and leave it level, the climate will continue to warm. "Planet In Peril" continues in a moment. A once-in-a-century virus silently stalks the country. MICHAELS: The problem is, we have these things called computer models. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): From Greenland's interior ice sheet, we travel to its east coast with Dennis Schmidt. But then '94, '95, it started to warm steadily. That doesn't mean these people can relax, however. CORWIN: These gentlemen have been very, very busy. But that also means that the power demand on the grid will go up. Anchorage Alaska USA 995071 907-360-4503 richard.g.steiner@gmail.com Good deal. A quick search turns up a small arsenal. A stark finding that for Dr. Steffen raises a very basic question. The thickness of the ice in Greenland has been changing over the last few decades. His mother, Rosario, was just happy she'd found somewhere free from the violence and drugs that plagued other low-income neighborhoods. $1.55. Scientists call it thermal expansion. Another update in 15 minutes. They have just found a truck with some people. We should think for the next two, three generations. COOPER: That's true. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Up to this wall -- GUPTA: Our guide is Anadatiega (ph). OK. COOPER: Oh, nice. . OK. CORWIN: With the bears safely sedated, Amstrup gets to work. We can renew the forest. COOPER (voice-over): When you discover an island here, pending approval, you get to name it. S01:E03 - Vultan - King of the Hawkmen. I have 15. There are ripple effects and that is putting our planet in peril. The consensus among scientists is something is different. SCHMIDT: Yes. (voice-over): Even the Chari River, the source for this once great lake, is evaporating. We are changing our climate, he says, and are risking a different planet. Look on the United States, probably the most violent weather on Earth of any large civilized nature -- the number of tornadoes COOPER: Right. "Planet in Peril" examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources. As Jeff mentioned earlier, the Amazon basin holds 20 percent of the world's water. You always think of something like that. COOPER (voice-over): The world's newest island, discovered because of the world's warming temperature. COOPER: Valentin still loves his neighborhood and playing outside. It's not easy to land on a glacier, especially one jutting out from a steep mountain. Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril Edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson Foreword by Desmond Tutu Eighty groundbreaking essays on why it's wrong to wreck the world COOPER: So in the summer months ahead, as the temperature increases, water will actually start flowing through here? Over the next few days, we're going to figure out why and report that back to you. These small planes, they measure the wind velocity. We traveled the world and the issues are real. A two-part, four hour documentary that premiered last October 23, 2007 on CNN, Planet In Peril tends to investigate the current condition of the Earth, concentrating on four major areas: global warming, overpopulation, deforestation and species loss. I'm honored by that. And when she decided, she decided. (on camera) The Kraho are very concerned about illegal logging on their territory. Amazingly, there's no shortage of food or diapers or even toilet paper. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. (ET/PT) and globally on. There are roughly 37 million people who rely on Lake Chad. Usually these channels are up to 20, 30, 40 feet deep. COOPER: Climate change isn't just having an impact here in the interior of Greenland. Many coral reefs often die after bleaching. Thousands of evacuees have gathered in San Diego's Qualcomm football stadium. This is a small fire set by a man who is cutting down a couple of acres of land. "Planet In Peril" continues after this break. Their job is daunting, something you can only appreciate from the air. PLANET IN PERIL continues after this break. It is rather steep. What we found is that Lake Chad's disappearance isn't just climate change or simply overuse, but, instead a combination of both, with tens of millions of people competing for a resource that is literally evaporating. In all these places, all these problems are interconnected. Excellent. Another update in 15 minutes. The carbon naturally stored in trees is released when they're cut down. There are no winches out here to free our trucks, just the bodies of our entire crew. We decided to go there and try to get some answers along the way. We're going to go home now. CORWIN: That data is part of Amstrup's annual field study. It's now a mosquito-infested swamp. Back to you. CORWIN: These regions, when you're away from any bit of infrastructure, can be pretty lawless. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? From the air, it's clear the lake is dropping. 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. 8 deg Fahrenheit So far, getting there is proving anything but easy. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): Greenland's ice sheet, 40 percent of it gone in the past 40 years. We should not just think for ourselves. Dennis chose the name Warming Island. Few periods in our nation's history have been more challenging or difficult than the one we're in now. I mean, if you're in New York or Iowa, what impact does the rain forest really have on your life? STEFFEN: Yes. He just has one request. That's where the real debate is now. And they're being cut down at a breathtaking rate. That's slash and burn. He joins us from Spring Valley by the Harris fire -- Rick. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, they are getting sick just because of food shortage. But that's not what is happening today. It reached that level this year. (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. CORWIN: The sea ice is melting, melting faster than anyone expected. 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