Florida Keys are known for their warm waters, but
now they're reaching hot tub like conditions.
A water temperature boy at Manatee Bay in the Everglades National Park registered
a high of 101 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38 Celsius, late Monday afternoon.
It's potentially the hottest ocean temperature ever recorded.
>> Speaker 2: That's right.
Manatee Bay in Florida has become so
warm that they're literally referring to it as hot tub levels.
And the water exceeded temperatures of 100 degrees,
as you saw in that video, and that's been going on for two days in a row now.
The previous record for
the hottest water was recorded in 2020 in the Persian Gulf's Kuwait Bay,
where temperatures reached 99.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
And it's not too shocking that water temperatures are heating up, because
climate change has essentially contributed to record heat waves across the globe,
something we've been talking about as the summer starting to heat up.
It's continuing, and since mid March,
the world's oceans have been hotter than at any time since at least 1982.
Let's take a look at this graphic which shows you what we're talking about here.
The blue line represents the average, but you look at 2023,
which is represented by the red mark, or the red line, I should say.
And you can see the warm temperatures or
the rapidly heating warming temperatures as a result of the climate emergency.
And these warnings are ultimately going to lead to a catastrophe like the collapse
of ocean currents, which I didn't even know was something to be concerned about
until this particular issue regarding the warming ocean came into play.
So, according to NOAA, the Atlantic Meridonial Overturning Circulation, or
AMOC, could collapse at any point between now and 2095, even as early as 2025,
depending on what we do in response to the climate emergency.
And so the current circulates warm and cool water around the globe.
This graphic kind of demonstrates what I'm talking about here.
And what would it mean if the currents were to collapse?
Well, collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in
the North Atlantic region, and represent one of the most
important tipping points as the planet's climate changes.
Other tipping points which represent irreversible shifts to the planet
include the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, the destruction of
the Amazon rainforest and the thawing of permafrost, the permafrost.
>> Looks like we're gonna do four out of four.
>> John, this is your number one issue.
Out of every show on the network,
you've done the most extensive reporting on climate change.
>> Speaker 3: I don't know.
Is it? Because I didn't make room for
this on my rundown today and you did?
>> Speaker 2: Why are you telling on yourself?
>> Speaker 3: Maybe you've eclipsed me for doing the most critical climate coverage.
I've seen the rundowns on the main show,
you've been talking about the climate a lot.
>> Speaker 3: Not a big deal.
>> The past couple of months.
>> Speaker 2: It's important.
>> Speaker 3: I did plan on doing it tomorrow, but now I won't.
Important stories, obviously.
I'm glad that we got the hot tub water thing, though, because a lot of
really smug lefties for the last few years have been mocking Ben Shapiro for
saying that if the ocean rises, you can just sell your property.
And they say, yeah, who are you gonna sell it to?
Hot tub enthusiasts, obviously.
They're gonna get a nice soak off the coast, so
maybe can it with the criticism of Ben Shapiro and focus on his Barbie review.
Yeah, it's devastating.
You said you weren't familiar with the possibility of that happening.
Well, that implies that you weren't at a younger age,
paying attention to important documentaries like The Day After Tomorrow.
>> Speaker 2: No, I certainly was not, because that.
>> Speaker 3: Is literally a plot point from The Day After Tomorrow that that
gets shut down and that changes where the whole areas get frozen.
They, I would say, overplay the effects a little bit in severity and speed.
But, yeah, it would be devastating for a lot of different reasons.
I don't think enough people think about why a place like Europe is
really nice and not that cold, considering how Northern it is.
Well, that's a good portion of the reason why.
Now, theoretically, if you didn't have this, and
there's a lot of different reasons why it might happen the overall heating,
as well as the diluting of the ocean by fresh water from things like the Greenland
ice sheet, it basically just swamps the whole thing and shuts it down.
And then a lot of areas of the world might assume or
resume what you would expect in terms of climate,
which I think hundreds of millions of people are gonna find to be very shocking.
>> Speaker 2: All right, well, luckily, we have Congressional lawmakers
responding well and effectively to this emergency.
In fact, you have Congressional Republicans currently fighting pretty
hard to include amendments in spending bills that would cut funding to
accurately responding to the climate emergency.
Let's give you the details on that.
The GOP bills are currently in the House Appropriations Committee,
chaired by Texas Republican Representative Kay Granger, who has received nearly
$1.2 million from the oil and gas sector over the course of her career in Congress.
Her second largest career campaign contributor is the oil and
gas industry, and she brags on her government website that she has
fought to prevent spending to combat climate change, John.
>> What you don't know about Kate Granger is something that she knows,
which is that her descendants are the worst and she just wants them to suffer.
You might think that we have some sort of obligation to protect our kids and
our grandkids, but she knows that they suck and we need to wipe them out.
And that's why for just $1.2 million, she's willing to set fire to our future.
>> And her own district, which is also grappling with the climate emergency.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're getting wrecked right now, actually.
Think about, >> Speaker 2: Sorry to interrupt you like.
Earlier this week, Genk and
I shared a story with you all about how Republicans have proposed responding
to the climate emergency by planting a trillion trees, right?
So on some level they're feeling the pressure to do something about
the climate emergency.
But that sweet, sweet donor money, that oil and gas money is so
nice, they don't wanna give that up.
So it's like, how do we provide the illusion of taking this emergency
seriously while simultaneously fighting tooth and nail to cut resources and
funding that would help us respond to the climate emergency.
>> Yeah.
>> At least on some level effectively.
>> Yeah, the right wing reaction to the science of climate change has gone through
multiple phases, but every single phase is just designed to hold off change for
as long as possible so they can extract as much money as possible.
That's all it is.
And the longer we wait, obviously,
the more damage it does to people in the future.
But they don't care.
They've never cared.
K Ranger doesn't care.
The metaphor I was gonna make was we know all these scientists have
been trying to warn us about this for literally decades.
Well, what if all of military spies for literally decades are like,
I don't know if you guys know this, but
Canada is openly talking about invading us and every year they talk about it more.
>> Can you imagine.
>> And then you had all of these Republican Congress people putting into
every bill, even if it has nothing to do with the military.
You cannot prepare for war with Canada.
You can't put a single dollar into doing anything about it.
What would you think about those people if they spent generations making it so
that we are as hampered as possible in dealing with the obvious Canadian threat
from the North?
You would consider them traitors.
>> Right. >> And I guess you would do that because,
well, that threat has a gun or whatever.
But if a threat is going to wreck our coastlines and
wreck our ability to produce food and
literally kill workers in the streets, why do we care that they weren't shot?
They're being killed anyway.
Real estate is being wiped out.
Why do we care that it wasn't bombed, that it was just flooded?
Why don't we care that they are effectively being traitors to us and
our future in the same exact way as they would if it was a military threat?
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, part of the problem is, and look,
I've been noticing this trend of people kinda downplaying the impact
of money in politics, which I think is kinda dumb.
Because really, what is dissuading members of Congress from doing
what needs to be done in response to the climate emergency?
Right?
I mean, we all see what's happening to the planet.
We see the extreme weather events we are experiencing, the droughts in the west.
All of this stuff is happening right now.
What is dissuading members of Congress from responding to this the way they need
to respond to it.
>> Speaker 3: Could it be the donor money?
>> Or honest disagreement?
They've looked at decades of climate science.
>> Right. >> They've rigorously studied it and
talked to the experts, and they just don't find it convincing.
>> Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
>> Speaker 3: It could be one of those two things.
>> Speaker 2: Now, let's get to some of the other provisions that Republicans
are trying to jam into some of these spending bills.
These have been added to four annual government spending bills, and
Joe Biden has failed to issue a climate emergency declaration.
Something else to keep in mind.
So it's not as though this is just wrongdoing by Republicans.
I think that Democrats have failed to rise to the occasion as well.
However, when it comes to the provisions that Republicans are forcing into
some of these spending bills, they include blocking fisheries research
requiring offshore oil and gas leases while slowing wind power leases,
and also defunding global climate investments.
Now, more details about those provisions.
A line in one bill would bar the Biden administration from spending any money on
climate change fisheries research.
And this comes right after tens of thousands of dead fish washed ashore in
Texas, something that I think we covered, but it was a big story,
I'm sure many of you remember it.
And the subcommittee that originally authored the fisheries legislation
is headed by Republican Representative Hal Rogers.
Let's take a look at Hal Rogers and who funds his campaigns, shall we?
Representative Rogers has raised more than half a million dollars from the mining
industry over the course of his career and $390,000 from the oil and gas industry.
But I'm sure that that did nothing to influence his lawmaking decisions here.
Let me continue.
Republicans are also working hard to slow this shift to clean energy.
The legislation contains a provision mandating none of the funds made available
by this act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost of carbon.
The bill also permanently rescinds $1.3 billion in grant funding
under the Clean Air Act to mitigate the effects of air pollution.
>> Speaker 3: That's not even climate change stuff that's
literally just gunk in the air killing people.
>> Yep, yep.
Do their kid not breathe?
>> Speaker 2: But big business might have to avoid releasing so much pollution.
>> Speaker 3: That would be inconvenient.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, that would cost money.
Cut into their profits a little bit.
Corporate profits, our respiratory system.
I don't know.
>> Speaker 3: Republican Congress people's.
Kids can have asthma as a treat.
>> Speaker 2: Now, lastly, the bill also prohibits no,
I've got more on that, sorry.
So the Department of Interior funding bill has been spearheaded by
Representative Mike Simpson.
A Republican from Indiana who has received nearly $900,000 in campaign
contributions from electric utility interests during the course of his career,
as well as roughly $440,000 from oil and gas industry donors.
In the last few years, climate intensified wildfires have caused billions of
damage in Simpson state, and I'm gonna pause for a second.
>> [INAUDIBLE] an investment.
Quite an investment.
Look, the thing is this, this all makes sense now because pushing for
nuclear power, which is like a clean source of energy, right,
has always kind of been associated with the Republican side of the aisle.
And I'm like, if they're serious about that, how come they're not pushing for it?
But their oil and
gas donors don't want us to move over to relying on nuclear power either.
>> Speaker 3: Well, theoretically they wouldn't wanna replace with
literally anything.
>> Speaker 2: So they're just full of crap.
They don't support any response to the climate emergency.
>> Speaker 3: No, and again it's not even like you lefties are saying that we should
take corporate profits and we should ignore that and we should focus on climate
gains or environmental gains because again, this isn't just about the climate.
This is about toxins and the water and the air and the ground and all that.
At a certain point, the wildfires that blanket the entire
American South in like a cloud of smoke is not just a climate thing.
It's an immediate problem too.
But it's not really that because if you were to take the climate crisis
seriously and the environmental crisis generally seriously,
you could stimulate all sorts of economic activity.
Switching over to clean renewable energy would be a big investment with
potentially big returns.
Becoming some sort of international leader in producing either wind turbines or
solar panels or electric cars could be massive for American industry.
It's not about the environment versus industry.
It's about the industry they care about versus any threat to it.
You could potentially make so many jobs and so
much money off of taking all this stuff seriously.
>> Speaker 2: All about protecting current fossil fuel
companies to the detriment of humanity.
That is literally what is happening right now.
And the short sighted nature of our congressional lawmakers,
particularly the right on this particular issue is so disheartening, so
discouraging and I think just says something negative about human nature.
The inability to think about the long term consequences of the actions these
members of Congress are taking as we speak.