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invited into your home of
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of global warming. There'
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is a long term average we
changes rapidly. You'd ex
climate of Miami, but you
and get a bad week of wea
cold and rainy there whil
mean the climate change.
picked up bad week for th
easier to predict climate
its basic thermodynamics.
something it's warmer. It
than night and why summer
play in a football game w
and we expect as the clim
energy we're going to hav
variations and global war
effect, making storms big
droughts warmer and drier
for sure people say my cl
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drift, we've had mass ext
why climate changes and t
three things that affecte
which we can measure and
much right now. The chang
up Milan Covic cycles and
lot more. The orbit aroun
on a period of about 100,
41,000 years and it spins
years. Those things would
in and out of ice ages. E
the beginning of the Indu
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highest in the glacial pe
years across the planet.
know that? Because we can
if you will of the carbon
and it's from the burning
that's been buried underg
is growing not shrinking
time how long it stays in
centuries. So it's a big
know for sure? Well, we c
past. We can measure ice
corals, sediment, ice tra
can actually analyze what
in that centuries ago and
drought. Coral indicates
chemistry folks will say
is just recent stuff we'v
now. We've known this Sin
in 1825, Joseph Fourier a
realized that the earth i
the sun to be as warm as
1863, Abraham Lincoln was
dioxide being the gas tha
or earth energy. And Svan
carbon dioxide would warm
degrees. And let's not fo
a woman scientist in 18 5
jars and filled them with
Oxygen, nitrogen carbon d
change and unis found tha
with carbon dioxide that
We also know the science
effect is real. Without i
be about 60 degrees colde
too much of a good thing.
carbon dioxide in the atm
the energy retention like
the entire surface of the
about like a child's nigh
fashioned christmas tree
the entire surface of the
amount of energy and we k
of that doubling of C. 02
the melting of the icecap
a rise in sea level of 5
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of sea level. You think t
And we know it's getting
years on record have all
2000 global temperatures
record highs. Far outdoin
getting hotter, winters a
snow pack is melting earl
and it means that we're g
extremes, fires, floods,
cycle going on again. So
time of that C. 02 in the
short term to get it back
But there's things we can
mitigate the impacts, inc
promote better conservati
construction techniques o
flood prone areas. Think
up toward estes park all
fire and forest policies,
zoning change that in thr
techniques and smart and
me, what about India and
working toward it because
can't breathe the air and
bit faster. But they are
$38 billion a year on ker
asthma, causes lots of br
kids that are in third wo
to read using a kerosene
just a little bit of sola
everybody's life there wi
Maybe some refrigeration,
So the third will benefit
energy. And we get high p
jobs in renewable energy
coal and you can't import
of them here in Colorado.
is L. A. In 1968 this is
computers back when I was
Now I carry one in my pho
was the memory storage in
five megabytes for 100 an
carry a little tiny chip
hasn't changed, but it's
change can sometimes happ
York City, Easter Sunday
horse and buggies. Just 1
Everything else is cars.
with the electrification
Einstein. The significant
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with which we created the
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he also is from Wisconsin
how much it will cost to
One more question should
it cost our civilization
then finally john f Kenne
must be with the future f
The old era is ending the
do a little hard to see t
summit, you get energy in
the rainforest sustainabi
healthy Children. And the
it's a big hoax and we ju
world for nothing. One mo
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and perils. It would be e
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decision. Our problems ar
destiny is beyond human b
this problem and we've do
in our past and they can
the transcontinental rail
and plumbing, rural elect
project. The interstate h
fiber optics, the interne
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is a big undertaking. Eve
lives much better. We're
energy and battery techno
all for electric vehicles
on the 16th street mall.
current transmission syst
that would use where it's
electrons, it would prote
that would protect us fro
pulse and it would quickl
move energy around. This
that we do. And maybe we'
exist 30 years ago. Our c
because when I talked to
people become inventors.
martin. They were buildin
was out there doing an in
finished they said, can w
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in their white coats said
to our school when we wer
and now they're building
cool. These are my grandc
to finish with this when
first human being to go i
up above our atmosphere a
tiny porthole in his Russ
he was terrified not that
wrong with the spacecraft
he lived at the bottom of
air. And as he looked out
of atmosphere around are
how fragile it looked as
we'll find other places,
It seems that it would be
the best care of it we ca
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mike dot nelson at the De