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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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GORE: You look at that river,
gently flowing by.
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You notice the leaves
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rustling with the wind.
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You hear the birds.
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You hear the tree frogs.
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In the distance,
you hear a cow.
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You feel the grass.
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The mud gives a little bit
on the river bank.
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It's quiet. It's peaceful.
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And all of a sudden,
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it's a gear shift inside you.
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And it's like taking
a deep breath and going,
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(SIGHING)
"Oh, yeah,
I forgot about this."
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This is the first picture
of the earth from space
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that any of us ever saw.
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It was taken on, uh,
Christmas Eve 1968
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during the Apollo 8 Mission.
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...within relatively
comfortable boundaries.
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But we are filling up that
thin shell of atmosphere
with pollution.
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MAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Al Gore.
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I am Al Gore.
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I used to be
the next president of the
United States Of America.
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(CHEERING)
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I don't find that
particularly funny.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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I've been trying to tell
this story for a long time,
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and I feel as if I've failed
to get the message across.
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I was in politics
for a long time
and I'm proud of my service.
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(SCREAMING)
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MAN ON RADIO:
You gotta be kidding me.
This is a national disaster.
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Get every doggone Greyhound
bus line in the country,
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and get their...moving to
New Orleans.
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That's them thinking small,
man,
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and this is a major, major,
major deal.
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PRESENTER:
What do you need right now?
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GORE: There are good people,
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who are in politics
in both parties
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who hold this at arm's length
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because if they acknowledge it
and recognize it,
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then the moral imperative
to make a big change is
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is--is inescapable.
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MAN: ...unless you fix the
biggest damn crisis in the
history of this country.
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GORE:
...scouted out landing spots
and they lost radio contact
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when they went around
the dark side of the moon.
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And there was inevitably
some suspense.
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Then when they came back
in radio contact,
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they looked up
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and they snapped this picture,
and it became known
as Earth Rise.
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And that one picture exploded
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in the consciousness
of humankind.
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It lead to dramatic changes.
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Within 18 months
of this picture,
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the modern environmental
movement had begun.
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The next picture
was taken on the last
of the Apollo missions,
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Apollo 17.
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This one was taken
on December 11, 1972,
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and it is the most
commonly published
photograph in all of history.
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And it's the only picture
of the earth from space
that we have
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(LAUGHING)
where the sun was directly
behind the spacecraft
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so that the earth
is fully lit up and not
partly in darkness.
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The next image
I'm gonna show you
has almost never been seen.
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It was taken by a spacecraft
called The Galileo
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that went out to explore
the solar system.
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And as it was
leaving Earth's gravity,
it turned its cameras around
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and took a time lapse picture
of one day's worth
of rotation,
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here compressed
into 24 seconds.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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This image is a magical
image in a way.
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It was made by a friend
of mine, Tom Van Sant.
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He took 3,000 separate
satellite pictures
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taken over
a three-year period,
digitally stitched together.
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And he chose images
that would give
a cloud-free view
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of every square inch
of the earth's surface.
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All of the land masses
accurately portrayed.
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When that's all spread out,
it becomes an iconic image.
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I show this because
I--I wanna tell you a story
about two teachers I had.
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One that I didn't like
that much, the other
who is a real hero to me.
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I had a grade school teacher
who taught geography
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by pulling a map
of the world down
in front of the blackboard.
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I had a classmate
in the sixth grade
who raised his hand
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and he pointed to the outline
of the east coast
of South America
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and he pointed
to the west coast of Africa
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and he asked,
"Did they ever fit together?"
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And the teacher said,
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"Of course not.
That's the most ridiculous
thing I've ever heard."
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That student went on
to become a drug addict
and a ne'er-do-well.
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The teacher went on to become
science advisor
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in the current administration.
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But, you know, the teacher
was actually reflecting
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the conclusion of the
scientific establishment
of that time.
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Continents are so big,
obviously they don't move.
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But, actually, as we now know,
they did move.
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Uh, they moved apart
from one another.
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But at one time they did,
in fact, fit together.
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But that assumption
was a problem.
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It reflected
the well-known wisdom
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that what gets us into trouble
is not what we don't know,
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it's what we know for sure
that just ain't so.
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This is actually
an important point,
believe it or not,
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because there is another
such assumption
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that a lot of people
have in their minds right now
about global warming
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that just ain't so.
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The assumption
is something like this.
The earth is so big
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we can't possibly have
any lasting harmful impact
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on the earth's environment.
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And maybe that
was true at one time,
but it's not anymore.
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And one of the reasons
it's not true anymore
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is that the most vulnerable
part of the earth's
ecological system
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is the atmosphere.
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Vulnerable because
it's so thin.
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My friend,
the late Carl Sagan,
used to say,
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"If you had a big globe
with a coat of varnish on it,
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"the thickness of that varnish
relative to that globe
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"is pretty much the same
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"as the thickness
of the earth's atmosphere
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"compared to
the earth itself."
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And it's thin enough
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that we are capable
of changing its composition.
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That brings up
the basic science
of global warming.
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And I'm not gonna spend
a lot of time on this
because, uh, you know it well.
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The sun's radiation comes in
in the form of light waves
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and that heats up the Earth.
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And then some of the radiation
that is absorbed
and warms the earth
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is reradiated back into space
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in the form
of infrared radiation.
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And some of the outgoing
infrared radiation is trapped
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by this layer of atmosphere
and held inside
the atmosphere.
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And that's a good thing
because it keeps the
temperature of the earth
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within certain boundaries,
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keeps it relatively
constant and livable.
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But the problem is this
thin layer of atmosphere
is being thickened
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by all of the
global warming pollution
that's being put up there.
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And what that does is
it thickens this layer
of atmosphere,
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more of the outgoing
infrared is trapped.
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And so the atmosphere
heats up worldwide.
That's global warming.
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Now, that's the
traditional explanation.
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Here's a... What I think
is a better explanation.
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(MAN READING)
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(SOBBING)
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(LAUGHING)
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You're probably wondering
why your ice cream went away.
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Well, Susie, the culprit
isn't foreigners.
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It's global warming.
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Global wha...
Yeah.
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MAN: Meet Mr. Sunbeam.
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He comes all the way
from the sun to visit Earth.
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Hello, Earth. Just popping in
to brighten your day.
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* La, la, la, la,
la, la, la! **
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And now I'll be on my way.
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Not so fast, Sunbeam.
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We're greenhouse gases.
You ain't going nowhere.
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(YELPING)
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Oh, God, it hurts.
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MAN: Pretty soon, Earth is
chock-full of Sunbeams.
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Their rotting corpses heating
our atmosphere.
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(ALL LAUGHING)
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How do we get rid
of the greenhouse grasses?
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Fortunately,
our handsomest politicians
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came up with a cheap,
last-minute way
to combat global warming.
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Ever since 2063,
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we simply drop
a giant ice cube into
the ocean every now and then.
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Just like Daddy puts
in his drink every morning.
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And then he gets mad.
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MAN: Of course,
since the greenhouse gases
are still building up,
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it takes more and more ice
each time.
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Thus, solving the problem
once and for all.
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But...
Once and for all!
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This is, uh, the image
that started me
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in my interest in this issue.
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And I saw it
when I was a college student
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because I had a professor
named Roger Revelle
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who was the first person
to propose measuring
carbon dioxide
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in the earth's atmosphere.
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GORE: He saw where
the story was going
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after the first few chapters.
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After the first few years
of data,
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he intuited what it meant
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for what w-was yet to come.
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They designed the experiment
in 1957.
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He hired Charles David Keeling
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who was very faithful
and precise
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in making these measurements
for decades.
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They started sending
these weather balloons
up every day
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and they chose
the middle of the Pacific
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because it was the area
that was most remote.
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And he was a very
hard-nosed scientist.
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He really emphasized
the hard data.
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It was a wonderful time for me
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because, like a lot
of young people,
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I came into contact
with intellectual ferment,
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ideas that I'd never
considered
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in my wildest dreams before.
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And he showed our class
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the results
of his measurements
after only a few years.
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It was startling to me.
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Now he was startled
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and made it clear to our class
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what he felt
the significance of it was.
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And I just soaked it up
like a sponge.
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He drew the connections
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between the larger changes
in our civilization
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and this pattern
that was now visible
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in the atmosphere
of the entire planet.
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And then he
projected into the future
where this was headed
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unless we made
some adjustments.
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And it was just
as clear as day.
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After the first seven,
eight, nine years,
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you could see the pattern
that was developing.
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But I asked a question.
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Why is it that it goes
up and down once each year?
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And he explained that
if you look at the
land mass of the earth,
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very little of it
is south of the equator.
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The vast majority of it
is north of the equator,
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and most of the vegetation
is north of the equator.
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And so,
when the Northern Hemisphere
is tilted toward the sun,
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as it is in our spring
and summer,
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the leaves come out
and they breathe in
carbon dioxide,
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and the amount
in the atmosphere goes down.
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But when the
Northern Hemisphere
is tilted away from the sun,
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as it is in our fall
and winter,
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the leaves fall
and exhale carbon dioxide,
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and the amount
in the atmosphere
goes back up again.
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And so, it's as if
the entire earth
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once each year
breaths in and out.
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(TAKING DEEP BREATH)
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So we started measuring
carbon dioxide in 1958.
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And you can see
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that by the middle '60s,
when he showed my class
this image,
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it was already clear
that it was going up.
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I respected him
and learned from him
so much, I followed this.
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And when I went
to the Congress
in the middle 1970s,
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I helped to organize
the first hearings
on global warming
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and asked my professor to come
and be the leadoff witness.
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And I thought that would have
such a big impact,
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we'd be on the way
to solving this problem,
but it didn't work that way.
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But I kept having hearings.
And in 1984
I went to the Senate
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and really dug deeply
into this issue
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with science roundtables
and the like.
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I wrote a book, uh, about it,
ran for President in 1988,
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partly to try to gain some
visibility for that issue.
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And in 1992 went to the
White House. We passed
a version of a carbon tax
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and some other measures
to try to address this.
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Went to Kyoto in 1997
to help get a treaty
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that's so controversial,
in the US at least.
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In 2000,
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my opponent pledged
to regulate CO2 and then...
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T-That--That was not
a pledge that was kept.
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But the point of this is
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all this time you can see
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what I have seen
all these years.
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It just keeps going up.
It is relentless.
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And now we're beginning to see
the impact in the real world.
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This is Mount Kilimanjaro
more than 30 years ago
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and more recently.
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And a friend of mine
just came back
from Kilimanjaro
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with a picture he took
a couple of months ago.
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Another friend,
Lonnie Thompson,
studies glaciers.
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Here's Lonnie with
a last sliver of one of
the once mighty glaciers.
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Within the decade
there will be no more snows
of Kilimanjaro.
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This is happening
in Glacier National Park.
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I climbed to the top of this
in 1998 with
one of my daughters.
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Within 15 years,
this will be the park
formerly known as Glacier.
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Here is what's been happening
year by year to the
Columbia Glacier.
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It just retreats
every single year.
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And it's a shame
'cause these glaciers
are so beautiful.
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But those who go up
to see them,
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here's what they're seeing
every day, now.
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In the Himalayas, uh,
there's a particular problem
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because 40 percent of all
the people in the world
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get their drinking water
from rivers and spring systems
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that are fed more than half
by the melt water
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coming off the glaciers.
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And within this next
half century those 40 percent
o-of the people on Earth
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are gonna face
a very serious shortage
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because o-of this melting.
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Italy, the Italian Alps.
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Same sight today.
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An old postcard
from Switzerland.
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Throughout the Alps,
we're seeing the same story.
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It's also true
in South America.
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This is Peru 15 years ago.
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And the same glacier today.
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This is Argentina
20 years ago.
Same glacier today.
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Seventy-five years ago
in Patagonia
on the tip of South America.
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This vast expanse
of ice is now gone.
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There's a message in this.
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It is worldwide.
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And the ice has stories
to tell us.
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My friend, Lonnie Thompson,
digs core drills in the ice.
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They dig down
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and they bring
the core drills back up
and they look at the ice
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and they study it.
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When the snow falls,
it traps little bubbles
of atmosphere
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and they can go in and measure
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how much CO2
is in the atmosphere
the year that that snow fell.
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What's even more interesting,
I think, is
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they can measure the different
isotopes of oxygen
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and figure out
a very precise thermometer
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and tell you what
the temperature was
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the year that, uh,
that bubble was trapped
in the snow as it fell.
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When I was in Antarctica,
I saw cores like this.
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And a guy looked at it.
He said,
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"Right here is where
the US Congress passed
the Clean Air Act."
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And I couldn't believe it.
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But you can see the difference
with the naked eye.
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Just a couple of years
after that law was passed,
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it's very clearly
distinguishable.
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They can count back
year by year
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the same way a forester reads
tree rings.
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And you can see
each annual layer from
the melting and re-freezing,
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so they can go back
in a lot of these
mountain glaciers 1,000 years.
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And they constructed
a thermometer
of the temperature.
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The blue is cold
and the red is warm.
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Now, uh, I show this
for a couple of reasons.
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Number one,
the so-called skeptics
will sometimes say,
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"Oh, this whole thing,
this is a cyclical phenomenon.
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"There was a medieval
warming period, after all."
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Well, yeah, there--there was.
There--There it is,
right there.
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There are two others.
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But compared to
what's going on now,
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there's just no comparison.
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So if you look at 1,000 years'
worth of temperature
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and compare it to
1,000 years of CO2,
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you can see how closely
they fit together.
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Now, 1,000 years of CO2
in the mountain glaciers,
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that's one thing.
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But in Antarctica, they can
go back 650,000 years.
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This incidentally, uh,
is the first time
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anybody outside of a
small group of scientists
has seen this image.
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This is the present day,
uh, era,
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and that's the last ice age.
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Then it goes up. That...
We're going back in time
now 650,000 years.
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That's the period of warming
between the last two ice ages.
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That's the second
and third ice age back.
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Fourth, fifth, sixth
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and seventh ice age back.
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Now, an important point.
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In all of this time,
650,000 years,
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the CO2 level
has never gone above
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300 parts per million.
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Now, as I said, they can
also measure temperature.
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Here's what the temperature
has been on our earth.
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Now, one thing that kind
of jumps out at you is...
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Well, let me put it this way.
If my classmate
from the sixth grade
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that talked about Africa
and South America were here,
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he would say,
"Did--did--did--
did they ever fit together?"
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"Most ridiculous thing
I've ever heard."
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But they did, of course.
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And the--the relationship
is actually very complicated.
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But there is one relationship
that is far more powerful
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than all the others
and it is this.
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When there is
more carbon dioxide,
the temperature gets warmer
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because it traps more heat
from the sun inside.
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In the parts
of the United States
that contain the modern cities
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of Cleveland,
Detroit, New York,
in the northern tier,
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this is the difference
between a nice day
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and having a mile
of ice over your head.
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Keep that in mind
when you look at this fact.
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Carbon dioxide,
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having never gone above
300 parts per million,
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here is where CO2 is now.
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Way above where it's ever been
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as far back as this record
will measure.
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Now, if you'll bear with me,
I wanna really emphasize
this point.
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The--The crew here
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has tried to teach me how to
use this contraption here.
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So, if I don't
kill myself, I'll...
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(MACHINERY HUMMING)
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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It's already right here.
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Look how far above
the natural cycle this is,
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and we've done that.
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But, ladies and gentlemen,
in the next 50 years,
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really, in less than 50 years,
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it's gonna continue to go up.
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When some of these children
who are here are my age,
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here is what it's going to be
in less than 50 years.
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(MACHINERY HUMMING)
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You've heard of
off the charts.
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Within less than 50 years,
it'll be here.
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There's not a single fact
or date or number
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that's been used
to make this up
that's in any controversy.
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The so-called skeptics
look at this and they say,
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00:24:07,947 --> 00:24:11,851
"So? That seems
perfectly okay."
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Well,
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again, if on the
temperature side,
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if this much on the cold side
is a mile of ice
over our heads,
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what would that much
on the warm side be?
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Ultimately this is really
not a political issue
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so much as a--a moral issue.
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If we allow that to happen,
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it is deeply unethical.
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GORE: I had such faith
in our democratic system,
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our self-government.
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I actually thought
and believed
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that the story would be
compelling enough to cause
a real sea change
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in the way the Congress
reacted to that issue.
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00:25:10,242 --> 00:25:13,813
I thought they would
be startled, too.
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00:25:13,813 --> 00:25:15,748
And they weren't.
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00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:21,153
The struggles,
404
00:25:21,153 --> 00:25:26,926
the victories that aren't
really victories, the defeats
that aren't really defeats.
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00:25:26,926 --> 00:25:31,297
They can serve to magnify
the significance
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of some trivial step forward,
407
00:25:34,767 --> 00:25:39,305
exaggerate the seeming
importance
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of some massive setback.
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GORE: April 3, 1989.
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My son pulled loose
from my hand
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and chased his friend
across the street.
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He was six years old.
413
00:26:02,228 --> 00:26:05,031
The machine
was breathing for him.
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00:26:08,434 --> 00:26:11,838
We were possibly
going to lose him.
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00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:19,311
He finally, uh, took a breath.
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00:26:22,214 --> 00:26:25,618
We stayed in the hospital
for a month.
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It was almost as if, uh,
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you could look at that
calendar and just go...
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(BLOWING)
And everything just flew off.
420
00:26:37,630 --> 00:26:40,032
Seemed trivial, insignificant.
421
00:26:41,634 --> 00:26:43,970
He was so brave.
He was such...
422
00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:47,273
Uh, he was such
a--a brave guy.
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It just turned my whole world
upside down
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00:26:52,645 --> 00:26:57,583
and then shook it
until everything fell out.
425
00:26:57,583 --> 00:27:03,055
My way of being in the world,
it just changed everything
for me.
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00:27:03,055 --> 00:27:06,092
How should I spend my time
on this earth?
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00:27:11,764 --> 00:27:14,166
I really dug in,
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00:27:14,166 --> 00:27:17,970
trying to learn about it
much more deeply.
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00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:20,106
I went to Antarctica.
430
00:27:20,106 --> 00:27:22,775
Went to the South Pole,
the North Pole, the Amazon.
431
00:27:22,775 --> 00:27:27,980
Went to places
where scientists could
help me understand
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00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:30,482
parts of the issue that
433
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,419
I didn't really understand
in depth.
434
00:27:37,456 --> 00:27:41,193
The possibility of losing
what was most precious to me.
435
00:27:42,394 --> 00:27:45,531
I gained a-an ability
436
00:27:45,531 --> 00:27:47,133
(SIGHING)
437
00:27:47,133 --> 00:27:50,436
that maybe I didn't have
before.
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00:27:51,637 --> 00:27:53,405
But when I felt it,
439
00:27:53,405 --> 00:27:57,810
I felt that we could
really lose it,
440
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:04,383
that what we take for granted
might not be here
for our children.
441
00:28:07,086 --> 00:28:09,922
These are actual measurements
of atmospheric temperatures
442
00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:12,224
since our Civil War.
443
00:28:12,224 --> 00:28:15,394
In any given year,
it might look like
it's going down,
444
00:28:15,394 --> 00:28:18,464
but the overall trend
is extremely clear.
445
00:28:18,464 --> 00:28:20,199
And in recent years,
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00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:24,703
it's uninterrupted
and it is intensifying.
447
00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:29,008
In fact, if you look at
the 10 hottest years
ever measured
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00:28:29,008 --> 00:28:31,043
in this atmospheric record,
449
00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:34,146
they've all occurred
in the last 14 years.
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And the hottest of all
was 2005.
451
00:28:38,851 --> 00:28:42,121
We have already seen
some of the heat waves
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that are similar
to what scientists are saying
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00:28:44,356 --> 00:28:46,125
are gonna be
a lot more common.
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Couple of years ago
in Europe
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they had
that massive heat wave
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that killed 35,000 people.
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00:28:53,399 --> 00:28:56,335
India didn't get
as much attention,
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00:28:56,335 --> 00:28:59,105
but the same year
the temperature there went
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to 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
460
00:29:02,308 --> 00:29:04,777
This past summer
in the American West,
461
00:29:04,777 --> 00:29:08,714
there were a lot of cities
that broke all-time records
for high temperatures
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00:29:08,714 --> 00:29:14,086
and number of consecutive days
with 100 degree temperature
or more.
463
00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:18,858
Two hundred cities
and towns in the west
set all-time records.
464
00:29:18,858 --> 00:29:23,262
And in the east there were
a lot of cities that did
the same thing.
465
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Including, incidentally,
New Orleans.
466
00:29:26,833 --> 00:29:30,837
So the temperature increases
are taking place
all over the world,
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00:29:30,837 --> 00:29:32,839
including in the oceans.
468
00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:37,343
This is the natural range
of variability for temperature
in the oceans.
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00:29:37,343 --> 00:29:39,145
You know, people say,
"Oh, it's just natural.
470
00:29:39,145 --> 00:29:41,547
"It goes up and down,
so don't worry about it."
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00:29:41,547 --> 00:29:45,852
This is the range
that would be expected
over the last 60 years,
472
00:29:45,852 --> 00:29:49,721
but the scientists who
specialize in global warming
have computer models
473
00:29:49,721 --> 00:29:55,461
that long ago
predicted this range
of temperature increase.
474
00:29:55,461 --> 00:29:57,997
Now I'm gonna show you,
recently released,
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00:29:57,997 --> 00:30:01,934
the actual ocean temperatures.
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00:30:01,934 --> 00:30:06,973
And, of course,
when the oceans get warmer,
that causes stronger storms.
477
00:30:06,973 --> 00:30:09,741
We have seen
in the last couple of years
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00:30:09,741 --> 00:30:11,477
a lot of big hurricanes.
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00:30:11,477 --> 00:30:16,415
Hurricane Jeanne and Frances
and Ivan were among them.
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00:30:16,415 --> 00:30:20,286
And the same year that we had
that string of big hurricanes,
481
00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:24,256
we also set an all-time record
for tornadoes
in the United States.
482
00:30:24,256 --> 00:30:28,327
Japan again didn't get
as much attention
in our news media,
483
00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:31,297
but they set an
all-time record for typhoons.
484
00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:32,731
Previous record was seven.
485
00:30:32,731 --> 00:30:36,936
Here are all 10 of the ones
they had in 2004.
486
00:30:36,936 --> 00:30:39,071
The science textbooks have had
to be rewritten
487
00:30:39,071 --> 00:30:42,975
because they say that it's
impossible to have a hurricane
in the South Atlantic.
488
00:30:42,975 --> 00:30:45,711
But the same year
the first one ever hit Brazil.
489
00:30:45,711 --> 00:30:49,281
Summer of 2005 has been
one for the books.
490
00:30:49,281 --> 00:30:52,919
The first one was Emily
that socked into Yucatan.
491
00:30:52,919 --> 00:30:56,889
Then Hurricane Dennis
came along and it did
a lot of damage,
492
00:30:56,889 --> 00:30:58,891
including to the oil industry.
493
00:30:58,891 --> 00:31:03,295
This is the largest
oil platform in the world
after Dennis went through.
494
00:31:03,295 --> 00:31:06,532
This one was driven
into the bridge at Mobile.
495
00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:10,069
And then, of course,
came Katrina.
496
00:31:10,069 --> 00:31:14,941
It's worth remembering
that when it hit Florida,
it was a Category One.
497
00:31:14,941 --> 00:31:18,877
But it killed a lot of people
and caused billions of
dollars' worth of damage.
498
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,180
And then what happened?
499
00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:23,215
Before it hit New Orleans,
500
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:26,385
it went over warmer waters.
501
00:31:26,385 --> 00:31:29,788
As the water temperature
increases,
502
00:31:29,788 --> 00:31:32,191
the wind velocity increases
503
00:31:32,191 --> 00:31:35,527
and the moisture content
increases.
504
00:31:35,527 --> 00:31:38,697
And you'll see
Hurricane Katrina
form over Florida.
505
00:31:38,697 --> 00:31:42,101
And then as it comes
into the gulf
over that warm water,
506
00:31:42,101 --> 00:31:46,238
it picks up that energy
and gets stronger and
stronger and stronger.
507
00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:48,240
Look at that hurricane's eye.
508
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,512
And, of course,
the--the consequences
were so horrendous,
509
00:31:53,512 --> 00:31:56,648
there are no words,
uh, to describe it.
510
00:32:04,623 --> 00:32:06,192
(BABY WAILING)
511
00:32:20,372 --> 00:32:24,076
MAN ON RADIO: Yeah, we're
getting reports and calls that
are just breaking my heart.
512
00:32:24,076 --> 00:32:28,414
From people saying,
"I've been in my attic.
I can't take it anymore.
513
00:32:28,414 --> 00:32:33,319
"The water is up to my--
up to my neck.
I don't think I can hold out."
514
00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:35,554
And that's happening
as we speak.
515
00:32:35,554 --> 00:32:39,825
We told-- We told everybody
the importance of the
17th Street Canal issue.
516
00:32:39,825 --> 00:32:42,628
We said, "Please, please,
take care of this.
517
00:32:42,628 --> 00:32:45,231
"We don't care what you do.
Figure it out."
518
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:55,241
GORE:
Something new for America.
519
00:32:57,776 --> 00:33:02,448
But how in God's name
could that happen here?
520
00:33:04,883 --> 00:33:09,621
There had been warnings
that hurricanes
would get stronger.
521
00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:12,624
There were warnings
that this hurricane,
522
00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:15,761
days before it hit,
would breach the levees,
523
00:33:15,761 --> 00:33:20,266
would cause the kind of damage
that it ultimately did cause.
524
00:33:20,266 --> 00:33:24,503
And one question
we as a people need to decide
525
00:33:24,503 --> 00:33:28,374
is how we react
when we hear warnings
526
00:33:28,374 --> 00:33:31,943
from the leading scientists
in the world.
527
00:33:31,943 --> 00:33:36,582
There was another storm
in the 1930s
of a different kind.
528
00:33:36,582 --> 00:33:40,652
A horrible,
unprecedented storm
in continental Europe,
529
00:33:40,652 --> 00:33:46,592
and Winston Churchill warned
the people of England
530
00:33:46,592 --> 00:33:50,362
that it was different
from anything that had
ever happened before
531
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:52,864
and they had to
get ready for it.
532
00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:56,668
And he...
A-And--And a lot of people
did not want to believe it.
533
00:33:56,668 --> 00:33:59,938
And he got real impatient
with all the dithering.
534
00:33:59,938 --> 00:34:01,873
And he said this,
535
00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:03,709
(GORE READING)
536
00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:21,893
GORE: Making mistakes in
generations and centuries past
537
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:26,332
would have consequences
that we could overcome.
538
00:34:26,332 --> 00:34:29,067
We don't have
that luxury anymore.
539
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,137
We didn't ask for it,
540
00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:33,972
but here it is.
541
00:34:33,972 --> 00:34:36,942
MALE ANNOUNCER 1:
Al Gore is the winner
of the national popular vote.
542
00:34:36,942 --> 00:34:40,779
But the state of Florida,
whomever wins there
wins the White House.
543
00:34:40,779 --> 00:34:43,249
FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
We call Florida,
in the Al Gore column...
544
00:34:43,249 --> 00:34:47,119
MALE ANNOUNCER 2: Bulletin:
Florida pulled back
into the undecided column.
545
00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:50,156
George Bush is the president
elect of the United States.
He is...
546
00:34:50,156 --> 00:34:53,725
MALE ANNOUNCER 2:
Florida goes Bush. The
presidency is Bush. That's it.
547
00:34:53,725 --> 00:34:56,595
GORE: And at 2:18
this morning, we project...
548
00:34:56,595 --> 00:35:01,099
All right, we're officially
saying that Florida
is too close to call.
549
00:35:25,657 --> 00:35:29,928
While I strongly disagree
with the court's decision,
550
00:35:29,928 --> 00:35:31,330
I accept it.
551
00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:34,200
I accept the finality
of this outcome.
552
00:35:42,441 --> 00:35:44,042
MAN: ...do solemnly swear...
553
00:35:44,042 --> 00:35:46,478
BUSH: I, George Walker Bush,
do solemnly swear...
554
00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:49,415
MAN: ...that I will faithfully
execute the office of...
555
00:36:00,926 --> 00:36:04,430
GORE: Well, that was
a hard blow, but...
556
00:36:06,965 --> 00:36:09,235
What do you do? You...
557
00:36:11,503 --> 00:36:13,605
You make the best of it.
558
00:36:24,550 --> 00:36:28,420
It brought into clear focus
559
00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:32,958
the mission that
I had been pursuing
560
00:36:32,958 --> 00:36:35,727
for all these years, and
561
00:36:35,727 --> 00:36:36,928
(SIGHING)
562
00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:41,233
I started, uh, giving
the slide show again.
563
00:36:41,233 --> 00:36:42,668
(APPLAUSE)
564
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:51,310
One often unnoticed effect
of global warming
565
00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:53,245
is it causes
more precipitation,
566
00:36:53,245 --> 00:36:56,982
but more of it coming
in one-time big storm events.
567
00:36:56,982 --> 00:37:00,886
Because the evaporation
off the oceans puts
all the moisture up there,
568
00:37:00,886 --> 00:37:04,756
when storm conditions
trigger the downpour,
more of it falls down.
569
00:37:04,756 --> 00:37:08,126
The insurance industry has
actually noticed this.
570
00:37:08,126 --> 00:37:10,762
Their recovered losses
are going up.
571
00:37:10,762 --> 00:37:13,265
You see the damage
from these severe
weather events?
572
00:37:13,265 --> 00:37:16,835
And 2005 is not even
on this yet.
573
00:37:16,835 --> 00:37:20,306
When it does,
it'll be off that chart.
574
00:37:20,306 --> 00:37:24,843
Europe has just had
a year very similar
to the one we've had
575
00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:28,213
where they say
nature's been going crazy.
576
00:37:28,213 --> 00:37:30,882
All kinds of unusual
catastrophes,
577
00:37:30,882 --> 00:37:33,619
like a nature hike through
the Book of Revelations.
578
00:37:35,053 --> 00:37:36,655
Flooding in Asia.
579
00:37:36,655 --> 00:37:39,725
Mumbai, India this past July.
580
00:37:39,725 --> 00:37:43,429
Thirty-seven inches
of rain in 24 hours.
581
00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:46,565
By far, the largest downpour
582
00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:50,336
that any city in India
has ever received.
583
00:37:50,336 --> 00:37:52,871
Lot of flooding
in China, also.
584
00:37:52,871 --> 00:37:57,976
Global warming, paradoxically,
causes not only more flooding,
585
00:37:57,976 --> 00:37:59,845
but also more drought.
586
00:37:59,845 --> 00:38:03,649
This neighboring province
right next door
587
00:38:03,649 --> 00:38:08,787
had a severe drought
at the same time
these areas were flooding.
588
00:38:08,787 --> 00:38:11,523
One of the reasons for this
has to do with the fact
589
00:38:11,523 --> 00:38:16,695
that global warming
not only increases
precipitation worldwide,
590
00:38:16,695 --> 00:38:19,998
but it also relocates
the precipitation.
591
00:38:19,998 --> 00:38:23,969
And focus most of all
on this part of Africa
592
00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:26,905
just on the edge
of the Sahara.
593
00:38:26,905 --> 00:38:29,975
Unbelievable tragedies
have been unfolding there,
594
00:38:29,975 --> 00:38:33,044
and there are a lot
of reasons for it.
595
00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:38,550
But Darfur and Niger are
among those tragedies.
596
00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:42,053
And one of the factors
that has been compounding them
597
00:38:42,053 --> 00:38:45,491
is the lack of rainfall
and the increasing drought.
598
00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:51,029
This is Lake Chad, once
one of the largest lakes
in the world.
599
00:38:51,029 --> 00:38:55,934
It has dried up over the last
few decades to almost nothing,
600
00:38:55,934 --> 00:39:00,406
vastly complicating
the other problems
that they also have.
601
00:39:00,406 --> 00:39:02,374
The second reason
602
00:39:02,374 --> 00:39:05,777
why this is a paradox.
603
00:39:05,777 --> 00:39:09,481
Global warming creates
more evaporation
off the oceans
604
00:39:09,481 --> 00:39:10,982
to seed the clouds,
605
00:39:10,982 --> 00:39:14,920
but it sucks moisture
out of the soil.
606
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,824
Soil evaporation
increases dramatically
607
00:39:18,824 --> 00:39:20,926
with higher temperatures.
608
00:39:20,926 --> 00:39:25,597
And that has consequences
for us in the United States,
as well.
609
00:39:26,498 --> 00:39:29,935
So this is the Carthage exit.
610
00:39:29,935 --> 00:39:33,639
When I was 14 years old,
I totaled the family car
611
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:37,443
right there.
612
00:39:37,443 --> 00:39:41,447
Went off that shoulder,
turned it over.
613
00:39:41,447 --> 00:39:45,116
And see this Black Angus bull?
614
00:39:45,116 --> 00:39:47,519
We raised Black Angus.
615
00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:54,125
GORE: My father was named
Breeder of the Month.
616
00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,027
(CHUCKLING)
617
00:39:56,027 --> 00:39:58,063
He grew up on a farm.
618
00:39:59,798 --> 00:40:02,734
All through his career
in the Senate,
619
00:40:02,734 --> 00:40:06,638
he continued to come back here
and raise cattle.
620
00:40:06,638 --> 00:40:10,642
Learning it from your dad
on the land,
621
00:40:12,944 --> 00:40:16,715
that's really
something special.
622
00:40:16,715 --> 00:40:22,353
My, uh, childhood upbringing
was a little unusual
in the sense that
623
00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:26,792
I spent eight months
of each year
in Washington DC
624
00:40:26,792 --> 00:40:30,729
in a--a small little
hotel apartment.
625
00:40:30,729 --> 00:40:35,567
And then the other four months
were spent here on
this big, beautiful farm.
626
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,070
I had a dog here.
627
00:40:40,205 --> 00:40:42,608
I had a pony here.
628
00:40:42,608 --> 00:40:44,743
I could, uh,
shoot my rifle here.
629
00:40:44,743 --> 00:40:48,814
I could-- I could go swimming
in the river here.
630
00:40:48,814 --> 00:40:52,484
Go out and lay down
in the grass.
631
00:40:58,990 --> 00:41:02,293
As a kid, it took me a while
632
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:05,597
to learn the difference
between fun and work.
633
00:41:11,803 --> 00:41:15,240
The places where people live
were chosen
634
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,475
because of the climate pattern
635
00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:21,613
that has been pretty much
the same on Earth
636
00:41:21,613 --> 00:41:25,684
since the end of the last
ice age 11,000 years ago.
637
00:41:27,218 --> 00:41:31,489
Here, on this farm,
the patterns are changing.
638
00:41:31,489 --> 00:41:34,960
And it seems gradual in the
course of a human lifetime
639
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,931
but in the course of time,
as defined by this river,
640
00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:43,935
it's happening
very, very quickly.
641
00:41:46,404 --> 00:41:48,807
Two canaries in the coal mine.
642
00:41:48,807 --> 00:41:50,909
First one is in the Arctic.
643
00:41:50,909 --> 00:41:54,512
This, of course,
is the Arctic Ocean,
the floating ice cap.
644
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:57,348
Greenland, on its side there.
645
00:41:57,348 --> 00:41:58,884
I say canary in the coal mine
646
00:41:58,884 --> 00:42:02,087
because the Arctic is
one of the two regions
of the world
647
00:42:02,087 --> 00:42:06,157
that, uh, is experiencing
faster impacts
648
00:42:06,157 --> 00:42:07,626
from global warming.
649
00:42:07,626 --> 00:42:10,829
This is the largest ice shelf
in the Arctic,
650
00:42:10,829 --> 00:42:12,864
the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.
651
00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:14,833
It just cracked in half
three years ago.
652
00:42:14,833 --> 00:42:17,402
The scientists
were astonished.
653
00:42:17,402 --> 00:42:21,072
These are called drunken trees
just going every which way.
654
00:42:21,072 --> 00:42:24,475
This is not caused
by wind damage
or alcohol consumption.
655
00:42:24,475 --> 00:42:29,815
These trees
put their roots down
in the permafrost,
656
00:42:29,815 --> 00:42:31,817
and the permafrost is thawing.
657
00:42:31,817 --> 00:42:35,086
And so they just go
every which way now.
658
00:42:35,086 --> 00:42:38,089
This building was built
on the, uh, permafrost
659
00:42:38,089 --> 00:42:40,992
and has collapsed
as the permafrost thaws.
660
00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:44,630
This woman's house, uh,
has had to be abandoned.
661
00:42:44,630 --> 00:42:49,167
The pipeline is suffering
a great deal
of structural damage.
662
00:42:49,167 --> 00:42:54,005
And incidentally,
the oil that they want to
produce in that protected area
663
00:42:54,005 --> 00:42:56,507
in Northern Alaska,
which I hope they don't,
664
00:42:56,507 --> 00:43:00,278
they have to depend on trucks
to go in and out of there.
665
00:43:00,278 --> 00:43:03,949
And the trucks go over
the frozen ground.
666
00:43:03,949 --> 00:43:08,486
This shows the number of days
that the tundra in Alaska is
667
00:43:08,486 --> 00:43:10,255
frozen enough to drive on it.
668
00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:15,560
Thirty-five years ago,
225 days a year.
669
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,064
Now it's below 75 days a year
670
00:43:19,064 --> 00:43:23,201
because the spring
comes earlier
and the fall comes later
671
00:43:23,201 --> 00:43:26,738
and the temperatures
just keep on going up.
672
00:43:26,738 --> 00:43:28,473
I went up to the North Pole.
673
00:43:28,473 --> 00:43:32,043
I went under that ice cap
in a nuclear submarine
674
00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:35,246
that surfaced through the ice
like this.
675
00:43:35,246 --> 00:43:38,750
Since they started
patrolling in 1957,
676
00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:41,152
they have gone under the ice
677
00:43:41,152 --> 00:43:44,555
and measured with their
radar looking upwards
678
00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:45,924
to measure how thick it is
679
00:43:45,924 --> 00:43:48,093
because they can
only surface in areas
680
00:43:48,093 --> 00:43:51,196
where it's three and a half
feet thick or less.
681
00:43:51,196 --> 00:43:53,865
So they have kept
a meticulous record
682
00:43:53,865 --> 00:43:56,735
and they wouldn't release it
because it was
national security.
683
00:43:56,735 --> 00:44:00,538
I went up there
in order to persuade them
to release it, and they did.
684
00:44:00,538 --> 00:44:03,108
And here's what
that record shows.
685
00:44:03,108 --> 00:44:07,512
Starting in 1970, there was
a precipitous drop-off
686
00:44:07,512 --> 00:44:12,050
in the amount and extent
and thickness
of the Arctic ice cap.
687
00:44:12,050 --> 00:44:16,321
It has diminished
by 40 percent in 40 years.
688
00:44:16,321 --> 00:44:18,957
And there are now
two major studies showing
689
00:44:18,957 --> 00:44:21,392
that within the next
50 to 70 years,
690
00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:24,830
in summertime
it will be completely gone.
691
00:44:24,830 --> 00:44:27,465
Now, you might say,
"Why is that a problem?"
692
00:44:27,465 --> 00:44:33,004
And "How could
the Arctic ice cap
actually melt so quickly?"
693
00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:35,506
When the sun's rays
hit the ice,
694
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:39,845
more than 90 percent of it
bounces off right back
into space like a mirror.
695
00:44:39,845 --> 00:44:44,215
But when it hits
the open ocean, more than
90 percent of it is absorbed.
696
00:44:44,215 --> 00:44:47,252
And so, as the surrounding
water gets warmer,
697
00:44:47,252 --> 00:44:50,989
it speeds up
the melting of the ice.
698
00:44:50,989 --> 00:44:54,592
Right now, the Arctic ice cap
acts like a giant mirror.
699
00:44:54,592 --> 00:44:57,963
All the sun's rays bounce off,
more than 90 percent.
700
00:44:57,963 --> 00:45:00,298
It keeps the earth cooler.
701
00:45:00,298 --> 00:45:01,767
But as it melts
702
00:45:01,767 --> 00:45:05,403
and the open ocean receives
that sun's energy instead,
703
00:45:05,403 --> 00:45:07,839
more than 90 percent
is absorbed.
704
00:45:07,839 --> 00:45:11,777
So there is a faster
buildup of heat here,
705
00:45:11,777 --> 00:45:14,379
at the North Pole,
in the Arctic Ocean,
706
00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:19,350
and the Arctic generally
than anywhere else
on the planet.
707
00:45:19,350 --> 00:45:24,222
That's not good for
creatures like polar bears
who depend on the ice.
708
00:45:25,323 --> 00:45:27,826
A new scientific study
shows that
709
00:45:27,826 --> 00:45:33,765
for the first time
they're finding polar bears
that have actually drowned,
710
00:45:33,765 --> 00:45:38,469
swimming long distances,
up to 60 miles,
to find the ice.
711
00:45:38,469 --> 00:45:41,272
And they didn't
find that before.
712
00:45:41,272 --> 00:45:43,374
But what does it mean to us?
713
00:45:43,374 --> 00:45:46,711
To look at a vast expanse
of open water
714
00:45:46,711 --> 00:45:51,382
at the top of our world
that used to be
covered by ice.
715
00:45:51,382 --> 00:45:53,118
We ought to care a lot
716
00:45:53,118 --> 00:45:56,054
because it has
planetary effects.
717
00:45:56,054 --> 00:46:00,992
The earth's climate
is like a big engine
for redistributing heat
718
00:46:00,992 --> 00:46:02,894
from the equator to the poles.
719
00:46:02,894 --> 00:46:07,232
And it does that by means
of ocean currents
and wind currents.
720
00:46:07,232 --> 00:46:09,400
They tell us,
the scientists do,
721
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,803
that the earth's climate
is a nonlinear system.
722
00:46:11,803 --> 00:46:15,006
Just a fancy way
they have of saying
723
00:46:15,006 --> 00:46:18,443
that the changes are not
all just gradual.
724
00:46:18,443 --> 00:46:21,546
Some of them come suddenly,
in big jumps.
725
00:46:21,546 --> 00:46:25,250
On a worldwide basis,
the annual average
temperature is
726
00:46:25,250 --> 00:46:28,253
about 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
727
00:46:28,253 --> 00:46:32,090
If we have an increase
of five degrees,
728
00:46:32,090 --> 00:46:35,193
which is on the low end
of the projections,
729
00:46:35,193 --> 00:46:37,262
look at how that translates
globally.
730
00:46:37,262 --> 00:46:40,999
That means an increase of only
one degree at the equator,
731
00:46:40,999 --> 00:46:44,135
but more than 12 degrees
at the pole.
732
00:46:44,135 --> 00:46:47,305
And so all those wind
and ocean current patterns
733
00:46:47,305 --> 00:46:52,143
that have formed since
the last ice age and
have been relatively stable,
734
00:46:52,143 --> 00:46:55,613
they're all up in the air
and they change.
735
00:46:55,613 --> 00:46:57,682
And one of the ones
they're most worried about,
736
00:46:57,682 --> 00:47:01,887
where they've
spent a lot of time, uh,
studying the problem,
737
00:47:01,887 --> 00:47:04,022
is in the North Atlantic
738
00:47:04,022 --> 00:47:07,092
where the Gulf Stream comes up
and meets the cold winds
739
00:47:07,092 --> 00:47:09,360
coming off the Arctic
over Greenland.
740
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,131
And that evaporates
so that the heat
out of the Gulf Stream
741
00:47:13,131 --> 00:47:15,266
and the steam is carried over
to Western Europe
742
00:47:15,266 --> 00:47:17,903
by the prevailing winds
and the earth's rotation.
743
00:47:17,903 --> 00:47:21,006
But isn't it interesting that
the whole ocean current system
744
00:47:21,006 --> 00:47:23,508
is all linked together
in this loop?
745
00:47:23,508 --> 00:47:26,244
They call it the
ocean conveyor.
746
00:47:26,244 --> 00:47:29,580
And the red are
the warm surface currents.
747
00:47:29,580 --> 00:47:32,017
The Gulf Stream is
the best known of them.
748
00:47:32,017 --> 00:47:35,320
But the blue represent
the cold currents
749
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,455
running in the opposite
direction,
750
00:47:37,455 --> 00:47:42,160
and we don't see them at all
because they run along
the bottom of the ocean.
751
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:47,065
Up in the North Atlantic,
after that heat is pulled out,
752
00:47:47,065 --> 00:47:50,801
what's left behind is
colder water and saltier water
753
00:47:50,801 --> 00:47:52,938
because the salt
doesn't go anywhere.
754
00:47:52,938 --> 00:47:55,873
And so that makes it
denser and heavier.
755
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:59,144
And so that cold, dense,
heavy water sinks
756
00:47:59,144 --> 00:48:04,015
at the rate of five billion
gallons per second.
757
00:48:04,015 --> 00:48:08,019
And then that pulls
that current back south.
758
00:48:08,019 --> 00:48:10,388
At the end of
the last ice age,
759
00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:14,492
as the last glacier was
receding from North America,
760
00:48:14,492 --> 00:48:18,663
the ice melted
and a giant pool
of fresh water
761
00:48:18,663 --> 00:48:20,365
formed in North America.
762
00:48:20,365 --> 00:48:24,569
And the Great Lakes
are the remnants
of that huge lake.
763
00:48:24,569 --> 00:48:30,008
An ice dam
on the eastern border
formed and one day it broke.
764
00:48:30,008 --> 00:48:33,211
And all that fresh water
came rushing out,
765
00:48:33,211 --> 00:48:35,813
ripping open
the St. Lawrence there,
766
00:48:35,813 --> 00:48:39,517
and it diluted the salty,
dense, cold water,
767
00:48:39,517 --> 00:48:43,921
made it fresher and lighter,
so it stopped sinking.
768
00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:45,156
And that pump
769
00:48:45,156 --> 00:48:47,158
(SNAPS FINGERS)
shut off.
770
00:48:47,158 --> 00:48:49,360
And the heat transfer stopped.
771
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,831
And Europe went back into
an ice age for another
900 to 1,000 years.
772
00:48:53,831 --> 00:48:58,803
And the change from conditions
like we have here today
773
00:48:58,803 --> 00:49:00,438
to an ice age
774
00:49:00,438 --> 00:49:04,976
took place in perhaps
as little as 10 years' time.
775
00:49:04,976 --> 00:49:07,312
So that's a sudden jump.
776
00:49:07,312 --> 00:49:10,281
Now, of course that's
not gonna, uh, happen again
777
00:49:10,281 --> 00:49:13,551
because the glaciers
of North America
are not there, and...
778
00:49:13,551 --> 00:49:18,389
Is there any other
big chunk of ice
anywhere near there?
779
00:49:18,389 --> 00:49:20,425
Oh, yeah.
780
00:49:20,425 --> 00:49:22,660
We'll come back to that one.
781
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:48,253
It's extremely frustrating
to me
782
00:49:48,253 --> 00:49:53,258
to--to communicate
over and over again,
as clearly as I can.
783
00:49:57,862 --> 00:50:00,598
And we are still, by far,
784
00:50:00,598 --> 00:50:03,468
the worst contributor
to the problem.
785
00:50:08,073 --> 00:50:09,674
And I look around
786
00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:13,511
and look for really
meaningful signs
787
00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,681
that we're about
to really change.
788
00:50:18,916 --> 00:50:21,186
I don't see it right now.
789
00:50:21,186 --> 00:50:23,854
REAGAN: A number
of very reputable scientists
have said
790
00:50:23,854 --> 00:50:25,856
that
one factor of air pollution
791
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:29,394
is oxides of nitrogen
from decaying vegetation.
792
00:50:29,394 --> 00:50:34,332
This is what causes the haze
that gave the big Smoky
Mountains their name.
793
00:50:34,332 --> 00:50:36,701
Thank you very much, okay.
794
00:50:36,701 --> 00:50:40,338
This guy is so far off
in the environmental extreme,
795
00:50:40,338 --> 00:50:45,076
we'll be up to our neck
in owls and out of work
for every American.
796
00:50:45,076 --> 00:50:47,145
This guy is crazy.
797
00:50:47,145 --> 00:50:51,716
Even if humans were causing
global warming,
and--and we are not,
798
00:50:51,716 --> 00:50:54,885
this could be maybe
the greatest hoax
ever perpetrated
799
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,854
on the American people.
800
00:50:56,854 --> 00:51:00,225
INHOFE: We're dealing
with something
that's highly emotional.
801
00:51:01,192 --> 00:51:04,895
GORE: If an issue is not
802
00:51:04,895 --> 00:51:09,834
on the tips of their
constituents' tongues,
803
00:51:09,834 --> 00:51:12,637
it's easy for them
to ignore it.
804
00:51:18,443 --> 00:51:22,713
To say, "Well, we'll deal
with that tomorrow."
805
00:51:27,718 --> 00:51:31,289
So the same phenomena
of changing all these patterns
806
00:51:31,289 --> 00:51:34,159
is also affecting the seasons.
807
00:51:34,159 --> 00:51:36,561
Here is a study
from the Netherlands.
808
00:51:36,561 --> 00:51:40,231
The peak arrival date
for migratory birds
809
00:51:40,231 --> 00:51:43,201
25 years ago was April 25th,
810
00:51:43,201 --> 00:51:45,936
and their chicks hatched
on June the 3rd.
811
00:51:45,936 --> 00:51:49,974
Just at the time
when the caterpillars
were coming out.
812
00:51:49,974 --> 00:51:52,810
Nature's, uh, plan.
813
00:51:52,810 --> 00:51:55,713
But 20 years of warming later,
814
00:51:55,713 --> 00:51:58,183
the caterpillars peaked
two weeks earlier,
815
00:51:58,183 --> 00:52:03,254
and the chicks tried
to catch up with it,
but they couldn't.
816
00:52:03,254 --> 00:52:04,855
And so, they're in trouble.
817
00:52:04,855 --> 00:52:08,159
And there are millions
of ecological niches
818
00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:11,862
that are affected
by global warming
in just this way.
819
00:52:11,862 --> 00:52:16,267
This is the number of days
with frost in Southern
Switzerland
820
00:52:16,267 --> 00:52:17,802
over the last 100 years.
821
00:52:17,802 --> 00:52:20,371
It has gone down rapidly.
But now watch this.
822
00:52:20,371 --> 00:52:24,475
This is the number
of invasive exotic species
823
00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:29,747
that have rushed in
to fill the new ecological
niches that are opening up.
824
00:52:29,747 --> 00:52:32,417
That's happening here
in the United States, too.
825
00:52:32,417 --> 00:52:34,985
You've heard
of the pine beetle problem?
826
00:52:34,985 --> 00:52:39,056
Those pine beetles used to be
killed by the cold winters,
827
00:52:39,056 --> 00:52:41,292
but there are fewer days
of frost,
828
00:52:41,292 --> 00:52:44,061
and so the pine trees
are being devastated.
829
00:52:44,061 --> 00:52:49,400
This is part of
14 million acres
of spruce trees in Alaska
830
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,571
that have been
killed by bark beetles.
The exact same phenomenon.
831
00:52:53,571 --> 00:52:56,040
There are cities
that were founded
832
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,909
because they were just above
the mosquito line.
833
00:52:58,909 --> 00:53:02,880
Nairobi is one,
Harare is another.
There are plenty of others.
834
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,184
Now the mosquitoes,
with warming, are
climbing to higher altitudes.
835
00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:11,756
There are a lot of vectors
for infectious diseases
that are worrisome to us
836
00:53:11,756 --> 00:53:13,891
that are also
expanding their range.
837
00:53:13,891 --> 00:53:16,927
Not only mosquitoes,
but all of these others
as well.
838
00:53:16,927 --> 00:53:19,897
And we've had 30 so-called
new diseases
839
00:53:19,897 --> 00:53:23,401
that have emerged just
in the last quarter century.
840
00:53:23,401 --> 00:53:27,638
And a lot of them, like SARS,
have caused tremendous
problems.
841
00:53:27,638 --> 00:53:30,341
The resistant forms
of tuberculosis.
There are others.
842
00:53:30,341 --> 00:53:33,143
And there's been
a re-emergence
of some diseases
843
00:53:33,143 --> 00:53:35,145
that were once under control.
844
00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:40,785
The avian flu, of course,
quite a serious matter,
as you know.
845
00:53:40,785 --> 00:53:42,052
West Nile Virus.
846
00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:45,556
It came to the eastern shore
of Maryland in 1999.
847
00:53:45,556 --> 00:53:47,892
Two years later,
it was across the Mississippi.
848
00:53:47,892 --> 00:53:52,096
And two years after that,
it had spread
across the continent.
849
00:53:52,096 --> 00:53:54,499
But these are
very troubling signs.
850
00:53:54,499 --> 00:53:56,834
Coral reefs
all over the world,
851
00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:59,404
because of global warming
and other factors,
852
00:53:59,404 --> 00:54:02,673
are bleaching
and they end up like this.
853
00:54:02,673 --> 00:54:05,710
And all the fish species
that depend on the coral reefs
854
00:54:05,710 --> 00:54:08,446
are also in jeopardy
as a result.
855
00:54:08,446 --> 00:54:11,482
Overall, species loss
is now occurring
856
00:54:11,482 --> 00:54:15,953
at a rate 1,000 times
greater than the natural
background rate.
857
00:54:15,953 --> 00:54:19,324
This brings me to the second
canary in the coal mine.
858
00:54:19,324 --> 00:54:20,625
Antarctica.
859
00:54:20,625 --> 00:54:24,094
The largest mass of ice
on the planet by far.
860
00:54:24,094 --> 00:54:26,897
A friend of mine said in 1978,
861
00:54:26,897 --> 00:54:30,835
"If you see the
breakup of ice shelves
along the Antarctic peninsula,
862
00:54:30,835 --> 00:54:32,303
"watch out,
863
00:54:32,303 --> 00:54:36,607
"because that should be seen
as an alarm bell
for global warming."
864
00:54:36,607 --> 00:54:39,877
And actually, if you look
at the peninsula up close,
865
00:54:39,877 --> 00:54:44,615
every place where you see
one of these green blotches
here
866
00:54:44,615 --> 00:54:48,052
is an ice shelf larger
than the state of Rhode Island
867
00:54:48,052 --> 00:54:51,889
that has broken up just
in the last 15 to 20 years.
868
00:54:51,889 --> 00:54:54,224
I want to focus
on just one of them.
869
00:54:54,224 --> 00:54:55,726
It's called Larsen B.
870
00:54:55,726 --> 00:54:59,630
I want you to look
at these black pools here.
871
00:54:59,630 --> 00:55:03,300
It makes it seem
almost as if we're
looking through the ice
872
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:06,571
to the ocean beneath.
But that's an illusion.
873
00:55:06,571 --> 00:55:10,375
This is melting water
that forms in pools,
874
00:55:10,375 --> 00:55:12,877
and if you were flying over it
in a helicopter,
875
00:55:12,877 --> 00:55:15,580
you'd see it's 700 feet tall.
876
00:55:15,580 --> 00:55:19,917
They are so majestic,
so massive.
877
00:55:19,917 --> 00:55:23,087
In the distance
are the mountains
and just before the mountains
878
00:55:23,087 --> 00:55:26,491
is the shelf
of the continent, there.
879
00:55:27,392 --> 00:55:29,326
This is floating ice,
880
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:34,064
and there's land-based ice
on the down slope
of those mountains.
881
00:55:34,064 --> 00:55:39,269
From here to the mountains
is about 20 to 25 miles.
882
00:55:39,269 --> 00:55:42,640
Now they thought this would be
stable for at least 100 years,
883
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,642
even with global warming.
884
00:55:44,642 --> 00:55:47,778
The scientists who study
these ice shelves
885
00:55:48,746 --> 00:55:50,815
were absolutely astonished
886
00:55:50,815 --> 00:55:53,183
when they were looking
at these images.
887
00:55:53,183 --> 00:55:55,986
Starting on January 31, 2002
888
00:55:55,986 --> 00:55:58,656
in a period of 35 days,
889
00:55:58,656 --> 00:56:02,192
this ice shelf
completely disappeared.
890
00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:07,865
They could not figure out
how in the world
this happened so rapidly.
891
00:56:07,865 --> 00:56:12,570
And they went back
to try to figure out
where they'd gone wrong.
892
00:56:12,570 --> 00:56:17,442
And that's when they
focused on those pools
of melting water.
893
00:56:17,442 --> 00:56:20,711
But even before
they could figure out
what had happened there,
894
00:56:20,711 --> 00:56:23,180
something else
started going wrong.
895
00:56:23,180 --> 00:56:25,816
When the floating
sea-based ice cracked up,
896
00:56:25,816 --> 00:56:28,786
it no longer held back
the ice on the land,
897
00:56:28,786 --> 00:56:32,289
and the land-based ice
then started falling
into the ocean.
898
00:56:32,289 --> 00:56:34,525
It was like letting the cork
out of a bottle.
899
00:56:34,525 --> 00:56:38,362
And there's a difference
between floating ice
and land-based ice.
900
00:56:38,362 --> 00:56:42,266
That's like the difference
between an ice cube
floating in a glass of water,
901
00:56:42,266 --> 00:56:46,036
which when it melts
doesn't raise the level
of water in the glass,
902
00:56:46,036 --> 00:56:49,006
and a cube that's sitting atop
a stack of ice cubes
903
00:56:49,006 --> 00:56:52,009
which melts and flows
over the edge.
904
00:56:52,009 --> 00:56:55,646
That's why the citizens
of these Pacific nations
905
00:56:55,646 --> 00:56:59,450
have all had to evacuate
to New Zealand.
906
00:56:59,450 --> 00:57:01,752
But I want to focus
on West Antarctica
907
00:57:01,752 --> 00:57:06,924
because it illustrates two
factors about land-based ice
and sea-based ice.
908
00:57:06,924 --> 00:57:10,661
It's a little of both.
It's propped up
on tops of islands,
909
00:57:10,661 --> 00:57:13,898
but the ocean comes up
underneath it.
910
00:57:13,898 --> 00:57:17,535
So as the ocean gets warmer,
it has an impact on it.
911
00:57:17,535 --> 00:57:19,870
If this were to--to go,
912
00:57:19,870 --> 00:57:23,273
sea level worldwide
would go up 20 feet.
913
00:57:23,273 --> 00:57:27,778
They've measured disturbing
changes on the underside
of this ice sheet.
914
00:57:27,778 --> 00:57:31,782
It's considered relatively
more stable, however,
915
00:57:31,782 --> 00:57:36,020
than another big body of ice
that's roughly the same size.
916
00:57:36,020 --> 00:57:40,625
Greenland would also raise
sea level almost 20 feet
917
00:57:40,625 --> 00:57:42,092
if it went.
918
00:57:42,092 --> 00:57:44,795
A friend of mine just
brought back some pictures
919
00:57:44,795 --> 00:57:47,598
of what's going on
on Greenland right now.
920
00:57:47,598 --> 00:57:52,069
Dramatic changes.
These are the same
kinds of pools
921
00:57:52,069 --> 00:57:56,206
that formed here,
on this ice shelf
in Antarctica.
922
00:57:56,206 --> 00:57:58,175
And the scientists thought
923
00:57:58,175 --> 00:58:03,013
that when that water
seeped back into the ice,
it would just refreeze.
924
00:58:03,013 --> 00:58:06,116
But they found out
that actually what happens
925
00:58:06,116 --> 00:58:09,854
is that it just
keeps on going.
It tunnels to the bottom
926
00:58:09,854 --> 00:58:12,523
and makes the ice
like Swiss cheese,
927
00:58:12,523 --> 00:58:14,324
sort of like termites.
928
00:58:14,324 --> 00:58:17,094
This shows what happens
to the crevasses,
929
00:58:17,094 --> 00:58:21,999
and when lakes form,
they create
what are called moulins.
930
00:58:21,999 --> 00:58:23,868
The water goes down
to the bottom
931
00:58:23,868 --> 00:58:27,738
and it lubricates
where the ice
meets the bedrock.
932
00:58:27,738 --> 00:58:30,140
See these people here
for scale.
933
00:58:30,140 --> 00:58:32,109
This is not on the edge
of Greenland,
934
00:58:32,109 --> 00:58:34,545
this is in the middle
of the ice mass.
935
00:58:34,545 --> 00:58:38,148
This is a massive
rushing torrent
936
00:58:38,148 --> 00:58:40,084
of fresh melt water
937
00:58:40,084 --> 00:58:43,688
tunneling straight down
through the Greenland ice
938
00:58:43,688 --> 00:58:45,522
to the bedrock below.
939
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:50,828
Now, to some extent,
there has always been
seasonal melting
940
00:58:50,828 --> 00:58:55,232
and moulins have formed
in the past, but not like now.
941
00:58:55,232 --> 00:58:59,837
In 1992, they measured
this amount of melting
in Greenland.
942
00:58:59,837 --> 00:59:02,740
Ten years later,
this is what happened.
943
00:59:02,740 --> 00:59:06,543
And here is the melting
from 2005.
944
00:59:06,543 --> 00:59:09,880
Tony Blair's scientific
advisor has said that
945
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,883
because of what's happening
in Greenland right now,
946
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:16,086
the maps of the world
will have to be redrawn.
947
00:59:16,086 --> 00:59:19,323
If Greenland broke up
and melted,
948
00:59:19,323 --> 00:59:23,594
or if half of Greenland
and half of West Antarctica
949
00:59:23,594 --> 00:59:25,095
broke up and melted,
950
00:59:25,095 --> 00:59:28,733
this is what would happen
to the sea level in Florida.
951
00:59:33,838 --> 00:59:36,741
This is what would happen
to San Francisco Bay.
952
00:59:38,609 --> 00:59:41,812
A lot of people
live in these areas.
953
00:59:41,812 --> 00:59:45,049
The Netherlands,
one of the low countries.
954
00:59:46,784 --> 00:59:48,786
Absolutely devastating.
955
00:59:48,786 --> 00:59:53,123
The area around Beijing
that's home to tens
of millions of people.
956
00:59:54,992 --> 00:59:58,528
Even worse, in the area
around Shanghai,
957
00:59:58,528 --> 01:00:00,831
there are 40 million people.
958
01:00:02,532 --> 01:00:07,137
Worse still, Calcutta,
and to the east, Bangladesh,
959
01:00:07,137 --> 01:00:11,108
the area covered includes
60 million people.
960
01:00:11,108 --> 01:00:16,280
Think of the impact
of a couple hundred
thousand refugees
961
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,349
when they're displaced
by an environmental event.
962
01:00:19,349 --> 01:00:23,988
And then imagine the impact
of a hundred million or more.
963
01:00:25,289 --> 01:00:27,725
Here's Manhattan.
964
01:00:27,725 --> 01:00:30,661
This is the World Trade Center
memorial site.
965
01:00:31,696 --> 01:00:35,132
And after the horrible
events of 9/11,
966
01:00:36,834 --> 01:00:39,737
we said, "Never again."
967
01:00:39,737 --> 01:00:42,406
But this is what would happen
to Manhattan.
968
01:00:47,778 --> 01:00:49,947
They can measure
this precisely,
969
01:00:49,947 --> 01:00:52,983
just as the scientists could
predict precisely
970
01:00:52,983 --> 01:00:56,954
how much water would breach
the levees in New Orleans.
971
01:00:56,954 --> 01:01:02,359
The area where the
World Trade Center Memorial
is to be located
972
01:01:02,359 --> 01:01:05,029
would be underwater.
973
01:01:05,029 --> 01:01:10,667
Is it possible that we should
prepare against other threats
besides terrorists?
974
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:14,772
Maybe we should be concerned
about other problems as well.
975
01:01:21,946 --> 01:01:24,314
1.3 billion people.
976
01:01:26,250 --> 01:01:28,719
An economy that's surging.
977
01:01:30,755 --> 01:01:33,457
More and more energy needs.
978
01:01:33,457 --> 01:01:36,827
Massive coal reserves.
979
01:01:36,827 --> 01:01:40,564
The coal belt
in Northern China,
980
01:01:40,564 --> 01:01:43,333
er, Inner Mongolia.
Right.
981
01:01:43,333 --> 01:01:46,336
Then there's Shaanxi province.
Uh-huh.
982
01:01:46,336 --> 01:01:50,307
And also biggest
coal mine here.
Up here.
983
01:01:50,307 --> 01:01:52,709
Yeah.
Now, is that
an open pit mine?
984
01:01:52,709 --> 01:01:54,311
Yes.
Yes.
985
01:01:54,311 --> 01:01:56,981
GORE:
Every time I've visited China,
986
01:01:56,981 --> 01:02:01,218
I've learned from their
scientists. They're
right on the cutting edge.
987
01:02:01,218 --> 01:02:04,054
Give me some sense
of the numbers of
988
01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:07,124
new coal fire
generating plants.
989
01:02:07,124 --> 01:02:09,927
Well, I have to say
that the number is enormous
990
01:02:09,927 --> 01:02:11,996
because it's so profitable.
991
01:02:11,996 --> 01:02:17,968
GORE: This issue is really
the same for China
as it is for the US.
992
01:02:17,968 --> 01:02:22,807
We are both using
old technologies that are
dirty and polluting.
993
01:02:22,807 --> 01:02:24,274
...more flooding
and more drought
994
01:02:24,274 --> 01:02:26,777
and stronger storms
is going up,
995
01:02:26,777 --> 01:02:29,513
and global warming
is implicated in the pattern.
996
01:02:29,513 --> 01:02:33,517
And if you were to give some
suggestions to everybody here
997
01:02:33,517 --> 01:02:37,888
about, like, what we can do
for the, um, situation now.
998
01:02:37,888 --> 01:02:41,758
Separating the truth
from the fiction
999
01:02:41,758 --> 01:02:46,530
and the accurate connections
from the misunderstandings
1000
01:02:46,530 --> 01:02:49,733
is part of what
you learn here.
1001
01:02:49,733 --> 01:02:55,372
But when the warnings
are accurate and based
on sound science,
1002
01:02:55,372 --> 01:02:59,109
then we as human beings,
whatever country we live in,
1003
01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:01,411
have to find
a way to make sure
1004
01:03:01,411 --> 01:03:05,415
that the warnings are heard
and responded to.
1005
01:03:12,656 --> 01:03:17,427
We both have a hard time
shaking loose
the familiar patterns
1006
01:03:17,427 --> 01:03:19,696
that we've relied on
in the past.
1007
01:03:19,696 --> 01:03:25,069
We both face completely
unacceptable consequences.
1008
01:03:25,069 --> 01:03:27,037
(FLASHBULBS POPPING)
1009
01:03:28,638 --> 01:03:30,807
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
1010
01:03:32,910 --> 01:03:35,712
(READING)
1011
01:03:35,712 --> 01:03:39,049
And there are three factors
that are causing
this collision,
1012
01:03:39,049 --> 01:03:41,085
and the first is population.
1013
01:03:41,085 --> 01:03:45,655
When my generation,
the baby boom generation,
was born after World War II,
1014
01:03:45,655 --> 01:03:48,859
the population had just
crossed the two billion mark.
1015
01:03:50,260 --> 01:03:52,662
Now, I'm in my 50s,
1016
01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:57,001
and it's already gone to
almost six and a half billion.
1017
01:03:57,001 --> 01:04:02,372
And if I reach
the demographic expectation
for the baby boomers,
1018
01:04:02,372 --> 01:04:04,708
it'll go over nine billion.
1019
01:04:04,708 --> 01:04:09,779
So if it takes
10,000 generations
to reach two billion
1020
01:04:09,779 --> 01:04:12,950
and then in one
human lifetime, ours,
1021
01:04:12,950 --> 01:04:16,186
it goes from two billion
to nine billion,
1022
01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:19,456
something
profoundly different's
going on right now.
1023
01:04:19,456 --> 01:04:22,226
We're putting more pressure
on the earth.
1024
01:04:22,226 --> 01:04:25,329
Most of it's in the poorer
nations of the world.
1025
01:04:25,329 --> 01:04:28,165
This puts pressure
on food demand.
1026
01:04:28,165 --> 01:04:30,467
It puts pressure
on water demand.
1027
01:04:30,467 --> 01:04:33,703
It puts pressure on vulnerable
natural resources,
1028
01:04:33,703 --> 01:04:35,539
and this pressure's
one of the reasons
1029
01:04:35,539 --> 01:04:38,842
why we have seen
all the devastation
of the forest,
1030
01:04:38,842 --> 01:04:41,011
not only tropical,
but elsewhere.
1031
01:04:41,011 --> 01:04:42,879
It is a political issue.
1032
01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:47,551
This is the border
between Haiti and the
Dominican Republic.
1033
01:04:47,551 --> 01:04:51,956
One set of policies here,
another set of policies here.
1034
01:04:51,956 --> 01:04:56,226
Much of it comes not only
because of cutting,
but--but also burning.
1035
01:04:56,226 --> 01:05:00,130
Almost 30 percent of all
the CO2 that goes up each year
into the atmosphere
1036
01:05:00,130 --> 01:05:02,732
comes from forest burning.
1037
01:05:02,732 --> 01:05:07,104
This is a time-lapse picture
of the earth at night
over a six-month period
1038
01:05:07,104 --> 01:05:09,406
showing the lights
of the cities in white
1039
01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:11,908
and the burning forests
and brush fires in red.
1040
01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:15,946
The yellow areas
are the gas flares,
like these in Siberia.
1041
01:05:15,946 --> 01:05:17,581
And that brings me
to the second factor
1042
01:05:17,581 --> 01:05:20,484
that has transformed
our relationship to the earth.
1043
01:05:20,484 --> 01:05:25,122
The scientific and
technological revolution
is a great blessing,
1044
01:05:25,122 --> 01:05:27,924
in that it has given us
tremendous benefits
1045
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:30,961
in areas like medicine
and communications.
1046
01:05:30,961 --> 01:05:35,232
But this new power
that we have also
brings a responsibility
1047
01:05:35,232 --> 01:05:37,001
to think about
its consequences.
1048
01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:38,502
Here's a formula
to think about.
1049
01:05:38,502 --> 01:05:42,739
Old habits plus old technology
have predictable consequences.
1050
01:05:42,739 --> 01:05:47,277
Old habits that are
hard to change
plus new technology
1051
01:05:47,277 --> 01:05:50,280
can have dramatically
altered consequences.
1052
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,550
Warfare with spears
and bows and arrows
1053
01:05:53,550 --> 01:05:58,022
and rifles and machine guns,
that's one thing.
1054
01:05:58,022 --> 01:06:00,290
But then
a new technology came.
1055
01:06:00,290 --> 01:06:01,992
(EXPLOSION RUMBLING)
1056
01:06:08,065 --> 01:06:11,501
We have to think
differently about war
1057
01:06:11,501 --> 01:06:15,572
because the new technologies
so completely transformed
1058
01:06:15,572 --> 01:06:18,208
the consequences
of that old habit
1059
01:06:18,208 --> 01:06:23,747
that we can't just
mindlessly continue
the patterns of the past.
1060
01:06:23,747 --> 01:06:28,752
In the same way,
we have always exploited
the earth for sustenance.
1061
01:06:28,752 --> 01:06:33,023
For most of our existence,
we used relatively
simple tools.
1062
01:06:33,023 --> 01:06:35,892
The plow, the tractor.
1063
01:06:35,892 --> 01:06:39,596
But even tools like shovels
are different now.
1064
01:06:39,596 --> 01:06:41,698
Shovel used to be this.
1065
01:06:41,698 --> 01:06:43,567
Shovels have gotten bigger.
1066
01:06:43,567 --> 01:06:46,336
And every year,
they get more powerful.
1067
01:06:46,336 --> 01:06:51,308
So our ability to have
an effect, in this case
on the surface of the earth,
1068
01:06:51,308 --> 01:06:53,310
is utterly transformed.
1069
01:06:53,310 --> 01:06:57,847
You can say, uh, the
same thing about irrigation,
which is a great thing.
1070
01:06:57,847 --> 01:07:02,386
But when we divert rivers
without considering
the consequences,
1071
01:07:02,386 --> 01:07:06,423
then sometimes
rivers no longer
reach the sea.
1072
01:07:06,423 --> 01:07:08,358
There were two rivers
in Central Asia
1073
01:07:08,358 --> 01:07:13,897
that were used by the former
Soviet Union for irrigating
cotton fields unwisely.
1074
01:07:13,897 --> 01:07:16,066
The Aral Sea
was fed by them.
1075
01:07:16,066 --> 01:07:19,169
It used to be
the fourth largest inland sea
in the world.
1076
01:07:19,169 --> 01:07:22,372
When I went there,
I saw this strange sight
1077
01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:26,943
of an enormous fishing fleet
resting in the sand.
1078
01:07:26,943 --> 01:07:32,048
This is the canal
that the fishing industry
desperately tried to build
1079
01:07:32,048 --> 01:07:34,318
to get to the receding
shoreline.
1080
01:07:34,318 --> 01:07:37,287
Making mistakes in our
dealings with nature can have
1081
01:07:37,287 --> 01:07:39,123
bigger consequences now
1082
01:07:39,123 --> 01:07:43,093
because our technologies
are often bigger
than the human scale.
1083
01:07:43,093 --> 01:07:47,331
When you put them
all together, they've
made us a force of nature.
1084
01:07:47,331 --> 01:07:50,134
And this is also
a political issue.
1085
01:07:50,134 --> 01:07:52,369
This is a computer map
of the world
1086
01:07:52,369 --> 01:07:57,374
that distorts to show
the relative contributions
to global warming.
1087
01:07:57,374 --> 01:08:01,478
In our country, we are
responsible for more than
all of South America,
1088
01:08:01,478 --> 01:08:04,181
all of Africa,
all of the Middle East,
1089
01:08:04,181 --> 01:08:07,317
all of Asia, all combined.
1090
01:08:07,317 --> 01:08:12,456
The per capita average
in Africa, India, China,
Japan, EU, Russia.
1091
01:08:12,456 --> 01:08:15,525
There's where we are.
Way, way above everyone else.
1092
01:08:15,525 --> 01:08:19,729
If you take
population into account,
it's a little bit different.
1093
01:08:19,729 --> 01:08:22,799
China's playing a bigger role,
so is Europe.
1094
01:08:22,799 --> 01:08:26,836
But we are still by all odds
the largest contributor.
1095
01:08:26,836 --> 01:08:30,540
And so it is up to us to look
at how we think about it,
1096
01:08:30,540 --> 01:08:33,343
because our way of thinking
is the third and final factor
1097
01:08:33,343 --> 01:08:35,979
that transforms
our relationship to the earth.
1098
01:08:35,979 --> 01:08:40,550
(CROAKING)
If a frog jumps into, uh,
a pot of boiling water,
1099
01:08:40,550 --> 01:08:44,154
it jumps right out again
because it senses the danger.
1100
01:08:44,154 --> 01:08:46,423
But the very same frog,
1101
01:08:46,423 --> 01:08:49,793
if it jumps into a pot
of lukewarm water
1102
01:08:49,793 --> 01:08:52,362
that is slowly
brought to a boil,
1103
01:08:52,362 --> 01:08:55,365
will just sit there
and it won't move.
1104
01:08:55,365 --> 01:08:59,969
It'll just sit there,
even as the temperature
continues to go up and up.
1105
01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:05,709
It'll stay there, until...
Until it's rescued.
1106
01:09:05,709 --> 01:09:08,645
(LAUGHTER)
It's important
to rescue the frog.
1107
01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:09,879
(APPLAUSE)
1108
01:09:12,015 --> 01:09:14,017
But the point is this.
1109
01:09:14,017 --> 01:09:17,554
Our collective nervous system
is like that frog's
nervous system.
1110
01:09:17,554 --> 01:09:22,158
It takes a sudden jolt
sometimes before we
become aware of a danger.
1111
01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:25,395
If it seems gradual,
even if it really is
happening quickly,
1112
01:09:25,395 --> 01:09:30,934
we're capable
of just sitting there
and not responding.
1113
01:09:30,934 --> 01:09:32,536
And not reacting.
1114
01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:40,910
I don't remember a time
when I was a kid
1115
01:09:40,910 --> 01:09:45,114
when summertime didn't mean
working with tobacco.
1116
01:09:45,114 --> 01:09:48,718
It was just...
I used to love it.
It was during that period
1117
01:09:48,718 --> 01:09:52,856
when working with
the guys on the farm
1118
01:09:52,856 --> 01:09:55,859
seemed like fun to me.
1119
01:09:55,859 --> 01:10:00,730
Starting in 1964, with the
Surgeon General's report,
1120
01:10:02,332 --> 01:10:04,701
the evidence was laid out
on the connection
1121
01:10:04,701 --> 01:10:08,972
between smoking cigarettes
and lung cancer.
1122
01:10:12,342 --> 01:10:14,444
We kept growing tobacco.
1123
01:10:18,081 --> 01:10:22,619
Nancy was, uh, almost 10 years
older than me,
1124
01:10:22,619 --> 01:10:25,489
and there were only
the two of us.
1125
01:10:27,324 --> 01:10:29,693
She was my protector
1126
01:10:29,693 --> 01:10:33,497
and my friend
at the same time.
1127
01:10:35,665 --> 01:10:39,603
She started smoking
when she was a teenager
1128
01:10:39,603 --> 01:10:43,006
and, uh, never stopped.
1129
01:10:44,741 --> 01:10:46,876
She died of lung cancer.
1130
01:10:50,847 --> 01:10:53,683
That's one of the ways
you don't want to die.
1131
01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:00,290
The idea that, uh, we had been
1132
01:11:01,758 --> 01:11:04,361
part of that economic pattern
1133
01:11:04,361 --> 01:11:07,331
that produced the cigarettes,
1134
01:11:07,331 --> 01:11:10,534
that produced the cancer,
1135
01:11:10,534 --> 01:11:13,437
it was so...
1136
01:11:13,437 --> 01:11:18,107
It was so painful
on so many levels.
1137
01:11:18,107 --> 01:11:23,313
My father, he had grown
tobacco all his life.
He stopped.
1138
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:29,419
Whatever explanation
1139
01:11:29,419 --> 01:11:33,523
had seemed
to make sense in the past,
just didn't cut it anymore.
1140
01:11:35,124 --> 01:11:36,726
He stopped it.
1141
01:11:43,833 --> 01:11:49,639
It's just human nature
to take time to connect
the dots. I know that.
1142
01:11:49,639 --> 01:11:55,345
But I also know
that there can be
a day of reckoning
1143
01:11:55,345 --> 01:12:00,049
when you wish
you had connected
the dots more quickly.
1144
01:12:08,224 --> 01:12:11,861
There are three
misconceptions in particular
that bedevil our thinking.
1145
01:12:11,861 --> 01:12:13,797
First, isn't there a
disagreement among scientists
1146
01:12:13,797 --> 01:12:16,466
about whether the problem
is real or not?
1147
01:12:16,466 --> 01:12:18,968
Actually, not really.
1148
01:12:18,968 --> 01:12:22,572
There was a massive study
of every scientific article
1149
01:12:22,572 --> 01:12:27,777
in a peer-reviewed journal
written on global warming
for the last 10 years.
1150
01:12:27,777 --> 01:12:32,482
And they took a big sample
of 10 percent, 928 articles.
1151
01:12:32,482 --> 01:12:36,653
And you know the number
of those that disagreed
with the scientific consensus
1152
01:12:36,653 --> 01:12:40,557
that we're causing
global warming and
that it's a serious problem?
1153
01:12:40,557 --> 01:12:43,993
Out of the 928, zero.
1154
01:12:43,993 --> 01:12:47,531
The misconception that there's
disagreement about the science
1155
01:12:47,531 --> 01:12:52,135
has been deliberately
created by a relatively
small group of people.
1156
01:12:52,135 --> 01:12:54,904
One of their internal memos
leaked.
1157
01:12:54,904 --> 01:12:57,974
And here's, uh, what it said,
according to the press.
1158
01:12:57,974 --> 01:13:02,111
Their objective is to
reposition global warming
1159
01:13:02,111 --> 01:13:04,047
as theory rather than fact.
1160
01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:06,916
This has happened before.
1161
01:13:06,916 --> 01:13:09,385
(LAUGHTER)
1162
01:13:09,385 --> 01:13:13,156
After the Surgeon General's
report.
1163
01:13:13,156 --> 01:13:16,259
One of their memos
leaked 40 years ago.
Here's what they said.
1164
01:13:16,259 --> 01:13:18,394
"Doubt is our product,
1165
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:24,100
"since it is the best means
of creating a controversy
in the public's mind."
1166
01:13:24,100 --> 01:13:25,569
But have they succeeded?
1167
01:13:25,569 --> 01:13:29,806
You'll remember
that there were 928
peer-reviewed articles.
1168
01:13:29,806 --> 01:13:32,676
Zero percent disagreed
with the consensus.
1169
01:13:32,676 --> 01:13:36,412
There was another study
of all the articles
in the popular press.
1170
01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:40,484
Over the last 14 years,
they looked at a sample
of 636.
1171
01:13:40,484 --> 01:13:42,519
More than half of them said,
1172
01:13:42,519 --> 01:13:47,056
"Well, we're not sure.
It could be a problem,
may not be a problem."
1173
01:13:47,056 --> 01:13:49,793
So no wonder
people are confused.
1174
01:13:54,631 --> 01:13:56,165
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
1175
01:13:59,235 --> 01:14:01,337
Hey.
1176
01:14:01,337 --> 01:14:02,806
What did you find out?
1177
01:14:05,241 --> 01:14:06,910
Working for who?
1178
01:14:09,979 --> 01:14:11,280
Chief of Staff?
1179
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:12,616
I'm gonna...
1180
01:14:12,616 --> 01:14:14,784
That's the White House
environment office.
1181
01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:18,354
American Petroleum Institute.
It's fair to say
that's oil and--
1182
01:14:18,354 --> 01:14:20,023
and the oil and gas lobby.
1183
01:14:21,257 --> 01:14:23,126
Is that fair?
1184
01:14:23,126 --> 01:14:25,562
Totally fair.
1185
01:14:25,562 --> 01:14:30,734
Do a little bit more and see,
uh, who his clients were?
1186
01:14:30,734 --> 01:14:34,003
So he was defending
the Exxon Valdez thing.
1187
01:14:34,003 --> 01:14:35,104
Mmm-hmm.
1188
01:14:35,104 --> 01:14:36,906
Uh, very. Thank you.
1189
01:14:39,275 --> 01:14:44,080
GORE: Scientists have
an independent obligation
1190
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,717
to respect and present
the truth as they see it.
1191
01:14:49,986 --> 01:14:55,358
Why do you directly
contradict yourself
1192
01:14:55,358 --> 01:14:59,495
in the testimony
you're giving about
this scientific question?
1193
01:14:59,495 --> 01:15:03,567
The last paragraph
in that section was not
a paragraph which I wrote.
1194
01:15:03,567 --> 01:15:05,334
That was added
to my testimony.
1195
01:15:05,334 --> 01:15:09,072
If they force you to change
a scientific conclusion,
1196
01:15:09,072 --> 01:15:12,241
it's a form of science fraud
by them.
1197
01:15:12,241 --> 01:15:15,478
You know, in the Soviet Union,
ordering scientists
1198
01:15:15,478 --> 01:15:19,716
to change their studies
to conform
with the ideology...
1199
01:15:23,987 --> 01:15:26,623
GORE: I've seen scientists
1200
01:15:26,623 --> 01:15:29,726
who were persecuted,
1201
01:15:30,627 --> 01:15:32,896
ridiculed,
1202
01:15:32,896 --> 01:15:38,001
deprived of, uh, jobs, income,
1203
01:15:39,402 --> 01:15:43,272
simply because the facts
they discovered
1204
01:15:43,272 --> 01:15:46,776
led them to
an inconvenient truth
1205
01:15:50,079 --> 01:15:52,782
that they insisted on telling.
1206
01:15:56,252 --> 01:15:59,923
He worked for the
American Petroleum Institute.
1207
01:15:59,923 --> 01:16:01,658
And in January of 2001,
1208
01:16:01,658 --> 01:16:05,795
he was put by
the president in charge
of environmental policy.
1209
01:16:07,430 --> 01:16:10,667
He received a memo
from the EPA
1210
01:16:10,667 --> 01:16:14,103
that warned
about global warming
1211
01:16:14,103 --> 01:16:18,241
and he edited.
He has no scientific training
whatsoever.
1212
01:16:18,241 --> 01:16:21,210
But he took it upon himself
to overrule the scientist.
1213
01:16:21,210 --> 01:16:24,413
I said, "I want to see
what this guy's handwriting
looks like."
1214
01:16:24,413 --> 01:16:28,618
This is the memo from the EPA.
These are his actual
pen strokes.
1215
01:16:28,618 --> 01:16:32,689
He says,
"No, you can't say this.
This is just speculation."
1216
01:16:32,689 --> 01:16:35,258
This was embarrassing
to the White House,
1217
01:16:35,258 --> 01:16:39,028
so this fellow resigned
a few days later.
1218
01:16:39,028 --> 01:16:44,367
And the day after he resigned,
he went to work
for Exxon Mobil.
1219
01:16:44,367 --> 01:16:47,503
You know,
more than 100 years ago,
Upton Sinclair wrote this.
1220
01:16:47,503 --> 01:16:51,074
That it's difficult
to get a man to
understand something
1221
01:16:51,074 --> 01:16:55,144
if his salary depends upon
his not understanding it.
1222
01:17:02,385 --> 01:17:04,187
The second misconception.
1223
01:17:04,187 --> 01:17:06,823
Do we have to choose
between the economy
and the environment?
1224
01:17:06,823 --> 01:17:08,524
This is a big one.
1225
01:17:08,524 --> 01:17:10,493
Lot of people say we do.
1226
01:17:10,493 --> 01:17:13,963
I was trying to convince, uh,
the previous administration,
1227
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:17,033
the first Bush administration,
to go to the Earth Summit.
1228
01:17:17,033 --> 01:17:19,135
And they organized
a big White House conference
1229
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:21,070
to say,
"Oh, we're on top of this."
1230
01:17:21,070 --> 01:17:23,039
And one of these view graphs
caught my attention.
1231
01:17:23,039 --> 01:17:25,008
And I want to talk to you
about it for a minute.
1232
01:17:25,008 --> 01:17:28,745
Now here is, uh, the choice
that we have to make
1233
01:17:28,745 --> 01:17:30,513
according to this group.
1234
01:17:30,513 --> 01:17:35,685
We have here
a--a scale that balances
two different things.
1235
01:17:35,685 --> 01:17:39,288
On one side,
we have gold bars.
1236
01:17:39,288 --> 01:17:42,926
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
1237
01:17:42,926 --> 01:17:45,161
Don't they look good?
1238
01:17:45,161 --> 01:17:48,698
I'd just like to have
some of those gold bars.
1239
01:17:48,698 --> 01:17:50,867
Mmm. Mmm.
1240
01:17:50,867 --> 01:17:56,005
On--On the other side
of the scales, uh,
the entire planet.
1241
01:18:00,543 --> 01:18:03,913
Hmm. Hmm.
1242
01:18:07,951 --> 01:18:08,952
Hmm.
1243
01:18:10,153 --> 01:18:13,857
I think this is a false choice
for two reasons.
1244
01:18:13,857 --> 01:18:17,693
Number one,
if we don't have a planet...
1245
01:18:17,693 --> 01:18:19,095
(LAUGHTER)
1246
01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:25,034
The other reason is that
if we do the right thing,
1247
01:18:25,034 --> 01:18:27,236
then we're gonna create
a lot of wealth
1248
01:18:27,236 --> 01:18:29,638
and we're gonna create
a lot of jobs.
WOMAN: Yes.
1249
01:18:29,638 --> 01:18:33,242
Because doing the right thing
moves us forward.
1250
01:18:37,646 --> 01:18:42,251
I've probably given this
slide show 1,000 times.
1251
01:18:47,957 --> 01:18:51,494
I would say,
at least 1,000 times.
1252
01:18:51,494 --> 01:18:55,098
Nashville to Knoxville
to Aspen and Sundance.
1253
01:18:55,098 --> 01:18:59,769
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Portland, Minneapolis.
1254
01:18:59,769 --> 01:19:04,974
Boston, New Haven, London,
Brussels, Stockholm, Helsinki,
1255
01:19:04,974 --> 01:19:08,244
Vienna, Munich,
Italy and Spain
1256
01:19:08,244 --> 01:19:11,314
and China, South Korea, Japan.
1257
01:19:13,349 --> 01:19:15,518
Thank you.
1258
01:19:15,518 --> 01:19:19,923
I guess the thing I've spent
more time on than anything
else in this slide show
1259
01:19:19,923 --> 01:19:22,625
is trying to identify
1260
01:19:22,625 --> 01:19:25,862
all those things
in people's minds
1261
01:19:25,862 --> 01:19:31,100
that serve as obstacles
to them understanding this.
1262
01:19:32,836 --> 01:19:37,373
A-And whenever I feel like
I've identified an obstacle,
1263
01:19:37,373 --> 01:19:41,110
I try to take it apart,
roll it away. Move it.
1264
01:19:42,211 --> 01:19:44,413
Demolish it, blow it up.
1265
01:19:52,755 --> 01:19:55,024
I set myself a goal.
1266
01:19:57,293 --> 01:20:00,930
Communicate this real clearly.
1267
01:20:01,965 --> 01:20:05,668
The only way I know to do it
1268
01:20:05,668 --> 01:20:07,503
is city by city,
1269
01:20:13,042 --> 01:20:15,011
person by person,
1270
01:20:19,815 --> 01:20:21,951
family by family.
1271
01:20:25,588 --> 01:20:27,590
GORE: Bye-bye.
Thank you again.
WOMAN: Bye.
1272
01:20:27,590 --> 01:20:30,726
GORE: And I have faith
that pretty soon
1273
01:20:30,726 --> 01:20:33,129
enough minds are changed
1274
01:20:34,130 --> 01:20:37,166
that we cross a--a threshold.
1275
01:20:38,935 --> 01:20:40,503
Let me give you an example
1276
01:20:40,503 --> 01:20:43,907
of the wrong way
to balance the economy
and the environment.
1277
01:20:43,907 --> 01:20:46,275
One part of this issue
involves automobiles.
1278
01:20:46,275 --> 01:20:49,012
Japan has mileage
standards up here.
1279
01:20:49,012 --> 01:20:51,447
Europe plans to pass Japan.
1280
01:20:51,447 --> 01:20:56,585
Our allies
in Australia and Canada
are leaving us behind.
1281
01:20:56,585 --> 01:20:58,387
Here is where we are.
1282
01:21:00,389 --> 01:21:02,125
Now there's a reason for it.
1283
01:21:02,125 --> 01:21:05,895
They say that we can't protect
the environment too much
1284
01:21:05,895 --> 01:21:09,132
without threatening
the economy and
threatening the automakers.
1285
01:21:09,132 --> 01:21:13,736
Because automakers in China
might come in and just
steal all our markets.
1286
01:21:13,736 --> 01:21:18,908
Well, here is where
China's auto mileage
standards are now.
1287
01:21:19,943 --> 01:21:21,177
Way above ours.
1288
01:21:21,177 --> 01:21:24,113
We can't sell our cars
in China today
1289
01:21:24,113 --> 01:21:28,184
because we don't
meet the Chinese
environmental standards.
1290
01:21:29,252 --> 01:21:32,288
California has, uh,
taken an initiative
1291
01:21:32,288 --> 01:21:36,625
to have higher-mileage cars
sold in California.
1292
01:21:36,625 --> 01:21:40,063
Now the auto companies
have sued California
1293
01:21:40,063 --> 01:21:42,531
to prevent this law
from taking effect
1294
01:21:42,531 --> 01:21:46,669
because, as they point out,
11 years from now
1295
01:21:46,669 --> 01:21:51,074
this would mean that
California would have
to have cars for sale
1296
01:21:51,074 --> 01:21:54,010
that are as efficient
11 years from now
1297
01:21:54,010 --> 01:21:55,711
as China's are today.
1298
01:21:55,711 --> 01:21:59,949
Clearly too onerous
a provision to comply with.
1299
01:21:59,949 --> 01:22:02,485
And is this helping
our companies succeed?
1300
01:22:02,485 --> 01:22:05,821
Well, actually, if you look at
who's doing well in the world,
1301
01:22:05,821 --> 01:22:09,558
it's the companies that are
building more-efficient cars.
1302
01:22:09,558 --> 01:22:12,595
And our companies
are in deep trouble.
1303
01:22:12,595 --> 01:22:13,729
Final misconception.
1304
01:22:13,729 --> 01:22:16,632
If we accept that
this problem is real,
1305
01:22:16,632 --> 01:22:19,602
maybe it's just too big
to do anything about.
1306
01:22:19,602 --> 01:22:23,872
And, you know, there are
a lot of people who go
straight from denial
1307
01:22:23,872 --> 01:22:25,441
to despair
1308
01:22:25,441 --> 01:22:28,544
without pausing
on the intermediate step
1309
01:22:28,544 --> 01:22:31,814
of actually doing something
about the problem.
1310
01:22:31,814 --> 01:22:36,319
And that's what
I'd like to finish with.
The fact that we already know
1311
01:22:36,319 --> 01:22:40,756
everything we need to know
to effectively address
this problem.
1312
01:22:40,756 --> 01:22:43,792
We've got to do
a lot of things, not just one.
1313
01:22:43,792 --> 01:22:46,862
If we use more efficient
1314
01:22:46,862 --> 01:22:48,764
electricity appliances,
1315
01:22:48,764 --> 01:22:52,668
we can save this much off
of the global warming
pollution
1316
01:22:52,668 --> 01:22:55,738
that would otherwise be
put into the atmosphere.
1317
01:22:55,738 --> 01:22:58,941
If we use other
end-use efficiency,
this much.
1318
01:22:58,941 --> 01:23:01,644
If we have
higher mileage cars,
this much.
1319
01:23:01,644 --> 01:23:05,014
And all these begin to add up.
Other transport efficiency,
1320
01:23:05,014 --> 01:23:07,050
renewable technology,
1321
01:23:07,050 --> 01:23:09,052
carbon capture and
sequestration.
1322
01:23:09,052 --> 01:23:12,888
A big solution that
you're gonna be hearing
a lot more about.
1323
01:23:12,888 --> 01:23:14,423
They all add up,
1324
01:23:14,423 --> 01:23:19,162
and pretty soon we are below
our 1970 emissions.
1325
01:23:20,029 --> 01:23:22,665
We have everything we need,
1326
01:23:22,665 --> 01:23:25,834
save perhaps political will.
1327
01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:30,239
But you know what?
In America, political will
is a renewable resource.
1328
01:23:35,111 --> 01:23:37,413
We have the ability
to do this.
1329
01:23:37,413 --> 01:23:39,948
Each one of us is
a cause of global warming,
1330
01:23:39,948 --> 01:23:42,618
but each of us can make
choices to change that.
1331
01:23:42,618 --> 01:23:47,156
With the things we buy,
the electricity we use,
the cars we drive,
1332
01:23:47,156 --> 01:23:51,627
we can make choices
to bring our individual
carbon emissions to zero.
1333
01:23:51,627 --> 01:23:54,663
The solutions
are in our hands.
1334
01:23:54,663 --> 01:23:58,000
We just have to have
the determination
to make them happen.
1335
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:02,105
Are we gonna be left behind
as the rest of the world
moves forward?
1336
01:24:02,105 --> 01:24:05,441
All of these nations
have ratified Kyoto.
1337
01:24:05,441 --> 01:24:10,646
There are only two advanced
nations in the world
that have not ratified Kyoto,
1338
01:24:10,646 --> 01:24:14,950
and we are one of them.
The other is Australia.
1339
01:24:14,950 --> 01:24:18,387
Luckily, several states
are taking the initiative.
1340
01:24:18,387 --> 01:24:21,657
The nine northeastern states
have banded together
1341
01:24:21,657 --> 01:24:24,260
on reducing CO2.
1342
01:24:24,260 --> 01:24:26,962
California and Oregon
are taking the initiative.
1343
01:24:26,962 --> 01:24:31,900
Pennsylvania's
exercising leadership
on solar power and wind power.
1344
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:36,105
And US cities are
stepping up to the plate.
1345
01:24:36,105 --> 01:24:40,309
One after the other,
we have seen
1346
01:24:40,309 --> 01:24:44,847
all of these cities pledge
to take on global warming.
1347
01:24:47,250 --> 01:24:50,719
So what about the rest of us?
1348
01:24:50,719 --> 01:24:55,758
Ultimately this question
comes down to this.
1349
01:24:55,758 --> 01:24:59,828
Are we, as Americans,
1350
01:24:59,828 --> 01:25:02,631
capable of doing great things
1351
01:25:02,631 --> 01:25:05,234
even though
they are difficult?
1352
01:25:05,234 --> 01:25:06,769
Are we capable
1353
01:25:06,769 --> 01:25:10,673
of rising above ourselves
and above history?
1354
01:25:10,673 --> 01:25:15,311
Well, the record indicates
that we do have that capacity.
1355
01:25:15,311 --> 01:25:17,980
We formed a nation,
we fought a revolution
1356
01:25:17,980 --> 01:25:20,983
and brought something new
to this earth,
1357
01:25:20,983 --> 01:25:25,087
a free nation guaranteeing
individual liberty.
1358
01:25:25,087 --> 01:25:29,992
America made a moral decision.
Its slavery was wrong,
1359
01:25:29,992 --> 01:25:34,997
and that we could not be
half free and half slave.
1360
01:25:34,997 --> 01:25:36,832
We, as Americans, decided
1361
01:25:36,832 --> 01:25:39,702
that of course
women should have
the right to vote.
1362
01:25:39,702 --> 01:25:42,438
We defeated totalitarianism
and won a war
1363
01:25:42,438 --> 01:25:46,209
in the Pacific and
the Atlantic simultaneously.
1364
01:25:46,209 --> 01:25:49,312
We desegregated our schools.
1365
01:25:49,312 --> 01:25:52,815
And we cured fearsome diseases
like polio.
1366
01:25:52,815 --> 01:25:54,650
We landed on the moon.
1367
01:25:54,650 --> 01:25:57,853
The very example
of what's possible
when we are at our best.
1368
01:25:57,853 --> 01:26:01,357
We worked together
in a completely bipartisan way
1369
01:26:01,357 --> 01:26:03,192
to bring down communism.
1370
01:26:03,192 --> 01:26:07,330
We have even solved
a global environmental
crisis before,
1371
01:26:07,330 --> 01:26:10,065
the hole in the stratospheric
ozone layer.
1372
01:26:10,065 --> 01:26:12,768
This was said to be
an impossible problem to solve
1373
01:26:12,768 --> 01:26:15,538
because it's a global
environmental challenge
1374
01:26:15,538 --> 01:26:19,842
requiring cooperation from
every nation in the world.
1375
01:26:19,842 --> 01:26:21,677
But we took it on.
1376
01:26:21,677 --> 01:26:25,214
And the United States
took the lead in phasing out
the chemicals
1377
01:26:25,214 --> 01:26:26,982
that caused that problem.
1378
01:26:26,982 --> 01:26:31,887
So now we have to use
our political processes
in our democracy,
1379
01:26:31,887 --> 01:26:35,258
and then decide
to act together
to solve those problems.
1380
01:26:35,258 --> 01:26:38,927
But we have to have
a different perspective
on this one.
1381
01:26:38,927 --> 01:26:42,531
It's different
from any problem
we have ever faced before.
1382
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:50,373
You remember that home movie
of the earth spinning
in space?
1383
01:26:50,373 --> 01:26:55,444
One of those spacecraft
continuing on out
into the universe,
1384
01:26:55,444 --> 01:26:58,981
when it got four billion miles
out in space,
1385
01:26:58,981 --> 01:27:02,985
Carl Sagan said,
"Let's take another
picture of the earth."
1386
01:27:04,287 --> 01:27:06,455
You see that pale blue dot?
1387
01:27:07,423 --> 01:27:09,191
That's us.
1388
01:27:09,191 --> 01:27:13,128
Everything that has
ever happened
in all of human history
1389
01:27:13,128 --> 01:27:16,131
has happened on that pixel.
1390
01:27:16,131 --> 01:27:19,201
All the triumphs
and all the tragedies.
1391
01:27:19,201 --> 01:27:22,104
All the wars, all the famines.
1392
01:27:22,104 --> 01:27:24,006
All the major advances.
1393
01:27:25,541 --> 01:27:27,443
It's our only home.
1394
01:27:28,577 --> 01:27:33,248
And that is what is at stake.
1395
01:27:33,248 --> 01:27:37,820
Our ability to live
1396
01:27:37,820 --> 01:27:40,389
on planet Earth,
1397
01:27:40,389 --> 01:27:42,791
to have a future
as a civilization.
1398
01:27:46,829 --> 01:27:50,633
I believe this is
a moral issue.
1399
01:27:50,633 --> 01:27:53,736
It is your time
to seize this issue.
1400
01:27:53,736 --> 01:27:58,273
It is our time to rise again,
to secure our future.
1401
01:28:09,151 --> 01:28:15,157
There's nothing that unusual
about what I'm doing
with this.
1402
01:28:15,157 --> 01:28:19,194
What is unusual is that
I had the privilege
to be shown it
1403
01:28:19,194 --> 01:28:21,029
as a young man.
1404
01:28:21,029 --> 01:28:22,465
(CHEERING)
1405
01:28:22,465 --> 01:28:25,434
MAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Al Gore.
1406
01:28:25,434 --> 01:28:30,005
GORE: It's almost as if
a window was opened
through which
1407
01:28:30,005 --> 01:28:34,042
the future was
very clearly visible.
1408
01:28:35,444 --> 01:28:39,415
"See that?" he said,
"See that?
1409
01:28:39,415 --> 01:28:43,452
"That's the future in which
you are going
to live your life."
1410
01:28:46,489 --> 01:28:48,724
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
1411
01:29:06,575 --> 01:29:09,111
Future generations
1412
01:29:09,111 --> 01:29:12,781
may well have occasion
to ask themselves,
1413
01:29:12,781 --> 01:29:15,350
"What were
our parents thinking?
1414
01:29:15,350 --> 01:29:20,022
"Why didn't they wake up
when they had a chance?"
1415
01:29:24,159 --> 01:29:26,028
We have to hear that question
from them, now.
1416
01:29:40,308 --> 01:29:43,446
** (I NEED TO WAKE UP
BY MELISSA ETHERIDGE PLAYING)
1417
01:30:24,487 --> 01:30:26,622
* Have I been sleeping? *
1418
01:30:28,423 --> 01:30:32,495
* I've been so still,
afraid of crumbling *
1419
01:30:34,029 --> 01:30:36,699
* Have I been careless? *
1420
01:30:38,233 --> 01:30:42,905
* Dismissing all the
distant rumblings *
1421
01:30:45,007 --> 01:30:49,444
* Take me where
I am supposed to be *
1422
01:30:51,246 --> 01:30:56,384
* To comprehend the things
that I can't see *
1423
01:30:56,384 --> 01:30:59,688
* 'Cause I need to move *
1424
01:30:59,688 --> 01:31:02,925
* I need to wake up *
1425
01:31:02,925 --> 01:31:06,328
* I need to change *
1426
01:31:06,328 --> 01:31:09,031
* I need to shake up *
1427
01:31:09,031 --> 01:31:12,334
* I need to speak out *
1428
01:31:12,334 --> 01:31:15,904
* Something's got to
break up *
1429
01:31:15,904 --> 01:31:18,907
* I've been asleep *
1430
01:31:18,907 --> 01:31:22,911
* And I need to wake up *
1431
01:31:24,046 --> 01:31:25,681
* Now *
1432
01:31:29,384 --> 01:31:31,520
* And as a child *
1433
01:31:33,522 --> 01:31:38,927
* I danced like it was 1999 *
1434
01:31:38,927 --> 01:31:43,098
* My dreams were wild *
1435
01:31:43,098 --> 01:31:48,571
* That the promise of this
new world would be mine *
1436
01:31:48,571 --> 01:31:53,776
* Now I am throwing off
the carelessness of youth *
1437
01:31:56,144 --> 01:32:00,883
* To listen to
an inconvenient truth *
1438
01:32:00,883 --> 01:32:04,687
* That I need to move *
1439
01:32:04,687 --> 01:32:07,890
* I need to wake up *
1440
01:32:07,890 --> 01:32:10,959
* I need to change *
1441
01:32:10,959 --> 01:32:13,896
* I need to shake up *
1442
01:32:13,896 --> 01:32:17,232
* I need to speak out *
1443
01:32:17,232 --> 01:32:20,803
* Something's got to
break up *
1444
01:32:20,803 --> 01:32:23,672
* I've been asleep *
1445
01:32:23,672 --> 01:32:28,376
* And I need to wake up *
1446
01:32:28,376 --> 01:32:30,813
* Now *
1447
01:32:33,649 --> 01:32:36,952
* I am not an island *
1448
01:32:36,952 --> 01:32:40,022
* I am not alone *
1449
01:32:43,391 --> 01:32:46,328
* I and my intentions *
1450
01:32:46,328 --> 01:32:51,566
* Trapped here
in this flesh and bone*
1451
01:32:52,534 --> 01:32:55,604
* And I need to move *
1452
01:32:56,471 --> 01:32:59,708
* I need to wake up *
1453
01:32:59,708 --> 01:33:02,978
* I need to change *
1454
01:33:02,978 --> 01:33:05,781
* I need to shake up *
1455
01:33:05,781 --> 01:33:09,151
* I need to speak out *
1456
01:33:09,151 --> 01:33:12,688
* Something's got to
break up *
1457
01:33:12,688 --> 01:33:15,658
* I've been asleep *
1458
01:33:15,658 --> 01:33:20,462
* And I need to wake up *
1459
01:33:20,462 --> 01:33:24,132
* Now *
1460
01:33:25,734 --> 01:33:28,904
* I wanna to change *
1461
01:33:28,904 --> 01:33:31,807
* I need to shake up *
1462
01:33:31,807 --> 01:33:34,943
* I need to speak out *
1463
01:33:34,943 --> 01:33:38,714
* Oh, something's
gotta break up *
1464
01:33:38,714 --> 01:33:41,684
* I've been asleep *
1465
01:33:41,684 --> 01:33:46,588
* And I need to wake up *
1466
01:33:46,588 --> 01:33:49,191
* Now *
1467
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:20,242
* I've been asleep *
1468
01:36:24,646 --> 01:36:26,882
* I need to wake up **
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