(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LETICIA DECKERT, EVACUEE: It's stressful, very stressful. Skeptics, believers, liberals, conservatives; it all seems so theoretical. It's about the front lines, the places where threats aren't just forecasts of the future, but are happening now. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. While a scientific consensus says man is responsible for global warming, Michaels, like Senator Inhofe, says money is the prime motivator. But the water crisis may be more than just climate change. In fact, we know where they are. Planet in Peril (Series) Cath Senker Author (2014) Fierce Floods Planet in Peril (Series) Cath Senker Author (2014) Wild Fires Planet in Peril (Series) Cath Senker Author (2014) Series; Planet in Peril; Our Apps. MICHAELS: The problem is, we have these things called computer models. CORWIN: His eyes are keenly trained to find what seems impossible. Credit: CC0 Public Domain. We have come here to meet the people of Carteret. Northeast of here, in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead, thick smoke forcing a three hour stop for water aerial drops. Look on the United States, probably the most violent weather on Earth of any large civilized nature -- the number of tornadoes COOPER: Right. It is a record rate of decline. The ice melts, the seas will rise. Police take them back to the scene, and they re-enact the brutal crime. I'm standing in Nigeria, what used to be the middle of Lake Chad. And when we got down there, we saw evidence of what seemed to be bleaching. GUPTA (voice-over): Some of the children here are clearly malnourished. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific . 1 James Gustave Speth The limits of Growth 3 Daniel Quinn The danger of Human Exceptionalism 9 The Dalai Lama a Question of our own survival 15 E. O. Wilson The Fate of Creation is the Fate of Humanity 21 Sheila Watt-Cloutier The inuit right to Culture Based And, by Friday, the winds actually blow back onshore, which means all of that smoke that's out there in the ocean will be pushed back into L.A., back into San Diego, and all the way through east and into the valleys, back through Twentynine Palms, maybe through Yuma. STEFFEN: Yes. (voice-over) They say they've run off poachers on these patrols before, where their territory is huge and their numbers small, so the poachers keep coming back. GUPTA: So, this used to be up to 60 kilograms? COOPER (on camera): It's all so surreal, I mean, as you look out at the horizon. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a lot of animals right here that range the gamut of critical status. (on camera): We're in a fishing community here. Now unable to grow their own food, they are dependent on supplies from the government of Papa New Guinea that come twice a year by vote from another island 60 miles away, just twice a year. And I would always say, is he going to get there? Heard on Morning Edition. Good deal. That's it for the Harris fire. Out here it's an igloo. COOPER (on camera): The argument against your position is an economic argument. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's do it. For example, 20 percent of the world's water is locked up in rain forest habitat, specifically the Amazon Basin. COOPER: That's true. STEFFEN: But it's filled with fish and some steaks. In each place the poor and disenfranchised are usually the ones bearing environmental burdens. The biggest fire, the witch fire, has already destroyed more than 905 homes and other buildings. STEVE AMSTRUP, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: There's a nice lead here that we might be able to pick up footprints on. We actually just dove down. COOPER: You have to be very careful when you're walking on a sheet of ice or a glacier in Greenland because there can be hidden crevices that open up. quizlette5241082 Plus. STEFFEN: Yes. Why? "Planet in Peril" examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources. SEN. JAMES INHOFE (R), OKLAHOMA: And, with all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It's taken as many lives in one year as. (on camera): It's so disturbing to see this. Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril Edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson Foreword by Desmond Tutu Eighty groundbreaking essays on why it's wrong to wreck the world Clearly, it's a larger operation than that. (on camera): These roads, as bumpy and -- and terrible as they are, what's even worse about them is that the roads are the conduit for the habitat loss. R. MARROQUIN: When you're sitting out there, when you're watching them play, you think, "Is it going to happen? So far, flames have burned almost 700 square miles. It's the Earth's history that tells us, with the most accuracy and the most reliability, what the climate sensitivity is. Human beings are changing the climate. A park, crowded place. And of course as you can see, of course, we are not alone. (on camera) The guy has, like, what: one, two, three, four, five rifles. SCHMIDT: They were continuous, yes. S01:E03 - Vultan - King of the Hawkmen. VALENTIN MARROQUIN, CANCER PATIENT: Cook (ph). COOPER: So in the summer months ahead, as the temperature increases, water will actually start flowing through here? In fact, we've got some pictures we can show you. Planet in Peril Term 1 / 11 Greenland's temperature has risen by how many degrees? We are stranded as it turns out right now. This species of fish can grow up to 60 kilograms, and, today, you see, they just a few grams. Let's check it out. It did exactly the opposite. Earlier this year the University of Texas released a study showing kids living within two miles of the ship channel had a 56 percent greater chance of getting leukemia. There is no online registration for the intro class Terms of usage & Conditions Are human beings responsible? The water is so fast and has energy that actually carves into the ice before it drops into the moulin. The thickness of the ice in Greenland has been changing over the last few decades. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? Plus if we have fish from the sea, then we have fish. I'm Anderson Cooper. Two men meet her on a muddy path. That's roughly six times the size of the state of California. We came here not with the idea to monitor the abrupt change we currently observe. COOPER: Struggles for land, fights over resources, people drink from polluted rivers in China and die in broken villages invisible from the gleaming towers of Beijing. DENNIS SCHMIDT: Yes. COOPER: This is a planet under assault. CORWIN: Very much so. Elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, animals are slowly . Jeff Corwin's gone to track North America's largest carnivore, the polar bear -- to find out what some scientists believe the polar bear's very existence is under threat. Hi, Anderson. No birds, no buzzing insects. We'll show you the eastern edge of that fire. As hunters, gatherers, and farmers, the Kraho rely on the rain forest for food, water, shelter, everything. Nothing occurs in a vacuum in the natural world. COOPER: The very next day, Valentin began chemotherapy. It's here that animals have to contend with the greatest change that is happening to the face of our planet. Another update about the fire in 15 minutes. It actually took five flights leaving from southern China in a helicopter ride, which you just saw. What should be done? San Diego County dodged a major bullet today, barely escaping a massive power outage. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: We're flying back to the Carteret Islands in the South Pacific to try and solve the mystery, why the islands here are disappearing. This is a small fire set by a man who is cutting down a couple of acres of land. Much of it is siphoned off to irrigate crops. My colleague, Rick Sanchez, is covering one of the two big fires now happening in this area. It suffered through a ten-year bloody civil war during the 1990s. planet in peril transcript INTRO OFFER!!! CORWIN: So, basically, it's providing this layer of viscosity to the ice to slide on. COOPER: Illegally logged, for the most part? COOPER (voice-over): Adaptations, he says, like stronger buildings, better warning systems. Download Planet In Peril Worksheet Answers doc. The weather is another. Firefighters are getting a grip on the wildfires around Los Angeles. This time of year the sun never sets -- just dips down to rest on the horizon. This is the area. (on camera): Do you think climate change is a hoax? "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This island exists because of global warming. Agents get word over the radio there might be an encampment of illegal loggers nearby. COOPER: This stinky neighborhood because it sits next to the Houston Ship Channel, the largest petrochemical complex in America. In the documentary, William, who is dad to 7-year-old son Prince George . And the IBAMA agents know that. INHOFE: I don't want to be rude, but, from now on, I'm going to ask COOPER: James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma, is the loudest voice with probably the biggest platform who questions whether man is responsible for climate change. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will have to stay. Amstrup has been studying the polar bear for the past three decades. CORWIN: It's just absolute, utter devastation and destruction. Name: Date: Movie: Planet in Peril - Part I and II: Use each segment as case studies. We're going to travel to the east coast of Greenland, where a new island emerged because of the retreat of ice. PLANET IN PERIL, however, continues after this break. PLANET IN PERIL continues after the break. We actually saw entire sheets of coral that seemed to be completely dead and washed out. Her children were safe; at least, that's what she thought. Are they bringing it in now?" (voice-over) In the small town of Anapu, deep in the Amazon state of Para, Sister Dorothy Stang is everywhere. Polar bears are probably the most important symbol of the Arctic from the standpoint of a measure of the health of the Arctic ecosystem because they are entirely dependent on the surface of the sea ice on catching all of their food and the food that they eat, the seals and other marine mammals, are entirely dependent on the ecosystem below them. Kraho are trying to take matters into their own hands. I can tell you that right now. Did the water just knock them down? It is rather steep. Step up. But his story doesn't add up. Action & adventure 2002 1 hr 38 min In this classic installment in the series that inspired the 'Star Wars' saga, Flash Gordon matches with Ming the Merciless while saving the Earth from. There are ripple effects and that is putting our planet in peril. COOPER (voice-over): And a pack of hunting dogs. People also ask. Believe it or not, this is the rainy season. COOPER: Houston Mayor Bill White has pledged to reduce the level of air toxins for those communities, even if it means playing hardball. l hope l remember the trick when l wake up. But I would like to (CROSSTALK) INHOFE: No, I have 15 minutes. Fifteen fires are burning tonight. COOPER (voice-over): The World Conservation Union says the Amazon is home to nearly 1,000 threatened species of plants and animals. Transcript of Biden's Speech on Climate Change and Hurricane Ida "The nation and the world are in peril," President Biden said after touring storm damage in New York and Jersey. But, today, he's brought the vast majority of the scientific community to his side. They are still burning and still dangerous, but they are moving more slowly. CORWIN (voice-over): Amstrup loads the tranquilizer dart into the gun as we circle low over the mother bear to make sure we don't scare her away from her cubs. Finding the roads made by the loggers is easy. What's going to happen to you? Armed with a pistol just in case, Amstrup and I move in to secure the cubs. COOPER (voice-over): Even the map of Greenland is changing. Jessica_Roberson5. And that is a wonderful, wonderful story. Scientists are generating data all the time. I want to update you, though, on tonight's breaking news. There are no winches out here to free our trucks, just the bodies of our entire crew. When we come back, the lessons learned. COOPER (voice-over): What are we doing to ourselves? But then '94, '95, it started to warm steadily. OK. CORWIN: With the bears safely sedated, Amstrup gets to work. But many of them will come back, unfortunately, to this -- Anderson. It's called Deer Horn Valley. And when she decided, she decided. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If these plants were emitting these kinds of levels in River Oaks, it wouldn't be happening, I promise. They found that in some spots, ice thickness has diminished by as much as 40 percent in the last 40 years. Some statistics say that perhaps as much as 80 percent, to as little as 60 percent, is logged illegally. Combine that with the fact that Africa's population is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. COOPER: But her friend and colleague, Jane Dwire (ph), says those tactics earned Sister Dorothy some powerful and dangerous enemies. MICHAELS: stunning. Finally, we arrive at the Chari River. We are 60 miles from any land, only open waters in every direction. shows global trends, connected through ecosphere. STEFFEN: Hi, Terrie. Climate change is making a bad situation worse. His mother, Rosario, was just happy she'd found somewhere free from the violence and drugs that plagued other low-income neighborhoods. Planet in Peril, filmed across four continents and 13 countries, airs over two nights on CNN/U.S. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 370. But Inhofe questions the motives of those who say man is responsible for global warming. But this has something to do with it. But the winds are dying down, and that gives firefighters a chance to possibly gain the upper hand. (voice-over) After the festivities, we join the tribe for a meeting, where they share grim news of what's happening to their home. west ridge academy utah tuition; aerie offline cropped tank COOPER (voice-over): And that adds up. The A.P. This buildup of gases prevents heat from escaping to space, acting like the panels of a greenhouse -- warming the entire planet. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We have been trying to get here for a few days now. COOPER (on camera): Does it surprise you that new islands are cropping up in Greenland? Every day they go out on patrol armed with bows and arrows, just making sure no one is cutting down trees. They've destroyed nearly 1,600 homes and nearly a half million acres across seven counties here in Southern California. I sailed into the peninsula. GUPTA: We're hearing people are getting cancer from drinking water. Episode 1 Planet In Peril, Pt. How is it that a forest covering nine countries, home to 200 indigenous tribes CORWIN: This is one of my most favorite creatures right here. The swarms have brought with them malaria. There's actually no law, no ambient air standards, either state or federal, requiring companies to limit the amount of hazardous air pollutants they pump out. Scientists call it a positive feedback loop, and it's causing Greenland's ice to disappear. We're told that the fire area is under control. AMSTRUP: Boy, they did a 180-degree turn here. (on camera): It is politically correct to say you care about the rain forest, but why should someone actually care? The consensus among scientists is something is different. S01:E01 - A Planet In Peril. Her home is disappearing. Guide | Transcript Transcript PREVIOUSLY ON STARGATE SG-1 [Scenes from Summit where Yu objects to Anubis being made a System Lord. View Jordan Allen - Planet in Peril Part Iand 2.docx from SCIENCE 101 at Royal Palm Beach High School. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper, Rancho Bernardo, California. Sand all around me. Jungles and rainforests are home to an incredible variety of species . And that just doesn't happen in remote corners of the globe. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When the ice melts in the summer, it used to be that it only withdrew from the Alaska coast a little ways. Coral bleaching, scientists say, is a result of global warming, and it's happening in oceans around the world. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. COOPER (voice-over): Dr. Steffen and his team live in a research station called Swiss Camp. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She may have looked like a little old lady to people from outside. ROSARIO MARROQUIN, MOTHER OF VALENTIN: My worst fear as a parent was losing my child somewhere. CORWIN: Clearly, their motivation was a bit more insidious. COOPER: The Brazilian government responded by setting aside more than 30,000 square miles for protection. CORWIN (voice-over): Searching for polar bears in Northeastern Alaska isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack, it's like looking for a haystack-colored needle in a haystack. It's the outer southern edge of the fire. HANSEN: We conclude that there is evidence that the greenhouse effect increases the likelihood of heat wave drought situations. STEFFEN: First of all, it got much warmer than we expected. David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. COOPER (voice-over): If you thought the debate over what's causing the Earth to warm was settled, think again. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER: Six-year-old Valentin Marroquin went from healthy one moment to a leukemia patient battling for his life the next. COOPER: Hansen was nearly alone back then. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It does, it does. But, somehow, Anata (ph) holds out hope. "Planet In Peril" continues after this break. What's going to happen to you? CORWIN: Simply put, the survival of our species of human beings is directly dependent upon the survival of rain forest habitat. Spin-off: Planet in Peril: Battle Lines. She said she was drawn to the Amazon to work with the poor. That's exactly what l was gonna tell you. committee pushes back over key landmark details . They say that the water is going to cover this entire island within a few years. They have the most success hunting seals in a 20 to 50-mile gap of water between coastland and ice. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The struggle today is how to get food. But just listen. That, he and other skeptics like him say, is a fundamental problem. So they started going door to door and trying to get the people out. Do you feel like the people here have been forgotten? (on camera) For Ibama, these arrests are a sign of help: one small victory in the ongoing battle to save the forest. Some are harvested by small farmers eking out a meager living. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR. COOPER (on camera): As Dr. Steffen pointed out, climate change is something that's going to be affecting future generations. species loss in another part of the world affects everyone. PLANET IN PERIL continues in a moment. We press on. Pat Michaels is one of them. That's exactly what's happening to the people of the Carterets. What's the situation there -- Ted? 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