Lake Chad borders four different countries - Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. The Earth's climate has changed much during the planet's history. That's the last remnant of this thing, they hope, at least in terms of this side of the fire. Arson investigators are on the case and we expect a $50,000 award for information to be announced soon. (on camera): The scientists who are warning of huge changes within our lifetime, are those just scare tactics? But the water crisis may be more than just climate change. (on camera) Every day Ibama agents go out on patrol and stop anyone they come across and question them about what they're doing in this biological preserve. 1 s01e06 - Cities Tran script detail David Attenborough: This is the newest habitat on Earth. Let's check it out. GUPTA: As the wetlands manager, he spent the last four years working with the Lake Chad basing commission, a group that's trying to save the lake. COOPER (on camera): They said they were just out looking for small animals just to eat. GUPTA: We're going to take you next from a place that suffers not from too much water, but from not enough, Lake Chad. GUPTA: The people of the Carterets call themselves some of the world's first climb change refugees. (on camera): They have just found a truck with some people. Remember the sea ice you just saw in Alaska? So, everybody here keep hope. COOPER (voice-over): He records the changing ice sheet through a network of monitoring and GPS stations. SCHMIDT: Yes. IMDb. Planet in Peril Aired December 20, 2009 - 20:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. I'm standing in Nigeria, what used to be the middle of Lake Chad. You were on a ship SCHMIDT: Yes. He rejects nearly all of the skeptics' points, from moderate estimates HANSEN: We're talking about several meters of sea level rise if West Antarctica begins to go unstable. So even by stopping the increase of CO2 today, we will have a warming. She was a powerhouse of decision. He says they're angry and scared by what's happening. We gear up to rappel ourselves down inside. Here, oil refineries and petrochemical companies pump hazardous pollutants into the air. Schools were closed for a decade. Like the earth's climate, the world's oceans have also warmed one degree Fahrenheit. COOPER: She started a sustainable development program, teaching locals how to live off the forest and at the same time preserve it. Well, let's explore it further. (on camera): So this is a moola (ph)? They tell police they were paid $25,000 by ranchers, who wanted Sister Dorothy out of their way so they could continue illegally logging the rain forest. So for now, the people of the Carterets left to wait and fight against the rising tides. What's happening here is a sobering glimpse into what scientist says the future will look like even if modest sea level rise predictions prove true. You can see the water channel coming over it now. Some estimates do have the Earth warming more than it currently is. In America, the discussion seems mired in politics. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When the ice melts in the summer, it used to be that it only withdrew from the Alaska coast a little ways. The cold hasn't snapped their sense of humor. But his story doesn't add up. (on camera): Do you expect to find other islands that were previously thought to be connected to the inland? What is left is a daily struggle. (voice-over) For Valentin Marroquin, Manchester, Texas, seemed a fine place to grow up. 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. SCHMIDT: They were continuous, yes. That was the beginning of the movement discovery, where I realized something was wrong. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Big ranching and logging companies were often in her sights. species loss in another part of the world affects everyone. The people of the Carteret Islands literally being washed away. He has seen the dramatic changes firsthand. Trump Sent Chilling Warning from 'Merchant of Death' Freed by Biden: 'Your Life Is in Peril' By Lorri Wickenhauser April 13, 2023 at 5:56pm Former President Donald Trump received a bleak warning last week from an unexpected quarter: Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer nicknamed the "Merchant of Death." Somewhere there's no animals or no people who live there. The summer rains no longer able to replenish the lake so many people have come to depend upon. That's what parents fear. Over the next few days, we're going to figure out why and report that back to you. RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, the Harris fire. 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. CORWIN: The sea ice is melting, melting faster than anyone expected. Police take them back to the scene, and they re-enact the brutal crime. There are some 100,000 indigenous people living in Brazil's Amazon rain forest. So, really, that's all that is remaining of it now. Ice does accumulate in the interior, but more ice is breaking off and melting at the edges. Human beings are changing the climate. And that's true. Where forests are lost. We are the first people to ever visit here. COOPER: Where water is poisoned. Do you have some coffee? DENNIS SCHMIDT: Yes. COOPER (voice-over): Even the map of Greenland is changing. STEFFEN: But during the cold years, we had some water that froze in the middle tent, which was our sleep tent, which was not very comfortable. COOPER: Ted, we'll check in with you at the 11:00 East Coast time, with an hour long look at what has been happening here. COOPER: He's been coming here for more than 40 years. COOPER (on camera): As Dr. Steffen pointed out, climate change is something that's going to be affecting future generations. COOPER: This is a planet under assault. There have been ice ages and long periods of warmer temperatures. We've met literally hundreds of people along the way, some of whom you've been introduced to over the past two nights. It used to sit on the banks of Lake Chad. East Hill, N.Y. July 8, 2017 -- In East Hills, our 'hometown', there is a law entitled "Tree Preservation and Protection", an Architectural Review Board, zoning rules, and even a 'consulting arborist' to re-evaluate trees proposed to be destroyed by new residents and developers, but deforestation is as bad as the Amazon. (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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact is that a minimum of 20 percent of all global emissions are coming from destruction of tropical forests. Unbelievable Washington landslide survival story. COOPER: Valentin still loves his neighborhood and playing outside. The cooler is stocked with deer meat poached from the rain forest. Sand all around me. As Sister Dorothy became more visible and successful, she started getting death threats. CORWIN: So now you feed the rope and it will just slide down like this. Anchorage Alaska USA 995071 907-360-4503 richard.g.steiner@gmail.com We finally break free, as we close in on the Chari River, Lake Chad's source. Scientists say that is happening because of what we're putting into the air -- tons and tons of carbon dioxide. But the winds are dying down, and that gives firefighters a chance to possibly gain the upper hand. CORWIN: Under nutritional stress because it's simply getting harder for bears to eat. And that's what's happening to the lake. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You think you're making the argument that, you know, it's better to have it up here the because real estate values are so low. Natural changes in the earth's orbit and the tilt of the sun 10,000 years ago caused the climate to shift, bringing out a long drought. Jungles and rainforests are home to an incredible variety of species . HANSEN: We conclude that there is evidence that the greenhouse effect increases the likelihood of heat wave drought situations. This reef is dying, which means less protection from storms and fewer fish to eat. Ibama has been fighting this fight for several years now, but it wasn't until 2005 when a 73-year-old American nun changed the way Brazil protects its forests. It's an impressive opening in the ice here. We should not just think for ourselves. Some of the nearly one million evacuees are getting a look at what's left of their homes this evening. It also has to continue to do a little bit of damage in that area just where I'm pointing right now. And that's all we have for the future. We need to give us some time to drop (INAUDIBLE) rather quickly. Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. So without the climate change, this would still be a peninsula. It happens there, and it happens here. COOPER: And that may be true. What the (EXPLETIVE DELETED). Every day they go out on patrol armed with bows and arrows, just making sure no one is cutting down trees. When we come back, our investigation continues beneath the surface. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Authorities say the Santiago Fire near Los Angeles had three points of origin. I would always hear him say, "When I grow up, I want to do this." Because it is, quite simply, under assault. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. For Jim Hansen, that makes the situation all the more pressing. Planets in Peril is a slim volume, yet it contains a great deal of insight into the mind of CS Lewis in regards to the writing and possible sources and meanings behind the Ransom trilogy, otherwise known as the Space Trilogy. It is possible. CORWIN: His data indicates an animal that's changing along with the habitat around it. STEFFEN: Yes, this is a moulin. And here on the ice sheet, you can see the impact that temperature increase is having. R. MARROQUIN: All right. (on camera): This is really the front line of deforestation. COOPER (on camera): Does it surprise you that new islands are cropping up in Greenland? A once-in-a-century virus silently stalks the country. When water heats up, it expands and rises. 3 terms. STEFFEN: Yes. But it's just nerve wracking. STEFFEN: But it's filled with fish and some steaks. There are ripple effects and that is putting our planet in peril. (on camera): Tonight, we begin a place that's warming faster than just about any other place on Earth -- Greenland's ice sheet. Last year, satellite data collected by NASA scientists revealed Greenland is losing 100 billion tons of ice each year. Planet in Peril Term 1 / 11 Greenland's temperature has risen by how many degrees? Environmentalism: the pet project of the rich, the cause for celebs. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The supply that we have from the government, which is how many bails of rice, it's already finished. Firefighters are getting a grip on the wildfires around Los Angeles. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? WHITE: We will have both a political and a legal battle with the industry until we get widespread agreement for them to do stuff. But part of the Krahos' land has already been illegally clear- cut, and there's little to no law enforcement to stop it. This is an issue of timing. COOPER: Crime? They found that in some spots, ice thickness has diminished by as much as 40 percent in the last 40 years. The ice melts, the seas will rise. MICHAELS: I think a lot of people have not looked at the adaptational responses that human beings have. But just listen. I mean, if you're in New York or Iowa, what impact does the rain forest really have on your life? Suddenly, she was confronted by two men. It's only about eight years. And all five fires in Los Angeles County are about 50 percent contained or more. COOPER: The Brazilian government responded by setting aside more than 30,000 square miles for protection. GUPTA: From what we have seen in Greenland, Alaska and Africa, the Earth's climate is clearly changing. People are dependent on their water and they are not getting enough. The majority of the scientific community says it's mankind. STANG: Bring back new life to a land that was lost. CORWIN: Very much so. And it takes land to grow soy, land without trees. People do not have enough food. Her future is at best uncertain. But that's not what is happening today. COOPER: Nothing to do with science and everything to do with money. Yet despite all the scientific evidence gathered by the international science community, there remain people who refuse to see the peril that people and the planet we live in have been subjected to as humanity, Filipinos included, made light of the five C's. 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