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alright I got a scare chart for you in a second first let me tell you the update
on our climate change it is not good
no we're breaking records there were no wall I'm in carbon dioxide
okay and in this case when I say we I mean the whole world
last year atmospheric carbon dioxide briefly crossed 400 parts per million
for the first time in human history joy
okay and now that's really bad
I'm sure this year got better right i mean I'm told by the right-wingers
things go up and now there's no way you can
tell which way it's going to go I mean tides goin' ties come out
you can explain a right although this this year's first
400 parts-per-million reading came a full
two months earlier than last year hoops
things are getting worse and in fact the here's a
kinda a devastating quote from one of the experts we're already seeing values
over 400 probably will see values dwelling over 400 in April and May
it's just a matter of time before it stays over 400 forever
nap this is where you need context well how bad is 400 parts per million
you carbon dioxide in the atmosphere about is that and is that really rising
cuz I'm told on
television all time meet the press just had a debate with Bill Nye the Science
Guy and a republican
lawmaker where they'd debated climate change whether it's
real or not whether there's really more carbon dioxide in the air
and maybe 400 parts per million is not bad right well here's a context
and the scary chart we promised your I
all right now that's the chart above carbon dioxide
parts-per-million in the atmosphere since 1958
it's fairly famous is called the killing her and the latest numbers just add to
the very end there
and as you can see from 1958 on carbon dioxide in the air
has gone up and then up but to be fair and then up
and to be fair it even further up no it's not fluctuating it's not going up
and down
yes clearly since we've become more and more industrialized there's more more
carbon dioxide in the air
and more carbon dioxide there is in the air the planet gets warmer on average
and there's more climate change where the weather fluctuates we have more
severe storms
et cetera now a what are the results already in fact the oceans have already
risen
8 inches in the past century Mary rise another 3 feet by the end of the century
with great cause
to coastal communities now says we're at the beginning of this
and you know we just passed 400 parts per million well
it looks like arm well eight inches maybe not so bad right
so has ever happened in history before we had this much carbon dioxide and
they're well it turns out the way we is right about that yes
I gotta go back a while so let me explain estimates for women
the atmosphere last contain this much carbon dioxide range from
800,000 years ago all the way to
fifty million years ago all okay well so we didn't have it before what's the big
deal right
I mean other then massive changes
on what happened on the planet back then including
a massive change the life forms I mean
happened could be we already had a ones on earth well
let me explain when carbon dioxide was last at these levels
the polar ice melted and flooded the oceans
raising levels up to 130
beat higher than today's levels
so all the gigantic coastal cities all across the world
it was nice knowing you now
it's not going to happen overnight and yes it takes a little while
at this carbon dioxide level to go from eight inches 3p 230 people
but it's hard to get the carbon dioxide outta that miss fear
so even if we stop all a bit right now
we would still have massive troubles but we're not stopping it
we're going at a higher and higher pace by killing curve is going to continue to
go higher and higher
up to you hoops all the polar ice melted
now wherein you reversible
massive trouble