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For IBAMA, secrecy is key. He joins us from Spring Valley by the Harris fire -- Rick. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper in Rancho Bernardo, California. The Lake Chad Basin Commission has a plan to divert water from the Congo River, but it remains controversial and unfunded. Few periods in our nation's history have been more challenging or difficult than the one we're in now. 1978 Battlestar Galactica a Planet in Peril #101. CORWIN: You've got to lean back. PLANET IN PERIL continues in a moment. COOPER: Good news that, Chad. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. We are 60 miles from any land, only open waters in every direction. CORWIN (on camera): Oh, my goodness, look at that. 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. Sponsored. Global sea levels rose about 1.8 millimeters a year in the 20th century. When water heats up, it expands and rises. And she would, you know, work to make it happen, her way. Crime and unemployment are high. It actually took five flights leaving from southern China in a helicopter ride, which you just saw. So they started going door to door and trying to get the people out. San Diego County dodged a major bullet today, barely escaping a massive power outage. Why? COOPER: The men take us to their camp site, where they've already clear-cut the forest. Ninety percent of the people who live in the Marroquins' neighborhood are Hispanic. Out here it's an igloo. says FEMA -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- will send 950 firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service into California over the next few days. They are all here, more than 200 of them, to try to put a stop to the animal poachers and loggers who are tearing this forest apart. (voice-over): Biologist Jeff Corwin and I have come here to learn why and see what impact Greenland's melting ice sheets could have on all of us in the decades ahead. Jungles and rainforests are home to an incredible variety of species . So if we know all of this, why is it happening? Our helicopter lowers just over the running sow. "An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of envi . What's the situation there -- Ted? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are starting to see some changes that may result in future concerns for this population. James Foley's. We're in the wake of the fire and you can see the devastate it's left behind. There's no telling what's around each corner. So we decided we would go out and put our tents outside. It's only about eight years. Planet in Peril, filmed across four continents and 13 countries, airs over two nights on CNN/U.S. B3L7. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It does, it does. (on camera): So this is a moola (ph)? Why is it happening? Well, on the contrary. Now, remember, these are marine mammals, so they are not supposed to drown. I'm Anderson Cooper. fairbanks ice dogs standings . Pat Michaels is one of them. It did exactly the opposite. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, yes. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. It's not a theory. PLANET IN PERIL: Battle Lines - 'Elephant Poaching' - Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs Kathy Griffin shares her memories of Joan Rivers How young is too young for shooting? Why? Both sides of the debate know that. Some of these animals are actually drowning, trying to swim these new open waters. People do not have enough food. "And that . 32 terms. There will be others. MICHAELS: stunning. Sister Stang didn't try to run away. GUPTA: But it might not be that simple. COOPER: Illegally logged, for the most part? Environmentalism: the pet project of the rich, the cause for celebs. Definitely. That is good planning on the part of local officials. That's in about ten minutes from now. I'm Anderson Cooper. SCHMIDT: They were continuous, yes. Eight degrees. We're going to travel to the east coast of Greenland, where a new island emerged because of the retreat of ice. GUPTA: From what we have seen in Greenland, Alaska and Africa, the Earth's climate is clearly changing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Instead, tragically, 2,000 people live here, and they are literally being washed away. Libby; Sora; Kanopy; Help; Markets Served. It's taken as many lives in one year as. No kidding, you look great. CORWIN: As a result, biologists are now witnessing some very strange bear behavior. When we come back, our investigation continues beneath the surface. COOPER: Not much. Chief Bernard (ph) takes us out by boat to the coral reef. A 56 percent greater chance. Global warming might be causing a slight rise in sea levels, but its largest effect here is damage to the coral reefs that protects these islands. Only a few hours until President Bush flies to California. SCHMIDT: This island exists because of global warming. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRUDY MCCUNE, EVACUEE: I feel kind of bad because I'm hoping that I don't lose my home, but then I feel bad because I know a lot of people that have lost their homes. more than 6,000 pages of transcriptsand a spellbinding and denitive portrait of a nation on the brink. Ice does accumulate in the interior, but more ice is breaking off and melting at the edges. All this land is appearing and the water is disappearing. GUPTA: We're here because we are told this is one of the most concrete examples of climate change anywhere in the world. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Flying over the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific, the ocean and the sky melt together in a blue/green haze. CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. He was born here, as were his parents and grandparents. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She may have looked like a little old lady to people from outside. And, tomorrow, the winds lay down completely. But they can't lock their children inside either. As she closed the Bible and turned to go, the gunmen opened fire. Some estimates do have the Earth warming more than it currently is. They will go out again tomorrow, however, trying to do whatever they can to stop their home and their way of life from disappearing. Less water also means fewer and smaller fish and as a result, the people are getting smaller as well. The danger is hard to see with the naked eye. Back on the muddy and rutted roads with Ibama, agents continue to comb the forest for anything that looks out of place. COOPER: A wild west culture where kids like Valentin Marroquin pay the price. (voice-over): Even the Chari River, the source for this once great lake, is evaporating. This is your refrigerator? But is it a crisis or hype? They feed us, provide us medicine, and control our climate. That melt is picking up steam, raising concerns for even more sea level rise, putting the Carteret Islands and others like it in further jeopardy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's do it. There are at least 15 active fires tonight. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Up to this wall -- GUPTA: Our guide is Anadatiega (ph). Scientists call it a positive feedback loop, and it's causing Greenland's ice to disappear. By 2050, there will be 50 percent more people on the planet than there are right now. (on camera) The Kraho are very concerned about illegal logging on their territory. west ridge academy utah tuition; aerie offline cropped tank The cooler is stocked with deer meat poached from the rain forest. But those here in San Diego County are still raging out of control, threatening more than 8,000 homes right now. But, today, he's brought the vast majority of the scientific community to his side. From the CNN documentary Planet in Peril (2007), clip on animals being bought and sold in the JJ Market in Thailand. Last year, satellite data collected by NASA scientists revealed Greenland is losing 100 billion tons of ice each year. With three renowned correspondents Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin, it examines the effects of population growth, rising . You can see the scars made by man. This is an issue of timing. The life here is too valuable to lose. Episode 1 Planet In Peril, Pt. From the air you really get a sense of just how much of the rainforest has already been destroyed. Unable to protect her little boy, Rosario Marroquin felt helpless, as she started looking for answers. That doesn't mean these people can relax, however. CORWIN: He's got five rifles. It used to sit on the banks of Lake Chad. This is one of the largest rivers that actually supplies water to Lake Chad. The dry Santa Ana winds have let up. It's also the world's top beat exporter. $1.55. None of what's happening is occurring in a vacuum. SCHMIDT: This is a peninsula -- it's an isthmus connected to the mainland because of an ice shell. But that's not what is happening today. So once this moulin fills with water -- and water is heavier than ice -- it's possible that to lift up the ice. 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. (CROSSTALK) INHOFE: You, sir, had 30 minutes. Transcript Providers Return to Transcripts main page Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees Planet in Peril; Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone; Reaction to Britney Spears' Buzz Aired February 19, 2007 -. He's even got a slingshot. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's one big set of tracks and two smaller sets. The agents are heavily armed, but heavily outnumbered. There are roughly 37 million people who rely on Lake Chad. R. MARROQUIN: That's all I remember, just time stops. (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. Most often, it's: "Well, look, it's cheaper to have plants in this neighborhood than it is anywhere else in this very expensive city." Thank you. Downing has written four award-winning books on C. S. Lewis, including Planets in Peril, about the Ransom Trilogy; The Most Reluctant Convert, about Lewis's journey to faith; Into the Region of Awe, about mysticism in C. S. Lewis, and Into the Wardrobe, a guide to the . Pat Michaels was Virginia's state climatologist for more than a decade and a professor at the University of Virginia. (on camera): They have just found a truck with some people. He tells us we're the first journalists to dive the reef. So far, getting there is proving anything but easy. That's the term they're using. It's the fire that did some of the power outage damage. As the atmosphere warms, the ice here melts and breaks apart, exposing water. (on camera): Wherever you go in Brazil, in the Amazon, you will find that, fire. Plants and animals lost forever. That's exactly what l was gonna tell you. CORWIN: Exactly. And when we got down there, we saw evidence of what seemed to be bleaching. COOPER (on camera): Does it surprise you that new islands are cropping up in Greenland? 16 juin 2022 why do babies clap their feet. And that's what we see the ice moves faster. Where there was water, now only sand. COOPER (on camera): So how far have we come? OK, now let's get the bears back together. Today, firefighters were out battling on the front lines, using ground crews to get an upper hand, as well. AMSTRUP: Boy, they did a 180-degree turn here. COOPER: That's true. Hi, Anderson. Here's the latest on tonight's breaking news -- the wildfires. His explorations have led to discovery. STEFFEN: Good. We can renew the forest. Main Menu. And, in fact, I'm a good example of that, because when I first spoke out about this in 1981, I ended up losing my funding. Animals like the polar bear and humans will simply adapt. He's also a so- called climate change skeptic. "Planet In Peril" continues after this break. SCHMIDT: Yes. The winds are way down, down to only six, seven, five miles per hour, even down near by San Diego one-mile-per- hour now. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MICHAEL R. NIGGLI, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, SAN DIEGO GAS AND ELECTRIC: There are a lot of people returning to their homes right now. Castro Theatre plan in peril after S.F. GUPTA: So, this used to be up to 60 kilograms? The death toll remains only one. COOPER: Climb back. From the air, it's clear the lake is dropping. STEFFEN: Yes. Somewhere there's no animals or no people who live there. But it's just nerve wracking. Of course, we don't want mom and the cubs to separate. Our helicopter lowers down within feet of her. Excellent. (on camera): This documentary is the result of a year long investigation. My colleague, Rick Sanchez, is covering one of the two big fires now happening in this area. It also has to continue to do a little bit of damage in that area just where I'm pointing right now. This reef is dying, which means less protection from storms and fewer fish to eat. COOPER: But her friend and colleague, Jane Dwire (ph), says those tactics earned Sister Dorothy some powerful and dangerous enemies. It looks good. Hurling yourself backwards over a 1,500 foot cliff does take some practice. I do not own, nor do I or intend to profit from this content whatsoever. That's it for the Harris fire. COOPER: And me, I'm Regal Bird. Going to have a special hour on the fire, starting at 11 p.m. Eastern Time. (voice-over) Their truck is broken down, and they say they need help. (on camera): But you still are optimistic, despite everything that we talked about this today, that water is going to cover all this once again? PLANET IN PERIL continues after this short break. Northeast of here, in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead, thick smoke forcing a three hour stop for water aerial drops. CORWIN: These guys have all the classic tools of the trade when it comes to poaching wildlife. In all, there are 15 active fires tonight. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, I see the tracks are going along there. The disenfranchised usually bear the bankrupt of environmental degradation. Is it rising sea levels or something else entirely? As the earth gets warmer, moisture in the atmosphere that used to fall as rain, instead evaporates. So we go down a ladder here? 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. Kraho are trying to take matters into their own hands. 3 terms. I'm very honored. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The struggle today is how to get food. Either I was in a different place or the place where I was had completely changed. (on camera): Here's one of the best examples of what's happening to the water here. GUPTA: They say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island. But what's causing those changes? It outlines the solutions that have been tried, and analyzes why . It is even very hard. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. CORWIN: Our helicopter hugs the ground as we trace the footprints through the snowy expanse over the rubbled ice, until finally we spot them. And those are things that would be consistent with the population that might be under nutritional stress. Daniel also tells O'Neill he'll miss SG-1 and then he ascends.] Support human-caused climate change, Inhofe's thinking goes, and you get more funding. Authorities say the Santiago Fire near Los Angeles had three points of origin. Finally, we arrive at the Chari River. STANG: Bring back new life to a land that was lost. Combine that with the fact that Africa's population is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. STEFFEN: We have fresh bread every day. It's the Earth's history that tells us, with the most accuracy and the most reliability, what the climate sensitivity is. Unbelievable Washington landslide survival story. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A lot of people live around here and are dependent on this water. In Kraho, they always celebrate the arrival of visitors with a ceremony. That's roughly six times the size of the state of California. And that is a wonderful, wonderful story. CORWIN: These regions, when you're away from any bit of infrastructure, can be pretty lawless. 50 terms. You were on a ship SCHMIDT: Yes. And it takes land to grow soy, land without trees. COOPER (on camera): As Dr. Steffen pointed out, climate change is something that's going to be affecting future generations. And then it's a (INAUDIBLE) beneath the ice. I can see the water from here, Rose, and they say that the water is actually going to cover this entire island within a few years. Suddenly, she was confronted by two men. COOPER: Hansen was nearly alone back then. Somebody is paying for it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 370. Step up. That's all -- the water that supplies the lake is all coming through here. CORWIN: Very much so. Jeff and I are now heading to Brazil's Amazon to see firsthand the battle for the world's greatest rain forest. Armed with a pistol just in case, Amstrup and I move in to secure the cubs. COOPER: If the sea levels, by the models that we have now, are going to rise three feet in the next hundred years, can that be reversed still? In the Amazon along poacher's trails, in hidden villages, you can smell the smoke from the burning forest. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. (ET/PT) and globally on. data collected during a RAP. They're saying that very few people come to this village, very few outsiders. It's an easy, but destructive way small-time farmers do business here. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They thought that killing her would end it. There are about 3,000 Kraho Indians left in the Amazon basin, spread out in villages across 750,000 acres of protected land, given to them by the government. Lakes are evaporating. It's obvious here. 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