WEBVTT 00:01.737 --> 00:02.913 ONE CORNER. 00:02.924 --> 00:04.960 AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE HAVE DIED, 00:04.994 --> 00:06.301 AND AUTHORITIES EXPECT THE 00:06.312 --> 00:06.881 NUMBER TO GROW. 00:06.892 --> 00:07.856 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:07.890 --> 00:08.709 HELENE IS PRESS SECRETARYING 00:08.720 --> 00:10.348 RECORDS IN THE SOUTHEAST AS THE 00:10.359 --> 00:12.284 U.N. IS HOLDING ITS CLIMATE WEEK 00:12.318 --> 00:13.915 IN NEW YORK WHERE SCIENTISTS AND 00:13.916 --> 00:15.024 WORLD LEADERS HAVE MET TO 00:15.035 --> 00:16.265 DISCUSS CONCERNS ABOUT BIGGER 00:16.276 --> 00:19.879 AND STRONGER STORMS ALONG WITH 00:19.880 --> 00:21.922 TEMPERATURE CHANGES ACROSS THE 00:21.933 --> 00:22.303 FWLOEB. 00:22.304 --> 00:22.674 GLOBE. 00:22.685 --> 00:25.386 JOINING US NOW, BILL NYE, YOU 00:25.397 --> 00:26.894 KNOW HIM WELL, AND UNIVERSITY 00:26.895 --> 00:27.427 PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENTIAL 00:27.462 --> 00:28.630 DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF EARTH 00:28.641 --> 00:30.460 AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, AND 00:30.462 --> 00:32.700 AUTHOR OF OUR FRAGILE MOMENT, 00:32.711 --> 00:34.893 "HOW LESSONS FROM EARTH’S PAST 00:34.894 --> 00:36.923 CAN HELP US SURVIVE THE CLIMATE 00:36.924 --> 00:40.727 CRISIS," AND A WHOLE LOT OF 00:40.738 --> 00:41.824 OTHER BOOKS, MICHAEL MANN. 00:41.859 --> 00:44.569 I WILL HAVE MORE TIME NEXT TIME 00:44.580 --> 00:45.902 IF WE SHORTEN THAT TITLE OF 00:45.903 --> 00:46.229 YOURS. 00:46.240 --> 00:47.561 >> THANKS, KATY, GREAT TO BE 00:47.595 --> 00:48.113 WITH YOU. 00:48.124 --> 00:49.575 >> I WISH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 00:49.610 --> 00:51.244 BETTER NEWS. 00:51.255 --> 00:54.280 YOU WERE NODDING YOUR HEAD AS 00:54.291 --> 00:55.856 MARISSA WAS TALKING ABOUT RAPID 00:55.867 --> 00:56.153 INTENSIFICATION. 00:56.154 --> 00:57.667 >> YEAH, SOMETHING WE TALK A LOT 00:57.701 --> 00:59.451 ABOUT THESE DAYS. 00:59.462 --> 01:02.943 YOU KNOW, THESE STORMS INTENSIFY 01:02.944 --> 01:05.124 FAR MORE RAPIDLY THAN THEY USED 01:05.125 --> 01:07.312 TO, AND THERE’S BASIC UNDER 01:07.323 --> 01:08.326 LYING SCIENCE THAT PREDICTED 01:08.360 --> 01:09.438 THAT DECADES AGO. 01:09.449 --> 01:11.657 YOU WARM UP THE OCEANS, THERE’S 01:11.668 --> 01:13.094 MORE ENERGY, EVAPORATION AND 01:13.128 --> 01:14.937 MOISTURE, THAT PROVIDES THE 01:14.939 --> 01:16.111 ENERGY TO INTENSE STORMS. 01:16.112 --> 01:17.226 THEY INTENSIFY FASTER AND, WE 01:17.237 --> 01:18.611 ARE SEEING THAT, AND THE THREAT 01:18.645 --> 01:20.061 IS, AS YOU HEARD HERE, YOU HAVE 01:20.072 --> 01:21.641 LESS TIME TO PREPARE BECAUSE 01:21.642 --> 01:25.674 SOMETHING THAT WAS JUST A WEAK 01:25.675 --> 01:28.362 TROPICAL STORM IS A MAJOR 01:28.373 --> 01:30.174 HURRICANE IN A MATTER OF 24 01:30.208 --> 01:30.448 HOURS. 01:30.459 --> 01:31.267 >> PEOPLE SAY, CLIMATE 01:31.278 --> 01:32.620 SCIENTISTS SAY IT’S THE END OF 01:32.631 --> 01:34.242 THE WORLD, CLIMATE CHANGE IS 01:34.253 --> 01:35.342 HERE, DISASTER IS COMING BUT 01:35.343 --> 01:36.599 EVERYTHING HAS BEEN FINE, AND I 01:36.633 --> 01:37.776 LOOK AT THEM AND SAY WHAT ABOUT 01:37.787 --> 01:38.491 THAT HURRICANE OR WHAT ABOUT 01:38.526 --> 01:39.823 THAT FIRE. 01:39.834 --> 01:41.492 THERE ARE POCKETS OF THIS 01:41.503 --> 01:44.527 COUNTRY THAT ARE NOT FINE. 01:44.562 --> 01:46.383 IT’S NOT HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, 01:46.394 --> 01:48.999 THE END OF THE WORLD IN A 01:49.010 --> 01:50.132 SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE AT THE 01:50.166 --> 01:50.694 MOMENT. 01:50.695 --> 01:52.252 THERE ARE REAL LIFE EFFECTS AND 01:52.263 --> 01:53.497 A LOT OF PEOPLE BEING DISPLACED 01:53.508 --> 01:54.448 AND KILLED. 01:54.459 --> 01:56.421 >> AND IT’S ALSO, WHEN YOUR 01:56.432 --> 01:58.225 POWER GOES OUT, THAT’S WHEN THE 01:58.236 --> 01:59.772 END OF THE WORLD GETS US, AND 01:59.773 --> 02:02.568 THE DEVELOPED WORLD, AND PEOPLE 02:02.569 --> 02:05.083 WHO LIVE IN THAT AREA NOW HAVE 02:05.117 --> 02:06.724 JUST -- NOT JUST RAIN WATER 02:06.726 --> 02:09.469 FLOODING BUT FLOODING FROM THE 02:09.480 --> 02:11.572 OCEAN, WHICH IS SALTY, WHICH IS 02:11.583 --> 02:13.017 RUSTS YOUR CAR, AND YOU CAN’T 02:13.018 --> 02:16.555 GET INSURANCE FOR WHERE YOU PARK 02:16.566 --> 02:18.762 YOUR CAR, AND THE STORM SURGE 02:18.773 --> 02:19.653 WAS 12 FEET SGR. 02:19.664 --> 02:20.691 >> SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 02:20.702 --> 02:21.891 >> THAT’S A FIRST FLOOR OF A 02:21.925 --> 02:22.319 BUILDING. 02:22.330 --> 02:23.752 EVERYTHING, IF YOU LIVE ON THE 02:23.753 --> 02:26.260 FIRST FLOOR, EVERYTHING YOU OWN 02:26.261 --> 02:28.414 IS KIND OF RUINED, AND THAT WILL 02:28.448 --> 02:29.712 NOT -- INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL 02:29.713 --> 02:30.672 NOT KEEP DOING THAT. 02:30.683 --> 02:32.252 >> WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW IF YOU 02:32.263 --> 02:34.533 WANT TO STAY SAFE FROM THE 02:34.567 --> 02:35.471 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE? 02:35.482 --> 02:37.127 >> FURTHER INLAND. 02:37.138 --> 02:38.885 FOR EXAMPLE, I WAS IN MIAMI. 02:38.896 --> 02:40.061 THERE’S TWO CITIES, MIAMI BEACH 02:40.096 --> 02:41.272 AND MIAMI. 02:41.283 --> 02:43.706 IN MIAMI, THE HIGHER GROUND USED 02:43.717 --> 02:47.441 TO BE WHERE POORER PEOPLE LIVED 02:47.475 --> 02:49.788 BUT NOW IT’S GETTING GENTRY FIED 02:49.799 --> 02:50.743 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE MOVING 02:50.754 --> 02:51.340 INLAND. 02:51.374 --> 02:53.031 I’M CHUCKLING BECAUSE IT IS 02:53.042 --> 02:53.556 UNIRONIC. 02:53.567 --> 02:56.250 THE OTHER THING THAT HAPPENED AS 02:56.251 --> 02:58.344 FAR AS RAPID INTENSIFICATION, 02:58.379 --> 03:00.060 THE STORM IS MOVING VERY FAST. 03:00.071 --> 03:02.213 YOU NOT ONLY HAD THE FAST 03:02.214 --> 03:04.119 SPINNING WINDS BUT IT WAS MOVING 03:04.130 --> 03:07.961 SOUTH TO NORTH FAST, AND THIS 03:07.962 --> 03:09.706 CONTRIBUTED TO A LONGER TERM 03:09.717 --> 03:10.127 PROBLEM. 03:10.128 --> 03:12.022 PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVIDED IN THE 03:12.057 --> 03:17.006 AREA FOR A LONG TIME HAVE BEEN 03:17.017 --> 03:18.826 THROUGH SEVERAL BIG STORMS. 03:18.837 --> 03:20.486 THEY DIDN’T QUITE GET HOW FAST 03:20.520 --> 03:21.354 IT WAS MOVING ON. 03:21.365 --> 03:22.843 >> HOW FAST IT WAS GOING, AND 03:22.844 --> 03:24.009 ALSO THERE’S A HUGE STORM. 03:24.020 --> 03:26.035 THERE’S EVIDENCE THAT THE STORMS 03:26.069 --> 03:27.775 ARE GETTING BIGGER, THE 03:27.786 --> 03:28.792 HURRICANE STRENGTH WINDS EXTEND 03:28.826 --> 03:29.610 FURTHER OUT. 03:29.621 --> 03:31.240 THE BIGGER THE STORM, THE MORE 03:31.241 --> 03:34.580 WATER YOU PILE UP. 03:34.581 --> 03:37.760 THE FASTER THE WINDS, THE MORE 03:37.761 --> 03:38.823 WATER YOU PILE UP. 03:38.824 --> 03:39.774 THE RECORD STORM SURGES ARE 03:39.809 --> 03:41.475 CAUSED BY BOTH POWERFUL 03:41.486 --> 03:42.743 HURRICANES THAT EXTEND OVER 03:42.778 --> 03:43.640 LARGE AREAS. 03:43.651 --> 03:45.739 >> U.N. CLIMATE WEEK THIS WEEK, 03:45.773 --> 03:47.412 ANY CONSENSUS HAPPENING? 03:47.423 --> 03:50.969 >> WE’RE JUST ONE INTERNATIONAL 03:50.980 --> 03:52.342 MEETING FROM SOLVING IT. 03:52.353 --> 03:54.762 JUST ONE MORE. 03:54.796 --> 03:58.082 NO, PEOPLE SAY TO ME, BILL NYE, 03:58.093 --> 04:00.478 SCIENCE FWI, WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT 04:00.489 --> 04:01.608 CLIMATE CHANGE, TELL YOU WHAT, 04:01.619 --> 04:02.913 PEOPLE, VOTE. 04:02.948 --> 04:07.189 RIGHT NOW, WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT 04:07.200 --> 04:09.614 THE UNDDEDECIDED VOTERS, AND I’M 04:09.625 --> 04:11.947 BEING AS -- 04:11.948 --> 04:13.284 >> DIPLOMATIC. 04:13.319 --> 04:15.619 >> MAGNANIMOUS, HOW CAN YOU NOT 04:15.630 --> 04:17.232 TELL THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE, ONE 04:17.266 --> 04:19.253 SIDE IS IN SUPPORT OF DOING 04:19.264 --> 04:20.231 SOMETHING ABOUT THE MASSIVE 04:20.242 --> 04:21.342 PROBLEMS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, 04:21.343 --> 04:22.452 THE OTHER SIDE IS PRETENDING 04:22.463 --> 04:24.003 IT’S NOT HAPPENING. 04:24.038 --> 04:25.918 AND YOU GUYS, WE ALL WANT A 04:25.929 --> 04:27.476 VILLAIN, AND SO ON. 04:27.477 --> 04:29.096 IT REALLY HAS BEEN THE FOSSIL 04:29.098 --> 04:31.339 FUEL INDUSTRY THAT HAS WORKED 04:31.350 --> 04:32.736 REALLY HARD TO SUPPRESS THE 04:32.737 --> 04:33.039 SCIENCE. 04:33.050 --> 04:35.354 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY 04:35.356 --> 04:37.183 HEAR THAT, THOUGH, THEY THINK, 04:37.184 --> 04:39.008 GOD, YOU GUYS ARE BEING TOO 04:39.019 --> 04:41.018 CRAZY, TOO STRICT, TOO HARSH. 04:41.052 --> 04:43.793 I LIKE MY WAY OF LIFE. 04:43.804 --> 04:44.983 I LIKE MY CAR. 04:45.018 --> 04:45.981 I LIKE ORDERING THINGS ON 04:45.992 --> 04:46.665 AMAZON. 04:46.699 --> 04:50.542 I LIKE ALL THE PLASTIC THAT I 04:50.553 --> 04:52.069 HAVE IN MY LIFE SFL. 04:52.104 --> 04:53.589 >> I’M CRAZY FOR PLASTIC. 04:53.600 --> 04:55.010 >> IT’S SO INGRAINED, AND WHAT 04:55.011 --> 04:57.172 THEY’RE LOOKING FOR IS SCIENCE 04:57.173 --> 04:59.095 TO COME UP WITH A WAY TO SOLVE 04:59.129 --> 04:59.542 THIS PROBLEM. 04:59.543 --> 05:01.291 >> SO WE CLAIM, ON OUR SIDE OF 05:01.302 --> 05:02.572 IT, WE CLAIM THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH 05:02.583 --> 05:03.868 ENERGY TO TAKE CARE OF 05:03.903 --> 05:05.674 EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW, IF WE JUST 05:05.685 --> 05:07.938 COULD APPLY IT, AND SO THE 05:07.940 --> 05:09.601 LONGEST JOURNEY BEGINS WITH A 05:09.612 --> 05:10.546 SINGLE STEP. 05:10.580 --> 05:12.982 WE WILL PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUEL 05:12.983 --> 05:15.774 USE, AND WE WILL PHASE IN 05:15.785 --> 05:17.048 RENEWABLE ENERGY, BUT JUST WHEN 05:17.082 --> 05:18.039 IT COMES NOVEMBER 5th, 05:18.050 --> 05:23.484 EVERYBODY, YOU’VE GOT TO VOTE 05:23.495 --> 05:24.975 FOR THE DEMOCRATS. 05:25.009 --> 05:26.183 I’M GOING MY BEST. 05:26.194 --> 05:27.820 FOR MANY YEARS, I HAVE BEEN THE 05:27.831 --> 05:29.956 HEAD OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT WE 05:29.967 --> 05:32.298 WORK VERY HARD TO BE POLITICAL 05:32.332 --> 05:33.578 BUT NOT PARTISAN IN SPACE 05:33.579 --> 05:33.989 EXPLORATION. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.117 BE THAT AS IT MAY, RIGHT NOW, 05:36.151 --> 05:37.489 THE CHOICE IS CLEAR, SO 05:37.500 --> 05:39.401 EVERYBODY OUT THERE, YOU CAN 05:39.403 --> 05:40.796 HATE ME, YOU CAN HATE HIM. 05:40.831 --> 05:45.305 YOU CAN HATE EVERYTHING, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO DOING SOMETHING 05:45.316 --> 05:48.167 WHEN IT COMES TO DOING SOMETHING 05:48.178 --> 05:52.949 ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE,YOU HAVE TO 05:52.950 --> 05:55.288 VOTE FOR HARRIS WALTZ/WALZ. 05:55.289 --> 05:57.710 >> I WANT TO ADD A NOTE OF 05:57.721 --> 06:00.051 OPTIMISM DURING CLIMATE WEEK. 06:00.062 --> 06:02.144 THERE ARE PRELIMINARY NUMBERS, 06:02.145 --> 06:04.188 IN 2024, A DROP OF GLOBAL CARBON 06:04.189 --> 06:04.573 EMISSIONS. 06:04.574 --> 06:06.126 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. 06:06.161 --> 06:07.380 THAT MEANS OUR EFFORTS ARE 06:07.391 --> 06:12.687 STARTING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 06:12.689 --> 06:14.528 >> WHICH ONES? 06:14.539 --> 06:16.949 >> SO TOTAL CARBON EMISSIONINGSS 06:16.984 --> 06:18.378 SOME FROM FOSSIL FUEL, 06:18.389 --> 06:19.258 DEFORESTATION, THE OPPOSITE 06:19.259 --> 06:20.994 DIRECTION, THE NET EFFECT OF 06:21.005 --> 06:22.921 CHANGES IN LAND USE, AND FOSSIL 06:22.956 --> 06:24.397 FUEL BURNING IS A SMALL 06:24.408 --> 06:26.752 DECREASE, WHICH MEANS POLICIES 06:26.786 --> 06:28.352 ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. 06:28.363 --> 06:29.062 TAST 06:29.073 --> 06:30.500 THAT’S THE GOOD NEWS. 06:30.535 --> 06:32.797 >> IF WE DO HAVE A POLICY, WE 06:32.798 --> 06:33.567 CAN CHANGE THINGS, ELECTRIC 06:33.568 --> 06:34.014 CARS. 06:34.025 --> 06:35.764 >> SO ELECTRIC CARS, EVERYBODY, 06:35.775 --> 06:37.553 ARE NOT A PANACEA, BUT WE HAVE 06:37.564 --> 06:39.141 BUILT ALL OF THESE ROADS. 06:39.152 --> 06:41.080 MY GOODNESS HAVE WE BUILT ROADS 06:41.081 --> 06:43.892 TO THE POINT WE’RE ABOUT 1% OF 06:43.903 --> 06:45.404 NORTH AMERICA IS PAVED. 06:45.438 --> 06:47.182 AND SO LET’S USE THEM. 06:47.193 --> 06:48.695 THE ELECTRIC CAR IS NOMINALLY AT 06:48.729 --> 06:50.983 LEAST FOUR TIMES AS EFFICIENT AS 06:50.994 --> 06:52.695 A GAS POWERED CAR. 06:52.696 --> 06:54.727 AND IN MANY CASES, FIVE TIMES AS 06:54.761 --> 06:57.169 EFFICIENT, AND THEN, WHEN YOU 06:57.180 --> 06:58.719 DRIVE IT AROUND, YOU’RE NOT 06:58.720 --> 07:01.447 SPREADING THE POLLUTION OUT ALL 07:01.458 --> 07:03.569 OVER THE CITY, IT’S BEING 07:03.580 --> 07:05.513 CONCENTRATED SOMEPLACE, AND IF 07:05.547 --> 07:07.660 THAT PLACE HAPPENS TO BE A 07:07.671 --> 07:10.523 FOSSIL FUEL OF A FUELED POWER 07:10.534 --> 07:12.428 PLANT, YOU CAN FILTER OR BAG THE 07:12.463 --> 07:13.683 PARTICULATES, THE STUFF THAT 07:13.694 --> 07:15.742 COMES OUT, AND THEN ONE DAY, WE 07:15.753 --> 07:17.058 WILL PHASE THOSE OUTS. 07:17.093 --> 07:19.197 DON’T CLOSE ANY EXISTING NUCLEAR 07:19.208 --> 07:22.035 POWER PLANTS, WE’LL GET TO THAT. 07:22.036 --> 07:24.753 BUT RIGHT NOW, RENEWABLES ARE 07:24.787 --> 07:26.699 COMING ON SO STRONGLY, SO FAST 07:26.710 --> 07:29.038 THAT INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS ARE 07:29.039 --> 07:30.178 GOING DOWN. 07:30.213 --> 07:33.855 >> YOU HAVE A FEW SECONDS, 07:33.866 --> 07:35.822 UNLESS YOU WANT TO PISS OFF 07:35.833 --> 07:36.337 NICOLLE WALLACE.