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anyouwh we lovewouldhat we ddestroy ur housend, - [jamesturn you wanted tcelebratgoo.when iecam, the elegce and beauty onature. but i so realized there was a mo complextory goi on in t world aut the clision tween pele and nure. and felt a gat sensef urgey to beawitness that. thesevents a partf the faic d the storof our te.
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- [boy] at you aut to do we're justrying to crapeople (mufed talki) in so can g them toafety. we're justrying to crapeople - [jameswe've goa bunch of refe. (mufed talki) - mypartment floodedow. yeah, anwe need get out of here ause theater isising arnd us. in t course my care, ve seen lot of dferent kinds ofnvironmeal chang (manelling) but d ner seen so much hpening squickly. for ousandof years many peopled believed that nate was ma up fouelementaforces;
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when first srted to ok atolid wat, ice meing, turning to thecean, e monuntal chae that'sappening rit now our te, turning to thecean, arted toome alivfor me. it w a powerl experice. tycally, environmtal chans, ey're ha to see,hey're small anincremenl. anhere ithe e it was tycally, abpt, it w distinc, so ts is whe the treme icsurvey srted. - [bil james bog, jas. udience eering) - [manjames bag launch the treme ice surv by plang time pse cames athe top othe worl - [bil and jt tell brieflyhat you did. - weut out te lapse cameraand t on the bedro alongsi the glaciersnd they oot every
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- weut out te lapse cameraand t ur or evy half hr and ey've amsed on the bedro alongsi the glaciersnd they oot every million image arive of how thice hareeated as a conquence of clima change. no dying that theglaciersre. some of e wo i do is aboute dot normally get to see tse this. anbringinghat evidce ba to peop who [james] there such thing atruth. i'm trng to fi it anone way another reve it throh the imes. (lightramatic sic) ater triling) since i' staed the extreme e surveyn 2005, billio of to of glacr ice ve melteinto the ocean.
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the ra of melts steadilyncreasin and althat melwater raisesea levels worlide. incling on t shoresof my ow. - an] norfk neighbs inne commuty are wang throu the ter agai [man] th is probly whatou're goa see as y come outhe you're ting to g today. - [wom] floodi stopped the. - [wan] a affic alerfor 264. - [m] it's ring quic - [wan] a affic alerfor 264. high tidnot excted until 8: a.m., - [m] it's ring quic sot's onlyoing to t worse. - [jes] in csapeake y,
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you n havelooding on a sny. - [st on ornary day y, thtide com up and it flos . nny day ooding, i mean gfigure. ri over thlast 100ears.and a hl it's the highest on t eas. and you canee what thimpactas been. ause obvusly when that chuh was but, it's the highest on t eas. it wasn'meante what to look ke that. we saw tse waters bbling up throu storm dinsut, i me look athis, these floodsre. plts, thesare marsplants. why e there marsh plts in the midd of a paing lot? everybody the citknowsfloodsre. that durg a highater eve. like wre havinright no u don't me down hereecauloodsre. there'water onhe road.ve.
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- [jamesa lot ofhese hous inre only matter of a fto in this areae've beeworking or tee abovehe ornary higtides. and sobit by b by bit, a sh or eighth of an inch aa me, thocean isoing u the ocn is right d inour livi room. so, betwn the time tha tatthat hou was raisede. d that houseas raised, the estimate owhere the safe zone was from flooding has gone up, what's that, threcourses cinder ock, d that houseas raised, that what, aoot and half.afe u know, fe, no, t anymor safeyeah, nonot anyme. now, thas safe. thin are chaing and of urse thiintersecon stilfloods en thgh we spt 1.million llars elevatinit. those anes ovethere, that's o port fality. we're onof the lgest pos on theast coas so thas partf our economicngine ov there. but th most imrtantly,
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mostf our litary stallatis are onhe water there'naval stion norfk, 're starng to sethe earl impactof sea lel rise. - navastation rfolk the larst navy base ithl most 70 ips are home ptee ,000 plupeople ce to wk here eryday. so, it's sigficant tional dense ass. when wsee a stm coming home ptee in, a a level se, it mak those srms re signicant and ineases thpact. u kn, if seaevel was toise as iprojecte and ineases thpact. thatould be significt noimct to naonal secity. - [jam] as theceans ri evercommuniton the cst wille affect and somof th much soer than hers. (lht dramac music) - [jam] as theceans ri evercommuniton the cst
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- myame isames eskdge, (lht dramac music) - [jam] as theceans ri m the mar of taner islan come he. fit and fomost i'm a commc, fierman, cbber, oyerman. this is e actu shedng tank, d whenhe crabshed, there tan out ofhe waternd refrigered and ty get a e way cket to w york cy. my grafather w a watean, my father wa i ammy oldesson's a waterm a so thamy grandn can wo on t water a his son
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ancondi ri and thehn skinnyn. grwee a consvativeroup..e. (chuckli) wee been he for tanghundredsf years.tory and wh you looback youee that wer is th fe of taier. water anthe folkonangier, we're joed, we'rconnecte (a horn bling)) - growing up on ngier s absoluly heave as a kide had bacally free rei of the land. (a horn bling)) - almostike, i gss, ving in amusement pk as abecause ere'sally freealways sff to do. (a horn bling)) [anna] mosof the men workn the war, anit can gall thughre e evening d night.
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- [carol] chanceare, ery softrab th yove eatename from this ltle pc - [jam] i'm dendent on bringg in theounty of the csapeake y to t foodn the table, to p d now it that clege d jsame chepeake ys. that'shreateni to take tan. - abt two yes ago i got ant toook at climatehange site in esapeakeaters - ad i seleed ago i got ant taier as msite. becae i realed how de thsituatiowas ouhere. a w schools built stilts. ter in peoe's fron yard it's upo a footeep. yoll see fisswimmingaround . you'll s blue abs king the way. at's somhing thahappensaon a f.
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you'll s blue abs - th island els so uertain i'conscien of the fact thae d so unsady and fragile. the oce and that cos up, it's gng to beerrible foth. yeah, i member ts usedo all beand when i fst came here. - yeah - wesed to jt take at acro- ye, where are a the nothere's ee stumpne. on t bottom re. th was hig grou at one me, and hi enough support hom. ey had achool house, a small neral ste and ds up he playing st li. and i'm re at th time ty couldn image ath their tn wouldbe underte. - but yocan see at linenderneatthe sand of the pt sedimes th are exped. once thagets eosed,
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that what's aring the isla apart. tangier land is sand hil it very loe and at'sit's verfragile.ment now, s level has th insteadf stking theand, asou canee the wer i justearing ito piece. when youe walkin up he at theite of whe the comnity s, it cabe depreing. e gravards thaeroded and wentnto the y.s from yeah,i tually kw a guy down oth, adstonesrom the aveyard.
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- [davidwe procted e past re of lanloss and thfuture s leverise scerios. and baseon thosecenarios i esmated holong taner has leftnd my esmations where s and baseon thosecenarios i e- it's n too latner tangier savable and baseon thosecenarios buwe don'tave yearto wait. what wneed forhe govement to is to aually put a seall all e waaround tgier. - some othe islas do wan gbacally thwhole isndally nd of ried in ste, and to do th it woulbe just a ballrk estime, probay arnd 100 mlion dolrs nd- weeed the lp andnd to d need itretty quk.t
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- ngier rely is so of canary ithe coaline forofow lyingities alg aot thamericanoastline yoknow, a large ty, like s norfolk or miami, - ngier rely is so of canary ithe coaline fomanhatn, they n come uot thamericanoastline withhe fundi necessa to proct themsves, 're probly gna tha to relote. so, 's gonnae a x of procting
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to proct themsves, we're goa have t ideci as a pele, how 're gonnhandle ts siation beuse we aa societdo not he theresourceto pn how, were gonnaave ts sia make so choices - 's easy r people that d', how, were gonnaave ts ll why d't you rocate? orou know,hy don'tou try find-- g- but can't sl non ll why d't you rocate? toet moneyo reloca. i meanwho's, yh, exact-- - we'd he to sta l over fm scratc and wee a townf waterm. who's nna take ldiard wateen.n? aging warmen. yeah. yeah. d the older ople this isnd.en. - whenalk on the ach it'sike i'm taki a trip my past but i'also walng into my g, 'cause wre one srm awayfrom bec.
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ight dratic musi - amesthe humaenterpri is bed on a lief at we mo or less are ab tot the fure holdsor us d for r childr. suers wille hot, winters ll be co. the labut whenhose bas ocean expeations cnge it thrs everytng in disarra how out everody just sit de the labut whenhose bas ocean expeations cnge do this xt oneo that's cing in he.
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here igoes. do this xt oneo thaton two, the.e. (lig dramatic musi [man] ye. (wan laughg) - [m] listeno him. en the cldren inhe water get ts we he a natul actor re. d 70s an80s, theater vel is gng to beeally, ally difrent thait is no thworld is changg and th worlthat thewill knoin the ne future going tbe a ofoundlyifferentorld
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than t world tt you d i knowight now smile oro? - [jamesmove youhead stight up d down, tuckour chin down aittle . smile oro? okay, ay with . we don have r a ntury orwo centues. theschging bodary contions ar happeng right w. we're ving in the ddle of at. a photoapher, i want treveal we're ving in e confli between pele an. the ddle of at. ana lot ofhat terest gs back twhen i was little b pying theoal ning towns by my andparen house. i coullook arod me and see thce
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yein - atrick] ay, so thnow i ne you guyite. to walk ay from . yei[james] i teameup thwith friend mine.e. - [patck] that fine. - [jamesto send camera up abo the atmphere.- [patri] k. - and exrience h thinhe air aually is two, thr, go. whoa, ok at th. (lig dramatimusic) it toise to wt'ss forsicallthe edge of t breathae atsphere a35,000 ft. it toise to wt'ss forshow gh is ite it's 61,0 feet. - wow.
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just few mines later it wa, forshow gh is ite starg out in the ackness space. - [prick] ,000 fee there's e parache. - [jes] oh, where'the ca? - atrick] at's amang. - cara's aren perfect coition. look athat, coinental vi. fantasc. in ls thanalf an hr look athat, coinental vi. myalloon h floated up into at was sentialloutespace. i fod it incdible th for the rst timen my lifn.
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i undetood howinite d puffled tking)s. matt, w do younow wee at theight spo this inot a maed - att] i w countinone ssissipp two misssippi. - oh, go this inot a maed - when i ep out iould ss for theong ri here?. let'see. yeah, threticall (jam chuckli) - lookt this. weetof all the ges in th thskair d the paiculatlow inhe air a how thatffects t color of this bstance th we're bathi. you can'sethe air,ut wetill havan increbly intimate ratiohip witht. you ll your ngs withir mo than 20,000 tes a d. so, can't aid thfact thawhatev put intthe air, we puto o.
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- [j- wee sure gting aie yo t of carn monoxi. - essica] d - wee been ung thisvan for t [james] credible. ofolatile ganic compoundwith abo a milliodollars of cusm inrumentatn in theack. - wee been ung thisvan for t [james] credible. we're ally intested in vols cause they contrute tolimate cnge, ozonformatio in t atmosphe and th can bece harml to hum health. - sohe numbe we're sing and the seen in harmere arcominglth. t of thiinlet up here? - are ming fm this rring inlehere forll ofhe instrents. - [jam] let's e wh sort ofo2 add to t atmosphe. - sowe got eanol. wh sort ofo2 th's a comn one. -ethanois foundn alcoho but 's also und in st normarespiratn.
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it only e o'cloc in t afterno-- - i kn - w don(lht musicous. - [jessi] so we' in a go spotso we'llee if weee ything fm this wl d here which was - [jam] whoa, ere's etnol. - en we lo at sours of llution er the lt few -ana large ike in mhane.e ye see thaoilall d gas exoration, e on theise andcontribu to . also bause popation grth weave a lomore traic now. we have lot more peoplesin. - [jes] an o truck r pollutn control on it. - a lae spike toluene - man, lk at tt.uck r po- yeah.ontrol on it. - [jam] my god, 's way, way of. [gabrie] so the.uck r pollants g release it. into t atmosphe and ntributeto a cmate chae and thenn the presencef sunsne,
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the x and thvocs ret in thetmospher anform grod level one. - [m] front nge stillnder an ozonection alt until 4: p.m. torrow. - [wom] the be adce: st inside. anthe expore to oze an rticle pluti can leaw. toncreasedsthma atcks, itan lead the infmmatn of theining of our lgs, can incase the sk of hrt attacand even leadt. of theining of our lgs, - u know wn you dre inhat vapast aelli and you e the chical comi out andou go, okaythat's tt one place anthen we t into the earer aipast where at spikes. thers 40,000 of thosethingse you well, nwait a mute, and yodot know ich onesre leaki. and th there's hundre of thouns ofells allcross thcountry.
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and en therere all t d there'all tailpe jet ailanesy n, includg the on i fly i you , my godit's jus likeit's ovehelming. (lig dramatimusic) - [gabrie] we yhave sigficantlyjaltereour e likeit's ovehelming. and have toeal andwi the effts of itit, - okay guy aryou guyseady brush yr teeth? let's gocome on. peaking reign lauage) let's(p sizzlin. - i need ttake my xapro. - okay, need youo take yr medici guy ready? let's .
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slow. slowerplease. slow. good jobready? go job. - sl, yore going too fa,. my oer son ren stted deveping asta. after weoved to th part w go job. my dghter, ovia, we d totart hern medicaons at t agef one anleonardo was ji my dghter, ovia, we d totart hern medicaons okaygood job nogo rin your moh alfour of have asma. so, wee indooreople. we're t outdoopeople. thpollutiohere in e neigorhood ipretty ereme, and you ow, we have theefinery
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