within the biosphere. necessary for the millions of species including mass. and what happened was that we didn't just create having the right atmosphere in the right amount of freshwater and so on in temperature regimes and so on. there were always there. wiffleball does the species over particularly the last 6 million years to be exquisitely adapted to what is in that biosphere. and as we wipe out the biosphere, we are taking it on ourselves to be super engineering in the future, to handle a lever that pushes the keys and take all the measurements to keep up is maintained on a mannequin by the biosphere previously. we have to maintain it now ourselves amidst expenditures of energy. that is a crazy way to go. that is why we should have as part of the overall environment movement not just attention to climate change and pollution and so on. it should be devoted to the living environment because if i might quote myself again. [laughter] i have a little role and it goes like this. if you save the living envir

. >> gloria tavera has been in charge of the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in michoacan, mexico for years. but even so, the annual arrival of millions of butterflies still astonishes her. they have a journey of over 4000 kilometers behind them. >> the migration spans three countries -- canada, the u.s. and mexico. the monarch butterfly is the only insect to cover such a vast distance in such a short space of time. it raises many questions. how is it they always come to the same place, although they've never been there before? they're the offspring of the offspring of the butterflies that laid their eggs in spring. that's what's so extraordinary about the phenomenon. no butterfly ever does the journey twice. >> the monarch butterflies are obviously beautiful, but do they actually matter to the ecosystem? they certainly do. a pilot project sponsored by germany and organized by the international climate initiative is designed to back up their relevance with statistics. >> the monarch butterfly is a symbol. for locals, it's a natural jewel. but it also plays a role in the trees' abs

to develop a sampling network that will allow us to kind of keep our finger on the pulse of the biosphere continuously. so something that's sustainable and that we can use to monitor net carbon dioxide emissions for many years. narrator: taken together the programs at noaa's global monitoring division have revealed not only how quickly greenhouse gases are rising in the atmosphere, but are also providing a better understanding of sinks andources in the cbon cycle. this information, in turn, will allow us to more accurately predict earth's future climate. dr. tans: when you're talking about incrsing greenhouse gases, you're talking clite change. see, the's one thing that is pretty certain. the biggest contributor to the rise in carbon dioxide is the emissions caused by burning coal and gas and oil. that's the biggest factor. it's bigger than natural processes that counteract these emissions a little bit. so if you can get an understanding of what the natural system -- what the earth itself is doing with this excess of gases that we've caused, we can actually make better prognoses of what f

are you surprised it had not made its way to the biosphere that governor jindal is in?talking about muslim no-go zones. after the oklahoma city bombs, emerson was saying we should be looking for arab muslim men when it was a white christian man timothy mcveigh who had done the bombing. i'm not surprised he has latched onto it stupidly. >> fox issued an apology. bobby jindal yesterday and then today was asked about no-go zones. i did say so-called no-go zones and i think the radical left wants to pretend this problem is not here. somehow this is all the fault of the radical left. >> i think governor jindal is protesting a bit too much. he might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin as he runs for a presidential bid. i'm pretty sure that governor jindal will come to its senses in the next couple of days. >> we talk about people coming to their senses. the anti-islam is a very pronounced sentiment in the united states. america, it feels like radical islam is at war with the west and all of its principles. as a result some states all but 16, have considered pass

the degraded condition of our biosphere screams out we redouble our aspects in politics and policy. we must be part of a movement that puts a stop to politicians' disregard for science on matters of great importance like energy policy and human welfare in general. i know and you probably do too that we're imagining a massive mission to affect this great transition. massive missions always require a mastery of politics. there's no other way to marshal the wreck zit resources. we could more fully master politics, we could more fully ensure a certain transition if more of us showed up to serve in elected office. you may agree that the world is run by those who show up. but you're not the least bit inclined to show up in show in the irrational world of politics. i found that politics is not all that irrational. i have served in the montana legislature for a decade. i sit in the senate. it's an irrational world. it's defined by a bunch of knuckleheads, but they're not irrational. more importantly i have come to believe that at its core our political system favors folks like us. it favors