geographic currently teaches at paul smith college in new york as a researcher at maine's climate change institute or bring to the table an interesting new perspective on climate change and the future of our planet he's also the author of a new book entitled deep future the next one hundred thousand years of life on earth i'm pleased to welcome from our studios in new york dr kurt spader dr sevier welcome. dr stater can you hear me. dr staker is apparently not here. ok. we'll be right back with dr staters stick around. let's not forget that we had an apartheid break. i think. one of the well. we never got the shows the safe get ready because you are free to. take charge in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new website with twenty four seventh's live streaming news tells us what to do about the ongoing financial heart unlimited high quality videos for download. and stories never mainstream news. to me so. we listen to. our team talk to. you guys welcome michel ancel on the obama show with part of our guests not to sound the topics now i want to hear a

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climate change." "scenario . taken from the massachusetts institute of technology prognosis for 2050, this is what they look like for reactors. that is the realistic growth and this is a wildly optimistic growth, and then the climate change of 04 fall. you see the colored circles. those are new countries that could acquire nuclear energy. that is not all because if you deploy light-water reactors, you will need enriched rhenium -- uranium for those reactors. those are the three scenarios. it is pretty proportional. where you put those enrichment facilities? i am in the non corp. business of this is a burning question. which countries will acquire uranium enrichment capabilities? you can either make fuel for reactors or fuel for bombs. this is purely not even speculation. let's look at the countries that currently enriched and let's see who might be one of those candidates countries to enrich. these other countries that might potentially enriched because they are for export, not just for their domestic use, china, india, japan. these are the countries that will have their reactor capacity by 2015 that is 10 or mor

those questioning the effects of climate change have been silenced myron ebell is director of energy and global warming policy for the competitive enterprise institute then there is the role of the conservative media establishment. by the nation's most watched news network folks news twenty four hours a day by pomp out pro-business for republican talking points take place two emails sent to fox stuff you like two thousand and nine the first directed all reporters to say global warming theory bites the point out of it critics have called into question well another instructor echoed the insurance industry language by using the words government run health insurance to describe the proposed health care reform government run health care may include some rationing a government health care takeover could drastically change the way you and your family were seen health care but the party also was a lot of folks who urged its legion of loyal fans to get involved it's a movement that is sweeping the nation all across the country hundreds of these protests across the country and may involve millions of people bam fox news is out in front of us we can join the t

but, for years, they were among the largest contributors to so-called climate change denier groups-- groups like the heartland institute the organizer of this 2008 convention. >> let's reiterate that human- produced greenhouse gases are not responsible for global warming. >> smith: exxon was also a principal funder of the competitive enterprise institute, the group responsible for this ad. >> now some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. imagine if they succeed. what would our lives be like then? carbon dioxide. they call it pollution. we call it life. >> smith: exxon dropped funding for the institute in 2005, but continued to support other denier groups. >> it is very painful to hear the allegation that we have somehow supported poor quality science or ignored the science on this issue. >> smith: but true, you did support groups like competitive enterprise institute, heartland institute. was it a mistake to support those groups? >> when we look at those groups over time, we make the best decision we can make at the time about whether to continue supporting them. >> smith: i'm not sure what your... wha

the scrips institute of oceanographer at,uc san diego and researcher at is tusds and serve at the climate research division director. his work is understanding climate variability and changes particularly as they apply to the pacific ocean and north america. his specific work concerns impacts of climate changes on water resources and other sectors in west europe north america and he also worked on large scale exchange of heat and water between the ocean and the atmosphere. dan is also a director of the california climate change center a center that works to improve and forecast for decision makers in the california region and i'm sure it's information we can take throughout the united states. dan recieved a bachelor of science in meterologist and oceanographer and received in 1971 from university that makes us about the same age dan, but i'm just a broken down lawyer and economists. he received a, ph.d., in ee in san diego. his speech today will focus on climate change and it's challenge to our water supply. please welcome doctor dan cohan. >> thank you susan, well, it's a privilege to be here. i'm really impressed with the gathering that you've all assembled here in and t

journal of climate change, i think, last year that looked that range of literature out there and the issues addressed and regions and topics and so on. we actually have on-line that institute this bibliography and you can do searchs by author, subject, reen on, whatever. there's the url. i stuck in the word reservoir and it turns out there's 60 some odd articles on this. so this is not new scientific subject. i'll talk about four things. what should be done. there have been proposals for decades of what water managers should do both generally and specifically. i'm going to talk about what has been done and argue that actually, very little has been done. there has been a handful where things have been taken to improve our situation, but not many. i'm going to talk a little about what has not been done. there again there are far more examples we've done major things in water area but ignored climate change. and what shouldn't be done. there are things we should not do given our understanding of climate change and water resources. i can argue recently climate change is argued as a reason to justify something, either justifying not doing something or taking an action that we p

institutions. in order to promote a just people know make world order. we shared our spectator. for the seventeenth conference of parties of the un framework convention on climate change which south africa is hosting i did the and all of the. south africa ones to ensure a legally binding climate change agreement that will govern the world's that is prone to the increasingly visibly effects of climate change. ladies and gentlemen. we look forward to collaborating with the with the greeks problems. to deploy cooperation to benefit our respective peoples but also in the interests of ensuring a more equitable and better world for i thank you president. i hear from thank you president zuma a joint press conference now concludes thank you status thank you all for coming. but with bringing you live news conference from the brits summit taking place in china the leaders of brazil russia india china and south africa addressing the forum highlighted the importance of cooperation and also outlined steps towards further cooperation in areas of concern you can follow this in our website r.t. the comments rodney of course will bring you more updates on the summit taking place in ch

national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the state ask that the court sess liability and assign a new common law reality in climate change and by applying a general standard of reasonableness to determine for each defendant, what if any, its share in green house gas emissions ought to be. that would require the courts not to enforce policy choices placed into law by the other branches but to make those choices themselves. and the federal common law shouldn't be expanded and that the case have different points and have the same basic powers of principles that accomplish that the case ought to be dismissed. >> they do all flow from the same basic argument. and i'm concerned why you think we should focus on prudential standing basically which cuts off our jurisdiction at our own whim as opposed to dealing with this on the merits. in other words, you say this is too generalized for the court to address. >> mr. chief justice our argument hasn't been prudential standing government. our principle argument on standing has been article three standing. and we actually believe that the court could resolve this case and address the

have certain challenges like energy and climate change that no one nation can solve, but we are going to have to solve together. we do not yet have all the institutions in place in order to do that. what makes me incredibly optimistic, and that is like being here at facebook is so exciting for me, is that every juncture in our history, whenever we have faced challenges like this, whether it be the shift from the agricultural agent to the industrial age or whether it was facing the challenges of the cold war or try to figure out how we make this country more fair and more inclusive -- at every juncture we have always been able to do that. we have been able to change it and get ahead of the curve. that is true today as well. you guys are at the cutting edge of what is happening. i am going to be interested in talking to you about why this debate we are having a around debt and the deficit is so important. it will help determine whether we can invest in our future in basic research and infrastructure that will allow us to compete in the 21st century. i am also am going to want to share ideas with you about how we can make our democracy work better and o

got certain challenges like energy and climate change that no one nation can solve but we're going to have to solve together. and we don't yet have all the institutions that are in place in order to do that. but what makes me incredibly optimistic -- and that's why being here at facebook is so exciting for me -- is that at every juncture in our history, whenever we face challenges like this, whether it's been the shift from a agricultural age to a industrial age, or whether it was facing the challenges of the cold war, or trying to figure out how we make this country more fair and more inclusive, at every juncture we've always been able to adapt. we've been able to change and we've been able to get ahead of the curve. and that's true today as well, and you guys are at the cutting edge of what's happening. and so i'm going to be interested in talking to all of you about why this debate that we're having around debt and our deficits is so important, because it's going to help determine whether we can invest in our future and basic research and innovation and infrastructure that will allow us to compete in the 21st century and still preserve a safety ne

climate change that no one nation can solve. but we're going to have to solve together. and we don't yet have all the institutions that are in place in order to do that. but what makes me incredibly optimistic and that's why being here at facebook is so exciting for me is that at every juncture in our history, whenever we've faced challenges like this, whether it's been the shift from an agricultural age to an industrial age or whether it was facing the challenges of the cold war or trying to figure out how we make this country more fair and more inclusive. at every juncture we've always been able to adapt. we've been able to change and been able to get ahead of the curve. and that's true today as well. and you guys are at the cutting edge of what's happening. and so i'm going to be interested in talking to all of you about why this debate that we're having around debt and our deficits is so important. because it's going to help determine whether we can invest in our future and basic infrastructure and innovation to compete in the 21st century and still preserve a safety net for the most vulnerable among us. but

climate change that no one nation can solve. but we're going to have to solve together. and we don't yet have all of the institutionst are in place in order to do that. but what makes me incredibly optimistic, and that's why being here at facebook is so exciting for me, is that at every juncture in our history, whenever we've faced challenges like this, whether it's been the shift from an agriculture age to an industrial age, or whether it was facing the challenges of the cold war, or trying to figure out how we make this country more fair and more inclusive. at every juncture, we've always been able to adapt, we've been able to change, and we've been able to get ahead of the curve. that's true today as well. you guys are at the cutting edge of what's happening. and so i'm going to be interested in talking to all of you about why the debate that we're having around debt and our deficits is so important because it's going to help determine whether we can invest in our future and basic research and innovation and infrastructure that allow us to compete in the 21st century and still preserve a safety net for the most v