d. 70642 harbor a planet like earth? after living for decades in the sign tick wilderness the search for extra terrestrial intelligence is no longer being shunned as a pseudoscience. what is it that has suddenly kindled the interest of nasa and the u.s. congress in the search for intelligent life beyond earth? we'll ask dr. christopher chyba of the seti institute. chyba of the seti institute. (theme song playing.) if. for such a small word it packs a wallop. if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. >> dr. christopher chyba, welcome. >> thank you. >> tell us about the seti institute. what is it? >> it is a private nonprofit research organization tha

thus we have volcanoes and eruptions and techatologyic plates and so forth. >> on earth. >> the earth is a living planet. it's in a living universe. a universe is constantly changing, evolving, a dynamic universe. >> where did it come from? >> we don't know. we have theories. >> it's fine snit. >> the part we can see is absolutely finite and we know how big it is. >> but it's constantly evolving which makes it sound like it's in if i nit. then you're in theeology. >> the part we can see is finite. what is beyond we don't know. we can make theories about it >>> on that matter of religion, you say here in your book, we must absorb the immense realization is there an over arching truth encompassing all of our religons. we are at the center of a new universe. we got into that somewhat but are we equipped for that set snup. >> we are in it. whether we are equipped or not and the fact of the matter is we now understand this enough and we tried to make it clear enough in the book, every religion explains where people came from. how the world originated and so forth but basically they use the

the moon and the earth. the moon does not have an atmosphere so it has no trappings of gases like methane and co2, and so forth which are the reason global warming is happening. the moon has an average temperature that's about 33 celsius less than earths on average. so the greenhouse effect is a natural phenomena. the greenhouse effect your used to hearing about on the news by president bush and all those other experts is the incremented effect well we've added about a third to the sea level and as well as others but if you want to question the viability of the physics, here's a great example. now, this is looking forward. these are these so called, emissions scenarios. you heard of the intricate climate on government changes which will announce it's first reports for the global assessment coming out this summer and spring and in order to conduct those experiments they have to make assumptions about the future. what sort of loading of the atmosphere we'll see in terms of greenhouse gases and here's a swarm o

as long as the earth is at a radiated balance it's going to rise and we have 70 meters of it. so it is a long-term problem. maybe i should stop i have the feeling i've worn out my welcome. so thank you. [applause]utes >> we're about to embark on our last panel of the afternoon entitled strategies and current state of knowledge but it's also i believe, going to provide just some different perspectives and some different ideas which is always extremely helpful, and that's why we're here today to get those exchange

it's our employees who are responsible for the continuing evolution of our earth friendly efforts. and i need to give a special shoutout today to our facilities and engineering teams for taking us through the rigorous, meticulous, and at times painstaking detail and documentation that was necessary to earn green seal certification. without them, we couldn't be announcing this today. so as mike said, as a symbol of kempton's commitment to environmental stability, today we're inviting our public to come in and relinquish a standard lightbulb, and exchange, we'll replace with it a new energy-efficient lightbulb, on us. that's going on right now between noon and 2:00 at all 10 of our san francisco kempton hoe tells. that include the sir francis drake, the prescott hotel, the serano, the monaco, and the tuscan inn. to reward people for doing this, we're making a nice offer available from our restaurants in the city as well. little cards right there. pick one up. with that, i'd like to thank car are of kara's cupcakes who's helping us celebrate today by taking her caravan around to all o

know, kempton has a very long history as a leader and a pioneer in the hospitality industry for our earth care program and practices. really started back years ago when bill kempton in his first hotel here in san francisco nearly 30 years ago. and since that time over the last 30 years, we've been able to add a lot of hotels to our system. we now have 10 hotels here in san francisco. actually one in coopertino. 54 fine dining restaurants. during that time, since our first hotel, we've been amassing high-impact, non-intrusive, eco-friendly operational business practices, to reduce energy and waste consumption in our hotels, and we do things that include trying to find the smartest and best price to use that have the least impact on the environment. we've been a very big supporter of the trust republic land and the nature conservancy as well. and we've done all this without sacrificing the care and comfort that's so important to all our customers. and now we incorporate more than 100 ecofriendly business practices every day at every one of our hotels. and over time, that's added up to a ver

tremendous amount of activity on the saw and that affects the rush of particles from the sun to the earth and that changes the on a sphere that also then changes they search patterns of the more is known as the jet stream that caused the shifting of the weather patterns so that. sort of wind in western russia. terminated and instead we got northwesterly flow of massive thunderstorms and the cooling of the sun toward the pakistan floods also indeed substantially some people say that this extreme heat wave that we've seen and rust and also in other parts of europe coupled with the pakistani floods are evidence of global warming say well they would say that when you see the systems at the facts it was actually been very cold in southern and severe or northern russia has been cold and these things have happened before in particular both the pakistan floods and the west russian heat wave happened one hundred and thirty two years ago all there about which is the situation in the earth magnetic lunar soil. so it's not surprising it happened and it more it indeed happened next year we've got to g

it's about the size of earth. some scientists say when the solar activity intensifies in late 20 12s and 2013, the effects on earth could be big. it's called the solar maximum. >> a much stronger ejection or solar flare could cause things like a blackout, radio communications could go down. it could disrupt some satellites. it could actually cause some biological damage to astronauts. >> reporter: but not at they se these days. >> what did you think of what you saw? >> it was kind of cool? >> kind of cool. do you believe that little spec you saw was the size of the earth? >> not really. >> you don't believe it? >> very small. >> reporter: scientists aren't exactly sure what is going to happen in the next few years but some are predicting the most intense solar maximum in more than half a century and that could cause real problems on earth. in oakland, jim vargas, channel 2 news. >>> apparently, this time the rumors are really, really true. legendary quarterback brett farve will reportedly hang up his cletes after

marker moved here to namibia which has the largest cheetah population on earth.then, her one-woman operation has exploded. her foundation now employs scores of people who study cheetahs in the labs, in the field, and on this huge reserve. [ cheetah growling ] >> come on, girls. >> reporter: when you're keeping the fastest land mammal on earth in captivity, you need to provide the opportunity to stretch the legs a bit. these cheetahs are chasing our truck, which they know is filled with fresh donkey meat. after a suitable workout, lunch. >> dan, you can take that. >> reporter: what is this we're feeding? >> donkey or -- >> reporter: all right, here's some donkey. whoa. boom. here you go. you're welcome. and this is how they're exercising the baby cheetahs today. letting them chase a rag attached to a pulley. >> she's very fast. >> reporter: they can reach speeds up to 80 miles an hour. >> see, we keep them exercised because they're in captivity and they can't run after their own antelope. after running, they have to breathe out for a few minutes. just like the big

second thing we do is help people on earth. nasa got the data and got the understanding that enables us to begin to deal with climate change and global warming. in addition the first a in nasa stands for arrow nonics. we need to make carbon neutral and carbon free airplanes. huge new industry. the third thing and where all of the controversy is our human space flight program. that's at a really interesting point. we're on the verge of settling the solar system. that's incredibly exciting. there's a lot of argument about how to do that. one approach was to rebuild "apollo." it turned out to be too expen expensi expensive. we have to invent a new way to do it. one of the key things about the new way is we're not going to go to just one destination. we'll go to the moon and asteroids and to mars. that's the program that president obama has proposed and although there's a lot of controversy, we think we'll move forward on that and that's good for ames. >> if i'm a young college graduate, you can say to me, you will get to work on t

. >> a ne controversy reinvolving around google earth.reasely using the mapping service to crack down on illegal activities. privacy advocates fearing big brother are crying foul. >> just inland from the hamptons is riverhead, n york. if you zoom in on the aerial map, you might se a swimming pool or too and that's exactly what the building inspector noticed. using googl earth, he found 250 unpermitted pools and was able to clect $75,000 in fines, all from homeowners who never filled out the proper paperwork. >> an effort to make backyard pools fer on long isla is drawing criticism this morning. >> this is like a 1984 nightmare. >> while this use has gotten most attention, it has been used elsewhere. in florida police looked for the owner of an illegally dumped boat by searching nearby serenas with google earth. here they found a suspected marijuana field. >> google ha become the eye in the sky. it's very useful for us when we're looking down at the earth and maybe getting directions or trying to imagine what a far off place looks like. >>

return one of them, any one of them, to the earth and look. such foolish skipping, such telling of bad jokes, such feasting. even a cucumber, even a single anise seed, feasting. and, last poem, foolish of me and yet optimism. the title is only optimism. the other part was a preface. more and more, i have come to admire resilience, not the simple resistance of a pillow whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. a blind intelligence, true, but out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs, all this resinous, unretractable, earth. the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anan

but much of it is deflected by the earth's magnetic field. the closer to the poles someone is, the bigger the show of the lights. >> you may be able to see the northern lights from areas you may not be able to see the northern lights from. it's possible you may be able to see the northern lights from parts of california. >> reporter: astronomers were showing people the sun today with heavy filters. it's about the size of earth, and some scientists say that when the solar activity intensifies in late 2012 and 2013, the effects on earth would be big. >> a mass solar ejection could cause a black out, radio communications could be done. >> what do you think of what you saw here? >> it was kind of cool. >> kind of cool. >> did you believe that little speck you saw was the size of the earth. >> not really. >> you don't believe it? >> it's very small. >> reporter: scientists say they are not sure exactly what will happen in the next few years but some are predicting the most intense solar maximum in more than 50 years. that could well cause us some

earth-type plants are related the holy grail. we want to know if it is a freak or a common occurrence. >> the discovery was made by instruments in chile. telescopes are now powerful enough to detect planets and or the -- that orbit around other stars. others have been too hot or cold to support life, but astronomers expect to find many more plants the size of our own earth. >> the hope is one of these might be just enough difference to be able to support life. if that is the case, there is a chance we are not alone in the universe. >> stay with us if you can. still to come, why one of the biggest names in american sport wants to represent britain and the zero live -- in the olympics. the highest point of europe and one of the iconic images, but behind the mountains lies awake experts fear could flood the valley below, endangering the lives of the people who live there. they are planning to drain it. >> mont blanc thtowers above sea level. it over showered -- overshadows the village, but between the summit and the valley floor is

as long as the earth is at a radiated balance it's going to rise and we have 70 meters of it. so it is a long-term problem. maybe i should stop i have the feeling i've worn out my welcome. so thank you. [applause]utes >> we're about to embark on our last panel of the afternoon entitled strategies and current state of knowledge but it's also i believe, going to provide just some different perspectives and some different ideas which is always extremely helpful, and that's why we're here today to get those exchange of ideas and debates going and to moderate our panel today is jeff. jeff is the general manager for the metropolitan water district of southern california as we refer to it's a, the met. it's the states largest provider of drinking water and cooperative of 16 cities and 18 million people in 6 counties. prior to his appointment is general manager, just a pointed. he was general council to the water district and prior to that, he represented metropolitan issues including colorado river issues and a number of issues regarding water storage programs. jeff, it's our honor h

on this piece of the first earth most sure can pinsky switzer children close knit hold bill to let me know it's going to. iran's bush era power plant is fueled up with the help of russian engineers and said to be fully operational within a month it will be run out of the strict supervision of the un watchdog. russian security forces kill a top militant believed to have been behind the suicide bomb attacks on the moscow metro in march. new york says farewell to the iconic cabs that have graced its streets for decades the competition is now underway in the big apple to find a more fuel efficient successor. and artie's close travels to one of russia's northern outposts on the coast of the white sea to meet the locals who depend on the region's natural resources for their lives and their livelihood. seven am in moscow. thanks for joining us here on r t our top story the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on in iran the southern city of new share the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the u.n. atomic watchdog and that internationa

two earth quaiks from now we'll have an ep center up here. it's pretty much our time in th next 20 years. if you actually talk to geologists, they're front loading it. they may say it's a virtual certainty in 20 years, but they're saying it's not five percent a year, 20 years into a hundred percent. it's 10 percent a year for the first ten years. it's so front loaded. we're overdue. >> let's stipulate to the fact. an earthquake is going to happe in the relative near future, ou lifetime near future. although maybe i'll be retired by then. >> we'll drag you out of retirement. >> okay. let's look at strans itself. we have a seismic matter map an it's -- it has been formally adopted by the state and the city uses this map. it shows us certain areas of th city as having high probability of liqii faction or soil stability. typically, you have the various kind of soil failures you might have, buildings can settle, spreading where the soil spread out into the bay, say, for example. you have amplified ground motion when the soil is wet or when they're

most of the carbon that we buy from across the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually it may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to be with her as carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventeen early eighteen hundreds he winds begin to and extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal oil natural gas even in the absence of humans over some time period it would be uplifted and subject to erosion and removal might return to the last year but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to go out with large machines to deliver a large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is burned and it would be useful generation of energy we have larger quitman it was introduced on surface mines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been unmanageable the use of dragline styli all mining scenes that were an economic demand and even physically imp

to go out with large machines to deliver a large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is burned and it would be useful generation of energy we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface mines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been an manapul use of dragline stuff like mining scenes that were an economic. and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said to them bring in brad lamm they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you can get a piece we're putting like that on the narrow ridges of southern appalachia and and they were determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it hands. the command was clear. things to. listen to. digital be. legal. some. easy ways. to sleazy useful. data. and some sleet lose. weight think these little children i'm sorry little children will be protected this time from treatment or your family can carry

most of the carbon that we mine from across the the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually it may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventeen early eighteen hundreds hemans began to ma and extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal oil natural gas even in the absence of humans over some time period it would be uplifted and subject to erosion and removeable and might return to the atmosphere but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to go out with large machines to deliver a large quantities of this material to the surface of the.

our ancestors participated in ceremonies and were living with the earth. as a resident of the area, we were taught that our existence as a people ceased after secularization. it is not taught that we are and -- we continue to live. there is a denial of our existence. i am asking if you can help us and work with us to guide society as a whole to recognize us as a people. our ancestors have participated in ceremonies and then within the city limits of in san francisco. we are asking to recognize these things and to allow us to continue to participate in these ceremonies. you know that our future generations can continue to participate in the ceremonies. that is what we're asking for here, for help. our tribe as a city entity can work together to. recognition for our people. we can work on being a part of this society and being a part of the way of life in which we live. >> i am here to let you all know that we have been participating in ceremonies since before my time. to let you guys buying no -- guys know that you can work with us and to have respect for o

is the number one economy and then we are told that the richest nation on earth however if you actually look at the ground the cities the towns you see absolute poverty bombed out cities detroit total wreck los angeles homeless people camped out all over the place the exact opposite is in china they always try to pretend that there is they're smaller than they are where we're you know we're a small economy are only making two thousand dollars a year per person and yet you see these gleaming cities of beijing and shanghai gwangju and all these big cities bursting up all over the place that look really rich and high tech trains so this takes me to this next headline china's rich have one point one trillion in hidden income oh this is like a sequel hidden absent scratching g.d.p. growth. well in fact china's household hide as much as nine point three trillion yuan which is one point four trillion of income that is not reported in official figures this is eighty percent of it is a crude to the very wealthiest of the chinese so in fact also their wealth and income gap could be a lot bigger t

is the lunar eclipse or call which means the moon and so on the earth are all going to be in about the same place multiples of nineteen years so you're saying they're going to hundred. years this could happen again in do but. we had a series of three very works almost all of which corresponded to three very works on this one hundred thirty two years previously so it could be we're going to have a series of these things in russia and pakistan one of the main effects of this that we've seen in russia is that. wildfires are breaking out all over the place including underground in peat bogs what's the effect on the environment or something like that well. the first thing to understand about it it makes the air war so wallish people are saying well this is a whole you actually have to take off the effect of the four if you stand near a four it's warm those ash particles in the air were created at four thousand degrees centigrade haters gone out of them into the so there's that extra he tied it so to describe this is hottest over or something is it is just nonsense i mean you have to look ba

year cutting off the world supply effectively because china produces ninety seven percent of rare earth minerals that are used in a wide range of high tech products including precision guided weapons so china not only do they have ninety seven percent of these rare earths that are part of not only defense industry but also those fanciful products over there an apple computer and other gadgets that people love to buy but china of course is america's biggest creditor now unlike world war two when america was the world's biggest creditor and now during world war three effectively america is the world's biggest debtor now who thing's going to win this war between the world's biggest creditor and the world's biggest debtor i wonder now of course the reason why the us empire is collapsing is the reason why many empires have glass and that's afghanistan and why are they in afghanistan and iraq well according to the architects of those invasions dick cheney and donald rumsfeld their policy for a new american century document that they wrote pretty two thousand was exactly this they said we need

the earth from advantage of people and military hardware. the most heavily reinforced here in. the battle of corps. and lasted forty nine days one of them bloodiest battles and the turning point a move to push the burning bulge on our. line. would be soon which brightened a few. songs from finest impressions. from stunts on t.v. come. come come up. and. come.