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World Bank President on Urgency of Climate Change IssuesThursday on the NewsHour, Kim speaks with Jeffrey Brown about a new initiative to address extreme poverty. In an extended conversation, Kim also addressed the urgency of climate change . He says they must increase financial resources for sustainable energy, use innovative agriculture to put carbon ...
You're making a case that climate change the climate change issues of poverty issue. Explain you know them every time I mean the G-20 meetings. And asked about things like what -- the downside risks in the economy going forward. And I make the case every single time that that climate change is that an issue for our grandchildren it's an issue today. If we aren't -- any hope. Of keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius the peak here of carbon emissions -- between sixteen so that challenges right in front of us today. If you go to some of the island countries president of the Philippines. President Aquino was and it was a -- to an economic forum saying if any if you doubt the reality of climate change today. Please come to the Philippines so give me give me a specific example of an intervention now that the World Bankyou religiously three things in which were directly involved in issues around climate change energy issue. We've got to work on him in in an increasing. Access to finance for sustainable energies to doing that right now. Our own sustainable energy portfolios more than doubled over the last five years. Agriculture you know of agriculture's the only thing they can actually take carbon from the air and put it back into the ground. And there are ways of organizing agriculture that climate Smart. We can be claimed degraded lands we can use varieties. Of wheat for example they have deeper routes so that not -
Jonathan Foley On Climate Change and the Future of FarmingJon Foley with the University of Minnesota talks about how climate change will change how much food we can produce on the planet.
Well we're seeing the effects of climate change hitting agricultural ready Tom -- is because it's getting harder in the summer times and some places causing kind of heat stress on plants. Other times -- may be benefiting agricultural little bit because a growing seasons are getting longer and -- northern climate so them someplace might actually see some benefits. But the most this is what we're saying is moisture -- -- not enough rain to much of operation and so there's more droughts in some parts the world. So this whole mixed bag of heat and drought in May be too much rain -- a little bit more warmth. Is playing out in different ways all over the planet. But the overall situation is one that climate change on net scenes because in a reduction and how much food we have available. If this is how the yields of the world's food were supposed to go this is what climate change -- -- to the little bit. And this is just the early kind of canary in the coal -- climate change -- beginning days success. In the future climate change could have a pretty significant impact on how much we actually have on the planet T. We're gonna get really good at adapting to climate change with farming. We're gonna have to do things to develop new crop varieties that can withstand drought and heat better. We're gonnatime. The bad -- is purchasing the tip of the iceberg in climate change we've got a lot more situation and go into. And that's going to be very disruptive and our ability to adapt might eventually hit a wall this you in at a certain point when you're underwater. You can't do anything. Or if it's too hard in the plant actually just dies so much you can do about that. So adaptation to climate change -- carry us along way. But the real solution is to prevent major climate changes in the futures we need to do both adapt to what we have now. And long term make sure we don't get into major disruptive climate change which won't be good for anybody. -
Native American Communities Plan for Climate Change FutureNative Americans from Maine to Washington state convened for a conference this week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Their goal: To discuss the effects of climate change on tribal communities. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
from around the US convened at a conference on the impacts of climate change artistry and Abbas and has that story. And it our series on coping with climate changes included multiple examples of how native American populations are feeling the impacts and adapting. We took it coastal Louisiana where tribalthe American Indian to tell us how their communities are coping with climate change our Michael McCarty. From the -- caught tribe in Washington kitty Simons from Hawaii. Mike Williams from the Iraqi act can native communities in Alaska and Jeff smears from the Oneida tribe in Wisconsin thanks so much for joining us thinking thank you. So in your lifetimes what have you seen change perhaps in the areas that you've grown up. What's something you can point to and say that this is what it used to be when I was a child and here's what the situation is today. I guess for me growing up in Hawaii. The changes. Where we're really with the fish population. We soon have much larger fish. Are different species. These seem to have changed. And that I'm not sure whether it's climate change for. Or the other visitors feeding our fish. Food that they shouldn't be feeding them. So for me is sad because we always eat fish at least three or four times a week. So is that has been a large change and the fishermen have to go farther and farther out to catch fish in fact outside the 200 miles own. And wePhishing or coastal problems what what are some of the impacts on climate change and in the tribes -- -- So since I've been here the stories that we here in Alaska it's it's immediate and heartbreaking what they've gone through. What we're looking at is planning for the future so the tried donated travel Wisconsin like any other government provides a lot of services. We have a police department the school -- senator we have -- waste water treatment plant. Like most governments we have learned a plan to designer infrastructure to withstand impacts of climate change in our case. It's going to be similar to the weather we've seen lately with increased hot weather events. Precipitation much heavier -
'We're Going to Find Out How Bad Climate Change Really Is'Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman went to China recently, studying climate change and sending occasional video dispatches to us. I spent some time in China in 2005, reporting on the country's growing economy. So I was particularly interested to hear Yoram's thoughts on how China (and the rest of us) ...
It's supposed to go party. -- spent a semester in Beijing studying climate change . And filing video dispatches for making sense we sat down with him on the deck behind my house near Boston a few months ago. We discussed his trip. And the state of pollution in China something we had pondered after reporting trip to the country a few years ago. When I came back in 2005 I literally thought it. Place like the United States isn't gonna make that much difference. In terms of global warming climate change going forward because we're so small part of the problem compared to -- -- There's lot of truth to that perspective. Soof of technological development. So the happy story that I have about climate change is if we can somehow globally figure out how to produce. Electricity. Especially if we can -- how to produce electricity without.the price of fossil fuels. So incorporate that external costs associated with climate change and air pollution and one of the reasons for arguing for that is that by driving up the price of fossil fuels. -
NASA Study Links Extreme Summer Heat to Climate ChangeA new statistical analysis from NASA reveals that the extreme summer heat felt by many Americans this year is the result of global warming. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Columbia University's James Hansen who says the greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made climate change is the natural ...
And finally tonight climate change and extreme weather scientists will now be looking very closely at this summer's data to try to better understand the latest drought. But today and new paper was published linking extreme heat episodes of recent years. Including Texas and Oklahoma -- of last year with climate change he came from one of the first scientist to call attention of the phenomenon. James Hansen head of NASA Goddard Institute for -
Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of RiskThe insurance industry looks at historical data, old and new, in order to assess the risk for potential disasters and put a price on premiums. But when Sandy hit the Northeast, some insurance companies reconsidered if they priced insurance high enough for the greater risks brought on by climate ...
environmental advocacy group and she blames the new risk on global warming. Climate change is our new normal we're seeing more increased storms everywhere all across the country. It is costing us tens and tens of billions of dollars 32 billion dollars to the insurance sector last year but last year when we surveyed. 88 insurance companies and asked them you have climate policies in place that you acting on climate Eleven out of 88 companies had a plan to address climate risks to their bottom line the rest. Did not. So what's the industry's comeback all insurance companies are paying very careful attention.Was exposed to storms. Six years ago you said that you thought climate change was a major factor in recent storm activity. Do you think that more today. I can't really attribute sanity to climate change . Could. He within the normal variability of these types of storms but I do know that climate change is -- current. And it is starting to exaggerate some of the hazards. Most notably in this area sea level arrives andin a way that it's prepared to deal with storm damage or climate related risk. So we put the question to dispel the of Swiss three. A European firm known as a climate change leader is climate change in this -- you show us. The way we build our models is that there are based on historical data we typically -
Teachers Endure Balancing Act Over Climate Change CurriculumFor the first time, new national educational standards for grades K-12 will link global warming trends to manmade emissions. Part of our Coping With Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan looks at the challenges teachers face when covering the topic of climate science in their classrooms.
And now to our series called coping with climate change that examines how communities around the country. Dealing with -- unfolding changes tonight -- Abbas and focuses on the challenges of teaching about climate science. Talk about what is what what do you what do you heard. Cheryl Manning high school science teacher in evergreen Colorado starts her lessons about climate challenge by asking questions not giving answers. I asked them to think about what they -- now and then from that list of what they know what they think they know. I want them to from some questions. That's because so many students today enter the classroom with a preconceived notions about climate change . They hear our music -- in the newspaper they hear their parents talking about their people who'd you say. That climate to climate may be changing that is not our fault -- the prime minister changing at all this is a natural cycle there's all sorts of things to kids here. They want clarification. In fact in a recent survey by the national science teachers association. Teachers say they're facing skepticism about climate science. 82% of science teachers say they faced it from students and 54% say they faced it from parents. We can putfrom parents her friend the students to hearing about the evidence of climate science and climate change . I want to talk a little bit about. The threats that come at a higher level than your classroom. To help teachers respond to concerns from students and parents it's birth and colleagues have developed climate change workshops even curriculum and lesson plans on how to keep the science you live classroom. And the political controversy out. It isRepublican Party. But my view is that we don't loan. What's causing. Climate change on this planet and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars are trying to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us. President Obama said that climate change issue will be part of his 2012 campaign in this months Rolling Stone magazine. Quote I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way. Cheryl Manning's challenge which parents in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains ended with her superintendent supporting her. But she says the experience was exhausting. Climate science education faces challenges at the state levels. This spring Tennessee enacted a law requiring teachers to present scientific strengths and scientific -
Climate Change Strikes Especially Hard Blow to Native AmericNative Americans make up about one percent of the United States population, but they manage more than 95 million acres of land. Their reservations lie in some of the most diverse ecosystems in the country, ranging from Alaska to the coasts of Florida. And they are often on the frontlines of ...
In your life times than what have you seen change perhaps in the areas that you've grown up with something you can point to and say that this is what used to be when I was a child and here's what the situation is today I -- I mean growing up in Hawaii. The changes. Where we're meeting with the fish population. We used to have much larger fish. Different species. He seemed to have changed. In that I'm not sure whether it's climate change or. Or the other visitors feeding -- fish. Food that they shouldn't be feeding them. So for me is that because we always eat fish. At least three or four times a week. So that has been a large change and the fishermen have to go farther and farther out to catch fish in fact outside the 200 miles own. And they have fewer. Fish around the coral reefs. Those actually with a best eating fish for us we thought that there were smaller fry them up and their delicious well they're very few of those left. Jeff being as you you're sort of representing all of those. Inland nations and inland communities that might not have the same sort of -- coastal problems but what are some of the impacts on climate change and in the -- killers. So since I've been through the stories that we here in Alaska it's it's immediate heartbreaking what they're going through. What we're looking at is planning for the future so the -- united -- Wisconsin like any other government buys a lot of services. We have a police department the school while senator that waste water treatment plant. Like most governments we've learned a plan to designer infrastructure to withstand impacts of climate change in our case. It's going to be so when the weather we've seen lately with increased hot weather events. Precipitation much heavier -
Beekeepers Feel the Sting of Climate ChangeBeekeepers struggle when early spring and late frosts kill hives in Michigan.
thirty years ago. Leaving the work up to beekeepers. But changes in climate are making it difficult for the remaining honeybees to stay on schedule. This year the early spring followed by a string offor other insects that might be better suited for Michigan's changes in climate . So for instance I'd been working with and as we have seen -- I'm Mason be. For the last five years and -
New Climate Change Deal to Succeed Kyoto a Long ShotWhat's behind the long struggle to reach a new international agreement on reducing greenhouse gases? Margaret Warner and The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin preview the U.N.'s annual climate conference.
-- -- target as well. Now meanwhile what's the latest science on climate change I you know that's the UN panel the intergovernmental panel came up with a fairly dire one what just last week absolutelyreach. The other thing that's happened recently is the controversial emails among climate scientists that came out in 2009. A new batch came out also. Recently in the last couple of weeks. Was there anything in those that that in any way affected the debate going into the stairs and it has significantly affected could be -- debated certainly added fodder to those were skeptical that. Skeptical about the connection between human activity and climate change but in terms of the emails they're more revelations it was. Presumably from the same batch that were stolen back in 2009among the most conservative of Americans they'd become less concerned with with climate change and are more skeptical of this connection between human activity and what's happening despite the science. And overall we simply just haven't
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