COOPER: At just 6 years old, her oldest child and only son, Valentin, was diagnosed with leukemia. We're almost at the top of the world. Download Planet In Peril Worksheet Answers doc. COOPER: Where people are dying. My colleague, Rick Sanchez, is covering one of the two big fires now happening in this area. CORWIN: Just in the Amazon basin alone, it's 2.7-million square miles of habitat, and roughly 70 percent of that is right here in this extraordinary country, in the country of Brazil. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The water just knocked them down. Planet in Peril Aired December 20, 2009 - 20:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. COOPER: So in the summer months ahead, as the temperature increases, water will actually start flowing through here? COOPER: All right. (voice-over): Even the Chari River, the source for this once great lake, is evaporating. The water here used to be at least six feet high and now all around me, there's nothing. PAT MICHAELS, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: Oh, heck no. And that's all we have for the future. Amanda Aronczyk. It's creating rivers of melt water that carve deep holes in the ice called a moulins (ph). He joins us from Spring Valley by the Harris fire -- Rick. By 2100, we will be more likely one meter -- three feet -- instead of one-and-a-half feet. It's those types of numbers that have led to an unprecedented move. So they started going door to door and trying to get the people out. Here's the latest on tonight's breaking news -- the wildfires. STEFFEN: The question is, how can we actually change it for the future? Jeff and I are now heading to Brazil's Amazon to see firsthand the battle for the world's greatest rain forest. (END VIDEO CLIP) COOPER: They don't know what's happening to their homes, miles away in the line of fire. COOPER (voice-over): Even the map of Greenland is changing. We see it, not just with the Kraho but also with others we've met in Cambodia and China and Africa. As the earth gets warmer, moisture in the atmosphere that used to fall as rain, instead evaporates. Some say it's just sinking naturally because it was built on a volcano. COOPER (voice-over): Four-and-a-half degrees Celsius is eight degrees Fahrenheit. GUPTA: We're here because we are told this is one of the most concrete examples of climate change anywhere in the world. By 2050, there will be 50 percent more people on the planet than there are right now. That's all -- the water that supplies the lake is all coming through here. Like so many areas we have seen around the world, poverty plays a big role in habitat destruction. And here on the ice sheet, you can see the impact that temperature increase is having. COOPER (voice-over): If you thought the debate over what's causing the Earth to warm was settled, think again. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And what's going on over there is they 're trying to essentially close the door on that fire. Phoenix, you may be smelling smoke by Friday afternoon. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper in Rancho Bernardo, California. Brazil is the number one soy producer in the world. It's a fact. INHOFE: I don't want to be rude, but, from now on, I'm going to ask COOPER: James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma, is the loudest voice with probably the biggest platform who questions whether man is responsible for climate change. Climate change is making a bad situation worse. (on camera): Do you think climate change is a hoax? We're told that the fire area is under control. Unbelievable Washington landslide survival story. CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. STEFFEN: Be careful. Let's check it out. It's about the front lines, the. (on camera): It's so disturbing to see this. COOPER (on camera): As Dr. Steffen pointed out, climate change is something that's going to be affecting future generations. President Bush today declared a major disaster area here in California. CORWIN: These guys have all the classic tools of the trade when it comes to poaching wildlife. Millions live near coastlines less than three feet above sea level. In recent years, we had a gap of sometimes as much as 200 miles north of the Alaska coast. SCHMIDT: This island exists because of global warming. (on camera) For Ibama, these arrests are a sign of help: one small victory in the ongoing battle to save the forest. STEVE AMSTRUP, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: There's a nice lead here that we might be able to pick up footprints on. In all these places, all these problems are interconnected. But those in Qualcomm Stadium are still worrying about those homes. We are the first people to ever visit here. But, somehow, Anata (ph) holds out hope. The Planet in Peril - Part I. Jessica_Roberson5. R. MARROQUIN: That's all I remember, just time stops. And the diet of people is becoming less balanced. About the show. That's it for the Harris fire. The five islands that make up the Carterets are just five feet above sea level at their highest point. The carbon naturally stored in trees is released when they're cut down. DENNIS SCHMIDT: Yes. Coral bleaching, scientists say, is a result of global warming, and it's happening in oceans around the world. And those are things that would be consistent with the population that might be under nutritional stress. It's the fire that did some of the power outage damage. 137 terms. As a matter of fact, you mentioned the Harris fire just moments ago, Anderson. And that, scientists say, is a direct result of climate change. COOPER: Four-and-a-half degrees, that's enormous. We traveled the world and the issues are real. But this has something to do with it. We press on. BOYA BAI 7. Police used a reverse 911 calling system to order hundreds of thousands to leave their homes. The consensus among scientists is something is different. Witness the planet's breathtaking diversity -- from seabirds carpet-bombing the ocean to wildebeests eluding the wild dogs of the Serengeti. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper, Rancho Bernardo, California. View Jordan Allen - Planet in Peril Part Iand 2.docx from SCIENCE 101 at Royal Palm Beach High School. He has seen the dramatic changes firsthand. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, OK. We're flying right over it now. People are dependent on their water and they are not getting enough. GUPTA: It looks like this upsets you? San Diego County dodged a major bullet today, barely escaping a massive power outage. We've met literally hundreds of people along the way, some of whom you've been introduced to over the past two nights. (END VIDEO CLIP) COOPER: And that is the latest here in Southern California -- another update in about 15 minutes. There are some 100,000 indigenous people living in Brazil's Amazon rain forest. As hunters, gatherers, and farmers, the Kraho rely on the rain forest for food, water, shelter, everything. What's going to happen to you? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LETICIA DECKERT, EVACUEE: It's stressful, very stressful. Here's the latest on the California wildfires. Boosters Step into your powered armor and grab your They continue to rage around Lake Arrowhead. It's a global population of polar bears is somewhere between 20, 25,000 animals, why are we today trying to enlist them as an endangered species? Anderson, Dr. Gupta, and Jeff Corwin, as well as the 360 staff and CNN in general, should be commended for their work on the Planet in Peril series! The second biggest contributors to Inhofe's Senate office are energy and natural resource companies. You were on a ship SCHMIDT: Yes. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): Greenland's ice sheet, 40 percent of it gone in the past 40 years. CORWIN: These regions, when you're away from any bit of infrastructure, can be pretty lawless. They are all here, more than 200 of them, to try to put a stop to the animal poachers and loggers who are tearing this forest apart. At least 20 times greater for 1-3 butadiene than any other city in the U.S. R. MARROQUIN: And our kids get sicker in the country. Planets in Peril is a slim volume, yet it contains a great deal of insight into the mind of CS Lewis in regards to the writing and possible sources and meanings behind the Ransom trilogy, otherwise known as the Space Trilogy. Environmentalism: the pet project of the rich, the cause for celebs. COOPER: This stinky neighborhood because it sits next to the Houston Ship Channel, the largest petrochemical complex in America. 1 s01e06 - Cities Tran script detail David Attenborough: This is the newest habitat on Earth. Instead, she opened the Bible she was carry in her hand and read a passage from the gospel of Matthew: "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied." Climate change is real, and is fast plummeting into "climate chaos" for the Philippines and for the rest of the world. For Jim Hansen, that makes the situation all the more pressing. Both sides of the debate know that. Her future is at best uncertain. President Bush is going to visit the region tomorrow. An illustration of a heart shape; Contact; Jobs; Volunteer; People; Planet in peril : essays in environmental ethics Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item . Scientists say that is happening because of what we're putting into the air -- tons and tons of carbon dioxide. COOPER (voice-over): Adaptations, he says, like stronger buildings, better warning systems. COOPER (voice-over): Anything goes. David C. Downing, a professor at Elizabethtown College, takes it upon himself to correct a gaping hole in Lewis studies. The death toll remains only one. So once (INAUDIBLE) we'll get down and we'll actually physically capture these cubs, anesthetize them and gather data. Only a few hours until President Bush flies to California. Ecological Issues for Local Citizen Action. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRUDY MCCUNE, EVACUEE: I feel kind of bad because I'm hoping that I don't lose my home, but then I feel bad because I know a lot of people that have lost their homes. When we come back, our investigation continues beneath the surface. Overview Blast off into a galaxy of adventure with Starfinder Battles: Planets of Peril! 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