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Asked what that would mean for coastal areas around the world, Mayewski tells Pelley, ?If sea level were to rise like that, that would be tremendous changes. Immense migrations.?
"It would be the largest catastrophe that the modern world would have experienced," he adds.
That rise in sea level would play out over decades. Some of it may be inevitable. It turns out that many greenhouse gases last a long time in the atmosphere?there?s a lot up there already.
"If we stopped every automobile every factory, every emission of a greenhouse gas, would the world continue to warm?" Pelley asks Mayewski.
"It would certainly for a while. And I think that?s one of the important thing for people to understand," Mayewski says. "It is important that everybody really begins to make reductions in greenhouse gases all the toxic elements that go along with it in order to impact or to have a change in the future. And once we start it?s not going to be an immediate solution. We?re going to have to pay for a while for what we?ve done."
Anyone catch 60 minutes this week?
A real eye opener. From the nay sayers ... it's getting very very difficult to say no to global warming. This is something the USA is going to have to do better. As we have basically been denying the whole thing exists lately. Sad what our government knows and yet does nothing about it. Way to go!!!
Krill grow beneath the sea ice, but in the warming ocean, the sea ice is melting away.
"So the penguins have been going to sea and starving to death?" Pelley asks.
"The chicks are declining and we think they just can?t find the krill," Sue Trivelpiece says.
"When you can link a change in warming in air temperature to ice to krill to penguins and show a 50 percent reduction in the penguin population here and connect all the dots you really can?t make it any clearer than that,"
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Asked what that would mean for coastal areas around the world, Mayewski tells Pelley, ?If sea level were to rise like that, that would be tremendous changes. Immense migrations.?
"It would be the largest catastrophe that the modern world would have experienced," he adds.
That rise in sea level would play out over decades. Some of it may be inevitable. It turns out that many greenhouse gases last a long time in the atmosphere?there?s a lot up there already.
"If we stopped every automobile every factory, every emission of a greenhouse gas, would the world continue to warm?" Pelley asks Mayewski.
"It would certainly for a while. And I think that?s one of the important thing for people to understand," Mayewski says. "It is important that everybody really begins to make reductions in greenhouse gases all the toxic elements that go along with it in order to impact or to have a change in the future. And once we start it?s not going to be an immediate solution. We?re going to have to pay for a while for what we?ve done."
Anyone catch 60 minutes this week?
A real eye opener. From the nay sayers ... it's getting very very difficult to say no to global warming. This is something the USA is going to have to do better. As we have basically been denying the whole thing exists lately. Sad what our government knows and yet does nothing about it. Way to go!!!
Krill grow beneath the sea ice, but in the warming ocean, the sea ice is melting away.
"So the penguins have been going to sea and starving to death?" Pelley asks.
"The chicks are declining and we think they just can?t find the krill," Sue Trivelpiece says.
"When you can link a change in warming in air temperature to ice to krill to penguins and show a 50 percent reduction in the penguin population here and connect all the dots you really can?t make it any clearer than that,"
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