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all right I’m going to be honest with
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you
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a lot of times I’ve gotten pretty
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confused about the facts behind climate
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change over the last 15 years political
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tensions seem to have blurred and burned
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scientific fact so for the sake of
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clearing up muddy waters here is a
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two-minute rundown of what I’ve learned
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so far about climate change climate
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change has now come to refer to the
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recent and abrupt increase in global
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surface temperatures and scientific
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consensus now strongly points to human
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activity as the cause the survey of over
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12,000 science abstracts confirms that
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97% of climate scientists agree that
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global warming is real and very likely
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human cost
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although the Earth’s climate has changed
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in the past generally caused by the
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Earth’s orbital patterns and a slow
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buildup of carbon dioxide in the
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atmosphere these shifts were generally
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gradual which means that life oceans and
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atmosphere gases had time to adjust over
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the course of thousands of years the
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change in temperatures now is a brought
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in sudden as of this January co2 levels
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are at 405 parts per million as opposed
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to the pre-industrial levels of 208
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parts per million with increased carbon
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dioxide has come a 1.7 degrees
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Fahrenheit rise and global surface
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temperatures since 1880 with 16 of the
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17 warmest years of the modern era
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occurring since 2000 more co2 also means
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increased ocean acidification which is
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caused by the ocean absorbing more and
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more carbon dioxide as well as 7 inches
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of sea level rise since 1880 and a loss
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of 281 Giga tons of mass a year from
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Greenland’s land ice if we look back to
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the end of the Permian period which is
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marked by a significant increase in co2
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and temperature levels according to ice
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core research we can see massive
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extinction on the scale of 90% of the
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Earth’s life so our problem then isn’t
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necessarily saving the earth the earth
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will continue to exist instead we need
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to focus on us looking towards forging
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more sustainable and resilient ways of
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the
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existing on this planet thanks so much
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for watching I realized that I left a
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lot out of the video but I wanted it to
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act toward it as a primer for the
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subject so if you have anything to add
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or you disagree with anything that I
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said please comment down below above to
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hear your thoughts also as always you
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I’ll see you next week bye
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