WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:31.0560000" NOTE recognizability:0.885 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.088 Our window to slow it down rapidly closing. NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:03.090 --> 00:00:04.705 That's according to the newest NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:04.705 --> 00:00:05.999 assessment, just released from NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:08.285 the United Nations, ABC Chief NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:08.285 --> 00:00:10.570 Meteorologist Monica Woods has more. NOTE Confidence: 0.879727 00:00:10.570 --> 00:00:12.030 This report makes it NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:12.030 --> 00:00:14.655 more clear than ever before that climate NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:14.655 --> 00:00:17.239 change is threatening human well being and NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:19.350 the habitability of the planet. Professor NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:19.350 --> 00:00:21.912 Levin, one of the editors of the NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:21.912 --> 00:00:23.745 recent assessment, says this is NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:23.745 --> 00:00:25.935 no longer something in the future. NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:28.136 This is an emergency right now NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:28.136 --> 00:00:29.600 affecting us through wildfires, NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:31.430 flooding and deteriorating water supply. NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:31.430 --> 00:00:33.476 Just some of the effects as NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:33.476 --> 00:00:34.499 greenhouse gases increase NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:34.499 --> 00:00:36.189 driving up global temperatures. NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:36.190 --> 00:00:38.020 The changes we're seeing now NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:39.850 haven't been seen for centuries, NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:39.850 --> 00:00:41.780 tending on the greenhouse gas. NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:41.780 --> 00:00:44.160 Conditions over the next 10 or 20 NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:46.791 years we are going to be changing NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:46.791 --> 00:00:49.095 our climates more than has been NOTE Confidence: 0.89895314 00:00:49.173 --> 00:00:51.759 experienced on the Earth for 12,000 NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:00:51.760 --> 00:00:54.840 years. The report stating the globe has more NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.185 than a 50% chance of warming beyond NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:00:57.185 --> 00:00:59.439 the 1.5 degrees Celsius benchmark, NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:01.744 which would make the effects of NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:01.744 --> 00:01:03.280 climate change nearly irreversible. NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.200 And since 1880 you can see how those NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.279 temperatures rapidly approach that level. NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:10.668 In fact, the top ten hottest NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:10.668 --> 00:01:12.260 years across the globe. NOTE Confidence: 0.8772528 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:14.810 All happening since 2010. What NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:14.810 --> 00:01:18.079 we are engaging in now is this NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:20.129 unprecedented experiment in adding NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:20.129 --> 00:01:22.949 greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:25.490 which are raising our temperatures NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:28.710 already and our going to raise NOTE Confidence: 0.85775936 00:01:28.710 --> 00:01:31.054 them much more dramatically.