Welcome to inside story. 2014 it was warmest year ever measured. Granted, thats not thousands of years, but the readings we have line up well with the worldwide migration of the industrial revolution. Through the decades of more and more intense use of fossil fuels by people in every corner of the globe. All this month on al jazeera america, well be producing programs and news reports entitled fragile planet. Tonight we are taking an inside look at the Politics Around Climate Change. A lot of Scientists Say theyre convinced by the gathering trends backed up by the data. A lot of politicians say they are not. But in the United States, the biggest economy and the biggest burner of fossil fuels, a lot of science is paid for by politicians. They sit in state legislatures, congress, university boards, and approve this funding for basic science at the universities. By holding the purse strings, they have the power to encourage research they like and discourage research that may lead to uncom
Im ali velshi, a special report on our fragile planet begins right now. Its a fragile planet. The only debate, how severe the consequences will be, changes to the climate resulted in rising sea levels, accelerating ice melts and rising textures. Its not clear that californias 4year long drought is related to global warming. Thats because california has a history of drought going back centuries. What is clear is this time is different. 2014 was the driest i cant remember on record. The state has been keeping track since the 1880s. Snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountain reign, the source of water, is expected to fall to 8 of capacity this year. The situation is so dire that governor jerry brown ordered a 25 reduction in water use for all urban areas. But that order doesnt cover the huge Agricultural Sector using 86 of the water allocated for use. Farmers are forced to contend with smaller allocations of orders. That is to let farmers keep land fallow or use water efficiently. It encoura
Welcome to inside story. 2014 it was warmest year ever measured. Granted, thats not thousands of years, but the readings we have line up well with the worldwide migration of the industrial revolution. Through the decades of more and more intense use of fossil fuels by people in every corner of the globe. All this month on al Jazeera America, well be producing programs and news reports entitled fragile planet. Tonight we are taking an inside look at the Politics Around Climate Change. A lot of Scientists Say theyre convinced by the gathering trends backed up by the data. A lot of politicians say they are not. But in the United States, the biggest economy and the biggest burner of fossil fuels, a lot of science is paid for by politicians. They sit in state legislatures, congress, university boards, and approve this funding for basic science at the universities. By holding the purse strings, they have the power to encourage research they like and discourage research that may lead to uncom
Sporting a large old population were going to have a pretty balanced population. Rose we conclude with Jeffrey Sachs the author of endeavour. So this has been a good overall for reducing poverty but the reason were facing the need for new goals right now is many other things are really starting to shake because while Economic Growth is working pretty well, the environmental crises are definitely deepening, and theyre deepening at the global level with Global Warming and theyre deepening regionally with water stress and deforest expaigz other major crises. So balancing the growth with the environment is one of the big themes for the new goals. Rose joe nye and Jeffrey Sachs when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose joe nye is here. He is
Sporting a large old population were going to have a pretty balanced population. Rose we conclude with Jeffrey Sachs the author of endeavour. So this has been a good overall for reducing poverty but the reason were facing the need for new goals right now is many other things are really starting to shake because while Economic Growth is working pretty well, the environmental crises are definitely deepening, and theyre deepening at the global level with Global Warming and theyre deepening regionally with water stress and deforest expaigz other major crises. So balancing the growth with the environment is one of the big themes for the new goals. Rose joe nye and Jeffrey Sachs when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose joe nye is here. He is