Interoperability with our allied brethrens. When it comes to migration especially from the caribbean, do you support the feet dry policy . How have recent diplomatic efforts in cuba likely to affect that . Ill let you draw your conclusions. We have brandnew response cutters. They are great platforms. There was an expectation that a migration policy was going to change around christmas. It didnt but that was the perception back in cuba so we had a spike in migration. We were able to apprehend almost every one of those boats destined for the florida coastline. But then it takes five days to go through a screening process before these folks are brought back to cuba. Within the last two weeks we had two my grants that shot themselves, then were medevacd before we apprehended them so they were medevacd back to the United States. We have others that will selfmutilate to do whatever it takes to get their feet dry in the United States. Meanwhile our crews are trying to safeguard these folks fo
Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
Sun, that we reset nature reset its clock in 2012, and this effected everything as far as our weather goes and as time goes on, the taps will rebuild themselves and it is natures way of resetting the clock in other words. Does he know anything about that . Thank you. You know, there are a lot of theories and there has been a lot of research and things like the orbital wobble of the earth the wobble on its axis, solar cycles, sun spot activity and so on. And i think clearly there is a huge natural variability in the earths climate and over long periods of time these big things, these big astronomical things and sun spots and earths orbit play a role. I would just say in terms of the data that we have we see natural cycles, over 100year periods and over roughly 1,000year periods and were in between the ice ages and the interglacial periods with 10,000 to 12,000 years an the ice age is 100,000 years an were late into the interglacial cycle and that is allowed human beings to develop and f
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John d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Additional support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The heisingsimons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Major support for this program is provided by the kendeda fund, investing in transformative leaders and ideas. Corporate support for frontline is provided by oooh us lives here. Where we can be surprised by others. And ourselves. The y, for a better us. President trump getting ready to take a major swipe at former president Barack Obamas legacy on Climate Change. The president s ex