Is the coronavirus pandemic a chance to tackle Climate Change Scientists Say we shouldnt forget the dangers of the warming climate foothold for Major Economies small island nations so can a recovery from the Global Health crisis help heal our environment as well this isnt such a story. Out of there on that clock welcome to the special edition of inside story in collaboration with the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies not world sadly well aware of the crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic but many experts are saying the world also urgently needs to refocus on a formal dangerous threat the reality of runaway Climate Change with attention focusing on cave in 19 the impacts of a warming world rage on them without climate changing faster than predicted right now a record breaking wont fall on the bernie and launch areas of california this northern summer meteorologists have recorded the highest temperatures ever see from to the out. The atlantic Hurric
Of water. Reporter rob hayes, abc7 news. Coming up at 5 00 youre going to hear from a local man who says he was caught on that same boat when it caught fire and sank, pardon me. That is on abc7 news at 5 00. Hurricane dorian is blasting the bahamas right now. The storm has lost some of its strength but remains a powerful category 4 hurricane. If you look at the radar now, the hurricane is barely moving, just spinning over the islands at this point. It is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. When it made landfall with 185 mile an hour winds, it tied a record. So the question now is where will dorian head next . Florida is already seeing some of the rain bands, but it turns to the north that mutts North Carolina and georgia in the path. There are millions of people who have now been told to evacuate. Reporter dan and ama, here in florida the message from officials is simple. Get your lastminute preparations in today because dorian is coming and you need to be
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Furnace or drives the diesel engines along farflung rails of steel. And on the open road, well, you know what makes your auto run. For millions of years, this source of power slept peacefully in the Dark Recesses of the earth until modern magic loosed the liquid energy from its subterranean prison. The quest for oil was not only confined to land. It extended offshore. There are oil reserves under the coastal waters of the united states, mainly off the coasts of california, alaska, texas, and louisiana. The gulf of mexico, home to a rich diversity of marine life, and it also produces almost a quarter of americas oil. Tapping these offshore oil reserves helps meet a significant part of u. S. Energy needs. But when things go wrong, theres a high price to pay. In 1969, the Santa Barbara oil spill dumped two and a half million gallons of oil into the pacific, killing thousands of sea birds and marine mammals. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Oil tanker ran aground in alaska, spilling 11 million ga