thanks for the tons of carbon dioxide trapping the gases in the air there. but this is why it is sort of bringing it home right now. this is brooklyn, and we are there in brooklyn looking at manhattan looking at the brooklyn bridge, and this is jane s carousel there, a landmark, and this is what superstorm sandy did there. that one storm in 2012 completely rewrote the floodplain maps in new york city. there is an extra 65,000 people living in a floodplain that they didn t know until sandy came along. you can see it here, and the barge with the heavy equipment and the stacks of boulders and for the last couple of months, they have been shoring up this area that was washed out by super storm sandy, and the water was in the lobby there, and as a result of it, the army corps is looking into a number of plans to build various seawalls depending upon the tradeoffs,
are concerning to humanity become that much more likely. things like more extreme sea rise, more extreme storms, more extreme droughts and flooding, those sorts of things. and so we re not falling off a cliff, but it s definitely an area where we see these things accelerate. and that s concerning. but certainly not a cliff that we would prefer to go over, right? no, not at all. of course not. how surprised are you that we might be approaching and even passing this threshold as soon as the year 2027? that s only a few years from now. you know, i wish i could say i was surprised, but certainly not a cliff that we would prefer you know, i wish i could say i was surprised, but i m not at all. if you look at the current level of warming that we re experiencing, we re atjust shy of 1.2 degrees celsius already. so the one and a half degree threshold is not very far away. and you also don t really see emissions going down globally. you see them going down in europe and the united states and ot
at least eight people have been killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in northern italy, and southern europe is bracing for a summer of ferocious drought. earlier my colleague carl nasman spoke to samantha gross the director of energy security and climate at the brookings institution and a former us department of energy official. thank you so much forjoining us today. i want to ask you about the major takeaways in this united nations report. and first of all, researchers now saying that there is a 66% chance that we will pass the 1.5 degrees celsius global warming threshold between now and the year 2027. what would that level of warming look like for humanity? well, the one and a half degree threshold, it s not a hard and fast thing where the world falls off a cliff, but it s definitely an area where things that are concerning to humanity become that much more likely. things like more extreme sea rise, more extreme storms,
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