the hudson river, manhattan, will be underwater. underwater. we checked tonight and actually it s congested, but still a road that in march of two thousand the independent newspaper in a piece explaining that snow falls are now just a thing of the past. and we re quoting snow is starting to disappear from our lives. the piece quoted a climate expert claiming it, quote, children just aren t going to know what snow is . no idea what snow is . it ll be a relic done if the ice age. but of the great inferno of global warming, then in 2004, amazingly, civilization still existed. the guardian predicted the , quote, major european cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as britain is plunged into a siberian climate by twenty, twenty , which is a little confusing because global warming doesn t typically produce a siberian climate. it was around this time that they decided, hey, we don t
on with behemoths. and the truth is , this is hard thing. may i interrupt you? don t ask a question. i think you re making a strong case on on the basis of math , which i respect. it s inefficient to have these little banks when instead said the sabs get at the big banks. but doesn t that give politician disproportionate control over our economy? if everyone s banking was six banks, doesn t that make washington much stronger? you know, everybody is starting a bank with six banks because the big four right now are taking billions every day. i was on the phone today with one of them. we re transferring many accounts there because we don t want to take any systemic risk in cash . so why should we keep it in a regional bank and people try to say that s not happening. it s happening by the billions every day. and many countries have proven that they can run the entire economy on four or five giant behemoth banks. now, you may not like the sound
decisions and commit to ensure that global warming doesn t reach that 1.5 c - global warming doesn t reach that 1.5 c which would be a tragedy not just for walrus, but for everything on the planet. i just for walrus, but for everything on the planet- just for walrus, but for everything on the planet. i think you ust won the badae on the planet. i think you ust won the badge for h on the planet. i think you ust won the badge for public i the badge for public relations. thanks so much for talking to us, and good luck with that. the climate transparency report says they ll rise by 4% across the g20 this year, having dropped by 6% last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. but that was during the pandemic. let s discuss this with professor dr peter eigen, co chair of climate transparency. thank you very much for being with us. were you surprised by this, or had you rather unhappily been expecting this would be the case. 7 i m not really surprised. we were
the idea that he s tried to be more aggressive toward china. look, there are any number of complicating factors besides what you mentioned and the fact that there are issues with taiwan, with human rights. what you know from europe is that those trading partnerships are strong. you have, for example, with germany, they literally sell millions of cars to china so the trading situation, the economic partnerships make it much more fraught for the european nations that joe biden is going to be trying to convince and both sides know, whether it s the e.u. or it s canada or it s president biden that without china one of the key things that they want to get done here, which is some action on global warming doesn t get done. if you don t have china as part of that partnership, it doesn t have the impact that it needs to have. and i think one of the things you re going to be watching very closely is that the president would like to have a very strong statement on forced labor.
rising sea levels and ocean dead zones scientists from the intergovernmental panel on climate change say that while seas have been helping the planet cope with rising temperatures unprecedented overheating the ocean poses a huge threats to humanity. by about one meter by the end of the century if global warming doesn t slow down making some island nations on inhabitable. i.p.c.c. scientists say a failure to act on the new data will have grave consequences for the future of our planet the consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe. this report highlights also the urgency of timely ambitious who are needed and enduring action. what is its stake is the health of ecosystems wildlife and