homes. reporter: and where there isn t fire, there s water. once in a century flash floods killed hundreds in germany, belgium and china this summer. the climate is getting more hostile and the u.n. said it is already too late to stop some of the devastating impacts of climate change. it s indisputable that human activities are causing climate change and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. reporter: the u.n. report is the largest and most up to date study on climate change. it says shrinking glaciers and sea ice are inchangeable for a millennia pl but it s not without hope. finding temperatures can stabilize if we act over the next several decades. thanks to richard engel for
richard engel has more for us. reporter: the signs are all there, with fires raging around the world in greece and turkey and in california the dixie fire is now the second largest wildfire in california history. it s burned more than 600 structures, displaced 30,000 people and still threatens some 13,000 homes. and where there isn t fire, there is water once-in-a-century flash floods killed hundreds in germany, belgium, and china this summer. the climate is getting more hostile, and today the u.n. said it is already too late to stop some of the devastating impacts of climate change it is indisputable that human activities are causing climate change and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe reporter: the u.n. reports it s the world s largest and most up to date study on climate change. it says rising sea levels and shrinking glaciers and arctic sea ice are
to achieve - to change the game and inspire the team of tomorrow. to be perfectly honest, what we learned today might be the definition of learned helplessness. our report tonight from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. reporter: the signs are all there. with fires raging around the world in greece and turkey and in california. the dixie fire is now the second largest wildfire in california history. it s burn in order than 600 structures and still threatens some 13,000 homes. and where there isn t fire, there is water. once in a century flash floods killed 100s in germany, bull belgium and china this summer. the climate is getting more
either direct or in part or mostly contradict things that we have already known. again, i try to always say, just because there is a lot of smoke does not mean there is a fire, right. the mike flynn plea deal, the george papadopoulos plea deal, the charges against manafort, and gates. those things, you would not want those things to be in your white house, democrat, republican, whatever. they do not add up to the fact that, yes, there was willful collusion bit president or his senior aides in this. i think the fact that the story keeps getting fuller in a way that in this i think this is another big piece of that, that fire comey in may, ordering the firing of mueller but not go through with it the next month, that makes you wonder, it is more smoke. but jason is not wrong when he says there isn t fire. there isn t yet. i want to give you the final word here. for any investigation that is ongoing, no one has been given a
vapor. the lng expands 600 times, as it vaporizes. wind carries the vast vapor cloud towards downtown boston. the cloud erupts in a fireball 1,000 feet high. a vast thermal radiation wave pulses through the city. this isn t fire but heat from the explosion, so hot that it ignites anything in its path. that circle identifies the region within which there would be harmful radiation to anyone on the shore. the gas would only burn for 15 minutes, but would be long enough to devastate the city. that s an enormous fire. we ve never seen anything like that. and i hope we never do. but as long as lng is shipped into harbors like boston, the threat remains all too real. trying to run this kind of