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>> there is -- >> regulation of industry. >> they think that quote, capitalism is destroying the planet, raping and pillaging the planet for profit, and this is really a socialist agenda. you agree? >> yeah, absolutely. you have identified an interesting theme. democrats are in the process of identifying two major problems that will shape their agenda, which have been problems since the dawn of time, inequality. and the weather, and those two things are never going away. the way they justify an ...

Happy. the expedition and rescue effort have been incredibly well- organized and were all just rolling with the punches. if we are here in two months it might be different. ". but difficult as it is, the helicopter rescue will get under way in the next 24 hours, gregg. >> it was five months ago this month a l gore said the ice caps would be melting. satellite data shoes that coverage is up 50 percent. >> thats all science. i just know they are having a good time drinking champagne and plenty of ...

Ice caps? this guy or this one? >> dont worry about that, mylady. i have an idea. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. happening now, reliving a massacre, gut-wrenching 911 calls from the sandy hook element tear shooting. are the tapes simply too painful to here. dirty bomb fierce. homeland security joining the search for stolen radioactive material that could potential be used to make a weapon of mass destruction. do the thieves know what they have and what it can do? and insidal fa hou...

Exhausted strategies must die so that something new can live. >> i would suggest thought will take more than dead penguins and melting ice caps to get americans to fundamentally get involved in this political transformation of our energy economy. >> we still didnt think we needed nuclear power. it really took us getting clear about how big the gap was between fossil fuels and renewables for us to take a second look at nuclear. >> part of the problem is intermittensy. that hasnt been involved. it...

Was like after being shot in the leg. >> i tried to stand on it first. and it wouldnt support my weight. the bones were totally shattered so it kind of gave. i ended up crawling down the length of the hallway along that wall. >> after more than a week on the run, the last two inmates who have escaped from an oklahoma jail were recaptured. and national geographic created an interactive world showing what the world would look like if the ice caps completely melted. bad news for us, most of the e...

Rising ocean temperatures, crumbling the ice caps, want to get right down to it, brandon miller, meteorologist, break this down for us specifically. what kinds of problems are we talking about and what is the timetable to see some of the most serious destruction? >> well, this report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change is really looking through the end of this century. so really not that the far out. were not talking hundreds or thousands of years. youre talking in peoples lifetim...

Magazine puts it even more bluntly. across the globe a disturbing statistics. carbon is up 48% since 1992. we heard it many times before but it bears repeating because some people still dont get it. when coal, oil and natural gas are burned to create energy, carbon dioxide and other gasses are pumped into the air. they dont dissipate. they are trapped. if the heat stay is in, the planet gets warmer. if the planet gets warmer, ice cap melts. if ice caps melt they can no longer absorb the suns ray...

And so the public says, were not seeing it on tv and politicians dont seem to be doing anything about it its not as serious as we thought. this is a recipe for disaster, for doing nothing about a serious problem. >> lets talk about the politics of it. in 2010 mitt romney wrote in his book no apology, quote, i believe climate change is occurring. the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore and also believe human activity is a contributing factor. im uncertain how much of the wa...

His book i believe that climate change is occurring. reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. i also believe human activity is a contributing factor. im uncertain how much of the warming, however, is attributable to factors out of our control. now, last, fall of last year, his position had apparently evolved. he no longer knew, it seemed what caused global warming. lets watch. >> my view is that we dont know whats causing climate change on this planet. the idea of spending tri...

Warming. climate and weather are two different things. whether it is, of course, local. im not as surprised as you the public does not seem to be as concerned as they used to be about global warming. politicians we dont to do anything about this because doing something about it would be very difficult. the people that sponsor them are often from the extraction industries and dont want them to do anything about it. the media itself is reluctant to cover this because -- given the coverage it deser...