all up and down the east coast there are mayors, many of them republicans, who are being told you got to move these houses back away from the ocean. you got to lift them up. cli 3459 change is going to raise the water levels on a permanent basis. if you want your town insured, you have to do this. in the real world, barack obama s policies work better. he s unbelievable. our extreme weather we re facing right now in the northeast from droughts and wildfires across the country, now hurricane sandy, make the case that manmade global warming is not only real but is having an effect. ed markey is the top democrat on the natural resource congress and senior member of the energy committee. michael oppenheimer is a professor at princeton university. i want to start with professor oppenheimer. simply put, when you look at hurricane sandy, which is a funny name for something hitting our beaches and causing such havoc, do you see climate change, manmade climate change,
all up and down the east coast there are mayors, many of them republicans, who are being told you got to move these houses back away from the ocean. you got to lift them up. climate change is going to raise the water levels on a permanent basis. if you want your town insured, you have to do this. in the real world, barack obama s policies work better. he s unbelievable. our extreme weather we re facing right now in the northeast from droughts and wildfires across the country, now hurricane sandy, make the case that manmade global warming is not only real but is having an effect. right now. u.s. congressman ed markey, is the top democrat on the natural resources on the congress and senior member of the energy and commerce committee. michael oppenheimer is a professor of geosciences at princeton university. i want to start with professor oppenheimer. simply put, when you look at hurricane sandy, which is a funny name for something hitting our beaches and causing such
that s why they call them super bugs. the f.d.a. says 80% of all the antibiotics sold in the united states is fed to livestock to prevent them from disease in the barnyard. global warming, yes, but patriotism, no? the nebraska board of education coming under fire for proposed changes to its social studies curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade. the guidelines suggest manmade global warming is fact instead of theory. he says they also failed to emphasize american exceptionalism, capitalism and free enterprise. nebraska residents now weighing in on the guidelines before a final draft goes up for approval in october. and here s an eye opener. more than 46,000 of our neighbors up north left canada last year to get medical treatment here in the united states. thanks to that country s government-run health care system, canadians were forced to wait an average of 19 weeks between the time they were
weather extremes are connected to manmade global warming. this study does not make predictions for the future but begs the question have we reached the tipping point? scientists tell us not yet. there may not be a tipping point this year or next year but the odds just keep growing. and it is one of the problems where the sooner you deal with it, the easier it is. reporter: what this report won t do is make any direct connection between a particular weather event and global warming. what it does do is say the green house gas level on the planet is higher than any time they have been measuring green house gasses and they find no reason to believe that was caused naturally. sam champion, abc news, new york. very telling story, yes. all right here is a look at your wednesday weather, everybody another stormy day from albuquerque to denver. thunderstorms and flooding from the southern plains into the southeast. showers around philly and d.c. 80s from the middle of the country to
importantly than he does the politics and at least somebody in this town is doing çit. it s a relief. professor dyson, much like mandates going back to what s happening in colorado, mitt romney was a believer in manmade global warming before saying he didn t know what caused it and offering no plan to control it. as we suffer under record heat here in the east, as we ve watched colorado burn under drought conditions, how smart of a flip-flop do you think romney s performed on this one? look, the science of it is real. we used to you know, joke with george w. bush about his inability to acknowledge that the science matters, the facts mattered, not one s opinions. i think mitt romney is just showing his points that in their exposing vulnerable here, it s about the science, baby and the science wins out and it shows us that we are suffering under