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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. we're not talking hundreds or thousands of years. you're talking in people's lifetimes and our children's life times is what we're looking at. the biggest headline out of the report...

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 don't get it. when coal, oil and natural gas are burned to create energy, carbon dioxide and other gasses are pumped into the air. they don't 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 rayes. then there are storms like sandy. >> on the west coast you have fires bb draughts, and on the ...

And so the public says, we're not seeing it on tv and politicians don't seem to be doing anything about it it's not as serious as we thought. this is a recipe for disaster, for doing nothing about a serious problem. >> let's 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. i'm uncertain how much of the warming is attributable to factors out of our control. fall of last year his position had apparen...

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. i'm 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. let's watch. >> my view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. the idea of spending trillions of dollars to reduce co2 emissions is not the right course for us i don't see this as bei...

Warming. climate and weather are two different things. whether it is, of course, local. i'm not as surprised as you the public does not seem to be as concerned as they used to be about global warming. politicians we don't 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 don't want them to do anything about it. the media itself is reluctant to cover this because -- given the coverage it deserves because it is science and politicians aren't doing anything about it. and so the public looks...