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In 1997, captain moore discovered a massive garbage patch in the north pacific. now his team has confirmed the existence of another further south off the coast of chile and peru. captain moore estimates it to be about 2 million square kilometers larger than mexico. it formed winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents creating a vortex known as gyres and causing debris to collect in a central location. >> i call it a plastic soup. if you think of the ocean as the liquid in a soup, we have gone from, you know, creamy to extra chunky. >> reporter: captain moore and his te...

Away. it can take 500 to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. what is the plastic doing in our oceans, ivan cabrera? >> walking my dog on the ocean and i could see all of that litter. it's got to get out to the ocean and where a lot of it ends up, unfortunately. let's talk about the ocean currents. then, natalie, will toss to a few pieces have good advice on what you can do to help the planet here. 8 million, that is metric tons. that is dumped into the oceans. going what is already into the ocean. can you imagine? 5 trillion pieces of plastic. this is, obviously, estimated, nobody is countin...

The fundamental role they play in earth's carbon psych skbll if you look over there they're trying to jump up on you the ice. it's hilarious. >> yeah, they're really cute, that's true. yeah, it's -- it's -- the antarctic is a cooling temper that mitigates the effects of climate change. and what happens here is having an effect on the climate of the planet. the ocean currents are driven by the cold waters of the antarctic. >> and the wildlife is central to driving carbon rich biomass to the depths of the dense cold ocean waters where it is stored for millennia if it's left undisturbed. there ar...

Goodness that according to our calculations carbon dioxide accounts for a maximum of half of the global warming asserted by the intergovernmental panel on climate change a solar activity and ocean currents account for the rest of us. he demands to germinate postpone its energy plans be given that would give us time to adjust power generation sensibly so there will not be a climate catastrophe through chemo cut us to. foreign halters now chairman of the german foundation for wild animals. he remains firmly against wind energy. but now it's for animal protection reasons. energy companies are act...

Have a very low rates of gun violence but u.s. states and cities with strict gun laws have high rates of gun violence. >> shannon: the number of lawmakers spoke out last night to propose legislative fixes. police teams were clearing the crime scene in florida, pressure is mounting on congress to come up with solutions. >> facebook, instagram, youtube, these are forces like ocean currents, you can't stand in and make them turn around and go back. the question is what do we do? what can we do at the margins rather than these great grandiose solutions. >> shannon: can the government solve every p...