"I've been reporting on global warming for over 20 years. You'd think that I'd have heard all this, but I'm alarmed by what I've learned recently. Everything is moving so much faster than forecast, accelerating and intensifying."
Watch: Inside the planet’s most urgent climate warning- Global Warning E1 Into the Storm Featured Documentary at Al Jazeera English channel Oct 11, outstanding quotes below, full transcript previous post at Heating Planet blog.
OUTSTANDING QUOTES from the transcript in the blogger's mind:
The more permafrost CO2 and methane that is released the more warming it will do so the more will be released so- Cold Arctic winters have disappeared.
So the officially agreed scientific figure between 50 cm and a meter of sea level 12:39 rise by the end of the century is if anything a very conservative figure? Absolutely. It's conservative.
Scientists think of this moment as another planetary tipping point, a point of no return, after which all weather 19:54 systems in the North Atlantic will be totally transformed and chaotic. 20:08 We are against the clock. Only we don't know how much time is left before that tipping point or even if the clock has 20:16 already stopped.
That's how climate 23:07 scientists say off the scale. The energy in this one storm, Freddy in Africa, was the equivalent of 23:13 an entire hurricane season in the North Atlantic.
[landslide] the mud and the water was actually hot. 25:30
Almost 700,000 Malawians lost their 29:48 homes in Cyclone Freddy. As they waited on rooftops for the waters to recede, some were preyed upon by crocodiles. 30:00
Like being hit 30:50 again and again before you've recovered from the last knockout blow.
due to rising seas, storm devastation, or unlivable heat, by 2070, 31:58 scientists' worst case projection is that almost 1 fifth of the planet will be uninhabitable, 32:05 the homes of three billion people.
The indigenous communities of the Arctic 36:02 are canaries in the coal mine. whole civilizations on the brink of losing 36:07 their way of life, their culture and their livelihoods due to climate change. 36:15 Today it's them. Tomorrow it will be us. 36:21 [Music] 36:37 We are surrounded by tipping points, planet changers, points of no return 36:42 that we could cross at any time in the next 10 years.
[OMG] Permafrost is icelike petey soils. In its frozen state, it lies dormant and 37:32 harmless. But global warming is thawing it, poking a sleeping bear of carbon and 37:38 methane.
the more permafrost that 37:50 is released the more warming it will do the more that will be released... We're seeing these bubbles coming up right now. And even when we don't disturb it, every once in a while you just get this little burp 40:08 of gases coming up.
We're now getting rain every 41:21 month of the year. But this is the Arctic. This is supposed to be a place with cold winters. The cold winters have 41:27 disappeared.
the only fix is to 44:12 stop emissions.
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Global Warming is a 3-part documentary first produced by Marcus Stewart in Ireland in 2024, running now on Al Jazeera globally. Philip Boucher-Hayes Irish journalist on screen, Garry Keane director
RTÉ has sent Boucher-Hayes to the Kosovo War in 1999, Palestine's second Intifada in 2000, Iran, the 9/11 attacks in New York City and the U.S.'s 2003 invasion of Iraq.
FULL TRANSCRIPT IN PREVIOUS POST
https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2025/10/transcript-global-warming-ep1-aljazeera.html
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