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yeah the makeup done to me earlier  today I get to fly on a jet that was originally designed for war 9 answers using it for a peaceful Mission but the stakes are just as high clip art is to collect air samples that measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause of climate change wouldn't want to miss this beautiful thing  for over 20 years I've served on the board of conservation so this isn't the first time I worried about threats to our planet but this is a chance for me to see up close how scientists study climb and what it all means when you see these levels go your climate scientist how do you feel about the about what's happening bringing in a lot of ways from this physical reality for a long time to come it's 10 a.m. on March 16th 2013  this has become weekly ritual  each Saturday these people walk the four miles around the Cargill meat packing plant on the edge of town the ring and for the plant to reopen 6 weeks ago it closed and overnight 10% of the area's entire Workforce was laid it shut down because of a three-year drought that devastated the cattle herd here in Texas without cows you can't run a meat packing plant we pray for the situation in Cargill my God cuz there's you bring them oysters you bring the rain conditions will change my God it's your rain it's your spirit a lot of the country something like a drought is seen as an act of God or part of a natural cycle the where I live in Los Angeles it seems like any kind of extreme weather gets blamed on climate change what time is it feels like we live in two different countries I want to know what the truth is about this drought get that and if it's possible for these two sides to talk to me child so I'm heading to Texas to find out is Africa promise I'm from hazardous City hours drive from the Siri order on the other side Civil War is Raging the world's deadliest conflict Dometic safety consult served in the Balkans sorry about Afghanistan this will be my 10th trip into Syria but I'm not here to write about the late there's a different disaster I'm interested in one I hope we'll tell me something about the real roots of this conflict and it ends with Euphrates River heavily and stop totally stop 4 years before the Civil War started Syria was hit by a drought that lasted until just before the Revolution a drought so devastating that it altered the lives of millions of syrians  there's a man on the other side of the board who can tell me about it I just have to get there the nearest Syrian Army tricks nobody knows we're coming alarm clock moment for the world because this report will tell us again that everything we thought we knew on climate change because actually been underestimated the effects of fun open up faster and more intense basketball we all know the human activities are changing the atmosphere and unexpected and in unprecedented ways the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now sea level has risen and the concentrations of greenhouse gases original Fire season with wild files all year round massive destruction turn the landscape on drawing the new scientific report was determined the last decade was the warmest on record more dramatically than ever before we may have rocky Fireland room the data we collected with that jet plus a lot more all comes here to now what is Advanced supercomputing facility in Northern California these days the most jaw-dropping images coming out of NASA art of mars or the moon but of happening to our own Planet you have going on in the Midwest dream bread baskets to cornbelt Ukraine Russia wietfeldt and down here in Argentina the soy Corn Belt all underperforming under drought this is actual data not a projection can we connect this drought to to man-made climate change changing the greenhouse gases come from the burning of fossil fuels and they come from cars and playing with her station how does that play out in the United States over the next few years  here we're looking at just want to go climate July 1950 Diesel high temperatures you can see only a few areas like in Arizona you have 100 plus degrees in July because we going to the Future tomorrow's predict those really hard areas to be going just so you can see how the high temperatures are spreading across the country and imagine the impact of those temperatures will be produced food imagine Harrison that far North Dakota is like Phoenix those agricultural areas in the midwest they won't be these are conservative projections by the world's leading sign and one of the biggest causes of this is something astonishing 20% of all the income from deforestation ADTR that's a big number it turns out the deforestation accounts for about the same amount of emissions is cars playing in fact all the transportation on the entire planet  that's because living trees breathe in and store carbon as they grow but when they die they place that carbon back into the atmosphere more carbon in the air means more global warming and every couple of years in a forest to cover all of Germany is lost forever is Forest lost colored by year the best country in terms of reducing deforestation has been Raziel at the opposite end of the Spectrum in terms of the highest rate of increase per year is Indonesia  what is a double whammy for climate change first they cut the trees that has been taking in the carbon and then they slash-and-burn the landscape and that release is so cold carbon so much Forest is being burned there that you can see the smoke from space so it is illegal and what are they being cleared for what palm oil snack food cereals cakes processed foods candy bars cookies Cheez-Its Oreos soaps shampoos is pretty much on every Isle of most supermarkets  you'll find palm oil in there what comes from the fruit of oil palm trees of cardio Cortez of rainforest Action Network tells me that almost all of those palm trees are grown on land that used to be Forest it's not the oil is produced need to find out where they're palm oils coming from and then Signet commitment we're not going to contribute to climate change and deforestation and then look at their supply chains and prove that looked audio system and for palm oils growing faster than any other agricultural commodity and in Indonesia that means even more incentive to destroy forests  I'm going there Define help warm on my way to the signs of drought clear ranchers here among first to feel its effects good see you one of them has been here as whole life my spots right here how big of an expense 17000 Acres Ranch  17000 swear I started out right here I thought it needed to rain last year it's got to rain next time I thought it's just another I spell want to be out of it that is more than dry spell  Monty tells me he's had to sell two-thirds of his stock just to stay in business he's not alone across the border in Texas where I'm headed the cattle herd is at its lowest level in more than half-a-century down more than 2 million cows which is why that meat packing plant in Plainview had to close when I arrive it's clear this isn't a big town just 22,000 people  so I figure something that killed 2,300 jobs in a single day it's got affecting just about everyone what role did climate change play in the drought that led to all this what does people here think I pay a visit to one of the laid-off workers Natalie Montez I grew up I lived here all my life my kids were born and raised right here in this house so this is my mom and dad's house see a lot of the businesses have already closed down and stuff Merced coming in the plant closures cargill's the main source of income  that day and they told us they took us into the cafeteria oh my God that was just unreal  it was make they rounded up a herd of cattle in a pan and just hit us over the head with it this is home sweet home home away from home right  Nellie told me it was a good job she saved enough money to buy a house in for the first time in her life wasn't living paycheck to when they tell me it's over  Swan Lake  who's going to hire a 46 your woman as a forklift driver what do you think the reason was for the drought contribute anything think about that my only thought was I think it's biblical biblical religion plays a big role in Plainview there are over 70 churches in town and I discover that believing the drought is God's will or part of the natural cycle is common here  as I talked to more and more of the locals it doesn't seem like anyone thinks humans could be affecting the climate  I think it's cycle everything runs in 20 years Cycles there's only one man that knows how much rain we going to get and that's God he's not a note to self I'm not putting much faith in what they say  Genesis 9 sales  the third roll seedtime and harvest this business people saying that there's going to be a Calamity in weather  is true but what if it is true what if global warming is the reason all these people here lost their jobs I spent decades reporting on the Middle East but I have to say the events in Syria these days are some of the most heartbreaking I have ever seen thought I knew how it all started the protests over government repression and widespread poverty and early 2011 then I met Farhan Asif the young Syrian refugee living here in Washington DC and she made me wonder if there might be a lot more to the story they are talking about drugs when I was young I was a living or something like this live through another disaster and at the gov this response made people so angry they were eager to take to the streets she said I couldn't understand the Civil War if I didn't understand what happened in the draft who's the farmers they lifted the masquers to homes just like you can find TimberStone in one room if unit is that most of Revolution they are from Countryside Kansas City later I learned that this drought was the worst in serious modern history and that it happened in the 4 years just before the over million people were displaced and according to the United Nations more than 2 million were forced into extreme poverty  disgrace and distraught was part of a trend  according to a study by the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last 40 years climate change is caused the Mediterranean region to dry out resulting in longer more severe droughts the places in red are getting the war in Syria is right at the epicenter  I also come across a confidential us diplomatic cable written two years before the it contains some dire predictions a un official station in Syria feared the drought would throw the entire country into chaos can there really be a connection between a drought and a civil war hey is Thomas Friedman from The New York Times climate change is now well understood to be a major national security issue and a source of a stress on a number of the underlying causes of conflict drought floods food shortages water scarcity all of these drives increased human and security poverty and can contribute to conflict how much do you feel that stress in Northern Syria where are the region affected by drought from 2006 to 2010 right on Eve of the Revolution they're contributed to it where there is insecurity when there is poverty hunger for governance repressive policies it may make the Tinder in the Box more readily ignitable in other words if a drought is bad enough it could help pushing stress Society to the breaking point is that what happened in Syria I arrived in Indonesia to what looks like the worst smog I've ever seen but it's not smog it's smoked fire cheapest way to clear a forest  so we can be replaced by this palm trees for palm oil these plantations made looked Lush they take the place of dense jungles that restoring carbon for hundreds of years palm trees will only grow for 25 years before being cut down and burned again  releasing all carbon into the atmosphere but even that isn't the worst of it in Borneo one of Indonesia's many islands two people are waiting to show me more I meant by Rizal kusuma project Rizal and his business partner darsono hartono are taking me to a remote piece of forest that they're trying safe also on this journey my rust mittermeier the distinguished primatologist and president of conservation International which is focused on climate change and deforestation for many Rizal and Persona tell me that the most remarkable and precious thing about this jungle is right under our feet what were walking on isn't mud it's a thick layer of compressed decaying vegetation called Pete many of Indonesia's Forest sit on Pete and Pete is full of carbon so what are these guys doing here getting a core sample of some kind of the paint right that's correct send it to a laboratory or what we called involve density and then organic carbon content in a typical 1 metre by 1 metre in one meter that's one cubic meter it consists between 45 kg - 90 kg of of carbon of carbon does pee contain the the same amount of carbon as as a regular for us it can be ten times as much and if there's a fire in this Forest the Pete Wilburn to releasing all that stored carbon into the air  peat fires are almost impossible to extinguish they can smolder for years What's the total contained in this area that you're trying to protect almost a billion tons of carbon dioxide you live in Los Angeles right now so I can Los Angeles have 5 million cars take 1/3 out send Dustin connection that we prevented  a lot of cars  and that's just this area in the destruction of Indonesia's P Clans accounts for an astonishing 4% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions 5 years of trying to protect this one Pete Forest they still haven't succeeded what's the problem why are we doing it one of the biggest problem that baby sing the past five years is to get the rights to the land release of the land from the government grants put the paper that he has to sign has been sitting there for over a year I think everybody knows that corruption is the problem Indonesia one of the big source of corruption acai the forestry sector just because they hold a lot of land we never heard directly from the minister in terms of what kinds of things that he wants from us will be apart from other people that because it is a big area we have to give something up beneficials in the forest Ministry may be looking for a bribe it's happened here in the past I want to meet the minister in charge but there's a lot mercy first the drive to cause the plant in Plainview to close wasn't just limited to Texas  at its height it covered two-thirds of the continental US I was looking for someone who could help me understand what caused it and I found her one town over at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Katharine hayhoe is one of the top climate scientists in the world she's written more than 60 p review Publications and one of her Specialties is drought here in West Texas it's feast or famine we have years when it's dry as a bone we have years when it's record flooding and I just the way it's always been as far back as we go so just to give an example here in Lubbock we only have about nine or ten days a year over a hundred degrees on average 2011 we had almost 50 days over 100 that is going to be the typical Summer by the middle of the century if we continue on our current path way so what happens if you make that exact natural cycle of drought wet dry wet and you make it hotter well when it's dry all that extra temperature is going to cause even more water to evaporate even more so the average drought is going to become more severe as it gets warmer when is what's causing it to change there's what I call for Usual Suspects that we know have done it before number one number one the sun is suspect number two cuz that's where we get all our energy from so how do we know it's not the sun it's because we can actually look at the sun's energy we've been measuring it so we have this regular cycle right but we also have these long-term changes where it was getting giving us more and more energy up until about the 1970s and then it's and this is our temperature temperature actually kept on going up so it's not the sun going down Champion cooler if it's not volcanoes volcanoes just cool the earth when they erupted what about natural cycles regular Cycles every hundred thousand years or so and you see the Cycles in temperature and in carbon dioxide we see the temperature and carbon side track together we also see that right now we are way out of the ballpark is out of the ballpark because of human activity the Earth's temperature is rising right along with it how do you say Jazz volcanoes put ourselves in before  as I leave town I wonder how people in Plainview would react to what she just told me but they see a conflict between her science and their faith Batman the Catherine doesn't see a conflict she's a devout Christian yourself on my way to Syria I learned about a family that recently fled the war and is now taking Refuge here hi Mitch Martin house of voices Adam artificial that's not the better kind of not all this at all you Kent Janis Hansen Earth class mail Chinese swimmer flick Marston water see how the list flop have you ever seen anything like that before Latin has your father massage massage they took you away for 2 months I don't matter  chisel Maddie & Kalani lecithin Botanical syrup Play the song evening Palmetto Tallahassee on  La jornada turquia what are your plans now you want to go back and read turn your your comrades and continue the revolution how many other syrians are one have a similar story to tell  the answer is on the other side of that border I'm told there's a rebel commander leading a group of failed Farmers turn Fighters that's where I'm heading in order to truly understand deforestation here it's important to know this country's history  the dictatorship that I was in power from the 19 sixties to the 90s seized huge swathes of land from indigenous peoples by labeling them State Forest then parcel them out to big companies it companies left after 4 within a few years ago it seems like things were taking a turn for the better the country's president declared a moratorium turn the destruction of all natural Forest our pot in reducing Global greenhouse gas emissions for the cutting and burning continued in fact it accelerated Etsy is this the president's Authority was limited perhaps there was too much money to be made please people from the world wild are bringing me to a beautiful place called tesso nilo  conservation International and WWF work for years to get it declared a national park the government specifically the forestry Minister would then be responsible for protecting it but when was named to park ten years ago that didn't stop the palm oil and patient we realize that it was it you gelatin this province that nobody was taken care of or conflicts with the oil palm companies and these elephants in the surrounding area do they do about the elephants poison them we found groups of up to 21 elephants dead it's clear that what's happening to these elephants and this Forest is deeply connected to our own future because of climate change  Extinction is company and we are watching right here there's nothing else in too much or left of this ecosystem this is the last part and it's going going gone it's important to experience this paradise first to appreciate what comes next that many people view science and faith is being deeply hide it but for me growing up with a dad who is a scientist who was also a missionary and he's very active in the church with the understanding that there was What conflict by setting science we are standing what God was thinking when he created the universe  I've never heard of anyone like Catherine Evangelical climate scientist  she's made it her mission to explain the science of climate change to people to face your face at its core has a idea that you should take care of people who have less than you do if you look around the world were seeing things happening that are affecting our Global neighbor the only sensible responses reducing own contribution taking care of those that we can and loving her neighbors as ourselves digging the stuff up from way under the ground where we normally stay for about a million and we've been putting it to the atmosphere really really quickly of course God can control these given us the freedom to make choices and what we're seeing here is receiving the consequences of choices we made what's often difficult to sow the seeds in the hard baked political terrain of Texas  those that want to take the position that global warming man falls in it is incontrovertible that's not correct why would I put our children through Jeopardy and just because there is a large number of scientists to stand up and say oh is that the man's fault and that is sad what frustrates me and what actually makes me angry is not when people disagree with me what makes me angry is when I see people who I know no better deliberately lying to people about this issue and so when I see people telling other people climate hasn't changed global warming has stopped God would never let this happen to the planet will all look around there's a lot of bad things that happened to plan it every single day does God let this happen yeah he that's why because he gave us the brains to make good and bad choices I believe that as long as you've got God there he's going to guide you to the next the next step so over the next couple of weeks what is praying and like that instantly I just felt Peace So to me it felt like it was to his confirmation so going to the next step with strength  that next step is leaving Plainview there just no jobs here three months after the plant closed deadly moves in with her brother and his family in San Antonio but things still aren't looking up I've been hurting last 2 months finances mainly  she can't find anyone to buy her old house back in Plainview so she's falling behind on the mortgage and the bank's threatening foreclosure enter new job and Appliance Warehouse doesn't pay much I've got to take the best off of that they give me in the best one was from working now and that's $12 an hour that doesn't compare to what I was making neck home in Plainview we pray for rain and we hope for because the reality is nothing grows Without Rain got to set it up so that a Sprinkle of rain falls on the soil and from that oil comes up fruit plants vegetables life Katherine wants to introduce me to her first climb change convert this water is the truth of the gospel and that's why we're here this morning soak it in its this Evangelical preacher Drew Farley also happens to be her husband and I got married that actually real many of the people that I was getting to know in church didn't think it was real lot of my political opinions are Republican I'm a Christian I believe God created the world you know I'm conservative in many ways and I also believe that climate change is real it seems like the thank you all that don't want to believe in that science believe in science when they need to take a pill or believe in science when they don't want something to work right in their house that's the tributable to others are people who put that together but in this issue it's got to be a part of something else unfortunately it's gotten so the politics and then questions about God and then the climate change it's all just become this ball of sound bites and and people can't parse it out and then I guess that's really what it what it is is that if you accept climate change then I have to vote for Obama if I say it's it's not real that I can stay with my political affiliation I can stay with the church and everything is all good because really will most people want to do I think is avoid conflict you know a thermometer is not Republican a thermometer is not Democrat more time I spend here the more I wonder is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way  could this kind of discussion happen in Plainview are there two explosions RightWay car bombs in a town along turkey's border with Syria what was the tales of this attack or still coming out today's attack raises fears that cereal may be Crossing into neighboring turkey now as we bombing of the Border just a few Towns over lower the certificate in cooking in a news reporter strips locations  what's going on on the other side of that border right now what is it like now it's somehow more risky after last name by Holly the closest Hardee's to 55 kilometers South where are we right now we are here now I think you can get them permission to pass for Market okay the secondary in our Aiko sponge II a.m. is your job the secondary that's the secondary everybody goes home in exactly the same condition that we're all sitting here now the most dangerous place for journalists in the world in the moment nobody really knows we're coming. Correct yep last year what was happening Chessa nilo National Park became such an embarrassment that the forestry Minister was forced to pay a visit he urged the people there to stop the destruction I didn't delete the power and the need to pack up these words with action  but I've heard it hasn't exactly happened  Sedona parks right now on paper is is 86000 hectare start off a good Forest left in the park everything else is either very degrading for us or open wastelands open Rush areas and most of it is is following potential now the Forestry Department responsible for policing this kind of activity the ministry of Forestry is in charge of Long and Foster what happens most of the time nothing happens  if you look all around us now we see all these patches of black soil  photos of players left right front everywhere it's all good scars  they burn all the logs on the the ground here  this is horrifying look at that they just cut him at the base drop the trees burned everything Frank wow  if Indonesia's forestry Minister won't even protected National Park what hope is there for the rest of the Forest  there's still smoldering if you hire this more I still coming up over there the guys are already setting the seedlings into the the fresh blackout of the concept of National Park 86000 X. it's hardly anything left this is unbelievable I can't wait to see the minister of Forestry I can't wait Plainview Texas is still reeling from the Cargill plant closure to pay the bills the city raise property taxes and the school district lost over 200 students because so many families had to leave  now Katharine hayhoe is coming to town to talk about the drought paused it all  people from all over curious to hear what she has to say  he had to be a little bit crazy not to at least want to know a little bit more about it I mean see certainly to me is more credible than somebody like out of the word for going to pickle an outdoor butt she has the same beliefs as I do as far as from a Christian you know bass deal  Nelly even made the six hour drive from San Antonio  I want to know what it is that really caused this truck so when tomorrow or day after turn on my kids Salem you know what is that what were they talking about I have some kind of answers answers right now nobody knows even my dad Cooper to the path I don't know what to tell her so please join me in welcoming dr. Catherine Hail to the podium the most incredible things about our planet something that we see everyday and we probably don't ever notice it just like a blanket on a cold night keeps us warm by trapping our body heat under the blanket in the same way US 60 degrees warmer than we would be with no atmosphere if we didn't have these little things of carbon dioxide atmosphere would be a Frozen ball of ice what's happening is we have this natural greenhouse effects here with his natural atmosphere and we are adding an extra layer to it that was never intended to be there when I look at the information that we get from the planet I look at it as God's creation speaking to us and in this case no question that God's creation is telling us that it is running a fever  that's as I listen I find myself wondering faith and science always seem so far apart time is changing because of what we're doing there's no way around it if there were more people like maybe they wouldn't have to be  how did you get to meet Nelly just you know like you put the things too or saying that we can do as far as you know taking some of that layer of blanket off right there evine wow you know I didn't know that you have somebody that believes the same way as you and is from this part of the or has lived here for quite a while and it's teaching to Texas you know you see that conservative side of that telling you the messages sure makes a lot of difference it's about how it comes sometimes not necessary what it is and it's to decouple those things you're praying for the peace and prosperity of our city and we prayed for the bees and the prosperity my God we all believed that we were going to come together pray about this and something's going to change for playing me  I had never herd of climate change after hearing Catherine all this is like wow what we start using the right things and doing the right we could probably save our planet I naively thought that I would send a climate-science until we fix the problem and I go back to astrophysics that was a long time ago  it was urgent when I started studying this Raymore Urgent today and so until we have policies in place to start curbing our carbon emissions and reducing the Apache Star Planet I have to keep going once we cross the border signs of War are everywhere the commander magic Albuquerque thank you very much call Beaman home. How that is Fibonacci stop  the commander tells me used to be a cotton farmer but when the drought-hit he had to turn the smuggling to feed his family value in the valley 7 mixed fuel do anything the Lower Lights Azura  when they write the history of the this revolution how important will the job seeds Manhattan Club it's a plumber. Belgium Rocko nachos how old is Gia but to share your meal with the commander it's time to turn back it's dangerous to linger around here this close to the Border later I'll find out that this town was taken over by Al-Qaeda and that 100 people were executed as we leave the words of the Syrian Commander ring in my head he called it a revolution of free add a revolution of the hungry  drums are nothing new neither are brutal dictators religious conflicts people's desire for freedom  but for The syrians Who live through it the drop will be forever seared into their memories and forever shape their feelings toward the ridge when they now seek to overthrow and the rest of us should take notice this volatile part of the world is only getting hotter and dryer more droughts made me more people displaced more lies uprooted perhaps more war  and we'd be very foolish to it won't affect us Secrets Revealed desires Explorer characters reimagined only on Showtime border Showtime now Showtime brace yourself order Showtime now and you can get $25 cash back visit shot or call now

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