Andy Revkin video, March 2008: University of Delaware
29:00 Revkin talks about the threat of CO2-induced sea level rises: "...[it's] kind of like two people in San Francisco watching a parked car that's starting to roll down the hill, and they're arguing about whether it's going 1 mph or 3 mph. The problem is the car's rolling downhill and it's going to be a catastrophe when it hits something in a few minutes."
39:30 On Katrina: "The reality of what happened in New Orleans is completely simple, and has nothing to do with global warming."
40:16 "We folks in the media, we love hot imagery. We love drowning polar bears, we love flooded cities. We may say we hate them, but to some extent we love them, because it's a powerful story..."
63:55 "There's no one who questions if we burn it all with unlimited emissions we will have a profoundly different climate. And not just that--we'll be setting in motion as the IPCC made very clear, and there's no real dispute--many many centuries in which there'll be no new normal climate, and no new normal coastline. Whether the rate is 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet per century, every century you'll have to draw a new map..."
71:36 "This is our diplomatic corps two years ago in Montreal, at these climate talks. They're really good people, they're serving this administration and its interests. Their mandate, their portfolio that they brought to Montreal was not to negotiate. They could do anything they wanted for those two weeks--just don't negotiate. This is a treaty meeting--isn't that where you're supposed to negotiate?! So if they look constipated...They look like they have to go to the bathroom."
29:00 Revkin talks about the threat of CO2-induced sea level rises: "...[it's] kind of like two people in San Francisco watching a parked car that's starting to roll down the hill, and they're arguing about whether it's going 1 mph or 3 mph. The problem is the car's rolling downhill and it's going to be a catastrophe when it hits something in a few minutes."
39:30 On Katrina: "The reality of what happened in New Orleans is completely simple, and has nothing to do with global warming."
40:16 "We folks in the media, we love hot imagery. We love drowning polar bears, we love flooded cities. We may say we hate them, but to some extent we love them, because it's a powerful story..."
63:55 "There's no one who questions if we burn it all with unlimited emissions we will have a profoundly different climate. And not just that--we'll be setting in motion as the IPCC made very clear, and there's no real dispute--many many centuries in which there'll be no new normal climate, and no new normal coastline. Whether the rate is 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet per century, every century you'll have to draw a new map..."
71:36 "This is our diplomatic corps two years ago in Montreal, at these climate talks. They're really good people, they're serving this administration and its interests. Their mandate, their portfolio that they brought to Montreal was not to negotiate. They could do anything they wanted for those two weeks--just don't negotiate. This is a treaty meeting--isn't that where you're supposed to negotiate?! So if they look constipated...They look like they have to go to the bathroom."
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