good to see you thank you so much
absolutely all right come on the Paris
agreement ended up being a historic
agreement not because it gets us to
where we need to be eventually but for
the first time locking in all countries
into verifiable steps and targets that
they’re going to take it creates the
architecture that allows us to finally
start dealing with this problem in a
serious way so you were happy with I was
happy that we put the architecture in
place big the targets that have been set
in Paris are nowhere near enough for
what the scientists tell us we have to
do eventually to solve this problem but
if we can use the next 20 years to apply
existing technologies to reduce carbon
emissions and then start slowly turning
up the dials as new technologies come
online so that we have more and more
ambitious targets each year then we’re
not going to completely reverse the
warming that now is inevitable but we
can stop it before it becomes
catastrophic it’s no secret that you’ve
been under great opposition to try to
implement some of your climate change
initiatives and we got some folks on
this side yeah so somebody that comes
into office it does not believe and the
science of climate change right do they
have the capacity and the power to
dismantle everything that you’ve already
worked for even if somebody came in
campaigning on denying climate science
huh reality has a way of yeah hit you in
the nose if you’re if you’re not paying
attention and I think that the public is
starting to realize the science in part
because it’s indisputable I I admire
your optimism yeah but you start to look
at the science look at what’s going on
in the Antarctic uns and scientists
saying that there are sections of ice
that guarantee four to six meters of
ocean level rise which will be
catastrophic for our future you are the
leader of the free world you have access
to information not that most people do
not what makes you terrified for the
future a huge portion of the world’s
population
lives near oceans mm-hmm if they start
moving then you start seeing scarce
resources the subject to competition
between populations mm-hmm this is the
reason why the Pentagon has said this is
a national security issue this isn’t
just an environmental issue there’s a
national security issue you know in
addition to just the sadness that I
would feel if my kids can never see a
glacier the way I saw when I went up to
Alaska yeah that’s the romantic side of
me that’s the side that takes a walk
with my daughters and I want to be able
to them to see or my grandkids I want
them to see the same things I saw as I
was growing up even if you were
unsentimental about that in very
hard-headed terms you’ve got to worry
about the national security implications
of this and the capacity for the
existing world order as we understand it
to survive the kinds of strains that the
scientists are predicting with that
action this is why we have to take
action now
absolutely all right come on the Paris
agreement ended up being a historic
agreement not because it gets us to
where we need to be eventually but for
the first time locking in all countries
into verifiable steps and targets that
they’re going to take it creates the
architecture that allows us to finally
start dealing with this problem in a
serious way so you were happy with I was
happy that we put the architecture in
place big the targets that have been set
in Paris are nowhere near enough for
what the scientists tell us we have to
do eventually to solve this problem but
if we can use the next 20 years to apply
existing technologies to reduce carbon
emissions and then start slowly turning
up the dials as new technologies come
online so that we have more and more
ambitious targets each year then we’re
not going to completely reverse the
warming that now is inevitable but we
can stop it before it becomes
catastrophic it’s no secret that you’ve
been under great opposition to try to
implement some of your climate change
initiatives and we got some folks on
this side yeah so somebody that comes
into office it does not believe and the
science of climate change right do they
have the capacity and the power to
dismantle everything that you’ve already
worked for even if somebody came in
campaigning on denying climate science
huh reality has a way of yeah hit you in
the nose if you’re if you’re not paying
attention and I think that the public is
starting to realize the science in part
because it’s indisputable I I admire
your optimism yeah but you start to look
at the science look at what’s going on
in the Antarctic uns and scientists
saying that there are sections of ice
that guarantee four to six meters of
ocean level rise which will be
catastrophic for our future you are the
leader of the free world you have access
to information not that most people do
not what makes you terrified for the
future a huge portion of the world’s
population
lives near oceans mm-hmm if they start
moving then you start seeing scarce
resources the subject to competition
between populations mm-hmm this is the
reason why the Pentagon has said this is
a national security issue this isn’t
just an environmental issue there’s a
national security issue you know in
addition to just the sadness that I
would feel if my kids can never see a
glacier the way I saw when I went up to
Alaska yeah that’s the romantic side of
me that’s the side that takes a walk
with my daughters and I want to be able
to them to see or my grandkids I want
them to see the same things I saw as I
was growing up even if you were
unsentimental about that in very
hard-headed terms you’ve got to worry
about the national security implications
of this and the capacity for the
existing world order as we understand it
to survive the kinds of strains that the
scientists are predicting with that
action this is why we have to take
action now
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