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Times change, climates change, but not us. We'll never change. No matter how stinky our clothes get. We've got to set a good example for the climate, right? We like it just the way it is.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
Each year, when winter turns to spring and the weather grows warmer, people everywhere
- 00:17
celebrate by doing things that seem totally nuts: [Ice cream van]
- 00:19
Riding funny-shaped boards on scary-huge ocean waves... [Man surfing]
- 00:23
Putting on ridiculous-looking goggles and oversized rubber socks in order to stare at [Girl diving]
Full Transcript
- 00:26
a bunch of fish...
- 00:27
And sliding half-naked down colorful plastic tubes with the express purpose of crash-landing [Boy riding a water slide]
- 00:32
at the end.
- 00:33
Man…what a strange species we are…
- 00:35
But while the weather getting warmer each year is generally seen as a good thing, the [Girl at an ice cream stand]
- 00:39
climate getting warmer overall certainly isn't.
- 00:42
And sure, it doesn't seem that much hotter each summer, but that doesn't mean climate [Thermometer showing a high temperature]
- 00:45
change isn't happening.
- 00:47
Scientists are finding evidence of it all over the place, and rising temperatures seem [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 00:51
to be a new trend…
- 00:52
And unlike Pokémon Go, this is a trend we're not super excited about… [Someone playing Pokemon Go on their phone]
- 00:56
But what exactly is all of this evidence they're finding?
- 00:59
Well, for starters, polar ice is melting at a rapid rate.
- 01:02
It's also getting hotter in cold places, and drier in places that are usually wet. [River dries to sand]
- 01:06
Sounds like future waterslide adventures will be pretty painful. [Boy slides into sand]
- 01:09
There are also more severe storms, hurricanes and tornadoes now than we've seen in the past [Satellite view of a hurricane]
- 01:13
100 years.
- 01:15
So, yup…there's been a lot of strange and unusual things that have been observed in
- 01:18
recent years.
- 01:19
And these changes don't just impact the Earth itself…they impact humans and animals, too. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:24
Because surprisingly enough, neither of us like the idea of a tornado ripping through [Tornado takes a house into the air]
- 01:28
our homes.
- 01:29
Go figure.
- 01:30
But these changes affect us in other smaller ways too.
- 01:33
The melting ice causes the sea levels to rise, affecting the homes of those that live on
- 01:37
islands and near the shore. [The water rises and a beach house floats away]
- 01:39
And for some animals, the ice is where they call home. [Polar bears]
- 01:41
So when it melts, their home melts, too. [Polar bears stranded on an ice berg]
- 01:43
Another downside to the ice melting is that it allows the waters to grow warmer – because
- 01:48
while ice usually reflects the rays of the sun, the water absorbs it. [The ice reflecting rays]
- 01:52
Many animals require the water to be cold to survive, so as it heats up, things start
- 01:57
to look…a little bleak.
- 01:59
Between the giant storms, the rising water levels and the loss of homes for both humans [Fish on the water surface]
- 02:02
and animals, it should be fairly obvious that climate change isn't exactly a good thing [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 02:06
And if you're not totally convinced, just ask these penguins.
- 02:09
That is…if you can manage to squeeze onto that block of ice….man, this feels like [Iceberg full of penguins]
- 02:13
Titanic all over again… [Man holding onto the iceberg slips and falls under the water]
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