Interviews with: Chief Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe, Former Vice President Al Gore, Ray Dalio
State of the Union
CNN
3.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Beyond Imagining, |
| 0:07.0 | Imagining, wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat. |
| 0:12.0 | Four water all over in my life. 2023 all over in the river. |
| 0:13.0 | 2023 was the year the world woke up to the climate change threat. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. |
| 0:21.0 | What have we learned? |
| 0:22.0 | And what will next year look like? Plus, landmark |
| 0:24.8 | packed. World leaders agree to transition away from fossil fuels, the chief |
| 0:28.6 | driver of the climate crisis. We're not turning back. That is the future. But with loopholes in the agreement, is it enough? |
| 0:35.4 | Former Vice President Al Gore is ahead. And seeing Green, as governments around the world |
| 0:41.1 | struggle to combat climate change, what role does Wall Street have to play? |
| 0:44.8 | Who's got the money? |
| 0:46.0 | Unlocked that by being able to make it profitable. |
| 0:49.7 | I'll ask the multi-billionaire investor who is focused on climate change, Ray Dahlia is coming up. Hello, I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, where the state of our union is sounding a very clear alarm. |
| 1:07.8 | We are closing out 2023 a year we may look back on is the time that people started to truly grasp that the climate crisis |
| 1:15.7 | is here and it is already costing lives and livelihoods from deadly wildfires to mudslides, devastating floods and soaring temperatures we saw it all. |
| 1:27.0 | 2023 was the hottest year in at least 125,000 years, scientists say, as they warn that the world is |
| 1:37.5 | inching perilously close to the threshold beyond which humans and ecosystems |
| 1:42.1 | will struggle to adapt. |
| 1:44.7 | In the US, cities in the south and southwest were particularly hard hit with Houston, Texas, |
| 1:50.2 | experiencing the longest extreme heat streak of any major city on earth. |
| 1:57.0 | And drought-stricken Maui in Hawaii, reeled from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. |
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