Rising Seas Are Threatening America's Cities
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Rising tides already threaten major cities and military bases around the country. Now it's predicted that sea levels will increase ten times faster than estimated before. Are public officials playing down the danger? Is there any way to prepare?
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| 0:25.7 | A wake-up call for a slow-moving disaster. |
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| 0:36.3 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Rising sea levels already cause flooding in many American cities. Increasingly |
| 0:43.2 | high tides at coastal military bases pose a threat to national security. Now the timetable for disaster |
| 0:49.4 | has been speeded up by a shocking prediction. Sea ice will be melting 10 times faster than previously |
| 0:55.8 | estimated. Sea levels will rise by 10 feet in just 50 years, according to James Hansen, |
| 1:02.3 | who warned about climate change when he was working for NASA. How much of worldwide civilization |
| 1:07.3 | will be underwater? Is it possible to prepare? We'll talk with Hansen and others. |
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| 1:45.5 | Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Rising Tides already threatened major cities |
| 1:49.9 | and military bases around the country. Now it's predicted that sea levels will increase |
| 1:54.3 | 10 times faster than estimated before. Are public officials playing down the danger? |
| 1:59.6 | Is there any way to prepare? |
| 2:01.7 | Today's talking point, judges in Pennsylvania may soon be sentencing convicts not just for crimes they've committed, but for crimes they might commit in the future. |
| 2:10.2 | Should risk assessment determine how long they go behind bars? |
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