00:00He did this, or when he calibrated all this, he was working at Scripps, right?
00:11Yeah, so this will add one more point to the Keeling Curve.
00:15Why is that important?
00:17Well, why is the curve important, right?
00:19It's telling us where we've come and where we're going on carbon dioxide and therefore on climate.
00:24So it's the big picture.
00:26It's the iconic record of how the planet has changed and how it will change going forward.
00:42I mean, one way to look at the climate problem is if you don't even acknowledge it,
00:46you obviously can't be ready for what's coming next.
00:50So it's a problem.
00:52Since then, that may be a part of the difference for me.
00:55Yeah, the U.S. has really been in a leadership role in this field and in related fields of science and climate change,
01:03as well as many fields of science.
01:05And it's really sad to see the U.S. seeding leadership.
01:10It's not just sad for our country, but it's sad for the world because it means it's going to hold back the community.
01:17The U.S. has been leading and probably still needs to lead.
01:20We have the infrastructure out there to do things like no one else.
01:23What does it show?
01:25First of all, that carbon dioxide is just going up and up and up.
01:30Why is it going up?
01:31Because we're burning fossil fuels and fossil fuel CO2 exhaust is accumulating in the atmosphere.
01:39And it's going up faster in recent years than in the past.
01:44So we're not only breaking all-time records for carbon dioxide concentration,
01:49we're also breaking all-time records for how fast it's increasing.
01:53Why?
01:54Because we're burning more fossil fuel now than we did in the past.
01:57It's pretty simple.
01:59This is very rock-solid data, but the program that makes this is fragile.
02:05And so we have a vulnerability now in the context of uncertainty about funding
02:12and uncertainty about priorities to keep these kinds of measurements going.
02:19If you pull the water out first, it freezes at a lower temperature.
02:28And we know it's happening.
02:29The data's all there.
02:31We're not making it up.
02:32And so I think the record we have just of the very simple thing
02:37of how much the CO2 goes up every year
02:39and how it keeps going up more and more and more
02:41is really important just to show people
02:44we haven't solved the problem by any means.
02:47The problem just gets worse every year.
02:50The Earth's climate does not depend on what country you're in.
02:55It's a silly idea to think that it would
02:57or that one country could just ignore it
03:00and everyone else will just take up the slack.
03:03And, I mean, we're all on the same boat, as they like to say.
03:08So we all have to work together to ensure that humanity
03:13and every other living, you know, species on the planet
03:18has a healthy environment in the future.
03:20And, well, it looks like you all have to� that region.
03:40And I hope there's a good
03:50You
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