are of a certain age, and those
people are getting outnumbered
by regular, normal people who
embrace science, and the problem
is really -- it's global, and
the problem has been it's in
slow motion.
This is not -- it does not have
the catastrophic effect of say,
pearl harbor or 9/11.
This is much more gradual.
However, the effects are more
serious, and as we say, the
Earth is going to be here no
matter what humans do.
The Earth will be fine.
It's just, can humans adapt to
it quickly enough?
And the guy that I saw the other
day, if I may take a moment --
>> Yeah.
>> -- Was congressman Thomas
Massey from Kentucky, and he is
an electrical engineer.
He says on his website he claims
to be an inventor and he acted
as though he cannot grasp this
he focused on the idea that
800,000 years ago there was a
higher level of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere than there is
today, and how do we know that?
By looking at the ice cores or
the ancient atmospheres in the
ancient ice.
I presume you don't watch MSNBC.
>> Why do you presume that?
Hello.
>> Why do I say that?
>> You don't know.
He might watch.
>> A member of to his staff
might.
That's what I'm hoping for.
I'm hoping for.
So congressman or the
congressman's staff, here's the
hockey stick graph that you guys
love to go off that's been
debunked.
No, it hasn't been debunked.
>> Right.
>> It's a fact.
If you're really an electrical
engineer, here's the problem.
The rate of global warming, if
it was even detectible at this
scale with about .1 degrees
celsius every thousand or maybe
even every 10,000 years.
Now it's that .1 degree celsius
every decade.
So congressman, it's like this
in calculus terms.
The rate of temperature getting
bigger is very high.
This would be dt, dt.
Capital "T," is capital, and
lower case is time.
Your staff out there, that's the
