| Recorded at | October 10, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Event | Countdown |
| Duration (min:sec) | 01:19 |
| Video Type | Original Content |
| Words per minute | 161.51 slow |
| Readability (FK) | 55.25 medium |
| Speaker | Kristen Bell + Giant Ant |
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Synopsis
A brief answer to one of the key questions about climate change: Where does all the carbon we release go? (Written by Myles Allen, David Biello and George Zaidan)
| 1 | 00:01 | Where does all the carbon we release go? | ||
| 2 | 00:04 | Carbon works in a natural cycle, present in all living things: | ||
| 3 | 00:07 | in the soil, in the oceans, in the atmosphere | ||
| 4 | 00:10 | and in rocks deep underground. | ||
| 5 | 00:13 | When plants and other living things die, | ||
| 6 | 00:15 | much of their stored carbon makes its way back to the atmosphere | ||
| 7 | 00:19 | until new plants grow and reabsorb the carbon. | ||
| 8 | 00:23 | But over millions of years, | ||
| 9 | 00:24 | some of the carbon stored in ancient trees and sea life becomes rock | ||
| 10 | 00:28 | and some becomes fossil fuels: | ||
| 11 | 00:31 | coal, oil and natural gas. | ||
| 12 | 00:34 | Natural events like volcanic eruptions | ||
| 13 | 00:36 | release some of the carbon trapped in rock. | ||
| 14 | 00:39 | And human activities, like burning fossil fuels, | ||
| 15 | 00:42 | also release some of that prehistoric carbon. | ||
| 16 | 00:45 | Today, humans release around 60 times more carbon | ||
| 17 | 00:49 | than all the volcanoes on the planet each year. | ||
| 18 | 00:52 | That overloads Earth's carbon cycle | ||
| 19 | 00:54 | and builds up in the atmosphere | ||
| 20 | 00:56 | and oceans. | ||
| 21 | 00:57 | Planting more trees will help, but trees alone can't get us to net zero. | ||
| 22 | 01:02 | There's only one sure way to stop global warming. | ||
| 23 | 01:06 | We must stop releasing this excess carbon into our air. | ||
| 24 | 01:15 | [Countdown | ||
| 25 | 01:16 | Take action on climate change at Countdown.ted.com] |