For his job as CNN chief local weather correspondent Invoice Weir will get to journey to among the most lovely elements of the world. He additionally will get to lecture folks on the necessity to decarbonize the economic system, as he did on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost metropolis on this planet that’s roughly 6,600 miles from CNN’s New York headquarters.

Not solely was Weir 6,600 miles from residence, he was about get additional away. After noting the great thing about the place, Weir informed the studio hosts, “I am about to get on a ship with a whale scientist and go on an journey to review these wonderful creatures.”

Weir then tried to assert that he wasn’t being a hypocrite for his cross-world travels, he simply occurred to be in the precise place on the proper time:

However whereas we’re right here we bought this information out of the Nationwide Snow and Ice Middle in Colorado that for the second yr in a row the South Pole is shrinking. The ice down right here is shrinking. It is sea ice so it is not affecting sea stage rise a lot the way in which that when ice cubes in your glass soften they do not spill your drink. However it’s very worrying as a result of Antarctica is a continent surrounded by oceans and that sea ice protects these ice cabinets from unlocking all of that ice, which if it dumps into the oceans en masse would rearrange each metropolis from Miami to Shanghai alongside the coasts world wide.

After some extra warnings about shrinking Antarctic ice ranges, host Don Lemon requested, “Is there something that may be accomplished to actually gradual this horrible excessive scenario, Invoice?

If viewers have or now wish to put Patagonia or Antarctica on their journey bucket record, Weir was there to throw chilly water on their desires, “It is the — it is the identical reply because it — because it has been for generations. The quicker we are able to transfer away from fuels that burn, within the speediest and most equitable approach potential, the much less horrible this will get. That is the — that is the one approach proper now. And never solely stopping it on the supply however pulling carbon out of the ocean and sky. Carbon removing goes to be the largest business you have by no means heard of as folks come to grips with the enormity of this.”

Doubling down on the urgency of the scenario, Weir elaborated, “to place this in perspective, Antarctica was found virtually 40 years after the planet Uranus. It is so distant, it is so harsh we’re simply now actually understanding it. However after they ship these robots that seem like torpedoes below these huge ice cabinets, just like the Thwaites, and see that they are hanging on by fingernails, we have actually bought to concentrate to one thing that appears too far-off.”

It will be simpler to take alarmist local weather predictions severely when the local weather alarmists begin working towards what they preach. At roughly 6,600 miles, Weir’s journey to Ushuaia was roughly twice so long as his journey to Glasgow, Scotland, and thrice so long as his journey to Ilulissat, Greenland, to not point out all his different travels.

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Here’s a transcript for the March 1 present:

CNN This Morning

3/1/2023

7:36 PM ET

BILL WEIR: Who knew — who knew that the top of the world can be so beautiful? And take a look at the — possibly essentially the most lovely soccer pitch on this planet proper over there. That is some man’s yard. That is match for Lionel Messi right here in Argentina.

That island over within the distance is a Chilean nationwide park and on the opposite aspect of that’s Antarctica. That is why we’re right here. I am about to get on a ship with a whale scientist and go on an journey to review these wonderful creatures.

However whereas we’re right here we bought this information out of the Nationwide Snow and Ice Middle in Colorado that for the second yr in a row the South Pole is shrinking. The ice down right here is shrinking. It is sea ice so it is not affecting sea stage rise a lot the way in which that when ice cubes in your glass soften they do not spill your drink.

However it’s very worrying as a result of Antarctica is a continent surrounded by oceans and that sea ice protects these ice cabinets from unlocking all of that ice, which if it dumps into the oceans en masse would rearrange each metropolis from Miami to Shanghai alongside the coasts world wide.

So what’s troubling about that is the velocity that it’s declined. Simply to provide you some perspective, within the early 2000s, it regarded like Antarctica was rising even because the Arctic was shrinking in alarming methods and scientists weren’t positive why.

In 2014, the ocean ice round Antarctica, seven million sq. miles. Now, lower than a decade later it is below 700,000 sq. miles, in order that’s a 90 p.c drop.

And so they’re simply fearful that this could possibly be a tipping level that makes that weak after which on from there it is only one domino after one other of the type of disasters we actually do not wish to think about however have to consider, particularly for folks — leaders who dwell on coasts.

DON LEMON: Is there something that may be accomplished to actually gradual this horrible excessive scenario, Invoice?

WEIR: It is the — it is the identical reply because it — because it has been for generations. The quicker we are able to transfer away from fuels that burn, within the speediest and most equitable approach potential, the much less horrible this will get. That is the — that is the one approach proper now. And never solely stopping it on the supply however pulling carbon out of the ocean and sky. Carbon removing goes to be the largest business you have by no means heard of as folks come to grips with the enormity of this.

However to place this in perspective, Antarctica was found virtually 40 years after the planet Uranus. It is so distant, it is so harsh we’re simply now actually understanding it. However after they ship these robots that seem like torpedoes below these huge ice cabinets, just like the Thwaites, and see that they are hanging on by fingernails, we have actually bought to concentrate to one thing that appears too far-off.