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CNN 10 - January 28, 2018 | Why a U.N. report that 2016 was the warmest year on record | CNN Student

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    Hi. I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10. Give us 10 minutes,
    we'll break down international news for you.
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    Thanks for watching this Thursday.
    We're starting with report from the World
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    Meteorological Organization. It's part of
    the United Nations that studies climate. And
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    it says that 2016 was the Earth's warmest
    year on record since scientists started maintaining
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    temporary records in the 1880s.
    Researchers say that 2016 was seven hundredths
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    of one degree Fahrenheit warmer than 2015.
    That was the previous record holder.
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    The U.N. organization says it used several
    sources like NASA, to come up with its data,
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    though one of them, the United Kingdom's Met
    Office says the temperature increase it measured
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    was within its margin of error, according
    to the BBC. So, the record is not certain
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    across all measurements.
    One big factor in the warm temperatures was
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    a powerful El Nino, a natural warming of Pacific
    Ocean surface temperatures that affected the
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    climate from 2015 to 2016. But a scientist
    from NASA says greenhouse gas emissions, which
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    are given off by human activity, are responsible
    for warming temperatures in the long-term.
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    Because of the recent El Nino event has subsided,
    scientists do not expect 2017 to break a new
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    warming record.
    Yesterday afternoon, U.S. President Barack
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    Obama gave his final news conference while
    in office. It was likely the last time he'd
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    speak in public as president.
    A lot of subjects were covered, increasingly
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    strained U.S. relations with Israel and Russia,
    the relationship between the White House and
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    the media, a recent move to reduce the sentences
    of more prisoners than any other U.S. president.
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    It all came up.
    And President Obama was asked about his successor,
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    President-elect Donald Trump, and some of
    the controversies he's been involved in. The
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    outgoing leader said he and the incoming one
    had had constructive and sometimes lengthy
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    conversations. But Mr. Obama said the best
    piece of advice he could give to Mr. Trump
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    was to rely on others around him, as the presidency
    isn't a job that anyone can do alone.
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    I believe in this country. I believe in the
    American people.
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    I believe that people are more good than bad.
    I believe tragic things happen. I think there's
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    evil in the world. But I think that, at the
    end of the day, if we work hard and if we're
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    true to those things in us that feel true
    and feel right, that the world gets a little
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    better each time.
    That's what this presidency has tried to be
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    about, and I see in the young people I've
    worked with.
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    At my core, I think we're going to be OK.
    We just had to fight for it. We have to work
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    for it, and not take it for granted. And I
    know that you will help us do that.
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    Thank you very much, press corps. Good luck.
    Ten-second trivia:
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    In terms of when it gained independence, which
    of these countries is oldest? Austria, Morocco,
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    Brazil, or Switzerland?
    The
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    Swiss Confederation got its independence from
    the Holy Roman Empire in 1499, making it the
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    oldest independent nation on this list.
    Every winter, there's an international meeting
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    in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic
    Forum. It's an organization that includes
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    politicians, businesspeople, scholars, sometimes
    actors, basically movers and shakers. They
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    aimed to improve the world by addressing issues
    like poverty, conflict and the global economy.
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    But the event has also been criticized as
    an elitist meeting that does more talking
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    than actual problem-solving.
    Either way, the meeting that's going on right
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    now is looking at the uncertainty of the year
    ahead, like an investor or a skier might look
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    at risk and then try to minimize it.
    2016 was a year of surprises. The word here
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    in Davos is that 2017 could present similar
    challenges.
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    So, what are some of the risks facing the
    global business community? Something that
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    could take a nice outing and turn it into
    an injury, steady growth into a global recession?
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    As the political and business elites gather
    here in Davos, 2017 could shape up to be a
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    year of extreme risks, and here are the biggest:
    U.S. going off the path and into the trees
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    where there's less visibility.
    All eyes, if you will, will be on President
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    Trump. Will he blaze his own trail when it
    comes to trade? U.S. involvement within the
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    NATO alliance, and how about the U.S., for
    example, in the Middle East?
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    How about Chinese moguls? Economic relations
    with Beijing are always a little bit bumpy.
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    How tough will the moguls get this year?
    Europe potentially going off a cliff.
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    One major obstacle here in Davos is the widening
    gap between the rich and the poor, and the
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    resentment that's creating within the European
    Union. There are major elections this year.
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    France, Germany and the Netherlands, and the
    results could push Europe over the political
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    cliff (ph).
    So, I've chosen the ultimate route, slow and
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    steady, hard work but less risky, with the
    ultimate goal of avoiding disaster in 2017.
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    These are crashes are helping researches make
    drones safer.
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    These experiments are helping predict injuries
    caused by drone collisions.
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    Dummies are rigged with sensors that measure
    the force of a crash.
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    And determine if a collision will cause a
    neck or brain injury.
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    The research is key for drone regulation in
    the U.S.
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    Researchers are hoping to make drones safer.
    Facing challenges concerning military conflicts,
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    political opposition, foreign and domestic
    criticism, security threats, not to mention
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    governing a country, it is no wonder why the
    American presidency is said to cause people
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    to age faster, at least physically. But does
    that necessarily mean that U.S. leaders live
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    shorter lives than the rest of us.
    It's that time again. Time for news organization
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    to roll out those before and after photos
    to show how much our departing president has
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    aged. It's been dubbed "the White House effect"
    and it usually involves wrinkles and white
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    hair, or as Michelle Obama puts it --
    My very own silver fox.
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    Maybe you've heard there's a formula for presidential
    aging.
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    A typical president ages two years for every
    year they're in office.
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    And there really is one reason, it's the stress.
    No, it's not true. They do not age at twice
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    the normal rate.
    Longevity expert Professor J. Olhansky disputes
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    Dr. Michael Roizen's formula.
    Perhaps the graying of the hair and wrinkling
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    of the skin may grow more rapidly as a result
    of stress, but it's certainly not shortening
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    their lives.
    Professor Olhansky says research shows presidents
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    live way longer than regular citizens. Sure
    presidents look like they're going downhill
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    in photos.
    But guess what? If you take a picture of anybody
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    eight years apart, you're going to see the
    same changes in the rest of us as you see
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    in the presidents.
    MOOS (on camera): Really?
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    So what?
    That's me eight years ago. Do you think the
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    grueling life of a TV humor reporter has taken
    a toll?
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    Wonder how long it will take 70-year-old Donald
    Trump's hair to change shades once he's president.
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    Though Michelle Obama seems immune from the
    White House effect --
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    The only way to date her in photos is by looking
    at me. Here we are in 2008, here we are a
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    few years later and this one is from two weeks
    ago.
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    So, in all fairness, how about the aging of
    a CNN STUDENT NEWS and now, CNN 10 anchor?
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    Is age just a number? Certainly, an age old
    question, which is itself a popular adage.
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    Whatever you think, the only thing I'll tell
    you about my own age is the same truth I would
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    have told you eight years ago -- I'm older
    than your brother but younger than your dad.
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    Spend another 10 minutes with us tomorrow.
    We've got a special edition set up looking
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    at the U.S. presidential inauguration, specifically
    the all-important oath of office. I'm Carl Azuz.
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CNN 10 - January 28, 2018 | Why a U.N. report that 2016 was the warmest year on record | CNN Student
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President Obama`s Last News Conference as U.S. Leader; The World Economic Forum in Davos; 2016: What Might Have Been the Warmest Year on Record

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