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Speaker 1: Is it hot or cold where you are today? Is

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Speaker 1: it rainy or dry? The weather is always changing, warm

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Speaker 1: and sunny one day, cool and wet the next. When

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Speaker 1: weather is tracked for thirty years or more, we see patterns.

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Speaker 1: We call those patterns climate. Welcome to story Time by

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Speaker 1: Lingo Kids, where we discover fascinating facts about the world

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Speaker 1: around us and the fun of play learning. Today, we'll

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Speaker 1: explore natural and man made changes in the climate. To

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Speaker 1: understand climate change, we've gone to the Taku Glacier in Alaska.

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Speaker 1: A glacier is a river of ice created when snow

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Speaker 1: builds up and squashes together. It grows and shrinks over

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Speaker 1: the years because of the climate. That's right, Billy, Taku

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Speaker 1: is one of the thickest glaciers in the world. From

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty six to nineteen eighty eight, Taku Glacier grew

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Speaker 1: about a foot just over thirty centimeters each year. Then

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Speaker 1: for about twenty five years it slowed down, and from

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen the glacier didn't grow at all.

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Speaker 1: Then the area experienced its warmest July on record, and

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Speaker 1: the glacier started melting, causing the Taku River to flood.

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Speaker 1: The Taku Glacier is an example of what has happened

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Speaker 1: on Earth for millions of years. Earth has gone through

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Speaker 1: seven cycles of freezing and warming. The last ice age

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Speaker 1: ended eleven thousand, five hundred years ago. What causes an

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Speaker 1: ice age, Billy? Ice ages happen because of changes to

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Speaker 1: Earth's orbit around the Sun. Gases around Earth trap heat

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Speaker 1: from the Sun, making it warm enough for plants and

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Speaker 1: animals to live. Less sun means extreme cold an ice age,

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Speaker 1: many living things can't survive. Will there be another ice age?

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Speaker 1: Scientists think ice age cycles may change because Earth has

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Speaker 1: more CO two. What does CO two stand for? You

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Speaker 1: got it? Carbon dioxide? Where does more CO two come from?

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Speaker 1: Here's a hint yep. The burning of fossil fuels like

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Speaker 1: coal and gasoline every day all over the planet. As

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Speaker 1: CO two is trapped in the atmosphere, it heats Earth

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Speaker 1: up like a greenhouse. Even a couple of can affect

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Speaker 1: habitats faster than plants and animals can adapt. Guess where

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Speaker 1: it's warming up the fastest. You got it, Billy, The

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Speaker 1: North and South Pole. The ice is melting, and as

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Speaker 1: sea levels go up, many plants, animals, and people must

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Speaker 1: move that's called migration. Good point, Billy. In some places,

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Speaker 1: warmer temperatures cause drought a lack of water. As places

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Speaker 1: heat up, water evaporates, drying out the land. Warmer temperatures

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Speaker 1: also mean less snow on mountains, the snow that melts

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Speaker 1: into rivers and reservoirs. Don't be sad, Billy. Big problems

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Speaker 1: can be solved with little acts. We can help by

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Speaker 1: using less fossil fuel. Great idea, use a bike instead

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Speaker 1: of a car. What else? Super smart reuse things so

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Speaker 1: fewer items are shipped to stores and homes. Moving stuff

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Speaker 1: around takes lots of fuel. How about one more idea?

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Speaker 1: Excellent choose food grown close to home. Some food travels

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Speaker 1: as far as one five hundred miles that's two four

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Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen kilometers to get from a farm to

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Speaker 1: your plate. That's further away than the distance between New

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Speaker 1: York City and Disney World. Remember we're all on the

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Speaker 1: same planet Earth. Everything we do, every choice matters. We

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Speaker 1: can be part of the change for good. Well that

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Speaker 1: was fun. Thank you Lingo kids listeners for joining us today.

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