Al Gore: Alarming new slides of the worsening climate crisis

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Translator: Philip Rentillo Reviewer: Schubert Malbas
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Last year I showed these two slides so that
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Noong nakaraang taon, ipinakita ko ang dalawang slides na ito upang
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demonstrate that the arctic ice cap,
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patunayan na ang arctic ice cap,
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which for most of the last three million years
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na sa nakalipas na tatlong milyong taon
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has been the size of the lower 48 states,
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ay kasinlaki ng 48 states ng Estados Unidos,
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has shrunk by 40 percent.
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ay umurong ng 40 porsyento.
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But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem
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Ngunit higit na malubha pa dito ang problema
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because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice.
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dahil hindi nito naipapakita ang kapal ng yelo.
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The arctic ice cap is, in a sense,
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Ang arctic ice cap, kung ikukumpara,
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the beating heart of the global climate system.
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ay ang pusong nagpapatibok ng pandaigdigang klima.
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It expands in winter and contracts in summer.
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Ito ay lumalawak sa taglamig at umuurong sa tag-init.
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The next slide I show you will be
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Ipapakita ng susunod na slide
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a rapid fast-forward of what's happened over the last 25 years.
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ang fast forward ng mga pangyayari sa nakalipas na 25 taon.
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The permanent ice is marked in red.
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Dito, kulay pula ang palagiang yelo (permanent ice).
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As you see, it expands to the dark blue --
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Kulay asul naman ang kabuuang lawak ng yelo.
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that's the annual ice in winter,
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Iyan ang taunang yelo tuwing taglamig.
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and it contracts in summer.
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Umuurong ito tuwing tag-init.
00:53
The so-called permanent ice, five years old or older,
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Ang permanent ice, na limang taon na o higit pa,
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you can see is almost like blood,
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ay maikukumpara sa dugo,
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spilling out of the body here.
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na tumatagas mula sa katawan.
01:02
In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
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Sa loob ng 25 taon, mula sa ganito, ay naging ganito na.
01:06
This is a problem because the warming
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Ito ay isang suliranin sapagkat
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heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean,
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tinutunaw ng pag-init ang nagyeyelong lupain sa paligid ng Karagatang Arctic
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where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon
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kung saan may maraming frozen carbon
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which, when it thaws, is turned into methane by microbes.
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na kung matutunaw ay magiging methane gawa ng mga mikrobyo.
01:18
Compared to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere,
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Kung idadagdag sa kabuuang polusyon sa atmosphere dulot ng global warming,
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that amount could double if we cross this tipping point.
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dodoble ang polusyon kapag nangyari ito.
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Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska,
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Ngayon pa lang, sa mga mabababaw na lawa ng Alaska
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methane is actively bubbling up out of the water.
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nabubuo na ang methane dito.
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Professor Katey Walter from the University of Alaska
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Pumunta si Propesor Katey Walter mula sa Pamantasan ng Alaska
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went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter.
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kasama ang isang grupo sa isang mababaw na lawa noong nakaraang taglamig.
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Video: Whoa! (Laughter)
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Video: Whoa! (Tawanan)
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Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
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Al Gore: Ayos lang naman siya. Ang tanong ay kung tayo rin ba.
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And one reason is, this enormous heat sink
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At isang dahilan ay itong malaking heat sink
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heats up Greenland from the north.
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na pinapa-init ang Greenland mula sa hilaga.
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This is an annual melting river.
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Ito ang taunang ilog mula sa natutunaw na glaciers.
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But the volumes are much larger than ever.
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Ngunit ang bulto nito ay mas malaki na kaysa dati.
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This is the Kangerlussuaq River in southwest Greenland.
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Ito ang Ilog Kangerlussuaq sa timog-kanlurang Greenland.
02:07
If you want to know how sea level rises
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Umaangat ang pantay laot (sea level)
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from land-base ice melting
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mula sa natunaw na yelo sa lupa
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this is where it reaches the sea.
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at umaabot ito hanggang dagat.
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These flows are increasing very rapidly.
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Lalong lumalakas ang pag-agos nito.
02:15
At the other end of the planet, Antarctica
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Sa kabilang dako ng daigdig, ang Antartica
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the largest mass of ice on the planet.
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ang pinakamalaking tipak ng yelo sa ating planeta.
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Last month scientists reported the entire continent
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Noong nakaraang buwan, iniulat ng mga siyentipiko na ang buong kontinente
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is now in negative ice balance.
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ay nasa "negative ice balance" na.
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And west Antarctica cropped up on top some under-sea islands,
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Sa kanlurang Antartica, nakalutang na ang ilang isla na dati'y nakalubog,
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is particularly rapid in its melting.
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at mabilis itong natutunaw.
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That's equal to 20 feet of sea level, as is Greenland.
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Katumbas nito ang 20 talampakan ng pantay laot, tulad ng Greenland.
02:34
In the Himalayas, the third largest mass of ice:
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Sa Himalayas, ang ikatlong pinakamalaking tipak ng yelo,
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at the top you see new lakes, which a few years ago were glaciers.
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makikita sa tuktok nito ang mga bagong lawa, na noo'y glaciers pa.
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40 percent of all the people in the world
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40 porsyento ng mga tao sa mundo
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get half of their drinking water from that melting flow.
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ay umaasa sa natutunaw na yelo bilang tubig pang-inom.
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In the Andes, this glacier is the
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Sa Andes, ang glacier na ito ang
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source of drinking water for this city.
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pinagkukunan ng inuming tubig ng lungsod na ito.
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The flows have increased.
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Lumalakas ang pag-agos nito.
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But when they go away, so does much of the drinking water.
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Ngunit kung ito'y mawawala, ganoon din ang inuming tubig.
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In California there has been a 40 percent
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Sa California, 40 porsyento ang
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decline in the Sierra snowpack.
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pagbaba ng snowpack sa Sierra.
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This is hitting the reservoirs.
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Ito ay dagok sa mga imbakan ng tubig (reservoir).
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And the predictions, as you've read, are serious.
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At ang mga nababasa natin tungkol sa hinaharap ay nakakabahala.
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This drying around the world has lead to
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Dulot ng pagkatuyo ng mundo ay
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a dramatic increase in fires.
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ang dumaraming insidente ng sunog.
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And the disasters around the world
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At ang bilang ng mga sakuna sa buong mundo
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have been increasing at an absolutely extraordinary
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ay patuloy na tumataas, sa nakakaalarma
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and unprecedented rate.
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at di-inaasahang antas.
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Four times as many in the last 30 years
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Makaapat na beses ang dami sa nakalipas na 30 taon
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as in the previous 75.
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kumpara sa nakaraang 75 taon.
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This is a completely unsustainable pattern.
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Maaaring hindi na natin kayanin kapag nagpatuloy pa ito.
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If you look at in the context of history
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Kung pagbabatayan ang kasaysayan
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you can see what this is doing.
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makikita natin kung ano ang nagagawa nito.
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In the last five years
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Sa nakaraan limang taon
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we've added 70 million tons of CO2
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naidagdag natin ang 70 milyong tonelada ng CO2
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every 24 hours --
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bawat 24 oras --
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25 million tons every day to the oceans.
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25 milyong tonelada araw-araw sa mga karagatan.
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Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific,
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Tingnan nang mabuti ang bandang silangang Pasipiko,
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from the Americas, extending westward,
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mula sa Amerika, papuntang kanluran,
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and on either side of the Indian subcontinent,
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at sa paligid ng Indian subcontinent,
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where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans.
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kung saan higit na nauubos ang oxygen sa karagatan.
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The biggest single cause of global warming,
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Ang pinakamalaking sanhi ng global warming,
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along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
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kasabay ng pagtotroso na katumbas ay 20 porsyento, ay ang pagsusunog ng mga fossil fuel.
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Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.
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Ang langis ay problema, ngunit ang uling ang pinakamalubha.
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The United States is one of the two
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Isa ang Estados Unidos sa
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largest emitters, along with China.
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sa pinakamalakas gumamit nito, kasama ang Tsina.
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And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.
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At ang mungkahi ay dagdagan pa ang mga planta ng uling.
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But we're beginning to see a sea change.
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Mabuti't nagsisimula na ang pagbabago.
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Here are the ones that have been cancelled in the last few years
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Ito ang mga nakansela noong mga nakaraang taon
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with some green alternatives proposed.
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at ang mga mungkahing alternatibo na makakalikasan.
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(Applause)
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(Palakpakan)
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However there is a political battle
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Ngunit may isyung politikal
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in our country.
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sa ating bansa.
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And the coal industries and the oil industries
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Gumugol ang mga industriya ng uling at langis
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spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year
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ng isang-kapat na bilyong dolyar noong nakaraang taon
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promoting clean coal,
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upang isulong ang malinis na uling (clean coal).
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which is an oxymoron.
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na isang "oxymoron".
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That image reminded me of something.
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Ito ang naaalala ko.
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(Laughter)
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(Tawanan)
04:33
Around Christmas, in my home in Tennessee,
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Noong isang Pasko, sa bayan ko sa Tennessee,
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a billion gallons of coal sludge was spilled.
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natapon ang isang bilyong galon ng coal sludge.
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You probably saw it on the news.
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Marahil nakita niyo na ito sa balita.
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This, all over the country, is the second largest waste stream in America.
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Ito ang pangalawa sa pinakamalaking waste stream sa Amerika.
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This happened around Christmas.
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Nangyari ito noong isang Pasko.
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One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.
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Isa sa mga patalastas ng industriya ng uling noong Pasko ay ito.
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Video: ♪♫ Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul.
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Video: ♪♫ Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul.
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He's abundant here in America,
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Ito'y laganap sa Amerika,
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and he helps our economy grow.
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nang lumago lalo ang ekonomiya.
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Frosty the coal man is getting cleaner everyday.
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"Frosty the coal man" ay mas lumilinis bawat araw.
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He's affordable and adorable, and workers keep their pay.
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Abot-kaya at nakakatuwa, bigay ay sahod sa manggagawa.
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Al Gore: This is the source of much of the coal in West Virginia.
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Al Gore: Ito ang pinagmumulan ng halos lahat ng uling sa West Virginia.
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The largest mountaintop miner is the head of Massey Coal.
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Ang pinakamalaking minero ay ang lider ng Massey Coal.
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Video: Don Blankenship: Let me be clear about it. Al Gore,
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Video: Don Blankenship: Lilinawin ko lang. Al Gore,
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, they don't know what they're talking about.
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, hindi nila alam ang sinasabi nila.
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Al Gore: So the Alliance for Climate Protection
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Al Gore: Kaya ang Alliance for Climate Protection
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has launched two campaigns.
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ay naglunsad ng dalawang kampanya.
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This is one of them, part of one of them.
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Isa ito sa mga iyon, ang unang bahagi.
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Video: Actor: At COALergy we view climate change as a very serious
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Video: Aktor: Sa COALergy tingin namin ang climate change bilang isang seryosong
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threat to our business.
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banta sa aming negosyo.
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That's why we've made it our primary goal
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Kung kaya'y ito ang aming pangunahing layunin
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to spend a large sum of money
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na gumastos ng maraming pera
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on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate
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sa mga talastas na nagpapaliwanag
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the truth about coal.
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ng katotohanan sa uling.
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The fact is, coal isn't dirty.
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Sa katunayan, hindi marumi ang uling.
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We think it's clean --
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Sa tingin namin ito'y malinis --
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smells good, too.
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mabango pa.
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So don't worry about climate change.
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Kaya 'wag mag-alala sa climate change.
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Leave that up to us.
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Ipaubaya na ninyo sa amin.
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(Laughter)
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(Tawanan)
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Video: Actor: Clean coal -- you've heard a lot about it.
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Video: Aktor: Malinis na uling, narinig niyo na ang tungkol dito.
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So let's take a tour of this state-of-the-art clean coal facility.
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Kaya tayo'y mamasyal sa state-of-the-art clean coal facility na ito.
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Amazing! The machinery is kind of loud.
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Ang galing! Medyo maingay ang makina.
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But that's the sound of clean coal technology.
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Pero yan ang tunog ng "clean coal technology."
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And while burning coal is one of the leading causes of global warming,
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At habang ang pagsusunog ng uling ay isang pangunahing dahilan ng global warming,
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the remarkable clean coal technology you see here
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ang pambihirang "clean coal technology" na nakikita niyo dito
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changes everything.
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ang babago sa lahat.
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Take a good long look: this is today's clean coal technology.
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Tingnan nang mabuti, ito ang "clean coal technology" sa ngayon.
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Al Gore: Finally, the positive alternative
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Al Gore: Sa wakas, ang magandang alternatibo
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meshes with our economic challenge
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ay sumasang-ayon na sa mga hamon ng ekonomiya
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and our national security challenge.
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at pambansang seguridad.
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Video: Narrator: America is in crisis -- the economy,
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Video: Tagapagsalaysay: May krisis ang Amerika, sa ekonomiya,
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national security, the climate crisis.
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pambansang seguridad, krisis sa klima.
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The thread that links them all:
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Ang nag-uugnay sa lahat ng ito,
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our addiction to carbon based fuels,
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ang ating pagkahumaling sa mga carbon-based fuel,
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like dirty coal and foreign oil.
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tulad ng maruming uling at inaangkat na langis.
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But now there is a bold new solution to get us out of this mess.
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Ngunit ngayon, may bago at mapangangahas na sagot sa gulong ito.
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Repower America with 100 percent clean electricity
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"Repower America" gamit ang 100% na malinis na elektrisidad,
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within 10 years.
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sa loob ng 10 taon.
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A plan to put America back to work,
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Isang hakbang upang mapakilos muli ang Amerika,
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make us more secure, and help stop global warming.
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sa ating ikakapanatag, at tutulong sa pagpigil ng global warming.
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Finally, a solution that's big enough to solve our problems.
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Sa wakas, isang solusyong lulutas sa ating mga problema.
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Repower America. Find out more.
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"Repower America". Tuklasin.
06:54
Al Gore: This is the last one.
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Al Gore: Ito ang pinakahuli.
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Video: Narrator: It's about repowering America.
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Video: Tagapagsalaysay: Ito'y tungkol sa pagpapasiglang muli sa Amerika.
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One of the fastest ways to cut our dependence
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Mabilis na paraan upang hindi na tayo umasa
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on old dirty fuels that are killing our planet.
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sa makaluma't maruruming fuel na pumapatay sa ating daigdig.
07:12
Man: Future's over here. Wind, sun, a new energy grid.
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Lalaki: Heto ang kinabukasan. Hangin, araw, isang bagong energy grid.
07:17
Man #2: New investments to create high-paying jobs.
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Lalaki #2: Mga bagong puhunan na lilikha ng mga trabahong may mataas ang sahod.
07:22
Narrator: Repower America. It's time to get real.
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Tagapagsalaysay: "Repower America". Magpakatotoo na.
07:26
Al Gore: There is an old African proverb that says,
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Al Gore: May salawikaing Aprikano na nagsasabing,
07:29
"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
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"Kung nais mong mapabilis, mag-isa kang umalis.
07:31
If you want to go far, go together."
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Kung nais mo'y malayo ang marating, magsama-sama kayo."
07:34
We need to go far, quickly.
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Nawa'y malayo ang ating marating, sa lalong madaling panahon.
07:36
Thank you very much.
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Maraming salamat po.
07:38
(Applause)
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(Palakpakan)
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