beginning to get surprisingly cold. We're starting the great Ice Ages, which culminated in the last three or four million years. Now, in this counterfactual world, you've got the temperate and the Polar Regions, which are persistently cold. Now, we have good reason to think that dinosaurs are not effectively warm-blooded. We know that birds and mammals,by and large, are more intelligent than the reptiles. We know that they're more socially adept and we know convergently, that they evolve a prototechnology; they're tool-makers.
by two things: the Pacific Ocean, the Mountains, and everything else is a detail. And, you know, the first question people want to know is, why is the weather here generally pretty temperate and mild, okay, except for the summer, of course. And the key thing is--one key thing is the mountains over here, okay? Here in Seattle in Western Washington, we have doubleprotection against the cold air and the interior of the continent. Now, you have very cold air that hits Eastern Montana and the central part of the continent, but we have two blocks:
So we are basically-- instead of having a subarctic climate-- we are somewhere like in the south of Sweden or Denmark, where it has a much more temperate climate. So here, every crop grows from its own little hole.
Well, for those of you who may not be familiar, Vancouver and just British Columbia in general, is very lush, full of green. It's a temperate rain forest, Vancouver, so we get a lot of rain. So I think Joy is alluding to the huge contrast in landscape that existed.
First one is boreal forest, mainly on the Northern Hemisphere near polar regions, where temperatures are really, really low. Second one is temperate forests, warm regions mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, also in Japan. Moderate temperature and rainfalls.
You can count on getting food from someone else. We live on temperate prairies.
But scallops don't really come from Florida. It's a temperate rain forest.
of other parts of the Middle East. But Iran has a temperate climate. It has four seasons.
As well as the fact that we're cutting down huge amounts of forest. Already not only temperate forests, but rainforests. Rainforests right now, like in the Amazonian basin, we're losing, by a conservative estimate, about an acre per second of rainforest
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. So how do we temperate that and what's the, I mean it's a difficult problem because one person does have a tremendous amount of power nowadays.
sea lions. Well, the other beauty is not just about individuals, itís about colonies. This is what you have in a temperate system, lots of animals gathering together, very important because they are very vulnerable, very beautiful. Look at these black browed albatrosses.
And contrary to a story that I am often confronted with that suicide rates are spiking, For example, in the temperate world, deforestation has been in decline and now is going into reverse as farms have been abandoned
The cask and the maturation delivers 60% to 70% of the flavor. And what's distinctive about Irish whiskey is the temperate , soft climate that produces limited, let's say, movement of the wood. Because oak casks are porous and they deliver majority of it.
or impending children of your own. The Tropics are just less productive agriculturally than the temperate zones because of thinner, less fertile soils and more soil pests,
Garrett Peck: Exactly, yeah. They stigmatized alcohol drinking. You kind of think the word 'temperance' means 'to be temperate ' or 'to moderate', right? But, they took it to another extreme. They took it to "Everyone needs to abstain altogether from alcohol." This started off actually with a huge whiskey
The ice in the Andes -- the equatorial Andes and temperate Andes -- is shrinking fast.
That's more than grasslands, than the temperate zones.
And this is the same thing that people would use for ice fishing in standard temperate lakes during the winter time, but we end up
been extrap from um all in all about 2 million Acres of of temperate rain
On the other hand, if you build that hydro plant in a northern or temperate climate, that probably doesn't happen much at all.
People enjoy the taste of Irish whiskey. Our lovely, miserable, temperate climate is good for one thing, and that's producing-- as they say, a soft climate produces a soft whiskey, but it's true. It's true. Because if you took a distillery that's in Ireland and you made the spirits, but you matured it in the highlands of Scotland, or in Kentucky, or in Taiwan,
in a more diverse environment, elephants that could live in temperate zones or Arctic zones, moving into the types of habitats that once occupied
One thing that I want everyone to understand is to build up a soil in a temperate zone and to have a good soil, you need
different place in the world that insects have in the tropics than in where we live in the temperate zone and whether the relationships
We live near water, we live near the coast, and we live in temperate climates.
as grasslands, peatlands, as well as forests, different forests, so tropical as well as temperate forests.
And down here in Sweden, this area-- Smaland-- is considered the Tuscany of Sweden, because the temperature is so temperate , shall we say.
We're living on one of the San Juan islands on the floor, sleeping on the forest floor of a temperate rain forest.
and gamble until their wives prevailed upon them to return home for supper. Abba was at least lucky on one account. And Abba is Louisa's mother, Abigail. Bronson was a temperate man