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Great reporting about the most important crisis we face, both in America and around the world. As a personal note, I lived in England from 1985-1999. During that time, the summers became steadily warmer and drier (as Tom notes about the record July just passed in the UK), and the Brits kept telling me that what was happening was highly unusual. After a few years of this, I tried to buy an air conditioner for my the bedroom of my house in central London. Forget it! They didn't exist because previously, no one needed them. I'm told that even now they are hard to find. On another note, I have to add, that every year we would come home to the USA for a summer holiday, and almost everyone I talked to seemed to be a climate denier, or not particularly concerned. Hmmm.

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Even if the US cuts back immensely on carbon release into the air, tell China, India, Russia and North Korea, etc. they must do their part which will never happen. The world is round, so air circulates.

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Tom, I fondly hope that modern technology will find a way to resist and eventually undo climate change. But we have to stop having children (frozen embryos for the future on some other planet OK maybe). Four billion for Our Planet is fine, which means every single one of us must either abort or otherwise eliminate at least one person. A terrible contemplation - but probably already being accomplished for us by rising temperatures. Cities are no longer needed and must become obsolete in favor of eco-friendly small towns connected globally through social media. Let's hope we can do all of this and still keep Our Humanity intact!

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