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OK, I just thought that. It will be years until he has to know that the summer sartorial selections of Okanaganites brings on an annual eye-roll induced headache hotter than the sun. So I shoved my words down and they festered alongside another repressed feeling I was dealing with.
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A news item out of Nasa in March was one that really got my attention. According to their data, it was the most anomalously hot month the Earth has seen since record keeping began香蕉视频直播攆ully 1.35 C warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.
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Like anything, however, the good times will end.Mullin and Egan wrote that climate change models predict that US summers will eventually warm more than winters and if greenhouse gas emissions grow at an unabated rate, an estimated 88 per cent of the US public will experience weather at the end of the century that is far less enjoyable.
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