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Duane Morris Government Strategies

It is a full-service multi-state lobby firm, with a national network of professionals, navigating clients through the legislative process, in every state capital.

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UN Agencies Present Latest Climate Science
“This is a critical year for climate action.  This report by the United Nations and global scientific partner organizations provides a holistic assessment of the most recent climate science.  The result is an alarming appraisal of just how far off course we are,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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16 September 2021 (WMO) - COVID-19 did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. There is no sign that we are growing back greener, as carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly recovering after a temporary blip due to the economic slowdown and are nowhere close to reduction targets. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue at record levels, committing the planet to dangerous future warming, according to a new multi-agency United in Science 2021 report.

Rising global temperatures are fuelling devastating extreme weather throughout the world, with spiralling impacts on economies and societies. Billions of work hours have been lost through heat alone. The average global temperature for the past five years was among the highest on record. There is an increasing likelihood that temperatures will temporarily breach the threshold of 1.5° Celsius above the pre-industrial era, in the next five years, the report said.

The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years. Even with ambitious action to slow greenhouse gas emissions, sea levels will continue to rise and threaten low-lying islands and coastal populations throughout the world, according to the report.

"This is a critical year for climate action. This report by the United Nations and global scientific partner organizations provides a holistic assessment of the most recent climate science. The result is an alarming appraisal of just how far off course we are," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

"We are still significantly off-schedule to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. This year has seen fossil fuel emissions bounce back, greenhouse gas concentrations continuing to rise and severe human-enhanced weather events that have affected health, lives and livelihoods on every continent. Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be impossible, with catastrophic consequences for people and the planet on which we depend," he said in the foreword.

The United in Science 2021 report, the third in a series, is coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with input from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Met Office (UK). It presents the very latest scientific data and findings related to climate change to inform global policy and action.

"Throughout the pandemic we have heard that we must build back better to set humanity on a more sustainable path and to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on society and economies. This report shows that so far in 2021 we are not going in the right direction," said WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas.
Key Points Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in the Atmosphere (WMO Global Atmosphere Watch) Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Budgets (Global Carbon Project) Emissions Gap (UNEP) Global Climate in 2017-2021 (WMO)
Global Climate in 2021-2025 (WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update - Met Office (UK), WCRP, WMO)
Highlights of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: The Physical Science Basis Sea- level Rise and Coastal Impacts (World Climate Research Programme - WMO, IOC, ISC) Heatwaves, Wildfires, and Air Pollution: Compounding and Cascading Climate Hazards to Health (WHO/WMO)
"This report is clear. Time is running out. For the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, known as COP26, to be a turning point, we need all countries to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, backed up by concrete long-term strategies, and enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions which collectively cut global emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, compared to 2010 levels," said Mr Guterres.

"We need a breakthrough on protecting people and their livelihoods, with at least half of all public climate finance committed to building resilience and helping people adapt. And we need much greater solidarity, including full delivery of the long-standing climate finance pledge to help developing countries take climate action. There is no alternative if we are to achieve a safer, more sustainable and prosperous future for all."

See full report here.

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UN Agencies Present Latest Climate Science | UNFCCC

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16 September 2021 (WMO) - COVID-19 did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. There is no sign that we are growing back greener, as carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly recovering after a temporary blip due to the economic slowdown and are nowhere close to reduction targets.

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Richard Madeley blasted the actions of climate extremist group Insulate Britain, accusing them on fascism after holding up thousands of vehicles in Monday’s M25 road block.
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The Kyoto Protocol works under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by accomplishing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gasses (GHC) emissions. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997. Owing to a complex ratification process, it entered into force on 16 February 2005. Currently, there are 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997. Owing to a complex ratification process, it entered into force on 16 February 2005. Currently, there are 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

In short, the Kyoto Protocol operationalizes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual targets. The Convention itself only asks those countries to adopt policies and measures on mitigation and to report periodically.

The Kyoto Protocol is based on the principles and provisions of the Convention and follows its annex-based structure. It only binds developed countries, and places a heavier burden on them under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities", because it recognizes that they are largely responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere.

In its Annex B, the Kyoto Protocol sets binding emission reduction targets for 37 industrialized countries and economies in transition and the European Union. Overall, these targets add up to an average 5 per cent emission reduction compared to 1990 levels over the five year period 2008-2012 (the first commitment period).

Doha Amendment

In Doha, Qatar, on 8 December 2012, the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol was adopted for a second commitment period, starting in 2013 and lasting until 2020.

As of 28 October 2020, 147 Parties deposited their instrument of acceptance, therefore the threshold of 144 instruments of acceptance for entry into force of the Doha Amendment was achieved. The amendment entered into force on 31 December 2020.

The amendment includes:

New commitments for Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol who agreed to take on commitments in a second commitment period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020;

A revised list of GHG to be reported on by Parties in the second commitment period; and

Amendments to several articles of the Kyoto Protocol which specifically referenced issues pertaining to the first commitment period and which needed to be updated for the second commitment period.

On 21 December 2012, the amendment was circulated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting in his capacity as Depositary, to all Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in accordance with Articles 20 and 21 of the Protocol.

During the first commitment period, 37 industrialized countries and economies in transition and the European Community committed to reduce GHG emissions to an average of five percent against 1990 levels. During the second commitment period, Parties committed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 18 percent below 1990 levels in the eight-year period from 2013 to 2020; however, the composition of Parties in the second commitment period is different from the first.

The Kyoto mechanisms

One important element of the Kyoto Protocol was the establishment of flexible market mechanisms, which are based on the trade of emissions permits. Under the Protocol, countries must meet their targets primarily through national measures. However, the Protocol also offers them an additional means to meet their targets by way of three market-based mechanisms:

These mechanisms ideally encourage GHG abatement to start where it is most cost-effective, for example, in the developing world. It does not matter where emissions are reduced, as long as they are removed from the atmosphere. This has the parallel benefits of stimulating green investment in developing countries and including the private sector in this endeavour to cut and hold steady GHG emissions at a safe level. It also makes leap-frogging-that is, the possibility of skipping the use of older, dirtier technology for newer, cleaner infrastructure and systems, with obvious longer-term benefits-more economical.

Monitoring emission targets

The Kyoto Protocol also established a rigorous monitoring, review and verification system, as well as a compliance system to ensure transparency and hold Parties to account. Under the Protocol, countries' actual emissions have to be monitored and precise records have to be kept of the trades carried out.

Registry systems track and record transactions by Parties under the mechanisms. The UN Climate Change Secretariat, based in Bonn, Germany, keeps an international transaction log to verify that transactions are consistent with the rules of the Protocol.

Reporting is done by Parties by submitting annual emission inventories and national reports under the Protocol at regular intervals.

A compliance system ensures that Parties are meeting their commitments and helps them to meet their commitments if they have problems doing so.

Adaptation
The Kyoto Protocol, like the Convention, is also designed to assist countries in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. It facilitates the development and deployment of technologies that can help increase resilience to the impacts of climate change.

The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. In the first commitment period, the Fund was financed mainly with a share of proceeds from CDM project activities. In Doha, in 2012, it was decided that for the second commitment period, international emissions trading and joint implementation would also provide the Adaptation Fund with a 2 percent share of proceeds.

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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997. Owing to a complex ratification process, it entered into force on 16 February 2005. Currently, there are 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. In short, the Kyoto Protocol operationalizes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual targets.

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"Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet" is a source of information for accurate and current news and information about Earth's changing climate. By the side of NASA, they present current data and current images of our planet from space. Also, the page has a mission that invite Facebook users to collaborate with NASA to solve the impacts of human health and environmental and ecological system.

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Time to get hacking! Have you picked a challenge for #SpaceApps 2021? Our "WARNING: THINGS ARE HEATING UP!" challenge is...
Posted by Space Apps Challenge on Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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The government of Quintana Roo in #Mexico has declared a state of emergency as tons of foul-smelling algae-like seaweed called #sargassum is washing up on the white sands beaches from #Cancun to #Tulum and is turning some of the pristine blue water browns.

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The government of Quintana Roo in #Mexico has declared a state of emergency as tons of foul-smelling algae-like seaweed called #sargassum is washing up on the white sands beaches from #Cancun to #Tulum and is turning some of the pristine blue water browns.

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In accordance with experts Sargassum its caused by climate changing and global warming.
https://www.nationalgeographicla.com/viajes/2021/08/podra-la-ciencia-resolver-el-problema-de-las-algas-en-las-playas-mexicanas

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The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016.

Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.

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Ever wondered: What is the 'Paris Agreement', and how does it work?

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Seabirds are being threatened by #ClimateChange and overfishing.

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This image of a delicate seahorse dragging a mask in the waters off northern Greece, has been nominated for the Ocean Photography Award 2021. Greek photographer

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1.6 Billion Disposable Masks Entered Our Oceans in 2020

Disposable Doesn’t Mean They’re Gone

Despite their single-use nature, disposable masks are expected to take more than four centuries to decompose while in the ocean. Here’s how this compares to other items we use on a day-to-day basis.

Item / Years Needed to Biodegrade

Disposable masks | 450
Disposable diaper | 450
Plastic bottle | 450
Aluminum can | 200
Styrofoam cup | 50
Plastic grocery bag | 20
Cigarette butt | 10

The pandemic has extended well into 2021, and the number of disposable masks polluting our oceans is likely to continue growing.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/1-6-billion-disposable-masks-entered-our-oceans-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0aagD6G-fSIvQjfidQrDjLbg1zMKkeuM8eyuZJvtQmT-9nApRThPzyKRw

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What does Trump actually believe on climate change?

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What does Trump actually believe on climate change?

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In this article, BBC News analyses former president Donald Trump's tweets about climate change. In 2012, he famously said climate change was "created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive" - something he later claimed was a joke.
During Trump's administration

The US withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which committed the US and 187 other countries to maintain rising global temperatures below 2C.

Implement Affordable Clean Energy rule that putted back President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which would have limited carbon emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants.

Commentators have suggested that Mr. Trump tends to conflate climate change with environmentalism more generally.

"He doesn't really understand what climate change is about," says Professor Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at the University of Columbia.

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This is  an original project created from different types artist from different cultural backgrounds to create messages that can positively impact society over the societal problems and issues.

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Europe's Central bank intensifies focus on climate change

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Europe's Central bank intensifies focus on climate change

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The bank said it would do more to take the impact of climate change into its monetary policy, saying that global warming could have “profound implications” for price stability. It said it would expand its economic models and statistics to better assess the effect that climate change could have on the economy.
ECB President Christine Lagarde said that the new goal would give the bank more room to take “especially forceful and persistent action” in the event of an unexpected economic crisis.

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that would tolerate transitory periods of consumer inflation moderately above its 2% goal - and take greater account of climate change in its forecasting and stimulus programs.

The central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro said it was replacing its previous inflation goal of "below but close to" 2% annual inflation. The new target is described as a "symmetric" 2%.

That means it would allow a "transitory period" of above-target inflation. In theory, that would give the bank space to maintain low interest rates and stimulus programs such as bond purchases with newly created money for a longer period of time.

ECB President Christine Lagarde said that the new goal would give the bank more room to take "especially forceful and persistent action" in the event of an unexpected economic crisis. Such room to maneuver is especially important when market rates are close to zero, as they are now in many instances. That means the economy could more easily slip into deflation, a crippling downward spiral of prices and falling investment, without decisive central bank intervention.

The decision moves the ECB in the same direction as the U.S. Federal Reserve, which shifted to average inflation targeting last year that could allow inflation moderately above 2% for some time. The ECB goal is not as aggressive as the Fed's, since it would "not actively aim to run inflation above target to make up for previous shortfall," said Andrew Kenningham, chief Europe economist at Capital Economics.

"It would have no immediate implications for monetary policy, but in the longer run may imply policy would be looser for longer," Kenningham said in an emailed research note.

In another change, Lagarde said public dialog with citizens had convinced the bank to start counting the rise in house prices in its inflation measures to better represent consumer prices as they are relevant to households. Including owner-occupied housing in the EU's inflation index would take years, however; therefore the bank said it plans to use initial estimates of housing costs to supplement its inflation measures.

The bank said it would do more to take the impact of climate change into its monetary policy, saying that global warming could have "profound implications" for price stability. It said it would expand its economic models and statistics to better assess the effect that climate change could have on the economy.

When purchasing bonds, the bank said it could take into consideration whether the companies issuing those bonds were compliant with EU legislation implementing the 2015 Paris climate change accords. Buying corporate and government bonds is a tool the bank uses to drive down borrowing costs for businesses, households and government budgets. Buying such "green bonds" in effect makes it cheaper to finance projects deemed to lower carbon dioxide emissions, the main greenhouse gas blamed by scientists for global warming climate change.

The bank's mandate established in the basic European Union treaty is to pursue price stability. Once that is achieved, it can pursue other goals consistent with the EU's economic policies.

The new strategy will be applied starting with the next ECB policy meeting meeting on July 22.

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Europe's central bank intensifies focus on climate change

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that would tolerate transitory periods of consumer inflation moderately above its 2% goal - and take greater account of climate change in its forecasting and stimulus programs.

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Containing 85 internal memos totaling more than 330 pages, the seven dossiers reveal a range of deceptive tactics deployed by the fossil fuel industry. These include forged letters to Congress, secret funding of a supposedly independent scientist, the creation of fake grassroots organizations, multiple efforts to deliberately manufacture uncertainty about climate science, and more.

Fossil fuel company leaders knew that their products were harmful to people and the planet but still chose to actively deceive the public and deny this harm.

The campaign of deception continues today.

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Their deceptive tactics are now highlighted in this set of seven "deception dossiers"-collections of internal company and trade association documents that have either been leaked to the public, come to light through lawsuits, or been disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests.

Each collection provides an illuminating inside look at this coordinated campaign of deception, an effort underwritten by ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell, Peabody Energy, and other members of the fossil fuel industry.

UPDATE (July 9, 2015): As this report went to press, a newly discovered email from a former Exxon employee revealed that the company was already factoring climate change into decisions about new fossil fuel extraction as early as 1981. Learn more.

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Their deceptive tactics are now highlighted in this set of seven "deception dossiers"-collections of internal company and trade association documents that have either been leaked to the public, come to light through lawsuits, or been disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests.

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The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests.

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More information here ► www.wef.ch/greatreset There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset. The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.

#Moneyweb #FoodShortage
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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.

#Moneyweb #FoodShortage
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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.#Moneyweb #FoodShortage https://t.co/xUrRIFQDzu
— Moneyweb News (@Moneyweb) September 17, 2021

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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.

#Moneyweb #FoodShortage
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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.

#Moneyweb #FoodShortage
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Europe’s energy crisis is spreading to the fertilizer industry, threatening to tighten food supplies and push prices even higher.

#Moneyweb #FoodShortage
https://t.co/xUrRIFQDzu

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course. 

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course. 

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re https://t.co/ZfSQryDCWk

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course.

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re pic.twitter.com/ZfSQryDCWk
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) September 13, 2021

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course. 

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re https://t.co/ZfSQryDCWk

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course. 

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re https://t.co/ZfSQryDCWk

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Every minute a garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the seas. 90% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared. We need to change course. 

There's no time to waste. There's no planet B. #GreenNewDeal.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #useless #wasteless #go100re

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26 years later: Michael's Jackson's song released in 1995 can still represent the weather issues that we are experiencing right now. 

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26 years later: Michael's Jackson's song released in 1995 can still represent the weather issues that we are experiencing right now. 

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Michael Jackson's song was released on November 27, 1995, from his album: Present and Future, Book I. The lyrics, the pictures, and images presented in the official video show the different natural disasters that in accordance with experts are caused by Global Warming. The song was criticized for being too sententious.

Lyrics
What have we done to the world?
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son?

What about flowering fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?

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Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Official Video)

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The Greatest Killer in New Orleans Wasn't the Hurricane. It Was the Heat. 

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The Greatest Killer in New Orleans Wasn't the Hurricane. It Was the Heat. 

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The American Studies Journal (AMSJ) is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal from theUniversity of Kansas. It provides different studies and analyses of contemporary humane issues. It was created in September 1, 1960.

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Joe's Biden's actions towards climate change policies have been the point of controversy in the last week

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Joe's Biden's actions towards climate change policies have been the point of controversy in the last week

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President Biden spoke at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to discuss worldwide goals for climate change. The president promoted his administration's jobs and infrastructure plan as a way to address the issue.
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Biden Stresses 'Urgent' Need To Address Climate Change At Major Economies Forum

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The European Parliament is set to give its final approval next month to a revamped Emissions Trading System. The EPP Group’s Ivo Belet, a member of the Environment Committee, says the ETS will sell carbon allowances in order to put a price on carbon and finance Europe’s drive towards a greener economy.

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Emissions trading reform to fight climate change