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Since 1983, providing educational media and documentary programming on critical global and social issues, science and health to. I am similarly indebted to those, particularly from the united states, who documented a parallel arc of public knowledge and official response over the past 2530 years. For example, the schematic temperature curve for the last millennium included in the first intergovernmental panel on climate change report ipcc 1990. Response efficacy was particularly important for this relationship among.
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