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By The Time We See That Climate Change Is Really Bad, Your Ability To Fix It Is Extremely Limited... The Carbon Gets Up There, But The Heating Effect Is Delayed. And Then The Effect Of That Heat On The Species And Ecosystem Is Delayed. That Means That Even When You Turn Virtuous, Things Are Actually Going To Get Worse For Quite A While.

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By The Time We See That Climate Change Is Really Bad, Your Ability To Fix It Is Extremely Limited... The Carbon Gets Up There, But The Heating Effect Is Delayed. And Then The Effect Of That Heat On The Species And Ecosystem Is Delayed. That Means That Even When You Turn Virtuous, Things Are Actually Going To Get Worse For Quite A While.

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