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The First Big Effects Will Be Farmers That Live On The Edge. Today's Weather, They Barely Get By. Their Kids, A High Percentage Are Malnourished, And So If You Impose More Variable Weather And More Heat, You're Getting More Floods, More Droughts, And During The Germination Time, The High Heat, Most Crops...do Poorly When There's More Heat.

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The First Big Effects

Bill Gates

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The First Big Effects Will Be Farmers That Live On The Edge. Today's Weather, They Barely Get By. Their Kids, A High Percentage Are Malnourished, And So If You Impose More Variable Weather And More Heat, You're Getting More Floods, More Droughts, And During The Germination Time, The High Heat, Most Crops...do Poorly When There's More Heat.

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(in Response To Java) Anybody Who Thinks A Little 9,000-line Program That's Distributed Free And Can Be Cloned By Anyone Is Going To Affect Anything We Do At Microsoft Has His Head Screwed On Wrong.

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