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his column would not be complete without some focus on young climate activist Greta Thunberg. A high latitude colleague of mine contacted me in the spring knowing was now in the northern hemisphere and he asked if I was interested in taking Greta across to the United Nations Climate Summit in New York. Although this would have been good for the CV, I never followed this up, more for practical reasons as we were

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