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Don’t rain on my parade

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

WE know that the climate is changing as a result of our activities and that this is beginning to happen at an accelerating pace, but it is still a slow process, whereas weather can change in an instant. All over the world, scientists and politicians are working on ways to modify the climate by slowing down the heating of the atmosphere, which is now becoming manifest. Suggesting that

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