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"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors."
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"Reverence for nature is part of our shared heritage. Combating climate change is in our enlightened self-interest."
"Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing."
"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."
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"A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate."
"If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans."
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"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
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