i remember back when people didn't know anything about it, except for a few geophysicists. And we have probably at least half of, maybe more, of the american people now think its think it's real,. thinks it's called but think it's caused by humans and think it's trouble. So i think the immediacy of it, it's not just in the future. But now you say, it's happening right now. You can see it. If you live in california, as you know, you could see, i live in high fire country. Hurricanes also will do it for you. It's with usright to day. O used to be
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