Climate Change

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It's important to understand d what the effect of heat is. And then by doing that, by learning how large these numbers are and where we expect them to go,. We can then decide how best and how much we want to invest in mitigation or adaptation. Data helps inform those kind of cost benefit analyses that we have to do.

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