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This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
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