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Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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