It would be easy to think that the rainforest was saved, or at least, that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is no longer one of the great crises facing a planet finally reaching consensus on the issue of global warming.

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Efficiency is the most important response to the many challenges facing the planet during the next century and beyond, including: global warming or any other form of climate change.

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The world is facing many challenges such as global warming, diseases and pollution.

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These trends are chilling reminders of the sweeping economic impacts we are now all facing from warming global temperatures.

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Mr Blair agreed with his chief scientific adviser that global warming was the most important long-term challenge facing the world.

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Remarkably, global warming activists are spinning the ongoing rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, along with the ongoing lack of global temperature rise, as evidence that we are facing an even worse global warming crisis than they have been predicting.

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