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Trump deaf to dire U.S. climate warning

AS A COLD SPELL SETTLED ACROSS PARTS OF the U.S. over the Thanksgiving holiday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter with a question he shouldn’t need to ask: “Whatever happened to Global Warming?” he mused on Nov. 21.

Two days later, scientists working for 13 agencies across his Administration gave Trump a stark reminder. The climate—which, despite the President’s question, is not the same thing as the daily weather—remains very much in peril, and its warming threatens the welfare of the U.S. That finding,

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