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"Madam President, we are often told that politicians should leave the field of climatology to the experts. Of course, that is true, but it works both ways around. I am not the right person to ask about meteorology or ocean currents or the Medieval Warm Period or sunspots – absolutely, leave that to the experts. But I am an elected legislator, and it seems to me that the question of how we respond proportionately and how we maximise our resources in dealing with the issue is the proper business of those of us who are answerable to constituents rather than of specialists in the field of climatology. Let us accept what seems to be the consensus, which is that the world is warming partly as a result of human activity. How we then deal with that is a political, rather than a scientific, question. The particular issue is how much we spend on seeking very slightly to mitigate the rise in temperatures with huge sums of money, versus adapting with a fractional sum of money. I look around the world and I see that in Helsinki the mean temperature is about 5 degrees, in Athens it is about 21 degrees, in Rio about 35 degrees. All support large human populations. I think we might just be able to adapt."@en1
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