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"2010 was the warmest year on record. And it was warm. We were on the phone one day with our 350 crew in Pakistan and one of them said, 'It's hot out here today,' and I was surprised to hear him say it because it's usually hot in Pakistan during the summer. He said, no it's really hot. We just set the new, all time Asia temperature record, 129 degrees. That kind of heat melts the arctic. That kind of heat causes drought so deep across Russia that the Kremlin stops all grain exports. That kind of heat causes the flooding that still has 4 million people across Pakistan homeless tonight. "It's tough, it's grim, but the good news at least is that it's clear, the science. We have a number: 350 parts per million. 350, the most important number on earth. As the NASA team put it in January 2008, 'any value in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million is not compatible with the planet on which civilization developed and which life on earth is adapted.' Getting back to 350 parts per million will be very very tough, the toughest thing human beings have ever done, but there is no use complaining about it, it's just physics and chemistry. That's what we have to do." - Bill McKibben, Speaking at the National Power Shift Conference, 2011
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