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Olympics' climate change message sparks conservative backlash
2016-08-06 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Conservative backlash spread on social media after the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics' opening ceremony featured a warning about climate change. The primetime spectacle started with a young boy with a Pau-Brasil tree in the center of the stadium, a rare tree on on the list of Brazils endangered plants. A video then showed a dramatic depiction of Earth and several major cities affected by rising water levels as Antarctic ice sheets rapidly melt. While some were happy the Olympics used its global...
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