If he does this long enough, he can drown out the current sea of bad impressions people have of him with positive messages instead.

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The practice was banned by international treaty in 1988 because the plastic bad for sea life, from turtles on down the food chain.

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Inbreeding is clearly bad for sea-lions in all sorts of ways.

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They realised the town was also very badly affected - canal meets river meets sea situation - My brother began a very bad asthma attack and eventually after paramedics helped him they were escorted through flood waters so they could walk home.

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I'll tell you floods, tornadoes, fire etc all those bad things as well as the sea rising and all the polar bears etc and the rainforest getting destroyed so basically global warming is the end of the world and the end of the world will happen one day even if you recycle one million bottles.

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About two months before the disaster, Walbridge, a master sailor with a lifetime of experience at sea, played down the seriousness of sailing through bad weather.

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That breathing space would be useful if something really bad, such as the collapse into the sea of part of the Greenland ice-shelf, was in imminent danger of happening, and the realisation of the danger led to a political agreement that climate change had to be stopped rapidly.

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Not because the weather isn't bad, but because it's so severe that our schooner can't put to sea at all.

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