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12. How Climate Change Affects IT Support

Mike Halsey1  
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Charente, France
 

Now let’s get one thing clear right form the off; I’m not here to try and convince you that Climate Change exists, that it’s a thing. That’s a personal choice. What it’s harder to argue with though is that there have been a sharply increasing number of extreme weather events around the world in recent years, from heatwaves causing wild fires to floods causing mudslides.

World leaders have been responding to this very very slowly, and pledging actions that they’re not delivering, that will tackle the problem, ...

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