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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Hilda Heine, President of Marshall Islands, speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Hilda Heine, President of Marshall Islands, speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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