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		</div><p>Actor Harrison Ford has offered an emphatic plea for protecting the world’s oceans, calling out US President Donald Trump and others who “deny or denigrate science”.</p>
<p>The 76-year-old actor, best known for his roles in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, stressed the importance of acknowledging the effects of climate change in a speech on the closing day of the World Government Summit in Dubai.</p>
<p>Though never saying Mr Trump’s name, he clearly targeted the American president within the opening moments of his remarks.</p>
<p><em>“Around the world, elements of leadership – including in my own country – to preserve their state and the status quo, deny or denigrate science,”</em> Ford said.</p>
<p><em>“They are on the wrong side of history.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Trump has repeatedly criticized the idea of climate change, despite it being supported by the vast majority of peer-reviewed studies, science organizations and scientists.</p>
<p>On Monday, the president tweeted that Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar announced her presidential run “talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures”.</p>
<p>“Bad timing,” the president wrote.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094718856197799936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Trump often conflates cold spells and other incidents of weather with climate, which is long term.</p>
<p>Ford has long supported conservation efforts.</p>
<p>Before coming out on stage, his Emirati hosts played a video of him narrating a piece for Conservation International on the importance of protecting the oceans called Nature is Speaking.</p>
<p><em>“One way or another, every living thing here needs me,”</em> Ford growls in the video.</p>
<p><em>“I’m the source. I’m what they crawled out of.”</em></p>
<p>In his address, Ford called on governments and officials to rely on “sound science” to shape their policy.</p>
<p><em>“We are faced (with) what I believe is the greatest moral crisis of our time,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“That those least responsible for nature’s destruction will suffer the greatest consequences.”</em></p>
<p>Ford added: <em>“We need nature now more than ever because nature doesn’t need people, people need nature.”</em></p>
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