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It's been a beautiful autumn here in Denmark.  Warm, with golden sun, blue skies, red and yellow and orange leaves on the trees.  Just gorgeous.  And unusually warm for Denmark. It's always exciting when, instead of wearing your winter coat every day from October to April, you can wear it every day from November to April.  But this unusually pleasant weather can’t help but spark conversation about global warming.  So far the biggest impact climate change has had in Denmark are some severe rainstorms, when end up flooding a lot of basements and overwhelming a lot of sewer systems.  It’s intriguing to think that plumbers may become the great heroes of the twenty-first century. Danes care about climate change, and they’ve made a business specialty of green technology, or what they like to call clean technology.  Cleantech.  It sells windmills to create windpower, and burns most of its household garbage in an environmentally friendly way, to create home heating. Danes care about the environment because they care