Stop global warming.
Montreal Montreal (mŏn'trēôl`), Fr. Montréal (môNrāäl`), city (1991 pop. 1,017,666), S Que., Canada, on Montreal island, surrounded by St. Lawrence River and Rivière des Prairies.
Tens of thousands of people protested in thirty cities around the
world on December December: see month. 3 to demand governments do more to stop global
warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . Activists held the biggest demonstration in Montreal, where the
United Nations was hosting a climate change conference.
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