[GWSG] Naval solar; desert insets; Gen. Mills emissions; bacterial suicide; Obama in Alaska; slr sculptures

[Tilley, Al]

1.  The US Navy is investing in the world's largest solar farm, located in Arizona.  The Navy's 210 MW share of the output will help power fourteen bases and represents the US government's largest solar power purchase.  China and India have larger installations planned.  http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/26/navy-invests-largest-solar-farm/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e41fadbc83-Weekly_News_8_30_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e41fadbc83-85965093  More detail on the Mesquite solar farm and the Navy's purchase:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-navy-solar-farm-arizona_55e5e235e4b0b7a9633a6406



2.  90% of the landscape in which Mongolian nomads live is degrading to desert.  A series of pictures uses insets to contrast the present and near future.  http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/sep/01/mongolian-nomads-way-of-life-lost-climate-change-in-pictures



3.  Observing that "the long-term viability of our business is as stake," General Mills will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 28% by 2025 along its entire supply chain.  http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/31/3696953/general-mills-climate-emissions-reduction-plan/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=1525180b9f9647ee9752bd6f3730d4d4&elqCampaignId=3729&elqaid=26959&elqat=1&elqTrackId=d919359279a141c7bb113e476df6b1cd



4.  According to a recent study, high CO2 will cause a bacterium which fixes nitrogen necessary to marine life into overdrive so that it exhausts available atmospheric supplies and essentially does itself in, along with all the organisms which depend on its nitrogen.  http://climatecrocks.com/2015/09/01/nobody-expected-that-it-could-do-something-so-bizarre/



5.  President Obama has used a trip to Alaska and the Arctic to highlight the climate changes underway in the region, and to promise forthcoming actions.  http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/01/3697447/obama-arctic-speech/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3  Most press coverage focusses on the charge that for the president to accept limited drilling for oil in the Arctic and to also call for climate action constitutes hypocrisy.  I take that to be a way of attempting to cripple the impact of Obama's trip by exploiting some simplistic reactions of well-meaning people.  I have addressed the issue of Arctic oil development in a previous mailing, and hold that the administration deserves to be considered as acting in good faith.



6.  Lad Hawkins calls attention to Berlin's Isaac Hawkins' tiny sculptures of men presumably discussing and otherwise involved in dealing with climate change as they submerge.  A nice Florida motif.  http://inhabitat.com/isaac-cordals-incredible-tiny-sculptures-offer-a-chilling-view-of-climate-change/  ?

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