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</span>At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science several sessions dealt with how best to inform the US public on global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Tom Rosensteil advised scientists to imitate politicians during interviews (which are not conversations).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Answer the question you wish had been asked, and when a question is loaded, answer it as if it were not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-are-americans-so-ill"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-are-americans-so-ill</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Last month at the meeting of the American Meteorological Society Kevin Trenberth delivered a paper in which he challenged scientists to take on leadership roles vacated by corrupted politicians, and to turn to an emphasis on planning and adaptation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/02/22/straight-talk-from-kevin-trenberth-on-denialists-climate-science-communication-and-climate-change-policy/"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/02/22/straight-talk-from-kevin-trenberth-on-denialists-climate-science-communication-and-climate-change-policy/</font></a></p>
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</span>If it has seemed to you that comments on internet forums are impossibly hostile and uninformed, that is because real people are often not the source of those comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Astroturfing, funded by corporations and their political groups, allows one person in a phone bank to assume dozens of personae and to manufacture endless comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The personae are backed by phony online identities and addresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/feb/23/need-to-protect-internet-from-astroturfing"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/feb/23/need-to-protect-internet-from-astroturfing</font></a></p>
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</span>England’s Kevin Anderson warns that the models commonly used to project greenhouse gas emissions are unrealistically optimistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/24/models-climate-policy-optimistic"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/24/models-climate-policy-optimistic</font></a></p>
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</span>Physical evidence reported in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> indicates that the American Southwest suffered severe droughts of hundreds and thousands of years’ duration during warm interglacial periods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We are close to the threshold temperature for such droughts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110223/full/news.2011.120.html"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110223/full/news.2011.120.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The start-up company Transphorm claims to cut the power loss in conversion by as much as 90% with a product applicable to small uses (home computers), medium uses (hybrid cars), and large (computer server farms).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will unveil its first such product in March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The project is backed by Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/googlebacked-startup-zaps-electricity-waste-2224542.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/googlebacked-startup-zaps-electricity-waste-2224542.html</font></a></p>
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</span>Indians, a labor group, and the Sierra Club are contesting the siting of several large desert solar projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/solar-projects-pit-green-against-green/"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/solar-projects-pit-green-against-green/</font></a></p>
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</span>A Franco-Israeli partnership is locating floating solar power farms on industrial water basins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110225123026.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110225123026.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29</font></a></p>
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</span>An Indonesian conference of youths from 37 countries called for a strong program of actions on climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/youth-call-on-governments-to-act-on-climate-change/425302"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/youth-call-on-governments-to-act-on-climate-change/425302</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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