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</span>Biochar not only sequesters carbon, it can reduce by 70% nitrous oxide emissions from places where cows urinate on the grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318102245.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/2011/03/110318102245.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>Britain is cutting its subsidies for large (over 50 kilowatt) solar installations by up to 70% in favor of supporting less centralized energy production with smaller projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12790613"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12790613</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One benefit of distributed solar production is resilience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Even an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast would have less wide effect (as I learned by listening to ex-CIA Director James Woolsey).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We would also reduce our need for new power grids.</font></font></p>
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</span>An opinion piece from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sacramento Bee</i> observes that CO2 and plutonium need not be accepted as alternatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/20/3487158/viewpoints-japan-crisis-reminds.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/20/3487158/viewpoints-japan-crisis-reminds.html</font></a></p>
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</span>German Chancellor Angela Merkel views nuclear energy as a transitory technology, and recommends exiting it for renewable energy as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110323/bs_afp/germanyenergynuclear"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110323/bs_afp/germanyenergynuclear</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A majority of Americans now oppose expanding nuclear power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>73% oppose the current federal supports for nuclear power, and wish to see them shifted to renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The same group is hostile to the idea that nuclear power companies ought to be able to evade the costs of accidents by passing them on to the rest of us (as they currently do), and half would like to see older plants retired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110322/ts_csm/371668"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110322/ts_csm/371668</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>The Chinese are proceeding with pebble bed reactors, which produce less dangerous waste and are designed not to melt down under coolant loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/energy-environment/25chinanuke.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25&pagewanted=all"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/energy-environment/25chinanuke.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25&pagewanted=all</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Analysis of a survey of British flood victims indicates that experience of a likely effect of global warming can lead to behavior changes if the person believes that their actions can be effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The study suggests public education on climate from a risk management approach, rather than from the perspective of adjusting to a predictable future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1070.html"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1070.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The REDD program to prevent deforestation began with an agreement among 10 countries in 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In 2009 at the Copenhagen conference it became REDD+, with 100 nations signed on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>But no general agreement has emerged on monitoring or control mechanisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The best chance for such agreement may lie outside the UN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0323-niles_redd_interview.html"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0323-niles_redd_interview.html</font></a></p>
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</span>We are using an unsustainable quantity of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We need to find ways to gather, store, and use it more efficiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The climate connection is through the alteration of precipitation patterns now in progress.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54957"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54957</font></a></p>
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</span>Cutting CO2 concentrations would immediately alleviate drought. </font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153504.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/2011/03/110324153504.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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