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</span>A Dutch team has begun to model regional variations in sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One counter-intuitive finding is that water from Greenland would result from relatively less rise in New York than water from the West Antarctic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Generally, New York is predicted to suffer 20% more sea level rise than the global average.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Only 13 locations have been modeled.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13011073"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13011073</font></a></p>
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</span>A new study produces a best guess that the Arctic will be free of ice in the summer of 2016, give or take 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>While the study does not address Greenland, the albedo change will mean greater heating for the region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13002706"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13002706</font></a></p>
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</span>A Canadian modeling study concludes that we are unlikely to restrict warming to 2° C in this century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>To remain short of that threshold, usually taken as the transition point to dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the world’s climate, we would need to ramp down to near 0% greenhouse gas emissions immediately and initiate a program to withdraw
CO2 from the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At the DAI point we will be at increased risk of losing the chance to intervene in the heating as positive feedbacks begin to dominate the process of change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/un-goal-of-limiting-global-warmi.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/un-goal-of-limiting-global-warmi.html</font></a></p>
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</span>GE is building the world’s largest solar manufacturing plant in the US to produce thin film panels in competition with First Solar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2041939/ge-plunges-usd600m-efficient-solar-pv-panel?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=GE+plunges+%24600m+into+%22most+efficient%22+solar+PV+panel"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2041939/ge-plunges-usd600m-efficient-solar-pv-panel?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=GE+plunges+%24600m+into+%22most+efficient%22+solar+PV+panel</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A forthcoming Cornell study is said to find that fracking for natural gas renders it for a time more damaging to the climate than coal, and then (as the leaked methane converts to CO2) as damaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Part of the new picture derives from greatly increased estimates of leaked methane, and part is from new findings (from NASA) about the interactions of the leaked methane with aerosols.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/business/energy-environment/12gas.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/business/energy-environment/12gas.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Huffington Post</i> has a blunter take without the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Times’</i> nods to gas industry reps:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/highway-to-hell-why-shale_b_847710.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/highway-to-hell-why-shale_b_847710.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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