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</span>The Agulhas Current, stimulated by global warming, may act to stabilize the Gulf Stream, which is generally weakened by global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110427131809.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110427131809.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>130,000-115,000 years ago temperatures were 5° C hotter than the present, about what we expect this century, and sea levels were 7-8 meters higher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A recent study implies that only about 2 meters of that came from Greenland, with the West Antarctic supplying more raise than had been thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The finding is in dispute.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/greenland_reveals_its_warm_sec.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/greenland_reveals_its_warm_sec.html</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Chinese electric McCar comes with an electric tricycle in the trunk which charges as you drive.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1749238/scooter-in-a-car-the-ultimate-hybrid-eco-vehicle"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.fastcompany.com/1749238/scooter-in-a-car-the-ultimate-hybrid-eco-vehicle</font></a></p>
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</span>A US study indicates that China’s carbon emissions should peak within the next 20 years due to market saturation and emissions policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7FT01Y20110429"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7FT01Y20110429</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China’s support of green technologies is growing 77% a year. The US is 17<sup>th</sup> in terms of the percentage of GDP going to clean power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/business/energy-environment/09clean.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/business/energy-environment/09clean.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>US patents for clean energy technology climbed 170% from 2009-2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://cepgi.typepad.com/files/cepgi-4th-quarter-2010-1.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://cepgi.typepad.com/files/cepgi-4th-quarter-2010-1.pdf</font></a></p>
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</span>China has set a target of 50 gigawatts of solar power by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110506/sc_afp/chinaenergysolartarget"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110506/sc_afp/chinaenergysolartarget</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Tokyo Electric Power may be asked to pay half of the estimated $49 billion in damages from the Fukushima nuclear accident, and the rest will be on other power firms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Estimates of the cost of nuclear power should not ignore such liabilities, even when, as in the US, the liability is passed on directly to the public, for the most part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/us-tepco-liabilities-idUSTRE7421AO20110503?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/us-tepco-liabilities-idUSTRE7421AO20110503?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a></p>
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</span>George Monbiot poses a problem we have yet to solve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>How do we intervene effectively in the current planet-wrecking project?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(We need to invent sustainable communities which do not depend on growth but do support a level of manufacturing and commerce, and education, and creative fulfillment, and continuity, and health, and intellectual achievement, desirable for a satisfying
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Why not.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/environmental-fixes-all-greens-lost"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/environmental-fixes-all-greens-lost</font></a></p>
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</span>“The Case for Young People and Nature: A Path to a Healthy, Natural, Prosperous Future” by James Hansen and colleagues summarizes the causes and effects of climate change, and its likely cures, with special focus on what we are preparing for the coming
generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110505_CaseForYoungPeople.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110505_CaseForYoungPeople.pdf</font></a></p>
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</span>Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has announced that the country will develop a new energy policy emphasizing renewable sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The country had planned to increase nuclear production from 30% to 50% of the country’s supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/10/japan-nuclear-renewables"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/10/japan-nuclear-renewables</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>As widely reported, the IPCC has released a 900 page report on renewable energy which says that we could be 77% renewable by 2050.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As is not widely reported, it says we could be 100% renewable by then, technologically; the lower figure is a political judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/idUS215930907320110512"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/idUS215930907320110512</font></a></p>
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</span>A panel assembled by the National Research Council at the request of Congress has recommended immediate action to mitigate global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called the US refusal to act on climate change a “very serious handbrake” and cautioned that the world would not be able to live with the US holdout for long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US is the only industrialized country to refuse to agree to act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/05/12/panel_says_us_must_act_now_to_curb_global_warming/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/05/12/panel_says_us_must_act_now_to_curb_global_warming/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news</font></a></p>
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</span>An Arctic Council conference of 400 scientists from 20 countries in Copenhagen produced the judgment that dramatic, nonlinear changes are in process in the Arctic, leading to “water level problems on a global scale that we will all feel the effects of.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/05/11/Arctic-climate-change-to-be-dramatic/UPI-56801305160741/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/05/11/Arctic-climate-change-to-be-dramatic/UPI-56801305160741/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">You may have had difficulties accessing the UNF list site, as I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The firewall problem now appears to have been fixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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