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</span>The Department of Energy is supplying $1.4 billion in loan guarantees to Project Amp, which intends to support 733 megawatts of commercial rooftop solar installations in the next 4 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.energy.gov/news/10391.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.energy.gov/news/10391.htm</font></a></p>
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</span>The Department of Transportation now requires that climate change mitigation and adaptation be integrated into transportation planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The new policy requires risk-management methods and tools, and recognizes the need to plan in a context of uncertainty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.dot.gov/docs/climatepolicystatement.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.dot.gov/docs/climatepolicystatement.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The DOT is in Phase 2 of a model study of the impacts of climate change on transportation in the Central Gulf Coast region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/climate/gcs_overview.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/climate/gcs_overview.htm</font></a></p>
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</span>San Francisco is experiencing clashes among interested groups as it develops regulatory controls on development in areas expected to suffer from sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>332 square miles will be slated for no new development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As maps of sea level rise impact become available, property values will probably decrease in the threatened regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The strains developing in the Bay Area are likely to be experienced in any coastal community planning for adaptation to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/07/environmentalists-developers-clash-over-how-deal-rising-tide"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/07/environmentalists-developers-clash-over-how-deal-rising-tide</font></a></p>
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</span>The Union of Concerned Scientists has developed an interactive global map of the current impact of climate change in 5 categories: terrestrial ecosystems, temperature, freshwater, oceans, and people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is updated monthly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0629-hance_hotmap.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0629-hance_hotmap.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The Scientific American has begun a three-part series on the implications of climate change for extreme weather events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Munich Re joins climate scientists in the position that we would not be seeing the effects we are were it not for climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-weather-caused-by-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-weather-caused-by-climate-change</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The UN expects to release a report on the issue in November.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-panel-to-release-report-in-november-on-link-between-climate-change-and-extreme-events/2011/06/28/AGA1jwpH_story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-panel-to-release-report-in-november-on-link-between-climate-change-and-extreme-events/2011/06/28/AGA1jwpH_story.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The global temperature has been warmer than the 20<sup>th</sup> Century average every month for the past 25 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ky3.com/sns-ap-us-sci-more-global-warming,0,4278327.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ky3.com/sns-ap-us-sci-more-global-warming,0,4278327.story</font></a></p>
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</span>As new, relatively salty sea ice melts, it sinks and relatively warm water surfaces, driving faster melting—lately, 3 times as fast as studies had anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/canadian-scientists-discover-new-clues-to-rapid-arctic-ice-melt/article2078461/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Front+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Latest+News%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/canadian-scientists-discover-new-clues-to-rapid-arctic-ice-melt/article2078461/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Front+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Latest+News%29</font></a></p>
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</span>Pine Island Glacier in the West Antarctic is about the size of Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It has detached from an undersea ridge which once penned it in, and it is moving into the ocean at a rate of 2.5 miles a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Deep warm water is now reaching the ice sheet’s underside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110626145308.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110626145308.htm</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The story reports an estimate of the sea level rise implications of the Pine Island Glacier and its tributaries as 9 inches; other sources give 3-6 feet, with the involvement of the neighboring Thwaites Glacier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island_Glacier"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island_Glacier</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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