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</span>A forthcoming German study uses game theory to devise a strategy for climate talks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The free riders—the US, Canada, and Russia—hope to be able to continue emissions on the backs of more responsible nations and thus get climate change mitigation for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The strategy assigns emissions targets and then raises them if all do not comply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If the free riders want to preserve a livable climate they will have to comply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>But the free riders do not give much sign of rational decision making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/sep/06/game-theory-un-climate-talks"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/sep/06/game-theory-un-climate-talks</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The increasing variability of weather means increasing variability in food production by the American Midwest, which supplies a significant proportion of the world’s food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/05/us-usa-agriculture-climate-idUSTRE7843GS20110905?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/05/us-usa-agriculture-climate-idUSTRE7843GS20110905?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>This year the US has suffered three times the usual number of weather-related disasters costing over $1 billion each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/05/us-unprecedented-weather-extremes"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/05/us-unprecedented-weather-extremes</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Flooding in the Catskills has initiated discussion of whether people should be allowed to build in a flood plain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is a topic destined to become common in Florida and elsewhere as we become aware of sea level rise projections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/nyregion/for-a-town-on-a-flood-plain-doubts-about-rebuilding.html?_r=1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/nyregion/for-a-town-on-a-flood-plain-doubts-about-rebuilding.html?_r=1</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A scientist reported being “gob-smacked” by the scale and speed of the breakup of the outlet tongue of the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14771523"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14771523</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The Department of Energy has made its first round of more than $145 million in SunShot awards to solar energy producers and developers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://energy.gov/articles/department-energy-awards-more-145-million-advanced-solar-technologies"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://energy.gov/articles/department-energy-awards-more-145-million-advanced-solar-technologies</font></span></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The project goal is to reduce the cost of solar power production by 75% this decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Utility scale construction costs would then be about $1 a watt and would produce energy for $.06 a kilowatt hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><a href="http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/news_detail.html?news_id=16701"><font color="#0000ff">http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/news_detail.html?news_id=16701</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span>With the seventh billion human due to be born next month, the UN chief Ban Ki—moon
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>called sustainable development the topo issue of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://my.news.yahoo.com/un-chief-says-revolution-hope-underway-044813664.html"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://my.news.yahoo.com/un-chief-says-revolution-hope-underway-044813664.html</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>34% of Tea Party adherents consider global warming a reality, according to a new Yale survey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They consider themselves more well informed than do other groups, and less in need of additional information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new_global_warming_survey_finds_skepticism_among_tea_party_members/3111/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new_global_warming_survey_finds_skepticism_among_tea_party_members/3111/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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