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</span>This summary article on photovoltaic power features a memorable J curve of world production since 1985.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C47/solar_power_2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C47/solar_power_2011</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute gives good reason to suppose that the transition to renewable energy is well underway in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update101"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update101</font></a></p>
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</span>World carbon emissions increased 6% in 2010, worse than the worst case scenario of the 2007 IPCC report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The increase came primarily from developing countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CARBON_EMISSIONS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CARBON_EMISSIONS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT</font></a></p>
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</span>90% of Americans think it is important to develop solar power, and 80% support subsidies for its development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The support is broadly bipartisan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/11/survey-says-9-in-10-americans-want-more-solar-energy?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November2-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/11/survey-says-9-in-10-americans-want-more-solar-energy?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November2-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>Solar Mosaic has implemented a solar installation in an Oakland, CA, lower-income community supplying power for 35 homes funded through a program of $100 buy-ins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/First-of-its-Kind-Community-Solar-Project/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/First-of-its-Kind-Community-Solar-Project/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>A Cartography of the Anthropocene provides impressive global maps of human settlements and interconnections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/#Maps"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/#Maps</font></a></p>
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</span>Some Miami streets are already being flooded by high tides. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Low-income housing areas at higher elevations are being gentrified with high-rise condos as the wealthy retreat from the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By midcentury, Homestead will be a barrier island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This article from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Grist</i> describes a few of the emergent issues as South Florida begins to experience sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-10-26-underwater-cities-climate-change-begins-reshape-urban-landscape"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-10-26-underwater-cities-climate-change-begins-reshape-urban-landscape</font></a></p>
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</span>Pine Island Glacier, fastest in the Antarctic, is calving a large ice berg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15580679"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15580679</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>On Nov. 18 the IPCC will release an extensive study of the effects of climate change on weather weather-related disasters, finding that extreme events and variability are likely to increase.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/apnewsbreak-global-warming-worsens-weather-extremes-international-climate-panel-says/2011/11/01/gIQApMtgbM_story.html?wprss=rss_national"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/apnewsbreak-global-warming-worsens-weather-extremes-international-climate-panel-says/2011/11/01/gIQApMtgbM_story.html?wprss=rss_national</font></a></p>
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</span>As the UK cuts its carbon emissions, shipping emissions emerge as a more and more urgent problem and will require regulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The article features a photo of a Japanese design for a cargo ship with sails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15554523"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15554523</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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