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</span>Stephen Mulkey is leading a group of his students to Washington, DC, to take a public stand against the new tar sands pipeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He explains why in this article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/11/stand-for-science"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/11/stand-for-science</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thousands of pipe line protestors surrounded the White House on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/thousands-gather-to-protest-transcanada-pipeline-by-encircling-the-white-house-133323108.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/thousands-gather-to-protest-transcanada-pipeline-by-encircling-the-white-house-133323108.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The Pacific Northwest is running into the problem of what to do with excessive wind power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The owners of the wind turbines have sued to keep the utilities from turning off the turbines because they lose money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The utilities are considering charging the turbine owners for smart grid facilities for storing excess energy in home heating systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A minor problem in the big picture, and a pleasant one to contemplate, for once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/business/energy-environment/as-wind-energy-use-grows-utilities-seek-to-stabilize-power-grid.html?_r=1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/business/energy-environment/as-wind-energy-use-grows-utilities-seek-to-stabilize-power-grid.html?_r=1</font></a></p>
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</span>As the permafrost thaws, so do methane-eating microorganisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>According to a study at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, over half the methane released as the permafrost decays will be oxidized by the microorganisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21130-thawing-microbes-could-control-the-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21130-thawing-microbes-could-control-the-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change</font></a></p>
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</span>New manmade offshore reefs, strategic buttressing of ditches, and encouragement of once unwelcome plants are some of the strategems to allow the Alligator River wetlands of North Carolina to migrate inland as the ocean rises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/alligator-river-refuge-rolls-back-from-rising-sea-36879/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/alligator-river-refuge-rolls-back-from-rising-sea-36879/</font></a></p>
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</span>Bangkok is sinking and the ocean is rising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Relocation is the likely solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2011/11/07/floods-show-what-lies-ahead-for-sinking-bangkok/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2011/11/07/floods-show-what-lies-ahead-for-sinking-bangkok/</font></a></p>
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</span>Georgetown Law now had a Climate Center on line with resources for planning adaptation to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Registration is required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.georgetownclimate.org/adaptation/clearinghouse"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.georgetownclimate.org/adaptation/clearinghouse</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Resources on the site include the Broward County Florida Climate Change Action Plan (May, 2010).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.broward.org/NaturalResources/ClimateChange/Documents/FinalCCActionPlan_forBCBCCappdxB.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.broward.org/NaturalResources/ClimateChange/Documents/FinalCCActionPlan_forBCBCCappdxB.pdf</font></a></p>
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</span>The International Energy Agency warns that we must organize action to control greenhouse gas emissions by 2017 or risk permanently losing our chance to mitigate global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Guardian</i>, reliably acute on climate matters, perhaps because it is determinedly free of direct corporate influence, reflects on the IEA’s warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/nov/09/iea-energy-outlook-carbon-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/nov/09/iea-energy-outlook-carbon-climate-change</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Daily Show</i> exposes science as a scam with the guidance of some politicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Whew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-26-2011/weathering-fights---science---what-s-it-up-to-"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-26-2011/weathering-fights---science---what-s-it-up-to-</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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