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</span>Oneclimate interviewed several experts at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union for this 7 minute video, “Climate and Sea Level: An Emerging Hockey Stick.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://oneworldgroup.org/2012/01/11/climate-and-sea-level-an-emerging-hockey-stick/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://oneworldgroup.org/2012/01/11/climate-and-sea-level-an-emerging-hockey-stick/</font></a></p>
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</span>A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> article suggests 14 cost effective ways to control soot and methane emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-buy-time-to-combat-climate-change-cut-soot-methane"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-buy-time-to-combat-climate-change-cut-soot-methane</font></a></p>
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</span>The florets of a sunflower are aligned in a Fermat spiral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Arranging the mirrors of a concentrating solar plant similarly improves efficiency by .36% and reduces land use by 15.8%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The larger the array, the greater the effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/sunflower-inspires-new-space-saving-csp-layout?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January18-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/sunflower-inspires-new-space-saving-csp-layout?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January18-2012</font></a></p>
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</span>BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas and Power are combining for a $1 billion pair of wind farms in Kansas and Pennsylvania to generate 560 megawatts of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They will be in operation by the end of the year, both to be managed by BP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/1-billion-deal-bp-sempra-combine-on-projects-in-pennsylvania-kansas?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January18-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/1-billion-deal-bp-sempra-combine-on-projects-in-pennsylvania-kansas?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January18-2012</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>BP projects that fossil fuels will continue to be the main source of energy and puts most of its investments there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Their chief economist said that the political climate might shift toward renewables if we began to talk seriously about such topics as adaptation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/01/20/4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/01/20/4</font></a></p>
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</span>An article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Der Spiegel</i> argues that Germany would have done better to put the money they have spent to develop solar power into other renewable sources—wind, geothermal, hydropower, biomass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Germany’s solar resources have proved weak and intermittent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,809439,00.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,809439,00.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the US, 700 megawatts of geothermal projects are in the pipeline for completion before subsidies lapse in 2013, but the industry is hampered by the lack of a national energy policy (as are other efforts to develop renewable energy).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/geothermal-heating-up-in-nevada-despite-frigid-industry-climate?cmpid=WNL-Friday-January20-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/01/geothermal-heating-up-in-nevada-despite-frigid-industry-climate?cmpid=WNL-Friday-January20-2012</font></a></p>
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</span>An English group of investors, politicians, and scientists has warned that fossil fuel reserves are subprime assets which pose a great risk to investors because effective action on climate will render them increasingly worthless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The reserves may not ever—should not ever—be used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/19/fossil-fuels-sub-prime-mervyn-king?newsfeed=true"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/19/fossil-fuels-sub-prime-mervyn-king?newsfeed=true</font></a></p>
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</span>The Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency reports that ending subsidies for fossil fuels would have the effect of taking us half way to the necessary emissions reduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>37 countries spent $409 billion to artificially lower the cost of fossil fuels in 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/19/fossil-fuel-subsidies-carbon-target"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/19/fossil-fuel-subsidies-carbon-target</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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