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</span>An article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> concluded that easily extracted oil peaked globally in 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Oil is destined to be ever more expensive and ever dirtier as we burn less desirable stocks, such as tar sands oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The less we burn the better, and the quicker the transition to renewable energy sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-peak-oil-already-happened"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-peak-oil-already-happened</font></a></p>
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</span>In his State of the Union Address President Obama proposed to broaden production of oil and natural gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Of course we need much less of both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
It occurs to me that he is attempting to ease the distress caused by increasing fuel costs as he works through the military and through federal sources open to him to develop renewable resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Obama-turns-attention-to-energy-in-key-states-2716051.php"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Obama-turns-attention-to-energy-in-key-states-2716051.php</font></a></p>
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</span>The Department of Defense estimates that it could put 7 gigawatts of solar power on its bases in CA and NV alone without compromising military or environmental needs and without paying up front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/dod-could-put-7000-mw-of-solar-on-bases-013012/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/dod-could-put-7000-mw-of-solar-on-bases-013012/</font></a></p>
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</span>BrightSource has announced installation of thermal storage in three of its concentrating solar plants in California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will be the world’s largest storage project and allow enough increased efficiency to meet output projections while scrapping plans for a plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The process uses half the land of photovoltaic power plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://scienceprogress.org/2012/01/super-hot-salt-a-super-cool-solar-technology-innovation/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://scienceprogress.org/2012/01/super-hot-salt-a-super-cool-solar-technology-innovation/</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings has created a new structure to manage an impressive array of renewable energy resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/01/30/4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/01/30/4</font></a></p>
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</span>Increasing heat can diminish wheat crops 20% by aging the plant prematurely, according to a new study led by Stanford U.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/29/us-climate-crops-idUSTRE80S0JG20120129"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/29/us-climate-crops-idUSTRE80S0JG20120129</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A UN report from the High Level Panel on Global Sustainability calls for an indication of economic health which shifts from GDP to a measure of the sustainability of an economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Other tools under development would remove environmentally damaging subsidies, regulate investments to render their results sustainable, provide affordable renewable energy, and establish a common network to support health and education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The report will feed into the Rio+20 Summit in June. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It intends to map “a future worth choosing.” </font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16775264"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16775264</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">8.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In Part 2 of “Cowards in Our Democracies” James Hansen sketches our fossil fuel situation in 2 pages, says why he is not a Democrat, anticipates wrestling Al Gore on a ship bound for the Antarctic, analyzes the smear
tactics of fossil fuel strategists, says how he came by an undeclared Rolex and what he plans to do with it, and suggests that among the inheritors of wealth may be “dimwitted galoots.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120130_CowardsPart2.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120130_CowardsPart2.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you are interested in Part 1, it’s linked on his home page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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