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</span>Volcanic vents in the ocean acidify and heat water, providing a kind of time machine to study what will happen as we add more CO2 to the warming ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Species disappear, both from acidity and increasing heat, and we know from past events that the ocean will remain impoverished for thousands of centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17088154"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17088154</font></a></p>
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</span>The Watery Foundation blog has reproduced a list of principles for a sustainable water supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Deirdre Irwin for introducing me to the blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.wateryfoundation.com/?p=6201"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.wateryfoundation.com/?p=6201</font></a></p>
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</span>Crystalline silicon pv cells are now selling for as little as $.80/Watt on the wholesale market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The average price for Tier 2 Chinese solar panels is now under the $1/Watt target set by Secretary Chu for solar panels by the end of the decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Solar must also now be at least approaching parity with wind power in the best sites, where wind has been as cheap as coal for some years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/02/chinese-tier-2-modules-offered-below-1w?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February22-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/02/chinese-tier-2-modules-offered-below-1w?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February22-2012</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Tier 2 panels are of above average efficiency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://sroeco.com/solar/solar-panel-efficiency-tiers"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sroeco.com/solar/solar-panel-efficiency-tiers</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>NOAA has posted a sea level rise viewer with water levels at one foot increments up to six feet of rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Erosion and other factors are not represented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Gulf coast is provided with simulations of various familiar landmarks as they submerge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.csc.noaa.gov/slr/viewer/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.csc.noaa.gov/slr/viewer/#</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>The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange site provides for interchange among those planning for the conditions displayed by the previous item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.cakex.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.cakex.org/</font></a></p>
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</span>The USGS has produced animations and affected population estimates for various areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Try the coastal US animation, which covers up to 30 meters of sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://cegis.usgs.gov/sea_level_rise.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://cegis.usgs.gov/sea_level_rise.html</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>I learned of the previous three items at the conference Building Coastal Community Resilience hosted by the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve in Eastpoint, FL (which is at about two feet elevation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We heard of the expected effects of climate change in that part of the Florida Panhandle, and of the efforts to begin planning in South Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>No Florida community has yet begun to consider a process of relocation, which is what is in store for most of the Florida coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(At Eastpoint I had some of the excellent local oysters and a great shrimp omelet with grits.)
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</span>E-bikes are cheap and efficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>China now has over 100 million of them.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As gas prices rise here, they may become more common.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/02/22/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/02/22/1</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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