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</span>In a move to develop a 25% renewable energy base, the US Army is investing $7 billion in renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More will follow from the Army and the other services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33668/?SID=6729a271351d4cebbff45322c3a36d94"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33668/?SID=6729a271351d4cebbff45322c3a36d94</font></a></p>
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</span>Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer: the unprecedented US heat wave of the past month is “just the beginning of our experience with the new atmosphere.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/climate-heat-usa-idUSL2E8EN1K820120323"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/climate-heat-usa-idUSL2E8EN1K820120323</font></a></p>
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Extreme weather events have increased over the last decade and were very likely connected to global warming, particularly extreme rainfall and heat waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/26/extreme-weather-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/26/extreme-weather-climate-change</font></a></p>
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</span>The Greenland ice sheet is reflecting 20% less sunlight than it did about 10 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That is enough change to double the melt rate of those parts which are melting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/greenland-ice-sheet-getting-darker-2"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/greenland-ice-sheet-getting-darker-2</font></a></p>
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</span>A new study in Nature Geoscience raises the anticipated global temperature increase at midcentury to a fresh high in the range of 1.4-3° C on a 1960-90 base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/03/climate-change-global-warming-temperature-rise-model-predict/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/03/climate-change-global-warming-temperature-rise-model-predict/1</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Such a rise could be sufficient to commit us to runaway warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/894217-rising-temperatures-spark-irreversible-climate-change-fears-for-earth"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.metro.co.uk/news/894217-rising-temperatures-spark-irreversible-climate-change-fears-for-earth</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Julian Hunt, who was not on the study, criticized it but told the BBC that the higher range was increasingly likely due to new methane releases, decreasing reflectivity in some areas (see the previous item), and pollution controls in Asia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17488450"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17488450</font></a></p>
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</span>Sen. John Kerry, speaking of the “flat-earth caucus” in the Republican Party, believes “we have lost the notion of responsible capitalism.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He names fossil fuel company political influence as the primary cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/03/kerry-vents-on-climate"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/03/kerry-vents-on-climate</font></a></p>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In North Carolina a coalition of 20 coastal counties has succeeded in limiting climate change adaptation plans to a relatively trivial sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/25/3124297/damaging-sea-level-rise-is-on.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/25/3124297/damaging-sea-level-rise-is-on.html</font></a></p>
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Museum of Modern Art is running an exhibition on reforming suburban communities to be more sustainable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
</i>consists of 5 demonstration redesigns for existing suburbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Bill Slaughter for the item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/foreclosed/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/foreclosed/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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