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</span>A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> article finds that changes in wind circulation have brought warm water to the underside of Antarctic ice shelves, speeding the contribution of disappearing land ice to sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The study is part of ice2sea, an EU-organized projection of sea level rise in this century and the next due out later this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17803693"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17803693#</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>MSNBC supplies a graphic: </font></font></p>
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</span></font></font><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47180096/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47180096/ns/technology_and_science-science/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The thinner shelves must be the blue ones.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The ice2sea site:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.ice2sea.eu/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ice2sea.eu/</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A second project on melting ice sheets promises to allow more precise estimation of the contribution of a given ice sheet to sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112520464/novel-method-to-identify-sources-of-global-sea-level-rise/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112520464/novel-method-to-identify-sources-of-global-sea-level-rise/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>These first two items are particularly significant as moves toward a more accurate projection of sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>According to recent studies of methane release from melting permafrost (and, yet more recently, from open Arctic water), our best chance of avoiding grave risk lies in decisive action before this decade is out, and our chances of taking action increase
if we have a clearer picture of what we face.</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The greenhouse effect is accelerating the water cycle at twice the rate predicted by climate models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> article is based on ocean salinity measurements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Its implication is that dry areas will become yet drier and the wetter even wetter more quickly than we had supposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-climate-rainfall-idUSBRE83P18C20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-climate-rainfall-idUSBRE83P18C20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a></p>
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</span>A Yale-George Mason U public opinion poll finds large majorities of Americans—whether Republican, Democratic, or Independent—favor strong action to mitigate climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-voters-favor-regulating-carbon-d"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-voters-favor-regulating-carbon-d</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>President Obama intends to make action on climate change an issue in the election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/223599-obama-vows-to-fight-for-climate-action-in-campaign"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/223599-obama-vows-to-fight-for-climate-action-in-campaign</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Americans for Prosperity, a Koch Bros. joint and the major sponsor of tea party activity, is spending $6.1 million on an ad campaign in swing states to undermine the President’s efforts to develop greener energy sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-campaign-money-idUSBRE83Q01D20120427"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-campaign-money-idUSBRE83Q01D20120427</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The ad is said to be based on distortions and lies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/26/472061/fact-check-americans-for-prosperity-announces-61-million-ad-buy-to-push-totally-false-green-jobs-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/26/472061/fact-check-americans-for-prosperity-announces-61-million-ad-buy-to-push-totally-false-green-jobs-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29</font></a></p>
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</span>A 1981 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> article by Jim Hansen and associates proves to be accurate in its expectations for climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-wagner/hansen-had-it-right_b_1450540.html?ref=tw"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-wagner/hansen-had-it-right_b_1450540.html?ref=tw</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>A team at the U of British Columbia has been working with school children to visualize our future in a changed climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Their tools the group has developed, detailed in their book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Visualizing Climate Change</i>, are meant to spur engagement and effective planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/04/28/BC-Climate-Viz/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/04/28/BC-Climate-Viz/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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