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</span>For $2.99 you can get the Fragile Earth app for your iPhone or iPad which matches before and after satellite shots of regions impacted by (among other factors) climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/net-us-app-climatechange-idUSBRE83T09Z20120430"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/net-us-app-climatechange-idUSBRE83T09Z20120430</font></a></p>
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</span>A Texas study indicates that wind farms increase ground heat, particularly at night, almost entirely by mixing cooler (and lower) air with warmer (and somewhat higher) air through turbulence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effect can extend as far as a region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Forbes</i>, and other propaganda outlets are treating the study as if it found that wind farms were a force in global warming.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0430/Don-t-believe-the-headlines.-Wind-farms-do-not-cause-global-warming"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0430/Don-t-believe-the-headlines.-Wind-farms-do-not-cause-global-warming</font></a></p>
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</span>A McKinsey report “Solar Power: Darkest Before Dawn” finds reason to believe that the current shakeout in the solar industry will be followed by a great expansion, leading to incremental cost reductions and even greater expansion, with the economic potential
to add as much as 400-600 gigawatts by 2020 (even though subsidies are expected to dry up) (page 6).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By 2020 we could see installed residential systems for $1 a watt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Between now and 2020 distributed residential generation is likely to be “the dominant source of solar demand” (page 8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The 16 page report is free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/Client_Service/Sustainability/Latest_thinking/Solar_powers_next_shining"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.mckinsey.com/Client_Service/Sustainability/Latest_thinking/Solar_powers_next_shining</font></a></p>
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</span>Plants are flowering up to 8 times faster under climate change than experiments had indicated they would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It has proved difficult to mimic the actual conditions, with all the factors of precipitation, cloud cover, warmth, and atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17924653"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17924653</font></a></p>
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</span>Greenland’s outlet glaciers have increased their speed to the sea by 30% in the last 10 years, less than expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Greenland’s contribution to sea level rise may consequently be lower than previous estimates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The study concerns calving of icebergs and omits consideration of meltwater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ice-is-flowing-slower-on-greenland-than-many-feared-study-says/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ice-is-flowing-slower-on-greenland-than-many-feared-study-says/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>John Willis and John Church, “Regional Sea-Level Projection,” observe that semi-empirical studies based on the association of temperature changes with historical rates of sea level rise yield figures over twice as large as current projections based on
earth models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The discrepancy could be due to weaknesses in either approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Subscription required.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/550.full"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/550.full</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Dinosaur flatulence produced about as much methane as the world produces now, and may well have been a factor in the warm climate of 150 million years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792</font></a></p>
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</span>We are still outdoing the dinosaurs, though, and our emissions are exceeding expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/us-emissions-idUSBRE83T0PT20120430"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/us-emissions-idUSBRE83T0PT20120430</font></a></p>
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</span>If you are in the Jacksonville area, tonight (Monday, May 7) the GTM Estuarine Research Reserve will deliver their first public report on their 3-year study of sea level rise and its impact on this region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Dawn Jourdan, who holds a joint appointment in urban planning and law at the U of FL, will address the Sierra Club at 6 at the Ponte Vedra Public Library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The meeting is free and open to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Snacks will be provided; bring your own drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Children are welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The $615 thousand study is expected to provide the base for climate change planning in NE FL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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