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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A report from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy concludes that about 22% of US energy could be saved through a systems approach to energy use which (for examples) optimizes such factors as traffic flow and adjusts power productio0n
load to anticipated uses of technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://aceee.org/research-report/e125?utm_source=Intelligent+Efficiency&utm_campaign=Intelligent+Efficiency&utm_medium=email"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://aceee.org/research-report/e125?utm_source=Intelligent+Efficiency&utm_campaign=Intelligent+Efficiency&utm_medium=email</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>Arctic warming is stacking the deck in favor of more severe winter weather in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132420.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132420.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29</font></a></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>You may put your roof up for auction to solar energy installers with Gridbid, which launches this month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The process should help lower the costs to installers of finding roofs, and to homeowners of finding affordable installers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679974/how-valuable-is-your-roof-put-it-up-for-solar-auction"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679974/how-valuable-is-your-roof-put-it-up-for-solar-auction</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon market including 9 NE US states, released a 3 year report showing a 23% reduction in regional carbon emissions with only trivial rate increases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The program created significant economic growth and was responsible for 16,000 added jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Corporate propaganda mills such as ALEC and the Koch brother’s Americans for Prosperity have been predicting disaster.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/06/rggi-states-cut-co2-by-23-percent-in-first-three-years?cmpid=WNL-Friday-June8-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/06/rggi-states-cut-co2-by-23-percent-in-first-three-years?cmpid=WNL-Friday-June8-2012</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>A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> article warns of impending environmental collapse in terms reminiscent of the recent reconsiderations of the MIT Limits to Growth model (see my link to the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Scientific American</i> article on the World3 model in the email before last).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A new UN report delivers a similar warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108073"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108073</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>So far as I know, and I would welcome correction, the warning from the National Snow and Ice Data Center scientist Kevin Schaefer (among others) that we have only about a decade to avoid the strong possibility of runaway warming from Arctic carbon release
remains unchallenged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The time scale for the commitment to a collapse may well not be in terms of generations or even decades if that is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/12/01/379675/nature-climate-experts-thawing-permafrost-warming-of-deforestation/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/12/01/379675/nature-climate-experts-thawing-permafrost-warming-of-deforestation/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now would be an apt time for wider coverage of these warnings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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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>Virginia lawmakers have found that “climate change” and “sea level rise” are considered liberal code words by some of their colleagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They have taken to trying to call for the study of “coastal resiliency” and “recurrent flooding.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/lawmakers-avoid-buzzwords-climate-change-bills"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/lawmakers-avoid-buzzwords-climate-change-bills</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A new Wyoming supercomputer named Yellowstone is expected to aid greatly the study of climate by the National Center for Atmospheric Research .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-supercomputer-wyoming-20120610,0,2368639.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-supercomputer-wyoming-20120610,0,2368639.story</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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