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</span>For those who wish to follow the Cornell professors dueling on the climate impact of shale methane, Patrick Parenteau sends the following links:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Howarth et al have responded to Cathles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></span></font></font><a href="http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarthetal2012_Final.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarthetal2012_Final.pdf</font></span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And Cathles has issued a rebuttal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font></span><a href="http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/cathles/Natural%20Gas/Response%20to%20Howarth's%20Reply%20Distributed%20Feb%2030,%202012.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/cathles/Natural%20Gas/Response%20to%20Howarth's%20Reply%20Distributed%20Feb%2030,%202012.pdf</font></span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And here is an audio describing the internecine warfare at Cornell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font></span><a href="http://innovationtrail.org/post/cornell-scientists-face-over-danger-methane-emissions"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://innovationtrail.org/post/cornell-scientists-face-over-danger-methane-emissions</font></span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Neither side gives an inch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The near-term heating effect of methane is especially significant because it can serve to trip off positive feedbacks which would greatly amplify the impact of the added methane, even rendering it permanent as a net effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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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>The American Enterprise Institute hosted a meeting among such politically disparate groups as the Union of Concerned Scientists and ConservAmerica to discuss a carbon tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Politico</i> story concerns ideological whistle blowers from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but the real story is that groups normally at odds are meeting to treat seriously the best chance for greenhouse
gas mitigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The husband of White House climate chief Carol Browner, a former US Representative, attended to discuss building bipartisan support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78522.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78522.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The conservative interest in a carbon tax may be driven by a wish to avoid EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and a desire to direct the new tax to corporations and to deficit reduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2012/07/16/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2012/07/16/1</font></a></p>
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</span>On June 14 the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Christian Science Monitor</i> published a story on the Swiss research which led to the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> article on acidification off the US West Coast I listed in the last newsletter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Because the research is so significant and so urgent I intend to track stories on it for verification, further detail, and expansion to other areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The following story explains why the research team picked the West Coast, and why it is likely to suffer earlier than most regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0614/Global-warming-s-evil-twin-threatens-West-Coast-fishing-grounds"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0614/Global-warming-s-evil-twin-threatens-West-Coast-fishing-grounds</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here is a more technical account from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Wired</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/california-ocean-acidification/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/california-ocean-acidification/</font></a></p>
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</span>The carbon footprint of the average Chinese person now equals a European’s.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is still less than half an American’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2192779/average-chinese-persons-carbon-footprint-now-equals-europeans?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Average+Chinese+person%27s+carbon+footprint+now+equals+European%27s"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2192779/average-chinese-persons-carbon-footprint-now-equals-europeans?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Average+Chinese+person%27s+carbon+footprint+now+equals+European%27s</font></a></p>
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</span>James Hansen has cosigned with Richard Branson a letter to President Obama urging him to support fourth generation nuclear reactors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China and Britain are said to be developing new nuclear power with the technology, which uses plutonium and spent fuel as input.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/20/richard-branson-obama-nuclear-technology"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/20/richard-branson-obama-nuclear-technology</font></a></p>
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</span>Bill McKibben’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Rolling Stone</i> article “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” explains the urgency of finding a way to halt greenhouse gas emissions, which entails taking on the fossil fuel industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>During the Last Interglacial Period 125,000 years ago the temperature was 1-2° warmer than the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The sea level at that period is used to measure the sensitivity of the polar ice sheets to rises in temperature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The sea level rise had been measured at about 4.5 meters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An article in Science reports that the rise was actually twice that, and that the Antarctic must have been involved along with Greenland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6091/216.short"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6091/216.short</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Petermann Glacier in Greenland has calved another whopper of an iceberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The BBC asks, “Is it serious? “ </font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18901068#"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18901068#</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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