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</span>Vancouver has developed a 9 part plan to deal with increasing heat, storms, and sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will be revisited every 5 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The city expects to save billions by planning ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver%20plans%20face%20climate%20change%20head/6968006/story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver%20plans%20face%20climate%20change%20head/6968006/story.html</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>Marten Scheffer, a Dutch mathematician, is modeling climate tipping points using dynamical systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among the systems susceptible to sudden state transitions are the monsoons, the polar ice sheets, and forest systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/the-climate-change-tipping-point.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/the-climate-change-tipping-point.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y</font></a></p>
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</span>NPR interviewed some scientists who study the Antarctic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Subjects include ice sheet dynamics (e.g., rivers which flow uphill) and the biological changes as the West Antarctic melts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The featured star is the Texas-sized Pine Island Glacier, now moving at a foot an hour.
</font><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/07/20/157113398/melting-the-worlds-biggest-ice-cube?ft=1&f=1025"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.npr.org/2012/07/20/157113398/melting-the-worlds-biggest-ice-cube?ft=1&f=1025</font></a></p>
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</span>Half the water withdrawal in the US goes to cool power plants, and more for oil and gas production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The current drought highlights the benefits of using of such water-frugal sources of power as concentrating solar, pv, wind, and geothermal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/opinion/will-drought-cause-the-next-blackout.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120724"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/opinion/will-drought-cause-the-next-blackout.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120724</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>The US has opened 285,000 acres in 6 states to fast track development of solar power, and another 19 million acres to normal permitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The plan blocks development on 78 million acres. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/us-usa-solar-zones-idUSBRE86N1GJ20120724?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/2012/07/24/us-usa-solar-zones-idUSBRE86N1GJ20120724?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>Changing weather is taking infrastructure such as roads, rails, subways, drainage, and power stations beyond their design limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/rise-in-weather-extremes-threatens-infrastructure.html?partner=rss&emc=rss"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/rise-in-weather-extremes-threatens-infrastructure.html?partner=rss&emc=rss</font></a></p>
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</span>Climate Central has released a report on the ways small to medium sized cities are developing clean energy sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://newenergycities.org/powering-the-new-energy-future-from-the-ground-up-profiles-in-city-led-clean-energy-innovation"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://newenergycities.org/powering-the-new-energy-future-from-the-ground-up-profiles-in-city-led-clean-energy-innovation</font></a></p>
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</span>The Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed a process to produce photovoltaic power at low cost and high efficiency from any semiconductor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The new process promises less polluting and more easily solar power, “accelerating” the usage of solar energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726180307.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/2012/07/120726180307.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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