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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>An MIT study indicates that for every 1° C rise in average temperature tropical precipitation will increase by 10%, with disruptive effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/study-shows-intensified-tropical-rainfall-with-global-warming-0917.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/study-shows-intensified-tropical-rainfall-with-global-warming-0917.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>The unexpected Arctic melt rate increases the threat of runaway warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/19/arctic-ice-shrinks"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/19/arctic-ice-shrinks</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The impact of the Arctic melt on weather is generally probable but difficult to work out in detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The same might be said for the accelerating pace of methane release and of sea level rise.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/closer-look-at-arctic-sea-ice-melt-and-extreme-weather-15013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/closer-look-at-arctic-sea-ice-melt-and-extreme-weather-15013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Antarctic sea ice is growing by about 1% each decade (but there’s not much good news there).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/forget-the-melting-arctic-the-sea-ice-in-antarctica-is-growing-skeptics-say-15032?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/forget-the-melting-arctic-the-sea-ice-in-antarctica-is-growing-skeptics-say-15032?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</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>A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Scientific American</i> blog explains why the melting of the Arctic sea ice matters and what it certainly will and could mean for our future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Your patience with a fairly lengthy article will be rewarded with insight into how hard we are making it for ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/09/21/arctic-sea-ice-what-why-and-what-next/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/09/21/arctic-sea-ice-what-why-and-what-next/</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>PBS has forbidden Miles O’Brien, their science correspondent, to present material on climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Recently they ran a segment on NewsHour featuring denier propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>O’Brien, along with many others, found it horrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/21/886971/pbs-newshour-science-reporter-miles-obrien-climate-denier-segment-a-horrible-horrible-thing/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/21/886971/pbs-newshour-science-reporter-miles-obrien-climate-denier-segment-a-horrible-horrible-thing/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Less and less serious attention is being accorded climate change in the US media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/23/america-miasma-misinformation-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/23/america-miasma-misinformation-climate-change</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Incredibly, this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">NY Times</i> story on the perils and potentials of the Greenland melt does not mention sea level rise or global climate impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/science/earth/melting-greenland-weighs-perils-against-potential.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0moc.semityn.www"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/science/earth/melting-greenland-weighs-perils-against-potential.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0moc.semityn.www</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Fox news coverage of climate is 93% inaccurate; the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page, 80%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/news-corp-climate-change-coverage_n_1912896.html?utm_hp_ref=green"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/news-corp-climate-change-coverage_n_1912896.html?utm_hp_ref=green</font></a></p>
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</span>We are already committed to cascades of extinctions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/2011/08/2011-0829-climate-change-extinctions/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/2011/08/2011-0829-climate-change-extinctions/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A study of the qualities which allow species to escape extinction may assist in planning for our future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/lost-worlds/2012/sep/20/dinosaurs-fossils"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/lost-worlds/2012/sep/20/dinosaurs-fossils</font></a></p>
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</span>California has initiated the nation’s largest PACE program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The program will allow</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>commercial property owners to borrow money for efficiency upgrades and add the debt to their property tax so that it passes down automatically
with the property if it is sold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The payment is generally less than the savings on the utility bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Jacksonville is considering such a program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Sarah Boren for the lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/09/20/biggest-pace-green-building-program-launches-in-california/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/09/20/biggest-pace-green-building-program-launches-in-california/</font></a></p>
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</span>A new material can capture 15-20% of the heat from power stacks and exhausts as electricity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/the-heat-from-car-exhaust-to-be-scavenged-for-power-in-new-scientific-breakthrough/story-e6frg8y6-1226477877046"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/the-heat-from-car-exhaust-to-be-scavenged-for-power-in-new-scientific-breakthrough/story-e6frg8y6-1226477877046</font></a></p>
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</span>A billion people depend on sea food for the majority of their protein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By mid-century acidification is expected to reduce their catch by 40%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/24/food-climate-change-fisheries"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/24/food-climate-change-fisheries</font></a></p>
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</span>Air pollution regulations could quickly cut warming by .5° C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/easing-air-pollution-would-cool-the-planet/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/easing-air-pollution-would-cool-the-planet/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The cost would be some tens of millions a year; global warming costs now amount to $1.2 trillion a year and are set to double by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/26/climate-change-damaging-global-economy?newsfeed=true"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/26/climate-change-damaging-global-economy?newsfeed=true</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Britain’s National Pig Association warns that a worldwide shortage of pork and bacon is “unavoidable” for the coming year because drought has led farmers to slaughter their herds and has driven feed prices up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I’m heading for the Barbeque Festival in Paducah, KY this weekend while it’s still there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/25/pork-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-drought"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/25/pork-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-drought</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Space Coast Climate Change Initiative has released a video on this year’s weather’s impact on fruit and vegetable production in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYewE4FTGuo&feature=youtu.be"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYewE4FTGuo&feature=youtu.be</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>NOAA has released a report from a 2011 conference on achieving hazard-resilient growth in coastal areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://coastalsmartgrowth.noaa.gov/resilience.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://coastalsmartgrowth.noaa.gov/resilience.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>James Hansen’s thoughts on our situation are recorded in “A New Age of Risk.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The PowerPoint touches on many of the subjects linked above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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