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</span>A British inventor proposes storing energy commercially by using it to liquefy air and then expanding the air with industrial waste heat to drive turbines when power is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The process can achieve 70% efficiency, uses no polluting or expensive materials, and is technologically simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It does require location at waste heat sites. </font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689#</font></a></p>
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</span>Louis Prado has created an icon for global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/a-thousand-words-on-global-warming/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/a-thousand-words-on-global-warming/</font></a></p>
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</span>The head of the World Bank observes that the general drought this year is the first definitely attributed to global warming, and promises to suggest courses of action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/04/worldbank-kim-idUSL1E8L4JCQ20121004"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/04/worldbank-kim-idUSL1E8L4JCQ20121004</font></a></p>
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</span>Acidification will impact different species variously, depending on their genetic equipment and resilience, and on their ecosystem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At a recent conference over 550 scientists shared their research plans and a few conclusions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6103/27.full"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6103/27.full</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>Senatorial candidates in Maine, Nebraska, and Massachusetts are using climate as a campaign issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/260619-dems-use-climate-change-to-tag-republicans-as-extreme"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/260619-dems-use-climate-change-to-tag-republicans-as-extreme</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Scientific American urges that the presidential debates engage the topic more fully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/10/05/obama-romney-should-talk-climate-change-debate/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/10/05/obama-romney-should-talk-climate-change-debate/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An aggressive and carefully couched campaign on the issue could energize the Democratic base, pull in undecided voters, and isolate Republican candidates in their untenable climate positions at all levels of the election, local, state, and national.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>My fantasy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here’s the 2012 Presidential Climate Action Project Report from a thoughtful group which includes David Orr, James Baker, Heidi Cullen, and Gus Speth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They suggest yearly what presidential actions should be undertaken in our current situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/docs/PCAP_Report_2012.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climateactionproject.com/docs/PCAP_Report_2012.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Most Americans now acknowledge that climate change is real and underway (p. 12), and 85% would like to see scientific issues, including climate change, addressed in the presidential debates (p. 11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One of the ideas advanced is a traveling exhibit, “The Future We Want” (p. 44).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We need to cease electing large numbers of people dedicated to the obstruction of any effort to deal with climate change if we want a liveable world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>But Romney may not want to alienate his Republican base, and Obama may feel the issue could be used against him effectively with independents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.independentmail.com/news/2012/oct/09/obama-romney-largely-silent-climate-change/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.independentmail.com/news/2012/oct/09/obama-romney-largely-silent-climate-change/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If climate change does come up in the presidential debates, the global nature of the problem makes it more appropriate for the second or third debate than for the first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/10/08/dont-forget-the-global-in-global-climate-change/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/10/08/dont-forget-the-global-in-global-climate-change/</font></a></p>
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</span>Corn and beans are the most significant food crops in Central America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They will be threatened by climate change within this decade, according to a new report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catholic-relief-services/central-america-climate-change_b_1947838.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catholic-relief-services/central-america-climate-change_b_1947838.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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