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</span>Conserving threatened species would cost billions of dollars a year, but that is only a small fraction of the costs of loss in biodiversity if the species were allowed to disappear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19912266"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19912266</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>While the loss of species is absolute and strictly incapable of evaluation, we do face choices if we are to lessen the disappearance of forms of life, and the decisions may well be motivated by the economic considerations discussed in the article.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Yet the question of instituting payment for environmental services is vexed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>George Monbiot and others argue that economic considerations cannot but lead to destructive choices.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/ecosystem_services_whats_wrong_with_putting_a_price_on_nature/2583/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/ecosystem_services_whats_wrong_with_putting_a_price_on_nature/2583/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a></p>
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</span>According to a British review, we know too little about how climate causes species to go extinct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/17/climate-change-extinction?newsfeed=true"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/17/climate-change-extinction?newsfeed=true</font></a></p>
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</span>ABC News has published a straight and useful story introducing planning for sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It could have been a lot more hair rising, but then it could also have been vitiated by propaganda, as such stories commonly are among major US networks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/10/sea-level-rising-toward-washington-and-other-cities/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/10/sea-level-rising-toward-washington-and-other-cities/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>The European Union is rebranding their climate mitigation campaign to appeal to people’s vision of a future they would like to inhabit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19868580"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19868580</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The EU goal is to reduce carbon emission by 80% or more by 2050.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/roadmap/index_en.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/roadmap/index_en.htm</font></a></p>
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</span>Arguments for the correlation of hurricane strength with ocean surface warming have gone back only to the beginning of satellite date in the 1970’s, and have proven inconclusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Storm surge data goes back to the 1920’s and suggests a correlation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-evidence-that-hurricanes-are-tied-to-global-warming-15114?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/new-evidence-that-hurricanes-are-tied-to-global-warming-15114?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a></p>
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</span>Driven by climate-linked drought, the US Corn Belt is moving north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/warming-climate-sends-us-corn-belt-north-20121016-27nkk.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/warming-climate-sends-us-corn-belt-north-20121016-27nkk.html</font></a></p>
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</span>A pattern of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific is linked to violent outbreaks of tornadoes in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The new study may help forecasters, though it addresses only one factor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/patterns-in-the-pacific-tied-to-violent-outbreak-of-tornadoes-15126"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/patterns-in-the-pacific-tied-to-violent-outbreak-of-tornadoes-15126</font></a></p>
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</span>The only time rising heat caused a major extinction event was 249 million years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A rise of over 7° C<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>would again render the tropics uninhabitable for most life forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22395-roasting-triassic-heat-exterminated-tropical-life.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Cclimate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22395-roasting-triassic-heat-exterminated-tropical-life.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Cclimate-change</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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