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</span>The startup company Bandgap is producing solar cells using silicon nanowires which collect more sunlight than conventional cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Bandgap’s cells are cheaper and more efficient; they hope eventually to double the conventional power output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429586/how-to-double-the-power-of-solar-panels/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20121022"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429586/how-to-double-the-power-of-solar-panels/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20121022</font></a>
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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><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Frontline</i> interviewed leaders and associates of several right wing organizations which claim credit for propagandizing the science of climate change and stifling political action and even discourse on the issue
in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Featured organizations include Americans for Prosperity, the Heartland Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Climate of Doubt</i> is worth the hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2283833076/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://video.pbs.org/video/2283833076/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The presidential debates just concluded were the first since 1984 not to address the issue of climate change (as I have heard).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I remember that at least George Bush bothered to claim good intentions in his debates with Al Gore.<o:p></o:p></font></font></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 study in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> reports that warmer and redirected Gulf Stream currents seem to be releasing large amounts of methane by melting methane hydrates off the coast of North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346009/description/Gulf_Stream_might_be_releasing_seafloor_methane"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346009/description/Gulf_Stream_might_be_releasing_seafloor_methane</font></a><u><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font color="#0000ff">
</font></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Further information and some more speculation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></span></font></font></u><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14670511-climate-changing-methane-rapidly-destabilizing-off-east-coast-study-finds?lite%3Focid=twitter"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14670511-climate-changing-methane-rapidly-destabilizing-off-east-coast-study-finds?lite%3Focid=twitter</font></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span>Rising sea temperatures this century are likely to drive phytoplankton poleward from the topics, if they cannot adapt quickly enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/10/24/science.1224836.abstract"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/10/24/science.1224836.abstract</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Phytoplankton form the base of the food chain and are a major carbon sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-and-rising-ocean-temperatures-threaten-ocean-food-chain-15153"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-and-rising-ocean-temperatures-threaten-ocean-food-chain-15153</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>We cannot burn the oil the industry plans to bring onto the market in the next few years and maintain a stable climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://priceofoil.org/2012/10/25/oils-new-supply-boom-is-a-bust-for-the-climate/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://priceofoil.org/2012/10/25/oils-new-supply-boom-is-a-bust-for-the-climate/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Did global warming cause Hurricane Sandy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question,” writes Kevin E. Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “All weather events
are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-hurricane-sandy-heads-to-northeast-20121027,0,3886956.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-hurricane-sandy-heads-to-northeast-20121027,0,3886956.story</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The November <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Scientific American</i> contains John Carey’s “Global Warming: Faster Than Expected?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The article is not yet on line but those who deal with the general public may want to pick up the magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It observes that the feedback from altered ocean circulation (see 3 above), melting permafrost, and accelerated glacial melting could accelerate warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Our schedules keep compressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here is a preview (with a different title):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-global-warming-happening-faster-than-expected"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-global-warming-happening-faster-than-expected</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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