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</span>26 institutions studying the polar ice sheets have produced a joint study which reconciles what seemed to be disparities among their findings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The report, published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i>, indicates an accelerating mass loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Greenland’s loss has increased five-fold since the early 1990s (the Antarctic, less so).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15518574-antarctica-greenland-ice-definitely-melting-into-sea-and-speeding-up-experts-warn?lite"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15518574-antarctica-greenland-ice-definitely-melting-into-sea-and-speeding-up-experts-warn?lite</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The curve in the BBC story indicates where sea level rise is headed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The study makes no projections but it provides a more solid base for projections to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20543483"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20543483</font></a>
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</span>The Climate Action Tracker, a scientific scorecard, rates current efforts to avoid runaway warming as inadequate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/global-climate-change-pre_b_2217585.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/global-climate-change-pre_b_2217585.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>A brief Huffington Post blog observes that the time has come to cease using fossil fuels, to insulate homes and supply renewable energy to them, and to relocate from the coasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US was reluctant to enter WW II, also, but acted swiftly when the time came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/global-climate-change-pre_b_2217585.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/global-climate-change-pre_b_2217585.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Greenhouse gas emissions are set to increase 2.6% in 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20556703"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20556703#</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China is the worst at an increasing 28% of the total; emissions in the US and the European Union are down slightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121202164059.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/2012/12/121202164059.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Germany is in the lead for EU emissions reductions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Memories of WWII are still influential in Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“If something goes wrong, you have to speak up and do something otherwise your children will ask you in 20 to 30 years, 'Why didn't you do anything?'”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/26/german-renewable-energy-emission-co2"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/26/german-renewable-energy-emission-co2</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China touts its renewable energy industry, and its commitment to greater carbon intensity, a shuck which originated in the Bush administration (the climate does not respond to improved productivity).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/201212/03/t20121203_23900076.shtml"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/201212/03/t20121203_23900076.shtml</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US delegation is working for an emissions control agreement which would include China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/obama-plans-for-climate-deal-as-fiscal-cliff-negotiations-rage.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/obama-plans-for-climate-deal-as-fiscal-cliff-negotiations-rage.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Fipel plastic light bulbs are cheap, produce flickerless, heatless light, and last longer than LEDs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They should go into production next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The National Renewable Energy Lab has released a guide to options and financing for rooftop solar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is written for policymakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/51644.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/51644.pdf</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Because peak temperature will come sometime late this century, doing away with short lived (but relatively powerful) greenhouse gasses such as methane and fluorocarbons must be adjunct to, not a replacement for, reducing CO2 emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/dec/03/doha-climate-talks-co2-methane"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/dec/03/doha-climate-talks-co2-methane</font></a> </p>
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