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</span>Increasing heat and humidity have cut the earth’s human labor effectiveness by 10% since the start of the industrial revolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is expected to decline to 80% by midcentury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As time goes on work becomes increasingly difficult in the tropics and mid-latitudes.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-is-cutting-humans-work-capacity-study-finds-15654"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-is-cutting-humans-work-capacity-study-finds-15654</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>In November 2011 the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources prepared a report on the effects of climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It outlines risks and calls for the Department to take an active role in educating the public and preparing courses of action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The state has kept the report secret, but a copy has surfaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.thestate.com/2013/02/24/2645515/secret-climate-report-calls-for.html#storylink=misearch"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.thestate.com/2013/02/24/2645515/secret-climate-report-calls-for.html#storylink=misearch</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>People of college age are likely to experience the effects climate disruption in broad aspects of their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Unity College is including sustainability science in all aspects of its curriculum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/24/news/midcoast/unity-college-to-incorporate-climate-change-into-all-aspects-of-curriculum/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/24/news/midcoast/unity-college-to-incorporate-climate-change-into-all-aspects-of-curriculum/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>As the Arctic warms, large atmospheric waves which bring Arctic air southward can be slowed or stopped, resulting in persistent drought and heat waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The southern hemisphere was not included in the study.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/26/global-warming-planetary-airflow-extreme-weather-us-eu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/26/global-warming-planetary-airflow-extreme-weather-us-eu</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More detail from the study:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/02/extreme-weather-climate-links"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/02/extreme-weather-climate-links</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>In 2011 FAU did a study on the impact of sea level rise on South Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A 6” rise would compromise half the area’s drainage (page 2 of the linked <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Miami Herald</i> article).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The South Florida Regional Climate Compact had adopted the Army Corps of Engineers projection for the area, which indicates 3-7” of rise by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Emergency Preparedness Committee of the NE FL Regional Community Institute has just voted to use the same projections, adjusted to the Mayport tidal gauge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/01/2980388/rising-sea-come-at-a-cost-for.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/01/2980388/rising-sea-come-at-a-cost-for.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Corps’ recommendations for South Florida are described in the Compact’s Unified Sea Level Projection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/pdf/Sea%20Level%20Rise.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/pdf/Sea%20Level%20Rise.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I passed along the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Miami Herald</i> story when it came out last fall but had not sufficiently contemplated the FAU study on drainage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I thought it worth bringing to your attention again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>6” of sea level rise is quite possible by 2030, and the drainage failures will increase leading up to and beyond that accelerating sea level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Community viability is at stake, there and elsewhere along the coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>The US State Department reports that the XL pipeline will have little climate impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/state-department-keystone_n_2793160.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/state-department-keystone_n_2793160.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The arguments seem to be that the oil would be produced and burned anyway, that alternative transports are inferior, and that the US oil consumption would not be increased (because the oil would be exported).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If so, the arguments all beg the question of whether the tar sands oil should be produced and distributed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That makes the State Department position fallacious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17149564-state-department-admits-keystone-environmental-impact-but-says-theres-no-better-way?lite"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17149564-state-department-admits-keystone-environmental-impact-but-says-theres-no-better-way?lite</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Michael Brune observes that the position is also “devastatingly cynical.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/draft-assessment-of-tar-sands-pipeline-devastatingly-cynical/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/draft-assessment-of-tar-sands-pipeline-devastatingly-cynical/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>We may choose not to acquiesce in arguments that we must continue to engage in destroying our conditions of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/01/100-months-apocalypse-warnings"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/01/100-months-apocalypse-warnings</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>The UN Sustainable Energy For All initiative of 2011 (announced in 2009) set goals of providing energy access to all and of doubling energy efficiency and the share of renewable energy by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An analysis shows that achievement of the goals has a high chance of keeping the earth within 2° C of temperature increase.
</font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142720.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142720.htm</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri"> The UN’s new Climate Technology
Centre and Network will help develop low carbon energy technology in developing nations.
</font><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/un-launches-new-climate-technology-network/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rtcc.org/un-launches-new-climate-technology-network/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"> The project promises
major improvements in health and general prosperity in the targeted regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/green-energy-solves-dual-crises-of-poverty-and-climate/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/green-energy-solves-dual-crises-of-poverty-and-climate/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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