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</span>Stephen Mulkey speaks especially to a college student audience in “Generational Impacts of Climate Change: What Will It Mean for You?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>For those of us beyond that age, it still provides an informed overview of the approaching impacts of climate destabilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/generational-impacts-of-climate-change-what-will-it-mean-for-you/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/generational-impacts-of-climate-change-what-will-it-mean-for-you/</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>The National Research Council and a range of other groups have prepared science standards for the teaching of climate, which they recommend for all science courses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The standards should make it more difficult for ALEC, the Heartland Institute, and others to propagandize the science classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130304/next-generation-science-standards-man-made-climate-change-consensus-global-warming-skeptics-heartland-institute"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130304/next-generation-science-standards-man-made-climate-change-consensus-global-warming-skeptics-heartland-institute</font></a><o:p></o:p></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 new SimCity game is on sale which works under conditions of climate disruption and limited funds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I look forward to fantasizing a transition to renewable energy, and anticipate that the game will be an educational tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>But I’ll wait for a few weeks before I download it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>From the rush of angry reviews on Amazon it seems that the publisher’s servers have buckled under the initial load, and the game must be played online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/simcity-game-addresses-climate-change-070935415.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/simcity-game-addresses-climate-change-070935415.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Atmospheric CO2 increased to just under 395 ppm last year, the largest jump since the record year of 1998.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-scientists-report-big-jump-heat-trapping-co2-183551516.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/us-scientists-report-big-jump-heat-trapping-co2-183551516.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></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>Droughts, floods, and heat waves (along with industrial farming methods and other factors) are putting increasing pressure on global food supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One measure, the food price index, shows us at the threshold of chronic civil unrest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/06/food-riots-new-normal"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/06/food-riots-new-normal</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US State Department’s report on the XL pipeline was based on analysis by two firms with industry ties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The fallacious arguments are the less surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That the State Department would depend on such sources does surprise me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Secretary Kerry faces many challenges, not all of them outside his department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130306/keystone-xl-eis-state-department-transcanada-oil-tar-sands-industry-ensys-energy-koch-brothers-exxonmobil-bp-obama"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130306/keystone-xl-eis-state-department-transcanada-oil-tar-sands-industry-ensys-energy-koch-brothers-exxonmobil-bp-obama</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Ford (with the advice of Georgia Tech) calculates that by integrating household electrical systems with charging their plug-in hybrid, and adopting rooftop solar, homeowners could save up to 60% of their electric bill and cut household emissions by 55%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681385/this-new-model-for-how-you-use-electricity-could-save-you-big"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681385/this-new-model-for-how-you-use-electricity-could-save-you-big</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If the State Department had outsourced their XL report to Ford’s EV division, Georgia Tech, any renewable power corporation, or the Sierra Club, it might have been improved.<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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An article in Energy Policy calculates that in order to have a medium chance of avoiding over 2° C of warming developed nations must cut 50% of greenhouse gas emissions (on a 1990 base) by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://insights.wri.org/news/2013/03/developed-nations-must-reduce-emissions-half-2020-says-new-study"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://insights.wri.org/news/2013/03/developed-nations-must-reduce-emissions-half-2020-says-new-study</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Only vigorous steps, quickly taken, could accomplish that.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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