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</span>The governments of a large majority of the world’s people view climate disruption as a major national security issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A new overview should help spur action, and promises that action on climate will become a higher priority generally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/climate-change-now-seen-as-security-threat-worldwide/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/climate-change-now-seen-as-security-threat-worldwide/</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>Unknown persons in the US State Department concealed the ties of Canadian tar sands business interests to the authors of their report on the Keystone XL pipe line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/state-dept-hid-contractors-ties-to-keystone-xl-pipeline-company/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/state-dept-hid-contractors-ties-to-keystone-xl-pipeline-company/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Energy efficiency is at best a poor measure of progress in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At worst it leads us to imagine we are taking effective action while we continue to incur greater risk from climate disruption.
</font><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_efficient_planet/2013/03/energy_intensity_is_a_misleading_metric_in_the_fight_against_climate_change.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_efficient_planet/2013/03/energy_intensity_is_a_misleading_metric_in_the_fight_against_climate_change.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>The eruption of a volcano in Iceland showered a large area of oceanic phytoplankton with iron, providing an experiment in reducing atmospheric carbon by encouraging phytoplankton to grow and then die and sink, taking their fixed carbon to the ocean floor
with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But the phytoplankton growth was quickly suppressed by a shortage of nitrogen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Seeding the oceans with iron is unlikely to be a practical way to reduce atmospheric carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seeding-atlantic-ocean-with-volcanic-iron-did-little-to-lower-co2"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seeding-atlantic-ocean-with-volcanic-iron-did-little-to-lower-co2</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>Regional US carbon markets, and the rise of natural gas, are leading to the emergence of a global carbon market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/21/real-market-forces-action-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/21/real-market-forces-action-climate-change</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>BrightSource Energy, in partnership with Abengoa, is building 2 250-megawatt solar towers in the Mojave Desert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They will be the largest in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-spain_energy_companies_plan_worlds_largest_solar_towers/3798/?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/digest/us-spain_energy_companies_plan_worlds_largest_solar_towers/3798/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</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>More clearly now, the great extinction which lead to the rise of the dinosaurs 200 million years ago arose from massive volcanic eruptions and the CO2 they threw into the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ancient-mass-extinction-has-ominous-lessons-for-today-study-15767"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ancient-mass-extinction-has-ominous-lessons-for-today-study-15767</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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The story of a 2-degree limit to warming after which the world will become unsafe is a poor fit for our situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The zombie apocalypse story works a little better, if we recognize that there is a range of possible endings, some happier than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/zombie-movies-climate-change-no-one-happy-ending"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/zombie-movies-climate-change-no-one-happy-ending</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>I linked the Ambri liquid utility-scale battery a couple of weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here are some other firms developing similar batteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729096.400-flow-batteries-could-back-up-grid-of-the-future.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729096.400-flow-batteries-could-back-up-grid-of-the-future.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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