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</span>Peugeot has developed a hybrid car which uses compressed nitrogen rather than a battery to store power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is relatively cheap and simple, and gets 80 mpg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They plan to begin production in 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/24/peugeot-hybrid-air-car-future"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/24/peugeot-hybrid-air-car-future</font></a>
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</span>A new process to store energy by producing hydrogen by splitting water is efficient and uses less expensive materials than current methods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is adaptable to home use with solar and wind units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-process-could-make-renewable-energy-reliable-at-last-15786?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-process-could-make-renewable-energy-reliable-at-last-15786?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The current cold spring in the US and Europe is linked to the loss of Arctic sea ice, which is 80% less than it was 30 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A new type of material engineered with quartz and silicon carbide at Stanford reflects sunlight back to space at wavelengths geared to escape the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Its cooling capacity equals the cooling power of a solar panel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The new material would cut air conditioning costs by about 35% if used on 10% of a typical home’s roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is entirely passive: it has no moving parts, requires no power, and is easy to maintain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130327132544.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130327132544.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Researchers at Georgia Tech and Purdue have developed recyclable solar cells constructed with materials from trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112811785/trees-new-efficient-recyclable-solar-cells-032713/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112811785/trees-new-efficient-recyclable-solar-cells-032713/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>London’s HSBC investment bank, the 6<sup>th</sup> largest public company in the world, has issued a report urging energetic action to limit heating to below 2°.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Grist’s headline: Giant Investment Bank Taken Over By Hippie Alarmists)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/giant-investment-bank-taken-over-by-hippie-alarmists/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/giant-investment-bank-taken-over-by-hippie-alarmists/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>An analysis in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature Geoscience</i> shows that climate models have forecast heating in the last 15 years to within a few hundredths of a degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Scientistic assertions to the contrary have become common.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Atmospheric warming is greatly influenced by the oceans as they store and release much of the heat which reaches the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/why-the-globe-hasnt-warmed-much-for-the-past-decade-15788"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/why-the-globe-hasnt-warmed-much-for-the-past-decade-15788</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Most people want to prepare for rising seas and changing climate, few want to build sea walls or pay beach residents to move, and most want coastal people to pay for coastal measures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/28/americans-climate-change-risk-cost"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/28/americans-climate-change-risk-cost</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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