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</span>James Hansen and co-authors provide a summary of their recent article on the effect of aerosols and increased nitrogen on carbon warming of the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“Faustian Bargain & the Missing Climate Data” is an overview of the net effect of CO2 emissions on recent warming.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Hansen is retiring to spend more time on climate activism.)
</font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130329_FaustianBargain.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130329_FaustianBargain.pdf</font></a>
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</span>A measure of leaked methane in New York City concludes what other studies have, that natural gas delivers no greenhouse advantage over other fossil fuels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As leakage during production and transport were not measured, it is implied that natural gas is probably worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/manhattans-methane-levels-show-natural-gas-as-damaging-to-climate-as-other-fossil-fuels/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ecowatch.com/2013/manhattans-methane-levels-show-natural-gas-as-damaging-to-climate-as-other-fossil-fuels/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Citigroup has issued a study which anticipates that renewable energy is set to edge out fossil fuels but maintains that handling variable power loads will require an increased use of natural gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As Grist’s David Roberts observes, a properly sized and run grid, and the expansion of energy storage, would obviate that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The New York study reinforces the necessity to take natural gas out of the picture even if it means a rockier transition to a sustainable energy supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/citigroup-renewables-will-triumph-and-natural-gas-will-help/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/citigroup-renewables-will-triumph-and-natural-gas-will-help/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Supreme Court has rejected another fossil fuel industry challenge to the EPA’s duty to regulate greenhouse gasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/01/us-usa-court-epa-idUSBRE9300A620130401?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/01/us-usa-court-epa-idUSBRE9300A620130401?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>New York State has begun warning bond holders of the risks of climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/new-york-state-cites-climate-change-as-risk-to-bond-investors.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/new-york-state-cites-climate-change-as-risk-to-bond-investors.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Nicholas Stern, former British chief economist, reports that the situation is much worse than he anticipated in his 2006 study of the impact of climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He considers 2013 an excellent year to begin serious effort to reverse course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130402-economist-warns-radical-climate-change-millions-risk?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20130402_economist_warns_radical_climate_change_millions"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.france24.com/en/20130402-economist-warns-radical-climate-change-millions-risk?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20130402_economist_warns_radical_climate_change_millions</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>In a reversal, the Least Developed Countries bloc at the UN have agreed to accept binding limits on their greenhouse gas emissions, removing a major obstruction to meaningful world action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/03/climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/03/climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Paul Gipes provides a handy sketch of ambitious renewable energy goals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Denmark intends to generate 50% of its electricity renewably by 2020, 100% of electricity and heat by 2035, and 100% of transportation by 2050.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=496&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2313&cHash=fbdbc972b5570b52008afb3ab9800b20"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=496&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2313&cHash=fbdbc972b5570b52008afb3ab9800b20</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>37% of Americans (and 58% of Republicans) believe global warming is a hoax; another 12% are not sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/americans-obama-anti-christ-conspiracy-theories"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/americans-obama-anti-christ-conspiracy-theories</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>82% want to prepare for it anyway, hoax or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/even-doubters-want-prepare-global-warming-203510651.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/even-doubters-want-prepare-global-warming-203510651.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>Australians are warned in a government report that only “fast and deep cuts to carbon emissions” can reverse the trend to more frequent and more disastrous effects of climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/climate-change-carbon-emissions-australia"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/climate-change-carbon-emissions-australia</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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