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</span>A 2007 study anticipates more thunderstorms and tornadoes in the southeast toward the end of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/04/climate-change-southeastern-us-could-mean-endless-severe-thunderstorms/5229/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/04/climate-change-southeastern-us-could-mean-endless-severe-thunderstorms/5229/</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 Coastal Barrier Resources Act of 1982 bars any federal subsidy (such as FEMA flood insurance and reimbursement for storm damage) for the development of sensitive undeveloped coastal land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By expanding the lands covered by the act and providing for the termination of subsidies after one incident we could greatly aid adaptation to sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/science/earth/rebuilding-our-shores-increasing-the-risks.html?_r=2&"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/science/earth/rebuilding-our-shores-increasing-the-risks.html?_r=2&</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>Whose Air Do We Share?, from the PBS blog It’s Okay to be Smart by way of Grist, illustrates how limited the atmosphere is, and how pervasive are any additions to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-to-explain-the-atmosphere-with-a-soccer-ball/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-to-explain-the-atmosphere-with-a-soccer-ball/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter</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>In the last 30 years the heating Pacific has driven a recession of 1/3-1/2 among the Andes’ tropical glaciers, which supply much of the region’s drinking water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/andes-ice-melt"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/andes-ice-melt</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In 2012, 46% of the new energy generation in the US came from renewables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Last month that was 100%, and, for the first quarter of this year, 82%. </font>
<a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24766"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24766</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>In an 8 minute speech to the World Sustainable Development Forum in India Stephen Mulkey remarks, among other matters, on the inclusion of management science as one of the three cores of a sustainability curriculum and evaluates a sustainability economy
as an adaptation comparable to the development of flight in birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“Hi Al - This might be of interest to your readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is about changing higher education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
I delivered this talk in India at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit a couple months ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I was there at the invitation of R.K. Pachauri, who somehow found out about what we are doing at Unity College and invited me to present at a plenary session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>There is a lot of interest in how to transform education to meet the challenges of this century, and in many ways, India is ahead of us.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-call-to-change-higher-education-to-address-the-sustainability-challenges-of-this-century/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-call-to-change-higher-education-to-address-the-sustainability-challenges-of-this-century/</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>In the last two years the global sea level rise had tripled to 10.1 mm/year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is likely to be a speed bump, occasioned by an imbalance in the water cycle which has dumped an unusual amount of water on the land temporarily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Earth-Encounters-Giant-Speed-Bump-on-the-Road-to-Higher-Sea-Level.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.skepticalscience.com/Earth-Encounters-Giant-Speed-Bump-on-the-Road-to-Higher-Sea-Level.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Local variations in sea level rise can be significant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The finding last fall that the sea level rise along the upper east coast of the US is 3-4 times the global average has not been well explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our Regional Council Institute, serving the 7 counties of NE Florida, is meeting with local governments at their invitation to open a conversation on vulnerability to sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The St. Johns River Water Management District has completed a projection study (conservatively, 14 cm by 2030) and the Guana Tolomato Matanzas Estuarine Research Reserve is holding meetings with St. Augustine groups on the impact of sea level rise in
the Matanzas Basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>These are the first public discussions of sea level rise in this region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The topic is likely to be of ever greater concern to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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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>Patrick Parenteau noticed that I misrepresented the recent Supreme Court ruling in my last email: “Al, the Supreme Court case dealt with nitrogen dioxide emissions not GHG’s. Still has an impact on coal plants and other sources of on top of many other
rules EPA has issued in last few years. The law is finally catching up with all of the externalities of dirty energy facilities.“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Nitrogen dioxide is a health hazard but only a weak greenhouse gas (and incidentally one in this ruling), as opposed to nitrous oxide, a strong greenhouse gas.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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