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</span>A UN food supply policy officer says that climate disruption is a “creeping disaster.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/13/climate-change-threat-food-supplies"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/13/climate-change-threat-food-supplies</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Crops, livestock, and fruit will be hit by rising temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Most at risk are the billion people already under food stress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/apr/13/climate-change-millions-starvation-scientists"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/apr/13/climate-change-millions-starvation-scientists</font></a>
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</span>Desertification, drought, and land degradation are now affecting 168 countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/desertification"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/desertification</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A review of 3 books on the ethics of the climate problem emphasizes our moral imperative to act out of our obligation to a future earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/review/513526/climate-change-the-moral-choices/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130415"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/review/513526/climate-change-the-moral-choices/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130415</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>China and the US have announced a joint working group on climate during Secretary Kerry’s visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/293747-us-china-boost-climate-work-amid-increasing-dangers"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/293747-us-china-boost-climate-work-amid-increasing-dangers</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>San Antonio’s CPS, a municipal utility, is proposing to reduce the amount they pay under net metering for spare rooftop solar power from the retail price to the wholesale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As representatives of my local municipal utility said, extensive development of rooftop solar would mean they would have to change the way they do business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One way to do that would be to charge to manage energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Investor-owned utilities face the same basic problem, and will fight the expansion of distributed solar power unless an equitable arrangement is found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/rooftop-solar-vs-utilities-the-san-antonio-episode/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/rooftop-solar-vs-utilities-the-san-antonio-episode/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Utilities need to be part of the solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It may be that paying wholesale for surplus net-metered energy is a sound practice.
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</span>An argument against carbon markets (and for alternatives):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Carbon market investments have lacked “environmental integrity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The markets are often corrupt and non-transparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They fuel non-sustainable practices and have failed to control emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The enthusiasm with which they are developed is not warranted by their performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/why-are-carbon-markets-failing"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/why-are-carbon-markets-failing</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The European carbon market has collapsed as the EU proved unwilling to drive up energy prices through a rising price on carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/carbon-falls-as-eu-rejects-fix/articleshow/19588739.cms"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/carbon-falls-as-eu-rejects-fix/articleshow/19588739.cms</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>When Jim Hansen retired the reactions included several attempts to negate his influence through misrepresentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In “Exaggeration, Jumping the Gun, and the Venus Syndrome” he addresses some of the attacks, sketches the course we are pursuing, and indicates what he will be up to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130415_Exaggerations.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130415_Exaggerations.pdf</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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