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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In “Why Can’t We Quit Fossil Fuels?,” based on his new book, Duncan Clark provides a salutary overview of the situation, one in which we are spending the equivalent of $100 for every person on the planet to discover new sources of fossil fuels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>According to an analysis sponsored by the UN, none of the world’s largest industries would be profitable if the environmental costs were included on their balance sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The coal industry is the greatest villain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/business-technology/none-of-the-worlds-top-industries-would-be-profitable-if-they-paid-for-the-natural-capital-they-use/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/business-technology/none-of-the-worlds-top-industries-would-be-profitable-if-they-paid-for-the-natural-capital-they-use/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We shall be able to burn only about a third of the fossil fuel reserves if we wish to preserve a livable planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The two thirds remaining on the corporate balance sheets constitutes a carbon bubble which threatens to destabilize world economies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis</font></a>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The endangered funds include those pensions on which many of us live (unless the funds divest before the train goes over the cliff).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/19/pension-6-trillion-climate-gamble"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/19/pension-6-trillion-climate-gamble</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">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A team at the U of IL has developed a battery ten times more powerful per unit of volume than current batteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They believe it to be scalable for automotive use but it is not yet market ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22191650"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22191650</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>Cutting CO2 is crucial to avoiding the worst of climate disruption, but cutting short-lived pollutants can be even more significant to minimizing sea level rise in the short run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/interactive-short-lived-pollutants-and-sea-level-rise-15864"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/interactive-short-lived-pollutants-and-sea-level-rise-15864</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>A RealClimate review of the film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Switch</i>, purportedly about the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, suggests that it is barely covert fossil fuel propaganda and that its true title is
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bait and Switch</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/04/movie-review-switch/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/04/movie-review-switch/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(I usually aspire to ignore propaganda, but this film has been accepted at face value by, among others, the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Washington Post </i>and is backed by the Geological Society of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The review is authoritative and informative on its own.)<o:p></o:p></font></font></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>Stanford’s Jonathan Koomey reprises some of his conclusions in his Cold Cash, Cool Climate in a look at where we are in the context of the last 450,000 years.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.koomey.com/post/47711670357"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.koomey.com/post/47711670357</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>The draft of the current Federal Advisory Climate Assessment Report has been released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It includes summary articles on US regions as well as a range of general topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">7.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council is launching an effort to promote planning for sea level rise.
</font><a href="http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/pinellas-beginning-to-assess-risks-of-sea-level-rise-b82479940z1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/pinellas-beginning-to-assess-risks-of-sea-level-rise-b82479940z1</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Locally, the Northeast Florida Regional Council has asked its Regional Community Institute to prepare a sea level rise preparedness program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The RCI is currently conducting conversations with local governments on risks they perceive from sea level rise, using projections from the Army Corps of Engineers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Institute will submit recommendations to the Council this fall. <o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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