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</span>New FEMA flood insurance rules go into effect next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Insurance rates for the most at-risk homes in New Orleans, those ten or more feet below the 100 year flood level, will increase by a factor of ten.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thanks to Brian Paradise for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/03/dramatic_flood_insurance_incre.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/03/dramatic_flood_insurance_incre.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font color="#0000ff">
</font></u></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Because New York’s new FEMA flood maps were begun in 2010, before the passage last summer of the law which requires attention to scientific opinions on sea level rise and storm intensity when
preparing flood maps, rebuilding after Sandy will not be influenced by sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Storms such as Sandy are also ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
FEMA currently plans to redraw maps every 5 years; sets begun after last summer should include what we anticipate concerning water levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130204/climate-change-global-warming-flood-zone-hurricane-sandy-new-york-city-fema-federal-maps-revised-sea-level-rise"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130204/climate-change-global-warming-flood-zone-hurricane-sandy-new-york-city-fema-federal-maps-revised-sea-level-rise</font></a>
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</span>Stephen Mulkey sends “Assessment of groundwater inundation as a consequence of sea level rise” by Kolja Ratzoll and Charles Fletcher from the current issue of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature Climate Change</i> (subs. req.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It examines the role of groundwater levels in flooding from sea level rise in coastal areas, using Honolulu, Hawaii as a test case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Groundwater levels are typically higher than sea level, rising and falling with it close to the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As the sea rises groundwater will create new wetlands, expand others, and compromise drainage and other infrastructure earlier than would have been expected from sea level alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The flooded area is twice as large as that created by sea level rise alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>High tides, rainfall events, and the like will initiate flooding events in formerly safe coastal areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Planners need to allow for groundwater inundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Dick Bizot forwards Bill McKibben’s review of several recent publications on climate from the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">NY Review of Books</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/some-like-it-hot/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/some-like-it-hot/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A Stanford research team has developed a kind of reverse solar water heater which collects heat from a building and sends it to space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(This looks to be more detail on the reflective material I listed in late March.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The technology promises to be durable and cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513891/solar-cooling-with-photonic-reflector-panel/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130422"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513891/solar-cooling-with-photonic-reflector-panel/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130422</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>In interactive map of the solar industry, state by state, shows, among other things, that we have more solar workers than ranchers in Texas, more in California than actors, and more solar workers all told than coal miners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Brian Paradise for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/green-jobs/america-now-has-more-solar-energy-workers-coal-miners.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.treehugger.com/green-jobs/america-now-has-more-solar-energy-workers-coal-miners.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Switzerland is developing a cheap concentrating solar power/desalinator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-04/solar-panel-makes-fresh-water-too"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-04/solar-panel-makes-fresh-water-too</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Biochar (and other black carbons) can dissolve and wash into the ocean, rather than simply accumulating in the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As much as 40% of the black carbon created by combustion each year washes back into the oceans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The use of biochar to sequester carbon may be complicated by the finding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/soil-carbon-science"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/soil-carbon-science</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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