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</span>Eleven US cities have agreed to divest holdings in the largest 200 fossil fuel companies, and the idea is spreading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/u-s-cities-joining-push-to-dump-fossil-fuel-investments/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/u-s-cities-joining-push-to-dump-fossil-fuel-investments/</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>GM, Starbucks, Intel, and eBay are among the 40 corporations to sign a Ceres petition to the Obama administration asking for action on climate change for our economic wellbeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/01/gm-obama-congress-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/01/gm-obama-congress-climate-change</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Under heat stress plants release aerosols which help form clouds and moderate warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effect handles only about 1% of warming overall, but can diminish warming of heavily forested areas by as much as 30%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130428144921.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130428144921.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Adaptation occurs most readily when the risk is likely and grave, but not too grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Successful adaptation requires some promise creating an attractive life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As an article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature Climate Change</i> puts it, the limits of climate adaptation are social.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/understanding-the-social-limits-of-adaptation/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/understanding-the-social-limits-of-adaptation/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The article suggests to me that the prospect of life in a sustainable, resilient community should be at the center of public education for climate adaptation.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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</span>Lockheed Martin is building a 10 megawatt ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plant off the Chinese coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>OTEC uses temperature differentials in the ocean to drive a turbine system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2013/05/01/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2013/05/01/1</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>We are adding a train car full of carbon to the oceans every second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An experiment in Sweden is trying to determine what that means for ocean life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>On our current emissions trajectory we will have the most acidic oceans in 300 million years by century’s end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_key_experiment_to_probe_the_future_of_our_acidifying_oceans/2644/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_key_experiment_to_probe_the_future_of_our_acidifying_oceans/2644/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>Atmospheric CO2 is due to pass 400 ppm this year, for the first time in 3.2-5 million years.
</font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/global-carbon-dioxide-levels"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/global-carbon-dioxide-levels</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>Ryan Cooper’s brief video Why Climate Change is Not an Environmental Issue packs a lot of accurate (and pissed off) observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMXJts5qic"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMXJts5qic</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">9.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Defense and scientific officials warned the Obama administration this week that summer Arctic sea ice could disappear within two years, leading to grave consequences.
</font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The US position that each nation should set its own emissions targets is gaining ground in the UN talks at Bonn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>No one has explained how such an approach would succeed in avoiding 2° of warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/us-climate-talks-idUSBRE9410QA20130502?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/us-climate-talks-idUSBRE9410QA20130502?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>China has capped coal consumption and wants to lead the world in renewables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/chinas-leadership-on-renewables-tim-flannery/1123224"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/chinas-leadership-on-renewables-tim-flannery/1123224</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China still leads the world in emissions. </font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/chinas-choice/2013/may/02/china-climate-change-leader"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/chinas-choice/2013/may/02/china-climate-change-leader</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Henry Thomas, who sent the first link, is on his way to upstate New York family land and intends to grow electrons on a solar farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He and I worked together with Eileen Miller to create a community of three courses on climate change at UNF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I am among the many in Jacksonville who will miss him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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