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</span>Florida Power and Light has deployed the first smart grid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It interacts with individual users to anticipate power supply problems and to handle load fluctuations—say, from rooftop solar units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514461/with-florida-project-the-smart-grid-has-arrived/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130506"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514461/with-florida-project-the-smart-grid-has-arrived/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130506</font></a>
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</span>The Arctic Ocean is acidifying more rapidly than other areas for an array of reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is now 30% more acidic than in pre-industrial times, and “continued rapid change is a certainty.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Scripps Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville in his Keeling Lecture says why we must begin to reverse greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I have not seen a more solid presentation of the science of climate change in such an available way in a one hour lecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A great thing to recommend to those who ask for the general picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://uctv.tv/shows/The-Scientific-Case-for-Urgent-Action-to-Limit-Climate-Change-4th-Annual-Keeling-Lecture-24910"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://uctv.tv/shows/The-Scientific-Case-for-Urgent-Action-to-Limit-Climate-Change-4th-Annual-Keeling-Lecture-24910</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Everglades restoration project is taking climate change into account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Deirdre Irwin sends the item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://wlrn.org/post/why-everglades-restoration-really-needs-be-about-adapting-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wlrn.org/post/why-everglades-restoration-really-needs-be-about-adapting-climate-change</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Skeptical Science</i> provides one sentence and one paragraph responses to 154 common climate errors, many of them stemming from disinformation campaigns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(I was surprised to see how many I recognized from my experience with audiences.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/oneliners.php"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.skepticalscience.com/oneliners.php</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>As the heat rises, the proportion of female painted turtle hatchlings rises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At 1.1° C rise, they are all female.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/sex-of-turtles-changing-female-climate-change_n_3224368.html?utm_hp_ref=green"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/sex-of-turtles-changing-female-climate-change_n_3224368.html?utm_hp_ref=green</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The salinity of drinking water in Bangladesh’s coastal areas has increased to the point that much of it is undrinkable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The situation is expected to worsen this summer under pressures of drought and increasing salinity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/07/safe-drinking-water-disappearing-bangladesh"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/07/safe-drinking-water-disappearing-bangladesh</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A study in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> finds that melt from Greenland’s outlet glaciers will probably not accelerate further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/greenlands-ice-loss-slows-but-still-wont-save-coasts-15962?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/greenlands-ice-loss-slows-but-still-wont-save-coasts-15962?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A process developed to produce oxygen on the moon from iron oxide can be used to produce steel without CO2 emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The steel is cheaper and stronger than that made by the normal process. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The only byproduct is oxygen. </font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130508133124.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/2013/05/130508133124.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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