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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If you are as hazy about climate sensitivity as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Economist</i>, you will enjoy this clear and brief explanation of what it is and how it is estimated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/10/climate-change-warming-sensitivity"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/10/climate-change-warming-sensitivity</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>Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy is adding 1,050 megawatts of wind energy in Iowa by 2015, increasing the current wind production of 5000 megawatts in the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Energy rates are expected to go down as a result of the additional wind power.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2013/05/10/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2013/05/10/1</font></a><u><font size="3"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">At the end of 2012 the US had 60 gigawatts of wind energy, 6% of the total energy produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>New wind energy installations increased 100% in 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thecleanrevolution.org/quickfacts/us-installs-record-13-gw-of-new-wind-energy-in-2012?dm_i=6R6,1H9D0,LUPUO,511LW,1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thecleanrevolution.org/quickfacts/us-installs-record-13-gw-of-new-wind-energy-in-2012?dm_i=6R6,1H9D0,LUPUO,511LW,1</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In the last half of 2012 97% of the new energy in California was solar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/nearly-100-of-new-california-electricity-to-be-solar-in-2h-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/nearly-100-of-new-california-electricity-to-be-solar-in-2h-2013</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">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The climatic range of many common species of animals and plants will shrink over the coming decades, threatening their extinction, according to a study in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature Climate Change</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22500673"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22500673#</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">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The European Union’s Ice2Sea project projects 3.5-36.8 cm of sea level rise from ice sheets and glaciers by 2100, using an array of models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/scienceshot-the-big-unknown-in-s.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/scienceshot-the-big-unknown-in-s.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The study anticipates a slowdown in Greenland’s rate of melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/climate-ice-idUSL6N0DV2V420130514"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/climate-ice-idUSL6N0DV2V420130514</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">A study published in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> last fall found that Greenland was melting 5 times as fast as it was in the early ‘90s.
</font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/29/greenland-antarctica-4-trillion-tonnes-ice"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/29/greenland-antarctica-4-trillion-tonnes-ice</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I remember reading sometime last fall that the Ice2Sea study closed out data submission too early to include the recent work on Greenland, but I cannot find my source for verification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Perhaps someone will be able to find the data closeout date for Ice2Sea (as I cannot).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The full Ice2Sea report itself is due next fall, at which point (if not before) all shall be made clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Meanwhile, I do not mean to imply that Ice2Sea was somehow ignorant of the fall 2012 Greenland study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In fact, several Ice2Sea scientists were involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.ice2sea.eu/news/press-release1203/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ice2sea.eu/news/press-release1203/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here is a current Ice2Sea summary report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Their comments on Greenland are on pages 22, 28, 31, and elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ice2sea.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/From_Ice_to_High_Seas.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ice2sea.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/From_Ice_to_High_Seas.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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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>Empirical studies of sea level rise using ancient shorelines need to include historical changes in shoreline elevation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Particularly, a rising shoreline in the US NE appears to have led to overestimation of sea levels 3 million years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516142551.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/2013/05/130516142551.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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Zombie climate theories, dead for decades, continue to move about on such news outlets as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Increasingly, serious work on climate does not bother to endorse such basic positions as the contributions of fossil fuel combustion to warming.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/17/zombie-climate-sceptic-theories-newspapers-tv"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/17/zombie-climate-sceptic-theories-newspapers-tv</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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