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</span>The cost of solar power is now lower than wind in some markets, and should generally overtake (undertake?) wind soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/column-wynn-wind-solar-idUSL6N0DV3M120130516"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/column-wynn-wind-solar-idUSL6N0DV3M120130516</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Goldman Sachs is putting $500 million into third party financing for rooftop solar and has plans to invest $40 billion in renewable energy in the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059981337"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059981337</font></a><u><font size="3"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They are (also?) investing $2.9 billion in Japanese renewables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gc4YRdHoaAYcFcphbOFjmpt_i4wA"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gc4YRdHoaAYcFcphbOFjmpt_i4wA</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">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>California’s renewable energy program has added only 1% to power bills since 2006, lower than expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/despite-fears-new-renewables-are-not-bankrupting-california?cmpid=WNL-Friday-May24-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/despite-fears-new-renewables-are-not-bankrupting-california?cmpid=WNL-Friday-May24-2013</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>An article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature Geoscience</i> confirms that the oceans are absorbing an unexpected portion of recent global heating, and that atmospheric heating seems likely to be slower than anticipated in the immediate
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/19/us-climate-temperatures-idUSBRE94I0DJ20130519?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/19/us-climate-temperatures-idUSBRE94I0DJ20130519?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More detail, particularly expert commentary:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/climate-change-meltdown-unlikely-research"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/climate-change-meltdown-unlikely-research</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And a bit more:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023#</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The topic has been misunderstood as calling basic climate science into question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I am trying to include enough commentary to put that idea to rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>At a December hearing on climate disruption insurance industry speakers urged insurers not to pull out of high risk markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They remarked on the resistance to paying the costs of current risks—specifically in Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One observed that not all of the costs of climate change are insurable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The occasion was the release of a CERES report on the issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://eesi.org/121412_insurance"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://eesi.org/121412_insurance</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The NRDC reports that in 2012 the taxpayers directly funded 3 times more of the costs of climate disruption than did the insurance industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Climate-related events took more federal support in 2012 than education or transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/taxpayer-climate-costs.asp"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/taxpayer-climate-costs.asp</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Warming has no clear statistical influence on tornado incidence so far, and because wind shear may decrease in a warming world, may have no influence in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/making-sense-of-the-moore-tornado-in-a-climate-context-16021?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/making-sense-of-the-moore-tornado-in-a-climate-context-16021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More from Joe Romm, including an observation from Kevin Trenberth that the additional warmth and moisture from climate disruption are certainly influencing storm intensity and have increased general damages by up to 32%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/21/2040221/tornadoes-extreme-weather-and-climate-change-revisited/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/21/2040221/tornadoes-extreme-weather-and-climate-change-revisited/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>More than 32 million people were displaced from their homes last year, 98% from climate-related disasters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/picture/2013/may/20/climate-disasters-displace-millions-worldwide"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/picture/2013/may/20/climate-disasters-displace-millions-worldwide</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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