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</span>GE’s new “brilliant” 2.5 megawatt wind turbine stores energy and analyzes grid conditions, releasing energy as it is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Solar panels with similar storage arrangements are in development at the U of WI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/news/batteries-included-new-wind-turbines-and-solar-panels-come-with-built-in-storage/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley%40unf.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/news/batteries-included-new-wind-turbines-and-solar-panels-come-with-built-in-storage/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley%40unf.edu</font></a>
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</span>By disrupting their supports, climate change endangers migratory birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/biologists-worried-by-migratory-birds-starvation-seen-as-tied-to-climate-change/2013/06/19/c04d8a74-d90d-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/biologists-worried-by-migratory-birds-starvation-seen-as-tied-to-climate-change/2013/06/19/c04d8a74-d90d-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Birdlife International estimates that one in eight bird species is now facing extinction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2554/20130620/one-eight-bird-species-faces-extinction.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2554/20130620/one-eight-bird-species-faces-extinction.htm</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Evidence from mineral formations in caves indicates that continuous permafrost begins major releases of carbon with about 1.5° C of warming above pre-industrial levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iX-IRr34ISNhFyqOb94GiLQFWAfw"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iX-IRr34ISNhFyqOb94GiLQFWAfw</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Rolling Stone</i> helps us envision the dissolution of South Florida with a hurricane in 2030 in “Goodbye, Miami.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It’s a fairly detailed depiction of the situation in South Florida, and an informed picture of Florida generally as we face the near future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Tom Larson for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The president of the World Bank warns that climate disruption will have drastically changed our world by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20130619113907-3nmrs/?source=hptop"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.trust.org/item/20130619113907-3nmrs/?source=hptop</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is significant that 2030 is emerging as a focus for climate disruption effect projections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If we are to have a chance to avoid a positive feedback from permafrost carbon, we must begin effective action soon (that should probably be immediately).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The 2030 focus adds torque, and so does the NASA announcement on the release of Arctic carbon (on the last newslist).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
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</font></span>President Obama is expected to announce his climate plan next week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>His plans could hardly be more significant for the future of the planet. </font>
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