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</span>Four Republicans who led the EPA under presidents Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes have written an Op-Ed essay in the New York Times strongly supporting President Obama’s program to mitigate climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/a-republican-case-for-climate-action.html?hp&_r=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/a-republican-case-for-climate-action.html?hp&_r=0</font></a>
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</span>The largest manager of nuclear power, French company EDF, is selling its holdings in the US nuclear industry and investing in renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Several US nuclear plants have closed or are in trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/news/big-nuke-company-decides-renewables-are-a-better-bet-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/news/big-nuke-company-decides-renewables-are-a-better-bet-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Both the financial industry and governments show little sign of recognizing the carbon bubble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/carbon-tax-investment-market-timebomb"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/carbon-tax-investment-market-timebomb</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">One report on investors managing a total of $14 trillion in assets found that all consider climate risk, but say they lack the clear policy signals from governments which would
move them from carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2013/08/05/fund-managers-worth-14tr-say-climate-change-influences-investments/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rtcc.org/2013/08/05/fund-managers-worth-14tr-say-climate-change-influences-investments/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>At the time of the linked article, it was 79° in Greenland, a record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An “unprecedented” Siberian heat wave has seen 10 days over 86°. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/01/greenland-soars-to-highest-temperature-ever-recorded/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/01/greenland-soars-to-highest-temperature-ever-recorded/</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>The changes being brought to the oceans by heating are “far stronger” than those seen on land, according to a study which will be part of the new IPCC report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ens-newswire.com/2013/08/05/global-scientists-shocked-by-true-scale-of-ocean-warming/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ens-newswire%2FJZdj+%28ENS%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ens-newswire.com/2013/08/05/global-scientists-shocked-by-true-scale-of-ocean-warming/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ens-newswire%2FJZdj+%28ENS%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Emissions may have fallen in the US, but carbon extraction has risen, along with coal exports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The article argues that so far no technology—renewable or nuclear—has resulted in a net drop in emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/05/us-emissions-extraction-fracking"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/05/us-emissions-extraction-fracking</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>An overview of drought in the southwest finds New Mexico hardest hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“We’ve ruined it and it is never going to come back,” said one rancher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-parched-20130806-dto,0,5922502.htmlstory"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-parched-20130806-dto,0,5922502.htmlstory</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Google wants to derive all of its energy renewably, and has spent $1 billion to that end so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/google-renewable-green-energy"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/google-renewable-green-energy</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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