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</span>The linked LA Times Op-ed doesn’t have any news, but it does pull together current efforts on climate under the two heads of reducing immediate and long-term risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oe-zaelke-climate-tipping-points-20130816,0,631359.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oe-zaelke-climate-tipping-points-20130816,0,631359.story</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>National Geographic discourses on sea level rise with enough depth to make the article worth reading, though it lapses into unwarranted assurances that we won’t really have to worry for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Notice that the U of Miami oceanographer is worried about selling his house now, not in 2080.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/folger-text"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/folger-text</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>If 6” of sea level rise will be enough to compromise half the drainage in South Florida as FL Atlantic U reported, the region will be destabilized sometime in the next 15 years or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I had read of this study some time ago but just located it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One thing of interest among many is the account of how projected sea level rise on a given date this century is derived from a projection for 2100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Southeast Florida’s Resilient Water Resources: Adaptation to Sea Level Rise and Other Impacts of Climate Change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Center for Environmental and Urban Solutions, FAU, 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.ces.fau.edu/files/projects/climate_change/SE_Florida_Resilient_Water_Resources.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ces.fau.edu/files/projects/climate_change/SE_Florida_Resilient_Water_Resources.pdf</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">President Obama’s task force on Hurricane Sandy reports that flooding could cost $1 trillion by 2050.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We ought to reduce our risk now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thanks for Brian Paradise for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/task-force-warns-time-now-prepare-future-storms.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/task-force-warns-time-now-prepare-future-storms.html</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>Utilities are threatened by reductions in energy usage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>To survive they will need to provide new services in energy management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/08/15/ibm-expert-says-utilities-should-become-energy-malls/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/08/15/ibm-expert-says-utilities-should-become-energy-malls/</font></a><span><u><font size="3"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Calibri">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The current grid structure is being outdated by decentralized solar, among other factors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The article is somewhat hostile to the prospect.) Thanks to Tom Larson for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/homegrown-green-energy-is-making-power-utilities-irrelevant"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/homegrown-green-energy-is-making-power-utilities-irrelevant</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>Tom Larson also sends this handy summary of energy storage technology, arguably the most important current factor in the energy transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://files.eesi.org/IssueBrief_Energy_Storage_080613.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://files.eesi.org/IssueBrief_Energy_Storage_080613.pdf</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>Lack of action on climate disruption may be humanity’s greatest risk management failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/aug/23/climate-change-greatest-risk-management-failure"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/aug/23/climate-change-greatest-risk-management-failure</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">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Al Gore, in an interview with Ezra Klein, says why he has become optimistic about the chances of dealing with climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/21/al-gore-explains-why-hes-optimistic-about-stopping-global-warming/?wprss=rss_business&clsrd"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/21/al-gore-explains-why-hes-optimistic-about-stopping-global-warming/?wprss=rss_business&clsrd</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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>California’s Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing (MASH) allows an apartment house owner to distribute power to multiple meters so that a renter in effect pays for only that apartment’s solar power.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/california-solar-energy-apartments-virtual-net-metering-allows-energy-savings-one-tenant-at-a-time?cmpid=WNL-Friday-August23-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/california-solar-energy-apartments-virtual-net-metering-allows-energy-savings-one-tenant-at-a-time?cmpid=WNL-Friday-August23-2013</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">MASH extends the possibility of community solar power to renters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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