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</span>Two German utilities have shut down 8.6 gigawatts of fossil fuel power plants, no longer competitive with renewables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/renewables-push-fossil-fuel-plants-to-close/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ecowatch.com/2013/renewables-push-fossil-fuel-plants-to-close/</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>Renewable energy provided 14% of US power in the first half of 2013, with hydro contributing just over half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/renewable-energy-tops-14-of-us-electrical-generation-during-first-half-of-2013?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August28-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/renewable-energy-tops-14-of-us-electrical-generation-during-first-half-of-2013?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August28-2013</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">In 2012 27% of China’s energy was renewable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/renewables-to-challenge-coal-in-china-as-power-sector-doubles-in-size?cmpid=WNL-Friday-August30-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/renewables-to-challenge-coal-in-china-as-power-sector-doubles-in-size?cmpid=WNL-Friday-August30-2013</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Both countries are making gestures in the right direction, but neither is doing enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We must decarbonize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The project of excusing ourselves by denigrating the efforts of the other country is mere self-defeat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Grist’s David Roberts has left a parting essay on the tussle between hope and despair regarding climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/hope-and-fellowship/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/hope-and-fellowship/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The article has a lagniappe—Roberts explaining global warming in a 17 minute TEDx talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He is embarking on a year’s sabbatical to write.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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</span>Deep Green is a subsurface tidal power generator which operates in relatively low velocity currents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Developers anticipate costs competitive with offshore wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The design will not be commercial for a few years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/seeing-deep-green-with-low-velocity-tidal-power?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August28-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/seeing-deep-green-with-low-velocity-tidal-power?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August28-2013</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>A Nature Climate Change article reports that the oceans are changing ten times faster than at any earlier time in earth’s history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Acidification will render heating more dangerous to some species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/25/rising-acid-levels-seas-endanger-marine-poertner"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/25/rising-acid-levels-seas-endanger-marine-poertner</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Acidification will also lead some organisms to emit less sulfur, which will reduce cloud cover, which will increase warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/rising-ocean-acidity-will-exacerbate-global-warming-1.13602"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/news/rising-ocean-acidity-will-exacerbate-global-warming-1.13602</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Scripps researchers conclude in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> article that the oceans have been taking more than their normal share of heat in recent years due to a change in Pacific circulation which could persist for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/28/cooling-pacific-dampened-global-warming"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/28/cooling-pacific-dampened-global-warming</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Carnegie Wave Energy of Perth intends to build a reverse osmosis desalination plant powered by waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The same design can be used to drive turbines for electrical power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/carnegie-to-develop-first-wave-powered-desalination-plant-81863"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/carnegie-to-develop-first-wave-powered-desalination-plant-81863</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>The Guardian explains Representative Concentration Pathways, the emissions scenarios of the forthcoming IPCC report, which is now so leaky that we might as well learn how to read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/aug/30/climate-change-rcp-handy-summary"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/aug/30/climate-change-rcp-handy-summary</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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