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</span>Michel Tobis attacked Nafeez Ahmed’s Guardian article on the possibility of catastrophic methane and CO2 releases in the Arctic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Ahmed’s response is a handy summary of the state of our knowledge on this most significant topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/sep/05/jury-out-arctic-methane-catastrophe-risk-real"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/sep/05/jury-out-arctic-methane-catastrophe-risk-real</font></a>
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</span>Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC head, warns “We have five minutes before midnight.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/climate-five-minutes-midnight-ipcc-230852329.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/climate-five-minutes-midnight-ipcc-230852329.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Some scientists are again raising the prospect of more frequent and narrowly targeted reports to replace the IPCC assessment reports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/scientists-overhaul-un-climate-report-ipcc"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/scientists-overhaul-un-climate-report-ipcc</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The National Wildlife Federation has released Swimming Upstream: Freshwater Fish in a Warming World—Urgent Action Needed to Protect Freshwater Fish and America’s Waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Reports/Archive/2013/09-04-13-Freshwater-Fish-Climate-Change-Report.aspx"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Reports/Archive/2013/09-04-13-Freshwater-Fish-Climate-Change-Report.aspx</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>Aquaculture now supplies about half the world’s seafood, but could benefit from certification for sustainable practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6150/1067.short"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6150/1067.short</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>Climate disruption made about half the world’s extreme weather events of 2012 more likely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/study-links-global-warming-some-2012-wild-weather-8C11087012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nbcnews.com/science/study-links-global-warming-some-2012-wild-weather-8C11087012</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The US and China has agreed to phase out HFCs, powerful greenhouse gasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The accord is estimated to have avoided nearly a degree F of warming, and to ease the way to an agreement on CO2 emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/06/u-s-china-strike-new-climate-agreement-at-g-20-summit/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/06/u-s-china-strike-new-climate-agreement-at-g-20-summit/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font color="#0000ff">
</font></u></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The agreement led to a supportive joint resolution among the G-20 nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The nations further agreed to a peer-review process for fossil fuel subsidies expected to lower them.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://ens-newswire.com/2013/09/06/g-20-to-phase-out-super-greenhouse-gas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/?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/2013/09/06/g-20-to-phase-out-super-greenhouse-gas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/?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 style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In 2001-11 Greenland lost six times the mass it lost in the previous decade; the Antarctic lost five times as much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A leaked portion of the IPCC report expects increased sea level rise estimates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/seas-may-be-rising-faster-than-predicted-scientists-20130906-2tanz.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/seas-may-be-rising-faster-than-predicted-scientists-20130906-2tanz.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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