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</span>Mayors along Virginia’s coast are losing patience as they attempt to cope with rising sea levels in the face of denial by the state political leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/09/virginia-rising-seas"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/09/virginia-rising-seas</font></a>
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</span>At a hearing in the House of Representatives administration officials confronted Republican deniers on plans to reduce carbon emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/18/epa-obama-climate-change-plan-congress"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/18/epa-obama-climate-change-plan-congress</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>“Climate Sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide” by James Hansen and others calculates climate sensitivity on an historical basis and considers global conditions under different emissions conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among other conclusions, burning available fossil fuels will render most of the earth uninhabitable by humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/1892241/hansen-climate-sensitivity-uninhabitable/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/1892241/hansen-climate-sensitivity-uninhabitable/</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">A second study by Columbia’s Michael Previdi and others finds that when known feedbacks are included sensitivity calculations double.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It also finds that climate disruption happens more quickly than has been proposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/sep/18/climate-change-double-impact-study"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/sep/18/climate-change-double-impact-study</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Energy Department has opened a center to research the integration and deployment of a clean energy grid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://energy.gov/articles/energy-secretary-moniz-dedicates-clean-energy-research-center-new-supercomputer"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://energy.gov/articles/energy-secretary-moniz-dedicates-clean-energy-research-center-new-supercomputer</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 center is associated with a new supercomputer and projects which supply remote military bases with hybrid power systems and integrate plugin hybrid autos into power grids, presumably as storage
sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/09/doe-sec-moniz-launches-clean-energy-research-facility-at-nrel?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September20-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/09/doe-sec-moniz-launches-clean-energy-research-facility-at-nrel?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September20-2013</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The EPA has proposed carbon emissions rules for new gas and coal power plants which would essentially require coal plants to capture and sequester about 40% of the carbon they produce.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The rules are on track to go into effect next fall if they pass the likely legal challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/20/2655101/carbon-rules-existing-power-plants/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/20/2655101/carbon-rules-existing-power-plants/</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">EPA administrator Gina McCarthy indicates that the rules for existing power plants, due next year, will be adapted to state circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Bah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The effects of that carbon will not be so adapted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And where are any plans to scale down and then eliminate natural gas?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-epa-coal-20130921,0,2976466.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-epa-coal-20130921,0,2976466.story</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The establishment of a US science laureate program has been blocked by congressional Republicans who fear that the unnamed scientists might support climate science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/republicans-congress-science-laureate-bill-blocked"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/republicans-congress-science-laureate-bill-blocked</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>UN secretary general Ban-Ki Moon has called a climate summit of national leaders in an attempt to block the stalemate on climate negotiations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is the first such meeting since 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The leaders usually meet only following negotiations; this meeting will precede the usual negotiations by a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/climate-change-un-talks"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/climate-change-un-talks</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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