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</span>A new study indicates that the climate impact of methane over a century is 60% larger than the EPA estimates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The finding bears on arguments for the use of natural gas, which is over 90% methane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Since we are approaching an exceedingly dangerous threshold, we should really be estimating the impact of methane in the short run, where it is markedly more dangerous than CO2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/02/2708911/fracking-ipcc-methane/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/02/2708911/fracking-ipcc-methane/</font></a>
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</span>China, India, the US, and 181 other nations have approved a UN agreement establishing the first international emissions market for air travel, effective in 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The European Union is considering whether the new plan is sufficiently strict to allow the EU permanently to postpone enforcement of their emissions curbs on flights from countries outside the EU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The EU had suspended such enforcement for this year in anticipation of the UN agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/first-global-emissions-market-for-airlines-wins-support.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/first-global-emissions-market-for-airlines-wins-support.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More detail:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-aviation-climate-idINBRE99302A20131004?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-aviation-climate-idINBRE99302A20131004?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The agreement was approved on October 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/civil-aviation-group-works-cut-emissions-20476093"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/civil-aviation-group-works-cut-emissions-20476093</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>An overview of changes in the federal flood insurance rates indicates why the new rates are likely to continue to rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://science.time.com/2013/10/01/the-hard-math-of-flood-insurance-in-a-warming-world/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://science.time.com/2013/10/01/the-hard-math-of-flood-insurance-in-a-warming-world/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Koch brothers alone spent much more on influencing politics in 2012 than the McCain presidential effort did in 2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Sierra Club’s Michael Brune sketches the result and a new campaign to preserve our democracy from the carbon lobby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://sierraclub.typepad.com/michaelbrune/2013/10/national-parks-government-shutdown-steal-this-democracy.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sierraclub.typepad.com/michaelbrune/2013/10/national-parks-government-shutdown-steal-this-democracy.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace and a party to the initiative in the previous item, spoke with Bill Moyers on the climate situation and the role of Greenpeace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I have never before heard anyone on national TV speak so openly about what we face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://billmoyers.com/segment/kumi-naidoo-on-the-urgency-of-climate-action/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://billmoyers.com/segment/kumi-naidoo-on-the-urgency-of-climate-action/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Copenhagen has a climate adaptation plan to be completed by 2033 which should serve the city for the rest of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It involves retrofitting for natural drainage through common low impact development features and such additions as green roofs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The city anticipates that the plan will also serve to develop their economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>About 20% of the world’s cities have climate adaptation plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/tackling-climate-change-copenhagen-sustainable-city-design"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/tackling-climate-change-copenhagen-sustainable-city-design</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>A clay sediment core from New Jersey shows that when atmospheric carbon doubled 55 million years ago, the ocean surface turned acidic and the temperature rose by 5° C in about 13 years, according to a new study in PNAS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Such changes had formerly been believed to occur over millennia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-10-climate-geological-instant.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://phys.org/news/2013-10-climate-geological-instant.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Every forested continent has suffered significant tree loss from heat and drought in the past 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effects constitute a positive feedback of ecological damage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130913120545447"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130913120545447</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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