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</span>A study in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i>, “The Projected Timing of Climate Departure from Recent Variability” (Camilo Mora et al., 582, 183-87) finds that the world will shift into a new climate state beginning in 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The lowest monthly temperatures in a given region will be hotter than any for that month in the past 140 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The regions are defined with a resolution of 100 km.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Verified from the article; the news stories are somewhat confused.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The shift will occur first in equatorial regions and spread to the poles by midcentury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“There will be no going back to the way things were.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Average global temperatures will increase by about 1° C, bringing us to the UN target of 2° within a few more years of warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/the-coming-plague/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/the-coming-plague/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We are already committed to the new climate state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>However, we can buy 20 years to adapt and to prevent further disruption by a vigorous program of emissions reductions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/10/global-warming-world-of-extremes"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/10/global-warming-world-of-extremes</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The New York Times story adds detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The research began as a class project in analyzing data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/science/earth/by-2047-coldest-years-will-be-warmer-than-hottest-in-past.html?_r=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/science/earth/by-2047-coldest-years-will-be-warmer-than-hottest-in-past.html?_r=0</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>The European Union set a target of 20% greenhouse gas emissions reduction on a 1990 basis by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They have now achieved an 18% reduction and are discussing the next target—perhaps 40% by 2030 with 30% renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The press runs a steady stream of discouraging news about (e.g.) distribution difficulties in Germany, cynicism in Poland, fracking in England, and financial stress in Spain, but behind that smoke the EU has been busy showing us the way forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US and others have also made some progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Now we must floor the accelerator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/70007"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/70007</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>To maintain the possibility of control over the climate we will probably have to remove carbon from the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In Michael Mann’s opinion, we are already at that point by some measures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Study-Temperatures-go-off-the-charts-around-2047-4881822.php"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Study-Temperatures-go-off-the-charts-around-2047-4881822.php</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At present major projects to do that are diminishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/carbon_capture_and_storage_projects_lagging_worldwide_study_finds/3973/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/carbon_capture_and_storage_projects_lagging_worldwide_study_finds/3973/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No-till agriculture can sequester carbon, as can using grasslands to graze livestock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Grass-fed beef may even be carbon negative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/07/michael_pollan_on_agriculture_s_role_in_fighting_climate_change.single.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/07/michael_pollan_on_agriculture_s_role_in_fighting_climate_change.single.html</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">Biochar is still champ of carbon sequestration possibilities, though recent research indicates that its efficacy depends on where it is used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Showtime is producing an 8-part documentary on climate change, “Years of Living Dangerously.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It documents how climate disruption is already changing people’s lives in diverse regions, mostly in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059988528"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059988528</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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