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</span>The US is losing 80,000 acres of wetlands each year to storms and sea level rise, a 25% increase over the last survey, which covered 1998-2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/intensifying_storms_are__contributing_to_ongoing_us_wetlands_loss/4022/?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/intensifying_storms_are__contributing_to_ongoing_us_wetlands_loss/4022/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a>
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</span>The US Navy projects an ice-free summer Arctic by about 2016, based on melting in 2007. The head of polar ocean physics at Cambridge and the director of the Ocean Institute at the U of W Australia see 2015 as the likely year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effects could be severe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/new-study-says-arctic-ice-melt-extreme-weather-conditions-us-europe-linked-1499946"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ibtimes.com/new-study-says-arctic-ice-melt-extreme-weather-conditions-us-europe-linked-1499946</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">3. Operating or planned carbon markets now cover 20% of world emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2013/12/02/worlds-carbon-markets-now-cover-20-of-emissions/?goback=%2Egde_141485_member_5814381725630885889#%21"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rtcc.org/2013/12/02/worlds-carbon-markets-now-cover-20-of-emissions/?goback=%2Egde_141485_member_5814381725630885889#%21</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Koch brothers are running a determined campaign to hamper the development of wind power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/the-koch-brothers-are-sti_b_4396033.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/the-koch-brothers-are-sti_b_4396033.html</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>PFTBA, in use for transistors and other electrical applications since the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century, has been discovered to be 7,000 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It and others like it are not normally tested for greenhouse effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/10/new-greenhouse-gas-powerful-chemical-perfluorotributylamine"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/10/new-greenhouse-gas-powerful-chemical-perfluorotributylamine</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Miami Beach is experiencing tidal flooding now and planning to accommodate increased flooding in the next few decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Part 1 of a Grist series includes an Army Corps of Engineers projection of sea level rise for the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/cities/miami-vise-rising-seas-put-the-squeeze-on-a-sun-drenched-beach-town/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Dec%252013&utm_campaign=daily"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/cities/miami-vise-rising-seas-put-the-squeeze-on-a-sun-drenched-beach-town/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Dec%252013&utm_campaign=daily</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The US Department of Energy is supporting a Corvallis, OR, company with up to $260 million to develop small modular nuclear reactors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/us_energy_department_invests_in_small-scale_nuclear_reactors/4026/?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/us_energy_department_invests_in_small-scale_nuclear_reactors/4026/?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">
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