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</span>Emphasizing the public health implications of climate change promises to secure more public action than emphasizing the environmental or national defense aspects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.natlawreview.com/article/law-school-waiting-author-pic-reframing-climate-change-public-health-based-climate-c"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.natlawreview.com/article/law-school-waiting-author-pic-reframing-climate-change-public-health-based-climate-c</font></a>
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</span>Hotter, drier weather is leading Oklahoma farmers to plant crops such as okra, sorghum, and cotton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/23/okra-homa-as-temperaturesrisesoutherncropsmigratenorth.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/23/okra-homa-as-temperaturesrisesoutherncropsmigratenorth.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The EU is considering labeling fuels according to how much carbon is produced in their manufacture and use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Oil companies hate the idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/news/scientists-call-for-labeling-tar-sands-oil/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/news/scientists-call-for-labeling-tar-sands-oil/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Events in the Arctic, particularly methane release and the imminent disappearance of summer sea ice with the consequent jump in heating, have led some informed researchers to the opinion that we are close to an abrupt and catastrophic climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/177614/coming-instant-planetary-emergency"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.thenation.com/article/177614/coming-instant-planetary-emergency</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A study published in Nature used new techniques for projecting cloud cover in concluding that the heating will be about 4° C by 2100, higher than formerly expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Tom Larson called my attention to the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate</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>Peter Sinclair celebrated the New Year with a 10 minute video paralleling Republican congressional treatment of tobacco with their more recent climate denial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(I also recommend the piece on Arctic emissions just below it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And there is good browsing beyond that.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2013/12/29/2013-in-videos/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2013/12/29/2013-in-videos/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Sarah van Gelder lists ten positive developments in 2013 that promise better things to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/10-hopeful-things-2013-climate-change"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/10-hopeful-things-2013-climate-change</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>In a trial-like bidding process solar power beat natural gas for a large group of projects in Minnesota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is the first time solar has won such a bid in a state without subsidies for renewable power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/238322571.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.startribune.com/business/238322571.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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