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</span>A draft agreement on climate will come out this year in preparation for the 2015 UN conference in Lima, Peru.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Cristiana Figueres observed that given the instability of the climate “We don’t have the option of not coming to an agreement, and frankly we don’t have an option of not coming to an agreement that is meaningful.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/01/06/figueres-not-backing-2015-climate-change-treaty-will-be-unacceptable/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rtcc.org/2014/01/06/figueres-not-backing-2015-climate-change-treaty-will-be-unacceptable/</font></a>
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</span>Rising flood insurance rates are beginning to have an impact on real estate sales and values in SW Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140104/ARTICLE/140109852&NoCache=1?p=all&tc=pgall#gsc.tab=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140104/ARTICLE/140109852&NoCache=1?p=all&tc=pgall#gsc.tab=0</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The ice shelf into which the West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier flows has thinned in the past two years, perhaps due to a strong La Niña.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The glacier appears to be more sensitive to transient variables than had been thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.enn.com/climate/article/46854?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClimateChangeNews-Enn+%28Climate+Change+News+-+ENN%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.enn.com/climate/article/46854?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClimateChangeNews-Enn+%28Climate+Change+News+-+ENN%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Methane from clathrates on the ocean floor off Norway has been released several times in the fairly recent past, suggesting a customary variability and allaying fears that the current releases indicate a massive change in the region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/06/260265279/arctic-methane-bubbles-not-as-foreboding-as-once-feared?ft=1&f=1025"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.npr.org/2014/01/06/260265279/arctic-methane-bubbles-not-as-foreboding-as-once-feared?ft=1&f=1025</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>Thom Hartman has produced a ten minute video which depicts what is at stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://lasthours.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://lasthours.org/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Wind generated more electricity in Spain than any other source in 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Emissions from power generation dropped 23.1%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/wind-power-spain-electricity-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/wind-power-spain-electricity-2013</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Recent papers confirm that variations in solar radiation contributed relatively little to recent warming, and others calculate that cloud cover will decrease as warming increases, leading to relatively high climate
sensitivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A good article to forward to your propagandized friends who imagine that solar variability accounts for warming and that increasing cloud cover will take care of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/09/global-warming-humans-not-sun"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/09/global-warming-humans-not-sun</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A Harvard materials scientist has developed a quinone flow battery which is cheap and scalable to home or commercial use to normalize the output of renewable energy sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is about three years from a large prototype.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/cheap-battery-stores-energy-for-a-rainy-day-1.14486"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/news/cheap-battery-stores-energy-for-a-rainy-day-1.14486</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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