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</span>Climate Central’s report on climate adaptation in Charleston, SC, sketches the difficulties faced in many SE US regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among them is politically and economically motivated aversion of the gaze, which we could have illustrated with examples from Jacksonville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Hamilton Davis of Charleston’s Coastal Conservation League for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-front-lines-of-climate-change-charlestons-struggle-16934"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-front-lines-of-climate-change-charlestons-struggle-16934</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Pine Island Glacier in the West Antarctic has probably become inherently and irreversibly instable and is expected to contribute accelerating sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25729750"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25729750#</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>PIG is expected to contribute 3.5mm-1 cm of sea level rise a year over the next 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Stories commonly misread the Nature article to mean that contribution as a sum over the entire 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At the upper end, that is the difference between 7.8 inches and .39 inches by 2034 from PIG alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2094.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2094.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>California installed as much rooftop solar in 2013 as it had in the past 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/california-solar-energy-doubled_n_4570432.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/california-solar-energy-doubled_n_4570432.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Between November 2012 and December 13 9,136 authors published 2,258 peer-reviewed articles on climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among them only one, by a Russian who fretted that the Russian economy would suffer if they did not burn their fossil fuels, rejected human-driven climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/14/climate_change_another_study_shows_they_don_t_publish_actual_papers.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/14/climate_change_another_study_shows_they_don_t_publish_actual_papers.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Canada’s carbon emissions will soar 38% by 2030, according to its own report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That is probably an underestimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/14/canada-carbon-emissions-2030-tar-sands"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/14/canada-carbon-emissions-2030-tar-sands</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>If you have been watching players hallucinating and folding at the Australian Open you know it has been hot in Melbourne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Australia is currently the hottest place on the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Because they have been busy implementing energy efficiency measures and installing rooftop pv their power usage has been less than in other recent heat waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Profit taking by utilities still drove blackouts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jan/17/heat-wave-australia-record-breaking-climate-change-bushfires-melbourne"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jan/17/heat-wave-australia-record-breaking-climate-change-bushfires-melbourne</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>23% of Americans consider that climate change is not occurring, up 7% from last April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-disbelief-rises-america-180339949.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-disbelief-rises-america-180339949.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">US media coverage of climate has been even sparser this year, and too much of what there was concerned a nonexistent pause in warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/news/major-newspaper-coverage-of-climate-change-plummeted-last-year/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/news/major-newspaper-coverage-of-climate-change-plummeted-last-year/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
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</span>The UN has warned that the climate is rapidly destabilizing, and that delay could cost us opportunities to intervene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/un-climate-report-carbon-economy"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/un-climate-report-carbon-economy</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Elon Musk has five sage observations on solar energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/16/elon-musks-five-insights-into-solar-energy/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/16/elon-musks-five-insights-into-solar-energy/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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