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</span>Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of Britain’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, asserted at the Radical Emission Reduction Conference the necessity of keeping warming under 2°, and described a program for achieving that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He does not believe that market solutions would be adequate, based on market theory, but envisions simultaneous top down and bottom up pressures for radical change (opposed by, I guess, energetic sideways bullying by fossil fuel interests).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Biochar not only sequesters carbon but scrubs some heavy metals from soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Chicken manure biochar is especially effective with mercury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China leads in biochar research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_uses_of_biochar_expand_climate_benefits_still_uncertain/2730/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_uses_of_biochar_expand_climate_benefits_still_uncertain/2730/</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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The UN’s Cristiana Figueres holds her climate mission sacred, and says that no nation on earth is now doing what must be done for a secure future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/22/davos-climate-un-official/4785589/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/22/davos-climate-un-official/4785589/</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">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The EU will cut its carbon emissions 40% by 2030 on a 1990 base, and produce 27% of its energy renewably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The targets are the most ambitious of any region, though they probably need strengthening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/22/eu-carbon-emissions-climate-deal-2030"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/22/eu-carbon-emissions-climate-deal-2030</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">Germany wanted a 50% cut, and Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre wanted a target of 80%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“Anything less and the EU will renege on its 2° commitments and, as the Commission rightly notes, bequeath to future generations a legacy of ‘devastating impacts.’”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jan/22/eu-energy-and-climate-targets-live"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jan/22/eu-energy-and-climate-targets-live</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">The agreement is probably all that could have been achieved in a negotiation among the existing interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/jan/22/eu-2030-climate-change-energy-emissions-targets"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/jan/22/eu-2030-climate-change-energy-emissions-targets</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fossil fuel interests, including their stable of politicians, no longer belong as legitimate parties to negotiations, if adequate agreements are to be reached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As it stands the fossil fuel industry is buying inaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Kevin Anderson’s “top down, bottom up” vision of change in item one seems the most likely way to accomplish a freeze-out of the global heat lobby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“Top down” puts hope in the UN process, and “bottom up” looks to social action as a change forcer.<o:p></o:p></font></font></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>Joe Romm addresses the question “What is the most dangerous impact of climate change?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/22/3191081/dangerous-climate-change-impact/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/22/3191081/dangerous-climate-change-impact/</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>The startup Aquion is producing a salt battery which is about the same cost as a lead-acid battery but lasts twice as long, and uses nontoxic materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The battery is intended to back up small renewable energy installations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They have the potential to become cheap enough replace natural gas plants as backup power for large systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523391/startup-thinks-its-battery-will-solve-renewable-energys-big-flaw/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140127"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523391/startup-thinks-its-battery-will-solve-renewable-energys-big-flaw/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140127</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The new solar thermophotovoltaic cell uses heat to increase the efficiency of the photovoltaic cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/aroundmit/523881/how-to-tap-the-suns-energy-through-heat-as-well-as-light/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140127"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/aroundmit/523881/how-to-tap-the-suns-energy-through-heat-as-well-as-light/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140127</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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