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</span>Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>New designs promise to reduce the footprint and increase the efficiency of wind power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the last five years domestically made turbines in the US have gone from ¼ to ¾.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Development has been hampered in the US by the intermittent politics of the production tax credit, now expired, but spurred by new technology, including that based on low wind.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/13/3366401/future-of-wind-power/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/13/3366401/future-of-wind-power/</font></a>
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</span>A new US Government Accountability Office report finds that our energy infrastructure is increasingly exposed to risk of failure due to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The report focusses on the financial consequences of failing to act on climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/government-report-climate-change-threatens-energy-infrastructure?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/government-report-climate-change-threatens-energy-infrastructure?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Within this century the number of days without rain in the dry regions is expected to decrease dramatically, according to a new study which uses the increasingly detailed climate projections to go beyond mean precipitation changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Henry Thomas for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140314095100.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140314095100.htm</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A conference in New Orleans confronted the difficult question of what happens when a community is relocated—what must be lost, what might be preserved if care is taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/03/difficulties_of_defining_coast.html#incart_river"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/03/difficulties_of_defining_coast.html#incart_river</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The northern edge of the Greenland ice sheet is now its last coastal area to become unstable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Because it drains the large interior sheet the new melt is likely to accelerate Greenland’s contribution to sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-greenland-ice-melt-fuels-sea-level-rise-concerns-17187?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-greenland-ice-melt-fuels-sea-level-rise-concerns-17187?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</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">More detail on the state of the Greenland ice sheet indicates growing instability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/03/17/new-paper-awakening-greenland-giant-not-so-jolly/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/03/17/new-paper-awakening-greenland-giant-not-so-jolly/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A news report in the 21 February 2014 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Science</i> by Richard Kerr, “Atlantic Current Can Shut Down for Centuries, Disrupting Climate,” indicates that just over 100,000 years ago the global thermohaline circulation system, of which the Gulf Stream is a part, shut down several times for centuries
at a time under warming conditions similar to today’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The evidence comes from sediment cores off southern Greenland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effects would be complex and include the cooling of the North Atlantic, an increase of global heating, and an extra meter of sea level rise for the east coast of North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One factor in shutting down the current is the pace of melt in Greenland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6173/831.summary"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6173/831.summary</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The American Association for the Advancement of Science (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Guardian</i> has it
<u>Scientists</u>!) has issued a rare warning of the growing risk of “abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes” unless we act swiftly on climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The story includes a brief film from the AAAS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/18/climate-change-world-risk-irreversible-changes-scientists-aaas"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/18/climate-change-world-risk-irreversible-changes-scientists-aaas</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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