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</span>The US Navy is experimenting with designs to generate solar energy in space and beam it to earth as radio waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Pacific Gas & Electric has a contract to buy such energy from Solaren by 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2014/03/space-solar/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2014/03/space-solar/</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>The White House has introduced climate.data.gov, which is concentrating on providing resources for coastal planning in its opening stage but will go on to help with climate planning generally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/climate-change-data-object-of-new-white-house-initiative/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/climate-change-data-object-of-new-white-house-initiative/</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">PBS did a thoughtful eight minute story on sea level rise in South Florida to mark the opening of the new web site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Janet Stanko for the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2365203238/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://video.pbs.org/video/2365203238/</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>A 1972 article in Nature accurately predicted global warming and identified some of the primary results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972</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>Warming will cut crop yields by 2% a decade and become increasingly worse after midcentury, according to a new study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Adaptation measures could lessen the impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/global-warming-will-cut-crop-harvests-by-2-each-decade-researchers-say"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/global-warming-will-cut-crop-harvests-by-2-each-decade-researchers-say</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">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Britain’s Tidal Lagoon Power claims that it can build turbines on tidal lagoons which will deliver power at a cost competitive with solar, wind, and gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/21/tidal-lagoon-power-cheaper-wind"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/21/tidal-lagoon-power-cheaper-wind</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>As the oceans heat they become less viscous and can absorb more carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effect will slow warming 8%. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25272-less-gloopy-oceans-will-slow-climate-change.html#.Uy2JwE1OW70"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25272-less-gloopy-oceans-will-slow-climate-change.html#.Uy2JwE1OW70</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, as the oceans warm the circulating currents weaken, diminishing the capacity of the oceans to sequester carbon and heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-03-deep-ocean-current-due-climate.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://phys.org/news/2014-03-deep-ocean-current-due-climate.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>I have read that the vegetation growing on melting permafrost might sequester enough carbon to significantly offset the emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.science20.com/news_articles/upside_thawing_permafrost_isnothing_its_bad-132347"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.science20.com/news_articles/upside_thawing_permafrost_isnothing_its_bad-132347</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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Based on First Solar’s projections, the installed price of rooftop solar would drop to below $1/Watt by 2017, beating the Department of Energy’s SunShot target by three years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Meanwhile, the price of natural gas is back where it was before the fracking mania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-costs-to-halve-as-gas-prices-surge-27907"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-costs-to-halve-as-gas-prices-surge-27907</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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