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</span>“Years of Living Dangerously” now on Showtime Sunday nights at 10 is the most ambitious mass media project yet on climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Guardian provides details on the nine part series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/09/years-of-living-dangerously-global-warming-blockbuster"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/09/years-of-living-dangerously-global-warming-blockbuster</font></a><u><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font color="#0000ff">
</font></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; COLOR: windowtext; text-underline: none">You can tell that the series is anticipated to have an effect on public knowledge about climate by the squealing from the The Breakthrough
Institute (among other foes of action to control greenhouse gas emissions).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/09/3424593/showtime-years-dangerously-response/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/09/3424593/showtime-years-dangerously-response/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 39.75pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>When NBC ran a special on climate last week they gave the final ten minutes or so to Roger Pielke, Jr., of The Breakthrough Institute (see the last item).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Contrarians get inordinate attention from the media, generally, even when their work has been resoundingly discredited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/11/climate-change-research-quality-imbalance"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/11/climate-change-research-quality-imbalance</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Desmond Tutu is calling for an apartheid-style boycott and disinvestment campaign aimed at exerting moral and financial pressure on fossil fuel companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“We can, for instance, boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil-fuel energy companies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Brian Paradise for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/10/desmond-tutu-anti-apartheid-style-boycott-fossil-fuel-industry"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/10/desmond-tutu-anti-apartheid-style-boycott-fossil-fuel-industry</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 39.75pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund joined the UN Secretary General to ask the finance managers of 46 countries to use financial tools such as carbon taxes to counter global climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/climatechange-money-idINDEEA3A0DG20140411"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/climatechange-money-idINDEEA3A0DG20140411</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Current Chinese plans for energy efficiency and renewable energy development could mean that its greenhouse gas emissions will peak before 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Coal emissions are already tapering off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/china-cuts-in-coal-use-may-mean-world-emissions-peak-before-2020.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/china-cuts-in-coal-use-may-mean-world-emissions-peak-before-2020.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The IPCC Working Group III on mitigation has released its report, calling for conversion to renewable energy sources sufficient to lower emissions by 40-70% on a 2010 base by midcentury and emissions levels near zero by 2100 in order to keep warming
below 2° C (page 15 of the report Summary).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The report projects that the conversion will be affordable and in any case is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/13/averting-climate-change-catastrophe-is-affordable-says-ipcc-report-un"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/13/averting-climate-change-catastrophe-is-affordable-says-ipcc-report-un</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Further details, and a link to the report and its 33 page summary from the Washington Post:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/world-must-turn-from-fossil-fuels-to-cleaner-energy-to-avoid-climate-disaster-panel-says/2014/04/13/21bd2144-c273-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/world-must-turn-from-fossil-fuels-to-cleaner-energy-to-avoid-climate-disaster-panel-says/2014/04/13/21bd2144-c273-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>US Secretary of State John Kerry called the report “a wake-up call for entrepreneurs.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com/top-news/1-front-top-news/167393-un-climate-report-a-wakeup-for-entrepreneurs-kerry.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.brecorder.com/top-news/1-front-top-news/167393-un-climate-report-a-wakeup-for-entrepreneurs-kerry.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Further reactions from Kerry and from many other notable people:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/04/13/ipcc-wg3-reaction-as-un-launches-third-climate-report/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rtcc.org/2014/04/13/ipcc-wg3-reaction-as-un-launches-third-climate-report/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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