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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">1.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Florida Senator Bill Nelson is holding a series of talks on sea level rise.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The estimates of future rise used in the story are conservative indeed (and would be so if doubled, for the most part), but it is politically intrepid to broach the topic in this state, and an interesting way to begin a run for
governor.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Thanks to Brian Paradise for the item.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/us-usa-florida-sealevel-idUSBREA3L1R120140422"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/us-usa-florida-sealevel-idUSBREA3L1R120140422</font></a>
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</font></span><font size="3">An especially strong El Niño seems to be cooking.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">If you need reminding as I do about what that means, this Think Progress article and its links will help.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/22/3429380/el-nino-global-warming-temperature-record/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/22/3429380/el-nino-global-warming-temperature-record/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">3.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">James Hansen testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on energy and climate in this seven minute video.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4487288/statement-dr-james-e-hansen"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4487288/statement-dr-james-e-hansen</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">He responded to Chairman Menendez’s questions on the costs and feasibility of nuclear power.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140417_MenendezQuestionsToHansen.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140417_MenendezQuestionsToHansen.pdf</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">4.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The campaign to reverse renewable portfolio standards at the state level and to combat EPA regulations on fossil fuel emissions is running into effective opposition, even in Kansas, home of Koch Industries.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-battle-is-looming-over-renewable-energy-and-fossil-fuel-interests-are-losing/2014/04/25/24ed78e2-cb23-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-battle-is-looming-over-renewable-energy-and-fossil-fuel-interests-are-losing/2014/04/25/24ed78e2-cb23-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">5.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The Manhattan seawall is 20 times more likely to fail to prevent flooding than it was in 1844.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Both sea level and storm surges are rising.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/signal-noise/2014/04/risk-manhattan-flooding-increases-20-fold"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/signal-noise/2014/04/risk-manhattan-flooding-increases-20-fold</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">6.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">“A Fierce Green Fire” is a one hour history of environmental activism from the formation of the Sierra Club through climate actions.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">If you missed the PBS special, it is available on line.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Surprisingly substantive and well worth your time.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/a-fierce-green-fire/watch-the-film/2924/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/a-fierce-green-fire/watch-the-film/2924/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</font></span><font size="3">Wave power on a commercial scale has failed to develop.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">We may not yet have come up with a successful design, which may be specific to a wave environment.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/why_wave_power_has_lagged_far_behind_as_energy_source/2760/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/why_wave_power_has_lagged_far_behind_as_energy_source/2760/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">8.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Ocean acidity has risen 30%.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">An article in PNAS finds that it is already dissolving the shells of marine snails off the US West Coast, with implications of broader damage.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25664175/climate-change-pacific-ocean-acidity-dissolving-shells-key"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25664175/climate-change-pacific-ocean-acidity-dissolving-shells-key</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">9.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">With the help of UC Davis, Honda has built a net-zero pilot home which came with its own FIT electric vehicle.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The 5 minute video describes several green features of the home.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/04/30/why-honda-is-building-net-zero-homes/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/04/30/why-honda-is-building-net-zero-homes/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</font></span><font size="3">If we all began driving electric cars, what would be the effect on energy demand?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The question is more complex than it looked to me at first and the answer (whatever it is) likely to be less intimidating.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/cars-us-electric-much-electricity-demand-increase/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1250ef129b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-1250ef129b-331994013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/cars-us-electric-much-electricity-demand-increase/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1250ef129b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-1250ef129b-331994013</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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