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</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">A U WA study in Nature attributes up to half of Greenland’s melt to natural variation and the balance to anthropogenic warming.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140507132657.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140507132657.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">2.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Urged by students, Stanford is divesting holdings in companies which mine coal.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0507-hance-stanford-divestment.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0507-hance-stanford-divestment.html</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 face="Calibri"><font size="3">Christiana Figueres urges religious leaders to divest from fossil fuels.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/fossil-fuels-un-climate-chief"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/fossil-fuels-un-climate-chief</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">The NRDC and the FTSE Group are developing a stock index free of fossil fuel holdings—including natural gas.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-02/green-stock-index-rejects-natural-gas-along-with-oil-and-coal.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-02/green-stock-index-rejects-natural-gas-along-with-oil-and-coal.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">4. 64% of Chinese identify themselves as environmentalists, more than double the proportion of people in the US or Europe.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Chinese environmentalists tend to be pro-business social conservatives devoted to family and tradition.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/more-chinese-than-europeans-identify-themselves-as-environmentalists"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/more-chinese-than-europeans-identify-themselves-as-environmentalists</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</font></span><font size="3">Lloyd’s of London has called on insurers to take climate disruption into account or risk being blindsided by weather-related losses.
</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Lloyd’s asks that insurers take longer horizons than the usual year and hold more cash in reserves.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/08/lloyds-insurer-account-climate-change-extreme-weather-losses"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/08/lloyds-insurer-account-climate-change-extreme-weather-losses</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">Rising CO2 will render many basic crops less nutritious.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-change-food-crops-nutrition"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-change-food-crops-nutrition</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">7.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Rising CO2 promotes plant growth, thus sequestering carbon in plants and soil.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Unfortunately, carbon emissions from soil also increase, offsetting the sequestration.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/09/cant-count-on-plants-slowing-global-warming"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/09/cant-count-on-plants-slowing-global-warming</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">A suit has been brought on the part of young people in California to force the government to regulate climate so as to preserve a future for them.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The public trust doctrine on which it is based derives from the Code of Justinian.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Thanks to Tom Larson for the item.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/28/young-people-are-taking-the-government-to-court-over-its-failure-to-address-climate-change/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/28/young-people-are-taking-the-government-to-court-over-its-failure-to-address-climate-change/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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