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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">HBO’s John Oliver staged a statistically representative debate on climate giving Bill Nye some help against a group of deniers.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/12/3436771/john-oliver-climate-change-debate/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/12/3436771/john-oliver-climate-change-debate/</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">Two papers on instability in the ice sheets of the Amundsen Sea Embayment of the West Antarctic find that the disintegration of the sheets has become inevitable, though over a period of centuries.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Thanks to Rob Overly and Mary Emerson Smith for bringing this to our attention.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059999460"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059999460</font></a><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">
</font><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; COLOR: windowtext; text-underline: none"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font size="3"> </font></u></span></span></span><font size="3">NASA’s Eric Rignot provides a narrated animation
to illustrate the situation.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/05/12/nasa-video-antarctic-collapse-explained/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/05/12/nasa-video-antarctic-collapse-explained/</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">Last Sunday at midday Germany produced a record 75% of its energy renewably.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">In the first quarter of this year Germany’s power supply was 27% renewable, about double the US portion.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3436923/germany-energy-records/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3436923/germany-energy-records/</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">A board of 16 retired senior military officers has released a report on climate disruption as a security threat, the latest of many such studies.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">“It is not possible to discuss the future of national and international security without addressing climate change,” said a retired general.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/14/military-report-climate-change-conflict/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/14/military-report-climate-change-conflict/</font></a><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">
</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">The Pentagon has been planning to handle domestic unrest following climate-related crises, among other stressors.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">They have begun developing a 20,000 troop force for the purpose and have been conducting wide surveillance of US citizens, including environmental activists.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism</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">As the earth heats the regions where storms reach maximum strength are moving toward the poles.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/14/ground-breaking-study-hurricanes-reaching-peak-strength-farther-north-as-globe-warms-tropics-expand/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/14/ground-breaking-study-hurricanes-reaching-peak-strength-farther-north-as-globe-warms-tropics-expand/</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">The International Energy Agency reports that delay in action on climate has already cost trillions of dollars, with the cost rising constantly.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Action now to decarbonize the energy supply by 2050 would cost $44 trillion but save $115 trillion in fuel costs.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/14/3437715/climate-action-delayed-is-climate-action-denied/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/14/3437715/climate-action-delayed-is-climate-action-denied/</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">The IPCC summary released recently estimates that we have about 280 gigatons of carbon emissions in our carbon budget—that which can be released before we incur over 2° of warming.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">But that figure was fudged by fossil fuel interests.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">According to the European Commission’s David Wasdell, we are already in overdraft.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/15/ipcc-un-climate-reports-diluted-protect-fossil-fuel-interests"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/15/ipcc-un-climate-reports-diluted-protect-fossil-fuel-interests</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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