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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">Discrepancies between modern readings of warming and projections from models and history led the IPCC to reduce confidence in their calculation of climate sensitivity.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">A new study accounts for the discrepancy, and pulls the sources into agreement on the higher figure in the range.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">A video by the lead author explains the situation well.</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/12/sense-and-climate-sensitivity"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/12/sense-and-climate-sensitivity</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">Insurers are second only to governments as funders of climate research.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">They have, so far, done well by the growing dread of disasters.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/insuring-the-apocalypse.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/insuring-the-apocalypse.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">Farmers Insurance is suing 200 communities in the Chicago area for failure to anticipate problems brought on by climate disruption.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">They argue that heavier rainfall, for example, is not an act of God but a foreseeable consequence of burning fossil fuels.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL1N0O11T620140516"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL1N0O11T620140516</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">New research points to forests as sources of compounds basic to cloud formation.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">The finding should help alleviate “the largest source of uncertainly in present climate models.”</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Thanks to Henry Thomas for the item.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515154136.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515154136.htm</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">Newly discovered deep valleys under the Greenland ice sheet, running for dozens of miles inland, will mean a much faster pace of sea level rise than formerly anticipated.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/18/greenland-ice-melt.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/18/greenland-ice-melt.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">Satellite data indicate that mass loss from the Antarctic is accelerating.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27465050#"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27465050#</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">Eric Rignot reflects on the rate of the Antarctic’s contribution to sea level rise.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/climate-change-antarctica-glaciers-melting-global-warming-nasa"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/climate-change-antarctica-glaciers-melting-global-warming-nasa</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 world’s glaciers are expected to contribute 30- 40 cm to sea level rise.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unprecedented-b-c-glacier-melt-seeps-into-u-s-climate-change-concerns-1.2646742"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unprecedented-b-c-glacier-melt-seeps-into-u-s-climate-change-concerns-1.2646742</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</font></span><font size="3">China announced plans to triple its solar capacity to 70 gigawatts by 2017 as part of a strategy to diminish dependence on coal.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span></font><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2345344/china-aims-for-70gw-of-solar-in-race-to-ditch-coal"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2345344/china-aims-for-70gw-of-solar-in-race-to-ditch-coal</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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