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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Al Gore recounts his reasons for feeling we are getting on track in a forthcoming Rolling Stone article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>SolarCity announced plans to build one of the world’s largest solar panel plants in New York State, with further and even larger plants in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Currently little solar panel manufacture is going on in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I have read elsewhere that SolarCity is working on a sales plan combining packaged financing with matching residential power and storage systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Elon Musk, SolarCity and Tesla CEO, has said that he is optimistic, like Gore, but is concerned about the massive momentum of the fossil fuel industry—a billion cars in use, a gigantic infrastructure of power supply and use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/19/elon-musk-solar-panel/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/19/elon-musk-solar-panel/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Gas wells are typically exhausted fairly quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Millions of dead gas wells are leaking currently unmonitored methane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/abandoned-oil-wells-methane-emissions-17575"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/abandoned-oil-wells-methane-emissions-17575</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Utah utility Rocky Mountain, obeying a state law which requires that utilities contract for power cheaper than that they could produce themselves, has signed a power purchase agreement for 320 MW of solar power from First Wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Construction will begin in 2015 and end a year later (compare the long lead times for fossil fuel and nuclear power).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/20/3451429/utah-solar-purpa/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/20/3451429/utah-solar-purpa/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In Senate testimony four EPA Administrators who served in Republican administrations urged action and climate and defended the EPA’s role in climate mitigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.sunherald.com/2014/06/18/5657060/republican-ex-epa-chiefs-say-its.html"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.sunherald.com/2014/06/18/5657060/republican-ex-epa-chiefs-say-its.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary under Bush, urges a carbon tax as soon as may be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“I feel as if I’m watching as we fly in slow motion on a collision course toward a giant mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We can see the crash coming, and yet we’re sitting on our hands rather than altering course.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Paulson was secretary during the 2008 financial crash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“With that experience indelibly affecting my perspective, viewing climate change in terms of risk assessment and risk management makes clear to me that taking a cautiously conservative stance — that is, waiting for more information before acting — is
actually taking a very radical risk. We’ll never know enough to resolve all of the uncertainties. But we know enough to recognize that we must act now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/lessons-for-climate-change-in-the-2008-recession.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140621&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y&_r=0"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/lessons-for-climate-change-in-the-2008-recession.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140621&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y&_r=0</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Paulson is a member of the Risky Business group which will release a report on climate this week.</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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