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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Miami-Dade Sea Level Rise Task Force, organized in 2013, has released a report recommending vigorous adaptation measures to avoid major near-term losses identified by the reinsurance firm Swiss Re.
</font></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-usa-florida-sealevel-miami-idUSKBN0F65IN20140701"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-usa-florida-sealevel-miami-idUSKBN0F65IN20140701</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The task force site carries a record of their activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/boards-sea-level-rise.asp"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/boards-sea-level-rise.asp</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The News Times adds some details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></span><a href="http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/07/miami-dade_sea_level_rise_task_force_reinvent_urban_infrastructure_or_lose_trillions.php"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/07/miami-dade_sea_level_rise_task_force_reinvent_urban_infrastructure_or_lose_trillions.php</font></span></a><u><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">Sarah Boren has forwarded a link to a pdf of the report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/reports/sea-level-rise-final-report.pdf"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/reports/sea-level-rise-final-report.pdf</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here are the appendices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/reports/sea-level-rise-appendices.pdf"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/reports/sea-level-rise-appendices.pdf</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A study published in Nature reports that a partial collapse of the Greenland ice sheet 400,000 years ago under conditions similar to those building this century added 4-6 meters of sea level rise out of a total of 6-13 meters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_links_Greenland_ice_sheet_collapse_sea_level_rise_400000_years_ago_999.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_links_Greenland_ice_sheet_collapse_sea_level_rise_400000_years_ago_999.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The US is making $4 billion in loans available to clean energy projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/03/obama-climate-change-loan_n_5556091.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/03/obama-climate-change-loan_n_5556091.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes and fellow historian Eric Conway of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have written
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> interview, Oreskes said that she chose to write fiction because she can “sound an alarm,” “be emotional and. . . upset about those things that are upsetting.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the book, “Everything that happens before 2013 is true, and everything that happens after is from the high end of the projections” of the most recent IPCC report (page 1434,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i>, June 27, 2014).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is an essay, descriptive of our present and, retrospectively, of our future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The topics are how we could do so little while knowing so much, and the consequences of our failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Koch brothers are not on view, but foolish ideologies are, both scientific and popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I found it a satisfying 3-hour read, notes and all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Collapse-Western-Civilization-View-Future/dp/023116954X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404738811&sr=1-1&keywords=oreskes+naomi"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://smile.amazon.com/Collapse-Western-Civilization-View-Future/dp/023116954X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404738811&sr=1-1&keywords=oreskes+naomi</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>In an 8 minute interview Peter Sinclair reflects on Germany’s success in developing renewable energy and on the possibilities of success in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/07/a-renewable-revolution-the-real-news-interview/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/07/a-renewable-revolution-the-real-news-interview/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A coal plant with carbon capture and sequestration in Yorkshire has secured EU funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>90% of its carbon will be sequestered beneath the North Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will be the first such plant in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/08/yorkshire-drax-carbon-capture-power-plant"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/08/yorkshire-drax-carbon-capture-power-plant</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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