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</span>India is financing their solar program partly by doubling the tax on coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Utility-scale solar power is expected to be cheaper than new coal power in India by the end of the decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/modi-accelerates-solar-revolution-doubles-tax-on-coal-57890"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/modi-accelerates-solar-revolution-doubles-tax-on-coal-57890</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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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>The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has recently been posed (by the NY Times, among others) as a choice between acting on CO2, and acting on methane and a package of other forcers more short lived than CO2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Joe Romm assembles expert testimony that we need to act on all fronts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/10/3457703/climate-co2-methane/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/10/3457703/climate-co2-methane/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Producing metals takes 9.5% of the world’s energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Iron and aluminum are the greatest pigs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></span><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/07/iron-driver-climate-change"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/07/iron-driver-climate-change</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>NOAA has developed a high resolution climate model able to deal with regional precipitation changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It has identified the drying of Southwestern Australia as due to human causes, and predicts increased drying as the century goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/14/southern-australia-faces-water-crisis-by-end-of-century-due-to-climate-change"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/14/southern-australia-faces-water-crisis-by-end-of-century-due-to-climate-change</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">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Australian Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, which includes Fox and the Wall Street Journal, does not consider that climate disruption has much in store for anyone save low lying islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“We shouldn’t be building windmills and all that rubbish.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/13/3459584/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-rubbish/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/13/3459584/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-rubbish/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As of February 2013, new wind power was cheaper than new coal in Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/australia-wind-energy-cheaper-than-coal-natural-gas-bnef-says.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/australia-wind-energy-cheaper-than-coal-natural-gas-bnef-says.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Guardian supplies more on Murdoch’s ignorance and its impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/14/rupert-murdoch-doesnt-understand-climate-basics"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/14/rupert-murdoch-doesnt-understand-climate-basics</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Eight charts tell the story of a planet increasingly suffering under climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/14/8-charts-climate-change-world-more-dangerous"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/14/8-charts-climate-change-world-more-dangerous</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Private companies may contract through a power purchase agreement to place and maintain solar panels on the roofs of homes or business and sell them the power produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Utilities typically claim that such practices are tantamount to acting as a utility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Iowa Supreme Court is the latest to disagree, making them the 23rd state where such arrangements are legal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/in-iowa-solar-is-fighting-back-against-utilities-and-winning/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252016&utm_campaign=daily"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/in-iowa-solar-is-fighting-back-against-utilities-and-winning/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252016&utm_campaign=daily</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>China is mandating that electric vehicles make up at least 30% of central government auto purchases by 2016; the provinces come under the order following that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/07/china-requires-electric-vehicles-to-make-up-30-percent-of-state-purchases?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-July16-2014"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/07/china-requires-electric-vehicles-to-make-up-30-percent-of-state-purchases?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-July16-2014</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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