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</span>Peter Sinclair has assembled expert testimony concerning the rate of methane emissions from the Arctic and its impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Oxford’s Anton Vaks calculates that the tipping point past which methane emissions will cause sufficient heat to release further methane, making it impossible for us to intervene, is 1.5°C of warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We are more than halfway there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>James Box:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“This is an all hands on deck moment. We’re in the age of consequences.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/28/is-the-climate-change-awakening-a-methane-monster/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/28/is-the-climate-change-awakening-a-methane-monster/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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</span>ALEC is calling all hands on deck to preserve the current use of fossil fuels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They cannot understand the consequences of what they doing in their greed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/28/3461743/alec-annual-meeting-energy-climate/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/28/3461743/alec-annual-meeting-energy-climate/</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">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Guardian’s Karl Mathieson supplies 10 welcome reasons to be hopeful that ALEC will fail and the rest of us will succeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/reasons-hopeful-overcome-climate-change-solar"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/reasons-hopeful-overcome-climate-change-solar</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The President’s Council of Economic Advisors estimates that the cost of dealing with climate change will rise 40% for each decade of delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Though if we wait ten years we may not be worrying about this at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>See item 1.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://time.com/3049465/report-not-acting-on-climate-change-could-have-serious-economic-impact/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://time.com/3049465/report-not-acting-on-climate-change-could-have-serious-economic-impact/</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A new study shows that ground water is being depleted six times faster than surface water in the Colorado River basin, which supplies many civic and agricultural centers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/07/western-u-s-states-using-ground-water-alarming-rate"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/07/western-u-s-states-using-ground-water-alarming-rate</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Mueller, a planned sustainable community in Austin, TX, has more electric cars per capita than any other US city and lots of solar power to charge them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In an interview the Pecan Street Project research team looks at what spurs residential solar investment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Solar growth is already exponential in the US; it seems to be set for explosive increase, first in CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/25/pecan-street-and-exponential-growth-of-solar/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/25/pecan-street-and-exponential-growth-of-solar/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The Washington Post excerpts from Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><u>The Collapse of Western Civilization</u> fourteen concepts and terms which are due to become obsolete by 2393.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among them are “environment” and “invisible hand.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/14-concepts-that-will-be-obsoleteafter-catastrophic-climate-change/2014/07/25/04c4b1f8-11e0-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/14-concepts-that-will-be-obsoleteafter-catastrophic-climate-change/2014/07/25/04c4b1f8-11e0-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Ontario has signed up for 34mw of energy storage from a range of technologies—thermal, hydrogen, batteries, and flywheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The storage approaches are partly matched to specific tasks, and are partly in competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ontario-contracts-34mw-of-all-of-the-above-energy-storage?utm_source=Efficiency&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ontario-contracts-34mw-of-all-of-the-above-energy-storage?utm_source=Efficiency&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>A Delaware tar sands oil refinery has asked for government assistance in protecting it from sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-refinery-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-asks-government-to-fix-problem/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252030&utm_campaign=daily"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-refinery-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-asks-government-to-fix-problem/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252030&utm_campaign=daily</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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