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</span>Biomass burning accounts for 18% of carbon emissions, far more than we had thought, and for 5-10% of mortalities from air pollution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0805-hance-biomass-burning-impacts.html">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0805-hance-biomass-burning-impacts.html</a></span></font></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>Glint Photonics has developed a system which traps and concentrates solar energy from the changing angles of the day, greatly simplifying the need for tracking technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It has the potential to reduce the cost of concentrated solar energy to $.04/kilowatt hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The technology is not yet commercial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></span><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529476/adaptive-material-could-cut-the-cost-of-solar-in-half/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140804"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529476/adaptive-material-could-cut-the-cost-of-solar-in-half/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140804</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The concentrated solar power industry is in something of a tailspin because it cannot compete with solar panels (or gas) in cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Glint’s news should help it recover, if commercialization works as well as promised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Areva-Abandons-Solar-and-Shutters-Its-Ausra-Concentrated-Solar-Effort?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Areva-Abandons-Solar-and-Shutters-Its-Ausra-Concentrated-Solar-Effort?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</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. Startup company Semprius has found a way to stack collectors of a range of solar frequencies so as to increase efficiency to 50%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The technique has the potential to decrease the cost and the footprint of pv solar power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The company estimates that the cost would drop to below $.05/kWh—making it competitive with Glint’s concentrating solar technology above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529651/stacking-cells-could-make-solar-as-cheap-as-natural-gas/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140811"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529651/stacking-cells-could-make-solar-as-cheap-as-natural-gas/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140811</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>As photovoltaic power prices continue to drop, utilities have worked to keep people from using it in several states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html#page=1">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html#page=1</a></font></span></p>
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</span>The Environmental and Energy Study Institute has summarized a selection of recent government publications on climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Topics include health vulnerability, defense, and extreme heat events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A selection of forthcoming publications is also provided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.eesi.org/papers/view/summarizing-recent-governmental-climate-change-publications"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.eesi.org/papers/view/summarizing-recent-governmental-climate-change-publications</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>While Broward County municipalities have adopted the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s Climate Action Plan, local governments in the other three Compact counties have not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The linked article emphasizes the resistance to action in Southeast Florida and sketches the near-term challenges the region faces from sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060004241"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060004241</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><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">The Compact’s web site, with a link to the plan:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/</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">7. In a U of WA study on the behavior of plants as temperatures rise, 60% of plant species generally and occasionally all plants in a habitat moved down slope,
perhaps in response to changing precipitation patterns, rather than moving higher to cooler temperatures as was expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Planning for conservation in a changing climate asks for careful analysis of specific environments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/08/plants-have-unexpected-response-climate-change"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/08/plants-have-unexpected-response-climate-change</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>An article in Nature Climate Change observes that the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline has been greatly underestimated because the pipeline would reduce the cost of oil and therefore increase consumption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/keystone-climate-impact-could-be-4-times-u-s-state-dept-estimate-study-says-1.1953616"><font color="#0563c1">http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/keystone-climate-impact-could-be-4-times-u-s-state-dept-estimate-study-says-1.1953616</font></a></span></font></div>
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