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</span>Low temperatures in the mid-latitudes and drought in the American West are often related, and both can be influenced by climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Henry Thomas suggested the topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The 8 minute video from the Yale Forum for Climate Change at the end of the story helps explain.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/03/is-the-polar-vortex-a-product-of-climate-change/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/03/is-the-polar-vortex-a-product-of-climate-change/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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</span>China has announced a carbon market for 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will be the world’s biggest, and could constitute a significant move toward decarbonisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They have been experimenting with regional markets since 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/09/analysing-china-carbon-market/?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=fb49d54df5-DAILY_BRIEFING&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-fb49d54df5-303421297"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/09/analysing-china-carbon-market/?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=fb49d54df5-DAILY_BRIEFING&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-fb49d54df5-303421297</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Reuters begins a series on sea level rise by looking at current difficulties in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The focus is on the rising problems in Maryland and the failure of everyone from local officials to NASA in coming up with an adequate plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The world’s soil holds about double the carbon of the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Rising heat in some areas causes it to become a carbon source, particularly in the Arctic and other cold regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29050800"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29050800</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A new paper calculates the probability that climate disruption is caused by humans at 99.999%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/05/03/43/chances-of-global-warming-being-caused-by-humans-is-99-999-percent-says-csiro"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/05/03/43/chances-of-global-warming-being-caused-by-humans-is-99-999-percent-says-csiro</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Update: the Associated Press relied upon speculation to charge the Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant with killing 28,000 birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By actual count the figure is 133, January –June this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/09/for-the-birds-how-speculation-trumped-fact-at-ivanpah?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September5-2014"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/09/for-the-birds-how-speculation-trumped-fact-at-ivanpah?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September5-2014</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A study of temperatures in Greenland during the last deglaciation supports “the hypothesis that abrupt climate change is mostly a winter phenomenon.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6201/1177.abstract"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6201/1177.abstract</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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