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</span>The American public believes that about 55% of climate scientists support the anthropogenic warming hypothesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The actual figure among scientists publishing in the field is 97%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Skeptical Science has been quoting 97 scientists from the consensus and supplies cartoon portraits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Click on “97 Hours,” and then click on a scientist.<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">A Pew study found that in 2013 only 25% of Americans saw climate disruption as a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://bangordailynews.com/community/climate-crisis-denial-continues-psychological-factors-explain-avoidance/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://bangordailynews.com/community/climate-crisis-denial-continues-psychological-factors-explain-avoidance/</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The story highlights climate activism at Unity College, whose president, Stephen Mulkey, is a list member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It includes a link to an eight minute video, “The Environmental Century,” explaining his plan for higher education reform around climate and sustainability science.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More recently, an ABC/Washington Post poll finds that 70% of Americans find climate disruption to be a serious problem and support federal efforts to reduce emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Perhaps we are coming around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-beinecke/as-climate-change-hits-ho_b_5804570.html"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-beinecke/as-climate-change-hits-ho_b_5804570.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The International Energy Agency says that energy efficiency has been “significantly undervalued.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(One of the reasons is that utilities often fear it and work against it, because it leaves them with unused assets—those power plants which would become idle, plants on the “catastrophic liabilities” list of many of the rest of us.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Even so, the IEA reports that investment in efficiency now equals that in coal, oil, and gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2014/09/10/role-of-energy-efficiency-greatly-underestimated-says-energy-body/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2014/09/10/role-of-energy-efficiency-greatly-underestimated-says-energy-body/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>PricewaterhouseCoopers has released their annual Low Carbon Economy Index.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It find that we are increasingly courting climate disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/this-legendary-accounting-firm-ran-the-numbers-on-climate-change/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Sept%252011&utm_campaign=daily"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/this-legendary-accounting-firm-ran-the-numbers-on-climate-change/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Sept%252011&utm_campaign=daily</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Yale has produced a seven minute video documenting the accelerating melting of the Greenland ice sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Jason Box projects that at the current rate of increase Greenland alone will contribute a meter of sea level rise this century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/11/new-video-greenland-2014-follow-the-water/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/11/new-video-greenland-2014-follow-the-water/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Google and SunEdison are partnering to convert an abandoned California oil and gas field to an 82 megawatt solar farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Such brownfields have been</span><font size="3"> </font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">readily granted permits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The EPA estimates that there are over 11,000 such mine sites in the US; the 10,000 full landfills are similarly attractive sites.
</span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/11/3566292/brownfield-to-solar-in-california/?elq=1fdad19163bd41278c64dcfe02456b02&elqCampaignId=876"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/11/3566292/brownfield-to-solar-in-california/?elq=1fdad19163bd41278c64dcfe02456b02&elqCampaignId=876</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Six of the world’s largest development banks have committed to placing climate change at the center of their operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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