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</span>A German utility has brought online a 5 megawatt battery backup system designed to balance supply as they transition to 100% wind power this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Wemag AG is already at 80% wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></span><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2370677/germany-charges-forward-with-opening-of-europes-largest-grid-battery-plant"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2370677/germany-charges-forward-with-opening-of-europes-largest-grid-battery-plant</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. A recent study, and the experiences of Denmark, Germany and other European countries, show that wind power can help produce a stable power grid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Newer turbines can alter blade pitch and generator torque to produce variances in power output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/18/scientific-american-wind-power-to-stabilize-grid/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/18/scientific-american-wind-power-to-stabilize-grid/</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Paul Krugman confronts two hoary talking points—that dealing with climate disruption cannot be done with renewables, and that it would be an economic disaster—with a couple of recent studies which show that it would be cheap or even free, and quite doable
with current technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/opinion/paul-krugman-could-fighting-global-warming-be-cheap-and-free.html?emc=edit_th_20140919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43628374&_r=0"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/opinion/paul-krugman-could-fighting-global-warming-be-cheap-and-free.html?emc=edit_th_20140919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43628374&_r=0</font></a><font face="Calibri">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Electric water heaters make up about 18% of residential energy use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By aggregating heaters and storing heat during times of high energy production, then allowing them to coast as energy is needed elsewhere, the heaters can act as one of the cheapest of energy storage systems at the grid level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aggregating-water-heaters-as-grid-batteries-steffes-secret-sauce?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/aggregating-water-heaters-as-grid-batteries-steffes-secret-sauce?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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</span>UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will join the climate action march in New York this Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The UN climate summit begins next Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/17/ban-ki-moon-climate-change-march"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/17/ban-ki-moon-climate-change-march</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">Mary Robinson, the US climate envoy, is also marching, and says that the summit will see the world “change course.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-change-course-climate-un-summit-223457907.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/world-change-course-climate-un-summit-223457907.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Attempts to restrict coastal building are failing in the face of determined efforts to build at public expense and risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Florida is a leading horrible example.<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/#article-2-against-the-tide"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/#article-2-against-the-tide</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3">
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The story does not cover the ongoing and partly successful attempts to render federal flood insurance and Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance actuarially responsible, moving financial risk back where it belongs:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The record extent of sea ice in the Antarctic may be the result of increased calving of icebergs and the influx of easily frozen fresh melt water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.citylab.com/weather/2014/09/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-a-record-max-and-thats-not-good/380412/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.citylab.com/weather/2014/09/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-a-record-max-and-thats-not-good/380412/</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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Trees are growing faster than they were fifty years ago—the European beech, 77% faster.
</font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/trees_growing_significantly_faster_in_warming_climate_study_finds/4249/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/trees_growing_significantly_faster_in_warming_climate_study_finds/4249/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><font face="Calibri">
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