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</span>At the UN, China is leading a hard charge toward pricing carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-un-climatechange-carbon-pricing-idUSKCN0HL2HM20140926?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-un-climatechange-carbon-pricing-idUSKCN0HL2HM20140926?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></span></a><u><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><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">Chile is the first country in this hemisphere to institute a carbon tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mexico and Costa Rica have closely similar arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140927000016-jx232/?source=fiHeadlineStory"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.trust.org/item/20140927000016-jx232/?source=fiHeadlineStory</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Black carbon emissions are only about half as bad for the climate as we had thought, according to a Norwegian study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/26/climate-impact-of-black-carbon-severely-overestimated-says-study"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/26/climate-impact-of-black-carbon-severely-overestimated-says-study</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Several efforts are underway to preserve species which would otherwise perish as our climate degrades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>What can be preserved and what cannot?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
How do we choose which to save and which to ignore?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/sunday-review/building-an-ark-for-the-anthropocene.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140927&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/sunday-review/building-an-ark-for-the-anthropocene.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140927&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>IBM’s sunflower array uses concentrated solar energy to provide 12 kilowatts of electric power and desalinate water at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It achieves 80% efficiency at half to a third of the cost of existing solar converters and should become commercially available in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/solar-energy-sunflower-ibm-airlight-electricity"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/solar-energy-sunflower-ibm-airlight-electricity</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The Dutch corporation Energiesprong retrofits homes for net zero energy use in a week at the cost of the current energy bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They intend to expand to the UK and France next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.energypost.eu/zero-energy-zero-cost-industrialising-building-sector/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.energypost.eu/zero-energy-zero-cost-industrialising-building-sector/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>As a transition to renewable energy promises to increase economic health, self-interest becomes a motivator for dealing with climate change even in the absence of treaties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Still, we must contend with the distorting pressures of the entrenched fossil fuel industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/beyond-climate-change-treaties-a-deal-in-paris-is-not-essential"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/beyond-climate-change-treaties-a-deal-in-paris-is-not-essential</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A set of studies on the influence of climate disruption on selected extreme weather events found definite linkage with heat waves in Australia and more nuanced influence on the California drought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At the other extreme, the UK’s abnormally cold winter of 2013 is much less probable under growing global heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/29/the-fingerprint-of-climate-change-on-the-california-drought-extreme-weather-in-2013/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/29/the-fingerprint-of-climate-change-on-the-california-drought-extreme-weather-in-2013/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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