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</span>The global solar industry is adding 19.5 gigawatts of capacity in the last quarter of 2014, the equivalent of five large nuclear power plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That would increase world capacity to 200GW, with 50GW added this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2374135/solar-power-market-could-hit-200gw-milestone-by-year-end"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2374135/solar-power-market-could-hit-200gw-milestone-by-year-end</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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</span>Many East Coast cities are experiencing tidal flooding now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Union of Concerned Scientists provide a chart of how that will increase by 2030 and 2045.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Washington D.C. leads the list with almost 400 tidal floods in 2045; Miami will have only 240 and Jacksonville about 110.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/impacts/effects-of-tidal-flooding-and-sea-level-rise-east-coast-gulf-of-mexico#.VDVXn-8tDIU"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/impacts/effects-of-tidal-flooding-and-sea-level-rise-east-coast-gulf-of-mexico#.VDVXn-8tDIU</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>President Obama has called for the extension of measures already widely adopted to minimize the impact of climate disruption: replanting cleared forests, creating greenways, restoring coastlines and river fronts as storm buffers, and practicing low impact
development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-rogers/how-cities-can-help-fight_b_5954754.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-rogers/how-cities-can-help-fight_b_5954754.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Inshore waters of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are acidifying at almost triple the rate of offshore waters, with dire implications for coral and other inshore aquatic life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The effect has appeared in the last 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/great-barrier-reef-a-massive-chemistry-experiment-gone-wrong"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/great-barrier-reef-a-massive-chemistry-experiment-gone-wrong</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mangroves in the Virgin Islands provide protection for over 30 species of coral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The mangroves shade the corals from the heat and modify the chemical insults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008131601.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008131601.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A collaborative report to the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity warns that ocean acidity has increased 26% already and will have a widespread impact on ocean life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/10/08/4102808.htm"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/10/08/4102808.htm</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The loss of Arctic sea ice is understood and in accordance with climate models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The growth of Antarctic sea ice is not in accordance with models but is understood as an effect of increasing winds blowing cold air from the interior of the continent over increased fresh water from ice sheet melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/why-is-antarctic-sea-ice-at-record-levels-despite-global-warming"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/why-is-antarctic-sea-ice-at-record-levels-despite-global-warming</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Waste heat can be used to generate power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Tom Larson for the item. </font></span><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531526/an-industrial-size-generator-that-runs-on-waste-heat-using-no-fuel/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531526/an-industrial-size-generator-that-runs-on-waste-heat-using-no-fuel/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A hitherto unsuspected hotspot in the four corners region of New Mexico is responsible for 10% of US methane emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The newly discovered emissions arise from coal mining and processing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is another indication that methane emissions have been severely underestimated by the EPA and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/natural_gas_production_causing_large_methane_hotspot_over_us_southwest/4272/?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/natural_gas_production_causing_large_methane_hotspot_over_us_southwest/4272/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More details:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/biggest-us-methane-source-spotted-from-space"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/biggest-us-methane-source-spotted-from-space</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>The SXSW Eco conference in Austin yielded some interesting positions for cities confronting climate disruption: for example, we don’t need more food (but we do need to distribute it better); we can’t climate-proof cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/10/can-we-climate-proof-cities-sxsw-eco-austin"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/10/can-we-climate-proof-cities-sxsw-eco-austin</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>We can still keep under 2° of warming, but we have to get busy, reports a group of thirty energy and climate experts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They say how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We don’t need new technology, but we do need courage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/we-can-meet-c2-climate-target-and-heres-how-say-energy-experts"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/we-can-meet-c2-climate-target-and-heres-how-say-energy-experts</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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