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</span>British climate scientist Chris Rapley is presenting 2071, a play about what the earth will be like when his granddaughter is his age if we do not act to control climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>His argument is that we should justify expenditures on renewable energy as insurance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/01/royal-court-play-2071-global-warming"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/01/royal-court-play-2071-global-warming</font></a>
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</span>Stephen Mulkey shares his thoughts on the prospect which now presents itself to us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>So Now What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>An Open Letter to the Environmental Community After the Midterm Elections 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/so-now-what-an-open-letter-to-the-environmental-community-after-the-midterm-elections-2014/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/so-now-what-an-open-letter-to-the-environmental-community-after-the-midterm-elections-2014/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Two pages dropped from the IPCC synthesis report would have addressed the carbon budget and the time remaining before it is exhausted—twenty to thirty years at current usage rates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One difficulty with the excised material was its mention of the 2° target set by the 2009 Copenhagen Accord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Many scientists maintain that it must be reset to 1.5°; the issue is due to be resolved next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/04/why-two-crucial-pages-were-left-out-of-the-latest-u-n-climate-report/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/04/why-two-crucial-pages-were-left-out-of-the-latest-u-n-climate-report/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Project Censored has picked ocean acidification as the most ignored story among the US press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The connection between extreme weather and climate disruption was number eight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-9445-project-censored.html"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-9445-project-censored.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Calculating the value of solar power is essential to planning but badly needs standardization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Minnesota is the first state to set conditions for valuation. </font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Theres-Still-No-Consistent-Way-to-Value-Solar-on-the-Grid?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Theres-Still-No-Consistent-Way-to-Value-Solar-on-the-Grid?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Latvia oppose the IPCC’s goal of zero emissions by 2100, preventing the EU from adopting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/07/poland-rejects-ipcc-target-of-zero-emissions-by-2100"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/07/poland-rejects-ipcc-target-of-zero-emissions-by-2100</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Species which depend on one another for such necessities as pollination and food can be thrown out of sync by climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-bees-pollination-18292?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-bees-pollination-18292?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Community groups in the Caribbean are organizing against the impacts of climate disruption by promoting such sustainable practices as water harvesting and household gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They are said to take “a more integrated approach than any other part of the world.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/08/responding-climate-change-grassroots"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/08/responding-climate-change-grassroots</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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