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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Obama administration has reacted to recommendations of a task force of local governmental leaders by implementing a package of measures to aid efforts to deal with climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They range from tools for vulnerability studies to incorporation of climate projections in transportation and other federal planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The measures reorient existing funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-usa-climatechange-adaptation-idUSKCN0J110X20141117?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-usa-climatechange-adaptation-idUSKCN0J110X20141117?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a>
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</span>Deforestation is not the only factor in carbon emissions from land use change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We should also be watching other kinds of habitats newly put to agricultural use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1117-hance-deforestation-landusechange.html#sthash.Hffi0kML.dpbs"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1117-hance-deforestation-landusechange.html#sthash.Hffi0kML.dpbs</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Lakota tribal leaders have declared that the House vote to build the XL pipeline is an act of war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They will close borders of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation to any attempt to build it.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Lakotas and the other members of the Great Sioux Nation voted in February to oppose the pipeline.
</font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/16/rosebud-sioux-keystone-war_n_6168584.html"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/16/rosebud-sioux-keystone-war_n_6168584.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Lakota President: “I pledge my life to stop these people from harming our children and our grandchildren and our way of life and our culture and our religion here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/sioux-tribe-keystone-xl-pipeline-south-dakota-act-of-war"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/sioux-tribe-keystone-xl-pipeline-south-dakota-act-of-war</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A loose alliance of cowboys and Indians has formed to oppose the pipeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/keystone-xl-pipeline-opposition-cowboys-indians-alliance-oil"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/keystone-xl-pipeline-opposition-cowboys-indians-alliance-oil</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The pipeline failed by one vote to avoid a Democratic Senate filibuster but promises to return for a vote next year in the new Republican senate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/18/keystone-xl-pipeline-senate"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/18/keystone-xl-pipeline-senate</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Denny bicycle looks good enough to include in fantasy plans for future cities (if you too indulge in that).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://vimeo.com/101360481"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://vimeo.com/101360481</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And here is a bicycle you probably don’t want to include.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/11/18/not-yet-street-legal-rocket-assist-bicycle-breaks-200-mph/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/11/18/not-yet-street-legal-rocket-assist-bicycle-breaks-200-mph/</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You might want to drive your Denny on a solar bike path (and thanks to David Reed for the suggestion).
</font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/11/netherlands-installs-worlds-first-solar-bike-path?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November19-2014"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/11/netherlands-installs-worlds-first-solar-bike-path?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November19-2014</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Some coastal homes subject to repetitive loss from flooding are eligible for assistance in either elevating or selling the property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A survey of five Virginia jurisdictions finds that serving the existing waiting list in just those regions through current programs would take centuries and cost $430 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/18/the-huge-hidden-cost-of-protecting-homeowners-from-the-rising-sea/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/18/the-huge-hidden-cost-of-protecting-homeowners-from-the-rising-sea/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is difficult to imagine an effective program to protect coastal property owners from financial loss as the seas rise.
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</span>A new synthesis of data makes it possible to track regional variations in ocean acidification since 1800 and project it to 2100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-acidification-new-baseline-18351?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/ocean-acidification-new-baseline-18351?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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