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</span>A NASA video shows how CO2 emissions spread through the atmosphere in 2006.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If CO2 were ordinarily this visible, we would have transitioned to renewables long ago.
</font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/nasa-animation-shows-stunning-year-in-the-life-of-carbon-emissions"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/nasa-animation-shows-stunning-year-in-the-life-of-carbon-emissions</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The UN advises that we need to achieve zero CO2 emissions by 2070 and zero emissions of all greenhouse gasses by 2100 in order to keep warming below 2°.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>All scenarios now require some degree of carbon withdrawal from the atmosphere in the latter part of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/co2-emissions-zero-by-2070-prevent-climate-disaster-un"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/19/co2-emissions-zero-by-2070-prevent-climate-disaster-un</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Only four of the nations which signed the pledge to keep warming below 2° are not doing enough to meet the goal: the US, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(The President’s recent actions designed to move us toward the goal are too new to be considered in the UNEP report.)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/21/australia-one-of-four-nations-forecast-to-miss-2020-emissions-target"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/21/australia-one-of-four-nations-forecast-to-miss-2020-emissions-target</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The forthcoming film Merchants of Doubt documents the campaigns by fossil fuel interests to hamper action by the US on climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/20/merchants-of-doubt-film-exposes-slick-us-industry-behind-climate-denial"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/20/merchants-of-doubt-film-exposes-slick-us-industry-behind-climate-denial</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>62% of Americans believe that climate change is at least partly to blame for recent natural disasters.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>49% consider them to be at least in part signs of Biblical end times.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We need a strategy which will move those to action who see climate disruptions as foreordained indications of God’s displeasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/21/a-big-reason-climate-change-isnt-a-priority-the-apocalypse/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/21/a-big-reason-climate-change-isnt-a-priority-the-apocalypse/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I now understand more clearly why the oilier climate propagandists so often use evangelical language.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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</span>Southern California Edison has awarded contracts for 250 mw of advanced energy storage, a US utility first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The grid storage capacity is part of a 2.21 gigawatt program, another US first, which evaluated natural gas, solar PV, storage, efficiency, and demand response head to head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/11/energy-storage-emerges-as-an-all-purpose-grid-asset?cmpid=WNL-Friday-November21-2014"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/11/energy-storage-emerges-as-an-all-purpose-grid-asset?cmpid=WNL-Friday-November21-2014</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Floating islands can help manage nitrogen runoff and provide a home for critters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As sea level rise drowns wetlands, these might provide some transitional refuge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/list/your-citys-water-would-be-cleaner-if-it-had-a-magic-island-in-it/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Nov%252021&utm_campaign=daily"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/list/your-citys-water-would-be-cleaner-if-it-had-a-magic-island-in-it/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Nov%252021&utm_campaign=daily</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A climate scientist and a writer have collaborated to produce an overview of our climate situation for the Guardian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I found it inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/22/-sp-climate-change-special-report"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/22/-sp-climate-change-special-report</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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