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</span>Beyond Meat and other firms are producing new vegetarian ground beef substitutes close to hamburger in taste and mouth feel, superior in nutrition, and much easier on the climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/culinary/Replacing-Meat-Plant-Based-Meats-Vegetarian.html"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/culinary/Replacing-Meat-Plant-Based-Meats-Vegetarian.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font color="#0563c1">
</font></u></span></span>New US government dietary guidelines are expected to take environmental impact into account in their recommendations, and to emphasize more plant-based foods, less meat—particularly, less beef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DIETARY_GUIDELINES_ENVIRONMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DIETARY_GUIDELINES_ENVIRONMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Tropical forests provide more of a carbon sink that had been thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Land vegetation absorbs about 30% of CO2 emissions, and tropical forests account for over half the forests’ share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mid-latitude forests had been thought to be the major player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150102084700.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150102084700.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>In “Playing Dumb on Climate Change,” Naomi Oreskes sketches the history of the scientific convention that two events may not be linked causally unless there is a 95% confidence that they are not associated by chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The standard leads scientists to be overly cautious in their public statements even when dangers are quite clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Sub. req’d.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/playing-dumb-on-climate-change.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150103&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/playing-dumb-on-climate-change.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150103&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Not only could Scotland be fossil fuel free by 2030 through renewable projects already in the pipeline, but that course would be cheaper and safer than developing fossil fuel power with CCS as the government plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/05/scotland-fossil-fuel-free-by-2030-says-report"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/05/scotland-fossil-fuel-free-by-2030-says-report</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Scotland already expects to generate 100% of its electricity renewably by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The European Union will announce details of a single European energy market, an Energy Union, later this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/05/3607904/wind-power-surges-in-2014/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=cptop3&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/05/3607904/wind-power-surges-in-2014/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=cptop3&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The Japan Meteorological Agency has announced 2014 as an easy winner for hottest year in modern record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>NOAA and NASA are expected to make similar announcements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/05/3607735/2014-hottest-year-by-far/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=cptop3&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/05/3607735/2014-hottest-year-by-far/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=cptop3&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font color="#0563c1">
</font></u></span></span>The World Meteorological Organization has supported the finding in a provisional report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://planetsave.com/2015/01/01/world-record-breaking-2014-weather-and-climate/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://planetsave.com/2015/01/01/world-record-breaking-2014-weather-and-climate/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>French President Francois Hollande has advocated a Tobin tax on financial transactions with the proceeds to support climate action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Eleven countries of the EU had discussed implementing such a tax over the objections of England and others, but among those eleven France had voiced reservations previously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Tobin tax has for decades been suggested as a way to finance an energy transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span></font></font><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/french-president-francois-hollande-shifts-position-on-tobin-tax-money-for-environment/articleshow/45768675.cms"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/french-president-francois-hollande-shifts-position-on-tobin-tax-money-for-environment/articleshow/45768675.cms</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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