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</span>Grist asked an impressive list of climate activists what we should be doing in 2015 and got a range of responses, some surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-what-climate-activists-should-do-in-2015/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-what-climate-activists-should-do-in-2015/</font></a>
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</span>The US installed 22 times more solar power last year than in 2008 and the solar industry produced jobs 20 times faster than the economy at large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/america-installed-22-times-more-solar-in-2014-than-in-2008?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=Picture&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/america-installed-22-times-more-solar-in-2014-than-in-2008?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=Picture&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Scientists have suspected that lakes of meltwater are forming and draining farther and farther inland beneath Greenland’s ice sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Now two have been detected, one two miles wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/draining_of_greenland_lakes__signals_massive_melting_researchers_say/4345/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/draining_of_greenland_lakes__signals_massive_melting_researchers_say/4345/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>90% of the heat added to the earth is carried in the oceans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>That heat has been measured for the past year and the increase will require NOAA to rescale its chart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/22/oceans-warming-so-fast-they-keep-breaking-scientists-charts"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/22/oceans-warming-so-fast-they-keep-breaking-scientists-charts</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>As the West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilizes, it loses mass and gravitational attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The loosened water will spread more markedly to areas distant from the Antarctic—particularly to North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Due to this gravitational effect, the rebound of the earth’s crust under the Antarctic as mass diminishes, and changes in the earth’s rotation, North America will get a quarter to a third more sea level rise than the global average.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/01/22/the-u-s-has-contributed-more-to-global-warming-than-any-other-country-heres-how-the-earth-will-get-its-revenge/"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/01/22/the-u-s-has-contributed-more-to-global-warming-than-any-other-country-heres-how-the-earth-will-get-its-revenge/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The UN has asked countries to submit climate plans in preparation for the Paris talks next December.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-climatechange-un-idUSKBN0KV22W20150122"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-climatechange-un-idUSKBN0KV22W20150122</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>3% of the natural gas delivered to the Boston area escapes through leakage, three times the previous estimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Other cities may be delivering above projections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/01/boston-belching-gigantic-gobs-greenhouse-gas"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/01/boston-belching-gigantic-gobs-greenhouse-gas</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Grist takes a look at the money flowing from the fossil fuel industry to the US government (in 2011-12, $329 million in campaign finance contributions) and from the government to the fossil fuel industry ($33 billion in subsidies—a more than 10,000%
ROI).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The article attempts to explain how a pipeline which will supply fewer jobs than a new McDonald’s has such political support and, generally, why one political party pretty much as a whole, along with great chunks
of the other, seem dedicated to preventing any meaningful action on climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And then there is Richmond, CA, which defeated the greedheads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As we could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“It’s time to separate oil and state and reclaim our democracy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-citizens-united-paved-the-way-for-big-oils-bribes/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Jan%252023&utm_campaign=daily"><font color="#0563c1" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-citizens-united-paved-the-way-for-big-oils-bribes/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Jan%252023&utm_campaign=daily</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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