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</span>The ice cap of a Norwegian Arctic island has thinned by 160 feet in two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“It is a very large signal.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/an-arctic-ice-cap%e2%80%99s-shockingly-rapid-slide-into-the-sea/ar-AA8wgqG?ocid=AARDHP"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/an-arctic-ice-cap%e2%80%99s-shockingly-rapid-slide-into-the-sea/ar-AA8wgqG?ocid=AARDHP</font></a>
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</span>Updates make it easier to model the destabilization of Antarctic ice at historic sea level rise rates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The historical record and models have been seriously at variance in sea level rise projections, with the historic rise faster than the models have predicted.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/updated-ice-sheet-model-matches-wild-swings-in-past-sea-levels/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/updated-ice-sheet-model-matches-wild-swings-in-past-sea-levels/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A record low bid of $59 per MWh has been accepted for a 100 MWh project in Saudi Arabia; even lower prices for commercial solar are expected in India, which has a target of 100 gigawatts of solar power (97 GW of that new) by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>China has the same target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/25/india-propose-global-collaboration-solar-power-rd-cut-costs/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=010aa251b3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-010aa251b3-331994013"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/25/india-propose-global-collaboration-solar-power-rd-cut-costs/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=010aa251b3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-010aa251b3-331994013</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>India is also expected soon to set a goal of 100 GW of wind energy by 2022.
</font><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/25/india-plans-100-gw-wind-energy-capacity-2022/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=010aa251b3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-010aa251b3-331994013"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/25/india-plans-100-gw-wind-energy-capacity-2022/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=010aa251b3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-010aa251b3-331994013</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>China, the US, and India are world’s worst sources of greenhouse gases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Development of large commercial solar is at a standstill in the US as federal subsidies for solar expire at the end of 2016, and the time lead for commercial development has outrun the deadline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Subs. req’d.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/worry-for-solar-projects-after-end-of-tax-credits.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/worry-for-solar-projects-after-end-of-tax-credits.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s report of 2013 data makes it clear that renewable energy is growing energetically, with Asia leading the world in adoption rate and manufacturing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US has great opportunities both in increasing renewable energy supply and in improving the efficient use of what we already produce, about half of which is wasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/26/7-interesting-global-renewable-energy-trends-from-nrel-charts-galore/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/26/7-interesting-global-renewable-energy-trends-from-nrel-charts-galore/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>While India and the US have not signed an agreement on climate action such as the one between the US and China, President Obama’s visit to India did produce some significant advances, and India’s initiatives on renewable energy indicate that they are
moving toward an agreement at the Paris talks in December.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2015/01/26/now-india/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2015/01/26/now-india/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>After a disastrously heavy rainfall, a Copenhagen neighborhood decided that the usual plumbing projects were too costly and instead devised a plan of natural drainage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The whole of Copenhagen may follow suit, neighborhood by neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/26/copenhagen-worlds-first-climate-adjusted-neighborhood.html"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/26/copenhagen-worlds-first-climate-adjusted-neighborhood.html</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Some form of sustainable drainage should probably characterize most climate adaptation programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Drainage_System"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Drainage_System</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Generally, atmospheric water vapor increases 4% for every 1° rise in average temperature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>With more moisture above us, precipitation, including snowfall, can become heavier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Warming makes blizzards worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-warming-could-make-blizzards-worse/ar-AA8BUlv?ocid=AARDHP"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-warming-could-make-blizzards-worse/ar-AA8BUlv?ocid=AARDHP</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>Models of the economic cost of warming have omitted including the impact of warming on economic growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>When that is included, the models support quick and vigorous action to moderate warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/26/climate-change-could-impact-poor-much-more-than-previously-thought"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/26/climate-change-could-impact-poor-much-more-than-previously-thought</font></a><font face="Calibri">
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</span>Chinese coal production began falling last year, with further decreases expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/27/china-coal-production-falls-for-first-time-this-century"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/27/china-coal-production-falls-for-first-time-this-century</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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