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<p>1. Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale natural gas deposits are likely to be developed. A new study expects fugitive emissions to account for 37% of the methane emissions from the production, transmission, and use of the natural gas. Tom Larson sends the study.
<a href="http://psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1318">http://psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1318</a></p>
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<p>2. Since 2011 a majority of Americans have been increasingly persuaded of the seriousness of global warming and of the scientific consensus on it. The fossil fuel propaganda seems to be losing its grip.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/15/dont-look-now-but-reality-is-winning-the-climate-debate/?utm_term=.f1d16888bd39">
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/15/dont-look-now-but-reality-is-winning-the-climate-debate/?utm_term=.f1d16888bd39</a></p>
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<p>3. Australia’s long-term plan for preserving the Great Barrier Reef does not involve addressing global warming. Unless climate degradation is reversed, the reef cannot be preserved, a new study warns.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/stopping-global-warming-is-only-way-to-save-great-barrier-reef-scientists-warn">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/stopping-global-warming-is-only-way-to-save-great-barrier-reef-scientists-warn</a></p>
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<p>4. The International Energy Agency confirms that for the third year in a row global carbon emissions remained flat while the economy grew.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/17/co2-emissions-stay-same-for-third-year-in-row-despite-global-economy-growing">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/17/co2-emissions-stay-same-for-third-year-in-row-despite-global-economy-growing</a> </p>
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<p>5. Still, atmospheric CO2 grew at a record pace last year. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-is-rising-at-the-fastest-rate-ever-recorded/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.af6c477170f4">
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-is-rising-at-the-fastest-rate-ever-recorded/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.af6c477170f4</a>
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<p>6. Citizens Climate Lobby reports that a record seventeen Republican members of the House of Representatives have signed a resolution supporting action on climate change.
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141341/record-number-house-republicans-just-vowed-fight-climate-change">
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141341/record-number-house-republicans-just-vowed-fight-climate-change</a></p>
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<p>7. A new Canadian study confirms that children who play outside are more likely to support efforts to protect the environment when they are adults.
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-03-children-nature-adults.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-03-children-nature-adults.html</a> ​<br>
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