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<p>1. Tucson Electric Power has signed a power purchase agreement for a 100-megawatt solar installation at less than 3 cents/kilowatt-hour (including the 30% tax credit). Such low costs have been reported elsewhere, but not before in the US, where the average
commercial price of power is 10.5 cents/kwh. <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/arizona-utility-game-changing-solar-deal-8e7c0bcb093a">
https://thinkprogress.org/arizona-utility-game-changing-solar-deal-8e7c0bcb093a</a></p>
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<p>2. GPS stations in Greenland have detected enormous waves of water or slush which have moved through Rink Glacier to the ocean in seasons of heavy melting. The waves are a previously unknown mode of destabilization.
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenland-glacier-melt-actually-warped-earths-crust/">
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenland-glacier-melt-actually-warped-earths-crust/</a></p>
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<p>3. The G7, except for the US, is united on the need for climate action and support for the Paris Agreement. <a href="http://econews.com.au/54338/g7-summit-acknowledges-split-with-us-on-climate-change/">http://econews.com.au/54338/g7-summit-acknowledges-split-with-us-on-climate-change/</a>
Trump purports to imagine that American interests may not lie with climate action. If he finks on the US commitment, he may be joined by Russia.
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/first-paris-then-putin-b665fbc1ce31">https://thinkprogress.org/first-paris-then-putin-b665fbc1ce31</a>
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<p>4. <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">In
addition to maintaining its role as supplier of natural gas to Europe, Russia is interested in developing and selling half a trillion dollars of oil in Siberia and its waters. </span>So is (or, at least, has been) Rex Tillerson, who negotiated the participatio of
Exxon-Mobil (a member of the rascally ALEC) in the development, which awaits lifting of US sanctions.
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/putin-helped-trump-exxon-oil-deal-sanctions-6f169c4a4cd0">
https://thinkprogress.org/putin-helped-trump-exxon-oil-deal-sanctions-6f169c4a4cd0</a> Trump, through Carter Page, may have been financially involved in a sale of 19% of Russia’s state oil company Rosneft shares.
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1">
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1</a> Russia is not revealing who bought those shares.
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH">
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH</a>
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<p>5. The chaos surrounding Trump and the question of Russian involvement in the politics of other nations may be understood as disruption generally attendant on the popping of the carbon bubble.
<a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/28/trump-russia-chaos-tiny-preview-carbon-bubble-popping/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29">
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/28/trump-russia-chaos-tiny-preview-carbon-bubble-popping/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29</a> Countering reactionary politics is our great challenge as we enter
the transition to sustainable cultures.<br>
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