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<p>1. At the end of the last ice age melting Arctic ice formed a giant river system which would cause chaos in Europe if it reformed. The melt rate reached almost ten times current levels.
<a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/european-ice-sheet-collapse-end-last-ice-age-led-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29">
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/european-ice-sheet-collapse-end-last-ice-age-led-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29</a></p>
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<p>2. Led by ALEC, utilities nationwide have mounted a campaign against net metering which is depressing sales of rooftop solar. Thanks to Todd Sack for the story.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/climate/rooftop-solar-panels-tax-credits-utility-companies-lobbying.html?_r=0">
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/climate/rooftop-solar-panels-tax-credits-utility-companies-lobbying.html?_r=0</a></p>
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<p>3. Peter Sinclair and Michael Mann response to an article in New York Magazine representing a doomed future: it’s an exaggeration—we’re not so easily slipping out of our tasks of cutting emissions and responding to risks.
<a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/07/10/mann-to-doomers-not-so-fast/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/07/10/mann-to-doomers-not-so-fast/</a>
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<p>In Mother Jones, Kevin Drum imagines that the article—“The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace, linked in the essay—could motivate us for a suitably energetic transition to renewable energy.
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/07/our-approach-to-climate-change-isnt-working-lets-try-something-else/">
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/07/our-approach-to-climate-change-isnt-working-lets-try-something-else/</a></p>
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<p>4. Over 100 multinational corporations have committed to 100% renewable electricity for their operations. Target dates mentioned in the article range from 2022 to 2050.
<a href="https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3013539/100-multinationals-commit-to-100-per-cent-renewable-power">
https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3013539/100-multinationals-commit-to-100-per-cent-renewable-power</a></p>
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<p>5. 23% of Australian homes now have at least some solar panels. <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/10/nearly-one-fourth-australian-homes-now-solar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29">
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/10/nearly-one-fourth-australian-homes-now-solar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29</a></p>
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<p>6. Oregon has begun a six-year program of subsidies up to $5k for the purchase of electric vehicles costing under $50k.
<a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/10/oregon-legislature-passes-electric-vehicle-purchase-incentives-package/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29">
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/10/oregon-legislature-passes-electric-vehicle-purchase-incentives-package/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29</a></p>
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<p>7. Senator Al Franken and David Letterman have collaborated on a web series on climate, Boiling the Frog. The six brief videos are linked on the Funny or Die site.
<a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8fd42231b4/boiling-the-frog-ep-1-senator-al-franken-takes-on-climate-change?playlist=515525">
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8fd42231b4/boiling-the-frog-ep-1-senator-al-franken-takes-on-climate-change?playlist=515525</a></p>
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<p>8. Vertebrate populations are in such decline that a sixth mass extinction event might be said to be underway.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn</a> <br>
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