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<p>1. Shellfish and termites produce significant greenhouse gas emissions. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/oct/16/are-flatulent-shellfish-really-contributing-to-climate-change">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/oct/16/are-flatulent-shellfish-really-contributing-to-climate-change</a>
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<p>(But fossil fuels, and perhaps livestock, are where the levers are.)</p>
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<p>2. Canada’s oil and gas production emits far more methane than feared. (Tar sand emissions were excluded.)
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/study-methane-emissions-from-alberta-oil-and-gas-wells-are-worse-than-thought">
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/study-methane-emissions-from-alberta-oil-and-gas-wells-are-worse-than-thought</a></p>
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<p>3. A sodium battery under development at Stanford promises to be 80% cheaper than a lithium ion battery.
<a href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/10/a-cheap-sodium-salt-battery-for-the-grid/" title="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/10/a-cheap-sodium-salt-battery-for-the-grid/
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http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/10/a-cheap-sodium-salt-battery-for-the-grid/</a></p>
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<p>4. A heating atmosphere holds increasing amounts of water vapor. An atmospheric river stretching across the Pacific Ocean is heading for Washington state, and another to Oregon.
<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-5000-mile-long-%e2%80%98river-in-the-sky%e2%80%99-targets-the-pacific-northwest-with-heavy-rain-and-snow/ar-AAtECb7?ocid=spartandhp">
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-5000-mile-long-%e2%80%98river-in-the-sky%e2%80%99-targets-the-pacific-northwest-with-heavy-rain-and-snow/ar-AAtECb7?ocid=spartandhp</a>
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<p>5. Evidence from fossil reefs in the Gulf of Mexico shows that 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age oceans rose in punctuated bursts of a few decades to a century.
<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ru-fcr101617.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ru-fcr101617.php</a></p>
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<p>6. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change convenes in Bonn Nov. 9, and the US will be an awkward presence.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0">
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0</a></p>
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<p>7. Flying insects have declined by 75% in the last 27 years in Germany and presumably elsewhere. Pesticides, land use changes, and climate may be factors.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0">
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0</a> <br>
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