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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. By about 5,000 years ago early farming appears to have added enough carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere to reverse a trend to a significantly cooler climate. We seem to have lodged
the planet in an indefinitely protracted warm interglacial period. (With the threat, obviously, of an intolerably hot one.)
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<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15366715021800.2326969778769854" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180906141507.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate</a></div>
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New evidence shows that ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of the heat-trapping gases carbon dioxide and methane -- a rise that has continued since, unlike the trend at any other time in Earth's geologic history.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy under President Obama, is leading the Energy Futures Initiative to explore methods of capturing carbon, including direct air capture, reforestation, and
biochar. The initiative includes former DOE officials and is served by an advisory board comprised of an array of government and industry figures. (I do not know how to reconcile the statement that they intend to study reforestation with the described intent
to avoid studying land use.) <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060096409" id="LPlnk247074" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060096409</a></span></p>
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<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15366715025460.33284709215640085" href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060096409" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">CLIMATE: Moniz group launches 'substantial' CO2 air capture project</a></div>
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A think tank led by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced today it is developing a federal plan to promote technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">The Energy Futures Initiative itself has already produced several reports.
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Initiative — EFI</a></div>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2017 The Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) is a new not-for-profit organization dedicated to driving innovation in energy technology, policy and business models. EFI offers analytically-based, technology-informed, all-of-the-above
solutions on a range of energy policy</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">The Initiative is sketched on their home site.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://energyfuturesinitiative.org/" id="LPlnk604930" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://energyfuturesinitiative.org/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. Calcium carbonate deposits in the sea caves of Mallorca from the last interglacial period indicate that if we warm by 1.5-2C the sea level will rise 2-6 meters and stabilize there. Work
on the project continues. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-scientists-stable-sea-interglacial.html" id="LPlnk377859" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-scientists-stable-sea-interglacial.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Visualize the following: The Earth's climate swings between cold glacial and warm interglacial periods; the last glacial interval was about 20,000 years ago; sea level was about 126 meters (413 feet) below modern sea level at that time; and the Holocene, which
represents the last 12,000 years of climatic change, is an interglacial period.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. David Nolan, Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the U of Miami, answers basic questions about global warming and hurricanes. Basically, we do not yet know whether to expect more or stronger
hurricanes as we heat up, though we do know to expect more extreme rainfall. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/hurricane-florence-raises-questions-about-link-between-climate-change-severe-ncna908296" id="LPlnk185171" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">Jeffrey Kiehl, James Hansen, and other scientists warn that warming in the past appears to have led to superstorms, and that sea level rise intensifies the damage from storms surges.
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Above, discussion of what new climate research says about storms in warm eras of the past. Below, Jeffrey Kiehl of National Center for Atmospheric Research discusses the paleo-evidence for heat-fue…</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. In advance of the climate conference in Katowice, Poland, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns that we have little time left to act if we are to keep our chances low of incurring
runaway warming.</span> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
107%">“Nothing less than our future and the fate of humankind depends on how we rise to the climate challenge,” Guterres said. He will convoke a special climate summit meeting in New York next
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A rapid global shift to clean energy is needed to prevent runaway climate change, says António Guterres</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. In an address last October Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed “to build an ecological civilization that will benefit generations to come.” Since then China has move decisively toward
a carbon-free energy supply. While economic expansion could well lead to an ecological disaster, it remains possible that China will build an economy rooted in traditional Chinese values of ecological harmony.
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If president Xi Jinping’s ecological vision turns out to be more than mere rhetoric, it could have a profound effect on humanity’s future.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. Governor Brown has signed into law the state’s resolve to supply 60% renewable energy by 2030 and to become carbon-free by 2045. CA then intends to become net-negative for greenhouse gasses.
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