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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. Plants absorb less carbon in years of drought, and the soil releases more. As the planet heats, we may expect more drought, and the wet years will not balance out the carbon surplus of
the dry years. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123131700.htm" id="LPlnk688428" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123131700.htm</a></span></p>
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<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15484293727410.768971972731098" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123131700.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Climate change tipping point could be coming sooner than we think: Vegetation may not be
able to continue abating effects of emissions from human activities - sciencedaily.com</a></div>
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A new study confirms the urgency to tackle climate change. While it's known that extreme weather events can affect the year-to-year variability in carbon uptake, and some researchers have ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. Crops can be so damaged by early drought that increasing rainfall later cannot compensate. Increased average rainfall from the additional water vapor in a heating atmosphere does not tell
the whole agricultural story. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-01-climate-rainfall-averages-crop-killing-droughts.html" id="LPlnk243351" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://phys.org/news/2019-01-climate-rainfall-averages-crop-killing-droughts.html</a></span></p>
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Sorghum is rotated in the field with the indigenous grain tef. Tef is the favored grain for making injera, the local flatbread, seen here being cooked on wood-fired stove.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. The linked article depicts people of the coastal American South who know that their world is changing. They watch the wildlife dwindle and the tidal flooding begin and swell but do not
organize against fossil fuels. Like Florida’s new governor, they try to cope with the effects of climate change without acknowledging the cause. (I must add that some informed planning is in progress. Still, the people portrayed are familiar.) <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/24/us-south-climate-change" id="LPlnk917171" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/24/us-south-climate-change</a></span></p>
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Why people in the US south stay put in the face of climate change ‘The sixth mass extinction has begun, our oceans are warming 40% faster than scientists anticipated, and the US’s carbon ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. Heat records are being set in Australia. Adelaide reached 46.6C, 116F, and Port Augusta hit 49.5C, 121F.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/24/australia-heatwave-adelaide-breaks-its-all-time-heat-record-hitting-466c" id="LPlnk915937" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/24/australia-heatwave-adelaide-breaks-its-all-time-heat-record-hitting-466c</a></span></p>
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The Red Lion, a pub in the city’s Elizabeth North suburb, promised to hand out free beers if the mercury rose above 45C. By 1pm, there was a line out the door and round the block.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. School strikes for climate action continue to grow in several countries.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. The Canadian company GBatteries claims to be able to charge a standard 60-kwh EV auto battery pack to full charge in ten minutes with no damage to the battery. They use artificial intelligence
to sense when the battery is in stress and adjust the charge accordingly. The system would make extended trips much easier for electric vehicle drivers and avoid a lot of damage to batteries, which can suffer from fast charging.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. Thwaites glacier in the West Antarctic is in danger of collapsing into the Bentley Subglacial Trench behind it, raising sea levels about twelve feet in a few decades. A team of scientists
from the US and Britain is now beginning a five-year project on Thwaites to assess its stability.
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-thwaites-glacier-breaking-point/#comments" id="LPlnk835006" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-thwaites-glacier-breaking-point/#comments</a> Richard Alley’s current Scientific American article Are Antarctica’s Glaciers Collapsing? is another good account of the problem but is unfortunately behind a paywall. It’s
worth picking up a copy of the magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">8. Stanford’s Mark Jacobson provided a detailed roadmap for the transition to renewable energy. It has come under attack.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">9. Mark Jacobson explains why nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture, and biofuels are properly excluded from his proposal for the energy transition.
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