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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. Britain’s Extinction Rebellion is calling for a citizens’ assembly to deal with the climate crisis. The randomly selected group would examine the situation and recommend a course of action,
as was done to resolve abortion policy in Ireland. </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/28/climate-crisis-citizens-assembly-extinction-rebellion?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter" id="LPlnk270042" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/28/climate-crisis-citizens-assembly-extinction-rebellion?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. A 600-unit apartment complex in Salt Lake City will be furnished with solar cells and a battery in each apartment, controlled by the local utility to act as a virtual power plant. Thanks
to Ed Brock for the story. </span><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90394337/in-this-new-solar-powered-apartment-complex-all-600-units-have-batteries-that-form-a-virtual-power-plant?partner=rss&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss" id="LPlnk37078" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.fastcompany.com/90394337/in-this-new-solar-powered-apartment-complex-all-600-units-have-batteries-that-form-a-virtual-power-plant?partner=rss&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. An IPCC draft warns of the impact of heating over 1.5C.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-08-seas-storm-surges-permafrost.html" id="LPlnk655196" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://phys.org/news/2019-08-seas-storm-surges-permafrost.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. As Tucson heats, people who work outdoors, the elderly, and the poor must skirt the increasing danger.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/31/tucson-heat-inequality-summer" id="LPlnk195060" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/31/tucson-heat-inequality-summer</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. A study of sea levels when temperatures were 2-3C higher than the 1850s indicates as much as 16 meters of rise. This level of heat is likely to cause the complete dissolution of the Greenland
and West Antarctic ice sheets. 4C of warming at a more distant period led to about 23.5 meters of rise.
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientists-evidence-high-level-sea.html" id="LPlnk741947" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientists-evidence-high-level-sea.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. Higher Ground is a coalition of flood survivors which lobbies and sues to bring local governments to take action—for example, by limiting development in threatened areas, by considering
the impact of floodwater pumping on poorer areas, by ceasing to drain wetlands, and by implementing a program of managed retreat.
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/30/what-500000-americans-hit-by-floods-can-teach-us-about-fighting-climate-change" id="LPlnk528824" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/30/what-500000-americans-hit-by-floods-can-teach-us-about-fighting-climate-change</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">The Higher Ground site with a display of chapters:
</span><a href="https://anthropocenealliance.org/higherground" id="LPlnk423328" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://anthropocenealliance.org/higherground</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. A canopy of solar cells can improve conditions for a land-based shrimp farm.
</span><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/29/shrimp-fish-solar-a-recipe-for-success/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=e79d4ee78f-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-e79d4ee78f-331994013" id="LPlnk226719" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/29/shrimp-fish-solar-a-recipe-for-success/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=e79d4ee78f-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-e79d4ee78f-331994013</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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