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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. John Kerry has organized World War Zero, a group of prominent leaders who will conduct a program of town meetings beginning next month to raise awareness of the need for climate action.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Stephen Mulkey has posted his final lecture to his U of FL course Global Change, Ecology, and Sustainability. It is a 25 minute encapsulation of the course, with the reflections and advice of an ecologist experienced in many
roles of service and leadership. </span><a href="https://ufl.zoom.us/recording/play/uI19kXKKWO_8vosiDJBMI7x5ZWS-JqNEUVxWRvf3nQscE98Nba0TYrUuWlY9lnqw?continueMode=true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://ufl.zoom.us/recording/play/uI19kXKKWO_8vosiDJBMI7x5ZWS-JqNEUVxWRvf3nQscE98Nba0TYrUuWlY9lnqw?continueMode=true</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. As delegates and attendees from over 190 countries gather in Madrid for COP 25, the World Meteorological Organization warns that we are headed for 5C of heat by 2100 on our current course.
<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-temperature-headed-toward-5-degree-increase-wmo-says/ar-BBXGy0g">
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-temperature-headed-toward-5-degree-increase-wmo-says/ar-BBXGy0g</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>House speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered congress’s resolve to deal with the climate crisis in defiance of Donald Trump. She told the COP 25 conference that “Congress’s commitment to action
on the climate crisis is iron-clad. This is a matter of public health, of clean air, of clean water, of our children, of the survival of our economies, of the prosperity of the world, of national security, justice and equality. We now must deliver deeper cuts
in emissions.” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/02/congress-commits-to-take-action-on-climate-crisis">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/02/congress-commits-to-take-action-on-climate-crisis</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. Drones equipped for Arctic conditions have made new observations of Greenland, detecting how the surface lakes of melt which form in the summer drain through cracks to the base of the sheet, lifting it and forming new cracks
in a feedback which accelerate the breakup of the sheet. Greenland is losing about a billion tons a day, making it “the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise.”
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-12-drone-images-greenland-ice-sheet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter">
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-drone-images-greenland-ice-sheet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Washington Post story on the new findings adds details from the scientists, comments on how the new findings contradict old models, and some impressive illustrations.
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